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Officers said they were "treating this kind of behaviour extremely seriously".
"Two males have had to be reported for indecent exposure as they thought it was a good idea to take all their clothes off to go for a swim - not a good idea," an officer wrote on the PSNI Holywood Facebook page.
"There are young children in these areas too."
They added: "You could end up with a criminal record and placed on the sex offenders register.
"Please enjoy the weather but be sensible."
Police in the North Down town also warned that they were on the lookout for people bringing alcohol to the beach, with officers patrolling the platform at Helen's Bay railway station. | Police in County Down have warned skinny dippers that they could be placed on the sex offenders register. | 28,477,138 | 154 | 24 | false |
One promising-looking listing, posted by some bloke named Sebastian, offered a neat studio apartment near the wonderful Golden Gate Park. I dropped Sebastian a line.
A day later, he replied, apologising. The flat hadn't been rented out, he told me, but they'd decided to turn it into an AirBnB instead - meaning they can list the room on the room-sharing website for tourists to stay in.
And that, in a nutshell, is what the "Yes on Prop F" campaign is unhappy about. In a city suffering from a serious housing crisis, having liveable spaces being made into profitable mini-hotels isn't helping.
And who can blame landlords - even small rooms in San Francisco are being offered on AirBnB for hundreds of dollars a night. It's a great earner.
On Tuesday, San Franciscans head to the polls to cast their view on a number of things, but what everyone is paying special attention to is Proposition F.
Prop F - or "oh, that ban AirBnB thing?", as locals refer to it - seeks to put in place tougher rules on home-sharing. So tough, actually, that it will essentially ruin AirBnB's business model in the city.
People would only be able to rent out their homes for a maximum of 75 days a year - or be liable for hefty fines.
That's why the "No on Prop F" campaign is being funded by more than $8m (£5.2m) of AirBnB's cash.
Its campaign headquarters is packed with volunteers - some of them AirBnB hosts - and, well, technology. The office, which spans two floors of an old Radioshack store, has the feel of a grassroots political movement. But the reality is AirBnB's money has paid for a highly-sophisticated operation to maximize the vote.
No on Prop F supporters are armed with smartphones giving them access to reams of data on the voters they are trying to target, a level of political intelligence that means every door-knock is worthwhile.
Patrick Hannan, the campaign's spokesman, showed me rooms with people hitting the phones, in four different languages, to get people voting. They're not trying to change opinions, Mr Hannan told me, but instead going after people they know are likely to be against Prop F and make sure they bother to vote.
While I visited, I observed a role-play of a typical door knock. The argument the No on Prop F team (so, AirBnB) is bringing to the city is that Prop F will encourage people to spy on their neighbours. Why? Because Prop F allows residents to sue their neighbours if they think they are running an AirBnB illegally.
They also argue that, contrary to many people's understanding, AirBnB hosts already pay the same taxes levied against hotels in the city.
Yes on F counters this by saying that the many AirBnB hosts ignore this requirement, and don't notify the city when they are offering rooms.
As I was leaving the No on Prop F office, Mr Hannan offered a more romantic view of why he felt the proposition wasn't fair, one that speaks to San Francisco's free spirit - an attitude to life that you can quite literally smell in the air (if you hang out in certain parks, that is).
"The San Francisco that I'm raising my children in is a place of inclusion, not exclusion. We welcome people who are different from ourselves. We welcome communities that may not fit neatly into our cultural fabric.
"To the people who are now deciding that some people aren't welcome in San Francisco, I have one word for them - malarkey!"
The Yes on F campaign expects to lose. Its funding, of around $1m, has been partly helped by the hotel trade.
When I met Dale Carlson - the campaign's spokesman - he cut a fairly solemn figure of someone who had resigned to getting beat, but still felt obliged to do media interviews.
"If we lose, OK," he said. "This is a long fight.
"AirBnb isn't the cause of our housing crisis. But it's a piece of it, a significant piece."
I offered him Mr Hannan's "malarkey!" perspective.
"Corporations like AirBnB don't spend $10m on political campaigns because they're worried about neighbourhood harmony," he said.
"They're not worried about neighbours spying on each other, or suing each other. They're worried about neighbours suing AirBnB."
I approached AirBnB to talk about the vote, but I was not offered any spokespeople to interview.
But last week, the company invited a handful of technology and business journalists to dinner - where they shared a few plans for its future, which included offering more "offline" services beyond room listings.
The AirBnB employees at the dinner (a mixture of product team and PR) didn't want to be drawn on what would happen to if Prop F was to pass.
San Francisco isn't the firm's biggest city in terms of hosts - that's Paris - but some of the fightback here is symbolic in that this is where it all began.
Other cities around the US are also looking and assessing what impact AirBnB (and others like it) are having on the make-up of their communities.
But AirBnB's financial commitment to this battle, one it may face in all of its markets, shows it is a company that is powering ahead with its aims and is prepared to spend heavily to remove any chance of regulatory constraints.
Like that other great disrupting start-up, taxi service Uber, AirBnB's strategy appears to be to become so beloved by its users - both hosts and guests - that any political attempt to kill it off would be very unpopular indeed.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC | When I first arrived in San Francisco, I went through what every newcomer has to endure - clicking through endless Craigslist entries in the hope of finding somewhere to live. | 34,707,689 | 1,358 | 38 | false |
Maria Derbyshire was so ill after having her son Joseph in 2009 she was placed in hospital under the mental health act.
On Tuesday, she joined health care professionals to lobby politicians at Stormont.
About 70 women a year in Northern Ireland require hospital admission.
But during treatment, as there is no mother and baby unit, the woman is separated from her baby.
In England and Scotland there are 17 specialist units.
Mrs Derbyshire said she decided to contact the BBC after hearing a report by health correspondent Marie Louise Connolly last week on perinatal mental health.
"After my first baby, life was very good for a few days. It just fell apart about ten days after my son was born," she said.
"I basically lost touch with reality - I ended up being sectioned.
"I remember going to hospital in the ambulance, I had all these delusions and hallucinations.
"I think I spent around three weeks in a general psychiatric hospital. When I came round I didn't remember I'd had a baby."
Last month the prime minister announced about £390m just for perinatal mental health care.
The way the money is divided across the regions means that Northern Ireland should also benefit.
Mrs Derbyshire joined health professionals at Stormont lobbying for the money to be spent entirely on perinatal care here.
Shona Hamilton from the Royal College of Midwives said she is frustrated by the current situation.
"We recognise that across the UK there has been significant investment in mental health services for women," she said.
"Some of that investment should come to Northern Ireland and we would really like to see that ring-fenced for services for women here and the development of very good services - both in the community and in a mother and baby unit "
The chair of the assembly health committee, Sinn Féin's Maeve McLaughlin, was among the politicians who met the group.
"It's very clear in terms of the research that to ignore the problem and to continue to treat the problem will cost five times more than actually putting intervention into place," she said.
"We need a regional approach to this - 20% of women will suffer some sort of mental health issue during pregnancy or within a year after birth. That needs to be tackled."
Mrs Derbyshire is now in good health and has had a second baby, a daughter called Lily.
She said her second pregnancy and post natal experience was entirely different and that it was due to the specialist care she received in the weeks before and immediately after Lily's birth.
North, 23, suffered four head blows in five months, the final one keeping him out between 27 March and 29 August.
"From my point of view that's behind me now, I'm over it," said North.
"Initially it was a bit worrying, everyone saying that's my career finished. My first game was Ireland away for Wales - as soon as the final whistle went I was happy to be back."
Speaking to BBC Radio Northampton, he added: "I'm feeling pretty good now. It's just nice to be back playing and not to be worrying about my head too much."
North, capped 55 times by Wales, signed a new contract to keep him at Franklin's Gardens beyond the summer, when his previous deal expired.
He has yet to register a try for his club this season, with Saints having recovered from a poor start to climb to fifth in the Premiership and sit second in their European Champions Cup group.
"It's a bit frustrating [not scoring] but something I'm not really worried about.
"Being how tough it was with Wales and going back to a different way of playing and re-learn everything, it's been tough to find my feet.
"The form of the club hasn't been particularly good, but they're performing well at the moment and hopefully we'll both start playing well together. "
The incident occurred in the 87th minute of Newcastle's 2-0 Championship defeat against Wolves on 17 September.
The Football Association says the misdemeanour was an "aggravated breach" of rules, and if found guilty the 24-year-old faces a minimum five-game ban.
He has until 16 November to respond.
Newcastle had Netherlands midfielder Vurnon Anita sent off in the same minute of the game.
If found guilty Shelvey will miss, at a minimum, a trip to Leeds on 20 November, a home match with Blackburn, the EFL Cup trip to Hull City, an away fixture at Nottingham Forest and Birmingham City's visit to St James' Park on 10 December.
In May 2013, the FA introduced new guidelines stating that any player found guilty of racially abusing an opponent or discriminating on religion, sexuality or disability, would be banned for at least five games.
Chelsea's John Terry was handed a four-match ban and a £220,000 fine for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, while Liverpool's Luis Suarez received an eight-match suspension and a £40,000 fine for his abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra - both in 2011.
Newcastle sit top of the Championship, three points clear of Brighton, and Shelvey has been one of their stand-out performers, as well as contributing three goals in 16 league appearances.
Shelvey, who has won six caps for England, joined Newcastle from Swansea in January, but could not prevent the club's relegation to the Championship.
Richard Merrett, 30, told a girl at Stratton Upper School in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, she had a "beautiful body" and discussed his personal life.
The head of year 13 told another pupil about a dream involving naked women.
A panel of the National College for Teaching and Leadership prohibited him from teaching indefinitely.
The school was alerted in January last year when the parents of one girl found message exchanges between Mr Merrett and their daughter on Facebook.
One message read: "A 9 men tent is huge!! How can they have sex knowing you guys are in the tent?"
It was then discovered he had emailed the girl and three others, and failed to report that one of them, "Pupil B", was self-harming.
He commented on her appearance, telling her she had "nice pins which many girls would die for", and a "beautiful body".
Referring to a dream he had the previous night, he told Pupil B: "Tell me if I end up pouncing on you in the middle of the night again : ) hopefully I won't be dreaming of any naked 40 year old women."
He sent Pupil C inappropriate emails about alcohol and asked Pupil D about her weekend plans, the panel heard.
Mr Merrett, who was also a sixth form coordinator, admitted sending the inappropriate emails, failing to maintain professional boundaries and failing to report a safeguarding issue.
He claimed there were no sexual motives in his words.
The correspondence was covert, with emails sent during the evening when his wife was out of the room, the panel said, and some of the pupils were vulnerable.
The panel said "significant factors" in reaching their decision were the excessive volume of emails to pupils' personal accounts and the clear sense of guilt felt by Mr Merrett when he deleted a file containing emails with "Pupil B".
He can apply for the order to be set aside in July 2019 at the earliest. He resigned in April last year and said he had no intention of teaching again.
He was initially investigated by police but the matter was not taken any further.
The US said if confirmed it would be "another provocative step".
International talks over Iran's nuclear programme are due to resume in Kazakhstan next week.
Western powers fear Tehran is seeking weapons technology, but Tehran says it is refining uranium only for peaceful energy purposes.
The Natanz facility, in central Iran, is at the heart of the country's dispute with the UN's watchdog.
By Bethany BellBBC News, Vienna
The IAEA says Iran has started to install about 180 advanced centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear plant - potentially a major upgrade in Iran's nuclear programme.
There is concern in the West that these new machines could significantly speed up Iran's production of material that could be used in a nuclear bomb.
Centrifuges are used to enrich uranium. Low-enriched uranium is used for civilian purposes. But higher-grade enriched uranium can be used as the material for an atomic bomb.
Iran says its nuclear work is purely peaceful, and that its enriched uranium will be used for reactor fuel and for medical and scientific purposes.
But this announcement by the IAEA could hurt the chances for the next round of talks between Iran and six world powers in Kazakhstan next week.
The US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, want Iran to cut back on enrichment - not expand it.
The IAEA released a report each quarter detailing its progress at monitoring Iran's nuclear development.
The BBC obtained a copy of the latest report, which has not yet been officially released.
It concludes: "The director general is unable to report any progress on the clarification of outstanding issues including those relating to possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme."
It adds that despite intensified dialogue with Iran, no progress has been made on how to clear up the questions about Iran's nuclear work.
The IAEA has made similar complaints in previous quarterly reports, and Iran is under an array of sanctions as a result of its lack of co-operation.
Iran had informed the IAEA in a letter on 23 January that it planned to introduce a new model of centrifuge called the IR2m, which can enrich two or three times faster than current equipment.
Gas centrifuges are used to increase the proportion of fissile uranium-235 atoms within uranium.
For uranium to work in a nuclear reactor it must be enriched to contain 2-3% uranium-235 while weapons-grade uranium must contain 90% or more uranium-235.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new centrifuges could cut by a third the time Iran, one of Israel's fiercest opponents in the Middle East, needed to create a nuclear bomb.
US state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the report development at Natanz was "not surprising".
"The installation of new advanced centrifuges would be a further escalation, and a continuing violation of Iran's obligations under the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and IAEA board resolutions," she said.
But she added that Iran had the opportunity to allay the international community's concerns during talks in Kazakhstan next week.
Starting on 26 February, the talks will involve Iranian officials, the five permanent members the UN Security Council, and Germany.
The services are part of Swanage Railway Spring Steam Gala, which runs until Sunday, and mark the latest step in a bid to reconnect the seaside resort with the mainline.
Four journeys a day will run over the newly installed Norden Gates level crossing and on to the River Frome.
Diesel train trials are due to start running to Wareham early next year.
Swanage Railway general manager Matt Green said the services were "real history".
He said: "Our dedicated teams have worked very hard over the past 18 months restoring and upgrading the former Network Rail line.
"Half a mile of new track has been laid, almost 2,000 wooden track sleepers replaced, and six miles of embankments cut back, fences repaired and drains cleared."
Trials between Swanage and Wareham were originally expected to begin last year but were delayed by upgrade works needed on the diesel trains.
Jackson, 28, suffered the injury when he dived into a swimming pool.
Restart Rugby, the official charity of the Rugby Players' Association (RPA), says it will "assist Ed with the significant cost of the intensive rehabilitation that will be required".
Jackson is receiving treatment at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
RPA chief executive Damian Hopley told BBC Wales Sport: "The trustees agreed to make a sizeable donation to look after the rehab and physiotherapy cost that Ed will undergo.
"Ed has made some very encouraging progress in the first month post his accident.
"Clearly you can see the huge support he has across the game and we're lucky in the rugby perspective that the game rallies around situations like this.
Jackson had emergency surgery at Southmead Hospital in Bristol after the accident at a friend's barbecue on 8 April.
The former Bath, Wasps, London Welsh and Doncaster Knights player has recovered some movement and is updating his friends and supporters on his progress on his Facebook page.
Hopley added: "It's important we're there to support Ed and his family and give them some peace of mind around what is to come because they are in uncharted territory.
"Recognising the humour and spirit that Ed is renowned for on his social media account, it's fantastic to chart his progress and it's important we help to pick up the pieces as much as we can."
Bath-born Jackson made 36 appearances for the Dragons after joining from Wasps in 2015 and signed a contract extension with the region in December, 2016.
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The striker, 28, has been out of action since being accused of failing to warm up in the Champions League defeat by Bayern Munich in September.
He has played two reserve games in recent weeks to build his fitness after apologising to the club and supporters.
City face Chelsea on Wednesday 21 March by which time they could be four points behind rivals Manchester United.
We are very disappointed for our supporters after Swansea because I saw on the TV one of our supporters cry. We want to win also for this guy and the other supporters
United play Wolves away on Sunday and City's next league match is the Chelsea game at Etihad Stadium.
Mancini, speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, also revealed that Gareth Barry, Vincent Kompany and Pablo Zabaleta were out of Thursday's Europa League tie against Sporting Lisbon through injury.
However, Joleon Lescott could be on the bench after recovering from a groin injury.
Tevez scored 44 goals in only 69 Premier League games during his first two seasons at City before the dispute in September.
He seemed certain to leave City during the January transfer window after returning to Argentina without the club's permission, but now looks set to figure in the title race.
Asked whether Tevez, who is ineligible for the Europa League, would play at Chelsea, Mancini said: "We will see in the next week. It depends on Carlos. Will he be OK? Probably but it depends on a lot of things."
City are second in the Premier League after losing to Swansea at the weekend, a defeat that knocked them off top spot for the first time in five months. They also failed to score in Thursday's Europa League loss to Sporting Lisbon.
Their home form has been exemplary, with 14 straight Premier League victories at the Etihad Stadium this season.
City have struggled on the road, though, winning won only two of their last eight Premier League away games and scoring just four goals.
21 - Sergio Aguero
18 - Edin Dzeko
14 - Mario Balotelli
7 - David Silva
6 - Adam Johnson
"In Portugal and against Swansea we didn't play a very good game," Mancini said. "We didn't play like the usual Manchester City. We probably didn't deserve to lose both games but we need to play better.
"Now is a time to be strong and keep going because we are a top team and have time to recover.
"We are very disappointed for our supporters after Swansea because I saw on the TV one of our supporters cry. We want to win also for this guy and the other supporters.
"We are positive. We think we will win the Premier League and the Europa League. If we think a different way it will be a mistake."
Mancini added that he hoped Manchester United beat Athletic Bilbao on Thursday to stay in the Europa League, or he fears their rivals could gain an advantage by having less games to play and one trophy to focus on.
If Mr McClarty had chosen to go back to the UUP, it would have had two seats in the incoming executive.
His decision means it will now have one with Alliance having one by right.
Mr McClarty said he had been contacted by hundreds of his voters urging him to remain independent and he wished to retain credibility with them.
'A loose amalgam'
"I know I was in a strong position and could have demanded almost anything, including maybe a ministry, but it was not about me or about personal gain," he added.
He also said he had concerns about the UUP party structures calling it "a loose amalgam of constituency associations" with "no central control".
BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent Gareth Gordon said Mr McClarty, who left the Ulster Unionists in January after being de-selected by his local party, had also denied that his decision was about revenge.
"There's no doubt this will be a bitter blow for his former party which will now be reduced to just one ministerial position in the new executive," our correspondent added.
UUP Lagan Valley MLA Basil McCrea said he was not surprised by Mr McClarty's decision but it would be "very disappointing" for the party.
He added: "It does seem unfair that the Alliance Party, which has half the number of seats, will end up with twice as many seats on the executive.
"But we will have to take it on the chin."
'Desperate act'
Alliance leader David Ford said his party was always entitled to the extra ministry.
"The people's votes have decided that we are entitled to this post," he said.
"The UUP's cheap move to steal our position has failed and failure is all that this desperate act from them deserved.
"David McClarty has made the right decision and shown his integrity. It clearly reflects the wish of the people of East Londonderry, who elected him as an independent and totally rebuffed the UUP."
Mr McClarty was one of the UUP's longest serving MLAs. He was elected to Coleraine Council in 1989 and the assembly in 1998.
The pool at Stratford Park Leisure Centre was closed on 19 January after a section of the "suspended ceiling" above the pool fell on to the poolside.
A spokesman for Stroud District Council said checks and repairs had be to made to the "entire structure".
"Now we are completely satisfied that the whole ceiling is secure and safe we have reopened the pool," he added.
"We're grateful to customers for the patience they have shown whilst this much-loved facility has been closed."
Public swimming between midday and 17:00 GMT is free of charge as a "thank you to customers for their support", the district council added.
Jurors at Plymouth Crown Court were told that one of the girls tried to kill herself when she was aged seven.
Their mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was also said to have lashed out with "bamboo, belts and brushes".
She was jailed for five years for acts of cruelty between 1976 and 1988.
The woman, convicted on eight counts, worked as a prostitute from the family home. There she allowed visiting men access to her daughters who were then of primary school age, prosecutors said.
One daughter told the court that she and the others were given a bucket to use as a toilet, but had no water to drink, leaving them so thirsty they drank their own urine.
Social workers put the three girls and their brother into children's homes. On one occasion they had found them eating cat food.
Prosecutor Sean Brunton said the cruelty was "almost Victorian in its bleakness".
The girls' mother denied ten charges of cruelty and was cleared on two counts.
Raymond Williams, 60, formerly of Dovedale Road, Plymouth, who denied two indecent assaults on one of the girls in 1981 and 1982, was convicted and jailed for three years.
The jury heard a second man, Ralph Burns, 57, had been due to stand trial charged with rape but he died two weeks before the case started.
There were wins for West Brom and Swansea, while the three other opening-day games all ended in 1-1 draws.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool start their campaigns on Sunday, with Chelsea playing on Monday.
In Scotland, Rangers earned their first Premiership win of the new season.
Ninety days after the curtain came down on a season full of surprises and drama, the English top flight returned.
Led by the arrival of former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach Guardiola, there are new faces in the dugout, on the pitch and some new rules to grasp.
The Spaniard, 45, watched his City side nick a late win 2-1 against Sunderland as just 14 goals were scored in seven matches on the opening day.
Other than City's £47.5m defender John Stones, none of the biggest-money signings were in action.
Arsenal's £35m enforcer Granit Xhaka and Liverpool's £34m forward Sadio Mane could make their debuts on Sunday. Meanwhile Manchester United's record £89m midfielder Paul Pogba will not feature because he is suspended.
The most significant rule change sees red cards being issued to players who confront match officials. It was noticeable that none of the Hull City's players surrounded referee Mike Dean when Leicester were awarded a contentious penalty in the opening game.
Hull 2-1 Leicester
Burnley 0-1 Swansea
Crystal Palace 0-1 West Brom
Everton 1-1 Tottenham
Middlesbrough 1-1 Stoke
Southampton 1-1 Watford
Man City 2-1 Sunderland
United, crowned English champions on a record 20 occasions, go to Bournemouth as new manager Jose Mourinho looks to guide them to a first title since 2013.
Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, who finished as runners-up behind Leicester last season, host Liverpool at Emirates Stadium.
Chelsea also have a new manager in the shape of former Italy coach Antonio Conte as they aim to improve on a disappointing 10th-place finish last term.
The four-time Premier League champions host London rivals West Ham on Monday.
Rangers, who have won a record 54 Scottish titles, are back in the top flight after a four-year absence following financial trouble.
After drawing 1-1 in their opener, first-half goals from Harry Forrester and Kenny Miller earned their first league win of the season at Dundee.
In the English Championship, relegated Newcastle United, managed by former Real Madrid, Liverpool and Chelsea boss Rafael Benitez, continued their losing start with a second successive league defeat, while Aston Villa clinched their first win in more than six months in their first season outside the top flight since 1987.
Benitez watched his Newcastle side lose 2-1 against Huddersfield Town in front of 52,079 supporters at St James' Park.
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Neha Ramu, 13, of Surbiton, scored 162 in the high IQ society's test, which puts her in the top 1% of the UK's brightest people. A score above 140 is considered to be that of a genius.
"When I found out I got such a high score it was so amazing and unexpected," she said.
The teenager, who also enjoys chess and reading, hopes to study neurology at Harvard University.
"Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, they've achieved so much," she said. "It's not right to compare me to them just because of my IQ.
"If I don't put in my effort and make use of my IQ then there's no point in having it."
The teenager moved to the UK from Bangalore when she was seven.
She said the Indian education system helped give her the best start but she prefers school life in the UK.
Her parents, both eye doctors, knew their daughter was clever but had no idea exactly how intelligent she was until she scored the maximum marks in her entrance exams for school.
Her mother Jayashree said: "From our side she definitely doesn't have any pressure, we just make opportunities for her.
"She does all this without much effort.
"She makes sure she has enough time for TV, swimming, fun times with her friends."
On her ambition to study neurology, Neha says: "I'm really quite passionate about the subject so I think it'll be good for me as a career.
"I don't think I'm ever going to stop learning. I'll always be curious and I'll always be thinking 'I wonder how that works'".
According to Mensa, the average adult IQ score is 100.
You can hear more about the teenager on BBC Asian Network on Friday at 13:00 BST and 17:00 BST.
Nathan Rhodes, 23, Ryan Case, 25, and Emily Jennings, 27, died after the car they were in crashed near Willes Road, in Leamington Spa on 20 June.
Jamie Riddick, 21, from Kenilworth, was charged with three counts of causing death by careless driving whilst under the influence of alcohol.
He will appear at Leamington Magistrates' Court on 7 October.
Mr Riddick has been released on bail.
Correction 9 September 2015: This story has been amended to make clear that Mr Riddick has been charged with causing death by careless driving and not causing death by dangerous driving.
From the diameter of the Death Star, to Darth Vader's personal destroyer, here at Newsround HQ we've put together a quiz even C-3PO might struggle with.
You might think you're the Yoda of Star Wars fans, but can you answer these questions?
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The party said it will not nominate its Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill as deputy first minister on Monday.
The decision means no power-sharing executive can be formed in time for Monday afternoon's formal deadline.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said to date "there was little to suggest that Sinn Fein want to secure agreement".
"The DUP stands ready to continue to discuss how we can secure new arrangements for Northern Ireland," she said.
The party did not attend today's session of talks as it does not negotiate on Sundays.
Sinn Féin's Mrs O'Neill said: "Today we have come to the end of the road.
"The talks process has run its course and Sinn Féin will not be nominating for the position of speaker or for the executive office tomorrow."
She said the party remained committed to making the power-sharing institutions work.
The parties have until 16:00 on Monday to resolve issues that divide them - if they fail, another snap Northern Ireland Assembly election could be called, just weeks after a poll held at the start of this month.
Northern Ireland has been without a functioning government since early January.
After the collapse of the power-sharing coalition between the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein, a snap election again returned them as the two largest parties. But Sinn Féin grew significantly, winning just one seat fewer than the DUP.
There was not much optimism that the relationship could be repaired in the three weeks allowed for talks.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said: "We don't have the terms now to go forward and nominate for a speaker as Michelle has pointed out, or for a first, or a deputy first, minister.
"That's today. She also said, and I endorse this absolutely, that we do believe that we will have the conditions in the time ahead, because we want to be in the institutions."
He added: "Will we be back, will we get the institutions in place? Yes."
Earlier, Mr Adams criticised the DUP and the British government's approach to the talks.
The DUP accused Sinn Féin of not being willing to attend roundtable sessions.
Former first minister Mrs Foster said: "While regrettable, the reality is that sufficient progress was not achieved in the time available to form a new executive.
"The DUP was ready to form a new administration without pre-conditions so as to allow us to have a budget and to deal with the many matters that currently face the people of Northern Ireland.
"Negotiations will only ever be successful when parties are prepared to be flexible in order to secure outcomes."
She added: "Throughout the course of Saturday, Sinn Féin behaved as if they were the only participants whose mandate mattered. This cannot and will not be the basis for a successful outcome."
Secretary of State James Brokenshire said that the people of Northern Ireland had voted overwhelmingly for devolved power sharing government.
"Even at this stage I urge political parties to agree to work to form an executive and provide people here with the strong and stable devolved government that they want," he said.
Tom Elliott of the Ulster Unionist Party said the current phase of talks was the worst he had been involved in.
"Unless there is a massive u-turn in terms of attitude from the two largest parties, then Northern Ireland could be in for a period of prolonged drift," he said.
"I understand the secretary of state took the attitude that the blockages to progress were devolved matters and therefore allowed the DUP and Sinn Féin to take the lead, with the government offering support.
"It looks like HM government will have to take the lead at 4pm tomorrow and that is a further indictment of the lead parties at Stormont."
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said "rigid opposition to compromise on key issues, particularly from the DUP, has made a comprehensive resolution more difficult to reach".
He added: "Following talks over the last number of days it is clear now that an agreement will not be reached in the time left. That is a bitter disappointment.
"The secretary of state must immediately create space for all parties to refresh their outlook on the challenges we face and reach a positive accommodation that allows a restoration of power sharing."
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said if there is an agreement on Monday, much of it will have Alliance's fingerprints on it and that the party will continue to contribute to the talks over the next 24 hours.
"Whether we end up being in government or in opposition, we still want to facilitate government, we want it to happen," she said.
On Saturday Mrs Long said another election would be a vanity project.
The 62-year-old was reported missing from his St Cyrus home after last speaking to his family in Dundee on 14 July.
Mr Leslie's body was found on Saturday morning.
Police Scotland said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death and that Mr Leslie's family would not be issuing a statement.
Insp Megan Heathershaw said: "Our thoughts are with Mr Leslie's family and friends at this very sad time.
"Following our appeals for information, numerous members of the public got in touch to assist with information.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank these people for their help."
Firefighters advised drivers to avoid Lifford Lane, Kings Norton, after the "non-hazardous" spill about 08:30 BST.
About 600 litres of a "concrete super plasticiser" escaped from storage tanks. The cause is being investigated, the Environment Agency (EA) said.
The actions by fire crews and EA officers meant "there has been no environmental impact", it added.
"We have been informed that the road is likely to remain closed over the weekend to enable a full clean-up of the site," the spokeswoman said.
The blast, in Rochdale Road, Harpurhey, happened shortly after 15:00 GMT.
Firefighters said the owner was taken to hospital with minor injuries after suffering burns and added they were not aware of any other casualties.
Rochdale Road has been closed and motorists have been urged to avoid the area. Local councillor Pat Karney tweeted that the venue was a "very popular Irish-style cafe".
He added it was the second serious fire in "this small area recently" and said he would meet fire service officials to "review safety in these old shop premises".
The cafe owner told fire crews a chip pan caught fire but emergency services said they were also investigating if there were other causes of the blaze.
Crew manager Phil Nelson said the chip pan fire "started the process" of the blaze.
He said in such situations people should get out of the property and, if possible, close the doors and turn off the gas and electricity supplies before ringing 999.
Gas and electricity supplies have been isolated in properties near the mid-terrace cafe.
Manager Roy Hodgson resigned after the abject embarrassment of losing to a nation ranked 34th in the world - and with a population of just 330,000 - despite taking the lead through Wayne Rooney's fourth-minute penalty.
Iceland equalised within a minute as England failed to deal with a trademark long throw and Ragnar Sigurdsson bundled home from close range.
England's shameful performance was summed up by Iceland's 18th-minute winner when goalkeeper Joe Hart was badly at fault - just as in the win over Wales - as he let Kolbeinn Sigthorsson's shot through his hand.
Hodgson made changes as Iceland dug in, but the underdogs had as many chances as England before the final whistle blew on their Euro 2016 hopes and his four-year tenure as manager.
The ultimate responsibility lies with the manager but, make no mistake, he was badly let down by players capable of so much better - not just on this black night for English sport but throughout Euro 2016.
Hart has had a nightmare tournament, young hopes such as Harry Kane and Dele Alli failed to live up to their performances last season, and captain Rooney, who had been England's best player up until this game, chose this night to give one of his worst performances in an international.
England were shown up by the work-rate, desire and sheer physical commitment of their counterparts. Yes, Hodgson will take the blame and has paid the price but these highly paid Premier League players should not escape criticism.
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke had flagged up a quarter-final place as a minimum requirement, but Hodgson's England could not even achieve that.
Hodgson's thinking had been muddled even before England arrived in France, with constant changes of personnel and approach exemplified by the sudden re-introduction - and subsequent substitution - of Raheem Sterling, although the Manchester City forward did win the penalty from which Rooney scored.
As the game went on, Hodgson cut a detached figure, seemingly powerless to influence the game - and he waited too long to introduce the fearless pace and direct running of Marcus Rashford, who posed more problems in four minutes than most of those who had gone before.
Hodgson has never given off any sort of assurance during Euro 2016, unsure of his best team and strategy.
England have won one game out of four, with a last-minute winner from Daniel Sturridge against Wales - and this defeat will be a scar forever on Hodgson's record and reputation.
England's players slumped to the ground in despair and embarrassment when one final corner was wasted and Iceland had completed their landmark win.
It left them within range of the fury of England's travelling support, who had gathered in their thousands as usual in Nice in the expectation of seeing them reach the last 16 of Euro 2016.
And they wasted no time in letting England's players feel their full fury, frustration that had built up throughout the game exploding in anger directed at those who had failed to perform.
Goalkeeper Joe Hart held his hands up in apology to no avail as some supporters hurled England shirts and flags in the team's direction.
When England left Brazil after their failure there in 2014, they were actually applauded at the end of a 0-0 draw in a dead rubber against Costa Rica - there was no such escape here as the supporters came to terms with one of the most embarrassing, painful nights in the history of English sport.
While England will begin to pick apart a wretched tournament, Iceland will go on to the quarter-finals and undoubtedly the biggest game in their history when they face hosts France at the Stade de France on Saturday.
Wales' quarter-final against Belgium on Friday will be broadcast live on BBC One, with build-up starting at 19:30 BST.
The quarter-finals in full (all games start at 20:00 BST):
England goalkeeper Joe Hart: "As a group it is down to us. All the plans are put in place, we knew everything about Iceland - but ultimately we didn't perform. Personally I didn't perform.
"It's not a question of wanting it, there's nothing we want more - they are just words though. We were in a good place but we haven't done it.
"We will get a lot of flak and we deserve it. We will learn from this and try and bring English football back to where it belongs. We have put it in a low place.
"We just couldn't find a way back into the game. The next manager has a tough job on his hands. We worked hard but with no success. That is how this team will be remembered."
England captain Wayne Rooney: "It's a sad day for us.
"Sometimes not always the best team win. Once they got in the lead we knew it would be difficult to get the goal back because they are well organised.
"Going into the last 16 facing Iceland we were confident we could win the game. It's disappointing but we have to move on.
"It's tough. There are always upsets in football - it's not tactics, it's just unfortunate. We know we're a good team.
"I can't stand here and say exactly why it's happened. Roy Hodgson will look back and think what he could have done differently.
"I'm still available to play. It'll be interesting to see who comes in."
Match ends, England 1, Iceland 2.
Second Half ends, England 1, Iceland 2.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Harry Kane with a cross following a corner.
Corner, England. Conceded by Kári Arnason.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (England) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge with a cross.
Hand ball by Teddy Bjarnason (Iceland).
Corner, England. Conceded by Birkir Saevarsson.
Foul by Gary Cahill (England).
Ari Freyr Skúlason (Iceland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Iceland. Arnor Ingvi Traustason replaces Jón Dadi Bödvarsson.
Danny Rose (England) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland).
Substitution, England. Marcus Rashford replaces Wayne Rooney.
Foul by Harry Kane (England).
Ragnar Sigurdsson (Iceland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, England. Harry Kane tries a through ball, but Daniel Sturridge is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Kári Arnason (Iceland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Iceland. Conceded by Joe Hart.
Attempt saved. Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
Gary Cahill (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland).
Foul by Jamie Vardy (England).
Ragnar Sigurdsson (Iceland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jack Wilshere (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Teddy Bjarnason (Iceland).
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (England) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack Wilshere with a through ball.
Substitution, Iceland. Teddy Bjarnason replaces Kolbeinn Sigthorsson.
Offside, England. Joe Hart tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Birkir Saevarsson (Iceland) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Aron Gunnarsson.
Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge.
Corner, England. Conceded by Ragnar Sigurdsson.
Chris Smalling (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Iceland).
Attempt missed. Jack Wilshere (England) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.
Attempt missed. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dele Alli (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland).
Gary Cahill (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland).
Etoile du Sahel, who are the only club to have won all five present and past continental club competitions, proved too strong for debutants Ferroviario Beira of Mozambique, winning 5-0 in Sousse in Group A.
Another Tunisian side, Esperance, began the new era of African Champions League football with a 3-1 win over DR Congo's AS Vita Club in Rades in Group C.
In other matches on Friday, Nigerian Stanley Okawuchi scored a late goal as Zamalek of Egypt beat CAPS United of Zimbabwe 2-0 in Alexandria.
Several squandered chances and acrobatic saves from CAPS goalkeeper Edmore Sibanda kept the Group B clash goal-less until half-time at the Borg Al Arab Stadium.
But Sibanda was at fault for both goals with Basem Morsy giving 2016 runners-up Zamalek the lead on 56 minutes and Nigeria's Stanley Okawuchi scoring seven minutes from time.
Zamalek lie second on goal difference in Group B after USM Alger of Algeria trounced Al Ahly Tripoli of Libya 3-0 in Algiers.
Headed goals from Farouk Chafai and Madagascan Carolus Andriamatsinoro gave 2015 runners-up USM a two-goal cushion by the break.
Oussama Darfalou completed the rout seven minutes from time by finding space inside the box and firing a low shot into the corner of the net.
On Saturday, Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa continue the defence of their title as they host Ethiopia's Saint George.
Sundowns' coach Pitso Mosimane (pictured) says fixture fatigue could threaten their hopes.
Last year they became just the second South African winners of Africa's top club competition, beating Zamalek of Egypt 3-1 on aggregate in the final.
Mosimane, who played for and coached South Africa, says a fixture pile-up could affect his team.
"The Saint George players are sitting in the stand, resting and watching us," he said after a midweek domestic match in Pretoria.
"It is not easy fighting on the South African and African fronts. We are playing every three days or so and injuries and suspensions can wreck plans.The 52-year-old also accepts his side Sundowns have lost the element of surprise they enjoyed last year.
"That advantage has gone. Rivals clubs know who we are now and watch us on TV," he conceded.
"But we are more experienced than last year, have greater quality and depth in our squad, and know what Champions League football is all about."
Saint George, the first club from Ethiopia to make the group phase, won all four of their qualifiers and five-goal Saladin Said is the leading Champions League scorer this season.
Also on Saturday, eight-time winners Al Ahly of Egypt will be wary of Zanaco having come unstuck against another Zambian club, Zesco United, in the group stage last year, dropping five points.
Bogus ads for shoes briefly appeared among the selection of banners displayed on DailyMail.com.
Instead of online shops, the advertisements linked to malware that can expose computers to "ransomware".
Ransomware encrypts files on a victim's computer and asks for a payment to decrypt them again.
The practice is known as "malvertising".
Security company Malwarebytes made the discovery last week and published a report about its findings online.
The report says Malwarebytes contacted the Daily Mail and relevant advertising networks about the issue on Friday.
By Monday morning, the security company was informed that the fake ads had been removed.
The banners, purporting to be for an online shoe retailer, were published via a bogus ad server.
From there, they were distributed via an advertising network that presents ads to readers on the Daily Mail's website.
If a user clicked on one of the ads, they would be redirected to a well known piece of malware called the Angler Exploit Kit, which attacks vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Flash.
There are various ways to protect yourself from ransomware, according to Tony Berning, senior manager at software company Opswat.
"To protect against ransomware, users must back up their data regularly," he said.
"In addition to this, an important defence against ransomware is the use of anti-virus engines to scan for threats.
"With over 450,000 new threats emerging daily, anti-malware engines need to detect new threats continuously, and will inevitably address different threats at different times," Mr Berning said.
The Daily Mail did not immediately provide a comment.
The Black Cats are in the last 32 with Rochdale, who dedicated their first goal against Hartlepool to terminally ill youngster Joshua McCormack.
Morecambe, Oldham, Yeovil and Coventry also progressed from the group stage.
Marcus Bignot lost his first game in charge of Grimsby, who were beaten 4-2 by Sheffield United in a dead rubber.
League One side Rochdale named five-year-old Joshua McCormack on the bench for their 2-1 win at Hartlepool.
The youngster was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year and was told it was terminal in September.
Following Reuben Noble-Lazarus' opening goal in their 2-1 win, Dale players ran over to the bench to get a shirt with 'McCormack 55' printed on it and held it aloft to show their support.
Sunderland would have been eliminated had they lost to League Two County, and the Premier League club's youngsters trailed with eight minutes left at the Stadium of Light.
However, Josh Maja slotted home to equalise and then Seb Larsson's cross was deflected into his own net by Magpies defender Hayden Hollis.
On the final matchday of the group stages, Sunderland became the eighth development squad to reach the last 32.
Of the 16 category one academy sides invited by the English Football League to enter the revamped competition, three won their group to guarantee a home tie in the second round.
The new-look competition has seen low attendances at many clubs, and only one of Wednesday's eight matches recorded a four-figure crowd.
Carlisle, who had already qualified from their group, drew 1,420 to Brunton Park as they beat Fleetwood 4-2, but only 380 fans watched Rochdale's win over Hartlepool.
Elsewhere, Romanian defender Florin Gardos played a competitive 90 minutes for the first time since February 2015 as Southampton's development squad beat Crawley Town 4-0.
The 28-year-old defender has been sidelined with a long-term knee injury but helped the Saints keep a clean sheet to leapfrog the Reds and win their group.
The draw for the second round takes place on Thursday (10:30 GMT).
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The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race takes place every year. It began in 1973 as an event to test the best sled dog mushers but has slowly changed into what is now a highly competitive race.
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The 25-year-old Scotland international joined Palace from Aston Villa in August 2013 and made 27 appearances for the Eagles.
Bannan ended last season on loan at Bolton Wanderers, featuring 16 times.
He tweeted: "Glad to have joined @swfc on a permanent transfer today new start and glad to be going somewhere to play regular football and a fresh start."
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Kris Boyd opened the scoring with a free-kick midway through the first half, giving the hosts a deserved lead.
Kallum Higginbotham netted a back-post header after the break.
Liam Craig had a headed goal chalked off, before Boyd slammed home a late penalty won by Rory McKenzie. Despite losing, Saints secured a top-six place.
Victory lifts the Ayrshire side eight points clear of bottom side Dundee United and maintains the four-point gap between Killie and 10th-placed Hamilton Academical.
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Having improved defensively, Kilmarnock had struggled for goals since the arrival of Clark in mid-February but after a slow start the home side started to create chances.
A great cross from Josh Magennis found Boyd in the box and his shot beat Alan Mannus only to his the post.
The goal-hungry Kilmarnock faithful would get the breakthrough they desperately craved. A free-kick was awarded on the edge of the St Johnstone area and Boyd fired into the bottom corner - his first goal since December.
There was a huge sense of relief in the wild celebrations, from both players and fans.
St Johnstone tried to respond and almost equalised through Craig, but his close-range shot was superbly saved by the outstanding Jamie MacDonald.
Kilmarnock almost went further in front, Higginbotham playing the ball into the path of Boyd to pull the trigger but Tam Scobbie appeared from nowhere to make a vital block.
Immediately after that Kilmarnock had the ball in the net, Higginbotham with the strike but it was ruled out for offside.
Magennis went close either side of half-time and Scobbie had a chance to shoot for Saints but blazed high into the stand.
Kilmarnock were soon 2-0 in front. Magennis crossed from the right and Higginbotham made no mistake with a downward header at the back post.
Craig then netted with a header at the other end but a push on Mark O'Hara meant there was no goal.
St Johnstone's Bulgarian defender Plamen Krachunov was next to be denied, his header brilliantly saved by MacDonald.
Kilmarnock would wrap up all three vital points right at the end. McKenzie was fouled in the box and from the spot Boyd was on target again as the home side claimed what could be a huge win as they attempt to beat the drop.
Paul Annon said he was abused by a man and a women while living at Shirley Oaks, in Croydon, in the 1960s and 1970s.
The 51-year-old was speaking after the publication of a report which found abuse took place at the home on an "industrial scale".
Mr Annon said he was just five years old when the abuse started.
A report from the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (Sosa) has named 27 men as alleged abusers and links 20 deaths to the home.
Two of the people named in the report - William Hook and Philip Temple - have been convicted of child sexual abuse.
In an interview with the Press Association, Mr Annon said whenever he tried to tell someone about the abuse "it would fall on deaf ears".
"A big man used to come into the room and sexually abuse me, and a woman would come in" he said.
Mr Annon said he was unable to remember the names of his abusers because of how young he was at the time.
"I didn't really understand it at the time" he added.
Mr Annon was put into care with his two brothers after their mother died, and lived at the children's home between 1969 and 1979.
His experiences have impacted his relationships, pushed him into drug taking and drinking and left him feeling "worthless", he said.
Mr Annon also blames the abuse for the premature death of his brother, who died nine days before his fiftieth birthday from cirrhosis of the liver.
"What happened to him pushed him to what he did" Mr Annon said.
In the wake of the findings within the report Lambeth Council announced it will compensate former residents of Shirley Oaks.
The party will field about 32 candidates in June. In Clwyd West, local members chose not to challenge the Brexit Tory minister David Jones.
UKIP AM David Rowlands said: "Any small party would find it difficult to keep funding these elections."
UKIP has no MPs but won 13.6% of the vote in Wales in 2015, third highest behind Labour and the Tories.
"It's simply the timing of it, to be quite honest with you," Mr Rowlands told BBC Wales.
"It's £500 per candidate," he added, referring to the required deposit which is only repaid if a candidate receives at least 5% of the vote.
"You're talking about £20,000 overall, plus obviously the leaflets," which he estimated were around £700 for each candidate.
"You're talking about quite sizeable amounts of money to be raised in a very short period of time," the South Wales East AM said.
While UKIP stood in all 40 Welsh constituencies in 2015 but did not win any seats, at the 2016 Welsh Assembly election it won seven seats due to proportional representation, with 13% of the vote for the regional lists.
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A suspected twister tore through northern Alabama, killing three people, while two people were later confirmed dead in neighbouring Tennessee.
Three children were also critically injured at a 24-hour day care centre.
The National Weather Service reported 27 tornado sightings as the storm swept through eastern Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and southern Tennessee.
Three people were killed and one person was critically injured after a tornado hit a mobile home in Rosalie, Alabama, on Tuesday night, according to Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen.
The same twister appeared to level a closed day care centre in the Ider community in Dekalb County, injuring seven people, including three children.
The injured victims left their mobile home to seek shelter there, said Anthony Clifton, DeKalb County Emergency Management Director.
An estimated 2,400 residents were without electricity as of Wednesday morning, according to Alabama Power.
The company said that outages could increase as the storm continued to move east throughout the morning.
Officials also said dozens of buildings have been damaged or destroyed from the storms.
A couple in southern Tennessee also died after an apparent tornado swept through Polk County.
Several dozen others were injured in Tennessee, including at least 20 people in McMinn County, ABC affiliate WATE reported.
Tennessee is still reeling after four people were killed and hundreds of homes and buildings were destroyed in devastating wildfires.
More than 14,000 people were evacuated from the resort towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.
Tornadoes and hail were also reported on Tuesday in Louisiana as well as Mississippi, where the National Weather Service in Jackson said late Tuesday that it had counted six confirmed tornadoes in the region.
The RSPCA was called after a member of the public heard the six-month-old animal "screaming in pain" in Ardingly Road, Saltdean, East Sussex on Sunday.
Officers alerted fire crews, who spent an hour knocking down part of the garage wall in the early hours.
"There was no way he was getting out by himself," said RSPCA inspector Marie Steven.
"It was touch-and-go whether this little animal was going to survive this mishap, due to how severely he was wedged into that tiny space.
"He was completely pinned by his head, shoulders and hips," she added.
"The fire and rescue team from Rottingdean did a fantastic job. They spent more than an hour bashing through the garage wall to reach him unscathed. They had to remove bits of concrete, as the fox couldn't be reached at all.
"I was so relieved when we got to him and found him uninjured. We checked him over, and gave him some food and water, and were then able to release him back into the wild to live another day, seemingly unperturbed by the whole middle-of-the-night adventure."
Ms Oram who died in 2003, co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and developed a system of creating sounds and compositions using drawings.
The machine is thought to have remained unfinished in her own lifetime.
But experts say the Mini Oramics's approach to composition and performance would have been influential.
Tom Richards, the researcher who finally constructed the machine, told BBC Radio 4's the World at One programme it had helped answer the question: "What if this had come to pass in 1973?"
The Mini Oramics developed ideas first realised in the earlier and considerably larger Oramics Machine, designed in the early 1960s.
The earlier instrument is sufficiently important to the history of experimental electronic music to have formed the centrepiece of an exhibition - Oram to Electronica - at the Science Museum in London.
However, that machine is no longer playable.
By drawing "graphs" - lines and dots drawn or painted on to blank movie camera film stock and clear glass slides - the Oramics Machine enabled sounds and compositions to be created visually, albeit on a machine the size of a chest-freezer.
The stacked "tracks" of the machine resemble those of modern music sequencing software.
But although it was certainly ingenious and in many respects ahead of its time, the machine's construction relied heavily on clever improvisation, using bits of furniture, and repurposed oscilloscopes.
The suitcase-sized Mini Oramics kept the same essential concept and interface, but in a smaller device that could be sold to studios and professional musicians, says Tom Richards, who completed the design as part of a PhD between Goldsmiths, University of London and the Science Museum.
"That was her intention," he said.
"The next version was to be smaller, transistorised, using slightly more modern technology."
In completing Ms Oram's designs, Mr Richards has tried to keep close to the spirit of 1970s technology, eschewing the use of microcomputers such as the Arduino, for example.
The completed Mini Oramics resembles an overhead projector.
Dots and lines drawn on clear cellophane control elements of the composition and musical expression such as the note, octave and vibrato.
On a separate unit, sliders like those found on a graphic equaliser shape waveforms used to synthesise the sound.
A variety of factors caused Ms Oram to abandon plans to build the machine, according to Mr Richards, including a lack of funds and anxieties that her approach to creating music was falling out of fashion compared with computer-based techniques.
But the build of the Mini Oramics, mostly using technology available in the 1970s, shows Oram's approach to "drawn" music could have been popularised, musicians who have used the new machine say.
"It's almost like a third way," James Bulley, a composer who works at the Daphne Oram archive, told the BBC.
"You are composing and performing in real-time."
Dr Jo Thomas, of the University of East London, said: "I felt privileged to use it.
"This gives instrumental pleasure and compositional pleasure at the same time, that's what makes it a brilliant instrument."
In the four decades since the design of the Mini Oramics, music technology has developed rapidly.
For example, there is now an app that simulates in software the original Oramics Machine.
But, in 1972, Ms Oram told a radio interviewer that the full development of electronic instruments could take much longer.
"The violin has taken an enormous number of years to evolve, to get to the state it is, probably 600 years or more," she told Nicholas Wooley on the World at One.
"Now, if you give me 600 years, I might bring this up to that sort of stage."
The 53-year-old departs just days after Argentina lost on penalties to Chile in the Copa America final.
In a statement Martino indicated he quit because of a "lack of decisions" at the head of the Argentine FA (AFA) and "serious problems" in selecting a squad for the Olympics.
The Argentine managed his country from August 2014, after previously coaching Barcelona.
Last month's Copa America defeat was the second time Argentina finished runner-up to Chile in the competition during Martino's reign.
Star player Lionel Messi - who missed a penalty in the final shootout - retired following the match, saying it "hurt not to be a champion".
A host of other leading Argentina players are reportedly close to quitting the national team, although there has been no confirmation of further retirements.
Martino has also struggled to choose an 18-man squad for the Olympic football tournament in Rio, which starts on 3 August - two days before the Games formally commence.
Argentine media says Martino is frustrated clubs are unwilling to release player in time for Rio. At present there are only nine players in Argentina's Olympic squad, and the president of the country's Olympic committee has hinted he may not send a team.
The AFA has also been struggling amid a power vacuum that followed the death of long-time president Julio Grondona in 2014.
The AFA has been placed under the administration of a Fifa committee in order to prepare it for new presidential elections in 2017.
Craig Benson finished second and fellow Scot Ross Murdoch, the Commonwealth Games gold medallist, was third.
Compatriot Michael Jamieson, the 2012 Olympic and Commonwealth silver medallist, was fifth.
It means that Willis will qualify automatically for Rio, while Benson and Murdoch must wait for selection.
Adam Peaty, world record holder over 50m and 100m, led the field early on and was two seconds inside British record pace at one stage.
However, once the sprint specialist began to tire, fastest qualifier Willis took over to dominate the rest of the race.
Murdoch was the second quickest going into the final after winning his heat but was edged out by Benson.
Earlier this week, Murdoch finished second behind Peaty in the 100m breaststroke and is almost certain to join the world champion in that event at Rio this summer.
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Third seed Federer, seeking a record eighth title, beat Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (7-0) 6-3 6-2 on a hot evening on Centre Court.
Djokovic, seeded second, earlier swept past Adam Pavlasek 6-2 6-2 6-1 on Court One.
Sixth seed Milos Raonic, eighth seed Dominic Thiem and 10th seed Alexander Zverev secured places in round three.
Swiss Federer and Djokovic of Serbia both completed matches for the first time this week after their first-round opponents had retired with injuries.
Three-time champion Djokovic needed just over 90 minutes to see off Czech Pavlasek, the world number 136 making his debut at the Championships.
The 30-year-old will play Latvia's Ernests Gulbis, after the world number 589 beat Argentine Juan Martin del Potro 6-4 6-4 7-6 (7-3).
"Overall I managed to impose my own rhythm and play the game I intended to play," Djokovic, who converted seven of his 18 break points, told the BBC.
"It was very warm and hot and not easy to play point after point in some of the long rallies."
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Federer, 35, lost the opening seven points and fell 2-0 down against Lajovic, who played well above his ranking of 79 for much of the contest.
It was still not enough to seriously trouble the Swiss, watched by his parents in the royal box.
Federer broke back immediately and after a tight set, dominated the tie-break to take decisive control of proceedings.
Ninety minutes, nine aces and 30 winners later, he wrapped up a solid win and a third-round clash with Germany's 27th seed Mischa Zverev.
"I struggled early on. I couldn't get rid of the nerves and struggled to find my rhythm," Federer told BBC Sport.
"I should feel comfortable here, and I do, but the problem is on grass if you're struggling it can take a while.
"I wasn't too worried. Nerves are a funny thing, sometimes you get horribly nervous and other times it's a piece of cake. I'm happy it happened in the second round."
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Seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion Peter Fleming on BBC Two
Novak Djokovic and his camp will be very pleased. He wasn't at the top of his game right away but through the second and third sets, he started to move well. He eliminated the unforced errors and looked like the old Novak.
Will he be able to maintain that level when the opposition improves? He is starting to put it together.
Pavlasek didn't have enough to trouble Novak. You need a huge shot to threaten one of the greatest defenders of all time.
It was a pretty straightforward affair for Federer and he'll be pleased to get back to the locker room, an early dinner and prepare for Saturday.
Lajovic played well but couldn't quite come up with the shots required in that first set tie-break.
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Raonic, runner-up last year, was in trouble when he faced a set point to trail two sets to love against Russia's Mikhail Youzhny.
The Canadian came through 3-6 7-6 (9-7) 6-4 7-5 in two hours and 40 minutes on court two.
"I was fortunate I didn't get down two sets to love in that tiebreaker," said Raonic. "I got very lucky in those scenarios."
Austrian Thiem saw off Frenchman Gilles Simon 5-7 6-4 6-2 6-4 and Alexander Zverev, brother of Mischa, beat American Frances Tiafoe 6-3 6-4 6-3.
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Spain's David Ferrer reached the third round after his opponent Steve Darcis was forced to withdraw with a back problem, the ninth retirement of the singles tournament so far.
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Former Cameroon captain Eto'o, 35, wrote on his Instagram account: "Perhaps some people do not feel respect for me because I am black."
Eto'o later made a second post denying the criticism was aimed at Antalyaspor chairman Ali Safak Ozturk.
Ozturk had criticised Eto'o for his performances earlier in the season.
He said at the time: "No player is above the interests of Antalyaspor. Everyone must know their place."
Eto'o called Ozturk his "brother" in his second Instagram post, adding that the Turkish people had supported him "wholeheartedly".
"My message was to a person who criticises me unjustly for years and while he continues his criticisms, I kept winning trophies," the former Barcelona, Chelsea and Everton player wrote.
The Turkish club issued a statement stating Eto'o would have a separate training programme until his case was heard by their executive board.
Three-time Champions League winner Eto'o moved to Antalyaspor in June 2015 as the keystone of the club's bid in the southern Mediterranean resort city to find national and even European success.
But his stint has turned sour in the past weeks amid intense rumours in the close season that he would join Istanbul arch rivals Besiktas.
Tensions have been compounded by a poor start to the new season for Antalyaspor, who have taken only one point from four matches.
She told BBC Radio 4's Farming Today "we have to accept" the process could help production and livestock health.
Her brother, the Prince of Wales, has previously warned GM crops could cause an environmental disaster.
But Princess Anne said: "To say we mustn't go there 'just in case' is probably not a practical argument."
In an interview with the rural affairs programme to be broadcast on Thursday, the 66-year-old Princess Royal said she saw no problem with modifying crops if it improved their ability to grow.
"Gene technology has got real benefits to offer," said Princess Anne, who is a working farmer and patron of nearly 50 countryside organisations.
She said gene technology would "maybe have an occasional downside but I suspect not very many".
She added that she would be happy to use GM for crops and livestock on her own farming estate, Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire.
"We grow some very good plants here remarkably easily," she said. "I don't see the problem in saying 'is there something we could do to improve their abilities?'"
Princess Anne talked about the difficulties she has experienced developing rare-breed cattle, adding long-term investment to develop suitable genetic modification to help improve their health would be a "bonus".
Farming Today has been speaking to a number of leading figures about the future of the environment and farming post-Brexit.
Deep-seated opposition has seen just one GM crop commercially cultivated in the EU over the past 20 years.
In the UK, as in many other countries, there have been several trials, including GM wheat, but nothing has ever been licensed.
However, that could all change as in the House of Commons last autumn, farming minister George Eustice indicated the government was open to re-examining its position with GM crops after the UK leaves the EU.
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Princess Anne first entered the debate in 2000, when she said it was a huge oversimplification to say all farming ought to be organic.
Her position appears at odds with her brother's long-standing and vociferous opposition to GM crops.
The Prince of Wales is a royal patron of the Soil Association, which has campaigned against GM crops and ingredients in human and animal food.
He has argued that GM crops damaged the Earth's soil, describing them in 2008 as an experiment "gone seriously wrong".
Speaking from Buckingham Palace, Princess Anne told Farming Today that "GM is one of those things that divides people".
She added: "Surely, if we're going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is going to be part of that.
"How you define what is harmful or what is good seems to be rather more difficult."
In the interview, she also discussed biofuels, the use of science in farming and what kind of subsidies could help farmers in the future.
Hear Princess Anne on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today on Thursday 23 March from 05:45 GMT.
Officers conducted a search at Tiki Tots in Nile Grove and found the class B drug growing in the building's loft space.
Police said parents had been completely unaware of the cannabis.
The cannabis was recovered by police on Tuesday. Officers said they were pursuing a positive line of inquiry.
Det Insp Paul Grainger, of Police Scotland, said: "This building was regularly occupied by young children and their parents who were completely unaware of the cannabis which was being grown within.
"Acting upon intelligence, we executed a search of the premises and made a sizeable drugs recovery.
"Our engagement with the public provides us with invaluable information and by working together we have ensured the safety of local parents and their children, as well as the wider community which these drugs were destined for."
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Malcolm disappeared when he was just three. Since then his owners have moved house and left the area.
But, having decided to move back - they have been brought back together with their old pet.
Except he's a little bigger than when he left - Martin explains more...
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Interim coach Stuart Lancaster is expected to name Scarlets number eight Morgan and Saracens midfielder Farrell in his elite squad on Wednesday.
Asked if Morgan should be in the XV, Dallaglio told BBC Sport: "No, you need some experience in the squad first.
"The lad needs to experience the culture and the environment."
Leadership is really, really important. The more leaders we can get in the squad the better, the likes of Chris Robshaw, Dylan Hartley, Tom Wood
Bristol-born Morgan, 22, has opted to play for his native country rather than Wales, where he has just qualified on the three-year residency rule.
Farrell, 20, has already been mooted as the long-term answer for England at number 10, even though he has spent most of the season playing at centre outside Charlie Hodgson for Saracens.
"Owen Farrell is playing well and England have got some interesting selections at 10," former England captain Dallaglio commented.
"Jonny Wilkinson has retired, Toby Flood looks like he might be injured. Do you think putting Owen Farrell in against Scotland away [in their opening match on 4 February] is a fair baptism? I think Stuart Lancaster might look to the likes of Charlie Hodgson.
"I'd certainly have Farrell in the squad, he is definitely an England number 10 or 12 of the future. I remember Jonny Wilkinson coming into the England team and he made his debut on the wing at home, he didn't make his debut at 10 away from home."
Saracens' 20-year-old Owen Farrell is the talk of the town and sure to be included; he might start at centre if England want a 'second five-eighth' in midfield. Does Lancaster now give Farrell his head at 10? Or turn to his Saracens team-mate Charlie Hodgson, whose distribution skills are still top notch even if his Test career stalled because of defensive concerns.
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Asked who should captain the team in the Six Nations, Dallaglio said: "Leadership is really, really important. The more leaders we can get in the squad the better, the likes of Chris Robshaw, Dylan Hartley, Tom Wood.
"I'm not going to put my neck on the line, it comes down to having a number of different leaders. At the moment it looks like Robshaw and Wood might fit the bill, it's heavily intimated the captaincy is likely to come from one of those two."
Dallaglio, speaking in his role as an ambassador for the 2015 World Cup, added: "England have got a wonderful challenge on their hands.
"We were clearly very disappointed both on the field and off the field throughout the World Cup [in New Zealand in 2011] and it's a chance for us to really turn things around, get the confidence back in the public and people believing in the England team.
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"It won't happen overnight but England have got a great chance to build. We'd like to be a lot further ahead in terms of development but perceptions can change very quickly. Careers can be born and made.
"Of course England can win the World Cup, they've got a great chance but we've got to take it one step at a time and reconnect with the fans. In order to win the next World Cup we've got to find some new stars, some Jonny Wilkinsons of 2015 who are really going to take England forward."
The MSP, who is battling against current deputy leader Kezia Dugdale for the job, says he is "confident" he will win the vote.
Ms Dugdale is widely seen as being the favourite to win, but Mr Macintosh said that the momentum was with him.
The result of the ballot will announced next Saturday.
Speaking after an event in Glasgow attended by undecided Scottish Labour members, Mr Macintosh said that his canvas returns still showed that more than 50% of those entitled to vote were yet to make up their minds.
He said that the majority of those who had decided were backing him, adding that "all the switchers" were also moving in his direction.
Ms Dugdale has received 90% of the support from constituency Labour branches who nominated a candidate.
She is also backed by 80% of the local councillors who nominated a leadership candidate, 10 trade union and affiliate groups, and 30 fellow parliamentarians.
But Mr Macintosh said the move to the one-person-one-vote system had helped his campaign.
He claimed Ms Dugdale was the candidate of the party machine, and added: "The good thing for me is that this is not going to be decided by elected representatives, or by the trade unions, it is going to be decided by the members.
"The majority of members are undecided, and whatever switchers there are all going my way. My canvas returns are showing me that I am in the lead and momentum is with my campaign."
Stacey Giggs, 39, was granted a decree nisi during brief proceedings in central London earlier.
The couple married in September 2007 and have two children. Neither party was present at the hearing.
Once a decree nisi has been granted, a divorce petitioner must wait six weeks and a day to apply for a decree absolute to formally end the marriage.
James Brown, a partner with Hall Brown Family Law who is acting for Mrs Giggs, said she was determined to finalise all outstanding aspects of her divorce with as little attention as possible for the sake of her family.
Mr Brown said: "Mrs Giggs' primary focus has always been and will continue to be the welfare of her family.
"Her only interest is in bringing these events to as swift and amicable a conclusion as possible, so that she and her family can move on."
The couple's names appeared as Giggs SA v RJ in a short list of other couples for the "making of a decree or order" under matrimonial and civil partnership proceedings by District Judge Yvonne Gibson at the Central Family Court in High Holborn.
An earlier hearing heard how Giggs claimed he had made a "special contribution" to the creation of wealth during his marriage.
Jo Edwards, an expert in family court litigation, said wealthy people are required to prove they have made a special contribution to avoid the marital pot being split evenly in half.
A ban on naming the pair's children and reporting financial details was put in place at an earlier hearing.
Giggs made a record 952 appearances for Manchester United, scoring 168 goals in a decorated career that saw him win 25 major honours including 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League winner's medals.
Tesco jumped 7% and Sainsbury's added 3.25% after Morrisons reported much better than expected results.
Shares in Morrisons, which is a FTSE 250 stock, soared more than 8%. Debenhams led the FTSE 250 higher with a 16% surge, after it also reported better than expected results.
Overall, the FTSE 100 was 57.41 higher - 0.57% - at 5929.24 points.
Building firms were also among the leading shares, with Berkeley Group up 4% and Barratt Developments up 2.5%.
Analysts at Jefferies upgraded their rating of those shares to buy from hold.
Barratt is due to issue a trading update on Wednesday.
Shares in BP rose 0.9%, helped by a rebound in oil prices during the session before losing 1.5% by the close. The company also announced plans to shed 600 jobs from its North Sea operations over the next two years.
Miners lead the closing fallers' list, with Rangold Resources faring worst with a loss of almost 4%.
Meanwhile, on the currency markets, the pound fell 0.85% against the dollar to $1.4419 and fell by 0.6% against the euro to €1.3309.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Allen said that after she spoke out, a Met officer suggested her "high profile" intervention may have discouraged others from coming forward.
"I think it's victim-shaming and victim-blaming," she said.
The Met says it takes stalking "extremely seriously" and seeks to put victims at the heart of any inquiry.
After giving an interview to The Observer at the weekend expressing her dissatisfaction with elements of the investigation, Allen says she received an email from a Met officer who wrote that "due to the high profile of this matter I fear other victims of similar crimes may have read the story and now may not have the confidence in us to report such matters. As such it is really important I can understand what, if anything, went wrong during the investigation."
The singer says she is concerned that she had to hire her own lawyer to ensure that her stalker, 30-year-old Alex Gray, from Perth, was charged with harassment as well as burglary.
Mr Gray was convicted earlier this month and is now awaiting sentencing.
He first contacted Allen on Twitter in 2008, then began turning up at her home and office and leaving abusive notes and suicide threats. He attended one of her gigs in 2009 holding a banner with a message to her, and last year broke into her flat and bedroom after she accidentally left a door unlocked.
"I'm lying in bed and I can see the door handle moving and then he steams in, starts screaming and shouting... I could see he was really agitated and upset," Lily Allen told Newsnight.
"I recoiled back into my bed and he ripped the duvet off and jumped out of bed and ran around to the other side of the room and he kept shouting at me, but he was very focused on me and it was loud and aggressive and he had something under his jumper."
She says that after repeated requests, police showed her a photo of Mr Gray "for 30 seconds" - but wouldn't let her keep it. As a result, she didn't recognise her stalker when he entered her bedroom.
"It transpires that he had sent an email to his mother saying that he was in London, had come into some money - probably from my handbag - and that he was determined to murder a celebrity. The police didn't tell me that. And I was living in the same flat, on my own," she told Newsnight.
"I was DJing at an event and I came home at about 1 o'clock in the morning to find the handbag that had been stolen on the bonnet of my car... At which point I called the police, and I think it was the next day they installed CCTV on the outside of my house and then a day after that he was arrested."
Lily Allen had first alerted police to the problem in 2009 and gave them the notes as evidence. She assumed that they would be used as part of the 2016 court case, but was told that they had been destroyed "according to police protocol". A panic alarm given to her was also taken away again when Gray left her alone for six months.
In a statement the Met said: "The victim should be at the heart of any investigation into such allegations and kept informed of developments as this work progresses. If this is not the case then we are keen to speak to victims and learn any lessons we can to improve our investigations."
The singer is supporting a campaign by the Women's Equality Party and the stalking advocacy service Paladin to set up a register for serial stalkers.
Up to 700,000 women are stalked each year, with only 1% of stalking cases and 16% of harassment cases recorded by police, according to Paladin.
But Lily Allen said she didn't blame Gray for her ordeal.
"I'm not in the slightest bit angry with Alex Gray. I could see from the minute he came into my bedroom that he was ill and that he needed help.
"I wanted to help - I felt immediately like there's something really wrong with this guy and I feel like he's been let down. I've been let down. And how many other people are being let down?"
Lily Allen was speaking to Kirsty Wark. You can watch the full interview on BBC Newsnight at 22:30 on BBC Two - or afterwards on iPlayer
Chief executive Michael Pritchard praised the duchess for her "talent and enthusiasm" behind the lens.
Kate, 34, took the first official photograph of Princess Charlotte when her daughter was born in 2015.
She had previously published photos from her and Prince William's Asian and Pacific tour in 2012.
Since becoming a mother, the Duchess has released a number of family photos including Prince George's first day at nursery school and Princess Charlotte's first birthday.
Older shots include a photo of Mount Kinabalu, the highest point in Borneo, and a black-and-white image of an orangutan from when she travelled there with Prince William in 2012.
Mr Pritchard said the society chose to recognise Kate for her "long-standing" interest in photography and its history.
"She is latest in a long line of royal photographers and the society is pleased to recognise her talent," he said.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were also patrons of the 1853-founded Royal Photographic Society.
The duchess joins fellow lifetime members Annie Leibovitz, who has photographed the Queen, along with the recently-knighted war photographer Sir Don McCullin.
The Queen herself took cine films to capture family memories and royal trips.
Kate, who graduated in History of Art from the University of St Andrews, is also a patron of the Natural History Museum and National Portrait Gallery.
Her first commission was in 2008 for her parents' company, Party Pieces.
The visit comes a week after the implementation of a nuclear deal that saw economic sanctions against the Islamic republic lifted.
In Rome, Mr Rouhani is expected to sign agreements with Italian firms worth some $18bn (£13bn).
On his second stop in France, he will sign a major plane deal with Airbus.
The Iranian president is leading a 120-member delegation that includes government ministers and businessmen for the five days of meetings in Rome and Paris.
It is the first state visit to Europe by an Iranian leader for 16 years.
In Italy, Mr Rouhani is holding talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
"This is a very important visit," a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
"It's time to turn the page and open the door to co-operation between our countries in different areas," the official added.
The Iranian president is expected to sign a contract with the steel company Danieli, and is also due to meet Pope Francis.
During the second leg in Paris, Mr Rouhani wants to finalise a deal with Airbus for the purchase of 114 aircraft from the European manufacturer.
Tehran is also considering buying planes from US manufacturer Boeing.
Since the 1979 revolution, which brought Islamic clerics to power, Iran has struggled to buy planes and spare parts from the West. Passengers in Iranian airports often wait many hours for ageing jets to be fixed.
To ordinary Iranians, the promise of brand new planes will be the most immediate sign so far that the nuclear deal is making their lives better, the BBC's James Reynolds in Rome reports.
On Saturday, Iran and China signed 17 agreements on a range of issues from energy to boosting trade to $600bn.
International sanctions against Iran were lifted last week after it agreed to roll back the scope of its nuclear activities.
Kent Police said officers were called to the property in Kinross Close, Chatham, at about 17:35 BST, following concerns for a person inside.
Officers found the body of a 59-year-old man when they arrived.
The force said a 46-year-old man from Chatham had been arrested on suspicion of murder and the circumstances of the man's death were being investigated.
It is the large marsupial in the room - much bigger than a wallaby - that casts a shadow over previews and preparations for the big match.
In this instance it is perfectly illustrated by the appearance of Reece Hodge at Australia's team hotel in Cardiff.
Fresh-faced and newly ensconced in the Wallaby midfield at the age of 22, he is respectful and confident in the face of a modest gathering of Australian and Welsh media.
Hodge was just 14 years old the last time Wales beat Australia.
In the eight years since that 21-18 win in Cardiff, Wales have tried and failed 11 times to beat the Wallabies.
Sometimes self-inflicted, sometimes beyond comprehension but always bitterly disappointing. It's a run of results that blots the record of a country that has been crowned champions of Europe three times in the same period.
Against that background, Rob Howley takes Wales into an autumn series which also sees Argentina, Japan and South Africa come to Cardiff.
The party line from both camps is that the past is an irrelevance; a concern for fans not coaches; no more than a discussion point over a pint.
Sam Warburton is one of three British and Irish Lions - along with Taulupe Faletau and Alun Wyn Jones - whose absence makes Howley's task even harder on Saturday. And a win against Australia is still high on his to-do list.
"I haven't beaten them in a Welsh shirt," he said. "It's a gap on my cv that I'd like to put right."
Howley himself, when announcing his team to take on Michael Cheika's men, was reminded by reporters about the most recent of those 11 defeats - the 15-6 loss at Twickenham in the 2015 World Cup.
It was the game when the Wallabies were reduced to 13 men for seven nerve-shredding minutes and still Wales couldn't cross the line.
Well, they crossed the line, but couldn't ground the ball.
"I've mentioned about having sleepless nights after the last Rugby World Cup," he recalled.
"To get over the line three times and not get the ball down was really frustrating.
"I suppose the big focus for us is having composure and being clinical particularly when we get into those attacking areas like we did 12 months ago."
So the losing run hurts, and Howley is hoping to use the lessons of the three matches against New Zealand in the summer to put things right.
It is an extraordinary fact that the 14-point losing margin in Wales' 36-22 defeat in Wellington was the closest anyone got to the All Blacks during the northern hemisphere summer of 2016.
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Wales adopted a quicker, counter-attacking game during that tour and the All Blacks' influence has been absorbed during Welsh preparations for the Wallabies.
"New Zealand was a huge learning curve," he said.
"We're running less distances and making sure the high speed metres are quicker and sharper - and that's a challenge against southern hemisphere sides.
"We have changed and we've worked on a lot of skills in training - front five skills.
"That's a big point of difference compared with New Zealand . . . they are setting the standards."
There is another dynamic at play here.
Howley, 46, is deputising for coach Gatland, who is taking charge of the 2017 Lions tour to New Zealand.
Ex-Wales and Lions captain Gareth Thomas says the former scrum-half should eventually be Gatland's permanent replacement.
Victories this autumn against the Wallabies and the Springboks might make a compelling case on his behalf.
At the other end of the experience scale Reece Hodge has his own chance to impress.
He is 13 years younger than Wales captain Gethin Jenkins and with six caps has made 120 fewer appearances for his country.
After facing the All Blacks in Auckland last time out he is not intimidated by the prospect of the Principality Stadium atmosphere or facing the partnership of Jamie Roberts and Jonathan Davies.
"They say the atmosphere is pretty intense, but everybody enjoys playing there is what I've heard so I'm looking forward to the challenge this weekend," he said.
"I'll relish the challenge - they're obviously a world class centre pairing and they've caused havoc for defences. But I'll enjoy the challenge and embrace it."
The fervent hope of the majority of that famous crowd - and of Howley - is that Hodge will not celebrate his 30th birthday before Wales beat the Wallabies again.
Five of the pups were picked up over the past few days, the RSPCA said.
The charity said it had rescued young seals from Swansea, Bridgend county, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
A pup with an infected bite wound to its muzzle was collected from Pembrey. Another sick pup was recovered from Pencarnan near St Davids.
The animals have been transferred to West Hatch Animal Centre, Taunton, Somerset, for rehabilitation.
Anyone who finds a seal on a beach has been asked to avoid touching it as they can bite.
The call came as the think tank cut its global economic forecasts for 2016.
Last year, it forecast 2016 growth of 3.3%. It now says that will be just 3%.
It said trade, investment and wage growth were all too weak, adding that cutting interest rates and other monetary policy fixes were not sufficient to reflate growth.
Interest rates in many parts of the world have been cut to attempt to stimulate borrowing and investment. Rates in many countries, including the UK, are at record lows.
The US, notably, raised its rates by a sliver late last year. This was designed to calm investors' nerves, but to many, it now seems like a prematurely optimistic move.
The OECD has now cut its growth forecast for the US to 2% from the 2.5% it was predicting last November, one month before the country's interest rate went up.
In Europe, Japan and Switzerland, rates have been cut to negative, meaning that depositors pay the bank for keeping their money.
The OECD, a Paris-based think tank funded by rich nations, said: "Monetary policy cannot work alone.
"A stronger collective policy response is needed to strengthen demand."
UK growth is now forecast at 2.1%, down from the 2.4% it said it was expecting in its November report.
The OECD also cut its forecast for Europe's powerhouse, Germany, from 1.8% to 1.3%.
A major factor behind the global slowdown in the pace of growth is China, where growth rates have fallen from well above 7% to under 6% now.
The OECD was not expecting further pain from China, It left its forecast for Chinese growth at 6.5% for this year.
India, which imports a lot of its energy and is thriving on the recent low oil price, saw its forecast for growth revised up from 7.3% to 7.4%.
Annexed from Germany in 1945, the territory was a closed military zone throughout the Soviet period.
In 2013, Russia deployed short-range Iskander ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads in the region, in what it said was a response to US plans to deploy a ballistic missile defence system in Europe.
Koenigsberg, as the city of Kaliningrad was once known, was founded by Teutonic knights in the 13th century. It became one of the cities of the Hanseatic League and was once the capital of Prussia. The philosopher Immanuel Kant spent all his life in the city and died there in 1804.
The region was part of Germany until annexation by the USSR following World War II when it saw bitter fighting and suffered extensive destruction. The German population was expelled or fled after the war ended.
During the Soviet period, Kaliningrad Region, administratively part of the Russian Federation, was separated from the rest of Russia, more than 300km to the east, by the then Soviet republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus.
Since Lithuania joined the EU it has been impossible to travel between the exclave and the rest of Russia over land without crossing the territory of at least one EU state. There has been friction, particularly with Lithuania, over transit regulations.
Kaliningrad was one of the most militarised and closed parts of the Soviet Union, and the military were the region's chief economic mainstay in the Soviet years. When the USSR ceased to be, that military presence was decimated along with the economic benefits it provided.
Kaliningrad is still of great strategic importance to Moscow. It houses the Russian Baltic Fleet at the port of Baltiysk and is the country's only ice-free European port.
During the Soviet period, agriculture was a key industry. The market for Kaliningrad's produce was largely dismantled with the collapse of the USSR, causing the economy to nosedive in the early 1990s.
Unemployment soared and poverty became very widespread, particularly in rural areas. Organised crime and drugs became increasingly problematic.
In a bid to tackle the region's problems, in 1996 the Russian authorities granted it special economic status and tax advantages intended to attract investors. The region's economy benefited substantially.
Kaliningrad underwent an unprecedented boom, and in 2007 a new $45m airport terminal was opened.
The region began to see increasing trade with the countries of the EU as well as increasing economic growth and rising industrial output.
However, the global financial crisis of 2008-9 affected the region badly, and by the beginning of 2010 unemployment had climbed to over 10% - considerably higher than the Russian average.
Smyth struck in the 12th minute, but Artem Besedin scored the equaliser for the hosts three minutes later in Kiev.
Michael Duffy and Smyth were denied by Dmytro Bezruk in the second half, while Mark Sykes' 25-yard shot from 25 yards was just wide of the top corner.
Northern Ireland, who have two points from their nine games, finish their campaign at home to France on Tuesday.
Ukraine lie fourth in Group Three on 11 points, while Northern Ireland are certain to finish bottom.
Jim Magilton's side went into the match having lost seven of their last eight qualifiers, their only previous point coming in their second fixture in Iceland.
Smyth scored after a counter-attack against the run of play, while Besedin turned home after being set up by Oleksandr Zubkov.
Zubkov failed to find the net with a stoppage time free-kick.
Well scientists have used medical scans to try to capture each "pop" or "crack" in action.
They found the noise was linked to gas collecting in the joint spaces.
As people flex or pull their fingers, the joint spaces get bigger and gas rushes to fill the gap.
This makes a loud "crack'' sound.
The experiment was done using MRI scanning technology.
On the scans, there was no sign the gas bubbles had popped or disappeared.
The bubbles stayed there even after the cracking noise had occurred but were hidden from view when the finger went back to its normal position.
Now, researchers want to use even more advanced MRI scanning technology to understand what happens in the joint after the pop, and what it all means for health.
He says some work is needed to hammer out the details ahead of a crunch summit in Brussels on 18 February.
But how does the 16-page letter drawn up by the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, measure up to what the prime minister originally wanted from the negotiations?
The BBC's chief correspondent Gavin Hewitt gives his verdict while Europe correspondent Chris Morris looks at how the deal will be perceived elsewhere in the EU.
What Cameron wanted: Allowing Britain to opt out from the EU's founding ambition to forge an "ever closer union" of the peoples of Europe so it will not be drawn into further political integration in a "formal, legally binding and irreversible way". Giving greater powers to national parliaments to block EU legislation.
What Tusk has offered: "The references to an ever closer union among the peoples are... compatible with different paths of integration being available for different member states and do not compel all member states to aim for a common destination.
"It is recognised that the United Kingdom... is not committed to further political integration into the European Union.
"Where reasoned opinions on the non-compliance of a draft union legislative act with the principle of subsidiarity, sent within 12 weeks from the transmission of that draft, represent more than 55% of the votes allocated to the national parliaments, the council presidency will include the item on the agenda of the council for a comprehensive discussion."
Gavin Hewitt: The words "ever closer union" stay, but they have been interpreted as not meaning political integration or new powers for the EU. In essence, this is what the government wanted - the EU accepts there are not just different speeds to European integration but countries may have different destinations. What the government did not get was recognition the EU was a union with "multiple currencies".
Mr Cameron has won inclusion of a "red-card" mechanism, a new power. If 55% of national parliaments agree, they could effectively block or veto a commission proposal. The question is how likely is this red card system to be used. A much weaker "yellow card" was only used twice. The red-card mechanism depends crucially on building alliances, and the UK has not always been successful at that.
In these negotiations, some key areas seem to have been dropped. There will be no repatriation of EU social and employment law, which was a 2010 manifesto commitment. There will be no changes to the working-hours directive. The sceptics will argue that over sovereignty, the UK has not won back control over its affairs.
Chris Morris: The idea that different member states will move at different speeds and on "different paths" was already widely accepted. Britain won't be in the inner core, but we knew that already. There is also specific language in these draft proposals that encourages the eurozone to integrate further - as most governments accept that it must.
The idea of a red card for national parliaments makes a nice headline, but it may not make much difference in practice. It would still be easier to block legislation in the Council of Ministers (threshold 35%) than under the new proposal in which 55% of EU parliaments would have to club together to make an objection.
What Cameron wanted: The Conservative manifesto said: "We will insist that EU migrants who want to claim tax credits and child benefit must live here and contribute to our country for a minimum of four years." It also proposed a "new residency requirement for social housing, so that EU migrants cannot even be considered for a council house unless they have been living in an area for at least four years".
The manifesto also pledged to "end the ability of EU jobseekers to claim any job-seeking benefits at all", adding that "if jobseekers have not found a job within six months, they will be required to leave".
Mr Cameron also wanted to prevent EU migrant workers in the UK sending child benefit or child tax credit money home. "If an EU migrant's child is living abroad, then they should receive no child benefit or child tax credit, no matter how long they have worked in the UK and no matter how much tax they have paid," says the Tory manifesto.
What Tusk has offered:"[New legislation will] provide for an alert and safeguard mechanism that responds to situations of inflows of workers from other member states of an exceptional magnitude over an extended period of time… the implementing act would authorise the member state to limit the access of union workers newly entering its labour market to in-work benefits for a total of up to four years from the commencement of employment."
Gavin Hewitt: This is the "emergency brake" there has been much talk about. If there were excessive strain on the welfare system, in-work benefits could be denied to EU workers for four years. This is, essentially, what Mr Cameron wanted, albeit with access to benefits gradually increasing over time.
The government had promised to reduce the numbers of EU migrants and believes the UK's current benefits act as a pull factor. The EU has agreed it would be "justified" to trigger an emergency brake without delay after the referendum if the UK votes to stay in the EU.
But there are questions here:
Mr Cameron has failed in his demand to ban migrant workers from sending child benefit money back home, but they would get a lower level of payments if the cost of living in the country where the child lives is lower.
The government has already reached an agreement on out-of-work benefits. Newly arrived EU migrants are banned from claiming jobseeker's allowance for three months. If they have not found a job within six months they will be required to leave. EU migrant workers in the UK who lose their job, through no fault of their own, are entitled to the same benefits as UK citizens, including jobseekers allowance and housing benefit, for six months.
The Tusk letter does not mention changes to social housing entitlement but they were never part of Mr Cameron's preliminary negotiations.
Chris Morris: There will still be considerable opposition in Eastern Europe towards anything that smacks of discrimination against their citizens. Little wonder that David Cameron's next stop on his tour of Europe will be a return to Warsaw on Friday. He has some persuading still to do.
There is also a lot of detail surrounding the emergency brake proposal that remains vague, and there's likely to be some difficult late night debate ahead. The basic premise - that the UK can treat nationals from other EU countries differently, even if only for a short time - is certainly a departure from the status quo. Other countries may look to take advantage of this as well, and that will make some EU officials nervous.
What Cameron wanted: An explicit recognition that the euro is not the only currency of the European Union, to ensure countries outside the eurozone are not materially disadvantaged. He also wanted safeguards that steps to further financial union cannot be imposed on non-eurozone members and the UK will not have to contribute to eurozone bailouts.
What Tusk offered: "Measures, the purpose of which is to further deepen the economic and monetary union, will be voluntary for member states whose currency is not the euro.
"Mutual respect between member states participating or not in the operation of the euro area will be ensured.
"Legal acts... [between eurozone countries] shall respect the internal market."
Gavin Hewitt: The UK government wanted safeguards that as the eurozone integrated further, it did not take decisions that threatened the essential interests of those outside the eurozone, such as Britain. Key British interests are the single market and the City.
Crucially, much of the detail here has not been worked out. It is not clear what rights non-eurozone countries have beyond being consulted and not having to pay for the financial stability of the euro. This could well be a source of friction at the forthcoming summit.
Chris Morris: It's just a hunch, but this could still be the issue that has EU leaders haggling into the early hours when they convene for a summit later this month. It threatened to delay the release of Mr Tusk's draft proposals today, as French President Francois Hollande sought assurances that Britain would not hold any kind of veto over eurozone business.
Another emergency brake would be deployed here, but it is not entirely clear what would happen if consensus between euro ins and outs proved impossible. This is such an important long-term issue that there may be those who say that further clarity is essential before they can sign up to a final deal.
What Cameron wanted: A target for the reduction of the "burden" of excessive regulation and extending the single market
What Tusk offered: "The EU must increase efforts towards enhancing competitiveness, along the lines set out in the Declaration of the European Council on competitiveness. To this end the relevant EU institutions and the member states will make all efforts to strengthen the internal market….this means lowering administrative burdens."
Gavin Hewitt: This was the least controversial of the government's demands. The spirit of the times in Brussels is to do less but better. Such statements do not always accord with reality, however. Certainly Mr Cameron has been at the forefront of arguing for less red tape and less regulation on business.
Chris Morris: Who doesn't want a more competitive Europe? The question is how best you achieve it. These proposals envisage a declaration that the EU would work towards greater integration of the single market. But they've said that before, so it doesn't feel all that new.
There is also provision for an annual audit of EU regulation with the aim of reducing red tape - but, again, that is already a stated priority of the current European Commission. This feels a little bit like more of the same, but officials argue that it needed clarifying in the context of the EU debate in the UK.
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The Fertility Room project, started by the local tourism councillor, is an attempt to boost local travel and the country's flagging birth rate.
Couples who produce a birth certificate showing their baby was born nine months after their stay will be offered a future free stay or reimbursed.
Italy has the lowest birth-rate in the EU, and one of the lowest in the world.
Only eight babies were born for every 1,000 residents in 2015.
The project's website (in Italian) says: "Giving birth to a child is an act of deep love, which should be encouraged despite the multitude of difficulties in life."
But some local authorities have distanced themselves from the project.
Claudio Ricci, Umbria regional councillor, said in a statement (in Italian) he would investigate whether the initiative was "appropriate for the public image of Assisi and the promotion of the region".
Ms Kaur completed the race in one minute 14 seconds and was the only athlete to compete in her age category.
She has been dubbed the "miracle from Chandigarh" in New Zealand's media.
She was cleared to run after a medical examination.
She started her athletic career at the age of 93 with her son, Gurdev.
Outgoing Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's final days in office have been rather marred by a spat with her replacement, Mauricio Macri, over the procedures for his inauguration.
Rather than exiting the presidential stage gracefully, Ms Fernandez has been embroiled in a war of words with the incoming administration and will not be present at the ceremony on Thursday.
In an emotional address on Wednesday night, Ms Fernandez joked: "I can't talk much because after midnight I'll turn into a pumpkin."
She was referring to a court injunction - sought by Mr Macri's team because of the inauguration dispute - which established that Ms Fernandez's term ended at midnight on Wednesday and not on Thursday after her successor's inauguration.
As the conflict over the inauguration heated up, Ms Fernandez published a lengthy open letter (in Spanish) on 6 December.
She accused Mr Macri of shouting at her on the phone and said that this was not appropriate as a man speaking to a woman.
She sought to remind him of three things, she wrote:
Ms Fernandez was preceded in office by her late husband Nestor Kirchner, whose came to power in 2003.
This means that a Kirchner has been in the top job since before either Facebook or Twitter were created - and it would now appear that Ms Fernandez's team are reluctant to hand over the passwords for the social media accounts of the Argentine presidency.
The official Twitter account, @CasaRosadaAR (meaning Pink House Argentina, a reference to the presidential palace) now describes itself as a "Twitter tribute" to the presidencies of Ms Fernandez and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner - and "not official from 10 December 2015".
The Casa Rosada Facebook account also now describes itself as the Facebook homepage of the Kirchner presidencies - "not official".
Mr Macri beat Ms Fernandez's chosen successor by a slim margin, and many supporters at Ms Fernandez's rally on Wednesday night were very sad to see her go.
But other Argentines were happy at the end of the Kirchner era, with #ChauCristina (ciao, or bye, Cristina) trending on Twitter.
Ms Fernandez was barred by Argentina's constitution from standing for a third consecutive term as president - but she will be free to stand again next time.
One of her actions on her last day as president was to unveil a bust of her late husband at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires.
Nestor Kirchner served just one term - and it was widely thought that he handed over power to his wife in order to get round the limits on consecutive terms.
As he died unexpectedly in 2010, that project came to an end.
It is not clear where Ms Fernandez's future lies, but no one expects her to slip into a quiet retirement.
Ms Jayalalitha was convicted and sentenced for four years by a trial court in September.
She was found guilty of amassing unaccounted-for wealth of more than $10m (£6.4m) and had to quit as the chief minister.
Monday's ruling means she can return as the head of Tamil Nadu government.
Jayalalitha, a former actress, is one of India's most controversial and colourful politicians. She has been a leading figure in south Indian politics for three decades.
"Truth and justice have prevailed," Ms Jayalalitha said in a statement after the court order.
"I am immensely satisfied, the verdict has paved the way for me to emerge as tested pure gold," she added.
As soon as the high court in the southern state of Karnataka announced its verdict on Monday morning, Ms Jayalalitha's supporters began celebrating outside the court in Bangalore.
Her supporters outside her home in the southern city of Chennai were seen distributing sweets, shouting slogans and weeping tears of joy.
The high court also cleared three of her aides who were also convicted by the trial court.
The details of Monday's judgment are not yet available. Reports from the courtroom said the judge took "10 seconds" to deliver the verdict.
The conviction last September had cut short her fourth term as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu and she had picked party leader and loyalist O Panneerselvam as her replacement.
Many Indians have taken to social media to criticise Monday's order and #JayaVerdict is the top Twitter trend in the country:
Richard Clay, 50, and business partner Kathryn Clark, 52, operated a firm called Arck LLP, convincing investors to part with, in some cases, their pension funds and life savings.
The pair previously admitted six counts of fraud and two of forgery.
The "elaborate scam" was uncovered in 2012, according to the Serious Fraud Office.
The Nottingham-based company received £47.5m from "several hundred" investors hoping to benefit from property development, including in Cape Verde, police said.
It was only after civil proceedings were initiated that the fraud was uncovered and the defendants were arrested in March 2012.
Clark, of Edwalton, Nottinghamshire, helped to forge bank statements to appease anxious investors, providing "a veneer of credibility" as she was authorised under the Financial Services Act.
One statement was falsified to suggest there was more than £12m in the firm's bank account, when there was just £25, an earlier Insolvency Service hearing was told.
Serious Fraud Office director David Green described the pair's crime as a "pernicious fraud".
Clay, of Belper, Derbyshire, was described as the "directing force" behind Arck's financial schemes, and sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison at Southwark Crown Court and given a serious crime prevention order to last for five years.
Clark was handed a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.
At earlier hearings, Clay admitted three counts of fraud, while Clark pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud and two of forgery.
Both were disqualified from being a director of a company for 15 and 14 years respectively, by the Insolvency Service earlier this year.
A hearing to discuss confiscation proceedings is due to take place in March.
The Bank is concerned about the damage that could be done to the finances of lenders if borrowers default on their borrowing during an economic downturn.
The Bank's continued worries are made clear in the latest minutes of its Financial Policy Committee (FPC).
These highlight the growth of credit card, bank loan and car loan borrowing.
"[Consumer credit] had reached an annual growth rate of 10.9% in November 2016 - the fastest rate of expansion since 2005 - before easing back somewhat in subsequent months," the Bank said.
"Dealership car finance had seen the fastest expansion in recent years, but credit cards and personal loans had contributed materially to the acceleration in consumer credit in 2016," it added.
These elements of household borrowing - known as consumer credit - are dwarfed by the amount of money that has been lent to home buyers in the form of mortgages.
But the Bank fears that lenders may have become too slack in deciding to whom they should lend.
The FPC pointed to the increasing length of interest-free periods being offered to borrowers who want to take advantage of special deals to transfer their credit card balances.
Data from the price comparison service Moneyfacts shows that some card issuers will now offer interest-free periods of as long as 43 months.
The Bank pointed out that credit card firms were allowed, under accounting rules, to book interest income from these borrowers, even during the interest-free period itself, on the assumption that interest payments would be made in the future.
"These estimates were highly dependent on assumptions around the future behaviour of borrowers at the end of the interest-free period, which was uncertain," the Bank warned.
In other words, borrowers might default or simply move their card balances elsewhere.
This accounting approach is not news to the Bank, but it has been paying more attention to it precisely because lenders have been extending the interest-free periods which they offer.
Another area of concern, the Bank said, was that some lenders had been offering larger, unsecured, personal loans than before.
Consumer credit lending is still less than 10% of all lending by UK banks to household borrowers, and is far smaller than mortgage lending which amounts to 70% of loans to households.
But UK lenders stand to lose much more on their consumer credit loans if there is an economic downturn and their borrowers default on their credit card and other personal loans.
In last year's stress-testing exercise of UK banks, to work out how much they might lose if there was another recession, it was assessed that UK banks might lose £18.5bn on their consumer credit loans, compared with £11.8bn on their mortgage loans.
The Bank said: "Relative to mortgage debt, consumer credit was less likely to pose a risk to broader macroeconomic stability through its effect on household spending."
"Instead, the recent rapid growth in consumer credit could principally represent a risk to lenders if accompanied by weaker underwriting standards," it warned.
So far though, the Bank is keeping an eye on things and has not yet decided to use its powers to restrict consumer lending.
"The FPC judged that underwriting standards should be monitored closely," it said.
However another arm of the Bank, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has already started a review of the quality of new consumer credit lending, the results of which may affect future decision making at the Bank.
While thousands of people across Britain were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV through NHS blood products, the inquiry was focused on victims in Scotland.
It has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.
The report looked at people in Scotland who were infected with blood-borne viruses - HIV and Hepatitis C - in the course of medical treatment on the NHS.
The period scrutinised by the inquiry began on 1 January 1974 and ended on 1 September 1991, when screening of donated blood for the Hepatitis C virus was introduced throughout the UK.
The infections came from blood which had been donated by people who had the viruses.
Some were infected during blood transfusions for illness, injury or during childbirth or surgery.
In the case of haemophilia therapy it occurred as a result of transfusions of blood products made from large pools of donations and given to remedy the deficiency of clotting factor in a patient's blood.
About 2,500 people are thought to have been infected with Hepatitis C by blood transfusion on the NHS in Scotland. At least 18 were infected with HIV.
The report said a further 478 bleeding disorder patients (haemophiliacs) are thought to have been infected with hepatitis C, and 60 with HIV, from blood products.
A statement from Lord Penrose read out at the publication of the report said: "The state of knowledge of each virus informed the inquiry's assessments of the acting of doctors."
HIV was first identified in 1983 but international acceptance did not "crystalise" until 1984.
The report said testing for HIV in blood products was not possible before the virus was identified.
The Lord Penrose's statement said: "Some commentators believe that more could have been done to prevent infection in particular groups of patients.
"Careful consideration of the evidence has however revealed few aspects in which matters should or, more importantly, could have been handled differently.
"In relation to HIV/Aids it appeared to the inquiry that when actions in Scotland were subjected to international comparison they held up well.
"Once the risk had emerged all that could reasonably be done was done in the areas of donor selection, heat treatment of products and screening of donated blood.
"Other than by a general cessation of therapy with concentrates, the infection of haemophilia patients with HIV over the period 1980-1984 could not have been prevented."
It said the science of the hepatitis C virus was not understood in the 1970s and identification of the "causative virus" did not take place until 1988.
Lord Penrose's statement said: "As with HIV it was not possible to test the native blood for the virus until the virus had been discovered, although alternatives including testing for other indicators of infection were adopted in some countries."
The first test kits for hepatitis C virus only became available in November 1989.
The inquiry did point to a delay in the introduction of the screening of donated blood for the hepatitis C virus.
It said a decision on screening should have been taken by middle of May 1990 rather than in November 1990. It then took 10 months to implement. Issues in England and Wales led to a delay in Scotland, despite it being ready to implement the screening.
The last year that blood donations were collected from prisoners in Scotland was 1984. By this time only a small proportion of blood was coming from prisons.
The report said the Home Office in the 1970s liked blood donations from prisoners as it was thought they were making "restitution" for their crimes.
But there was little information on how many prisoners were drug users and thus a risk of having infections.
The inquiry heard from Scottish National Blood Transfusion experts that "with the benefit of hindsight" taking blood from prisoners was "inadvisable and should have stopped earlier".
Heat treatment ended the transmission of HIV by NHS blood products in Scotland by October 1985, and from commercial products by about the same time.
The report said there may subsequently have been "isolated" infections from donors who had the virus but had not created antibodies.
Further developments in heat treatments also made blood products safe against the hepatitis C virus by 1987.
The inquiry's single recommendation is that the Scottish government takes all reasonable steps to offer a hepatitis C test to everyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before September 1991 and who has not been tested for the disease.
The government had "nothing to discuss with terrorists", he added, speaking to a group of lawyers in Ankara.
On Monday Mr Erdogan ruled out reviving peace talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
A ceasefire between the Turkish government and the PKK collapsed in July.
"These people don't deserve to be our citizens. We are not obliged to carry anyone engaged in the betrayal of their state and their people," Mr Erdogan said.
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The Turkish president also vowed to stamp out the conflict in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast once and for all.
The region has suffered its worst violence in more than two decades after a truce agreed in 2013 collapsed last summer.
Mr Erdogan said last week that 355 members of the security forces and more than 5,000 PKK members had been killed in fighting.
Meanwhile two deadly bomb attacks in Ankara have been claimed by Kurdish rebels.
The violence has also strained relations between Turkey and the US, which supports Kurdish militia in Syria that Turkey sees as a branch of the PKK.
Last month, Mr Erdogan called for the definition of terrorism to be expanded to include journalists, activists and others who "exploit their positions, pens and titles and put them at terrorists' disposal."
He has also pushed for MPs from the pro-Kurdish HDP party to be stripped of their immunity so they can be prosecuted for "terrorist propaganda".
The PKK formally took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984, seeking independence for Turkey's largest minority group.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
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But he had never told anyone who was behind his mother's death in 1972, Michael McConville said.
He said he had been abducted and beaten by the IRA when he was 11, and warned if he went to the police that he or family members would be killed.
"I do know the names of the people, I've never told anyone," he said.
"I wouldn't tell the police. If I told the police now a thing, me or one of my family members or one of my children would get shot by those people," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
He said that "everybody thinks this has all gone away", but that people still suffered intimidation - not by the IRA, but by "splinter groups" of the paramilitary organisation.
"They would just class you as an informant and they would shoot you," he said.
"It's terrible, from my point of view and my family's point of view, that we know those people and we can't bring them to justice."
Mr McConville was in the family's west Belfast home when a gang of IRA members forced their way in and dragged the widow and mother-of-10 from the house as her children watched.
He said he and his family knew two weeks after their mother was taken that she was dead, because an "IRA man had come and left my mother's purse and her wedding rings at the house".
And he said he had seen those responsible on "many occasions" over the years.
"My blood boils in my body," he said. "I just can't stand those people for what they have done to us."
But he said he hoped people could understand why he didn't expose his mother's killers.
Thirty-seven-year-old Jean McConville, one of the most prominent of Northern Ireland's so-called Disappeared, was taken after being wrongly accused of being an informer.
Her body was recovered from a beach in County Louth in 2003.
Following the arrest of the republican leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday, Mr McConville said he was glad the police were taking the case seriously.
"I was 11 years of age when the IRA gang came in and trailed our mother out of our arms," he said.
"A rap came to the door, they barged their way in. Me and all my brothers and sisters were holding on to my mother, crying and squealing."
He said Mrs McConville had been in an "awful state" having been taken the night before from a bingo hall and beaten by the IRA.
He was abducted a week later, he said, and tied to a chair and beaten with sticks.
"They were putting a gun to my head and told me they were going to shoot me," he said.
"They fired a cap gun and stuck a penknife in my leg."
He said that for more than 20 years, until after the IRA ceasefire, the family had been too scared to speak about Mrs McConville's killing.
Jazmin Jones' petition for 'April's Law' has now reached more than 100,000 signatures and will be debated in Parliament.
It calls for sex offenders to remain on the register for life.
Five-year-old April was killed by paedophile Mark Bridger in 2012.
Miss Jones, 21, said: "We want any child sex offenders, anyone who has downloaded images or looked at images, to stay on the sex offenders' register for life."
Bridger was looking at child pornography before he abducted April and Miss Jones believes internet search engines should be better policed.
"He had over 500 images on his computer of children.
"If he'd been caught with them before and if the internet was monitored better, police could have got to him then and he'd have been on the sex offenders register and there could have been a different outcome for us."
She expressed her frustration that the petition had been stuck at just over 37,000 signatures in its first few months.
"It was going really slow and other petitions were flying up and past the 100,000 mark. I thought 'this petition I've started could save a child's life' and it wasn't getting any more signatures.
"So when it finally passed the 100,000 mark I was really excited.
"It just meant maybe they might listen to us. I know there's a long way to go, but it's another small step.
"We're hopeful it will get the law out and even if it saves one child's life we'll prevent another family having to go through what we've been through."
Miss Jones also revealed she had battled with alcohol since April's murder and that starting the petition had helped her gain focus.
"I felt I couldn't relate to anyone, no-one had been through what I'd been through.
"So when I turned 18 I just turned to drink as a sort of release. I'd finish work about three or four in the afternoon and I'd go to the pub and drink all night, to the point I didn't remember who I was, I didn't remember my name.
"I'd wake up in the morning with cuts and bruises because I'd fallen over the night before.
"I was getting so drunk all the time I thought if I carried on I was going to kill myself.
"So I thought I can't put the family through this and also thought, being April's older sister, I can't act like this for April's sake. So I had to stop and I focused on this campaign and now petition."
MPs have agreed to debate April's Law in Westminster Hall on 13 March.
You can see more on this story on BBC Wales Today, Monday at 18:30 GMT.
The 36-year-old was fatally injured in Smiths Lane, Goudhurst, on Sunday, where a "non-police" firearm was found.
Police confirmed he was on bail in relation to the death of Roy Blackman, who was beaten to death during a burglary at his home last month.
The man has not been named but his family has been informed, police said.
The matter has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which confirmed the 36-year-old man had been shot by police during the operation.
It said tests were being carried out on "what appeared to be a non-police firearm" found during the raid, which took place at about 20:30 BST.
Forensic examination of the scene was continuing, it said.
A post-mortem examination following Mr Blackman's death at his home in Headcorn Road, Biddenden, showed he died from multiple blunt-force injuries.
Mark Love, 37, of Frittenden Road, Staplehurst, has been charged with murder and aggravated burglary.
They were due to meet in 2011 before an eye injury forced Braehmer to withdraw.
The German will be aiming for a seventh successful defence of his title.
"This fight has been destined to happen and I can't wait now," said Cleverly, a former WBO title holder who has won 29 of his 32 professional bouts.
"Juergen is a great champion and an underrated one.
"He's a puncher that has pedigree in the pros and all the way back to the amateurs, he's a proper professional and a credit to the game.
"I am going into the champion's backyard and I need to rip the title off him, and that's what I intend to do."
Breahmer, who has lost only twice in a 50 fight career, said he is looking forward to the fight.
"In boxing you can never say never," he said.
"This is a fight the fans have wanted to see for a long time and I'm happy it's finally happening.
"I look forward to meeting Nathan Cleverly in the ring at the Jahnsportforum and proving once and for all who is the better boxer."
Cleverly's last fight was a points defeat by Andrej Fonfara in Chicago in October 2015.
The WBA super world light heavyweight title - the body's top honour in this weight division - is held by Sergey Kovalev, who stopped Cleverly to win the WBO crown in 2013.
Officers received a report that the "remains of an infant" had been found in Broadway, Sheerness, just before 12:50 GMT.
A spokesman for the force said: "The age and identity is not currently known and neither is the cause of death."
As part of the inquiry, he said officers are also keen to locate the mother of the child to ensure her wellbeing.
He added: "Those that do come forward should know that the information will be handled in a sensitive way."
Henry, 30, missed Ireland's game against South Africa on 8 November because of an unspecified illness.
Following further tests, the Irish Rugby Football Union revealed the extent of Henry's condition on Monday.
"Tests have shown he suffered a temporary blockage of a small blood vessel in his brain," said the IRFU.
Henry is facing a lengthy lay-off following the diagnosis, although Ulster and Ireland officials are confident he will be able to resume his rugby career in a matter of months.
"He is at home now and is well but needs further investigation and specialist opinion," added the IRFU statement.
Medical opinion last week was that Henry was suffering from a severe migraine but a more serious diagnosis has now been arrived at.
The back-rower started in all of Ireland's Six Nations matches this year as they clinched the title and brought his caps haul up to 16 by playing in both summer Tests against Argentina.
With Sean O'Brien currently out of action, Henry looked to have a strong chance of holding onto his Ireland starting role next spring.
The flanker's lengthy absence will be an even bigger blow for Ulster as they attempt to regroup after their poor start to the European campaign.
Henry earned his first Ireland cap against Australia in June 2010, by which time he was already regularly captaining Ulster and had just been named as the province's player of the year.
He helped Ulster reach the 2012 Heineken Cup final but while he was a regular member of the Ireland squad, he was unable to hold down a regular place because of the form of O'Brien and Peter O'Mahony.
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More than £850m has been spent by top-flight sides in the transfer window, which ends on 31 August.
But Tottenham, who sold Kyle Walker to Manchester City for £45m this month, have not made any signings.
"We have a duty to manage the club appropriately," said Levy.
"Some of the activity that is going on at the moment is just impossible for it to be sustainable.
"Somebody spending £200m more than they're earning, eventually it catches up with you. And you can't keep doing it."
Accountancy firm Deloitte said Premier League sides are on course to surpass the record £1.165bn they spent last summer.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said last week: "I'm used to clubs paying big for big players. Now everybody pays big money for good players."
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The club are in the process of building a new 61,000-seat stadium, which is expected to cost £750m and is scheduled to open next year.
Speaking at a Nasdaq Q&A in New York, Levy said: "Obviously when you're building a stadium of this magnitude and it all has to be privately financed - there's no state help whatsoever - it is a challenge.
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Russia's FBI-style Investigative Committee (SK) confined him to Moscow after questioning him about an alleged plot to seize power in Russia.
Mr Udaltsov denied the allegations and said a "new repression" was under way.
Elsewhere, President Vladimir Putin sacked one of his ministers after publicly criticising him last month.
No reason was given for dismissing Regional Development Minister Oleg Govorun and replacing him with Igor Slyunyayev.
However, last month, in a dressing-down broadcast on TV, the Russian leader rebuked Mr Govorun for failing to deliver on his election promises to help people living in sub-standard housing in the regions.
An unnamed Kremlin source quoted by Russian business newspaper Vedomosti said the main reason for Mr Putin's dissatisfaction was Mr Govorun's poor handling of the Krymsk flood disaster clean-up.
Along with Mr Udaltsov, at least two other people were also placed under investigation by the SK.
In Twitter messages, Mr Udaltsov, a radical leftist, said his apartment had been searched and he had been taken to SK headquarters for interrogation.
"This is lawlessness and provocation and I hope that society will not be silent," he was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency.
A documentary last week on Russia's NTV channel, which is seen as close to the Kremlin, showed what it said was footage of the activist meeting officials from Georgia to discuss mounting a coup in Russia.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the SK said it had begun an investigation into Mr Udaltsov, Leonid Razvozzhayev, Konstantin Lebedev and others on the basis of the allegations made in the documentary, Anatomy Of A Protest II.
If convicted, Mr Udaltsov and the others face prison sentences of between four and 10 years.
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The 30-year-old Welshman is tied to Vale until June 2016, having signed a two-year extension to the contract he originally signed when he joined from Exeter City in July 2012.
"There's a few of us out of contract at the end of the season, including myself," he told BBC Radio Stoke.
"Who they want to keep is down to the manager but I want to stay," he added.
"I'm in a good place with my family. I'm settled here and hopefully I can impress the manager (Rob Page) enough to earn a new deal."
Meanwhile, Vale are still waiting on fitness reports on fellow defender Ryan Inniss, who limped off 36 minutes into Sunday's 1-1 draw with Coventry City with what appeared to be a hamstring injury.
Ninth-placed Vale, who are just three points adrift of the play-off zone following Sunday's draw with one of Duffy's former clubs, are currently up for sale.
Chairman Norman Smurthwaite is still understood to be in negotiations with three interested parties as he looks to get back the estimated £3m he has put into the club during his three years in charge, as well as the initial £1.25m he and then partner Paul Wildes paid to buy the club in October 2012.
The move to test processed beef for horsemeat was made at an EU crisis meeting in Brussels.
Owen Paterson said he was "pleased" with the plans, adding it was "wrong" consumers had bought beef products that contained horse.
Horsemeat should also be tested for the drug phenylbutazone, the European Commission said.
Under the plans, testing by the food standards authorities of each member state would begin on 1 March, and continue for three months. However, members should report back after 30 days, the commission said.
The proposals from the meeting - which involved the Irish Republic, France, Romania, Luxembourg, Sweden and Poland - will be put to an emergency meeting of the EU's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and is expected to be endorsed.
"That is why I am leaving for the Hague very shortly - to get to the bottom of an international criminal conspiracy," Mr Paterson told reporters, as he left the meeting.
Mr Paterson had pressed at the meeting for improved DNA testing of processed meat across the EU in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, which began last month.
Simon Coveney, Irish Minister for Agriculture, said after the meeting the issue was of "labelling fraud".
"We have more than enough law and regulations to deal with that fraud when we establish who is responsible for it. But I think consumers will want to see us also prioritising the labelling of processed food," he told a press conference.
He described the meeting as "proactive" and said there was a "sense of urgency" among ministers that they want something "significant done on this quickly".
Earlier, Prime Minister David Cameron promised that those who had passed off horsemeat as beef would be dealt with.
"We've agreed a tougher inspection regime, we've asked hospitals and schools and prisons to check with their suppliers that they are testing their products... if there has been criminal activity then there should be the full intervention of the law," he told MPs during Prime Minister's Questions.
He said there was no evidence products on the shelves of British shops were unsafe to eat.
Meanwhile, Victor Ponta, prime minister of Romania, where two abattoirs are alleged to have sold horsemeat purported to be beef to European food companies, said the scandal was a continent-wide problem.
He told Newsnight : "It's a European crisis because it affects the absolute right of European customers to trust the food, to trust products and know exactly what kind of food it is and where it comes from."
Referring to the allegations, he added: "We have checked all data we had up to now regarding the plants and the way the meat has been processed, and up to now haven't found any irregularities."
The horsemeat scandal began in January when Irish authorities discovered horsemeat in some burgers stocked by a number of UK supermarket chains.
Horsemeat has also been found in branded and supermarket-own ready meals, including lasagne and spaghetti bolognese. Some Findus frozen beef in lasagne, made by a French food processing company, was found to be up to 100% horsemeat.
The FSA has stressed that horsemeat does not pose a health risk to the public, however there have been concerns that if unregulated horsemeat is substituted for beef it could expose people to phenylbutazone (bute), which is not allowed in the UK food chain.
The FSA has ordered food businesses to carry out tests on all processed beef products and the first results are expected on Friday.
On Tuesday night, raids were carried out on two UK meat firms. The FSA suspended operations at both raided premises and seized paperwork.
The raided premises were Peter Boddy Licensed Slaughterhouse, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, and Farmbox Meats Ltd, of Llandre near Aberystwyth.
Mr Boddy said he was co-operating with the FSA and officials were "welcome to visit" his premises whenever they wanted.
Dafydd Raw Rees, of Farmbox Meats, said the firm was licensed to deal with horses and it had been cutting horsemeat from the Republic of Ireland, for export to Belgium, for the last three weeks.
Walkden, 24, landed two well-timed head shots as she beat Morocco's Wiam Dislam 7-1 to win her +67kg bout.
It is Team GB's third taekwondo medal in Rio after Jade Jones claimed gold and Lutalo Muhammad won silver.
Cho, 27, lost 5-4 in an aggressive fight against Brazilian Maicon Siqueira in the men's +80kg.
Cho beat Iran's Sajjad Mardani 4-3 in the quarter-finals but lost his next bout to a last-minute head kick from Azerbaijan's Radik Isaev.
"I gave it my absolute everything but it's just disappointing not to come away with something from all the hard work me and my team have done together," Cho said.
"One of us had to lose and unfortunately that was me."
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Walkden, meanwhile, beat London 2012 champion Milica Mandic of Serbia 5-0 but lost 4-1 to China's Zheng Shuyin in a golden-point round in the semi-finals.
"I came here for gold but my coach said to me you have to go out there and fight for it," Walkden said.
"It's still an Olympic medal. In Tokyo I'll be trying to go a little bit further and try to get gold. It's only four years away."
Zheng went on to win her gold-medal bout 5-1 against Mexican Maria Espinoza while Isaev beat Abdoulrazak Issoufou 6-2.
Issoufou's silver meant Niger became the 87th nation to win a medal in Rio, a new Games record.
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Greece will receive up to €86bn (£61bn) in loans over the next three years, in return for tax rises and spending cuts.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde welcomed the agreement, but warned Greek debt had become unsustainable.
She said the country needed significant relief "well beyond what has been considered so far".
"Greece cannot restore debt sustainability solely through actions on its own," she added.
The BBC's Adam Fleming in Brussels says finance ministers will consider possibly writing off some of the country's debts in the autumn.
The first tranche of loans will be for €26bn.
This will include €10bn to recapitalise Greek banks and €16bn in several instalments - the first of which will be for €13bn and will be delivered in time for Greece to repay about €3.2bn to the European Central Bank (ECB) by 20 August.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the deal sent a message "loud and clear" that Greece will stay in the eurozone.
It comes at a political cost for Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who has faced a rebellion in his left-wing Syriza party.
More than 40 MPs voted against him when parliament decided on the bailout agreement on Friday, after all-night talks. He managed to push it through with the help of members of the opposition.
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chaired the Eurogoup meeting where the deal was hammered out, said he was confident it would "address the main challenges facing the Greek economy".
He acknowledged that dealing with debt was an important issue, especially for the IMF, but Germany has so far been vehemently against any debt "haircut" that would cost creditors billions of euros.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told Deutsche Welle radio: "Outright debt forgiveness doesn't work at all under European law."
Mr Schaeuble added that there was "a certain amount of room to extend maturities further", but cautioned: "His room is not very big."
Germany's parliament is to hold a special session on Wednesday to decide on whether to approve the Greek bailout.
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The 17-year-old pounced in the second half to leave Chesterfield nine points from safety with four games remaining and condemn Vale to another pointless away day that leaves them in danger of going down.
Although Thorsten Stuckmann saved a low drive from JJ Hooper in the 27th minute, the first half summed up where both teams are in the table but the game came to life after the break.
Vale almost scored in the 52nd minute when Chris Eagles had a close-range shot superbly saved by Stuckmann before Chesterfield broke two minutes later and Rowley netted after Deniz Mehmet could only parry Kristian Dennis' drive.
Vale were struggling to create an opening and Chesterfield almost scored again in the 81st minute when a 25-yard drive from Dan Gardner was tipped over by Mehmet.
Chesterfield had to defend desperately in stoppage time as Vale, one point from safety with a game in hand, pressed for an equaliser but held on for a victory that leaves both clubs facing League Two football next season.
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Match ends, Chesterfield 1, Port Vale 0.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 1, Port Vale 0.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Laurence Maguire.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Sam Hird.
Foul by Joe Rowley (Chesterfield).
Scott Tanser (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake replaces Kristian Dennis.
Substitution, Port Vale. Scott Tanser replaces Kiko.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Liam Grimshaw replaces Dan Gardner.
Paul McGinn (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dan Turner (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Dan Turner (Port Vale) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Paul McGinn.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Deniz Dogan Mehmet.
Attempt saved. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Paul McGinn (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Sam Hird (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Thorsten Stuckmann.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Port Vale. Dan Turner replaces Anthony de Freitas.
Delay in match Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) because of an injury.
Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Sam Hird (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Joe Rowley (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathan Smith (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Rai Simons (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Dan Gardner (Chesterfield).
JJ Hooper (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Nathan Smith.
Attempt missed. Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
(Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Substitution, Port Vale. William Reeves replaces André Bikey because of an injury.
Delay in match André Bikey (Port Vale) because of an injury.
Paul Clark, 51, of Surrey, was charged with conspiracy and serious organised crime. He made no plea or declaration and was released on bail.
Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte, ex-chief executive Charles Green and David Whitehouse, a joint administrator with Mr Clark, faced similar charges.
They were also released on bail at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
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Rangers was sold to Craig Whyte by its former owner Sir David Murray in 2011 for a nominal sum of £1.
But the club entered administration in February 2012 after running out of cash.
Mr Whitehouse, who worked at Duff and Phelps, was appointed as joint administrator along with colleague Mr Clark.
When an agreement with creditors could not be struck to allow the club to exit administration, a sale of Rangers' assets to a consortium led by Mr Green was concluded.
He was at the helm when Rangers were allowed to join the Third Division but stepped down in 2013 following allegations that he was working in conjunction with Mr Whyte, 44.
All four men were arrested earlier this week after a police investigation into the sale of Rangers' assets in 2012.
They have been charged under Section 28 of the Criminal Justice Licensing Act 2010, which covers serious organised crime offences. They have also been charged with conspiracy.
In addition Mr Green has been charged with fraud and also an offence under Section 190 of the Companies Act 2006.
Cheltenham Borough Council said it was probing "substantial work" carried out on the listed building where the 'Spy Booth' artwork appeared in April.
Days ago vandals attacked the wall for a second time, with large drill holes appearing around the mural.
The council said it was investigating a potential criminal offence.
"Evidence is being gathered and investigations continue" said the council, which earlier confirmed no listed building consent had been sought for the house.
Listed building consent is required from the local authority, before any work is done to the fabric of a listed property.
The holes drilled in the wall around the mural could be seen a contravention of the regulations.
Gloucestershire Police said its officers were present when council officials went into the house but "purely from a public safety perspective" to ensure there was "no breach of the peace in the area".
After the holes appeared, businessman Hekmat Kaveh - who has offered funds to buy the house to ensure the mural stays in the town - said he thought an attempt was being made to remove it.
Since the end of June campaigners have been working to reverse a plan to remove and sell the mural by raising up to £1m to buy the building and the graffiti on it.
The GCHQ-themed mural remains covered in silver and red graffiti, after it was vandalised two weeks ago.
A professional art conservator has visited the mural and said it could be saved but might take months to restore.
"We've established it's possible to get the [graffiti] tags off safely without unduly affecting the materials underneath," said Tom Organ.
"Now we have to also look at the anti-graffiti coating, and assess whether that, in itself, might cause any problems in the long term."
Mr Organ added it would take "weeks if not months" to restore the mural.
Campaigners have spent months trying to keep the artwork in situ on the corner of Fairview Road and Hewlett Road, after the owners of the house claimed it had been sold and workmen arrived to remove it.
However Cheltenham Borough Council issued a temporary stop notice preventing further work from taking place on the Grade II* listed building.
Paul Bartlett used the mask to carry out three raids in as many days on shops in Sutton Coldfield in October 2015, West Midlands Police said.
On his arrest on 12 October, officers found cut-up trousers matching the material of the mask.
Bartlett admitted robbery and was jailed for 13 years after it emerged he had committed 78 previous offences.
Among those offences were 45 thefts, police said.
The raids, where cash, cigarettes and alcohol was taken, happened at One Stop and Select & Save in the town.
The 47-year-old, from Kemble Drive, Castle Vale, Birmingham, claimed in police interviews that complications during his birth meant he had a bad memory.
However, he told officers he remembered he did not take part in the robberies.
A search of the home of his accomplice, Adam Breen, 26, of Bovingdon Road, Castle Vale, uncovered a distinctive baseball cap, identical to one worn during the attacks, as well as a red-handled knife and a haul of cigarettes.
Breen was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court and handed a prison term of five years and two months on Monday.
Insp Tom Hadley said: "These serious, violent offences left several staff members and witnesses traumatised.
"We're pleased the long jail sentences imposed reflect the seriousness of the offences."
The 24-year-old Republic of Ireland Under-21 international, who has four caps, has agreed a two-year contract.
The ex-AFC Wimbledon man has helped both the Dons and Argyle to promotions, in 2015-16 and 2016-17 respectively.
"I feel very fortunate to capture the signing of a player off the back of two promotions in as many seasons," Yeovil boss Darren Way told the club website.
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Writing on Twitter, he said he would not allow China to "do nothing" about the reclusive state.
His comments came a day after Pyongyang test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a month.
It later claimed the test proved that the entire US was within striking range of its weaponry.
On Saturday, two US B-1 bombers conducted exercises over the Korean peninsula with South Korean and Japanese planes.
The move was a "direct response" to the North's two ICBM launches, and "part of the continuing demonstration of ironclad US commitment to our allies", the US Pacific Command said.
"North Korea remains the most urgent threat to regional stability," Gen Terrence J O'Shaughnessy, Pacific Air Forces commander, added in a statement.
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On Saturday, China condemned the test launch and urged restraint on all sides.
But Mr Trump voiced frustration at Beijing's response, linking the US trade deficit with China with policy on North Korea.
"I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk," he wrote in two consecutive tweets.
"We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!"
China, which shares a land border with North Korea, is its closest economic ally and trading partner.
President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed North Korea during talks earlier this year, after which US officials said the two countries were working on "a range of options" to rein in Pyongyang.
But since then the North has carried out two ICBM tests.
After Saturday's launch, South Korea said it was concerned the North may have made "a significant advancement in technology", adding that the missile test was "unique in its time and place of launch".
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the threat to his country's security was "grave and real".
The North has repeatedly tested missiles in breach of UN resolutions.
ICBMs can reach altitudes well outside the earth's atmosphere. Using sharp trajectories with high altitudes allows North Korea to avoid firing over neighbouring countries.
Despite the ongoing tests, experts believe the North does not yet have the capability to miniaturise a nuclear warhead, fit it on to a long-range missile, and ensure it is protected until delivery to the target.
Others, however, believe that at the rate it is going, Pyongyang may overcome these challenges and develop a nuclear weapon within five to 10 years that could strike the US.
Froome will be supported by Welsh riders Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe, who will be the road captain in the nine-strong team, while fellow Briton Ian Stannard is also named.
Kenya-born Froome, 31, is the only Briton to win the Tour twice, claiming victory in 2013 and 2015.
The Grand Depart leaves Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy on 2 July.
"Every rider obviously starts every new Tour equal and what has gone before counts for nothing. This year I am hungrier than ever for success," Froome said.
Thomas, Stannard, Rowe and Dutch rider Wout Poels were all part of the squad that helped Froome to victory in last year's contest.
"There are a number of riders in other teams capable of putting in a challenge for overall victory. That's great news for cycling fans," Team Sky boss Sir David Brailsford added.
Team Sky squad for Tour de France 2016: Chris Froome, Sergio Henao, Vasil Kiryienka, Mikel Landa, Mikel Nieve, Wout Poels, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Geraint Thomas.
The body of 25-year-old Conall Kerrigan from Claudy was discovered in Bank Place at around 22:20 BST on Sunday.
The police are treating his death as "unexplained."
They have appealed for anyone who may have seen him after he left the Metro Bar early on Sunday morning to contact them.
They also want to hear from people who may have noticed a fight on the city walls near the Millennium Forum.
The 25-year-old's cousin Aaron Kerrigan said he looked on him as a brother.
"If you look at his photos - just every single one of them he's smiling," he said.
"That's what he epitomised. He could bring a smile to anybody's face just by a look or a word.
"He was somebody I looked up to. It's just really difficult."
Brought up in the deprived Lincolnshire seaside town of Skegness, Mr Atherton today runs a restaurant empire which turns over almost £70m a year.
Whereas he once spent his summer holidays looking after the donkeys on Skegness' main beach, he is now a well-known personality on UK cookery TV shows, flies regularly in business class to check on his outlets in Singapore and China, and has a swanky headquarters in Soho, central London.
Mr Atherton, 43, puts his success down to two factors - "hard work and common sense".
And he is keen to stress that when in London he still makes time every day to be head chef at his first and main restaurant, Pollen Street Social, which holds a Michelin star.
"Becoming a chef transformed my life," he says.
Born in Sheffield, after his parents separated when he was four, Mr Atherton and his mother moved to Skegness.
As money was tight, they spent their first three years there living on a caravan park.
His mother eventually found a new partner and together they opened a guest house.
Yet Mr Atherton only got a bedroom in the off season, as all summer he was again relegated to a caravan in the back garden so that all the rooms could be rented out.
As soon as he turned 11, his mother and stepfather insisted he got a job so he could contribute to the household income.
"Some people say this was mean, but it taught me an important lesson in life - nothing is free. Perhaps it is a northern mentality, but it put me in good stead," he says.
And so, the young Mr Atherton spent his summer holidays getting up every day at 5am to feed, water and clean the town's donkeys. And then lead young tourists up and down the sand.
"Yes, I was a donkey boy, I did that for three or four seasons, and I loved it."
His interest in cooking started a bit later when he decided to take home economics at school "because there was a girl in the class who I fancied".
He immediately took to cooking and his mother suggested he joined the Army Catering Corps. It turned out to be a rare wrong career turn.
"I absolutely hated it," he says. "I did my basic training, but just couldn't get on. I got into some fights.
"Between my stepfather and my sergeant they decided it was time for me to leave. So I went back to Skegness with my tail between my legs."
After a few weeks down in the dumps Mr Atherton got a job in the kitchen at a local hotel, where his cooking talents soon impressed the owner.
Mr Atherton recalls: "He said I was a natural cook - it was the first time someone had ever said I was good at something.
"He also said that if I was serious about getting better I should move to London. So that's what I did, and my life just took on another form.
"I worked my way through all the top kitchens in London and then France and Spain, and that was it."
After learning his ropes in a number of prestigious restaurants, in 2001 Mr Atherton started to work for fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who he says is still the biggest influence on his career.
Considered to be Mr Ramsay's "right hand man", Mr Atherton spent nine years with his mentor, most prominently as head chef at a restaurant called Maze.
Yet in 2010 Mr Atherton decided to leave and go out on his own. As newspapers reported at the time, it was not a happy parting.
"It didn't end well, but there was no malice from my side," says Mr Atherton.
"Of course I understand why he was upset, I was one of his main guys, and no-one likes to see one of his main guys go.
"But I just wanted to be free… I always wanted to be master of my own destiny."
So Mr Atherton quit, remortgaged his house to raise £500,000, and started to look for premises to open his first restaurant.
With a Singapore-based multi-millionaire friend coming on board as his outside investor, Pollen Street Social opened in London's Mayfair in 2011 to immediate rave reviews and full bookings.
Within two years the other restaurants started to follow. Those overseas are tie-ups with local partners who bring in both capital and understanding of the restaurant scene in their city.
Now with eight overseas restaurants, and more to open next year in New York, Dubai and Sydney, does Mr Atherton ever worry that he is spreading himself too thin?
He says that while people will always make the accusation, he had his team work very hard to run the business "very sensibly".
"We just use our common sense," he says. "Look after the staff, pay your tax on time, and do cash flows every single day. It is very simple mathematics. Only then can you do the fun stuff like run the restaurants."
Yet for all the time spent on the business side of things, Mr Atherton says he is still first and foremost a working chef. This he says helps keep him firmly grounded.
"I don't take the success for granted, it is really important to look after success, to cherish it."
And despite his long working hours, Mr Atherton also makes sure he reserves time to spend with his two daughters.
Such is his belief in the importance of saving time for his family that he has teamed up with retailer Notonthehighstreet.com to launch a campaign called "Dadpreneur Movement".
This aims to help shine a light on the issues and challenges facing modern working fathers.
A major incident declared at the hospital on Monday remains in force.
A meeting of the North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) heard almost all planned surgery had been cancelled.
The hospital said as well as increased demand at A&E, it had struggled to free up beds due to an outbreak of norovirus and flu.
Sally Parkin, clinical director at the CCG, said: "There are 91 cases of flu at the moment in the hospital and we have to keep patients safe, so we have to have areas that are separately nursed for patients with infections illnesses
"So at the moment we just don't have enough bed capacity for those patients and that's why we've got a bottleneck in A&E."
She said while the Royal Stoke A&E was "very busy", patients were being cared for and dealt with in a "calm and systematic way".
Last week, the University Hospitals of the North Midlands trust, which runs the Stoke Royal recorded the worst A&E figures in England, with just 61.3% of patients seen within four hours, compared with a national target of 95%.
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Tinkler, 16, will collect her English, French and Maths results from Durham High School the day after getting home.
She has become only the third British woman to win an individual gymnastics medal with her Rio exploits.
"It's starting to sink in now I've got the results when I get back," Tinkler told BBC Tees.
"I've had a lot of media interest since the event, and I keep being reminded of it. But I want to live it up here while I can.
"We're now hoping to watch a few sports, my team-mates are going to the beach and we're hoping to go to Sugarloaf Mountain before we go as well."
The Bishop Auckland athlete, the youngest member of the Team GB squad, had been juggling 30 hours of training a week with her exam studies in the build up to the Games.
"My school have been incredible, with helping me out," she added.
"I've split my GCSEs over three years. I did PE last year, and I'll finish off the rest next year."
Although Tinkler is assured of her place in Olympic folklore with her debut Games success, life among the elite competitors in the athletes' village has had a novelty value.
She said: "The other day I passed Greg Rutherford in the village and he said 'Hi, good luck for the floor final' - it was like 'Oh my gosh!'
"It was so crazy and amazing. Being a block with such amazing athletes such as Andy Murray and Greg is like 'Wow'.
"I met Tom Daley and that was incredible."
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Now one of the leading prophets of this robot revolution has told the BBC he is already seeing another side-effect of automation - the rise of politicians such as Donald Trump and the Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.
Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots won all sorts of awards for its compelling account of a wave of automation sweeping through every area of our lives, posing a serious threat to our economic well-being. But there has also been plenty of pushback from economists who reckon his conclusion is wrong and that, as in previous industrial revolutions, the overall impact on jobs will be positive.
In London to speak at a conference on robots held by the Bank of America, he told me that he didn't think this latest technology upheaval would be as benign as in the past: "The thing is that this time machines are now in some sense beginning to think. And what that means is we're seeing machines encroach on the kind of capabilities that set humans apart."
He sees the robots moving up the value chain, threatening any jobs which involve humans sitting in front of screens dealing with information - the kind of work which we used to think offered security to middle-class people with average skills.
Look at the unemployment statistics at the moment and it is hard to detect this wave of job destruction, at least not on the scale of the 1980s when manufacturing jobs were vanishing. But Mr Ford says the impact has been felt in workers' pockets. In his presentation at the conference he put up a graph which showed American productivity rising in step with hourly wages - until 30 years ago when the two lines started to diverge. What's happened, he says, is that more of the rewards of rising productivity are going to capital - in other words to the owners of the robots - with workers left behind.
This hollowing out of the middle class, says Martin Ford, is already having an impact: "That's one of the things that is driving the political upheaval - you can tie the rise of Trump and Sanders to this phenomenon which has been going on for a long time."
Now, there are new jobs coming along as a result of new technology - think, for instance of the thousands of people working in warehouses sending out goods ordered online. But another presentation at yesterday's robotics conference was an illustration that this work may not prove very durable. One of the founders of Kiva, the robotics company bought by Amazon in 2012, showed what impact its systems were having on the retailer's business.
The firm now has 30,000 robots moving millions of products across giant warehouses, with their position and the path they travel controlled by complex algorithms. This has cut staff numbers in those warehouses by two-thirds, though humans are still needed to pick the individual products and put them in boxes. Automating that last task, it seems, will take a long time - at the moment the best robot can only pick 10 different products in 20 minutes, far behind a human picker.
But Martin Ford says over the next 10 or 20 years machine learning is going to make advances we can barely imagine: "There really isn't an endpoint to this," he says. "There's no point at which you can say it's going to get this good and no better - it's just going to get better and better."
If robots can do everything, and the rewards all flow to those who own them, he sees rising inequality, and a threat to the whole current model of capitalism. That may be an unduly pessimistic view - others see automation bringing huge improvements to our lives and offering us greater leisure time. But there's a growing consensus that the march of the robots has big implications for the global economy and policymakers need to start planning for them.
You can hear an interview with Martin Ford on Friday's edition of Tech Tent on the BBC World Service at 16:00 BST.
He conceded it would be "unpopular" in the short term but said reform of the "unsustainable" system was essential.
Labour says millions will be worse off after the cuts, while some Tory MPs are said to be uneasy about the policy.
But Mr Clarke recommended: "Get on with it. Stop looking at opinion polls and listening to nervous backbenchers."
Under the government's plans, the earnings level above which tax credits are withdrawn will be lowered from £6,420 to £3,850, and the rate at which the benefit is lost as pay rises will be sped up. The changes come into effect at the end of the year.
Ministers say the changes, estimated to save £4.4bn, are part of wider plans to raise pay and incentivise work, and they argue that the impact of the cuts will be mitigated by the new National Living Wage and higher tax thresholds.
But Labour claims three million families face losing an average of £1,000 a year.
Appearing on BBC One's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Clarke defended the reforms, arguing that it was not right for taxpayers to continue to "subsidise low pay".
"It's bold but I think it's necessary, and it will actually move us away from the very low pay levels that for some curious reason the government has been subsidising ever since the tax credit system was brought in," he said.
"My advice to George is put your tin hat on and get on with it.
"Don't put it off because in the short term it is going to be unpopular."
Mr Clarke conceded the policy would have unpredictable effects, but he said Mr Osborne was not "crossing his fingers", arguing that reforming the system now is "a judgement".
"If we are wrong, then of course we will have to pay the price because it won't work. But meanwhile, get on with it," he added.
Shadow business secretary Angela Eagle told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics that Labour would campaign to stop the cuts, arguing that working people would be hit hardest.
The policy to cut tax credits, announced in Chancellor George Osborne's post-election Budget, was approved by Parliament in September by 35 votes - despite opposition from Labour, Lib Dem and SNP MPs.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned it is "arithmetically impossible" for nobody to lose out under the changes.
Xu Ming, 44, died of a heart attack on Friday in the central city of Wuhan, state media reported.
He rose to prominence in the 1990s alongside Bo Xilai. At one time he was listed as China's eighth richest man.
But Bo's downfall in 2012 was quickly followed by Xu Ming's own imprisonment. His death comes less than a year before his scheduled release date.
Bo Xilai was sentenced to life in prison for corruption in 2013. His wife had earlier been found guilty of murdering a British businessman.
It was the biggest scandal to hit the Communist Party in years.
Xinhua news agency said Xu Ming probably died of a "sudden heart attack".
But many social media users suggested the death appeared mysterious, particularly given that he was due to be set free next year.
"Some people feared he would expose the truth, so he died! This is proof that the same rebels and traitors still hold power," one user posted on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, AFP news agency reported. The comment was later censored.
Xu amassed his fortune in the city of Dalian, where Bo Xilai was mayor from 1993-2001, through his company Dalian Shide, a conglomerate with wide-ranging interests.
But he went missing in March 2012, around the same time Bo Xilai fell from grace.
Xu Ming testified in court during Bo's trial the following year. According to court transcripts, Xu said he gave Bo Xilai's wife Gu Kailai money to buy a villa in France, and paid for some of the couple's son's expenses.
She was convicted of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood and given a suspended death sentence.
Her husband had been a member of the Communist Party's hugely powerful 25-member politburo and was tipped to go even higher before his dramatic reversal of fortunes.
Xu Ming's trial was kept secret - the whole process from his arrest through to his sentencing was never made public.
Asad Taibzadah, 32, left St Ann's Hospital in Haringey on unescorted leave on Friday morning but did not return in the evening.
He is described as being of south Asian appearance, 5ft 6ins tall, medium build and with shoulder-length hair.
Scotland Yard said the public should not approach him but call 999 in the event of a sighting.
Waiting lists dipped below 350 patients by June this year - with most waiting under 10 weeks.
That is half the 700 waiting for heart surgery at the start of 2014 - with 290 patients in Cardiff and Swansea waiting more than six months.
Patients have also backed the initiative after their treatment.
Those surveyed after surgery gave the project a high satisfaction rating.
It saw them offered treatment at hospitals in London, Bristol and Birmingham, as a temporary measure to tackle the Welsh waiting lists.
A review by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee (WHSSC) looked at how effective outsourcing surgery had been.
It found "significant numbers" of patients had benefited and "many more no longer live with the uncertainty of very long treatment waits".
The review said the project was particularly successful in Swansea, where 126 cardiac patients on the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg list were given surgery outside Wales, mostly at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.
The Swansea cardiac waiting list fell by around 320 patients overall, partly due to better management and improved processes.
More than 100 patients were also treated at Bristol's private Spire Hospital and at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
The decision to treat patients outside Wales came after concerns by the Royal College of Surgeons two years ago that patients were "regularly dying on waiting lists" at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
The Cardiff and Vale health board brought in a series of measures, including recruiting extra staff and introducing weekend working.
Jonathan Franks and Oscar Gobern exit too with Jim O'Brien returning to Shrewsbury Town following a loan spell.
Midfielder Martin Woods has triggered a one-year contract extension option but has been told he is free to find another club, as has Ian McShane who has one year left on his contract.
The club has also offered defender Kenny van der Weg a new deal.
Tony Dingwall has been offered a six-month deal while he recovers from injury while Chris Burke has been offered a contract as he continues his recovery from illness.
Beamish in County Durham is appealing for semi-detached houses built between 1950 and 59 to use as a design base to replicate at a new attraction.
The 1950s-style development will also include a cafe, shops, police house, cinema and recreation area.
Museum director Richard Evans said it was a "unique opportunity" for people's homes to become part of history.
The museum would like people to nominate their properties, preferably ones which were originally constructed as social housing, to be replicated at the town which is being added to the existing Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian areas.
Working with the community, the museum will ask people their stories and what they think should be in the houses.
The two houses will be replicated rather than rebuilt brick by brick like the properties in the older parts of the museum.
Mr Evans said it is "very much" about the community and "what they want" in the town.
He said: "We're extremely excited to be offering people this unique chance for their home to become part of history being recreated at Beamish.
"Our 1950s town will tell the stories of the North East's communities during an important decade of change."
The project, which has received a £10.75m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, is expected to create up to 100 jobs.
Burns's try came inside a minute as England dominated in their final match before a summer tour of South America.
Debut tries from Marland Yarde, Christian Wade and Kyle Eastmond were complemented by Billy Twelvetrees.
Rob Webber captained England in the absence of nine players away on club or British and Irish Lions commitments.
First-team regulars Owen Farrell and Manu Tuilagi were among those on Lions duty, prompting Stuart Lancaster to field a team containing nine players under the age of 24.
While the game was classed as an uncapped international, it was England's first chance to shine since their 30-3 mauling at the hands of Wales in the final round of the Six Nations.
After less than a minute, Barbarians' captain Mike Tindall was turned over close to the halfway line, allowing England to release the uncapped Yarde. He offloaded to Burns who scored the try and converted.
Two further penalties saw Burns amass 13 points in the opening 13 minutes, as England dominated the scrum, forcing their opponents into conceding possession cheaply.
Wasps wing Wade bravely collected an up and under ahead of American Takudzwa Ngwenya, with the England man conceding a five-metre scrum late in the period.
But England comfortably defended Imanol Harinordoquy's drive for the line, taking a 16-0 lead into the interval.
At the restart, London Irish wing Yarde, 20, scored a superb individual try, breaking a challenge just inside the Barbarians half to power to the corner.
Kyle Eastmond came off the bench to become the second non-capped player to score for the home side, and an end-to-end attack started by Billy Twelvetrees allowed the pacy Wade to duck two challenges and register his own debut try.
Five minutes later, Twelvetrees bundled over for his own try, to make it 40-0.
In the final 10 minutes, Schalk Brits touched down in the corner for the Baa-Baas, before Elliot Daly, who was overlooked for England's summer tour, scored late on.
England: Mike Brown; Christian Wade, Jonathan Joseph, Billy Twelvetrees, Marland Yarde; Freddie Burns, Richard Wigglesworth; Ben Morgan, Matt Kvesic, Tom Johnson; Dave Attwood, Joe Launchbury; David Wilson, Rob Webber (Capt), Alex Corbisiero
Replacements: David Paice, Joe Marler, Henry Thomas, Kearnan Myall, Billy Vunipola, Haydn Thomas, Jonny May, Kyle Eastmond
Barbarians: Elliot Daly (London Wasps); Timoci Nagusa (Montpellier, Fiji), Takudzwa Ngwenya (Biarritz, United States), Casey Laulala (Munster, New Zealand), Mike Tindall (Capt, Gloucester, England); James Hook (Perpignan, Wales), Dwayne Peel (Sale, Wales); Andrea Lo Cicero (Racing Metro 92, Italy), Matthew Rees (Scarlets, Wales), James Johnston (Harlequins, Samoa), Jim Hamilton (Gloucester, Scotland), Marco Wentzel (London Wasps, South Africa), Alessandro Zanni (Treviso, Italy), Imanol Harinordoquy (Biarritz, France), Jonathan Poff (London Wasps, New Zealand).
Replacements: Schalk Brits (Saracens, South Africa), Dean Mumm (Exeter, Australia), Duncan Jones (Ospreys, Wales), Sam Jones (London Wasps), Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz, France), Nick Evans (Harlequins, New Zealand), Rowan Varty (DeA Tigers, Hong Kong).
Mr Healey said he had 20 nominations from fellow Labour MPs - not far short of the 35 needed to get on the ballot.
The Wentworth and Dearne MP told LabourList he wanted to give other candidates, from different wings of the party, a chance.
Mr Healey was a Treasury minister under Gordon Brown and has backed Yvette Cooper for the party leadership.
Tom Watson and Caroline Flint both have enough nominations to get on the deputy leadership ballot.
Explaining his decision, Mr Healey said: "I joined the contest for deputy leader to talk about the deeper thinking Labour must now do, and the big challenges we must face. I'll continue to do this as part of Labour's team as we rethink and rebuild to win in 2020.
"I really appreciate the strong support from those MPs who've nominated me. We know the mountain Labour must now climb to convince people that we're ready again to lead the country."
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A bright loft-style dance studio in a converted Glasgow factory may seem an unlikely venue for an employment scheme.
Yet it is here that social enterprise Street Step aims to kick-start young people's journey into work, training or education by raising their heart rates first.
Manager Carla Jack says many of the young people arrive with low confidence and motivation.
"Some of them have never worked - they've never even considered applying for a job," she says.
"After the eight week programme, they are speaking in front of groups, performing in front of large audiences, and they're also applying for loads of jobs."
Street Step currently runs sessions in Glasgow, London and Birmingham.
Jobs Growth Wales (JGW) used to offer 100% subsidy for firms to employ people aged between 16-24, but its website now says it is offering just half.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said market conditions had improved, adding that a new scheme for all ages was being created.
Welsh Conservatives claimed the move made "no sense".
The scheme, which is part-funded with EU money, was launched in 2012 and helps cover the cost of the national minimum wage for an employee. Further funding of £25m was agreed for JGW last year.
The change - which the JGW Facebook page suggests took effect on 1 August - follows a report in July which recommended ministers look at cutting the subsidy.
Mr Skates said: "We've seen remarkable economic improvements in Wales, so we've adjusted the programme accordingly to make sure there is still the growth in employment opportunities for young people.
"But we've also responded to market conditions which have improved since Jobs Growth Wales was first designed.
"So we have been pragmatic in our approach but what we are doing is creating… an all age employability programme that will give anybody who faces unemployment an opportunity to gain skilled employment."
A Welsh Government spokesman confirmed plans for a single support programme in place of JGW, ReAct and Traineeships "that will better meet the needs of those requiring support to gain, retain and progress within work".
Tory economy spokesman Russell George said it was "appalling" that the Welsh Government decided to cut the subsidy to firms "without having the courtesy to inform the public or elected members".
He called the move a "profound change... which will undoubtedly affect take-up", adding: "One minute the economy is in grave danger because of Brexit, now we're told a 50% cut to their flagship job creation scheme is necessary because firms are doing too well."
"It makes no sense."
Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards said: "Jobs Growth Wales has been marred by flaws from the beginning - from cancellation to a confused relaunch to questionable success rates.
"This latest development, snuck out by Labour in their usual scrutiny-shy fashion, shows their ineptitude when it comes to forming and implementing an effective programme for tackling unemployment and helping Welsh businesses grow."
The employment rate for young people in Wales, for the 12 months ending in March, is 52.1% - the highest it has been since the same period in 2009, when it was 53.8%.
A director of one firm using JGW suggested the cut might lead to second thoughts.
"That would make a big impact in whether we would take someone on or not," said Robert Jones, of RJ Plant and Construction in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.
"This is the first I have heard of it," he added.
Mr Jones said the six months funding "gives everyone a open outlook", allowing firms time to decide whether the candidate was "suitable for us or whether they want to work for your company" or for the industry in question.
Under the first JGW scheme, which ran from 2012 to April 2015, the Welsh Government said 14,989 job opportunities were filled.
A total of 1,311 jobs were filled up under the current programme, between its start in September 2015 and 10 June.
But a report for the Welsh Government published in July found the impacts of JGW were "primarily short term in nature".
The study said that 27 months after the initial application for a JGW vacancy there were "no statistically significant differences" between the employment rates of JGW participants and a matched comparison group.
It said that, given the "significant shift" in unemployment rates for young people, it "may be worth" ministers "reconsidering the level of investment needed", including reducing the subsidy offered to employees.
There have been some dire warnings about prospects for the British economy post-Brexit, but nevertheless the Welsh Government feels sufficiently confident about job-making prospects that it is halving the subsidy of its main support programme.
To be clear, there have been remarkably low rates of unemployment in Wales in recent months.
The latest figures show the rate has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, and is now consistently below the UK average.
The question is whether that job-creating ability will be affected by cutting a scheme which ministers in Cardiff Bay have turned into a central plank of economic development policy.
Jobs Growth Wales is not without its opponents. The main criticism is that public money is used to support jobs that were being created anyway.
It would appear that ministers are also now convinced that the private sector needs less support than it has in the past.
After an early Williams penalty, Telusa Veainu's break from deep eventually set up Brendon O'Connor to cross.
Semesa Rokoduguni caught George Ford's up-and-under superbly and broke free to get Bath back in the game.
Tom Youngs and Ed Slater both dotted down from mauls for Tigers and Williams slotted five penalties, with Tom Dunn's try Bath's only points after the break.
Welsh fly-half Williams was named at inside-centre but Freddie Burns dropped to the bench as he was feeling unwell and Mathew Tait came into the starting XV, while Bath's England centre Jonathan Joseph also missed out late on, with Dan Bowden replacing him.
In contrast to Williams' impressive display, England fly-half George Ford missed two kicks and threw a misplaced pass in the second half that led to a Tigers penalty.
Bath, who finished ninth last season, had started the campaign impressively under new director of rugby Todd Blackadder but they struggled to find any rhythm at Welford Road.
Richard Cockerill's Leicester have now won three of their opening four games and sit fourth - a place and a point behind the Blue, Black and Whites.
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill: "The performance was pretty good. It was a proper Leicester performance, which is the first time in four weeks.
"We did not let Bath into the game and we never looked like losing. It was a really important game for us because it puts us right back in the mix.
"We had not played anywhere near how we would like. Today was a step in the right direction."
Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder: "I've no complaints about the result. It was a really good game, a really good test.
"It was an arm wrestle, probably what we needed. I am not going to complain about the result because we fronted up.
"It's just that our skill execution wasn't what it should have been at times. We probably tried too hard and it cost us."
Leicester: Veainu; Thompstone, Betham, Tait, Pietersen; O Williams, B Youngs; Ayerza, T Youngs (capt), Cole, Fitzgerald, Kitchener, M Williams, O'Connor, McCaffrey.
Replacements: McGuigan, Genge, Bateman, Slater, Evans, Harrison, Burns, Roberts.
Bath: T Homer; Rokoduguni,, Banahan, Bowden, Watson; Ford (capt), Fotuali'i; Catt, Batty, Thomas, Ewels, Attwood, Garvey, Ellis, Houston.
Replacements: Dunn, Obano, Lahiff, Stooke, Mercer, W Homer, Brew, Williams.
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Dame Helen led the business lobby group in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis between 2009 and 2011.
The CBI's current president Paul Drechsler said she was "a brilliant leader" who was "widely respected".
The Economist Group, of which she was chief executive from 1997-2008, said business had "no better ambassador".
Dame Helen, who was married with three children, had been battling cancer for several years.
She began her career in publishing at Faber & Faber, before moving to the Economist Group in 1985, where she became managing director in 1993 before taking the helm in 1997.
Her career also included boardroom roles at Rolls-Royce, Centrica and Northern Foods.
The number of high-profile city and business roles she had during her career meant Dame Helen was seen as a trailblazer for women in business.
She was also co-chair of the Hampton-Alexander review - a government commissioned review into increasing the number of women in senior business roles.
Announcing her death, the Economist said she was "self-effacing but a world-class networker".
It paid tribute to her leadership style, which "lacked fireworks and did not seek fame but deserved more recognition, for both its humanity and effectiveness".
The CBI's Mr Drechsler added: "People will remember Helen for being a great listener with a thoughtful sense of humour. She will be greatly missed by me and by everyone who knew her, both in the UK and beyond."
Darren Bonner, from Sunderland, died in hospital 17 days after being found in a field at Cresswell in July.
Richard Spottiswood, 33, of Canterbury Way in Jarrow, denied murder when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court.
Lucy Burn, 29, of Burns Close in South Shields, entered no plea to a murder charge. Both were remanded into custody for another hearing on 14 November.
Mr Bonner, of Palmstead Road in Pennywell, was found in the field near Morpeth on 10 July.
Northumbria Police said he had died on 27 July.
Singer Sonu Nigam entertained his fellow passengers with some of his popular numbers on a Jet Airways Mumbai-Jodhpur flight last month.
The airlines said on Friday that the crew had been "taken off from flight duty" after an inquiry.
However, Nigam criticised the decision, saying it "lacked common sense".
"To suspend crew members for asking me to sing on the address system, when the seat-belt signs were off, and no announcements were to be made, is nothing less than punishing someone for spreading happiness," he said.
Nigam's mid-flight performance on 4 January was filmed by those on board, and subsequently went viral on social media.
This month, India's aviation watchdog - the Directorate General of Civil Aviation - told the airlines to suspend the crew members after conducting an inquiry, news reports said.
The watchdog said that crew members had been distracted by the performance, "thus reducing their preparedness/alertness", and that "the frequent movement of the dancing crew may have affected the aircraft's centre of gravity during flight and created turbulence", the Times of India reported.
Allowing the use of mobile phones in the air was also "against present regulation", the paper added.
Jet Airways said in a statement: "All cabin crew on the flight have been taken off flight duty for enquiry and corrective training to reinforce strict adherence to operating procedures."
Sonu Nigam's name began trending on Twitter in India on Friday, with many criticising the decision to suspend the crew members.
However, others supported the airline, saying the performance could have endangered the flight.
It is not the first time a mid-air performance has sparked controversy in India.
In 2014, the aviation watchdog asked another private airline to suspend two of its pilots because they had allowed the crew to dance to a Bollywood number to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi.
Led by Matt Prior, Joe Root and Graeme Swann on the second day, they posted a decent score on a tough wicket and then their bowlers took charge.
The way James Anderson bowled was quite brilliant and I cannot think of a better England bowler in my time than the Lancashire paceman.
He is taking wickets in conditions that don't really suit him and he really is a special bowler these days.
England will have been worried about what Virender Sehwag would do on this pitch, but Anderson got him second ball and then he got one to swing back into Sachin Tendulkar.
Anderson started to get reverse swing as the ball got older and Gautam Gambhir did not know what was coming next when he edged an outswinger to Matt Prior.
I mentioned in my Test Match Special commentary that there is a bit of Malcolm Marshall about the way Anderson bowls - not in the pace he generates, but the way he seemingly has the ball on a string and can make it do whatever he wants.
He has an aura about him and I cannot place much higher praise on him. He needs to be protected now, and not be made to bowl too many overs, because he is crucial to England's bowling attack and he has a lot of work to do in the next year when the team plays 10 Ashes Tests against Australia.
"Anderson has such ability to move the ball in the air when no-one else can do, he is like gold dust. He's like Richard Hadlee, who was a wonderful swinger of the ball."
Another thing I noticed was the way Anderson made a bee-line for Kevin Pietersen after he had bowled Sehwag. There was talk of those two not getting along last summer, but I reckon Pietersen, who plays for the same IPL team as Sehwag, suggested that delivery to Anderson and the bowler executed the plan to perfection.
India have a lot to do in the match now, and that is also due to England's solid batting which continued into the second day.
Root was magnificent on his debut, a model of patience and good technique and I like the way he seemed unruffled by everything that went on around him. He celebrated a little when he reached his half-century and then knuckled down to carry on his job.
Prior played well too and Swann could not have timed his first half-century since 2009 much better. He showed that if you play positively you can score runs on this pitch.
Finally, I wonder if this will be Sachin Tendulkar's final match. His footwork was all over the place for his dismissal - he looked late and slow.
He left the field to silence and it had the feel of somebody playing in his final match. Only time will tell.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Marc Higginson.
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Wales took on Slovakia in the Euro 2016 tournament in France and won 2-1.
A Cardiff fanzone with a giant screen has been set up in the city's Bute Park while matches are also being shown in Swansea's Castle Square.
About 24,000 Welsh fans had tickets for the game in Bordeaux and about 700 left from Cardiff Airport on Saturday morning with some reporting hold-ups.
First Minister Carwyn Jones earlier wished the Welsh team good luck "after 58 years and so many near misses".
"Wales will be represented in a tournament watched by billions of football fans across the world this summer. It's incredible, unprecedented and completely deserved," he said.
"Pob lwc [good luck] boys, we're with you all the way."
And Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "Qualification for the tournament is a remarkable achievement and the people of Wales are right behind the team.
"I am thrilled to be in Bordeaux for tonight's game against Slovakia to see Wales compete on the big stage."
Some fans flying into France on Saturday morning encountered delays.
A 30 minute hold-up at Bergerac airport meant fans had to wait until 14:30 BST for a train to Bordeaux which arrived about an hour before kick-off.
Meanwhile, supporters were also warned about a transport strike in Bordeaux which has affected some trams, although one from the city centre to the stadium was still running.
Officers from South Wales Police, who are working in the city, have been tweeting travel advice.
A family from Deeside living in Bordeaux told BBC Wales they were "excited" for the influx - as a lot of their neighbours think their native land is in England.
Patricia Davey said: "Wales as a country isn't really well known, sadly. You mention Wales and people look at you quizzically and say, 'where's that? That's England, isn't it?'
"I might come down and watch it on the big screen [in the fanzone]. You've got to cheer on Wales."
Steven Smeaton died after falling from the window of the property in Forester Street on 7 September 2016.
Mr Smeaton had spoken to officers hours earlier after they were called to the flat after reports of a disturbance.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner's (PIRC) launched an inquiry following the death.
It concluded that Mr Smeaton's death was "not attributable to any act or omission by officers".
The investigation report also determined that there was nothing to suggest to the police, either from Mr Smeaton's behaviour or actions, that he was considering taking his own life.
Police were called to the flat after neighbours reported hearing shouting and a child crying.
The report said: "After entering the property, they spoke to a man and a woman, both of whom were uncooperative and evasive.
"They stated they were not in a relationship and the person responsible for the disturbance had left the premises before the police had arrived.
"The woman also said she was happy for the man to remain in the flat and officers were content that the child, who was in bed, was not distressed and appeared to be safe and well."
After checking with their control room that Mr Smeaton was not wanted for any warrants and satisfied there was no domestic incident to investigate, the police officers left the flat.
The report said: "Hours later, the 33-year-old man was found dead in the street, having fallen or jumped from a window of the building."
The investigation concluded that police officers had responded to the initial call within the required 15 minute timescale.
It said their actions were "appropriate" to gain access to the flat and check on the welfare of the occupants.
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The men stood on stage in white gowns praying while a team of hooded men lashed their backs with a cane.
The pair, aged 20 and 23, were found in bed together by vigilantes who entered their private accommodation in March. They have not been identified.
Gay sex is not illegal in most of Indonesia but it is in Aceh, the only province which exercises Islamic law.
It is the first time gay men have been caned under Sharia law in the province.
The punishment was delivered outside a mosque in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.
A large crowd of observers cheered as the caning took place. "Let this be a lesson to you," one of the men watching cried out. "Do it harder," another man yelled.
Earlier, an organiser warned the crowd not to attack the men, saying "they are also human".
The men were sentenced to 85 strokes but the number was reduced by two because they had spent two months in detention.
I met one of the young men in jail a day before the caning, the first journalist to speak to him. He was terrified and his whole body was shaking. He was thin, pale and had a red rash on his skin.
Inmates surrounded us with intimidating glares as we tried to talk. I thought we were going to be speaking in a private room, but he was not granted that.
Before neighbourhood vigilantes broke down the door to his rented room, he was in his final years of a medical degree - his plan was to be a doctor. Now we are told the university has kicked him out.
Videos of the raid that caught him and his partner having sex have been widely shared online. In the mobile phone footage they are both naked, pleading for help.
"I just want the caning to be over and to go back to my family, I have been deeply depressed. I am trying to pull myself out of a deep black hole," he said.
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Aceh was granted special rights to introduce its own stricter Islamic laws more than a decade ago, and has become increasingly conservative in recent years.
Strict laws against homosexuality were passed in 2014 and came into effect the following year.
In the past public caning sentences have been handed down only for gambling and drinking alcohol.
Indonesia has historically largely been tolerant of homosexuality, but has witnessed increasing official and social hostility towards its small and low-profile LGBTQ community in recent years.
Earlier this month, Indonesian police arrested 14 people in the city of Surabaya for allegedly holding a gay party. They could face charges under ambiguous anti-pornography laws.
On Monday, 141 men were arrested - including a British man - in a raid on what police said was a "gay party" at a sauna in the capital, Jakarta, on similar charges. Most were released on Tuesday.
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Emmanuel Edet, 59, and Antan Edet, 56, have been charged with holding a person in slavery or servitude and assisting unlawful immigration.
It is alleged the man was brought into the country in 1989 and was denied education or a passport.
The alleged victim, who was moved around addresses in England, approached police at the end of last year.
His biographer Anthony Sampson once said he was a "ladies' man and proud of it".
He had three wives, who over more than six decades proved invaluable partners to him at different stages in his career, and have given an insight into the private man.
Nelson Mandela married Evelyn Mase, a cousin of his political mentor Walter Sisulu, three years after arriving in Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage in the rural region of Eastern Cape. He was 26 and she was 22.
"I think I loved him the first time I saw him," she is quoted as saying in Higher Than Hope, a biography of Mr Mandela that came out in 1990 when he was released from prison.
"Within days of our first meeting we were going steady and within months he proposed."
They were married for 13 years. During much of that time, her nurse's salary supported the family while Mr Mandela pursued his law studies.
Together they had four children. The death of their second child aged nine months had a devastating effect on Evelyn, who became more religious, while Mr Mandela became more political.
She was a Jehovah's Witness with no interest in politics.
''I could not give up my life in the struggle, and she could not live with my devotion to something other than herself and her family,'' Mr Mandela wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
It was a bitter end to the marriage, and Mr Mandela returned home on bail after his arrest on treason charges to find she had moved out.
Five years after Mr Mandela was sentenced to life in prison in 1964, their eldest son Thembekile died in a car crash.
According to biographer Anthony Sampson, he sent Evelyn, who was then running a grocery store in a village in what is now the Eastern Cape, a message of condolence - it was their only communication while he was in prison.
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When her former husband's release from jail in 1990 was compared to the second coming of Christ, she told journalist Fred Bridgland: "It's very silly when people say this kind of thing about Nelson.
"How can a man who has committed adultery and left his wife and children be Christ? The world worships Nelson too much. He is only a man."
But she later seemed to have grown accustomed to the adulation.
In an interview just after the general election which saw Mr Mandela elected as the country's first black president, she said she had not seen him since he had been released from prison, but she knew "the people love him very much".
"When I go to their houses to talk to them about Jehovah, I always see his picture on the walls. His strength has come from God.
"God uses people to do his work even if they are not righteous."
In 1998, more than 40 years after separating from Mr Mandela, Evelyn married Simon Rakeepile, a fellow Jehovah's Witness. She died in 2004.
Nelson Mandela's romance with Winnie Madikizela blossomed during his treason trial. She was a 22-year-old social worker, 16 years younger than him and she would become a political firebrand.
"I was both courting her and politicising her," Mr Mandela said in his autobiography.
In her 1984 memoir Part of My Soul Went with Him, she said that Mr Mandela never formally proposed.
"One day Nelson just pulled up on the side of the road and said: 'You know, there is a woman who is a dressmaker, you must go and see her, she is going to make your wedding gown. How many bridesmaids would you like to have?'
"That's how I was told I was getting married to him! It was not put arrogantly; it was just something that was taken for granted. I just asked: 'What time?'"
She said in an 1983 interview with filmmaker Kevin Harris that to all intents and purposes she was marrying a prisoner.
"He had to get permission to get married because he was not only a prisoner, he was banned and the trial was on in Pretoria at the time. So he was given four days in which to go to the Transkei and get married."
The couple went on to have two daughters, but spent little time together as a family.
"He did not even pretend that I would have some special claim to his time. There never was any kind of life I can recall as family life, a young bride's life where you sit with your husband. You just couldn't tear Nelson from the people: The struggle, the nation came first," she said in her memoir.
Three years after their wedding, Mr Mandela went underground - he was captured and imprisoned for sabotage in 1962 for five years.
"The honest truth of God is that I didn't know him at all," she later admitted to Mr Sampson.
While he was in prison, the Rivonia trial began, and the defendants could have faced the death sentence - instead they got life in prison.
From this time, Winnie was determined to keep the struggle going with her name. She faced banning orders, imprisonment and was exiled to a township near Brandfort. Visits to see her husband were difficult.
"Exile is like being in prison at your own expense… worst of all was being without my children and not having the opportunity to play the role of a parent… virtually both of us have really not had that opportunity to be parents to our children," she told Mr Harris.
Despite her controversial politics in the late 1980s - and her involvement in the abduction of a teenage boy accused of being a police spy who was murdered by one of her bodyguards - the couple put on a united front for Mr Mandela's release in 1990.
She said there had been a great fear that the ANC leadership would die in prison. On the day of his release, before he walked free, Mr Mandela was full of excitement and they were both shocked by his reception, she recalled in an interview in The Guardian newspaper in 2010.
"He is human," she said. "He must have at a certain point been afraid, afraid of what he was coming out to… having left in the 60s, you come back to a society that expected so much of you at the age of over 70."
The couple separated before Mr Mandela became president, over growing political and personal differences, and reports of her infidelity.
They later divorced and during court proceedings it was revealed that after Mr Mandela's release from prison, she had never entered their bedroom while he was awake.
On the 20th anniversary of his release and at a time when her political star had again risen, Winnie recalled their married life together in a speech: "He was loving, fond of children, a people's person and a very hard worker.
"His fearlessness, his unassailable morality, his unwavering commitment to the struggle for total freedom and his insistence on marching to his own beat were the hallmarks of his character.
"Yet he also had the ability to take on adversaries and win them over, and to take complex issues and bring them down to earth.
"And he was no angel, like most human beings. He never claimed to be a saint."
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Graca Machel knew what it was to be married to a liberation movement when she married Mr Mandela towards the end of his presidency.
She was the widow of Mozambican independence leader and president Samora Machel, who died in a plane crash in 1986 - an accident that was alleged to have been engineered by South Africa's apartheid-era regime, though this is still under investigation.
"It's just wonderful that finally we have found each other and can share a life together," Mr Mandela's biographer Anthony Sampson quoted her as saying two years before their marriage.
"He can love very deeply, but he tries to control it very well in his public appearance," she told the author.
"In private he can allow himself to be a human being. He likes people to know he is happy.
"When he is unhappy he lets you know.
"He's a very simple person, very gentle. He is down to earth. Even politically if you watch him sometimes you can feel there's a bit of naivete."
Twenty-seven years his junior, she was reportedly reluctant to marry him because of her sense of obligation to the people of Mozambique, and the tension between Mr Mandela and Winnie Mandela following their divorce.
According to Mr Sampson, she agreed to spend two weeks every month with him in Johannesburg in 1996, finding it hard at first to adjust to his early rising and bedtimes.
He could be "very impatient" and "very stubborn" - and in a sentiment shared with Mr Mandela's other wives, she told Mr Sampson: "He is a symbol, that's correct, but he's not a saint."
Eventually bowing to pressure, she agreed to marry him and they tied the knot on his 80th birthday in 1998.
She already had six stepchildren and two of her own children, and together they enjoyed their large families and many grandchildren.
Graca, who continued her political and humanitarian career, also oversaw his several retirements and tried to protect him from the demands of an adoring world.
And for several years before his death, she was at pains to prepare South Africa.
"Madiba is a very proud person. He is vain so when he realises that he can't walk tall and firm like he used to be, he doesn't like it," she told CNN on his 91st birthday.
"To see him ageing is something that pains you.
"You understand you know it has to happen. That spirit, that sparkle, somehow is fading."
Nevertheless she told the BBC in 2010 it was wonderful to watch Mr Mandela "get old gracefully".
Rhys Jones, 36, originally from Blackwood, Caerphilly county, died from his injuries after the attack in Clarence Place on 24 November.
Rhys Barnes, 28, from Newport, admitted his murder at Cardiff Crown Court.
On Thursday, he was told he had shown "no remorse or regret" for the "brutal" attack and was jailed for life. He must serve a minimum of 26 years.
The court heard the stabbing followed a row over a woman who Barnes believed to be his girlfriend, but was also having a "physical relationship" with Mr Jones.
Barnes stabbed the father-of-two after the woman claimed he had punched her in a row.
The court heard Barnes told her: "I'm not having somebody hitting a girl" and threatened to kill him before picking up a knife.
Prosecutor Michael Jones said Barnes was "crying and angry that someone hit a girl he liked" and told a friend: "He's not going to get away with it."
Mr Jones was found dead the following morning. Police went to Barnes's neighbouring flat at the Solas homeless shelter where he was found covered in blood next to a steak knife.
Barnes told police: "He hit my girlfriend this morning so I... stabbed him."
Mr Jones suffered 16 different wounds to his chest, back, left arm, his trunk and thigh after being stabbed 13 times.
Records of Cardiff Eleri Rees said: "It was a brutal and sustained attack."
Officers had to intervene when violence flared in the Olympic Park following Saturday's 1-1 draw between the two Premier League clubs.
Police escorted Middlesbrough fans away from the stadium while cordoning off some West Ham supporters.
The trouble followed recent crowd disturbances inside the stadium.
At the first Premier League match at the venue - against Bournemouth on 21 August - some fans arrived with tickets for seats that did not exist, while fighting broke out between rival supporters outside the stadium.
West Ham confirmed that 10 fans were ejected from the stadium during the 4-2 defeat by Watford last month.
Some of the disturbances inside the ground are believed to be over persistent standing during matches.
The club asked E20, which owns the club's London Stadium home, to ensure there is a police presence in the ground after recent trouble.
But the Metropolitan Police turned down the request because the £700m ground does not have a "satisfactory" radio system.
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For the first time, both finals, to be played at the O2 in London, will take place on the same day - Sunday, 8 May.
The BBL play-off final starts at 15:30 BST, with the WBBL showpiece at 18:00.
"We are delighted to be able to partner with the BBC to show both finals live," said BBL commercial director Bob Hope. "It promises to be a great day for the basketball community."
The BBL hopes having both finals on the same day will widen the event's appeal.
Hope added: "Hopefully having the BBC coverage will mean we can attract even more new fans to the sport."
Since the introduction of the lifeboat in 2008, its volunteers have been using a building the size of a small garage near Drumndrochit.
Loch Ness RNLI is Scotland's only inland lifeboat service and took over coverage of the loch from the Maritime and Coastguard Service.
The volunteers use an Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable lifeboat.
They work out of what is known as an Observe class station, which are stations in locations that are difficult to reach.
The National League North side will be at home to League Two side Newport County, with ties to be played over the weekend of 5-6 November.
Following Saturday's 1-1 draw, Craig Westcarr put Alfreton ahead, but they were behind by the half-time interval.
Sam Smith headed them level and Westcarr converted a penalty in the extra half hour to send them through.
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Hartlepool United v Stamford
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Shrewsbury Town v Barnet
Morecambe v Coventry City
Crawley Town v Bristol Rovers
Whitehawk v Stourbridge
Colchester United v Chesterfield
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Exeter City v Luton Town
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The assembly's communities, equality and local government committee had considered including the ban as part of a new law to tackle domestic violence.
However, Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews said it was the "wrong vehicle" to introduce such a law.
Committee chair Christine Chapman said she was disappointed the government "cannot yet do the right thing".
In October 2011 assembly members voted in favour of banning the defence of "reasonable chastisement" for smacking.
But the then minister responsible for children, Gwenda Thomas, ruled out legislation before the 2016 assembly election, citing the need for preparatory work amid fears of "criminalising" parents.
The Welsh government has since resisted attempts to add a smacking ban to other bills, calling for a cross-party committee to examine when to introduce such a measure.
Ms Chapman has previously said she feels "cheated" over the lack of legislation.
Speaking during a committee debate on the issue on Thursday, the Labour AM said she was voting against her government on the issue "with a very heavy heart".
"We owe it to the children of Wales to give them the equal protection they deserve and in doing so I believe this will hugely strengthen the Bill," she said before the bid was dropped.
Mr Andrews said the domestic violence bill was not the right place to address the issue of smacking, adding he did not think the amendments were "well considered".
The University of London team looked at how many people carried a specific gene variant known to give them resistance to TB and leprosy.
It was more common in those from areas with a longer history of urbanisation, where the diseases were more likely to have been rife at one point.
They described the discovery as an example of "evolution in action".
The phenomenon, reported in the journal Evolution, is suggested as an example of so-called "selective pressure" in relation to disease resistance.
It happens because, when a population is exposed to a killer illness, the people who are best placed to pass on their genes to the next generation are those whose genetic make-up helps them fight the infection.
In towns and cities, where people intermingle far more closely, the likelihood of being exposed to infectious disease is theoretically higher.
So, over the centuries, the greater the level of historical exposure, the more likely it is that these resistance genes will be spread widely among the population.
The scientists, from University College London and Royal Holloway, part of the University of London, tested this by analysing DNA samples drawn from 17 different human populations living across Europe, Asia and Africa.
The results were cross checked against historical and archaeological data about the date of the first city or urban settlement in each region.
The protective gene variant was found in nearly everyone from the Middle East to India and in parts of Europe where cities have been established for thousands of years, but were less frequent in regions with a shorter history of urbanisation, such as Africa.
Dr Ian Barnes, one of the authors of the research, said: "This seems to be an elegant example of evolution in action.
"It flags up the importance of a very recent aspect of our evolution as a species, the development of cities as a selective force.
"It could also help explain some of the differences we observe in disease resistance around the world."
There are other examples of selective pressure in disease resistance - it has been suggested that one is the prevalence of the gene defect responsible for the lung disease cystic fibrosis.
Normally, the lethal nature of the condition across history would suggest that people carrying the gene defect were at a distinct evolutionary disadvantage, and their numbers would be fewer.
However, scientists believe that the gene gives carriers an advantage when faced with the cholera toxin - which, in early cities, could have significantly outweighed the disadvantage of some children developing cystic fibrosis.
Professor Brian Spratt, chair of molecular microbiology at the Imperial College London School of Public Health, said: "Individuals who are more resistant to a pathogen that causes a disease with substantial mortality, such as malaria or TB, will survive better and will contribute more offspring to the next generation. As many of their children will have inherited increased resistance to the pathogen, they also will survive better.
"Thus frequencies of these genetic sequences that provide increased protection to a disease will be far more common in areas where the disease has been killing people for centuries or even millennia than those where the disease has never been endemic.
The same effect should occur for some diseases with populations who have lived for centuries within dense cities because diseases such as cholera and TB will have always been a problem in cities due to overcrowding and poor sanitation, compared to people living nomadic lives."
But since winning the 2011 Rugby World Cup on home soil, New Zealand's supremacy and status as one of the world's most successful sporting teams has swelled incrementally.
They have played 47 Test matches in the last four years, and won 42 (89%), with two draws. Only three times - against England in late 2012, South Africa in October 2014, and Australia last month - have the All Blacks tasted defeat.
Topping the world rugby list for the past six years, they have occupied the number one spot for 10 of the 12 years since rankings were introduced in 2003.
So what is it like to be part of such a winning machine? How are players integrated and nurtured? How is the culture developed and maintained? How do they deal with the scrutiny that comes with it, and maintain the burning ambition to be the best?
As New Zealand attempt to become the first country to win back-to-back World Cups, experienced centre Conrad Smith - who has won 78 of his 88 Tests since his debut in 2004 - explains what life is like inside a team of serial winners.
"It's always pretty daunting. You come in and it's 'dream come true' stuff, you're obviously nervous. But all the time I've been there, the whole culture has been about going out of our way to make the new guys feel welcome.
"We can't let them feel daunted for too long; we want them to express themselves - that's why they're selected. We don't want them to go into their shell; we want them to embrace it and feel like they're ready to do whatever they're asked to do, whether that's on or off the field.
"I think that almost without fail, after the newcomers play their first game, they're blown away by how welcoming the whole atmosphere is. I know it was like that for me.
"Jerry Collins [the ferocious former flanker who died in a car crash in June this year] was really good to me. 'I'll go easy on you' he said at my first training session.
"I said 'I've seen you on TV, mate!' Thankfully you never saw that fearsome side too often at practice. He's one of those good guys who would save it up for when it really counts, for a serious game.
"Every newbie that's come in, I've seen feel the same way. It's important, and has helped the team a lot. I remember when I was in their shoes, so I always go out of my way to make them feel comfortable.
"I know how much it means for someone like myself [Smith, 33, is one of Richie McCaw's vice-captains] just to have a chat to them, even if it's about something other than rugby, to make them relax a bit and enjoy themselves."
"It's not like we're handed a sheet with all these things that we've got to do. You're just told you're an All Black. There are high expectations.
"You're expected to know what's right and wrong. If you are unsure, you ask someone who's been around longer than you and they'll give you a pretty clear answer. Then you do what you think is right, what's best for the team. The good thing is the young guys want to be involved so much, that guides them and they don't want to stuff up.
"There's no buddy system. There are a few formalities you go over normally at the start of a campaign. The manager or the coach might say a few things. A lot of it, and what we talk about, is 'the leaders lead'. If there's a failing, you don't look at the new guy, the new players, you look at the leadership and how they've let them down.
"So there's a big onus on the leaders to make sure they set the tone and lead by example, so that should be followed by the guys coming in. The idea is if they don't follow, they'll wean themselves out."
"The public expectation is tough to deal with sometimes. It's a bit of a challenge but I think you just embrace it, you realise it's a good thing, if you use it in the right way.
"It's awesome having that support when things go well. That's why we want to be All Blacks, we've all dreamed of doing it, because everyone loves the team.
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"Then it's a matter of making sure you have a balance, you don't get carried away with it and don't think it's daunting and hindering your personal life. That can take a bit of experience.
"I think older guys are good at making younger guys understand it. If they see a guy who gets too wound up or caught up in the whole bubble, they're pretty quick to let them know they've got to do things a bit different.
"You learn early on that you need a way to take your mind off the game and to distance yourself from the pressure and scrutiny. If you don't have that, it's going to be a tough old life. You don't really survive in the All Blacks if you don't learn it quick.
"You've got to be able to relax and realise that it is just a game. The guys with kids will go away and spend time with their families and realise that is what's important in life. Everyone has their own ways of doing it, and the All Blacks have got it figured out more than most."
"For someone like me who's been around a while, you've got to come up with different ways of playing the game.
"You have to keep observing the way it's being played, and how younger guys or other players are doing things in your position, or the way the game's going. At a high level in elite sport, you can never stand still or you get overtaken.
"As a team, we talk about that. We know also as individuals, if you keep doing the same thing season after season, the opposition will figure you out. You won't have continued success and you won't keep performing at a high level.
"I'm sure it's not easy for the All Blacks coaches to talk to Richie McCaw and tell him he should be doing something a different way, or asking the question of whether what he's doing is the right thing.
"But that's what you do. All the time I've had, the coaching team have been good at encouraging but also challenging players, challenging the team - what we're doing and why we're doing it. It's a massive part of it."
"You look at that history and the challenge is to lay it down to each player; every year the team that's selected has to add their bit to the legacy.
"That's pretty important - you're not daunted by that history, you actually embrace it, you want to add something to it.
"There's more to win, there's streaks to extend, there's teams that you don't want to be the first to lose to. There's always more to achieve and that thirst for more is massive within the team. You don't just want to make the team, you want to add your bit to it.
"No-one's ever won the World Cup back to back, so that's pretty motivating for everyone, but particularly the group we've got.
"When we talk about an All Blacks legacy, there are a lot of things we've done before, but every now and then you find something that even an All Blacks team hasn't done.
"We haven't had good success overseas with World Cups, particularly in the northern hemisphere. So winning two World Cups, or a World Cup away from home - those are massive motivators.
"We don't have to talk about it a lot, that's the beauty of the team. It doesn't take much discussion, because everyone's aware of it. It's something that burns pretty deep for all the players."
Alexander Bisley is a Kiwi journalist covering the Rugby World Cup. You can follow him at @alexanderbisley.
Fight for the Future's complaint is signed by 14 people who say their details were used without permission to file anti-net neutrality views.
The campaign group says that some of the comments were posted using the names and details of dead people.
The FCC has voted two-to-one to reverse net neutrality laws enacted in 2015.
The vote was the first stage in the process of repealing the legislation designed to force internet service providers to treat all data traffic as equal.
Americans now have until the middle of August to comment on the proposals.
Almost 2.8 million comments have been filed on the FCC's plans since the consultation opened at the end of April.
Last week it was reported that hundreds of thousands of comments supporting the proposals had been posted by bots.
After the FCC vote on 18 May, chairman Ajit Pai told reporters there was "a tension between having an open process where it's easy to comment and preventing questionable comments from being filed", but that the regulator "erred on the side of openness".
But Fight for the Future claims that many of the suspected spam comments have been posted using genuine details that have been stolen.
In their letter to the FCC, the group has called for an investigation into the fake comments, and for the regulator to notify all those whose details have been used to post them.
"Whoever is behind this stole our names and addresses, publicly exposed our private information without our permission, and used our identities to file a political statement we did not sign on to," the letter reads.
"It cannot be the case that the FCC moves forward on such a major public debate without properly investigating this known attack."
Fight for the Future says it has heard from "hundreds" of people who have found comments posted in their names, in favour of revoking net neutrality.
The group's campaign director, Evan Greer, told Motherboard it would add more names to the letter as it verified their claims.
"This letter was something we put together quickly with people who were furious that their personal information had been used and wanted to do something immediately."
The FCC has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.
Earlier this month, the FCC said it had been targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that led to downtime for the comments system.
This followed a television appearance by comedian John Oliver in which he urged people to post comments against the proposals on the FCC's website.
The 20-year-old scored once in nine appearances on loan with the Blues during the second half of last season, his only goal coming on his debut in a 3-0 victory over Altrincham.
"We are delighted that Danny wanted to return to Chester," manager Jon McCarthy told the club website.
"He will increase competition within the squad."
Scientists say that the slithery invaders' dietary habits are preventing the spread of tree seeds by birds.
Researchers say the growth of new trees on the island may have fallen by up to 92%.
These losses may have grave, long-term consequences for forests and other species.
These dull brown creatures with their bright yellow underbellies are believed to have arrived in the western Pacific island by cargo ship after World War II.
Although only 50km long and 10km wide, Guam is now home to around two million of these nocturnal predators.
The snakes have thrived on a diet of local bird species. By the 1980s they had wiped out 10 of the 12 forest bird species native to Guam.
"It's a really eerie feeling to spend a day by yourself in the jungle on Guam," said study lead author Prof Haldre Rogers, from Iowa State University.
"When you're on Saipan, there's this constant bird chatter, and you get visited by different birds. On Guam, it's silent."
As well as the silent destruction of the bird population, researchers are now concerned that the tree snake's rise will significantly impact the island's forests.
Prof Rogers and colleagues found that about 70% of the trees on Guam produce small fruit. Normally birds eat the fruit and distribute the seeds in their droppings.
"Aside from fruit bats, which are also nearly extinct on Guam, nothing else can disperse seeds," Prof Rogers said.
"If you get rid of the birds and bats, there's nothing to replace them."
The scientists also set up "seed baskets" under two common tree species on Guam to estimate how much of the fruit was naturally dispersed. Only 10% of the seeds made it out of the immediate vicinity of the trees.
The researchers also concluded that seeds that had passed through the digestive tracts of birds were two to four times more likely to germinate than those that hadn't.
The team calculated that the absence of the birds reduced the abundance of new seedlings of two tree species on Guam by between 61% and 92%.
"This study takes the first step in predicting the scale of change that could take place on Guam if we can't find a way to bring birds back," says Joshua Tewksbury, a co-author of the study from Future Earth, an international research platform.
"The full impact of the brown tree snake invasion, and the loss of birds, is still unfolding, but our results clearly suggest that the indirect effects are going to be large, potentially affecting forest composition and structure."
The study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
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The victim, who was also 28, was assaulted by two men on Union Street at about 05:30 on Saturday. Police said they were still trying to trace a second man.
The attack happened between St Nicholas Street and Broad Street.
Police have asked anyone who witnessed the attack to come forward.
The arrested man is expected to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
After the incident part of Union Street was closed to pedestrians while police carried out inquiries.
Det Insp Norman Stevenson, who is leading the inquiry, said: "It was necessary as part of our investigation to close a small section of Union Street and I fully recognise the disruption this caused to some businesses and the general public frequenting the area.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank those affected for their patience whilst we carried out this necessary work."
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Italy currently each have one Champions Cup spot guaranteed every season.
But from 2018-19 the first seven Pro12 teams will qualify on merit - and one or more nations could miss out.
Pro12 chief Martin Anayi said "these changes will deliver true meritocracy to our Championship".
Since the Italian sides joined the Pro12 in 2010, an Italian side has finished in the top seven only once in seven seasons, when Benetton Treviso came seventh in the 2012-13 season.
There is no change for the Premiership and Top 14, with the top six qualifying by right, while the 20th spot will go to the European Challenge Cup winner.
The alterations mean the qualifying process for the Champions Cup has been different every year in the five years since its inception, with the changes largely to do with how the 20th team has qualified.
BBC Radio 5 live rugby reporter Chris Jones:
Guaranteeing a representative from every country was one of the concessions made by the power brokers when the Champions Cup replaced the Heineken Cup, but this development is the final step towards a wholly meritocratic qualification process.
The weakness of the Italian teams has been a blight on the tournament up until now, while the news that the Challenge Cup winner will automatically gain entry to elite competition will also be widely welcomed.
Frances Cappuccini suffered a fatal haemorrhage at Tunbridge Wells hospital after an emergency Caesarean in 2012.
The original NHS report into her death stated another woman had suffered a haemorrhage in Dr Nadeem Azeez' care.
It said he had mismanaged her resuscitation and it was recommended he have a period of supervised practice.
Consultant anaesthetist Errol Cornish was cleared of gross negligence manslaughter and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter last January.
The inquest at Gravesend Old Town Hall heard details of the earlier mistake had been removed from the report given to Mrs Cappuccini's family, the coroner and the strategic health authority.
Neil Sheldon, the family's lawyer, asked Karen Woods, the nurse who compiled the report, if she took it out.
"I don't remember personally taking it out," she answered.
He suggested to her that it was done "because, for the trust, it was an embarrassment".
Ms Woods denied this, saying it "would go against all my personal and professional integrity".
She went on to say no pressure had been applied to anyone at any stage to remove the section from the document.
The coroner will deliver his findings on Monday.
Fire crews were called to Wiggington Road, South Newington, at about 10:20 GMT.
The horse, named Tight Squeeze, fell unconscious after becoming stuck in the deeply banked ditch for several hours.
Fire crews and the service's animal rescue team used slings and harnesses to pull the 18-year-old from the ditch.
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue became "more complex as she was sinking further into the mud in a deeply banked, extremely muddy swamp-like ditch".
The service said following the rescue the race horse slowly raised herself and stumbled on to her feet.
The current agreement between Cricket Australia and the country's top players expires on 30 June and no new deal has been struck.
"It is extremely likely that as of 1 July we'll be jumping over the cliff together," said Dyer.
"The fundamentals of the deal are nowhere near to being resolved."
Former Test wicketkeeper Dyer added: "We will be assisting in whatever way we possibly can in that but they're unemployed."
In March, Cricket Australia proposed salary increases for men and women as part of a revised memorandum of understanding, but that meant players would no longer receive a percentage of the organisation's revenue.
This was rejected by the Australian Cricketers' Association, who also turned down a recent revised pay offer.
The dispute has put a question mark over the Australian men's team playing a two-Test series in Bangladesh scheduled for August, while they are scheduled to host England in the Ashes from 23 November to 8 January, 2018.
The women's team is currently in England for the Women's World Cup and are under contract until the end of the tournament.
Nadarajah Raviraj was shot dead in his car in the capital, Colombo, during Sri Lanka's bitter civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels.
Raviraj was an advocate of self-rule for the minority Tamils and his death sparked international condemnation.
The men who have been cleared include three Sri Lankan navy personnel.
In a highly unusual move, the jury's verdict was delivered at midnight following a unanimous decision in the month-long trial.
Earlier this year, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who has previously ruled out allowing any political leader to be prosecuted for alleged war crimes, said he was concerned that naval and military commanders had been summoned before the courts.
Raviraj's death was seen as a setback for moderates in Sri Lanka and led to thousands of people marching in Colombo in protest at the murder.
Raviraj, who was fluent in Tamil, Sinhala and English, acted as a bridge between communities and spoke out against extreme nationalists.
He was shot as he left his house in Colombo for work.
Sri Lanka's army defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009 after 26 years of civil war.
The death toll as a result of the conflict is estimated to be more than 70,000.
The government has since insisted that it is on the path of reconciliation and rebuilding Sri Lanka's north.
RNLI rescuers said an adult and two teenagers fell into the water at Seaton Carew along with a fourth person, who swam out to try and help them.
The four were pulled from the water by a crew from the Hartlepool RNLI inshore lifeboat at about 17.30 BST on Sunday and were "shocked and cold".
The three who fell from the craft continue to be treated in hospital.
Hartlepool RNLI Lifeboat operations manager Mike Craddy said his team got to the scene very quickly before the situation "deteriorated."
Whitstable Museum should have opened on 1 June, run by Whitstable Community Museum Group, but the transfer was delayed by legal issues.
Canterbury council said the museum will now open on 9 July with an exhibition on the town's shipbuilding past.
The building has been revamped with an Arts Council England grant of £15,000.
Currently, the museum is still officially under city council management in partnership with the museum group.
The group has researched and organised the new exhibition.
Councillor Neil Baker, chairman of the council's community committee, said: "The delay is unfortunate but it's not the fault of anyone involved in the project.
"Legal matters often take a while to sort out. We're still committed to the transfer and look forward to a successful resolution."
Brighton's i360 - designed by the team behind the London Eye - will be 162 metres tall, with an observation pod at 138 metres.
Two hundred lorry loads of concrete are being driven to Brighton seafront at regular intervals for the work on Saturday.
The concrete will arrive one truck at a time "to minimise disruption".
Eleanor Harris, i360 CEO, said the progress was "exciting".
A steady flow of trucks, arriving every five minutes since the early hours of the morning, will bring 2,640 tonnes of concrete to the site.
Ruth Chapman, from the firm, said the trucks waited at a holding area in Shoreham to minimise disruption along the King's Road promenade.
The tower will be situated on the axis of the city's Grade II listed Regency Square.
Developers hope it will attract at least 700,000 visitors per year, which would make it the city's most popular paid-for attraction.
Construction will be completed this summer before the tower officially opens in mid-2016, they said.
Another praised his "fine" portrayal of the Roman soldier whose inability to compromise results in tragedy.
Hiddleston, The Guardian's review goes on, "conveys the hero's complexity" as well as his "reckless impetuosity".
Sam Mendes and Sir Nicholas Hytner were among Tuesday's first night audience at London's Donmar Warehouse theatre.
The BBC's John Humphrys was also in attendance to see the first Shakespeare play the Donmar's artistic director Josie Rourke has directed for the venue.
According to The Guardian's Michael Billington, Rourke "uses the Donmar's intimacy to come up with a fast, witty, intelligent production".
Dominic Maxwell in The Times found the show "intimate and compelling", while the Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer called it "exciting and intense".
Yet Quentin Letts expressed reservations in the Daily Mail, saying the production's "numerous good points" were "diminished" by Rourke's "silly directorial touches".
Letts cites one of these "touches" - a shower scene in which Hiddleston's soldier removes his shirt and washes his wounds - as a "slightly desperate gambit".
The Times' man was more appreciative though, saying the scene would "please the MTV viewers who have just voted Hiddleston the sexiest man in the world".
Spencer also singled out the "extraordinary moment" in which his "lean, mean killing machine... takes a shower after the battle and gasps with pain".
Speaking earlier this year, Hiddleston - known to millions for his villainous Loki role in the Thor and Avengers films - said the play had "an interesting contemporary resonance".
"Coriolanus is an impeccable soldier who becomes a war hero," the actor told the BBC News website.
"That leads him to be corralled into politics, an arena he has no place in."
The political arena is represented in the play by the wily Menenius, played by Mark Gatiss of Sherlock and The League of Gentleman fame.
The cast also includes Deborah Findlay as Coriolanus's fierce mother Volumnia and Borgen actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen as his wife Virgilia.
The Donmar's sold-out production, which will be broadcast live in cinemas on 30 January, is one of several high-profile Shakespeares running in London over Christmas.
Jude Law can currently be seen as Henry V at the Noel Coward theatre, while David Tennant is portraying Richard II at the Barbican following its run in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Laurence Olivier, Sir Ian McKellen and Toby Stephens are among the many notable actors to have played Coriolanus on stage, while Ralph Fiennes played him on screen in 2011 film version that he also directed.
It quickly turned into a survival battle at 57-4, but Aneurin Donald (66 not out) and Chris Cooke managed to dig in after Donald was dropped early.
The home side gave themselves a maximum of 57 overs to bowl Glamorgan out.
Leicestershire's declaration came on 360-6 after Mark Pettini had scored an unbeaten 110 - his first century at home for the county.
Batting on until 55 minutes after lunch looked to be a conservative option from stand-in Foxes captain Ned Eckersley, but Leicestershire kept alive real victory hopes into the chilly final session before shaking hands with eight overs remaining.
Donald curbed his natural attacking instincts in a mature performance, although he was dropped on 18.
Leicestershire were hindered by injury problems for Clint McKay, who only bowled three overs, and Ben Raine, who also left the field.
Leicestershire head coach Pierre de Bruyn told BBC Radio Leicester:
"It's been a tough four days for the bowlers especially, as we lost Zak Chappell for Glamorgan's first innings, and then Clint McKay and Ben Raine were only able to bowl a limited number of overs in the second innings.
"We believed around 60 overs would be enough to put them under pressure, especially if we could nip out the likes of Rudolph and Ingram early, which we did. But we missed a chance with the dropped catch, that could have changed everything."
"McKay and Raine will both have scans on Tuesday, back and side respectively, but Richard Jones and Dieter Klein are available , so there are options."
Glamorgan batsman Aneurin Donald told BBC Wales Sport:
"Chris [Cooke] and me took a while to get into it but ultimately we're really pleased with the way we played.
"Trying to spend time in the middle is key but also to get through a tough patch like we had is good for the confidence, I think something our dressing-room needed a little bit.
"We're pleased with how we dealt with it, all-in-all a worthwhile four days for both teams, and a high-scoring draw for both teams probably isn't the worst result."
Hospitals in the city, which is controlled by Houthi rebels, are crowded with cholera patients.
The Red Cross says the number of suspected cases in the country has tripled in a week to more than 8,500.
Yemen has been ravaged by hunger and civil war, allowing disease to spread rapidly.
Two-thirds of the population do not have access to safe drinking water, according to the UN.
Dominik Stillhart, director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross, told a news conference in Sanaa on Sunday that there had been 115 deaths from cholera nationwide from 27 April - 13 May.
"We now are facing a serious outbreak," he said.
Sanaa has been worst hit, followed by the surrounding province of Amanat al-Semah, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says.
Cholera is a water-borne disease that is transmitted through contaminated water and food.
Symptoms include acute diarrhoea and vomiting. People with cholera can become very sick and, if left untreated, death can occur within hours.
It is the second outbreak of cholera in Yemen in a year.
The WHO said last week that fewer than 45% of health facilities in Yemen were fully functioning.
Almost 300 hospitals or clinics have been damaged or destroyed in fighting between forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi - who is backed by a Saudi-led multinational coalition - and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement.
Since fighting escalated in March 2015, more than 8,010 people - mostly civilians - have been killed and about 44,500 others injured, the UN says.
The civil war has also left 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
Paul Wilmott, 63, died in the blast at his home in Haxby, near York, on 19 February 2016.
Mr Wilmott may have become desensitised to the smell of gas before the blast, caused by a fracture in a corroded gas pipe, jurors were told.
They returned a verdict of accidental death earlier.
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Steve Critchlow, from the Health and Safety Executive, said the house had been filled with gas leaking from a pipe buried in Mr Wilmott's concrete floor.
He said: "I would imagine that probably an hour, maximum, would be enough to create this sort of incident."
Given the amount of gas present, a small electrical spark from a contact switch would have been sufficient to cause the explosion, he added.
He said it was not uncommon for people to become desensitised to the smell of leaking gas if they were asleep when the leak began.
The house in Springwood was built in the 1970s and had not been built to modern standards that may have protected the pipe from corrosion, jurors were told.
Forensic metallurgist Dr Elizabeth Geary told the inquest in York that formic acid produced by an ants' nest found in a wall nearby may have contributed to the pipe corrosion.
An inquiry found the copper pipe fractured at a point where two concrete floor slabs met and had moved "possibly as a result of bad weather", coroner Rob Turnbull said.
David Cameron made the announcement at the G7 in Bavaria ahead of a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister on 8 June.
Mr Cameron told reporters that terror activity by IS was "the biggest threat" G7 leaders had to address.
Most of the extra personnel would be involved in training Iraqi soldiers to deal with explosive devices, he added.
But Mr Obama will still attend the G20 economic talks in St Petersburg.
A White House aide said Mr Snowden's asylum had deepened the pre-existing tension between the two countries.
The Kremlin said it was disappointed by the move and that the invitation to bilateral talks remained in force.
Mr Snowden, a former intelligence contractor, has admitted leaking information about US surveillance programmes to the media.
The decision to cancel the talks, announced during a trip by the president to Los Angeles, comes the morning after Mr Obama said he was "disappointed" with Russia's decision to offer Mr Snowden asylum for a year.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC diplomatic correspondent
Relations between Washington and Moscow were not good, with divisions over a range of issues - not least Syria - even before the fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden pitched up at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow. They certainly have not got any better since the Russian authorities granted him temporary asylum in the country.
If Mr Snowden had gone swiftly on his way, then this might have remained just another irritant in US-Russia relations. But now the Americans have felt compelled to respond. That is going to make the G20 gathering itself in St Petersburg a potentially embarrassing affair.
The fallout over the Snowden affair is a symptom of a much more fundamental crisis in US-Russia relations that has continued despite the effort during Mr Obama's first term to "reset" relations with Moscow. These are no longer equivalent powers and they have so far not found a way to co-operate on terms that benefit both.
"We have reached the conclusion that there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda with Russia to hold a US-Russia Summit," the White House said in a statement.
In addition to Russia's "disappointing decision" to grant Mr Snowden temporary asylum, the White House cited a lack of progress on issues ranging from missile defence to human rights.
"We believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda," the White House said.
The decision to cancel the US-Russia summit comes the day after Mr Obama appeared on an evening chat show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, in which he condemned a newly enacted anti-gay law in Russia.
"I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them," Mr Obama said.
But the White House reaffirmed Mr Obama's commitment to attending a forthcoming round of G20 economic talks, which take place on 5-6 September in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
In the wake of the announcement, Mr Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said it was clear the US had cancelled the meeting over the Snowden affair.
In a conference call on Wednesday, Mr Ushakov added the Kremlin was disappointed by the move and that the invitation for talks remained open.
"Russian representatives are ready to continue working together with American partners on all key issues on the bilateral and multilateral agenda," Mr Ushakov said.
Mr Obama and Mr Putin last met in June, on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
Mr Snowden, an American former National Security Agency (NSA) technical contractor and CIA worker, in June leaked to the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers documents and details relating to NSA programmes that gather data on telephone calls and emails.
Mr Snowden, 30, fled his home in Hawaii, where he worked at a small NSA installation, to Hong Kong, and subsequently to Russia. He faces espionage charges in the US.
He spent about a month in a transit area of the Moscow airport as the US pressured other countries to deny him asylum. On 1 August, he left the airport after the Russian government said it would give him asylum there for a year.
Bath and North East Somerset Council is considering the move in an attempt to save £800,000 a year.
However, campaigners say the new base would be smaller and not meet demand.
Mr Loach said the library was a "big feature in the centre of Bath" and putting it somewhere "less accessible" was a "bad sign".
"The library is very well-used... [and] really expresses something of the community of the city which is hard to find now," the Bath-based film director said.
The campaigners gathered on Tuesday evening as the authority set its 2017-18 budget with one of the proposals to move the library to nearby Manvers Street.
Conservative councillor Keith Gerrish, who is responsible for finance and efficiency, told the budget and council tax meeting a public consultation would now be going ahead "in respect of the proposal".
However, he said: "The implications indentified refer to future years and are not part of the budget we are proposing tonight for 2017-18".
Mr Gerrish added that any move was still subject to public consultation and would form part of a future business case.
The proposed new location would be owned by the council rather than leased, as it is currently, and this would "contribute to an annual saving of £800,000".
The meeting also heard the authority needed to make £49m of savings over the next four years with £14.5m in savings required for 2017-18. Some £13.2m of this would be through "increased efficiency and new and innovative ways to generate income".
Councillors also heard £1.3m would be achieved through changing the way some local services are delivered.
The budget for 2017-18 was voted through by 36 to 24 votes. The authority's part of council tax will rise by 3.5% - an increase of £52 per year on a Band D property.
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The 29-year-old hurdler helped Team GB surpass the 65 medals won at London 2012, and Scotland's Olympians equal their best ever medal tally of 13.
She also joined Yvonne Murray as Scotland's most decorated track and field athlete with an 11th major medal.
"It just means the absolute world to me," Doyle told BBC Scotland.
"I wanted to come here and take something back. We knew we were capable of winning a medal but it is one thing being capable of it, another thing going out there and doing it.
"I couldn't have done it with a nicer bunch of girls as well. I am over the moon that I can now call myself an Olympic medallist.
"I have got Commonwealth, Europeans and World Championship medals so to have an Olympic medal to add to the collection is amazing."
Doyle, who finished eighth in the 400m hurdles final, clocked 52.4 seconds for the lead-off leg before Anyika Onuora, Emily Diamond and Christine Ohuruogu took GB to bronze, behind the United States and Jamaica.
"My job was done early so I just had to sit and watch," she added. "By the time it got to Chrissie I was just screaming, but I had complete faith she'd get the job done.
"It is great to be part of such an amazing GB team - absolutely fantastic."
Doyle was the first Scottish track and field athlete to stand on an Olympic podium since Liz McColgan (women's 10,000m silver), Elliott Bunney (men's 4x100m relay silver) and Murray (women's 3,000m bronze) in Seoul in 1988.
Doyle's medal was one of several notable Scottish performances on the final night of athletics.
Andrew Butchart, in his first major championships, took nearly five seconds off the Scottish 5,000m record of 13.13:30 he set in late May, setting a new mark of 13.08.61 in finishing sixth behind double gold medallist Mo Farah.
"I am over the moon," the 24-year-old from Dunblane told BBC Scotland. "The place is more important than the time, but I will take the time. I am so happy.
"I came into this year being really positive, and I guess I showed that. I am not scared of anyone, no matter who they are, and I think everyone has to be like that.
"You can't fear these people. I train and work as hard as them so I deserve to be there.
"I have no idea what I could do next, but it is looking good. This is my first majors and it went really well. I just hope I can keep going and progressing."
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Lynsey Sharp continued her strong form in Rio as she set a new personal best of 1:57:69 to finish sixth behind gold medallist Caster Semenya in the women's 800m.
"I have run faster than I have ever done before after three rounds, in a very competitive field, so I can't be too disappointed," the 26-year-old from Dumfries told BBC Scotland.
"It is the nature of the sport that you will be disappointed unless you get a medal, but I always knew that was going to be a big ask in a really competitive field.
"I will see how my coach says I ran but I have got to be happy. I finished quite strongly and felt like that was my best chance - to pick people off in the last 100m. It was good."
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Attawapiskat chief Teresa Spence says she will join the 11 January meeting, but continue her fast until then.
She began her protest against a budget bill critics say weakens native land rights and environmental safeguards.
Three other chiefs have joined Ms Spence in her hunger strike.
"To all the supporters and the helpers, I'm really grateful today," she said on Friday. "But I'll still be here on my hunger strike until that meeting takes place."
She did not rule out continuing the fast beyond the meeting: "We'll see what the results are, if there's really a positive result, because there are a lot of issues that we need to discuss."
The Canadian government previously offered the Attawapiskat leader a meeting with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan.
On Friday, Mr Harper released a statement which cited his January 2012 meeting with First Nations leaders and said he would meet with chiefs "in this spirit of ongoing dialogue".
Mr Harper said the "working meeting" would focus on "the treaty relationship and aboriginal rights and economic development".
While the Attawapiskat leader has continued her fast, First Nations protesters and others have rallied around her, as well as Canadian indigenous rights movement Idle No More, in protest on a range of issues.
Ms Spence has staged her protest in a traditional teepee within sight of the parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada's capital city.
"This is a crisis, and we cannot continue on this path of social indifference," Ms Spence said in a statement issued earlier on Friday, before Mr Harper's announcement.
Ms Spence has urged Mr Harper to "open his heart" and meet native leaders.
During her hunger strike, Ms Spence is consuming only water, fish broth and a medicinal tea, Reuters news agency reports.
"I know it's hard for people to understand what I'm doing," she told reporters on 28 December. "But it's for this pain that's been going on too long with our people."
Ms Spence has invited MPs and senators to visit her teepee. High-profile visitors have included former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark.
Budget legislation passed last month by Canadian lawmakers will reduce environmental safeguards for rivers and lakes and make it easier to sell reserve lands, critics say.
Aboriginal groups have also criticised what they say are unfulfilled promises by the federal and provincial governments - dating back to the early 1900s - to give them a stake in the development of natural resources, and other benefits.
Supporters of the Idle No More movement held marches, rallies and highway blockades across Canada in 2012, as well as "flash mob" protests with traditional drumming and dancing.
On Wednesday, protesters blocked cargo transport at Quebec's Pointe-a-la-Croix, but allowed passenger trains through.
"We are aware our fight is not with the citizens of this country, but rather the Harper government," Alexander Morrison, a spokesman for the group, told CBC News.
Many of the group were from the nearby Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation.
And on Friday, the Sikniktuk Mi'kmaq Rights Coalition in New Brunswick said they were planning a cargo train blockade in the eastern part of the province until Monday. Another protest was planned along a highway in Fredericton, New Brunswick by the Kingsclear First Nation.
In Mr Harper's year-end remarks on Monday, he said the government "continued to strengthen our relationship with First Nations", but did not mention Ms Spence.
A spokesman for Mr Duncan, the aboriginal affairs minister, said the federal government had built schools and homes, enacted measures to protect women's rights, and invested in safe drinking water in native areas.
Their report claims jade valued at a staggering almost $31bn (£20bn) was extracted from Burmese mines last year.
It estimates that the figure for the last decade could be more than $120bn.
Presented with the data by the BBC, the government did not question the quantity or valuation of the jade.
But it said most of the gemstones from the last year had been stockpiled, with only a small fraction sold so far.
Hpakant, in Kachin state, is the site of the world's biggest jade mine. We were stopped from travelling there by the chief minister, but footage obtained from the site shows huge articulated vehicles turning mountains into moonscapes.
With an election on the horizon and considerable political uncertainty the companies involved are clearly in a hurry.
To operate a mine in Hpakant you need military connections. The main companies listed in the Global Witness report are either directly owned by the army, or operated by those with close ties.
A few are run by those connected to ethnic armies, in return for them maintaining a ceasefire.
"If a military family does not have a jade company they are something of a black sheep," Mike Davis from Global Witness said. "These families are making extraordinary sums of money, often in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars."
Prominent among those allegedly profiting from the trade are jade companies owned by the family of retired senior general Than Shwe. As the military ruler of Myanmar, also known as Burma, between 1992 and 2011, he presided over a period in which demonstrations were brutally repressed and opponents imprisoned. Despite having retired many still think he's influential behind the scenes.
The Global Witness report - Jade: Myanmar's 'Big State Secret' - claims that companies connected to Than Shwe's family made more than $220m in jade sales in 2013 and 2014.
Several of the other companies are linked to recent ministers but most named were at their most prominent before Thein Sein's quasi-civilian government came to power in 2011. None were immediately available for comment.
More than a year in the making, this report digs deep into previously unseen Burmese government figures.
To reach the headline number of nearly $31bn extracted in 2014 they took the officially recorded figure for jade production (16,684 tonnes) and then estimated, based on previous studies, the proportion that's likely to have been mined of each quality or "grade".
Using the prices for each grade from publically recorded sales they then calculated the likely total value of jade production. That came to a jaw-dropping $30.859bn.
To double-check this number, Global Witness then obtained customs data for jade imports into China. Last year precious and semi-precious stone imports from Myanmar were valued at $12.3bn on a weight of 5,402 tonnes. The researchers' analysis of the data shows that almost all of that was jade.
Using the officially declared production figure for 2014, and keeping all things equal (to the average value of declared imports into China) then the estimated value for the jade mined in 2014 is $37.98bn.
Clearly in both methods estimates are being used, but the ballpark figure remains similar and huge. The real total could even be much higher with many insiders saying that the best quality jade never goes through the books and is smuggled directly to Chinese buyers.
This contents of the report challenges the Burmese army narrative of recent history. The military has long said that it keeps a tight control of Burmese political life to maintain stability and, in the face of numerous ethnic wars, to prevent the country disintegrating.
It was, the people were told, a selfless act to maintain the unity of a troubled country.
This report makes it clearer than ever before that the top brass used their privileged positions to award themselves choice concessions and contracts and become extremely rich.
Ye Htay, a director from the Ministry of Mining, confirmed that the valuation of the jade mined in 2014 at $31bn was plausible, but said that most of it had been stockpiled and not sold.
Sales through the Nay Pyi Taw emporium last year were close to $1bn, he said, with about $90m paid in taxes.
He was much less forthcoming when pressed on how the concessions were awarded and the dominance of military companies.
He said Myanmar was "in a stage of democratic transition" and that such moves "haven't happened during the last five years".
There is an element of truth in that. The most egregious abuses do seem to date back to before 2010, and all agree that there have been moves towards greater transparency.
This report underscores just how difficult it will be to prise the Burmese army away from political power.
It also helps explain why the conflict in Kachin State, where the mines are, has proved so difficult to resolve.
Last week, rebels from the Kachin Independence Army refused to sign a nationwide agreement with the government - aimed at ending decades of civil conflict - and clashes with the Burmese army continue.
"Jade is a key source of financing for both sides," Mike Davis told me.
"There is an incentive there for the hardliners on the government side to keep the conflict going until such time as they can be confident that when the dust settles, their assets will still be there."
Most proposals for a lasting federal settlement to Myanmar's long running ethnic conflicts involve greater transparency and the sharing of wealth from natural resources in the states where they are extracted.
It's easy to see why peace and democratic transformation aren't attractive options for those making hundreds of millions from exploiting the jade mines.
Four Manx artists have also been selected to display work in an exhibition at the Festival Interceltique Lorient.
Juan Moore, Julie Roberts, Eileen Schaer and Will Sutton will display works on the theme of mythology.
The annual event welcomes more than 800,000 people to Brittany.
Culture Vannin Chairman Phil Gawne said it is an amazing opportunity to showcase Manx culture to a huge audience".
This year the festival is celebrating the Isle of Man and Cornwall as its joint honoured nations for the first time in its 45-year history.
The event brings together performers and artists from all of the Celtic Nations - the Isle of Man, Cornwall, Wales, Brittany and Ireland - as well as visitors from countries including Argentina, Australia and Cuba.
Hundreds of metres of film protecting it from building work around it were carefully peeled off Concorde 216.
The jet will be the supersonic centrepiece of the £19m Aerospace Bristol centre, which will document the city's aviation heritage.
The museum's executive director Lloyd Burnell said he hoped the centre in Filton would open in August.
Concorde 216 was towed into its new home in February and was wrapped up as fire protection paint was sprayed on the walls of its hangar.
The last Concorde built and the last to fly will next be fixed up, cleaned and polished by Airbus, before being handed over to the Bristol Aero Collection Trust, the charity behind the new museum.
"It's fantastic to see Concorde unwrapped and looking stunning in her brand new home," said Mr Burnell.
"As the centrepiece of Aerospace Bristol's exhibition, Concorde will inspire the next generation to pursue careers in engineering and develop the big ideas of tomorrow.
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The blunder meant the choices of Southampton midfielder Steven Davis and Michael O'Neill were not counted.
The pair were the only Uefa representatives not to have a say in the contest to decide the world's best player.
"The original documents were not received on time," the IFA admitted.
Davis's top three were Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, Argentina forward Lionel Messi, 27, and Dutch winger Arjen Robben, 30, with O'Neill also going for Ronaldo in first place, followed by German World Cup winners Philipp Lahm, 31 and Thomas Muller, 25.
Fifa confirmed that it sent out a reminder email before the closure of the ballot.
A Ballon d'Or spokesman confirmed: "The online votes were recorded before the deadline; however the original documents with the signatures were not received on time. We need to have it, because only than the votes are valid."
One hundred and eighty one national football associations voted in the global poll, while 27 countries did not return any nominations.
Journalist Jackie Fullerton, who voted for Ronaldo ahead of Bayern Munich's Muller and Barcelona's Messi, was the sole Northern Irish representative.
Real Madrid forward Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or, his third title, with 37.66% of all votes. | Northern Ireland's captain and coach did not get a vote in the Ballon d'Or poll, as the Irish Football Association (IFA) did not send the ballots on time. | 30,806,958 | 294 | 42 | false |
Urunboy Usmonov, 59, was arrested in June and accused of associating with banned Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
He has repeatedly denied the charges, saying his only contact with the group was to interview some members as part of his work reporting on the region.
The BBC has insisted throughout that it regards the allegations as completely unfounded.
The corporation has said that it believes meetings and interviews with people representing all shades of opinion are part of the work of any BBC journalist.
Mr Usmonov's lawyer told the BBC the trial had been opened and adjourned until Thursday, when the court will begin to hear witnesses.
There are four other defendants accused of extremism who are being tried together with Mr Usmonov, who remains on bail.
The other four appeared in a cage in the courtroom, his lawyer said, but Mr Usmonov did not.
He said the other defendants partially admitted guilt, while Mr Usmonov reaffirmed his complete innocence.
Three journalists were allowed at the hearing, which is taking place in a detention centre rather than a regular courtroom.
Mr Usmonov has worked for the BBC Central Asian Service for 10 years.
He has said that he met Hizb ut-Tahrir members as part of his work reporting on the group, which is active across Central Asia.
Mr Usmonov's detention provoked an international outcry.
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Dr Dan Poulter, who is still an MP, says medics are "rightly upset" about proposed cuts to their pay.
He says in an article in The Guardian that the proposed new contract will discourage doctors from seeking careers in areas facing recruitment problems.
The Department of Health said his concerns were unfounded.
Dr Poulter was a minister at the Department of Health between 2012 and May 2015 and during that time was involved in contract talks with the doctors' union - the British Medical Association.
He claims that the proposed new contract which emerged over the summer is very different from what was discussed. A previous recognition that there had to be a better pay and work-life balance, he says, appears to have been lost.
The BMA refused to return to the negotiating table this summer because it argued the Government was not open to discussion on certain aspects of the planned new contract. It has said it will organise a ballot of members on industrial action.
Junior doctors in England argue that the proposed new contract, to take effect next year, will cut take-home pay by up to 15% and leave them open to excessive working hours which will endanger patient safety.
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Dr Poulter, who worked as a junior doctor in the south of England for 10 years across a range of specialities, agrees.
He says the contract the government is threatening to impose "raises the prospect of 90-hour weeks being written into rotas" and he adds this is "impossible to reconcile……..with safe patient care".
Ministers say they want to simplify complex arrangements which result in extra payments to reward unsocial hours and weekend working on top of the basic salary. They say that the overall pay bill will not be reduced. The Scottish and Welsh governments have opted not to overhaul junior doctors' contracts.
The Department of Health wants the BMA to return to talks.
A spokesman said: "These claims are incorrect. Our proposals will mean average pay will not go down and there is no intention to increase working hours. In fact, we want to offer more safeguards over total hours worked for junior doctors than ever before. We call on the Junior Doctors Committee to re-enter negotiations and work with us to put in place a new contract that's safe for patients and fair for doctors." | A former Conservative health minister has criticised the Government's handling of controversial reforms to junior doctors' contracts. | 34,449,073 | 504 | 24 | false |
The fire started on the 22nd floor of the 32-storey Cleveland Tower, Holloway Head in Birmingham.
It is understood 750 people live in the tower although no one was injured. Smoke has affected the building from the 15th floor to the top of the building.
Police are treating Saturday's fire as arson with intent to endanger life.
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Area Commander Ben Brook, of West Midlands Fire Service, said following last month's fire at Grenfell Tower in London the Cleveland Tower incident was shocking for everyone concerned.
He said: "It is important that lobbies, stairwells and communal areas are kept free of clutter and combustible materials."
Some Cleveland Tower residents said communal areas are often left cluttered.
Others said they did not hear any smoke alarms go off, with one man, who said he lived a few floors below the fire, saying he found out about it through social media.
A spokesperson from WM Housing, a housing group which looks after the building, said that they operate a "keep communal areas clear policy" and has a concierge that will arrange for anything left in communal areas to be removed immediately.
The building has no central fire alarm, it said, or smoke alarms in communal areas apart from where the bins are kept, but smoke alarms are provided in all of their flats.
Residents are responsible for changing smoke alarm batteries.
Mr Holder called the increase in overdose deaths "nothing less than a public health crisis".
Some state and local law enforcement groups, including the New York Police Department, already require officers to carry the drug while on patrol.
Naloxone works by reversing the effects of opioid drugs for about 30 minutes.
The delay gives emergency medical workers enough time to reach an overdose victim.
"I am confident that expanding the availability of naloxone has the potential to save the lives, families and futures of countless people across the nation," Mr Holder said while announcing the policy to a law enforcement conference.
Twenty-five states have approved the use of the drug either as an inhalant or an injection.
Though some critics say the drug enables addicts, it has become adopted by cities and states as heroin use surges.
In the US, heroin overdoses increased 45% between 2006-2010, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
In New York City, police began carrying $60 (£36) kits, which contain two syringes and two inhalers of naloxone, in May. The kits have a shelf-life of two years.
New York state attorney general Eric Schneiderman said police carrying naloxone in state's Suffolk County saved 563 lives in 2013.
A similar programme in Quincy, Massachusetts, was the first to require officers to carry naloxone. Since autumn 2010, the department's officers have used the treatment 221 times and successfully reversed 211 overdoses.
Researchers set out to put a value on the ecological importance of the arachnids.
They say their appetite for prey means they consume approximately the same amount as the weight of meat and fish eaten every year by humans.
The findings are published in the journal the Science of Nature.
Dr Martin Nyffeler, the University of Basel scientist who led this study, was inspired by a 1958 book called The World of Spiders, in which a British arachnologist author William Bristowe speculated that the weight of insects killed each year by the British spider population exceeded the combined weight of the British human population.
Since he first considered that, the Swiss arachnologist spent hundreds of hours of recording spider behaviour in the field, and gathering spider ecology studies published around the world.
"These 40 years of gathering experience - spending thousands of hours dealing with spider prey capture rates and prey selection - was needed to be able to write this paper on the global annual prey kill of the spiders," he said in an email.
After these four decades of data-gathering, he had enough information to work out how much the eight-legged creatures consumed.
His numbers are enough to haunt any arachnophobe; Dr Nyffeler says the entire population of the world's spiders - weighing 25 million tonnes - hunts and eats between 400 million and 800 million tonnes of insect prey annually.
But these numbers are not meant to terrify anyone, the scientists hope their study will raise awareness of the importance of spiders in the global food web.
"Spiders kill large numbers of herbivorous insects - and by doing so they help to protect the plants from herbivore damage," said Dr Nyffeler.
"They serve as food for thousands of arthropod-eating animals - an estimated 8,000-10,000 specialised insect species and many passerine birds (an estimated 3,000-5,000 species) feed on spiders."
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The crash happened on the A96, two miles north of Keith at North Bogbairn, at about 16:15.
The injured woman was taken to Dr Gray's Hospital for treatment.
Diversions have been put in place northbound via the B9016 and southbound on the A98.
Police and London's Air Ambulance were called to the junction between Barclay Road and Fairfield Road in Croydon at 16:45 BST on Friday.
A trauma team from London's Air Ambulance treated the child and he was taken to a south London hospital.
Police said the boy's injuries were not thought to be life-threatening and no arrests have been made.
A police spokesman said the driver involved stopped at the scene.
Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica recommended to delay pregnancies until more was known about the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
This followed an outbreak in Brazil.
Brazil said the number of babies born with suspected microcephaly - or abnormally small heads - had reached nearly 4,000 since October.
Meanwhile, US health authorities have warned pregnant women to avoid travelling to more than 20 countries in the Americas and beyond, where Zika cases have been registered.
The link between microcephaly and Zika has not been confirmed - but a small number of babies who died had the virus in their brain and no other explanation for the surge in microcephaly has been suggested.
The virus is not contagious and normally has flu-like symptoms.
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In Colombia, Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria urged women to delay pregnancies for up to eight months.
"We are doing this because I believe it's a good way to communicate the risk, to tell people that there could be serious consequences," he was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Similar warnings were issued in Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica.
However, women's rights campaigners criticised the recommendations, saying women in the region often had little choice about becoming pregnant.
"It's incredibly naive for a government to ask women to postpone getting pregnant in a context such as Colombia, where more than 50% of pregnancies are unplanned and across the region where sexual violence is prevalent," said Monica Roa, a member of Women's Link Worldwide group.
Forty-nine babies with suspected microcephaly have died, Brazil's health ministry says. In five of these cases an infection with Zika virus was found.
Brazil is experiencing the largest known outbreak of Zika, with most cases in the north-east. Others have been detected in the south-east, an area which includes Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
There has been a sharp rise in the number of cases of Zika in several other Latin American countries.
In Colombia, more than 13,500 cases have been reported.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued initial travel warnings to pregnant women last week, adding eight more places to the list on Friday. The warnings now extend to:
Andrew Tyrie asked why military aspects of the operation were excluded from the probe carried out by the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC).
The PM said the UK was currently engaged in a military operation and the ISC was set up to look at intelligence.
He also defended his claim of 70,000 "non-extremist" moderate Syria forces.
The bad tempered-exchanges with Mr Tyrie came as Mr Cameron was questioned on Syria by the Commons Liaison Committee.
In September, the PM announced that two British Islamic State jihadists, Cardiff-born Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen, had been killed by a UK drone strike in Syria.
MPs have since voted to authorise UK air strikes in the war-torn country.
Mr Tyrie, who chairs the committee, asked whether the investigation into the strike would be seen as "incomplete" or even "meaningless" if it could not include its military background.
The PM said he did "not agree with this for a moment".
MPs cannot oversee current military operations, he said, telling Mr Tyrie the UK was currently engaged in an operation against a terrorist group that intends to "blow up, kill and maim our citizens".
The strike was "necessary and proportionate", he added.
"That's what is going on," he said, adding that "if you don't think there is a cell of people sitting in a cell in Raqqa who are planning to try and do damage to this country then you don't know what you are talking about".
After the committee meeting, Mr Tyrie released a statement urging the prime minister to change his mind and allow a "proper inquiry".
"On the basis of today's evidence, the Intelligence and Security Committee will not be able to do a thorough job," he said.
Until the ISC can examine military aspects of the strike, he said, it will not be able to reassure Parliament and the public that the strikes were "necessary and proportionate".
Mr Cameron makes regular appearances before the Liaison Committee, which is made up of select committee chairmen.
He was grilled by defence committee chairman Julian Lewis on why he would not provide more details of the 70,000 troops he described as "non-extremist opposition fighters".
The figure had been provided by the Joint Intelligence Committee, he said, and he did not want to give Syrian President Assad a list of the groups he should be targeting.
They are not all "impeccable democrats", he said: "Some do belong to Islamist groups and some belong to relatively hardline Islamist groups."
The PM also said he was prepared to take another look at offers to take in Syrian refugees made by individuals including Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and former Labour minister Yvette Cooper - after home affairs chairman Keith Vaz said they had been rejected as they had "not been cleared".
Cardiff twice took the lead, through Jordon Mutch and Fraizer Campbell.
Suarez levelled after Mutch's opener and Martin Skrtel did the same after Campbell struck.
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Skrtel headed another, Daniel Sturridge and Suarez added one each, before Mutch's consolation and Suarez's third.
After twice going behind in the first half, Liverpool underlined their credentials as title contenders by remaining composed and confident against a side battling against the serious threat of relegation.
With most of their fellow strugglers also losing, Cardiff ended the day no worse off than they started at second from bottom.
Feelings among some protesting home fans also remained the same over the club's continued rebrand from blue to red under Malaysian owner Vincent Tan.
With former Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers' side arriving in the Welsh capital on the back of a 3-0 win at Manchester United, the form book was heavily-weighted against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men.
The hosts took the game to Liverpool and were rewarded with Mutch's well-taken opener after former Swansea City midfielder Joe Allen gifted the Cardiff attacker possession.
Mutch's low, left-footed drive gave Simon Mignolet no chance.
Liverpool's response was swift as Suarez latched on to Glen Johnson's cross to beat David Marshall from close range.
The visitors were guilty of giving Mutch too much space in the build-up to Cardiff's second.
Campbell was equally free to gather Mutch's through ball to hit home from almost the identical spot from which Mutch had scored.
Given the gulf in league positions and winning run it was no surprise that Liverpool's confidence remained unshakeable.
And when Brazilian Philippe Coutinho's cross allowed Skrtel to add the deft scoring touch late in the opening period, Cardiff were left to discover whether their self-belief was as well-founded as Liverpool's.
That test became even more stern after Coutinho crossed following a corner for Skrtel to head home his second in the 54th minute.
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The Bluebirds were down to nine men at that point as Kevin Theophile-Catherine and Mutch were receiving treatment on the sidelines.
And when Sturridge sent through the pass that allowed Suarez to stylishly add his second, the contest was all-but over.
Johnson then found Suarez, whose pass gave Sturridge the chance to score from close range.
Mutch gave the home side late hope with his header and the announcement of five minutes of added time gave Solskjaer's side another boost.
But when substitute Wilfried Zaha hesitated under a long ball before falling to the floor, Suarez had the time and space to tease home goalkeeper Marshall before putting the finishing touch to Liverpool's impressive display with a hat-trick.
Cardiff manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer:
"We had them exactly where we wanted.
"We tested them defensively and we scored some fantastic goals, and maybe we conceded two poor goals. Liverpool didn't have a lot in the first half, chances wise.
"[Suarez] is a top, top striker. He is on the move all the time. But for long periods, I thought we dealt well with him, especially in the first half."
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers:
"[Suarez's] determination, his desire, his will is at such a big level. He is a world-class player who is enjoying his football, and long may it continue.
"The mental resilience is how we've grown over the past 18 months, and that confidence to know we can get back in the game.
"You look at our imagination and creativity today. I think the crowd felt that every time we were in their half, we could score. We've got footballers, technicians, who can open up a game for us."
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Match ends, Cardiff City 3, Liverpool 6.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 3, Liverpool 6.
Goal! Cardiff City 3, Liverpool 6. Luis Suarez (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Martin Skrtel following a fast break.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Martin Skrtel.
Joe Allen (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joe Allen (Liverpool).
Gary Medel (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Fraizer Campbell (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Gary Medel with a headed pass.
Substitution, Liverpool. Mamadou Sakho replaces Daniel Sturridge.
Martin Skrtel (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Martin Skrtel (Liverpool).
Wilfried Zaha (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Luis Suarez (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.
Foul by Glen Johnson (Liverpool).
Wilfried Zaha (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Cardiff City 3, Liverpool 5. Jordon Mutch (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kenwyne Jones with a headed pass.
Luis Suarez (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cala (Cardiff City).
Attempt missed. Luis Suarez (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Steven Gerrard with a cross following a set piece situation.
Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Wilfried Zaha (Cardiff City).
Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cala (Cardiff City).
Attempt missed. Wilfried Zaha (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kenwyne Jones with a headed pass.
Goal! Cardiff City 2, Liverpool 5. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Luis Suarez following a fast break.
Foul by Aly Cissokho (Liverpool).
Kenwyne Jones (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Liverpool. Aly Cissokho replaces Jon Flanagan.
Glen Johnson (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenwyne Jones (Cardiff City).
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kenwyne Jones replaces Craig Bellamy.
Attempt missed. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is too high from a direct free kick.
Glen Johnson (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Fabio (Cardiff City).
Substitution, Liverpool. Raheem Sterling replaces Philippe Coutinho.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Wilfried Zaha replaces Kim Bo-Kyung.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Mats Daehli replaces Declan John.
Attempt blocked. Fabio (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Bellamy with a cross.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Martin Skrtel.
Foul by Joe Allen (Liverpool).
Mr Ma has insisted he did not break any laws as he was merely fulfilling his duty as head of state.
If found guilty, he may be jailed for up to three years for each charge.
The criminal charges are in addition to a separate legal case relating to the same matter in 2013.
Mr Ma's eight-year presidency ended in 2016, when his Kuomintang party lost to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in last year's general election.
Prosecutors say that Mr Ma ordered that the contents of secretly-recorded phone calls between DPP lawmaker Ker Chien-ming and the parliamentary Speaker be given to other officials.
They said that by giving this order, Mr Ma broke laws on the protection of personal information, release of secrets, and communications security and surveillance.
Mr Ma has argued that he was merely carrying out his responsibilities as president, as the content of those phone calls related to alleged influence-peddling by Mr Ker and the Speaker.
Mr Ma has already appeared in court several times in recent months for a separate lawsuit brought by Mr Ker over the same matter. That case's verdict is set to be announced later this month
His supporters say he is a victim of political score-settling.
Dumbarton Sheriff Court heard that 71-year-old Mary Burke's fake licence was so convincing, she had received penalty points for speeding in 2002.
She pleaded guilty to driving her Mercedes without a licence along with a breach of the Identity Documents Act.
She was fined £750 by Sheriff William Gallacher, who called her actions "utterly wilful".
During a hearing in April, prosecutor David McDonald described how the pensioner, who lives in Dumbarton, had handed over a document she claimed was her licence after being stopped by police during a routine traffic stop in November.
However, when officers later checked it against their database, they discovered she only had an expired provisional licence.
Defence agent Virgil Crawford told Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday that his client had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and had been given between six months and two years to live.
Sheriff Gallacher banned her from driving for a year and told her that he would have fined her £1,000 had it not been for her guilty plea.
He added: "You were utterly wilful in relation to your decision to be driving.
"You knew you were not entitled to drive and, in order to protect and preserve a pretence of normality, you had this document in your possession, for some period of time, so you could simply flout the Road Traffic Act."
He said driving tests showed that people had "the experience, quality and ability to drive" but that she ignored it, adding: "You said, 'that doesn't apply to me, I'll just drive anyway'.
"This is a very serious matter."
After leaving court, Mary Burke said she never planned to drive again.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as president in August 2014, cementing his position as Turkey's most powerful leader.
His victory in Turkey's first popular presidential election capped 12 years as prime minister in which the economy tripled in dollar terms, while fuelling fears of growing authoritarianism.
Turkey is a parliamentary republic and the presidency largely ceremonial, so Mr Erdogan announced plans to amend the constitution to establish an executive presidency if his Islamist AK Party won a large majority in the June 2015 elections.
Critics warn that this would concentrate too much power in the hands of a leader with autocratic instincts, and lead the EU-candidate country ever further from the secular ideals of the republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
A strong showing by the new, pro-Kurdish left-wing People's Democratic Party (HDP), deprived the AK of its parliamentary majority and checked Mr Erdogan's ambitions, at least for the time being.
The AKP regained its majority in snap elections in November, after Mr Erdogan declared efforts to form a coalition had failed, but still did not muster enough seats to authorise a referendum on changing the constitution.
The resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in 2016 was seen as strengthening Mr Erdogan's control over Turkish politics even further.
Mr Erdogan became prime minister in 2003. He brought economic and political stability to Turkey and faced down the country's powerful military establishment, which previously tended to overthrow elected governments it suspected of challenging the secular constitution or national security.
In the summer of 2013 Mr Erdogan briefly looked under pressure for the first time as mass anti-government protests erupted in several cities, further inflamed by the violent police response.
Later that year, the government was hit by a police inquiry into alleged corruption among the prime minister's allies, but this did not stop Mr Erdogan from winning both local and presidential elections in 2014.
The corruption probes unleashed a fierce power struggle between Mr Erdogan and his erstwhile ally, the influential US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.
Mr Erdogan accused Mr Gulen of running a "state within a state", and of seeking to use his allies in the police and judiciary to bring about the downfall of the president - charges that the cleric denies.
An Istanbul court accused Mr Gulen of complicity in the failed July 2016 coup, and demanded that he be extradited from the United States.
Another substantial setback to stability was the resumption of military operations against the Kurdish PKK armed separatist group in mid-2015.
This ended a truce that had been in place since 2013, and which had previously been trumpeted as a landmark success for Mr Erdogan's strategy of steady military pressure paired with negotiations.
Both clubs are associated with the energy-drink maker Red Bull and Uefa prohibits clubs with strong links from playing in Europe in the same season.
But Uefa ruled "no individual or legal entity had a decisive influence over more than one club".
Bundesliga runners-up RB Leipzig and Austrian champions Salzburg both qualified for the 2017-18 competition.
Leipzig were founded in 2009 with backing from the company and won four promotions in seven seasons, before finishing second in their first ever top-flight season.
Red Bull bought Austria Salzburg in 2005, renaming it, but following a restructuring it no longer has a controlling stake and merely sponsors the club.
Uefa does not allow any two clubs competing in European competition to share the same owner.
In cases where that happens, priority is given to a team who are champions of their country, meaning that Leipzig would have missed out.
But Uefa's Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) found there was no breach of Article 5 concerning the integrity of the competition.
The decision may be appealed against to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within 10 days.
Uefa Article 5 - Integrity of the competition
5.01 To ensure the integrity of the Uefa club competitions, the following criteria apply:
a. no club participating in a Uefa club competition may, either directly or indirectly:
i. hold or deal in the securities or shares of any other club participating in a Uefa club competition,
ii. be a member of any other club participating in a Uefa club competition,
iii. be involved in any capacity whatsoever in the management, administration and/or sporting performance of any other club participating in a Uefa club competition, or
iv. have any power whatsoever in the management, administration and/or sporting performance of any other club participating in a Uefa club competition;
b. no-one may simultaneously be involved, either directly or indirectly, in any capacity whatsoever in the management, administration and/or sporting performance of more than one club participating in a Uefa club competition;
c. no individual or legal entity may have control or influence over more than one club participating in a Uefa club competition, such control or influence being defined in this context as:
i. holding a majority of the shareholders' voting rights;
ii. having the right to appoint or remove a majority of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory body of the club;
iii. being a shareholder and alone controlling a majority of the shareholders' voting rights pursuant to an agreement entered into with other shareholders of the club; or
iv. being able to exercise by any means a decisive influence in the decision-making of the club.
Serena, who is around 15 months younger than her sister, won in straight sets 6-4 6-4.
The American now also takes back the world number one ranking from German Angelique Kerber.
Venus and Serena have played each other many times over their long careers, but have always put sisterly love over any sporting rivalry.
After losing, Venus said, "Congratulations Serena on number 23."
"I have been right there with you, some of them I lost right there against you. It's been an awesome win."
"I'm enormously proud of you, you mean the world to me. I, God willing, would love to come back. Thank you for all the love."
Serena also paid tribute to her big sis, saying: "There's no way I would be at 23 without her. There's no way I'd be at one without her. She's my inspiration.
"She's the only reason I'm standing here today. She's the only reason the Williams sisters exist. Thank you for inspiring me. Every time you won this week, I felt like I got a win too."
The final was the 28th time the sisters have played each other, with Serena now 17-11 ahead and 7-2 up in Grand Slam finals.
Venus, who turned professional in 1994 and has won five Wimbledon and two US Open titles, insisted she was not too disappointed after losing the match which was her first major final since 2009.
"No, because I guess I've been here before, "she said. "I really enjoy seeing the name 'Williams' on the trophy. This is a beautiful thing."
5 March 2017 Last updated at 16:37 GMT
The riders were knocked from the horses in the collision in Witcham, near Ely, Cambridgeshire.
One rider was taken to hospital as a precaution, but was released after being seen by a doctor.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman said: "Both the riders and horses were not seriously injured. We are investigating the incident and are making inquiries."
The accident was near the Witcham Equestrian Centre.
Jane Hart, a spokeswoman from the centre, said one of the horses "had to have stitches, but we are very hopeful of a full recovery".
She added: "We feel thankful the riders and horses are alright."
Footage: YouTube/Rob Alexander.
The claim: The Electoral College system is a "disaster for democracy" because it means a candidate can get the most votes and not win the election.
Reality Check verdict: It is true to say that in America you can win the popular vote and lose the election. This is also true of the electoral system in the UK and elsewhere. Such systems are democratic, although some people would like them to be changed to be more directly representative of how votes were cast.
Since being elected he has repeated this sentiment, saying he would rather see a system in which, "you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes, and you win".
But the president-elect has benefited from the system he dubbed undemocratic.
It is likely that the final tallies from last week's election will confirm that more people voted for Hillary Clinton, but Mr Trump won, under a system known as the electoral college.
Campaigning organisations such as National Popular Vote agree with Mr Trump, arguing that the candidate most people vote for should get into the White House.
Two days after seeming to stand by his words, however, Mr Trump tweeted that the electoral college was "actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play".
Instead of totting up each person's vote, in the US every state gets a certain number of votes depending partly on the size of its population. The way it's worked out means there's a minimum of three votes per state.
In most states, the most popular candidate wins all of its votes, even if 49% of people voted a different way. The system is different in Maine and Nebraska, where voting is broken down into Congressional districts, which means not all the state's electoral college votes have to go to the same candidate.
Winning a state like California, which gets 55 of the total 538 electoral college votes, will put a candidate a long way towards the 270 state votes needed to win the presidency. Even if they win that state by a single vote, they get all 55 votes.
It is better to win by a small margin in lots of states than win by a landslide in just a few - the scale of the win (and therefore the number of people who support you) is meaningless - you still only get one state with a fixed number of electoral college votes.
Candidates identify the states that are safely either Republican or Democrat - the ones they are bound to lose or win - and broadly ignore these in their campaign efforts. Instead, they focus their attentions on the states that tend to swing between the two parties.
This means that, arguably, the election is decided not by the nation as whole but by a small number of so-called battleground states.
If you live in a state where most people support one party, your vote against that party is wasted, whereas if you live in a more divided state your vote has greater influence.
Electoral college votes also do not match up exactly to population size meaning some people's votes have more clout than others. Because the minimum number of votes a state can have is three, the smallest states get electoral power disproportionate to their population.
The average state gets one electoral vote for every 565,166 people. But Wyoming, which only has a population of 532,668, gets a vote for every 177,556 people, giving those individuals more than three times the electoral influence of the average American.
For many, the idea that you can have the most people vote for you but still lose the election seems undemocratic. This has happened five times in US history, most recently in 2000 when Al Gore lost to George W Bush.
The fact that Mr Trump won several key swing states very narrowly, while Mrs Clinton won big majorities in some states is part of the reason she was able to get more votes but still lose the election.
Two-thirds (273 out of 399) of campaign events in the 2016 election were held in only six states (Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan).
It's important to recognise that politicians campaign to the system they are operating in - we cannot say that if the electoral system were different the result would definitely have been different since the candidates may well have campaigned accordingly.
Could you win a UK general election without winning the popular vote? Absolutely - it happened in 1951 and 1974.
As in the US, our first-past-the-post system means any votes you win in a seat where you don't have a majority effectively don't count - it doesn't matter whether you gain 40% or 4% of the votes.
There has been a long-running campaign in the UK to reform our electoral system. Campaigners have called for a system of proportional representation as far back as 1884.
Under the UK's multi-party system, in the most extreme case you could comfortably win the popular vote but get no seats in the House of Commons by coming second in every constituency.
What is more common is to see a party winning a majority in Parliament with as little as 35% or 36% of the popular vote, as Labour did in 2005 and the Conservatives in 2015. In the 1950s and 1960s, winning parties averaged about 47%.
And we can see the same kind of thing happening with the vote share of smaller parties. In 2005, the Liberal Democrats received 22% of the votes but only won 62 seats, which was less than 10% of the seats in the House of Commons.
In the 2015 election, UKIP won 3.9 million votes out of a total of around 30 million votes cast nationally, but only ended up with one Member of Parliament.
Mr Turnbull led a failed campaign to make Australia republic in a 1999 referendum, prior to entering politics.
On Tuesday, he said that during the 1990s he never imagined he would one day meet the Queen as Australia's PM.
"Even republicans like myself can be, and in my case are, very strong Elizabethans," he said.
"She has been a remarkable leader of the UK and the Commonwealth."
He added: "Politics is full of unpredictable events."
The centre-right Coalition leader said it was an honour to meet the Queen, telling reporters he would seek her "wisdom and advice".
It came after Mr Turnbull visited Downing Street and pledged that Australia would seek a trade deal with the UK post Brexit.
Mr Turnbull has previously said he does not believe a majority of Australians would support becoming a republic during the Queen's reign.
In the landmark 1999 referendum, Australia voted against changing its head of state to a president by 54.87% to 45.13%.
But the benefits of knitting for some people stretch far beyond the warmth of a woolly jumper.
Knitting, embroidery and crocheting are the arts activities which most people in Northern Ireland actually participate in, according to the annual arts report published by the Department of Communities.
For Martin, it helped him to battle depression.
"People with depression, they sit in the house and can start thinking stupid things," he said.
"But if you're sitting knitting or crocheting, you're not thinking about the things which are getting you down.
"Somebody wants me to make them something, and while you're doing that it's making you feel better."
Martin attends the 'Knit and Natter' group at Belfast's Ormeau Road library, which meets every Thursday morning.
Group members have a cup of tea, chat, and knit like fury.
It is one of almost 80 'Knit and Natter' groups that meet weekly in libraries across Northern Ireland.
When I called in, members were busy knitting a variety of socks, hats, coats and jumpers.
But helping Martin recover from depression is not the only way the knitters contribute.
Some are also knitting prosthetics for breast cancer survivors.
Mary Field from the 'Knitted Knockers NI' charity was one of those busy with the needles.
"We supply these free to breast clinics," she said.
The padded knitwear can be tucked into any bra and is an alternative to silicon for women who have had a mastectomy.
"Silicone can be unpopular because it gets hot and sticky, and we've had very good feedback about the knitted version," said Mary.
"We've already completed about 100 orders and we only started in July.
"The group has been great, and it's very good to know that while you're knitting and nattering you're also helping someone."
According to the Department of Communities, more than three quarters of adults go to arts events at least once a year.
A trip to the cinema, going to a museum, the theatre or a gig are the most popular.
However, when it comes to actual participation, knitting came up top - ahead of playing a musical instrument, painting and drawing.
And if you would like to knit - and natter - it is easy to join a group near you.
There is a full list on the Libraries NI website.
Eva Totham, from south-east London, was starved of oxygen at birth in 2007 and has severe cerebral palsy.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust accepted liability for her serious brain injuries.
The compensation covers Eva's past and future care and loss of earnings after it was ruled she would most likely have gone to university.
Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing, at the High Court, said: "Eva is a beautiful, engaging child. She is determined and concentrates hard on any given activity.
"I had a strong sense of an energetic, inquisitive mind trapped in a body that will not do what Eva would wish it could do."
The trust agreed compensation for the majority of the items claimed but disputed the £1.4m set aside for pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment of life.
In her ruling, Justice Laing said that Eva, who goes to a mainstream primary school, found it hard to get around without help.
She said: "I am satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that Eva is beginning to be aware of the limitations which her injuries now impose.
"And that that realisation will be an increasing source of frustration and perhaps unhappiness."
Speaking after the judgment, which concluded the six-year case, the family's solicitor, Agata Usewicz, said the case was "not about money" but about "securing justice".
She said: "No amount of money will ever compensate for the injuries Eva has sustained, but this award will ensure that she is provided with the care she needs for the rest of her life."
The claim: The UK is rapidly becoming the sick man of Europe when it comes to workers' rights.
Reality Check verdict: The UK does comparatively badly at holiday entitlement and allowing zero-hours contracts, but comes higher up on guaranteed maternity leave and the minimum wage.
A study by the recruiter Glassdoor published in February this year compared a range of employee benefits across 15 European countries and the USA, and its report, on the whole, seemed to agree with Mr Smith.
The EU sets a minimum holiday entitlement of four weeks a year, not including bank holidays.
UK workers can expect a minimum of 20 paid days off, or 28 with public holidays.
Of the 15 countries Glassdoor looked at, the UK was near the bottom of the pile, trailed only by Switzerland with a minimum 24 days off in total.
Meanwhile, Swedish and Austrian employees should be among the best rested in Europe, with 37 and 38 days off respectively, including public holidays.
UK employers must offer a minimum of 28 weeks' sick leave at £88 a week.
In contrast, at the top of the table, workers in the Netherlands can take up to two years of sick leave at 70% of their full salary.
The UK also offers some of the least generous unemployment benefits.
But it ranks highly on minimum wage - above Germany, France, the Netherlands and beaten only by Ireland and Luxembourg.
And when it comes to maternity leave, the UK offers considerably more than the EU minimum, and more than comparable countries.
UK mothers receive at least 52 weeks' leave.
Germany and France offer much closer to the 14-week minimum set by the EU.
But this does not equate to the highest maternity pay.
In a number of countries, including France and the Netherlands, new mothers get 100% of previous earnings for the whole of their maternity leave.
For UK new mothers, 39 of the 52 weeks are paid: the first six weeks at 90% of previous earnings, and the remainder at just over £140 a week.
The exact order of the employee benefit league table changes depending on exactly how you measure things - for example, some countries offer statutory leave on top of your holiday allowance for special occasions such as marriages, some have different statutory minimums for different ages.
You can explore some of the benefits available to workers around the EU here.
Mr Smith also referred in his speech to plans to clamp down on zero-hours contracts.
Contracts with no minimum number of hours are not allowed, heavily regulated or not generally in use in 19 European countries, something that has been held up as an example in the past by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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The Pirates were up against it after just 14 minutes following Daniel Leadbitter's straight red card for a clumsy last-ditch challenge on Aiden O'Brien when he was through on goal.
Rovers keeper Kelle Roos made a terrific save to deny Harry Smith's looping header soon after, but the hosts did go ahead in the 22nd minute as O'Brien prodded home from close range after Lee Gregory's shot was palmed away.
Rovers were a threat despite their numerical disadvantage but Millwall were clinical at the opposite end and increased their lead through Shaun Williams, who drilled a shot into the bottom corner from just inside the box after 64 minutes.
Gregory added Millwall's third three minutes later, rounding off a neat move by chesting the ball down and lashing it beyond the despairing Roos.
Smith, who was making his League One debut, calmly finished from close range late on to score the Lions' fourth and his third in two appearances for the club.
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Match ends, Millwall 4, Bristol Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Millwall 4, Bristol Rovers 0.
Attempt missed. Cristian Montaño (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by David Worrall (Millwall).
Peter Hartley (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) header from very close range misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Lee Gregory (Millwall) header from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Millwall 4, Bristol Rovers 0. Harry Smith (Millwall) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Millwall. Shaun Cummings replaces Shaun Williams.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Fred Onyedinma (Millwall).
Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Gregory (Millwall).
Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Kelle Roos.
Attempt saved. Harry Smith (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Callum Butcher (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Peter Hartley (Bristol Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Harry Smith (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Peter Hartley (Bristol Rovers).
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Jermaine Easter replaces Matty Taylor.
Byron Webster (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers).
Substitution, Millwall. Callum Butcher replaces Ben Thompson.
Foul by Ben Thompson (Millwall).
Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Millwall 3, Bristol Rovers 0. Lee Gregory (Millwall) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Harry Smith.
Foul by Harry Smith (Millwall).
Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Peter Hartley (Bristol Rovers).
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Cristian Montaño replaces Hiram Boateng.
Goal! Millwall 2, Bristol Rovers 0. Shaun Williams (Millwall) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lee Gregory.
Substitution, Millwall. David Worrall replaces Aiden O'Brien.
Attempt missed. Shaun Williams (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Byron Webster (Millwall).
Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Lee Gregory (Millwall) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Jacques Maghoma had put Blues ahead against his former side, stabbing home after Lukas Jutkiewicz's knock down.
Sordell's brilliant turn and 20-yard strike then deservedly made it 1-1 early in the second half.
Dyer's smart finish after Lucas Akins' backheel completed the turnaround to give the Brewers victory.
Nigel Clough's side had been rooted to the bottom of the early Championship table following defeats by Cardiff, Hull and Middlesbrough - but they were good value for their victory against Blues.
The Brewers had looked the more threatening in the early stages and Maghoma, who spent three seasons with Burton, put the visitors in front against the run of play.
But two fine second-half goals - a solo effort from Sordell and an eye-catching team goal finished by Dyer - ensured Albion would continue their 100% record in competitive fixtures against Birmingham.
Blues' biggest threat came from big front men Jutkiewicz and Clayton Donaldson, who came close to altering the course of the match when his overhead kick struck the foot of the post with the score 1-1.
Harry Redknapp's Birmingham have now lost two and won just one of their opening four league fixtures.
Burton manager Nigel Clough:
"It's a big moment in the season for us having lost the first three to get us off the mark.
"A point wouldn't have been a bad result actually for us tonight, but to get all three points and to do it by coming from behind with the way we played at the start of the second half will do us the power of good.
"We managed to get on the front foot more after half-time. We changed formation as well but it wasn't really anything to do with that, it was all down to the application of the players."
Birmingham manager Harry Redknapp:
"We were in a great position to win the game at 1-0 up and with no problems, in control. They came out second half and changed system, went 4-4-2 and we lost it.
"Suddenly four or five of them disappeared and we didn't see them in the second half. We didn't win any battles and in the end it wasn't good enough.
"I need to change a lot of them because they are not good enough for Birmingham City. This is a fantastic football club and if it's the last thing I do in football I will give their fans a good team."
Match ends, Burton Albion 2, Birmingham City 1.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 2, Birmingham City 1.
Stephen Bywater (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Damien McCrory (Burton Albion).
Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Luke Murphy (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City).
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. David Cotterill (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jacques Maghoma.
Luke Murphy (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City).
Foul by Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion).
Stephen Gleeson (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Stephen Gleeson replaces Craig Gardner.
Attempt saved. Cheikh Ndoye (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by David Cotterill with a cross.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Luke Murphy.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Luke Varney replaces Matthew Lund because of an injury.
Delay in match Matthew Lund (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Delay in match Craig Gardner (Birmingham City) because of an injury.
Foul by Luke Murphy (Burton Albion).
Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Luke Murphy.
Attempt missed. Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marc Roberts.
Substitution, Birmingham City. David Cotterill replaces David Davis.
Damien McCrory (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Davis (Birmingham City).
Substitution, Burton Albion. Damien McCrory replaces Matthew Palmer.
Attempt blocked. Cheikh Ndoye (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonathan Grounds with a cross.
Goal! Burton Albion 2, Birmingham City 1. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Akins.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lloyd Dyer.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Isaac Vassell replaces Lukas Jutkiewicz.
Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Michael Morrison (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Craig Gardner with a cross.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Matthew Lund.
Foul by Luke Murphy (Burton Albion).
David Davis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Clayton Donaldson with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Luke Murphy (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
That the team did not really reach the quarter finals in Sweden, but the whole event was staged in the USA as part of a Cold War stunt.
Sound far-fetched? Not according to documentary Conspiracy 58 that tried to convince people in the host country it never happened.
While it was later revealed as a hoax, the tournament made such little impact in Wales for many people it may as well not have taken place.
Conspiracy 58, which was shown nationally in Sweden, explored claims the 1958 tournament was staged by FIFA and the CIA to test the power of television to influence people.
Some of these included that you could see the Los Angeles skyline behind stadiums in grainy footage and shadows cast by players were in the wrong position for Swedish summer.
"It was broadcast with no explaining comments," said journalist Lasse Sandlin, who took part in the hoax.
"I got phone calls from a lot of friends talking about me as 'that idiot' (because of his denial of the event), so it did work the right way."
Afterwards, producers revealed its aim was to explore the topic of Holocaust Denial - making Swedish people doubt an event that people had grown up hearing stories about.
Mr Sandlin, who was 14, in fact remembers the tournament vividly - including the impact of Wales' John and Mel Charles.
Despite little recognition back home, their efforts were widely applauded in Sweden, with some believing they could have won the tournament, according to Arne Norlin.
"They played very well together, like a club team," said the author.
"Seven of the team that played Brazil (in the quarter final) started in Swansea Town.
"Individually, they weren't as good as Brazil, but as a team they played better."
While writing a book on the tournament, Mr Norlin travelled to Swansea, interviewing Mel Charles and Terry Medwin.
He described many of the side - like Mr Charles and Cliff Jones - growing up together in Swansea and playing every day after school.
"There was talk from the 1940s of this golden generation that would achieve something one day," he added.
And Mr Norlin believes they could have, with the management "bitterly regretting" not resting Juventus striker John Charles from an earlier game, where he sustained a tournament-ending injury.
"They could have spared him and the feeling was they then could have won (against Brazil).
"Instead, they missed three good chances to make it 1-0.
"If John Charles had been in the team, he would have taken at least one."
The scale of the tournament was altogether different to now, with Sweden one of the smallest countries to host it.
"There was no security, FIFA wanted fences, but we decided rope worked in our games, so would work for the World Cup also.
"Luckily, there were no pitch invasions, just a few photographers and people went into the goals and picked out the balls."
Some stadiums held just 10,000, with this small scale mirrored by recognition of the players' achievement in Wales.
"There was no open-top bus parade to Cardiff, Mel Charles went home to his mum and had a cup of tea," Mr Norlin said.
"He couldn't even keep his jersey as a memory, he had to give it back to the federation.
"As he got back to Swansea (train station) with his bags, he met someone he knew who asked 'have you been on holiday?'
"He didn't even know a World Cup had been on."
This lack of public awareness is further illustrated by the fact the tournament totally passed one "fanatical fan" by.
"I remember watching the 1954 World Cup on a neighbour's television but I have no memory of 1958," said retired lecturer and sports author Peter Stead, who was 14.
He kept a diary of games he watched and while it included Swansea, Cardiff and Wales home internationals in 1958, there was no mention of the World Cup.
"I was out of the house all the time. It was the summer with cricket and I can't remember my timetable being affected in any way," he added.
The reason for the "marginal impact" of the tournament is simple he believes.
"You now get caught up in sport on television, but it was a lesser thing back then. You weren't in the habit of watching it," he said.
"Also, the nature of Brazilian football (it was their first World Cup win) wasn't known, Pele was new, there was no world perspective on sport.
"Television now invites you in to become part of it."
Mr Stead thinks the turning point came in 1966, by which time the UK had become "a nation of telly addicts" and he remembers where he was for every England game in that tournament.
"Now you can watch a football match every night. There is a total preoccupation even with the build-up but it didn't exist in 1958.
"Sometimes I disappoint myself and ask 'where was I? How did I miss it?' But telly hadn't taken over and when I was 14, there were other things to do."
Journalist Huw Richards agreed "it did not penetrate", adding: "Not until 1966, when it was in Britain, that is when it dawned on British football fans.
"That is when you saw people who were not the slightest bit interested getting fascinated."
In terms of Wales' long wait to qualify, Mr Richards is also quite philosophical.
"You can look at it as fate - we played Israel (to qualify for 1958) when a toss of a coin went our way, so maybe it is balancing that fortune," he said.
And while much has changed since Wales' last appearance at a major tournament, one thing remains - the potential worldwide exposure qualification brings.
"In Sweden many people didn´t understand that Wales had its own team," said Prof Bill Sund of the Swedish Institute for Social Research.
"They understand England as Great Britain. But Wales became a team through the (1958) championship."
Volunteers will sift one million images from the arid Turkana Basin, a key area for fossils of early human ancestors.
These photos were taken by archaeologists using a special aerial camera system mounted on kites, drones and other devices.
The site launches on Tuesday at the British Science Festival in Bradford.
"It's an opportunity for the public to take part in this immense search for new fossil material at Lake Turkana," Dr Andrew Wilson from the University of Bradford, one of the project's leaders, told journalists at the festival.
"This is a huge amount of material that couldn't be searched by any one person, and it couldn't really be searched effectively by a computerised system on its own."
The Turkana Basin, which surrounds the salt lake of the same name and is rich in fossil-containing deposits, stretches from northern Kenya into southern Ethiopia.
The particular area the researchers are concentrating on contains many fossils between 1.4 and 1.8 million years old. This is a period known for the emergence of the first three species in the Homo genus, as well as key developments like the appearance and spread of tool use among our early ancestors.
"There are major questions to be answered," said Dr Randolph Donahue, another team member from Bradford. "What's the relationship of these different species? Which one turns out to be our ancestor?"
The region is also subject to erosion when heavy rains arrive, which reveals fresh fossils every year.
To ramp up the speed and scale of the surveys already done in the area, led by the Turkana Basin Institute, the UK team has worked with those researchers to build up their bank of images.
Their first tranche of photos covers several square kilometres of ground at a resolution of 3mm per pixel, including large rectangular areas and long strips of land deliberately chosen to criss-cross important locations in the basin.
As well as building up a large-scale view of the environment and its density of fossils, the information volunteers provide about the pictures will help identify the most promising locations for archaeologists to visit in person.
Visitors to fossilfinder.org will be shown images of Turkana Basin land and asked a series of questions - initially categorising the terrain as rocky or sandy, for example.
"After they get through talking about the different stones and different kinds of sediments, they get to more interesting questions about what sort of fossils and artefacts they might be seeing," Dr Donahue said.
These items might range from ancient tools to mollusc shells, mammal bones, or even ancient hominin remains.
The citizen scientists will not be making their decisions alone - each image will be shown to 10 individuals to ensure the results are as robust as possible.
And there is also the possibility for teamwork.
"There's a forum - so if you've got an image that you're not quite sure what's in it, you can click on a button and post it. And then the community gets involved," explained Dr Adrian Evans, another of the project's leaders from the University of Bradford.
Dr Evans and his team will keep volunteers informed through blogposts as the results build up - and there may even be other rewards.
"Maybe if somebody finds a new fragment from the latest 1.4 million-year-old hominin, they'll get a chance to be on the committee that names it.
"They might even get a 3D print, if it's a particularly nice fossil."
The website was built on a software backbone provided by the successful citizen science initiative Zooniverse.
Prof Chris Lintott from the University of Oxford, Zooniverse's founder, said Fossilfinder marks an exciting departure.
"We have new tools for people to be able to build their own projects - and this is the first project to use that new infrastructure," he told the BBC.
"The project looks great. I'm really excited about it, and we're sure that our army of citizen scientists will be very excited by it."
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caught fire on the eastbound lane of the M8 by Salsburgh on Sunday.
Police were called out to reports of the blaze, which happened close to Salsburgh in North Lanarkshire, at 11:50.
There were three passengers in the car at the time, but there were no injuries and no other vehicles were involved in the incident.
Lane restrictions on the M8 were in place for about half an hour afterwards.
Patricia O'Donnell, head of Clarksfield Primary School, Oldham, also alleged she had received death threats.
Oldham Council said it investigated the claims made in December but concluded, in a report leaked to the Sunday Times, it had "no concerns" about any schools.
The report would remain confidential, the council said.
Councillor Amanda Chadderton, cabinet member for education and early years, said: "We take any allegations about our schools very seriously and always investigate in the interests of pupils, staff and parents.
"The report into an Oldham primary school found no basis to 'Trojan Horse' allegations."
The Sunday Times story also referred to a counter-extremism official raising concerns over two other schools in Oldham - Horton Mill and Oldham Academy North.
Ms Chadderton added: "At this time, we also have no active investigations or concerns about any of the other schools the Sunday Times has asked about."
The Department for Education said: "We are already aware of the allegations raised in the report and we are working closely with Oldham Council."
According to Sunday Times article, Islamic teaching sessions were hosted on school premises, a parents' petition was organised against the head teacher and objections were raised to activities including Hindi music being played in class and sex education.
The school - which has more than 450 pupils, predominantly of Pakistani heritage - is rated as "good" by Ofsted.
The National Association for Head Teachers (NAHT) union said it was currently supporting a number of members in the Oldham area with a variety of "Trojan Horse" allegations.
A "Trojan Horse" inquiry in Birmingham centred around anonymous allegations which claimed there was a plot by Islamist hard-liners to take control of several schools in the city.
The allegations sparked investigations by several agencies, including the Department for Education and Ofsted.
Mateusz Podlawski, 30, denied putting the 18-year-old animal in the container outside a shop in Dingwall on 14 April last year.
Following a trial at Inverness Sheriff Court, Podlawski, of Dingwall, was found guilty of the offence.
Firefighters had to use a hydraulic tool to open the bin and free the cat.
David Oliver, 51 of Coombe Gardens in Bournemouth, was convicted of six counts of indecent assault.
He was working as a leader at Butchers Coppice Scout Camp in the town at the time of the offences which took place in the late 1990s.
Dorset Police said he had "abused his position of trust".
He was given a two-year suspended sentence and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years following a five-day trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.
Police said Oliver had taken advantage of his victim, who was under the age of 16, by kissing her and sexually assaulting her on a number of occasions.
The offences took place in a scout office and in the camp grounds and, on one occasion, in his car on the way to a camp in the New Forest.
Det Con Jo Shewbridge said: "Oliver used and abused his position of trust in the scouting movement to sexually assault his young victim.
"I wish to praise the bravery of his victim to come forward and report the offences."
It will be a chance for the first all-Conservative government for almost 20 years to set out its stall for the next five years. Here's how some other new governments have used their Queen's (and King's) speeches.
The 1945 election marked a watershed in British history. The Conservative wartime leader, Sir Winston Churchill, was defeated by Clement Attlee's Labour Party.
The state opening of Parliament, on 15 August 1945, came at the end of World War Two, on Victory in Japan Day.
King George VI's speech was delivered in the House of Lords, which had been occupied by MPs since the Commons chamber was destroyed by bombs.
"Echoes of great events in British history mingled with the rejoicings of victory when the House of Commons assembled this morning in St Stephen's Hall for the state opening of Parliament," the Times newspaper reported, noting that Churchill was cheered as he took his seat.
"The continuing shortages in the supply of many necessaries, especially houses, food, clothing and fuel, will call for the same spirit of tolerance and understanding which the nation has displayed during the past six years of war."
Key services and industries were nationalised, and Attlee's government ushered in the welfare state and the National Health Service. India was granted independence.
The Attlee government changed the face of British society, creating a new social consensus that was to remain largely unchanged until 1979, but its majority was slashed in 1950 amid public frustration at continued austerity and rationing, and the following year saw Churchill return to power with a comfortable majority.
Margaret Thatcher became the UK's first female prime minister, ousting Jim Callaghan's Labour with a 43-seat majority. During the campaign she had promised to cut taxes, reduce public spending and curb the power of trade unions.
"My government intend to achieve a fair balance between the rights and duties of the trade union movement."
"Right to buy" proved extremely popular, with about 1.5m homes purchased under the rules by 2003. It was seen as a major vote winner for the Conservatives in subsequent elections, and in 1985 Labour dropped its official opposition to the scheme.
Critics said it contributed to a reduction in the number of available council homes.
Meanwhile, Mrs Thatcher's battles with trade unions became one of the defining features of her premiership. Ultimately their power was reduced and membership plummeted.
Many of the services nationalised under the Attlee government were privatised.
Public spending was slashed, and documents released in 2009 revealed even some Conservative ministers were alarmed at the scale of cuts planned in 1979.
Mrs Thatcher was prime minister until 1990, winning three general elections. The Conservatives won one further election and remained in power until 1997.
On 1 May 1997, Labour's 18 years in opposition came to an end. Tony Blair's New Labour won a 179-seat majority - the biggest in its history - on a manifesto which not only promised no income tax rises, but also a pledge to stick to Conservative spending plans.
"The central economic objectives of my government are high and stable levels of economic growth and employment, to be achieved by ensuring opportunity for all."
"These are only the first steps on a long journey," was the Guardian's verdict, adding that "Labour begins that journey sustained by enormous national delight".
Business leaders broadly welcomed the decision to free the Bank of England, which had divided the Conservatives. The Bank's monetary policy committee continues to set interest rates.
Labour got into hot water with its tobacco advertising ban, as it announced an exemption for Formula One and then had to return a £1 million donation from F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone.
The Freedom of Information Act remains in place - although Mr Blair subsequently described it as one the biggest regrets of his time in office. The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly were established after referendums.
Labour went on to win two more general elections, with the 2010 election bringing an end to its 13-year tenure.
After the general election left no single party in overall control of Parliament, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats came together to form Britain's first coalition government in 70 years. The result was the coalition agreement, which would form the backbone of the government's legislative programme for the next five years.
"Action will be taken to accelerate the reduction of the structural budget deficit."
Contrary to some predictions, the two parties remained together throughout the parliament.
Civil liberties measures like scrapping ID cards proved more straightforward than issues where the two parties were on opposite sides of the debate, like the proposed move to the Alternative Vote system, which was resoundingly rejected in a referendum.
The government went on to change the structure of the NHS - despite vocal opposition from Labour - and set out details of the HS2 rail line, with construction due to start in 2017.
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Cancer Research UK and the UK Health Forum worked out the likely impact of the tax on eating habits and, ultimately, the nation's waistlines.
Their report said such a tax would also save the NHS £10m a year by 2025.
The government is considering the measure, but soft drinks companies say other options would be more effective.
People get between 12% and 15% of their energy from sugar, but official recommendations say it should be less than 5%.
The statisticians modelled the impact of the tax and predicted a 16% reduction in the number of cans of pop consumed.
Their figures were then adjusted to account for the food and drink people might turn to instead.
They concluded a tax would lead to people consuming on average 15 fewer calories per day.
While the difference sounds tiny, the model predicts a large impact on waistlines.
Currently, 29% of people are obese and trends suggest that figure will reach 34% in 2025.
Rather than reverse the obesity epidemic, the forecast predicts the tax would lead to obesity rates levelling off at around 29% - preventing 3.7 million people from becoming obese.
Alison Cox, from Cancer Research UK, said: "The ripple effect of a small tax on sugary drinks is enormous.
"These numbers make it clear why we need to act now before obesity becomes an even greater problem."
And Jane Landon, from the UK Health Forum, argued: "Countries which have introduced a tax on sugary drinks have not only reduced consumption, they have raised much-needed revenues for public health measures."
The report has come out as the government is preparing its obesity strategy, which is due in the next few weeks.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt have indicated all options are on the table, including a sugar tax.
A report by Public Health England said a sugary drinks tax would cut sugar consumption "at least in the short term".
And TV chef Jamie Oliver has campaigned for the tax saying it was the "single most important" change that could be made.
The director general of the British Soft Drinks Association, Gavin Partington, said: "The hypothetical claims made in this modelling study run contrary to real-world evidence.
"In fact, the soft drinks tax in Mexico has reduced average calorie intake by six calories per person per day, with no evidence that it has reduced levels of obesity."
He added that other options such as reducing portion sizes or changing ingredients would be more effective.
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The Islamist fighters have released images of captured soldiers being beheaded after the battle for the base.
The Syrian army did not confirm that the base had fallen, but said it was organising a counter-attack.
Isis already controls much of Raqqa province, and recently seized a swathe of territory in neighbouring Iraq.
The group, which has changed its name to Islamic State, describes the territory under its control in Iraq and Syria as a caliphate.
The Raqqa base, manned by Division 17 of the Syrian army, is said to have been captured overnight after coming under siege from Isis fighters.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors casualties in the conflict, the assault on the base began with two suicide car bomb attacks. Meanwhile, Syrian army helicopters attacked Isis positions around the base.
Scores of Isis fighters and government soldiers were killed or hurt in the attack, the group said. The base is the largest of its kind in north-eastern Syria, and is said to be well-stocked with weapons and ammunition.
Rivals to Isis within the Syrian opposition had pointed to the lack - until now - of major confrontation over the base, close to the Isis stronghold of Raqqa, as a sign of collaboration between government forces and the militants.
However, BBC Arabic correspondent Rami Ruhayem says this narrative has been falling apart in recent weeks as clashes between Isis and the Syrian army have intensified.
The militants recently captured a gas field in the central province of Homs, in an attack that killed more than 200 people.
At least 170,000 people have been killed, a third of them civilians, since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
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The country's benchmark Nikkei 225 index finished at 20,522.83 points, 1.1% up on the day.
Data measuring the country's industrial production came in 0.8% higher compared with the previous month.
Shares in games company Nintendo were up by 8.3%, while carmaker Nissan closed 0.3% up, after both companies reported positive results.
Mazda earnings came in lower, but beat expectations. Its shares were more than 4% up at the end of trading.
Meanwhile, electronics giant Sony saw its net profit triple in the April-to-June quarter on strong sales of its PlayStation 4 games and camera sensors.
Chinese shares headed lower after state media reported that banks were looking into their exposure to the stock market.
Reports said the lenders were checking their exposure through wealth management products and loans collateralised with stocks.
The Shanghai Composite closed down 2.2% to 3,705.7, having rallied to close more than 3% higher the day before.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ended lower by 0.5% to 24,497.98.
Overnight, the US Federal Reserve indicated it was more positive on the US economy, confirming views it is likely to raise interest rates this year.
The US central bank said it had unanimously agreed to keep rates at close to zero this month, but believed the economy was on a stronger footing.
In Australia, the ASX/200 took the cue from the Fed and the positive close on Wall Street.
The country's benchmark index ended the day 0.8% higher at 5,669.50, with miners Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton both closing more than 2% up.
In Seoul, the Kospi index closed 0.9% down at 2,019.03 points.
South Korea saw its technology giant Samsung releasing second-quarter results just before the market opened.
Net profit came in 8% lower compared with the same period in the previous year.
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Over the past few seasons, if the Black Cats have been struggling in March then their trigger-happy owner Ellis Short has made the change of boss, and it has had a positive impact on the team.
That has not happened this time, even though Sunderland are in a terrible position. I don't see them avoiding relegation, and I have thought that for a number of weeks now.
So, it looks like Short is going to stick with Moyes - and I hope he does, because I would like to think he will get the chance to turn the club's fortunes around.
Can Moyes do it? Yes. Although his time at Sunderland so far has been extremely disappointing, I know from my time playing for him that he is the type of manager capable of the kind of rebuilding job that is required at the club.
In an ideal world, if Sunderland do go down then they would bounce straight back up the same way it looks like their north-east rivals Newcastle are going to do.
But if that sort of revival is going to happen at the Stadium of Light too, then there are a number of issues that need to be sorted out.
When Moyes was appointed Sunderland manager, at the end of July 2016, I thought it was a positive appointment.
In the short term, I expected him to do a similar job to his predecessor Sam Allardyce and keep them up - and then enhance the club over a number of years in the way he did with Everton.
I thought he would stop them shipping goals because, having worked with him at Preston and Everton, when things went against us and we did not play well he would make sure we always knew how to be solid and hard to beat.
He has not had that impact on the Sunderland team. Instead, everything about them has been flat right from the start of the season.
They have spent most of the season in the bottom three and there have only been very few moments when they have looked like they might get themselves out of trouble.
Exactly a year ago, Sunderland lost at home to Leicester and were four points from safety with six games to go.
They went on a run where they won three and drew three of their remaining games to dig themselves out of trouble.
This time, they have not even managed a goal in their past seven matches, and there is simply no sign of the spark they need for something similar to happen again.
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Moyes has been very negative about the club's situation too, which is very unlike him. Right from the start, I got the sense he was unhappy with his situation.
The interview he gave after his side's defeat by Middlesbrough in August where he told fans to "expect a relegation battle" suggested to me that there was something else on the agenda, and maybe he was not getting the transfer funds he had been promised.
You could argue that Moyes was just being realistic, but he has not really done much to win the fans over with anything he has said, and that is the biggest difference between his situation and Rafael Benitez's at Newcastle when they went down last year.
There was a real positivity about Benitez when he was appointed in March 2016 and, at the end of the season, the fans were right behind him, saying the club had to persuade him to stay. They did, and they are reaping the rewards now.
I don't think there is anything like the same feeling towards Moyes on Wearside as there was towards Benitez on Tyneside.
When I listen to 606 on BBC Radio 5 live and hear Sunderland fans ringing in, there is no affection towards Moyes.
When I've gone to Black Cats games this season, I've not got the impression their supporters have any real confidence in him either.
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One of the arguments for keeping Moyes is that Sunderland badly need some stability - he is their sixth permanent manager in just over four years.
They thought they had it under Allardyce - I remember speaking to Black Cats players John O'Shea and Lee Cattermole after they had beaten Everton in the penultimate match of last season to secure their Premier League safety.
The message from them, and from the fans I talked to at the Stadium of Light that day, was that they hoped they had a manager who was going to stay around because, under Allardyce, they were ready to kick on.
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When Allardyce took the England job last summer, it changed everything. By the time Moyes came in, around three weeks before the season started, it felt like a last-minute appointment and they have never really recovered from that.
The tone for the season was set in the first few weeks, partly by Moyes himself, and it has just been one thing after another since then.
If Moyes is going to turn things around, then he needs to change the mood around the club, especially in the stands.
Some of the positivity the fans need would come from new signings, but the supporters badly need the manager to talk up their prospects too.
Moyes might have just been being honest but, for the past eight months, he has just not been upbeat enough.
Moyes has already talked about his plans to rebuild the Sunderland team next season with 'British-type' players.
He sees them as fitting into his style of play and being a fit for the region and the fans.
I would go along with that - I don't think the club has had an identity very often over the past 10 or 15 years, because not many managers have hung around long enough to establish one.
When I think of this Sunderland team, I don't picture a certain style of football - the last time they had that was when I was there under Peter Reid, and Niall Quinn and Kevin Phillips were up front.
We got the ball into wide areas and got lots of crosses in. It was fast, quick football, with the fans right behind the team.
You could argue Moyes should aim for something similar, and part of that same approach could be to give young players a chance - something he has always been willing to do.
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Jordan Pickford, Lynden Gooch, George Honeyman, Paddy McNair and Duncan Watmore are all 23 or under and have all featured for the Black Cats this season. If not for injuries, we would have seen more of them.
I am sure they will feature in the future too, but what we don't know yet is how they will react to the pressure and expectancy that comes if you are chasing promotion in the Championship.
Whatever division they are in next season, Sunderland will also need some new signings who will come in and make an instant impact.
So, Short needs to back his manager in the transfer market - if relegation does happen then rebuilding is not going to come cheap.
Kevin Kilbane was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Football's world governing body has revealed its plans for how the 48 places will be allocated, with 16 Europeans teams set to qualify.
The proposals - approved by Fifa's president and his counterparts at the six confederations - are expected to be ratified by the Fifa Council on 9 May.
Fifa members voted in January to expand the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams.
Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said he was "satisfied" with the proposals and that European nations would be "fairly represented".
All six confederations will have at least one team in the expanded tournament, with no inter-confederation play-offs prior to the play-off tournament.
The World Cup hosts will still qualify automatically, with their slot taken from their confederation's quota.
The recommended places for each confederation are:
Should the proposals be ratified, as expected, it will consist of one team from each confederation except Uefa, with the final team taken from the confederation of the host country.
Two teams will be seeded based on their Fifa ranking, and then face the winners of two knockout games involving the four unseeded teams, with the prize a place in the World Cup.
The play-off will be played in the World Cup's host country, with November 2025 suggested as a possible date for the 2026 qualifying play-off.
It will also double as a test event for the main tournament.
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway
Uefa has achieved its stated aim of 16 slots. Its president, Aleksander Ceferin, made it clear that would be his demand in return for supporting an expanded tournament.
Ratification will be straightforward given the heads of the confederations have carved this up between them.
The play-off tournament is a new idea.
It may sound the death knell for the Confederations Cup given Fifa has described the new tournament as a test event. Fifa is keen to expand the Club World Cup as a summer tournament, and moving the qualifying tournament to November may create the necessary space in an already packed schedule.
There are significant issues still to be resolved in qualification processes, though.
Conmebol (South America) has been granted six slots. Given there are only 10 countries in the confederation, questions have been raised over how to make qualification an attractive proposition to broadcasters etc, given the ease with which some countries will qualify.
Wales are third in their qualifying group after four consecutive draws, four points behind leaders Serbia with five games remaining.
On Thursday manager Chris Coleman will name his squad for the qualifier against Serbia in Belgrade on 11 June.
"It goes without saying how important it is," the West Bromwich Albion forward Robson-Kanu said.
"We'll come together, be ready and try and get the result which we know we can.
"In every competitive international game to have to try and get points and the one in the summer will be no different."
Wales will hold a training camp at the Vale do Lobo resort in Portugal ahead of the qualifier in Serbia.
Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale and Aston Villa defender Neil Taylor are suspended for the game.
Liverpool youngsters Ben Woodburn and Harry Wilson are set to be included in the senior squad after being omitted from the Wales Under-20 squad at the Toulon Tournament.
Everton defender Gethin Jones, who spent the second half of the 2016-17 season on loan at Championship side Barnsley, could also be named in the squad.
The 21-year-old was born in Perth, Australia, and the Socceroos have been keen to bring the Porthmadog-raised youngster on board.
Jones, who has captained Wales sides at various levels including the Under-21 side, turned down an invitation to join Australia's development squad camp in Spain in March.
Up to 50 jobs are set to be lost as the titles become online-only, but the company said 12 new digital roles will be created.
The Reading Post, getreading and The Wokingham and Bracknell Times will close in Berkshire in December.
The Surrey Herald, Surrey Times and Wokingham Informer will also close as well as the Harrow Observer in west London.
Simon Edgley, managing director of Trinity Mirror Southern, said it was a "bold" move to focus on their websites and a digital-only operation.
"Decisions that impact our staff are never easy to make but they are absolutely necessary if we are to continue our transformation into a modern multiplatform publishing operation," he said.
In Berkshire, about 17 editorial, three administrative and six commercial roles will be lost and about 10 new digital editorial roles and two digital commercial roles will be created.
In Surrey and west London there will be a reduction of about 24 roles across its editorial and commercial departments.
Mr Edgley said: "This is a bold digital-only publishing transformation that will re-establish us as a growing media business that delivers the best quality journalism to our digital-savvy audience.
"We wholeheartedly believe that the future of our business here in Berkshire is online and this is an important and pioneering step that might, in time, be applicable to other existing markets or indeed new ones."
The Reading Post, Surrey Herald and Surrey Times will close on 17 December; The Wokingham and Bracknell Times, Harrow Observer and Woking Informer on 18 December; and getreading on 19 December.
The draft Modern Slavery Bill aims to increase the maximum custodial sentence for offenders from 14 years to life.
The draft bill would also create a new post of anti-slavery commissioner to hold law enforcement and other organisations to account.
The plans were first unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May in August.
In an article for the Times newspaper, she said then that it was "scarcely believable" there was slavery in Britain, but the "harsh reality" was that there were people in the UK "forced to exist in appalling conditions, often against their will".
The Anti-Slavery Day Act 2010, which established an annual anti-slavery day to raise awareness of the issue, described slavery as including:
The Modern Slavery Bill aims to consolidate the offences used to prosecute those who enslave others into a single act.
According to the Crown Prosecution Service, current legislation contains a range of criminal offences related to human trafficking including:
The new bill would also provide for automatic life sentences for offenders with prior convictions for very serious sexual or violent offences.
One person who has experienced modern slavery, who gave his name as Mark, told BBC Newsnight he was offered work and a place to stay by a man who saw him leaving a soup kitchen.
Mark said he worked long hours, often getting up at 04:00 and labouring until as late as 23:00 with no breaks.
"I was paid nothing at all for the whole time I was working and that was standard," he said.
"There were people who had been here for a very, very long time - 10 or 15 years - and they had never seen a penny in that whole time."
He said workers were punished for behaviour like not working fast enough or dropping things - and punishments included beatings and even being hit with pickaxes and shovels.
Alongside the draft legislation, a review into modern slavery commissioned by the Home Office and carried out by Labour MP Frank Field will also be published.
Mr Field estimates that there are 10,000 victims of slavery in the UK.
But Mrs May told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The honest position is that we don't know whether that is the right figure, or whether there are fewer or indeed more victims in the UK.
"What we do know is that we have seen more referrals to what is called the national referral mechanism, where people are able to refer people who they think have been trafficked, who they think are the victims of modern slavery, into a central mechanism.
"The number of referrals has been increasing, and it's on that basis that we believe that we have seen an increase in this absolutely horrendous and appalling crime."
The founder of human trafficking charity Hope for Justice, Ben Cooley, welcomed the proposals.
"We've learnt from experience that victim welfare is inextricably linked to the prosecution of perpetrators," he said.
"This bill is a critical step towards ending slavery in our country but going forwards we must all ensure that victims are supported so they don't disappear on the other side of initial after-care provision just to be re-trafficked."
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said there was cross-party support for the Bill but it should include legal protection for child victims. She said two thirds of children rescued from trafficking in Britain went missing again after being found by the original gang.
"You would have a legal guardian for those children, so someone is responsible for them, see the whole of their case, make sure the care they got was expert, that it was far away from their abuser, understand that they are still at risk and still need protection," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Chloe Setter from the children's rights charity ECPAT UK also said she feared the focus of the bill was too narrow.
"There appears to be very little in regards to victim protection for adults or children which is something that we believe is crucial and should be at the heart of any bill trying to tackle slavery and trafficking."
The bill will also include Trafficking Prevention Orders to restrict the activity and movement of convicted traffickers and stop them from committing further offences.
The bill - which the Home Office says will be the first of its kind in Europe - will only apply specifically to England and Wales but ministers said they wanted it to have the "broadest UK-wide effect".
A consultation will be held in Northern Ireland on the way forward while the UK and Scottish governments have agreed to work together while ensuring Scotland's "distinctive approach" to the issue is maintained.
Mohammad Akhlaq was beaten to death by a group of men in Dadri in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Eighteen people are on trial for his murder.
The slaughter of cows, considered sacred by Hindus, is banned in many Indian states.
The court in Gautam Buddh Nagar, near the Indian capital, Delhi, gave the order after hearing a petition filed by one of Mr Akhlaq's neighbours.
Mohammad Danish, Mr Akhlaq's son, said he "hoped a fresh investigation will bring out the truth".
"I am hoping for a fair probe. The real facts will be revealed then," he told the CNN-IBN news channel.
A lab test cited widely in the aftermath of the killing in September had said that the meat allegedly found in his refrigerator was mutton and not beef.
However, a new lab report, revealed in June by the lawyers of 18 people on trial for his murder, said that the meat in question was, in fact, beef.
Later, it was also revealed that the meat was never in his house, but found inside a bin near his home.
Although police have said that the type of meat is irrelevant to the murder case, the defence team has been using the new test results to demand the release of the 18 suspects on the grounds that they were "provoked" into attacking Mr Akhlaq.
Uttar Pradesh is one of the 10 Indian states where the slaughter of cow, calf, bull and bullock is completely banned.
However, the slaughter of buffaloes and the sale and consumption of its meat is permitted.
Studying data from the Kepler telescope, the team, led by the University of Birmingham, found a star orbited by five planets similar in size to Earth.
The system, 117 light-years away, is the oldest known of its kind, formed 11.2 billion years ago.
Dr Tiago Campante said it could provide a clue to "the existence of ancient life in the galaxy".
"By the time the Earth formed, the planets in this system were already older than our planet is today," he said.
"This discovery may now help to pinpoint the beginning of what we might call the era of planet formation."
The work is published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Researchers said the star, named Kepler-444, and its planets were two and a half times older than earth and dated back to the "dawn of the galaxy".
Planets ranging in size from Mercury to Venus orbit the star within the equivalent of 10 of our days.
While the proximity of the planets to the star ruled out the possibility of life, Dr Campante said the discovery showed planets of an Earth-like size, capable of supporting life, could exist around a similarly ancient star.
"There may be civilisations out there with a head-start of a few billion years. Imagine the level of technology," he said.
Nasa's Kepler mission has so far found hundreds of new worlds since it launched in 2009.
Scientists have studied the occasional dips in light as planets pass in front of their host stars.
Scientists studied the natural resonance of Kepler-444, caused by the sound trapped within it, allowing them to measure its diameter, mass and age.
Dr David Gregory-Kumar, BBC Midlands Today
Planet-hunting is one of the most exciting areas of astronomy. What was once thought of as science fiction is now a reality.
But what makes today's discovery by the University of Birmingham so interesting is that the astronomers have found ancient planets that are similar to those in our own Solar System.
It means Earth-like planets have been around for much of the 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe.
This expands what we know about the early formation of planets and could even have implications for the potential for ancient alien life in our galaxy.
Meanwhile a new generation of planet-hunting telescopes, including one led by the University of Warwick, are just coming online.
Some 33 bodies have been identified, including victims from Finland, Korea and Guatemala.
Crews suspended body-recovery work for several hours due to fears that a damaged wall could collapse.
It is thought 50-100 people were in the venue, known as the Ghost Ship, when the fire broke out late on Friday.
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said on Monday that her office has has not yet determined whether a crime occurred.
But she said charges could range from murder to involuntary manslaughter.
US President Barack Obama paid tribute, saying: "Oakland is one of the most diverse and creative cities in our country, and as families and residents pull together in the wake of this awful tragedy, they will have the unwavering support of the American people."
Officials believe they have located the section of the building where the fire was started, but its cause is not yet known.
About 70% of the building has been searched already, Oakland Police tweeted on Monday morning, but investigators had not been able to access the site since late Sunday night.
The city of Oakland has been disclosing the identities of those killed, though withheld the name of the youngest, a 17-year-old.
Cash Askew, 22
David Clines, 35
Nick Gomez-Hall, 25
Sara Hoda, 30
Travis Hough, 35
Donna Kellogg, 32
Brandon Chase Wittenauer, 32
Peter Wadsworth
Riley Fritz, 29
Most of the victims were located in the centre of the warehouse structure, police said.
"We have 36 families not only grieving for their lost ones, but also they want to have answers. And we as a city collectively are working to find those answers," said Oakland police's Johnna Watson.
The blaze caused the roof to collapse on to the second floor, part of which then fell through to the ground floor.
The opening of a criminal investigation allows authorities to preserve evidence and see if there was any criminal responsibility, whether through arson or negligence.
The building was used to house artists in improvised studios but several reports say people were illegally living there too.
Neighbours had complained to the city about rubbish piling up on the street outside, and about the illegal tenants.
"That place was just a death trap,'' former resident Shelley Mack told the Associated Press. "I didn't think it was going to last this long before it went up or somebody shut it down.''
Families of loved ones were asked to gather things like toothbrushes and combs to aid with DNA identification.
Media in Oakland named Derick Ion Almena as the co-operator of the collective with his partner, Micah Allison.
A Facebook post by him lamenting the loss of his belongings but saying he was "blessed that my children and Micah were at a hotel safe and sound" drew a barrage of criticism online.
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Dermot McDonnell said he believes 23 of his flock are buried underneath and with more rain forecast he is worried tonnes of rock and soil could slip further onto the public road and property below.
Helen Jones reports.
By the end of November, the stock of eurozone government bonds that carried negative yields had risen to more than €1.9 trillion (£1.36tn; $2.05tn).
The bond prices are so high that investors will not get their money back on maturity, and the interest rates are not high enough to make up for it.
The BIS blames the European Central Bank's recent comments.
It said that other major government bond markets, including Japan and the UK, had not gone down this path.
Some economists believe quantitative easing (QE) by the European Central Bank (ECB), a programme by which it purchases bonds in secondary markets, has triggered the move by so many euro area bonds into negative territory.
The BIS said in its latest quarterly review that speeches by ECB officials from late October onwards were interpreted "as signals for an expansion in monetary accommodation in early December" and that subsequently "yields continued to fall".
In early December, ECB chairman Mario Draghi did in fact extend the bank's monthly €60bn stimulus programme by six months to March 2017.
He said the QE programme was working, but that an extension was needed to tackle prolonged low inflation.
The analysis by UKactive, which represents the leisure industry, found 13 of the 15 local authorities where people were the most inactive were in the most deprived parts of the country.
Between 35% and 40% of adults in these areas are classed as inactive - that is exercising less than 30 minutes a week.
That compares with a figure of 28% nationally.
Where inactivity levels were at their highest, early deaths also peaked, according to the analysis based on the Active People Survey, which is commissioned by Sport England.
In the 15 most inactive local authorities, there was an average of 342 premature deaths per 100,000 people per year, compared with 242 in those where people exercised the most. The only areas in the 15 most inactive not to be in the most deprived areas of England were Slough and Dudley.
The report urged councils, which took on responsibility for public health last year, to use more of their budgets to promote physical activity.
Data obtained from 85 out of 129 councils under the Freedom of Information Act showed they spent just 2% of their public health budgets on physical activity promotion and investment.
This was in "stark contrast" to the 38% spent on sexual health and 12% on alcohol misuse, the report said.
Researchers also found that the most inactive local authorities have, on average, a third fewer leisure facilities than the least inactive areas.
Cutting physical inactivity by just 1% a year over a five-year period would save the UK economy just under £1.2bn in health and economic gains, the report said.
Fred Turok, chairman of Ukactive, said: "It's no longer acceptable that physical inactivity remains the forgotten cause of death in the UK.
"More deprived areas are faring worse in a physical inactivity pandemic - with no national strategy to improve our fitness levels."
Lord Sebastian Coe, who is backing the report, said: "There is no doubt that the issue requires immediate national attention and urgent action."
But Prof Kevin Fenton, of Public Health England, said his organisation and local government were "committed" to increasing physical activity levels.
"Physical activity is undertaken across communities in a range of ways, from walking and cycling, through fitness, leisure and play to structured amateur and elite sport.
"We need to embrace and support this diversity through cross-sector collaboration and action to embed physical activity within daily life," he added.
Eliza Adamson-Hopper wrote to Durham Chief Constable Mike Barton asking why the force only used dogs.
Now the force has created a cartoon cat based on Eliza's pet Mittens.
Mittens will front the force's Mini Police programme, a youth club which gives children a behind-the-scenes look at Durham Police.
Mr Barton said: "We thought Eliza's idea to have a police cat was a great idea.
"We wanted to recognise Eliza's fantastic suggestion, so what better way than to transform her own cat into our mascot?"
Eliza said: "I love the cartoon of Mittens, I think it's great that Mittens is now famous."
Her mother, Cheryl Adamson, said she was "blown away" by Durham Police's response.
She said: "I would never have dreamed in a million years that when Eliza wrote to the chief constable this would be the end result."
Eliza, from Burnopfield, was made an honorary member of the Mini Police and was given a special print of Mittens.
The mascot will be used as an educational tool in schools across County Durham.
Eliza's original letter read: "A police cat would be good as they have good ears and can listen out for danger.
"Cats are good at finding their way home and could show policemen the way.
"Cats are good at climbing trees and hunting and could rescue people that are stuck."
BBC Radio 4's You & Yours has spoken to people cold-called by Liverpool-based salesmen and persuaded to "unlock" their frozen pensions, with promises of cash upfront, and high returns.
But the BBC has heard support staff were encouraged to lie repeatedly to worried scheme members.
These sales companies are no longer trading, but former bosses deny wrongdoing.
More than five hundred people were persuaded to transfer more than £20m into the two schemes - Henley Retirement Benefit Scheme and Capita Oak.
Henley promised a tax free lump of 25% on the member's 55th birthday, while Capita Oak offered up to 15% cash upfront - regardless of age.
Both schemes promised a guaranteed return by investing the money in Lancashire storage company, Store First Ltd, part of Group First.
But many have struggled for months to receive payments, or get any details of where their pensions are and whether the promised return has been added.
The Liverpool-based sales companies - including Sanderson Clarke Ltd and Jackson Francis Ltd - have now ceased trading, leaving clients with no contact details.
In the case of Henley Retirement Benefit Scheme, BBC Radio 4's You and Yours has learned of at least 150 people who transferred more than £9 million.
Jane Parker from Kidderminster was first contacted by a sales agent in early 2012.
"I had a cold call from a company called Sanderson Clarke, a gentlemen called Dominic, about unlocking frozen pensions, and I agreed to look into it," she says.
"Once they looked into my pensions and said yes, they can be unlocked, they sent a chap called Ian round to have a chat with me.
"He said he was an independent financial adviser, but he only explained about this company called Group First, and that I'd get this 8% return.
"It sounded very good and very believable."
Jane says one of her frozen pensions - worth £30,000 - was transferred into the scheme.
"The letter from Henley Retirement Benefit Scheme looked very legitimate," Jane says, "with a registered number, with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs written on it."
She has since heard nothing from either Sanderson Clarke or Henley Retirement Benefit Scheme.
"I was getting concerned I hadn't heard anything so I tried to ring but nobody ever got back to me."
Eventually the line went dead, Jane says. Now she has no contact details at all.
"I have nothing, no paperwork whatsoever. This is my little pot of money for when I retire, so what I'd like to do is take all that money and put it into a legitimate scheme"
Steve Lomas, from Swinton in Greater Manchester, had a similar experience.
He was persuaded to transfer his £60,000 local authority frozen pension pot into the Henley scheme in the spring of 2013.
He was told he would receive a 25% tax free lump sum after his 55th birthday later that year.
Nothing happened. For a year he called and emailed Sanderson Clarke repeatedly - but they did not phone back.
He did eventually receive his lump sum, after the BBC made enquiries. He is still unsure where his remaining money is.
Graham Williams from Cardiff was persuaded by the Liverpool sales agents to transfer his £117,000 frozen pension into the Capita Oak scheme.
Unlike the Henley scheme members, he received 15% cash up front, almost immediately, although he was only 48, and payments before 55 are illegal.
He, too, has since heard nothing about where the rest of his pension is.
A former employee of the Liverpool sales companies told Shari Vahl from "You & Yours" that staff were frequently told to fob off pension members - many of whom became increasingly desperate.
"Basically I was getting told to lie to them," the employee said.
"It just got too much just listening to grown men crying, literally breaking down on the phone.
"It was not nice at all."
The former employee claims managers lied to clients "millions of times".
It was "things like, I'll follow up the call , I'll give you a call back, I'm writing it into my diary right now"
"They weren't writing anything into their diary, they didn't even have a diary."
The former boss of the sales companies, Stuart Chapman Clark, denies these allegations.
Another person who transferred their pension to Henley - Tony Helps - became so angry he chained himself to building of the Liverpool sales companies and contacted the media.
His gesture largely worked, and his pension was transferred out of the scheme minus £4,000 - which no-one can explain.
The BBC investigation has discovered a web of companies behind the schemes.
The deal to invest Henley Retirement Benefit Scheme money into Store First was brokered by Stuart Chapman Clark, who ran the Liverpool sales companies, and who has denied any wrong-doing.
The BBC did speak to the man who runs the storage company, Store First Ltd, Toby Whittaker.
He confirmed Stuart Chapman Clark came to him with a third of the £9m transferred into the Henley pension scheme, about £3.5m.
Mr Whittaker said that money was invested in Store First.
Mr Whittaker said he paid the guaranteed return - 16% - as promised, up front, on day one.
But he claims he paid it to a company based in Gibraltar, Transeuro Worldwide Holdings Ltd.
The BBC has tried and failed to make contact with that company.
Millions of pounds remain unaccounted for.
Experts say the case highlights the dangers of responding to cold calls, and allowing your pension to be invested in unregulated investments sold by unregulated advisers.
"Always, always check that the people you are dealing with are authorised by the regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority," says Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"If they aren't regulated don't deal with them however plausible they seem or enticing the deal they're offering.
"Don't deal with unregulated advisers and don't put your money into unregulated investments; remember, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is."
You can hear the special edition of You and Yours here and there will be a special report on BBC Wales X-ray.programme at 19:30
Staff across all services, including centrally employed teachers, are being offered voluntary redundancy by Calderdale Council.
The authority said it was facing "significant" financial challenges and has made £56m in savings since 2010.
Councillor Geraldine Carter said they wanted to "minimise the need for redundancies".
The council is made up of 25 Labour councillors, 19 Conservatives, six Liberal Democrats and one independent but is under Conservative minority control after Labour was ousted in a no confidence vote in July.
It had recommended that children have no screen time before the age of two.
But it now says children aged over 18 months can use video chat with family, and 18-month to five-year-olds can watch "high quality" programmes with parents.
However, it also says physical activity and face-to-face interaction should be prioritised.
It named programmes such as Sesame Street as examples of appropriate TV shows.
"Families should proactively think about their children's media use and talk with children about it, because too much media use can mean that children don't have enough time during the day to play, study, talk, or sleep," said Jenny Radesky, the lead author of the AAP report Media and Young Minds.
"What's most important is that parents be their child's 'media mentors'. That means teaching them how to use it as a tool to create, connect and learn."
The AAP has launched a tool to help families create a media plan to monitor screen use.
Two- to five-year-olds should be limited to one hour of screen time a day, and "media free times" should be created by carers, the guidelines add.
It also recommends installing "media free locations" in the home, such as bedrooms, for children including over-fives.
Dr Catherine Steiner-Adair, clinical psychologist and Harvard research associate, told the BBC that while she welcomed the new guidelines, they needed more explanation.
"There is a need for paediatricians to be very clear about what the content is, how much is to be co-viewed and what co-viewing is," she said.
"When you watch a video with a 24-month-old you want to be repeating the words over and over, pushing the pause button, the same way we do when we read to a child.
"Not two people sitting side-by-side watching in silence."
Dr Steiner-Adair also called for more research into the benefits of educational apps, describing them as an "unregulated" industry.
"I haven't seen who is developing the measures of learning for young children - what is actually going on?" she said.
"What we do know is the toddler brain lights up for learning language the most when they are being spoken to in real life, face-to-face, by a caring adult.
"I would like to see more of how they assess the actual learning that goes on between 18-24 months [via screens] and how they compare it to learning from being read to by an adult from a real book."
Mikhail Hardzeichuk scored the opener with a spectacular strike in the first half, while Maksim Valadzko drove home the second after the interval.
Burnley defender Stephen Ward pulled one back with a well-struck shot but the Republic were unable to force an equaliser.
It was only a second defeat in 14 games for Martin O'Neill's side
O'Neill suffered a setback before kick-off when Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter was ruled out of the Euro finals with a thigh problem sustained in training on Monday.
Arter had made a strong case for inclusion in the squad with a lively performance in the 1-1 draw with the Netherlands in Dublin on Friday night.
Robbie Keane missed the game because of a calf muscle injury, while James McCarthy, recovering from a thigh problem, also sat out the match.
Both were subsequently deemed fit enough to be included in the 23-man squad announced by O'Neill after the game.
The contest represented a final opportunity for players to force their way into the squad, with a number of tight calls anticipated.
Midfielder Darron Gibson and winger Aiden McGeady, both out of favour at Everton, were handed starting roles, along with versatile Hull City player David Meyler, in a team which showed 11 changes from the side that drew with the Dutch.
Gibson was not named in O'Neill's squad for the finals later in the evening, but Meyler impressed enough to ensure that he will travel to France.
The Irish open their Group E campaign against Sweden on Monday, 13 June.
Belgium will be their next opponents on 18 June, with their final group game against Italy on 22 June.
Having lost 3-0 to Northern Ireland in Belfast four days ago, Belarus belied the fact that they lie 46 places behind their opponents in the Fifa rankings by scoring their first goal in five games in the 20th minute.
Hardzeichuk unleashed a sweet long-range right-foot shot into the top corner for his fourth goal in his 12th international appearance.
The visitors, who failed to qualify for Euro 2016, looked the livelier side throughout the opening half and almost made the Republic pay further for their lack of urgency when Shay Given was forced into a fine save from Valadzko.
The hosts looked livelier after the interval as an unmarked Daryl Murphy headed over from McGeady's right-wing cross and Ciaran Clark went close with another header.
Clark saw a further headed effort palmed away by Syarhey Chernik, with the Belarusian goalkeeper then denying Jeff Hendrick from the rebound.
Valadzko turned inside Cyrus Christie to fire home a right-foot shot on 63 minutes, before Ward's left-foot drive for his third international goal in the 72nd reduced the deficit.
The Baggies turned down four bids from Tottenham for the 22-year-old striker, including two on 1 September.
He went on Twitter to indicate he would never play for Albion again but he came on against Southampton on Saturday.
"The lads have given him some stick. Sometimes it's the best way because it takes away the tension," Fletcher said.
"When somebody comes in and there is a little bit of banter, I'm sure he feels like one of the lads again."
Scotland midfielder Fletcher, who is not on Twitter, said: "It's about emotions really.
"You can do silly things and when you're on Twitter it allows you to voice your opinions. If he had sat quietly for 48 hours he wouldn't have done it."
Acclaimed bass player Kyle Eastwood and his band will play at the Gardyne Theatre on the opening night of the five-day event.
Organisers said the audience should expect "slick modern jazz, blending swing, bop, and soulful funk".
The festival runs from 18-22 November with gigs at a variety of venues in the city.
Other performers during the week include the Red Stripe Band, Ian Siegal and the East Coast of Scotland young jazz musicians.
Mr Eastwood is a double and electric bass player who has had a 17-year career in the music industry.
The festival said he had released seven critically acclaimed albums and was also a composer and arranger.
He has worked on several of his father's films, including Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino and Letters From Iwo Jima.
Rose became the first English winner of the US Open for 43 years in 2013.
The 36-year-old could have doubled his major tally at the Masters in April but lost out in a play-off to Ryder Cup team-mate Sergio Garcia.
"I've played very well at weekends in majors since 2010 and maybe just need to position myself better," he said.
"Then see where we go from there. Hopefully we can get our head around the course.
"Attitude starts earlier on venues that some guys grumble about. Even at Merion in 2013, people weren't delighted with it.
"It's a different type of golf course and the USGA obviously aren't scared to go to different venues, so you've got to accept it and play.
"That's what pulled through for me in 2013; I remember being incredibly patient all week and also not buying into the score.
"I set my strategy up by how I saw the course but I never pressed because and ultimately that's what paid off for me, that patience."
Since his US Open victory, Rose has recorded five top-10 finishes in major championships, three of them coming in a remarkable season in 2015.
The Englishman shot 14 under par in both the Masters and the US PGA, but won neither.
And in this year's Masters, Rose was two shots clear with five to play at Augusta before Spain's Garcia triumphed in the play-off to take his first major title.
"I can only say from the Olympics and the Masters, that was the calmest I've felt on a golf course in recent times," Rose added.
"When I need it the most I can get into that mindset - it's almost a survival mechanism for me. I know I can't afford to get frustrated and lose my head.
"The big situation forces me to stay a little bit more patient because I know how important it is. I have more incentive to be my best in those big events."
The deserted Wiltshire village of Imber was cleared during World War Two and later taken over by the military.
Vintage Routemaster buses have been used to take passengers to the village, for one day each year, since 2009.
The area is normally closed to civilians as it sits in the middle of a Ministry of Defence training zone.
Villagers were given a few weeks' notice to pack their bags and leave before the community was abandoned in December 1943.
It was needed by the army to provide an exercise area for US troops preparing to invade Europe.
In the 1970s, several empty houses were built for use by UK soldiers taking part in training exercises.
St Giles Church, the only original building left intact, was also opened to visitors for the weekend.
Taylor scored 154 off 97 balls in a thrilling 24-run win over Somerset to help Notts progress to the last four.
The former Zimbabwe captain told BBC Radio Nottingham: "We want to field first before the beers kick in.
"But whatever we do we will have to do it very, very well. If we are not on it 110% we can be found out for sure."
Notts last won the trophy in its previous format as a 40-over competition in 2013, beating Glamorgan by 87 runs in the final at Lord's.
The 21-year-old victim suffered leg, arm and head injuries when he was hit in Guildford by the van driven by Raymond Harms.
Harms pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm, damaging property and dangerous driving at an earlier Guildford Crown Court hearing.
He was jailed for a total of six years and four months.
Harms, of Yew Tree Drive, Guildford, was also banned from driving for eight years and two months.
Two other men from Guildford were also sentenced for their involvement in the attack in Bowers Farm Drive, Burpham on 12 May.
Ian Vase, 29, of Pond Meadow, who pleaded guilty to affray, was jailed for six months.
Shaun Ritson, 31, of Lime Grove, who admitted threatening behaviour, was given a 12-month community order including 120 hours' unpaid work.
The charges also related to incidents that took place in Lawrence Close the same evening.
Mr Cuomo led a delegation of business executives from New York state to the island where he held talks with the Cuban minister for external trade.
He said that the isolation of Cuba had not worked.
Relations between the US and Cuba have improved since the announcement in December that the two countries would work towards restoring diplomatic ties.
US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, met earlier this month at a regional summit in Panama.
Days after the meeting, President Obama recommended that Cuba should be removed from the list of states the US government considers to be sponsors of terrorism.
A number of US officials and politicians have visited the Communist-run island since the thaw in relations was announced on 17 December, but Mr Cuomo is the first state governor to do so.
He travelled with a delegation of New York-based companies which he said he hoped would become some of the first to operate in Cuba.
Mr Cuomo also said engagement and full relationships were the best way "to have a dialogue on the issues that we agree with and the issues that we disagree about".
The BBC's Will Grant in Havana says US politicians are keen to be seen in a country that was until very recently off-limits and to show their support for the move to normalise ties.
Just 8.3 seconds after San Marino kicked off their World Cup qualifier with England on 17 November 1993, Stuart Pearce's under-hit backpass allowed Gualtieri to nip in and prod the minnows into the most unlikely of leads.
"I will never forget that moment," Gualtieri told BBC Sport. "I had dreamt about it but I never thought it would happen. It was so hard for us to score against anybody, let alone a team as big as England."
"The stage is set for England's last and decisive match in this World Cup qualifying group. England in red, San Marino in blue, England needing to win by a seven-goal margin and hope that Poland can do them a favour in Poznan against Holland. [Whistle sounds to start game.] I'm sure you're aware now what's at stake. And Nicola Bacciocchi the number nine picks the ball up straight away and San Marino launch the first attack, oh and a mistake by Stuart Pearce and San Marino have scored. I don't believe this."
When I spoke to him this week, Taylor could not remember the name of the player who inflicted on him the final ignominy of his time as national manager, but he did not need reminding that the goal remains the fastest scored in a World Cup match - qualifiers or finals.
With for the first meeting between the two nations since, I felt slightly guilty asking Taylor to relive some of the agony it involved - although it clearly hurt him a lot more at the time.
Taylor told me: "When the ball went into the net, I looked up towards the sky and just said quietly to myself 'god, please tell me what I have done wrong'.
"I can laugh about it now because that is a true story. Normally I would accept responsibility for every result, and every goal but, I mean, we were eight seconds into the game. I knew we would go on and win but you think to yourself 'what the hell is happening here?'
"His name hasn't stuck in my memory but I can picture the goal as I'm talking to you now. I can see Stuart and David Seaman and the San Marino player slipping in and putting it into the net. I can see it happening, but I still can't stop it!
"Good luck to the guy, though. I wish him well."
England went on to win 7-1 in what was Taylor's last game in charge, with Ian Wright scoring four goals. But it was a hollow victory.
To reach USA '94, England had been left needing to win their final game of a calamitous campaign by seven goals and hope Poland beat the Netherlands. The score at half-time in Poznan was 1-1 but Dennis Bergkamp put the Dutch ahead before the hour mark and Ronald de Boer's late goal extinguished all hope.
Back in Bologna's Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, where San Marino played their home games, England were by now well on their way to a one-sided victory but the mood was bleak.
"Nearly everyone in the ground was following what was going on in Holland's match," Taylor added. "In fact, it was difficult to stop people telling you what was happening.
"So there wasn't any enjoyment to be had from our game. We had beaten San Marino 6-0 at Wembley so we put 13 goals past them in total but we had still only done what people expected and, of course, we knew the Dutch had won too so we were out no matter how many we scored.
"It was a very hard trip and one of the worst aspects of it was that we flew back to Luton Airport and had to fight our way through the press and photographers.
"We had no security and no-one to meet us and we had to get our luggage and fight our way to our cars on our own. You wouldn't have that now - it's a completely different world.
"I was pushing against the photographers who were deliberately getting in the way of the trolley in the hope I would stop, but I kept pushing. I think I caught a few shins that day but, to tell you the truth, I was quite happy to because cameras were being shoved pretty much into my face."
Taylor resigned six days later. Things were turning out rather more happily for Gualtieri, meanwhile, who got Pearce's shirt as a souvenir at the final whistle but did not speak to any of the England players because "they were all a bit angry".
Gualtieri did not find out his goal was a world record until journalists told him after the game, and he did not realise he had made the front page of several British newspapers until he was sent a copy of the Daily Mirror, with the headline "End of the world" and his picture on it.
England team: David Seaman; Lee Dixon, Gary Pallister, Des Walker, Stuart Pearce; Stuart Ripley, Paul Ince, David Platt, Andy Sinton; Ian Wright, Les Ferdinand.
England scorers: Ince (21 mins), Wright (34), Ferdinand (38), Wright (46), Ince (63), Wright (78), Wright (90).
He has had plenty of attention since then, too, including more than 270,000 views of his goal on YouTube. Gualtieri, who also owns a video of the game, last watched it about six months ago but he is expecting it to get plenty more viewings this week.
Now 41 and a computer salesman in San Marino with a lot less hair than he had in 1993, he does not speak any English but, with his wife Caterina translating, I asked him how he became aware of what turned out to be an enduring fame - and a particular popularity with Scotland supporters.
Tales that Scottish fans paid for his drinks on a night out when they came over for a European Championship qualifier against San Marino a couple of years later turned out to be an invention, but Gualtieri's brother did benefit from some Caledonian hospitality.
"Over here, nobody really knew what was going on but in England there was a big fuss," Gualtieri explained.
"Even now, some fans from around the world are always coming into my shop with pictures of me and shirts for me to sign.
"And, when my brother went to Scotland on holiday, they found out who he was and bought him drinks and a meal too. But that was my brother, not me."
When I ask him which player he used to compare himself to, Gualtieri describes himself with a laugh as "a poor man's Roberto Baggio". But, despite only ever being a part-time player, he is a full-time member of footballing folklore, and will stay that way even if his record is eventually broken.
Vice-Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said the prize was highly politicised and "a challenge to China's judicial system".
Diplomats in Oslo said China's embassy had sent letters implicitly warning them not to attend the prize-giving.
Liu was jailed in December for subversion after calling for sweeping political reform in China.
China angrily condemned the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the dissident. It has said the award was tantamount to "encouraging crime".
"The choice before some European countries and others is clear and simple: do they want to be part of the political game to challenge China's judicial system or do they want to develop a true friendly relationship with the Chinese government and people?" Cui Tiankai said.
"What image do they want to leave for ordinary Chinese people? So, in my view, they are facing such a choice. They have to make the choice according to their own judgement," Mr Cui said.
"If they make the wrong choice, they have to bear the consequences."
A commentary published in Friday in the People's Daily, the Communist
Party's flagship newspaper, described the prize as a Western political tool used to attack a rising China.
The newspaper said the Nobel Prize has become wrapped up in ideology since the end of the Cold War and had become "a tool for Western countries to impose peaceful evolution on powers which do not meet their standards".
Ambassadors in the city normally attend the ceremony, to be held on 10 December in Oslo City Hall.
"We have received a letter which explains the Chinese position and which asks us not to do anything which could destabilise China," Olof Huldtgren, the deputy head of mission at the Swedish embassy in Oslo, told AFP.
Mr Huldtgren said the letter did not explicitly warn against attending the ceremony, but that "the message is clear".
A spokesman for the Foreign Office in London acknowledged the Chinese "have raised the issue with us". But the spokesman stressed: "It is the normal practice of the British ambassador to Norway to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. The ambassador intends to attend this year."
The Dutch foreign ministry said it had "taken note of China's concerns", but had told Beijing that the ambassador would be attending.
It is not known who will pick up Mr Liu's Nobel prize on his behalf.
In her first in-depth interview, Paris told Rolling Stone she was convinced Jackson's 2009 death was "a setup".
The singer died from an overdose of the powerful anaesthetic propofol. His doctor Conrad Murray was later found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
But Paris believes there is more to the story. "He would drop hints about people being out to get him," she said.
"And at some point he was like, 'They're gonna kill me one day.'"
Asked by interviewer Brian Hiatt if she thought her father was murdered, the 18-year-old replied: "Absolutely".
"Because it's obvious. All arrows point to that. It sounds like a total conspiracy theory... but all real fans and everybody in the family knows it. It was a setup."
She went on to say "a lot of people" wanted her father dead, and that she was playing a "chess game" to bring them to justice. The teenager did not name specific people, and did not implicate Conrad Murray in her accusations.
The youngster recently hit headlines for complaining about a Sky Arts comedy drama series, in which her father was played by white actor Joseph Fiennes.
Writing on Twitter, she said she was "incredibly offended" by the show, and that the episode made her "want to vomit". Sky subsequently pulled the show.
In her Rolling Stone interview, Paris spoke glowingly of Jackson's parenting techniques - describing him as a "kick ass cook" who "cussed like a sailor" - and dismissed speculation that he was not her biological father.
"He is my father," she said. "He will always be my father. He never wasn't, and he never will not be. People that knew him really well say they see him in me, that it's almost scary.
"I consider myself black," she continued, adding that her father would "look me in the eyes and he'd point his finger at me and he'd be like, 'You're black. Be proud of your roots.'"
Paris was just 11 when Jackson died on 25 June, 2009. She told Rolling Stone she still wore an African bracelet her nanny had retrieved from his body that day.
"It still smells like him," she said.
Paris also revealed she had been sexually assaulted by a "complete stranger" as a teenager, and spoke openly about depression and her 2013 suicide attempt.
"I was crazy," she said. "I was actually crazy. I was going through a lot of, like, teen angst. And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help."
After a spell in hospital, she is now sober and only smokes menthol cigarettes (which carry their own health risks). She is pursuing parallel careers in modelling and acting, and says she shares her father's passion for environmental activism.
Since the interview was published on Tuesday, Paris has taken to social media to ask for privacy.
"I will not be answering any press regarding the Rolling Stone article whatsoever," she wrote on Twitter. "If you have questions then read it, it's crystal clear."
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The 24-year-old was the subject of a bid from Aberdeen before Neil replaced Simon Grayson at Deepdale.
May's career was derailed by a serious knee injury in November 2015 but Neil wants to keep the player he has worked with before.
"I know the form he can get himself into - and we want him to get back to those levels," Neil told BBC Scotland.
"He's had a horrendous time with injury and we're hoping to get him fit and firing.
"He didn't get a lot of game time last season and I've already had a chat with Stevie. I want him to stay and fight for his place."
Neil was a team-mate of May's when the striker was on loan at Hamilton Accies in season 2012-13, scoring 25 goals in 33 games.
May, who has a year of his contract to run, suffered a knee ligament injury after eight appearances for Preston following his move from Sheffield Wednesday.
He was sidelined until last February and scored once in five outings this term, starting just twice.
"It will take a lot of hard work because he's been out for a long time but I believe we can get him there," added former Norwich boss Neil.
"He's not a player I want to lose. We'll see how pre-season goes and give it a crack and see if he can force his way into our plans."
Initially priced at $20 a share, they closed at $29.68.
The company, which makes wristbands that track your calories and footsteps, raised $732m (£460m) from the share sale.
Fitbit plans to use the money raised for research and development and possible acquisitions.
Unlike many technology companies to list, the company is already profitable, making $131.8m in net income in 2014 with sales of 10.9 million devices last year.
Fitbit's Woody Scal told the BBC that the company was just at the beginning of its journey.
"There's tremendous innovation ahead in hardware and in what sensors can say about what the body is doing," said Mr Scal.
"And then it's about taking that information and helping motivate people. The next step is guiding them to what they can do with that information."
It is currently the market leader in the industry, according to the research firm IDC.
However IDC, and others, warn that it faces stiff competition in the the form of Apple's newly-launched watch, as well as from Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which makes the Mi-Band.
"Demand from emerging markets is on the rise and vendors are eager to meet these new opportunities," said Ramon Llamas from IDC in a research note.
"What remains to be seen is how Apple's arrival will change the landscape," he added.
"The Apple Watch will likely become the device that other wearables will be measured against, fairly or not. This will force the competition to up their game in order to stay on the leading edge of the market."
Julie Ask, mobile analyst at Forrester believes that Fitbit still needs to work out a way of generating sustainable revenue from services connected to its devices.
"This battle will be won or lost by the company that can provide services that motivates the consumer to change their behaviour. It's not just the hardware that counts," she said.
Fitbit is also facing two lawsuits from its rival Jawbone, which accuse Fitbit of stealing data and patents. It denies the accusations.
The 18-year-old was attacked near Malvern Road and Beeston Road in Leeds at about 22:40 GMT on Friday.
She was dragged into a garden and raped, suffering head injuries and a suspected broken hip in the assault.
Police said they are looking for an Asian man in his early 20s with a slim build and dark receding hair, in connection with the attack.
Det Ch Insp Elizabeth Belton of West Yorkshire Police said: "We believe this woman was standing at the bus stop close to Malvern Road, when she was attacked by the suspect.
"She was approached by an unknown male from behind who assaulted her and dragged her into a garden close to the bus stop and subjected her to a serious sexual assault.
"It has been a very nasty attack that has been sustained over some time.
"The nature of her injuries are that she has suffered facial and head injuries and also a suspected broken hip.
"We are now treating this as an attempted murder because she has been left there for dead."
Appealing for witnesses, the officer added: "I think it is possible that someone will know [the attacker] as there was a considerable amount of blood that was at the scene.
"It's possible that the person responsible will have had blood on their hands and possibly blood on their clothing."
The victim has been taken to hospital to undergo surgery.
Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 5.4% compared with the same period a year ago, Andrei Klepach said.
The government has forecast the economy to expand by 4% this year.
But Mr Klepach said the fresh data meant Russia would "be reconsidering the [2010] forecast for both industrial output and GDP upwards".
"Economic growth continues, but it has not yet become investment oriented," he added.
"The factors of growth remain fairly fragile with the exception of consumer demand."
Russia was one of the countries hit hard by the global crisis, and its economy fell by 7.9% in 2009.
First quarter growth in 2010 was 2.9% year-on-year.
In the second quarter the economy grew by 1.1% from the January-March period, Mr Klepach said.
Russia's statistical agency, Rosstat, will issue the official growth data in August.
The US Department of Justice said it would seize more than $1bn (£761m) in assets allegedly bought with funds diverted from the state fund and alleged that "Malaysian official 1" received hundreds of millions of dollars from 1MDB.
The individual, who was not named but was referenced 32 times, was described as a "high-ranking official in the Malaysian government".
Many Malaysians believe that the reference is to Prime Minister Najib Razak and the term started being used as a replacement for his name on social media. Mr Najib has always denied all wrongdoing.
#MalaysianOfficial1 quickly became the most trending topic on the Twitter in Malaysia on Thursday with thousands chiming in.
Elsewhere, #1MDB, #Najib, Wolf of Wall Street and Jho Low, which were all linked to 1MDB, were all trending on Twitter.
In this cartoon, a woman is seen asking a man, drawn in the likeness of Mr Najib if he wants to eat curry, with him replying that he doesn't want it as it's too spicy.
In Malay, curry is commonly spelt as Kari, which also happen to be the acronyms for the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative (KARI), the name of a US unit established to curb high-level public corruption around the world.
The 1MDB scandal has been described by the US government as the largest single action ever brought under KARI.
Other users made light of the scandal in other ways.
The Hollywood film Wolf of Wall Street was produced by a production firm co-founded by Mr Najib's stepson Riza Aziz, who has been named in the court papers
While others implied there was another film going on closer to home that was much more interesting.
References to pop culture lyrics were also involved.
Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, known more commonly as Zunar, used a cartoon to make his thoughts known on the issue.
The cartoonist was last year charged with nine counts of sedition and faces up to 43 years in prison. He says his cartoons are directed towards "fighting the tyranny and corruption of the Malaysian government".
The cartoon shows a "domino effect" of the 1MDB scandal, according to Zunar.
"The two cartoon characters below show [a] police chief and the public accounts committee chief," Zunar told the BBC. "They are supposed to take action, but instead they choose to be a bunch of lackeys. When things get worse, they run."
"Even though the [Department of Justice] action only affects Riza and Jho Low, in my opinion, the domino effect will come to Najib and Rosmah [Mr Najib's wife], either legally or politically," he added.
The 1MDB incident did not feature in the country's newspapers on Thursday, with The Star online, a local newspaper with a large online presence, running a story about organised crime as their headline.
Bernama, which is the country's official news agency, reproduced a statement on their website by Malaysia's communications and multimedia minister in which he called 1MDB the subject of "unprecedented politically-motivated attacks" and said and that the law suit "has nothing to do with the Prime Minister".
Users on Twitter were quick to pick up the apparent lack of news.
In 2015, Malaysia blocked news websites and shutdown newspapers that had run articles on the corruption allegations surrounding PM Najib Razak.
It also issued an arrest warrant for the editor of the Sarawak Report website who accused the country of "silencing free media".
First year student De'Andre Johnson, 19, was initially suspended but was dropped from the team on Monday after prosecutors released the video.
He was charged with misdemeanour battery after the incident on 24 June at a Tallahassee bar.
The 21-year-old woman suffered bruising and swelling to her face, police said.
Mr Johnson, a quarterback nicknamed "Mr Football", was a standout player at First Coast High School.
He graduated early to play for Florida State, although he was not expected to become the starting quarterback in the coming season.
Florida State has one of the top university football programmes in the US. Former quarterback Jameis Winston was the number one pick in April's National Football League draft.
The security camera footage shows Mr Johnson and the woman arguing in a crowded bar. After the woman strikes Mr Johnson with her hand, he punches her in the face, throwing her off balance.
Mr Johnson remains a student at Florida State.
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GB won the team of the year award and Andy Murray was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday.
Murray has previously said that talking to the Lawn Tennis Association about the future of British tennis was "a waste of time".
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But Smith said: "We've had really good discussions with everyone at the LTA recently to really take it up a gear."
He added: "On the court, we need to keep winning but off the court we have a great chance to do something."
LTA plans for 2016 include taking the Davis Cup trophy on tour and issuing 10,000 free junior tennis racquets.
Recruitment will start in January for a team of 1,000 coaches to deliver 10,0000 free junior tennis courses where free racquets will be offered.
Fifty different venues across Britain will have the chance to host the Davis Cup trophy in their local community, park or club, with some surprise visits from players.
"We want to try to inspire as many young people as possible to get into the sport, and more importantly stay in the sport," said Smith.
"Part of the legacy is training up as many grassroots coaches as possible to help them. That first interaction with a coach at school or the local club, I think all of us can help that story.
"We talk about showcasing our support. I think what we can do for our first round match against Japan in Birmingham in March is pretty amazing - the lead-up to the event, the event itself, and afterwards. It will be packed for that tie, and with Andy confirmed to play, it's going to give us a lot of momentum."
Murray, who went 11 games unbeaten in the winning 2015 run, is committed to playing in the first round of the title defence.
But Smith knows he may be without him should GB make July's quarter-finals, which are sandwiched between Wimbledon and the 28-year-old Scot's defence of his Olympic title.
"It's a huge challenge. The nature of the competition is it is determined by who plays for each nation in any given year," said Smith.
"It's very, very busy especially for the likes of Andy who is going to be featuring in the latter stages of the biggest tournaments, it's tough to fit it all in.
"We'll see how it goes because once you start in the competition, when these group of players get together, the bond stays pretty close. It's a great feeling.
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"We've got a strong team, and in the years before had some very big wins, notably against the likes of Russia (in 2013) when Andy wasn't playing."
Smith said he was keen to avoid the mistakes of some previous Davis Cup winners that fielded a below-strength side in their first round match the following year, and faced a relegation tie after losing.
"The most important thing is we win that first round tie, which brings us into the quarter-finals again and it guarantees World Group status for the following year, which is very important as we try to build on what we have achieved," he added.
Gray wants to coach Scotland one day but is looking at other options.
"Scotland's got itself sorted out at the moment," said Gray, who worked under the Springboks' then-head coach Heyneke Meyer at the World Cup.
"All the coaches are in place. I think one more would muddy the waters slightly."
Gray, who helped South Africa reach the semi-finals, told BBC Scotland's Sportsound: "I'll make a decision into the new year what I'm going to do.
"I've got a big decision to make what I'm going to do next, but I'll definitely be coaching somewhere."
Gray joined the South African coaching staff in 2013 as breakdown coach, but with Meyer leaving, Gray is contemplating a future elsewhere.
"The head coach of South Africa resigned a couple of weeks ago," said Gray. "He decided not to put his name forward.
"They've obviously had a discussion about what I would like to do as well.
"I never really thought I'd stay longer than three years in South Africa.
"Going backwards and forwards, it's been quite a commitment, especially with my family still back in Scotland.
"There's two or three options on the table for me regarding clubs in England, France, there's also things in Japan going on.
"I just love coaching. I coach because I want to make players better and you want to remain in the game. That's the two key things."
Galashiels-born Gray has coached Scotland at youth level and admits he would like to be part of the international set-up at some point, but he says now is not the right time.
"One day you want to coach your own country - I'd like to think that might happen," he added.
"But, for me, I like to put myself into places that really challenge you, places where you're given no chance and you can come out and prove myself so I might continue to do that."
The image, posted online on Sunday, shows a heavily bearded Jumpei Yasuda holding a sign saying: "Please help me. This is my last chance."
Mr Yasuda is believed to have been seized by the jihadist group al-Nusra Front, allied to al-Qaeda, in July.
Japan's government said it was doing everything it could to help him.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday: "We believe the photo is of Yasuda."
Cabinet Spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the government was "making use of a broad net of information and doing everything we can to respond".
In March, a video emerged of Mr Yasuda apparently accusing the Japanese government of ignoring him.
Last year, the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria beheaded Japanese war correspondent Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, leading to accusations that Japan had not done enough to save them.
Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted an unnamed source claiming to be a mediator for the Nusra Front saying Mr Yasuda would be passed to IS if the government did not negotiate.
An opponent for the Belfast fighter has yet to be confirmed.
Conlan, 29, won the title in April after stopping holder Anthony Nelson in the eighth round in London
"The Commonwealth belt seems to propel fighters onto bigger things - it's another step on the road to a world title," said Conlan.
He added: "Everything is moving steadily in the right direction. Each fight is another step up the ladder and a box ticked on my journey towards a world title.
"I'm thrilled to be boxing back in Belfast. I grew up watching a local guy from my area called Eamonn Magee become Commonwealth champion and it's always been a title that has stood out for me.
"To be defending the Commonwealth title front of my home crowd will be a great experience and I know I'll have big numbers there watching me successfully defend it."
Conlan's younger brother Michael was controversially beaten in the Olympic Games bantamweight quarter-finals last month.
It was a long road to eventual stardom, during which she struggled to raise a family after a broken marriage.
She became best-known for her roles in The Vicar of Dibley and The Royle Family but her talents encompassed serious drama too.
And while she made something of a name playing slightly dotty old ladies, the real Liz Smith was far removed from these on-screen personas.
She was born Betty Gleadle in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on 11 December 1921.
Her early life was not happy. Her mother died in childbirth when she was just two years old and her father abandoned her when he remarried.
"My father was a bit of a sod, really. He just went off with loads of women and then married one who said he had to cut off completely from his prior life and that meant me."
She started going to the local cinema with her grandfather when she was four and she quickly gained a fascination for acting.
By the age of nine, she was appearing in local dramatic productions, often playing the part of elderly ladies.
World War Two thwarted her plans and she joined the WRNS because, as she later told the BBC's Desert Island Discs, she loved the cut of the naval uniform.
She continued appearing in plays and entertainments while serving in the Royal Navy. She met her future husband Jack Thomas while she was stationed in India and the couple married at the end of the war.
Her grandmother had left her enough money to buy a house in London. Smith later remembered that she had picked it at random from a magazine and bought it without crossing the threshold.
But what had been an idyllic marriage failed shortly after the family moved to Epping Forest in Essex and she was left to bring up her two children alone.
With money tight, she worked in a number of jobs including delivering post and quality control in a plastic bag factory.
But her love for acting remained and she began buying the theatrical magazine, The Stage, and sending her photograph to casting agents.
Eventually she became part of a group studying method acting under a teacher who had come to the UK from America.
She performed at the Gate Theatre in west London and spent many years in repertory, as well as spells as an entertainer in Butlins holiday camps.
In 1970, she was selling toys in London's Regent Street when she got a call from the director Mike Leigh to play the downtrodden mother in his film Bleak Moments.
Leigh cast her again in Hard Labour, part of the BBC's Play for Today series, a role that allowed her to shine.
She received critical acclaim as the middle-aged housewife who endures a life of domestic drudgery, constantly at the beck and call of her demanding husband and daughter.
It was the breakthrough she had sought for years and, as she later recalled: "I never went back to grotty jobs again."
She was seldom off the screen over the next 20 years, with appearances in a number of TV programmes including Last of the Summer Wine, The Sweeney, The Duchess of Duke Street and The Gentle Touch.
She was cast as Madame Balls in the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, but her scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. However, she did appear in the role six years later in The Curse of the Pink Panther.
In 1984 she received a Bafta for Best Supporting Actress when she played Maggie Smith's mother in the film A Private Function.
Two years later she appeared as Patricia Hodge's alcoholic mother in the BBC drama The Life and Loves Of A She Devil.
It was a part, she said, that she really enjoyed as it gave her the chance to wear more glamorous outfits than her usual roles required.
And she was able to dress up again for her next film appearance, this time in the role of Grace in Peter Greenaway's film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
She was still much in demand at the beginning of the 1990s, appearing in the sitcom 2point4 Children and in the series Lovejoy and Bottom.
In 1994 she became a household name with her portrayal of Letitia Cropley in the series The Vicar of Dibley.
The character was famous for her idiosyncratic recipes such as parsnip brownies and lard and fish paste pancakes, but was killed off in 1996.
Two years later Liz Smith starred as Nana in The Royle Family, a sitcom that ran for nearly four years. She took the part again in 2006 in a special edition in which Nana died.
Typically, she attributed her success to Caroline Aherne's scripts rather than her own talent.
"They were great roles," she later remembered. "I was so lucky that things did come my way then."
Unlike some actors, she watched recordings of her own performances looking for ways in which she could improve her acting.
She continued to appear in feature films, playing Grandma Georgina in Tim Burton's 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and she was the voice of Mrs Mulch in Wallace & Gromit -The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
In 2006 she published her autobiography Our Betty and moved into a retirement home in north London but continued acting.
She appeared in the BBC's Lark Rise to Candleford, finally announcing her retirement in 2008 at the age of 87.
It was a belief in her own talent that drove Liz Smith on when her life was at a low ebb. "All I wanted was a chance," she told the BBC. "It was wonderful when it did happen."
Jayden Stockley, on loan at Pompey earlier in the season, twice went close with early headers for the home side.
Portsmouth's Conor Chaplin opened the scoring when he capitalised on a mistake by Troy Brown and side-footed into the bottom corner from 18 yards.
Stockley hooked wide as City pushed for a leveller before Watkins did equalise after a one-two with Clinton Morrison.
Match ends, Exeter City 1, Portsmouth 1.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 1, Portsmouth 1.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Ryan Fulton.
Attempt saved. Alex Nicholls (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Burgess (Portsmouth).
Goal! Exeter City 1, Portsmouth 1. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Alex Nicholls (Exeter City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Foul by Alex Nicholls (Exeter City).
Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Adam Barton replaces Kyle Bennett.
Substitution, Exeter City. Clinton Morrison replaces Christian Ribeiro.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Gareth Evans replaces Conor Chaplin.
Attempt saved. David Wheeler (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Alex Nicholls (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Ollie Watkins (Exeter City).
Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Exeter City. David Noble replaces Jayden Stockley.
Substitution, Exeter City. Joel Grant replaces Troy Brown.
Attempt missed. Jayden Stockley (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Christian Burgess.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Robert Olejnik.
Attempt missed. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Jayden Stockley (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ollie Watkins (Exeter City).
Second Half begins Exeter City 0, Portsmouth 1.
First Half ends, Exeter City 0, Portsmouth 1.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Adam Webster.
Attempt saved. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Jayden Stockley (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Matt Oakley (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Adam Webster.
Attempt missed. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Goal! Exeter City 0, Portsmouth 1. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marc McNulty.
Attempt saved. Jayden Stockley (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
The Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, spoke during a special service at St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.
Families of the Disappeared said they welcomed his comments.
The Disappeared are victims murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Northern Ireland conflict.
Over the past 16 years, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) has searched for 16 people who were officially listed as "disappeared".
The remains of 12 of the victims have been recovered and formally identified to date.
Four people have not yet been found - Joe Lynskey, Columba McVeigh, Robert Nairac and Seamus Ruddy.
Archbishop Martin told the congregation there was still so much to be done to uncover the truth of what happened to many victims during the Troubles, and he called for a "truth-recovery mechanism" to allow people to come forward with information.
"Even in the absence of a formal mechanism, I am confident that there are trustworthy people in society and in the churches who would be willing, and could be powered and enabled, to accept and sensitively share information in this regard," he said.
Speaking after the service, he added: "One of the difficulties of the terrible things that happened in the past is that they don't just disappear with death.
"They are handed on to children and to grandchildren and those hurts, those deep wounds and traumas, fester and continue and block progress and lasting peace and justice.
"We're talking about people on all sides, people who pulled the trigger, who planted a bomb.
"Other people who maybe kept watch, who colluded. People who intimidated. And I actually think that they too will find peace if they are able to unburden themselves of some of the things that they did.
"I believe there are people who would be very willing to become involved in an information retrieval process that would allow the grief of families to be quelled, which would allow people to move on there are many people among those in the church and others in society."
The comments were welcomed by the brother of Columba McVeigh, one of those who has not yet been found.
"Information is the key to recovering these bodies, there's still four left so we need some information to get the commission back digging," said Oliver McVeigh.
There were still people in the North Monaghan area who he believed had not yet come forward with information, added Mr McVeigh.
"The basic human right is for a burial of those who die. And we saw a number of weeks ago in Derry (at Martin McGuinness' funeral) the importance republicans place on death, committal and burial," he said.
"So we're asking the same. We just want to get my brother as the other families want to get their relatives as well, to be able to bury them in a grave and go and visit that grave like everyone else does."
Philomena McKee, whose brother Kevin McKee was located in 2015, said the annual service was a source of support for the families.
"With the Disappeared's families, it's like one big family now. Everybody knows what everybody's going through. And even though my brother's been found, I still know what these people are going through."
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Forecasters have said more than 20mm of rain could fall. The warning covers 03:00 until 15:00 on Friday.
Because of high soil saturation levels, the downpours could lead to flooding.
The Met Office said: "An unseasonable depression will approach north west Scotland on Friday and is expected to bring more than 20mm of rain to the Western Isles."
It added: "Given high soil moisture levels, this could lead to some disruption. Rain will ease later on Friday, but will continue on and off into Saturday.
"However, by then intensity will be lower."
The retailer claims the plans for Chippenham would create 1,000 jobs and bring £31m into the economy each year.
However, of the five candidates vying to become the area's MP, one is totally against it and three admit to having questions over the proposed site.
Petitions for and against have been signed by thousands of people locally.
Conservative candidate Michelle Donelan said she could see both sides, but believes the consultation - which has now ended - was inadequate for something that is "dramatically going to change the town forever".
The application for the 72,000 sq m regional centre is yet to be discussed by Wiltshire Council, but the five candidates gave their views during an election debate recorded for broadcast by BBC Wiltshire.
Andy Newman, for Labour, said he was in support of the development and had been assured it would bring in 700 permanent skilled jobs and would "push up wages in the area".
In contrast, Green party candidate Tina Johnston said she was "totally against" it, suggesting the number of jobs suggested would be far higher than in reality.
Two candidates were happy with the plans but unconvinced about the location, with Julia Reid (UKIP) saying she believed it would be better sited closer to the motorway and further away from the town, where it would be less of a threat to town centre shops.
Finally, Liberal Democrat Duncan Hames said he welcomed the prospect of jobs for the town but was "not sure" whether the site was right.
This doesn't really happen to someone from Folkestone - we're not the hotbed of football
The 18-year-old, who recently had a trial at Charlton, will join the Tigers at the end of the season after agreeing a three-year contract.
"He's been with us since he was 12 and played in our youth teams," Folkestone boss Neil Cugley told BBC Radio Kent.
"I think he'll go straight into their Under-21 team and get him stronger."
Cugley added: "Credit to the people who run our youth system.
"We've managed to get him this far and that's pleasing."
Ter Horst will stay at Folkestone for the remainder of the campaign as they chase promotion from Ryman League South.
And Cugley believes the player is capable of making an impact at a higher level in future years.
"He went to Charlton and you could see that improved him no end - even in those two weeks," he said.
"Everyday training is what he needs now.
"When he's had that for a couple of years, I'm sure he'll get stronger and quicker and hopefully kick on and be in the Hull side.
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"We're unbelievably proud that we've got someone from down here getting on in football, it's really good.
"This doesn't really happen to someone from Folkestone - we're not the hotbed of football.
"He's a lovely lad as well and has got good parents that have backed everything we've done and hopefully, in a few years, we'll see him on the telly doing well for Hull.
"It's great for our club. We're not a big club and for this to happen is brilliant."
The Australian marsupial, which was spotted in Dursley, Gloucestershire, then escaped, police confirmed.
One Twitter user asked "aren't kangaroos massive?". Another, referring to fictional kangaroo Skippy, suggested it had escaped to help cure England's rugby woes.
Officers themselves then said it was "not the usual bouncer" they deal with.
Gloucestershire Police had tweeted: "Kangaroo update - we have it cornered 'outback' of a house in Woodmancote but no owner identified yet."
Officers had joined the hunt at 21:30 BST on Saturday, but minutes later the wallaby evaded its hunters and hopped off towards woods.
Ian Barnard responded to the appeal, tweeting: "Has anyone thought of asking it what's up? There could be people stuck in a mineshaft somewhere! #whatsupskip"
@Littlerachyb added: "@Glos_Police aren't kangaroos massive? Like bigger than a man massive? Sure it's not a wallaby?"
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In a series of tweets, John Mason also questioned whether it was a problem if a surgeon could not spell.
He said there had been too much emphasis on academic subjects in the past at the expense of other skills,
The tweets were highlighted by Conservative leader Ruth Davidson at first minister's questions.
Ms Davidson said it was evidence of the SNP presiding over "10 years of failure" on education, and asked First Minister Nicola Sturgeon: "Is this the view of the SNP government? Because if it is it explains why standards are so poor."
Recent studies have shown literacy and numeracy have fallen in Scottish schools over the past few years, and there continues to be a wide attainment gap between the country's wealthiest and most deprived pupils.
Ms Sturgeon responded to Ms Davidson by saying that the "highest standards of literacy" were vital for young people.
The first minister added: "Standards of literacy are vitally important as a foundation for everything else our young people do.
"That is why we will get on with the job of building on the progress we have made in our education system."
Mr Mason, the SNP MSP for Glasgow Shettleston, had tweeted: "I think when I was at school there was too much emphasis on academic.
"Of course reading and writing are very important. But if someone is a good surgeon and cannot spell, is that a problem?"
In other remarks he said "many people do not need fabulous literacy to do their jobs well", and an "engineer may not need exceptional grasp of English".
Mr Mason also said: "Old fashioned view was that kids learned times tables and spelling by rote. I think our idea of education has widened out now".
But he agreed that "basic literacy and numeracy are essential" and that "everyone needs to be able to read".
And he stressed: "We should have high expectations of all children. But we should not try to force them into a rigid box as we used to".
Ms Davidson condemned the "litany of tweets" from Mr Mason which she said had included: "That we have moved on from spelling and times tables, that if someone has only basic literacy they should concentrate on what they are good at.
"That you don't need spelling to be a surgeon, you don't need grammar to work in IT, an engineer doesn't need high levels of English and that there was too much emphasis on 'the academic' in the past".
Education Secretary John Swinney told MSPs on Wednesday that cuts in student teacher numbers "probably" went too far when the SNP reduced them by 1,550 places in 2010-11.
Ms Davidson pressed the SNP leader on his admission, telling Ms Sturgeon that "when it comes to the basic task of putting enough teachers into our classrooms, her government got it wrong".
Ms Sturgeon said: "The decision she is criticising, taken in one year in 2010, was actually based on the unanimous advice of the teacher workforce planning group, a group that includes councils, teaching unions and the universities.
"In every year since then, what we have done as a government is ensure an increasing number of young people are going into teacher training."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale later highlighted NHS waiting time figures, which she said showed patients had a better chance of being treated within 12 weeks before the SNP introduced a legal guarantee in 2012 for conditions such as knee and eye operations.
Ms Dugdale insisted: "That should shame Nicola Sturgeon. Because behind these numbers are people and real lives. It's pensioners, children and parents waiting months for operations.
"Under the SNP, standards in our hospitals are down, NHS staff are over-worked and underpaid, and tens of thousands of people are waiting longer for treatment.
"That is what happens when the SNP spends more time campaigning for another divisive independence referendum than it does running our NHS."
Ms Sturgeon responded by saying the NHS in Scotland was doing better than the NHS in Wales, where it is run by Labour.
She said staffing in the NHS haf increased by over 12,000 and the budget had increased by more than £3bn under the SNP, but acknowledged the challenges facing the health services - which she said were shared by countries around the world.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie raised the issue of the downgrading of the maternity unit in Caithness General Hospital, and called on the first minister to intervene and reverse the decision.
Ms Sturgeon said the decision was taken on the basis of patient safety, and that no politicians should go against safety advice.
It was following the death of an infant in the unit in 2015 that the board took its decision, she said.
Ex-Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley said a bill he will introduce in the Lords would ensure forces have enough money.
Prime Minister Theresa May told MPs on Wednesday her government had protected police funding since 2015 and crime was at a record low.
Lord Wigley's bill stands no chance of becoming law without government support and a lack of parliamentary time means it is unlikely to progress further.
His proposed new law would scrap the current system, where the UK government sets the police budget annually, with regional police and crime commissioners submitting "funding estimates" to the home secretary instead.
An independent adjudication body would resolve any gap between the two.
Lord Wigley said: "Police forces in Wales and in England have been subjected to sustained cuts to their budgets which have undoubtedly detracted from their capacity to support the work of the security services.
"Government funding for the police has been cut by 25% over the past five years and vital aspects of policing and public safety are now under-resourced as a result."
The UK government has said anti-terror budgets have been protected but Lord Wigley said: "Units such as safer neighbourhood teams, which carry out crucial work in support of counter-terrorism efforts, have been cut to the bone.
"Ten years ago, safer neighbourhood teams, which collect intelligence on extremist, gang and criminal activity, would have had six officers including a sergeant and two police constables and they covered, on average, one council ward each.
"Now each team has an average of just three members of staff and cover areas that are 75% bigger than before."
He said his bill sought to make sure police forces had sufficient resources to keep people safe.
"It would ensure that police budgets reflect their needs, allowing vital units such as safer neighbourhood teams to take a greater role in supporting the work of security and intelligence services," Lord Wigley added.
The move was announced in a decree (in Russian), in which Mr Putin also ordered trade talks with Turkey.
The ban on charter flights hurt the tourist industry in Turkey, a favourite destination for many Russians.
The Kremlin accepted a letter from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as an apology this week.
Mr Putin spoke to Mr Erdogan by phone on Wednesday, telling him he planned to lift the travel sanctions.
The lifting of non-travel trade sanctions will depend on the outcome of the trade talks, the Russian leader said in his decree.
Mr Putin also condemned Tuesday's gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport, one of the busiest in the world.
Mr Erdogan had expressed "regret" earlier this week to Mr Putin and to the family of the Russian pilot killed in the incident.
The fighter jet was shot down near the Syria-Turkey border in November. Turkey said the jet had been warned repeatedly after entering Turkish airspace, a claim fiercely denied by Russian officials.
Mr Putin said he had been stabbed in the back and accused Mr Erdogan of collaborating with so-called Islamic State.
Russia responding by hitting Turkey with a raft of sanctions, stopping the Russian package holidays and banning the import of Turkish foodstuffs.
The Russian Su-24, an all-weather attack aircraft, was flying in skies above the Turkey-Syria border area on 24 November when it was shot down by Turkish F-16s.
The plane crashed in the mountainous Jabal Turkmen area of the Syrian province of Latakia, killing the pilot.
A Russian marine involved in a helicopter rescue attempt was killed when the helicopter came under fire from local fighters.
The navigator in the jet, Capt Konstantin Murakhtin, survived the crash and was taken to Russia's Hmeimim airbase in Latakia by Syrian government forces.
Turkey said planes were warned 10 times during five minutes via an "emergency" channel and asked to change direction.
The Russian defence ministry insisted that the aircraft remained within Syria's borders throughout its mission and did not violate Turkish airspace and received no warnings.
The deadline had been set for 2 January but will now be on 20 January.
Mr Maduro said he did not want Venezuelans to worry about exchanging the currency near the New Year festivities.
Venezuelans had been initially given 72 hours in mid-December to swap their 100 bolivar notes, sparking chaos.
The borders with Colombia and Brazil were also closed for eight days as part of a coordinated action against what Mr Maduro called "smuggling mafias".
They sell products subsidised by Venezuela's socialist government, including petrol and medicines, at high profit margins.
Mr Maduro also said that the gangs had hoarded huge amounts of cash in warehouses abroad,
They would lose most of that money once it was withdrawn, as it would be impractical for them to repatriate truck loads of currency notes and swap them at bank branches, he said.
After Mr Maduro's announcement on 11 December, most shop owners in Venezuela began rejecting the notes.
Long queues formed outside bank branches, while in some areas supermarkets and shops were looted.
Mr Maduro then decided to delay the deadline to scrap the 100-bolivar note.
He has ordered new higher denomination notes, but they are not yet in circulation.
Venezuela has one of the highest inflation rates in the world.
The government last published figures for inflation in December 2015, putting it at 180%, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates next year's prices will rise by more than 2,000%.
The 100-bolivar note has lost most of its value and is now worth around 2 US cents on the black market.
The Venezuelan economy has been hit hard by the fall in the price of oil, its main source of income. It also has had strict currency controls in place since 2003.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the US newspaper said Yelp was looking to sell itself as it continues to struggle.
Growth in unique visitors to the site, which allows users to submit reviews of businesses, has been declining.
That has led to a fall in advertising sales, worrying investors.
Founded in 2004, the company went public in 2012 at a valuation of $900m and is currently worth more than $3.4bn (£2.2bn).
Last week, the company reported a net loss of $1.3m for the first quarter of 2015, sending shares in the firm plummeting to a two-year low.
It said that while advertising revenue from local retailers had grown by 51% from a year earlier to $98.6m, revenue from established brands had decreased by 11%.
Yelp did not respond to a request for comment.
The suspect, clad in black, apparently posed for photos with students ahead of the attack, in the western town of Trollhattan.
Two further victims, a pupil and a teacher, are seriously injured. The attacker was shot by police and has died of his injuries. He was 21 and resident in Trollhattan, police said.
The king has said Sweden "is in shock".
Eyewitnesses described chaos at the school, with hundreds of students fleeing from the building screaming.
Police responded to an emergency call reporting an attack in the cafe area of the Kronan school, at around 10:10 local time (08:10 GMT) on Thursday.
Arriving at the scene, they found a dead man - a teacher - near the entrance.
Two male students and another teacher were rushed to hospital. One of the boys, aged 17, has since died of his injuries.
The other pupil, who is 15, and the teacher, a 41-year-old man, are being treated in intensive care for knife injuries. Their condition is described as serious but stable by the hospital.
The attacker was also taken to hospital with gunshot wounds and has since died.
Police have said several knives were used in the attack.
Officers have identified the suspect but not released his name. They have searched the suspect's home and have found "interesting" things, spokesman Thord Haraldsson told a news conference.
He was not previously known to police, he said.
Asked about possible links to far-right extremism, Mr Haraldsson refused to comment, Swedish radio reports.
Local media have reported that the suspect's accounts on Facebook and YouTube suggest an interest in Hitler and Nazi Germany. In a photo given to media by a student at the school, he appears to be wearing a black trench coat and a helmet resembling those worn by German troops in World War Two.
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published an account (in Swedish) of a girl, who they refer to as Sara, who witnessed the attack.
The girl left her classroom and met two school friends who stood with a masked man holding a bloody knife, she said. He was playing "horrible, Halloween-type" music and did not speak, she said.
Her friends thought it was a joke and wanted to be photographed with the man, so Sara took a photo, Aftonbladet reports.
A teacher came out and asked the man what he was doing, the girl said.
"You're scaring the children, you can go," the teacher said.
The man just nodded then stabbed the teacher in the side with his knife, Sara said.
She and her friends ran. The man chased them but they managed to escape.
King Carl Gustaf said in a statement that he had learned of the events in Trollhattan "with great dismay and sorrow".
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has arrived in the town, and said it was a "black day for Sweden".
"I think of the victims and their families, students and staff, and the whole of the affected community. No words can describe what they are going through right now. We must ensure that they receive all the support they need," he said.
Trollhattan is an industrial town in west Sweden, located around 75km (50 miles) north of Gothenburg, the nation's second largest city.
School attacks are rare in Sweden - with just one incident on record in the past 20 years, in which one pupil was shot dead.
Nine free spaces have been added at Denbigh's Factory Ward car park and from 1 September all charges will change to long stay rates.
Vale Street car park will have a new subsidised rate of £1 for two hours.
Denbighshire council said it had listened to businesses' concerns about increases in charges.
The system at Addenbrooke's and Rosie hospitals, in Cambridge, allows staff to view records on handheld devices.
A report by the county's clinical commissioning group (CCG) found "a 20% drop in A&E performance from the date the new system was implemented".
The hospitals' trust said it was working to address the concerns.
Last month, Addenbrooke's Hospital became the first in the UK to use Epic's eHospital system, which is used by hospitals in the United States.
At its launch more than 2.1m patient records from the past five years had been uploaded and could be accessed by 7,000 computers and devices at the hospitals.
But the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG's report highlighted areas of concern, including issues in the emergency department.
On 1 November, the computer system "became unstable". A "major incident" was declared resulting in ambulances being rerouted to other hospitals for several hours.
It also found "difficulty matching test results to patients", meaning some had to be checked again.
However, the report said an audit carried out of care in A&E showed patients had been "appropriately assessed".
It also stated the benefits of the paperless system would be "delivered over time and were not expected to be evident in the weeks after system go-live"
Cambridge University Hospitals' chief information officer, Dr Afzal Chaudhry, said "well over 90% of implementation [had] proceeded successfully".
"Given the scope... we had anticipated that there would be problems... but those problems did occur early on," he said.
"We are very focused on making sure our patients are cared for safely and in a timely fashion. We have been working very closely with the CCG and with our primary care colleagues to make sure the system returns to a stable position and that we continue to iron out the remaining problems over the forthcoming period."
Daniel Climance was struck by the vehicle while out riding his bike at about 19:20 BST on Wednesday on Station Road in Purton, near Swindon.
He died at the scene. Wiltshire Police described it as a "tragic accident".
In a statement issued through the force, Daniel's family said he would be "sadly missed" by his brothers.
"Daniel was a local Wiltshire lad who divided his time equally between his mum in north Swindon and his Dad in Purton," the statement continued.
It said he was in his final year at Bridlewood Primary School and was looking forward to starting Bradon Forest School in September, joining his older brother Robbie.
"Daniel was a beautiful, loving child, with a fantastic sense of humour, caring and loving with a wide circle of friends," it said.
"He will be sadly missed by his brothers Robbie, George and Noah, and all of the extended family."
Daniel, who "loved" playing football for the Wootton Bassett under-11 team, had just completed his second-degree black belt in Taekwondo, of which he was "immensely proud", his family added.
Police said the roadsweeper was travelling towards Hook and was not believed to have been operating at the time.
Most of those killed are linked to a faction allied to self-styled general Khalifa Haftar.
The town's mayor, Ibrahim Zami, described some of the killings as a "slaughter".
Libya has been in turmoil since the ousting and killing of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The two sides are attached to loose and shifting alliances based in the east and west of Libya.
A brigade from the western city of Misrata had tried to take over the Brak El-Shati airbase which they had ceded to a faction aligned with Gen Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), the Reuters news agency reports.
Mohamed Agliwan, a spokesman of the western Libya faction, allied to the internationally recognised government, said they had "liberated the base and destroyed all the forces inside".
The town's mayor said some aircrafts had been set ablaze.
BBC North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad reports that clashes resumed there on Thursday morning following an attempt by a rival force to take over the base.
A hospital in the area reportedly received 60 bodies, including civilians who were working at the air base.
The death toll could not be independently verified but officials say most of those killed were fighters allied to the LNA, our reporter says.
An informal truce had been reached this month over the matter, after Gen Haftar met Fayez al-Sarraj, the UN-backed prime minister.
A meeting between the two just weeks ago had created hopes of a wider political and military settlement in the country.
The captain pounced after Kieran Smith's shot was spilled by Peter Jehle in the visiting goal.
Vaduz had led 2-0 at half-time after goals in quick succession from Gonzalo Zarate and Maurice Brunner.
Stuart Jones should have claimed a late equaliser for Bala but headed just wide when Nathan Burke's free-kick found him unmarked at the back post.
The return leg at the Rheinpark Stadion in Vaduz is on Thursday, 6 July.
Ballymena United or Norwegian side Odd await the winners in the second qualifying round.
Bala manager Colin Caton told BBC Wales Sport:
"I don't think we started the game very well - we were very flat and wary of knowing the opposition.
"We still had good chances and a blatant penalty when Kieran [Smith] has gone through and has been pulled back.
"They had two chances in the first half and that's the difference at this level. It's a bit frustrating really... we have had the better chances.
"If we get the first goal out there, it's an away goal and they will be in a sticky situation.
"They were panicking towards the end here.
"It just frustrates me we have done ever so well but you have to take the chances at this level."
A total of 65.6% of connections in the rural constituency were below the UK government's proposed minimum standard of 10 megabits per second (Mb/s).
Scotland had eight of the 20 worst performing areas, according to analysis by the British Infrastructure Group of MPs.
It was closely followed by Wales with seven.
MPs' analysis of download speed data recorded by Ofcom in 2016 found Scotland had the four worst performing parliamentary constituencies in the UK.
More than 60% of connections in three other Scottish constituencies - Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Argyll and Bute and Orkney and Shetland - failed to reach download speeds of 10 Mb/s.
Kingston upon Hull East was the worst constituency in England for download speeds, with 56.8% of connections failing to hit the government's proposed universal service obligation.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: "We are committed to delivering 100% superfast broadband access across Scotland by 2021.
"This is the most ambitious commitment in the UK - focusing on delivery of speeds over 30mbps - whilst there is still no clarity from the UK government on how they intend to implement the proposed Universal Service Obligation for broadband - which will deliver just 10mbps.
"Alongside our partners, we have invested over £410m in the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme and are on track to deliver fibre broadband access to at least 95% of premises across Scotland by end 2017, and that thanks to the programme around 780,000 premises have been connected to fibre."
Percentage of connections below 10 Mb/s
The countries of North and West Africa have become embroiled in a new war waged by violent Islamist militants - a conflict that has no front line.
Last week's suicide assaults in Niger on a military base and French-run uranium mine, and a siege in January of the gas plant in Algeria reveal the insurgents' ruthless tactics.
And the start of the withdrawal of French troops from Mali, four months after recapturing northern cities from Islamist insurgents, is being touted by the militants on internet forums as the beginning of their victory.
But this is no sudden development.
Militants and armed radical groups have expanded and entrenched their positions throughout the Sahel and Sahara over the last decade under the umbrella of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).
They move from one country to another - a hard core of operatives working in an area that covers parts of south-west and south Libya, southern Algeria, northern Niger, north-east Mauritania and most of northern Mali.
Poorly administrated, these vast desert spaces provide the groups with an ideal terrain.
They also have connections in northern Nigeria, especially with home-grown militant group Boko Haram.
Analysts believe there are dormant cells in many large cities, including most capitals in the Sahel region.
There are several reasons that this network of militancy has flourished.
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One significant factor is the perceived arrogance and corruption of urban elites.
The marginalisation of poorer communities - both in rural areas and smaller towns - and minority ethnic groups has further alienated them from the governing classes.
Disgruntled young men have been happy to join radical groups that not only offer them an ideology, but money.
And it is the widespread drug trafficking in the region that is believed to have enriched militant groups.
Details about the operations are sketchy - large amounts of money are involved to ensure secrecy and loyalty.
Drugs from South America are taken across Africa to Europe, where they are more profitable and marketable.
A kilogramme of cocaine bought in Latin America for $3,000 (£1,990) can be sold in the capitals of West Africa for about $16,000; in North Africa it sells for $25,000 and can fetch about $45,000 in Europe.
Getting involved in the transit business as the conveyor or security agent provides not only a good salary but also the social recognition that money brings.
This is a tantalising prospect to many unemployed young men.
Western hostage taking is no less profitable for militant groups - and is another "business" that has grown in the last 10 years.
Between 80m-100m euros ($103m-130m) is estimated by the Center for Strategy and Security in the Sahel Sahara to have been paid in ransoms in this time, despite both the United Nations and the African Union discouraging such payments.
Information technology has been a great help to a hard core of between 350 and 450 experienced AQIM fighters estimated to work within the coalition of Islamist militant groups in the Sahel and Sahara region.
The leadership and high ranking officers are mostly Algerians and Mauritanians, but increasingly the Sahelians are moving up the ladder.
They are very mobile and knowledgeable about the region, can often avoid detection and the monitoring of their communications, and can count on hundreds of determined militias and armed sympathisers.
AQIM has its roots in groups in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia. One of its key affiliates is the well-disciplined Mujao group, which was active in Mali and claimed responsibility for last week's Niger attacks.
There is also believed to be a connection between AQIM and the growing piracy of the Gulf of Guinea - similar to the situation in Somalia where the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab group has strong links with pirates operating in the Indian Ocean.
In both cases the main objective is to expand the source of their funding and to enlarge their popular support through redistribution of the loot.
Last summer also saw reports of a liaison between the Islamist militants in the Sahel, al-Shabab and a few other "informal units" operating in the porous borders area between Chad, Libya and Sudan.
Al-Shabab militants were reported to have travelled overland to Mali disguised as Koranic students or merchants.
En route it is believed they stayed in safe houses in major cities before joining groups in the AQIM network to share experiences.
The groups interact on more of an informal than a co-ordinated basis - facilitated by lax border controls and territorial continuity.
They also exploit the tribal systems and relationships between ethnic groups, using them to their advantage.
Most rebel groups' supplies and logistics come down from the Maghreb or the fighters seize them by force from local armies.
Frustrated border populations either help the combatants or fail to report on them to government officials, despite being given Thuraya satellite phones to do so.
Today, however, the Sahel and Sahara region is at a crossroads.
There is an opportunity for the region's governments to get a grip on the situation and take advantage of France's gains.
Improving economies coupled with nascent freedoms in North Africa could also help improve weak governance, a major ingredient of terrorism.
In coalition with the private sector and civil society organisations, they could fight poverty and disenfranchisement, which could help quell the rebellion.
But there is only a short window of opportunity.
Combatants presently fighting on far fronts, such as Syria, may well return - whether victorious or defeated - to boost the morale and numbers of the Saharan radical groups confronted by French troops.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah is the former UN envoy for Somalia and West Africa and now runs the Center for Strategy and Security in the Sahel Sahara in Mauritania
Experts believe it could be "Scotland's Glastonbury", a reference to the lake village in Somerset.
The excavation was part-financed with £15,000 from Historic Scotland.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop described the village discovery at Black Loch of Myrton as "an exciting and unexpected find".
The dig was carried out this summer by AOC Archaeology Group, which hopes to use the pilot excavation as the starting point for a broader programme of archaeological activity.
It is one of 55 archaeology projects to receive more than £1m in funding from Historic Scotland for 2013/14.
The Wigtownshire dig was a small-scale pilot excavation of what was initially thought to be a crannog in the now-infilled Black Loch of Myrton, which was under threat of destruction as a result of drainage operations.
However during the excavation, AOC - which worked on the dig in conjunction with local volunteers - discovered evidence of multiple structures making up a small village.
What initially appeared to be one of a small group of mounds before excavation was revealed to be a massive stone hearth complex at the centre of a roundhouse.
The timber structure of the house has been preserved, with beams radiating out from the hearth forming the foundation, while the outer wall consists of a double-circuit of stakes.
The most surprising discovery was that the house was not built on top of an artificial foundation, but directly over the fen peat which had gradually filled in the loch.
Rather than being a single crannog, as first thought, it appears to be a settlement of at least seven houses built in the wetlands around the small loch.
This type of site is currently unique in Scotland and there are few other comparable sites elsewhere in the British Isles.
Similar lake villages - including Glastonbury and Meare, which is also in Somerset - have been found in England, but this is the first "loch village" to be uncovered in Scotland.
Experts hope that its discovery will help to improve knowledge and understanding of Iron Age Scotland.
Ms Hyslop welcomed the discovery.
"There are some excellent examples of 'lake villages' in England but this is the first time archaeologists have found a 'loch village' in Scotland," she said.
"I am pleased too that experts joined forces with local volunteers on this project and I look forward to discovering what more this important find can teach us about Iron Age Scotland."
According to Switzerland's office of the attorney general, the documents are connected to "the suspected payment of 2m Swiss francs [£700,000]".
It said the search in Paris was carried out at Switzerland's request.
The criminal investigation into Blatter, 79, began in September.
The office of the Swiss attorney general said the FFF consented to the search of its Paris base, which was carried out on Tuesday.
Swiss prosecutors have accused Blatter of criminal mismanagement or misappropriation over a TV rights deal and of a "disloyal payment" to suspended Uefa president Michel Platini.
Blatter, who served as head of world football's governing body from 1998 until 2015, and Frenchman Platini have denied any wrongdoing.
The pair have been suspended from all football-related activities for six years after a Fifa ethics committee investigation found them guilty of breaches surrounding the payment to Platini in 2011.
They have both said they will appeal against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Blatter and Platini say the payment honoured a verbal or gentleman's agreement made in 1998 for work carried out by the Frenchman when he was a technical advisor for Blatter.
Last month, Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino was elected as Blatter's successor and has vowed to "restore the image" of Fifa.
Lee has not played for the region since April, having been injured on Wales' summer tour of New Zealand.
Scott Williams will make his 100th appearance for the region while DTH van der Merwe's return on the wing means Liam Williams moves to full-back.
Scarlets beat Connacht in their last outing, while Treviso were 27-11 winners against Newport Gwent Dragons.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac had the trip to Treviso marked down as a tough assignment even before the Italian team's impressive win against Newport Gwent Dragons last week.
"We've won all our games in Italy in the past we haven't won them comfortably," he said.
"They really focus on their home games. There's a lot of travel involved and different conditions - it's warmer and humid, things we don't normal run into. They are a definite threat.
"They've got a new coach and they are moving a lot more ball and they have a big kicking game. We have to be clever."
Form guide: Scarlets registered their first points of the season thanks to 17-8 win over Connacht last Saturday while Treviso bounced back from their hammering by Ospreys to beat Newport Gwent Dragons 27-11.
Historically, Scarlets lead the series against Treviso 8-4, but the Italian team have won their last three meetings with Welsh regions.
Benetton Treviso: Jayden Hayward, Angelo Esposito, Tommaso Benvenuti, Alberto Sgarbi (C ), Luke McLean; Tommaso Allan, Giorgio Bronzini; Alberto De Marchi, Ornel Gega, Simone Ferrari, Marco Fuser, Filo Paulo, Francesco Minto, Dean Budd, Abraham Steyn.
Replacements: Luca Bigi, Matteo Zanusso, Cherif Traore, Filippo Gerosa, Marco Lazzaroni, Tito Tebaldi, Ian McKinley, Andrea Buondonno.
Scarlets: Liam Williams, DTH van der Merwe, Hadleigh Parkes, Scott Williams, Steff Evans; Rhys Patchell, Gareth Davies; Wyn Jones, Ken Owens [c], Samson Lee, Lewis Rawlins, David Bulbring, Aaron Shingler, 7 James Davies, John Barclay.
Replacements: Ryan Elias, Luke Garrett, Werner Kruger, Rynier Bernardo, Morgan Allen, Aled Davies, Aled Thomas, Steff Hughes
Referee: Gary Conway (IRFU, 23rd competition game)
Assistant Referees: Nigel Correll (IRFU), Simone Boaretto (FIR)
Citing Commissioner: Francesco Grillo (FIR)
Fe wnaeth Neil Hamilton amddiffyn penderfyniad ei blaid i ailddechrau ymgyrchu yn dilyn yr ymosodiad terfysgol ym Manceinion ddydd Llun.
Mae UKIP y DU a UKIP yng Nghymru wedi lansio'u maniffestos ddydd Iau, tra bod y pleidiau eraill wedi dechrau ymgyrchu'n lleol ac yn bwriadu ailddechrau ymgyrchu cenedlaethol ddydd Gwener.
"Os 'dyn ni'n penderfynu cuddio i ffwrdd... wedyn dwi'n meddwl y byddai'r terfysgwyr yn ystyried hynny fel buddugoliaeth," meddai.
Wrth ymateb i gwestiwn am safle isel y blaid yn y polau piniwn, dywedodd Mr Hamilton ei bod hi'n "anodd" i UKIP drosglwyddo'u neges am bolisïau domestig pan oedd pobl dal yn cysylltu'r blaid â'r ymgyrch i adael yr UE.
Ychwanegodd fod ymgyrch yr etholiad cyffredinol yn gyfle i esbonio beth fyddai gan UKIP i'w gynnig wedi Brexit.
Mae maniffesto UKIP Cymru dweud y byddan nhw'n cyfyngu ar gostau'r llywodraeth, cael gwared ar Gomisiynwyr Heddlu a Throsedd, a rhoi mwy o hawliau yn ymwneud ag ysgolion i rieni.
Mae'r maniffesto hefyd yn nodi y dylai gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl fod yn gydradd â thriniaethau corfforol.
Yn ôl Mr Hamilton, mae'n "ddogfen egnïol" ac y mae Cymru yn ganolog iddi.
Ymhlith addewidion UKIP mae:
Mae Mr Hamilton wedi galw'r ddogfen, sy'n dwyn y teitl 'Wales Into the World', yn "weledigaeth lawn" wedi Brexit.
Dywedodd: "O gymryd yr enillion isafswm cyflog allan o'r dreth incwm yn llwyr a rhoi cydraddoldeb i iechyd meddwl ac iechyd corfforol, mae'r maniffesto yn ddogfen egnïol yn llawn polisïau cartref sy'n rhoi Cymru yn y canol.
"Mae'r maniffesto yn canolbwyntio ar Gymru, a bydd yn cydfynd â'r maniffesto Prydeinig fydd yn cael ei lansio yn San Steffan."
Cafodd y maniffesto ei lansio gan Mr Hamilton, sydd yn AC dros Ganolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru, ym Mae Caerdydd fore Iau.
Yn gynharach ym mis Mai fe berfformiodd UKIP yn wael yn yr etholiadau lleol, gan fethu ag ennill yr un sedd yng Nghymru.
Fe wnaeth Mr Hamilton hefyd gyhuddo'r prif weinidog Theresa May o esgus brwydro dros adael yr UE er nad oedd hi'n credu yn yr achos.
Mewn cyfweliad gyda BBC Wales Today, dywedodd hefyd fod tro pedol ddiweddar ar bolisi'r Ceidwadwyr ar ofal cymdeithasol yn Lloegr yn arwydd nad oedd modd ymddiried yn y blaid.
"Mae hi'n ceisio portreadu ei hun fel fersiwn rhad o Buddug, yn ei cherbyd yn mynd i frwydro dros achos dyw hi ddim yn ei gredu," meddai.
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Wrth ymateb i lansiad maniffesto UKIP, dywedodd arweinydd y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol yng Nghymru, Mark Williams fod UKIP bellach yn "ddiangen".
"Mae Theresa May wedi mabwysiadu gweledigaeth oeraidd a rhanedig UKIP ar gyfer ein gwlad yn llwyr," meddai.
"Bydd Brexit eithafol Theresa May ac UKIP yn gwneud niwed go iawn a pharhaol i'n heconomi yng Nghymru."
Mae BBC Cymru wedi gofyn i'r pleidiau eraill am ymateb.
Brian Martin, 57, and Christopher McMultan, 40, are alleged to have entered Sarah Gloag's home in Perthshire on 19 January.
They are accused of holding a knife to her throat, and tying up Mrs Gloag and her husband as well as two children.
The men were remanded in custody after appearing in private at Perth Sheriff Court.
Sarah Gloag is the step-daughter of Ann Gloag, the founder of the Stagecoach transport company.
The charges against Mr Martin and Mr McMultan also allege that they stole jewellery worth £200,000 and £4,000 in cash from the house.
Both also face a number of other charges.
They made no plea or declaration.
What they say, and what they actually mean, matters hugely. But - with ministers revealing very little that they haven't already in advance of the triggering of the legal process to leave - there quite possibly won't even be that much more substance to come in tomorrow's letter.
Among all the speculation what's not being discussed that much is not the juggle between the UK and the rest of the EU, not the juggle between Scotland and the rest of the UK, not even the juggle inside the Tory party with Remainers urging the PM to face down the Eurosceptic right, but how on earth will Theresa May be able to seal her deal in two years' time with the electorate when they wanted such different things from the referendum.
And for the prime minister, that's one of the toughest parts of what beckons.
Leaving the EU didn't just divide the country between north and south, or town and country, or even constituency by constituency, but street by street, and of course inside the same households in some cases. Today we're with the prime minister in Birmingham where she is heralding more British investment from the Gulf state of Qatar, again underlining her oft-repeated desire to build closer relationships with countries outside the EU. But there's a big political job closer to home to be done.
As a city Birmingham voted narrowly to Leave the EU - 50.42% to 49.58%. But its constituencies were divided, six Leave and four Remain, as were even council wards which are often no more than a collection of a few streets.
As a snapshot, on one side of the same street in the Edgbaston constituency (which was a narrow Remain area) one council ward, Harborne, voted by nearly 70% to remain. On the other side of the road, Quinton, there was a clear verdict the other way. That situation is of course replicated time and again right around the country.
Of course the broad divisions are pertinent and worth reflecting. But the decision of whether to leave or stay created political splinters in thousands upon thousands of communities for all sorts of different reasons.
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The murder of Nikhil Joarder by suspected Islamist militants on Saturday was the latest in a wave of murders over the past three years.
More than 20 people, including bloggers, academics, foreigners and religious minorities, have been killed.
So-called Islamic State said it carried out the attack, accusing the dead man of insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
However the authorities deny the group is active in the country.
Nikhil Joarder spent two weeks in prison in 2012 for allegedly insulting the Prophet but the complaint was withdrawn.
The BDNews24 news agency has reported that two cases had been initiated in connection with the murder - one by the victim's family and another by local police over the discovery of small bombs allegedly found in a bag left at the scene of the crime by the assailants.
Police in the central district of Tangail say that among those they have detained over the murder is the principal of a madrassa or Islamic religious school.
A local official of the country's largest Islamic party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, is also being questioned, along with a member of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Mr Joarder was hacked to death while sitting outside his shop by assailants who escaped on a motorbike.
His killing came just a week after leading gay rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend were brutally murdered in the capital Dhaka.
A Bangladeshi militant group affiliated to al-Qaeda, Ansar al-Islam, said it was behind those killings.
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In a speech to mark Labour Day on Sunday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said it was members or supporters of her party who were mostly being targeted by the killers.
Last year, four prominent secular bloggers were killed with machetes.
The four bloggers had all appeared on a list of 84 "atheist bloggers" drawn up by Islamist groups in 2013 and widely circulated.
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The Justice Committee highlighted the use of the historic joint enterprise doctrine in recent cases involving gangs in England and Wales.
It suggests people who play a secondary role and do not encourage an attack should be charged with lesser offences.
The government says it will look at the MPs' report and respond in due course.
While the law of joint enterprise can apply to all offences, the MPs express concern over the way it has been used in murder trials against "minor players".
The doctrine is controversial and legal campaigners believe it allows individuals who may have had little involvement in the crime to be prosecuted for murder, an offence which carries a mandatory life sentence.
To get a conviction, prosecutors need only prove that a gang member could have foreseen that another person might inflict serious harm.
Successful prosecutions brought under the law include that of the killers of the Stephen Lawrence in 2011, more than 18 years after the black teenager was stabbed to death in south-east London.
But the mother of one of the three teenagers found guilty of murdering Garry Newlove in Warrington, who was attacked in August 2007 after he confronted a group outside his house, has campaigned against the law. Janet Cunliffe claims that although her son Jordan was present at the scene and convicted by a jury he did not take part in the attack.
The cross-party Justice Committee wants the government's law reform advisory body, the Law Commission, to examine the law.
The committee also says that the Law Commission should consider the proposition that it should not be possible to charge with murder, but only with manslaughter or a lesser offence, secondary participants in joint enterprise cases who did not encourage or assist the perpetration of the murder.
Committee chairman Sir Alan Beith said there were clearly cases in which joint enterprise was necessary and a review would have to be handled carefully so as not to cause distress to victims and their families.
The committee's previous report on joint enterprise in 2012 prompted the director of public prosecutions to issue guidelines on the level of involvement needed for a murder charge.
Sir Alan said young men from ethnic minority communities were disproportionately represented among those convicted under the law and some witnesses to the inquiry suggested it had been used as a "dragnet" by the authorities.
Sir Alan said: "Some have argued that the doctrine has an important effect in deterring young people from getting involved in criminal gang activities, but others are sceptical about this.
"There is a real danger in justifying the joint enterprise doctrine on the basis that it sends a signal or delivers a wider social message, rather than on the basis that it is necessary to ensure people are found guilty of offences in accordance with the law as it stands."
Justice Minister Mike Penning said the law had enabled some of the most serious offenders to be brought to justice.
He added: "Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the courts. We will look carefully at the Justice Committee recommendations and will respond formally in due course."
Academy-graduate Cox, 24, had one year left on his existing deal but has now agreed to stay at New Road until at least 2020.
"I'm a Worcester boy through and through - to sign for another four years is brilliant," Cox said.
"I've been here since I was nine-years-old and never thought of leaving. I want to play my cricket here."
Cox famously made his debut for the club as a 17-year-old schoolboy in September 2009 against Somerset at Taunton.
He scored 61 and claimed former England opener Marcus Trescothick as his first victim behind the stumps.
Cox's tally of 778 runs - including a maiden hundred and five half-centuries - was Worcestershire's second-highest as the county were relegated from Division One of the County Championship in 2015.
"To have somebody of his loyalty towards the club, and passion for the club, to reward him with a long contract is exactly what we are all about." director or cricket Steve Rhodes said.
"He's a terrific cricketer now, as consistent a wicketkeeper in county cricket that I have seen and to do that at a young age is incredibly good.
"But also his match-winning experience and ability with the bat in the different formats has been excellent."
Cox is the 10th player to have signed a new long-term contract at Worcestershire in the last 10 months.
Accrington-based National Advice Clinic made the calls about noise-induced hearing loss claims between October 2014 and April 2015.
The Claims Management Regulator (CMR), which oversees the compensation claims industry, said the cold-calling was "deliberate and sustained".
The company was not contactable for comment.
Many of those contacted by the company, which also trades as the Industrial Hearing Clinic and the Central Compensation Office, were on the Telephone Preference Service - designed to stop people receiving cold calls.
As a result, almost 2,000 complaints were made to the telecommunications industry regulator Ofcom.
Industrial Hearing Clinic was the subject of a BBC Panorama investigation in 2012, which looked at "very persistent" cold calls made by the company.
Ofcom advice on what to do if you receive nuisance calls includes:
CMR's Kevin Rousell said the calls had been "a flagrant breach of our marketing requirements".
He added: "They showed an alarming disregard for the misery their tactics can cause, particularly to elderly and vulnerable people, and the size of this penalty demonstrates how seriously we take this issue."
The CMR, which is based at the Ministry of Justice, has been able to remove licences from claims management companies since 2010 and was given powers to financially penalise companies in December 2014.
A spokesman said it had fined four companies so far, with this case incurring the largest penalty.
Justice Minister Lord Faulks said he was "pleased the regulator has imposed such a substantial fine for such blatant and shocking behaviour".
Stewart Winton attacked the victim, who is in her 40s, while his wife was out, sometime between April and June 2013.
He was arrested after the woman reported the incident to her support worker but Winton continued to claim she had consented to sex.
Winton was convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Jailing him, judge Lady Scott told Winton: "You have been found guilty of the rape of your victim who was incapable of consenting.
"She was obviously vulnerable and and you exploited that vulnerability for your own sexual gratification."
The judge also placed Winton on the sex offenders' register.
During his trial the court heard that former soldier Winton raped the woman while his wife of 43 years, who uses a wheelchair, was not at home.
Advocate depute Kath Harper, prosecuting, told the trial: "This woman's care workers say that she can follow instructions with prompting, but learning new tasks is difficult unless the information is broken down and she has support. On speaking to her, her learning disability would be apparent.
"Her IQ is in the bottom 4% of the population. She is found to have significant impairment in social function which covers awareness of dangers and taking care of herself."
Winton claimed that he had no idea of the woman's disabilities and believed she had consented to sex with him.
The court heard that the woman was eager to please and get along with people.
Ms Harper said: "Despite the fact she doesn't like confrontation, she could not have made it clearer she did not want to have sexual contact with Stewart Winton.
"She was frightened and told him, 'no, no Stewart, stop it Stewart' and pushed him away.
"And given her eagerness to please this must be a clear sign that she really didn't like what was happening."
When questioned by police, Winton told them: "It did happen to be honest with you. It was just one of those stupid things I did.
"My wife wasn't in at the time and she didn't seem to bother. I probably forced it a little bit."
The jury convicted him of rape after hearing that at the start of the police interview Winton had lied and said: "There was no actual intercourse or nothing."
Winton served in Cyprus and Northern Ireland with the Army, and later worked as a chef until he retired.
Play in the 0-0 Serie A draw on Sunday was stopped for about two minutes after chants were aimed at Milan's black players by visiting fans.
AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri called Italian football "a place for the uncivilised" afterwards.
In response to the ruling, Roma released a statement condemning the actions of their supporters.
It read: "This type of behaviour from any football supporters, including ours, is completely unacceptable. We are committed to facing this issue head-on to rid our sport of this problem and promote respect for all."
The capital club were also warned they could play future league matches behind closed doors should the same events be repeated.
The game was brought to a temporary halt at the start of the second half and an announcement made to supporters ordering them to cease their behaviour before play was resumed.
Former Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli, ex-Portsmouth midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng and defender Kevin Constant were part of the Milan team, with the governing body of the Italian league's judgement stating three unnamed players had been abused.
In January, a friendly between Milan and Pro Patria in January was suspended because of racist chants aimed at Boateng. In April, Juventus were fined 30,000 euros (£25,700) for their fans' racist abuse of AC Milan players.
The Milan v Roma match marked the first time in Italian football where play had been temporarily halted and then re-started, but Allegri questioned the strength of the sanction.
"Stopping the game doesn't work, it's a happy medium and like all happy mediums, it doesn't do anybody any good," he said.
"Balotelli was defeated, he gave everything, but he is 22 and subjected more and more to racist chants. That doesn't do him any good."
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter also voiced his disgust at the Roma fans' behaviour, tweeting: "Appalled to read about racist abuse in Serie A. Tackling this issue is complex, but we're committed to action, not just words."
In the aftermath of the Milan and Pro Patria game, Fifa created a special taskforce to tackle the issue. Members included Boateng, Premier League referee Howard Webb, the Football Association's governance and regulation director Darren Bailey and pressure group Football Against Racism in Europe's chief executive Piara Powar.
The group met on Monday, with the world governing body since publishing an outline of proposed sanctions for clubs and individuals found guilty of "racist or discriminative acts".
These will include having an official at the stadium tasked to spot "acts of discrimination", creating a sliding scale of punishments from fines to playing games behind closed doors and the creation of "a concrete action plan" by all bodies describing how they will try to fight racism.
Seventeen of the 160 investigations in the report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman were in Greater London.
The cases also included a man who had a tube put in incorrectly and later died.
Barts Health NHS Trust had not responded to comment when the story was published.
After treatment for breast cancer, the woman, referred to as Ms J, was told it was necessary to remove her ovaries because of a non-malignant mass.
She sought a second opinion which concluded their removal was not necessary.
The ombudsman said: "There was no clinical need for Ms J's ovaries to be removed."
It said the trust had agreed to put the doctors responsible through further training and had paid the woman £250. The report said the hospital also lost her records.
In another case, involving North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, in north London, during winter 2011 a man referred to as Mr E was "incorrectly discharged" from hospital, after suffering pain in his knee, said the ombudsman.
He returned the next day to A&E where staff put a tube into his groin, it said.
Health workers did not realise for several hours they had put the tube in incorrectly and when they took it out, he suffered complications, according to the report. His condition deteriorated and he died in early 2012.
Mr E's daughter complained to the hospital. The ombudsman said it handled her complaint "poorly".
A spokesman for North Middlesex University Hospital said: "Since the ombudsman's report last year, we have written to the family apologising.
"We have also followed all of the ombudsman's recommendations on how to improve our complaints handling."
The US Federal Trade Commission said the company’s smart TV technology had captured data on what was being viewed on screen and transmitted it to the firm’s servers.
The data was sold to third parties, the FTC said.
Vizio has said the data sent could not be matched up to individuals.
It wrote: " [The firm] never paired viewing data with personally identifiable information such as name or contact information, and the Commission did not allege or contend otherwise.
"Instead, as the complaint notes, the practices challenged by the government related only to the use of viewing data in the ‘aggregate’ to create summary reports measuring viewing audiences or behaviours.”
'Second-by-second'
The FTC said the data collection began in February 2014 and affected around 11 million televisions.
"Vizio collected unique data from each household with a Vizio smart TV that included not only second-by-second viewing information, but also the household’s IP address, nearby access points, zip code, and other information,” the FTC said in a blog post explaining the settlement.
"They also shared that information with other companies."
It added: "This settlement stops Vizio’s unauthorised tracking, and makes clear that smart TV makers should get people’s consent before collecting and sharing television viewing information.”
As part of the settlement Vizio agreed to more prominently tell its customers how data is stored and collected, and to seek firmer, clearer consent beforehand. The company has been ordered to delete the data it collected.
Smart TVs - sets that have additional features such as on-demand viewing or video calling - have raised privacy concerns before. In 2015 it emerged Samsung’s models were transmitting potentially sensitive voice data without users’ knowledge.
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Poole Town boss Tom Killick used the window of groundsman Chris Kelly's home overlooking the club's Tatnam ground.
Killick saw his side beat Cambridge City 3-2 on Saturday to stay top of the Southern League Premier Division.
"In some ways it's a better view because I'm looking at things from above," Killick told BBC Radio Solent.
"Sometimes it's better to see the match from that perspective, but the big thing is the lack of communication with the players. That is what I'm finding difficult."
Killick was serving the fifth match of a six-game suspension for comments made to a referee during a defeat by Redditch on 17 January.
Robert Sadler, 59, was killed by the blaze at his home at Llanrumney in Cardiff on 10 January, 2016.
Emma Sadler appeared at Cardiff Crown Court via video-link and pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, manslaughter and arson on Thursday.
A trial date was set for 13 March and she was remanded to a hospital in West Sussex.
The group, led by Prof Sir Steve Smith, Vice-Chancellor of Exeter University, fears for the future of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research fund.
The EU is considering plans to divert some research money to a more broadly based strategic investment fund.
Universities across Europe say this would harm research and innovation.
Under the proposals some £1.95bn (2.7bn euros) of the money previously earmarked for research in Horizon 2020 could be transferred into the European Strategic Investment Fund (EFSI), says the umbrella group Universities UK.
The European Commission argues that the transfer will widen the range of institutions and businesses which can benefit from the money and boost entrepreneurship, jobs and growth.
It describes EFSI as "a major step toward job creation and growth in the European economy".
Horizon 2020 was only launched last year and at the outset was worth nearly £67bn (80bn euros) over seven years, to the end of 2020.
The funds are allocated through a competitive process, in which Britain traditionally fares very well, second only to Germany.
UK universities, research centres and businesses were expected to receive £2bn in the first two years of the scheme.
This amounts to just over a fifth of the total British government spend on science.
Vice-chancellors are understandably concerned about any threat to this source of income.
"EU research funding enables UK universities to pursue large scale, high-impact transnational research projects which stimulate direct foreign investment and contribute to growth and competitiveness in the UK and the EU," said Prof Smith, who is also chairman of Universities UK's international policy network.
"It is of fundamental importance that long-term and reliable EU research funding is protected and prioritised.
"The UK should play a leadership role in policy development and ensuring sustainable EU investment in this area."
Prof Smith said the fact that so many vice-chancellors had joined the delegation highlighted the extent of their concerns and the importance of EU funding to higher education in the UK.
In a statement last December universities from across Europe warned that properly funded research was a "prerequisite for innovation", and cuts would risk "performance loss".
The proposal was adopted in a legislative proposal by the European Commission in January and the European Parliament is due to vote on it in a few weeks time.
The Universities UK delegation includes vice-chancellors from the universities of Cardiff, Exeter, Aberdeen, Sunderland, Leicester and Plymouth.
Rovers outscored Trinity by three tries from Kieran Dixon, Adam Walker and Ken Sio to two, but Dixon and Ryan Shaw failed with the goal attempts.
Liam Finn's penalty goal proved crucial on the back of converted scores by Mickael Simon and Stuart Howarth.
The win was Wakefield's first regular-season success since 1 July 2015.
Chris Chester's Hull KR have just a point from their opening three games, following a draw with Castleford in their opening match.
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Rovers started brightly and a smart pass by Iain Thornley put Dixon in, but Wakefield fought back soon after when Simon bashed over.
The visitors moved ahead when Howarth crossed on the left side, on the back of a scything run from winger Tom Johnstone.
Rovers again targeted the left and Walker was too powerful to stop from close range, but Dixon pulled another kick wide.
Wakefield looked as though they had let the chance to score pass when Rovers mopped up another repeat set, but Maurice Blair was sent to the sin-bin and Finn stroked the penalty goal through to extend the lead.
Sio went over but Rovers were unable to draw level through Shaw and both he and Dixon had tries ruled out by referee Robert Hicks as time ran out on the hosts.
Wakefield coach Brian Smith: "There is something about our group, as a group together, and I see that most days.
"There is a good togetherness and toughness about them and they might shock everybody as the season goes on.
"We can make ourselves into a really decent team and it will be because of those qualities, not a miracle."
Hull KR coach Chris Chester: "I'm the leader of this team and we're in it together. We've got a short turnaround which is good as we try and put things right for the next game.
"I can't put finger on why we were so poor for the first 40 to 50 minutes. It's disappointing, the way we played."
Hull KR: Cockayne; Sio, Salter, Thornley, Dixon; Blair, Kelly; Walker, Lawler, Tilse, Clarkson, Horne, Allgood.
Interchanges: Mulhern, Shaw, Greenwood, Green.
Wakefield: Jones-Bishop; Johnstone, Tupou, Arundel, Lyne; Miller, Finn; Simon, Howarth, England, Molloy, Tupou, Arona.
Interchanges: Anderson, Sio, Annakin, Walton.
Referee: Robert Hicks
Elgin City moved above Annan into third place on goal difference, despite only taking a point against Montrose.
Clyde boosted their hopes of avoiding a relegation play-off with a 2-1 win over Annan while Berwick Rangers lost by a solitary goal to Stirling Albion.
And bottom side Cowdenbeath are three points adrift after a 1-1 draw with Edinburgh City.
City are a point above Clyde and four ahead of Cowden as the capital side seek to stay in the division after entering the Scottish Professional Football League's lowest division for the first time this season.
They led at home to Cowdenbeath through Josh Walker's free-kick but Kris Renton struck to restore parity in stoppage time.
In the top of the table encounter, Josh Peters fired Forfar ahead early in the second half but Ryan McCord's 65th-minute free-kick levelled matters.
Elgin's Brian Cameron netted from close range early on but Chris Templeman headed Montrose level on the hour and it finished 1-1 at Borough Briggs.
Darren Smith struck to put visitors Stirling 1-0 up after 17 minutes and Berwick could not recover.
At Broadwood Stadium, Chris Smith nodded Clyde ahead only for Aidan Smith to draw Annan Athletic level.
But David Gormley's 81st-minute shot gave the Bully Wee a valuable three points.
The 24-year-old suffered the injury late on in Monday's defeat at Championship leaders Newcastle.
Boss Steve Bruce had been concerned the injury could have left the former Brentford man out for the remainder of the season.
Hogan joined Villa from the Bees for £12m in January but is yet to score in four appearances.
Meanwhile, the Championship strugglers have confirmed that former Blackburn and QPR defender Christopher Samba, 32, is training with them.
Samba is a free agent after having his contract with Greek side Panathinaikos cancelled.
The latest incident occurred on 23 February, when a man was pushed into the Grand Union Canal near Alfred Road, Westbourne Park.
He suffered cuts and bruises and was helped out of the water by passers-by.
The five other incidents took place nearby, and the cyclists targeted were all men in their 30s and 40s.
The cases being treated as related with the attack on 23 February happened:
The suspects are described as black males in their late teens or early 20s.
Appealing for information, Inspector Anna Brennan, head of the Safer Neighbourhoods team in Westminster, said: "These incidents have been very unpleasant for the victims.
"They may have not suffered particularly serious injuries, but have been left frightened and highly traumatised by what has happened to them."
She added: "Pushing strangers into a canal is not funny, and could have very serious consequences."
The Met has increased patrols along the canal by uniformed officers.
The Lilywhites rejected an approach from their Championship rivals two weeks ago.
Hugill's two goals at Aston Villa on Saturday took him eight in 29 appearances this season.
He joined from Port Vale in 2014, after starting his career in non-league football.
The "nine dragons" ceramic hat stand had been kept on a table in the hallway of a Welsh house since the early 1950s.
It had originally been made for the Qing-era emperor Dauguang in the mid-19th Century but was later converted to a lamp.
The stand sold for more than £280,000 above the £300,000 guide price at Christie's in King Street, London.
The initial UK order for 14 F-35Bs will, with support costs added, cost about £2.5bn, Newsnight has learned.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the F-35B was an expensive plane, but one with an "incredible capability".
But critics have questioned Ministry of Defence suggestions that the jets will be combat capable by 2018.
The F35-B will be known as Lightning II in UK active service and is going to replace the already retired Harrier.
The aircraft - capable of vertical landing - will eventually be able to fly from new carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
The F-35 programme is central to the future of the Royal Navy and the military aerospace sector of the economy, but it has been plagued by development problems, is years late into service and the true cost to the UK is only just becoming clear.
At one stage, the US Marines had hoped to bring the F-35 into service in 2010, but they now hope to do so late in 2015. Many industry experts say this is hopelessly optimistic.
Newsnight has learned that Britain originally intended its F-35s to enter service in 2012.
With 8.4m lines of software, it is by far the most complex fighter ever built, but a Pentagon inspector's report stated that by last summer only 2% of that code was fully up to standard. Much of the plane's software, including that needed to aim and launch weapons, remains to be proven in tests.
Aircraftmaker Lockheed Martin argues that 7.4m lines of the aircraft's software have now been tested, but one senior source familiar with Britain's F-35 programme says continuing software problems are "the number one risk" to the UK bringing it into service on time.
Former Royal Navy chief Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, who now works with Lockheed Martin, believes the new aircraft is vital to maintaining Britain's status as a serious international player.
"By the end of the decade, we are going to have a credible air capability," he said, adding that the Ministry of Defence's original commitment to buying 48 jets "will certainly not be enough".
Worries about risk - financial and technological - have kept the British government from committing to bigger numbers.
Newsnight understands that the first 14 aircraft will be bought for £58m ($96m) apiece. However, once spares, maintenance and initial support are included, the price will be much higher.
There is concern in the MoD that observers will simply divide the approximate £2.5bn cost of this stage of the project by the 14 planes being ordered, whereas this price tag includes certain support costs for the entire, eventual UK fleet.
One Pentagon estimate last year for an aircraft plus support costs for the first few years came out at £154m ($253m) each.
In planning its own buy, Britain has shown a little more caution than the hard-charging US Marine Corps.
It's planned that the 14 aircraft will form the first operational squadron in 2018, and that by 2020 they will be able to fly from HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Justin Bronk, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, said that even by then, they might be capable only of "going through the motions" - taking off and landing - and not using the more advanced weapons in the RAF inventory.
People in the MoD say they are confident the aircraft will be "combat capable", with a basic range of bombs and missiles, by 2018, although they concede that getting some of the RAF's more advanced missiles to work with the F-35 will not happen before 2022.
However, others in the industry have suggested that 2025 might be a more realistic date for full combat capability, and that funding to "integrate" some of these weapons with the F-35 could come under threat at some future point.
Mr Hammond said: "[The F-35] will be the world's most sophisticated fighter aircraft with a high level of stealth capability, so it will be able to penetrate enemy defences with very little radar signature, which makes it a very versatile and capable piece of equipment.
"And it will provide a backbone to our air forces, including our carrier power projection for many years to come."
He added of the software issues: "It would be a mistake to think of this as a software that will be completely written when the aircraft comes into service.
"There will be updates of software throughout the life of these aircraft, adding capability as well as dealing with any specific issues that arise when the aircraft is in use."
That means the jobless rate has fallen to 5.6%, down from 5.7% for the three months to January, in line with forecasts.
The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in March fell by 20,700 to 772,400, the Office for National Statistics said.
Employment hit a new record high, up 248,000 to 31.049 million.
That was the biggest increase in a three-month period since April 2014.
The unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since July 2008 and down from 7.9% at the time of the last election in 2010.
The ONS also said on Friday that average weekly earnings in the three months to February, excluding bonuses, rose by 1.8% compared with the same period a year earlier. The rate was down from 1.9% in January.
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The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner has been asked by prosecutors to look into the circumstances leading up to the death of Steven Chesney.
Mr Chesney died at Wishaw General Hospital after becoming unwell on arrival at Motherwell police station.
The watchdog will report its findings to the Crown Office.
Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said: "Our thoughts are with the family at this tragic time.
"We can confirm that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has instructed the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) to carry out an independent investigation into the circumstances leading up to the death of a 33 year old man at Wishaw General Hospital who became unwell on arrival in police custody within Motherwell Police office on Sunday 1st May 2016."
Marvel's Iron Man, Captain America and the Hulk along with DC Comics favourites Batman and Superman now have their own plaid.
Houston Kiltmakers, a fourth generation family-run business in Paisley, Renfrewshire, has created the tartans.
The outfitters and Highland wear specialists is also considering a range for female characters including Supergirl and Catwoman.
Batman's sidekick Robin, also Wolverine and Spider-Man have their own tartans too.
Previously, tartan has been rarely seen in the superhero genre with the most famous wearer of it until now being Super Gran.
Stuart Davison, the kiltmakers' head of marketing, came up with the idea.
Mr Davison said: "I thought it would be a good way to raise the profile and make a connection with perhaps a different audience.
"There have been quite a few comments that people would like to see tartans for female superheroes, so we are looking into this."
Houston Kiltmakers' boss Ken MacDonald is also vice-chairman of the Scottish Tartans Authority, an organisation with aims preserve, promote and protect tartan for future generations.
Mr MacDonald, whose grandfather started the family business more than 100 years ago, also holds the role of Deacon of the Incorporation of Weavers of Glasgow.
Between 1,000 and 1,700 extra vehicles a day cut through villages in the summer, to avoid using the congested A303 route, figures show.
Shrewton, Larkhill and Bulford were the worst affected villages.
In 2013 the A344, which runs past Stonehenge, was shut. The council denied the closure made traffic worse.
Ms de Rhe-Philipe, cabinet member for strategic transport at Wiltshire Council, said: "We have been working very hard to press the government to make sure the whole of the A303 is improved and dualled - particularly past Stonehenge," she said.
"We can look at possible weight restrictions in various places and possible re-signage but the immediate problem is not going to go away until that road is fixed."
In 2013, the A344 was shut as part of a £27m to restore Stonehenge's "dignity".
Since its closure, residents of nearby villages claim there has been an increase in drivers using their villages as cut-throughs.
In the spring, a 10-day survey was carried out and repeated in August, using cameras at 15 monitoring sites.
"It's taken from February until now - November - to prove something we already knew," said councillor Ian West, for Till and Wylye Valley.
"I hope Wiltshire Council will sit up and say we made a mistake and we're going to help you [the community]."
Athletics' governing body is discussing what action to take against Russia after they were accused of "state-sponsored doping".
The IAAF is considering whether to implement a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommendation to ban Russian athletics from the 2016 Olympics.
Mutko said Russia is willing to do "whatever the IAAF says".
"I guarantee - in the name of the state - that we will co-operate in any way to sort out the athletics federation in the shortest possible time," he said.
"If we need to change everyone there - we will do it. But to wipe Russian athletics off the map? We don't agree with that, of course."
Wada's independent report, released on Monday, examined allegations of doping, cover-ups, and extortion in Russian athletics, which also implicated the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
It says London 2012 was "sabotaged" by "widespread inaction" against athletes with suspicious doping profiles.
It also recommended that five Russian athletes and five coaches should be given lifetime doping bans. The athletes and coaches named are yet to respond to the report's findings, and the allegations are unproven.
Russia hopes to prevent its athletes being banned from next year's Olympics by claiming "irregularities" around its drug-testing system were down to the sport's "old leadership".
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Mutko said Russia will not boycott the Rio Games should the country's athletes be barred from competing, but argued a collective ban would be "ridiculous".
Yelena Isinbayeva - the pole vault world record holder and one of Russia's most decorated athletes - wrote an open letter before Friday's IAAF meeting.
She said denying Russian athletes the chance to compete would be "unjust and unfair".
Isinbayeva ended the letter by writing: "I believe that they will make the right decisions. The guilty will answer for their actions, and the innocent will be able to continue to serve and represent our country in all international sports arenas."
The Japanese computer games firm posted a net loss of 2bn yen ($24.7m; £15.6m) for the six months to 30 September.
This compares with a net profit of 69.5bn yen for the same period in 2009.
Nintendo's sales for the first half of its financial year were down 34% to 363.16bn yen, partly due to lower demand for its Wii console.
The company did not release a net profit figure for its second quarter to 30 September, however its operating profit more than halved to 30.9bn yen.
Nintendo is forecasting that its annual profit will drop to the lowest level in six years, as sales of the Wii console decline for the second year in succession.
The firm has also been forced to delay the launch of the new 3D version of its DS hand-held console in the US until March, meaning it will miss out on key Christmas sales.
Nintendo's weak results were in line with market expectations, as it had already warned at the end of last month that profits would be lower.
The release of its latest figures came after the close of Thursday trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nintendo shares had closed down 0.7%.
Alcohol is responsible for around one-in-20 of all deaths in Wales - 29 a week - says Public Health Wales.
Higher proportions of children in Wales aged 11 to 16 were drinking alcohol than in England or Scotland.
The report said progress was being made, with heavy drinking falling among adults under 45, but it could be on the increase among older people.
Although alcohol consumption in Wales had fallen slightly since 2008, the report Alcohol and Health in Wales warned that Welsh hospitals were still handling 1,000 alcohol-related admissions every week.
Prof Mark Bellis at Public Health Wales said: "We need to help people make the right choices about their own drinking.
"Too many drinkers fail to recognise how even moderate drinking can increase their risks of developing diseases such as cancer.
"The normalisation of drinking at a young age is also especially harmful and our problems with alcohol must be tackled early in life," he added.
Andrea Gartner, project lead for the report, added: "This new report provides a comprehensive analysis of alcohol consumption patterns and the impact of alcohol on health.
"It will provide stakeholders with the necessary information to inform action and drive change."
The tree, which stands on a traffic island in the Shawlands area, is surrounded by a tall metal fence.
Many local people have vented their feelings on the community council's Facebook page, with one woman claiming the tree looked like it was "trapped".
Glasgow City Council said the tree was fenced off for safety reasons and to ensure the lights were not pulled off.
Dorothy Boyd branded the tree "hideous" on Shawlands and Strathbungo community council's social media page.
Meanwhile Carol Meldrum wrote: "The poor thing looks like it's trapped", and William Love posted: "What an eyesore... nae common sense."
The community council had hoped the fence could be replaced with a lower crowd control barrier.
But they have been told the high fence has to stay because because contractors are concerned about the risk of a member of the public coming into contact with mains electricity if they climb over the railing.
Community council chairman Gary Cushway said: "It seems it's the contractors that have refused to sign off for health and safety reasons.
"There is a feeling that if you are going to make the effort to put the tree up, then make it look half reasonable rather than just throwing it up.
"It needs to be safe but there are a lot of families around the area and the children would like to have it looking nice. Perhaps the fence could be decorated to make it look nicer.
"Some people have said it looks like it has been caged."
The community council hopes to begin negotiating with the city council early next year in the hope of finding a better solution for the festive tree in 2017.
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council, which is responsible for the tree, said: "The Christmas tree in Shawlands had Heras fencing installed around it by our contractors for safety reasons and also to ensure lights are not pulled off, as has happened on occasion in some locations.
"The installation of such fencing depends on a site specific assessment by the installation contractor.
"It should be noted that the Christmas tree in Shawlands was moved from its usual location at Shawlands Cross because of public realm work taking place there, and as always, we will review locations for next year."
The council said a number of the city's 26 neighbourhood Christmas trees have similar fencing.
The Northern Ireland international is out of contract in the summer and is considering his options.
McInnes says the club have made McGinn "a strong offer" to remain at Pittodrie, and hopes the player will still be there beyond the summer.
"We certainly hope Niall is part of the squad for next season," McInnes said after his side's 3-0 win over Dundee.
The Dons boss believes the temptation to try a new experience at a different club, rather than money, could be the key reason for McGinn's indecision over whether to stay at Aberdeen.
"We've made Niall what we feel is a strong offer," McInnes explained.
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"It's not so much the contract offer for Niall. I think it's just maybe weighing up more what he wants to do next, whether he wants to stay for a bit longer, which we certainly hope is the case, or whether he wants to try something different.
"He's quite within his rights and we respect that. What is clear is Niall has never at any point said that he wants to leave.
"He's always indicated his love for the club and how much he's enjoying it. We're hoping that side of it, as well as a strong contract offer from us, will get the job done but everything will become a bit clearer for everybody over the next few weeks.
McGinn was in fine form as Aberdeen swept aside Dundee to move up to second in the Premiership.
The forward scored two and laid on the other in a terrific individual display that impressed his manager.
"We head to wait longer than we hoped to get in front but once we made the breakthrough we brought some real quality," said the Dons boss.
"Niall's first goal was top drawer. I thought it was a fantastic piece of individual play. It just comes out of nothing. He scored quality goals like that throughout his time here."
It was a difficult evening's viewing for Dundee manager Paul Hartley, who says his team made life too easy for the hosts.
"The start was promising but after that we didn't defend properly," Hartley said. "For us tonight not to defend balls coming in, they seemed to switch off and not do their jobs.
"We've got to do the basics properly. For me, we've got to try and make it as difficult as possible. We didn't do that.
"We want to try and bring some players in. It's not going to be easy. Financially it's going to be difficult. We've enquired about some players, we can't get them because of the financial side of it.
"We want to add quality and we need to add quality."
But their pastime could be a thing of the past after police seized 81 vehicles they say were being raced.
The number plates had been taken off to make the cars harder to identify.
Drivers will face 100,000 dirham fines ($27,000; £19,000) and owners will need to pay 50,000 dirham, local media say.
Dubai police chief Maj Gen Khamis Al Mazinah said: "Traffic patrols tracked a number of reckless drivers and seized 81 vehicles", though he did not specify when.
He said the owners "were using or preparing to use their cars for illegal races. Other cars were caught in dangerous performances and reckless driving that endangered road users."
He said some of the drivers reached speeds of 196mph while trying to escape police patrols.
If the owners do not pay the fine within three months, police have the right to sell the vehicles, the Khaleej Times newspaper reports.
Luxury cars are hugely popular in the wealthy Gulf emirate. Even the police force drive Lamborghinis, Porsches and Aston Martins.
Transport officials said last year that the number of vehicles in Dubai had doubled in the previous eight years, giving them more cars per person than New York or London, AFP news agency reports.
Although she opposes abortion, she said the measure was vague and would not withstand a legal challenge.
The state senate on Thursday backed the bill that would have punished doctors who terminate a pregnancy with up to three years in prison. They would also be barred from practicing medicine.
To override the veto, lawmakers require a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Abortion is legal in the US, and abortion rights activists have already described the bill as unconstitutional.
Two abortion clinics remain open in Oklahoma after the state recently enacted a number of new regulations affecting the facilities.
Ms Fallin, a rising star in conservative circles, has been mentioned as a potential running mate for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Anti-abortion groups said they hoped to use the bill to trigger a legal case that would overturn Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court verdict that made abortion legal in 1973.
Legislation similar to that in Oklahoma was enacted in Utah and Louisiana in 1991 - but the laws were later ruled unconstitutional.
In recent years, conservatives have sought to tighten restrictions on abortion clinics and doctors rather than seek an outright ban.
Abortion rights advocates say these measures are meant to restrict women's access to abortion.
The new laws are particularly widespread in conservative southern states.
This week, South Carolina's legislators passed a bill that would bar abortions after the 19 weeks of pregnancy.
Syrian police had been chasing three suspected car bombers that were trying to enter the capital, state TV said.
Police stopped and detonated two of the vehicles, but the third driver entered Tahrir square in the east and blew himself up after being surrounded.
Syria is in the midst of a six-year-long civil war, with Damascus still mostly under government control.
At least 12 people were injured in Sunday's blast, reports said.
State TV said the attackers had planned to bomb crowded areas in the capital on the first working day after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
"The terrorist bombings killed and wounded several civilians and caused physical damage to the area," a police official told state news agency Sana.
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A local resident told AFP he heard "gunfire at around 06:00 (03:00 GMT), then an explosion which smashed the glass of houses in the neighbourhood".
An AFP correspondent at the scene saw extensive damage to nearby buildings and two bombed cars at one side of the square.
Syria's foreign ministry sent a letter to the UN saying up to 20 people were killed and dozens of women and children were among the wounded, Reuters reports.
No group has said it carried out the attack.
More than 300,000 people have lost their lives in the Syrian war, which began with anti-government protests in 2011.
The UN's refugee agency says that since the conflict began about 5.5 million people have left the country, and another 6.3 million have been left internally displaced.
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Damascus has remained mostly under the control of President Bashar al-Assad, and avoided much of the fighting.
However, the capital has experienced a number of suicide bomb attacks.
In March, two bomb attacks in the capital killed more than 40 people - the majority of them Iraqi pilgrims visiting the Bab al-Saghir cemetery, which houses Shia mausoleums. A jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda claimed that attack.
A few days later, an attack on the capital's main court complex killed at least 31 people. That attack was claimed by the Islamic State militant group (IS).
Such attacks may become more common as IS loses its territory and resorts to its tactic of striking soft targets in cities to sow instability, the BBC's Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher reports.
The army is still fighting rebels in the eastern suburban areas of Jobar and Ain Tarma.
The council has been given £85,000 to improve links between the B5129 at Queensferry and Deeside Industrial Park.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said the Welsh Government investment will help link communities with jobs.
He added £50m in total is earmarked for the metro in its budget.
But republicans needed to persuade unionists that they would have a better future in a united Ireland, he added.
Mr Adams was speaking a week on from what he called a "watershed" election.
The 2 March poll brought an end to Stormont's unionist majority, with nationalists holding an equal number of seats for the first time.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) won the most seats, but saw its lead over Sinn Féin cut from 10 seats to one.
Mr Adams said that despite the result, unionists still had a majority among the population in Northern Ireland.
"There is still a big onus on us to persuade them that this is how their future would best be developed," he added.
"I don't want to see the unionists in the place that nationalists used to be in.
"We need an entirely new Ireland, we need an Ireland which unionism is comfortable with, that they have an ownership of and that they agree to."
The Sinn Féin leader said last year's Brexit vote had begun to shift opinions on Irish unity.
The UK voted to leave the European Union but, in Northern Ireland, a majority (56%) voted to remain.
"It's not exactly tangible, it's a sense of expectation, a sense of hope, a sense of 'doabilty'," said Mr Adams.
"Ten years ago Scottish independence was a minority occupation for men in kilts.
"Most people in Scotland hadn't really bought into it, but now they have. The same thing is going to happen, in my opinion, for those of us who want Irish unity."
When asked if he now envisaged seeing a united Ireland within his lifetime, the 68-year-old said: "It depends how long I live, but my hope is - yes."
A promotional photo of tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko showed him looking, according to the Hyperallergic website, "like he'd had a bronzer malfunction".
The company has used dark make-up for Verdi's opera since its first production of Otello in 1891.
But Met general manager Peter Gelb said it "makes sense" to end that practice.
He told Hyperallergic: "We recently came to the conclusion that it would make sense, that this production should not employ any [dark] make-up. I realise it's a sensitive issue.
"We feel that it's the appropriate direction for this production and we're happy with that decision."
The decision was reached with the production's director Bartlett Sher, he said.
"Quite frankly, Bart and I have talked about this for some time, how [Otello] should look in this production, so it's a decision that has evolved over time."
The brochure photograph of the Latvian tenor was achieved "mostly through shadowy lighting", he said, adding: "It was meant to be very moody and atmospheric."
Verdi's Otello, first performed in 1887, is based on Shakespeare's Othello. The title character is described as a Moor, a term that referred to people from north Africa.
In 2014 The English National Opera staged a production of Otello by David Alden, in which the lead performer also did not wear dark make-up.
Five-time Grand Slam winner Sharapova, 30, was up a set and a break but squandered it to lose 3-6 7-5 6-4.
Mladenovic, 23, faces German Laura Siegemund in Sunday's final.
Having been given a wildcard entry, Russian Sharapova needed to reach the final in Germany to be eligible for qualifying for the French Open.
Her defeat means she will be outside the top 200 when the rankings are released on Monday, so she will need a wildcard to compete in qualifying or the main draw in the event in Paris, which starts on 28 May.
She will learn on 16 May whether she will be given a wildcard for either stage at Roland Garros.
Sharapova, who has also received wildcards for forthcoming tournaments in Madrid and Rome, took complete control at the start of the contest as a second double fault gave her a 4-1 lead before sealing the first set in just 38 minutes.
She broke Mladenovic again at the start of the second set and looked to be cruising to victory, but despite conceding 11 double faults, the Frenchwoman improved her baseline game and fought her way back into the contest.
The world number 19 broke back and then held her composure to survive three break points to go 6-5 ahead before converting her first set point on Sharapova's next service game.
The pair traded blows early in the third before Mladenovic grabbed a break to go 4-2 up and fought back from 0-40 to hold her serve.
Sharapova rallied to pull it back to 5-4, but Mladenovic was not to be denied her first win over the Russian and converted her first match point.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
The pressure told on Sharapova as the match got tighter - as you would expect it to after 15 months away. Mladenovic's second serve was very vulnerable, but she showed huge heart to save 13 of 16 break points.
This has still been a very encouraging week for the former world number one: she will be just outside the top 250 when her name returns to the rankings on Monday and could yet make the cut for Wimbledon's main draw. That will depend on how well she plays in Madrid and Rome and another semi-final appearance in either of those events might just do the trick.
Published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers modified pro-biotics so they lit up in the presence of cancers in mice.
In separate research, scientists re-wired the genetics of bacteria so they changed colour when detecting sugar.
Several further studies are needed before these could be seen in clinics.
But a team of US scientists, including researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego, say bacteria could one day provide a good way of making new diagnostic tools.
They have several advantages - bacteria are relatively cheap and easy to grow for example.
In the first study US researchers used E. coli bugs harvested from a readily available pro-biotic.
The bugs are able to grow on certain tumours while ignoring healthy tissue.
Exploiting this property, the researchers re-wired their genetics so the bacteria produced an enzyme that was easy to detect.
When given to mice with liver tumours, their urine changed colour or gave off light, depending on which additional substances were added to the signalling system.
In the second paper, published in the same journal, a group of researchers engineered E. coli bacteria to change colour in the presence of sugar.
The team, including scientists from Montpellier University Hospital and the company Sys2Diag, tested the modified bugs on patients' urine.
As people with untreated diabetes can have sugar in their urine, the bugs changed colour when added to their samples.
But there are several hurdles to overcome before this could be used practically.
For now the scientists say they have just proved the concept can work.
For example the bacterial systems currently take several hours to produce results.
And the researchers acknowledge the ethics of using genetically modified bacteria need to be discussed and explored further - particularly if such tests were to be used invasively in humans.
But they hope after further work, the general approach could one day be used to develop relatively cheap and easy to use home-testing kits for a range of diseases.
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Scotland's chief statistician said there had also been a 4% reduction in homelessness applications compared to the previous year.
However, there was a rise in the number of children in temporary accommodation.
The Scottish government said it wanted to work to reduce homelessness even further.
The Homelessness and Housing Options Statistics report found there were 28,000 cases in Scotland assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness.
Of these, 25,000 cases were judged to be "unintentionally homeless" and therefore with a right to settled accommodation. About two-thirds secured this accommodation, mainly through the social or private rented sector.
Scottish local authorities said they received about 35,000 homelessness applications during 2015/16.
There has been no change in the number of households in temporary accommodation.
Shelter Scotland said the statistics showed 591 more children were homeless and living in temporary accommodation in 2015/16 than the year before.
The organisation's head of communications and policy, Adam Lang, called the figures "worrying" and said they should set "alarm bells ringing" when combined with the 220,000 children living in poverty in Scotland.
He added: "The impact of poverty and homelessness on children's health and life chances can be devastating. Children living in temporary accommodation can miss up to 55 school days a year, that's a quarter of the school year.
"If Scotland is serious about tackling child poverty and closing the educational attainment gap, then ministers must act now to ensure that all children in Scotland have access to a safe, secure and affordable home."
Shelter Scotland also said Scotland needed a "major step change in the supply of new affordable homes".
Scottish Housing Minister Kevin Stewart welcomed the decrease in homelessness and said the government was doing all it could to make sure everyone had access to a "warm and safe place to stay".
"It is, however, our aim to stop people becoming homeless in the first place which is much better for our people and our communities, and of course our homelessness services," he said.
"While there are many reasons for families staying in temporary accommodation, I am disappointed in the increase in the number of children in temporary accommodation.
"Although the majority of temporary accommodation is good quality, well managed social housing which is of the exact same standard as permanent accommodation, I am keen to see these numbers decrease and people to have a settled home." | The number of people in Scotland assessed as homeless or under the threat of being homeless went down by 5% in 2015/16, official figures showed. | 36,650,645 | 502 | 30 | false |
A senior official at the National Agency For Food and Drugs (Nafdac) said the minister's Twitter statement "is not their position".
Health Minister Isaac Adewole had tweeted that tests by the agency found "no evidence" of plastic material.
About 2.5 tonnes of the "plastic" rice has been confiscated.
Rice is Nigeria's staple food and it is a tradition for people to give bags of rice as a gift during the Christmas period.
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Lagos customs chief Haruna Mamudu said on Wednesday the fake rice was intended to be sold during the festive season but has not commented on the health minister's statement.
The official at Nafdac told the BBC's Stephanie Hegarty that the tests were still ongoing:
"We are not done with comprehensive tests. We are still in the laboratory. We haven't concluded analysis and it is not something we can conclude in two days."
"We are yet to conclude the chemical and biological analysis," he added.
Mr Adewole had said the agency would "release detailed findings to public as soon as it concludes investigations", adding that Nigerians should remain calm.
It is not clear where the 102 seized sacks of rice came from but rice made from plastic pellets was found in China last year.
Mr Mamudu had said the rice was very sticky after it was boiled and "only God knows what would have happened" if people ate it.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Lagos, who felt the rice, said it looked real but had a faint chemical odour.
The Lagos customs chief had called on "economic saboteurs who see yuletide season as a peak period for their nefarious acts to desist from such illegal" business activity.
We haven't heard any reports that the rice is still on sale in markets. Customs officials were investigating but as of now have found nothing.
Nigeria's custom officials say they seized a total of 102 sacks, each containing 25kg (55lb), branded "Best Tomato Rice".
It is, however, unclear how many bags had been sold, if any, and if there are other forms of contraband in the market.
We haven't heard of any members of the public eating it.
Customs officials cooked the rice and said that the texture was very gummy and it smelled odd, they refused to eat it.
When asked the same question on Twitter, Health Minister Isaac Adewole joked that no, he wouldn't eat it without salt.
An unverified video of the rice being cooked has been shared on social media.
In it the cook says the rice catches fire and sticks on the pan.
Very worried. There have been several media reports warning the public about fake foodstuffs especially from China and their potential dangers.
Speaking to the BBC's World Have Your Say programme Ibrahim, from Kano State, said selling fake rice was wickedness of the highest order.
Customs officials did say that they were awaiting tests by Nafdac, the food standard agency, before they could confirm what the rice was made of.
They suggested they would accept the results of those tests.
However, a customs agent told the BBC that the texture of the rice was like nothing he had seen before.
It is possible that this is a different type of rice that they weren't familiar with.
It is also possible that the Ministry of Health is making an effort to avoid public hysteria in the run-up to Christmas.
Exactly how it gets rid of the abnormal build-up is not understood.
The small Nature Communications study hints at a way to tackle the disease even once its in full swing, dementia experts say.
But there is no proof the same method would work in people - many more years of animal trials are needed first.
Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer's disease. Treatments can lessen the symptoms, but scientists are looking for ways to prevent, halt or reverse the disease.
As the dementia progresses, more plaques (clumps of abnormal proteins and chemicals) form in the brain and healthy brain cells die off.
Scientists reason that preventing or removing the plaques might help, and many drug candidates are in development.
Some drugs still being tested appear to stop the plaques from forming - but that is if it taken early enough, before the disease has advanced.
However, the South Korean researchers believe they may have found a molecule, called EPPS, that could work even if plaques have already formed.
They gave EPPS to mice (bred to have the Alzheimer's plaques) by spiking their drinking water for two weeks, and then monitored them over the next three months to see what effect it might have.
Compared with a control group of mice who received only normal water, the EPPS mice performed better on memory and learning problems (running through a maze).
The EPPS mice also had far fewer plaques in their brain at the end of the trial than they had had at the beginning. The same could not be said for the control group.
The Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer's Research UK said it was important to remain cautious - animal study findings may never apply to humans.
Prof Tom Dening, an expert in dementia research at the University of Nottingham, said: "From a clinician's point of view, this research is of interest, but we still don't know if removing amyloid plaques is useful in humans.
"It may well be that the appearance of plaques is too far down the chain of molecular processes to be beneficial.
"We don't know if this animal work will lead to any useful agent that can be used for clinical trials."
Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews has said cutting the 22 councils to eight or nine could save £650m over 10 years.
Prof Colin Copus of De Montfort University said 50 years of evidence contradicted the "stubborn, folk-lore" idea that bigger councils cut costs.
He said as councils become less local, trust in them also declines.
Writing for the Welsh think tank Gorwel, Prof Copus said the "cull of councillors" seen in England in 2009 left fewer councillors covering larger areas.
He said they were left trying to hold "large bureaucratic organisations" to account without being full-time salaried politicians like MPs.
Prof Copus added that the "implicit assumption" was that the purpose of local government was "to do what it is told by the centre".
Despite disqualification for a false start at the British Championships, UK Athletics wanted to select Kilty, 26, alongside winner James Dasaolu.
But Kilty has opted instead to focus on realising his potential outdoors.
"Whilst this has been a really tough decision, looking at the big picture it's the smart call," he tweeted.
"This year is all about the Olympics, so going into Portland short of races and taking a gamble that I could run myself into form makes no sense when I could start to focus on my outdoor season early."
Kilty has a best over 60m of 6.49 seconds, but has yet to break 10 seconds for the 100m. His best time of 10.05 seconds was set at last year's Birmingham Grand Prix meeting.
"Individually I'm aiming for sub-10 and making the Olympic final in 2016," the Gateshead Harrier continued.
"As part of the GB 4x100m relay squad, we have a real shot at getting on the podium and are 100% focused on achieving success as a team."
Bath-based Andy Robertson took second place in Saturday's 60m final in a personal best of 6.54secs.
The IAAF World Indoor Championships take place in the United States from 17-20 March.
The hosts ended on 278-2 after Warner's 198-run partnership with Usman Khawaja helped cut Pakistan's lead to 165.
Khawaja was unbeaten on 95, with captain Steve Smith on 10 not out.
Warner was reprieved on 81 when he was bowled by a no ball before being caught behind off a later Wahab Riaz delivery.
Pakistan pace bowler Wahab sent down a total of 10 no balls, including three overstepped marks in the over of Warner's non-dismissal.
Azhar's superb double hundred was the highest innings by a Pakistan player in Australia, and only three runs short of the record for touring batsmen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, set by West Indies' Viv Richards in 1984.
The 31-year-old also became his nation's first player to surpass 200 twice in a calendar year, having scored an unbeaten 302 against West Indies in Dubai in October.
Australia lead the three-Test series 1-0.
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The Friends of Wem Pool charity have been given a 20-year lease to run the pool using funds from the town council.
Volunteers have been working for two years to refurbish the pool and gym, which they will run as a community facility.
The group stepped in in 2012 when a leisure company said it no longer wanted to run the pool.
Andrew Kerr, who will take over from Dame Sue Bruce, expects "major challenges ahead".
But he said it would be a "tremendous honour" to lead the council.
Mr Kerr, who began his career with the district council in his home town of Falkirk, has been chief executive of Cornwall Council since October 2013.
He once represented Great Britain as a 400 metres runner.
Andrew Burns, Edinburgh city council leader, said: "I'm delighted that Andrew Kerr's appointment received unanimous backing from councillors today.
"It was clear from the recruitment process that he has the qualities required to take on the role and I look forward to working closely with him to shape the continued success of our city."
Mr Kerr said: "This is a tremendous honour and a fantastic opportunity to lead one of the most high profile local authorities in the United Kingdom.
"There are undoubtedly major challenges ahead with increasing demands for council services and reducing budgets but I will do my utmost to ensure that the council continues to work hard for the city and everyone who lives, works, visits and invests here.
"Clearly, a great deal has been achieved in Edinburgh in recent years, and I am looking forward to working closely with elected members, officers and our partners to ensure that we build on those successes."
Kent Fire and Rescue Service were called to the flats in Sussex Avenue, Canterbury at 04:50 BST after fire broke out on the second floor.
Residents were told to stay in their flats with the doors closed while the fire in a communal area was put out.
They were then rescued by ladder while smoke and fumes were cleared.
No one was injured in the fire, which police are investigating as arson.
Zoopla analysed the asking prices and rents of two-bedroom homes currently on the market in the UK's biggest cities.
It found that buying works out cheaper than renting in many parts of Scotland, northern England and the West Midlands.
Glasgow, Coventry and Birmingham were the top three cities for cost-effective buying. Cambridge, London and Brighton were top for cost-effective renting.
The survey found that in Glasgow, Coventry and Birmingham renters could pay more than £100 a month than those with a mortgage.
Renters were most likely to be better off than mortgage payers in pockets of the South, where the supply of homes is tight and house prices are high.
Cambridge, London and Brighton are the top places where renting is cheaper than paying a mortgage, the research suggests.
In Cambridge, the average monthly rent was found to be about £769 less than a mortgage payment.
Lawrence Hall, a spokesman for Zoopla, said: "Once you get past the initial fees that come with a house purchase, such as a deposit and stamp duty, our figures show that it can pay to try and get on the property ladder.
"On top of the enjoyment that can come with owning your property, buyers may also find themselves with more disposable income at the end of the month than those renting their homes.
"Particularly if you're in Scotland, northern England or in the West Midlands, taking the first step on to the ladder and sacrificing the flexibility of renting can be a much cheaper alternative."
Zoopla's research assumed that someone buying a home had a 10% deposit and was paying a 25-year repayment mortgage with an interest rate of 4.5%.
When the data was last analysed by Zoopla in October 2015, buying was cheaper than renting in just over one third of cities.
The 24-year-old Spaniard, who has agreed a three-year deal, scored seven goals in 26 games last season.
"The facilities are great," he told the club website. "I've been particularly impressed by the family feeling here."
Juanma becomes Hearts' second striker signing in a week after the arrival of Gavin Reilly from Queen of the South.
The Spaniard began his career with Jove Espanol in his homeland before moving to Denia, Alaves and Asteras Tripoli before switching to their Greek top-flight rivals last year.
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson said: "We spent a lot of time over the summer speaking to Juanma and meeting him.
"We thought it was going to get done a few weeks ago and we had some issues with the contractual situation in Greece, but we finally got it over the line.
"He'll be a big asset for us. He brings physicality and he'll hopefully bring goals as well.
"He's a good player, technically very good, great in the air and has good link-up play - and he's a great character."
The huts were being used by the Labour Club in Ipswich as a social room and were due to be destroyed next month.
Taff Gillingham, director of a project to build a WW1 visitor centre at Hawstead near Bury St Edmunds, found them by chance.
The huts will now be dismantled and rebuilt at the centre.
Mr Gillingham had been searching for army huts and read in an Ipswich Society Journal that the Labour Club on Silent Street was to build a new restaurant and meeting place.
The new building was to replace "an old wooden hut" that was due to be demolished.
Mr Gillingham visited the club and found the two original WW1 huts, joined in the centre to form one.
They had been bought by the Labour Club from Colchester Garrison in the late 1930s when new, brick barracks were being built.
"These huts are very rare survivors," said Mr Gillingham.
"While some still exist as village halls or farm buildings, very few are in their original form."
Mr Gillingham said they had planning permission to build 11 replica huts at Hawstead, but to have an original hut was "fantastic".
He said: "Hundreds of World War One soldiers would have slept in there [the huts] during their training before they went off to France or Mesapotamia or Palestine.
"There's an element of magic in that."
The Great War Visitor Centre is due to open at Brook Farm, Hawstead, in spring next year.
Brett Rogers, 23, denies the murder of Gillian Phillips, 54, and David Oakes, 60, who were fatally stabbed in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, in 2015.
He punched and struggled with Chelmsford Crown Court guards while a forensic scientist was giving evidence.
An ambulance was called for the injured male and female officers.
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Judge Mrs Justice Whipple, who witnessed the incident along with the jury, told the court Mr Rogers had offered an apology for his behaviour when the trial resumed.
"This trial is going to continue and I don't want you to hold that incident against the defendant in any way," she said.
Mr Rogers' father, who was in the public gallery, shouted to his son to "stop it" during the court session on 5 May.
The court previously heard how Mr Rogers had been jailed for assaulting his father Peter, leaving him with a broken eye socket, and was on licence at the time of the killings.
The jury also heard Mr Rogers was found at his mother's home in Bentfield Gardens in July 2015 laughing and covered in blood.
Forensic scientist Judith Cunnison told the court seven knives found at the scene had been examined, many of them with Mr Roger's DNA on the handles, along with that of Mrs Phillips and Mr Oakes.
She also showed the jury a T-shirt belonging to Mr Rogers and two pairs of his trainers, concluding: "I made particular efforts to see if [any blood DNA] could be attributed to another party and I couldn't see any indications of anybody else's DNA there."
The trial continues.
George Cottrell struck a plea bargain with prosecutors, who said he had agreed to launder money for undercover agents posing as drug traffickers.
He was arrested in July as he and Mr Farage were preparing to return to the UK after the Republican convention.
Mr Farage told ITV he was surprised by what had happened and had "never had any suspicions" about the volunteer.
The MEP, who stood down as leader in November, told Good Morning Britain he could not be held responsible for "what everyone around me does".
UKIP says Cottrell was an unpaid volunteer during the EU referendum campaign and the offence dates from before he was directly involved in the party.
After being caught in an FBI sting operation earlier this year, Cottrell - who is in his 20s - faced 21 counts relating to money laundering, fraud, blackmail and extortion.
These were reduced to one count of wire fraud as part of a plea agreement agreed with prosecutors in Arizona last month.
In the plea bargain, Cottrell states he and an associate known as Banker communicated with the "traffickers" in 2014 and talked about ways that "criminal proceeds" could be laundered by transferring large sums of money out of the US and disguising them as "legitimate business income for tax purposes".
In the document, Cottrell - who posed as a "financier" on the internet - says: "I falsely claimed that I would launder the criminal proceeds through my bank accounts for a fee. Rather than launder any of the money, though, Banker and I intended to retain the money."
Prosecutors say law enforcement agencies, posing as traffickers, contacted Banker seeking to launder up to £120,000 a month in drug trafficking proceeds and were then put in touch with Cottrell, who agreed to transfer the funds to offshore accounts with "complete anonymity and security".
They later met Cottrell in person in Las Vegas.
Cottrell was subsequently arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport in July en route back to Britain after accompanying Mr Farage to the Republic convention in Cleveland, where the British politician spoke at a rally for Donald Trump.
Cottrell is expected to be sentenced in March.
He is also liable to a fine of up to £203,000.
Asked for his reaction, Mr Farage said Cottrell had never been employed by the party.
"He was a volunteer. He was unpaid. He was helping me do stuff. He'd been part of our party for a couple of years.
"We never had any suspicions about him at all. He faced 21 charges in America, 20 have been dropped. He's pleaded guilty to a C-grade felony. Listen, I can't be responsible for what everyone around me does."
He added: "He was 20 years old at the time this happened. Guilt, no guilt, fallen into bad company - I'm not sure."
Cottrell's uncle, Lord Hesketh, is a former hereditary peer, who worked for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher before losing his seat in the Lords in 1999 as a result of the House of Lords Act.
The peer later defected to UKIP.
The Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitism, recorded 1,309 incidents in 2016 - surpassing the previous high of 1,182 in 2014.
Mark Gardner, from the CST, said anti-Semites currently felt "emboldened".
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the government was providing £13.4m to increase security in Jewish areas.
The CST, which works with police to gather data, said recorded incidents last year had increased by 36% on 2015.
More than three-quarters of all recorded incidents took place in Greater London and Greater Manchester, where the two largest Jewish communities in the UK are located.
According to the CST's report:
Mark Gardner, from the CST, said the increase could be partly explained by a greater willingness to report incidents to the police.
However, he said: "Racists, including anti-Semites, feel emboldened, feel encouraged, at this moment in time, for a whole range of reasons, to come out with their hatred.
"They used to keep it under the ground. Now they're coming out. A lid has been lifted off."
The CST, which has recorded data since 1984, said a perceived increase in racism and xenophobia following the EU referendum and greater discussion of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party could explain the rise.
Ms Rudd described anti-Semitism as a "deplorable form of hatred".
She said: "It is vital we ensure the safety and security of our Jewish community and this government will continue to do all we can to stamp out these vile attacks and encourage those who experience them to come forward."
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid added: "Anti-Semitism must be understood for what it is - an attack on the identity of people who live, contribute and are valued in our society.
Last year Labour held an inquiry into allegations of anti-Semitism in the party, following the suspension of MP Naz Shah and ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone.
Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the findings of the report were "extremely distressing", adding: "We must root out anti-Semitism whenever it takes place and wherever it exists, as a party and as a country."
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The Ayrshire resident spoke of the futility of war, saying that both sides wanted to be winners, but "there are no winners in war".
Mr Forsyth told BBC Scotland's Lisa Summers: "We joined the army, boys of our age, we thought we were going to change the world - we didn't. It is still the same. We still have concentration camps, starvation, people looking for a safe home to bring up their youngsters. But selfishness and greed are still there."
He was a wireless operator with the 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars in the The Royal Armoured Corps.
Mr Forsyth was also one of the first to arrive at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as it was liberated.
Memories of the starving people he met on his arrival haunt him to this day, he said.
The UKIP leader is launching a pamphlet later in what is being seen as an attempt to kill off pro-EU arguments ahead of the referendum campaign.
Mr Farage says he would be willing to lead the "No" campaign but he said a non-political figure would be better.
Pro-EU campaigners say UKIP's arguments for leaving have no basis in economic facts.
In its pamphlet, The Truth About Trade Beyond The EU, UKIP argues that Britain does not need to be in the EU to have access to the single market and to export successfully.
It also argues that the UK would not be isolated if it left and could negotiate a free trade agreement with the EU without signing up to "free movement" rules.
UKIP's trade spokesman William Dartmouth also angrily rebutted claims that leaving the EU would cost three million jobs.
"It is a deceit and people should stop peddling it. The facts simply don't support it," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
He said countries such as Switzerland and China exported successfully without being a member of a trading bloc and most British businesses did not trade with the EU but still had to abide by its rules.
"All the trade would continue and the trade is not dependent on there being a free trade agreement in any case," he told Today.
But Lucy Thomas, campaign director for the pro-EU campaign group Business for New Europe, said UKIP's arguments did not add up.
"There is no explanation of why we should leave. We currently have the best of all worlds. We export almost 50% to the rest of the EU and there are no barriers, no tariffs, it's all really straightforward and so I am not sure why we would want to take a risk and leave that.
"There is no guarantee at all about what kind of standards there would be, what kind of tariffs and actually once we were to vote to leave we would have no say on the deal the rest of the EU decided to give us."
Nigel Farage has, meanwhile, said he plans to be "extremely active" in the campaign for Britain's exit from the EU in the forthcoming referendum and would be willing to lead it.
But he added that it would be better if it was "somebody from the world of business or entertainment who hasn't got any political baggage at all".
He told LBC radio: "I am sure someone like that will emerge."
It is a first crack at a world belt for the 24-year-old, whose 100% record in 16 pro contests has earned him British and WBC International titles.
Haskins, 33, from Bristol, has twice successfully defended the title he won by beating Ryosuke Iwasa in 2015.
"I always dreamed of headlining in Belfast. I'm so excited," said Burnett.
"Lee Haskins has been in the game a long time so he has probably been in this situation before. But the Belfast crowd are very passionate for their fighter and will be making plenty of noise for me.
"I'm still new to this level, but this is definitely the right fight for me at this stage of my career. I know I'm capable of stepping up."
Haskins has won 34 and lost three bouts since turning professional in 2003.
Burnett's last fight was an eight-round points victory over Joseafat Reyes of Mexico in Hull in February.
Rooney surged forward after 78 minutes to meet a Jonny Evans long ball and send a cool finish into the far corner for his 10th goal in as many games.
The striker had earlier hit the post in an open match in which both teams threatened, with Fulham's Bryan Ruiz also denied by the woodwork.
Ruiz also had a header cleared off the line before Rooney's goal.
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In a frantic finale, Fulham were denied an equaliser when United striker Robin van Persie cleared a Philippe Senderos header off the line.
And with the home side exposed as they pushed for a leveller, Javier Hernandez then broke clear and only some smart goalkeeping from Mark Schwarzer denied the United forward.
The visitors survived the remainder of stoppage time to secure a victory that puts extra pressure on second-placed Manchester City, who play Liverpool on Sunday.
A match interrupted by a floodlight failure just before half-time looked like being a frustrating one for United but, as so often this season, the quality of their forward line came to their rescue.
Fulham were beaten 5-0 in the corresponding fixture last season and 4-1 in the FA Cup by the Red Devils last week but they were a different proposition this time around.
The Cottagers created the first opening when Hugo Rodallega broke clear and pulled the ball back for Ashkan Dejagah, who mistimed his shot.
The chance sparked an open spell as both teams adopted the approach that attack was the best form of defence, the woodwork intervening on four occasions in the first half.
Fulham somehow survived a goalmouth scramble that began when Schwarzer pulled off a reaction save after Van Persie's corner came off defender Brede Hangeland. Patrice Evra latched on to the loose ball, only for his shot to hit the bar before Rooney's follow-up was cleared off the line by Sascha Riether.
If the visitors could not believe they were not in front, they were soon relieved not to be behind as Fulham twice went close in quick succession.
First, a long-range John Arne Riise strike was tipped over by United keeper David de Gea before a counter-attack from the home side culminated in a Ruiz shot from the edge of the area that came back off the post.
Hangeland, proving more of a hindrance than a help to the home side, then again went close to scoring an own goal when he inadvertently headed a corner against his own bar.
Just when it seemed the game might calm down, United midfielder Tom Cleverley laid the ball off for Rooney, whose shot came back off the post.
The players were forced off the field briefly when the floodlights failed before returning to play out the remainder of the first half in less frantic fashion than hitherto.
Hangeland, who had picked up a knock, was replaced by Aaron Hughes at the start of a second half that saw Van Persie tamely head into the arms of Schwarzer when well-placed.
As Fulham stood firm, United's frustration was reflected in the gestures from manager Sir Alex Ferguson in the visitors' dug-out. And the Scot's mood was not helped when centre-back Rio Ferdinand was caught in possession and Giorgos Karagounis dragged a 20-yard shot wide.
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The sides traded chances as they chased a win. Nani had a shot deflected high for the visitors, while Ruiz failed to get enough power on an effort for the hosts after Riether's effort had been parried by De Gea.
With time running out, Rafael Da Silva cleared a Ruiz header off the United goal-line and it proved crucial as a clearance over the top from Evans released Rooney, who guided an expert strike around Hughes and past Schwarzer for the winner.
Fulham manager Martin Jol:
"We did well in midfield and at the back. It was one of our better performances this season.
"But they are capable of creating something out of nothing, as Rooney did. Now, I think they will win it [the Premier League title]."
He added: "We did well to get the lights on again. Normally it takes a long time. I feared when we came back our concentration was down and we would end up conceding a goal but it wasn't a problem."
The rapper says the strict anti-narcotics laws introduced in the 1980s unfairly targeted minorities.
In the four-minute video, he also argues that "young men like me who hustled became the sole villain, and drug addicts lack moral fortitude".
Jay Z, who was born Shawn Carter, has frequently rapped about his past as a crack dealer.
In the illustrated film, the 45-year-old musician suggests punishment of drug dealers is hypocritical given that states such as Colorado have legalised marijuana.
He points out white businessmen are profiting off the decriminalised cannabis trade, while black men with jail records are barred from participating in the industry.
"Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for?" he says.
He also blames the sharp rise in the US prison population on mandatory minimum sentences.
The video goes through the history of the drug war, and how it has "disproportionately come to lock away blacks and Latinos".
Jay Z has rapped in many of his songs about his own drug-dealing past in New York City's Brooklyn borough.
The clean-up on the coast park revealed remnants of the ancient woodland at Newgale.
They form part of a forest which experts say would have been used by hunter gatherers.
Elsewhere in Wales the storms have uncovered two Georgian cannon in Porthcawl and a 19th Century bath house in Aberystwyth.
Phil Bennett, heritage manager for Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, said the woodland was an important find.
"We've known of the existence of this forest for many years but I, for one, have never seen it so close to the road," he said.
"The storms and high seas have pushed the pebble bank back and scoured the sand, exposing the remains of this woodland.
"We have been able to identify some recognisable timbers from the Mesolithic [about 11,600 years ago] period.
"Ten thousand years ago this woodland area would have been visited by hunter gatherer bands from time to time, looking for game and collecting edible plants, nuts and berries as these resources became available during the year."
The site was found as work began to clear the road through Newgale which was left covered with debris following the storms.
The local authority is covering some of the exposed trees with pebbles to stop them from drying out the sun.
National park archaeologist Pete Crane advised the council restore the pebble bank on top of the remains to help preserve them.
Mr Bennett added: "It's really important that people are aware of how fragile these remains are and understand that unless we protect them they will be gone forever."
In Aberystwyth the remains of a bath house dating back to 1810 was found following the collapse of the town's seafront Victorian shelter.
In Porthcawl two cannon were discovered by dog walkers on Pink Bay, and are believed to date back to 18th Century or the early 19th Century.
The town's museum will now work on preserving the find and carry out research into their history.
His Bora-Hansgrohe team had protested against the decision, but race organisers will not allow an appeal.
Britain's Cavendish said Slovak Sagan, 27, elbowed him during the sprint finish to stage four in Vittel.
Cavendish, 32, crashed into the barriers and later pulled out of the race with a broken shoulder.
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"I can accept the decision but for sure I do not agree with them, because I think I have done nothing wrong," Sagan said in a statement outside the team hotel.
"It is very bad that Mark fell down, it is important he can recover well, I am sorry for that.
"As you saw it was a crazy sprint, it was not the first one like that or the last one. I wish that Mark recovers well."
The race jury had initially docked Sagan 30 seconds for his role in the crash but, after reviewing the footage, upgraded his punishment to a disqualification.
He had crossed the line in second behind stage winner Arnaud Demare of the FDJ team.
The disqualification ended Sagan's bid to win the points leaders' green jersey for a record-equalling sixth straight year.
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Cavendish had spent three months battling back from the Epstein-Barr virus to make the start line of the Tour in Dusseldorf.
The Team Dimension Data rider is four short of Eddy Merckx's all-time record of 34 Tour stage wins.
"I'm obviously massively disappointed to get this news about the fracture," said Manxman Cavendish, who hopes to return later in the season.
Sagan pushed out an elbow as he was forced into the barriers and apologised afterwards.
Cavendish said he later spoke to Sagan on the phone when it was confirmed he could not continue.
"He called me last night," he told BBC Sport. "I didn't get home from the hospital until late and I had a message from him that said 'are you still up?'. He gave me a call and we spoke about everything - we have a good relationship, we are friends and colleagues and we have massive respect for each other.
"There is always going to be a storm when it comes to me and Peter, I think people are quite polarised on us.
"At the moment I feel alright, I am in a bit of pain, I didn't sleep great last night. but that is to be expected. Normally this takes six weeks to recover, but hopefully less."
A couple and their three young children were taken into custody shortly after their arrival at Los Angeles International Airport last week.
They had Special Immigrant Visas, granted for work done for the US military that put their lives at risk.
Afghanistan was not among the countries listed on a now blocked US travel ban.
The original order prohibited the entry of immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, but has since been halted by US federal courts. The Trump administration is preparing a new executive order.
A petition for the release of the Afghan family was filed by the International Refugee Assistance Project, which said the family had been taken into custody "with absolutely no justification" and it was a violation of due process rights under the US constitution.
The man was detained in a maximum-security detention facility in Orange County, California, Becca Heller, the director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, told AP news agency on Sunday.
Though his wife and children - aged seven years, six years and eight months- were initially taken to a similar facility in Los Angeles, they were later moved to a hotel, she said.
The Special Immigrant Visas, created by Congress for citizens from Iraq and Afghanistan, can be granted to to those who have helped the US military as drivers, interpreters and in other jobs, which often put their lives at risk in those countries.
One of the lawyers defending the family said it was "extremely unusual if not entirely unique" for someone who holds this special visa to be detained upon arrival.
"The visas require extreme vetting to get," said Talia Inlender, a lawyer with the legal aid group Public Counsel.
The petition filed in US District Court in Santa Ana, California, south of Los Angeles, also said that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents has held the family in isolation without access to legal counsel.
"Despite repeated requests, the CBP has provided no information regarding why the family was detained, whether they have been questioned, and whether any reason at all exists to justify their continued detention," the petition said.
The loss came three days after England produced a thrilling comeback from two goals down to beat Germany 3-2.
"It was nothing like the performance I was after," said Hodgson. "We weren't as intensive or incisive as we were against Germany.
"We weren't as creative but we had control over the game."
He added: "It really is a high followed by a low."
England slipped to a first defeat at Wembley since November 2013 despite taking the lead through Jamie Vardy - the 100th goal of Hodgson's tenure.
The Leicester striker finished off a well-worked team move to add to his backheel goal against Germany.
But Vincent Janssen scored from the spot after Danny Rose's handball before Luciano Narsingh scored the Dutch winner 13 minutes from time.
Hodgson thought the decision to penalise left-back Rose was harsh, and felt centre-back Phil Jagielka was fouled in the build-up to the winning goal.
"I think we were hard done by," he said. "I don't think we deserved to lose the game, the way the two decisions went against us.
"The second one in particular was exceptionally harsh. The first one is a decision that is given these days, which I unfortunately I don't agree with.
"I really do believe to give handball it has got to be absolutely deliberate and not hit the hand when people are trying to block the ball.
"I am becoming a dinosaur if I keep saying that because I see these decisions being given every week. Whether I agree with it or not, it doesn't make a lot of difference and it was given."
Hodgson will name his Euro 2016 squad on 12 May, 10 days before England face Turkey in a friendly at Etihad Stadium. They then host Australia on 27 May at Sunderland's Stadium of Light and Portugal on 2 June at Wembley.
And Hodgson felt the two matches against Germany and the Netherlands had helped him learn more about his players.
"I gave a lot of different players a chance to play. I've really aired the squad, if you like," said Hodgson.
"Hopefully that might be to my advantage in the future, when I am thinking about players and thinking about making decisions."
England will face Russia, Slovakia and Wales in Group B of Euro 2016, which starts on 10 June.
The pilot of flight 448, bound for Los Angeles, was alerted by the sound of banging "from beneath the aircraft", an Alaska Airlines statement said.
Once back on the ground, the baggage handler emerged from the pressurised hold, saying he had fallen asleep.
He "appeared OK" but went to hospital as a precaution, the airline said.
Alaska Airlines later said the worker had passed a drugs test and been released from hospital.
The Boeing 737 aircraft had taken off from Seattle with 170 passengers on board, and was airborne for 14 minutes.
According to Alaska Airlines, the worker's team leader had noticed that the man was missing before the plane took off.
The team leader had called into the cargo hold and rung the worker's mobile phone but did not get an answer.
"His co-workers believed he finished his shift and went home," the airline said.
The airline said the worker, employed by Menzies Aviation, started work at 05:00 local time and was due off at 14:30, but fell asleep in the cargo hold. The compartment was pressurised - so survivable at altitude - and was temperature-controlled.
One passenger, Marty Collins, told a local Seattle TV station that passengers had not heard the banging.
She said: "Nobody on the plane heard anything like that, nobody knew why we were turning around. They just said we were fine and we weren't in any danger."
Later, Ms Collins said passengers were told "there was someone in the cargo hold and he's been escorted off and taken away".
The flight later left for Los Angeles.
Glamorgan's seamers bowled tightly, with Graham Wagg and Timm van der Gugten claiming three wickets apiece.
Gloucestershire teenager George Hankins (56) made the only real contribution from the top order.
Jacques Rudolph and Will Bragg then put on 81 for Glamorgan's second wicket.
In only his third Championship match, Hankins made his maiden half century, improving his career-best on the 45 he got against Kent last week.
Glamorgan's Timm van der Gugten told BBC Wales Sport:
"It went pretty well, better than the other games we've played. We bowled really well as a unit, made them play a lot and just asked questions.
"We were umming and ahhing about whether to bowl or bat first. We thought if the pitch was going to do anything it was going to be in the morning.
"I'm getting used to county cricket. Getting used to the ball has been the biggest difference because we use a Kookaburra in Australia and it doesn't swing as much."
Gloucestershire's George Hankins told BBC Sport:
"I got close last week against Kent, so it was nice to get over the line. Things are going well for me at the moment.
"They bowled well in the morning but we got through that tough period and it was good that Craig Miles and David Payne put on runs.
"We would have liked a few more runs. It didn't go to plan for the batsmen at the top."
One woman said her 70-minute commute was three hours every night last week. Another woman, six months pregnant, said hers took four hours.
Croydon South MP Chris Philp said one of his constituents had lost their job.
Southern, which is in dispute with the RMT union, said it was operating under difficult circumstances.
Other commuters described being "turfed off trains", left with no social life, seeing two services cancelled in a row, seeing their work suffer and feeling "incredibly stressed" and "utterly powerless".
The union is in dispute with Southern over the introduction of driver-only trains on which guards will no longer open and close doors.
Mr Philp said: "It's a combination of GTR [Govia Thameslink Railway], the franchise holder of Southern, who have been doing an appalling job not just in the last few weeks, but over the last two years.
"This has been the worst-performing railway network in the country and it's been getting worse and I think they should actually lose the franchise."
However, the Conservative MP added: "GTR have done a terrible job running it but the RMT union are also at fault."
He said the next planned strike was totally unnecessary and added: "No-one's going to lose their job."
The RMT, which has planned its next strike for Tuesday, argues that guards are vital for safety and the dispute is not about operating doors.
Amid claims that increased staff sickness is a form of unofficial strike action, the RMT blamed staff shortages on "gross mismanagement".
A statement from GTR said: "We are doing our best to run as many trains as possible under very difficult circumstances.
"Every train that is cancelled costs us a significant financial penalty."
The rail operator has repeated its call for the RMT to engage in talks.
The 24-year-old right-back, who can also play at centre-back, has agreed personal terms and is set to sign after taking a medical when he returns from holiday later in June.
BBC Derby Sport reports that the initial fee is around £2m and could rise to more than £4m.
Wisdom played 38 games on loan with the Rams in the 2013-14 season.
He has also had loan spells with West Bromwich Albion and Norwich City and was with Red Bull Salzburg last season.
Former England Under-21 international Wisdom made a total of 22 appearances for the Austrian top-flight side.
Rams boss Gary Rowett has already recruited defender Curtis Davies and has said he wants to bring in another defensive player.
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The Chesterfield striker denies raping the 19-year-old at a Premier Inn in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, in May 2011.
Mr Evans, 27, was found guilty of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court in 2012, but his conviction was quashed in April.
The prosecution told his retrial at Cardiff Crown Court the woman had been intoxicated and could not have consented to sex, as Mr Evans claims.
Simon Medland QC, prosecuting, said the woman "did not even know Ched Evans was having sex with her" in the hotel on 30 May 2011.
The woman was "very drunk" and believes her drink may have been spiked, Mr Medland said, although not by Mr Evans.
"She was that intoxicated - for whatever reason - that she didn't really know what on earth was happening," he added.
"The facts of this case show that she was raped by this young footballer in that room, not that she had consensual sex with him."
The alleged victim met Mr Evans's friend and fellow footballer Clayton McDonald at Rhyl's Zu bar in the early hours of 30 May.
She got a taxi to the Premier Inn with Mr McDonald, where Mr Evans had booked a room.
Mr McDonald, who previously played at Manchester City and Port Vale, telephoned Mr Evans and said: "I've got a girl", Mr Medland told the jury.
About 15 minutes later, Mr Evans arrived at the hotel and got a key to the room. He is then alleged to have raped the woman before "surreptitiously" leaving via the fire exit.
Mr McDonald, who now plays at Redditch United, was acquitted of rape at the original trial in 2012.
During Tuesday's hearing, the jury - consisting of five men and seven women - was told by the judge, Mrs Justice Nicola Davies, to disregard any previous publicity of the case.
"There has been publicity in respect of these legal proceedings. If you have heard or read about it, that is the proceedings, in the newspaper, television, radio or social media, you must ignore it," she said.
The case was opened and adjourned for the day and will continue on Wednesday.
The singer was just 19 when Supergrass appeared on the list. His solo album, Matador, is more introspective and experimental than his Britpop band.
Other artists nominated for the £20,000 prize include Florence + The Machine, Jamie xx and Wolf Alice.
The winner will be revealed live on BBC Four and BBC 6 Music next month.
There are only two bands in the shortlist, which leans heavily towards singer-songwriters making intimate, confessional music.
Bookmakers' favourites Everything Everything failed to secure a nomination, with other notable absentees including Blur, Laura Marling, Foals and New Order.
Lauren Laverne, who revealed the shortlist on her BBC 6 Music show, said: "It's the perfect snapshot of where music is right now and where it might be heading in the future."
The full list of nominees:
Analysis - Mark Savage: Music reporter
Three singer-songwriters sit on the panel for this year's Mercury Prize, and their influence shows. The list favours solo artists making intimate, confessional albums.
Benjamin Clementine, who has been called "the male Nina Simone" sings about his experiences of homelessness, while Florence + The Machine confronts her personal demons on what is (for her) a subtle, restrained record.
Only two bands make the shortlist - Slaves and Wolf Alice, who represent two opposing approaches to rock. The former are a spittle-flecked burst of raw aggression, while Wolf Alice are sonically adventurous, expansive and destined for an arena near you.
Altogether, the 12 albums are of unusually high quality, and predicting a winner is a fool's errand - but my personal favourite is currently Eska Mtungwazi's beguiling, unpredictable debut, which pulls off the trick of being musically intricate while still sounding organic and free.
Edinburgh-based hip-hop trio Young Fathers won last year's award, while other recent winners have included James Blake, Alt-J, PJ Harvey and The xx.
The prize is judged by a panel of 12 critics, DJs, musicians and other industry figures who often use the shortlist to champion left-field choices as well as more obvious contenders.
Among the less well-known acts this year are Benjamin Clementine, a British-Ghanaian singer who went from busking in Paris to being championed by Sir Paul McCartney, after a fortuitous appearance on BBC Two's Later... With Jools Holland.
Soul-jazz musician Eska also makes the list with her self-titled debut record, after working as an arranger and session singer on three previous Mercury-nominated albums.
Former Moloko star Roisin Murphy gets her first Mercury nomination for the twisted disco of her solo album, Hairless Toys, while electronic musician Aphex also makes his debut on the shortlist with Syro, his first album in 13 years.
Rock band Wolf Alice said they were "flabbergasted" to be nominated for their debut album, which peaked at number two in the UK charts over the summer.
"This has been the best year of our lives," said singer Ellie Roswell. "We're like four excitable kids all the time, having fun. But I'm sure we'll crash and burn shortly."
Several former nominees are on this year's judging panel, including Corinne Bailey Rae, Anna Calvi and Nick Mulvey, alongside a selection of music journalists and broadcasters.
Simon Frith, chair of the judges, said this year's shortlist "celebrates artists from every stage of their careers.
"These musicians come from a fascinating variety of musical places, cultures and histories. What they have in common is the ambition and the craft, the ideas and the imagination to make great music."
The winner will receive their prize on 20 November, at a ceremony in the BBC's Radio Theatre in central London. The nominated acts will appear throughout the day on the BBC's music stations in the build-up to the show.
It said this was despite a significant drop in migrant crossings compared with 2015, when 3,771 deaths were reported.
Smugglers were now more often using flimsy boats and putting more people aboard, the UNHCR said.
The report came as 25 bodies were found in a partially flooded inflatable dinghy off Libya's coast on Wednesday.
More than 100 other migrants were rescued from the boat by Medecins Sans Frontieres, the aid agency said.
On Wednesday, the UNHCR tweeted: "Latest reports put the number of people dead and missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year at over 3800, the highest ever."
The agency said the most dangerous route had been between Libya and Italy, with one death in every 47 arrivals recorded.
By comparison, another - much shorter - route from Turkey to Greece had a ratio of 1 in 88.
Fewer migrants were using the latter route after Turkey and the European Union reached a deal on how to tackle the issue earlier this year, the UNHCR said.
It added that the death rate had risen because smugglers were now "often using lower-quality vessels - flimsy inflatable rafts that do not last the journey".
Nearly 330,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea this year, compared with more than one million in 2015.
Some migrants are seeking economic opportunities in Europe - others are fleeing war, instability or authoritarian governments.
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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.
Spurs took an early lead when Christian Eriksen capitalised on a mix-up in the hosts' defence.
But Guillaume Gillet rifled in an equaliser before Anderlecht top scorer Stefano Okaka secured victory late on.
Tottenham striker Harry Kane, a second-half substitute, failed to beat goalkeeper Silvio Proto after being played clean through at 1-1.
Both teams were committed to attack in an entertaining match but Spurs paid for wasting early chances, with Erik Lamela the most guilty.
Anderlecht, third in the Belgian Jupiler League, kept Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris busy throughout and were good value for their first victory in six European games.
The sides meet again at White Hart Lane on 5 November with only four points separating the four teams in the group after Monaco beat Qarabag 1-0 to go top.
Tottenham, who have drawn their previous three games in all competitions, are still to reach full throttle this season.
In a frantic opening, they should have taken advantage of a ragged Anderlecht defence and could have been 3-0 ahead within 10 minutes as Eriksen and Lamela shot straight at Proto before the opening goal.
The home side settled after Gillet found the net superbly, and Okaka twice had efforts saved by Lloris.
Although Tottenham's midfield took charge of the first half, their control slipped in the second period and the introduction of Anderlecht substitute Frank Acheampong turned the game in their favour.
His cross set up Okaka for his seventh goal of the season, and it could have been worse for Spurs had Dennis Praet not fluffed a late opportunity.
With Tottenham suffering from several injuries and Kane picking up a knock in the previous Premier League game against Liverpool, Clinton Njie was handed a full debut up front.
The 22-year-old Cameroon international, who had not scored in seven substitute appearances following his reported £10m arrival from Lyon in August, did not look like opening his Spurs account in Brussels.
Spurs chose to break from midfield rather than use Njie's pace, and he was booked in the 55th minute before being replaced by Kane four minutes later.
The England international at least threatened the Anderlecht goal, but he has now scored only one goal in 13 appearances this season.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: "I am angry, frustrated, disappointed. I don't know which word to describe me.
"We started the game very well. After 10 minutes we scored, we created two or three chances more.
"We lost our focus and after 10 minutes the game changed completely. This was our problem and we need to learn.
"We are young but if you are the best team on the pitch after 10 minutes and you believe you can win the game you need to win the game. We lost our focus."
Anderlecht boss Besnik Hasi: "It's nice to win against such a team. Especially after the poor start against Monaco and Qarabag - we knew it was our last chance today.
"Tottenham clearly came to win and gave the necessary space away for us to exploit."
Tottenham travel to Bournemouth on Sunday in the Premier League and host Aston Villa on 2 November before facing Anderlecht again three days' later.
Match ends, RSC Anderlecht 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
Second Half ends, RSC Anderlecht 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
Attempt missed. Ibrahima Conte (RSC Anderlecht) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Steven Defour with a cross.
Substitution, RSC Anderlecht. Ibrahima Conte replaces Dennis Praet.
Foul by Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur).
Guillaume Gillet (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Dennis Praet (RSC Anderlecht) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Idrissa Sylla (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, RSC Anderlecht. Idrissa Sylla replaces Stefano Okaka.
Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Guillaume Gillet (RSC Anderlecht).
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Frank Acheampong (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Dennis Praet (RSC Anderlecht) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Steven Defour.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Josh Onomah replaces Andros Townsend.
Attempt missed. Leander Dendoncker (RSC Anderlecht) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kara with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, RSC Anderlecht. Conceded by Jan Vertonghen.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Guillaume Gillet.
Goal! RSC Anderlecht 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1. Stefano Okaka (RSC Anderlecht) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Frank Acheampong with a cross.
Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ivan Obradovic (RSC Anderlecht).
Offside, RSC Anderlecht. Leander Dendoncker tries a through ball, but Frank Acheampong is caught offside.
Hand ball by Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Guillaume Gillet (RSC Anderlecht).
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Leander Dendoncker (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Davies with a through ball.
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Kara (RSC Anderlecht) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, RSC Anderlecht. Dennis Praet tries a through ball, but Stefano Okaka is caught offside.
Substitution, RSC Anderlecht. Frank Acheampong replaces Imoh Ezekiel.
Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ivan Obradovic (RSC Anderlecht).
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Dele Alli replaces Mousa Dembélé.
Braehmer, 32, was due to face Cleverly, 24, at London's 02 Arena on Saturday, but a cut eye suffered in training on 8 May has failed to heal.
The German won the WBO belt in 2009 and has made one defence but could now be stripped of his title.
If so, Cleverly - the interim champion - will be awarded the title by default.
Cleverly, who won the interim title in December after beating Nadjib Mohammedi on points, is unbeaten in 21 fights and was disappointed to see the fight called off.
"I'm majorly disappointed," Cleverly told BBC Sport.
"I had the call this morning saying Braehmer had not turned up at the airport.
"I was really disappointed but I'm not really that surprised. I had a feeling he would do this and I don't think it was a fight he really wanted.
"I made myself mandatory challenger so he had to fight me but basically he didn't want to fight me. He had no option other than to not turn up. He is going to be stripped of his title and I am going to be fighting for the belt.
"I'm just going to have to re-focus and get on with business now. I believe I will be fighting for the world title on Saturday now and that is motivation in itself.
"Ideally I would have liked to have beaten Braehmer, which I'm sure I would have done. This is the guy I wanted for ages, and I've been preparing for him for months. But what can you do? He hasn't turned up and he will be stripped.
"As long as I become world champion I'll still have the same amount of satisfaction.
"It's not easy to prepare for a change of opponent. I've been preparing for Braehmer who is a southpaw but this is boxing and this is what happens.
"I've got to make sure I'm motivated and re-focused on the fight.
"It's not an ideal situation but I'll get on with business, clear my head and be ready to fight and win on Saturday."
The 02 Arena card will still go ahead, with the joint headline fight between British super-middleweight champion James DeGale and fierce rival George Groves the bigger draw anyway. It is still hoped that unbeaten Welshman Cleverly will fight on Saturday but his opponent is unknown.
Any fight for Cleverly on Saturday could be the first defence of his title with his promoter Frank Warren saying he expects the Welshman to be awarded the WBO belt.
Braehmer last fought in April 2010 and has 29 knockouts from 36 wins with two defeats.
Since that last fight the 32-year-old was involved in a long-running court case that could have seen him jailed for 16 months for assault and insulting behaviour.
But Braehmer was cleared this year following an appeal meaning the German kept his WBO title.
His stock is already low due having only defended his belt once since winning it in 2009 while also pulling out of a January unification fight with Beibut Shumenov.
Cleverly's father and trainer Vince led the calls for Braehmer to be stripped of his title but maintained the Cefn Forest fighter would still be well prepared for any fight on Saturday.
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Thirty-nine people died when a train ran into the back of another which had stalled on a viaduct near Wenzhou after lightning cut its power supply.
The system "failed to turn the green light into red", said An Lusheng, head of the Shanghai Railway Bureau.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who has been visiting the crash site, vowed to "severely punish" those responsible.
By Martin PatienceBBC News, Wenzhou
Wen Jiabao held the news conference under the viaduct where six of these carriages came off during Saturday's collision. He stressed that safety would be the absolute priority as China built its huge high-speed network. It is already the second-largest in the world and is set to be expanded.
Wen Jiabao, often referred to as "Granpa Wen", is the soft face of the party. When there is a crisis or an accident like this, Premier Wen is the man with the common touch who deals with the public.
There was pressure on him to visit the scene. When asked why it took him so long to get to Wenzhou, he said he had been ill and his doctors had not wanted him to travel but he felt it was very important.
But still there is public anger here about the crash, which has raised safety questions about the whole of China's high-speed network.
'Grandpa Wen' seeks to soothe tension
"The country's development is for the people, so the most important thing is people's lives," Mr Wen told reporters at the scene.
"No matter if it was a mechanical fault, a management problem, or a manufacturing problem, we must get to the bottom of this.
"If corruption was found behind this, we must handle it according to law and will not be soft."
Mr Wen earlier promised to take steps to improve safety on the high-speed rail network - one of the government's flagship projects which it hopes highlights China's development.
Six carriages derailed and four fell between 20m to 30m (65ft to 100ft) from the viaduct after Saturday night's crash, which injured nearly 200 people.
The accident came just four years after the country's first high-speed trains began operating.
Rail experts had warned against the rush to build the world's longest and fastest high-speed rail network in record time amid safety concerns.
There are allegations that corners were cut during construction because of corruption, raising questions about infrastructure across the country.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Wenzhou says it is difficult to get to the truth because of a lack of transparency and accountability.
There is a real sense that things are perhaps being built too quickly and that safety is being jeopardised in the process, our correspondent says.
Mr Wen's visit to the crash scene comes amid growing public outrage at the accident.
Internet users and relatives of the victims have been angered by the government's apparent unwillingness to answer questions about the crash.
This has led to accusations of government "arrogance", amid suspicions of a cover-up.
The authorities have moved quickly to stem media coverage, urging reporters to focus on "extremely moving" stories, saying the overall theme should be "great love in the face of great disaster".
Chinese media have been ordered not to question the official line on the accident, but several newspapers have published editorials criticising the railway ministry.
In an unusually scathing editorial published in both its English and Chinese versions, the state-run Global Times on Wednesday said the government's handling of the accident aftermath was a "public relations disaster".
"The relationship between the government and the public is like that of a ship and water. Water can keep the ship afloat or sink it," it said.
Some relatives of victims, who include two Americans and an Italian, have reportedly refused compensation and instead demanded to be given answers.
The accident is seen as a blow to China's hopes of selling trains abroad in a bid to become a high-tech exporter.
Shares in Chinese rail and train builders have fallen sharply since the crash.
The Portuguese manager is accused of defrauding Spain of €3.3m (£2.9m; $3.6m) in taxes between 2011 and 2012. He has yet to comment on the claim.
A prosecutor says he did not declare income from the use of his image rights in order to get an "illicit benefit".
Other big names in football have been accused of tax fraud in Spain recently.
Those include Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, who played under Mr Mourinho and shares the same agent. The player is accused of defrauding tax authorities of €14.7m, by also hiding his income from image rights.
He denies the accusations and is threatening to leave Spain. The Portugal international is set to give evidence in his case on 31 July.
Mr Mourinho, 54, is accused of two counts of tax fraud - €1.6m in 2011 and €1.7m in 2012. The Madrid prosecutor says the case was presented to a local court.
José Mourinho joins a growing list of football stars being investigated and prosecuted in Spain over accusations of tax evasion, in particular in connection with allegedly undeclared income from the sale of image rights by using companies based outside the country. In this way, Lionel Messi has been found guilty of fraud, and Cristiano Ronaldo accused by prosecutors of evading €14.7m.
Cristiano Ronaldo and José Mourinho are both clients of the football agent Jorge Mendes. Other Mendes charges being investigated for alleged tax evasion while playing in La Liga include Ricardo Carvalho, Ángel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao.
All are accused of using a similar system, whereby their image rights were owned by companies registered in the British Virgin Islands or Panama, and which allegedly received money from intermediaries based in Ireland.
A statement released by Mr Mendes' company Gestifute last week, countering reports that he was being investigated alongside Radamel Falcao, said that the Portuguese agent did "not participate or offer any services related directly or indirectly with financial, tax or legal consulting for his clients".
Other footballers have been accused of tax fraud in Spain:
Across three formats, he has played a staggering 36 matches for his country this year - with one Test still to come against South Africa.
Here, BBC Sport looks at Root's record-breaking year in numbers.
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A BMW collided with a Hyundai on the B1102 Freckenham Road in Worlington, near Mildenhall.
A couple in the Hyundai i30 have been named as William Dyal, 77, and his wife Helen, 75, from Prickwillow, near Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Earlier, police identified the driver of the BMW M3 as Matthew Grant, 24, from Mildenhall.
William Dyal was known by his middle name of John and was a retired art teacher, while Helen Dyal was a fashion and graphic designer.
The Dyal family said the couple would be "hugely missed by all their family and friends".
"It is with greatest sadness that we have lost our dearest parents, grandparents and siblings today in this tragic accident," a statement said.
"Our hearts also go out to the families of the other casualties."
Mr Grant was a much-loved son, brother, uncle and boyfriend, his family said.
"Matthew led a very outgoing and sociable life surrounded by friends and family. His passion in life was motocross and music," they said.
"He was well known and loved by all, he has left a massive gap in our hearts and lives that can never be filled.
"We as a family are deeply saddened by our loss, but will continue to keep his memory alive with our lovely times together.
"Our thoughts go out to all other families involved in this tragic accident."
A second man killed in the BMW - a 28-year-old also from Mildenhall - has yet to be named by the police.
Investigators said they did not believe any other vehicles were involved in the accident, which happened at about 20:15 BST.
There have been two confirmed cases of the H5N8 virus confirmed in Northern Ireland - both in wild birds.
There have also been six cases of bird flu recorded in the Republic of Ireland.
The agricultural show was completely cancelled in 2001 because of foot and mouth disease.
More than 700 birds had been entered in this year's show.
Rhonda Geary, Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) operations director said: "Following consultation with the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, the RUAS have regrettably decided to cancel the poultry section of the 2017 show.
"There will, however, still be classes for pigeons, decorated eggs and shelled eggs."
The show normally includes classes for turkeys, geese, waterfowl, modern game, old English game and Bantams.
Andrew Kerr runs Clogher Valley Eggs and Poultry and breeds a wide range of birds.
He is disappointed that his birds will not feature at Balmoral this year.
"It's not unexpected, but there's still profound disappointment in the poultry world," he said.
"The Balmoral show is a flagship event in the poultry calendar. It provides an opportunity to showcase the wide variety of poultry and waterfowl that we have to offer within Northern Ireland."
This year's show will run from May 10-13 and will mark the first time that Balmoral will run over four days.
The RUAS said information on refunds for entries already submitted would be made available at a later date.
The Batley & Spen MP becomes a shadow education minister, with responsibility for early years provision.
Chris Williamson gets the key role of shadow fire services minister while former Manchester police commissioner Tony Lloyd becomes housing spokesman.
Three shadow ministers were sacked last week after they defied the leadership in a Commons vote over Brexit.
Ruth Cadbury, Catherine West and Andy Slaughter were dismissed after they backed a motion calling for the UK to remain in the single market - having been instructed to abstain.
Mr Corbyn already had some long-standing gaps to fill after a wave of resignations in the wake of last year's EU referendum, which prompted a challenge to his leadership, and February's Commons vote on Article 50.
Since the party's better-than-expected performance in the general election, Mr Corbyn's authority has been enhanced and deputy leader Tom Watson said over the weekend he would lead the party "for years".
Monday's mini reshuffle by the Labour leader sees up to 20 roles filled below shadow cabinet level.
Among those returning to the frontbench after quitting in the past are Rachael Maskell and Gloria De Piero, who will speak on transport and justice respectively.
Mr Corbyn has bolstered his home affairs team with four appointments.
Mr Williamson, a close ally of the leader's, has been given the sensitive fire services brief, which he held under Ed Miliband between 2010 and 2013.
He said his immediate priority would be to secure justice for the victims and survivors of the Grenfell fire and that he would be pushing, as a bare minimum, for the retrofitting of sprinkler system in tower blocks.
Nick Thomas-Symonds, Louise Haigh and Afzal Khan - who was elected to Parliament for the first time last month - also join the home affairs team under shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.
Other first-time MPs to get roles include Paul Sweeney (Scotland) and Anneliese Dodds (Treasury) while Carolyn Harris and Gerald Jones, both first elected in 2015, will speak on women and equalities and defence respectively.
There is also a return to the frontbench for Tony Lloyd, who served as a minister under Tony Blair and was chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party before being elected Greater Manchester's Police and Crime Commissioner in 2012. He returned to Parliament as MP for Rochdale last month.
After all, who doesn't appreciate having a supermarket that you can call into at all hours?
But - and this is the point doctors have been trying to make at their annual conference - is it really necessary or even affordable?
The health service has already tried to expand opening hours across GP practice.
Under Gordon Brown's premiership GPs were pushed into opening late into the evening and on Saturdays.
Most did, but some of the clinics failed to attract many patients and in a number of areas the extended opening has been reduced or stopped altogether.
Another factor against 24/7 opening is the cost.
If there is going to be weekend non-emergency care, such as hip and knee replacements, and outpatient appointments it will need a lot more staff beyond just doctors - as London GP Dr Chaand Nagpaul spelt out to the British Medical Association conference in Edinburgh.
"It will actually cost formidably more as you factor in all ancillary services from porters, ward clerks, routine pathology, nurses and physios in hospital and community health visitors, social workers and pharmacists."
Others expressed similar sentiments. Surgeon Anna Athow warned the NHS would be at risk of losing money, while supermarkets open up because they can "make money".
It does not take a genius to work out that in such a cash-strapped era something will have to give if seven-day working is to be achieved.
But if questions marks do remain about the idea of convenient access across the whole system, one area that would undoubtedly benefit from more of a focus is the urgent and emergency care system.
Unlike routine care, patients needing this part of the system have no choice over when they need help. The system has to be there - as it obviously already is.
But at the moment the evidence suggests it is not working as well as it should be.
For instance, it has been recognised for some time that the chances of dying increase at the weekend, in part due to expert staffing levels being lower than on weekdays.
In fact, NHS England estimates that if mortality rates were the same as they are during the week then an extra 4,400 lives would be saved each year.
It is why the issue is being looked at as part of Professor Sir Bruce Keogh's review into the system.
The review is in its infancy, but Sir Bruce is already adamant about what he wants to achieve. "We need to build a safe, more efficient system 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he says.
The challenge is clear. Even if patients understand that the NHS may never be there whenever they want it like a supermarket, they will be rightly expecting high quality round-the-clock care when they really need it.
Two cars collided shortly after 10:00 BST on Monday, said police.
The driver of one of the cars, a 63-year-old local man, died at the scene. His passenger, a woman aged 58, was airlifted to hospital where she remains in a serious condition.
The passenger of the other car, a 59-year-old local woman, died shortly after the collision.
The driver of the car, a local man aged 63, was seriously injured and is currently in hospital.
Sgt Ewan Gell from Lincolnshire Police said there was "a scene of carnage".
"It's not something anybody wants to attend," he said.
"But unfortunately somebody has to go there and deal with the aftermath."
The crash now means that 18 people have died on Lincolnshire's roads since the start of the year, compared with six over the same period last year.
Mr McDonnell produced a copy of the Chinese Communist leader's Little Red Book after claiming public assets were being sold to the Chinese government.
He also attacked austerity and claimed a Labour victory over police cuts.
Mr Osborne said Labour was a "deadly threat to the economy".
The chancellor shelved planned cuts to tax credits and pledged to protect police budgets in his Autumn Statement and Spending Review, using a windfall from healthier-than-expected public finances.
In the Spending Review documents it was also revealed funding for opposition political parties would be slashed - a move that could cost Labour more than £1m a year.
In his biggest Commons speech since becoming shadow chancellor, Mr McDonnell said the government had missed its deficit reduction targets and described the tax credits U-turn as a "fiasco".
He said: "At the same time as the chancellor was planning to cut tax credits to working families, he cut inheritance taxes for some of the wealthiest families in this country."
He said the chancellor had said austerity would only last for five years, and that people would "feel absolutely betrayed" by more spending cuts.
"There's only so long you can blame past governments, there's no more excuses for this chancellor after five years," he said, also warning of a "massive winter crisis" in the NHS.
After referring to the UK's relationship with the Chinese government, Mr McDonnell said: "To assist Comrade Osborne about dealing with his new-found comrades, I have brought him along Mao's Little Red Book."
After Speaker John Bercow intervened to calm the Conservative benches, the shadow chancellor read a quote from the book: "We must learn to do economic work from all who know how.
"No matter who they are, we must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. But we must not pretend to know what we do not know".
Throwing the book across the Commons table towards Mr Osborne, he added: "I thought it would come in handy for you in your new relationship."
Picking it up, the chancellor said it was Mr McDonnell's "personal signed copy".
Afterwards, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra told BBC News Mr McDonnell had been highlighting the fact that "George Osborne should not be selling off our assets to foreign governments when he won't invest in this country himself."
Former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said: "I haven't quoted a Communist before and I have no intention of doing so in the future," while Labour MP Frank Field said it was important to realise jokes in the Commons would be seen differently outside the chamber.
Chris Leslie, Mr McDonnell's predecessor as shadow chancellor, said brandishing the book had been a "misjudged stunt".
"I don't think it achieved quite what John wanted it to achieve, but John can explain the joke to people who might not have got the joke," he added.
Mr McDonnell told BBC News: "What the chancellor is doing is selling off at least £5bn worth of our own assets, owned by the British people."
He said he had been trying to make an important point, adding: "If you can do it through humour and draw attention to it, so much the more effective."
Meanwhile, Labour reacted angrily to the government's plans to cut "Short money" paid to opposition parties to help fund their Parliamentary activities.
To qualify for Short money, a party must have at least two MPs or one MP and more than 150,000 votes. Under the formula for allocating it, Labour is in line to get at least £6.2m a year this Parliament.
But the Treasury plans to cut it by 19%, then freeze it for the rest of the Parliament, as part of attempts to "reduce the cost of politics".
A Labour spokeswoman said it was an "anti-democratic move" by the Conservatives, accusing the government of "partisan moves to hit their opposition and give themselves another unfair advantage".
Three men were shot dead by police after driving into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing people.
Seven people were killed and a further 48 were injured. The police have arrested 12 people.
Amy Webster was in Borough Market, along with her boyfriend, when the attackers tried to make their way in.
"There were glasses being chucked around, bottles, and then people were throwing chairs," she told BBC Radio Foyle.
"People at the back of the restaurant started screaming and running away from it."
"We started to run away and it wasn't until after a couple of minutes the manager managed to get the guys out of the restaurant and close the shutters.
Ms Webster explained: 'We started to come back into the restaurant and someone was saying: 'A girl's been stabbed.'
"Basically, three men had come in with knives and stabbed a girl next to the door."
The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
"My partner saw one of the attackers briefly," said Amy Webster. "He saw a man holding up a big knife that [he said] was about a foot-and-a-half long and waving it about."
"We thought it was all over. I was getting our bags together and i was down next to the door and then we started hearing gun fire outside.
"We heard about four rounds of gun shots, in hindsight that was probably the police but we didn't know they were there at that point.
"I found leaving the restaurant was almost the scariest part. We didn't know what was on the other side of the door," she added.
The 26-year-old, who survived a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in 2015, said that when the police arrived, everyone was asked to "keep their hands above their head".
"We walked past a couple of other bars that were also attacked, there was a lot of blood on the ground and there was people still in the bars that were injured and were being treated. It just seemed chaotic," Ms Webster said.
"We feel incredibly lucky. There were so many people who weren't as lucky as we were to walk away unharmed."
The top seed, who ate dog food before her win over fellow American Christina McHale in the last round, beat Russian Kuznetsova 6-2 6-0 in 51 minutes.
Williams will now play Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu after she beat Japan's Misaki Doi 6-2-7-6.
In the other semi America's Madison Keys faces Spain's Garbine Muguruza.
Keys, 21, despatched Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic 6-4 4-6 6-3, while 2015 Wimbledon finalist Muguruza beat Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky 7-5 6-2.
Williams, who admitted being sick after eating dog food ordered off a menu for her Yorkshire Terrier, is aiming for a fourth Italian Open title.
Craig Eastmond and Kieron Cadogan threatened for Sutton in the first half, with first Graham Stack and then Andrew Boyce to the rescue.
Eastleigh began the second half with a shot direct from the kick-off and then a Paul McCallum volley, both easily gathered by goalkeeper Jamie Butler.
They broke through, though, just before the hour when Mark Yeates took on the defence and when his shot was blocked, Williamson followed up to score his first goal for the club.
Yeates and substitute James Constable went close to a second but one proved enough as Ross Lafayette was just unable to reach Jeffrey Monakana's late cross.
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Match ends, Eastleigh 1, Sutton United 0.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 1, Sutton United 0.
Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Sam Wood.
Craig Eastmond (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Sutton United. Josh Taylor replaces Kenny Davis.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Craig McAllister replaces Ben Williamson.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Chris Zebroski replaces Paul McCallum.
Substitution, Sutton United. Tommy Wright replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Substitution, Sutton United. Jeffrey Monakana replaces Daniel Spence.
Dean Beckwith (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Eastleigh 1, Sutton United 0. Ben Williamson (Eastleigh).
Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Sutton United 0.
First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Sutton United 0.
Moses Emmanuel (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Reda Johnson (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Nicky Bailey (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The band have repeatedly been urged to call off the show as part of a cultural boycott over Israel's policies towards the Palestinians.
On Tuesday, filmmaker Ken Loach wrote an open letter, accusing Radiohead of ignoring "human rights violations".
But Yorke hit back on Twitter, saying, "Playing in a country isn't the same as endorsing its government".
"We've played in Israel for over 20 years through a succession of governments, some more liberal than others.
"We don't endorse [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu any more than Trump, but we still play in America.
"Music, art and academia is about crossing borders not building them, about open minds not closed ones, about shared humanity, dialogue and freedom of expression.
"I hope that makes it clear Ken."
Writing in The Independent, Loach rejected Yorke's previous assertion that he, and others, had failed to approach the band in person, before making accusations in public.
"I and others are still willing to meet Yorke and his colleagues, together with Palestinian artists," Loach said.
"Radiohead are important to a lot of people around the world, not just because they are accomplished and very distinguished musicians, but also because they are perceived to be a progressive political band.
"None of us want to see them make the mistake of appearing to endorse or cover up Israeli oppression. If they go to Tel Aviv, they may never live it down."
Loach continued: "I don't know who is advising Radiohead, but their stubborn refusal to engage with the many critics of their ill-advised concert in Tel Aviv suggests to me that they only want to hear one side - the one that supports apartheid."
Radiohead have performed in Israel eight times - most recently in 2000 - but next week's show is the first time they've visited since the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement began in 2005.
In April, the group were petitioned by Artists For Palestine, who asked them to reconsider performing in a country "where a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people".
Among the signatories were South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, Pink Floyd's Roger Water, actors Maxine Peake and Miriam Margolyes, and Mercury Prize-winners Young Fathers.
Responding to that letter, Yorke explained that he did not agree with the BDS movement.
"The kind of dialogue that they want to engage in is one that's black or white," he told Rolling Stone magazine. "I have a problem with that."
He added: "The person who knows most about these things is [Radiohead guitarist] Jonny [Greenwood]. He has both Palestinian and Israeli friends and a wife who's an Arab Jew.
"All these people to stand there at a distance throwing stuff at us, waving flags, saying, 'You don't know anything about it!'. Imagine how offensive that is for Jonny.
"Part of me wants to say nothing because anything I say cooks up a fire from embers. But at the same time, if you want me to be honest, yeah, it's really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years.
"They talk down to us and I just find it mind-boggling that they think they have the right to do that. It's extraordinary."
The band faced further protests when they played the TRNSMT festival in Glasgow this weekend.
A small section of the crowd raised Palestinian flags during the band's headline set - their final UK show of the year.
Yorke was alleged to have sworn at the protest, muttering "some people", as the band played Myxomatosis.
As of now, Radiohead is still scheduled to perform the concert in Tel Aviv's Park Hayarkon on 19 July. They will be joined at the show by the Jewish-Arabic band Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis.
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The large number of medals won by the cyclists of Team GB has come in for particular attention.
The Sydney Morning Herald notes that compared with Britain, Australia has not done very well in the Games, despite having adopted a similar funding strategy in its search for Olympic success.
"In all, $340m has been injected into summer Olympic sports using the national lottery funding model adopted by Great Britain in the lead-up to its home Olympics as an inspiration," the paper says.
"But while Team GB... are still enjoying the afterglow of London by punching well above their weight here, the jury is still out for Australia's program."
In a separate report, the paper said that when Cycling Australia boss Kevin Tabotta was asked what made British cycling so good, he replied: "If I had the blueprint, I'd be using it myself."
An article on Sina's Weibo, the popular Chinese microblogging platform, also wonders what the UK's "secret" is, noting that direct funding from the National Lottery was "allocated to sports management and research institutions" for "a 'world-class project'".
French business daily Les Echos believes it has the answer. Asking "Why do the British swipe so many medals?", it suggests that "to understand why Britain is doing so well this year", one needs to remember that its "direct competitor, the Russian team, was heavily penalized".
A Russian sports news website, Sport Express, carries a report headlined "Britain sets medal record for non-domestic Olympics".
The brief report is followed by a somewhat jaundiced comment from a reader identified as "S-E fan", who asks: "What's so surprising about this? The British have seized key posts at Wada, IAAF, the Paralympic Committee. Their people are everywhere, they are securely covered and compete and train without hassle."
Several competitors in Rio have expressed astonishment at Team GB's performance.
Australia's Olympic team captain Anna Meares was said to have "raised her eyebrows" at Britain's track cycling success, while Germany's champion cyclist Kristina Vogel asked how it was possible that Britain's cyclists could do so well at the Olympics after failing to score any other notable successes in the previous few years.
Anna Meares later took to Twitter to make it clear that she had not intended to suggest that the British team had been doing anything suspicious.
French ex-cyclist, ex-coach and now columnist Antoine Vayer has been posting a number of provocative tweets aimed at British cyclists, with the latest simply stating: "£ycling".
But the French paper Le Telegramme believes the British sprinters' superior muscle power is what gives them the edge over their competitors.
"Sprint is fast becoming above all a sport of strength, in which the emphasis is on muscle power - perhaps excessively so for the purists," it says.
Meanwhile, English-language Chinese sources are being magnanimous about Britain's Rio successes but the Chinese-language papers are not happy about lagging behind Britain in the medals table.
Nationalist newspaper Huanqiu Shibao says there is "British media excitement over gold medals overtaking China" but the paper stresses that this is only "temporary".
The UK sports minister, Tracy Crouch, has criticised countries who have raised questions about the dominance of the British cycling team at the Rio Olympics.
She said the comments were "unfair" - and British cyclists had simply got better than their opponents.
The head British cycling coach has said the GB team always aimed to peak at the Olympics.
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Despite living with dementia, her brushstrokes are measured and steady, the legacy of her years of painting as a talented amateur.
Her work today is very different to the highly detailed pieces she used to produce - expert reproductions of Old Masters such as "Girl With the Peal Earring" by the 17th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
Joyce's daughter, Hazel, says her mum still enjoys painting, but before the disease took hold her work was really striking.
"They were really good copies of the Old Masters and very detailed.
"She's not as detailed now.
"She can remember things from years ago, but generally if you asked her what she had for breakfast this morning she can't remember."
But can art - more specifically, the way artists work - tell us something about the development of dementia and other degenerative brain diseases?
A minute analysis of the brushstrokes used by artists who developed neurological diseases reveals intriguing clues about changes in the brain that occurred years before any symptoms became obvious.
The mathematical method is called "fractal analysis", which is a way of looking at recurring patterns that occur both in maths and in nature.
Trees and clouds are said to be "fractal", as are the recurring patterns of our brainwaves and heartbeats.
The same applies to the individual brushstrokes of artists, which can be compared to their individual handwriting.
Psychologist Alex Forsythe from Liverpool University carried out a fractal analysis of more than two thousand works by seven famous artists and found tiny changes in those patterns.
"In artists who went on to develop dementia or Parkinson's disease, the fractal patterns started to change in an unusual way.
"So what we found was that up to 20 years before they actually had a diagnosis of a neurological disorder, the fractal content in the paintings had started to decrease.
"So anything that helps us understand more about the way in which the brain operates is a useful way to inform future directions for research."
The artist Willem de Kooning was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease after his death in 1997.
The brushstroke patterns seen in his earlier work were different when compared to later paintings.
But in artists like Monet and Picasso, who died free of any known neurological disease, the patterns remained constant throughout their lives.
It's striking that the even though Picasso in particular changed styles so often throughout his career, his fractal range was constant, regardless of the style in which he painted.
This research won't help diagnose dementia or similar diseases.
But it does give a valuable insight into changes that are taking place in the brain years before the illness appears and so could help provide some answers to the hidden processes behind these devastating conditions.
In her first broadcast interview since resigning, Ms Lamont said the scale of the party's election defeat was worse than anyone "possibly imagined".
The party must now elect a leader "for the long haul" to recover, she said.
Ms Lamont also praised the SNP and its leader Nicola Sturgeon for running a campaign that "got everything right".
The SNP won 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland in last month's general election.
Labour was left with just one MP in Scotland, after losing 40 seats, including those of Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Johann Lamont, who led Scottish Labour from 2011 to 2014, said: "Even those of us who were preparing for the worst possible defeat couldn't possibly have imagined what happened.
"We couldn't have predicted it, but we need to analyse it if we're going to survive.
"The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.
"We can't do that this time. We need to elect a leader not on a short term contract, but a long term appointment for the long haul. There is no quick fix to this, there are not any ploys, not any gimmicks, that will get us through the next period.
She said it "defies logic" that Labour MPs of the "highest calibre" lost their seats, but said the SNP "took all before them".
"That therefore means people were putting faith not just in individual candidates, but putting faith in a message that was coming to them from the SNP.
She said the SNP had provided "a lesson in how to run a campaign", and leader Nicola Sturgeon had been "completely in control".
"It seems to me they got everything right, and Nicola Sturgeon has become a politician over many years. She was the most experienced person on the podium during the leaders' debate, and that shone out."
Ms Lamont added that she felt some comments about the new SNP MPs had been "disrespectful".
"Some of the commentary around some of them choosing to take their oath in Gaelic I found personally offensive as a Gael," she said.
"They are a mixed bunch like any bunch of people, but the fact of the matter is they are significantly representing Scotland's interests."
Ms Lamont, who is MSP for Glasgow Pollok, resigned as Scottish Labour leader last October accusing Westminster colleagues of treating Scotland like a "branch office".
"The recovery [of Labour] in Scotland which matters to the whole of the United Kingdom must be shaped in Scotland itself," she said.
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has announced he will tender his resignation later this month having tabled a plan to reform the party.
Deputy leader Kezia Dugdale has confirmed she will stand for the leadership.
Pen Test Partners, which tested the Siime Eye vibrator, said it was "trivial" to connect to its web interface.
This meant attackers could access intimate videos recorded by the device, as well as control other functions.
Svakom, the US firm that makes the toy, has not responded to a request for comment.
According to Svakom's website, the Siime Eye has a built-in micro camera and a hidden searchlight, which can be connected to a PC, tablet or mobile phone via wi-fi.
The firm says this allows users to "record and share" their experiences with a partner via "pictures or videos".
But in a blog, Pen Test Partners showed how the device could be hacked.
It said someone within range of the device could access its video stream, either by working out the user's password, or entering the manufacturer's default password, 88888888, if it had not been changed.
Those with more advanced knowledge could gain "complete control" over operation of the device, Pen said.
"It's trivial to connect to the access point (AP)," it said, "[and] if you can get onto the wireless AP, you'll have instant access to everything on this web application.
"Oh, and being a Wi-Fi AP means you can find users too… This part surprised us the most."
Pen Test said it had contacted Svakom several times about the issue since December but had not heard back.
It comes weeks after Canadian firm Standard Innovation agreed to pay $3.75m (£3m) to settle privacy claims regarding some of its We-Vibe sex toys.
Some We-Vibe models collected intimate user data and sent it back to the manufacturer without the user's consent.
Tech experts said the vibrator could also be hacked although Standard Innovation, which did not admit wrongdoing, said none of the devices' data was accessed by outside parties.
Haven't we all.
Now, with the march of artificial intelligence and robotics, it's becoming an increasingly valid question.
Algorithms - problem solving computer programmes - are, to put it bluntly, getting much better at doing our jobs than we are.
And it's not just in the tech sector where computers are becoming king.
Last year the LA Times published an article about an earthquake which was written by a computer programme.
School children in South Korea are being taught English by a machine called Robosem, and even the so-called oldest profession faces competition - a US firm called TrueCompanion claims to have developed the world's first sex robots, with the most basic model costing just $995 (£645).
But is there a danger that this brave new world is going to be a bit, well, dull?
The entertainment industry has already adopted an algorithmic approach to working out what we want to watch.
When TV and movie streaming service Netflix decided to start commissioning its own material, it turned not to Hollywood veterans, film critics or media forecasters, but to algorithms and user data.
A data trawl of the most-watched and loved content streamed by Netflix customers revealed three key ingredients - actor Kevin Spacey, director David Fincher and political dramas produced by the BBC .
So the firm commissioned a remake of 1990 BBC political thriller House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher. It became the first ever web series to win a prestigious Emmy award, with the first series receiving nine nominations.
"House of Cards is the most famous example of a data driven approach to creativity," said Luke Dormehl, film maker and author of The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems, and Create More.
"Netflix commissioned an unprecedented number of these episodes - and paid upfront - rather than going down the traditional route, where you shoot a pilot, present to executives etc."
It is perhaps no wonder the company keeps its lucrative viewing figures and ratings information such a closely guarded secret - it has never made them public.
London-based firm Epagogix offers an AI analysis of movie scripts to predict how successful they are likely to be at the box office. It even claims to be able to identify "improvements" to boost a film's commercial value.
In theory this eliminates every film maker's worst nightmare - the expensive flop.
"If a film needs to make £10m and it makes £5m [at the box office] we say it's bombed," said Mr Dormehl.
"But if we had that data in advance and said, if you spend half the money making it, it will still make £5m... it opens the way for making mid-range films."
But where's the excitement, the joy of the surprise hit or chance discovery of the new?
Luke Dormehl says it opens up a world of different opportunities.
"As a film maker I think there are plenty of exciting possibilities," he said.
"It's exciting to have a script where you can tap into that data. Which scenes remind people of good times, which music cues do they like, when do they get up to make the tea....
"I'm excited about the possibility of films that change direction depending on who is watching them, or change narrative if you're not paying attention."
The finance sector is another enjoying the comparative stability of computer control.
"The trading floor was a very exciting place. Now it's more like a software company than a financial organisation," said Dr Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, assistant professor at the London School of Economics.
High Frequency financial trader Virtu, an electronic trader with computerised strategies, has only ever recorded one day of losses in nearly six years.
On its website the firm claims that its 148 employees are the "secret sauce" of its success but its own proprietary technology is at the heart of all of its trading activity.
"If we were handling the same volumes of stocks with human traders it would probably be a much more volatile existence," said Dr Pardo-Guerra.
It's nothing new - attempts have been made to automate the trading aspects of the financial markets since the 1980s - but is the Virtu success story a nail in the coffin for traditional finance sector jobs?
"The first step has gone already - the floor traders. In Chicago the trading floor was the centre of everything until a few years back when everything moved to automated," Dr Pardo-Guerra said.
"The next step will probably be analysts and people who compile data and information on companies and produce stock valuations - that will be affected by algorithms and automations."
Financial thrill-seekers will still enjoy working in the sector, predicts Dr Pardo-Guerra - but there will definitely be a change of scene.
"It's probably going to have some impact on how people relate with the market, how they find excitement in trading," he said.
"But the market is so big and complex there will always be space for excitement."
And the good news is there is still room for the human touch - at least for now.
"Even within the most analytical part of finance of markets meetings and relationships are still quite important and that's something algorithms can't do," he added.
"Some aspects can be automated - calculated or quantitative decision making. But others rely more on personal cues and networks."
Algorithms have another potentially fatal flaw - they are unable to recognise when someone is taking the tricks of the trade too far.
"People know how to manipulate prices to get more customers or make their strategies more profitable," said Dr Pardo-Guerra.
"I think algorithms present challenges in terms of identifying these processes."
Their inability to interpret sneaky human behaviour has proved a stumbling block in the surveillance sector too.
Dr Daniel Neyland, professor at Goldsmiths University, London, was involved in an experiment at an airport last year where an algorithmic system was installed to identify suspicious abandoned luggage from CCTV footage.
"On average there was one alert per hour by having staff looking at monitors," said Dr Neyland.
"In six hours the system detected 2654 [alerts]. It was so far off the scale of expectations, there weren't enough people to respond or even go through the data afterwards."
Among the false alarms identified by the system were shadows on the floor, cleaners' trolleys and people standing still, Dr Neyland explained.
"People are generally speaking good at picking out what's a bag and what's not - but also whether it looks abandoned," he said.
"Algorithmically processing this kind of data is challenging. What's a bag and what's not? How long has it been left for? How far is a person from their bag?"
For similar reasons one European rail network has completely uninstalled an automated security system, Dr Neyland added. It was supposed to monitor un-staffed areas for signs of vandalism and break-ins.
"The operatives looked like they had a bad response rate but the system was not picking out things they could respond to," he said.
"This is a tricky area for video analytics. You don't want false negatives where you miss the thing you are supposed to look at, but too many false positives undermines ability of the system to operate."
But the day when algorithms become the boss is closer for some workplaces than others, he warns.
"Workplaces that are already tech-saturated will lend themselves more to algorithmic governance," he said.
"It already happens in call centres. Algorithms read how long calls are, how successful they are, measurements of response time etc. That data is used in managing the work place.
"There is some suggestion that staff welcome this accurate measurement of their day - it gives them an objective element to appraisals."
Not everybody however is a fan.
"As soon as you put into place a measure it quickly becomes a target," Dr Neyland added.
"There are also some suggestions that people hate it, and that it puts extra pressure on their jobs.
"If someone is going to assess quality is it OK to reduce it to number crunching?"
Automated, unflinching and calculating with no sense of humour..... maybe your boss isn't so bad after all.
It said travel may be affected as trees could be brought down while surface water could develop due to heavy rain.
A yellow "be aware" warning for wind covers Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Newport and Vale of Glamorgan.
It is in place from 11:00 GMT on Friday until the early hours of Saturday but southern England is expected to be worst hit by Storm Doris.
People living near coasts have been advised to stay away from the seafront, with several coastal flood alerts issued by Natural Resources Wales.
Matt Crofts, lifesaving delivery manager for the RNLI, said: "The water can be unpredictable at the best of times but it is particularly dangerous during bad weather.
"We are urging everyone to respect the water and to keep safe during the upcoming rough weather and would remind people not to underestimate the distance waves can travel up the beach or harbour wall.
"Although it can be tempting to get close, it isn't worth risking your life to take photos or to dodge waves."
High winds on Thursday evening led to three women being injured after a tree fell onto a car in Pembrokeshire during high winds.
Their car had to be winched from under the tree by Mid and West Wales firefighters in Narberth.
The B4314 remains closed in both directions on Friday morning in the area.
There are also restrictions on the M48 Severn Bridge due to high winds, with one lane closed and a 40mph speed limit in force.
The ferry company Stena Line is also reporting delays on Irish sea crossings between Holyhead and Dublin, with its 08:55 GMT sailing delayed by about two hours on Friday morning.
The 13-year-old needed hospital treatment after the attack in Tamworth.
A 15-year-old girl and two boys, 13 and 15, were interviewed by police following the assault, which was filmed by an onlooker.
A Staffordshire Police spokeswoman said the Youth Offending Team would "address their behaviour and reparation."
She added: "Bail will continue to be utilised as a tool to manage their compliance during this process."
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Footage of the attack on 26 September showed the child being punched and kicked while other children encouraged her attacker.
The footage was later deleted from social media.
The victim suffered minor injuries, the force said.
A statement from a school, which some of those involved attended, condemned their actions in the wake of the attack, saying it would work with police to "bring them to justice".
Civil rights activist Cornel West was among those held after he led a march to the police station.
Riot police lined up outside the building and arrests were made when people tried to break the line.
The protests were part of four days of events called "Ferguson October", which calls for an end to police brutality.
Demonstrators also demanded that charges be brought against the white officer who killed Michael Brown, 18, at the start of August.
The shooting sparked weeks of unrest and made national and international headlines.
A grand jury is deciding whether to bring charges against the officer.
The protest began on Monday morning when demonstrators marched with arms joined from Wellspring Church to the police station in heavy rain.
The names of people killed by police across the US were read out, and those included Venderrit Myers Jr, another 18-year-old killed last week by a white police officer in nearby St Louis.
Police say Myers, who was black, shot first but they are investigating why 17 shots were fired by the officer.
Outside the police station, the chalk outline of a man was drawn on the ground, which organisers said was "a memorial for the body of Michael Brown".
Bishop Wayne Smith of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri told US media his faith compelled him to be there.
"I want to show solidarity, and call attention to the structural racism of St. Louis," he added.
Ferguson Police said 42 people were arrested at the police station and another six were arrested for blocking a street elsewhere.
On Monday night, the protests focused on two Walmarts and a political fundraising event.
Udinese claimed Mensah's transfer to French side Evian in 2011 was illegal as he was still under contract with the Italian club, despite claiming to be a free agent.
The four-month ban started on 30 April 2015 but football's world governing body Fifa has clarified how it will work in a statement to the BBC.
"The sanction is suspended from the final day of the season where he is currently playing club football and begins again at the start of the next season, whichever country he may choose to play in," wrote Fifa.
"He can play for Ghana in World Cup qualifiers and any other matches that are not a final competition of an international tournament."
It means Mensah will miss the start of next season but crucially for Ghana, he will be able to play in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Mauritius, scheduled for Accra on 14 June.
The original sanction was issued by Fifa's Dispute Resolution Chamber in July last year but action was delayed as the case was taken to CAS.
He will serve the final three months of the ban from the official start of his next club's new season.
"Mensah received a four-month ban in the Fifa decision," sport's highest legal body said in a statement on Monday.
"Such decision was stayed during the arbitration procedure at CAS."
CAS added that "the sporting sanctions that were imposed on Evian Thonon Gaillard FC are suspended and [have been] referred back to [Fifa's] Dispute Resolution Chamber."
Mensah's ban comes as a double blow for the player, after Evian were relegated from the French top flight on Saturday.
The 24-year-old joined Udinese from Free State Stars in South Africa after impressing for Ghana during their 2009 World Youth Cup victory.
However, the centre-back - who played at both the 2010 and 2014 World Cups - struggled to get into the Italian team and spent time on loan at Spanish side Granada prior to signing for Evian.
The airport said the problem had now been resolved and it was working with airlines to get luggage to passengers "as soon as possible".
Passengers reported long queues at check-in desks on Friday. Departing flights from the north and south terminals are affected.
The system for handling luggage from arriving flights has not been affected.
A spokesman for Gatwick Airport said: "Arrivals, and those travelling with carry-on baggage only, were unaffected by this issue and all bags and passengers were security screened as normal."
He said the problem with the automated baggage system had now been fixed and the airport was now working to remedy the disruption caused by a backlog of luggage.
Passengers have taken to social media complaining of a lack of information from airlines at the airport's check-in desks as the airport begins one of its busiest weekends of the year.
Charles Duffield tweeted: "Total shambles at Gatwick this morning."
Phil Collins also posted on Twitter: "Absolute chaos @Gatwick_Airport multiple gate moves, multiple flights from the same gates and staff ask us for advice and info #BankHoliday."
EasyJet said the problem had been caused by a baggage belt failure.
They closed down 1.8% in Seoul.
The country's benchmark Kospi index wrapped the day flat at 2,010.34.
The two companies are already entangled in several legal battles over the use of proprietary technology, including fourth-generation (4G) cellular technology, operating systems and user interface software.
Huawei sued Samsung in the US in May.
The rest of Asia's share market are mostly lower on Friday due to a tepid earnings season so far on Wall Street.
Japan's Nikkei 225 closed 1.1% lower at 16,627.25 points.
Nintendo shares ended the day 0.8% higher after earlier jumping by nearly 5% on news it's finally launched the wildly popular Pokemon Go in Japan.
Australian shares finished down 0.3% at 5,498.20.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng wrapped up trading flat at 21,964.27, while the mainland's Shanghai Composite closed 0.9% down at 3,012.43 points.
Jordan Cunliffe was 16 when he was jailed for a minimum of 12 years in 2008 after Garry Newlove, 47, was kicked to death in Warrington in 2007.
Mr Newlove died in hospital two days after being attacked by three people.
Dismissing the case, High Court judges said the decision was based on his progress in jail not on a statement by Mr Newlove's widow at his 2015 appeal.
Cunliffe, 24, initially appealed against his sentence last May but his application was refused after Mr Justice Mitting considered the victim personal statement made by Victims' Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove.
The court heard Baroness Newlove's statement was withheld from Cunliffe and his lawyers, at her own request. His legal team claimed that was "unlawful".
Giving judgement , Lord Justice Bean and Mrs Justice Carr ruled the statement was "irrelevant to the decision".
Lord Justice Bean said: "I consider that the victim personal statement in this case should not have been considered by [Mr Justice Mitting] if Baroness Newlove was unwilling to have it disclosed.
"The procedure adopted was, to this extent, unfair. It would have been unfair even if the murder victim's widow was not a member of the House of Lords and did not hold the post of Victims' Commissioner."
In the case heard last year, Mr Justice Mitting found Cunliffe's progress in prison had been "good, it had not been exceptional".
For this reason, Lord Justice Bean said the original finding to reject the bid was "not only correct, but inevitable".
Cunliffe can apply for parole at the end of his 12-year term in 2019.
Mr Newlove suffered head injuries in the attack by Cunliffe, Adam Swellings, then 19, and Stephen Sorton, then 17, who were jointly convicted of his murder.
Mr Newlove had left his Warrington house to confront youths who had vandalised his wife's car.
During the short confrontation he was kicked "like a football", the trial of his killers heard.
The company has published accounts for last year showing an overall loss of $7.2bn.
The company's results also included an impairment charge of $14.8bn reflecting the decreased value of its assets.
Petrobras has been embroiled in a massive corruption scandal in which it is alleged that bribes were paid for lucrative contracts with the firm.
The scandal has hurt Petrobras and damaged President Dilma Rousseff's government.
In March hundreds of thousands of Brazilians protested against President Rousseff, who chaired the board of Petrobras for much of the period when the alleged bribes happened.
However, the president denies involvement and has been exonerated by an investigation by the attorney general.
More than 40 top politicians - including the presidents of both houses of Congress - are still under investigation, and the treasurer of the country's ruling party has been arrested.
Earlier on Thursday a judge convicted a former Petrobras executive of money laundering and racketeering for his role in the case, that involved bribes and illegal donations to political parties.
Paulo Roberto Costa, who was head of refining and supply, will serve part of his sentence under house arrest. He can still appeal.
Petrobras was supposed to be Brazil's "lottery ticket" - as it is sitting on top of one of the world's most valuable oil reserves.
But today it announced losses of $7bn for 2014 - its first loss in decades.
That number is based on witness statements to the police that 3% of each major contract between 2004 and 2012 was paid in kickbacks to politicians and executives.
Wednesday's announcement was highly anticipated in Brazil and in the markets, because previous figures were discredited.
Petrobras executives - all recently appointed to replace people involved in the scandal - hope this will draw a line, and that the company may finally start to move on.
Petrobras's oil bonanza: Blessing or curse?
Back in November Petrobras's auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) declined to certify the company's accounts saying that the corruption scandal made it hard to value the firm's assets.
Since then PwC has been able to calculate the impact of corruption and also identified other costs including those related to missed production targets and the lower price of crude oil.
Publishing the results "is a fundamental step toward fully salvaging the company's credibility," said Aldemir Bendine, the firm's new chief executive.
But analysts say that the company will have to work hard to regain the trust of the financial markets.
"Petrobras's problem isn't about oil or finance, it's about trust. The first thing the company needs to do is recover its credibility, because today the market doesn't believe it," said Daniel Marques, chief analyst at consulting firm Gradual Investimentos.
The Hindu, published daily since 1878, did not come out on Wednesday as workers could not access the press.
The paper's publisher N Murali told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi that it was the first time this had happened.
The rains have suspended flights and trains and hundreds of people are without power.
The Hindu, which is headquartered in Chennai, is also published in 17 other cities.
"Our Maraimalainagar township was not accessible for the people who run the plant. So, none of our staff could reach the plant. It is located about 30km (18 miles) from the city in Maraimalainagar," Mr Murali said.
"The printing press plant is large so we put it up outside the city. Even if we had printed the paper, I doubt if it could have been distributed in the city," he added.
Other city newspapers like the Times of India, the Deccan Chronicle and the New Indian Express were printed, although it is unclear if they had reached readers in the city.
The army has been deployed to rescue thousands of stranded people after two days of heavy rains.
Flights from the city's airport have been indefinitely suspended after flood waters entered the runway and tarmac areas on Tuesday evening.
Most of the main streets are waterlogged and schools have been shut for the 17th day since November, reports say.
Schools and colleges have been shut in six districts due to the rains.
It wanted to "restore dignity back to the statue", a spokesman told the BBC.
The sculptors reportedly inserted the rabbit as a trademark signature and to denote the haste with which they had to complete the statue.
Rabbit in the Afrikaans language is "haas", which also means haste.
"We don't think it's appropriate because Nelson Mandela never had a rabbit on his ear," Mogomotsi Mogodiri, the spokesman for the Department of Arts and Culture, told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme.
"We'd want people to see that statue as a symbol of hope, not about something like a rabbit."
Mr Mandela, who died at the age of 95, was widely acclaimed for his role in fighting white minority rule and promoting reconciliation after being elected South Africa's first black president in 1994.
The nine-metre (30ft) bronze statue was unveiled on 16 December, a day after Mr Mandela was buried.
It stands at the Union Buildings, the government headquarters in the capital, Pretoria.
Mr Mogodiri said the sculptors had apologised for any offence caused to the government and Mr Mandela's family by placing the rabbit in the statue's right ear.
"Discussions are on-going about when the rabbit will be removed. Government wants it removed as soon as possible to restore dignity back to the statue," he said.
The sculptors, Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, said they had added the rabbit to the statue after the department refused to allow them to engrave their signatures on the trousers of the statue, South Africa's Beeld newspaper reported.
They said it also represented the tight deadline they work under.
"The time factor was big and at times we had to work hard," Mr Prinsloo is quoted as saying.
He said the "small symbol" was hidden in the ear and it did not take anything away from the statue.
"You need a long lens or binoculars to see it," he said.
"During the moulding process a lot of people had seen the statue up close and nobody noticed it."
Mr Mogodiri said the sculptors had never asked for permission to put their signatures on the statue, and the government was "taken aback" by their claim that permission had been denied.
"Nothing of that sort happened. If a request was made, we would have considered it," he said.
Mr Mandela died on 5 December after battling a recurring lung infection.
Noe Iniguez posted a photograph of his ex-girlfriend naked to her employer's Facebook page alongside derogatory comments.
The 36-year-old is the first person to be convicted under the new law.
Thirteen US states have enacted revenge porn laws over the past two years. England and Wales are also making it a criminal offence.
However, it remains a contentious issue.
California's revenge porn law bans the posting of nude or sexual images of an individual, including selfies, with the purpose of causing emotional distress.
Los Angeles-based Iniguez posted the photograph of his victim in March, accompanied by a message that called her a "drunk" and a "slut" and urged her employer to fire her. He used an alias in an attempt to hide his identity.
The woman had previously secured a restraining order against him after receiving abusive text messages following the break-up of their four-year-long relationship in 2011.
Iniguez was sentenced to one year in jail, 36 months of probation and instructed to attend domestic violence counselling after being found guilty of breaking the revenge porn law and violating a restraining order.
"California's new revenge porn law gives prosecutors a valuable tool to protect victims whose lives and reputations have been upended by a person they once trusted," said state prosecutor Mike Feuer.
"This conviction sends a strong message that this type of malicious behaviour will not be tolerated."
Revenge porn laws are intended to make it easier for prosecutors to gain convictions for internet-based offences without having to appeal to pre-existing laws governing harassment and other offences.
California enacted a relatively tough law, requiring prosecutors to prove perpetrators had intended to cause distress at the time of their actions.
But other states have attempted to take a broader approach.
Arizona tried to ban all posts showing anyone "in a state of nudity or engaged in specific sexual activities" unless the person pictured had given their explicit permission.
This prompted a backlash from free speech campaigners, who suggested it would have prevented newspapers publishing pictures of abused naked prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
A judge subsequently halted enforcement of Arizona's law until it was rewritten.
England and Wales' new Criminal Justice and Courts Bill is set to make "the distribution of a private sexual image of someone without their consent and with the intention of causing them distress" illegal.
This will include images posted to social networks including Facebook and Twitter, as well as "offline" sharing via text messages. Those convicted will face a maximum two-year jail sentence.
The Scottish government has said that it is exploring the introduction of its own revenge porn law. And a member of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party has urged the nation's justice minister to introduce its own legislation.
The former Culture Secretary Maria Miller has, however, called for further action.
On Monday the Tory MP urged internet firms to adopt the same technologies they already used to prevent the spread of child abuse images in order to stop the proliferation of revenge porn pictures.
"This sort of industry-wide approach is what we should all expect from a mature, multinational sector of our economy," she said.
"We should not expect the burdens of removing illegal images from commercial websites to be solely the responsibility of the police.
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The amount spent per head was £1,400 per person higher than the UK figure, according to the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) bulletin for 2014-15.
The deficit ran to almost 10% of Scotland's output - nearly double the level for the UK as a whole.
Ministers insisted the foundations of the Scottish economy remained strong.
The figures reflect a sharp drop in the calculation of oil and gas tax revenues that might have been credited to Scottish government income.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "Taken in the context of the wider economic environment, which has been impacted by muted global demand, falling oil prices and more difficult conditions for manufacturers, the economy has remained resilient with record levels of employment, positive economic growth and growing exports.
"This shows the foundations of Scotland's economy are strong and that we have a strong base to build our future progress upon."
The Scotland Office Minister Andrew Dunlop said: "These figures show that Scotland is facing challenging economic times, in particular because of the drop in oil price, and demonstrate the value of the broad shoulders of the United Kingdom.
"The UK and Scottish governments both have a responsibility to work hard and support the Scottish economy in difficult global conditions, and that is exactly what we will continue to do."
£68bn
Total expenditure
£11.5bn Health
£7.6bn Education and training
£2.8bn Policing
£2.7bn Transport
The annual GERS figures, which are produced by Scottish government economists, independently of ministers, also showed;
The GERS figures are widely used to inform the debate about Scotland's potential for independence or for the full range of tax-raising powers.
They looked much more positive when oil and gas tax revenue was in the billions. But with the fall in the price of oil and gas, as well as high levels of investment, producer profits have plummeted, and taxes with them.
Excluding North Sea revenue, the deficit ran to £16.7bn, or 11.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the key measure of total economic output.
Including a geographic share of offshore tax revenue, the 2014-15 deficit was £14.9bn, or 9.7% of GDP.
For the UK, the equivalent measure was a deficit of £89bn. That was 4.9% of GDP.
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In actual money spent, Scottish revenue including a share of oil and gas tax was £53.4bn, while expenditure on all aspects of government activity in Scotland, both devolved and reserved, ran to £68.4bn.
The scale of the deficit looks less daunting when capital expenditure is removed. That is sometimes done to measure spending without the investment element that provides longer-term returns.
On that measure, the current spending deficit for 2014-15 was £11.9bn, according to GERS - or 7.8% of GDP, compared with a UK figure of 3.3%.
As a benchmark of a sustainable level of deficit, the rules for eurozone membership require deficits to be no more than 3% of GDP.
On Wednesday afternoon the Scottish government admitted it got a key figure wrong in its GERS report.
It explained that the online document was updated to rectify an overstatement of oil revenues in one calculation which had been designed for international comparison.
This change does not affect the over totals.
GERS: Extracts from Table E.2 (figures rounded to the nearest £100). The numbers listed refer to the difference compared with the rest of the UK. | Scotland's public spending was almost £15bn more than its tax revenue in the last financial year, new figures show. | 35,757,787 | 760 | 27 | false |
The Dow rose 64 points to 18,024, while the S&P 500 also climbed, ending up three points to 2,082.
But the Nasdaq lost 16 points to close at 4,765.
Official figures released earlier on Tuesday showed the economy grew at an annual rate of 5% in the quarter, up from a previous estimate of 3.9%.
Despite the strong growth figure, separate data on durable goods orders - seen as a proxy for business investment - disappointed as it showed a fall of 0.7% in November.
However, analysts were cheered by the pick-up in GDP.
"That is a solid number, that is really what you want to see, you want to see it in demand," Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago, told Reuters.
"That is a huge plus, a five handle on GDP is astounding to me, but I'm not going to turn it away - Merry Christmas."
The Dow Jones has gained 9% this year and set 36 record closes in the process.
Meanwhile the S&P 500 is up almost 13% and has recorded 51 record highs.
Some market-watchers are confident that the gains have further to go.
"You have to understand that US economic output is at an all-time high and corporate profits are at an all-time high,'' said Cameron Hinds, regional chief investment officer at Wells Fargo Private Bank.
"Bull markets typically don't die purely of old age, they tend to die of recessions and overvaluation and perhaps policy mistakes, and we don't see any of those on the horizon," he added.
Among individual shares, Hertz jumped more than 8% after the firm raised prices for car rentals beginning next year.
The company said the move was to compensate for the rising costs of running its fleet of cars.
Alibaba fell almost 3% after a report in the Wall Street Journal reported that an Alibaba service to help foreign brands break into China was delivering disappointing sales.
Shares in Chevron and Exxon Mobil gained more than 1% after oil prices rose.
The benchmark price for Brent Crude added $1.61 to $61.72 a barrel and US West Texas Intermediate Crude rose $1.84 to $57.15 a barrel.
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Swiss pilot Yves 'Jetman' Rossy does just that after he invented his own jetpack system using carbon-fibre wings and four jet engines.
He has just completed his most recent flying adventure over Japan's Mount Fuji, and he did it not just once but nine times!
He said: "It's really impressive. It's a perfect form, a huge mountain, a huge volcano, a presence that you can feel on the ground and also in the air."
In previous stunts Rossy has crossed the English Channel, flown over the Grand Canyon and soared above the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as flying in formation with jet airplanes and a Spitfire fighter.
Ramat Shah contributed 78 and Noor Ali Zadran 51 as Afghanistan scored an impressive 292-7 off their 50 overs, Kevin O'Brien taking 3-47.
Despite a brave attempt, Ireland fell short with 262 all out in 46.5 overs.
Porterfield smashed 119 and Paul Stirling 68 as they put on a second-wicket partnership of 157.
The Ireland captain's innings came off just 98 balls and included 18 fours, but most of the remainder of the Ireland batting line-up were unable to replicate his form.
Dawlat Zadran and Rashid Khan took four wickets apiece to help see the Afghans to victory at Greater Noida on Wednesday.
Ireland had already been whitewashed 3-0 in a Twenty20 series between the sides in India.
The teams will play four further one-day internationals, before meeting in an Intercontinental Cup match at the end of the month.
Campaigners had until Tuesday to raise NZ$2m (£914,000, $1.3m) and place a bid on the currently private beach.
The stretch of land in the Abel Tasman National Park, on the north coast of South Island, went on sale last year.
More than 36,000 people have now supported the campaign and donations continue to flow in.
The money was raised in a little more than three weeks, after a group of friends plotted the purchase.
"We love our land, every piece, and there is a sadness every time a little piece leaves our care," one of the campaigners, Duane Major, told the Dominion Post.
"We want to be able to pass that on to our children, to care and protect, and give it as a gift to the legacy of New Zealand."
The beach at Awaroa has been owned by a Wellington-based businessman since 2008. It is being advertised as "a remarkable seven-hectare utopia" with "three modest buildings dotted amidst the mature native bush".
It also offers access by air, thanks to a nearby air strip.
Earlier this week, before the campaign had reached its target, a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist offered to make up the shortfall in the fund in exchange for exclusive access to part of the beach for his family. Gareth Morgan's offer was rejected by the campaigners.
Tenders will be placed by Tuesday afternoon, and it is not known whether there will be competing bids.
The crowdfunding website stopped showing the running tally once it hit NZ$2m, so the current total is not known.
Earlier in the week, Prime Minister John Key would not rule out a "modest" government contribution to the fund should it be needed.
From disputes with his club doctor to compelling television interviews, talk of getting an "electronic tag" and a series of increasingly damaging defeats, his demise as Chelsea manager has captivated social media.
Here, we chart the key moments in his downfall and look at how his profile on Twitter compared with those of his rival managers.
The money - worth £119bn this year - could be used to provide more joined-up care across the hospital, mental health and care sectors, the party believes.
In a speech on Thursday, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham will say the current arrangements are outdated.
He will claim "dangerous" gaps between services put the vulnerable at risk.
The proposal could see councils get much more involved in making decisions about the NHS, while the biggest hospitals may end up expanding into the community, perhaps even running care homes.
But government sources suggested such a move could end up undermining clinical commissioning groups - the new bodies which are taking control of the health budget under the government reforms.
That would mean "taking power away from doctors and nurses", they said.
Combining the budgets will also require changes to the way money is distributed round the system.
And it would raise a question mark over the means testing of social care.
Currently those with assets over £23,250 have to pay for help, but how that could be enforced in a combined system is unclear.
But Mr Burnham will deny the plan is any sort of reorganisation when he addresses an audience of health professionals in London.
He will dub the proposal, which is being put out to consultation, as "whole-person care".
"As we live longer, people's needs become a blur of physical, mental and social.
"It is just not possible to disaggregate them and meet them through our three separate services.
"But that's what we're still trying to do."
He will say that hospitals are at risk of becoming "warehouses" for the elderly as social care support is being cut back.
"We are paying for failure on a grand scale, allowing people to fail at home and drift into expensive hospital beds and from there into expensive care homes.
"The trouble is no-one has the incentive to invest in prevention."
Mike Farrar, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health managers, said: "Mr Burnham is absolutely right to highlight the long-term pressures facing the NHS and the need for radical change to address them.
"A cocktail of financial pressure and demographic change means that the NHS needs to adapt to meet the needs of today's patients.
"We urgently need an all-party debate about these issues, with radical solutions very much allowed. The NHS will judge the plans of all politicians on how they help the service tackle these massive problems."
"I've been on my feet all day and now my feet are hurting me so much that I can't walk - they're burning," she told the 999 operator.
The 32-year-old asked West Midlands Ambulance Service to pick her up from Sheep Street in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Paramedic Tim Cronin tweeted: "#WeAreNotATaxi! [Patient] had "been shopping all day, now sore feet and wants a lift home!"
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During the call, that took place on Tuesday 30 August, the 999 caller told the operator: "I've got two miles to walk home and I'm not going to make it in this condition."
The operator replied: "If there is a medical reason why you can't walk then we would be taking you to the nearest available emergency department."
The woman asked: "Then from there how am I going to get home?"
The operator said her transport was "not anything to do with the ambulance service unfortunately."
Team Sky's Thomas, 29, joins the late Tommy Simpson and Sir Bradley Wiggins as British winners of the race.
The Welshman, who also won the Volta ao Algarve stage race earlier in the year, knows he will no longer be given any leeway by other teams.
"That's part of being successful I guess and dealing with that," he said.
"I'm perfectly happy with that and I'd rather that than people think 'he's useless, just let him go.'
"People know me more and it's not just 'he's a strong rider that might get a win'. Now if I do attacking in some of the big races people are going to watch me, I guess."
Thomas became the first British rider to win the formidable E3 Harelbeke race in Belgium in March 2015 and put in a strong display at last year's Tour de France to help Chris Froome win his second title.
In the Paris-Nice race Thomas held a 15-second lead over two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador heading into the final stage.
Contador attacked on the final climb of the race and Team Sky's Thomas cracked 1km from the summit, but he made up 30 seconds on the descent to take the win, with Australian Richie Porte, who rides for BMC Racing, third overall.
"Contador is probably one of the greatest stage race riders ever," Thomas told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales.
"I think he's won about seven Grand Tours - the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a Espana - he's won them all multiple times.
"To go head to head against him and come out on top is just an amazing feeling.
"Richie Porte, who was a team-mate last year, he was unbeatable in week races last year. He was the best in the world by far.
"To have those two guys either side of me on a podium is nuts and it's still so surreal."
Thomas competes in the Milan-San Remo one-day race on Saturday before the week-long Volta a Catalunya in Spain.
April's schedule includes classics such as the Tour of Flanders and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
Shane Long tapped in his 16th international goal from close range to give the Republic a half-time lead.
And Martin O'Neill's side went close with two Shane Duffy headers but Luuk de Jong converted a late free header.
The Republic host Belarus on Tuesday, the same night that O'Neill names his squad for the tournament in France.
O'Neill seems assured on his selections and stated ahead of kick-off that he will likely inform most players of their places this weekend.
Of those thought to be in a battle for a seat on the plane, Bournemouth's Harry Arter - in just his second appearance for the Republic - delivered an eye-catching display in midfield.
His positive influence looked set to complement a solid display by O'Neill's side, but they will be frustrated with the non-existent marking which allowed De Jong to glance in from 10 yards just three minutes after coming on.
It was the visitors' only effort on target and their ordinary display perhaps underlined why they fell short of qualifying for the European Championships.
Danny Blind's side have now conceded in eight straight games - their worst defensive run since 1962 - and the Republic could have taken further advantage of that defensive weakness.
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Long's goal arrived from a set piece when John O'Shea's header was saved and a flurry of set-pieces after the break saw Duffy head over, then wide, when well placed.
The home side made five changes after the break and the introduction of Darron Gibson perhaps suggests the Everton midfielder has not done enough to warrant a place in the final squad.
O'Neill may argue the number of changes led to a lack of cohesion when his side let the lead slip, but such a lapse in France may again prove costly as they contest a challenging group.
A good start against Sweden in Paris on 13 June looks essential, with fixtures against Belgium and Italy to follow. Ireland though are at least proving hard to beat, with just one defeat in 13 matches.
Match ends, Republic of Ireland 1, Netherlands 1.
Second Half ends, Republic of Ireland 1, Netherlands 1.
Foul by Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands).
Darren Randolph (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Netherlands. Conceded by Seamus Coleman.
Offside, Netherlands. Steven Berghuis tries a through ball, but Luuk de Jong is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Eunan O'Kane (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonathan Walters.
Goal! Republic of Ireland 1, Netherlands 1. Luuk de Jong (Netherlands) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jetro Willems with a cross.
Foul by Bas Dost (Netherlands).
Shane Duffy (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Republic of Ireland. Eunan O'Kane replaces Harry Arter.
Substitution, Netherlands. Luuk de Jong replaces Georginio Wijnaldum.
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Republic of Ireland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Robbie Brady with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Republic of Ireland. Conceded by Jeffrey Bruma.
Foul by Joël Veltman (Netherlands).
James McClean (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Bas Dost (Netherlands) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jetro Willems with a cross.
Substitution, Republic of Ireland. Wes Hoolahan replaces David McGoldrick.
Substitution, Netherlands. Bas Dost replaces Vincent Janssen.
Foul by Steven Berghuis (Netherlands).
David McGoldrick (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Republic of Ireland. James McClean tries a through ball, but Jonathan Walters is caught offside.
Substitution, Netherlands. Marco van Ginkel replaces Kevin Strootman.
Foul by Vincent Janssen (Netherlands).
Harry Arter (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Republic of Ireland. Jeff Hendrick replaces Stephen Quinn.
Substitution, Republic of Ireland. Darron Gibson replaces Glenn Whelan.
Substitution, Republic of Ireland. James McClean replaces Shane Long.
Steven Berghuis (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robbie Brady (Republic of Ireland).
Jetro Willems (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Seamus Coleman (Republic of Ireland).
Attempt missed. Steven Berghuis (Netherlands) left footed shot from long range on the right is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Riechedly Bazoer (Netherlands) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen Quinn (Republic of Ireland).
Substitution, Netherlands. Steven Berghuis replaces Memphis Depay.
Attempt blocked. Memphis Depay (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jetro Willems.
Joël Veltman (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Walters (Republic of Ireland).
Joël Veltman (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The Islands (Scotland) Bill aims to offer greater powers to island local authorities, including the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland.
The bill includes giving island councils powers over activities on and around their coastlines.
MSPs have asked for views from individuals and organisations.
The Scottish Parliament's rural economy and connectivity committee is to gather public comments and take evidence at Holyrood over the next six months.
Orkney Islands Council and Highland Council welcomed the government's announcement earlier this month of the introduction of the bill.
Orkney along with Western Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - and Shetland Islands Council have been campaigning for several years for greater powers.
Highland Council has responsibility for public services on several islands, including the Isle of Skye.
Committee convener Edward Mountain said: "The committee's call for views is an opportunity for people with direct experience of living, working and voting on the islands to influence their future by voicing their views and opinions on the issues that matter to them.
"The Scottish government's bill covers significant issues, such as helping ensure that whenever new legislation is introduced, the economic growth and sustainability of Scotland's islands will be an important factor and providing a power for Scottish ministers to create a marine licensing scheme for coastal waters.
"Its ambitious aim is to provide a more strategic approach that enables Scotland's islands to continue to flourish.
"It is crucial the committee thoroughly scrutinises these proposals to ensure they fully meet the needs of our island communities."
The deadline for submitting evidence to the committee is 25 September.
The committee will produce a report on the bill after it has concluded its evidence taking in autumn.
Story of the match:
The emphatic scoreline after extra time does no justice to the drama that unfolded at Estadio da Luz as Atletico stood moments from winning the trophy for the first time only to end exhausted and well beaten.
Diego Godin capitalised on an error from Real's veteran goalkeeper Iker Casillas to give Diego Simeone's newly crowned La Liga champions a first-half lead, one they protected with fierce intensity until 90 seconds from the end of five minutes of stoppage time when Sergio Ramos headed in Luka Modric's corner.
Atletico wilted visibly after that, and Real ruthlessly completed the job of becoming the first club to claim the trophy 10 times, an achievement known as "La Decima" (the 10th).
Bale, who had wasted earlier chances, headed in from an acute angle after goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois blocked Angel Di Maria's shot with 11 minutes left. This was effectively the match-winning moment.
The Welshman kept going despite not being at his best and this was the sort of contribution that he and Real had in mind when he made his £86m move from Tottenham last summer.
Substitute Marcelo added a third with a shot Courtois should have saved before Cristiano Ronaldo salvaged something from a disappointing personal performance, scoring his 17th goal of this Champions League campaign from the penalty spot after he was fouled by Gabi.
It was all too much for the combustible Simeone, the game ending amid chaotic scenes when he raced on to the pitch to confront Real's Raphael Varane and was sent off.
In contrast, the calm figure of Real coach Carlo Ancelotti was able to enjoy his own place in history alongside Bob Paisley, joining the former Liverpool manager as the only men to win the trophy three times as a coach having previously secured the crown twice with AC Milan, and twice as a player.
Gareth Bale spurned two clear openings in the first half, before twice firing wide after the break.
But when the crucial moment came, one month on from his Copa del Rey-winning goal against Barcelona, Bale remained calm in front of goal to put Real ahead.
After thoughts of "do not miss, literally, do not miss" passed through his mind, "it was great to see it go in", he said.
Real ultimately deserved the victory for their greater attacking intent but Atletico came so close to delivering another spectacular affirmation of their progress under Simeone.
The fitness of striker Diego Costa was a central topic of debate in the build-up, with the Spanish striker using horse placenta as part of his treatment for the hamstring injury he suffered when Atletico clinched La Liga for the first time in 18 years with a draw at Barcelona.
It was only nine minutes before the answer was delivered as a clearly unfit Costa signalled to the bench that he could not continue and was replaced by Adrian Lopez.
Ancelotti gambled on the fitness of Sami Khedira as a starter even though the German midfielder had only played an hour in six months after a knee ligament injury.
He had little chance to make an impact as the intensity of Atletico's approach - which also carried the occasional over-physical edge - offered no time and space for their creative players.
Real's best chance in the first half fell to Bale after 32 minutes when he was carelessly presented with the ball by Tiago but, after showing typical pace to surge into the area, he placed his shot inches wide.
Atletico took advantage and went ahead four minutes later, the responsibility for the goal lying predominantly with veteran Real and Spain goalkeeper Casillas.
He was indecisive as he rushed out recklessly to claim Juanfran's header back into the box, allowing Godin to nudge the ball over him as he desperately tried to recover his ground.
Ronaldo, who had also been an injury doubt with a hamstring problem, had been marginalised but finally got in on the action early in the second half with a free-kick that was turned away by Courtois.
He was then only inches away from getting his head on a cross from Ramos as Real looked to their talisman to haul them back into contention.
Ancelotti made his move with a double change just before the hour, sending on Marcelo for Fabio Coentrao and Isco for Khedira.
Bale had opportunities to bring Real back into the game but he was off target from the edge of the area and was wide again with an angled finish when his pace took him into the area.
Atletico's defending was becoming increasingly desperate but they showed great resilience, only to be denied deep into stoppage time as Ramos rose magnificently to direct Modric's corner past Courtois.
During the break before the restart, Atletico's drained and disappointed players were stretching out on blue mats laid out on the turf while the revived Real side gathered in a huddle to galvanise themselves once more.
It was a clear indication of how the momentum had shifted so significantly and those three goals in the second period of added time wrote another chapter in the history of this tournament's most successful club.
Match ends, Real Madrid 4, Atlético de Madrid 1.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Real Madrid 4, Atlético de Madrid 1.
Attempt saved. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adrián.
Raphael Varane (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Real Madrid 4, Atlético de Madrid 1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty Real Madrid. Cristiano Ronaldo draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) after a foul in the penalty area.
Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adrián (Atlético de Madrid).
Marcelo (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Real Madrid 3, Atlético de Madrid 1. Marcelo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Foul by Daniel Carvajal (Real Madrid).
David Villa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Tiago (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Diego Godín following a set piece situation.
Foul by Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid).
Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Raphael Varane (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Villa (Atlético de Madrid).
Goal! Real Madrid 2, Atlético de Madrid 1. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) header from very close range to the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Ángel Di María (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Álvaro Morata.
Attempt saved. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Gabi with a cross.
Foul by Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid).
José Sosa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Second Half Extra Time begins Real Madrid 1, Atlético de Madrid 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Real Madrid 1, Atlético de Madrid 1.
Attempt saved. Raphael Varane (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ángel Di María with a cross.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by José Sosa.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Juanfran (Atlético de Madrid).
Corner, Atlético de Madrid. Conceded by Daniel Carvajal.
Foul by Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid).
Koke (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Gabi.
Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marcelo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gabi (Atlético de Madrid).
The Wexford TD alleged in the Dáil on Wednesday that a portfolio officer had asked for the money from a construction company that wanted to discharge its debts to the agency.
His remarks were condemned by the speaker of the house who said the Dáil should not be used as a "star chamber".
Prime minister Enda Kenny said the Public Accounts Committee was the body charged with oversight of Nama.
Mr Wallace first raised claimed about the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland portfolio, alleging in the Dáil that a payment of £7m was due to be made to a politician though no evidence has been produced for that claim.
The chief executive of Nama has said that Mr Wallace had not provided the agency with any information relating to what he spoke about in the Dáil on Wednesday.
In response to Mr Wallace's claims of money being sought by, or paid to, people linked to the agency, Nama's chief executive Brendan McDonagh has written to the country's police chief to ask him to investigate the claims.
The story was immortalised in a best-selling book, Marching Powder, and now the book's protagonist - a former inmate - and author have reunited to return to the prison for a new documentary film.
The inmate, Thomas McFadden, says returning to his old cell scared him. "But I always wanted to go back to Bolivia, and there was always a strong connection between me and Rusty."
Rusty Young wrote Marching Powder in his twenties, when as a young backpacker from Sydney, Australia, he stayed in the prison, and later helped secure Mr McFadden's release by posing as an international human rights lawyer.
It all began when Mr McFadden, a British-Tanzanian, was caught smuggling cocaine in La Paz airport in 1996 and found himself jailed in a place more like a warped small town than a prison.
Prisoners were expected to earn a living inside and buy their cells as if they were real estate. There was a primary school for the prisoners' children, who they brought to live with them, and in the most notorious twist of all, there was an in-house cocaine factory.
"I thought what is this place? I even had to pay my own taxi fare to get there," Thomas McFadden remembers today.
After his release in 2000, he left those days far behind and is now a chicken farmer in Tanzania. However, his life-changing friendship with his "brother Rusty" has gone the distance, and he has even named one of his children after him.
Their unusual relationship began when Mr Young joined one of the illegal prison tours that the inmate ran for foreign backpackers from early 1997 until his release.
Word had spread around local hostels that there was an English-speaking inmate who would show visitors around this strange microcosm.
Centrally located in downtown La Paz, the prison became a tourist attraction that featured in Lonely Planet guidebooks. Travellers paid an entrance fee and, in some cases, opted to stay for weeks, partying with the inmates.
Lydia Docking, a British traveller, went on not just one but repeated trips to the prison in 2008, led by a prisoner from Portugal. One of the other backpackers she met on her first day there later became her husband.
"As a conversation starter, we used to say we met in a Bolivian jail," she says from her new home in Sydney. She was 24 at the time and is 33 now.
Their San Pedro tour guide came to their wedding after his release, and although the couple has since separated, she still has their dog, named Pedro after the prison.
Despite her jokes, she is acutely well aware of the darker side of the story. "I'm still confused by it, still processing it," she says. "Over the course of three weeks, we went most days. I sometimes question why. It was mostly just to share experiences and to understand how lives start the same but can take such different paths."
San Pedro Prison remains operational today, despite many plans to close it. For years, its tours were an open secret, but one day in 2009 a local television crew arrived to get footage for a story about a politician held inside. While waiting in the plaza outside, the cameramen caught a steady stream of tourists going in.
Armed with the footage, the Bolivian press ran with the story. The main concern locally was not the tourists but the alleged corruption of the authorities, who were thought to be taking a cut of the tours' profits. "Who is watching the police?" asked an editorial in La Razon newspaper. During the ensuing "clean-up", prisoners had their visitors' rights revoked for a day. A riot followed and around 80 children were evacuated.
In 2013, the story took an even darker turn when news spread of a 12-year-old girl becoming pregnant inside the jail, after an alleged rape by her imprisoned father and other men. Child welfare charities called for a ban on children living inside.
Large-scale tours of the prison are no longer possible. Today backpackers typically opt for La Paz walking tours, which stop outside the prison walls and tell Marching Powder's story.
When Rusty Young and Thomas McFadden returned to the prison for their forthcoming documentary Wildlands, they happened upon one such tour group and snuck alongside them, incognito.
"They kept making factual errors, so I couldn't help asking smart-arsed questions," says Mr Young. Eventually an Irish traveller, who had just read the book, recognised the pair. "He whispered, 'You're Rusty, You're Thomas!' And we sneaked off together for a beer."
Back in 2000, the two men travelled to Colombia, after Mr McFadden's release. They found work as English teachers and worked on the book, which became a New York Times best-seller.
Thomas then moved to Tanzania, and Rusty went back to Australia, where after the huge success of Marching Powder he had difficult-second-book syndrome. His novel Colombiano, about a teenager who gets drawn into a Colombian terrorist organisation, is due out later this year.
The documentary Wildlands uses their story in San Pedro Prison as a launch pad for exploring all sides of the drugs trade, and includes interviews with former undercover US police agents and an assassin who was a right-hand man to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
But the long-awaited Marching Powder feature film may still be years away. The rights were acquired by Brad Pitt's production company but have since expired. Narcos director Jose Padilha has been linked to the screenplay, and Don Cheadle and then Chiwetel Ejiofor expressed interest in playing Thomas McFadden, but filming never got off the ground.
As for the sequel to the book, perhaps that will come sooner. "My publishers been harassing me about that for years," says Rusty. "We already have a title: Marching On."
The far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) poster is certainly eye-catching - sinister, black-clad "rapefugees" juxtaposed with the rear view of a shapely, nearly naked white woman.
But nearby, in plain black and blue, there is a less visual but equally arresting message.
To those interested in mass immigration, criminality and pension security, it declares, vote AfD on Sunday "so that Germany is not destroyed".
AfD refers to Alternative for Germany, and is a populist, Eurosceptic party, founded just three years ago and already the country's fastest-growing political movement.
If the latest polls are anything to go by, the AfD is, for the first time, ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) here in her home state, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
With the CDU also losing support in Berlin, which holds elections later this month, September could represent a significant milestone in Mrs Merkel's long political journey, as she ponders running for a remarkable fourth term as chancellor next year.
In this largely rural state, commonly known as "MeckPomm", strident messages about immigration might seem a little hollow.
The state has taken in around 26,000 migrants since the current wave began in 2015. It is a small proportion of the estimated one million who arrived last year. Under a federal allocation system, Mecklenburg is expected to take in just 2.03% of all refugees.
But this region of the former East Germany is also poor and thinly populated.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric resonates. It is key to the AfD's success, a theme relentlessly highlighted in campaign literature and meetings with voters.
At an AfD campaign stop in Grosse Klein, a poor suburb of Rostock with a higher than average concentration of immigrants, the subject of foreigners, particularly Muslims, dominated.
"They don't fit here at all," party supporter Hannelore Schroter told me.
"When I see these women in public, completely covered, I think they shouldn't be here in Germany."
At its party congress, earlier this year, the AfD declared that "Islam is not a part of Germany", and called for bans on burkas (full-body veils), minarets and the call to prayer.
"It's very difficult to integrate Muslims. People from a strange culture," party spokesman Roger Schmidt told me.
For some, the very name Rostock is synonymous with hostility to outsiders.
In 1992, the suburb of Lichtenhagen saw Germany's worst post-war anti-immigrant riots. Petrol bombs were hurled at apartment blocks housing asylum seekers, while thousands of local residents stood by and cheered.
Twenty-four years later, in Rostock's elegant city centre, the chilling sounds from that episode played from loudspeakers, as local activists commemorated one of the city's darkest hours. This, they warned, must not be allowed to happen again.
In recent weeks, popular protests in Grosse Klein forced the city to remove 15 migrant boys from a youth centre and cancel plans to build a new refugee shelter.
There is no suggestion the AfD was involved in the protests, but Martin Koschkar, a political scientist at Rostock University, says the party is making effective use of the current climate.
"The AfD benefits from this polarised debate," he told me.
Two terror attacks in July involving refugees have heightened security concerns across Germany. But Mr Koschkar says an underlying dissatisfaction with politicians is also helping to fuel the party's rise.
"They're mixing the migration topic with general criticism of the older parties."
Sunday's election in MeckPomm coincides with the first anniversary of the day, a year ago, when Angela Merkel decided to bring thousands of migrants to Germany on trains.
Coupled with her "we can do it" announcement, a few days earlier, it marked a turning point in Mrs Merkel's political fortunes. The rise of the AfD is just one of many consequences.
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen tried to block the appointment to the justice committee following newspaper claims that Mr Vaz paid for the services of two male sex workers.
But his attempt was rejected in a Commons vote by 203 to seven.
Mr Vaz quit as chairman of the influential home affairs committee in September.
Electing MPs to vacancies on committees is usually uncontentious, with each party given a set allocation of places.
Labour put forward Mr Vaz and Kate Green for the two vacant places on the justice committee, which is chaired by Conservative Robert Neill.
The move follows intensive lobbying by activists for better protection of young rape victims. The amendment has been welcomed by rights groups.
Article 475 of the penal code generated unprecedented public criticism.
It was first proposed by Morocco's Islamist-led government a year ago.
But the issue came to public prominence in 2012 when 16-year-old Amina Filali killed herself after being forced to marry her rapist.
She accused Moustapha Fellak, who at the time was about 25, of physical abuse after they married, which he denies. After seven months of marriage, Ms Filali swallowed rat poison.
By Nora FakimBBC's former Morocco correspondent
Although women activists are pleased about the amendment - and it shows the Islamist-led government is slowly starting to listen to them - some say there is still much room for improvement as the law does not necessarily protect women from violence or put an emphasis on the seriousness of rape.
Rights groups say one in four women in Morocco is a victim of violence. The most vulnerable live in the countryside where only about 20% of women are literate and attitudes are more conservative. In such areas, child marriages and forced marriages after rape have been a common practice for centuries.
Women's rights groups now want new laws to reflect the spirit of the 2011 constitution. World leaders praised it, saying Morocco was a role model for democracy in the Arab world. It states that men and women should be treated equally, yet also included Article 475.
The case shocked many people in Morocco, received extensive media coverage and sparked protests in the capital Rabat and other cities.
Article 475 provides for a prison term of one to five years for anyone who "abducts or deceives" a minor "without violence, threat or fraud, or attempts to do so".
But the second clause of the article specifies that when the victim marries the perpetrator, "he can no longer be prosecuted except by persons empowered to demand the annulment of the marriage and then only after the annulment has been proclaimed". This effectively prevents prosecutors from independently pursuing rape charges.
In conservative rural parts of Morocco, an unmarried girl or woman who has lost her virginity - even through rape - is considered to have dishonoured her family and no longer suitable for marriage. Some families believe that marrying the rapist addresses these problems.
While welcoming the move, rights groups say that much still needs to be done to promote gender equality, protect women and outlaw child marriage in the North African country.
"It's a very important step. But it's not enough," Fatima Maghnaoui, who heads a group supporting women victims of violence, told the AFP news agency.
"We are campaigning for a complete overhaul of the penal code for women."
Data analysed by BBC News shows the scale of the challenge to meet rising demand by the time current four-year-olds move schools.
Surrey County Council and Birmingham City Council face the biggest shortfalls.
The Department for Education (DfE) said £7bn is committed to new places.
Official figures reveal the number of applicants starting primary school in 2016 exceeds the number of current secondary school places by at least 16,284.
The analysis covers 134 areas but excludes 16 councils where there is a "three-tier" system, as the DfE did not account for children in middle schools, which typically cater for 9-13 year-olds.
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530,274
secondary school places in 2016
546,558
applicants for primary school
16,284 more secondary places needed in 134 areas
16 areas with middle schools
Figures released this week show one in six families missed out on their first choice of secondary school.
The DfE said local authorities had plans for 52,000 more secondary school places by 2018.
However, the National Union of Teachers said the problem of school places was being "ignored by the government".
Kevin Courtney, acting General Secretary, said: "It is resulting in overcrowded classrooms, schools expanding beyond an optimum size and children travelling further to school.
"Population changes are not a new phenomenon and local authorities, who are responsible for providing sufficient school places, have traditionally been able to plan to meet rising and falling demand.
"The significant factor in the current situation is that, since 2010, the government has undermined local authorities' legal powers to deliver new school places. This is an abdication of responsibility."
Surrey County Council, which faces the biggest shortfall, said its needs were not being met by government funding.
Linda Kemeny, cabinet member for schools, said: "We need to create more than 11,000 extra school places over the next five years but, because demand is not being matched by extra funding from the government, it is leaving us with a shortfall of £30m in each of the next two years alone."
Birmingham City Council had 2,056 more primary school applicants for 2016 than it had secondary school places, but said it was confident it would have sufficient space.
A spokesman said: "The increasing popularity of Birmingham as a place for young families to move to means each year group at primary level has increased annually over recent years.
"Although we do not need secondary places yet in most parts of the city, we are confident we will be able to work with the many schools that may wish to expand where and when places are needed, following the success of the primary school expansion programme."
A DfE spokesman said: "Delivering good quality school places is a top priority for this government and the latest figures show that the system continues to work. The government has already committed £7bn for school places, which along with our investment in 500 new free schools we expect to deliver 600,000 new places by 2021.
"Our reforms and our academy programme are raising standards for all children with 1.4 million more pupils in good or outstanding schools than in 2010. We will continue to invest and work hard to ensure every child has an excellent education that allows them to reach their full potential."
Witnesses said at least 3,000 officers were in Lubu on Sunday as a protest of 10,000 people turned violent and some demonstrators tried to break in to government offices.
But the authorities said there were just 1,400 protesters at most.
They said 21 people who "led the trouble" were taken away by police.
Authorities also said police were injured but did not say how many, or how seriously.
One witness told the BBC a police officer was seriously injured while two civilians suffered head injuries.
The incinerator, which would generate power as well as burning waste, is scheduled to be built near the Xi River, the area's main water source.
One resident who gave only her surname, Lin, told the Associated Press agency: "We worry about air and water pollution.
"The river is a major source of our drinking water."
Residents said they took to the streets spontaneously after Lubu's town government announced the project was being halted. No reason was given for the delay, which residents worried would be only temporary.
In a post on social media, the Communist Party propaganda department for the district wrote that "some ordinary people who are unaware of the truth led by some troublemakers attempted to storm the Lubu town government".
It said that those who had attacked police officers should surrender themselves, while people inside the government offices should leave immediately.
More than 70,000 people live in Lubu, which is in Guangdong province. A resident told the BBC that further protests are planned for Monday, but will not be as well attended because many people work outside the town.
Researchers at Check Point said they found the malware, dubbed Judy, on about 50 apps in Google's Play Store.
The apps contain code that sends infected devices to a target webpage, where they generate fraudulent clicks on the site's adverts to make money for its creators.
The infected apps have been removed from the Play Store.
More than 40 of the apps were from the South Korean developer, Kiniwini, which publishes games to the Play Store under the name Enistudio.
The games, all of which feature a character called Judy, have been downloaded between four million and 18 million times.
The malicious code was also found in several apps from other developers.
"It is possible that one borrowed code from the other, knowingly or unknowingly," said Check Point.
Between them, the infected apps may have been downloaded up to 36.5 million times.
Check Point said it did not know for how long the malicious versions of the apps had been available, but all the Judy games had been updated since March this year.
The oldest of the apps from other developers was last updated in April 2016, which Check Point suggested, means that "the malicious code hid for a long time on the Play Store undetected".
Because it is unclear when the code was introduced to each of the apps, the actual number of devices likely to have been infected is unknown.
The apps got past the Play Store's protection system, Google Bouncer, because they do not contain the malicious part of the Judy code.
Once downloaded, the apps silently register the device to a remote server, which responds by sending back the malicious ad-click software to open a hidden website and generate revenue for the site by clicking on the adverts.
This kind of delivery "has become commonplace", Andrew Smith, a senior lecturer in Networking at the Open University, told the BBC.
"There are many tools available, and the advantage is that the malware distributor can change them remotely, which makes it difficult for anti-malware software to keep up."
The apps also display numerous adverts themselves, some of which cannot be closed until a user has clicked on them.
The move comes just days after the car parts maker said it was doubling the number of cars it had recalled to 34 million, affecting 11 carmakers.
Mazda is recalling 120,000 vehicles including the Atenza sedan, the Bongo van and two models that it builds for Nissan and Mitsubishi in Japan.
Mitsubishi is recalling 512,000 cars.
About 412,000 of those vehicles are outside Japan, the carmaker said.
Just last week, Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Daihatsu all recalled millions of cars, because of Takata's potentially deadly airbags.
Six deaths have been linked to Takata airbags that have all been in Honda cars. The airbags have also been connected to more than 100 injuries.
The embattled company faces multiple class action lawsuits and criminal and regulatory investigations in North America.
On Thursday, Toyota, the world's biggest carmaker, also said that it would help to get to the bottom of the problems with Takata's airbags.
Investigations have shown that Takata airbag inflators were not properly sealed and could be damaged by moisture. It is alleged that the airbags can burst under pressure, spraying shrapnel inside the car.
Toyota's vow comes as doubts are growing over whether the Japanese firm has enough financial power to deal with all the defects - an issue that could take years.
Takata saw a 5bn yen ($41m) extraordinary loss for the fiscal fourth quarter, stemming from costs related to previously announced recalls.
Mr Sajjan says he has been able to bolster ties between India and Canada.
Punjab's top elected official had accused him of sympathising with a Sikh independence movement, which he denies.
Mr Sajjan also distanced himself from a recent motion passed by a Canadian provincial legislature describing 1984 anti-Sikh riots as "genocide".
The Canadian minister's six-day trip is meant as an opportunity to strengthen security and defence relations between the two nations, and he has met with his Indian counterparts and business executives.
But it hit turbulence when Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh alleged on a television program that Mr Sajjan was "a Khalistani sympathiser".
The Khalistan movement seeks to create a separate independent Sikh homeland in the Sikh-dominated northern state of Punjab.
Canadian authorities have also linked Sikh separatist militants to Canada's 1985 Air India bombing, which killed 329 people.
Without offering names, Mr Singh also said other members of Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet held similar sentiments. Mr Singh refused to meet Mr Sajjan.
Canada has called Mr Singh's remarks "disappointing and inaccurate".
The BBC's Ravinder Singh Robin in Amritsar, Punjab:
It was a trip meant to strengthen bilateral ties, but with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh refusing to meet him, Mr Sajjan's visit hit a sour note.
Mr Singh insisted that he had "concrete information" that Mr Sajjan was "a Khalistani sympathiser, just as his father Kundan Sajjan, a board member of the World Sikh Organization", but failed to provide any proof.
It's a charge Mr Sajjan - and the Canadian embassy in India - has denied. Mr Singh's political rivals have accused him of playing petty politics and humiliating the Sikh diaspora by not meeting Mr Sajjan.
The chief minister's refusal to meet the Canadian minister has baffled many. Mr Singh had resigned from the Congress party in protest in 1984 after the Indian security forces entered the Golden Temple at Amritsar, leading to some suggestion that he, too, had some sympathy with the separatists.
Also, a couple of years ago, he was photographed sharing a stage with senior Khalistani separatist leaders during a visit to Canada.
And that's why there has been some suggestion that his current stand is motivated more by personal reasons - last year, the Canadian government did not allow him to hold political rallies in Toronto and Vancouver to raise funds for his election campaign.
Minister Sajjan was also forced to tip-toe around another political controversy that has strained Canada-India relations.
Earlier this month, Ontario's legislature passed motion declaring the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India "genocide".
Some 3,000 members of India's Sikh community were massacred in the days following the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards on 31 October 1984.
Members of the ruling Congress party were widely accused of encouraging the violence.
Mr Sajjan carefully noted to journalists on Wednesday that it was a private member's motion put forward by a provincial Liberal politician - and not by Mr Trudeau's federal Liberal party.
He also referred to the 1984 riots as "organised massacres" and said Canada was working with counterparts in India on getting justice for the victims.
York University associate professor Michael Nijhawan says the dark chapter in Indian history still resonates in both countries.
"It continues to be a non-resolved issue in terms of people saying justice hasn't been served," he said.
But he says Mr Sajjan has so far been successful in dampening controversy during his visit, which ends 23 April.
"He navigates that minefield very well," he said.
Kids Company had been told by government officials it would not get £3m of funding unless its leader Camila Batmanghelidjh was replaced.
The charity said it will appoint a new chief executive because of "unprecedented financial strain".
Ms Batmanghelidjh will take up a new advocacy and clinical role.
She denied claims the charity had been mismanaged and that this had led to government pressure for a restructure, insisting such claims were a "red herring" to distract from the government's child protection failings.
Downing Street denied claims it had briefed against Ms Batmanghelidjh and said David Cameron believed the charity still had a role to play helping to "give every child the best start in life".
But the prime minister's spokesman said the Cabinet Office had requested changes to the Kids Company management structure "to ensure that their work is put on a sustainable footing".
It follows a joint investigation between BBC Newsnight and Buzzfeed, which learned the Cabinet Office had concerns about the charity's ability to run itself.
Ms Batmanghelidjh told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she had always planned to step down in her 20th year in 2016.
The charity, which started in south London and supports deprived young people and their families, is one of the most high-profile in Britain and regularly hosts leading politicians.
It is synonymous with its charismatic leader and founder Ms Batmanghelidjh.
It relies heavily on public funding; in the last set of published accounts, for 2013, the government provided £4m, about one fifth of its annual £20m funding.
Officials reported that Justice Secretary Michael Gove and Oliver Letwin, minister without portfolio, supported a tougher approach to the charity.
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But Ms Batmanghelidjh said the government was trying to "discredit" her to distract attention from the fact that it was not protecting children "robustly" enough.
She said the charity had been audited during the last 19 years, and evaluated by the London School of Economics, and had always been "absolutely impeccable and clear".
She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the charity had held "uncomfortable discussions" with the government about child protection, adding "they can get rid of me but it doesn't get rid of the problem".
Asked about claims she handed cash out to children, she said young people needed money for bus fares and the school canteen.
"Middle class parents give their children pocket money, why does it become a problem when it's a poor child that's being given money?" she added.
Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman said the government needed to maintain its pre-election funding promise to Kids Company, which is based in her Camberwell and Peckham constituency, and angrily defended Ms Batmanghelidjh, saying she was a "charismatic, inspirational leader".
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, Ms Harman said: "They're doing a very good job. It's not lavish down there. It's not spa treatments, it's not like as if the staff are lavishly well paid.
"It's a pretty hand-to-mouth organisation dealing with very needy children and it just... What I find so exasperating is the idea of people whose lives are very well ordered, who get good salaries can judge and say 'oh well they need to stop growing'. The demand is out there."
Asked if it was the government's duty to ensure public money was being properly spent, she pointed out that the Charity Commission looked at a complaint but decided it did not warrant a full investigation.
Ms Harman last month wrote a letter to Chancellor George Osborne asking "urgent financial assistance" for the charity.
In a statement, the charity said: "In partnership with a City-based group of philanthropists, the charity is being supported by the new government to create a more sustainable organisation and funding structure that will be better able to tolerate unpredictable income streams in the future.
"Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder and chief executive of Kids Company will not be leaving the organisation and will assume an advocacy and clinical role after the appointment of a new chief executive."
It added "core services" would still be delivered though it would be "reducing its staff levels".
The government has repeatedly resisted attempts by Newsnight and BuzzFeed to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain correspondence between the prime minister and either Ms Batmanghelidjh or the charity's chairman, Alan Yentob, the BBC broadcaster and executive.
A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: "Making sure that every child has the best start in life is our top priority, so we will continue to work with Kids Company to ensure its important work is sustainable."
Leading the charge was the first minister of course who, as one commentator put it to me, was in the zone, talking about the possibility of a constitutional crisis and an English veto on Welsh laws.
I'll wait for the dust to settle on the bill before commenting on the substance of whether Carwyn Jones is right to talk in such dismissive terms about it.
In a corridor conversation I had with him he said his officials were facing a mountain of work to try to overcome difficulties.
It appears to be hugely complex.
If the constitutional expert from Cardiff University, Richard Wyn Jones, says there's a world of pain ahead in terms of the tensions between Westminster and Cardiff Bay then I'll take him at his word.
For the moment, let me focus on the politics.
The Conservatives appear at times to be bemused by the subject of constitutional reform.
At best, they accuse Labour and Plaid of being out of touch on the issue, and at worst they accuse the first minister of using it as a giant smokescreen to hide failures on the delivery of public services
Now on one level they are right about the public appeal.
Most people will look at you as if you have two heads if you ask them whether they care about the issue of reserved powers.
Although I suspect if you frame the question in a different way, say to a traditional Labour voter for example, about whether they want decisions made in Wales by a Labour administration or by Tory ministers in Westminster then they may engage with you.
And this is where we get into the politics of the matter.
I think it's clear that Carwyn Jones is protesting loudly about the draft Wales Bill because for genuine reasons, but as we approach the assembly election, he may not feel it harms his electoral chances to be perceived as someone who stands up for Wales.
On the flip side, the more he does it the more the Conservatives feel it helps them portray the Welsh Labour leader as a man who doesn't engage on the issues that really matter to people.
I should say there's still much in the bill that politicians in Cardiff and Westminster agree on, such as devolving powers over consent for large energy projects and assembly elections, but barely a word of that was mentioned in the debate.
Constitutional reform is a tough sell all round it seems.
As the population continues to grow, the demand for food, water and energy will rise by as much as 50% by 2030, says the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) in its Global Trends 2030 report. Energy costs alone are forecast to grow by 25% over the next 10 years.
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But many business are not doing enough to prepare for this changing world and could be "sleepwalking into a resource crunch", warns Tom Delay, chief executive of the UK's Carbon Trust, a not-for-profit organisation advising businesses on how to reduce their energy usage.
Many businesses could go bust if they don't go green and embrace clean tech, he believes.
Some companies, such as Houweling's Tomatoes in Camarillo, California, exemplify what a totally integrated sustainable operation can look like.
It employs five acres of photovoltaic solar panels to generate one megawatt (MW) of electricity to power its 125 acres of tomato-growing greenhouses.
The company captures and reuses rainwater and water run-off using a four-acre reservoir equipped with filtration technology, while computer-monitored drip irrigation ensures that water and fertilisers are used as efficiently as possible in the production of its hydroponically grown tomatoes. Any excess water is also treated and recycled.
The company estimates that this method of production uses about a sixth of the water and one 10th of the land typically needed to produce the same amount of product via traditional agricultural practices.
On top of this, an 8.8MW heat-and-power co-generation unit captures heat from refrigeration units, water and CO2 for use within the greenhouse and produces enough energy to allow Houweling's Tomatoes to sell some of the electricity back to the grid.
More than 90% of the company's waste is recycled.
While this $200m-plus (£130m-plus) operation serves as a "clean tech" exemplar, the Carbon Trust worries that many businesses are dangerously complacent.
In a recent survey it carried out, executives in Brazil, China, Korea, the UK and the US, were asked about their companies' approach to sustainability.
More than half had not set goals for reducing water consumption, waste production or carbon emissions, and a quarter of companies had no-one with a specific responsibility for sustainability issues.
"One reason that companies are stalling on taking action on resource and sustainability appears to be that they still see this as an obligation and a cost," says Mr Delay.
But "clean tech" costs have fallen dramatically. For example, installing photovoltaic solar panels costs half what it did three years ago, while improvements in energy-efficient lighting mean businesses can now save millions on their electricity bills.
Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology has been around since the 1960s, but it has advanced so far that the latest units now use less than half the wattage of the high-pressure sodium and mercury vapour bulbs traditionally used in industrial locations, while also providing brighter illumination and lasting for up to 10 years.
Dialight, a British company that specialises in LED lighting for large industry and public sector clients around the world, reckons upgrading from old-school to clean tech lighting can save businesses 50% on their lighting electricity costs and recoup the capital outlay within three years.
Geoff Smyth, head of technology and delivery for the Carbon Trust, agrees, saying: "Lighting accounts for 20% to 50% of total energy consumed in commercial buildings, and a lot of the time the lights don't even need to be on.
"With these breakthroughs in LED and lighting management technology, businesses can achieve energy savings of 70% to 80% and see a payback on their investment within two or three years."
For example, one small hotel upgrading 80 lights to LEDs spent £22,000 on the project, says Smyth, but is now achieving annual savings of £6,600 on its energy bill.
Ron Pernick, managing director of Clean Edge, a US-based clean tech research and advisory company, says: "Innovations in visualising energy efficiency, paired with big data, are already having a significant impact on energy usage. Efficiency continues to be the low-hanging fruit for most companies and governments."
For example, C3 Energy, a "big data" analytics specialist, provides software and monitoring systems that can show large and small businesses how much energy they are using and on what processes, then compare these with buildings and businesses in the same area.
As the software builds up a detailed profile of the business, it can then suggest ways energy consumption can be reduced, such as by upgrading equipment
Similarly, Wireless Energy Management Systems (WEMS), whose clients include Marks & Spencer, BT and Boots, provide a range of wireless sensors and controllers that can monitor and adjust a building's entire energy usage, reducing lighting and temperature levels if it is bright and warm outside, for example.
The entire integrated system can be monitored remotely every 30 minutes, and WEMS says it can cut energy costs for any building with an average energy bill of £7,000 or more.
On a much smaller scale, the latest "smart" thermostats can also save businesses and households money on their energy bills.
California-based Nest Labs, founded by two former Apple executives, produces a thermostat capable of learning user behaviour and working out when a building is occupied or not, using temperature, humidity, activity and light sensors.
It adjusts the temperature to match user habits and can be programmed remotely over wi-fi using a smartphone or laptop.
Nest claims it can save 20% on energy bills by managing heating more efficiently, and that adjusting temperature by just one degree can knock 5% off your bill. The main drawback is that it is currently only available in the US and Canada, priced $250 (£165).
Nest spokeswoman Kate Brinks, told the BBC: "We haven't provided a timeframe for entry in to the EU market yet, other than to say this year."
Inefficient buildings account for 43% of the UK's total greenhouse gas emissions, says the Department of Energy & Climate Change, and UK industry could save up to £32bn over the next four decades by reducing carbon emissions and energy usage.
So whether you run a corner shop or an industrial complex, energy cost savings are there for the taking.
Not only will you be saving money, but you will also be making your business more resilient in the face of future energy and resource shortages.
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen say the ability of oil-eating bacteria to help the ocean recover could be significantly hampered.
They tested oil-degrading micro-organisms found west of Shetland, where there are major oil fields.
The report found degradation was lower at sub-zero temperatures.
The team said micro-organisms found in the ocean played an important role in breaking up oil that spilled into the warm Gulf of Mexico waters as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.
The study - published in Scientific Reports - also found the application of dispersant had variable effects.
Prof Ursula Witte, the senior author of the study, said: "Depleting oil reserves has forced the industry to explore progressively deeper waters, and the dramatic shrinking of Arctic sea ice means that previously inaccessible reserves are now considered for exploration.
"Understanding the environmental implications of an oil spill in the cold and deep ocean is therefore urgent to improve our response to a potential spill.
"This study is the first to confirm that hydrocarbon degradation in sediments at 0C is significantly slower than at 5C.
"The fact that certain hydrocarbons we tested did not show any detectable levels of degradation at 0C suggests that the impact of oil contamination at near zero or sub-zero temperatures would have a severe long term impact on the marine environment."
Mick Borwell, the HSE policy director of industry body Oil and Gas UK, said: "We welcome the data on hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from the Faroe Shetland channel.
"While we recognise that these findings add to current knowledge, they represent the first stage in research of this kind and further studies will be required.
"It is important not to draw conclusions from this work about the industry's oil spill response effectiveness."
Complaints from iPhone and iPad users updating to iOS 10 flooded social media after the software was rolled out on Tuesday.
Discussion around the issue was trending on social media - but Apple said it was limited to a “small number of users”.
Bricking is a term used to describe devices that have been rendered unusable due to a software or hardware fault - as in, the device is now as useful to you as a brick.
The firm apologised to affected customers.
"We experienced a brief issue with the software update process, affecting a small number of users during the first hour of availability,” an Apple spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
"The problem was quickly resolved and we apologise to those customers.
"Anyone who was affected should connect to iTunes to complete the update or contact AppleCare for help."
The roll out of iOS 10 comes a week before the iPhone 7 goes on sale. In the mean time, existing owners of Apple devices vented their frustration at the problem.
"Currently sitting here with a bricked iPhone full of photos with a recent family visit,” wrote Courtney Guertin on Twitter.
Teething
It is not the first time Apple has had teething problems in rolling out major updates.
When users tried to update to iOS 5 in 2011, high demand appeared to be behind users getting multiple error messages when trying to update.
More recently, in February this year, Apple faced criticism after an update started bricking devices if they had been repaired by a company other than Apple.
Apple apologised for the problem and issued a software update to fix the issue.
It said Error 53, as it became known, was in fact security measure designed to make sure the fingerprint sensor on the device had not been tampered with.
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He told the BBC the administrators had been informed and talks with US based investors were at a "mature" stage.
However, a senior retail source also informed the BBC they were "extremely sceptical" about the move, given Mr Chappell's recent track record.
BHS went into administration on Monday, putting 11,000 jobs at risk.
So far the administrators of BHS have received 50 expressions of interest in the company - some for all of it, most for parts of it.
Mr Chappell said he was interested in buying the whole group minus 40 loss-making stores, now that the pension fund is to be taken over by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).
"Our hands have been untied now that the pension situation has been resolved," he told the BBC.
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Mr Chappell is the majority shareholder of Retail Acquisitions which bought BHS for £1 last year from Sir Philip Green, and took on a £571m pension deficit.
On Tuesday last week he moved £1.5m to a company called BHS Sweden, unconnected to BHS, which was owned by a friend and fellow board member of Mr Chappell at Retail Acquisitions.
On learning of this, BHS chief executive Darren Topp demanded its return on Wednesday and on Thursday it was returned minus £50,000, to reflect, said Mr Chappell, the foreign exchange costs.
Meanwhile, Sir Philip Green has been asked to appear in front of a cross-party committee of MPs to face questions about BHS' collapse and the impact it might have on the PPF, which will now have to take over the BHS pension liabilities.
One Labour MP John Mann, and member of the Treasury select committee, has said Sir Philip must repay £400m of dividends that were paid out of BHS, or give up his knighthood.
The pensions regulator is also investigating whether BHS's previous owners sought to avoid their obligations.
The shops continue to operate as normal and on Tuesday reported their strongest day of trading since the business was acquired by Retail Acquisitions. Trading was up 80% compared to the same day last year.
Restructuring firm Duff & Phelps, who have been appointed joint administrators, said in a statement: "The group will continue to trade as usual whilst the administrators seek to sell it as a going concern."
Anthony Jordan, 44, denied all the offences, which took place in Wishaw and Motherwell between 2003 and 2014.
The High Court in Glasgow heard the abuse began when the girls were aged 12 or 13 and took place while their mothers were at bingo or out shopping.
Jordan was jailed for 13 years and placed on the sex offenders register.
His rape victim, who is now 24, told prosecutor Jane Farquharson it had happened "whenever he had a chance to get to me".
She said the first time he raped her, when she was 12, she was terrified and added: "I was feart to move."
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: "Afterwards I curled up in a ball and cried."
Jordan claimed he was in a sexual relationship with the woman in 2014.
Ms Farquharson said: "This was nothing more than a last and defiant act by her abuser with no purpose other than to humiliate her."
Judge Lord Matthews said it was an appalling ordeal for the woman, which had "robbed her of her adolescent years".
The court heard how Jordan attempted to rape another of his victims, but every time he tried she would kick out and scream.
This victim, now 17, had told her mother she did not want her to go out to bingo, but did not tell her why.
Police were contacted after she finally told her mother.
Jordan's third victim, now aged 25, was sexually abused after he began a "squeezing game" with her.
He also abused her during a visit to a swimming pool by inappropriately touching her as they came down the flume together.
Jordan accused all his victims of lying.
He gave a thumbs-up to family members as he was led away to begin his sentence.
Lighting in some areas of Leeds has been turned off from midnight until 05:30 daily since 2013.
Liberal Democrat leader Stewart Golton believes the cash boost should be used to reverse the decision and invest in energy saving LED lights.
But Labour councillor Richard Lewis said the idea was "not an option".
Leeds City Council said in 2013 switching off streets lights overnight could save up to £1.3m over 10 years and cut carbon emissions.
However, in December, the council received £6.5m after contractor Tay Valley Lighting failed to meet a number of performance standards, sparking a new debate.
Mr Golton told BBC Radio Leeds: "If [the council] really did take this decision with a heavy heart then they should put their hand in their pockets, which are now £6m bigger, and actually use that money to pay for street lights.
"People do not want to be on dark streets late at night, especially if they are women."
Street lights are switched off in areas including Rothwell, Otley and Yeadon.
The council has had to save £248m since 2010 and needs to save a further £76m by 2016.
Mr Lewis said: "[The money] won't go on street lighting. There's a council-wide financial problem and that money has to be given to help that. It's not ring-fenced."
Carl Langley, who was appointed to the deputy's role in March 2014, has been "temporarily" redeployed into a Wales-wide role, the force said.
Legal director Samantha Gainard remains in her post.
The investigation is examining any "consequences or otherwise" on internal force matters, a force spokesman said.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission received a referral from Dyfed-Powys Police but determined the case was suitable to be investigated locally.
In a statement, the force said: "Dyfed-Powys Police received allegations of misconduct concerning deputy chief constable Langley and director of legal services Samantha Gainard, which were referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
"An investigation has commenced and is being conducted by Chief Constable David Shaw of West Mercia Police.
"Part of the investigation concerns the consequences or otherwise of a former relationship on internal force matters. It is not appropriate to comment any further due to the ongoing investigation."
Regarding Mr Langley's new post, a spokesman said: "The police forces in Wales have been considering for some time re-introducing the role of All-Wales deputy chief constable, in line with the practice in a number of other regions.
"DCC Langley is qualified for this role, and has been temporarily redeployed into it while the investigation is under way.
"He will be working with the four Welsh police forces to improve the effectiveness of collaboration between the forces. He will continue to receive the same salary."
Cruise Scotland's forecast follows a record-breaking season in 2015 when Scottish ports welcomed 460,546 visitors and 501 cruise ships.
It expects more than 525,000 passengers on 644 vessels this year.
Among the ships planning to visit is a Disney Magic cruise, on its first round-Britain voyage.
It is due to call at Greenock, Kirkwall and Invergordon.
Cruise Scotland chairman Victor Sandison said: "The continuing growth shows the increasing popularity of Scotland as a destination in a highly-competitive global market.
"This year's estimated passenger count of over 525,000 will take us around halfway to the annual target of 1.1 million by 2029 - a figure identified in a study carried out in 2010 when there were just over 268,000 cruise visitors.
"Breaking half-a-million passengers will be a great achievement for all involved in marketing, port services and providing a great welcome, from harbours and shops to visitor attractions."
Parker, 35, signed for the Whites in 2013 and has made 99 appearances for the club in all competitions.
The midfielder said he was "delighted" to sign an extension and is "confident next season will be a better one".
The former England international missed the first 17 games of the season because of injury, while Fulham finished 20th in the Championship.
The world champion was 0.223 seconds quicker than Rosberg, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel 0.661secs off in third ahead of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fifth fastest ahead of Force India's Sergio Perez and McLaren's Fernando Alonso.
It was a welcome return to form for Hamilton after a poor last race.
Hamilton finished third in Singapore two weeks ago as Rosberg won, losing the championship lead for the first time since taking it in July and dropping eight points behind Rosberg with six races to go heading into this weekend on the demanding Sepang track.
After an inconclusive first practice session that was hard to read, the Briton was on impressive form in second practice.
As well as being fastest on the qualifying simulation runs on the softest tyre, Hamilton also set the pace throughout the first part of the session, by 0.399secs despite using the hard tyre while Rosberg was on the medium.
Behind the Mercedes, Ferrari seemed to have an edge on Red Bull as the two teams continue their battle to end the season second in the championship - Vettel was 0.432secs quicker than Verstappen.
Alonso's position in seventh place was a surprise fillip for McLaren.
The Spaniard was using an upgraded Honda power-unit, with a lighter block and redesigned exhaust, aimed at improving the car's qualifying performance.
The development is aimed at Honda's home race in Japan next weekend but has been introduced in Malaysia because taking it means a 30-place grid penalty for Alonso for using too many engine parts.
The plan at this stage is to revert to an older-spec engine for the rest of this weekend.
Team-mate Jenson Button, who will not have the new engine until the US Grand Prix in two races time at the earliest because Honda does not want grid penalties at Suzuka, was 10th fastest after being held up on his fastest lap by Renault's Kevin Magnussen.
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Magnussen was playing catch-up after losing the entire first session following a fire in the pits as a result of a problem with a fuel breather pipe.
The Dane ended up 19th fastest, seven places and 0.7secs slower than team-mate Jolyon Palmer.
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The governing body's chief executive Blane Dodds says a new finance and support package for Scotland's promising young golfers will help to establish them on the European Tour.
"It's an initiative for helping the best talent we've got," said Dodds.
"It's taking away a lot of the management, logistics and hassles of life on tour."
Ewen Ferguson and Grant Forrest are the first players to benefit from the initiative, which will guarantee them eight Challenge Tour starts this season as they look to qualify for the European Tour.
They will receive funding for two years, as well as coaching and management support from the scheme, which is a partnership between Scottish Golf, Aberdeen Asset Management, SSE Hydro and Bounce Sports Management.
With only one Scot - Russell Knox - in the world's top 30, Scottish Golf wants to try to enable more players to reach the top of the game.
"We've watched Ewen and Grant coming through the ranks over the last few years and clearly we want success at the highest level of the game as an objective," Dodds said.
"There is cash involved, but it's more rounded than that. We've been helping to prepare them from a golfing perspective, there's coaching and technical and lifestyle and strength and conditioning [advice].
"The other element is when that talent is showing promise and ability to perform at a higher level, it's ensuring all the other ancillary support is there so that they can perform when they are on the course.
"It's a stepping stone. If you look over the last few years, the young, talented golfers from Scotland haven't fulfilled their potential. It's about trying to help that process. "
Ferguson, who played his third Challenge Tour event at the Turkey Airlines Challenge last week, was Scottish Golf's amateur of the year in 2015 and, along with Forrest, was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland team that won the 2015 Walker Cup at Royal Lytham.
The duo were identified as having the potential to reach the highest level of the game by the Scottish Golf performance committee, and the governing body plans to open the initiative to other players next season.
"The ultimate goal is to be out there playing stress free, without having to worry about the financial side of things and hopefully bring the best out of ourselves on the golf course," said Ferguson.
"[It's] having the financial backing and support team around you to be able to make the stress less and play with more freedom.
"It's being able to fund my first couple of years of getting out there and trying to find my feet, that's the problem it will solve. It can be very expensive, food, hotels, taxis, caddies - that's what will be taken care of."
Forrest tied for fifth in Turkey, having only turned professional last year. His aim for this season is to finish in the Challenge Tour's top 15 and qualify for the European Tour.
"It's an expensive sport to play for a living, so not having to worry about that when you're teeing up every round is so valuable," Forrest explained. "It's the peace of mind to go out and perform my best.
"If you have a bad week and miss a cut and you want to change your flight it costs more, so it's things like that, to make your life easier and try to help to deal with all the hardships that come with life on tour."
Short-haired bumblebee workers have been spotted at Dungeness in Kent over the last three years following the introduction of queens from Sweden.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust said it showed the queens had nested and produced young, and were finding enough food to build colonies.
An attempt to introduce queens from New Zealand failed in 2009.
The bees died before they came out of quarantine, apparently because of genetic weakness in the population and the six-month difference in seasons between the UK and New Zealand.
The short-haired bumblebee (Bombus subterraneus) declined in numbers over 60 years as its habitat in the UK was lost. It is found in good numbers in Sweden.
The last naturally occurring specimen was found at Dungeness in 1988 and it was declared extinct in 2000.
Three short-haired bumblebee workers have now been spotted at the RSPB's Dungeness nature reserve on four consecutive days.
"This is a thrilling discovery and shows that conservation for bumblebees really can work," said project manager Dr Nikki Gammans.
"Populations of at least three other rare bumblebees not recorded for over 10 years are now found in locations across the release zone and their abundance is increasing across south Kent and East Sussex."
Farmers and landowners in Dungeness and Romney Marsh are supporting the bumblebee project by managing 2,500 acres of wildflower-rich habitats to provide them with food.
Scotland cap Jones, 22, is contracted to WP until October and also represents Super Rugby side Stormers.
Edinburgh-born Jones scored two tries as Scotland lost 23-22 to Australia at Murrayfield on Saturday.
WP have been dealing with financial concerns, and recently obtained a court order for the provisional liquidation of their commercial arm.
The union, a 75% shareholder in their commercial arm, said at the time that WP's teams would continue to function as normal and that the contracts of players remain secure.
Warriors having tracked Jones' development since the centre was enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 2014.
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Enquiries have been made regarding a possible transfer fee, paid by Scottish Rugby to WP to negotiate the early release of Jones, but the province are believed to be resistant to this route.
The player's agent has told BBC Scotland his client is "very happy" in South Africa while Scottish Rugby declined to comment.
The Super Rugby season begins in late February and ends in July, but under World Rugby Regulation 9, clubs must release selected players during international windows, meaning Stormers would be without Jones during the Six Nations Championship, should he be included in Scotland's squad.
Jones was Western Province's top try-scorer in this summer's Currie Cup, with seven. He earned his first Scotland cap as a replacement in the second Test of the June tour of Japan before making his maiden international start against the Wallabies.
Gwynedd council's shoreline management plan could see maintenance of flood defences stopped in 40 years.
Villagers have now voted to hire a specialist barrister to fight the proposals and are raising £20,000 to fund the action.
A council spokesman said officers were in regular discussions with residents about the community's future.
People in the area first discussed the possibility of legal action in 2014.
Pete Cole, chairman of action group Fairbourne Facing Change, told BBC Radio Wales' Country Focus programme: "This is something which continues to frustrate and upset people in the village... there's been a lot of talk, but no practical solutions to enable people to move on with their lives.
"We are committed to working with Gwynedd council and the Welsh government, but if we can't find a solution we can all live with, then a legal challenge may be our only way forward."
A Welsh government spokesman said: "It is important that all those at risk of coastal flooding or erosion are aware of the risks they face and plan for future change."
The Twaddell Avenue protest has been ongoing since July 2013.
On Friday night, talks facilitators the Rev Harold Good and Jim Roddy released a statement saying a resolution had been found.
Over the weekend, they confirmed that the loyalist protest camp will be dismantled next Saturday, 1 October.
The cessation of the protest will follow the completion of the outstanding Ligoniel Lodges' return parade at 08:30 BST on Saturday.
The statement said that following the completion of this parade, the Ligoniel Lodges will "instigate a voluntary moratorium on applying for a [future] return parade.
"This moratorium would allow for a process between the lodges and [nationalist residents group] CARA to seek agreement on future return parades and if agreement is achieved, the moratorium would be lifted," said the statement.
First Minister Arlene Foster called it "a significant step".
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness commended the two facilitators.
The dispute - which has cost an estimated £20m to police over the past three years - began after a Parades Commission determination not to allow the return leg to pass a section of the Crumlin Road in 2013.
Discussions aimed at resolving the disagreement between the Orange Order and Cara have ended in failure in the past.
In June, a proposed deal to end the dispute collapsed.
However, the statement issued on Friday night said: "We are pleased to announce that a local agreement has been reached to bring an end to the difficulties surrounding parades and protests in the Twaddell/Crumlin Road area.
"The agreement has the full support of the three lodges and the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association."
CARA spokesperson Joe Marley said the residents group "has always been of the view that inclusive and meaningful dialogue was the way to achieve a resolution" to the issue.
He added: "For some months now we have engaged in a process with the local Orange lodges and a number of proposals came from those discussions which we felt could bring a resolution.
"On the back of those discussions, we have committed to ending protests at existing morning parades in return for a moratorium on return parades following a parade on Saturday.
"We have also agreed to participate in a community forum."
But another nationalist residents group, the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc), has made it clear that it is opposed to the deal.
The group's Dee Fennell said: "In our opinion, this goes against the wishes of the vast majority of people living in Ardoyne, Mountainview and the Dales."
A Belfast priest involved in negotiations for the deal said it marks a "radical change in mindset".
Father Gary Donegan said the intensive negotiations had been going on quietly: "People have had to reconsider drawing lines in the sand. They've had to rub the lines away and make major compromise and that's welcomed by the vast majority, although there are some who have had difficulty with it."
Politicians and police have reacted warmly to news of the breakthrough.
First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster said the agreement was "a welcome development" and "a significant step".
"I said at the start of the summer that we all have a responsibility to show leadership and to continue to seek resolutions to contentious issues through discussion and to ensure any difficulties are identified and resolved peacefully. By doing so, we become stronger as a community and a country," she said.
"I thank all those involved. We want to build a future that is respectful, inclusive and vibrant."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: "I commend Reverend Harold Good and Jim Roddy who have worked positively and considerately with everyone in the local community to reach this agreement.
"We must resolve disagreements regarding parades, identity, culture and tradition through dialogue, so that difference is celebrated and respected.
"The next phase of our political and peace processes must be the development of a real reconciliation process.
"As leaders we will work with Executive colleagues to ensure tolerance, equality and mutual respect are key tenets of our new shared future."
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire also welcomed the news.
"I commend the representatives of the Orange Order and Cara for their efforts in negotiating a solution.
"This is a clear demonstration that local dialogue can work, and offers up the best chance of resolving disputes like this."
Northern Ireland Justice Minister Claire Sugden paid tribute to those involved in brokering the agreement.
"I look forward to seeing this new agreement implemented and an end to the protest," she said.
The Republic of Ireland's minister for foreign affairs, Charlie Flanagan, praised the "spirit of cooperation and mutual respect" that brought about agreement.
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Crues striker Jordan Owens scored the only goal to leave the champions just one win away from retaining the title.
Linfield are eight points back with three games left after Kirk Millar's double and a Jimmy Callacher goal in a comfortable Windsor Park victory.
The other Section A game saw Glentoran defeat Cliftonville 2-0 at Solitude.
Marcus Kane fired into the bottom corner to put the Glens ahead on 51 minutes before Curtis Allen added the second with a tap-in.
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Crusaders showed the resilience of champions but they were thankful for poor finishing by Lurgan Blues striker Eoin Bradley.
Bradley twice fired straight at keeper Sean O'Neill in the first half before hesitancy in taking a shot allowed Craig McClean to make a last-ditch challenge.
Crusaders improved after a lacklustre first half and Owens settled the game with a trademark header from Gavin Whyte's cross on 55 minutes.
Owens almost doubled the lead when he hit the post while Kevin Braniff and Declan O'Brien went close as the hosts pressed late on.
Victory over north Belfast rivals Cliftonville Tuesday night will give Stephen Baxter's side back-to-back titles for the first time in the club's history.
Crusaders keeper Sean O'Neill said: "I made a couple of saves but I've a great back four in front of me and I'll take a 1-0 win every week.
"The title is now within touching distance and we are preparing for a momentous battle against Cliftonville on Tuesday.
"We are a small club and to retain the title would be massive for us and brilliant for the people of the Shore Road."
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Linfield boss David Healy rested key players ahead of the Irish Cup final but the Blues still had enough to despatch the Bannsiders with ease.
All the goals came in the first half, starting with Millar heading home from a Paul Smyth cross.
Blues skipper Callacher headed in from a pinpoint Niall Quinn corner before Millar pounced on a Lyndon Kane error to slot in the third just before the break.
Millar missed out on a treble when he header over while Callacher struck the bar in the dying seconds.
Linfield visit Glentoran on Tuesday evening, chasing three points and hoping for a Crusaders slip-up in the north Belfast derby.
Ontario court justice Bernd Zabel made the remarks during a misconduct hearing that could possibly see him removed from the bench.
Mr Zabel briefly wore the red campaign cap into his courtroom the day after the 2016 US presidential election.
The Ontario Judicial Council received 81 complaints about his conduct.
"I'm not a Trump supporter," Mr Zabel told the four-person disciplinary panel looking into those complaints on Wednesday.
"I find it very difficult to find the words to express my profound regret for what I did that day."
Mr Zabel described to the panel how he came to don the Donald Trump campaign hat in the Hamilton courtroom on 9 November in a fug of fatigue after staying up late to watch the results.
He said he had ordered five of the caps online in June thinking it would be "entertaining to have some historic memorabilia" from the election.
Mr Zabel, who appeared sombre and was wearing a charcoal pinstriped suit and patterned blue tie, described Mr Trump's win as "an almost surreal experience" and thought wearing the cap would "add a little humour" and "lighten the proceedings" in the courtroom that day.
He walked in wearing the cap and then placed it on the dais until morning recess, when he returned it to his office.
Returning to court briefly in the afternoon, an attorney quipped to him: "You lost your hat".
He replied: "Brief appearance for the hat. P***** off the rest of the judges because they all voted for Hillary. I was the only Trump supporter up there but that's OK".
A few days later, after the incident made headlines, he apologised in open court and said donning the hat was not meant as an endorsement of the US president's policies.
Complainants, including the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund and 27 law professors from the University of Windsor - Mr Zabel's alma mater -say the veteran judged breached principles of impartiality and objectivity and broke rules regarding the prohibition on partisan political activity.
Multiple complaints received by the council noted that the public apology he made on 15 November regarding his conduct was not consistent with the comment he made in court that afternoon about being a Trump supporter.
Mr Zabel said it was a poorly worded comment about how he had come to believe that Mr Trump could win in the weeks before the election - a prediction his fellow judges did not share.
On cross examination, presenting counsel Linda Rothstein pushed Mr Zabel on his choice of words on 9 November, noted the Trump hat could be tied to racism and bigotry, and asked whether he considered that many people felt devastated by the election results.
"I wasn't thinking it through," Mr Zabel conceded.
Mr Zabel also received 62 character references and letters from colleagues and others expressing their support for the judge and praising his integrity.
Ontario court justice Marjoh Agro appeared as a character witness for her colleague on Wednesday.
"I remember that day well because quite frankly I deeply regret not ripping that hat off his head," she said.
Mr Zabel stopped being assigned cases on 21 December, which Ms Agro said has caused "a lot of disruption" at the courthouse and has strained resources. She said she retains confidence in him as a judge.
"I didn't have concerns then and I don't have them now, other than the misjudgement of wearing a stupid hat into court," she said.
The Ontario Judicial Council investigates complaints about the conduct of provincially appointed judges.
Mr Zabel faces a number of possible sanctions, including being issued a warning or reprimand and suspension. The panel could also recommend to the attorney general that the judge be removed from office.
The disciplinary panel reserved judgment on Wednesday.
The funding was awarded last year in response to a series of employment setbacks in the Borders town.
An "incubator centre" will help businesses in the area to "establish themselves and grow".
The money will also help develop four industrial units on the edge of town and upgrade existing facilities at Tower Mill.
The funding has also secured a commitment from Scottish Borders Council to fund and undertake feasibility studies for regeneration of two further redundant mill buildings to inform potential investors.
Business Minister Paul Wheelhouse said: "Supporting economic growth in the south of Scotland is a priority for this government, creating and protecting jobs and enabling local businesses to flourish.
"The business incubator in the former Armstrong's building will give new and rapidly-developing companies the opportunity to come together and grow.
"The new and upgraded business infrastructure in and around Hawick will encourage entrepreneurs, generate start-ups and ensure that the region can meet all the business needs that expanding companies may have."
Mark Rowley, SBC's executive member for business and economic development, said the investment could have a significant impact.
"These projects will not only provide new job opportunities in Hawick but will hopefully act as a catalyst for further property redevelopment and inward investment in the town in the future," he said.
"Redeveloping the former Armstrong's building will deliver new, small office units suitable for start-up firms and existing businesses in the town centre and will also bring life back to a building which has been empty and derelict for many years."
The 33-year-old, who made his debut in 2005 and was captain for 60 of his 90 Tests, quit after India drew the third Test against Australia on Tuesday.
Dhoni has retired from Tests "in order to concentrate" on the 50 over and Twenty20 formats, with India's one-day World Cup defence starting in February.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) called Dhoni "one of India's greatest Test captains".
The statement added: "BCCI, while respecting the decision of MS Dhoni, wishes to thank him for his enormous contribution to Test cricket and the laurels that he has brought to India."
Dhoni, rated by Forbes earlier this year as the fifth richest sportsman in the world with an annual brand value of £12.9 million, took over as Test captain from Anil Kumble in 2008 after leading India to the inaugural World Twenty20 title in 2007.
India lost only one of Dhoni's first 13 Test series in charge, winning eight - a run that saw them top the world rankings from late 2009 until the summer of 2011, a period in which Dhoni also led his team to victory in the one-day World Cup on home soil.
However, India surrendered their number one ranking with a 4-0 whitewash in England, a result that began their poor run away from home and after last summer's 3-1 defeat in England, Dhoni hinted he might stand down as captain.
He will be replaced by Virat Kohli as captain for the fourth and final Test against Australia which starts on 6 January in Sydney.
Record-breaking batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who quit Test cricket last year, tweeted: "Well done on a wonderful career in Test cricket. Always enjoyed playing together. Next target 2015 WC my friend!!"
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar told NDTV: "India will miss Dhoni big time because he gave a new dimension to Indian cricket.
"Over the last year or so, the pressure of captaincy was probably affecting his wicket-keeping. The amount of cricket he was playing probably told on him."
The compound, DDD107498, was developed by the university's Drug Discovery Unit and the Medicines for Malaria Venture.
Scientists said the "exciting" new drug could work well against parasites resistant to current treatments.
Details of the discovery have been published in the journal Nature.
The World Health Organisation reported 200 million clinical cases of malaria in 2013, with 584,000 people dying from the mosquito-borne disease, most of them pregnant women or children under five.
Concerns have been growing about strains of malaria which are resistant to current treatments, which have already appeared on the border between Myanmar and India.
Dr Kevin Read, joint leader of the project, said new drugs were "urgently needed".
He said: "Resistance to the current gold-standard anti-malarial drug is now considered a real threat.
"The compound we have discovered works in a different way to all other anti-malarial medicines on the market or in clinical development, which means that it has great potential to work against current drug-resistant parasites.
"It targets part of the machinery that makes proteins within the parasite that causes malaria."
Dr David Reddy, CEO of MMV, added: "Malaria continues to threaten almost half of the world's population - the half that can least afford it.
"DDD107498 is an exciting compound since it holds the promise to not only treat but also protect these vulnerable populations."
The university has been working with MMV since 2009 to identify new treatments for the disease. The project was initiated by testing a collection of about 4,700 compounds at the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU), to see if any would kill the malaria parasite.
This provided the chemical starting-point for the new compound, which was optimised through cycles of design, preparation and testing.
The compound is now undergoing safety testing through MMV, with a view to entering human clinical trials within the next year.
Prof Ian Gilbert, head of chemistry at the DDU, who led the team which discovered the compound, said he was "very excited" by the progress made.
He said: "The publication reveals that DDD107498 has the potential to treat malaria with a single dose, prevent the spread of malaria from infected people, and protect a person from developing the disease in the first place."
The proposals for Sheffield Retail Quarter in the city centre includes new offices, homes and restaurants and could create about 2,500 jobs.
It replaces the £400m Sevenstone retail development scheme, which was scrapped in 2013.
Sheffield City Council has released the new plans as part of a consultation. Work could start in 2017 if planning permission is granted in the summer.
The first stores could open at the development around Barker's Pool, Pinstone Street and Moorhead two years later.
The scheme could also include new car parks, bus and cycle routes and a new cycle hub.
John Lewis, which was due to leave its Barker's Pool site and open a new store in the defunct Sevenstone development, has welcomed the plans.
A spokesman said: "There are significant implications for John Lewis in the detail of the council's draft plan, and we are in discussion with the council about this."
The council is purchasing the land for the scheme and is seeking a development partner.
Leigh Bramall, deputy leader of the council, said: "This is what we want for Sheffield, a flourishing city centre that is not only a good day out, but also offers jobs and economic benefits to the whole city."
The consultation will run until 19 June, with an exhibition at the town hall from 3 - 6 June.
Williams led 5-4 and had a 69 point lead in the 10th frame before missing a key shot at York's Barbican Theatre.
Ford cleared to draw level and took the deciding frame to knock the two-time former winner out of the tournament.
"I have to be careful what I say because I could get into trouble. He made some good clearances, I've got to take my hat off to him," said Williams.
Williams stopped short of criticising the table, but was clearly unhappy with some "bounces" in the latter stages of the match.
"I wish I won because it might sound like sour grapes and I'm not like that. I lost and he made some great clearances," added Williams.
"But I was very unlucky, some of the bounces I had towards the end it was just incredible really and that's what cost me but that's the way it goes.
"I probably threw that match away but at the end of the day I've just lost 6-5. Does anyone really care? I don't."
The move is targeting young adults who are more likely to wander across roads while drunk.
A video, filmed in Oxford, appeared to show more pedestrians used a zebra crossing when accompanied by the scantily-dressed models.
Nearly 150 drunk pedestrians have been killed or injured in Berkshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire since 2009.
As part of the campaign, nearly 400 pedestrians were secretly filmed crossing Cowley Road, an area which has many bars and is popular with students.
When the patrol was not there, more than 40% did not use the crossing but that fell to 8% when the models were ushering pedestrians across at the zebra.
Dan Campsall, of Road Safety Analysis, who developed the campaign for Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership, said observing the behaviour of those using the crossing, showed some were "clearly drunk".
He said: "When people have had some drinks, when they are crossing to the kebab shop or next pub, they just think in straight lines.
"Something that disrupts that behaviour and gathers them to a safer crossing place does seem to have an effect."
Nationally 3,164 pedestrians who were considered to be impaired by alcohol, were killed or seriously injured between 2009-2013.
Mr Campsall admitted the crossing patrol models were not a practical solution on night time streets, although it is hoped the video - titled #sexycrossingpatrol - will raise awareness on social media.
"The key thing is to highlight the issue. At this time of year we put a lot of emphasis about not getting behind the wheel of the car after drinking, but you can be just as vulnerable if you are drunk and walking."
Brian Auchterlonie, 27, has been jailed for 40 months for attacking Casey Thomson, 32, between Rutland Square and Festival Square on Tuesday 12 July.
Auchterlonie had pleaded guilty previously to assault and robbery.
Ms Thomson's mother could hear her calling out: "Mum, mum, I'm being mugged". Ms Thomson suffered facial injuries and her purse was stolen.
Sentence had been deferred at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for a background report and risk assessment.
Fiscal Depute, Gerard Drugan, told Sheriff Thomas Welsh, Ms Thomson was talking to her mother on her mobile phone as she walked from George Street to Rutland Square in the early evening.
"It was unusually quiet" said the fiscal. Ms Thomson had two bags over her shoulder.
She looked behind her and saw a man approaching her. He said: "Give me the bags", there was a struggle and he repeatedly hit her in the face and head.
Ms Thomson gave her purse to Auchterlonie to stop the attacks. He grabbed it and ran off.
The fiscal said the attack lasted only 80 seconds and all that time Ms Thomson's mobile was still active.
Ms Thomson, who was covered in blood, was treated at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
CCTV footage showed Auchterlonie hiding as his victim walked past, running after her, carrying out the attack and running away.
He also dropped his pen which provided DNA evidence.
Defence solicitor, Steve Donald, told Sheriff Welsh his client had no recollection of the incident.
He said Auchterlonie was currently subject to a supervised release order.
Sheriff Welsh said that in the recent past Auchterlonie had committed four offences of assault, robbery and assault to injury.
Det Con Alison Wyllie, of Police Scotland, said: "I am very grateful for the public response to the media appeal.
"As a result of this appeal we received information that ultimately led to his arrest and conviction."
After a reprieve, plans were renewed to shut Hartlepool's fertility unit after no suitable provider could be found.
A bid by Care Fertility was rejected despite the company already running services at the hospital.
The area's clinical commissioning group said "bids received did not meet the benchmark requirements".
The closure of the University Hospital of Hartlepool's licensed fertility services, including IVF, was suggested in early 2016 when managers said they could not recruit enough embryologists to keep the unit going safely.
Hartlepool Council was granted a High Court injunction stopping the closure and it was later announced the unit would remain in the town but would be run by an alternative provider.
However, Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees Clinical Commissioning Group said it had received only a limited response in the bidding process and interested parties had not met quality standards.
It added it had a duty to comply with "very clear regulations in relation to NHS public sector bodies procuring services" and its priority was to ensure any commissioned service "is safe, clinically effective and of the highest quality".
Care Fertility, which operates 15 clinics across Britain and supports fertility services in Hartlepool, said it was "disappointed not to be awarded the contract".
"Care Fertility have been helping Hartlepool's IVF team to maintain their fertility services for several months," it said.
"We understand that some or all of the service will transfer to the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough which was not revealed in the tender process."
Hartlepool councillor Ray Martin Wells earlier said the council had been contacted in October by "interested parties who were finding it extremely difficult to get the information that they required to put the bids together".
The decision is to be discussed by the council scrutiny panel next month.
Flight AI131 travelling to London on Wednesday was flying over Iran when someone on board said they spotted the rodent, reports said.
Passengers continued their journey on a replacement aircraft some time later.
Air India has said that the plane will be disinfected and the presence of a rat was being investigated.
Rats can sometimes get on board aircraft along with food supplies but can be a serious risk if they chew through wires.
Part of a large family from Hackney, she studied jazz at the Guildhall School of Music before dreaming up her own style, which she calls "wonky funk".
"It's just a fusion of everything," she says. "I can't tell you what, really. It just is."
The 26-year-old has attracted attention for her two EPs - February 15 and So Good - and recently appeared on Disclosure's number one album Caracal, singing the track Superego.
Speaking to the BBC, the singer discussed her influences, her musical education and why she does not want to reveal her surname.
Were you surrounded by music growing up?
There were five children in my mum's house and we all shared rooms - so it was very tight circumstances, but we all loved music and we were all playing it every day, from morning 'til night.
Everyone was into different things. My brother was really big into US hip-hop, my other brother loved UK grime, pirate radio stations, jungle. So all of this was going on in the house and now, with hindsight, I can see all of it was a really big influence on me.
Did you have to fight for control of the stereo?
No - we all had our own devices. Walkmen, portable CD players. I had a karaoke machine so I could play tapes on that! And we had a piano as well, which I spent a lot of time on jamming and improvising.
Did you take lessons?
I had lessons in classical piano but I quickly realised that wasn't what I wanted to play, so I started teaching myself chords and harmony. I really loved gospel, so I ended up playing that.
What was the first time you thought, I don't have to play other people's songs - I can write something of my own?
I suppose I've always known that I could write - but I needed the confidence to actually step out of the shadows.
Before that, I'd always sung other people's music - from doing Aretha Franklin at functions and parties, to singing music my friends had written.
You studied jazz at Guildhall. What did that teach you?
It taught me loads but, funnily enough, I don't know if it taught me to be more creative. Jazz is an amazing language and musical form, but you need to study that, and only that, to get your head around it so I didn't spend much time writing my own music.
But it taught me discipline. I needed to wake up at 5am each morning to practice theory, harmony, singing... everything.
Was there a lot of competition between the students?
I think so. You feel guilty taking a break - because in every room around you, you can hear someone practising and aiming to get better. But I think it's a good thing. I became a better musician.
What happened after you graduated?
I was making my way as a professional singer - and that involved doing sessions or adverts or singing for other people.
I really loved it. I never thought I could make money just being a singer without being, like, a pop star.
How did you become a solo artist?
I happened to be singing for someone in a nightclub and my now-manager was there. He hit me up the next day and was like: "Have you ever thought about doing your own music?" So the stars aligned and I was able to put everything down and start writing.
The first song that got you attention was So Good - how long was it between that nightclub performance and writing that?
About four months.
Did you know it would take off the way it did?
No! I call that sort of music "wonky funk" and I didn't know if people were really going to get it. I remember I put it up online and went into a rehearsal and turned off my internet and my phone's 3G. When I turned my phone back on eight hours later, it literally exploded. I'd never seen so many messages.
Is wonky funk the dark side of Uptown Funk?
Haha! I've never thought about it that way - but I like that because Uptown Funk is so energetic and happy whereas Wonky Funk is a little bit left field, a little bit darker, even a little bit cooler... even if I do say so myself.
How well do you know your funk? Are you into George Clinton and Bootsy Collins and Donald Byrd?
Yeah, I am! I saw George Clinton this year in concert. It was absolutely crazy - about 100 people on stage. And I love Prince, I love Earth Wind and Fire, Sly and the Family Stone. All these bands.
You have a clear sense of your sound - but what sort of artist do you want to be?
I'm not sure if I'm the type of act who'll dress up and wear loads of make-up. I've only just sorted out how to be myself, so I'm going to stick with that.
That seems to be a theme with the artists on the Sound of 2016 list... I wonder why?
We're in an age where people have millions of followers on Instagram and they spend all their time taking selfies so they get that one perfect shot. But I think it's nice that we see normal people, just doing stuff that's good and cool without it being about the image.
And yet you maintain a certain sense of mystique. You don't tell anyone your second name, for instance.
Yeah! I've been a singer for a long time, so I just wanted to have a clean slate. I wouldn't say it's mysterious, it's just a way of keeping a clear line.
So there's early, embarrassing stuff online that you don't want people to find?
No! Everything I've done is fine… But there's a lot of it! I'm singing other people's music and fans could misconstrue that as my own stuff. So for me it was about starting again. And because I've got such a distinctive name, it's not hard for people to find me.
Except if you Google your name, you end up with a pages of results for the National Audit Office.
I know! People tweet me about the National Audit Office every day!
Your debut album is due in the summer. How close is it to being finished?
I wonder if an album is ever finished? If it was up to me, I'd keep writing.
You have a lyric on Golden: "Perfect is over-rated." Is that how you feel about writing?
I think so. There is no perfect sound because, hopefully, you'll keep growing and changing and learning. That's why I said perfect is over-rated and that's why I think an album can never really be finished. All you can do is capture the moment.
And presumably the music develops when you play it live.
Exactly. That's so true. The songs on my EPs are totally different when I play them live because the bass player is changing his line and the drummer is doing some extra kicks and snares. So it's always changing, it's really cool.
Every date on your UK tour sold out last month - how did that feel?
I could understand it in London because that's where I'm from and I could drag people along - but across the UK I didn't know people would know the songs and come to the show. It's really lovely.
The Sound of 2016 shortlist so far:
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The Museum of London display will include the personal stories of Londoners who were there during the fire and will look at the city, before and after the blaze.
It will also look at the fire's causes, how London was rebuilt afterwards and compare modern fire fighting techniques to those employed at the time.
Fire! Fire! opens on 23 July next year.
An unfinished piece of embroidery, reputed to have been saved from a house in Cheapside at the time of the fire will be on display for the first time.
Director of the museum Sharon Ament said the fire was an "iconic moment" in the capital's history.
She added: "Whilst it is a potent story there are many myths about the Great Fire and there is a compelling story to tell from catastrophe to the reshaping of the city."
The diamond, weighing 709 carats, is now locked up in Sierra Leone's central bank in Freetown. It is one of the 20 largest diamonds ever found.
Freelance, or artisanal, miners are common in Sierra Leone's diamond-rich areas, reports the BBC's Umaru Fofana.
But there are questions over whether the community will benefit from the gemstone, he adds.
Pastor Emmanuel Momoh's discovery, which has not yet been valued, is the biggest diamond to be found in Sierra Leone since 1972, when the 969-carat Star of Sierra Leone was dug up.
It is also the 13th largest diamond ever to be found, says Mathew Nyaungwa from Rough and Polished diamond analysts.
Mr Nyaungwa adds that it is difficult to estimate a price as it is "quality not size [that] determines the value of a diamond". Our correspondent says that the discovery may have a blemish.
Last May, diamond-mining firm Lucara sold a 813-carat stone for $63m (£51m) at a closed auction in London.
Growing up in eastern Sierra Leone, becoming an artisanal miner was the natural thing to do.
I dug the river beds for gravel and extracted the muddy earth looking for the bounty.
The diamond deposits were sometimes so close to the surface that it was common for people to pick up tiny gemstones that had been loosened by a heavy downpour. I did that once or twice myself.
After writing my school-leaving exams I took to full-scale mining to help pay for university.
There were three of us in our gang, as a group of miners is known. We worked illegally, so we did it in a hurry before security men could catch us.
One day, as I shook the sieve under the water to wash the mud off the stones, I saw a sparkling object.
I lifted up the sieve and spotted what we had all been looking for. We then fled.
My share of the two-carat diamond paid my university fees.
The diamond the pastor discovered was first taken to President Ernest Bai Koroma on Wednesday evening before being locked up.
The president "thanked the [local] chief and his people for not smuggling the diamond out of the country", a statement from the presidency says.
Mr Koroma said that the owners should get "what is due to them" and it should "benefit the country as a whole", it adds.
1. Cullinan Diamond, found in South Africa in 1905, weighed 3,107 carats
2. Lesedi La Rona, found in Botswana in 2015, weighed 1,111 carats
3. Excelsior Diamond, found in South Africa in 1893, weighed 995 carats
4. Star of Sierra Leone, found in Sierra Leone in 1972, weighed 969 carats
5. Incomparable Diamond, found in DR Congo in 1984, weighed 890 carats
Source: Mathew Nyaungwa, Rough and Polished
Sierra Leone is well known for its diamond industry but it has had a chequered history.
Diamond sales partly fuelled the country's decade-long civil war when rebel groups exchanged them for weapons.
This aspect of the conflict gained global exposure in the Hollywood film Blood Diamond, starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Djimon Hounsou.
There has been a spate of large diamond finds in recent years at mines in southern Africa, including a 1,111-carat diamond in Botswana in 2015.
The 20-year-old right-back scored once in 16 appearances for the Blues this season after joining on loan last summer.
"We have a burgeoning relationship with Walsall and are grateful to them for allowing this to happen," said Chester chief executive Mark Maguire.
He is available for the National League game against Wrexham on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.
The stately hotel the Villa d'Este, on the shores of magnificent Lake Como replete with baroque chandeliers, statues of nymphs and marble columns is not a hard sell.
No wonder former prime ministers, current ministers, US senators and European commissioners are happy to mingle under the watchful eye of the dozens of varieties of Italian police, some complete with sabres and tall plumed hats, at this high powered forum of the Italian think tank Ambrosetti - The European House.
They are the European elite - and feel their project is in remission. Over the weekend there's been torrential rain and thunder but now Lake Como's waters are only slightly choppy - a timely European metaphor.
This time last year, the subject for discussion here was the possibility of the disintegration of the EU. Brexit and Trump were feared as harbingers of nationalists taking power across Europe. It didn't happen in the Netherlands. Then it didn't happen in France. Now they are sure it won't happen in Germany this autumn and fairly confident it won't happen next spring in Italy either.
The mood could be best summed us as 'phew!' Perhaps the tone was set by one prominent guest who, in a voice full of passion, spoke of the EU as the greatest experiment in history - a club which ensured peace and prosperity.
His voice rising, with an orator's power, he said he was born in the 1970s and had known only peace. But his father was a child of the 1930s - he remembered war, remembered American soldiers bringing the new tastes of freedom and chocolate to a ravaged continent. His grandfather too had known war, and his great-grandfather, and his great-great-grand father. That was why now he said Europe was a synonym for peace.
In this telling of the story the UK had only a bit part, hardly mentioned except as one of the issues still haunting the Continent: the refugee crisis, the legacy of economic crisis, terrorism and Brexit.
This view from the lakeside goes a long way to explain the position of the conference's star turn, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier.
His purpose at the conference was, seemingly, not to rile British politicians or throw some red meat to the British press, but instead to start building a solid foundation for the EU for life after Brexit, to put the past behind it, to make it a singular earthquake not the remaking of an entire landscape.
His opening statement was not the most newsworthy but central to his purpose. He said his first principle was that the future of Europe is more important than Brexit. Far more important.
Indeed that appears to be the view of most EU leaders, that Britain - having made a rather strange decision - must go now and try not to slam the door.
Although the EU is often portrayed in the UK as a monolith run by faceless bureaucrats, actually policy is usually a fudge between the competing interests of left and right, West and East, small and large, North and South and so on.
The unity over Brexit is fairly remarkable and Mr Barnier will hold tight to his mandate to make sure it does not shatter. He's also well aware that while French and Dutch voters didn't go the whole hog, the hard right strengthened its position and those very critical of the EU consensus are in power in Poland and Hungary.
He said that any adverse impact on the UK is not a punishment in itself but a logical consequence of decisions made by the British voters and subsequently by the British government, and he intends to educate people about that.
This position has two parts. One, being out of the EU cannot be as good as being in the club. And secondly, the separate choice to leave the single market has even more consequences.
On free trade, Mr Barnier said the 60 or so such deals negotiated by the EU in the past were a result of a slow process of countries converging, coming together, with the EU.
Some in the UK argue that means a free trade deal for us should be easy - as we have been converged for decades. Mr Barnier said that is not the point - the UK has deliberately chosen now to diverge after 40 years together and the EU needs to know how wide the new gap will get.
Does it imply breaching rules of the single market about workers' rights? Environmental standards? Undercutting tax costs? Will a deal for Toyota mean a break with state aid rules? He wants guarantees that won't happen.
Mr Barnier said he wanted to teach the British people and others what leaving the EU means, hence his reference to being a teacher, a pedagogue.
It was notable that he singled out one person by name, the leader of the Eurosceptic, right-wing Dutch Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, who wants the Netherlands to follow the UK out of the EU. He said the "education" was for him and those of a similar mind.
I asked Mr Wilders what he made of this.
"Mr Barnier who is, of course, a person I respect, is talking a lot of nonsense," he said.
"I am a politician and I asked a British institution to make a survey about what would happen if the Dutch would leave the EU. They came up with a result which proved it would hurt, like it is hurting Britain in the short term, but in the long run after three or 4 years our GDP would grow by more than 10%. There are many chances so Mr Barnier will have to look in the mirror if he wants an education."
But Mr Barnier is probably the sort of man who only looks in the mirror with a certain sense of satisfaction.
Using the contents of their well coiffured grey heads, few in the EU leadership want a bad relationship with the UK. They want a firm foundation for a good and inevitably close alliance. But both their hearts and their heads tell them anything that encourages further fracture of a project that is still very fragile, anything that looks like suggesting leaving the EU is a primrose path rather than a road to possible perdition, is a non-starter.
Michel Barnier concluded by pointing out again that he was, like Theresa May, a walker, a mountaineer used to taking one step after another, watching out for problems but always with his eyes fixed on the peaks.
The EU is determined that it will not stumble just because one member of the team is giving up on getting to the summit, particularly when it thinks that member never really believed in the sunny uplands in the first place.
Ceredigion council's cabinet voted to sell the Aberystwyth signs, some dating back to the early 20th Century.
A spokesman said the timescale of the sale and value of the signs had not yet been confirmed.
It is part of an £800,000 scheme to improve the look of Aberystwyth.
A council spokesman said: "It is likely that sale will be by way of a public auction, but the sale method is also yet to be confirmed."
In the Clinton presidential library, which overlooks Arkansas River, Hillary's presence is almost as prominent as Bill's - though the gift shop sells mugs printed with, "I still miss Bill."
Everywhere you go in Arkansas, you are reminded that this was once the land of Bill and Hillary Clinton, from 1974, when Hillary first joined Bill in Fayetteville, until 1992, when the couple left the governor mansion in Little Rock to move to the White House.
This is where the power couple made their debut on the national stage, where Mrs Clinton's southern friends say the northerner learned about a politician's touch, and where she last had an everyday life, able to drive her own car, living in a brick house on a quaint street in the leafy Hillcrest area when they first moved to the city.
The journey she's been on since with her husband, and separately as senator, candidate and secretary of state, is a reflection of America's own transformation, and one in which Mrs Clinton has sometimes been ahead of her compatriots on social issues, such as early childhood education, paid maternity leave or healthcare (though not on others, like gay marriage).
In the deep south, few have forgotten she was the rebel who initially kept her maiden name after marrying Bill - it was the first thing several women in Little Rock mentioned when I asked them their opinion about Mrs Clinton.
"But we grew to like her," said 69-year-old Jan Baker.
"She did great for Arkansas, she was smart and far-sighted and looking to the future."
Though Mrs Clinton now fits the times better, Arkansas has become a red state that has not voted Democrat in a presidential race since it voted for president Clinton in 1996.
Republicans also dominate state and local offices.
So when Hillary Clinton came to speak at a Democratic fundraising dinner in Little Rock on Saturday to an audience of 2,000 people, she was coming home to a changed state, which reflects the challenges that the Democratic Party has faced in recent local and congressional elections.
During the dinner she appealed for voter enthusiasm.
But if the state where Mrs Clinton lived for more than 15 years has slipped through the Democrats' hands, the rest of the country is becoming less right-leaning with every election.
By the mere fact of changing demographics, and the growing size of the non-white electorate, Democrats now start out the race with a built-in advantage of several points.
Republican pollster Whit Ayres who recently published a book - 2016 and Beyond - has laid out the demographic problem in very stark terms for Republicans; for instance a Republican candidate would need to win 40% of the Hispanic vote to get to the White House.
It's unclear if either Senator Marco Rubio, whose parents came from Cuba, or Jeb Bush, brother of George W Bush and former governor of Florida whose wife is Mexican, can pull that off.
Mr Ayres's other conclusions were neatly summed up in a Washington Post article.
"Based on estimates of the composition of the 2016 electorate, if the next GOP nominee wins the same share of the white vote as Mitt Romney won in 2012 (59%), he or she would need to win 30% of the non-white vote."
The piece went on to add it was a daunting obstacle considering that "Romney won only 17% of non-white voters in 2012. John McCain won 19% in 2008, George W Bush 26% in 2004."
A key former Obama adviser, Dan Pfeiffer, tweeted out the excerpt, saying this was all you needed to know about the 2016 election: "The rest is all noise."
And there has always been a lot of noise around the Clintons and it continues today with her second run for president.
She is ahead in all the polls against her Democratic rivals, and in national polls in a contest with every Republican candidate (she loses in some swing states).
But the headlines are mostly about her use of a private email server at the State Department, allegations of impropriety with foreign cash donations to the Clinton foundation, a perception that the Clintons run an empire and pursue money with large speaking fees.
Then there is the never-ending Republican investigation into the Benghazi attack which killed an American ambassador and three other Americans, while Mrs Clinton was secretary of state in 2012.
Beyond national polls, the Clinton campaign is looking at demographics and the mood of the electorate.
If Clinton's 2008 bid for president seemed focused on her, giving off a sense of entitlement and inevitability, this campaign is focused on the issues.
Whether on immigration, race, gay marriage, family and gender equality issues, even on renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba, opinion polls show the country leans liberal.
Mrs Clinton has slowly been unveiling a set of policy proposals, from dealing with college debt to expanded access to childcare, a higher minimum wage, all of which are about boosting the middle class and raising wages.
A key line in her stump speech is that she wants Americans to be able to do ''more than just get by, you can get ahead and stay ahead".
Many of the proposals still lack details and she has yet to explain how she will pay for some of this.
One of her challenges during the primaries will be to resist a pull too far left on the economy or social issues, which could damage her in the national vote.
In the general election, she will be aiming for a large centre, hoping to reach beyond women, African Americans and Hispanics, to net large numbers of independents or even Republican-leaning voters who are turned off by the party's position on issues like gay marriage, but feel she's tough enough on foreign policy.
Looking at some of her policies, Mrs Clinton appears to want to have the biggest impact possible if elected president, ringing alarm bells in conservative circles.
"We can only do so much through Washington, we have to come up with creative solutions to these big problems that involve everyone: private sector, the philanthropic sector, cities, states," a campaign aide told the BBC.
"It's not a big government approach, it's more like a big enterprise approach to taking the country forward."
But there are other more worrying polls that show a majority of voters in swing states find her untrustworthy.
Democratic supporters quietly confide they worry that no matter how good Mrs Clinton's policies are, her elusive likeability will undermine her message.
The gap between her warmth and ability to connect with people in small settings and the coolness she can project while on a larger stage remains a mystery to her friends.
It's a challenge for her campaign team who also struggle to project freshness and fight the narrative she's the "establishment" candidate.
Her combative relationship with the media and inconsistent performance in national television interviews since she left the State department are also a concern because they add to the impression she is detached and sometimes tone-deaf, as in with her comment about being ''dead broke'' when she and her husband left the White House.
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But EJ Dionne, Washington Post columnist and author of the forthcoming book, Why the right went wrong, about conservatives in America, says the likeability factor is overrated.
"Clinton and (campaign chairman John) Podesta place more value on carefully worked out positions on issues," said Mr Dionne.
"As long as the vehicle is acceptable, voters vote for who they believe is going to deliver for them. Republicans can't make the offer she's making", especially on wage stagnation.
If Mrs Clinton does win, it will also be because of the Republican party's failure to appeal to a majority of Americans on social and economic issues.
The large field of 16 candidates will force them to outdo each other on extreme views to win the nomination.
In Little Rock, the fundraising dinner programme included an ad by a local group of companies that proclaimed: "We have been ready for Hillary since 1975."
In reality, the idea of Mrs Clinton running for president probably didn't cross anyone's mind then, perhaps not even hers.
One of her friends in Little Rock, Sheila Bronfman, told me she doesn't remember thinking back then that Mrs Clinton would run for president, though everyone "always joked and rather believed that Hillary was smarter than Bill".
"She's poised" for this moment, Mrs Bronfman said.
A provocative piece in Politico magazine by Doug Sosnik, former adviser to Bill Clinton, argued that the election is already over because "job approval ratings of the incumbent, regardless of whether they are running for re-election, serve as a proxy for the electorate's mood and have historically been the most accurate predictor of election outcomes".
Barack Obama's approval ratings hover just below or above 50%.
In other words, Democrats could be set to keep the White House, achieving the historic feat of bringing a woman to the presidency and having a Democrat elected to succeed a two-term Democratic incumbent for the first time since the early 1800s.
But Clinton's aides know that much can change before November 2016 and they are keeping a close eye on the wild cards: a slump in the global economy that could still dent the US recovery and have an impact on Mr Obama's approval ratings; an attack on American soil, or even the unravelling of the nuclear deal with Iran.
All other things being equal, the maths of the 2016 election indicates it may indeed already be over, but it's still going to be a long hard slog for Hillary Clinton. | The former BHS owner, Dominic Chappell, says he is preparing a bid to buy BHS out of administration.
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The incident happened outside Dornoch Academy at about 15:40 on Friday.
The boy was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness before being transferred to an Edinburgh hospital.
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Panthers beat hosts Ritten 4-1 on Sunday to become the first British team to claim a major European title.
The previous best showing by a British side in Europe's second-tier event was Sheffield's third-place finish in 2010.
"I just feel like as a club we've really been trendsetters and now this is the next stage," Neilson said.
"It's just such a special thing to be able to compete on the international stage and show not only how good the Nottingham Panthers are, but how far the league has come."
Nottingham, currently fourth in the Elite League, have now qualified for next season's Champions Hockey League, the top ice hockey competition in Europe.
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"It's credit to not only what I'm doing but the players and the staff, and the organisation continues to make steps to get better.
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Kevin Ainley was living and working on the Spanish island when he went missing in June 2004.
The 24-year-old, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, had moved to the tourist area of Playa de las Americas three months earlier.
His sister Gemma Brooke said the family was "desperate for answers".
"It is no exaggeration to say we have been put through 12 years of hell. Somebody must know something," she said.
Mr Ainley, who had also lived in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is known to have worked handing out leaflets for a bar named the Sportsman in an area known as "the patch".
On the day of his disappearance he had visited bars and clubs with a friend.
At around noon, he and another friend went for a meal at a Chinese buffet restaurant called Merlins.
He was last seen walking in the direction of the Sportsman, and his passport and belongings were later found in his apartment.
Despite a Spanish investigation and a Lancashire Police review of the case in 2012, no conclusive information has come to light.
"We are convinced there must be someone out there who saw or heard something," Ms Brooke said.
"I just hope that if someone does know something they can find it in their hearts to come forward and help put us out of our misery."
Exercise is proven to boost mood and strengthen mental wellbeing. In fact research shows outdoor exercise, or ecotherpy as it's called, can be as effective as antidepressants in treating mild to moderate depression and anxiety.
The colours, sounds and smells of the great outdoors stimulate our senses in a way that the gym or urban environments don't. Equally getting physically fit and achieving personal goals boost our confidence and self-esteem and help combat feelings of hopelessness, which can often come over us when we're feeling low.
Playing sport with others can have even greater impact as it provides an opportunity to strengthen social networks, talk through problems with others or simply laugh and enjoy a break from family and work.
To get the most from ecotherapy it's important to find a sport you love and can stick at - try different things be it walking,running,tennis,swimming,rugby, or taekwondo!
Studies have shown that exercise can help with depression, but there is research being conducted on how exercise can help people manage schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
We know that having a physical health illness can be a cause of mental health problems so staying active, and therefore physically fit, can help maintain mental health too. Doctors are starting to prescribe exercise on prescription, and are increasingly doing so for mental health problems.
People have different levels of fitness and ability and availability but NHS guidelines for 19-65 year olds suggest 150 minutes of activity - be that walking, team sports, swimming - per week.
There is benefit in doing exercise in a structured way to help with mental health problems - making sure that your activity levels are consistent, and that you do a similar amount of exercise each week. It can also help to have something to look forward to, particularly if the type of exercise is something social.
Take a look at Mind's film on exercise for some tips on getting active, and look through our A-Z of guides to help you find an activity that fits your lifestyle.
Police said it followed an incident where a car was driven at a man between the Newpark and Wilderness roundabouts on Saturday.
It is understood a Renault Clio narrowly avoided hitting a 45-year-old.
The 18-year-old man has also been charged with a number of offences under the Road Traffic Act and is due to appear at Livingston Sheriff Court.
Wales play Portugal in Lyon on Wednesday in their first ever semi-final at a major tournament.
"I got the board to spend our participation money to give the boys the very best opportunity for success," FAW chief Jonathan Ford told BBC Sport.
"And they've paid us back in their droves."
Wales topped Group B after wins over Slovakia and Russia, either side of a narrow defeat by England, knocked out Northern Ireland in the last 16 and Belgium in the quarter-finals.
Chris Coleman's team face Portugal on Wednesday with the winners meeting either France or Germany in the final in Paris on Sunday, 10 July.
It is the biggest match in Welsh football history and the most significant in British international football since hosts England reached the Euro 1996 semi-finals.
Ford, who has been in charge of the FAW for the past six years, said this approach gave Coleman and his players the best chance of success throughout the qualifiers and into the finals.
"It is about marginal gains," Ford said.
"Every time, during the qualification cycle, we came around, we said what do we need to do more? What can we do better? And it was those one percents.
"When we planned this event we wanted to make sure we gave the team the very best opportunities.
"We found the best hotel, we wanted to invest in the facilities that were there, we put in the best gym we could, we got the best aircraft that we could.
"Not spending money unnecessarily so, but spending money to ensure that the players can do their job to the best of their ability.
"That's exactly what they've done and we're in the semi-final. We invested more into those facilities, the whole purpose of which was to give the boys on the field the very best chance - no excuses.
"They've had no excuses and they needed no excuses."
Including the participation fee, the FAW could receive at least £14.5m for reaching the last four.
Going on to lift the trophy would add a further £6m-plus to prize money.
The FAW made a profit of £20,000 in its last financial year.
Ford said all the "bits of the jigsaw" have fallen into place in this campaign, but added the FAW would not "stop here".
"We will work harder than we have before," said Ford. "We'll literally throw out the rule book. You can't just sit here and think 'we had success last time, let's just do the same thing'.
"We will look at everything - what can we do better? What can help us to achieve qualification for World Cup 2018?
Participation in tournament - 8m euro (£6.4m)
Each win in the pool stages - 1m euro (£812,000)
Reach last 16 - 1.5m euro (£1.2m)
Reach quarter finals - 2.5m euro (£2m)
Reach semi finals 4m euro (£3.2m)
Champions 8m euro (£6.4m)
The letter, signed by hundreds of staff and students, was prompted by previous comments made by the historian.
In response, the university said it had taken down the video earlier than it had planned to.
Starkey has refused to comment on the allegations of racism.
Starkey, who attended Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, took part in the three-minute video "Dear World", which featured other university alumni such as Sir Ian McKellen, Professor Stephen Hawking, and Lily Cole.
The letter calling for the removal of the video - made in a bid to raise £2bn for the university - alleges Starkey has "repeatedly made racist statements".
It cites a 2011 Newsnight interview in which the constitutional historian said: "A substantial amount of the chavs have become black. The whites have become black; a particular sort of violent destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion."
Referring to his appearance in the video, the letter says: "In our eyes, Starkey's presence both undermines and taints our daily efforts to function as a united community."
The university said it had always intended that the current video would be replaced with a new one, and that whilst they appreciate Starkey has made "controversial statements in the past", he was "representing his affection for the university and its values."
Dr Malachi MacIntosh, director of English Studies at King's College, who signed the letter said "we're glad to see the video taken down".
"We're trying now to arrange to speak with the University about how best to proceed," he said.
"Our ultimate goal is to ensure these kinds of campaigns truly represent the best of Cambridge."
Starkey has not commented to the BBC, but earlier told The Independent: "I shall reserve the right to comment freely but without recrimination."
Mr Gomez, leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel, was arrested in Morelia in Michoacan state without a shot fired.
He was taken to Mexico City, where he was paraded before television cameras, before being flown by helicopter to a maximum security prison.
President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote on Twitter that the rule of law had been strengthened because of the arrest.
Police said they located him by following one of his messengers, part of a close network providing him with food and clothing.
He was captured when he stepped outside his house, wearing a hat and scarf to try to hide his identity.
Eight of his associates and several weapons, including a grenade launcher, were captured too. His brother, Flavio Gomez, who was in charge of the family's finances, was also arrested.
Police spent months gathering intelligence for the operation and reportedly seized nearby properties in the weeks leading up Mr Gomez's capture.
For a man who reportedly said he would rather die than be captured, this must be a humiliating end. Paraded in front of millions of Mexicans on live television, he kept his head down as he was marched from a prison van to a police helicopter and flown to a high security prison.
While La Tuta's capture may be a coup for the administration of Enrique Pena Nieto, the fallout in the state of Michoacan is not clear. It is a poor and violent part of the country, the battleground between drugs cartels and vigilantes trying to oust them.
As one security expert told me, this was a man who was not just in charge of a drugs empire - he wanted political power too and in politics you gain as many enemies as you do friends.
Perhaps that is what led to the net closing in in the end?
Previously a school teacher, Mr Gomez became one of Mexico's most powerful drug lords and took control of Michoacan.
Known by his nicknames "La Tuta" and "El Profe", referring to his former job, Mr Gomez ruled over much of Michoacan state as head of the Knights Templar cartel.
Mr Gomez evaded capture for years while other senior members of the gang and rival drug lords were captured or killed.
By the time of his arrest, he had a $2 million (£1.3 million) bounty on his head.
"With this arrest, the rule of law is strengthened in the country and [we] continue moving toward Mexico in Peace," President Pena Nieto tweeted.
The arrest come as the president strives to assuage public anger over the abduction and apparent murder in September of 43 trainee teachers by police accused of being corrupt in concert with criminal gangs.
Knights Templar was primarily a drug cartel and it controlled a large part of the lucrative methamphetamine trade in western Mexico.
But it was also known for mixing in business and politics in the region and even took effective control over the state's international port, Lazaro Cardenas, making millions of dollars from illegal mining of iron ore.
A federal government offensive in 2013 saw the Pena Nieto administration wrest back control of Michoacan state from the Knights Templar and rival gangs.
As leader of the biggest cartel in the region, Mr Gomez became the prime target of Mr Pena Nieto's crackdown.
The administration has been criticised for failing to tackle the drug gangs, with vigilante groups forming to take on the dealers illegally.
Mr Gomez's arrest comes just over a year after the capture of the country's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, head of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Shortly after Guzman's capture, Mexican security forces killed two of Mr Gomez's senior deputies, Enrique "Kike" Plancarte and Nazario Moreno, known as "The Craziest One".
Unlike many rival gang leaders who carefully avoided the limelight, Mr Gomez regularly gave media interviews and railed against the government in Youtube videos.
Mr Gomez began life in the drug trade as an small-time marijuana dealer, before joining a Michoacan gang called La Familia and rising to a senior level. A split in La Familia led him to form Knights Templar.
A father of at least seven, Mr Gomez was also wanted by US authorities in connection with the 2009 murder of 12 Mexican federal police officers.
A near full-strength United struggled to break down resilient Hull in a first half in which the hosts had just two shots on target - Mata forcing a good save out of goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic before Paul Pogba's long-range effort was tipped over.
The visitors had chances of their own against a side who had won their eight previous games in all competitions, Robert Snodgrass causing United problems from set-pieces.
However, Mata got the breakthrough just before the hour mark when the midfielder was on hand to tap in from Henrikh Mkhitaryan's knockdown.
Substitute Fellaini then scored a second late on, heading in from Matteo Darmian's cross to put United in command heading into the second leg on 26 January.
With Manchester United 10 points behind leaders Chelsea in the Premier League and their FA Cup campaign only just starting, the League Cup represents a genuine opportunity for Mourinho to claim a major trophy to add to the Community Shield collected last summer.
He has named strong sides throughout the competition and it was no different against Hull as several first-team regulars, including Wayne Rooney, Paul Pogba and David de Gea, started.
With Hull bottom of the Premier League and struggling badly with injuries - they could only name six substitutes - a first Tigers victory in 65 years at Old Trafford seemed unlikely.
They were given odds of 20-1 to win before kick-off and their prospects looked even more bleak when midfielder Markus Henriksen went off injured inside 20 minutes.
But since new Portuguese boss Marco Silva - described by some as the new Mourinho - took charge last week the Tigers have looked much improved. They beat Swansea in the FA Cup at the weekend and more than held their own for long periods of the game against the Red Devils despite having to field a makeshift defence.
Fellaini's late goal means a turnaround in the second leg might be too big a challenge, but their overall performance will give their fans hope in the battle to stay in the Premier League.
Rooney moved level with Sir Bobby Charlton at the top of Manchester United's all-time scoring chart with his 249th goal for the club against Reading in the FA Cup on Saturday, meaning he had the chance to claim the outright record against Hull.
He came close to scoring goal number 250 inside the opening 10 minutes when Marcus Rashford scuffed a shot across goal but Rooney was just beaten to a tap-in by Andrew Robertson.
The England forward should have got the landmark goal just after half-time when he was picked out by an excellent Pogba ball over the defence, but sent his shot wide of the far post.
His game came to an end just before the hour mark when he was replaced by Anthony Martial, but his departure without a goal means he now has the chance to grab the historic strike in what is arguably a more significant fixture for himself and Manchester United fans - the visit of Liverpool this weekend.
It's back to the Premier League for Manchester United as they take on Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool on Sunday (16:00 GMT) knowing a win could take them into the top five.
Hull, meanwhile, host Bournemouth as they look to move off the bottom of the table. The Tigers have not won in the league since 6 November.
Match ends, Manchester United 2, Hull City 0.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 2, Hull City 0.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Hull City. James Weir replaces Josh Tymon because of an injury.
Delay in match Josh Tymon (Hull City) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Antonio Valencia with a cross.
Goal! Manchester United 2, Hull City 0. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) header from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matteo Darmian with a cross.
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robert Snodgrass (Hull City).
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Antonio Valencia.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Ryan Mason (Hull City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Juan Mata.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Josh Tymon.
Foul by Anthony Martial (Manchester United).
Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Shaun Maloney (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun Maloney (Hull City).
Substitution, Hull City. Shaun Maloney replaces Adama Diomande.
Foul by Jesse Lingard (Manchester United).
Ryan Mason (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Clucas (Hull City).
Substitution, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard replaces Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Mason (Hull City).
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by David Meyler.
Offside, Manchester United. Henrikh Mkhitaryan tries a through ball, but Antonio Valencia is caught offside.
Offside, Manchester United. Matteo Darmian tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Adama Diomande (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by David Meyler with a cross.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan following a corner.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Adama Diomande.
Substitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Wayne Rooney.
Goal! Manchester United 1, Hull City 0. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
The South Western Ambulance Service described "extremely high" demand on its 999 and 111 numbers on 27-28 December.
On that Saturday alone it dealt with 3,205 incidents - 883 more than on the same Saturday in 2013.
The activity will be reviewed to help future planning, the service said.
Across Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and the weekend in-between, the service dealt with a total of 17,463 incidents over the phone.
During the same six days a year ago the figure was 22% lower, at 14,262.
The service was on standby to declare a major incident - defined as something which may disrupt services or require special arrangements to be implemented by health staff - on Saturday 27 December, but was back to normal within days, it said.
"Demand has steadily increased throughout the year for all NHS services," said a spokeswoman for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.
"We know Christmas and New Year are the busiest periods of the year and robust plans are put in place to ensure we can manage that demand.
"This year the NHS also saw an even greater surge in demand during the weekend between Christmas and New Year.
"As always, we will be reviewing this activity to ensure we can continue to plan and respond to the needs of our patients."
The ambulance service covers Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Bath and North Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and the Isles of Scilly.
"Any occurrence that presents serious threat to the health of the community, disruption to the service or causes (or is likely to cause) such numbers or types of casualties as to require special arrangements to be implemented by hospitals, ambulance trusts or other acute or community provider organisations."
Source: NHS England Commissioning Board
At first, you might mistake it for a giant airship - gas-filled balloon on top, pod slung underneath.
But the unique, aerodynamic shape of the balloon - it looks as if a series of cigars have been sewn together - means it can also generate lift just like an aeroplane wing.
That is key, because it enables the designers to make the machine heavier than air, which cuts the need to have dozens of crew hanging on to ropes holding it down every time you land.
In fact, you can land it via remote control with no-one on board at all if you like. And on water if needs be.
Let me put it into perspective for you.
This thing is two-and-a-half times longer than the distance covered by the Wright brothers' first powered flight.
With a length of 302ft (92m) the new airship is about 60ft longer than the biggest airliners, the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8.
It is also almost 30ft longer than the massive cargo-carrying Antonov An-225, which until now was the longest aircraft ever built.
It costs about $100m (£60m) and the designers are planning an even bigger version that will eventually be able to carry 50 tonnes at a time.
The company developing it has now received £2.5m of government funding to develop the technology and engineering for the project.
"We are jointly funding £2bn of research and development into the next generation of quieter, more energy efficient and environmentally friendly planes," says Business Secretary Vince Cable.
"That includes backing projects like Hybrid Air Vehicles' innovative low carbon aircraft which can keep us at the cutting edge of new technology.
"Here is a British SME that has the potential to lead the world in its field."
All of which will be welcome news to one of the project's high-profile investors, Bruce Dickinson.
He is one of those people who can't stop achieving stuff.
As if being the lead singer of one of the world's most successful and enduring rock bands, Iron Maiden, was not enough, he is also an airline pilot, businessman, and is investing in this project.
"It's a game changer, in terms of things we can have in the air and things we can do," he says.
"The airship has always been with us, it's just been waiting for the technology to catch up."
He wants to sell them and he'll be very good at it. As we chat in the hangar, he goes through its credentials.
It is 70% greener than a cargo plane, he says. It doesn't need a runway, just two crew. And it can plonk 50 tonnes anywhere in the world you like, which is 50 times more than a helicopter.
He wants to drum up publicity with the kind of trip Richard Branson would dream up. A non-stop flight around the world - twice.
"It seizes my imagination. I want to get in this thing and fly it pole to pole," he says.
"We'll fly over the Amazon at 20ft, over some of the world's greatest cities and stream the whole thing on the internet."
It is not surprising that we had to go to Britain's biggest aircraft hangar to see the world's longest aircraft.
For the best view, we had to climb the world's scariest staircase too (safe of course, but not one for the faint-hearted).
Cardington shed number one, in Bedfordshire, is nearly as impressive as the flying machine inside it.
Built 100 years ago, it dominates the skyline around here (along with its neighbour Cardington number two shed) and it is bristling with history. This is where they built the ill-fated airship, R101, back in the 1920s.
That behemoth was twice as long as the hybrid air vehicle, had a beautiful dining room and lounge on board, and was meant to herald the future of flight, right up until the moment it was devoured by fire after a crash in France in 1930.
Technology has come a long way since then. The Hybrid Air Vehicle (HAV) is full of inert helium, not explosive hydrogen.
The HAV is back in the UK after the US Army ran out of money to develop the project.
The US military bought it a few years ago and got this aircraft flying as a surveillance machine - it can stay in the same spot for 21 days at a time, and can fly with a lot of bullet holes in it too.
When the US defence budget was slashed, the British developers bought it back, and now they are planning the first UK flight later this year.
They are hoping to sell it to oil and mining companies to deliver heavy equipment to remote corners of the world. But they are also keen to sell its humanitarian possibilities.
The HAV, which has been named Airlander, could ferry tonnes of supplies to and from any disaster zone, day in and day out.
All you would need is a crew of two and a patch of ground, or water on which to land.
The 27-year-old joined Spurs from Dutch side FC Twente for £7m in July 2013.
He made 119 appearances for Spurs, scoring 25 goals, but has not featured for Mauricio Pochettino's side this season.
"It came very quickly but they have a good team, a good manager and I am very pleased to be here," Chadli said.
"I just want to help the team win as many games as possible."
Chadli is West Brom's third signing of the summer after Matt Phillips arrived from QPR for a reported £5.5m and Brendan Galloway's loan move from Everton.
Tony Pulis' side are 10th in the Premier League with four points from their first three games and the Baggies boss said: "He's a top, top player and I'm delighted we've got him.
"I said last week that these signings all had to be about players who would improve our squad - and Nacer does precisely that."
With two days left of the summer transfer window, West Brom's England U21 striker Saido Berahino looks set to remain at the club for the rest of the season.
Crystal Palace and Stoke have made bids for the 23-year-old, whose contract expires next summer.
The striker has turned down an extension to the deal, but Pulis has said the player will only leave if there is an "unbelievable offer".
And Berahino strongly hinted he would be staying at The Hawthorns by tweeting on Monday: "Great signing by the club. Welcome to the team Nacer Chadli, looking forward to playing with you bro."
The 2-1 victory means a win over Alloa Athletic next weekend would consign their opponents to relegation, leaving Livingston and Dumbarton battling to avoid the play-off spot.
"There's real belief and team spirit," Hopkin told BBC Scotland.
"We need to make sure we keep that going until the end of the season."
Hopkin's side has won three of their last five games but remain second-bottom, two points behind Dumbarton.
The win over Falkirk - the Bairns' first home league defeat in five months - was based on a very well-organised defensive display that denied the home side's attackers the space and time to operate.
Livingston scored twice in the game's final 15 minutes through Jordan White and Sam Stanton, before Will Vaulks pulled a late goal back, and in a thrilling finale, Marc McCallum saved John Baird's penalty with virtually the last kick to deny Falkirk a point.
"We had a game plan and it worked really well, but at 2-0 up we switched off," said Hopkin.
"We've got fantastic energy in the team. We've got a young team, and we're trying to build something here.
"It's about us getting in on the Monday and starting to prepare for the Alloa game. We've not done anything yet, hopefully we can just keep going and keep everybody fit."
Falkirk boss Houston was "frustrated" with the display of his team, particularly since their previous game had seen them recover from falling 2-0 behind to Championship leaders Rangers to win 3-2.
Falkirk remain in second place, albeit Hibernian are six points behind them with three games in hand, and Houston wants his players to learn from this defeat.
"Livingston came and did a job on us, and you've got to give them credit for that," he said.
"Our tempo was really low and poor, we wanted to play the perfect pass and get in behind, but they flooded the area. The quality wasn't good enough.
"It's a lesson for us that if we want to get second place we can't go about games in the tempo we did in the first half. It was too lethargic."
The bill for the eleven councils is more than £43m, an increase of 8% on 2014.
It would almost pay for the new maternity unit at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital, which will cost just over £46m.
It would also pay the wages of about 2,000 nurses.
Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful worked out the cost from councils' financial statements.
But even though the cost of dealing with litter is going up, the number of enforcement cases has gone down.
It stands at 3,724 this year, down from 4,443 in 2014/15.
Nearly half of all fixed penalties were issued in Belfast. By contrast, Lisburn and Castlereagh issued just 1%.
Dr Ian Humphreys of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful said: "Most people don't litter, so we need to give the people who do litter a clear signal that their dirty, selfish behaviour is not acceptable."
Councils run a number of anti-litter education initiatives.
Campaigns include Live Here Love Here which is supported by seven councils, the Department of Agriculture and Environment and some businesses.
The 200ft (65m) structure, boasting panoramic views of London, is part of a £260m revamp of the world-famous art museum.
It is being billed as the UK's most important new cultural building since the British Library.
More than half of the solo displays are dedicated to women artists.
At Tuesday's launch event, Frances Morris, Tate Modern's new director, promised a weekend of "discovery and celebration" when the new building opens to the public on Friday.
"As we have been building the new Tate Modern, the curators... have been building the collection," she said. "You will find more international art, more art by women and great new installations."
She added the representation of women artists had "substantially increased".
"There was a huge deficit in our collecting prior to 2000 - when we opened 17% of the art on display was by women.
"Now 50% of the solo rooms are works by women such as Phyllida Barlow and Louise Bourgeois."
The new 10-storey building, known as the Switch House, includes three new gallery levels and a panoramic roof terrace.
It allows 60% more artworks from the Tate collection to go on show.
Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota expressed delight that the building work had been completed during a period of recession.
"Our aim is to be local, global, to have relationships with communities close to us and those across the world," he said.
The project was undertaken by architects Herzog & de Meuron, who transformed the derelict Bankside Power Station into Tate Modern in 2000.
The new Switch House rises almost 65 metres to the south of Tate Modern's huge Turbine Hall.
The windows and the viewing terrace appear as "cuts" in the surface which is clad with 336,000 bricks that mirror the look of the original building.
The tower is built above the former power station's subterranean oil tanks which were converted into performance spaces in time for the 2012 Olympics.
The new Tate Modern is bold, both in its physical form and its curatorial hang.
The original building played a part in transforming the public's opinion of modern art; the contents of the new building is asking audiences to take an even greater leap of faith.
It's filled with art they've probably never seen from artists they've probably never heard of - and there's hardly a painting to be found.
It's a bold move by the Tate, but, in my view, an entirely appropriate one.
The old story of modern art which is dominated by white western males is being turned on its head with a new narrative that shows how artists of all types from across the globe have contributed and are contributing to the story of modern contemporary art.
Yes, there are a few misses, but they're far outweighed by the hits - and the way the works have been hung together in thematic galleries is both intelligent and illuminating.
Plans for the project were initially approved in 2007 because the gallery space, designed for two million visitors each year, was attracting five million. Building work began in 2010.
Tate chairman Lord Browne described the gallery's £260m revamp as the largest cultural fundraising campaign ever launched in the UK.
"A building that was once London's beating heart is now its cultural cathedral," he said at Tuesday's launch.
Significant donations have come from the government (£50m), the Greater London Authority, Southwark Council and private foundations and individuals.
Sadiq Khan, the new mayor of London, said the new Tate Modern would add to the capital's "huge cultural pull".
The Tate Modern relaunch is accompanied by a complete rehang of the gallery's artworks which will showcase more than 300 artists from about 50 countries.
Works by Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin and Joseph Beuys are joined by new acquisitions by Meschac Gaba, Sheela Gowda and Cildo Meireles.
A huge sculpture of a tree by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei stands in the centre of the Turbine Hall.
Some 3,000 school children from across the UK will be the first members of the public to see the new Tate Modern at a special preview on Thursday.
Later this year Tate will launch Tate Exchange, an "open experiment" occupying an entire floor of the new Switch House building, that will enable 50 invited organisations from the across the UK to display their work.
The replacement fly-half kicked 15 points after the break to put the Welsh region within touching distance of the quarter-finals.
Clermont, who drop to second with one game left, looked in full control after a dominant first half put them 13-6 up.
But the French side's grip loosened and Davies was faultless with the boot.
Clermont left without even a losing bonus-point, and Ospreys will now head to the final game at Exeter on 24 January with their destiny in their own hands as they seek to reach the last eight for the first time since the 2009-10 season.
The match lacked the flair, verve and drama of the previous meeting in November, where Ospreys scored two tries in the final two minutes to secure two losing bonus points in an eight-try thriller.
But the Welsh region displayed admirable grit - with captain Alun Wyn Jones leading by example and flanker Justin Tipuric again outstanding - and Davies showed maturity beyond his 22 years to steer them to victory.
Wesley Fofana's try after six minutes set the tone for an enterprising first half for the visitors, who looked far more comfortable and threatening while building pressure through possession.
They also won the forward battle with ease as the home pack found themselves on the back foot at almost every set-piece.
Ospreys kept in touch through Dan Biggar's two penalties, with the second successful penalty awarded after a bizarre push by Clermont flanker Viktor Koleishvili on referee Wayne Barnes.
The Georgian was fortunate to escape without seeing a card - yellow or red - but the indiscretion contributed to his sin-binning midway through the half after a tame scuffle with home lock Jones.
Ospreys failed to capitalise, and even found themselves under more pressure, although Eli Walker wasted a clear try-scoring opportunity by kicking ahead rather than feeding the on-rushing Brendon Leonard.
Clermont's dominance slowly began to evaporate after the break and the home side's confidence grew, despite losing Biggar to a dead leg.
Davies proved to be a trusted replacement, and his two penalties and a drop-goal in a purple 10 minutes suddenly put the home side two points ahead going into the final 10 minutes.
Clermont were rattled and jaded, and two further indiscretions allowed Davies to add another six points, with the last-minute penalty ensuring the French side returned home without even a losing bonus point.
Ospreys coach Steve Tandy said: "I'm extremely proud of the players and I think they got what they deserved.
"To come back from 13-6 down against a really experienced Clermont team was a real team effort.
"We haven't got many glittering individuals as other European teams but we've got a massive team ethic and spirit."
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Hanno Dirksen, Jonathan Spratt, Josh Matavesi, Eli Walker; Dan Biggar, Brendon Leonard; Paul James, Scott Baldwin, Aaron Jarvis, Lloyd Ashley, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), Sam Underhill , Justin Tipuric, James King.
Replacements: Sam Parry, Nicky Smith, Ma'afu Fia, Rory Thornton, Dan Baker, Tom Habberfield, Sam Davies, Owen Watkin.
Clermont Auvergne: Scott Spedding; David Strettle, Jonathan Davies, Wesley Fofana, Noa Nakaitaci; Camille Lopez, Morgan Parra; Raphael Chaume, Benjamin Kayser, Daniel, Kotze, Loic Jacquet, Sebastien Vahaamahina, Damien Chouley, Viktor Koleishvili, Fritz Lee.
Replacements: John Ulugia, Vincent Debaty, Michael Simutoga, Paul Jedrasiak, Camille Gerondeau, Ludovic Radosavljevic, Brock James, Albert Vulivuli.
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Touch judges: Luke Pearce, Peter Allan (England)
TMO: Sean Davey (England)
Citing commissioner: Mike Rafter (England)
Ann Maguire, 61, was stabbed to death by a student at Corpus Christi Catholic College in April 2014.
Will Cornick, who was 15 at the time, was ordered to be detained for a minimum of 20 years after admitting her murder.
West Yorkshire coroner David Hinchliff said a date for the inquest had not yet been fixed.
A full inquest is not usually held following a successful prosecution.
Mrs Maguire's husband, Don, has previously called for a full independent inquiry into the circumstances of his wife's death.
He said due to Cornick's guilty plea the evidence was never fully reviewed and he wanted to ensure nothing could have been done to prevent her death.
Mrs Maguire had taught Spanish at Corpus Christi Catholic College for more than 40 years at the time of her death.
A review of the case is already under way by the Leeds Safeguarding Children Board.
Derek Brockwell, a UK national, is serving a seven-year sentence for an October 2012 armed robbery in Dublin.
He was brought to Tallaght Hospital from Portlaoise Prison for treatment, but once there he attacked two prison officers escorting him.
One was stabbed in the stomach and one in the hand and back.
Brockwell escaped on a motorbike driven by an accomplice.
Both officers underwent emergency surgery. Both are believed to be in stable conditions.
A third officer was not injured.
Brockwell had been serving a life sentence in the UK for a series of armed robberies, mainly from betting shops in the London area.
However, he absconded from a prison in Lancashire while on day release in February 2012.
He is described as 6ft 3ins tall with brown hair and a broad build.
Lancashire police have said Brockwell has connections in Scotland and Ireland and have described him as a dangerous individual
The Prison Officers Association (POA) has called for a full review of security in relation to prison escorts.
The association said it particularly wanted to know how Brockwell was allowed to leave Portlaoise Prison with the level of security he had.
POA president Stephen Delaney said the incident "highlights the difficult task of a prison officer every time a convicted prisoner is taken out of prison, and the potential for escape".
Irish state broadcaster RTE said Brockwell had previously been provided with an armed escort but that it was withdrawn in the last year.
Police Scotland's deputy chief constable Johnny Gwynne said the force's armed presence had been increased substantially overnight.
He told BBC Radio Scotland that they were part of an increased overall police presence in major cities.
Officers were deployed to "keep the streets of Scotland safe", he said.
Shortly after the attack on Wednesday, Nicola Sturgeon said there was "no intelligence of any risk to Scotland".
Speaking on Good Morning Scotland, Mr Gwynne said Police Scotland had been "closely engaged" with Metropolitan Police since the attack happened.
"We have well practised plans in place to increase security around the country when things like this happen and those were put in place within minutes of the incident happening yesterday," he added.
"Members of the public will have seen an increased police presence particularly around our major conurbations yesterday afternoon, through the evening and again this morning as Scotland travels to work.
"That's what you would expect to see. Within that we have officers who have armed capability. Regrettably in the world we live in today that's something that we need to put in place and there's a substantial armed presence on the streets this morning, not just in Scotland but elsewhere."
He said he was unable to say exactly how many armed officers had been deployed.
But he added: "There's been a substantial uplift in armed officers overnight to make sure that we keep the streets of Scotland safe, that we keep the people of Scotland safe, the businesses in Scotland safe, on an ongoing basis."
He said officers were able to respond quickly following news of the London attack.
"I'm really grateful that yesterday officers and police staff from across the country dropped everything to ensure that literally within minutes - even before I'd asked the question - we had the right people in the right place, or moving to the right place, whether that was Edinburgh, Glasgow or other major cities to keep citizens safe right across this country," he added.
Mr Gwynne said there was a "hard core" of armed officers in Police Scotland and within that there were extra specialists.
"On top of that, we were able to move substantial numbers of unarmed staff for a high profile uniform presence right across the country," he said.
"So you may have noticed that this morning as you've driven into work or maybe as you've travelled by train through our major train stations, particularly in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen."
The officer also paid tribute to PC Keith Palmer, who died in the attack at Westminster.
He said: "Keith Palmer lost his life standing between us and harm yesterday and a number of other members of the public either lost their life or were hurt. Keith paid the ultimate sacrifice.
"You will notice across the police estate flags at half mast this morning and I know that colleagues here, their thoughts are with Keith's family this morning. "
Almost 18 million people visited the 13 attractions in 2010-11, compared with 7 million in 2000-01.
Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the Labour government's decision to end charges at England's national museums.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said free museums and galleries "ensure that culture is for everyone".
Entrance fees to museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum, both in London, were scrapped on 1 December 2001 as part of a government plan to widen access to the nation's culture and heritage.
The then Labour Culture Secretary Chris Smith, now Baron Smith of Finsbury, said at the time the move marked "an exciting new beginning for the arts and cultural life of this country".
Figures from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) suggest that eight of the top 10 most-visited attractions in the UK are free, government-sponsored national museums.
The British Museum, the National Gallery and Tate Britain are among museums that have never charged for entry. Tate Modern opened free from May 2000 and the Imperial War Museum North from July 2002.
Government figures show visits to museums that had previously charged for entry in London increased by 151% between 2000-01 and 2010-11. The total visitor numbers to DCMS-sponsored museums for 2010-11 was 43.8m.
In that 10-year period, visits to the National Maritime Museum were up 200% - from 800,000 to 2.4m; visits to the Natural History Museum rose by nearly 190% - from 1.6m to nearly 4.7m and visits to the Victoria & Albert Museum rose by about 180% from close to 1m to 2.6m.
Museums that still charge an entrance fee include Tate St Ives, the Imperial War Museum's HMS Belfast, the Cabinet War Rooms and the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
Full list of DCMS-sponsored museums
The DCMS says free admission attracts huge numbers of international visitors. In comparison, it says, museum charges apply at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ($25; £21), the Louvre in Paris (€10; £8.50) and the Vatican Museum in Rome (€15; £12).
According to tourism body Visit Britain, Britain's major museums and galleries earn the country £1bn a year in revenue from overseas tourists.
Mr Hunt said: "Our free museums and galleries ensure that culture is for everyone, not just the lucky few.
"I am particularly proud that we have secured the future of free museums despite the current financial climate."
Lord Smith said he had been determined to change the rising tide of charging for entry to museums.
"I had always felt that it was important to open up these storehouses of our nation's culture and history and art and science and knowledge to the widest possible range of people, and charging, in some cases quite steep admission charges, was a barrier facing very large numbers of people who might otherwise want to come," he said.
"Removing that barrier was, I thought, a really important thing to do and it has proved to be very successful."
Michael Fayle, chairman of the British Association of Friends of Museums, an independent organisation that represents friends and volunteers across the UK, said the figures showed there was "true benefit" to the public in having free museums.
But he said museums often had to foot the bill for extra visitors. For example, longer opening hours mean there is a need for extra staff.
Many museums have cafes, while others ask for a minimum donation to support the attraction.
Mr Fayle believes this is justified.
"One of the comments I heard this morning was that if you make the wider availability as free as you can at a time when central government funding isn't available, there simply has to be an alternative way of making money," he said.
However, he said charging for "blockbuster" exhibitions was a "difficult equation".
Such exhibitions bring in large numbers of visitors but the high cost of running them - and the need to recoup that money through entrance fees - means some people miss out, said Mr Fayle. He added that many visitors might find the experience diminished because of overcrowding.
"One wonders whether [holding paid-for exhibitions] is in the spirit of the free access that everyone wants to achieve," he said.
Continued access to free museums is part of the coalition government's agreement and funding to secure this was put in place in last year's Spending Review.
National museums in Scotland and Wales have been free to enter since 2001. In Northern Ireland, one of its three national museums - the Ulster Museum in Belfast - is free while the other two charge a fee.
The first minister told MSPs that the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and European Economic Area (EEA) models were being looked at.
The Scottish government is examining possible ways of maintaining Scotland's links with the EU.
BBC Scotland revealed on Tuesday that the EEA model had been floated.
The EEA includes the existing EU states in addition to EFTA members Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
Membership offers access to the single market but members must make a financial contribution and adopt most EU legislation as well as the free movement of people.
Ms Sturgeon has said she will publish proposals in the coming weeks aimed at keeping Scotland in the single market even if the rest of the UK leaves.
Addressing a meeting of the Scottish Parliament's conveners' group, Ms Sturgeon reiterated that her priority was to "maintain and protect our place in the single market".
She explained that this meant "membership of the single market, not some vague access to the single market."
Ms Sturgeon added: "I've set out very clearly I want the UK as a whole to stay in the single market and so to the extent that we can wield any influence UK-wide we will try to help steer the UK government away from a hard Brexit towards staying in the single market.
"But if the UK is intent on a hard Brexit and coming out of the single market, I want to look at how we could, and I'm not for a minute saying there wouldn't be challenges associated with this, but whether we could find a way of protecting Scotland's place in the single market.
"And of course models like EFTA, Norway is in EFTA, EFTA countries apart from Switzerland are also in the single market through the European Economic Area.
"So, of course, these are models that we're looking at and we will, as I've said previously, publish some proposals and an option, or perhaps different options, about how this could be achieved hopefully before the end of the year."
Scottish Conservative finance spokesman Murdo Fraser said the possibility of Scotland pursuing a separate Norway-style deal was a "complete non-starter".
He added: "On Tuesday, (Economy Secretary) Keith Brown appeared to accept this was the case, but now the first minister says it's back on the table.
"Academics have warned again that this proposal would be the worst of all worlds, trapping Scotland in an EU-wide pact over which we would have no influence, and cutting us off from our biggest and nearest market in the rest of the UK.
"It is time the first minister got real. The best way forward for Scotland is to take part in UK-wide negotiations."
Meanwhile, Ms Sturgeon's predecessor as first minister, Alex Salmond, has said the SNP could vote with the UK government to trigger the Brexit process if key "red line" demands for Scotland are met.
Speaking on his weekly LBC radio show, Mr Salmond said these would include Prime Minister Theresa May finding a solution that would allow Scotland to stay in the single market.
He said: "SNP MPs will put forward what the first minister has articulated in terms of Scotland's red lines. If the government accommodates these within the bill we could end up supporting it.
"If the government doesn't accommodate these within the bill, then we will seek to amend it, and we will seek to make that process for the government as uncomfortable as possible.
"If the government does not respond to Scotland's wishes... then of course we wouldn't be supporting the government."
He added: "I think the UK position could accommodate Scotland's wishes."
Commenting on Mr Salmond's remarks, Scottish Labour's Europe spokesman Lewis Macdonald said they formed part of a "chaotic week for the SNP".
He added: "This is a complete U-turn in the space of just ten days, as the SNP Brexit Minister Michael Russell said he could not imagine any circumstances in which the party's MPs would vote to start the exit process.
"Scottish Labour is clear: we support maintaining our relationship with our European neighbours and our place in the UK single market."
He was speaking after visiting Hawick Knitwear where more than 100 jobs were lost last week.
A further 56 posts are under threat at the firm with a manufacturing tradition going back more than 140 years.
Mr Ewing said he would chair a "round table forum" on local economic issues to be held in the town on 2 February.
Hawick Knitwear went into administration last week with the immediate loss of more than 100 jobs.
"Given the scale of the situation facing Hawick Knitwear, I will convene a round table for businesses in Hawick," said Mr Ewing.
"This will be a chance for me to listen to local businesses and understand the challenges they currently face and to explore potential opportunities and what support might be needed to help businesses bring those to fruition."
MSP John Lamont said any move which sought to "explore potential opportunities for Hawick" was clearly to be welcomed.
"However, a single meeting clearly falls far short of what I and others having been calling for," he added.
"We would like to see a dedicated task force for the town's textiles industry.
"Hawick needs a longer term plan for jobs and a single meeting is simply not enough to tackle the challenges faced by the textiles industry."
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Williams signed a permanent deal on Wednesday, having won six of his ten League One games since being given the job on an interim basis in December.
The 35-year-old joined the Robins as first-team coach in 2013, but has no previous managerial experience.
"I'm really pleased because it's huge backing from the chairman," he told BBC Wiltshire.
"It's quite out of the blue. I'm sure the chairman spent a long time considering everything and only brought it to my attention when he was absolutely sure of what direction he wanted to go in, so it was a pleasant surprise."
Swindon are 13th in the League One table, seven points outside the play-off places.
Didier Deschamps's team will take on Cameroon on 30 May in the French city of Nantes.
Cameroon will be preparing for a trip to play Mauritania in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier the following weekend.
The Indomitable Lions are currently top of Group M having won both their qualifiers so far.
Before June's game against Mauritania the Cameroonians have home and away games against South Africa in March.
The Indomitable Lions are still without a permanent coach as Alexandre Belinga continues as the interim boss.
"As long as a coach is not appointed, Belinga would continue to assume the position," the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) president Tombi A Roko Sidiki said.
"The process is still on. Recruiting a coach is not easy."
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The demonstration came after al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab gunmen killed 28 people in a bus attack on Saturday.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people have fled to a military airstrip in Kenya's Mandera region amid fears that militants could launch a new assault.
The man had ignored park warnings and rolled down his car window to feed bears at Badaling Wildlife World near Beijing.
He escaped with minor injuries, according to local reports.
Local authorities have since ordered the park to tighten safety procedures, including limiting visitor numbers.
Last year a woman and her mother got out of their car at the park and were mauled by tigers. The mother later died.
In the latest incident which took place last Friday, the man, surnamed Chen, was touring the wildlife park with a friend in a car.
Despite park warnings, the two men decided to try their luck after seeing other visitors feeding the bears through their car windows without incident, he said in an interview with the Beijing Evening News.
A bear went up to their window and Mr Chen tried to roll it up, but the window malfunctioned and rolled down instead. The bear then lunged in and bit Mr Chen's left shoulder.
The men sped away and sought medical treatment for Mr Chen. Pictures of the incident, snapped by Mr Chen's friend, have circulated widely online and in Chinese media.
Mr Chen told the newspaper: "I admit that I was definitely at fault by opening the window, but at that time I was in a lot of pain and fear, and asked staff what to do. They just told me to go to the hospital by myself, and I was shocked when I heard that."
A park spokesman told the newspaper that the incident was due to visitors not observing park rules forbidding the feeding of "wild beasts", which he said were clearly displayed throughout the park.
It also released a CCTV video of the incident, which officials said showed park rangers warning Mr Chen to shut his window before the bear attack.
Local authorities have since ordered "immediate rectifications" in Badaling Wildlife World, reported the China News portal.
This includes improving visitor safety awareness, limiting the number of visitors who drive through the park, and increasing park surveillance.
Frampton has been managed by McGuigan since turning professional in 2009, winning world titles at two weights.
The 30-year-old said he was "confident now is the right time to move forward and take my career into my own hands".
Frampton was scheduled to fight Mexican Andres Gutierrez on 29 July but the contest was postponed at the 11th hour.
The Belfast man was one pound overweight but his first bout since his defeat by Leo Santa Cruz last January was still scheduled to go ahead until his Mexican opponent was injured after slipping in the shower.
Frampton and McGuigan, a former world featherweight champion, both apologised to the public, but behind the scenes it is understood their relationship was beginning to unravel.
Less than 10 days before Frampton's scheduled contest with Gutierrez, the Belfast boxer had resigned as a director of Cyclone Promotions.
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"I would like to thank Barry, the McGuigan family and Cyclone Promotions for our time together," read Frampton's statement on Monday.
"I still believe that I'm the best featherweight in the world and I promise my fans that I am continuing with my efforts to get my homecoming fight rescheduled in the very near future."
Cyclone Promotions have confirmed that they will not be making any statement on Monday about Frampton's departure from the fold.
Frampton and McGuigan's relationship had appeared exceptionally close until very recently.
The fighter was also trained by McGuigan's son Shane, while McGuigan's wife Sandra, and their other sons, Blain and Jake, are also heavily involved in Cyclone Promotions.
Earlier this year, there was a three-part documentary series shown on BBC TV, Fight Game: The McGuigans, which looked at the inner workings of Cyclone Promotions and closely followed Frampton's preparations for both his world title bouts in the US with Santa Cruz.
After landing the European belt by beating Kiko Martinez in February 2013, Frampton defeated the Spaniard again 19 months later to win his first world title as he clinched the IBF super-bantamweight title.
Frampton added the WBA belt to the IBF crown in February 2016 as he overcame England's Scott Quigg in one of three successful world super-bantamweight title defences before defeating Santa Cruz in New York to win the WBA featherweight title just over a year ago.
That win made him Northern Ireland's first two-weight world champion, and he was named boxer of 2016 by both Ring Magazine and ESPN.
However, Santa Cruz avenged his New York defeat as he beat Frampton in Las Vegas to regain the WBA featherweight title last January.
After six months out of the ring, Frampton was supposed to fight Gutierrez in his home town just over two weeks ago, but the Mexican's slip in his shower ultimately saw that fight called off.
Frampton looked uncomfortable as he and McGuigan were jointly interviewed following the bizarre series of events which led to the cancellation of the Gutierrez contest.
BBC Sport NI understands that the postponement of the contest put added pressure on an already strained relationship.
The men, all Moroccan, are suspected to have been travelling to Germany when they were arrested at Istanbul airport.
It comes a day after Germany decided to call off Tuesday night's football match with the Netherlands in Hanover because of security fears.
Europe has been on high alert since attacks in Paris killed 129 people.
Turkish officials told the BBC's Mark Lowen the eight men were on a list of those banned from entering Turkey.
They were arrested after arriving at Istanbul airport on a flight from Casablanca.
The men claimed that they had a hotel reservation in Istanbul, which proved to be false, officials said.
Turkey - long accused of taking a soft approach towards IS, say correspondents - is now stepping up the fight, taking a more active role in the US-led coalition.
Only a day before Germany cancelled a football match with the Netherlands in Hanover.
The city's police chief said they had "received specific indications that an attack with explosives was planned".
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the decision. She said on Wednesday that finding the balance between "liberty and security" was difficult, but "it was decided, correctly, to err on the side of caution".
Germany's national football team was playing France at the Stade de France in Paris when it was targeted by suicide bombers on Friday night as part of a wave of attacks across the city.
No civilians died in the stadium attack, but 129 people died and more than 400 were wounded elsewhere.
In the wake of the Paris attacks, numerous European countries have heightened security measures:
The Scottish House Condition Survey - covering the period from 2012 to 2014 - showed that that 63% of households in the the islands were spending 10% or more of their household income on fuel supplies.
This was up from a previous figure of 58%.
The Western Isles had previously topped the figures for fuel poverty.
Across Scotland, an average of 35% of households were deemed to be fuel poor.
The figure is based on households spending more than 10% of their income on fuel costs.
Tuesday's 2-2 draw was only Blues' second point in five home matches, ending a run of three straight 2-1 defeats at St Andrew's.
But a furious Rowett gave his players a post-match tongue-lashing.
"I can't tell you some of the words I used in the dressing room," he said.
"Short of me saying we were spineless, I've gone pretty tough on them."
Top scorer Clayton Donaldson's brace had looked like earning Blues a first home win since beating ex-boss Steve Bruce's promotion-chasing Hull City on 3 March, but North End's 89th-minute equaliser completed their revival.
"To be 2-0 up at home and end up drawing the game 2-2, I can't accept that lack of desire," Rowett told BBC WM.
"It looked to me like the game was won and I think my players thought it was too. We started thinking we were on on the beach, making bad decisions and not defending when we need to defend.
"If that becomes a norm, then we could become a lower-half team. We've got to be better than that."
The former Burton manager continued: "It's a lack of professionalism to see games out. We've got to be more disciplined. It probably sums up our season from March onwards.
"If people play like that, they won't be here next season playing in my team. We know we've got to improve next year and bring new players in."
Blues remain ninth in the table, but they are now 10 points adrift of sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday, having won just three of their last 15 league games.
With just three matches left to play, Tuesday's failure to win finally confirmed that they will spend a sixth successive season in the second tier of English football.
Gary Rowett was talking to BBC WM's Adam Bridge.
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Amir, 24, served half of a six-month prison sentence and was banned for five years for deliberately bowling no-balls against England at the ground in 2010.
He bowled the first over of England's innings from the Pavilion End.
And while there were one or two half-hearted no-ball shouts from the stands, it was an otherwise subdued reaction.
Speaking on BBC Test Match Special, former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott criticised those who shouted 'no-ball': "I could hear a few idiots in the crowd shouting 'no-ball'. Why don't you go home? Disappear!"
Earlier, Amir had jogged down the pavilion steps to gentle applause as he came out to bat in front of a capacity crowd in Pakistan's first innings with his side 310-8 on Friday morning.
After edging the first delivery he faced past his leg stump for four, he was then hit a glancing blow on the helmet by Stuart Broad.
Broad, who had hit his highest Test score of 169 in that infamous 2010 series, allowed himself a little smile but exchanged no words with the batsman.
After a brief cameo, Amir was then caught in the slips by Joe Root off Broad for 12, the last wicket to fall as Pakistan were bowled out for 339.
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After someone put a picture of this enormous snail on social media, it has gone viral.
People have been sharing their amazed reactions, with some wondering what the animal is.
Well, this is a giant African land snail. It is one of the world's largest species of snail and can grow to about 20cm long.
They feed on more than 500 types of plant and can even eat through plaster walls, so you certainly don't want to have one wander unexpectedly into your house.
In fact, they are considered to be one of the worst invasive species in the world because of their ability to munch through almost anything and reproduce a lot.
They originally come from Africa, but can now be found in China, India, South-East Asia, the Caribbean, Brazil, Florida and Venezuela.
Let's take a look at some other mind-blowingly massive animals...
Check out this massive alligator as it goes for a stroll in a US animal reserve.
Only a small group of people were lucky enough to see the huge beast - called Humpback - in Florida in the US.
Wildlife experts estimated the alligator weighed about than 360kg and was up to 15 feet long. That's as long as a family estate car!
This is the world's tallest horse and he's rather appropriately called Big Jake!
According to the Guinness World Records, this nine-year-old is a Belgian Gelding horse.
When he was last measured for record, he was just over 6 ft 8 - and that's without even having his shoes on. You might need a ladder if you fancied going for a ride!
OK, so you won't come across this chap any time soon, but this is the megalodon - the biggest shark ever thought to have lived.
This fearsome, finned super-predator was swimming about in the oceans between around 2.3 and 16 million years ago.
Scientists think megalodons could grow up to around 59 feet long, which is just shorter than two double-decker busses parked end to end. As well as its giant body, it had a very large mouth as well.
Scientists think it hunted smaller whales, like the prehistoric Eobalaenoptera whales in the picture above.
Even Eobalaenoptera themselves were pretty massive. They could grow to an impressive 35 feet, which is as big as a tennis court.
Imagine taking this for a quick stroll! Zeus is the tallest recorded dog ever to have lived.
He was an amazing 111.8cm tall, which is about the same height as a donkey. When he stood up on his back legs, he was over 7 feet tall!
This gentle giant weighed about the same as an average man of 5 foot 11 inches, so certainly stood out from the crowd compared to other canine companions.
Sadly, he passed away of old age in 2014, but he still holds on to his title.
This colossal cat is Ludo - the longest cat in the world!
Ludo is a Maine Coon, which is a breed of cat known for their size. Ludo measures a huge 118.33 cm and - as you can see from the picture - he is certainly a big creature to try to pick up!
His owner Kelsey has to put him into a dog carrier box when they travel because he wont fit into one designed for cats.
She said its great having a big cat because she never has trouble finding him around the house. Hide and seek anyone?!
We couldn't do a list of big animals without giving a mention to these creatures.
If you come across a blue whale, you're certainly going to know about it.
Coming in at over 98 feet long, just longer than 3 double-decker buses parked end to end, and weighing over 160 tonnes, the blue whale is believed to be the largest animal to ever exist on our planet.
They were lots of them in every ocean on Earth until hunting nearly brought them to extinction. A hunting ban started in 1966 and saved the species.
Today, there is thought to be around 10,000 to 25,000, but because of their solitary nature it's difficult to know for sure how many there are - despite their enormous size. | The family of a man who disappeared in Tenerife 12 years ago have issued a fresh plea for information in a bid to solve the mystery.
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On 13 November, 130 people died in attacks across Paris, with three suicide bombs outside the Stade de France where France took on Germany.
French league games went ahead the following weekend without away fans.
The Interior Ministry has extended the ban due to a "lack of police forces available" during the ongoing state of emergency and upcoming climate summit.
A French League (LFP) statement said no away fans would be permitted at the 15th round of Ligue 1 matches and 16th round of Ligue 2 matches this weekend.
It added another order would be issued soon applying the same provisions to all top football games in the country until at least the final round of Europa League group-stage matches on 10 December.
Monaco have said they will prevent fans of Belgian side Anderlecht from attending their Europa League meeting on Thursday.
The United Nations climate summit is being held in the French capital from 30 November until 11 December.
Regulator Ofcom looked into the plan to decide if the deal was in the public interest, especially around media plurality and broadcasting standards.
Ofcom said it risked the Murdoch family having "increased influence" over the UK's news agenda and political process.
Fox owns 39% of Sky, but wants to buy the rest, and assume total control of the broadcaster.
The deal has been cleared by European Commission competition authorities.
This a quick guide to the issues involved:
Why is the deal controversial?
Rupert Murdoch will control both 21st Century Fox and Sky while also owning The Times, the Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers.
Opponents say this will give him too much power in the UK media.
Fox has also been hit by sexual harassment scandals at its flagship Fox News channel in the US. Some of the victims have given evidence to Ofcom.
Why is Mr Murdoch keen on the takeover?
Rupert Murdoch is willing to spend £11.7bn on the deal - an indication of how much he wants it to happen.
If the deal goes ahead, 21st Century Fox would gain access to Sky's 22 million customers in Europe. As well as the UK and Ireland, Sky owns similar satellite pay-TV operations in Germany and Italy.
It will also have full control over how it is run, rather than have to listen to independent shareholders.
On top of that, the company is highly "cash generative", money that could be freely channelled to help expand the Murdoch empire elsewhere.
Fox argues that money it invests will benefit the UK's creative industries. In recent years Sky has commissioned an increased amount of original UK programming, such as the dramas Fortitude and Guerrilla, rather than rely entirely on US imports.
If the deal is successful, does this mean Sky News will become a UK version of Fox News?
In short, no.
Fox News is known for its right-wing stance, with contributors such as former Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
It is also supportive of President Trump.
The UK has rules that ensure broadcasters must pay attention to due impartiality so Sky would be prevented from taking a similar route to Fox.
Hasn't this deal been tried before?
Fox first tried to buy Sky in 2011 but the deal fell apart after revelations about the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone by the Murdoch-owned News of the World.
Then, as now, there was opposition from Labour and the Liberal Democrats as well as other media groups.
After the 2011 debacle, Mr Murdoch split the broadcasting and film empire - Fox - away from his newspaper interests - News Corp.
What happens now?
Ms Bradley will have received the report from Ofcom on the broadcasting standards and plurality implications and will announce whether she will refer the deal to the Competition and Markets Authority.
Melanie Kennedy felt so strongly about the state of the health service and lack of stable government that she ran as an independent candidate in last's week's election.
The mother of two polled 1,246 first preference votes in North Down.
She said it showed that ordinary people are concerned about issues like cancer drugs, waiting lists and mental health.
"With no government and no health minister - it makes me feel like there's no-one there to fight my corner. It's heartbreaking," she said.
Ms Kennedy made her comments as a number of health organisations warned that the continuing political impasse is preventing vital health and social care decisions being made.
The County Down woman was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013. While she was initially optimistic about her recovery, she has since been told by doctors that the cancer has spread to her liver and that her condition is terminal.
This experience and finding out that patients in Northern Ireland cannot access the same specialist drugs as those in England drove her to political action, despite her illness.
"For someone in my situation who is on quite harsh treatment, I was driven to this - it took a lot for me to act and create a campaign, but I felt I had to try and fight for justice for cancer patients," she said.
Ms Kennedy said while the election process took a lot out of her, she has no regrets about standing as a candidate.
"People wanted to talk about real issues such as the health service, education for their kids. While legacy issues are also important, so is the here and now," she said.
Ms Kennedy said that while the politicians talk, patients are being let down.
"The health service in Northern Ireland was already behind other parts of the UK, there was a lack of long-term stability and strategy and now we're back to square one. It is the ordinary people like me who are suffering."
She said time is a luxury that she and other people who are terminally ill cannot afford.
"The reason I started all this was that I asked myself, 'where do I turn?'
"I could be told in the next couple of months, there's no more treatment for me and I should go home and make my plans and say good goodbye to my children," she said.
"It's almost negligent that there is no cancer strategy from the politicians here in Northern Ireland. Early treatment is critical - it can mean the difference between getting well and going on with your life and ending up in my shoes. I don't want anyone else ending up in my shoes."
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz warned against creating a negative perception that overseas students are not welcome.
He warned that Cambridge had to compete in a highly mobile, global market for the best staff and students.
But a spokeswoman for the Business, Innovation and Skills department said there was "no cap" on the numbers of overseas students.
Sir Leszek said that the potential economic gains for the UK from recruiting more overseas students were being "sacrificed at the altar of political expediency".
The Cambridge University vice-chancellor said that in advanced research: "There are no prizes for coming second."
But he warned that the competitive edge, provided by being able to recruit from the best global talent, was being jeopardised.
Difficulties with recruiting overseas staff and students had become "one the biggest threats facing UK universities", said the Cambridge head.
Sir Leszek, speaking in London at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, said there needed to be less "negativity" in the debate about both immigration and recruiting overseas students.
Postgraduate students were the "engine room" of university research - and he said about 60% of postdoctoral researchers at Cambridge were from overseas.
These were "highly mobile and ambitious" students and "if we make it difficult or unattractive for them to work with us, they will move elsewhere".
The head of Cambridge said migrants "revitalised economies" and brought innovation, but this was being lost in the debate around immigration.
He warned that including overseas students in net migration targets was "short-term and short-sighted", when a long-term strategy was needed.
Sir Leszek also spoke of his own experience as a child of Polish migrants who came to live in Wales after World War Two - and how he had been able to take advantage of the educational opportunities available to him.
He was able to study medicine and eventually became head of the Medical Research Council and received a knighthood for his work in vaccine research. The Cambridge vice-chancellor said it had taught him that "access to education should be universal".
Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, called for the government to carry out a full analysis of the economic costs and benefits of recruiting more overseas students to the UK.
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, backed the calls by the head of Cambridge for overseas students not to be included in targets to reduce migration.
"International students should be removed from the government's net migration target. It is clear that international students are not long-term migrants. They come to the UK, study for a period, and then the overwhelming majority go home after their studies.
"While international students in the UK continue to be caught up in efforts to bear down on immigration, it will feed the perception internationally that the UK is closed for business and does not welcome students," she said.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said: "We continue to welcome all genuine international students coming to study at bona fide UK institutions. There is no cap on students who can come to study in the UK and no intention to introduce one."
The department said the UK has more than 435,000 international students, "which means that nearly one in five students in the university population is from overseas".
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Fifty athletes from around the world wore balaclavas, goggles, gloves and mittens to brace sub-zero temperatures and take on the 26.2 mile course.
The race took place on 18 November, a few hundred miles from the South Pole at the foot of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica.
An earlier marathon saw six runners run a hundred kilometres, non-stop!
They said the measure should be a priority for the Scottish government to consider in moves to ensure gender equality in pay.
It was a key recommendation in a report from Holyrood's economy, jobs and fair work committee.
Employability minister Jamie Hepburn said the government would consider the report carefully.
The MSPs said raising the pay for care workers - most of whom are women - would reduce the gender pay gap and encourage more men to work in the sector.
Other recommendations they believe could reduce pay inequality include:
Committee convener Gordon Lindhurst said: "The committee is clear there is a gender pay issue for Scotland's workforce.
"Women across Scotland's economy are still concentrated in low-paid jobs and part-time work.
"The pay gap primarily affects women and isn't just attributable to women choosing to start a family or to take time out of their careers."
Mr Lindhurst said his committee believed tackling pay rates in the care sector was a priority.
He added: "Each and every one of us is likely to rely on professional care at some time in our lives. Despite the radical change in skills over the years, this continues to be one of the lowest-paying, female-worker dominated sectors in Scotland.
"We want to see the government address this issue by prioritising the care sector; it is vital that we raise the status of care in Scotland."
Mr Hepburn said the government was committed to closing the gender pay gap.
He said: "We are already taking decisive action to address the issue, including transforming early learning and childcare to support more women back into work, as well as taking measures to challenge pregnancy and maternity discrimination.
"We are also funding returners' programmes that will help women returners get back into work after a career break - such as that delivered by Equate Scotland, which is helping women re-join the labour market by offering targeted support.
"While the gap in Scotland of 6.2% is well below the UK figure of 9.4%, we are not complacent and recognise we must remain focused on action to promote gender pay equality."
The BBC understands the Lib Dems have invoked full disciplinary proceedings against the Bradford East MP.
He has already been reprimanded over remarks he made on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day about Israel and "Jewish atrocities" against Palestinians.
The MP said there was a "difference of opinion" with his party over the issue.
Mr Ward was forced to apologise two weeks ago after sparking a storm of protest when he said on his website that he was "saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps, be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians...and continue to do so".
Mr Ward initially defended his comments and said his party's response had been "regrettable" but later apologised for the "unintended offence" which his words had caused.
He has insisted that neither he nor his comments were anti-semitic.
But there was subsequent controversy when a Jewish newspaper reported Mr Ward had asked if it would satisfy his critics if he changed the wording to read "the Jewish community" instead of "the Jews."
The party has confirmed that its chief whip, Alistair Carmichael, met Mr Ward on Monday and intended to have further meetings "as part of a disciplinary process".
The BBC's political correspondent Tim Reid said one of the sanctions available to the leadership if their differences are not resolved would be to remove the party whip from Mr Ward, temporarily or permanently.
But Mr Ward, who was elected to Parliament in 2010, said it was "completely fair" that he was being called to a meeting with his leader and acknowledged there was a "difference of opinion" over whether he had infringed the party's standing orders.
But he told the BBC that in his view he was "not being allowed to apologise" by his critics.
"I have already apologised," he said. "It's a question about finding a form of words that makes it possible for me to continue to ask questions about these things that are allowed to happen year after year."
On his Twitter page, the MP has argued that it is not "a state that demolishes a house but a person - this is about how (not all!) persecuted become persecutors".
Mr Ward also claims that he has had 5,000 emails recently supporting his comments about the plight of the Palestinians.
The disciplinary hearing with the deputy prime minister and the party's deputy leader Simon Hughes is expected to take place next week, once Mr Clegg returns from his current trip to Africa.
Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr Clegg said he was "unambiguous in my condemnation of anyone, from whatever party including my own, who uses insensitive, intemperate, provocative and offensive language".
Speakers, a prayer of remembrance, and a tolling of bells all remembered the tragedy that claimed 31 lives in 1965.
The colliery explosion was caused by firedamp after poor ventilation allowed a build-up of the flammable gas.
First Minister Carwyn Jones and Rhondda Cynon Taff mayor John Watts were among those attending the service at Cambrian Memorial Park.
Other guests included John Benbow, 83, who was a Cambrian Colliery underground mechanical fitter, underground worker Alwyn Davies, 87, and canteen assistant Betty Thomas, 87.
The open-air service was opened by Father Haydn England-Simon, followed by an address by the mayor.
A 33-bell toll remembered not only the 1965 disaster but others, including the 1905 explosion at the same colliery, the surface explosion of 1900, and incidents at Ffynnon Dwyn and Blaenclydach collieries.
A minute's silence took place at 13:00 BST - the same time the explosion happened in 1965.
The service also saw a laying of wreaths for victims, an address by the first minister, a roll call of those killed, and music by soprano Lucy Rees and the Cambrian Male Choir.
At the same time, at the National Mining Memorial in Senghenydd, a floral tribute has been placed at the Cambrian tablet.
A minute's silence was been observed as the Senghenydd Colliery Memorial Society and Senghenydd residents remembered the victims.
The service was organised by Cwm Clydach Community Development Trust and supported by Rhondda Cynon Taff Council.
Current figures suggest one in eight men in the UK will develop the disease at some stage of their life - but for black men of African and Caribbean descent, it is one in four.
"My uncle Ronnie, in Jamaica, died from prostate cancer more than 10 years ago having not wanted to tell anyone about it. He wouldn't go to see a doctor," broadcaster and former hurdler Colin Jackson explains to the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
"But my uncle Tony - who lives in the UK and is in his 60s - sought treatment early when he developed it six years ago, and has now been given the all-clear."
Between them, Jackson and Bailey won gold medals at Olympic Games and World Championships and broke world records, but now they have a new ambition - to highlight the risk of prostate cancer, particularly among black men.
For Jackson, however, the message is not getting through.
"I don't think men are aware of the statistics, the message just isn't out there," he says.
"As an athlete I was paranoid - and still am - about the slightest pimple that appeared on me and would shoot straight to the doctor.
"But I know from very good personal and anecdotal evidence that black guys simply don't want to visit the doctor, often because they would rather not know that there is anything wrong - which is just crazy.
"We need to increase the fear factor."
Source: Prostate Cancer UK
Bailey, the 1996 Olympic champion in the 100 metres, believes the situation is even worse in Jamaica, where he was born, where attitudes towards homosexuality are preventing people from seeking treatment.
"In Jamaica the men are told that if a guy gives you the 'finger test' then you turn gay," he says, referencing the rectal examination doctors can use as part of the diagnosis process.
"So they would rather ignore it and die. It is as insane as that. This issue is massive, for all men, but especially for black men."
He too has lost family members to prostate cancer - a grandfather in his 80s and an uncle aged 60. Another uncle, aged 61, is currently undergoing treatment.
It is this experience of the effects of the disease that has led him to become an ambassador for the charity Jackson founded in 2013 - Go Dad Run.
Now in its third year, the charity encourages men and boys from around the UK to wear huge blue pants over their clothes - a form of "common silliness" - and run 5,000 metres at one of six events in the weeks and days running up to, and on, Father's Day.
Bailey - who ran with Jackson in Worcester - is hoping to take the event across the Atlantic next year so it can find a new home, and grow once more, in Canada and Jamaica.
But for Jackson, the aim will be exactly the same: "We want more footfall through doctors surgeries. These situations affect everybody, and men need to recognise that."
"We need to be vocal, so people go out there and raise awareness."
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Lallana, 26, will complete his medical and other formalities of the move from Southampton this weekend, before being announced as the club's latest signing.
Liverpool had two bids for the England midfielder rejected before the World Cup began, but reopened talks after he returned from Brazil.
Lallana will be reunited with Rickie Lambert at Anfield, while Luke Shaw has left Saints to join Manchester United.
Lallana has been at Southampton for 14 years, having joined the club as a 12-year-old from Bournemouth, who hold a 25% sell-on clause.
He featured in all three of England's games at the 2014 Fifa World Cup, as a second-half substitute in the defeats by Italy and Uruguay, and from the start in the 0-0 draw with Costa Rica.
Lallana's sale would take Southampton's summer transfer earnings to £56m, with Shaw departing for £27m and Lambert sold for £4m.
Executive director Les Reed has "guaranteed" new manager Ronald Koeman will be able to reinvest "any revenues" in the team.
Liverpool have already agreed to sign Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Emre Can, who will join the club on 1 July.
They have been linked with Sevilla left-back Alberto Moreno, while teenage forward Divock Origi, who scored Belgium's winner in their World Cup encounter with Russia, has also emerged as a target.
The update aims to encourage the few owners who have not yet returned the faulty devices to hand them in.
Samsung issued a global recall for the Galaxy Note 7 in September following complaints about exploding batteries.
It estimates that in Europe about 10% of Note 7 owners have yet to return their devices.
In a statement, Samsung, which plans to begin the changes on 15 December, said the update it issued in September that limited charging capacity to 60% "helped to drive a high rate of return".
"This new battery software update is specifically designed to reinforce to the remaining minority of customers to immediately replace their device," it said.
Customers can swap their phones via local replacement programmes, it added.
Reports suggest Samsung is taking different steps in other regions to encourage people to turn in their phones.
In Canada, an update reportedly turns off all the radio communications on a phone, including phone, wi-fi and bluetooth, rendering it useless.
In the US, Samsung said it would issue an update on 19 December that would stop devices charging and "eliminate their ability to work as mobile devices". It said about 93% of all faulty phones had been returned in the US.
Verizon has said it will not apply the update because of safety concerns for people who have no other phone.
"We do not want to make it impossible to contact family, first responders or medical professionals in an emergency situation," it said in a statement shared with tech news site The Verge.
After the battery debacle, Samsung stopped global production of the Note 7.
Reports of fires led to Samsung issuing a warning and asking owners to turn off their devices and hand them in.
Profits at the electronic giant plunged following the recall.
In late October Samsung announced that its operating profit for the three months between July and September was 30% down on the same period in 2015.
Marussia were put into administration on Monday, just days after Caterham met the same fate. Both will miss this weekend's US Grand Prix in Austin.
"It's not a fair competition any more," Mosley told BBC Radio 5 live.
"The big problem is that the big teams have so much more money than teams like Caterham and Marussia."
The 74-year-old, who was head of the sport's governing body between 1993 and 2009, added: "In the end, they [teams such as Caterham and Marussia] were bound to drop off - and they may not be the last."
The likes of Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes spend more than £200m a year on their F1 programmes, whereas outfits such as Marussia and Caterham, who have been at the back of the grid since they entered the sport in 2010, exist on a third of that.
Mosley's plans for a cost cap in 2009 fell through and revived plans for one to be introduced next season collapsed earlier this year.
"From a sporting point of view, the sport should split the money equally and then let the teams get as much sponsorship as they can," added Mosley.
"A team like Ferrari will always get more sponsorship than Marussia, but if they all get the same basic money, then they all start on a level-playing field, particularly if you have a cost cap where you limit the amount of money each team is allowed to spend."
This season has seen the introduction of new environmentally-friendly engines, which have more relevance to the road car industry but are double the cost of the previous units.
Mosley believes it's not a coincidence that some of the smaller teams are struggling following the increase in engine costs.
"I'm in favour of the greener engines," he said. "The mistake was not saying to the big manufacturers that you can spend as much as you want on research but the maximum you can charge per season is something like £3-4m instead of the £15-20m, which I believe it is now."
Mosley added that while having 18 cars on the grid is not damaging in the short term, "in the medium term, you will have a problem" because there is "something fundamentally wrong".
The bigger teams have clauses in their contracts stipulating that, if the number of cars on the grid falls below a certain threshold, they have to supply a third car.
Mosley does not think it would be a good idea, adding: "You should have 10-12 two-car teams and the rules should be arranged so that if someone is a really good engineer starting at the back, they can work their way up to the front."
Listen to full interview with Max Mosley from BBC Radio 5 live
It shows that acorns are ripening 13 days earlier, while rowan berries are ready to eat nearly a month earlier.
Experts warn that one consequence could be that animals' food reserves would become depleted earlier in the winter.
The findings were published by Nature's Calendar, a data collection network co-ordinated by the Woodland Trust.
"Some of the changes are really quite big and quite surprising," explained Tim Sparks, the trust's nature adviser.
"This caused me to go back and look at the data again to make sure it was valid because even I did not believe it initially."
Prof Sparks said Nature's Calendar, formerly known as the UK Phenology Network, was established in 1998 to collect spring-time information.
"But the gap in data was in the autumn So, since about 2000, the scheme has also been collecting data on things such as fruit ripening dates, leaf colour change and fall dates, and the last birds seen," he told BBC News.
"We now have 10 years worth of data that can look at and identify changes.
"In terms of looking at the fruit-ripening dates and the thing that came out was that they all seem to have steadily advanced over the past decade."
Disruption concerns
Prof Sparks, from Coventry University, observed: "Rowan was the big one as it seemed to have advanced by nearly a month over the course of a decade."
He added that it was still uncertain what the ecological consequences of the advances would mean.
"Anything that changes out of synchronicity is likely to cause disruption," he said.
"What the actual consequences will be is slightly harder to work out. In this particular case, if all of this fruit is ripe earlier, and if all the mammals and birds are eating it earlier, what are they going to be feeding on during the rest of the winter?
"In terms of feeding birds, you have big flocks of thrushes coming down from Scandinavia and feeding on berry crops in Britain, and they tend to do that after they have exhausted the supply of berries in Scandinavia.
"You get these periods when hedges are being stripped bare, but the birds are going to have to do that earlier because that is when the fruit is ripe."
Although phenological records have shown that the arrival of spring is also advancing, Prof Sparks said it was "still a bit of a mystery" why the ripe-fruit dates had advanced over the past decade.
He suggested: "There is a very strong correlation between these ripening dates and April temperatures, and that might be a result of flowering dates - it might just be that warmer springs result in earlier flowering dates, and subsequently result in earlier ripening.
"But it might be a result of more sunshine; longer, warmer summers and therefore earlier ripening.
"So the exact mechanisms really are still a bit of a mystery. We know it is happening, but we are uncertain why."
Nature's Calendar is a web-based observations network and is a partnership between the Woodland Trust and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
To date, it has more than 60,000 registered recorders across the UK that observe signs of seasonal changes in the natural environment.
The trust is calling on the public to plant a million native trees in gardens as part of its "Jubilee Woods" project.
A spokesman said that the scheme would increase the abundance of food sources for birds and animals in future years.
"Matron said I'd enjoy it!" joked Pryce, now 67, after performing one of the songs he first sang in 1989 in the inaugural Cameron Mackintosh staging.
Lea Salonga and Simon Bowman, the first to play Kim and Chris, also sang during a special post-show encore.
Afterwards, Salonga said the audience response had been "deafening".
"We expected a big hand but nothing like this," said the Manila-born actress, now 43. "I was trying to keep it all together."
Written by Les Miserables duo Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, the original production of Miss Saigon opened at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in September 1989 and ran for 10 years.
A reworked production of the show, which tells of an American GI and a Vietnamese girl who begin an ill-fated romance amid the fall of Saigon in April 1975, returned to the West End earlier this year.
"We never thought we'd get the chance to do it all over again," Sir Cameron Mackintosh told a sell-out audience that included actor and broadcaster Michael Ball and Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood.
West End star Ruthie Henshall and dancer turned choreographer Louie Spence were among other Miss Saigon 'alumni' to attend Monday's gala at London's Prince Edward theatre.
The original show provoked a storm of controversy for casting Welshman Pryce as 'The Engineer', the sleazy half-Vietnamese pimp who helps bring Kim and Chris together.
When the musical transferred to New York in 1991, Pryce was initially refused permission to recreate his performance by the US branch of actors' union Equity.
Speaking after Monday's performance, Pryce said the dispute over his casting had been "an argument that was worth having" and that "a lot of very positive things happened" as a result.
"In America especially, a lot of people are now seen for things they wouldn't have normally been seen for," he told the BBC News website.
Pryce and Salonga went on to win Tonys for performances that had already earned them Olivier awards two years earlier.
Pryce, who will be seen next year in HBO fantasy Game of Thrones, said it had been "a great experience" to celebrate the show 25 years on from its premiere.
"I didn't exactly strut my stuff, but I did my best," he continued. "We had this idea of The Engineer coming on with a Zimmer frame."
Miss Saigon continues at the Prince Edward theatre, while BBC Radio 2 will broadcast a complete recording of Monday's gala performance on 3 October.
A film version may also be forthcoming, according to Sir Cameron.
"I've always thought this could make the best film of all the musicals," he told reporters.
Albania struck the post shortly after half-time when Ledian Memushaj bundled a cross past France keeper Hugo Lloris.
France striker Olivier Giroud also hit the upright before substitute Griezmann ended Albania's resistance by nodding in Adil Rami's right-wing cross.
Payet stroked in with the final kick to give the scoreline a flattering look.
Les Bleus scored with the game's only two shots on target, struggling to break down a stubborn Albania side as Giroud missed three free headers at Marseille's Stade Velodrome.
Defeat was harsh on the European Championship debutants, who looked to have done enough to earn their first point.
France needed a late goal from Payet to beat Romania in Friday's opening game, and another dramatic win means they are assured of a last-16 place before their final Group A match against Switzerland.
Albania, who lost their opening game against the Swiss, must beat Romania on Sunday to stand any chance of qualifying.
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Almost a year ago, Didier Deschamps experienced one of his lowest points as France manager as his side lost to Albania in a friendly.
It was their third defeat in four international matches, a performance the French media described as "lacklustre", "listless" and "worrying".
For almost 90 minutes here, it looked as though another performance against Giovanni de Biasi's side would lead to an inquest on the back pages.
Les Bleus were expected to breeze past a side ranked 42nd in the world, a place above Scotland, but lacked invention and creativity until Griezmann's intervention.
The Atletico Madrid forward's glancing header brought relief to the majority of the 64,000 crowd, sparking celebrations similar to those that followed Payet's winner against Romania.
Deschamps made a brave decision to drop Griezmann and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba - two of his potential match-winners - following uninspiring performances against Romania.
Manchester United's Anthony Martial and Bayern Munich's Kingsley Coman replaced them - as they did in the Stade de France on Friday - but the two youngsters were unable to make much of an impact.
Pogba came on for Martial at half-time, while Coman - who had teed up two decent chances for Giroud - was replaced by Griezmann after 68 minutes.
Pogba's arrival provided more spark, with the rangy midfielder sliding Payet's cross over the bar.
Griezmann scored 32 goals for Champions League finalists Atletico last season, but rarely threatened until popping up in space at the right time to break the deadlock.
Deschamps wanted the pair to give him another tough decision to make before the knockout stage - and France's 1998 World Cup-winning captain has been given his wish.
Another selection dilemma might involve Giroud who, despite scoring eight goals in his previous six international starts, still has to convince some critics of his worth.
Deschamps has continually offered public support to the 29-year-old Arsenal striker, but showed his frustration on the touchline after Giroud failed to convert pinpoint a fourth-minute cross from Payet and two more from Coman after the break.
Despite their surprise win against Les Bleus last year, Albania were not expected to provide much of a challenge to the tournament favourites on a much bigger stage.
But the Balkan country showed few nerves amid a partisan atmosphere.
They quietened the home crowd with a dogged display, limiting France to only a few openings until the dramatic finish.
Attacks of their own may have been sporadic - particularly as the game wore on - but they did offer a few warning signs for France.
Pescara midfielder Memushaj nipped in front of the home defence to meet a teasing right-wing cross, only to see the ball come back off the upright before France scrambled clear.
France travel back to the north of the country for their final Group A game, taking on neighbours Switzerland in Lille on Sunday.
Albania face Romania, who have one point from their opening two games, in Lyon.
Match ends, France 2, Albania 0.
Second Half ends, France 2, Albania 0.
Goal! France 2, Albania 0. Dimitri Payet (France) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by André-Pierre Gignac following a fast break.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Mergim Mavraj (Albania) because of an injury.
Hand ball by N'Golo Kanté (France).
Goal! France 1, Albania 0. Antoine Griezmann (France) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adil Rami with a cross following a corner.
Corner, France. Conceded by Frederic Veseli.
Attempt blocked. Ledian Memushaj (Albania) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Odise Roshi with a cross.
N'Golo Kanté (France) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by N'Golo Kanté (France).
Ermir Lenjani (Albania) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. N'Golo Kanté (France) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dimitri Payet.
Substitution, Albania. Frederic Veseli replaces Arlind Ajeti because of an injury.
Corner, France. Conceded by Arlind Ajeti.
Attempt blocked. N'Golo Kanté (France) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Blaise Matuidi (France) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dimitri Payet.
Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (France) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bacary Sagna with a cross.
Amir Abrashi (Albania) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Blaise Matuidi (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Amir Abrashi (Albania).
Foul by Paul Pogba (France).
Amir Abrashi (Albania) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Bacary Sagna (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Offside, France. Antoine Griezmann tries a through ball, but André-Pierre Gignac is caught offside.
Substitution, France. André-Pierre Gignac replaces Olivier Giroud.
Foul by Patrice Evra (France).
Odise Roshi (Albania) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Albania. Taulant Xhaka replaces Burim Kukeli because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Burim Kukeli (Albania) because of an injury.
Hand ball by Paul Pogba (France).
Substitution, Albania. Odise Roshi replaces Andi Lila.
Attempt blocked. N'Golo Kanté (France) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Foul by Patrice Evra (France).
Andi Lila (Albania) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Olivier Giroud (France) hits the left post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Patrice Evra with a cross.
Substitution, France. Antoine Griezmann replaces Kingsley Coman.
Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (France) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kingsley Coman with a cross.
Corner, France. Conceded by Mergim Mavraj.
The former prime minister did so against advice from officials, an investigation by the National Audit Office (NAO) found.
The NAO said nearly £23m of taxpayer money was now at risk of being lost.
Transport Minister Lord Ahmad said the government remained supportive of the project.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has ordered a full review of the proposals for the Thames river crossing.
The Whitehall spending watchdog said government ministers ignored the advice of civil servants on at least two occasions not to extend funding to the Garden Bridge Trust.
On the second occasion that they did so Conservative party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin, who was then transport secretary, issued a formal ministerial direction to civil servants requiring them to extend the taxpayers' exposure and underwrite liabilities of £15m if the project did not go ahead.
That ministerial direction was issued after cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood wrote to the Department for Transport (DfT) expressing the "frustration" of Mr Cameron and then chancellor George Osborne at perceived hold-ups to the funding.
The NAO said the initial commitment to provide £30m of taxpayers' money was made by Mr Osborne to Mr Khan's predecessor, Boris Johnson, without any involvement of the DfT.
Under the agreement in autumn 2013 the mayor would contribute a further £30m while the remainder - then estimated at £115m - was to come from private funding.
The DfT agreed to make that investment, despite an assessment of the business case finding there was a "significant risk" that the bridge could represent "poor value for money".
It did so by increasing its block grant to Transport for London (TfL).
The DfT also sought to protect taxpayers' money by capping the amount which could be spent by the trust before construction began at £8.2m.
But on three separate occasions - between June 2015 and May 2016 - this was relaxed by the DfT.
"Officials from the department advised ministers against increasing the department's exposure for the second and third increases," the NAO said.
The watchdog said there was now "significant risk" the project would not go ahead, pointing out the Garden Bridge Trust had still not secured the land for its southern landing.
The mayor has promised no more public money would be provided for the bridge's construction and tasked the former chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of MPs, Dame Margaret Hodge, with analysing the proposals to ensure taxpayers' money was not being wasted.
Meg Hillier MP, the current chair of the PAC, said: "It worries me that whenever the Garden Bridge Trust runs into financial trouble, the Department for Transport releases more taxpayers' money before construction has even started.
"If the project collapses, taxpayers stand to lose £22.5 million. If it goes ahead, who is going to pick up the bill to maintain it?"
The Garden Bridge Trust said it had raised nearly £70m of private money and was working on finalising the land deals required to build the south landing.
It pointed out that 78% of the project cost would be raised from private finance.
While £60m of taxpayers' money was being invested initially, this was being treated as money to kick start the project, with £20m being treated as a repayable loan and roughly the same amount to be repaid to the Treasury in VAT, leaving the taxpayer with a net contribution of £20m if construction of the bridge did go ahead.
Transport Minister Lord Ahmad said ministers had taken into account many factors before deciding whether to make funding available.
He added: "The taxpayer, however, must not be exposed to any further risks and it is now for the trust to find private-sector backers to invest in the delivery of this project. We will consider the NAO's findings carefully."
Jet2 said Joshua Strickland's "absolutely unacceptable" behaviour led the flight to Larnaca in Cyprus to be diverted to Manchester Airport.
Phil Ward, from Jet2, said it caused "distress plus significant delays".
The 21-year-old has also been given a life ban by the company.
Mr Strickland, from Tadcaster, was also arrested by police over the incident when the plane landed in Manchester and a separate criminal investigation is under way.
At Manchester Magistrates' Court, Mr Strickland denied a charge of acting in a manner likely to endanger an aircraft or a person on board.
He was released on bail and is due back in court on 28 July.
The champions established a four-goal lead, with Mikael Lustig and Leigh Griffiths both scoring headers in the opening half.
Stuart Armstrong then struck twice after the interval to cap another impressive display.
Celtic will be concerned, though, by late slackness that allowed Ryan Christie and Dani Lopez to score.
The home side's control was immediately asserted and the onus for Inverness was to try to restrain them.
The visitors were organised and industrious, but a rearranged defence was vulnerable to cross balls and Celtic took full advantage.
They established a two-goal lead in four minutes, with Lustig heading Stefan Johansen's free-kick past Owain Fon Williams, the Inverness goalkeeper.
The next cross came from the left, where the excellent Nir Bitton showed neat footwork to make space before delivering the ball to the back post, where Griffiths rose highest to head into the corner.
It was chastening for Inverness since Celtic were creating chances at will and the home side should have scored a third, with Johansen's shot pushed away by Fon Williams and then Armstrong's shot from the rebound cleared off the line by Ross Draper.
With Scott Brown prominent in central midfield - a typically strong and driving performance - there were passages of play in which every player but Craig Gordon, the Celtic goalkeeper, was in the Inverness half.
Even a crowded defence could barely keep Celtic at bay, with Emilio Izaguirre delivering an outstanding through ball between the Inverness centre-backs for Griffiths, whose shot was blocked by Fon Williams.
The visitors never lost heart and Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo hit one shot from distance that Gordon had to tip over.
That was a rare foray upfield, though, and the pattern was repeated at least at the outset of the second-half.
Inverness's defence remained deeply vulnerable and Celtic added to their lead with relative ease. Armstrong had too much time and space inside the area to measure a curling shot over Fon Williams.
The midfielder took advantage again when Danny Devine tried to pass the ball out of defence but instead sent it straight to Armstrong, who skipped past two challenges before shooting past the goalkeeper.
Celtic manager Ronny Deila made a series of substitutes to keep his key players fresh for the visit of Malmo in the Champions League on Wednesday, but the consequence was an element of carelessness entering Celtic's play.
It might have been the changes in personnel, or complacency due to the four-goal lead, but Celtic were twice caught out by their own poor play.
First, they surrendered possession in their own half to Nat Wedderburn, who played in Christie and his shot flashed past Gordon.
Then similar uncertainty in defence allowed the ball to reach Inverness substitute Lopez on the edge of the area and he steered his effort past Gordon.
The late goals by Inverness were an irritant to Celtic, but otherwise it was a solid performance, and the fans were lifted even before kick-off with new signing Scott Allan being introduced to the crowd.
Match ends, Celtic 4, Inverness CT 2.
Second Half ends, Celtic 4, Inverness CT 2.
Attempt missed. Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Danny Williams (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Saidy Janko.
Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic).
Ryan Christie (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by David Raven.
Nir Bitton (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Dani López (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Celtic 4, Inverness CT 2. Dani López (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Christie.
Saidy Janko (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo (Inverness CT).
Attempt blocked. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Danny Williams (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Celtic 4, Inverness CT 1. Ryan Christie (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo.
Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Raven (Inverness CT).
Attempt missed. Stefan Johansen (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Celtic. Callum McGregor replaces Stuart Armstrong.
Goal! Celtic 4, Inverness CT 0. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Nathaniel Wedderburn replaces Iain Vigurs.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Dani López replaces Carl Tremarco.
Foul by Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic).
Iain Vigurs (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Danny Devine.
Attempt missed. Stefan Johansen (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Celtic. Saidy Janko replaces Mikael Lustig.
Substitution, Celtic. Charlie Mulgrew replaces Scott Brown.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by David Raven.
Foul by Stefan Johansen (Celtic).
Ross Draper (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Nir Bitton (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Horner (Inverness CT).
Attempt missed. Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
The death of the distinguished QC was announced at Londonderry Crown Court.
She served as the trial judge in the high profile case of Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams.
Paying tribute to his predecessor, Judge Phillip Babbington extended his deepest sympathies to her husband David and son Christopher.
He said that Judge Philpott loved the city of Londonderry and its people and always fought for the city behind the scenes in judicial matters.
He added that one of Judge Philpott's great pleasures was when she was awarded the freedom of the city of London.
The accolade was given for her work on behalf of the city of Londonderry with the honourable the Irish society.
She is a former student at Richmond Lodge school and Queen's University.
Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan said Judge Philpott was a "trailblazer".
"She was the first female county court judge in Northern Ireland, and the second female to take silk in this jurisdiction.
"She was compassionate to those who came before her and had an innate sense of justice and fairness.
"Her wit, hard work and dedication to the courts, justice and the most vulnerable people in society will leave a huge void."
The chairman of the Bar of Northern Ireland, Gerald McAlinden, said Judge Philpott was "a pioneer of her profession".
"We will remember her generosity of spirit, her deep sense of humanity and her unfailing commitment to serve the interests of justice," he added.
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Foad, from Southampton, had the screws fixed in his spine after London 2012.
The 28-year-old, who won European Championship men's pair gold with Matt Langridge in May, will have surgery on Monday to replace them.
"As much as I want to try and push through it and hope everything will be ok, it won't," he wrote on his blog.
"I'm sad to say my 'Road to Rio' has come to an end. I'll never make it in time."
Foad had surgery to fit flexible metal rods into his spine after he won bronze in the men's eight at London 2012.
After suffering three flare ups over the past six months, he had an exploratory operation and it was discovered that four of the screws are loose, with one compressing nerves in his spine. Consequently, the metal needs to be removed and replaced.
"The thought of this year being a write-off and not being able to at least try and complete my goal of competing at the Olympics again is heartbreaking," Foad added.
"As for the future, I'm not really sure what the plan is now. I had planned to retire after Rio, but the whole situation has thrown a spanner in the works.
"At the minute, it doesn't feel satisfying walking away from it like this, but I'll have to see how things go after surgery."
Triple world champion Niki Lauda - a man who knows something about risk having survived a fiery accident at the 1976 German Grand Prix - has called it the "wrong" move.
Lauda, now non-executive chairman of world champions Mercedes, told Germany's Auto Motor und Sport the move is an "overreaction" that has "destroyed" the good work F1 has done by introducing faster and more dramatic cars this year.
Other leading figures - including 1996 world champion Damon Hill - have also said they disagree with the decision, and fans seem generally opposed as well. So why has it happened and what effect will it have on F1?
F1's governing body the FIA is constantly striving to improve safety. While driving a racing car at such high speeds can never be safe, it has become clear in the past decade that the driver's exposed head is the last major risk left unaddressed.
The FIA has been striving to come up with a way to reduce the danger without compromising F1's central ethos as an open-cockpit, open-wheel formula.
The halo - a wishbone-shaped device that has two struts arching forward from behind the driver's shoulders and meeting at a central point in front of the cockpit - emerged over several years of research as the best option.
The original plan was to introduce this for 2017 but at a meeting of team bosses and the FIA in July 2016 it was decided that more development work was needed. But additional frontal protection (AFP) was locked into the rules for 2018.
Over the second half of last season, all teams and all but one driver tried the halo in practice sessions at grands prix and the number who said they felt it was not intrusive far outweighed those who disagreed. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg even set the fastest time of all in the first session at the Belgian Grand Prix while the device was fitted to his car.
Despite that, concerns remained over the halo's aesthetics and in April this year F1's bosses agreed to prioritise a 'shield' - a transparent front screen - for 2018.
A prototype was tested by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in practice at the British Grand Prix but he said it made him dizzy.
It was clear that the work needed to make the shield a success would go beyond the start of 2018, so the FIA decided to confirm the halo.
The final decision to introduce the halo was made at a meeting of F1's strategy group on Wednesday. This includes the FIA, the leading teams and the commercial rights holders, the F1 Group. The other teams not on the strategy group - Haas, Renault, Toro Rosso and Sauber - were also at the meeting as observers.
The FIA's decision to introduce the halo was backed by the F1 Group, whose sporting boss Ross Brawn has been working with the FIA on cockpit protection. A spokesman said: "We fully support the FIA on this matter."
With the FIA and F1 in favour, the teams' views are irrelevant - the FIA and F1 Group have enough votes together to get anything through the strategy group.
On top of that, the FIA has the right to bypass normal governance procedures and force the adoption of safety measures. This is effectively what happened, with the F1 Group's backing, through sporting boss Ross Brawn, adding further weight to its stance.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has said he "understands" why FIA president Jean Todt has taken the position he has. But there is concern among the teams about the effects halo could have on F1's popularity, whether it will upset the delicate balance of risk, danger, glamour and excitement that define its appeal. But there is now no way back.
As for the drivers, while some have made clear their opposition to extra head protection, many leading drivers are in favour - including Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo and Felipe Massa.
And the Grand Prix Drivers' Association as a body has made it clear it is in favour.
A survey by the FIA of drivers' views on the matter over the winter gave a pretty even split for and against but officials had suspicions that some of the drivers had been 'got at' by their teams and there was scepticism as to whether all responses were their own personal views.
The FIA has conducted extensive analysis and risk assessments on the halo and it has proved to be positive in the vast majority of cases.
A number of major incidents were analysed.
Among - but by no means all of - these were: Alexander Wurz's Williams flying over David Coulthard's Red Bull at Melbourne in 2007; Vitantonio Liuzzi's Force India riding up the front of Michael Schumacher's Mercedes at Abu Dhabi in 2010; Romain Grosjean's Lotus crashing over Fernando Alonso's Ferrari in Belgium in 2012; Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari mounting Alonso's McLaren in Austria in 2015; and the death of the Formula 3000 driver Marco Campos, who landed upside down on a wall in Magny-Cours in 1995.
In all of the incidents in which a large object could have intruded on the cockpit, the effects of the halo were found to be overwhelmingly positive on balance.
There has been concern expressed about whether the halo would make it more difficult for a driver to climb out of an upturned car.
But the FIA did a test with one of its operatives in a car in the same position as Alonso's McLaren ended up after his huge accident in Australia in 2016 and the man - considerably less lithe and fit than an F1 driver - was able to climb out without difficulty.
The FIA also modelled the IndyCar accident in which Justin Wilson was killed by a flying front wing assembly in 2015, and found the halo effect was positive in that, too.
Some have questioned the effectiveness of the halo in deflecting small objects, such as the spring that hit Massa and fractured his skull in Hungary in 2009.
The halo is not designed primarily for this eventuality, but even so in nearly a million tests conducted involving small missiles, the potential danger of these was considerably less with the halo than without. And again the net effect was positive.
As for claims that the halo could potentially deflect small objects towards a driver's body, the risk is low - and in any case these objects may well have hit the driver's head had the halo not been there.
The governing body feels it has addressed all concerns, has a device that is positive or neutral in the vast majority of cases, and that it is incumbent upon it to introduce a proven safety device, against which it believes there are not counter-arguments other than people not liking its looks.
There are also liability issues that could lead to legal problems - if the FIA has a device proven to work, makes an active decision not to use it, and then a driver is killed or injured in exactly the sort of incident it is designed to prevent.
On that basis, the FIA does not see any argument for not introducing it.
Many of the concerns expressed about the halo are based on its looks - it has been likened to a flip-flop, or a chicken wishbone, plonked on the top of the car.
There is no getting away from the fact that it changes the aesthetics of an F1 car. But the halos that are used next year will not look like the stark, black titanium structures seen in testing so far.
Teams can paint them any colour they like, and the rules allow for teams to fit a fairing around the halo, in all places other than the frontal strut, that can extend no more than 30mm on either side of the structure.
This rule was introduced because the halo affects the airflow - both into the engine air intake and the overall aerodynamics.
So teams will inevitably fit shaped bodywork to the halo, which will make it look less out of place.
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The FIA's view is that, when the arguments for increased safety are so strong, F1 simply has to get on with it.
It feels that by the time the cars have run in pre-season testing, people will have got used to the halo and that - as with many other changes introduced over the years - soon cars will look strange without it.
The argument against introducing it goes something like this:
F1 is pretty safe now, so why risk its popularity for a device that protects against accidents that are already very rare?
The halo would not have saved Jules Bianchi in his crash at Suzuka in 2014, it is said (although no-one is pretending it would). Wheels fly around only occasionally, people argue (although Sergio Perez's Force India lost one in a crash in Baku only last month). The deaths of Wilson and Henry Surtees were in other categories which are less safe than F1.
But F1 was also perceived to be doing well on safety in April 1994, when it was eight years since the last fatality and 12 since the last death at a race meeting.
And then came the San Marino Grand Prix, and the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna on consecutive days.
Will the halo affect F1's popularity? That remains to be seen - and GPDA chairman Alexander Wurz argues that F1 has become more popular as it has become safer, which is indisputable, but it is also hard to prove a causative link.
Overall, though, people opposed to the halo might ask themselves a simple question.
If it was not introduced next year and a driver was killed when the halo could have saved him, how would they feel then?
The risk might be small, but are aesthetics and the perceived appeal of something really more important than a driver's life?
The 30-year-old was the only man to play every minute of the Rams' extra-time FA Cup defeat by Leicester and Saturday's 3-3 draw with Bristol City.
McClaren was unhappy his rested regulars did not match Keogh's display as they had to come from 3-0 down against the Robins.
"I thought Richard was magnificent," McClaren told BBC Radio Derby.
"He was magnificent throughout the 95 minutes and he played two hours on Wednesday.
"We made eight or nine changes in midweek and they performed magnificently, fought with the Premier League champions for two hours.
"Max Lowe and Cyrus Christie were crawling off the field.
"We made eight or nine changes again (against Bristol City) and we didn't get the same reaction. That really was disappointing and upsetting."
McClaren praised the Derby supporters for not losing faith on Saturday, despite seeing their side fall 3-0 down after just 38 minutes.
"I thought the crowd really helped us," he added.
"They stayed with us and once we got the first goal, momentum took us."
The 29-year-old struggled for three years with a chronic bowel problem and returned after nearly 12 months out in Sunday's 3-0 win at Aston Villa.
"I want to help us win to bring back the success we are used to," he said.
"At least if they are winning you enjoy the moments. It is a lot more difficult when we are not."
United have endured a tough start to the Premier League season under new manager David Moyes, but the win over Villa has moved them up to eighth and 10 points off leaders Arsenal.
"We need to go on a winning run and put ourselves in a position where people are saying we are still there," added Fletcher, who came through the youth ranks at Old Trafford.
Fletcher was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in December 2011 but made 13 appearances for club and country in 2012-13, the last as an 89th-minute substitute in the 4-3 victory over Newcastle on 26 December, before the problem flared up again.
The Scotland international revealed his struggle with an illness that required three operations and almost ended his career.
"I couldn't leave the house," he said.
"Simple stuff, like taking my kids to the park, going for a meal with my wife.
"The nature of the illness meant I just couldn't do it.
"There was a day in May when we said 'this is it'. Once I came out of that operation I would know whether it had worked or not.
"There were no guarantees. If the operation was not a success there was no way I would be able to play football and my everyday life would have been very difficult.
"It was very emotional. There was a lot of fear and anxiety."
Now back in the action, Fletcher is hoping to feature again in Wednesday's League Cup quarter-final with Stoke.
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The bird was trying to fly into a jail in the north-eastern city of Bucaramanga with marijuana and cocaine paste strapped to its back, but did not make it.
Police believe the 45g (1.6oz) drug package was too heavy for it.
The bird is now being cared for by the local ecological police unit, officers said.
"We found the bird about a block away from the prison trying to fly over with a package, but due to the excess weight it could not accomplish its mission," said Bucaramanga police commander Jose Angel Mendoza.
"This is a new case of criminal ingenuity."
The pigeon is thought to have been trained by inmates or their accomplices.
Police said carrier pigeons had been used in the past to smuggle mobile phone Sim cards into the jail.
The target increase came as a "true sense" of the scale of flood damage became clear, a spokesperson said.
Andy Beeforth, chief executive of Cumbria Community Foundation that launched the appeal, said the floods had "impacted more severely" than previous floods.
Meanwhile, the farming minister said funding for farmers was a "priority".
The delayed money for farmers affected by the floods was due to be handed over by the Rural Payments Agency in the new year following a computer error, but may now be received earlier, the minister said.
More than £166,000 has been handed out in grants and families have been given financial help to rebuild their lives, the foundation said.
The appeal was launched 12 days ago on 5 December after a record level of rainfall devastated parts of Cumbria.
Ian Brown, chairman of the foundation, said he was "overwhelmed" by the generosity of people donating to the appeal.
"People see the photos, see the need for help and are creating fundraising events and digging deep into their own pockets.
"It's very heart-warming, very encouraging to see," he said.
They said their final goodbye and parted at Euston, where he took the westbound Circle Line train and died in the Edgware Road blast.
Mr Downey, whose family hailed from Ireland, was a human resources systems development officer for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
He was survived by his wife, his father, his twin brother Liam, his sisters Mary and Julie and another brother, Shay.
Mr Downey, who was born on 15 March 1971, grew up in Corby, Northamptonshire and met Veronica when they were both teenagers.
They studied business and finance together at Tresham College in Kettering, Northants and married in 1999.
He worked in the payroll department at Corby Borough Council before moving to a similar job at Kensington and Chelsea Council in 2001.
Councillor Merrick Cockell, the leader of the council, said: "He was a very friendly and approachable person and very knowledgeable and skilled at his work.
"Everyone who knew Jon and who worked with him, will miss him enormously."
The Downeys moved to Milton Keynes in 2003 to be closer to London.
Mr Downey was a big fan of Liverpool Football Club and a keen walker.
His widow said: "He was a big joker who enjoyed winding up his friends. He lived life to the full and enjoyed the day for the day.
"Jon was also very cerebral. He was very conscious of those less fortunate that himself. At his funeral, friends were invited to donate money to the NSPCC."
She said: "Jon was a good listener and a good friend to people in need. He was a rock to me when I was going through a difficult time at work."
Mr Downey and his wife were members of the Woodlands Trust and a group of 50 relatives and friends gathered in woodlands near his home and planted trees and shrubs in his memory.
There is a bench at the site with his name on it and another one outside Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall.
His wife said they had planned to move to Ireland before his life was cut short.
Mrs Downey said: "Ironically Jon used to pick up a packet of cigarettes and announce 'These will never kill me'. He was right."
Martin McGuinness has taken issue with former Finance Minister Simon Hamilton.
According to documents, Mr Hamilton told the Republic of Ireland's National Assets Management Agency (Nama) that Mr McGuinness was across the proposal.
Pimco made an unsolicited offer for Nama's Northern Ireland loan portfolio in late 2013.
Minutes of two telephone calls between Nama chairman Frank Daly and Mr Hamilton have been released by Nama.
In December 2013, Mr Hamilton is said to have "confirmed the deputy first minister was aware of the interest with updates provided by the first minister".
In January 2014, Mr Hamilton, according to the Nama minutes, told Mr Daly the first and deputy first ministers were "fully engaged" with the bid.
A Sinn Féin spokesperson said: "Mr McGuinness refutes any claim he was fully briefed and engaged with the proposed sale… as suggested by the former Minister Hamilton."
It is not the first time Mr McGuinness has contested claims by the Democratic Unionist Party about his knowledge of events in the run-up to the Nama loan sale.
He said he did not know of a memorandum of understanding agreement with Pimco sent by the first minister's office to Nama.
He has also said he was unaware of meetings Peter Robinson had with Pimco and Cerberus Capital Management, the eventual buyer of the £1.3bn portfolio.
The Welsh region were beaten 29-12 at home by Racing 92, their second defeat in this year's tournament.
It leaves them seven points behind Northampton and four behind Racing, who have played only one game in Pool 3.
"It makes it very tough [to qualify] and they'll have to be a lot of turnarounds," said Pivac.
"We came up against a big, heavy pack and it's shown us the standard we've got to aspire to.
"It keeps us grounded, I guess, to see we have a long way to go to get to that standard, and we know that and we've just got to keep working hard.
"We'll see how it goes over the next couple of weeks and we'll see how we go into the Glasgow game looking to get a win."
Scarlets face Glasgow in their next two pool matches, before a home tie against Saints and a trip to Paris.
Pivac's team are among the early season pace setters in the Pro12, lying third behind Connacht and Munster.
But they showed little of their domestic form as Racing pounced on turnovers and defensive slips to claim a bonus point before half-time.
Even after the visitors' flanker Bernard Le Roux was sent-off for a stamp early in the second half, Scarlets struggled to impose themselves on the French side.
After facing the classy Parisians, Scarlets take on Italian strugglers Zebre in the Pro 12 on Sunday, 29 November.
"We've got to re-focus on the Pro12 and improve against Zebre in a week's time," added Pivac.
Ozzie Welsh, 39, made three explosive devices and planted them at Boughton Surgery, near Downham Market, Norfolk.
He denied he intended to cause an explosion which would endanger life or cause serious damage.
The Old Bailey heard Welsh had a history of self-harming at "the extreme end". He was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on 13 March.
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On the first day of his trial, Welsh, of Short Lane, Feltwell, admitted having an explosive substance, making the devices and posting them through the letterbox on 27 January 2016.
He pleaded not guilty to doing an act with intent to cause an explosion. The charge will lie on court file.
The court heard when police searched Welsh's home, they uncovered a stash of chemicals which could be used to make bombs.
He had made the devices months before and had been spoken to by police about setting off explosions in his garden in the past, it was heard.
The court heard there were concerns about Welsh's mental state and he had been in dispute with doctors before the incident.
Judge Mark Lucraft QC ordered two reports - one psychiatric and the other from the probation service on Welsh's potential dangerousness - ahead of sentencing.
Former skipper Richie Richardson, 52, and pace bowlers Curtly Ambrose, 50, and Andy Roberts, 63, were all honoured by their native Antigua.
It takes the total number of West Indian cricketing knights to 11.
The only previous Antiguan cricketer to be knighted was Sir Viv Richards, after whom Antigua's new stadium is named.
Between them, Richardson, Ambrose and Roberts played in 231 Tests and 456 one-day internationals, while all had spells in English county cricket.
Free-scoring right-hander Richardson, famous for his large maroon sunhats, was one of Yorkshire's earliest overseas players in 1993 and 1994.
Ambrose represented Northants between 1989 and 1996, while also forging a fearsome new-ball partnership with Jamaica's Courtney Walsh at international level.
Roberts, the first Antiguan to play Test cricket, burst onto the English scene with Hampshire in 1974, won the World Cup with West Indies in 1975 and 1979, and also played for Leicestershire.
He was one of the 55 initial inductees into the International Cricket Council's Hall of Fame in 2009, with Ambrose inducted in 2011.
As well as Richards, the other Caribbean cricketing knights include legendary all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers and the "three "W's" - Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Everton Weekes, who were all from Barbados, as were Sir Conrad Hunte and the Reverend Sir Wes Hall.
The list is completed by Trinidad-born Learie Constantine, who was knighted in 1962 and became the UK's first black peer in 1969.
The family, from Grimsby, include Lily Fitzgerald, 96, and the generations down to her great-great-great grandson Harvey, who was born on Monday.
It comes after a family from Bradford became what was believed to be the only family in the UK to span six generations, on Christmas Day.
According to Guinness World Records the most generations alive in a single family has been seven.
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Mrs Fitzgerald said she was "flabbergasted" to become a great-great-great grandmother.
"I cannot fathom how I have got all these generations, but anyway I am thrilled to bits," she said.
Her grandson Stephen Barley, 60, is Harvey's great-grandfather.
He said he was very "proud" of the family and all its generations.
"I cannot believe we have reached this milestone - six generations.
"We all love each other, we are all from Grimsby in the family, and I just think its good to have a nice story come out of the town."
The company said it needed to "address duplication of capabilities and inefficiencies" and become more efficient.
More than 1,000 people are employed in Street, many across the distribution centre, and it is understood they were told the news on Wednesday.
Clarks' US site in Boston, Massachusetts, will also be affected.
The Western Daily Press newspaper initially reported the planned job losses on Thursday.
The firm said the restructure was due to "a highly demanding commercial and economic environment with increasing competition and intensified customer expectations".
The statement said: "This reorganisation unfortunately means that we are in conversations with approximately 170 people who will leave our business across our global operations over the coming month."
A source close to the company told the BBC the majority of jobs would go in Somerset.
James Heappey, Conservative MP for Wells, told the BBC he also understood the majority of job losses would be in Somerset, which was "clearly very bad news for Street".
"I think it's going to have quite an impact because that's quite a number of people to be looking for work in a community that's relatively small," he said.
The BBC understands the trade union Unite is in talks with the company about the job losses.
Deputy leader of Mendip District Council, Tom Killen, said it was "working with a number of key delivery partners, including Jobcentre Plus".
He added: "There is direct liaison with the companies to discuss how best to provide practical assistance and support for affected employees."
Clarks began work in Street 191 years ago, when brothers James and Cyrus Clark decided to use their tannery to make sheepskin slippers.
The company website says: "Our feet have stayed firmly rooted in Street. It's where Clarks started. It's where our heart lies."
Chris Coleman's side fought back from an early Radja Nainggolan goal to triumph thanks to goals from Ashley Williams, Hal Robson-Kanu and Sam Vokes.
The Welsh fairytale in France continues - they now face Portugal in the semi-finals - this is how BBC Sport rated their players at Stade Pierre Mauroy.
Made an excellent early stop from Yannick Carrasco before being beaten from distance by Nainggolan's screamer. Looked like he would be in for a busy evening at that stage but, for all their late pressure, Belgium barely tested him after the break.
Needed help to cope with Eden Hazard down the Welsh right in the first 15 minutes but the Belgian blitz did not last. Kept venturing forward and got his reward with the cross for Sam Vokes' goal.
Another to look shaky at the start, especially when he picked up a booking for fouling Kevin de Bruyne, but like his team-mates he grew in confidence and composure as the game went on. Suspended for the semi-finals after being booked.
Has not looked himself up to now in France but this was the Wales captain at his best. Heading is not his strength but that did not stop him nodding the equaliser and he seemed to be in the right place whenever the ball came into the Wales box.
He and Gunter were given the task of shackling Hazard, and came out on top - the Chelsea forward only cut inside with any real menace once. Made some vital interceptions and blocks.
One of the Wales players to put his body on the line to stop what seemed like certain Belgium goals in the opening minutes. Like Gunter, kept going forward and was unlucky not to score before half-time.
Another tireless tackler who also used the ball simply and effectively to help Wales establish a degree of control in midfield as the game went on.
His passing radar was initially off - he surrendered possession for the move that led to Belgium's opener. But his work-rate never faltered and he gave everything to protect his centre-halves.
Belgium gave him time and space in their half and he punished them for it. Set up two of the three goals and now has four assists for the tournament but his second-half booking for handball means he will miss the semi-final. He did not stop running after that, and Wales will miss him massively too.
An open game suited him and his runs gave Belgium plenty to worry about. He continued to menace their defenders in the second half. No goals or assists this time but he will not care one bit.
What can you say? Amazing. His industry and effort are well-known but the skill he showed to turn half the Belgium defence and put Wales ahead is not. Without a club, for now, but part of Welsh footballing folklore for sure. The fans did not stop singing his name.
Came on to give Wales more legs in midfield when Ledley had used all his energy - did not let anyone down.
Legendary Wales striker John Hartson told me before the game that a Vokes goal was coming and boy was he right. Took the pressure off in the closing minutes with a trademark header.
Too late to earn a mark but will surely play a part against Portugal with Davies suspended.
Giggs, 43, is embroiled in a dispute over money after the breakdown of his marriage to wife Stacey.
Mr Justice Cobb, who is presiding over the High Court hearings, heard Giggs will call witnesses to back his claims.
Millionaires must show "an X factor" to avoid an even split in marital assets.
Jo Edwards, an expert in family court litigation, said wealthy people are required to prove they have made a special contribution to avoid the marital pot being split evenly in two.
Mr Justice Cobb said Mrs Giggs could call witnesses at the Family Division of London's High Court to "reply" to the former Wales international's argument for the lion's share of their marital fortune.
No-one likely to be called as a witness was identified at a hearing earlier, when Mr Justice Cobb analysed preliminary issues in the case.
Giggs made a record 952 appearances for Manchester United, scoring 168 goals in a decorated career that saw him win 25 major honours including 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League winner's medals.
The judge will probably be asked to decide how big a share of the marital asset kitty Mrs Giggs should get if agreement is not reached.
He said a trial was unlikely to take place for some time.
The Bond Connect programme is Beijing's latest attempt to open up its financial markets and attract foreign capital.
China's $9 trillion bond market is the third-largest in the world, but only 2% of Chinese bonds are foreign-owned.
The launch has been timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to Chinese rule.
Bonds are glorified IOUs, typically sold by governments and companies to raise cash.
Their attraction to investors is that they usually offer a fixed rate of interest and come with the promise of eventual full repayment when the bond expires.
Initially, Chinese bonds can be bought by banks, insurers and fund managers via Hong Kong.
No date has been set for Chinese investment in foreign bonds.
HSBC Holdings and an asset management unit of Bank of China became the first institutions to trade using the scheme, with about $300m worth of bonds purchased in early trading.
Buying Chinese bonds - essentially Chinese government and corporate debt - will give investors greater access to investments denominated in the Chinese currency, the yuan or renminbi.
Overseas investors have in the past been cautious about entering the market - partly over the stability of the Chinese currency as well as Beijing's perceived lack of urgency to reform its financial markets.
There has also been long-held concern about the credibility of credit ratings for bonds in China.
Similar systems to enable dealing in Chinese shares have been rolled out recently.
Since late last year, foreign investors in Hong Kong have been able to trade shares in about 900 firms in companies on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and vice-versa following the official launch of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong trading link.
That link followed the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect in November 2014, which allowed international investors to trade in hundreds of Shanghai-listed A-shares as well as Hong Kong stocks.
Last month, US stock index provider MSCI agreed to include China's mainland domestic shares in its emerging markets index for the first time.
Marie Cooke, from Nottinghamshire, said the MP placed the cup on her table during a break at a rally at the Albert Hall in Nottingham on 20 August.
Ms Cooke, who works for Age UK, said she saw it as a "cheeky" opportunity to raise money for the charity.
She said about 4,000 people watched the item on eBay, and it was eventually won after 22 bids on Thursday evening.
Ms Cooke was outside the Nottingham Playhouse when Mr Corbyn asked her if she minded if he put his cup on her table.
"We were happy to oblige," she said.
"[When] he went back into the Albert Hall to deliver his speech we thought we'd be a bit cheeky and take the cup and put it on eBay.
"[On Thursday] it just went mad with over 4,000 people looking at it, and we raised £51."
The fundraiser said she would attempt to get Mr Corbyn's autograph to prove it was his cup.
The cup was won by a student in Oxford, according to Ms Cooke.
"I think they are going to turn it into some kind of relic," she said.
Christiane Stoner, 43, is accused of facilitating frauds to be carried out on customer accounts that resulted in a six-figure loss to Barclays Bank.
Prosecutors allege she printed customer information and took images of their signatures from a bank system at a Barclays branch in Stirling.
She is accused of supplying the data and images "to persons unknown".
The alleged offences are said to have taken place in 2013.
Ms Stoner is accused of entering into or becoming concerned in an arrangement which she "knew or suspected" facilitated the acquisition, retention, use or control, by or on behalf of another, of criminal property within the meaning of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
She is charged with possessing, or having under her control, articles for use in committing fraud, namely images of the signatures of six Barclays Bank customers taken from the bank's system.
Ms Stoner, of Carnbroe, North Lanarkshire, pleaded not guilty to all seven charges at Falkirk Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Robert Dickson continued the case for trial in January.
The Scottish SPCA believe the cub became separated from its mother during severe weather in the region last weekend.
It was discovered at the back door of a house in Kirkcudbright on Monday morning.
Animal welfare officers believe the otter, which they have nicknamed 'Buddy', is just 10 weeks old.
The cub is weak and underweight but said to be improving on a diet of milk and fish.
It is now one of 15 otter cubs being cared for at the charity's national wildlife rescue centre in Fishcross, Clackmannanshire.
Centre manager Colin Seddon said it has been their busiest ever year for otter cubs.
He added: "Buddy will be introduced to our three youngest cubs, Ebb, Tide and Wave, who were also found without their mothers.
"They will stay with us for around a year until they are old enough to fend for themselves back in the wild."
Last month two orphaned cubs were found on a flooded river bank at Earlston and another was found in Brechin.
Mr Seddon said: "This is a very hazardous time for young otters as they can easily be washed out of their holts by high rivers and at that age they are not accomplished swimmers.
"If separated from their mothers, they may well perish.
"We would appeal to the public to be watchful, especially in areas affected by the recent floods.
"If anyone hears or sees any animals they think may be in distress they should contact our animal helpline for advice on 03000 999 999."
Just 49.8% were in favour of shale gas extraction when researchers from the University of Nottingham asked 3,657 people earlier this month.
This is the lowest number in support of fracking since the university started its poll on the issue in 2012.
The latest results found 31.4% were against fracking, while 18.4% were undecided.
"The May 2014 survey confirms that the turn against fracking for shale gas in the UK has deepened," says the report.
And it cites the anti-fracking protests which took place in the village of Balcombe in West Sussex in 2013 as a tipping point when the tide of public opinion towards shale gas extraction began to shift.
Since those protests the number of people against fracking has been steadily rising, it says.
BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin said this was bad news for the government, given that it wanted to encourage shale gas as an alternative to imported gas from Russia.
He said ministers would not be delighted to learn that a second anti-fracking camp was planned for this summer.
Tory peer Lord Howell of Guildford - who apologised last year after saying that fracking should take place in the North East because it was "desolate" - recently spoke about the issue again, and said the Conservative Party could lose votes by pursuing plans to frack.
But the poll, carried out by YouGov on behalf of Nottingham University, suggested that this may not happen as it found support for fracking higher among Tory and UKIP voters - around 68% - while Labour and Lib Dem supporters were generally much less in favour.
The survey also found that an increasing number of people were better educated about the technology and processes behind shale gas extraction.
Older people were found to be more accepting of fracking than younger people. The poll found more than 50% of older people approved of the technology, while among those under 25, as many were now against shale gas as were for it.
The professor organizing the survey, Sarah O'Hara, said the fall in support from under-55s had been so sharp that at first she did not believe the results.
"This is really surprising," she told BBC News.
"Previously the polls had shown a steady trend towards greater understanding of the technology and greater acceptance, but this has gone into reverse and now support is the lowest overall since we started the poll.
"It's clear from the trend in polling that it's the protests in Balcombe that have swung opinion."
According to the survey summary, the prospect of contamination of drinking water had been a "key issue" highlighted by protesters.
It said the negative rating for shale gas on water contamination has been maintained and currently stands at -16.6%.
The report said trends suggest the "turn against fracking" seen after the Balcombe protests last year was not a "blip" and represent "an increasing sense of unease" with the technology's environmental implications.
Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well.
Dr Tina Hunter, Director of the Centre for International Minerals and Energy Law at the University of Queensland, warned a shale conference in London on Monday that rushing ahead with fracking had caused huge social and environmental problems in Australia.
She said: "Don't go into fracking fast. Australia is a big, big country. A lot of it is desert, yet we've still had huge problems there by rushing ahead before legislation and public opinion were ready."
Dr Hunter applauded the UK government's more cautious approach, and suggested that the UK mandate "fingerprint" tests on the water flowing back from the fracking process in any well. Chemical analysis would establish the exact chemical signature of the well and provide evidence in any future case of water pollution.
An official from the energy department DECC told BBC News this idea was worth examination.
Ross Gurdin, energy policy adviser for the employers' body the CBI, urged a prudent development of shale gas reserves in the UK.
The CBI did not expect any major drop in gas prices in the short to medium term thanks to shale gas, he said, but was keen to attract new tax revenues to the Exchequer and create new feedstock for chemical manufacturers which had previously relied on feedstock from North Sea gas.
An announcement from the British Geological Survey of the reserves under the Weald of the south of England is due soon.
The move follows legal challenges by the governing socialist party of President Nicolas Maduro.
The suspension removes the opposition coalition's super-majority which gave it extensive powers to challenge President Maduro.
The opposition had called the challenge a "judicial coup".
The court approved injunctions against the election victories of three opposition MPs and one from the governing Socialist Party while it hears a legal challenge against them.
The court also agreed to hear legal challenges to the election of another six opposition deputies but dismissed requests for similar injunctions.
The court's website did not detail the arguments underlying the legal challenges by the governing Socialist Party.
As a result, four MPs are blocked from taking office when the new Congress opens on 5 January, while the other five will be allowed to take office while the court hears the legal challenge against them.
A two-thirds majority gives the opposition key powers it would not have with fewer seats.
Among them is the power to remove Supreme Court judges, appoint key officials such as an independent attorney general, and passing constitutional amendments subject to ratification by referendum.
The secretary-general of the opposition MUD coalition, Jesus Torrealba, earlier condemned the challenges to the results.
"You can't use legal tricks to steal something the voters didn't want to give you," he said.
"We're not living in a functional democracy," he added.
In an open letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and senior international officials, he said: "The country, the region and the world are facing a judicial coup attempt against the Venezuelan people's decision as expressed at the ballot box.
"The ruling party's irresponsible behaviour is pushing the entire country to the brink of disaster, which would have grave consequences for the entire region."
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez defended the legal challenges, saying: "We also have to be careful and vigilant over the law. These legal challenges are revealing that there were concrete irregularities which could have altered the results of (the elections). We are using legal means and we have not called for violence."
Even if the opposition were to lose the three seats, it will still hold a majority in the 167-seat National Assembly, which for the past 16 years has been dominated by the President Maduro's Socialist Party.
Outgoing National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello called a number of extraordinary sessions last week at which 13 new Supreme Court judges and 21 substitute judges were named.
President Maduro has convened a meeting of socialist supporters for January to set the course for the "Bolivarian revolution", which his party advocates.
Londonder Okoye, 23, who still holds the British discus record, left the 49ers last week after two seasons trying to establish himself.
After franchises finalised their squads over the weekend, Okoye said: "Really excited to join the @AZCardinals.
"Big thank you to everyone that has supported throughout this journey."
Okoye added: "9ers fans have been awesome with me throughout my time there - will always appreciate you no matter where I'm at."
Jack Crawford made the Dallas Cowboys' 53-man roster, but other Britons did not have such good news over the weekend's roster moves.
Former London Warriors defensive end Efe Obada was released by the Cowboys.
Rookie running back Jay Ajayi has been moved to the Miami Dolphins' injured/reserve list because of a chest injury.
Manchester-born offensive tackle Menelik Watson ruptured his Achilles tendon late last month and has also been placed on the Oakland Raiders' injured/reserve list, likely keeping him out of the entire campaign.
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The watchdog said 180,188 complaints about unwanted promotional calls and text messages had been made, up 11% from last year.
In its annual report, it said it had issued five fines relating to unsolicited calls and texts.
Consumer group Which? said the figures were the "tip of the iceberg".
The organisation said its research showed only 2% of people who received unwanted calls reported them.
"Regulators, government and industry must work harder to cut off unwanted calls and texts that annoy millions of us every day," said Richard Lloyd, executive director at Which?
The body is running a campaign to hold senior executives accountable for nuisance calls made by their companies.
It said the ICO should use its powers "to full effect", to punish companies that broke cold-calling rules.
The ICO told the BBC the rise in complaints could be attributed to its online reporting tool, which had been active for only two years.
Overall, the ICO issued more than £1m in fines in the last year.
In March, it fined the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) £180,000 after a witness in an investigation was mistakenly sent evidence relating to 64 other people involved in the case.
Other successful prosecutions included:
The total number of complaints the ICO handled fell slightly compared with last year.
The organisation also collected slightly less in fines, although this meant there were fewer appeals against its rulings.
"The number of fines issued has almost halved, but the final amount paid to the ICO, after appeals, has only dropped by 13%," said Chris McIntosh, chief executive of data security firm ViaSat UK.
"I think the ICO is being smarter about the battles it picks. For an organisation that needs to consider its budget, it's a wise course of action."
An application by a Kincora victim for a judicial review was dismissed by the High Court in Belfast as "premature and misconceived".
The challenge was taken by Gary Hoy against Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers and the HIA inquiry.
A separate independent review in England and Wales is led by Justice Lowell Goddard.
Mr Hoy's application alleged that members of the Army or security services were complicit in the abuse.
There have previously been allegations that MI5 was involved in covering up abuse at the home that is now closed.
Last year, Home Secretary Theresa May ruled out extending the national inquiry to include Kincora.
Earlier, the High Court judge said it was the HIA inquiry's intention to "collate and make publicly available as much information as possible about what occurred at Kincora".
After that, he added, authorities will be in "the best position to determine whether the UK government bears any further obligation".
He said that the HIA inquiry had pledged to examine whether the police, Army or intelligence agencies "were responsible for systems failures that caused, facilitated, or failed to prevent abuse at Kincora".
The HIA was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period, up to 1995.
These included a range of institutions, run by the church, state and voluntary sector.
The Goddard inquiry will investigate whether public bodies, such as the police, NHS and BBC, failed in their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse.
Waringstown were 34-3 after 7.1 overs but Gregg Thompson came to the rescue with three sixes in his half century.
Later, although still behind the required run rate, Kyle McCallan forced the pace but the Ulster team still finished just short.
Sunday 20 August
Waringstown v Clontarf
Clontarf 151 for eight W Azmar 36, J Mooney 28, K McCallan 2-23
Waringstown 141 for seven G Thompson 60, A Dennison 34, J Mooney 2-14
Clontarf won by 10 runs
Saturday 19 August
Waringstown head the NCU Premier League table with 36 points after 11 of the 14 fixtures while CIYMS and North Down are both on 32 points from 11.
NCU Premier League
CIYMS v Lisburn
CIYMS 209-6 M K McGillivray 77, C Dougherty 63
Lisburn D/L target 183 from 37 overs - 79 D Robinson 3-15, A Coulter 3-23
CIYMS won by 103 runs
CSNI v Muckamore
Muckamore 175-5 (45 overs)
CSNI D/L target 197 from 45 overs
CSNI 200-4 M Amjad 61 no, J Kennedy 32
CSNI won by six wickets
Waringstown v Carrickfergus
Waringstown 212-7 (47.2 overs) J Hall 66, S Khan 33
Carrickfergus D/L target 221 from 44 overs - 167 (38.2 overs) P Botha 50, A Hagan 30
Waringstown won by 53 runs
Instonians P North Down
Long's SuperValu North West Premier League
Bready v Eglinton
Eglinton 199 S Thompson 71, T Garrett 44, D Scanlon 5-26
Bready 150
Eglinton won by 49 runs
Brigade P Coleraine
Drummond P Ardmore
Fox Lodge P Donemana
Murtagh has joined Wood after making 113 appearances for Woking, having joined the Surrey side on a permanent deal from Mansfield in 2014.
He has also previously played for Cambridge, Wycombe and Macclesfield.
Wells, 32, made 97 appearances for Stevenage after joining from Braintree, before being released this summer.
"It all fitted in nicely and I will be doing a bit of coaching in the academy as well which helped," said Wells, who also has the option to extend his contract by a further year.
"I will also be able to start the college course that I wanted to with the days off that I will get, so I will be doing something that I love, while still playing football."
UK PM David Cameron has promised a referendum on EU membership by the end of 2017 and is pushing for reform.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Duda said he wanted to see the EU "fixed" to make it more efficient and more democratic.
But he criticised Mr Cameron's key proposal to delay in-work benefits for new EU migrants for four years.
He said he would not accept any EU labour laws that could discriminate against individuals from particular member states.
Correspondents say Mr Duda's surprise election victory in May signalled a shift to the right in Polish politics.
He is an ally of the ruling conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), which has clashed with domestic and EU critics in recent weeks over claims it is trying to manipulate state institutions.
Speaking to the BBC, in his first interview to international broadcast media as president, Mr Duda said the EU had "many weaknesses" and warned a so-called "Brexit" from the bloc could cause further havoc.
"The EU has been shaken time and time again with crises - whether it's the financial crisis, or the refugees crisis," he said.
"Let's not pretend, a UK exit from the EU will be a very serious crisis for the EU. Of that I have no doubt."
He said Poland's new leaders were not Eurosceptics but "Euro-realists", and that he wanted the EU to change.
MEPs from his PiS party sit with the British Conservatives in the European Parliament.
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"We want the EU to be efficient. So that it will foresee any possible future problems that are coming its way."
But he said he did not agree with Mr Cameron's drive to allow EU migrants to receive in-work benefits only after living in the UK for four years.
"I do not agree with contravening our basic freedoms, which we have in the EU framework - one of which is the principle of non-discrimination," he said.
"And this is where I am completely against changing that principle."
Mr Duda also commented on protests in recent weeks against planned changes to the Constitutional Court which critics say will undermine its ability to hold authorities to account.
The legislation requires cases to be adjudicated by a panel of at least 13 of the court's 15 judges - the minimum is between five and nine under the present system.
The change was approved by the lower house of Poland's parliament on Tuesday and now goes before the upper chamber, also controlled by PiS.
Mr Duda accused the protesters of not accepting the results of the October elections.
"These demonstrations are, above all, made up of those who until recently governed Poland - and who were removed from power by Polish voters in the general election," he said.
"They simply do not want to accept this."
The head of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, has criticised the Poland's new leadership, denouncing a "a lack of solidarity" over the refugee crisis.
Mr Duda told the BBC the country welcomed "people who wanted to come here" but repeated the government's refusal to accept mandatory quotas for resettling asylum seekers.
The move has enabled a monthly saving of around $11,5m (£8m).
The audit is part of an anti-corruption campaign by President Muhammadu Buhari, who took power last year.
Corruption and mismanagement have long been a challenge to Nigeria's growth, and the government has promised to cut costs to face an economic slowdown.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy and the continent's top oil producer, and its finances are under strain due to the recent collapse in oil prices.
The country has also faced rising inflation, a stock market slump and the slowest pace of economic growth in more than a decade.
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The audit started in December used biometric data and a bank verification number to identify holders of bank accounts into which salaries were being paid, Reuters news agency reports.
This process allowed the identification of some workers who were receiving a salary that did not correspond to the names linked to the bank accounts.
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It also revealed that some employees were receiving salaries from multiple sources.
Some 23,846 non-existent workers were removed from the payroll, an adviser to the finance minister was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Periodic checks and electronic audit techniques will be periodically carried out to prevent new frauds, the ministry said.
Officials have said the savings resulted from the anti-corruption measures will help the country tackle its crisis and prevent job cuts.
Firefighters used hydraulic equipment, a winch and hand tools to free him following the incident near Cynwyl Elfed at 19:30 BST on Friday.
He was treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen. The extent of his injuries are unknown.
The main A484 was closed in both directions following the incident.
The display has been selected to cover the Queen's life and reign, and includes both evening and day wear.
The exhibition is one of three entitled Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style from The Queen's Wardrobe.
A centrepiece is the outfit she wore for the official opening of the Scottish Parliament on 1 July 1999.
Sandra Murray designed the green silk-crepe and lace dress and purple coat, made of a silk-wool blend, which the Queen wore as the Duke of Hamilton presented her with a Scottish crown in front of the 129-member strong assembly.
A shawl of purple and green Isle of Skye tartan, woven on the Isle of Lewis, and a hat by milliner Philip Somerville, completed her look.
Exhibitions at Buckingham Palace from 23 July and at Windsor Castle from 17 September will follow.
In total, more than 150 outfits worn by the Queen will be presented across the three sites, many chosen because of their close association with the location.
British couturier Sir Norman Hartnell, who first worked for the then Princess Elizabeth in the 1940s, produced many evening dresses in her wardrobe.
Among the dozens of outfits on display will be a turquoise-blue dress with a matching bolero jacket the Queen wore at the wedding of her sister Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones in May 1960.
It is similar to a Hartnell evening gown she wore in 1962 for a gala performance of Rob Roy at the Royal Lyceum during the state visit to Scotland of King Olav of Norway.
The exhibition at Buckingham Palace will present outfits worn from the 1920s to the 2010s, from ceremonial and military attire to ensembles worn at family celebrations such as weddings and christenings.
The Windsor Castle event will bring together outfits ranging from evening gowns and elegant day wear to fancy-dress costumes worn by the young Princess Elizabeth for wartime family pantomimes.
The 46-year-old Scot joined Blackburn in November, but has activated a clause in his contract to leave after their final game against Reading on 7 May.
At the start of the April, former Aston Villa boss Lambert stated he would 'wait and see' about his future after talks with the club's owners Venky's.
He has won 10 of his 31 games in charge as Rovers sit 18th in the league.
Lambert has been quickly installed as odds-on favourite with several bookmakers to take over at Celtic, where he spent seven seasons as a player.
"I would like to place on record my thanks to the owners and especially the players, staff and fans for the tremendous backing and support I have received since I arrived," he told the club website.
"It's a brilliant club, with great people, and I wish it every success in the future. For now, I remain fully focused and determined to try to win the final two games of the season starting this Saturday against Rotherham."
Blackburn say the search for a new manager will begin 'with immediate effect'.
After replacing former boss Gary Bowyer, Lambert steered the club to a season-high position of 11th in the Championship table in December but they have struggled for form since.
Last month debts of £102.4m were revealed by Venky's, run by the Rao family that owns the club, who are based in India.
Blackburn are the sixth club he has managed, following spells at Livingston, Wycombe, Colchester, Norwich and Aston Villa.
"Paul Lambert deciding to leave is no surprise.
"Over recent weeks he has grown increasingly frustrated at the lack of communication from the owners in India, with regards his plans for next season.
"His departure next month will leave Blackburn Rovers without a manager, chairman, chief executive or managing director. A situation that can not continue going forward."
After this week's row about Gibraltar, an EU source said they would "seek to lower tensions that may arise".
Downing St said the PM "made clear" that "there would be no negotiation on the sovereignty of Gibraltar without the consent of its people".
Mrs May formally triggered two years of Brexit talks last week.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "The PM reiterated the UK's desire to ensure a deep and special partnership with the European Union following its exit and noted the constructive approach set out by the council in its draft guidelines published last week."
"Both leaders agreed that the tone of discussions had been positive on both sides, and agreed that they would seek to remain in close touch as the negotiations progressed.
He added that Mrs May had made clear "the UK would seek the best possible deal for Gibraltar as the UK exits the EU".
Downing Street said they had also discussed the agenda for the next EU Council meeting as the UK remained a "full and engaged member" of the EU.
Mr Tusk has warned the Brexit negotiations could become "confrontational" at times.
Leaving the talks, Mr Tusk had simply said "no", when asked a series of questions including whether Gibraltar had been discussed and what the tone of the talks had been. Asked if the talks had been successful he replied: "As always."
An EU source said Mr Tusk and Mrs May had a "good and friendly" meeting of about two hours: "They agreed to stay in regular contact throughout the Brexit process to keep a constructive approach and seek to lower tensions that may arise, also when talks on some issues like Gibraltar inevitably will become difficult,"
Spain contests the UK's claim to Gibraltar and draft EU Brexit negotiating guidelines have sparked a row over the British overseas territory.
The guidelines said: "After the United Kingdom leaves the Union, no agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom may apply to the territory of Gibraltar without the agreement between the Kingdom of Spain and the United Kingdom."
The 34-year-old Englishman was told to return to train with the under-20s last week following a six-week suspension for a training ground row with team-mates in September.
The former Burnley and Manchester City player has not been at training since Thursday.
Barton has made eight appearances for Mark Warburton's side this season.
The once-capped England international left Burnley under freedom of contract at the end of last season, signing a two-year contract at Ibrox.
But he was suspended from the Scottish Premiership side following a training-ground row with team-mates including midfielder Andy Halliday in September.
It came after Barton and Halliday played in Rangers' 5-1 Old Firm defeat, the club's biggest loss to their local rivals since going down 6-2 in August 2000.
The result prompted discussions, which Barton claimed "involved some sharp disagreement". Barton later apologised for "overstepping the mark".
Barton is also facing Scottish FA charges for breaching betting rules. He was charged with placing 44 bets on games between 1 July and 15 September.
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service crews were faced with a leisure boat engulfed in flames on the River Thames at 15:30 BST on Saturday.
Crews described how "thick acrid smoke" spiralled up into the city's skyline and a gas cylinder explosion was narrowly avoided.
Thames Valley Police is treating the incident as suspicious.
A fire spokesman said firefighters on the scene were able to "avert the hull from sinking and causing a navigation hazard on the waterway".
"As a further result of the swift response, the environmental impact of the incident was minimized," he added.
The 29-year-old midfielder, who joined the Baggies from Sheffield Wednesday in 2007, is one game away from making his 250th appearance for the club.
A 12-month option on his previous deal was activated earlier this summer.
"Chris is an influential figure both on and off the pitch," said manager Alan Irvine. "He has the respect of all the players and staff."
The Northern Ireland international has recently returned to fitness following a groin operation during pre-season.
Since finishing last season one place above the Premier League relegation zone, West Brom have appointed Irvine after parting company with predecessor Pepe Mel.
They paid Dynamo Kiev a club-record fee of about £10m for Nigeria striker Brown Ideye, and extended England goalkeeper Ben Foster's contract by another four years.
The extent of the intelligence agencies' computer and internet spying operation has recently become clear.
The draft Investigatory Powers Bill is meant to put it on a firm legal footing.
But the Intelligence and Security Committee says the bill lacks clarity and is a "missed opportunity".
"Given the background to the draft Bill and the public concern over the allegations made by Edward Snowden in 2013, it is surprising that the protection of people's privacy - which is enshrined in other legislation - does not feature more prominently," says the committee's report.
"One might have expected an overarching statement at the forefront of the legislation, or to find universal privacy protections applied consistently throughout the draft Bill.
"However, instead, the reader has to search and analyse each investigatory power individually to understand the privacy protections which may apply.
"This results in a lack of clarity which undermines the importance of the safeguards associated with these powers."
Committee chairman, Conservative MP Dominic Grieve, said: "We have therefore recommended that the new legislation contains an entirely new part dedicated to overarching privacy protections, which should form the backbone of the draft legislation around which the exceptional powers are then built. This will ensure that privacy is an integral part of the legislation rather than an add-on."
Mr Grieve added: "The draft bill appears to have suffered from a lack of sufficient time and preparation."
The Home Office is due to publish a final, amended version of the bill later this year.
The draft bill, which is one of the longest pieces of legislation to be considered by MPs in recent years, would force internet service providers to store web browsing records of everyone in the UK for a year.
This is meant to help the police and security services keep pace with technology being used by terrorists and organised criminals.
But security chiefs told the ISC, a cross-party committee of MPs and peers, that they already "have a range of other capabilities which enable them to obtain equivalent data" so this part of the bill will mainly be used by the police.
The ISC wants to restrict the scope of proposed "equipment interference" warrants, allowing spies to hack into suspects' smartphones and computers and download data from them. either within the UK or abroad.
Given that the "targeted" warrants could cover "a target as broad as an entire hostile foreign intelligence service" it is not clear why "bulk" warrants are also included in the bill, the committee says.
The committee is also concerned about the downloading of large databases, which might include medical or bank records, known as bulk personal data sets, to aid investigations.
Dominic Grieve said: "Given that each Bulk Personal Dataset potentially contains personal information about a large number of individuals - the majority of whom will not be of any interest to the agencies - the committee considers that each dataset is sufficiently intrusive that it should require a specific warrant.
"We therefore recommend that Class Bulk Personal Dataset warrants are removed from the legislation."
The draft bill allows the security services to hold - but not use - bulk personal data sets for a temporary period without a warrant in certain circumstances.
This could happen, the report says, when the data has been acquired "opportunistically," without the time to apply for a warrant, but it means the agencies could hold the data without authorisation indefinitely which was clearly "not appropriate".
The committee is also calling for more clarity about the privacy safeguards to be applied to the examination of material gathered by the trawling of internet traffic passing through the UK, a practice revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The draft bill is being scrutinised by a joint parliamentary committee which is due to report on Thursday.
The ISC, which took evidence in private from Home Secretary Theresa May and the heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, has confined its scrutiny to the parts of the bill that relate to secret intelligence material, which other committees cannot see.
Sir Francis Richards, a former head of GCHQ, said said the agencies already had most of the powers they needed but the bill was needed to increase transparency and public confidence in a "post-Snowden" world.
"The old legislation was designed to be obscure because there was not supposed to be any public understanding of the agencies' techniques," he told BBC Radio 4's the World at One.
There was now a need to "put the record straight" but the draft bill, in his view, struck the right balance between security and privacy.
The ISC report was welcomed by civil liberties campaigners.
Jim Killock, of the Open Rights Group, said: "Rushing through legislation has to stop. It's time for a proper debate about whether bulk surveillance powers are acceptable in a democracy like the UK."
The M8 was closed between junction 27 Arkleston and 29 St James for about three and a half hours.
Guests at the Holiday Inn Express at Glasgow Airport were moved to the nearby Holiday Inn.
Gas engineers traced the leak to an underground mains pipe in St Andrews Drive. The airport is operating as normal and the road has now reopened.
The leak, believed to be on a road near the Holiday Inn Express car park, was reported at 02:45. Gas engineers were at the scene throughout the day, along with police officers and firefighters.
The leak was fixed by mid-afternoon.
There are no reports of anyone becoming unwell as a result of the leak.
Three masked men entered the National Museum Archives building in Dublin at about 22:40 BST on Wednesday and tied up a security guard.
The gang loaded the four heads, with eight horns, into a large white van.
The security guard, who was not injured, managed to free himself and raise the alarm shortly after midnight.
A police spokesman said the building on Balheary Road, Swords, has been sealed off for forensic examination.
An incident room has also been set up at Swords Garda (police) station and officers have appealed for information about the theft.
Nigel Monaghan, keeper of the museum's natural history division, said staff had taken the decision to remove its rhino horn collection from public display in 2011, following a spate of "smash and grab" thefts from museums across Europe.
The artefacts had been placed in the museum's storage facility in Swords for safe keeping when the thieves struck.
A statement issued on behalf of the museum said: "The stolen rhinoceros heads have a total of eight horns that have probably been taken to supply the illegal trade in powdered horn that is used in traditional medicines in the Far East.
"Their price is based on weight and the total amount stolen could have a street value in the region of 500,000 euros."
The statement added that several species of rhino have been "brought to the edge of extinction" due to poaching in the wild, so in recent years thieves have begun to target museum and private collections.
The National Museum of Ireland has exhibition centres spread across four locations. Three are in Dublin and the fourth is in County Mayo.
Its natural history collection is housed on Merrion Street in Dublin city centre, close to the Irish parliament. | Colombian police say they have captured a carrier pigeon that was being used to smuggle drugs into a prison.
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Allegations of child sexual abuse at Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast will remain part of the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry in Northern Ireland, a judge has ruled.
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Directed by Clint Eastwood, the drama is up for six Oscars including best film and best actor for Bradley Cooper.
Recounting the story of real life Navy Seal Chris Kyle, it has now made a total of $200.1m (£133.2m).
"We've never quite seen anything like this at this time of year," said box office expert Paul Dergarabedian.
"American Sniper is helping to propel the box office, which is already 9.3 percent ahead of the same time last year."
The film has also dominated headlines. In the past few days it has been blamed for an increase in threats against Muslims in the US, according to an Arab-American civil rights group.
While American Sniper is breaking records at the top of the US box office, at the other end of the scale Johnny Depp's comedy heist film Mortdecai debuted in ninth place, taking only $4.1m (£2.7) in ticket sales.
It is the star's third consecutive box office flop in a leading role, after 2014's Transcendence and 2013's The Lone Ranger.
Jennifer Lopez fared better, taking second place in this week's chart with the Boy Next Door, in which she stars as a teacher who has an affair with a younger man.
British film Paddington stayed steady in third place in its second week of release, taking $12.4m (£8.25m).
Alexandra North, 25, a zoology graduate from Swindon, beat about 150 applicants from countries including France, Spain, Germany, South Korea, China, the US and Nepal to land the role with Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
She began the £24,000-a-year role in Ipswich on Monday.
The trust is focussing on the town after a large number of sightings.
She will now start to work on improving animal numbers and working with people to make gardens more wildlife friendly.
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She said: "We know hedgehogs are in trouble, there's concerning decline so this is a really exciting opportunity to try and combat the issue in Suffolk
"Hopefully with us really raising awareness we'll be able to help the situation."
Almost 12,000 hedgehogs, dead and alive, have been recorded in Suffolk over the past two years, with about 2,500 of these around Ipswich.
The trust, which is funding the role with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, previously said there was a "rich natural network" for hedgehogs across Ipswich, "including its beautiful parks as well as the cemetery, allotments and churches".
Ms North has a postgraduate degree in biodiversity and conservation and previously worked as a researcher at Cambridge-based conservation group Birdlife International.
She said she hoped to "encourage everyone to see how making small changes really can make a difference to these little creatures".
"It will be about engaging with different groups of people to get them interested and excited in helping the species," she added.
She plans to build a network of volunteers who in turn will help build a network of hedgehog-friendly routes around Ipswich's urban landscape.
The picture shows not only the six-wheeled vehicle, but also all the components of its discarded landing system.
These items include the heatshield, the parachute and backshell of the entry capsule, and the skycrane that lowered the rover to the surface.
The image was acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from 300km and at an oblique angle of 41 degrees.
"Even though these weren't the best viewing conditions, you can still see a lot of detail," said MRO and Curiosity scientist Sarah Milkovich.
"You can see a lot of dark regions around the different components where when they came in, they disturbed the bright dust and exposed a darker surface underneath," she told BBC News.
This is most evident at the crash site of the skycrane, which clearly kicked up a shower of dusty debris on impact that then fanned off to the northwest.
And by the rover itself, it is possible on the close-up view to see two darker lobes either side of the vehicle. These are the patches of ground that were disturbed by the rockets of the skycrane at the moment of touchdown.
To give a sense of scale, the distance from the rover to the heatshield is 1,200m; to the parachute and backshell, 615m; and to the skycrane, 650m.
MRO will get another picture of the landing site in five days' time but on that occasion it will be looking almost straight down instead of off to the side.
In this image, the team hope to get much better definition on the vehicle.
The main camera on the satellite - its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise) - can achieve a resolution of 30cm/pixel, so it may even be possible to see the shadows the robot casts on the ground.
The geologists on the mission team have taken a keen interest in the landing site image for what it tells them about the nature of the rocks in the area.
It is apparent from the picture that there are three distinct zones of ground.
At top-right is an area that previous observations have revealed to have high thermal inertia - it stays warmer longer at night, for example - than the broad area off to the left that holds all of the landing components other than the heatshield.
The third zone at bottom-right seems to display more impact cratering, which is usually indicative of being an older surface.
Visiting the intersection of all three zones is now being considered as a possible science destination once the rover starts some serious driving in September.
A signal confirming the Curiosity rover (also known as the Mars Science Laboratory, MSL) had landed on the Red Planet was received here at mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at 05:32 GMT; 06:32 BST on Monday (22:32 PDT Sunday).
The robot rover put down on the floor of a deep depression on Mars' equator known as Gale Crater.
The first hours on the surface have been spent checking out the health of the vehicle and retrieving some early engineering pictures that tell the mission team about the immediate vicinity where Curiosity landed.
Efforts are currently under way to deploy the vehicle's high-gain antenna (HGA), which would provide a direct-to-Earth link through which to pass data. At the moment, it is all being relayed back via MRO and Nasa's other Mars satellite, Odyssey.
The HGA task should have been completed on Sol 1 - the first full day of Martian surface operations - but the team is having to deal with a pointing error on the antenna. This should be fixed on Sol 2.
Also on Sol 2, a command will be sent to lift the rover's mast, which holds its navigation cameras and the ChemCam laser instrument that can determine the chemistry of rocks from a distance.
Perhaps one of the best pictures returned from the rover so far is the test shot from Mahli - the Mars Hand Lens Imager.
This camera is mounted on the rover's tool-bearing turret at the end of its robotic arm.
The picture, which was released early on Tuesday, gives us a real sense of being on Mars.
You can see some rocks in the near-field and the rim of Gale crater in the far-field.
It looks hazy simply because the transparent dust cover was left in place when the shot was taken, but the camera team says the image tells them the Mahli is in great shape.
"If it did not have dust on it, you would not know it had dust on it," explained Ken Edgett, the camera's principal investigator.
"The purpose of the first picture? We haven't used the camera and its focus mechanism since July last year [before we launched from Earth]. It was to check the instrument was working properly - and it is," he told BBC News.
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Sharp has joined for an undisclosed fee and signed a two-year contract with the option of an extra year.
The 29-year-old returns to Bramall Lane for a third spell having begun his career there in 2004 before playing for them again from 2007 to 2010.
"I'm looking forward to working with them," said Blades boss Nigel Adkins.
Republic of Ireland international Sammon, 28, has one year left on his contract with Derby.
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Daniel McConnell leapt from bed after the smash in Brisbane, Queensland, in the early hours of Thursday.
He said he followed the driver, who fled the scene, before giving police directions to apprehend him.
"I was just chasing him in me jocks," Mr McConnell said in a TV interview viewed millions of times online.
He said his wife first heard the crash at the neighbouring fish and chip shop, which is run by his friend's mother.
"I come outside in me jocks, and I've seen old mate… and I said, 'oi, what are you doing there mate, you gotta wait here,' and he's like, 'nah, nah, I fell asleep behind the wheel,'" Mr McConnell told Australia's Nine Network.
"He just started taking off, so I've run inside, jumped in me little purple car, and started chasing him up the street.
"He went down a side street, and I told the coppers he went down a side street, and they went and got him."
Mr McConnell has been widely praised on social media for his actions and colourful turns of phrase.
Some even suggested he be given a bravery award, or promote an underwear brand.
One Nine presenter dubbed Mr McConnell "Australian of the year" at the end of the interview.
Another asked him: "You know all good superheroes wear their underwear on the outside?"
Mr McConnell replied: "Yeah, but I had nothing on but me jocks."
A 35-year-old man has been charged with unlicensed driving and is expected to appear at Brisbane Magistrates' Court on January 31.
He is accused of "aggravated pimping", or helping to procure sex workers for a prostitution ring based at a hotel in Lille. Thirteen other people are on trial with him.
DSK, as he is widely known in France, was once seen as a leading contender for the French presidency, but if found guilty he could end up in jail.
The "Carlton affair" - named after the hotel in the northern French city of Lille that sparked the initial investigation - erupted in 2011. An anonymous tip-off alerted officials that the hotel was being used for prostitution.
Further investigation uncovered an international prostitution ring involving prominent local businessmen.
It emerged that some of the suspects had close links to Mr Strauss-Kahn and that he took part in sex parties organised by them in France and Washington in late 2010 and early 2011. Prostitutes have said they were paid to attend those parties.
The 13 other people also facing the charge of "aggravated pimping" include:
Using prostitutes is legal in France.
However under article 225-5 of the criminal code, the definition of pimping includes not just procuring, but also facilitating prostitution "in any way".
Investigators, who have found SMS (text) messages between Mr Strauss-Kahn and the other co-defendants, believe that the sex parties were organised specifically for the benefit of the former head of the International Monetary Fund.
Prosecutors therefore believe he played a major role in instigating the orgies. Some have described him as the "party king".
He and his co-accused are accused of "aggravated" pimping because the prostitution activities were allegedly organised by a group of people.
If convicted he could face a 10-year prison sentence and a fine of €1.5m (£1.13m; $1.72 million).
Two former prostitutes have agreed to help the prosecution, Mounia and Jade, and both believe he must have known they were prostitutes. Both attended sex parties at the Hotel Murano in Paris between 2009 and 2010, but never together.
Mounia told the court that she was chosen especially for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but acknowledged no mention of money was ever raised in his presence. She said she was paid €900 (£690) by David Roquet, for what she had been told would be a "small party".
She also says DSK forced her to commit an act "against nature" at a party in Paris, which he denies.
Jade worked for brothel owner Dominique Alderweireld and had attended lunchtime sex parties in Lille. She is also believed to have travelled to Washington to take part in a sex party there. In her testimony, she said she had been introduced to a "public figure", and said she was paid either by Dominique Alderweireld or Rene Kojfer.
Mr Strauss-Kahn has never denied taking part in sex parties. But, he insists: "I committed no crime, no offence."
His main line of defence is that he had no idea some of the women there were prostitutes. One of his lawyers once said: "I challenge you to tell a naked prostitute from a naked society lady."
Giving evidence on 10 February, he also accused prosecutors of having greatly exaggerated the frequency of his "licentious evenings". He said: "There were only 12 parties in total - that is four per year over three years."
It was the prostitutes who said it was obvious what they were, he told the court. "But many other witnesses say they didn't see any prostitutes. I maintain that I neither knew nor suspected there were prostitutes."
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The incident began when three men approached a silver Citroen Berlingo while it was sitting at traffic lights in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire.
Two of the men used hammers to smash the windscreen and passenger window.
The victim managed to drive off but was pursued "at speed" by the men in a white Audi before he lost them.
Police said they believed it was a targeted attack.
The incident started on Thursday at about 20:15 at a set of traffic lights on Park Road, Milngavie, directly outside the Royal Mail sorting office.
Police said three men got out of a nearby white Audi, possibly an S3 model, while one man remained in the driver's seat.
One man, who was wearing a blue hooded top, approached the victim's nearside passenger window and smashed it with a hammer.
A second man wearing a grey T-shirt then smashed the windscreen.
The victim managed to drive off, and the three men got back into the car with the driver and followed him along Clober Road into Craigton Road and onto Hunter Road, before turning into Craigdhu Road and back onto Park Road.
The victim then turned right onto Milngavie Road and travelled south onto Maryhill Road, where he managed to lose the men.
Det Sgt Alan Cuthbert, from Maryhill CID, said: "This was a frightening incident for the victim who luckily managed to escape uninjured.
"It is critical we trace those responsible as soon as possible as their actions were extremely dangerous and not only put the victim at risk, but other drivers in the area as well. However we do believe that this was a targeted attack.
"The roads would have been busy around the time of the incident and I would appeal to any drivers or pedestrians who witnessed was happened to get in touch with officers."
He says he felt "bullied" into getting rid of the character over claims he made rape jokes - claims he denies.
In our exclusive interview, O'Reilly insists he wants to "continue to entertain my fans".
It's the first time the comedian's spoken since saying he's bringing back Dapper Laughs.
He says the backlash against Dapper Laughs has made him "be careful" about what he says.
Newsbeat asked him if he felt he'd lost his right to speak freely, even if people found what he said offensive.
"Freedom of speech. I understand with freedom of speech comes consequences. Again, I feel like I was bullied out of it."
He says he felt his freedom of speech had been violated and believes his comedy would be treated differently now in light of the Charlie Hebdo shootings earlier this year.
"If you take the whole situation that happened over those three days (when O'Reilly killed off his Dapper Laughs character) and done that now, a week after that situation (Charlie Hebdo) I think the outcome would have been completely different.
"If I wanted to at the time I could have tried to rally all of my fans together and say, 'look at what they're doing to me, come on help', but I didn't."
He says he killed off Dapper Laughs last November after getting "a lot of hate" towards his family from people online.
He says he was "forced" to stop playing the character and announce his decision in an interview with Newsnight.
O'Reilly says he was shocked at the media response to Dapper Laughs and how newspapers were "allowed to fabricate and make up stuff and create a mass hysteria point of view around the character".
He says: "I felt completely bullied out of it. I come from quite a rough background, I don't mind saying it.
"I'm working class, I know that my humour caters for that type of lad, or whatever, humour.
"But the majority of people at my shows are women. The audience is more heavy [to] women. The audience is mixed, so I understand the upper class - different types of people - like different types of humour. They're not going to like my humour, I understand that.
"But they've bullied me out of continuing to do what I wanted to do. And when they portrayed my humour to the masses, to the UK, they done it in a way where they showed everything's falling apart, the rape joke and everything like that.
"Yeah, I felt bullied, I felt it was unfair really, to be honest."
He also says he had people "wishing that my dad had cancer and would die", and reveals his father was actually battling cancer at the time.
O'Reilly also says reporters were "going to my mum's house, banging on the door, with cameras, going to my sister's kid's school, with cameras and my sister's house with cameras".
But not everybody agrees with Daniel's brand of comedy. 20-year-old Amy, a student in Sheffield, told Newsbeat Dapper Laughs is "dangerous".
"The way that is on Facebook, and everywhere, like it's so big on social media, I think that's one of the most dangerous things about it.
"People see that every single day, it's like normality being misogynistic about women. I don't think freedom of speech comes into that. I think it's very dangerous and perpetuates rape culture."
Meanwhile, O'Reilly says claims he made jokes about rape are wrong.
"So let's talk about this then. This for me is one of the most frustrating parts of the drama that happened, because I've got people coming up to me in the street, and people writing on social media.
"There's millions of people in the UK who think they know who Dapper Laughs is, that have never seen any of his videos. They haven't watched any of it. They've just heard that one joke and they've cast their opinion on that."
O'Reilly says he doesn't make jokes about rape and has "never found rape funny".
The Londoner says he didn't kill off Dapper Laughs to create publicity.
"It wasn't a stunt. It wasn't a stunt at all. Like I just explained to you, everything was too much. That was the only way that I could stop it. And it did, it stopped it, it stopped the drama.
"Then, do you know what? I had time to settle down, and calm down and think about what had happened.
"[It was] after I'd started receiving other petitions, 30, 40,000 people signing petitions on my Facebook to bring me back, and a lot of my fans disgusted that I even contemplated giving up what I loved doing, and when I thought about the hard work of what we'd achieved last year, including two sold out tours.
"You know what I mean? I wrote and co-produced my own TV show, I got a single to 15 in the charts. Do you know what I mean? I headlined at V Festival comedy tent twice, didn't receive any complaints.
"And to think all of that because of what the media decided they wanted to communicate to the public, I had to stop it.
"I sat down and thought about it, I thought to myself, 'Nah, I'm not going to be bullied out of what I like doing. Let's bring it back, let's carry on.'"
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On Friday, police received a report that a girl, missing from an independent care home, had been abused.
The girl, who had been moved to the home from another part of the UK, was reported missing again on Saturday.
Police found she had been taken to an address in the town and raped by a group of men. Officers believe the two incidents may be linked.
All six arrested men have been released on bail until 29 October.
The girl is being supported by police and specialist agencies.
In 2012, nine men from Rochdale and Oldham were jailed for crimes including rape, trafficking and child sex abuse, with sentences ranging from four to 10 years.
Five others were jailed in 2013 after an investigation in Rochdale into the sexual abuse of a girl was reopened.
Earlier this year, Greater Manchester Police apologised after a report highlighted failures "at individual and force level" into its dealings with victims from 2008-2010.
Talbot took the lead when Keir Milliken arrowed home a low drive to give them hope of a 12th Junior Cup success.
But in 27 minutes Cameron Marlow's controlled volley restored parity.
And, with 15 minutes remaining, Cairns sent the fans bedecked in red and white into raptures with a 25-yard cracker.
The New Cumnock team last won the trophy in 1993 and had lost in the final on four other occasions, most recently to Hurlford United three years ago.
But they brought their league-winning form into the 131st Scottish Junior Cup final and made it four wins on the trot this season against the team that plays only nine miles away from their own Loch Park ground.
The Scottish Junior Cup is the most coveted trophy at that level of the game and it was fitting that Kilmarnock's Rugby Park was the venue for an all-Ayrshire final, the sixth in the competition's history.
The fans' inflammatory song books and the celebrations that greeted Glens' triumph suggest that being the top team out of the 160 who entered is not all that matters - community and identity are important components too.
For 22-year-old Marlow, who has had two spells in America, "there is nothing better than this club".
The Glenafton midfielder told BBC Scotland: "I can't describe the feeling, when you score the goal and the fans are cheering. What it means to the New Cumnock community is unbelievable.
"I enjoy this club. I love everything about it. Everything has paid off."
Signalling towards the rump of dejected Talbot fans who remained to applaud their players, he joked: "Today was fantastic, especially scoring a goal and running that way, seeing all the faces hating me."
Imposing centre-half Ryan McChesney stood up well to the trickery of Auchinleck's Milliken, Graham Wilson and attacking midfielder Dwayne Hyslop, and was delighted to have a winner's medal after the dejection of losing the final in 2014.
"I'm a local boy, from the village," he said.
"I started with the boys' club and worked my way up. I'll go home and celebrate with my family. I'm just delighted."
Match-winner Cairns played for Kilmarnock Under-19s and St Mirren reserves before moving to junior football.
He was still coming to terms with scoring a goal - his first in possibly four years, he reckons - never mind one that won the cup.
"My dad said I used to score wonder goals all the time but I don't know where that one came from," said the 22-year-old, who works in the petrochemical industry.
"They tell me every day in training to shoot. I was going to play the ball wide but I thought 'why not?'.
"I'm surprised it went in. The goalie's about 7ft. I didn't know what to do; it was my first goal in I-don't-know-how-long."
Club officials John Campbell and Eric Wilson took in the atmosphere of the post-match celebrations and paid credit to the squad of only 17 players who had clinched a league and cup double, training twice a week and juggling football with jobs that pay.
"We're going for a treble," said Campbell.
"We have the Super Cup to win next week. We play Girvan in the semi-final on Wednesday night. These players don't play for money; they play for pride... and expenses."
Some 4,300 Glenafton fans packed the main stand at Kilmarnock, a considerably greater number than populate New Cumnock.
"In '93 when we got to the cup final there were 8,500 in the village; now there are 2,900," said Wilson.
"Fans have come from as far afield as Canada."
Brothers George, David and Robert came home from Norfolk, Manchester and Warrington respectively to see Afton lift the cup.
George told BBC Scotland: "I've met people who have travelled from all over the UK, who haven't been in New Cumnock for years and who I haven't seen for 20 years. It's fantastic.
"In terms of the match, I think it could have been a better game.
"I didn't think it was right to play it on an artificial pitch. I think both teams really struggled on it. It's a beautiful surface but only if you play on it all the time."
As the stadium emptied and the coaches returned to New Cumnock, many fans looked determined to live up to the declaration on their red and white T-shirts: "We are the Afton Army. We party all the time."
But for Talbot manager Tommy Sloan, who has guided his team to five of their 11 Scottish Junior Cup wins since he took charge in 2003, Sunday night will be a far more sober occasion.
The Auchinleck players and fans will need to leave the celebrations for winning a famous old trophy 12 times to Real Madrid.
Hisense can make TV sets using the Sharp name thanks to a deal it signed with the company in 2015.
Sharp said the TVs bearing its name broke US rules on electromagnetic emissions and that Hisense had made false claims about picture quality.
Hisense said it "categorically" denied the claims made in Sharp's court papers and it would defend itself.
As well as accusing the Hisense-made TV sets of breaking emission guidelines, Sharp said the devices also broke Federal Trade Commission rules on pictures sizes and did not meet wider industry standards covering device safety.
Sharp's legal papers said its brand was at risk of being "destroyed" by the "shoddily manufactured" TV sets by the time the five-year deal ended.
It wants Hisense to stop using the Sharp name.
The legal action is believed to be linked to Sharp's efforts to rebuild itself after a long period of turmoil.
Sharp signed the deal with Hisense to raise cash when it was facing financial problems.
Soon after, Taiwanese electronics company Foxconn bought a controlling stake in Sharp and has injected cash into the business to re-invigorate it.
Regaining control of its brand in the US would aid this rebuilding effort.
In a statement shared with the Wall Street Journal, Hisense said it was looking forward to presenting its case in court.
It added that it was in "full compliance" with the agreement signed in 2015 and the attempt to end the deal would have no effect.
"Hisense will continue to manufacture and sell quality televisions under the Sharp licensed brands," it said.
Israel strongly opposed the move and urged member states to vote against it.
The motion was passed by 119 votes, with Israel and the US among the eight countries that voted against.
Palestinian representative to the UN Riyad Mansour said ahead of the vote it would be "another step" towards solidifying Palestinian statehood.
The move comes amid growing momentum to recognise Palestinian statehood, with several states showing their support in the past year.
In May, the Vatican signed its first formal bilateral treaty recognising Palestinian statehood.
The motion called for the flags of non-member observer states like the Palestinian territories to follow the flags of member states outside UN offices.
It also means the flag of the Vatican - the only other non-member observer state - can now be raised. The resolution gives 20 days for the motion to be implemented.
Forty-five nations abstained from the vote, including the UK and many other members of the European Union.
France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia were among the EU states that voted in favour.
In 2012, the UN General Assembly voted to upgrade the status of the Palestinians to that of a "non-member observer state" allowing them to take part in assembly debates.
It followed a failed bid to join the international body as a full member state in 2011 because of a lack of support in the UN Security Council.
Palestinian observers say they hope to raise the flag on 30 September, when President Mahmoud Abbas is due to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York.
Israel's UN representative Ron Prosor said the move was a "blatant attempt to hijack the UN", insisting that the only way Palestinians could achieve statehood was through direct negotiations.
Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN, said the raising of the flag was "not an alternative to negotiations [between the Palestinians and Israel], and will not bring the parties closer to peace".
But the French ambassador, Francois Delattre, said the flag was "a powerful symbol, a glimmer of hope" for the Palestinians amid the breakdown of peace talks.
Some 135 countries - many in Asia, Africa and Latin America - now recognise a Palestinian state.
They are from all over the world, including the US, UK, France and China.
Vtech has also suspended 13 websites following the hacking of its Learning Lodge app database.
The hacked database included a lot of customer data, including some details about children, and the company was told about the breach by a journalist.
It did not contain any credit card information, Vtech said, but it did store the "name, email address, encrypted password, secret question and answer for password retrieval, IP address, mailing address and download history" of customers.
"The Vtech breach illustrates one of the major issues facing us today," said Tod Beardsley, security engineering manager at internet security firm Rapid7.
"With the Internet of Things, companies of all sorts are rapidly morphing into information technology companies, but without the hard-won security learnings that traditional infotech companies now enjoy.
"It's tough to be both a toy manufacturer and a mature technology company with a robust security program.
"This is not just a challenge for companies that are just now entering tech, but a challenge for the security industry to communicate effectively, and quickly, to these companies who haven't yet earned their security stripes the hard way."
Professor Alan Woodward, cybersecurity expert at Surrey University, said it looked like the Hong Kong-based firm may have been subjected to a simple hacking technique known as an SQL injection.
"These breaches are endemic and we have to stop. If that means focusing the minds of these companies through big fines then so be it. It needs to be taken seriously and those responsible held to account," he told the BBC.
RepowerBalcombe has installed 69 solar panels on a cowshed in Crawley Down.
Now shares are to be offered for the installation of solar arrays at Balcombe Primary School and Turners Hill Primary School, near Crawley.
The co-operative said it anticipated the Balcombe school would use about 80% of the electricity generated
The rest will be fed into the national grid.
A spokesman for RepowerBalcombe said: "This will save the school approximately £530 on their energy bill each year."
Turners Hill Primary School is expected to use about 50% of the energy it produces, saving £400 each year.
RepowerBalcombe said the pilot installation of 69 panels at Grange Farm would generate just over 1% of the community's electricity, but with the roll out of other projects by the summer, it hoped this would rise to 10%.
Community energy campaigner Leo Murray said: "The ambition of the co-op is to finance and install enough panels to match the village's annual demand."
When the 20-year investment comes to an end, the solar panels, which have a life expectancy of around 40 years, will be gifted to the schools, Mr Murray said.
The minimum investment in the schools' scheme is £250 and the maximum investment is 30% of the total share offer value, RepowerBalcombe said.
More than 1,000 protesters set up camp there in 2013 when energy firm Cuadrilla was test-drilling for oil, amid fears it would lead to fracking.
The company said it had found oil at the site but had no plans to frack for oil "now or in the future" in Balcombe.
Ex-soldier Dylan Jones, 37, from Llansawel, who had post-traumatic stress disorder, was awaiting treatment when he died, according to his sister.
Amanda Jones believes his life may have been saved had he been treated sooner.
A total of 274 men took their own lives in 2015, an increase of 27% compared with 2014, according to ONS figures published in December.
The Welsh Government said, while it could not comment on individual cases, mental health treatment, support and prevention services were among its "priorities".
Speaking on BBC Radio Cymru's current affairs programme, Manylu, Ms Jones, said her brother had been told in March 2015 he had to wait five months to be treated for PTSD.
But four months later the father to twins took his own life.
"He suffered with terrible nightmares and insomnia and it affected his everyday life very much," she said.
"Dylan did seek help in March 2015 and he was told there was a five months waiting list.
"If he had been seen sooner, would he still be with us here today? I think, yes.
"I think it's important that men in general know that it's important to be able to talk to someone who can help you about mental health issues."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Our suicide and self-harm strategy for Wales, Talk to Me 2, focuses on groups of people known to be most vulnerable to suicide.
"For veterans, we continue to make £585,000 available each year to fund the Veterans' NHS Wales Service, providing therapeutic interventions from dedicated veteran therapists in each local health board."
The spokesman said since its inception in 2010, the service has seen over 1,800 veterans, according to figures up to December 2016.
"The expectation for this service is the same as with other mental health services - individual patients, whatever their background, are seen according to clinical need."
The £28m scheme, which will include a larger pool and expanded gym facilities at Fleming Park leisure centre, was approved by Eastleigh Borough Council on Wednesday.
It is hoped the replacement centre will open near Passfield Avenue, Eastleigh in 2017.
The current centre - built in the 1970s - will be demolished.
Grant funding of up to £2m from Sport England and New Homes Bonus funding of £3.8m will support the project with the remainder coming from Eastleigh Borough Council.
Keith House, Liberal Democrat leader of the authority, said the new centre "would underpin our ambitions for a healthy Eastleigh Borough and will allow us to develop our young talent while delivering sports and leisure opportunities for people of all abilities".
Mr Abbott issued a short statement on Sunday night saying he would contest the seat of Warringah.
He has held the seat on Sydney's northern beaches for 22 years.
Malcolm Turnbull replaced Mr Abbott as prime minister after winning a ballot for leadership of the ruling Liberal Party in September.
Mr Abbott said he had taken time out to assess his future since losing the leadership and was heartened by the support that he had received from his constituents.
"Therefore, I am renominating to represent the people of Warringah for another term as their Liberal MP," he said.
Mr Abbott's decision to stay in politics immediately drew comparisons to Kevin Rudd, the Labor prime minister who was dumped by his own party in 2010.
Mr Rudd's desire to return to the leadership was seen as a destabilising force for the Labor government and the prime minister who replaced him, Julia Gillard.
Mr Rudd eventually won back the leadership from Ms Gillard, but led Labor to defeat against Mr Abbott in the 2013 federal election.
Liberal senator and Abbott loyalist Eric Abetz dismissed the comparisons, telling the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that Mr Abbott was "no Kevin Rudd".
"Kevin Rudd was always about one thing only, Kevin Rudd, whereas Tony Abbott has always been about one thing, namely, the Australian people," Mr Abetz said.
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The 62-year-old's reputation was heavily damaged after he left his dream job with England in September after being caught up in a newspaper sting speaking about how to "get around" rules on player transfers and using his role to negotiate a deal worth £400,000 to represent a Far East firm.
The Football Association said Allardyce's conduct was "inappropriate" but his track record and expertise at dragging clubs out of trouble still meant he was Palace's first choice when Alan Pardew was sacked on Thursday.
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The clue will be in the instant reaction of Palace chairman Steve Parish, who admitted a switch to a more "expansive" style this season had failed and it was now time to "wind the dial back the other way".
This could almost be code for "we've conceded too many daft goals", so Allardyce's first task will be to give Palace some defensive backbone, a managerial job he has been adept at in the past.
It will certainly present a different scenario to Allardyce, who has often - not always with justification - been criticised for not being expansive enough when in charge at clubs, such as Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United.
Allardyce walks into Selhurst Park with the bar set low. They are the worst performing of all 92 Premier League and Football League sides in 2016, below York City - who are bottom of the National League - with 26 points from 36 games, an average of 0.72 points per games.
The Eagles are in 17th place, just a point off the relegation places having conceded 32 goals. Only Hull City and Swansea City, both below them, have worse defensive records.
Allardyce's base camp, familiar territory for him, will be to make Palace tough to beat again. Strong foundations throughout the team will be his tactical watchword. He is likely to want strong, experienced defenders, such Scott Dann, to help him achieve that.
At Sunderland he saw similar failings and spent £6m on Lorient defender Lamine Kone, who was outstanding, while shoring up his midfield with Bayern Munich's Jan Kirchhoff. It was classic Allardyce as both January signings played key roles in the Black Cats' survival.
He has cast-iron faith in his own methods and rails against the suggestion he is simply a long-ball disciple.
In the past, Allardyce has employed width and power and has weapons to suit that style in the likes of Andros Townsend and Wilfried Zaha plus powerful spearhead Christian Benteke.
Allardyce can also produce evidence of his willingness to work with flair players - not simply those who will adhere slavishly to limited managerial principles. At Bolton, he successfully incorporated France World Cup winner Youri Djorkaeff, Nigerian maverick Jay-Jay Okocha and Real Madrid legend Fernando Hierro into his set-up.
This may give hope to the likes of midfielder Yohan Cabaye, but initially Allardyce will want Palace to rid themselves of the soft underbelly that has made them such a miserable proposition for the past 12 months.
Allardyce may have been discredited by his 67-day England experience - but the reaction to his appointment has been that Palace have got the best around at ensuring they are not in the Championship at the start of next season.
Allardyce was appointed England manager on the back of saving Sunderland from relegation last season rather than winning silverware or making a significant impact at home in Europe.
His reputation as a troubleshooter is actually enhanced by the fate of two clubs who sacked him. Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers both dispensed with his services - in January 2008 and December 2010 respectively - and down the line both eventually dropped into the Championship.
It is a fallacy, however, to suggest Allardyce is simply an impenetrable shield against relegation. He has proved much more than that.
Allardyce, as he never been slow to mention to his critics, has always been at the forefront of sports science and modern managerial techniques. Some may quibble about his style but none can question his preparation.
He is sure to bring his own analysts and fitness coaches to Selhurst Park.
The statistics suggest that if Palace survive this season, and Allardyce is then given time, he will prove he is more than a one-trick pony and avoiding relegation is not his only speciality.
When he got Bolton Wanderers promoted to the Premier League via the play-offs in 2000-01, he consolidated in 16th and 17th place for two seasons before four successive finishes in the top 10 and Uefa Cup football, before announcing his intention to leave on 29 April 2007 with Bolton in fifth.
Newcastle were 11th when he was sacked and he took Blackburn from 19th to 15th after he was appointed in December 2008. They were a highly respectable 10th the following season and were in 13th place when he was sacked by new owners Venkys.
And on to West Ham United, where he fulfilled his mission to get the Hammers back into the Premier League before consolidating them in the top flight. They finished 10th, 13th and 12th after promotion before his departure by mutual consent in May 2015.
So yes, Palace are getting a manager well versed in keeping teams in the top flight, but the image of an operator who is only at home scrapping it out to avoid relegation can be exposed as something of a myth.
Palace may be getting the Allardyce who guarantees survival. If he does that, they may get much more.
Allardyce inherits, in potential at least, one of the strongest squads Palace have possessed in the Premier League but the club's American major shareholders, David Blitzer and Josh Harris - who each purchased an 18% stake a year ago - will back him to strengthen in January.
He will look to make similar deals to those that brought Kone and Kirchhoff, as well as survival, to Sunderland but will also look to make the best of Palace's heavy summer investment.
Allardyce will have a genuine goal threat at his disposal in Christian Benteke, a £27m signing from Liverpool, while Wilfried Zaha can be a thrilling talent out wide and through the middle. He will also hope to reignite winger Andros Townsend's career.
If he can get the threat right, he also has the tools to shore up Palace's porous defence.
He is the sort of manager who may bring the best out of Dann, while he also has James Tomkins in central defence after his £10m summer move from West Ham United.
It remains to be seen whether Cabaye is to his taste and he may want to add a goalkeeper with first choice Steve Mandanda out injured.
Allardyce will not have been wasting his time while out of the game - he will know what Palace need.
This most enduring managerial figure will undoubtedly be working the markets as usual - but he will know he has talent at his disposal instantly that can benefit from his organisational skills and tactical nous.
Allardyce cut a discredited figure when he left the England manager's job after 67 days and one game - a scrappy 1-0 World Cup qualifying win in Slovakia.
He hinted recently, however, that he was ready to return as he admitted: "I don't think I can leave it where it ended." And he will not as he takes over at a club that looks the perfect fit for his abilities.
And the good thing for Allardyce - arguably the only good thing - to come out of that 'blink and you'll miss it' England reign is that he was not in the job long enough to damage his reputation as a manager who can get results when needed.
The turbulent tenure as national team boss will be an indelible scar on his CV, especially as this was the job he had openly craved for more than a decade. It was not, however, ever likely to be Allardyce's career-ending moment.
Allardyce will be welcomed back by Palace's passionate supporters and once the dust settles, and he is back in an environment where he remains a popular personality with many, his recent misdemeanour may just fade a little further into the background.
He is also thick-skinned enough to deal with any fallout that comes his way. After all, he openly and politely addressed his England departure with reporters on the drive of his house the day after his departure.
Palace will get a manager motivated by the pain of what happened with England as well as a character who is always happy to defy his critics.
Survival will suffice for this season's journey - but Allardyce will not see this as winding down towards retirement as a fit and healthy 62-year-old.
Few will bet against him keeping Palace in the Premier League - and with Steve Parish still an ambitious chairman, in partnership with the club's owners, they have proved their continued ambition with the re-investment of the £25m received from Everton for Yannick Bolasie and more besides to land the likes of Benteke, Townsend, defender James Tomkins and goalkeeper Steve Mandanda in the summer.
Selhurst Park remains one of the most atmospheric, intimidating arenas in the league and if Allardyce can harness this, inspire his team and add a few new faces of his own, he will prove more than just a sticking plaster applied to their immediate troubles.
The 19-year-old City right-back let fly with a fierce 25-yard right-foot shot, which deflected in off Damon Lathrope.
The Gulls, who had to play the whole of the second half with 10 men after Myles Anderson was sent off, went closest when Jamie Reid hit the post.
Chester are now nine points clear of trouble, with Torquay in 21st place.
The closest either side came before the break were a pair of curled free kicks over the bar from Chester's Evan Horwood and Torquay front man Reid.
The visitors went close to earning a 43rd-minute penalty when James Alabi was brought down on the edge of the box. But referee Sam Allison opted not to give the spot-kick and instead sent off Anderson.
Chester had to survive a huge second-half scramble when Ruairi Keating was denied in a triple let-off that ended with keeper Alex Lynch touching Reid's shot onto the post
Hughes, the best player on the park and already on the wish list of Football League clubs, then fired home before Chester had to survive a real scare when defender Ryan Astles somehow scooped over his own bar in the 86th minute.
Match ends, Torquay United 0, Chester FC 1.
James Alabi (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half ends, Torquay United 0, Chester FC 1.
Goal! Torquay United 0, Chester FC 1. Sam Hughes (Chester FC).
Substitution, Chester FC. Tom Shaw replaces Kane Richards.
Substitution, Torquay United. Brett Williams replaces Ruairi Keating.
Substitution, Chester FC. Elliott Durrell replaces Wade Joyce.
Luke Young (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Torquay United 0, Chester FC 0.
First Half ends, Torquay United 0, Chester FC 0.
Substitution, Torquay United. Jordan Lee replaces Shaun Harrad.
Myles Anderson (Torquay United) is shown the red card.
Substitution, Chester FC. Matty Waters replaces Evan Horwood.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence analyst, was jailed for life in 1987 after being found guilty of passing documents to Israel.
US Secretary of State John Kerry denied the move was a bid to appease Israel amid tensions over Iran's nuclear deal.
The case has been a source of friction between the US and Israel for decades.
Rumours of his release have been circulating for several days, with some analysts suggesting it was tied to the nuclear agreement with Iran.
But officials said he had always been eligible for parole after 30 years and his lawyers said the parole board made their decision "independently of any other US government agency".
"The decision is not connected to recent developments in the Middle East," his lawyers said in a statement.
"I haven't even had a conversation about it," Mr Kerry told reporters as he left a House of Representatives committee hearing on the Iranian nuclear deal.
Pollard, 60, began work as a civilian analyst in US navy intelligence near Washington DC in 1979 and began offering classified materials shortly afterwards.
Navy officials and the FBI interviewed him in 1985 after he was found to have removed classified documents from his office.
Under the threat of an espionage prosecution, he and his wife, Anne, sought asylum at the Israeli embassy but were turned away. They were arrested soon after by the FBI.
Israel initially denied he was their spy but they made him a citizen in 1996 and two years later they admitted he was their agent.
Pollard has always maintained that he gave Israel classified documents because the US was not passing important information to its ally.
His supporters say he was unfairly punished and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously urged the US to release him.
The US used Pollard's release as an incentive during Israel-Palestinian talks last year but the peace effort collapsed he remained in prison.
Pollard, who has suffered with health issues in recent years, divorced and remarried while held at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina.
His lawyers said he was "looking forward to being reunited with his beloved wife Esther" when he is released on 21 November.
They said he will be required to remain in the US for five years under the terms of the parole.
Mr Trump told Mr Varadkar Irish media were in the Oval Office and called over RTÉ's Washington Correspondent.
"She has a nice smile on her face so I bet she treats you well," he said.
Reporters said Mr Varadkar kept Mr Trump waiting for around 90 seconds before answering.
Mr Varadkar later said there was "no significance" in the delay, putting it down to the time taken to put the call through to him.
Footage from Tuesday shows Mr Trump beckoning to Ms Perry and telling Mr Varadkar "we have all of this Irish, beautiful Irish press here".
"One minute we were outside the window and the next minute I'm meeting the President of The United States," Ms Perry told RTÉ.
"Usually we would shoot from outside the window of the White House and that's what we were expecting today, but instead we were invited inside to witness the President's call to the Taoiseach.
"When we went in he was already on the phone but I managed to catch his eye and he called me over."
Mr Varadkar was invited to the White House next year for the St Patrick's Day celebration during the conversation.
The US president also congratulated Mr Varadkar on his "great victory".
Mr Varadkar was confirmed as Ireland's youngest and first openly gay leader earlier this month.
"We have so many people from Ireland in this country - I know so many of them, I feel I know all of them," Mr Trump said.
"But I just wanted to congratulate you, that was a great victory that you had."
A spokesperson for Mr Varadkar said it was "a wide-ranging call" lasting between ten and 15 minutes.
A visit by Mr Trump to Ireland was not discussed, but both men agreed that the next time they would see each other would be in the White House next March.
Mr Varadkar raised the issue of the "undocumented Irish", while there was also a conversation about climate change and trade.
His spokesperson said Mr Trump was interested in discussing the peace process and the Irish border post-Brexit.
French police said there was no evidence the man was planning a terror attack despite the regular visits.
The man said he visited the sites to help him understand the difference between "real" and "false" Islam.
Rights groups said the sentence was "excessive" and said visiting a site did not make someone a terrorist.
The unnamed man came to the attention of French police during a surveillance operation on another person living in the same region of France - the Ardeche.
Police raided the suspect's house and found pro-IS pictures and video clips on his smartphone, computer and USB sticks.
In court, the man said his repeated visits to the pro-IS sites over the last two years was motivated by "curiosity". He said he only looked at the pro-IS sites and never sought views from other news organisations.
News site France Blue reported that his family testified that his interest in the sites had made him less tolerant of discussion about religion and led to changes in the way he dressed.
The Ardeche case is one of several brought under the controversial French law criminalising "habitual" visits to sites that promote terrorism. Two of these cases have resulted in convictions. The law was one of several measures brought in after repeated attacks in France by Islamic militants.
The law is set to be appraised by France's constitutional council by the end of February next year to see if it violates the nation's basic legal framework.
Patrick Baudouin, president of the International Federation for Human Rights, told news site The Verge that he felt the two-year sentence was "excessive", adding that it showed how legal standards had been eroded by security fears.
The Bedale High School pupils claim they are being stopped from taking breaks during lessons, and at certain other times.
One parent wrote on social media that the rules were "humiliating".
North Yorkshire County Council said students who need the toilet during lessons will be allowed on request.
The protesters gathered at the school's playing fields to vent their anger earlier on Friday.
Police confirmed they had attended an incident at the school, but advised staff it was not a police matter.
It is understood the school has introduced new rules to clamp down on bad behaviour taking place in the toilets.
Speaking to the BBC, Michelle Clarke, who has a daughter at the school, said the pupils only have a narrow time slot at break times in which to go to the toilet.
She said on one occasion her daughter was refused permission to go to the toilet when it was "her time of the month", and was then given a detention for disobeying the rules.
One parent posted on social media: "I believe that this humiliating and undignified and is a breach of human rights... and totally ridiculous to say that you cannot go to the toilet after you have had lunch."
In response to the protest, Sarah Widdowson wrote: "Go girlies!!! Bedale High have much more important things concerning them that they need to sort instead of these draconian bog rules."
Another parent told the Harrogate Advertiser: "Girls are having problems when it's the time of their month. It's appalling, the fact that if they have got medical issues they have got to show a pass, they are making them a target for bullies, it's not good."
According to local media reports, the county council said the school had informed families and students of the new behaviour code before half term, and that many had given supportive feedback and view it as a positive step.
Her decision to play her cards very close to her chest on Brexit, and frankly everything, has paid off so far, with the lion's share of Tory MPs supportive of her, and current polling suggesting the public is relieved to have an experienced minister in charge, the traditional safe pair of hands, in the tumultuous aftermath of the referendum vote.
But her decision to resuscitate the idea of expanding grammar schools will shake things up, and not in ways the new administration might entirely like.
Certainly, a drive to open new grammar schools will delight many of the Tory party's members and indeed, many of the party's backbenchers. But not all of them will be banging the desks in delight at the idea, even though the PM was given that traditional welcome by her MPs last night at the backbenchers' 1922 meeting.
There are two big reasons why the proposal has alarmed some Tories.
First, for some former ministers opening a handful of new grammar schools would be seen as a controversial distraction from the much bigger education reforms that are already taking place. And there's a view that grammars are a political fight that the Tories fought and lost years ago when Labour changed the law to ban the opening of new ones.
Reviving them will suck political time, effort and energy away from the existing plans to open new academies and drive up standards in parts of the country where schools have been falling behind. Sources suggest the areas where schools need to improve significantly are unlikely to be places where new grammars would appeal.
Second, Theresa May may have the overwhelming support of MPs and be polling well in the country, but her parliamentary majority is tiny, only 12 - a number smaller than the number of people she fired from government.
With disquiet about the policy, it is far from certain that it would pass the House of Commons, and it seems almost impossible that it will get through the House of Lords. Moreover, this is one of the few policy areas where the Labour Party is united, while the Tories are divided.
Some MPs wonder if it is really smart politics this early in her tenure to pick this kind of row? There is also concern about the perception of this policy - a harking back to what for some are the "good old days", but for others are a retro nightmare.
All that said, we haven't seen the crucial details of the actual plans yet. One of Theresa May's closest and smartest advisers, Nick Timothy, worked most recently at the New Schools Network, and knows the education system inside out.
Is it feasible therefore that the government will find a way to expand selective education without having to legislate to unpick the grammars ban?
The new system of free schools, academies, faith schools, grammars, is complex, and perhaps there is a way through without a huge parliamentary fight. Number 10 will be well aware that bringing back grammars and selection will inevitably cause a fight.
But after Theresa May's smooth first months in power, an almighty row over grammars is on the way. After the calm, there is, eventually, always a storm.
Police say Martha Young Williams and Jean Young Haley lost their footing in the driveway of Ms Haley's house in the town of Barrington on Friday.
They were found by a neighbour on Saturday morning and taken to hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
The siblings' family said the women had lived with charm, kindness and style.
In a statement on Monday, the relatives said the pair were an inspiration with a great passion for life.
The twins had just returned on Friday night to Ms Haley's home from dinner with their 89-year-old sister.
Investigators say Ms Williams lost her footing first and Ms Haley fell as she tried to go for help.
Barrington Police Chief John LaCross said: "Ms Williams may have fallen in the driveway walking to her car.
"Ms Haley may have tripped on a rug on the floor of the garage as she attempted to enter her house to call for assistance."
Police believe the women died of hypothermia.
Temperatures had dropped overnight to as low as 11F (-11C).
The European Union Baroque Orchestra, based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, will move to a permanent home in Antwerp by 2018.
The charitable organisation has cancelled the majority of this year's concert schedule and will play its last concert for 2017 in London in May.
The orchestra manager said the relocation was "inevitable" after last June's EU referendum result.
Emma Wilkinson said: "We're the EUBO, so when the Brexit referendum happened our move out of the UK to the EU was inevitable."
The orchestra, co-founded by the EU, offers young musicians from across Europe the opportunity to get a year's experience of performing in a baroque orchestra.
UK musicians have featured in the orchestra throughout its 30-year history, although none are in this year's cohort.
The EUBO said in a statement that participation of UK musicians would "in all likelihood" have ended by the time Britain left the EU.
Ms Wilkinson added: "I do believe [Brexit is] a real worry for general British musicians.
"If you have musicians who have to apply for visas or who have to apply for work permits, orchestras and organisations will have to go through that huge bureaucracy.
"They'll lose out."
Horn player Anneke Scott started her career at EUBO and now works regularly on the continent.
She said: "At the moment, I'm scared witless. Our livelihood is based on freedom of movement.
"Our understanding is we have a right to work as long as the UK's a member of the EU.
"My main concern is that we will lose our right to work."
The administration of the orchestra will move to the Augustinus Muziekcentrum (AMUZ) in Antwerp.
The statement continued: "We have been forced to the conclusion that carrying on as we were is no longer possible.
"A strategic transition out of the UK to a new future with AMUZ is the most viable way forward."
The figures, along with the strong employment numbers last month, increase speculation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in December.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.2% in October, after two months of declines.
Prices were pushed up by the rising cost of electricity and a resurgence in petrol prices.
A survey of US fund managers by Bank of America Merrill Lynch found that four-fifths of the managers surveyed expected a rate rise next month.
Leslie Preston, an economist at TD Bank said: "October's inflation numbers are just the sort of confirmation the Fed is looking for that domestic strength is generating inflationary pressures.''
The so-called core CPI, which strips out food and energy, also rose 0.2% after a similar increase in September.
Medical costs accounted for much of the increase. Medical care prices rose 0.7%, the largest increase since April. and hospital costs increased by 2%.
Although food prices rose only 0.1%, the smallest gain since May, they edged up 0.4% in September and four out of six of the indexes compiled by the big grocery store food groups showed the largest increase since August 2011.
The biggest price falls were in clothing, shoes and new cars.
Over the entire 12 months through to October, the core CPI increased by 1.9%.
They play Reading at Craven Cottage on Saturday in the semi-final first leg, before the away leg on Tuesday, 16 May.
Fulham finished sixth, but lost just two of their final 17 league games.
"Being seventh up until two weeks ago has helped us. We needed to carry on winning games to get into the top six, whereas the other three teams already knew they were in," Malone said.
"The momentum is with us, we're playing really well and our form is good."
Fulham have beaten Reading 5-0 and 4-2 in their past two home meetings.
Left-back Malone believes Fulham's mix of youth and experience and the intensity with which they have been forced to play at in recent weeks will stand them in good stead in the play-offs.
He told BBC Radio London: "Huddersfield and Sheffield Wednesday have rested a few players over the past week. We've not done that - we couldn't due to the position we were in.
"We're pretty much the form team and possibly the favourites at the minute, which is a bit strange because we've been seventh, eighth and ninth all season. To go in as favourites is a little bit of a turnaround."
It comes after the BBC revealed that there have been six so-called "unnecessary" deaths of babies at the hospital since 2008.
Ayrshire and Arran Health Board has apologised to the bereaved families.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said a review of the hospital would be carried out by Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
Ms Robison said she would be happy to discuss the findings of the review with the families involved.
She added: "Any death is a tragedy for the family involved, and what is important is that I get assurance that everything that should have been done in Ayrshire and Arran has been done.
"They have obviously had an internal review with external support, but I wanted further assurance and that is why I have asked Healthcare Improvement Scotland to go in to look at those cases and to report to me as quickly as possible."
The bereaved families include June and Fraser Morton from Kilmarnock, who had called for a public inquiry into the deaths.
Their son Lucas died at the hospital last November after a series of failings by hospital staff, who had failed to diagnose pre-eclampsia and did not properly monitor the baby's heartbeat during childbirth.
They also failed to alert senior members of staff despite being unable to hear the baby's heartbeat for 35 minutes.
The health board apologised to Mrs Morton for "the management offered to you in the later weeks of your pregnancy which almost certainly failed to identify complications that contributed to Lucas's very tragic and unnecessary death".
"Unnecessary" or "avoidable" deaths are referred to as those where harm was caused to a healthy baby during childbirth - usually resulting in them being deprived of oxygen.
But although the health board referred to it as a "severe" adverse event, it did not carry out a full serious adverse event review - which is common practice - and would have meant that redacted details would have been published on its website.
Mr Morton told BBC Scotland that he believed the hospital had been "understaffed and overworked" at the time of his son's death.
He added: "They didn't have the training knowledge and experience, and I believe that comes back to management issues.
"If mistakes had not been made, the difference is quite simple. Lucas would have been here. It would have been his first birthday. The independent reports substantiate that and say earlier intervention would have led to a different result."
The health board later reported Lucas's death to the Crown Office - despite Crown Office guidelines which state: "The doctor with the most detailed knowledge of the circumstances of the death should report it."
The BBC has learned that Lucas's death and the circumstances surrounding it were not unique, with another family - Denise and Steven Campbell - joining the Mortons in calling for a public inquiry.
Their son, Joseph, died during childbirth at Crosshouse Hospital four years ago. They said a consultant had told them that things should have been done differently, especially in relation to monitoring Joseph's heartbeat.
Documents show that prior to 2012 there were a further four "unnecessary" deaths of babies. Reports into some of the deaths refer to failings in monitoring of their heartbeat (CTG).
One such report published in 2012 concluded: "There appears to be a failure of care in several areas; failure of an on-call consultant to attend, failure in communication of information, lack of interpretation of the CTG trace and vital signs."
Correspondence has also referred to failures to enforce mandatory training on foetal heartbeat monitoring because of staff shortages.
A letter from the health board in June states: "Unfortunately midwifery staff do not have time within their working practices to attend CTG meetings.
"With the challenges of shift working and constraints of the European working time directive as well as a significant problem with unfilled posts, group teaching is harder to provide.
"The re-introduction of multi-disciplinary CTG training is very important and at present we cannot make this mandatory due to our midwifery staffing levels."
NHS Ayrshire and Arran told BBC Scotland it ensures all the appropriate staff do have training on foetal monitoring.
Dr Alison Graham, the health board's executive medical director, said: "I would take this opportunity again to apologise to both families for any failings they experienced during their time with us.
"NHS Ayrshire and Arran is committed to ensuring that, if there is any possibility that there has been avoidable harm, this is investigated thoroughly and that we are open, honest and transparent about this."
The families' call for a inquiry follows an investigation into the "lethal mix" of failures at a Cumbrian hospital which led to the unnecessary deaths of 11 babies and one mother
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Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members will hold a 24-hour strike from 17:00 BST on 4 June and a 48-hour strike from 17:00 on 9 June.
Staff had been due to walk out last week in the row over pay, but the union's executive suspended the action when Network Rail offered a new deal.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the strike action was "unnecessary and unreasonable".
Union reps met on Thursday to discuss the latest offer but it was rejected, leading to the announcement of fresh strikes.
The RMT's 16,000 members at Network Rail work across the company's operations and maintenance.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said they had been left with "no option" but to start the industrial action.
He said: "Our rail staff deserve a fair reward for the high-pressure, safety-critical work that they undertake day and night and the last thing that we need is a demoralised, burnt-out workforce living in fear for their livelihoods and their futures and the message has come back loud and clear that that is exactly how they feel about the current offer from Network Rail."
Mr Cash said there was a "massive mandate" for the strike, showing the "anger of safety-critical staff across the rail network at attacks on their standards of living".
Network Rail originally offered a four-year deal of a single £500 payment followed by three years of rises in line with RPI inflation.
The new offer was for two years, with a 1% rise this year and a rise of about 1.4% next year. There would be no compulsory redundancies for the duration of the agreement.
The RMT claimed each day of the strike would lead to Network Rail paying compensation of £30m to train companies.
Mr Cash added: "With no shortage of cash in the bonus pot and to compensate the private train companies, it is no wonder that our members take the view that 1% is wholly inadequate and fails to recognise the massive pressures staff are working under to keep services running safely at a time when the company is generating profits of £1bn.
"It is our members battling to keep Britain moving around the clock, often in appalling conditions, and they deserve a fair share from Network Rail for their incredible efforts."
He said RMT would remain "available for talks", calling for Network Rail to improve their offer.
Mark Carne, Network Rail's chief executive, said: "Our people know that there are ways to improve the way work is done. I have always said that if we work together to realise these benefits there is the possibility to increase pay.
"We are therefore ready to get around the table with whoever the RMT consider can speak on behalf of their members. It is clearly unacceptable for the RMT to massively disrupt the travelling public with strike action when we are ready to continue talks."
Network Rail said it will now restart its contingency planning with train operators, ahead of the planned strike.
Mr McLoughlin said "millions of hardworking people" would be disrupted by the strike.
He added: "Over the past four years Network Rail staff have enjoyed pay rises eight times higher than other public sector workers. By any measure RMT members already get a fair deal.
"It is very disappointing that RMT has now rejected a deal delivered through Acas talks that the union's leadership agreed was a reasonable offer.
"The government will do everything it can to help keep people and goods moving during the strike."
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), which also suspended a strike planned for the bank holiday weekend, is to ballot its 3,000 members at Network Rail on the new offer.
TSSA official Lorraine Ward said: "With the expected cuts in the public sector from the new Tory government, our members were as much concerned about job security as they were about pay.
"This offer means there will be no compulsory redundancies at NR for at least the next two years. Given the current climate, we think this is a major advance."
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United were keen on the France forward and were considering whether to trigger his 100m euro (£87m) escape clause.
However, a source close to United said Griezmann, 26, is no longer a priority.
It is understood the long-term injury to Zlatan Ibrahimovic has forced the club to change their priorities, with doubts over the Swede's future beyond the expiry of his contract on 30 June.
No decision has yet been made over an extension but, given he is unlikely to play until January, the odds are against him being offered a new deal.
United are now thought to be targeting a main striker rather than a number 10, believing they already have enough players to fill that role.
After his side beat Ajax to win the Europa League last week, manager Jose Mourinho said executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has had his targets "for more than two months".
Atletico have had their transfer ban upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, meaning they would not be able to replace Griezmann until January should he leave this summer.
If Griezmann is not coming to Old Trafford, who are United going to get instead?
Everton's Romelu Lukaku is an obvious one, a battering ram of a striker in the Didier Drogba mould. And United have also mbeen linked with Torino's Andrea Belotti - who has a release contract of £87m - and also Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata.
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Dunkirk, directed by the acclaimed Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar), tells the epic tale of the chaotic evacuation of British and French Allied troops from Northern France in 1940.
Ahead of its public release on 21 July the movie has received excellent reviews from critics.
If you compare Dunkirk's score on the review aggregator website metacritic.com with the scores of other films, it ranks among the top five Oscar best picture nominations of the past 21 years, and among the top 10 war movies of all time.
The debut performance of One Direction's Harry Styles was also an unexpected hit.
Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister during World War II, called it a "miracle of deliverance" in his famed We Shall Fight on the Beaches speech in 1940.
He was praising the remarkable evacuation of 338,226 British and French troops from the beach and harbour at Dunkirk.
Initially it was thought the Germans would reach the beach within two days, allowing time for only 45,000 troops to be brought to safety.
But thanks to a combination of German confusion and Allied bravery, enough British and French troops were saved to see out the rest of the war.
Allied victories
636 naval ships survived
198,229 British troops saved
139,997 French troops saved
262 Enemy planes claimed
After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the British sent in troops to defend France. However, as Nazi Germany moved forward into Belgium and the Netherlands in May 1940, the allies made a near-fatal error.
The French-German border was defended by a series of barriers and weapons called the Maginot Line, but the area to the north was only blocked by a forest.
The forest was thought to be too thick to require heavy defence, but the Germans found a way through.
They marched around the back of the Allies in France and forced them over into Belgium, where they were faced with more Germans to the north.
The only option left was to retreat to Dunkirk, where they could be taken back to England.
With the majority of Britain and France's entire armies in one area - surrounded by the Germans - this could have been the turning point of the war.
And then, for reasons that are still mysterious, Hitler ordered his troops to halt.
The Allies were gifted with time. Naval ships, vehicles, passenger ferries, fishing boats, yachts and boats owned simply for pleasure were assembled.
A handful of civilians even joined the mission, sailing out into the Channel voluntarily.
Over the course of nine days this fleet, supported by British planes overhead, was able to rescue most of the troops.
The film may become a huge success, but the reality of Dunkirk was, as Winston Churchill described it, a "colossal military disaster".
Allied losses
297 naval ships
106 planes
108,111 troops
2,472 guns
84,427 vehicles
77,318 tonnes of ammunition
"Wars are not won by evacuations," Churchill said. That may be true, but it is hard not to see Dunkirk as a pivotal moment in the war.
Ben Needham, from Sheffield, vanished when he was 21 months old during a 1991 family holiday on the island of Kos.
Kerry Needham, Ben's mother, appeared on Greek television on Friday to make a fresh appeal for her son.
She later said a man who contacted the show saying he resembled Ben was "old information" and "stronger information should take priority".
In a post on the Help Find Ben Facebook page, a member of the support team wrote: "Just to make things clear as Kerry previously stated the man who called the show is an old lead.
"However we do have seven new very strong possible leads."
South Yorkshire Police said about 30 calls and emails were received following the broadcast.
Officers also confirmed the appeal generated some seven new lines of inquiry which would be explored further in partnership with the Greek authorities.
Det Supt Matt Fenwick said: "We have received lots of information over the last 24 hours - some new information and some which correlates to information we already have in our possession.
"We will now work with the Greek police to review that information to move the inquiry forward."
The television programme, the English translation of which is Light at the End of the Tunnel, broadcasts to about 50% of the Greek TV audience.
Earlier this year, South Yorkshire Police was granted Home Office funding to support the Greek authorities in continuing inquiries to find Ben.
Kerry Needham has always maintained her son, who would now be 25, is still alive.
"It is just a feeling I have inside myself," she said.
"It feels like he is saying 'come on I am here, come and get me'. I believe he's out there, I don't think its going to be long, we are going to get somewhere. I am hopeful anyway.
"I want him to know, as his mum, I love him as much today as the day he was born. I will never never stop looking for him."
She said the amount of public support the family had received after the programme was "overwhelming".
Ben's grandmother Christine and his sister Leighanna also participated in the programme.
Ben vanished on 24 July, 1991, having travelled to Kos with his mother and grandparents who were renovating a farmhouse in the village of Iraklise.
Few sporting events have the consistent allure of this storied old transatlantic ding-dong. Few do so much to drag in those otherwise uninterested in the sport. And perhaps no other has such a protracted crescendo once the actors have been assembled and the stage set.
Here in autumnal Minnesota, leaves losing their summer green and a cold wind blowing off the lakes, we are in full-blown speculation season.
The players arrived on Sunday, most of the world's media the day after. Because the first shot will not be hit until early Friday morning, speculation and intrigue fill the hours and airwaves instead.
There are the captains, southern gentleman Davis Love and Northern Irish rabble-rouser Darren Clarke, and all the questions that come in their wake: who has prepared better, who has selected more wisely, which of the two is handling the intensity with more elan.
There are their choices of pairings for Friday's foursomes and fourballs: the chemistry, the calculations, the bluffing and the guessing.
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There is the course: set up as ever to favour the home team, soaked by unseasonal heavy rain but longer than a good walk spoiled ever used to be, buttressed by bright red temporary stands and trampled underfoot by the thousands of spectators delighted enough to have made it in for the practice days.
There is the history - a European team looking to win an unprecedented fourth successive cup, a US collective who have too often in recent editions acted like disparate individuals.
And there is the future - if the US don't win this time, after all the rethinks and recalibrations of their 11-man Ryder task-force, when can they ever hope to win again?
In the absence of real answers, it is all about hunting for clues and reading between the lines, picking words from the static, whispering round the greens.
Each day both captains do a news conference, no matter that nothing material has changed since the last one 24 hours before. In each the body language and carefully chosen words are studied.
On Wednesday blew in a brief storm about a column written by the brother of Europe's Masters champion Danny Willett, in which a number of comical stereotypes about US golfing culture were slightly overplayed.
It was a little crude and probably a fraction unnecessary; when you discover that the founder of this Hazeltine course was called Totton P Heffelfinger, the satirical job has rather been done for you (he preferred to be known as Tot, for somewhat obvious reasons).
Captain Love, as tradition dictates he must be addressed, went for the dismissive approach. "If I read it, I'm just going to get mad. If I read it, I'm just going to get defensive. So I just try to ignore it."
Captain Clarke went far punchier. "I spoke to Danny about it. I showed it to Danny. And he's bitterly disappointed in his brother's article. It is not what Danny thinks. It is not what I think. It is not what Team Europe stands for."
We're asking questions of the caddies and of the players; what do you want us to do? If that means we run back and get a sweater, I'll go get a sweater. My son and I delivered turkey sandwiches to the group ahead
That immediately brought approving noises from some that Clarke is much more the natural leader, strong with his players, clear on his lines of command.
Love has been accused of being too collaborative, coerced into selecting the often unpopular Bubba Watson as a late vice-captain by none other than Bubba himself, bringing with him so many lieutenants that it can appear from the outside to be captaincy by committee.
"I had Ben Crenshaw and Curtis Strange and Lanny Wadkins and Hal Sutton and Corey Pavin in our team room supporting us last night," he said on Wednesday. "I think this team really feels like we got the whole Ryder Cup family behind us.
"I'm in charge and I've given them their charge. Tiger was giving me a hard time a couple weeks ago. He said, 'You're giving me way too much to do.'
"What this thing is all about is we're dividing responsibilities. I can't be the offensive coordinator and the defensive coordinator. So I've given them all different roles.
"We're asking questions of the caddies and of the players; what do you want us to do? If that means we run back and get a sweater, I'll go get a sweater. My son and I delivered turkey sandwiches to the group ahead."
In his previous spell as captain, four years ago in Medinah, Love frequently slipped into tears during his press conferences, eulogising about the love between his players and bond that held them together.
It didn't stop them being pulled apart by a European stampede on that famous final afternoon in the golden autumn light, but like many nuances of captaincy later given great weight, it probably made no difference at all.
"It all starts with the captain," insists Phil Mickelson, who many considered to have pulled off one of the great hatchet-jobs when he eviscerated Tom Watson two years ago at Gleneagles with European celebrations in full swing.
"That's the guy that has to bring together 12 strong individuals and bring out their best and allow them on a platform to play their best. That's the whole foundation of the team."
Clarke has so far gone for the inspirational - bringing former Lions skipper Paul O'Connell into the team room for a speech - and the diverting, following up the big words with the slick fingers of street magician Dynamo.
Clarke attempted his own sleight of hand with his possible pairings, putting out practice groups on Wednesday that one caddy confided were about as likely to go out together again this week as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
He has also attempted his own sleight of hand with his possible pairings, putting out practice groups on Wednesday - Rory McIlroy and Martin Kaymer with Chris Wood and Thomas Pieters, Lee Westwood and Henrik Stenson with Matt Fitzpatrick and Rafa Cabrera Bello - that one caddy confided were about as likely to go out together again this week as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
"I have my pairings, and I know almost about 100% of what's going to happen Friday morning and indeed Friday afternoon," said Clarke - and if he gave no clues away, the smart money is on Stenson and Justin Rose leading the fight from the first tee on Friday morning.
McIlroy and Andy Sullivan is another much-touted combination for the foursomes, the two having practised together regularly this year, Sullivan's relaxed self-confidence belying his relative inexperience.
So too is a pairing of Westwood and Willett: friends, stablemates, quite accustomed to all a bellicose American gallery can throw at them.
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All went out around this 7,628-yard behemoth on Wednesday in grey sweaters and trousers that matched the bleak skies above and navy bobble-hats that took the edge off the blustery wind.
It is a typical US Ryder Cup course, the rough short, the sparsely spread trees down the fairways little impediment to the long hitters stacked through Love's 12-strong team.
The greens too look fast, and are likely only to speed up as the warmer weather promised for the weekend moves in. For those less certain with putter in hand - Westwood and Sergio Garcia possibly among them - and less familiar with conditions in this part of the world at this time of year, as some of Clarke's new boys will be, they might prove the decisive challenge.
For now it is all bluff and hearsay. McIlroy, yet to finish on the losing side in his Ryder Cup career, understands how to play the game; when one boozy wag on the 11th green bellowed, "Yeah Rory!" as he bent to collect his ball, McIlroy replied with a cartoon "Yeah!" of his own. As the group pulled out their drivers on the 12th tee, vice-captain Sam Torrance was walking round the surrounding crowds handing pin-badges to excited local kids.
You use everything you can at a Ryder Cup. You have to. Two years is too long to spend wondering what if and why not.
Candidates needed 34% to get a C and 60% for an A, according to the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA).
The exams body admitted the exam was harder than anticipated and said grade boundaries were adjusted accordingly.
Last year, a mark of 45% was needed for a C grade in Higher Maths.
Details of the pass marks were released as thousands of students received their results. Across all subjects there were a record 156,000 Higher passes - up 5.5% on last year.
Many had sat the new style exam which is being phased in this year and next.
The changes were designed to help fit them in with broader changes to education in recent years and were not, in themselves, particularly controversial.
However, the new Higher Maths did provoke a storm after the exam in May.
Many students took to social media, claiming the paper was much more difficult than they had anticipated.
New Higher Maths exam - why did the crocodile cross the stream?
Politicians united in congratulating students on their hard work, but Scottish Labour raised concerns about the low pass threshold in Maths.
Acting leader and shadow education secretary Iain Gray said: "It's true that pass marks are adjusted each year, but it's extraordinary to see this drop to just 33.8%.
"The Highers are the gold standard of Scottish education and this is a big concern."
Scottish Conservatives young people spokeswoman Liz Smith said: "People would understand if modest modifications had been made to pass rates to reflect realistic changes in exams.
"But this reduction is drastic, and shows just how badly the SQA got it wrong."
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesman Liam McArthur said: "Cutting the pass mark for Higher Maths may help those students who persevered but it will do nothing for pupils who left exams early on after being presented with an exam paper including topics not covered in the coursework.
"Ministers must undertake a full investigation into why this happened."
The SQA said the grade boundaries had been adjusted to take into account the unusual difficulty of the Maths exam.
It said this ensured that candidates still received the grades they deserved. If someone who received a C last year had sat this year's exam, they would still have been awarded a C grade.
Education Secretary Angela Constance told BBC Scotland pupils adjustments ensured students received the "results they deserve".
She said checks and balances meant no student was disadvantaged by this year's "unusually hard" Higher Maths.
Speaking on the Good Morning Scotland radio programme, she added: "Despite the concerns it is clear that the qualification system has worked and if changes are needed going forward I can assure you that they certainly will be made."
More than 140,000 candidates were due to receive their results on Tuesday for a wide range of qualifications including National 4s and 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers.
Ms Constance added: "This is another strong performance by Scotland's young people.
"They have worked hard, and I congratulate each and every one of them, as well as the families and carers, and teachers and lecturers who have provided support.
"Scotland has seen record numbers of Higher and Advanced Higher passes. Students are performing particularly well in English and in modern languages."
This year was the second year of the National 4 and 5 qualifications which replaced Standard Grades. A National 5 is broadly equivalent to a Credit in a Standard Grade or a good pass in an old O Grade.
There was a large increase in National 5 course entries, particularly among those taken beyond fourth year - with 229,870 A-C grades awarded.
S4, 5 and 6 are now grouped together as a "senior phase" in schools. The emphasis is increasingly placed on what qualifications a student has achieved by the time they leave school - usually in S6 - rather than what they have achieved by a particular stage.
For instance, some academically able youngsters may bypass National 5s to spend longer studying for their Highers.
Dr Janet Brown, SQA chief executive and Scotland's chief examining officer, said: "There is a broadening recognition of the different ways candidates can demonstrate their skills and achieve success, whether it be National 5, the new or existing Higher, Advanced Higher, Skills for Work or National Progression Awards.
"Employers require candidates to display a wide range of qualities. Our assessments and qualifications have been designed to provide people with the skills required to succeed today and in the future whether that be further study, training or employment."
Skills Development Scotland has a free exam results helpline which can offer advice to candidates whose exam results were poorer - or better - than expected.
The helpline will be open from 08:00 until 20:00 on 4 and 5 August, and from 09:00 until 17:00 daily until 12 August. The number to call is 0808 100 8000.
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Thompson, 24, took the title in a time of 10.71 seconds, just 0.01 seconds outside her personal best.
Compatriot Fraser-Pryce, 29, who was attempting to become the first woman to win three successive golds in the event, finished third in 10.86.
USA's Tori Bowie won the silver medal in 10.83.
Dutch star Dafne Schippers, second behind Fraser-Pryce at the 2015 World Championships, finished fifth in 10.90.
Thompson said: "When I crossed the line and glanced across to see I was clear, I didn't know how to celebrate."
Fraser-Pryce said: "What I'm most happy about is the 100m title is staying in Jamaica. I'm on the podium with my training partner. I'm proud of Jamaica."
Britain's Desiree Henry, 20, failed to make the final after finishing fourth in 11.09 in her semi-final, while Asha Philip was eighth in 11.33 in her race.
"I guess it wasn't the Olympic ending I was really hoping for in terms of trying to make the final," said Henry.
"But I'm proud of myself for growing as an adult and believing that I could run up against these girls and really trying to make it to the final."
Team-mate Philip said: "I'm not doing as well as I want to be doing, but I'm still at the Olympics and I've made a semi-final.
"I am bitter inside because I came here to at least run a personal best."
We asked you to rank 10 signings made by clubs in the January transfer window, with 61% choosing the former Liverpool striker as their first pick.
The Uruguay international moved to Anfield in 2011 for £22.7m and went on to score 82 goals in 133 games, before leaving for Barcelona for £75m in 2014.
Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic (26%) was second, while team-mate Patrice Evra (3%) was third.
The pair moved to Old Trafford in 2006 and went to help the club win five Premier League titles and the Champions League.
Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge was picked fourth, while Chelsea defender Gary Cahill was fifth.
You got in touch with BBC Sportsday with some other suggestions for the best ever January signings.
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Nugent netted twice inside the opening 21 minutes, flicking home the opener following some fine work by Matej Vydra on the left before nodding in his second from a Johnny Russell cross.
Vydra then wasted two chances and Andre Wisdom went close before the break.
In the 92nd minute, Gary Madine pounced to score what was a consolation goal.
The close-range injury-time strike was the only shot on target by Bolton, a side who have collected both their points in the competition this season away from the Macron Stadium, and who rarely troubled the Rams.
With Wales winger Tom Lawrence, a £5m midweek signing from Leicester City, coming off the bench for Derby, the differences between them and Bolton, a club under transfer embargo and which has a prominent shareholder facing a winding-up petition in two days' time, was stark.
Nugent's brace of goals took his tally to eight goals in his past 12 league starts for Derby and, while Vyrdra was key in creating the opener, the Czech striker's finishing was less polished as he fired wide after going clear through on goal before then volleying over.
The Trotters had what would have been an earlier chance to pull a goal back waved away by referee Steve Martin, as Madine was hauled down in the box and penalty appeals were made in vain.
Madine eventually scored, but it was not enough as Derby won for the second time in four days and Bolton slipped to their 14th defeat in their past 20 games in the second tier, dating back to 13 February 2016.
Bolton manager Phil Parkinson:
"You can talk about Derby's movement but the goals were soft from our point of view. Both we should have avoided and we gave ourselves a mountain to climb against a good side.
"The first one came from a throw-in and if you look at the footage and think in five seconds it was going to end up in the back of our net you wouldn't believe it.
"Simple things like that have got to be done better."
Derby manager Gary Rowett:
"Nugent is a brilliant all-round player for us in the Championship - his finishes were great.
"To score two goals in the way we did was great but we should have come in four or five-nil up.
"The fact we didn't made the game edgy in the second half. We started the second half a bit sloppily for five or 10 minutes and made a few poor decisions.
"That invited an opportunity for Bolton and their crowd to get a bit of momentum."
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Derby County 2.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Derby County 2.
Richard Keogh (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers).
Goal! Bolton Wanderers 1, Derby County 2. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wilbraham.
Offside, Bolton Wanderers. Dorian Dervite tries a through ball, but Aaron Wilbraham is caught offside.
Substitution, Derby County. Jacob Butterfield replaces Andreas Weimann.
Hand ball by William Buckley (Bolton Wanderers).
Bradley Johnson (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers).
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Andrew Taylor.
Foul by Andre Wisdom (Derby County).
Andrew Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Derby County. Chris Martin replaces David Nugent.
Andre Wisdom (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andre Wisdom (Derby County).
William Buckley (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Richard Keogh.
Foul by David Nugent (Derby County).
Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Josh Cullen (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Derby County).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Andrew Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Tom Lawrence (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Reece Burke (Bolton Wanderers).
Andreas Weimann (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Dorian Dervite (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Filipe Morais following a set piece situation.
Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Huddlestone (Derby County).
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. William Buckley replaces Jem Karacan.
Reece Burke (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Derby County).
Substitution, Derby County. Tom Lawrence replaces Matej Vydra.
Foul by Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers).
Matej Vydra (Derby County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dorian Dervite with a cross.
Foul by Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers).
Johnny Russell (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Trinity lost wing Bill Tupou to a hamstring injury in the warm-up and proved no match for the dominant hosts.
Ryan Lannon, Ben Murdoch-Masila and Niall Evalds all scored to give Salford a deserved 20-0 half-time lead.
Greg Johnson and Craig Kopczak added further tries to book the Red Devils' place in the last four, before Liam Finn's late consolation for Wakefield.
Wakefield won a thriller 34-24 when the sides met in Super League 11 days ago but there was to be no repeat as Salford beat Trinity in the Challenge Cup for the first time since 1971.
Trinity, who were already under-strength, brought in Ashley Gibson to replace Tupou but last season's beaten semi-finalists were caught cold by the ferocity of Salford's start.
The Red Devils' pack dominated the early stages and they were rewarded when Lannon scooped up a loose ball and dived over from close range before Murdoch-Masila powered over from Michael Dobson's cute switch pass.
Evalds danced over just before half-time to extend the lead and Salford won the game with two more tries early in the second half when Johnson scored in the corner following Murdoch-Masila's pass out of the back of the hand and Kopczak held off several defenders to charge over.
Finn touched down late on to get Wakefield on the scoreboard but it is Salford who are now one game away from Wembley.
Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester: "It was big for us in the way we are as a team. We had two poor performances and losses so it was important to respond on the back of them.
"Our first set in attack and first in defence really set the stall out, let everybody know we are here and we're not messing about in this game. We're on it. Our attention to detail within the game defensively and attack was first class.
"We worry about ourselves and being ready and everyone buying into it. Over the last few weeks, we've been slightly off it, we've shown them and they've gone out there and fixed it up, shown they're a good team."
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester told BBC Radio Leeds: "It wasn't good. We wanted to progress, we're disappointed we're knocked out but more disappointed we put in a performance like we did tonight.
"We looked off the ball, clueless and we got outmuscled by a really good Salford side. We've done very little training with the Leeds game and the mini Easter period that's had a massive toll on players, we're down on troops but there should be no excuse for the performance we put in.
"We lacked any real conviction with the ball and had no aggression when defending. The first 20 minutes hurt us, the errors, the poor contacts weren't acceptable. Salford played very well tonight and deserved to be in the semi-final."
Salford Red Devils: Evalds, Bibby, Welham, Sa'u, Johnson, Lui, Dobson, Tasi, Tomkins, Kopczak, Murdoch-Masila, Lannon, Flanagan.
Replacements: Griffin, Brining, T. Carney, Hauraki.
Wakefield: Grix, Gibson, Lyne, Arundel, Caton-Brown, Williams, Finn, England, Wood, A. Walker, Hadley, Ashurst, Sio.
Replacements: Crowther, Annakin, Hirst, Huby.
Referee: Robert Hicks (RFL)
The ministers said they needed to know details of the US president-elect's plans but said they expected good ties.
The talks took place at a dinner in Brussels on Sunday, on the eve of a formal meeting of foreign ministers.
Ministers from Britain, France and Hungary did not attend on Sunday.
"We are looking forward to a very strong partnership with the next [US] administration," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said.
"We have decided together to engage with the incoming administration even from this very first week of transition," she added.
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told reporters: "Whatever the US administration, it has long been known that Europe will have to step up its action on security and defence."
During the campaign, Mr Trump suggested that the US may not automatically come to the aid of a Nato ally under attack.
Monday's formal meeting, which is being attended by ministers from all 28 member states, is due to discuss relations with Turkey and defence co-operation with Nato.
Mr Trump's election win has exposed rifts in Europe with some officials distancing themselves from discussions on future relations.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Friday that it was "time we snapped out of the general doom and gloom" over the US result, referring to negative comments as a "collective whinge-o-rama".
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Sunday's meeting was "completely premature" and hit out at "frustrated and hysterical statements" made by other European leaders following the US election result.
The statement from the ministers contrasts sharply with comments by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who warned on Friday that Mr Trump's election risked upsetting EU ties with the US "fundamentally and structurally".
6 October 2016 Last updated at 19:40 BST
Studio manager Phil Lupton was filmed by the singer in London while riding his motorbike home.
Spears posted the footage on her Instagram account, which has more than 13m followers making Mr Lupton unwittingly famous.
On the footage the 34-year-old singer can be heard saying: "My crush in London. Very hot, very hot, very hot."
Mr Lupton said he only became aware of her affections a couple of days ago when a colleague pointed the video out to him.
He told BBC London his wife "didn't understand the fuss".
The government is backing down over key parts of the Children and Social Work Bill that would have let local councils set aside children's rights, after an intervention by Lord Laming.
The chairman of the Victoria Climbie inquiry met Education Secretary Justine Greening to oppose the changes.
She is now understood to have agreed to back an opposition amendment.
The amendment, tabled by Labour, is due to be added to the bill for when it goes into report stage in the House of Commons next week, sources have told the BBC.
The move followed a meeting between Ms Greening and Lord Laming, former Lord Chancellor Lord MacKay, and the chief social worker, Isabelle Trowler.
The legal duties due to be affected by the bill related to nearly all the social care services children received from local authorities laid down in numerous acts of Parliament.
These included:
Ministers had argued councils should be allowed to set them aside so they could innovate and improve the services they offered for vulnerable children.
But the government has now agreed to support amendments tabled by shadow children's minister Emma Lewell-Buck to remove the proposals from the bill by scrapping the relevant clauses.
Once the government has signed the amendments, the proposals will be formally removed from the future legislation.
About 50 organisations publicly opposed the proposed exemptions - including the British Association of Social Workers, The Care Leavers' Association, Women's Aid, Liberty and the National Association of People Abused in Childhood.
Carolyne Willow, director of Article 39 - a group formed to oppose the bill, said: "It is an enormous relief that legal protection for vulnerable children and young people will stay intact across the country.
"I hope children and young people get to hear that so many care leavers, parents, carers, social workers, academics, children's homes, parliamentarians, lawyers, paediatricians, charities, trade unions and campaigners fought for their rights for months.
"And that ministers admitted a mistake and did right by them."
The Department for Education has been contacted for a response to the U-turn.
Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner called on the government to clarify its position.
"If ministers are prepared to abandon this dangerous proposal and accept our amendments, then that is good news for vulnerable children across the country who were in danger of losing basic protection from the law, but if not then we intend to put it to a vote.
"We need to learn the lessons from the terrible tragedies of the past rather than lay the ground for the next scandal.
"The protections that were recommended after the appalling cases of Victoria Climbie and Baby P need to be enforced, not weakened."
Earlier, Prof Eileen Munroe, whose work on reforming social work was the inspiration for the bill, also publicly opposed the proposals, saying they presented a "serious danger".
The 32-year-old midfielder had trained alone or with the club's under-23s since Jose Mourinho was appointed United boss in the summer.
Former Germany captain Schweinsteiger last played for the Red Devils in March, when Louis van Gaal was manager.
He said in August he had "no personal problems" with Mourinho, and United will be his last club in Europe.
"It's great to see him back," said United left-back Luke Shaw. "We found out the news a couple of days ago.
"He's a big influence in the dressing room and obviously on the pitch, especially for the young players like myself."
It is unclear whether Mourinho will now consider Schweinsteiger for first-team action.
He was named in United's Premier League squad for this season, but left out of their Europa League squad.
Schweinsteiger has made 31 appearances for the club since his £14.4m move from Bayern Munich in July 2015.
Simon Stone, BBC Sport
Before Schweinsteiger can think about a return he still hoped for during the dark days of being forced to train on his own, he needs to know why Mourinho brought him back into the fold.
After all, he cannot play against Fenerbahce on Thursday because he is not in Mourinho's Europa League squad.
With Ander Herrera banned, Schweinsteiger is an option for United's Premier League trip to Swansea.
However, given he is so short of match practice, is that really an option? Or is Mourinho merely reminding potential January suitors that the 32-year-old still exists?
A £11.3m investment will see the creation of three new data hubs in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The hubs will analyse a range of online data, such as customer behaviour or production patterns, which firms can then use to boost productivity.
Backers of the plan expect the new labs to play an important part in Scotland's growing digital sector.
Up to 345 jobs are expected to be created.
The Data Lab, the firm behind the new investment, said part of the aim is to try to build better working relationships and understandings between themselves and the firms who are generating the data.
Neil Logan, chairman of The Data Lab, said: "Any organisation can benefit from this. We are going to look to fund over 1000 collaborative, innovation projects between industry public services and their academics.
"Data science is the fundamental skill which helps businesses unlock the value of the data they have. The jobs that we are looking at are highly skilled and highly paid."
The investment is expected to bring an additional £155m to the Scottish economy but Mr Logan claimed this could increase dramatically in the future.
He said: "The Centre for Economics and Business Research estimated that 'Big Data' as an area would be worth around £216bn between 2012 and 2017 (in the UK). If we look at Scotland as 10% of that we could be looking at £20bn."
The new lab is being funded by the Scottish Funding Council, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Laurence Howells, Chief Executive of the Scottish Funding Council, said: "Tablets, kindles, mobile phones, online shopping; we all use and generate massive amounts of data each day.
"Our £11.3 million investment will support The Data Lab to develop innovative techniques that will improve many aspects of our lives, from efficient energy use, personalised online shopping, through to faster and more effective medical care."
The allegations are part of the case against an alleged Swiss spy arrested in a Frankfurt hotel on Friday, German media report. He is suspected of monitoring German tax investigators.
Switzerland objects to the practice of buying data stolen from Swiss banks.
The mole allegedly spied inside North Rhine-Westphalia's finance ministry.
Investigators suspect that the mole - not yet identified - gave the Swiss spy the names of tax investigators, and that the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) ran the operation.
Since 2010 North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany's most populous state, has paid whistleblowers millions of euros for data CDs revealing secret Swiss bank accounts. They are trying to recover millions of euros hidden by German tax dodgers.
It is thought the alleged Swiss spy had a list of German investigators, provided by the FIS, and used his secret ministerial informer to verify those names.
That intelligence could then be used to accuse specific German officials of violating Swiss banking laws and engaging in commercial espionage.
NRW Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans voiced alarm (text in German) over the latest revelations.
"The scandal reaches new proportions when spies sign up informers in the finance administration, in order to spy on successful NRW tax investigators and play into the hands of people who make billions in profit at the expense of society," he said.
"It's hard to believe that such a spy thriller took place not on the screen but on our own doorstep."
The German federal government has asked Switzerland for an explanation concerning the alleged spying.
The arrest warrant for the 54-year-old, named only as Daniel M, was issued in December.
The warrant, cited by German media, alleges that the acting FIS chief was in mobile phone contact with Daniel M. The FIS is said to have paid €90,000 (£76,300; $98,380) for planting the mole.
Reports say the alleged spy was also helped by a German ex-police officer, who is now a security consultant.
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The Swiss man arrested on Friday is suspected of having spied in North Rhine-Westphalia since early 2012.
Police searched several residential and business premises in Frankfurt and the nearby Wetterau region.
German authorities say they are owed tens of billions of euros in unpaid capital gains tax because of money hidden in Switzerland and other tax havens.
On Tuesday the FIS defended its efforts to prevent the theft of Swiss business secrets, but declined to comment directly on the Frankfurt arrest.
FIS director Markus Seiler said "when someone in Switzerland uses illegal methods in Switzerland to steal state or business secrets, that is espionage, and we have the task to fight that".
North Rhine-Westphalia has bought 11 CDs in the tax recovery operation, which it says have led 120,000 German citizens to self-report Swiss bank accounts.
A year ago Mr Walter-Borjans said about €18m had been recovered using the data found on the CDs.
In 2015 German media reported that €5m had been paid for just one of those CDs.
Viktorija Ratiuk stabbed 32-year-old Romualds Baluls once in the chest in the flat they shared in Bircham Road, Taunton, on 19 November.
Ratiuk was cleared of murder, but convicted of manslaughter, at a Bristol Crown Court trial.
The court heard a row erupted and Ratiuk attacked Mr Baluls with a knife.
Mr Baluls died from his injury at the scene.
Avon and Somerset Police said: "The decision to use a knife while under the influence of alcohol was catastrophic and Ratiuk will have to suffer the consequences of her impulsive actions."
The High Court in Glasgow was told that Martin Hughes made the remark to police after being detained on suspicion of terrorist activities in October 2013.
It also heard Mr Hughes' car was bugged as he and two other co-accused drove to where Mr McCrory lived.
Mr Hughes, Anton Duffy, John Gorman and Paul Sands deny conspiracy to murder.
The court has already heard that Mr Adair and his best friend Mr McCrory were both former members of prohibited Loyalist terror organisations the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and its paramilitary wing the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).
They were involved in the Good Friday agreement in 1998 which brought peace to Northern Ireland, and both have been living in Ayrshire for a number of years.
On Tuesday, the court heard from Det Con Raymond Thomson
He was asked by prosecutor Paul Kearney: "Mr Hughes was asked if he knew Johnny Adair and said no, is that correct?" and replied: "That's correct."
Mr Kearney then said: "He was then asked if he knew Sam McCrory and said he didn't, is that correct?" and Det Con Thomson said: "That's correct."
The court heard that after a number of interviews Mr Hughes was told that police had covertly recorded conversations at co-accused Mr Duffy's home.
A bugging device was also put in Mr Hughes' Mercedes Jeep and recorded the conversations when he and Mr Duffy drove to Ayrshire on 1 October 2013 and were were joined there by Mr Sands.
Mr Sands directed them to where Mr McCrory lived and they were heard having discussions which included making remarks about "the big fella" and "there are so many places you could hit this guy".
Under cross-examination by QC Gordon Jackson, it was revealed that his client Mr Hughes was a Royalist sympathiser.
Mr Jackson said to Det Con Thomson: "Mr Hughes told you he was a working man and had no convictions," and he replied: Yes."
The QC added: "He also told you about him being a Royalist sympathiser. He said he was sympathetic to the job these people were doing," and Det Con Thomson replied: "Yes, that's right."
Mr Jackson described the bugged conversations as "quite sinister" and added Mr Hughes never instigated these conversations and just tends to put his "tuppence-worth in from time to time," and Det Con Thomson replied: "Yes, that's right."
The QC went on: "What we can't know is what Mr Hughes was thinking. We don't know if he's thinking this is a great plan or this is a lot of rubbish. The only person who can tell us what's going on in his head is him," and the police officer agreed.
Mr Duffy, 39, Mr Hughes, 36, Mr Sands, 31, and Mr Gorman, 58 , deny conspiring to murder Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair and Sam McCrory .
Mr Duffy and Mr Gorman also deny being part of a plan to murder the governor of Barlinnie jail, Derek McGill, in a car bomb attack.
Three other men - Craig Convery, 37, Gary Convery, 34, and Gordon Brown, 29 - deny organised crime charges.
The trial before judge Lady Scott continues.
In the two months of fighting that followed, 255 British and about 650 Argentine servicemen were killed, along with three Falklands civilians, before Argentine forces surrendered.
Argentina still claims sovereignty over the islands, which it calls Las Malvinas.
Here are the key dates in the conflict.
Mr Erdogan said: "People that night did not have guns, they had a flag and more importantly, they had their faith."
He backed the death penalty for coup plotters and said they should wear Guantanamo Bay-style uniforms.
Some 250 people died and 2,196 were wounded fighting the coup attempt by an army faction on 15 July last year.
The government has since dismissed more than 150,000 state employees, saying it is rooting out coup supporters.
Critics say the dismissals, and a wave of 50,000 arrests, are part of an attempt to purge dissent.
Mr Erdogan was addressing tens of thousands of Turks who had rallied to the bridge over the Bosphorus where civilians had confronted pro-coup soldiers last year.
He said: "I am grateful to all members of my nation who defended their country."
Mr Erdogan said that 250 people had lost their lives but the country had won its future.
"Putschists who closed off the bridge on that night wanted to show the world that they were in control," he said, but were countered by "millions who took to the streets that night to defend the honour of their nation".
He said he would "break the heads of the traitors" who plotted the coup.
Mr Erdogan also said he had spoken to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim about the coup plotters, saying: "When they appear in court, let's make them appear in uniform suits like in Guantanamo."
The president then unveiled a "martyrs' memorial" at the bridge, which has been renamed the Bridge of the Martyrs of July 15.
He is now returning to Ankara to address parliament after midnight (21:00 GMT), at the exact time last year it was attacked by coup plotters.
The president will end proceedings by unveiling a monument to the coup's victims at his palace in the capital at dawn.
The date of 15 July has been declared an annual holiday.
Earlier Mr Yildirim told a special session of parliament that 15 July 2016 was a "second War of Independence", following the conflict that led to the creation of the modern state in the 1920s.
"It has been exactly one year since Turkey's darkest and longest night was transformed into a bright day, since an enemy occupation turned into the people's legend," Mr Yildirim said.
However, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the main opposition Republican People's Party, condemned the government's actions since the coup.
He said: "This parliament, which withstood bombs, has been rendered obsolete and its authority removed. In the past year, justice has been destroyed. Instead of rapid normalisation, a permanent state of emergency has been implemented."
Turkey's trauma after night of the tanks
On 15 July last year, the coup plotters, armed with tanks, warplanes and helicopters, declared that they had taken over on state media, and bombed parliament and other key locations.
They tried to detain Mr Erdogan as he holidayed in an Aegean resort, but he had left and the coup was thwarted by civilians and soldiers loyal to the president.
The Turkish authorities accused a movement loyal to the Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of organising the plot.
Mr Gulen, who remains in the United States, denies any involvement.
Washington has so far resisted calls from the Turkish authorities to extradite him.
The BBC's Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen, says that, a year on, the unity against the coup has faded, and divisions over the rule of law have widened. For half of the country, he says, 15 July was its rebirth; for the other half, its aftermath is killing off what was left of Turkish democracy.
Critics say Mr Erdogan is using the purges to stifle political dissent, and last week hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul at the end of a 450km (280-mile) "justice" march against the government.
The president accused the marchers of supporting terrorism.
On Friday, the government continued its dismissal of state employees, sacking another 7,395 for alleged links to what it calls terrorist groups.
Ademi, 24, played the full 90 minutes during the Croatian side's 2-1 victory in Zagreb last month.
Dinamo announced that Uefa has started disciplinary proceedings.
"We are surprised because Ademi was selected for doping control six times this year and results were negative every time," a club statement read.
If Ademi's B sample is also positive, the player could face a ban, but there are no rules to disqualify teams from the competition unless two or more players fail drug tests.
Arsenal have lost both games in Group F after a 3-2 defeat at home to Greek side Olympiakos, and still have to play German champions Bayern Munich home and away.
Macedonia international Ademi also played in Dinamo's 5-0 defeat by Bayern last week.
The Australian National Dictionary Centre enshrined the term for a popular election-day staple as its word of 2016 on Wednesday.
So what is a democracy sausage?
It refers to a barbecued sausage that is typically served on a slice of bread with tomato sauce, and often onion, at polling booths around the country.
Although sausages have long featured on Australia's election days, the term was first recorded in 2012 and rose to greater prominence at July's federal poll.
Source: Australian National Dictionary Centre
Amanda Laugesen, director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre, said the term democracy sausage gained traction through the eight-week election campaign, considered long by Australian standards.
"Perhaps that was evidence that people were not as inspired by the policies on both sides of politics," she told the BBC.
Other food and drink choices also made the shortlist.
Smashed avo, a menu staple at many Australian brunch spots, became the subject of a national debate after a newspaper columnist suggested that young people should give up eating at cafes and instead buy a house.
And the shoey, an unorthodox sporting celebration, was popularised by Australian driver Daniel Riccardio who downed champagne from his racing boot several times from atop the Formula One podium.
"They all say something about the rise of social media in terms of shaping our language," Dr Laugesen said.
"Perhaps also the millennials having something to do with shaping social, political and cultural discourse - particularly with the smashed avo or the shoey."
Following the US election and Brexit vote, Oxford Dictionaries chose "post-truth" as its international word of the year.
It said the adjective, associated with the rising influence of emotional appeals in shaping public opinion, could become "one of the defining words of our time".
Goalkeeper Ruiter, 30, left FC Utrecht at the end of last season and has been training with the Wearsiders.
The Black Cats sold keeper Jordan Pickford to Everton for £25m, and Vito Mannone joined Reading for £2m.
"He's done himself no harm," Grayson told BBC Newcastle.
"But you can't make rash decisions on a player you've not seen too much in the flesh. As a manager I'd rather judge him in training rather than loads of saves in a game because that means he's being worked too much.
"In terms of his overall play, he was composed with his feet, very calm in possession and made a save when he had to. That's what you want from your keepers."
The Supreme Court is due to rule on Tuesday whether the UK parliament needs to give its approval before Article 50 is triggered.
The Scottish government argued that Holyrood should be given a say too.
Nicola Sturgeon has now said MSPs will have a vote regardless of the outcome of the case.
Prime Minister Theresa May has made clear her intention to take the UK out of the single market, with Ms Sturgeon warning the move "undoubtedly" makes a second referendum on Scottish independence more likely.
The Scottish government has put forward proposals for a separate settlement that it says would allow Scotland to stay in the single market even if the rest of the UK leaves.
When she set out her key objectives for the Brexit negotiation process last week, Mrs May promised to push for the "freest possible trade" with European countries.
And she said she wanted the UK to be able to negotiate trade deals with other countries around the world as part of plans to create a "truly global Britain".
But writing in the Daily Record, Ms Sturgeon said: "It's getting hard not to feel like the PM has her fingers in her ears when it comes to Scotland.
"This isn't some academic debate - removing us from the largest single market in the world would be devastating for people's jobs and living standards. But that seems to be of little concern to the Tories."
She added: "No matter what the court decides, I want to make this crystal clear - I intend to make sure the Scottish Parliament has the chance to vote on the question of triggering Article 50.
"If the UK government don't start showing Scotland some respect, I'll make sure that people across Scotland have the chance to choose our own future before the Tories drag us off an economic cliff-edge."
The Supreme Court case followed an appeal against an earlier High Court rejection of the UK government's argument that it already has the powers to trigger Article 50.
Campaigners say parliament must be consulted before the government does so - although Labour has already said it would not vote against Article 50.
The Scottish government intervened in the Supreme Court case, with the country's Lord Advocate arguing that MSPs should also be consulted before Article 50 is invoked.
On Sunday, the Scottish government's Brexit minister, Michael Russell, said the SNP's 54 MPs would definitely vote against Article 50.
Meanwhile, a group of MSPs has travelled to Brussels to gauge support for Scotland keeping some form of connection with both the European Union and the single market.
Members of Holyrood's European Committee said their talks would centre on what can be done to mitigate the impact of leaving the EU.
Committee members will meet senior German MEP David McAllister, who is vice president of the European People's Party in the European Parliament, and Danuta Hubner, the chairman of the parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee.
Committee convener Joan McAlpine, an SNP MSP, said there was a "great deal of concern in Scotland" about what leaving the single market would mean for the country.
She added: "As Brexit gets closer - Article 50 is expected to be invoked in the next two months - it is vital that we explore all the ramifications of this as well as every possible avenue that helps Scotland retain as close a relationship with the EU and its single market as possible."
Deputy convener and Labour MSP Lewis Macdonald added: "We're moving into a crucial phase in the run up to Article 50 being triggered, and these meetings will help us understand the implications of Brexit for Scotland on major issues such as citizenship, the economy and trade."
EU leaders have warned that the UK cannot access the single market, which allows the free movement of goods, services and workers between its members, while at the same time restricting the free movement of people - a key pledge of the prime minister.
Bruce, 54, took over at the KC Stadium in June 2012 and led them to promotion in his first season with the club.
Last season he took them to their first ever FA Cup final, losing to Arsenal in extra-time, as well as guiding them to 16th in the top flight.
The Tigers are currently 15th in the table, five points clear of the relegation zone with 10 games to play.
Bruce, whose previous deal was set to expire at the end of this season, told BBC Radio Humberside: "It's a rolling contract that I think will suit everybody.
"I've really enjoyed my time here and it feels like we've been talking about extending the deal for a very long time.
"I've been very happy here and why shouldn't I have been? We've had a great two and a half years. Who could forget how we got promoted, the FA Cup run we had and the short excursion into Europe?
"The most important thing now is keeping the club in the Premier League and growing from here."
After comfortably avoiding relegation last season the Tigers are looking to retain their top-flight status for the second successive season for the first time in their history.
Bruce is hopeful that some of the club's players will follow him in extending their deals.
"We have a big summer coming up with players running out of contract so I thought it was only right that I committed first," he added.
"I'm going to try and lead from the front and get a few to come with me."
The horse, owned by JP McManus, showed traces of medication which had not cleared his system on race day.
Yanworth tested positive for triamcinolone acetonide (TCA).
The anti-inflammatory may be used legally to treat horses, but it must have cleared their system by race days.
Yanworth, owned by JP McManus, was beaten 14 lengths by Buveur D'Air in the Champion Hurdle.
He subsequently won the Liverpool Hurdle at Aintree in April. The seven-year-old passed a drugs test after that victory.
King received the punishment from a British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel after an inquiry was held on Thursday.
The BHA said the disciplinary panel's written reasons surrounding the Yanworth case will "be published in due course" once they have been given to racing's ruling body.
It is not the first time one of King's horses has tested positive for TCA, with Midnight Cataria disqualified from second place at Kempton in October 2015 after the drug was detected in her system.
He was fined £1,000 on that occasion.
The Airports Commission has backed a third Heathrow runway, saying it will add £147bn in economic growth and 70,000 jobs by 2050.
Reacting to the news, Ken Skates said it was a better option than expanding Gatwick as it was nearer to Wales.
But he added that he was "very keen" that Cardiff Airport continued to grow.
"Air traffic is increasing," Mr Skates told the Jason Mohammad programme on BBC Radio Wales.
"If we are going to capture as many visitors, tourists and businesses as possible on this island then it's essential we are able to offer the access points in to the country.
"That's why I'm very keen Cardiff Airport continues to grow and get support and continues to enable people to come to Wales."
On the matter of Heathrow's likely expansion, he said: "It is essential we get smooth direct links from Heathrow to Wales - that could include swifter journey times as well from the airport direct to Wales."
In 2013 an appeal to expand Cardiff and other regional airports to ease the pressure on London was rejected by the Airports Commission, which said there was "little scope" to move the demand to other parts of the UK.
Father-of-three Eifion Gwynne, 41, an electrician who played rugby for Aberystwyth and Llandovery, died in October after a crash in Malaga.
About 4,000 spectators watched the game at Aberystwyth RFC, which featured the likes of Colin Charvis, Dafydd Jones and Garan Evans.
All the proceeds went to the Eifion Gwynne Memorial Fund.
The game saw a Wales XV -made up of ex-internationals, Wales sevens and regional players take on an Eifion Gwynne XV - made up of Aberystwyth and Llandovery players.
Speaking after the game, Mr Gwynne's wife Nia said it was a day of mixed emotions.
"There's a huge void in our life without Eifion, he was a huge family man," she said.
"Today is a day to remember him.
"To have a rugby match in his memory and all these ex-Welsh internationals and Lions players, it really is fantastic."
Dafydd Jones played with Mr Gwynne at county level and described him as a "special guy".
"Everyone thought the world of him," he said.
"A great player and a great bloke, on and off the pitch."
Singer Meic Stevens performed after the game, followed by an auction, and then a performance from #band6.
He said the UK's EU membership "gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union".
But British Eurosceptic politicians criticised his intervention, saying it was up to Britain to decide.
David Cameron has said a referendum on whether or not to remain a member of the EU will be held by the end of 2017.
That referendum will follow a renegotiation of the existing terms of British membership.
The prime minister has said he will campaign for Britain to remain in the EU if he gets the reforms he wants.
Speaking to the BBC's North America editor Jon Sopel, he said the EU "made the world safer and more prosperous".
Mr Obama said the UK was America's "best partner" because of its willingness to project power beyond its "immediate self-interests to make this a more orderly, safer world".
But former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, now a leading eurosceptic backbencher, said President Obama was "trotting out the standard State Department consensus".
He told the BBC that the United States "two centuries ago fought not to have laws imposed on them so I don't think he's in a strong position when we want to make our own laws in our own Parliament".
"It is massively in America's interest that a strong UK, using all its contacts in the anglosphere, with Canada, New Zealand and Asia regalvanises the movement for world free trade that would be massively positive for thousands of people."
Fellow Conservative backbencher Tom Pursglove said the issue of EU membership was "a matter for the British people".
"It isn't for anybody else to tell the British people what they are going to do," he said.
And Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan tweeted: "I accept that there may be some arguments for staying in the EU. Humouring Barack Obama is not one of them."
Leading UKIP figures also criticised Mr Obama, the party's deputy leader Paul Nuttall describing him as the "most anti-British (US) president in a generation".
But Labour, which is now backing an EU referendum after having long opposed it, said Mr Obama should be listened to.
"Labour is fighting to protect Britain's interests by campaigning to remain in Europe while David Cameron's weakness and indecision are putting our country's future international influence and prosperity at risk," said shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn.
And pro-EU campaign group Business for New Europe said Mr Obama's "carefully considered words show once again what is at stake in this referendum campaign".
"Our place in Europe doesn't just make sense in Washington - our status in capitals around the world is enhanced by our place at Europe's top table," said its campaign director Lucy Thomas.
Mr Obama described the UK's prime minister as an "outstanding partner" and congratulated his government for meeting the Nato target of spending 2% of the country's national income - GDP - on defence.
Earlier this year the head of the US Army, Chief of Staff Gen Raymond Odierno, said he was "very concerned" about the impact of spending cuts on the UK's armed forces.
At the time the Ministry of Defence said the government was committed to Nato's target. Earlier this month Chancellor George Osborne pledged to meet the target up to 2020 in his Budget.
In his BBC interview, Mr Obama denied putting pressure on Mr Cameron to meet that target but said there had been an "honest conversation" between the two leaders.
The US president, who has 18 months left in power, also admitted that the failure to pass "common sense gun safety laws" in the US was his biggest frustration.
He was speaking to the BBC at the White House before departing for Kenya, where he begins a short tour of Africa on Friday.
Police accused her of fraudulently claiming to be the girl's mother since snatching her from a hospital in Cape Town.
The 51-year-old woman was arrested last year after suspicions were raised when there was a similar-looking girl at the child's school.
DNA tests then proved that the two girls were sisters, police said.
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The kidnapped girl's biological parents, Celeste and Morne Nurse, called her Zephany, but the name she grew up with has not been revealed to protect her identity.
The convicted woman, who has been denied bail while she awaits sentencing, has also not been named for similar reasons.
Zephany had been living with the accused, near the Nurse family's home in the Cape Flats, a mainly working class neighbourhood in Cape Town, when she was identified last year.
The discovery came after one of the Nurse family's other daughters started going to a local secondary school and noticed a similarity with an older girl.
Mr Nurse told the court that he took the two girls out for lunch and began asking Zephany about her life.
He said that her date of birth matched the day his daughter was kidnapped, and added that a photo he was shown of Zephany's mother looked nothing like her.
He said he then spent a month gathering evidence before going to the police.
A DNA test showed that he had found his missing daughter.
A nationwide search in 1997 failed to find her.
In her evidence, the accused woman said she believed she had legally adopted the child after her own pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.
She said she was handed a new-born baby at a busy railway station by a woman called Sylvia, who cannot be found.
She also said that she had signed adoption papers, but they have been lost.
Giving his verdict, Judge John Hlophe described the defendant's account as a fairy tale and said the "court rejects it with the contempt it deserves".
The accused told the BBC before the verdict was issued that she was a victim too as she feels she was tricked into taking Zephany.
She also apologised to the Nurse family "for everything they went through".
In a statement issued through the Centre for Child Law at the weekend, Zephany complained about the way the media had portrayed the accused who she sees as her mother.
"Don't you think for once that that is my mother? Whether it is true or not is not for you to toy with," she said.
Zephany has chosen to continue living with the man who brought her up as her father.
She also spoke about him in the statement: "How would you feel as a father, desperately broken but still finds the goodness to support his family."
Before the verdict was announced he told South African media that if his wife was found guilty it would break up a happy family that has been together for 18 years.
Mrs Nurse broke down when she testified at the start of the trial.
She said Zephany was her first daughter, and she was 18 when she gave birth to her via a caesarean section at Groote Schuur Hospital, where the world's first human heart transplant was done in 1967.
She denied giving the accused permission to take her daughter from a ward.
"My baby was crying and I saw a person dressed in maroon clothes standing by the door. She asked if she could pick up the child," Mrs Nurse said.
"I was in pain and under medication. I fell asleep. Next thing I remember is the nurse asking where my child was.
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The crew of Bradley Hall, Joel Fearon, Bruce Tasker and Gregory Cackett were all unhurt after overturning in the second heat.
They were in 13th place after posting a time of 48.71 seconds on the first run.
"The guys are all on their feet and have been checked out by medical staff," said the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association.
Matthew Pinsent, who is in Konigssee with the BBC, posted on social media: "Pilot Bradley Hall is sitting track side absolutely inconsolable. His crew is trying nevertheless."
Co-commentator and skeleton Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams also tweeted: "Medals & Crashes. Highs & Lows. That's racing for you."
Britain's other crew of Lamin Deen, Ben Simons, John Baines and Andrew Matthew are in 21st place after two runs.
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The UK's "best preserved Bronze Age dwellings", found at a Cambridgeshire quarry, date from about 1,000-800 BC.
They were preserved in silt after falling into a river during a fire.
The "delicate task" to uncover the contents has just begun but the finds have been called "amazing artefacts".
The two or three circular wooden houses uncovered by archaeologists were built on stilts, and formed part of a settlement partially destroyed by fire 3,000 years ago.
The site, at Must Farm quarry near Whittlesey, has been described as "unique" by David Gibson, from Cambridge Archaeological Unit, which is leading the excavation.
Most Bronze Age sites have no timber remaining, just post-holes - but here, the stilts, roof structure and walls have been unearthed.
It is thought the roof fell in during the fire, covering the contents of the houses. Much would have been preserved as it sank into the Fenland silt.
Only a small section of one of the house interiors is being examined at the moment.
One of the first items found was "a very small, delicate wooden box that is mostly complete".
Archaeologists said they were "thrilled" to discover such a well-preserved artefact.
The contents appear to be inside still, but work to examine what those might be will not take place until next week.
An intact "fineware" pot and animal bones have also been found, all of which must be "meticulously" cleaned and documented.
The "cluster" of fish and animal bones uncovered inside "could have been the kitchen waste of the time," they said.
The team is currently about half-way through the eight-month dig to uncover the secrets of the site and the people who lived there.
Although they are in the very early stages of examining the house interior, the quality and quantity of what has been uncovered so far has left archaeologists "very excited".
The site has the "potential for more uncommon household objects including tools, cutlery and even furniture," they said.
The excavation is being jointly funded by Historic England and quarry owner Forterra.
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He's replacing Jeremy Clarkson, who was sacked from the show earlier this year, after punching a member of staff who works on the programme.
It's yet to be announced who will join Evans on the show.
On Wednesday morning, he told his radio listeners why he took the job.
This was, as Trewman's Exeter Flying Post explained, "a matter of great public convenience", for it meant the clock exhibited, as well as the correct time at Exeter, "railway time".
Our sense of time has always been defined by planetary motion. We talked of "days" and "years" long before we knew the Earth rotated on its axis and orbited the Sun.
The Moon's waxing and waning gave us the idea of a month. The Sun's passage across the sky gave us "midday" and "high noon". Exactly when the Sun reaches its highest point depends, of course, on where you are.
Someone in Exeter will see it 14 minutes after someone in London.
Naturally people tended to set their clocks by their local celestial observations. That is fine if you co-ordinate only with locals. If we both live in Exeter and agree to meet at 19:00, it hardly matters that it is 19:14 in London, 200 miles away.
But as soon as a train connects Exeter and London - stopping at multiple other towns, all with their own time - we face a logistical nightmare.
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Early British train timetables valiantly informed travellers that "London time is about four minutes earlier than Reading time, seven and a half minutes before Cirencester", and so on, but many passengers were understandably confused.
More seriously, so were drivers and signalling staff, increasing the risk of collisions.
So railways adopted "railway time", based on Greenwich Mean Time, set by the famous observatory.
Some municipal authorities quickly grasped the usefulness of standardised national time.
Others resented this metropolitan imposition, insisting that their time was - as the Flying Post put it, with charming parochialism - "the correct time".
For years, the dean of Exeter refused to adjust the clock on the city's cathedral.
In fact, there is no such thing as "the correct time".
Like the value of money, it's a convention that derives its usefulness from widespread acceptance by others.
But there is such a thing as accurate timekeeping. That dates from 1656, and a Dutchman named Christiaan Huygens.
There were clocks before Huygens, of course.
Water clocks appear in civilisations from ancient Egypt to medieval Persia. Others kept time from marks on candles. But even the most accurate devices might wander by 15 minutes a day. This didn't matter to a monk wanting to know when to pray.
But there was one increasingly important area of life where the inability to keep accurate time was of huge economic significance: sailing.
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By observing the angle of the Sun, sailors could calculate their latitude - where they were from north to south. But their longitude - where they were from east to west - had to be guessed.
Mistakes could - and frequently did - lead to ships hitting land hundreds of miles away from where navigators thought they were, sometimes disastrously.
How could accurate timekeeping help? If you knew when it was midday at Greenwich Observatory - or any other reference point - you could observe the Sun, calculate the time difference, and work out the distance.
Huygens's pendulum clock was 60 times more accurate than any previous device, but even 15 seconds a day soon mounts up on long sea voyages. Pendulums don't swing neatly on the deck of a lurching ship.
Rulers of maritime nations were acutely aware of the longitude problem: the King of Spain offered a prize for solving it nearly a century before Huygens's work.
Famously, it was a subsequent prize offered by the British government that led to a sufficiently accurate device being painstakingly refined, in the 1700s, by the Englishman John Harrison. It lost only a couple of seconds a day.
Since the dean of Exeter's intransigence, the whole world has agreed on "the correct time" - coordinated universal time (UTC), as mediated by various global time zones.
Usually, these zones maintain the convention of midday being vaguely near the Sun's highest point. But not always.
Since Chairman Mao abolished China's five time zones and put everyone on Beijing time, residents of westerly Tibet and Xinjiang have heard their clocks strike 12 not long after sunrise.
Meanwhile, since Huygens and Harrison, clocks have become much more accurate still. UTC is based on atomic clocks, which measure oscillations in the energy levels of electrons, and are accurate to within a second every hundred million years.
Does such accuracy have a point? We don't plan our morning commutes to the millisecond, and an accurate wristwatch has always been as much about prestige as practicality.
For over a century, before the hourly beeps of early radio broadcasts, members of the Belville family made a living in London by collecting the time from Greenwich every morning and selling it around the city, for a modest fee.
Their clients were mostly tradesfolk in the horology business, for whom aligning their wares with Greenwich was a matter of professional pride.
But there are places where milliseconds do matter. One is the stock market, where fortunes can be won by exploiting an arbitrage opportunity an instant before your competitors.
Some financiers recently calculated it was worth spending $300m (£247m) drilling through mountains between Chicago and New York to lay fibre-optic cables in a slightly straighter line. That sped up communication between the two cities' exchanges by three milliseconds.
The accurate keeping of universally accepted time also underpins computing and communications networks. But perhaps the most significant impact of the atomic clock - as in the past with ships and trains - has been on travel.
Nobody now needs to navigate by the angle of the Sun. We have GPS.
The most basic of smartphones can locate you by picking up signals from a network of satellites: because we know where each of those satellites should be in the sky at any given moment, triangulating their signals can tell you where you are on Earth.
The technology has revolutionised everything from sailing to aviation, surveying to hiking. But it works only if those satellites agree on the time.
GPS satellites typically house four atomic clocks, made from caesium or rubidium. Huygens and Harrison could only have dreamed of their precision, but it is still possible to misidentify your position by a couple of metres - a fuzziness amplified by interference as signals pass through the Earth's ionosphere.
That is why self-driving cars need sensors as well as GPS. On the road, a couple of metres makes the difference between lane discipline and dangerous driving.
Meanwhile, clocks continue to advance.
Scientists have recently developed one, based on an element called ytterbium, that will not have lost more than a hundredth of a second by the time the Sun dies and swallows up the Earth, in about five billion years.
How might this extra accuracy transform the economy between now and then? Only time will tell.
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After the FA failed to publish promised research into the condition, the Astle family renewed calls for a study to be done via its Justice for Jeff campaign.
The campaign has prompted other families of ex-players to come forward, claiming Astle's case could be the "tip of the iceberg".
Among them is physiotherapist, Andrew MacLeod, whose father Ally managed Scotland at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
He believes his dad developed Alzheimer's after repeatedly heading a ball during a 16-year playing career with teams including Hibernian and Blackburn Rovers.
He died in 2004, aged 72, after suffering with the disease for almost 10 years.
"It started as memory loss and forgetfulness," Mr Macleod said. "He would forget where my house was or he would ask to go and visit his mother in Glasgow who had died 23 years before.
"I was keen to see the research by the FA published because if there is evidence that repetitive heading causes brain injuries then it does have consequences even for the modern day player."
Richard Wickson, the chairman of Reading Football Club's former players' association, believes the Astle case is "the tip of the iceberg".
"We're hearing a lot of disturbing stories from organisations like ours around the country and it seems that these illnesses are affecting players from a certain era, the 50s and 60s," he said.
Duncan Forbes, 72, played more than 500 games for Norwich City and Colchester in a 16-year career starting in 1961.
He was admitted to a dementia care home in October.
His wife, Janette, believes his condition, which started when he was 64, was caused by heading footballs.
She said: "Duncan played the game since he was a little boy and with being centre back he was always heading balls out, which were a lot heavier than nowadays.
"He once told me as part of his training he used to head a medicine ball, with the idea that he could then head a normal football much further.
"I know of several players that haven't come out to say they've got dementia because there's a stigma attached to it but I think if clubs investigated it and looked at ex-players, we would find a lot more."
"I think the fear of having to pay out compensation is the only thing holding back the authorities from fully researching it.
"But the families I have spoken to are not interested in money they just want to make sure young players don't suffer."
In a letter to Astle's widow, Laraine, the chairman of the FA, Greg Dyke, said a commission had been set up to investigate head injuries, which includes representatives from the FA, the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) and the Premier League.
A spokesman for the FA said "The football commission on head injury... are working towards increasing awareness at all levels of the game of football."
Dr Michael Lipton is currently carrying out a study with adult amateur footballers in the US investigating how heading impacts on the brain.
His initial findings suggested heading a ball more than a 1,000 times a year could cause traumatic brain injury.
"Those people were also more likely to perform worse in cognitive tests especially memory and, less so, processing speed and attention," he said.
"There is clear data that traumatic brain injury increases the risk of Alzheimer's and dementia maybe as much as three fold."
However, scientific opinion on the issue is divided.
Dr Andrew Rutherford, of Keele University, has been researching possible brain damage caused by heading for more than 10 years. He said there was no definite evidence to link it to dementia.
"There is a danger that when somebody who happens to have been a footballer suffers from dementia, it becomes highlighted as a problem with football when it could be any number of causes just as it is in a person who never played the game," he said.
"With these individual cases it can appear that a large number of ex-players are suffering from dementia.
"That may be the case, but it could also just be five or six footballers in the whole of the country that suffer from that particular problem."
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There were four branches of former Prime Minister David Cameron's flagship scheme for new homeowners.
One, the mortgage guarantee, saw the government offer lenders the option to purchase a guarantee on mortgages where the borrower had a deposit of between 5% and 20%. This meant lenders were able to offer mortgages to people with smaller deposits. The scheme ended in December 2016.
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Carwyn Jones stressed the workplace, family, schools and the planning process as the key areas for action.
Alun Davies, minister for the Welsh language, admitted it was a "deliberately ambitious" target.
But Plaid Cymru's Sian Gwenllian called the announcement "another superficial stunt".
The 2011 census reported a drop in the number of Welsh speakers from 582,000 in 2001 to 562,000, about one in five of the population.
Traditional Welsh-speaking communities have been said to be under threat from young people moving away to find work and new housing developments attracting incomers who do not speak the language.
Ministers who launched the consultation at the National Eisteddfod in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, on Monday cited a growing demand for Welsh-medium education as a reason to be positive.
Proposals were outlined under six key areas for discussion:
"We are a proudly bilingual nation," said Mr Jones.
"We are confident the discussion we are launching today will continue to help us grow the language so it thrives as a vibrant, living part of our communities."
Mr Davies added: "There are challenges ahead, but we can undoubtedly face those in the knowledge that we are building from a position of strength."
The Welsh Government ran a "national conversation" consultation on the use of the Welsh language three years ago in 2013, following the Census results.
Jamie Bevan, chairman of the Welsh language society Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, said many reports had been commissioned and published since then but "not implemented in full".
He said: "It's a shock that the government is beginning another consultation.
"Welsh as a vibrant community language is on its knees - we're losing 3,000 speakers a year at the moment."
Plaid Cymru's Sian Gwenllian welcomed the one million Welsh speakers pledge but said: "There's no need for another superficial stunt and there's no time to waste."
Neil Hamilton, leader of the UKIP group in the Welsh Assembly, also welcomed the commitment but added: "We need action not words."
The Welsh Conservatives' Suzy Davies AM said the "devil will clearly be in the detail of these plans".
In response to the claims that it was just another consultation, Mr Jones said: "The target didn't exist before the election.
"A million is ambitious and it is important that we ensure that we listen to experts around us so that the target is met."
The Scottish Ambulance Service was called to a report of a non-responsive man in a vehicle in Bridge of Earn at about 11:00.
When ambulance staff and police arrived they found the man was dead.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the man's death and that officers were attempting to trace his next of kin.
A report into the incident has been sent to the procurator fiscal.
The New Economics Foundation think tank said the number of people employed in this sector had risen from about 38,000 in 2010 to about 65,300 in 2016.
App technology and new business models have led to a rise in "gig" workers undertaking short-term, casual work, spawning firms like Uber and Deliveroo.
The government is currently reviewing what this means for workers' rights.
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growth from 2010 and 2016
37,965 people registered in the 'gig' economy in 2010
65,315 people registered in the 'gig' economy in 2016
Typically workers in the "gig" economy use mobile phone apps to identify customers requiring delivery services or small practical jobs.
Stephen Devlin, senior economist from the New Economics Foundation think tank, said the next big growth area in the "gig" economy was expected to be in the cleaning and DIY trades.
The Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy said it believed some five million people were working in the gig economy in the UK.
The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates the government may lose up to £3.5bn in tax revenues by 2020-21 as a result of the rise in self-employed "gig" workers.
However this could change depending on the outcome of pending court cases.
An employment tribunal in London ruled in October that Uber drivers should be classed as workers and were not self-employed.
Uber is appealing against the decision and there are further test cases pending, including one for CitySprint delivery firm.
Mr Devlin said the re-classification of workers in the "gig" economy as a result of legal cases, could herald the collapse of the "gig" economy in the UK.
An election for three seats in the Cyfarthfa ward was held on Thursday, after the original poll in May was postponed because of the death of a candidate.
The group had already been ahead by 16 seats to Labour's 14 seats after the local elections last month.
A meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday ahead of the council AGM next Wednesday.
Independents Geraint Thomas and Paul Brown topped the ward poll, with Labour's David Chaplin winning the third seat, taking the final make-up of the council to 18 seats to 15.
Labour lost control on 5 May, including council leader Brendan Toomey, who was defeated by Independent Patricia Skinner.
At least two exams had to be changed at short notice after the Ariana Grande concert bombing, reports the Times Educational Supplement.
The boards wanted to ensure questions did not add to pupils' distress, the magazine says.
One Edexcel general studies GCSE paper referred directly to terrorism.
It was changed as it was felt to be "an unnecessary distraction" in the circumstances, Edexcel said.
The other GCSE changed was an AQA religious studies paper.
The bomb attack, as thousands left the Manchester Arena after the concert, came in the middle of the exam season, and the four biggest exam boards had to check the 2,144 papers still to be taken.
AQA also contacted schools about an AS-level French paper that included a reference to Ariana Grande and an A-level French paper that mentioned terrorism in source material, in case they wanted to warn pupils ahead of sitting the exams.
The Manchester attack, coupled with that on London Bridge and the Grenfell Tower fire in west London, all within a month, prompted continued checks on papers during this year's exam season.
Exam boards also told schools directly affected by the Manchester attack that they could decide whether to go ahead with GCSE and A-level exams.
The schedule went ahead as planned but schools could apply for "special consideration" for individual pupils who had to miss them.
Some students directly involved in the Grenfell Tower fire sat their GCSE and A-level exams the day after the blaze.
"The events of the summer shocked everyone, so we all felt that it was our duty to make sure that our exams didn't add to anyone's distress," said Philip Bridgehouse, customer engagement manager at AQA.
"It was a massive task to review all our exam papers in a short time, but it was a really important thing to do."
Michael Turner, director general of the Joint Council for Qualifications, told the magazine that exam papers "are written nearly a year in advance and changing questions is not something they are going to do lightly".
These "dashcams" are small, forward-facing cameras that film a driver's view of the road.
When asked by provider Nextbase, 29 insurers said they would consider using dashcam evidence in the claims process.
This would be put alongside any accounts from independent witnesses if the parties involved disagreed.
Experts also stress that drivers with dashcams should still collect as much evidence as possible in a claim when there is disagreement between the parties involved, such as the details of other motorists who may have seen the collision.
Insurance premiums have been falling in recent months, according to various measures.
The AA said that the cheapest annual comprehensive car insurance on the market was £200 lower in the early months of 2015 than at its peak in 2011.
But the motoring group said it expected this average of the cheapest deals - £540 a year - to increase in the coming months.
Some drivers are able to secure a discount on their premium by installing a "black box" in their vehicle.
This records evidence, such as whether a driver is travelling within speed limits, and is aimed at encouraging safer use of the roads.
Malcolm Tarling, of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said that it was far more likely for motorists to get a discount from their insurer when using a black box than when using a dashcam.
He added that insurers would generally have to write a clause into the terms and conditions of any discount to be able to demand dashcam footage be released by the owner, even if this implicated the driver as the cause of a collision.
Meanwhile, a price comparison website is warning drivers to ensure that any pets travelling in vehicles are secure.
"The law is clear - you must secure your animal while in a car," said Matt Oliver, car insurance spokesman at Gocompare.com.
"Therefore if you don't do this and an animal roaming freely around the vehicle is said to have contributed to causing an accident, then an insurance company could be well within their rights not to pay out on a claim."
"Ever since he could remember, all David Martin wanted to do was to shake the hand of a member of his birth family," writes reporter Clare Weir.
A front-page picture shows David and his cousin, Gerry Allen, hugging as they meet for the first time.
The newspaper had a role in this story. It waved its fairy godmother wand and helped David get his appeal out there to find his relatives.
David, 65, had been put up for adoption by his mother in London. All he knew was that her name was Allen and that his mother came from Menin Road, Antrim.
He emailed the Antrim Guardian in May and, within 48 hours of the newspaper hitting the stands, his cousin, Gerry made contact.
"Last Thursday, amid emotional scenes, David walked into St Comgall's parish centre to a huge round of applause and shook Gerry's hand, 'completing the circle' as he described it," says the paper.
David came to Ireland with a file full of documents including harrowing letters from his mother Mary Allen telling how she could not afford to support her child.
The paper also features the story of artist Zoe Baysting who "has the world at her feet" but still feels "drawn" (ouch) to Antrim.
It says that Zoe has been invited to exhibit and sell her work on the online Saatchi Gallery. She has already found one New York client.
She has a studio in Riverside, Antrim, and aims to keep her art "as affordable as possible", she says.
The Ulster Gazette's front-page headline reads: "Kids booze party shock".
The paper says police had to remove a two-litre bottle of cider from a 14-year-old girl at the weekend.
The Gazette says children are being "bussed in" from Portadown to Tandragee so that they can meet up at underage drinking dens.
It quotes a local police inspector who reminds parents to ensure that they know where their children are.
The Gazette also looks back 50 years to a gas explosion at Callan Street, Armagh, in 1967.
Five-year-old Brendan Donnelly was killed and 19 others were injured in two separate blasts on 21 and 22 July.
The paper's headline at the time reads: "Like war-time bomb blast with casualties".
The paper reported that a leading forensics expert was one of 16 people injured in the second explosion - he had been investigating the first blast at the time.
Special tribute was paid to a Constable Orr from Orangefield.
"He was seen staggering from the tunnel with a child in his arms after extinguishing its clothing and who, despite his injuries, drove the police car full of casualties to our City Hospital," said the paper.
Under the headline: "Left in Limbo", the Newry Democrat features a picture of Caoimhe McDonnell. The paper says she is one of "many children" in the Newry and Mourne area who are not getting respite care.
Caoimhe, 15, has Down's Syndrome and her father, Jim, is accusing the Southern Trust of "mismanagement" over respite arrangements.
He claims the trust has cancelled pre-booked care for children who need respite and this can happen sometimes with just an hour's notice.
He is the chairman of Carrickore Respite Parents Group and claims the group is about to disband over this "fiasco".
The Southern Trust told the paper it fully appreciated the importance of short breaks for children and young people with disabilities and the significant impact that can have on families.
The spokesperson said young people could have a range of behaviours and needs can escalate quickly which means it may be necessary, on occasion, to cancel or rearrange planned breaks.
In the paper's Down Memory Lane section, retired butcher Fred McElroy reflects on how times have changed since his father, Paddy, opened his first butcher's shop in Water Street, Newry.
His father kept pigs in the yard and, in the war years, there was a brisk trade in rabbit. People ate more offal back then too - liver and kidneys were very popular up until the 1980s, he said.
Highland dancers and pipers feature on the front page of the Londonderry Sentinel under the headline: "Relief of City to draw thousands".
The paper says about 8,000 Apprentice Boys accompanied by 150 bands are to take to the streets of Derry on Saturday and that this year's parade will be led by a band from England for the first time.
It is the culmination of the Maiden City Festival which, the Sentinel says, is expected to attract 30,000 people over the four days.
The paper also reports on the unveiling of a blue plaque in the city dedicated to Irish poet Francis Ledwidge who was killed in World War One.
The plaque is at Ebrington Square - the site of the old barracks where the "poet of the blackbird" was stationed during his time with the Inniskilling Fusiliers.
"He is thought to have written many of his most famous pieces of poetry there," says the paper.
The Fermanagh Herald's front page describes chaotic scenes in Enniskillen town centre on Monday when a prisoner in handcuffs made an escape bid from police custody.
It says Connor Floyd, 19, from Main Street in Maguiresbridge made off from a police car as he was being transported to Enniskillen Magistrates Court for a bail hearing.
He was pursued by police on foot and in patrol cars, with Monday's court proceedings being "delayed by almost half an hour while the incident was ongoing", before Floyd was returned to custody.
The paper also reports that the fight to save the stroke unit at South West Acute Hospital has stepped up a gear, with a large crowd attending a public meeting in Enniskillen on Monday night.
It says the unit is under threat as part of a proposed shake-up at health trusts across Northern Ireland, but notes that the Western Trust has repeatedly stressed to the Herald that they intend to keep it open.
Elsewhere, the paper reports that an online petition has been launched calling for all services at the hospital to be protected and enhanced.
The front page of the Tyrone Constitution reflects a councillor's concerns about road safety in the West Tyrone area.
Ulster Unionist councillor Bert Wilson says communities in West Tyrone are suffering because of "miserably inadequate funding", speeding motorists, and Stormont deadlock.
He adds: "Road safety is one thing that has been compromised as a result and I have to ask is it going to take a tragedy to see action?"
The Department for Infrastructure said West Tyrone has had an "equitable share of the limited funding available" and highlighted a range of "recent substantial resurfacing works and other ancillary improvements along sections of roads".
The PSNI said it had conducted speed detection and awareness operations in Greencastle and Rouskey in recent days after concerns were raised by residents.
The town's councillors are set to accept the gift from actor and director Lawrence Holofcener at a meeting later.
Holofcener previously planned to loan the sculpture to the council, but revised his offer to a gift.
The "interactive" statue of the Bard on a bench is set to be put in Bancroft Gardens next month.
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The sculpture is being kept under wraps until it is installed in the town and unveiled on 23 February, to mark Holofcener's 90th birthday.
"People should be able to take selfies with Shakespeare with the RSC [Royal Shakespeare Company] theatre in the background," a council spokesman said.
Holofcener is the sculptor behind the famous Allies piece in Bond Street, London, where people can sit between life-sized sculptures of Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt.
The artwork is "not only believed to be the most photographed sculpture in the country, but is also now seen as one of London's key tourist attractions", the council said.
The 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, who was born in Stratford in 1564, will be marked in the town and around the world.
Among events, actor David Tennant is to host a live TV celebration of the playwright's contribution to the UK's cultural heritage from the RSC in April.
Mr Kagame said the problems in Burundi originated from within the country, not elsewhere.
Burundi has suffered a violent political crisis since President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term last year.
It is exactly a year since Mr Nkurunziza survived a coup attempt.
Rwanda denied similar allegations about supporting rebels made in a previous UN-backed report in February.
Mr Kagame criticised the authors of the latest leaked report, which is due to be presented at the UN World Security Council later, saying their time would be better spent addressing countries' problems rather than exacerbating them.
The report obtained by Reuters news agency accuses Rwanda of providing training, as well as financial and logistical support throughout 2016 for rebels seeking to overthrow Mr Nkurunziza.
Already in bad shape, relations between the two countries deteriorated further in March after a former Rwandan minister died in jail in Burundi, having been arrested for espionage.
More than 400 people have died since the start of the crisis in April 2015 and at least 260,000 have fled the country in that time.
Officers were called to Downham Road in Ramsden Heath at about 11:00 GMT on Saturday, after paramedics reported a man in his 40s had been stabbed.
The man was airlifted to hospital but has since been released.
Essex Police said a 41-year-old woman from Downham Road, Ramsden Heath, has been charged and will appear before Chelmsford Magistrates' Court later.
She distanced herself from several of Ed Miliband's business policies, saying Labour was perceived as being "anti-growth and ultimately anti-worker".
Labour must consult more closely with business leaders and focus on science and hi-tech jobs, she said.
Ms Cooper is one of four candidates, with a winner to be named in September.
Another candidate, Andy Burnham, has already called for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU pledged by the Conservatives to be brought forward to 2016 to end uncertainty for business.
Mr Burnham has been boosted by an endorsement from Dan Jarvis, the former soldier regarded as one of Labour's rising stars. He told the BBC Mr Burnham had a "basic authenticity" and would be able to re-connect with voters who had deserted the party.
Shadow home secretary Ms Cooper is seeking to position herself as the pro-business candidate as the contest - in which Mary Creagh and Liz Kendall are also taking part - gets under way in earnest.
Analysis: Political correspondent Eleanor Garnier
Just days ago Yvette Cooper stood side by side with Ed Miliband as they fought the general election campaign together.
As shadow home secretary she would have signed off Labour's manifesto and helped to shape the party's election strategy.
But now the wife of Ed Balls, the former shadow chancellor, has strongly criticised Ed Miliband and, in her pitch to be the candidate of the centre, has promised to lead a reformed pro-business Labour Party.
But there's more support for her main rival, Andy Burnham, who has won the backing of Dan Jarvis.
Before he ruled himself out of the race, Mr Jarvis was the man many in Labour had pinned their hopes on as the new leader.
He said Labour should be proud of its links with the unions and admitted the party wasn't as disciplined with the country's finances as it should have been before 2007.
Setting out her stall in a series of newspaper interviews, Ms Cooper called for a "fresh start" in Labour's relations with business.
She criticised what she said was former leader Mr Miliband's failure to fully engage with business over the past five years, and the tone of some of his interventions.
Mr Miliband's 2011 conference speech, in which he sought to distinguish between "producer" and "predator" companies, was mistaken as it sounded like Labour was dividing the economy into "two camps", she said.
"It sounded anti-business, anti-growth and ultimately anti-worker for the many people employed by large companies in the UK," she said.
While Labour had talked a lot about stopping workers from being exploited and consumers from being ripped off, she said the party had not convinced the public that it understood enterprise and was sufficiently focused on creating jobs and growing the economy.
Ms Cooper also argued that Labour should drop its opposition to the government's cut in corporation tax to 20%, and also focus on boosting productivity by investing in advanced manufacturing and aspiring to make the UK the science and technology capital of Europe.
Ms Cooper pledged to set up a business advisory group including non-Labour supporters, if she became leader, ensuring regular dialogue with the business community rather than "rude surprises that backfire".
"We need to reset out relationship with business around a shared vision for building an economy that faces the future," she said. "The opportunities of the digital economy and of 'knowledge intensive' jobs must be seized by both our government and businesses."
All the four declared contenders are making pitches to different groups at the start of what will be a three-month campaign, with the early skirmishes focusing on Labour's record in government, particularly on spending, and its relationship with the unions.
Sources told the BBC that Ms Cooper already had the support of the 35 MPs required for candidates to get on the ballot paper, after the names of 14 backers, including a number of shadow ministers, were released.
Mr Burnham, meanwhile, has won the high-profile backing of Dan Jarvis, who told Radio 4's World Tonight that the shadow health secretary had an "inspiring" life story and could offer "real reach and real appeal based on his experience and his values".
Ms Kendall has called for a "fundamentally different approach" from the next Labour leader on issues such as public sector reforms while Ms Creagh has said Labour failed to articulate a plan to make the UK more competitive.
Labour's leader in the House of Lords has suggested that whoever is elected in September could be "re-affirmed" in 2018.
Baroness Royall said Labour might choose to reconsider whether they had the right man or woman to go forward to the 2020 election, taking into account changes in the political landscape after the EU referendum and a possible new Conservative leader.
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Drone pilot, Scott A Stevenson, tells us what to think about before you start and how to fly safely.
He was showing off mini drones at the Big Bang Science Fair in Birmingham.
Hear his advice on what to do.
Remember make sure you get help from a parent if you are going to fly a drone.
South Africa's 475 was simply too many, no team should have been scoring that on this pitch - 350-380 is about a par first-innings score.
So England's 342 probably felt a bit light and South Africa, with that dashing hundred from Quinton de Kock on day two, racked up a lot more than they should have done. That's where the disparity lies.
They had three batsmen that got in and scored hundreds, where England had three batsmen who got in but could not convert starts into hundreds.
Even if they have an exceptional day with the ball on Monday, England are going to be faced with a sizeable final-innings chase and you have to say the pitch is becoming quite awkward.
There is much more uneven bounce, the ball is spinning and bouncing, some are keeping low and some are rearing up into the splice area.
If there was someone with genuine pace playing it could be pretty brutal so this is deteriorating quickly, which makes South Africa's lead all the more significant.
That said there were clearly some wickets in which England didn't help themselves and James Taylor's dismissal, caught behind for 14, obviously springs to mind.
It was poor judgement to play a hook shot to such a high bouncer just before lunch when he could have gained nothing from it.
There was a man out in the deep, there was a man at short-leg and all he did was expose Jonny Bairstow who got a good ball early his innings - as can happen - and edged to the wicketkeeper for a duck.
Taylor should have thought and played for lunch and looked after his team-mates, so that was disappointing.
I thought Moeen Ali played very well for his first half century in 15 innings. He came through a very difficult 45 minutes when he was finding it pretty awkward around off stump, but, having fought through it, he really flourished.
Yet you just felt England were not going to get close to South Africa's total.
You would think that South Africa's lead is going to be too much for England and they should win the game from here.
The man largely responsible for the Proteas' strong position is 20-year-old Kabiso Rabada, who took 7-112 in only his sixth Test match to add to his five-wicket haul in the previous game at Johannesburg.
He's got a lovely action, but there are areas that can be improved. He can use his left arm more and he might put a bit more into his run-up which is surprisingly gentle really, a very slow approach.
But he is a totally natural swing bowler. People talk about him bowling at 95mph but that's nonsense, he doesn't bowl at anything like that speed but given he is only 20 they could get more pace into him if the right people help him.
For someone that young to come in and take seven wickets, without the experience of their main strike bowler Dale Steyn or Vernon Philander to help him, proves he is a tremendous prospect. In addition to young batsman Temba Bavuma who made that fabulous hundred in Cape Town.
I hate accusing teams of complacency and it is easy to say that has happened to England having already wrapped up the series.
Whether the tourists have somehow taken their eye off the ball slightly I don't know, but unfortunately it has been a case of missed opportunities here.
They are going to have to hope they really dig deep in the second innings, but I don't think the weather will save them as we can make up the lost time, so you fancy South Africa will get a consolation win.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Jamie Lillywhite
The facility is set to be created at the Norwegian town of Ballangen, which is located inside the Arctic Circle.
The firm behind the project, Kolos, says the chilled air and abundant hydropower available locally would help it keep its energy costs down.
The area, however, suffers the country's highest rate of sick leave from work, which may be related to its past as a mining community.
The US-Norwegian company says it has already raised "several million dollars" for the project from Norwegian private investors.
However, it is still working with a US investment bank to secure the remaining necessary funds.
It is basing its record-setting claims on the amount of power it intends to draw on to run its computer servers.
Initially, Kolos' base would draw on about 70 megawatts of power.
However, within a decade, the firm intends to have added enough computer server modules to draw on more than 1,000 MW.
Amazon's data processing division is already thought to draw on about 1,000 MW of power in Ashburn, Virginia, however its servers are spread across the area rather than being clustered together into a single centre.
Facebook has operated its own large data centre about 385km (239 miles) from Ballangen at Lulea, Sweden since 2013. But it is limited to 120 MW.
Other giant single-site data centres also tend to use less than 200 MW.
When complete, the Ballangen development is set to cover 600,000 sq m (6.46m sq ft) and stretch over four storeys.
That is a bigger area than today's record-holder - a facility in Langfang, China - but slightly smaller than the final plan for a still-in-development centre in Nevada.
The Norwegian enterprise should benefit from the fact that large amounts of fibre optic cable were laid in the past alongside a railway built to transport mined iron ore to Sweden.
In more recent times, the EU and Norwegian government have invested in building large dams for hydroelectric projects. There are also several wind farms nearby.
"It's quite literally the lowest power cost in Europe - and 100% of the power is renewable on one of the most stable grids in the world," Kolos' co-chief executive Mark Robinson told the BBC.
"It's in a region of the planet that is naturally cool and has ideal humidity, so we can keep servers cool without having to artificially chill them," he added.
"It has unlimited access to fresh, clean cool water as a secondary chilling source.
"And there's a university nearby, which produces about 200 technology students a year - and the idea is to employ some of these."
When questioned about local sickness rates, Mr Robinson acknowledged that he had not been aware of the municipality's poor standing.
But he noted that the benefits to the local economy of hosting the centre could improve the situation.
Kolos says it already has the support of five local mayors, and Norway's climate and environment minister Vidar Helgesen will take part in a public meeting the firm has organised later this week.
"We want to see many projects come to fruition and I am supportive of this just as I am supportive of any other," Mr Helgesen told the BBC ahead of the event.
"We are not picking individual winners, but we have reduced our tariffs in order to welcome the establishment of data centres in Norway - and we welcome this initiative very much."
The major cloud infrastructure service providers - including Amazon, Microsoft and Google - have repeatedly cut their prices over recent years, putting pressure on other data centre operators.
Tech consultancy Gartner says this has meant private endeavours have needed to seek scale of their own in order to keep their prices competitive.
"There's always a danger with this kind of thing that providers rush to build capacity that outstrips what the market requires," added David Groombridge, research director at tech consultancy Gartner.
"But in terms of data centres, it's hard to see consumer-driven demands dropping off and there's the promise of the internet-of-things, with millions of sensors generating information that will need to be processed.
"So, unless there are radical new technologies that come along very quickly to help compress data, we will need the resources that these kind of facilities provide."
The average easy access rate fell below 0.5% for the first time, while cash Isa rates fell below 1%.
It follows the Bank of England's decision to cut base rates by 0.25% on 4 August, with the expectation of further cuts if necessary.
As a result, savings rates were reduced on 354 products during the month.
Furthermore, 53 of those cuts were greater than 0.25%, Moneyfacts said.
"The base rate now sits at its lowest level in over 300 years and has just given providers another excuse to slash rates," said Rachel Springall, finance expert at Moneyfacts.
It's clear to see that savers have been left devastated by persistent rate cuts across the market and will struggle to find decent returns for their cash in the immediate future."
She warned there could be further cuts to come, especially if the Bank of England reduced the base rate again.
Among the products with cuts of more than 0.25% were: The Halifax Help to Buy Isa, Norwich and Peterborough's Instant Isa and the Yorkshire Building Society's Triple Access Saver.
Average rates are listed below.
Under the constitution, presidents can only be elected to two terms in office but it was argued that his first term does not count as he was appointed by parliament.
The announcement has led to renewed protests in the capital.
The constitutional court's vice-president had earlier reportedly fled the country citing "death threats".
At least 12 people have died in what is seen as the most serious unrest since the end of a civil war in 2005.
Constitutional court vice-president Sylvere Nimpagaritse said most of his colleagues thought the third-term bid was unconstitutional, but they were under pressure to change their minds, reports AFP.
The president's spokesman Gervais Abayeho told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that there were no threats or pressure put on the judges.
He said their discussions were private so there was no way that individuals could be singled out for their views.
After the ruling was announced, more than 500 protesters went on to the streets of Musaga, a southern suburb of the capital, Bujumbura, reports the BBC's Maud Jullien.
Three people were killed in protests in Musaga on Monday.
Live rounds have also been fired near the US embassy at people demonstrating against the third-term bid.
"The riot police deployed several canisters of tear gas and fired several warning rounds into the air," Reuters news agency quotes Becca Archer Kepper, the embassy's public affairs officer, as saying.
On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Mr Nkurunziza to abandon his re-election bid.
"We are deeply concerned about President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision, which flies directly in the face of the constitution of this country," Mr Kerry told reporters during a visit to Kenya.
African news as it happens: 5 May 2015
The announcement on 25 April that Mr Nkurunziza would run for a third term in June's elections sparked a wave of protests, as well as diplomatic criticism.
The Red Cross says that 12 people have died during the demonstrations and clashes between police and protesters have also left dozens injured.
People are also fleeing the country saying they "have experienced intimidation and threats of violence", according to the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR.
It says that more than 20,000 people have left for neighbouring countries.
The African Union had expressed concern about the threat to stability caused by the third-term dispute.
But at the end of April the AU's Peace and Security Council called on Burundians to respect the constitutional court's decision whichever way it went
Mr Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader, has been in power since 2005, when he was appointed by parliament following a peace deal that ended a 12-year civil war.
He then won the 2010 presidential election after the main opposition parties boycotted the vote over concerns that it would be rigged.
Lewis, 43, succeeds Dame Kelly Holmes, who spent six years in the role.
The 2000 Olympic heptathlon champion will give "leadership and guidance" before the 2018 Commonwealth Games, to be held on Australia's Gold Coast.
"I am thrilled I have the chance to work with, and support, England's athletes and help them towards becoming a Commonwealth medallist," said Lewis.
"I understand what support is needed in order to allow athletes to prepare and compete to the best of their potential."
As well as her Olympic success in Sydney, Lewis won Commonwealth titles in 1994 and 1998.
Commonwealth Games England manages the participation and preparation of the England team.
Its chairman, Ian Metcalfe, said Lewis' role will be "vital", adding: "We're certain that her experience as an elite athlete will inspire the next generation of Team England athletes and assist CGE in supporting them."
England topped the medal table at last year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and were third in September's Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa.
The body of the man, in his 40s, was found just after 06:30 GMT on Monday at the One-Stop convenience store in Ditton Lane, Cambridge.
Police confirmed he had allegedly been involved in an "altercation with a man and his dog" earlier. They were told the man had bitten the animal.
Four men arrested on suspicion of manslaughter have been bailed.
A police spokesman said the man had been involved in an "alleged altercation" with a 45-year-old man and his dog.
A man, aged 45, initially arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm was released without further action on Tuesday.
Officers said the dead man, who has not yet been named, was from Cambridge.
A post-mortem examination carried out on Tuesday proved "inconclusive".
The man's death is currently being treated as unexplained.
The Republican retired four-star general's comments were revealed in a hack on his personal emails.
The emails were posted on DCLeaks.com, which has reportedly been tied to other recent high-profile hacks.
Mr Powell, who has been quiet during the election, said he had "no further comment" but was "not denying it".
A Powell spokesman also confirmed to CBS News that Mr Powell's personal account was hacked, and that they have "no idea who did it and no further comment at this time".
The remarks were part of an email sent on 17 June to Emily Miller, a journalist and Mr Powell's former aide.
The former secretary of state, who served during George W. Bush's administration, also called Mr Trump an "international pariah" who "is in the process of destroying himself".
"No need for Dems to attack him," the email said, according to BuzzFeed News.
"Paul Ryan is calibrating his position again," Mr Powell reportedly said, referring to the Republican Speaker of the House.
In a separate email sent on 21 August, Mr Powell also criticised Mr Trump for promoting the birther movement, which questioned whether President Barack Obama was born in the US.
"Yup, the whole birther movement was racist," the email read. "That's what the 99% believe. When Trump couldn't keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim."
But the leaked emails also revealed Mr Powell's frustrations with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her handling of her use of private email while at the State Department.
"Sad thing... HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me into it," the email read, referring to Mrs Clinton.
"I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton's party to get their attention."
Mrs Clinton has pointed to Mr Powell's use of his personal AOL account at the state department as an example of why her email use was common practice.
"Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris," he said in an email last year to his business partner Jeffrey Leeds.
The midfielders will move to Ibrox on four-year contracts at the end of the season, when their current deals end.
Stanley, who are seventh in League Two in England, will be due compensation for the duo, who are both 21.
Windass has been with Accrington since 2013 while Crooks, who can also play in defence and attack, joined last year.
Son of former Aberdeen and Hull City striker Dean, Windass joined Accrington from Northern Premier League outfit Harrogate Railway Athletic.
He was recently reported to be a target for Arsenal and has rejected the offer of a new contract from his present club.
Like Windass, who has netted 11 goals this season, Crooks came through the youth ranks at Huddersfield Town and made the switch to Accrington permanent in February after a loan spell.
Crooks had previous loan spells with Halifax Town, Radcliffe Borough and Hartlepool United.
Accrington majority shareholder Andy Holt confirmed on Monday that Rangers were in talks with Crooks and Windass.
Meanwhile, Arsenal midfielder Gedion Zelalem has extended his loan spell with Rangers until the end of the season.
Camera assistant Sarah Jones, 27, died after being hit by a freight train on the first day of filming Midnight Rider in Georgia in February 2014.
Randall Miller, 53, who also pleaded guilty to criminal trespassing, had spent a year in county jail.
He was released halfway through his sentence, for good behaviour.
Six other crew members were injured in the accident that killed Jones.
She was struck by the train after the crew had placed a hospital bed on a railway bridge across the Altamah River in Doctortown, south east Georgia, to shoot a dream sequence.
The train, which was travelling at 55 mph, shattered the bed, sending a shower of debris that injured other crew members.
Filming was suspended and actor William Hurt, who was due to play Allman, pulled out of the production. Allman himself had also called for the project to be axed following the death.
An investigation found that CSX Transportation, which owned the train trestle on which filming was taking place, had refused permission to film on the tracks.
Miller was jailed on 9 March 2015 after pleading guilty as part of a plea deal, which saw criminal charges dropped against his wife Jody Savin. He could have been jailed for 11 years if convicted by a jury.
He was freed shortly after making a court appearance on Wednesday.
Don Samuel, one of Miller's defence lawyers, said: "He was still in shackles when I last saw him, but he was very glad the sentence was behind him. He's moving on and he's going to be on an overnight flight to California."
His defence team had been arguing that Miller should be freed early because of his good behaviour and also because of concerns for his health.
Sarah Jones's parents had told Superior Court Judge Anthony Harrison they opposed Miller's early release.
Speaking after the hearing, her father, Richard Jones, said: "The message we did not want to send is that because you may be a movie director, you may be getting off lightly.
"Sarah's dead for heaven sakes. These were just blatant decisions that put these people in danger unnecessarily."
Miller will spend the next nine years on probation and is banned from directing any films during that period.
The musician, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, is performing at several venues across the US.
Born blind, Gurrumul sings in his tribal Gumatj dialect, spoken by no more than 3,000 people.
The concert was co-presented by music producer Quincy Jones, who has called Gurrumul "unbelievable".
Jones' endorsement is what brought Marc Storey to Wednesday night's concert ("Quincy knows his stuff"), on a visit to New York from Britain.
"I'm a new fan", he said, describing the music as "enchanting".
A New York Times critic at Wednesday night's gig said there was something "preternaturally soothing" about his voice.
"It seems to arrive from a distance, high and serene, with a hint of reediness and a humble quaver, proffering melodies like lullabies," Jon Pareles wrote in the newspaper.
Shy, and speaking little English, it was left to his bassist Michael Hohnen to introduce Gurrumul's songs at the show, explaining their meanings, and even getting the crowd to imitate a native bird call.
But Gurrumul, who lives on the isolated northern Australian island of Elcho, did speak briefly to thank the crowd.
Along with Jones' support, Gurrumul has attracted praise from other high-profile musicians, including Sting and Elton John.
He was one of 200 Commonwealth musicians chosen to play at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012, playing a song at the BBC studios before hand.
The ABC later reported he was more excited about meeting Stevie Wonder than the Queen.
Gurrumul plays at the New Orleans Jazz Festival on Friday, before heading to gigs in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Colo passed away in her sleep overnight at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio, less than a month after celebrating her birthday.
She was born at the zoo in December 1956 and is believed to be the first gorilla ever born in captivity.
Colo, a Western lowland gorilla, lived for more than 20 years longer than the average captive gorilla.
Despite recently having a malignant tumour removed, zookeepers said that she had been recovering well and the cause of her death had yet to be determined.
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said in a statement that Colo was "an ambassador for gorillas" who "inspired people to learn more about the critically endangered species".
"Colo touched the hearts of generations of people who came to see her and those that cared for her over her long lifetime," the statement read.
The zoo added that Colo is to be cremated, with her ashes buried on site.
In December, hundreds of people visited Columbus Zoo and Aquarium to sing Happy Birthday and watch Colo, a great-great grandmother, enjoy her cake.
Warren and Westley Linnen admitted conspiracy to burgle at Chelmsford Crown Court.
The pair targeted pubs across southern England, including premises in Essex, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.
The pair, aged 35 and 38 , from Beckton, London, were each jailed for five-and-a-half years.
The court heard their six-week crime spree happened while they were on licence after being released from jail.
They will serve their new prison terms on top of the remainder of their previous sentences for burglary.
Det con Kirsty Swan, from Essex Police, said the brothers "targeted" pubs and bars and stole from private living areas and staff rooms.
"It was only after arresting them, having been wanted for burglaries across Essex and Hertfordshire, that I began to fully uncover the number of crimes they had committed," she said.
"This case has involved liaising with officers from seven other forces to pull together all our work to make a strong case which meant the Linnen brothers had no choice but to admit their guilt when faced with the weight of the evidence compiled against them."
The pair stole about £19,700 in cash and property worth about £1,000 including safes, handbags and electrical items.
The Foxes are five points clear at the summit after picking up seven from their past three games.
But not only are Claudio Ranieri's men still winning points - their nearest rivals are continuing to drop them.
Tottenham and Arsenal took points off each other after Saturday's 2-2 draw in the north London derby.
Fourth-placed Manchester City did, however, revive their title hopes after three straight league defeats with a 4-0 thumping of Aston Villa.
Fifth-placed West Ham and Manchester United, two points behind the Hammers, also still have an outside chance.
Here's the lowdown on each of the top six's run-in
Played 29, 60 points, goal difference +21
Last won the league title: Never
Results in reverse fixtures: Leicester have five home games in their final nine-game run-in, and were unbeaten in the reverse fixtures, picking up 23 points from the nine games. A repeat haul would see the Foxes end the campaign with 83 points - enough to win the league on seven occasions in the Premier League era, but not since Manchester United won with 80 points in 2011.
Scores in reverse games: beat Newcastle 3-0, beat Crystal Palace 1-0, drew with Southampton 2-2, beat Sunderland 4-2, beat West Ham 2-1, beat Swansea 3-0, drew with Manchester United 1-1, beat Everton 3-2, beat Chelsea 2-1.
Recent form: In a word, excellent. The Foxes have lost just once in their last 10 games, a narrow defeat at fellow challengers Arsenal, and taken 21 points from a possible 30.
Key games: May. It's the month for crowning champions but the Foxes may hope that they can have it done before a very tough final three games. Ranieri's side go to Old Trafford on 1 May, a ground where they have won just once in the Premier League, before hosting Everton and ending the season at defending champions Chelsea. A guard of honour from one champion to another?
Played 29, 55 points, goal difference +27
Last won the league title: 1961
Results in reverse fixtures: Spurs picked up just 13 points from the nine games against the remaining sides they have to face - and a repeat performance would see them finish the season with just 68 points - only four more than they managed last season when finishing fifth. Too many draws may hurt Spurs. They could only take a point from Liverpool, Stoke, West Brom and Chelsea and lost to Manchester United and Newcastle. They do have a superior goal difference to Leicester though.
Scores in reverse games: Beat Aston Villa 3-1, beat Bournemouth 5-1, drew with Liverpool 0-0, lost 1-0 to Manchester United, drew 2-2 with Stoke, drew 1-1 with West Brom, drew 0-0 with Chelsea, beat Southampton 2-0, lost 2-1 to Newcastle.
Recent form: Clinical. Spurs drew eight of their opening 15 league games but have cut that habit out of late, winning six of their last 10 games and losing just twice. Dropping points to rivals may hurt them though. A 1-0 defeat to Leicester and a 2-2 draw against Arsenal have stemmed their flow of points at crucial times.
Key games: Trips to Anfield (2 April) and Stamford Bridge (2 May) look massive. Spurs have only won twice at Anfield in the Premier League, losing the last three, and have never won at Stamford Bridge since 1992.
In fact their last league win at the home of Chelsea came in February 1990, when Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker scored the winner. Newcastle away on the last day may not be the easiest place to travel to, either...
Played 29, 52 points, goal difference +16
Last won the league title: 2004
Results in reverse fixtures: The Gunners picked up a respectable 19 points from these nine fixtures, though defeats to West Brom and West Ham could prove decisive come May. A further 19 points in the run-in would see Arsene Wenger's side finish on 71 points, four points fewer than their total last season. When they last won the league, going unbeaten 12 years ago, the Gunners collected 90 points.
Scores in reverse games: Lost 2-1 to West Brom, beat Everton 2-1, beat Watford 3-0, lost 2-0 to West Ham, beat Crystal Palace 2-1, beat Sunderland 3-1, drew 1-1 with Norwich, beat Manchester City 2-1, beat Aston Villa 2-0.
Recent form: Not good enough. Arsenal have won only three of their last 10 games, a run that has seen them slump from leaders in the New Year to third place. Defeats to Chelsea, Swansea and Manchester United have been damaging, though at least the Gunners managed to claim a point with 10 men at rivals Spurs.
Key games: Trips to Manchester City, West Ham and Everton all look difficult but perhaps the inconvenient truth for Arsenal is that their key games have been and gone. It is not irretrievable to win the league from here but Wenger will have to rely on favours and slip-ups from other sides.
Played 28, 50 points, goal difference +21
Last won the league title: 2014
Results in reverse fixtures: Manchester City have a game in hand on their title rivals, with a trip to Newcastle yet to be slotted into a congested diary. In the 10 games against sides they still have to play again, Manuel Pellegrini's side collected 22 points, losing to Stoke and Arsenal. A further 22 points would see Pellegrini end his reign as City boss on 72 points. Would that be enough for a top-four finish, never mind a title?
Scores in reverse games: Beat Norwich 2-1, drew 0-0 with Manchester United, beat Bournemouth 5-1, beat West Brom 3-0, beat Chelsea 3-0, lost 2-0 to Stoke, beat Southampton 3-1, lost 2-1 to Arsenal, beat Swansea 2-1, beat Newcastle 6-1.
Recent form: Disappointing. A 4-0 win over Aston Villa stopped a run of three successive league defeats but City have won just four of their last 10 games. They were last on the top of the table after beating Swansea in mid-December but have collected just 18 points from a possible 36 since.
Key games: The Manchester derby on 20 March stands out, but it is looking like both sides involved are playing for a place in the top four now, at best. Six of the final 10 games are on the road, with a trip to resurgent Chelsea on 16 April and an as-yet scheduled journey to face struggling Newcastle also looking tough.
Played 29, points 49, goal difference +12
Last won the league title: Never
Results in reverse fixtures: West Ham fans and the producers of Match of the Day will hope not to see three goalless draws in the run-in - a sequence of results the Hammers picked up back-to-back against Swansea, Stoke and Manchester United in December. But that was when Slaven Bilic was without Dimitri Payet, who is back firing now.
The Hammers collected 13 points from nine games in their remaining fixtures - a repeat would see them end on 62 points. A repeat of that and Leicester would only need one more win to finish above the Hammers...
Scores in reverse games: Beat Chelsea 2-1, beat Crystal Palace 3-1, beat Arsenal 2-0, lost 2-1 to Leicester, drew 1-1 with West Brom, drew 0-0 with Swansea, drew 0-0 with Stoke, lost 2-0 to Watford, drew 0-0 with Manchester United.
Recent form: Dimitri Payet made his first start after an ankle injury at Bournemouth on 12 January. The Hammers have won five of nine league games since, losing just twice. Bilic's side have won their last three games to propel them into Champions League contention. But a title challenge? They would surely need to win all of their games from here...
Key games: Back-to-back games with title challengers Arsenal and Leicester in April could shape the Hammers' top-four push, while an FA Cup run means they still have games with Watford and Manchester United to reschedule.
Played 29, 47 points, goal difference +10
Last won the league title: 2013
Results in reverse fixtures: Does anyone believe that Manchester United are genuine title challengers? Even if Louis van Gaal's side were to win all remaining nine games they would only end up with 74 points - which would represent their third-worst haul in the Premier League era. Their worst totals, of 64 points and 70 points, have both come in the last two seasons. David Moyes' record-low haul of 64 points may come under threat yet. United would need 18 points from their final nine games to overhaul that mark. In the corresponding nine games United took 13 points, and drew four times, three of which were goalless.
Scores in reverse games: Drew 0-0 with Manchester City, beat Everton 3-0, beat Tottenham 1-0, beat Aston Villa 1-0, drew 1-1 with Leicester, lost 2-1 to Norwich, lost 2-1 to Bournemouth, drew 0-0 with Crystal Palace, drew 0-0 with West Ham.
Key games: United face Liverpool home and away in the Europa League and West Ham in the FA Cup quarter final before their next Premier League game against rivals Manchester City on 20 March. United are only currently three points outside the top four but with winning the Europa League now carrying automatic Champions League qualification, that competition is arguably of great importance for Van Gaal.
Lord Davies, the former trade minister, said women now accounted for 23.5% of FTSE 100 board members, up from 12.5% in 2011.
The increase means that companies are on track to meet his 25% target for 2015.
"The voluntary approach is working - boards are getting fixed," he said.
The government report found that there were now 263 female directors in FTSE 100 companies, meaning a further 17 women need to be appointed this year to meet the 25% target.
However, the latest statistics showed that smaller companies were less diverse at the top, with women accounting for just 18% of directors on the boards of FTSE 250 firms - although that was a sharp rise from 7.8% in 2011.
"This is a journey of small steps," Denise Wilson from the Lord Davies Women on Board Steering Group told Radio 4's Today programme.
The latest figures show great progress, she said, but agreed that getting women into executive director roles at Britain's biggest companies still posed a challenge.
"We always recognised this was going to be the toughest nut to crack," she said.
An annual benchmarking report by the Cranfield University School of Management, published alongside the government report, said 41 firms in the FTSE 100 and 65 in the FTSE 250 had now met the 25% target.
Drinks firm Diageo and Intercontinental Hotels Group jointly topped the Cranfield ranking, with 45% female representation on their boards.
But Dr Elena Doldor, co-author of the report, said she expected women's representation on boards to stagnate at about 28%.
"There are still not enough women on executive committees or in the executive pipeline. Introducing aspirational and measurable targets for women at all levels is the only way to achieve real progress," she added.
The Cranfield report also compared the UK's progress to the rest of the world over the past decade, saying Britain's progress meant it ranked fifth globally.
CBI deputy-director general Katja Hall said the statistics showed the voluntary approach to increasing diversity in business was working.
"To keep up momentum businesses must now continue to work on building the talent pipeline by supporting more women to take on management roles and helping mothers return to work," she added.
Similarly, Lisa Buckingham, senior adviser on diversity at the Institute of Directors, said more needed to be done.
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The 43-year-old American triumphed by three shots from Sweden's Henrik Stenson, with English pair Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood four back, alongside Australia's Masters champion Adam Scott.
Mickelson surged to the third leg of a career Grand Slam of all four majors with a stunning five-under 66 to finish three under.
"What an unbelievable round by Mickelson. He almost made it look simple. He played with such freedom. The second shot he hit to 17 was absolutely majestic and then he went on to birdie the last, which was the sign of a true champion. He was the best guy out there this week.
"The only disappointment was Lee Westwood's round today. He played a poor round and only he knows why. It's not his last chance, but this one will hurt. Fortunately he is extremely resilient and he will fight back."
The left-hander, who won the Scottish Open last week, birdied four of the last six holes and was in tears on the final green as he hugged caddie Jim 'Bones' Mackay.
The mercurial Mickelson's Open record had been modest up to now, despite a third place at Troon in 2004 and second at Royal St George's in 2011, as he slowly got to grips with a style of the game he initially "hated".
But a play-off victory over the Castle Stuart links in Inverness last week, and now his first Claret Jug, should make amends for his devastation at recording a record sixth runner-up spot in the US Open behind Justin Rose last month.
"This is such an accomplishment because I never knew whether I'd be able to develop my game to play links golf," said Mickelson.
"I played arguably the best round of my career, and shot the round of my life. It's such a difficult six-hole finish, I putted so good. It feels amazing."
He added: "The range of emotions I feel are as far apart as possible after losing the US Open. But you have to be resilient in this game. These last couple of weeks, these last couple of months, I've played some of the best golf of my career."
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Mickelson, who won the Masters in 2004, 2006 and 2010 and the US PGA in 2005, continues the list of illustrious former champions at Muirfield, which includes such greats of the game as Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Nick Faldo (twice) and Ernie Els, who was defending champion this week.
American Mickelson becomes the third consecutive player in his 40s to win the Open, after Els and Darren Clarke.
Westwood, seeking a first major title at the 62nd attempt, led by two going into the final day and moved serenely into a three-shot lead after five holes. But he took two to get out of a pot bunker on the short seventh and from then on was always struggling for momentum in a 75.
"I didn't play that badly, my round came unstuck at seven, eight and nine," said Westwood.
"Phil must have played really well. To birdie four out of the last six here on any day is good going. But to do it today on a breezy day with the flags blowing and in the Open Championship is exceptional."
Stenson carded 70 for his best finish in a major, while Ryder Cup hero Poulter surged from eight strokes back with a brilliant 67 on an overcast, breezy day in contrast to the heat and sunshine of the rest of the week in East Lothian.
Scott, who blew a four-shot lead to finish runner-up to Els last year, hit the front at one stage on a topsy-turvy afternoon that saw the lead change hands numerous times, but the 32-year-old faltered late on with a 72.
Tiger Woods began two behind Westwood and in prime position to strike for a 15th major title and first since 2008. But he went backwards from the first and ended with a 74 for two over.
America's longest war isn't something that he has said much about, and - as with so many issues - what he has said is contradictory.
In the past, he has described America's involvement in Afghanistan as a "disaster", and has talked about pulling out US troops.
But when he spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on 2 December, he reportedly told him that America would not waver in its commitment to Afghanistan.
Then, however, he failed to invite Mr Ghani to his inauguration, deepening worries in Afghanistan that it simply was not a priority for the new president.
The Taliban pitched in earlier this week, calling on President Trump to withdraw American forces from what they described as the "quagmire" of Afghanistan.
"Nothing has been achieved," said the insurgent group, "except the staining of innocent Afghans in their blood, and the destruction of villages and gardens."
The official American assessment of progress is not much more upbeat.
Mr Trump's challenge was summarised with shocking clarity earlier this month by the US watchdog overseeing the reconstruction process in Afghanistan, the special inspector general for Afghanistan, John F Sopko.
Mr Sopko says the US has spent more in real terms in Afghanistan than America spent on the reconstruction of Europe after World War Two, yet only 63% of the country is currently controlled by the Afghan government, opium production is at record highs and corruption is still rife.
"After 15 years," he says, "Afghanistan still cannot support itself financially or functionally.
"Long-term financial assistance is required if the country is to survive."
Just how vulnerable parts of the country are became very apparent when an Afghan colleague was given rare access to the battle against the Taliban in Helmand a few weeks ago.
Aziz Ahmad Shafee flew into the provincial capital, Lashkargah, with soldiers from the Afghan National Army's 215th Corps.
A convoy of Humvees drove the troops a few kilometres to the outskirts of the city: that is where the front line is now.
The Taliban now control more than 80% of Helmand.
A province, let us not forget, where most of the 456 British military personnel killed in the Afghan conflict lost their lives.
And - despite a complete restructuring of the command of the 215th Corps overseen by American forces - it seems it still is not combat effective.
Afghan troops complain they lack even the most basic supplies.
"For a month we've been saying we are running out of ammunition but we don't get any new supplies," Sgt class 1 Hyatullah told the BBC.
"Our enemy is firing at us, but we don't have enough bullets to take them on."
His commander urged America's new president not to falter in his commitment to the Afghan government.
"As a soldier of Afghanistan, I ask his excellency Donald Trump to continue the fight here", said Brig Gen Mohammad Wali Ahmadzai, the commander of the 215th Corps in Helmand.
"If he can give us more support, we can wipe the terrorists out."
Most of the foreign troops in Afghanistan were withdrawn at the end of 2014, but when I visited the headquarters of Resolute Support, the Nato mission in Afghanistan, it was busy, with helicopters flying in and out every few minutes.
There are still 13,000 Nato military personnel in Afghanistan, mostly American.
Brig Gen Charlie Cleveland, the spokesman for the Resolute Support mission, believes America still has a clear strategic interest in Afghanistan.
He says the US troops now have two tasks:
Resolute Support's work with the Afghan army has, says the brigadier general, been instrumental in ensuring it has managed to hold the ground it does.
"In the winter of 2015-16, the government of Afghanistan changed their strategy," Brig Gen Cleveland tells me.
"They realised they couldn't defend everywhere, and so what they really started focusing their efforts on was the major population centres.
"As we look at the security situation right now, the government controls - secures - really about two-thirds of the population.
"About 10% of the population is controlled by the Taliban, and the remaining difference is really what's contested."
He says while this situation is not ideal, the Afghan army has managed to reverse what was a deteriorating situation in 2015 and establish an "equilibrium" in favour of the government.
Nevertheless, there is much work to be done.
Some 5,000 Afghan military personnel were killed last year, losses both the Afghan government and Resolute Support agree are unsustainable in the long term.
And, amid the uncertainty about American policy, other powers have been flexing their muscles in Afghanistan.
Last month, Russia hosted a meeting in Moscow about the country's future, with senior officials from China and Pakistan, and it makes no secret of the fact it has been talking to the Taliban.
So the big question is what will President Trump do?
Two of his key cabinet picks may provide a clue.
President Trump's Defence Secretary, Gen James Mattis, is a former commander of forces here.
He has spoken in the past about the need to urge Pakistan to take further action against the Taliban and the Sunni Islamist militant Haqqani network.
The new president's national security adviser, Lt Gen Michael Flynn, has also talked about the need for Pakistan to take tougher action against Taliban fighters who shelter there.
And President Trump has been very consistent about his desire to take a tougher line against the so-called Islamic State group.
Pulling out of Afghanistan would make that more difficult, given the toe-hold it has established in eastern Afghanistan over the past couple of years.
So it seems unlikely that - in his effort to extricate America from foreign entanglements - President Trump will simply declare that it has no strategic interest in Afghanistan and withdraw his troops.
He and his advisers will certainly not want to be responsible for America's longest war ending in what many people would regard as a clear defeat.
Hoyeon Jang, 75, was separated from her husband and son when she boarded a Northern Line train without them at Embankment station on Thursday.
They signalled to her to get off at Charing Cross, the next station, but could not find her there or at Archway station, where they were going.
The Met Police said Mrs Jang was found on Saturday afternoon.
Officers previously said Mrs Jang was last seen at Embankment station at about 17:00 BST on Thursday and was reported missing to the force about three hours later.
The family had been visiting relatives in London.
A disciplinary panel found PC Simon Ryan of North Yorkshire Police guilty of gross misconduct.
It also heard he defaced a suspect's CV with the words "kiddie fiddler" and "paedo" during a child abuse inquiry.
The panel concluded the appropriate sanction "was dismissal without notice, demonstrating the gravity attached by the panel to the gross misconduct".
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PC Ryan, who did not speak at the hearing, had earlier apologised for what he said was "a poor practical joke".
Afterwards, PC Brad Jackson, deputy secretary of North Yorkshire Police Federation, said: "This has been a very difficult period in PC Ryan's career and personal life which he accepts was brought on by his own doing.
"[He] has apologised unreservedly for his actions and extends his apology to the public and people of North Yorkshire.
He said the federation would "continue to support Simon as he moves forward".
Panel Chairman Lindsey Hall ruled PC Ryan had breached six standards which police officers should uphold and had shown a lack of respect.
She told him: "The public have the right to expect the highest standards of behaviour and conduct from the police officers who serve them."
She said his admission of defacing the CV would have to be disclosed if he was allowed to remain in his job and if he was involved in searches as part of criminal proceedings. That would affect his operational ability to carry out his duties, she said.
Guy Ladenburg, for the defendant, had urged the panel to allow him to continue on the force and described him as a "diligent and hard-working" officer of 13 years' experience.
He added: "This officer intended simply to make a joke for the benefit of his colleagues. We recognise, of course, how inappropriate that is."
The panel heard PC Ryan found the CV at a house during a search into an allegation of a sex offence involving a child in January 2015.
He amended it to say "abusing children" in the section marked "interests" before showing it to colleagues, the hearing was told.
The panel was told he did not record it as evidence and later destroyed it at Northallerton Police Station.
Ten days later he was on duty wearing the hat both in the office and while on patrol.
To mark the United Nations Day of Anti-Bullying, the Internet Society and Panos Pictures asked young people around the world what their dream internet would look like.
"The internet needs to feel more like chatting in a bar," said Adela Goberna, 23, a newly qualified lawyer and co-founder of the Internet Society's Youth Special Interest Group.
"You need to be able to say, 'OK, our opinions are different but I respect what you're saying and I'm getting something from this conversation.' And I think that type of conversation makes people much more relaxed and willing to speak."
Ayu 'Ulya is a 25-year-old teacher and game designer from Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Her game, called Cempala: Prime Numbers, teaches students mathematics while also talking about ecology and Indonesian heritage.
"We need to share and preserve culture through the internet. We have to be open-minded and think outside our boxes. We have to think creatively.
"Because I'm staying in a corner of Indonesia, and am far away from Western culture, it doesn't mean I can't learn about it. I can learn everything from internet, think and compare. Take the good things and throw out the bad things."
"My role is to create ways that governments, businesses, and people can talk to each other to make the internet better in the Philippines," said Benjz Gerard Sevilla, part of the Internet Engineering Taskforce, a group whose mission it is to make the internet work better.
"It's not a silver bullet, but it's about making sure there's content and there's equitable access to it."
Elif Sert is a 22-year-old law student and blogger living in Istanbul.
"You can share your love on the internet. I can just go to the Philippines, buy my tickets, meet people on couchsurfing.com and go. This makes me feel alive and makes me feel like a world citizen. It allows me to have friends everywhere."
Balpreet Kaur, 22, is in her last year of International Development at Ohio State University in Columbus.
In 2012, a post on Reddit mocked her appearance, but rather than getting angry, she posted a response talking about the importance of her Sikh faith and provoking a thoughtful discussion of how we treat strangers. Her response went viral and sparked an incredible discussion about the power of positivity online.
"There's nothing special in what I did. We all have that capacity," said Kaur.
"And so to label one person as inspiring and the other person as not so inspiring, it's kind of difficult for me to reconcile. If there are parts of me that are inspiring, then I'll take it.
"I'm glad that even if I don't intentionally want to inspire you, there's something in me that you see that is inspiring, and that inspires me that you're seeing this."
The Internet Society and Panos Pictures are using the tag #dreamInternet and would like to hear your views and stories to inspire others.
But another battle is being played behind the scenes - and it is bigger than a Budweiser Clydesdale.
The National Football League (NFL) and Canada's telecommunications regulator are locked in a months-long legal and public relations fight over what ads can appear on Canadian TV screens during this Sunday's championship game.
For the first time in some 40 years, Canadian ads will no longer be inserted into US broadcasts of the game.
The change was put in place by Canada's independent broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which says that the glitzy US ads are part of the reason football fans tune in to the big game.
In a populist and surprise move, the CRTC mandated that as of 2017, any Canadian broadcaster that owns the rights to the Super Bowl will have to stop subbing Canadian ads over the US commercials on American feeds, a practice called "simultaneous substitution," or simsub.
In previous years, whether a Canadian football fan watched the game on CTV - a Canadian channel - or Fox, for example, they would only see Canadian ads.
The NFL claims this change is an "arbitrary attempt by the CRTC to disadvantage not only the NFL, but Canadian broadcasters and the Canadian creative community as well."
Siding with the league is Bell Media, which owns the rights to the Super Bowl in Canada; unions, advertisers, and politicians on both sides of the border, including Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
Both Bell and the NFL have a financial stake in having Canadians watching Canadian ads.
Bell media says they could lose millions because Bell relies on Canadian ad sales to counter the costs of the exclusive license. The NFL stands to lose next time Canadian rights to the game are being negotiated, because they are likely to be sold for less if there are fewer captive viewers for Canadian ads.
The league has been on a lobbying blitz on Parliament Hill, seeking political allies to overturn the new policy.
In December, Sens Rubio and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin wrote an open letter to Canada's ambassador in the US, saying the regulator's decision change "sends a troubling signal" about the Canada-US trading relationship.
The NFL recently ramped up the stakes, warning that it had informed "the highest levels of government in both the United States and Canada", including US President Donald Trump, about the broadcast spat.
Bell and the NFL are also challenging the decision in court.
American Super Bowl ads have become an annual tradition for advertisers who try to outdo each other with increasingly elaborate commercials.
Patricia Valladao, a CRTC spokeswoman, told the BBC the decision by the regulator to end simsub for the Super Bowl was made after months of broader consultations, and is a once-per-year exception to simsub.
Beyond the roughly 100 formal complaints received each year by the regulator, they also noticed "a lot of people going on Twitter ranting" about not being able to watch the American ads.
The Super Bowl is the most-viewed TV event in Canada and generates the highest advertising revenues of all of the live event programs that air on Bell Media stations.
In December, Bell and the NFL filed legal action with the Federal Court of Appeal arguing that the regulator has no jurisdiction to end simsub on a single program or to interfere with contracts already negotiated between the broadcaster and the league.
In an attempt to mitigate what the company is projecting as "significant" losses and tempt viewers into watching the game on their Canadian network, Bell Media is broadcasting the game on three of its channels, offering prizes - including a car - to viewers, and sending Canadian fans to a website where they can watch all the "best new" and "fan favourite" American ads.
And the NFL is publicly appealing to the federal government to overturn the decision before Sunday, warning the new policy threatens the relationship between the two countries.
"At a time when the future of the Canada-US relationship is in the headlines daily, we want the NFL-Canada relationship to continue to serve as a positive example - to government and to business - of what works," the league's executive vice-president, Mark Waller, said in a recent opinion piece.
With trade fears in the air and Mr Trump's ties to the NFL - he is friends with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and he recently appointed New York Jets owner Woody Johnson as UK ambassador - it is not an idle warning.
But so far Ottawa has said it respects the regulator's independence.
Meanwhile, time is ticking on the Hail Mary pass by Bell and the NFL.
Their court case will not be heard in time for Sunday's big game, but Bell Media is hopeful for a favourable ruling in time for the next NFL season.
Members of the NASUWT teaching union are staging a one-day strike over pay, job security and workload.
As a result, about a third of schools in Belfast and Newtownabbey have either been closed or partially closed to pupils on Wednesday.
In schools with few NASUWT members, the strike is having little impact.
The education minister called the strike "futile", while the union said it had been "left with no choice".
Education Minister Peter Weir said he had made it clear the education budget was "under severe pressure" and his priority was "protecting school budgets".
"The escalation of this action, resulting in strike days, will severely harm the education of the children that we all seek to serve," he added.
"It will cause major disruption to parents, and put further pressure on other teachers and leaders that are already struggling to cope in addition to damaging the reputation of teachers."
Members of NASUWT are attending a rally in Belfast.
Justin McCamphill, NASUWT's national official in Northern Ireland, said teachers did not take strike action lightly.
"No teacher has any wish to inconvenience parents or disrupt pupils' education, but this action is not the fault of teachers," he said.
"The minister has been given the money to pay teachers the minimum of 1% for 2015-16. It is nothing short of scandalous that he does not think that paying teachers is important."
The union says its members are also protesting about excessive workloads and job insecurity.
In October, all five main teaching unions in Northern Ireland rejected an offer which saw their pay frozen in 2015/16 and a rise of 1% in 2016/17.
NASUWT has previously announced its members elsewhere in Northern Ireland would stage further one-day strikes in January and February.
Meanwhile, the Ulster Teachers' Union, Irish National Teachers' Organisation and Association of Teachers and Lecturers are to ballot their members on 5 December on potential strike action.
Mr Radjabu, a former head of the governing party, reportedly escaped with three prison officers.
He was widely regarded as Burundi's most powerful man until his arrest in 2007, amid a rumoured rift with President Pierre Nkurunziza.
Tension has been growing over the president's plans to seek a third term.
The governing CNDD-FDD party is said to be split between those who support Mr Nkurunziza's intention to stay in office, and those who oppose it.
Mr Radjabu's escape was aided by at least three guards, including the chief warden in charge of the prison's security, a police spokesman told AFP news agency.
At least two other inmates escaped with him into vehicles that had been waiting outside the prison, the spokesman said.
The escape reportedly took place before midnight on Sunday evening, at a time when many guards were asleep.
In 2005, Mr Nkurunziza, a former Hutu rebel leader, became the first president to be chosen in democratic elections since the start of Burundi's civil war in 1994.
Mr Radjabu, who was also a rebel leader, became the head of the CNDD-FDD at the same time. He was regarded as the real power in the country.
Many Burundians saw his arrest in 2006 - on charges of plotting against state security - as politically motivated.
Mr Nkurunziza was re-elected in June 2010. The vote was boycotted by the opposition, which complained of fraud in the earlier local elections.
Opposition leaders and international observers have since complained of a growing crackdown on opposition parties and the media.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced that 14th Signal Regiment would move from its base at Cawdor - formerly Brawdy - barracks, near St David's, to St Athan after 2018.
The UK government is investing £1.8bn in a new basing plan across the UK with £100m being spent in Wales.
It comes as thousands of troops are expected to return from Germany.
Mr Hammond said the remote Cawdor barracks site was "not fit for purpose - that is the reality".
"It's a very remote, singleton garrison site," he said.
"I think I'm right in saying it has the highest level of unaccompanied service of any Army location in the UK, reflecting the fact that people are reluctant to move their families to a site that remote."
He added: "The physical state of the accommodation was a significant factor."
He explained that housing the Signals regiment at St Athan fitted in with the strategy of regional concentration.
Mr Hammond said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was working with the Welsh government to maximise the use of St Athan, while the MoD will dispose of the Cawdor site.
The defence secretary said local planning constraints meant it was unlikely to be used for housing, but could return to agricultural or non-developed use.
The changes are part of a new "basing plan" for the Army to follow the return of British troops from Germany.
In another move, the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards will move from Hounslow, west London, to Pirbright in Surrey.
Stephen Crabb, the Wales Office minister with responsibility for defence and Preseli Pembrokeshire MP, said: "Whilst it is disappointing that we will see Cawdor Barracks in Brawdy, Pembrokeshire close, these changes are essential for our future armed forces.
"I am pleased that the defence footprint is largely being maintained and that 14th Signal Regiment will be relocating within Wales to St Athan.
"It is also expected that Wales specifically will receive much-needed infrastructure investment of approximately £100m to support the rebasing."
A Pembrokeshire council spokesman said: "It's a sad day for Pembrokeshire. It's very disappointing news and the council will continue to press the government to overturn the decision."
The authority said there was around 250 permanent Army personnel and their families who lived locally to the barracks.
Thousands of troops are expected to return from Germany during the next few years.
Ministers say it is a good time to review where they are based across the UK.
Troops from the 14th Signal Regiment are experts in electronic warfare.
In October 2010, St Athan lost out when a proposed £14bn defence training academy, which would have created 2,000 jobs in the Vale of Glamorgan, was scrapped.
It was axed as the UK government announced cuts of up to 8% in the defence budget.
Last summer two Royal Welsh battalions were merged under defence cuts.
The star says that being forced to sing covers, as they do on the ITV show, can harm aspiring musicians.
Speaking to the Mirror, the 22-year-old said it was a conscious decision for him not to audition for the show when he was younger.
"I feel that X Factor is perfect for singers who sing, and that's all they want to do. They don't care what they sing, they just love singing," he said.
"You could sing on a cruise ship or release a cover album, that's what it's for. Because when you think about it, every week, that's what you do.
"You're singing other people's songs. People are judging you on other people's music.
"The minute I started writing music, I knew that none of that stuff was going to be for me. I want people judging me on my voice and my songs - that's what's important to me.
"I always say to people, 'If you're a singer, go for it.' It's an amazing platform. But if you're not, and you're a songwriter, I think it's actually quite damaging for you to go on there.
"You're singing other people's music, so then when you release your own stuff, people might not like it."
Smith sang Stay With Me on the final of this year's X Factor at Wembley Arena but says he was disappointed not to be introduced to the judges.
"I didn't like that I didn't get to meet Simon and Cheryl," he said.
"I would have thought they would come and say hello, or I'd have got to go and say hello. But I never got to see them."
Smith, who was 2014's BBC Sound Of winner, also says he doesn't want to become a judge on a show like The X Factor just yet.
"I'm passionate that nobody should judge anyone else until they're at the top of their career and they can give people amazing advice after releasing four or five albums.
"That's why I love Cheryl - she has released a lot of music and knows what she's talking about when it comes to products and being an artist and being famous."
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It has now dropped out of the top four universities in Wales and is ranked 93rd in the UK in one national guide.
The latest rankings means students in their third year have seen the university drop from the top 50 in their time there.
But the university said it aims to be ranked in the top 30 in the UK by 2017.
The Guardian university guide has seen Aberystwyth slump to 88th place, down from 49th place in 2011 while The Times now ranks it 93rd in its Good University Guide.
It has also dropped into the bottom quarter of universities worldwide.
Student Tom Wooldridge said the university had had a "decent reputation but, with it slipping, it's only a matter of time before employers realise it's is not as competitive as the top universities these days.... so it's a worry".
Fellow student Joe Mallinder said: "How has it gone down so quickly in two years, what has drastically changed... and will that have a massive effect on me getting a job?"
Established in 1872, Aberystwyth's history and name has been regarded as prestigious but some students fear it is becoming nothing more than a clearing university with some courses requiring just two E grades at A Level to get in.
The university says it has invested heavily in facilities in recent years.
Pro Vice-Chancellor Rebecca Davies believes the league tables are not a fair reflection on standards at Aberystwyth.
"By 2017 we want to be one of the top 30 universities in the UK," said.
Referring to the recent rankings, she said: "It is always disappointing when you hear news like that but it was not a surprise for us because in Aberystwyth, over the last couple of years, we have been investing so much.
"We have been listening to the student voice to make sure we have the best ever student experience," she said.
Punjab's law minister said those held were among more than 5,000 questioned in a sweeping counter-terror offensive.
Weapons and ammunition have also been seized in raids by security forces.
Taliban splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar said it carried out the attack against Christians celebrating Easter, although most of those killed were Muslims.
The area around Gulshan-i-Iqbal park was more crowded than usual, as members of Lahore's minority Christian community had gathered to celebrate Easter at a funfair there.
At least 29 of the victims were children. Another 300 people were injured, with officials saying they expected the death toll to rise.
"There are no militant safe-havens or no-go areas in Punjab," law minister Rana Sanaullah told a news conference in Lahore.
He said 56 intelligence operations had been jointly carried out by police, paramilitary, army and intelligence forces.
Both Pakistan's prime minister and the powerful army chief have vowed to bring the attackers to justice.
Reports say the military is preparing to launch a new crackdown in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous and wealthiest province - and the heartland of PM Nawaz Sharif's support.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar's spokesman mocked Mr Sharif on Tuesday, saying that war had "reached his doorstep".
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"The Minsk Agreements must be implemented in good faith, starting with full observation of the ceasefire and genuine withdrawal of heavy weapons," the EU said.
Ukraine on Monday accused rebels of carrying out the heaviest shelling since the truce was agreed.
Russia denies any role in the fighting.
However, Ukraine and the West say there is a growing body of evidence pointing to direct involvement from Moscow.
Rebel leaders have denied firing on Ukrainian positions and accuse government forces of violating the ceasefire themselves some 40 times over a 24-hour period.
Denis Pushilin, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic envoy in Moscow, said the Kiev government had so far failed to fulfil any of the conditions of the Minsk deal.
Ukraine says pro-Russia forces launched dozens of attacks in a number of locations on Monday and Tuesday.
Some of the worst fighting was near the village of Starohnativka, 50km (31 miles) north of the strategic port of Mariupol.
"The renewed escalation of the conflict raising the number of casualties, as a result of attacks on several government controlled areas today and in the night of 10 August on Starohnativka, violates the spirit and the letter of the Minsk Agreements," the EU's External Action Service said late on Tuesday.
In its statement, the EU condemned an arson attack on Sunday on armoured vehicles belonging to the monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as well as the fact that the monitors had been caught in the crossfire in Shchastya, in Luhansk, and Shyrokyne, near Mariupol.
These incidents "put in danger the crucial role" of OSCE officials in "monitoring and verifying the implementation of the Minsk agreements," it said.
Meanwhile a London-based think tank released a report on Wednesday warning that an increase in military exercises by Russia and Nato in and around the Baltic states and Poland raised the threat of armed conflict in Europe.
The European Leadership Network (ELN) said that the war exercises fed "uncertainty'' and heightened the risk of "dangerous military encounters".
Relations between Russia and the West have been in crisis since Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year.
Around 7,000 people have been killed since the Ukrainian conflict started and more than one million people have been displaced.
The ceasefire agreed in Minsk in February has not brought an end to the conflict, but it has resulted in a lower level of fighting.
There are fears now that the violence could erupt once again into a full-scale war.
Dr Reg Bunting, who died in 2013, was Avon and Somerset Police's chief medical officer between 1990 and 1997.
The victim, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the force "fuelled Dr Bunting's fantasies" by doing nothing.
The force has since apologised "unreservedly" to those affected.
Most of Dr Bunting's victims were new recruits to the force.
Following a number of allegations against him between 1981 and 2002, including groping, fondling and reported sexual assault, an independent investigation was commissioned by the force.
It found in 44 of the 112 cases looked at, his examinations "fell below a common or acceptable standard for the time" and "woefully or grossly below" in 10 cases.
The officer, a frontline policeman for more than 20 years, said he was groped by Dr Bunting during his medical assessment.
"I thought this wasn't right, but what do you do?" he said.
"He knew that we needed to get through the medical.
"He had the power to abuse his position and do what he wanted. I don't think anyone would have complained because it was a hard job to get into."
The report identified three opportunities for the force to have intervened after concerns were raised.
The victim said: "They were fuelling Dr Bunting's fantasies and feeding him victims.
"They gave him carte blanche and missed three chances to prevent crime."
Two further victims of Dr Bunting told the BBC they were unhappy at how the force dealt with their complaints.
Avon and Somerset Police has since apologised to victims for "failing to ensure acceptable medical conduct during their examinations", and praised the people who had come forward.
"Had Dr Bunting been alive, there would have been sufficient evidence to interview him under caution as a criminal suspect," a spokesman said.
It is understood the scheme would offer people flying into the airport the chance to jump the queue for about £5.
The FastTrack service would be the first of its kind in Scotland.
It comes after chief executive Gordon Dewar wrote to then Home Secretary Theresa May to raise concerns about cuts to the UK Border Force.
In an open letter to Mrs May in July, before she became Prime Minister, he said Edinburgh airport was preparing for its "busiest summer ever".
But he warned that queues at passport control could hit unprecedented levels following "very serious" staffing cuts.
The airport already offers passengers the opportunity to pay £4.49 to use a priority security lane for departures.
The new FastTrack passport control scheme for arriving passengers is a joint venture with the UK Border Force.
Similar services are already offered at Gatwick and Heathrow airports.
A spokesman for Edinburgh airport said it was likely to be trialled in the "near future".
"This new service will offer choice to people flying into Edinburgh Airport," he added.
"We look forward to being able to offer our overseas passengers and returning UK-based passengers an even smoother arrival into Scotland."
The Home Office confirmed that the Border Force was "working closely" on the project.
A spokeswoman said it would "allow business travellers and those on tight schedules to make the most of their stay with the shortest possible wait".
She added: "Working with airport operators, Border Force is committed to providing an excellent service to all passengers arriving in the UK."
The beams could compensate for the dip in light the Earth creates when it passes in front of the Sun, as viewed from far-off worlds, they contend.
A number of researchers have questioned the wisdom of advertising our existence to the galaxy.
They fear that if aliens did visit us they might not be very friendly, and could introduce disease.
The analogy is Europeans arriving in the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. The contact wrought havoc in the health of indigenous populations.
David Kipping and Alex Teachey from Columbia University in New York say that if we are fearful of a similar outcome from an alien encounter then lasers offer a solution.
The team has calculated what would be required to cloak the Earth and published the concept in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
It "perverts" the technique scientists already use now to look for distant planets around other stars. This method relies on staring at these suns, hoping to catch an object passing in front. When such a "transit" occurs, there is a tell-tale decrease in starlight.
The US space agency's Kepler telescope has identified more than a thousand planets this way.
If intelligent civilisations are out there, it is safe to assume they too will be looking for other worlds - like ours - using the same idea, believe Kipping and Teachey.
According to the pair's calculations, emitting a continuous 30-megawatt laser for about 10 hours, once a year, would be enough to distort the characteristic dip in light when Earth transited the Sun, as viewed from an alien Kepler telescope.
"It doesn't have to be one huge laser; it could be an array positioned around the Earth. Or you could put it in space as a satellite, and we've calculated that the International Space Station already collects exactly the amount of energy we would need," Prof Kipping told BBC News.
This is true for a laser system working in visible light. Prof Kipping concedes, however, that a laser cloak that covers all wavelengths, not just the visible colours, would need a very large array of tuneable lasers with a total power of 250MW.
But an alternative might be to use a laser simply to disguise the interesting aspects about Earth - features in its atmosphere that betray the fact that life exists here. These are a suite of gases that include oxygen, ozone and methane.
"If we just cloaked out those biosignatures then another civilisation might detect our planet through a transit, everything would add up, but Earth would appear as a dead world and they'd soon lose interest," Prof Kipping added.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti) is the collective term used to describe positive efforts to detect and contact alien life. A number of experiments are currently under way that are trying to see if aliens are actually signalling us with lasers.
But just as with the attempts to detect the radio transmissions from aliens, this "optical Seti" approach, as it is known, has also found nothing of interest among the stars… yet.
Donna Taggart's version of the song, 'Jealous of the Angels', is now a global online hit.
Her album also performed well in the US and her work was noticed by famed songwriter Phil Coulter.
It was while Donna was on maternity leave that she put her recording online, but no one could have predicted what happened next.
"I had recorded the song some time before. Mummy duties took over for a while and I wanted to give my music a push. So I gave it a very gentle nudge on social media and, you know, here we are."
So far, the song has had 66 million views on Facebook and more than two million on Youtube.
Donna, a mother of two, believes the words of the song have touched people across the globe.
"The lyrics are very honest and very raw. I suppose they put into words how a lot of people feel when they lose someone close to them, so I think it has struck a chord with a lot of people.
"Grief is something that touches us all," she said.
"The power of music is universal and I think when the two of those come together you have something which is very, very powerful."
The song was written by American singer-songwriter Jenn Bostic after the death of her father.
Donna's version has brought her to the attention of Londonderry musician, Phil Coulter.
"I was blown away by the phenomenal success, and that is a word which is overused in the music business. But the only way to describe what has happened to Donna is a phenomenon," said Coulter.
"I had been aware of Donna. She was on my radar because she sent me a CD where she had done a cover of 'The Town I Loved', and a very good cover it was too.
"I thought, it is the perfect opportunity to invite Donna on to my shows in the north to let her do her thing for my audiences.
"And they have lapped it up," he said.
Coulter has written songs for singers from Elvis to the Bay City Rollers. Now he is planning to write something especially for Donna.
"There is a crossover between what Donna does and what I do so that is something which we would like to think we could make happen in the not too distant future," he said.
And Donna knows it is not every day that someone starting off in the music industry gets the backing from one of the best in the business.
"Phil is one of the most esteemed songwriters of our time and I am very, very grateful for the opportunity that he has given me and I will be grasping it with both hands," she said.
But Phil Coulter isn't the only legend from the Maiden City who has helped Donna on to the musical ladder.
She is also quick to acknowledge the help of the late BBC broadcaster Gerry Anderson.
"I remember so well walking into BBC Radio Foyle about five years ago now and I spoke with Gerry and asked him would he play my CD.
"He said 'listen, I will listen to it and if it is good I will give it a go, and if it is not I won't'.
"And the very next day he gave it extensive radio play. And, you know, I am very very grateful to Gerry for that." said Donna.
The famed songwriter says he gets great satisfaction out of helping younger people starting out - "especially talented younger people".
"Talent only buys you into the game," Coulter said.
"It is a combination of talent and hard work and application," he said.
And his advice to the up-and-coming singer?
"Turn up to work on Monday morning... Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday as well."
The Elite League speedway side previously feared their future relied on ground share deal.
After talks with the new landowner, who plans to develop the site for housing, there is the possibility of a further two-year extension to the new lease.
Bees owner Mick Horton, however, admits the club's long-term future remains "a concern".
"There can be no doubt that this offer has given the speedway team some security in the short-term," Horton told the club website.
A march ahead of the match by thousands of Russian fans to mark their national day had to be halted and some missiles were thrown.
Police say they arrested at least 120 people and that 10 people were injured.
A heavy police presence was in evidence around the stadium after the match as further clashes broke out.
About 6,000 police were on duty to keep the rival fans apart.
The match ended shortly after 22:30 local time (20:30 GMT) in a 1-1 draw.
Beforehand, some Polish fans on a bridge on the march route had tried to attack the Russian fans and had been involved in scuffles, says the BBC's Alex Capstick in Warsaw.
Tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon were used to disperse fans at the end of the march, according to Poland's state news agency.
In a separate incident, 50 Polish fans in masks attacked Russian fans in a Warsaw cafe, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.
During the match, trouble broke out in an area of the city centre where the match was being displayed on big screens, the Associated Press reports.
Polish police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at a group of young fans who attacked them with glass bottles, according to AP.
(Source: BBCRussian.com)
Country profile: Poland
Russia annexed most of Poland in the 19th Century and ruled it for more than 100 years. The Soviet Union dominated it during the Cold War, after World War II.
The conservative Polish opposition condemned the march as a provocation, but it was approved by the authorities.
The Russian national holiday marks Russia's declaration of sovereignty in 1990 - a key episode in the demise of the Soviet Union.
Polish media highlighted fears that some Russian fans may sport Soviet flags and symbols - a highly sensitive issue for the many Poles who deplored communist rule.
"March or street war?" said a headline in the conservative Polish daily Rzeczpospolita. It quoted Wojciech Wisniewski, a member of the Polish Union of Football Fans, as saying "somebody really wants to make Polish football fans attack the Russians".
European football's governing body Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Russia after a series of incidents involving the country's fans at Euro 2012.
Russian fans were caught on camera kicking and punching stewards inside the stadium at Wroclaw, in western Poland, after their team beat the Czech Republic 4-1 on Friday. Four stewards needed hospital treatment.
Anti-racist monitors at the match said a section of the crowd racially abused the Czech Republic's only black player, Theodor Gebre Selassie.
In a statement on Monday, Russian football association said: "We urge all football fans now in Poland to remember that they represent Russia. Please respect yourselves, your country and your team."
Shrimpers fans are being asked to pay £22 but entry for home supporters is only £5 if bought in advance.
"I'm upset by the situation and I've made the Football League aware of it," Southend CEO Steve Kavanagh said.
"Four local promotions are allowed to take place every season but these have to be registered properly."
Manager Phil Brown told BBC Essex: "Hopefully our supporters will make £22 worth of noise and their supporters will make £5 worth of noise.
"Hopefully we'll come away with the spoils because of that."
Pte Cheryl James was found dead from a bullet wound to her head at the Surrey barracks in 1995.
Michael Harrison said he could not be certain forensic evidence had not been disturbed before he arrived.
But he also told the inquest into her death nothing he saw suggested anything other than suicide.
Pte James, 18, from Llangollen in Denbighshire, was one of four recruits to die at the base in seven years.
Mr Harrison said when he arrived at the scene near the Royal Gate, where her body had been discovered less than an hour before, to find civilian police, officers and guards were already there and a cordon had been put in place.
He told Surrey's Coroner's Court in Woking her death had already been deemed non-suspicious and he volunteered to investigate on behalf of the coroner's office.
Alison Foster QC, representing the James family, said the assumption her death was suicide "much diminished" his investigation and meant it was "not very useful".
She also suggested a "forensic pathway" to the scene had not been secured and there were a number of opportunities when the scene could have been disturbed.
Ms Foster asked him: "Do you accept that you should have ensured that there was a full forensic investigation?"
"Yes," he replied.
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Mr Harrison, who was a sergeant in the special investigation branch of the Royal Military Police, told the inquest that when he arrived at the scene a decision had been made that a full forensic investigation was not needed.
Pte James' body was discovered under a large tree adjacent to a grass verge, near the road leading into the barracks via Royal Way gate, and Mr Harrison said there had been no attempt to conceal it.
Her rifle was next to the body with its sling and magazine attached, he said.
The weapon was live and lay about 20cm (8in) from her body with the firing lever set to single shot rather than automatic.
No bullet cartridge was initially found but it became clear there were eight rounds in the magazine, one in the chamber, and one 5.56mm round missing.
"They are issued 10 rounds so there had to be a cartridge spent somewhere... but it was only found once Cheryl was moved," said Mr Harrison.
"It was obvious to me, and no doubt, that the cartridge was fired by that rifle."
The first inquest into Pte James's death in December 1995 recorded an open verdict. This second inquest was ordered after High Court judges quashed the original findings.
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Marler made the comment to Wales prop Samson Lee, who is from the Traveller community, during England's Six Nations win at Twickenham on Saturday.
The Welsh Rugby Union said it was "surprised" Marler was not sanctioned.
Verbal abuse of a player based on ethnic origin can carry a minimum sanction of a four-week suspension.
In a statement Six Nations Rugby said it was "aware of the seriousness of Mr Marler's comment and does not in anyway condone what was said" but accepted it was said "in the heat of the moment".
World Rugby said in a statement that "in accordance with its regulations", it has requested further information from the Six Nations, "in respect of the process that led to its decision."
Campaigners from the Traveller community - and figures inside the sport - had been critical of Marler for making the comment and called for a ban.
Harlequins player Marler, 25, has apologised to Lee, who said he accepted the comment as "banter".
Wales head coach Warren Gatland also described the incident as "banter", but subsequently apologised following criticism.
The WRU's questioning of the punishment caused England head coach Eddie Jones to accuse the WRU of trying to derail his side's Grand Slam bid.
Marler is on the bench for England's final game against France on Saturday as they bid to complete a Six Nations clean sweep, and World Rugby's intervention is not expected to affect the forward's ability to play this weekend.
World Rugby could start its own disciplinary procedures against Marler or ask the Six Nations to reassess its findings, should the organisation have concerns about the disciplinary process.
The Ferret scout car given by Lady Rozelle Raynes to her husband Richard as a birthday present in 1999, was donated to the Queen's Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (QRLNY) museum after she died in 2015.
It is now on display at Thoresby Courtyard, once owned by Lady Rozelle.
The vehicles, which were made by Daimler, were used from the 1950s.
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QRLNY curator Captain Mick Holtby, who drove a Ferret during active service and was put on the insurance of the Raynes' vehicle by Dr Hollings Raynes, said the museum was "very pleased" to display the car.
"Without the help of Lady Rozelle Raynes we wouldn't have had the museum established here in the first place," he said.
"It's a good talking point for people coming into the archway."
Hugh Matheson, who inherited the Thoresby Hall estate from Lady Rozelle, attended Wednesday's unveiling of the vehicle.
With Lady Rozelle having served as a stoker during World War Two and having met soldiers who trained on the estate, he said the Ferret car would attract more visitors to the Thoresby Hall estate to the museum.
"They walk into the courtyard, and you see visitors who've no idea about anything just look across, light up [and] go and have a look at it," he said.
"It's an extraordinary draw, and we're really really pleased that they've got it."
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Kieron Robbins, from Abberley, Worcestershire, suffered a broken ankle and bruising when he was flattened by the tree as he worked in nearby woods.
But realising he could reach his chainsaw, he cut the trunk, "quite close" to his legs to set himself free.
Until then he said he thought "that's it", as no-one knew he was there.
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Mr Robbins had been carrying out tree surgery in woods near Stubbs Lane and was knocked to the floor by the tree when it "flew back" after he cut it.
He said he screamed for help before spotting his chainsaw by his left-hand side.
"I just thought the only thing I could do was just get it off my leg because my phone was in my pocket."
He said he struggled with the weight of the tree on him and had a throbbing pain in his legs.
"I started cutting quite close to my legs... it pinched a few times but luckily I had the strength to get the saw out and I felt the pressure of the tree just go.
"There was a rush of blood to my feet and the first thing I did was wiggle my toes and I knew I hadn't broken my spine or anything."
He managed to use his phone to raise the alarm and was taken to hospital where two plates and bolts were put into his right ankle.
"So I say, if you're going to work alone, then let somebody know," he said.
Ambulance staff said he was incredibly lucky not to have suffered more serious injuries.
The woman had been working in the anaesthesia and intensive care unit at a hospital in the small coastal town of Piombino in Tuscany.
The patients were killed in 2014 and 2015 with a drug administered by drip or injection, Italian media say.
Police are said to have monitored the suspect for several months.
According to Ansa news agency, the woman in custody is aged 55 and has lived in Tuscany since the 1980s. She was detained late on Wednesday by Italy's NAS police unit, which specialises in health and drugs.
The victims were mainly elderly people with a variety of illnesses.
Italians have already been shocked by the case of another nurse, who was jailed for life earlier this month.
Daniele Poggiali, 44, was found guilty of injecting a 78-year-old patient with a lethal solution of potassium chloride at a hospital in Ravenna in north-eastern Italy.
She is also suspected of killing other patients. Pictures have emerged of her grinning beside the bodies of dead patients.
The attack happened in Southend, Essex, on Monday.
The couple were walking home with four takeaway dishes, which cost £13.90, when they were stopped by two men who demanded money before assaulting them and making off with the food.
Essex Police said the pair were left "badly shaken" but did not need medical treatment following the attack.
The attack took place in an alleyway between Guildford Road and Prittlewell Street, said police.
"The thieves initially demanded cash but when the husband resisted he was assaulted. The thieves then grabbed the bag of food and fled," said Det Con Richard Siggers.
"We want to hear from any witnesses or anyone with information about the robbers.
"We are especially keen to trace a couple in their 60s who were walking a white dog and passed the victims shortly before the robbery," he added.
The attackers were in their early 20s, with one about 6ft (1.8m) tall and the other 5ft 5in (1.65m).
One was wearing a black jacket and had a black scarf pulled over his face, and the other was wearing blue jeans and a black hooded top, detectives said.
The first generation of Ligo, which ran between 2001 and 2010, saw nothing.
Over the last four years scientists have designed a more sensitive detector that achieved "full lock" in June this year, earlier than planned.
Researchers reported that the new one is already 30% more precise and will start scanning the sky in summer 2015.
Ligo (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) operates in two sites in the US, one in Livingston, Louisiana, and another one in Hanford, Washington.
"In June we reached this state that we call 'locking', where the entire system is switched on and behaves for a short time, 10 minutes or so, as predicted it should do in science mode," said Prof Andreas Freise from the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Birmingham during the British Science Festival.
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time that propagate across the Universe like sound waves do after an earthquake.
But in this case, the sources of the "tremors" are very energetic events such as supernovas (the explosion of a dying star), fast spinning neutron stars (very dense and compact stars), or the collision of black holes and neutron stars orbiting close to each other.
With Ligo's current precision, the interferometer should be able to detect gravitational waves coming from neutron star and black hole binary systems 27 megaparsecs (about 88 million light-years) away from us.
Researchers are still working on the intricate optical system and detectors within Advanced Ligo to gradually increase the precision.
"The target is to reach [a distance of] 200 megaparsecs… which is a factor of 10 better than the old detector," explained Prof Freise.
Augmenting the distance by a factor of 10 means that Ligo will scan a volume of space 1,000 times larger than before.
"Advanced Ligo will be sensitive to a factor of 1,000 in the volume that we were observing with initial Ligo, and that is the sphere of volume where we expect to see a few gravitational waves," added Prof Alberto Vecchio also from the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Birmingham.
Ligo observatories operate by beaming a high power laser into a splitter that divides the beam into two parts. Each part is then directed towards two 4km tunnels perpendicular to each other.
A mirror at the end of the tunnels reflects the rays back into a detector where they are recombined.
Since both tunnels are equally long, when the two halves meet in the detector the signal shows no pattern. But this is not the case if a gravitational wave were passing through the Earth.
"When [the gravitational waves] reach Earth they distort space and time. In particular, they will change the separation of the mirrors," explained Prof Vecchio.
"Over 4km, a decent gravitational wave that we can detect creates a change of less than a thousandth of the size of the nucleus of an atom."
This minuscule variation in the space between the mirrors will produce a distinct pattern from which the properties of the gravitational waves can be inferred.
The team at the University of Birmingham has been involved in Ligo since 2000, leading the development of technology and hardware, and the tools for the analysis of the scientific data.
The main improvements in Advanced Ligo included an upgraded suspension system of the mirrors to make them as stable as possible, a more powerful laser, and a change in the optical elements to accommodate the laser's extra power.
Although the former Ligo instruments did not detect any signature in its 10 years of observation, researchers think that with the upgrade, Advanced Ligo will be able to detect at least one gravitational wave in its lifetime.
Prof Vecchio said that the most pessimistic prediction is that "Ligo will deliver one detection over five years".
"Reasonable predictions tell you many events per year and there are optimistic ones that tell you a hundred or a thousand. We just don't know."
Ligo will complement rather than compete with the results of the Bicep2 and Planck experiments, as it is tuned to look at much shorter wavelengths.
The implications of detecting gravity waves are profound from a scientific point of view.
Prof Freise said: "There are two aspects. One is testing the theory of gravity, but I think the more interesting for me is for astronomy.
"We are tapping into the unknown here, so we will get a new signal that may tell a lot of people in astronomy that they were wrong. And that's what I am after."
A woman who was driving one of the cars was airlifted to hospital with serious leg injuries after the collision on the Old Armagh Road at Carnbeg.
The baby, who was in her car, sustained minor injuries and was taken hospital in Drogheda, along with a man in his 20s who was driving the second car.
The crash happened at about 11:00 local time and the road remained closed.
The injured woman, who is in her 30s, was airlifted to Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.
The 18-year-old has been with the Toffees since the age of nine as has scored twice for their Under-21 side this term.
"Technically he's very good, he's mobile, has good energy levels and can play in a couple of attacking positions," said boss Jim Bentley.
"Hopefully he'll improve us and we can improve him."
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MP Philip Hollobone invited the actress to the town to make up for her tweeting "#REMAIN Sorry, but #KETTERING where are you" during the count.
The US actress, who backed Remain in the referendum, has since tweeted that she would be happy to attend.
Mr Hollobone, who backed the Leave campaign, said it was "fantastic news".
Speaking in the House of Commons Conservative MP Mr Hollobone said her tweet implied that she had never heard of Kettering and said it also implied that no-one had heard of the town - before listing the town's accolades.
He added that by turning the lights on she would redeem her political reputation.
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Miss Lohan replied: "Direct message me about your offer. Would be happy to light the Christmas tree in #Kettering."
In response to the tweet Mr Hollobone said: "Let's hope she means it. If she wants to come to Kettering and turn the lights on she would be made very welcome."
Miss Lohan emerged as an unlikely EU referendum pundit on results night with a series of social media posts in which she has pleaded with Britain not to leave the European Union.
Liesbeth Spies spoke as investigations began into the cause of the collapse in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn.
Video showed the cranes, restoring the Juliana Bridge over the River Rhine, trying to hoist a section of bridge and toppling over under the weight.
At least four houses and two shops were destroyed, reports say.
"It is a miracle that no people were injured," the mayor said. "The devastation is enormous."
She said emergency teams were working to secure the site and help those who had lost their homes.
Prosecutors have opened an investigation.
Rescuers who searched the rubble late into the night on Monday said they were confident nobody remained buried under the wreckage.
Initial reports that up to 20 people had been injured were later corrected by officials who said no-one had been hurt.
Local media said one man found with a wounded leg was not injured in the collapse.
A large number of people were at the site watching the bridge operation when the accident happened.
Witness Dick van Smirren, who filmed the incident, told the NOS national broadcaster: "You see the cloud of dust rise - that is a terrible image and you think: 'Who is under there?' You can't believe what you see."
The two cranes, linked together on a pontoon, were lifting a vast steel ramp that forms the central bridge span when they toppled.
Amateur video showed people jumping from the pontoon, with screams heard in the background.
Images on Dutch media showed a row of crushed buildings.
A survey in 2010 had shown the bridge over the Rhine to be in poor condition. Its renovation began this spring and was expected to take all summer.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union backed the proposed agreement by 10-1.
The dispute centred on whether the train driver instead of the guard should open the doors of new trains, due to come into service next year.
Under the deal, agreed in principle last month, the driver will open them but a guard will control their closing.
The ScotRail Alliance has previously described the agreement as a "win-win" situation for both sides.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said he hoped the deal would provide a model for resolving another dispute over a similar issue in southern England with Southern Rail.
He said: "Our members have backed a deal in a referendum ballot that is a major victory in the fight to stop the compromising of rail safety through the extension of Driver Only Operation.
"This deal, which represents a benchmark for the industry, is exactly what we have proposed as a resolution to the Southern dispute.
"If it's good enough for Scotland, it's good enough for the South of England.
"The deal guarantees a guard on every new electrified train and that the conductor will retain their full competency including rules, track safety and evacuation.
"In addition, ScotRail confirm that trains operating these services will not run without a competent conductor onboard.
"The agreement has been reached after a campaign of industrial action and after intense negotiations and shows what can be achieved when management and unions get down to serious talks. That lesson should be a wake-up call to Southern Rail."
Police said the 32-year-old was punched in the face and knocked to the ground before being sexually assaulted at about 21:00 on Tuesday in West Lothian.
The attack took place on a popular path in woodland next to the A89, east of the Armadale Speedway racetrack.
The suspect is white, aged between 30 and 40, about 6ft, with dark hair and has a Scottish accent.
He was wearing dark clothing.
The woman is still being treated in hospital for multiple injuries.
Detectives have suggested it could have been a premeditated attack.
Police Scotland said the investigation was a top priority with 50 officers on the case.
Forensic experts are examining the scene, officers are trawling CCTV footage and making door-to-door inquiries.
The police said they are "extremely eager" to speak to anyone who heard or saw anything suspicious on the popular walking and running route.
Officers said they have had a good response locally. There are also officers patrolling the area on bicycles.
Det Supt Pat Campbell said the victim had gone through an "absolutely terrifying ordeal".
"We are extremely eager to hear from anyone who remembers seeing any suspicious activity on the footpath or around the racetrack," he said.
"The area is popular with dog walkers and joggers and so we are hopeful that someone may have vital information relevant to our inquiry.
"If you believe you saw something, or can help provide us with a better description of the suspect then please contact police immediately."
The man ran off after the attack and the woman was taken to hospital with injuries to her face, back and shoulder.
Ch Insp Barry Blair added: "Horrific crimes such as this remain rare within West Lothian, but nevertheless, we recognise the significant impact they can have on the community and local officers will be supporting the investigation by conducting high-visibility patrols in and around the area where the attack took place.
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Dzeko turned in Bruno Peres' cross from close range to give the hosts the lead after only five minutes.
Ever Banega equalised for Frank de Boer's side in the 72nd minute with a calm finish after Mauro Icardi's pass caught out the Roma defence.
Manolas restored Roma's lead soon after as his header deflected in off Icardi.
Inter pressed for a late equaliser but Dzeko nearly grabbed a second late on, only to be denied by Samir Handanovic's stunning save.
It was the fourth straight home win for Luciano Spalletti's side as they stayed within five points of leaders Juventus, who won 3-0 at Empoli, while Inter fall to ninth.
Match ends, Roma 2, Inter Milan 1.
Second Half ends, Roma 2, Inter Milan 1.
Miranda (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Juan Jesus (Roma).
Attempt missed. Samir Handanovic (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Éver Banega with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Bruno Peres.
Foul by Assane Demoya Gnoukouri (Inter Milan).
Edin Dzeko (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Roma. Radja Nainggolan replaces Alessandro Florenzi.
Foul by Assane Demoya Gnoukouri (Inter Milan).
Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Stevan Jovetic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bruno Peres (Roma).
Attempt missed. Edin Dzeko (Roma) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Edin Dzeko (Roma) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Alessandro Florenzi with a cross.
Foul by Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan).
Alessandro Florenzi (Roma) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Éver Banega (Inter Milan).
Kevin Strootman (Roma) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Inter Milan. Éver Banega tries a through ball, but Stevan Jovetic is caught offside.
Substitution, Roma. Leandro Paredes replaces Diego Perotti.
Gary Medel (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Diego Perotti (Roma).
Own Goal by Mauro Icardi, Inter Milan. Roma 2, Inter Milan 1.
Attempt missed. Kostas Manolas (Roma) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alessandro Florenzi with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Stevan Jovetic (Inter Milan).
Bruno Peres (Roma) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Miranda (Inter Milan).
Diego Perotti (Roma) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan).
Kostas Manolas (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Roma 1, Inter Milan 1. Éver Banega (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mauro Icardi with a through ball.
Substitution, Roma. Stephan El Shaarawy replaces Mohamed Salah.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Stevan Jovetic replaces Antonio Candreva.
Offside, Roma. Diego Perotti tries a through ball, but Mohamed Salah is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Assane Demoya Gnoukouri (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Mauro Icardi.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Juan Jesus (Roma) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Juan Jesus (Roma).
It was a year ago that, on a visit to Rome to see the Pope, he said "We are a tech company, not a media company".
Then, in December, he appeared to soften his language, saying "It's not a traditional media company. You know, we build technology and we feel responsible for how it's used."
In a blog post in December I argued that Zuckerberg's firm was indeed a media company, because it is funded by advertising, creates vast amounts of stories (or content), and is the main source of news for millions - if not billions - around the world.
Today, with the launch of Facebook Watch, a video service that will incentivise the creation of a new industry in original programming, the tech giant is moving into broadcasting in a big way.
It is becoming a destination for viewers of programmes.
That, of course, makes it a media company; but qualifying for that label isn't a matter for pedants alone. This is about more than semantics: it's about Facebook's ambition, social obligations, and the future of media itself.
It is actually quite hard to fathom the financial power of Facebook today.
Despite warnings last year about a limit to how many ads users will tolerate on their news feed, the company is able to charge brands ever more for the privilege of appearing there.
Its market capitalisation now nudges $500bn; advertising revenues are up 47%; and earnings by GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) have hit $4bn - growing by a scarcely comprehensible 70% in a year, from a very strong base.
Mix that kind of growth and wealth with the Silicon Valley mindset - "move fast and break things" - and you get a sense of why Facebook has decided to move into original programming, giving the makers of videos that appear on its platform a juicy 55% of ad revenues - for now at least.
This is all about making the Facebook experience ever more sticky: making users want to spend more and more, and more and more time within the walled garden - or echo chamber or filter bubble if you will - of the social network.
With more than two billion users now, Facebook wants to do ever more to retain the interest of those logged on. High quality videos will do that, as will the company's eventual move into live sports, which has long been rumoured, but is yet to materialise.
Power brings responsibility, and there have been times when Facebook has seemed uncomfortable with its social obligations.
For instance, on the issue of fake news, despite hiring thousands of new moderators, the company is determined not to be an arbiter of what is true or false, preferring its community of users to make such judgements - or outsourcing them to fact-checkers.
At base, firms such as Facebook and Google are just ad companies. New ones, of course; unusually technical, too; and astonishingly powerful - but ultimately, they are companies who sell a product to advertisers.
That product is our personal data.
Just as it is hard to fathom the financial firepower of some of these Silicon Valley firms, so it is hard to grasp the amount of personal data they now control.
This data is vulnerable, because lots of people (including foreign powers and cyber-criminals) may want it; valuable, as these companies' wealth proves; and often handed over by people who are not fully clear about what they are doing.
Two excellent recent articles show that the social obligations created by Facebook's possession of this personal data are now receiving the kind of scrutiny and debate they deserve.
The Financial Times' John Thornhill has argued that this data is akin to the oil in Alaska, which was used to fund a version of the universal basic income idea (UBI) that has gained traction in recent years, as a way of addressing the rapidly diminishing share of wealth making it to the labour force in advanced economies.
Thornhill suggests Facebook should use its wealth to fund a UBI experiment.
Meanwhile, in his latest brilliant piece for The London Review of Books, John Lanchester explains how Facebook has made products of us all.
"Facebook is in essence an advertising company which is indifferent to the content on its site except insofar as it helps to target and sell advertisements", Lanchester argues - though Facebook would deny the charge of being indifferent.
He goes on: "For all the talk about connecting people, building community, and believing in people, Facebook is an advertising company."
Indeed it is. And now that it is selling adverts in programmes that will be broadcast through its platform, via Facebook Watch, an interesting question arises. Should such shows be regulated by Ofcom? If not, why not?
Yes, the likes of Facebook are a new kind of media company. But we must believe that broadcasters have a social responsibility, because we have a regulator for them; and perhaps, if the broadcasts are taking place in the UK, the platform on which they appear, and the provenance of that platform, is secondary to the content.
Across media, power is shifting to audiences. The idea of editors determining what you can read, or commissioners determining what you watch, is weakening. Schedules are becoming obsolete, albeit slowly.
Facebook Watch will accelerate this trend.
With a user base massively bigger than YouTube and Netflix combined, the social interactions you conduct when logged onto Facebook - meticulously recorded by the social network's algorithms, of course - will now help drive the promotion and distribution of content.
How this works for users is impossible to know just now, of course. It could mean that we lose the serendipity of switching on and seeing what's occurring. But the loss in serendipity is, for most users under 35 at least, easily outweighed by the gain in being able to see what you want, where you want, when you want.
Convenience is king, and Facebook is making it more convenient to enjoy viewing experiences without leaving its platform.
Zuckerberg would justifiably argue this is a way of transferring more power to his users.
Lanchester is right: you are the product. With Facebook Watch, you are the programmers, too.
It launched on Monday from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The Progress 62P vehicle docked automatically with the Pirs compartment of the ISS at 10:27 GMT on Wednesday, after its two-day transit.
Once the crew completes leak checks, the hatches will be opened, allowing them to unload the cargo.
On Monday, British astronaut Tim Peake helped out with a spacewalk designed to fix a component ahead of the Progress craft's arrival.
US crew members Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra moved a "rail car" on the outside of the ISS a few inches away from the position where it had stalled, so it could be latched in place before the Progress vehicle arrived.
Mr Peake arrived at the ISS on 15 December in a Soyuz spacecraft to begin a six-month mission aboard the orbiting outpost.
He is the first UK astronaut to fly into space since Helen Sharman spent a week on the Mir space station.
According to the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), the unmanned Progress cargo ship was carrying 2,436kg of supplies, including propellant, oxygen, water, and food.
This Progress craft recently underwent an upgrade. It features a new command and telemetry system and an improved version of the Kurs radar.
Kurs is the system used to determine the relative positions of the craft and the ISS during rendezvous and docking.
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Just when you might have assumed it could not get any worse, it does.
More intrigue. More suspicion. And more allegations.
The publication by the Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee of a submission given to it by the Sunday Times newspaper contains some eye-catching claims.
Not least, that the England 2018 bid and its associates "had commissioned high-level intelligence-gathering and surveillance on the other countries bidding to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups...the bid paid private companies and individual consultants to spy on its rivals in the run-up to the vote in December 2010".
Later, it is claimed the bid had "received assistance from Britain's official security services to set up surveillance countermeasures because they feared Russia was spying on them when they met with voters to ask them to back the England 2018 bid. The security officials had advised them to lock their phones in lead boxes during such meetings and swept the rooms to make sure they had not been bugged".
It reads like something out of a John le Carre novel.
So what does all this mean for Fifa? And for Russia and Qatar, whose bids feature prominently in the submission?
After all, a source connected to the England 2018 claims the following: "We did have intelligence that states paid bribes to Fifa members…The [England] bid was never going to win because of the corruption on the other side."
While these are new claims, the sense is that this is the continuation of a theme. Many observers believe that Fifa stopped functioning as a credible governing body a long time ago, and that the way the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were chosen was entirely flawed. This, for many, will merely reinforce that suspicion.
Both Russia and Qatar, who four years ago won the right to stage the 2018 and 2022 World Cups respectively, have always denied any wrongdoing, and their bids have recently been cleared by Fifa's ethics chief after a two-year investigation (albeit one that lost much credibility after a summary of its findings was disowned by the investigator himself).
However, football's world governing body has still faced calls to re-run the voting contest.
Whether it is the stifling heat of the gulf state's summer, the treatment of migrant labourers or allegations of corruption in the bidding process, Qatar in particular has been under siege from critics who say it should never have been chosen to host the tournament in the first place.
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Fifa has become used to fighting off accusations about votes being sold in World Cup bidding races, members of its executive committee using office for personal gain, and collusion between bids.
So expect more of the same, especially when the Sunday Times itself admits: "While we have made efforts to corroborate the information...it has been impossible to verify many aspects of the intelligence which we are told the England 2018 team compiled independently."
The newspaper's information certainly makes for fascinating reading, but appears to fall a long way short of the clear proof or solid evidence that would force Fifa into a sensational revote.
Even though the Football Association admits that it did indeed engage with "media and corporate affairs consultants engaged on a confidential basis to gather intelligence", the Sunday Times' submission relies on claims, recollections and rumours from anonymous sources, about a secret database that it has not seen.
As one England 2018 source tells the newspaper: "A lot of it was just outlandish stuff you hear on the circuit..." The same source, according to the submission, "said that although the information was 'fascinating' it was just intelligence and, therefore, not enough to prove corruption conclusively on its own."
To be clear, the Sunday Times is only able to publish many of these fresh allegations because a parliamentary committee has posted them on its own website. So the newspaper and anyone else who repeats the claims are protected by parliamentary privilege.
It is reminiscent of 2011 when former FA chairman Lord Triesman used parliamentary privilege to allege that four senior Fifa officials had asked for inducements to vote for England.
This time though we do not know who exactly is making the allegations. So do not expect this to finally prove the tipping point that means that Russia and Qatar are about to lose the right to host the World Cup, or that Sepp Blatter is now certain to be denied a fifth term as Fifa president.
In fact, just as these latest allegations went to press, Blatter appeared stronger than ever, reportedly securing the full support of the Asian Football Confederation at its 60th anniversary celebrations in Manila.
Blatter may have lost all credibility here in the UK. He may have lost the support of Uefa ahead of next year's presidential election. But elsewhere it seems he has no such concerns.
And no doubt at Fifa House in Zurich, these latest allegations will be dismissed by many as just another conveniently-timed attempt by a negative English media to deflect attention from its country's own failed bid.
Having said all that, these latest allegations do raise some very serious questions.
It seems inevitable that latest allegations will heap yet more scrutiny on those that run the sport. They will no doubt lead to more demands that the full findings of Garcia's investigation are published. More calls by some for a boycott of the World Cup, and for a breakaway from Fifa.
More expectations that a realistic challenger - most likely Prince Ali of Jordan - will stand against Blatter next year. And that perhaps most importantly, more sponsors will turn their backs on an organisation and showpiece event that appear more tarnished than ever.
This week on a visit to Belfast, Fifa secretary-general Jerome Valcke expressed his hope that football could soon finally move on from the turmoil and tumult of recent weeks. That it might finally achieve closure after so many months and years of damaging allegations of corruption.
Today, such closure seems a long, long way off. This tawdry saga shows no sign of abating, and it shames the game - and those that run it.
19 March 2015 Last updated at 10:25 GMT
It shows two people on a road that leads to an alleyway behind the chef's home in York and was taken the night she disappeared.
BBC Look North's John Cundy spoke to Det Supt Dai Malyn and Claudia's father, Peter Lawrence.
Sean Clerkin, 53, is alleged to have run on to Darnley Road, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, on Wednesday in a bid to disrupt the baton's progress.
At Paisley Sheriff Court, he denied the charge. Mr Clerkin was released on bail pending a trial date next year.
As a condition of bail, he is not allowed near the Baton Relay or any event zone during the Games.
Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died in the changing rooms of Liberton High School.
Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen found "the innocent high-spirited behaviour" of pupils could have caused the freestanding privacy wall to collapse.
She recommended that new warnings should be issued about similar walls.
City of Edinburgh Council said its "overriding priority" is to ensure pupils' safety.
The determination said Keane died of multiple injuries following the incident on 1 April 2014.
The immediate cause of the wall collapsing was found to be the application of lateral force sufficient to push it beyond its tipping point.
It was "probable" the activities of other pupils who were braced between the wall and a nearby shower wall caused it to move.
But the determination said: "The unstable nature of the wall was the real cause of the accident."
It identified two main factors.
The first was the design and construction of the wall.
The second was a crack along the horizontal plane of the wall.
The sheriff principal said that although the crack close to its base had been there for "a long period of time" it would not have been obvious to visual inspection.
Although she said there were no reasonable precautions she could recommend which would have avoided the accident, she said a warning about freestanding walls should be reinforced.
She said the Health and Safety Executive, in conjunction with the Scottish government, should ensure an assessment is made of the risk posed by these walls.
This should be in conjunction with remedial measures where the walls cannot be safely and effectively removed.
City of Edinburgh Council said the inquiry had backed its view that there were no "reasonable precautions" it could have taken.
Executive Director of Communities and Families, Alistair Gaw, said: "Once again on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council I want to express our deepest sympathies to Keane's family for their tragic loss.
"Having now received the determination from Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen, we note her conclusion that there were no reasonable precautions that could have been taken to avoid the accident which resulted in Keane's death.
"She further finds that the maintenance and inspection regime at Liberton High School complied with statutory requirements and that there was a comprehensive understanding of the fault-reporting system among staff. The determination also states that the council had taken all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that the wall was inspected and maintained."
The council said it had already looked at the potential hazards represented by other walls of similar design.
Mr Gaw added: "Immediately after the incident in 2014, the council removed similar free-standing walls in its schools and subsequently safety advice was issued by the Scottish government advising all local authorities of the risks regarding these walls.
"Our overriding priority is always the safety of pupils and staff and we want to ensure nothing like this tragic event ever happens again."
The review said the panel would help "limit the negative impact" of demonstrations on the town.
It was commissioned by Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings after Muslim groups boycotted the force following a Britain First march in September 2015.
The force said it hoped such a panel would be of "significant benefit".
Report co-author Andrew Lockley said the panel would offer a "formal way" for the community to contribute to decisions about marches and support police in minimising the damage to community relations and businesses from protests.
Dr Billings said he was "urgently considering the best approach to establishing a pilot panel".
Since October 2012, there have been 14 protests in Rotherham - 11 since the Jay Report found at least 1,400 girls had been sexually exploited in the town.
The report said the September 2015 march, attended by about 300 Britain First supporters, and a counter-demonstration, which also attracted abut 300 people, passed off without "serious injury to the public or police", though about 20 people were arrested.
However, it said there had been a "failure to appreciate the scale of the change in mood of the local Muslim community" by police and that the force "did not appear to anticipate the numbers who would turn out to oppose BF would be greater than on previous occasions".
It said the panel - which it compared to the Parades Commission of Northern Ireland - should consist of no more than six people, including a "well respected individual from outside Rotherham" as chair.
"We envisage that the panel would be a standing group, which should be set up as soon as possible - and certainly before the 2016 'marching season' begins," it said.
"It should remain in existence for as long as the town is targeted by far-right protesters."
Ch Supt Steven Graham, from South Yorkshire Police said: "We share their hope that the creation of an independent panel will be of significant benefit to the people of Rotherham."
Moat, 37, shot Samantha Stobbart, 22, through the window of a friend's home in Gateshead after killing her 29-year-old boyfriend Chris Brown.
Miss Stobbart wept as Newcastle Crown Court heard how Moat "just appeared" and started shooting on 3 July.
She was giving evidence at the trial of two men accused of aiding Moat.
Karl Ness, 26, of of Brookside in Dudley, North Tyneside, denies the murder of Mr Brown, attempting to murder Pc Rathband, one charge of conspiracy to murder, one charge of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, and one of robbing a shop.
Qhuram Awan, 23, of Rowley Street in Blyth, Northumberland, denies the attempted murder of Pc Rathband, one charge of conspiracy to murder, one charge of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, and one of robbing a shop.
The court has heard that karate instructor Mr Brown had started a relationship with Ms Stobbart while the former bouncer was in prison. He was shot three times by Moat.
It was told Moat had become obsessed that Ms Stobbart was seeing another man after ending their six-year relationship.
Moat went on the run after killing Mr Brown, shooting Ms Stobbart and blinding Pc David Rathband by shooting him in the face.
He died after a six-hour stand-off in Rothbury, Northumberland, in July.
Sometimes whispering, Miss Stobbart described how Moat had a "Jekyll and Hyde split personality" and could be violent and unpredictable.
Moat wrongly believed Mr Brown was a police officer after Miss Stobbart told Moat he was to try to scare him off.
She described walking to the edge of a grassed area between the houses when Moat began shooting.
She said: "I just seen Raoul jump up. I think he came from the window. He just appeared."
Prosecutor Robert Smith QC asked whether Moat had anything in his hands.
Miss Stobbart replied: "A gun. A gun. I did not see the gun at first. Then I seen him load it."
When Mr Smith asked, "Did it happen quickly?", she nodded silently, adding: "Chris walked in front of me."
Moat then raised the sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun and shot Mr Brown in the chest.
She told the court: "Chris went down to the grass and I followed him. I remember Raoul was shouting. I don't know what. Shouting. He pointed the gun at my legs and I ran into the house.
"I could not see anybody. I was panicking because my daughter was upstairs and I was running about the house looking for the keys and I did not know what they looked like.
"I heard two shots. When I looked out the window it was done."
The jury was told a shotgun round pierced Miss Stobbart's arm then hit her liver, stomach and pancreas, causing life-threatening injuries.
She said: "I did not fall to the ground straight away. It took about 20 seconds then I just collapsed.
"Blood was pumping from my arm and pumping from my chest.
"I was dragged through to the kitchen and then I was waiting for ever for the ambulance to come."
Surgeons at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead operated on Miss Stobbart for eight hours.
The trial continues.
Midfielder Chaplow scored six goals in 80 games for Saints having made a loan spell from Preston permanent in early 2011, five years after a three-month stint whilst on the books of West Brom.
But the 28-year-old fell from favour last season, playing just five times before moving on loan to Millwall.
Norway defender Forren joined Saints in January but made no appearances.
They have doubled in weight over the past decade, they sit higher in the water and are flatter underneath to enable them to enter more harbours. To the untrained eye they look top heavy, and with up to 6,000 people on board, they look difficult to evacuate quickly. But is that the case?
One maritime union, Nautilus International, thinks the regulations need looking at. It has been warning for some time that something like this might happen.
Look at this quote, which raises the spectre of the Titanic.
"The grounding of a cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew two weeks into the Titanic centenary year should serve as a wake-up call to the shipping industry and those who regulate it. Attention needs to be paid to existing evacuation systems and more innovative systems for abandonment."
The evacuation of the Costa Concordia didn't go well. The fact that the ship listed so quickly and so far meant they couldn't launch all the lifeboats. Passengers have complained of chaos, confused staff - some of whom didn't speak their language - and the fact they hadn't been taken through a drill.
The International Maritime Organization, which regulates ship safety across the world, sets the rules on evacuating ships and providing drills for new passengers.
Here is what they sent me:
Regulation 19: Emergency training and drills.
Effectively, the company has 24 hours to take you through a drill once you are on board. The Costa Concordia was only a few hours into its voyage. Some people arriving back at Heathrow started flashing their drill cards around. They had been scheduled for a rehearsal on Saturday afternoon, by which time the ship was lying on its side.
I suspect, in the light of this accident, all cruise companies will now make sure they drill passengers before they set sail.
But what about the time it took to get everyone off?
Regulation III/21.1.3: All survival craft required to provide for abandonment by the total number of persons on board shall be capable of being launched with their full complement of persons and equipment within a period of 30 min from the time the abandon ship signal is given after all persons have been assembled, with life jackets donned.
In practice, this means all passengers and crew are ordered to lifeboat stations first and then, when everyone is mustered, the captain orders abandon ship. So Coast Guards test to see if ships can load the boats and place them in the water within 30 minutes.
Regulations also state that a ship's systems should last for at least three hours because that is how long it is expected to take to completely abandon a large ship.
It took a good five hours to get most passengers off the ship. One former sea captain I spoke to had some sympathy with the crew in this situation. Once the ship was listing heavily, he told me, and the lifeboats were sitting on what had become the top of the boat, everyone just had to leave the ship any way they could.
The regulations work to the principle that the ship itself is the best lifeboat, and is designed to be able to limp back to port in most situations.
Prof Philip Wilson at the University of Southampton specialises in ship dynamics and we spoke alongside his 29ft (9m) testing tank.
"Modern ships are safe as they can possibly be," he told me.
"The centre of buoyancy is in the right place... instinctively it doesn't look right but it is in fact very, very stable, the beam of the boat being very large."
We have also heard a lot about watertight compartments since the Costa Concordia went down. The theory is that if one side of the hull is breached, the other side can be flooded to keep the ship upright. The big question is then, why didn't it work in this case? The truth is we won't know until the investigation is finished.
But Prof Wilson wasn't too surprised, saying: "Every ship will sink if you make the hole big enough."
He added, however, that something was "puzzling" him.
The hole in the hull is sticking out of the water. It should be under the sea, because that is where the water came rushing in. In other words, the ship seems to be lying on the wrong side.
"We're working on information that's incomplete so we don't know really what's happened. Potentially of course, the crew could have been pumping water to bring the ship upright, and maybe took too much water on board."
What many people are keen to stress is that cruise ships are still among the safest ways to travel. Companies emphasise that training and regulations are rigorous and that this kind of accident is very rare. But no-one argues that there isn't room for improvement.
The International Maritime Organization has not had a lot to say on this accident so far, but it has released a statement, and once again, it revives memories of the Titanic.
"IMO must not take this accident lightly," it says.
"We should seriously consider the lessons to be learnt and, if necessary, re-examine the regulations on the safety of large passenger ships in the light of the findings of the casualty investigation. In the centenary year of the Titanic, we have once again been reminded of the risks involved in maritime activities."
Harbinder Khatkar, from Sinfin, in Derby, was found guilty of a string of attacks in the Pear Tree and Normanton areas of the city between midnight on February 1 and 9:00 the next day.
The 37-year-old was also convicted of the rape of a woman in 2011 for which he had previously been acquitted.
Derbyshire police said they were some of the "worst crimes imaginable".
Khatkar, whose charges included rape, robbery, causing actual bodily harm, assault, sexual assault and trespass with the intent to commit a sexual offence, is expected to be sentenced at Derby Crown Court on Friday.
One victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the hearing her life had been "completely devastated" by what Khatkar had done to her in her own home.
Det Insp Douglas Naden said: "This has been one of the largest and most complex investigations undertaken by my team of detectives - and in terms of serial offending has been one of the worst cases they have ever dealt with.
"The court has heard evidence of some of the worst crimes imaginable which have had a devastating impact on the victims and their families."
Khatkar had previously been acquitted of raping a woman in 2011 but the Crown Prosecution Service successfully overturned the verdict at the Court of Appeal so he could be tried again.
It is the first retrial in Derbyshire under the amended double jeopardy law.
Isla Wiggin, from Fleet in Hampshire, died in a collision on the A34 in Hinksey Hill, Oxfordshire, on 25 August.
Her unborn brother also died as a result of the collision.
Isla's family issued a statement saying she was "a loving and caring" daughter who "would have made an amazing big sister".
A lorry and seven cars were involved in the accident, which closed the northbound carriageway for almost 10 hours.
The family statement said: "Isla was as perfect a daughter as you could ever wish for. Beautiful and witty, yet cheeky and mischievous, she was a character that you couldn't help but love with all your heart.
"Isla put her heart and soul into everything and all of her friends were 'best friends' who she adored. She and her mummy were like two peas in a pod who did everything together, she even loved to help out around the house.
"Her loving and caring nature would have made her an amazing big sister and she was so excited at the prospect.
"Although adamant that the baby was a girl, Isla said she'd like to call the baby Harry if it was a boy, so it seemed only right to do so.
"We were extremely proud to find out that we were going to have a son, who would have completed our family. He had big hands and strong arms and no doubt would've grown into a strapping young man who would have loved and protected Isla.
"We are so sorry that we didn't get the chance to meet him properly and get to know him.
"We are very grateful for all of the love and support we have received over the last week. Although nothing can ever make up for the heartache that we feel, it is comforting to know that our beautiful children never witnessed any evil in the world.
"Not a day will go by where we won't think of them and all the happy memories that we have shared."
A 58-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and released on bail until 2 October.
It found that 14 local authorities had no on-site counsellors and provision by other councils was irregular.
The data revealed school counsellors dealt with thousands of cases including substance abuse, self-harm and depression in the past year.
A government review into school counselling services is now under way.
Unlike Scotland, counselling services were guaranteed in all secondary schools in Northern Ireland and Wales a decade ago.
Earlier this year the Scottish government launched a new mental health strategy which stated that "support from teachers and other school staff can be vital in helping ensure the mental wellbeing of children and young people".
But new data - obtained by the BBC via a series of coordinated freedom of information requests - revealed that 14 councils, including South Lanarkshire and Highland, have no formal school-based counselling services for their 254,000 students.
However the number of students who do not have access to these services across Scotland is likely to be far higher.
The responses from the Scottish local authorities that do offer on-site counselling reveal that provision was often irregular even across their own network of schools.
For example, data obtained by BBC Scotland reveals that Inverclyde provides services in one of its six secondary schools, and North Ayrshire currently has two counsellors in nine of its secondary schools.
Edinburgh and Glasgow councils had services in 43% and 93% of its secondary schools respectively.
Overall, on-site services were present in only 40% of Scottish secondary schools - or 10% of all primary and secondary schools.
But the regional discrepancy was most apparent when looking at the neighbouring councils of South and North Lanarkshire, who respectively had on-site counsellors in none, and all, of their secondary schools.
Other councils such as Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Fife, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders and West Dunbartonshire said it had counsellors in all of their secondary schools.
The two councils of Dumfries and Galloway and Orkney Islands have yet to respond to the freedom of information request.
Jo Anderson, from the Scottish Association for Mental Health, said the data shows how "patchy" counselling is in schools across Scotland, illustrating the need for a consistent national approach.
She said: "There's a commitment in the Scottish government's mental health strategy to review schools-based counselling, but there's no timeframe on when they will do this, nor indeed a commitment to providing access.
"So we think Scotland's young people are already missing out.
"The situation is urgent, it's not getting better, and it's got to change."
"When the depression set in I was just finding it hard to find the joy in anything any more."
Zoe Mason says she was in the fourth year of high school when her downward spiral began.
Not only were exams rapidly approaching, but she was also stressed by thoughts of what to do with her life after leaving school.
"I was finding it hard to leave the house, to get the bus to school. I was starting to withdraw from my friends because even just having a conversation was hard."
Zoe says she looked for support from her teachers but that they didn't know how to help.
"It wasn't that they didn't care, I just don't think they had the skills or the knowledge to know how best to support or advise me.
"So I did feel a bit pushed aside by the school, like I was a problem that they didn't want to have to deal with.
"I genuinely do think that that is because of a lack of knowledge around mental health in schools."
Zoe said she only got the help she needed when her mother pushed her to see her GP - they in turn referred her to her local health board's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
However she says other teenagers may find reaching out to their GP intimidating.
"But if the counselling service is right there in your school, and teachers know that it exists, then it's really easy to access and you're able to take less time off school.
"There's also huge waiting lists for CAMHS, so if you can get support within your school then it's not going to have a detrimental impact on your education."
Now 19, Zoe says an on-site counselling service would not only have saved her years of struggling with her mental health. It might have saved her grades.
"I ended up not going to university straight from school like I'd planned as I'd not been able to keep up at school.
"If a counselling service had been there my life would be so much so different to what it is now".
Maureen Watt, the Scottish government's mental health minister, said: "We want every child and young person to have appropriate access to emotional and mental well-being support in school - our new, ambitious Mental Health Strategy sets out clearly how we can improve early intervention, and ensure better access to services.
"Education authorities and all those working in our schools have a responsibility to support and develop the mental wellbeing of pupils, with decisions on how to provide that support taken on the basis of local circumstances and needs.
"Some will provide access to school based counselling - others will utilise the skills of pastoral care staff and liaise with the Educational Psychological Services and health services for specialist support when required.
"Whether in schools, workplaces, communities or care facilities, the new strategy will see us take forward an initial 40 actions to shape change and ensure mental health has true parity of esteem with physical health."
Responses from Scottish councils also revealed not only the number of referrals in some schools, but also the type of issues children were reporting.
The data showed that on-site services were accessed at least 2,812 times - but with many councils providing only partial data, that figure is likely to be higher.
In the last year, Glasgow's counselling services were accessed 797 times - 17% of these instances were related to stress, and 10% were depression-related.
Services in Fife's schools were accessed 480 times - 47% of these referrals were substance-related.
Schoolchildren in East Renfrewshire's secondary schools accessed services 89 times in the last school year - a fifth of these were related to self-harm.
One of the government's key actions in its ten-year strategy is to "roll out improved mental health training for those who support young people in educational settings".
However, as with school-based counselling services, only a fraction of schools across Scotland have teachers who have undergone formal Scottish Mental Health First Aid (SMHFA) training.
For example, only five teachers in Inverclyde's 26 schools had taken SMFHA training in the last five years; in Angus, there are just three in the council's 61 schools.
A Highland Council spokesperson said: "There are some voluntary counselling services offering support to some schools… None of these services are based in the schools.
"We do however provide a Primary Mental Health Worker Service which has, as part of its remit, time to build capacity in schools and to both support and train guidance staff and others, to help them better support children and young people with mental health issues.
"They have already trained a number of staff across Children's Services and by June 2017, 16 of the 29 secondary schools in Highland had accessed Mental Health First Aid Training."
A spokesperson for Inverclyde said that while the council "does not have counselling services based in individual schools every single child and young person has access to mental health support and counselling."
They added: "There is a wide variety of support available including educational psychologists employed by the council who undertake direct therapeutic work with individual children and young people.
"School staff are also undergoing training to spot the early signs of mental health issues so that support can be offered as soon as possible."
South Lanarkshire council told BBC Scotland in its original freedom of information response that the local authority "does not provide counselling services within schools nor does it employ or contract counsellors or counselling services."
But in a separate press statement, the council's head of education said a formal school-based service was provided by NHS Lanarkshire.
Anne Donaldson said: "This is done on a case by case basis and is dependent on the level of support required by individual children and young people."
While the data shows many schools do not have school-based counselling services, most councils did stress that they had referral frameworks in place allowing children access to the authority's educational psychology services.
All schools with no on-site support can also refer pupils to their health board's CAMHS team.
But official data reveals that, as of March 2017, nearly 17% of children had been waiting over 18 weeks to see someone.
An NHS report shows that four out of the 14 health boards are failing to meet the government's 18-week standard.
NHS Grampian and NHS Lothian respectively saw 45% and 47% of children referred to them within 18 weeks.
Ms Anderson from SAMH said: "There are some great examples from across the UK where young people have got guaranteed access to schools-based counselling, and there is growing evidence that this is really helping young people where they're getting access on-site, and not having to sit on a waiting list for a CAMH service.
"So we know it's helping people in other parts of the UK so we think we should be doing the same in Scotland."
Blues' board wants the governing body to assume responsibility for all matters on the field while a proposed Arms Park stadium revamp is underway.
That would include taking over the contracts of all playing and coaching staff under a new subsidiary company.
It is unclear whether this temporary agreement would become permanent in future.
"We are currently engaged in the early stages of dialogue with the Cardiff Blues about the future of professional rugby in the region," said a WRU spokesperson.
"As with any complex discussion of this nature, we would not discuss detail in the public domain until such a time as an agreement was reached and, indeed, only if agreement is reached.
"All relevant parties will be kept up to date as any progress is made."
Documents seen by BBC Wales Sport reveal the WRU presented plans in January to take shared control of all four regions - Blues, Ospreys, Scarlets and Newport Gwent Dragons.
Blues endorsed the plans, which did not receive unanimous support from their fellow regions.
That prompted Blues to seek their own agreement with the WRU.
The news came as Newport RFC shareholders prepared to vote on whether to accept the WRU taking over their club, Newport Gwent Dragons and the Rodney Parade ground.
Blues want to redevelop their Arms Park home to help generate greater revenue from increased attendances.
The rugby region has a lease from Cardiff Athletic Club (Cac) which ends in January 2022, and it wants a long-term extension so it can redevelop the city centre site.
It wants a 15,000-capacity stadium with a retractable pitch and sliding roof so it can be used as a concert venue, as well as building an exhibition centre, a hotel and flats.
Cac's agreement is needed to allow the redevelopment to go ahead.
It is a body made up of Cardiff tennis, bowls, hockey and cricket clubs which has a clubhouse at the Arms Park.
Liverpool opened the redeveloped Main Stand last month, raising capacity to 54,074, and have planning permission to extend Anfield Road by a further 4,800.
But Ayre said: "A stand behind a goal doesn't have the benefit of hospitality that would go a long way to meet the redevelopment costs."
The upgrade would cost about £60-70m.
Club owner John Henry has previously played down the prospect of the work going ahead on the basis ticket prices would have to rise to cover the cost.
Liverpool are worried how fans would react after thousands of protested against plans to charge £77 for some tickets in the club's new Main Stand back in February.
The £100m expansion of the Main Stand is expected to be paid off in six years because of the lucrative income generated by hospitality seating - but that is not the case with the Anfield Road end.
"From a purely general admission perspective, building, say, 6,000 extra seats to take the capacity up to 60,000 would cost somewhere between £60m and £70m," said Ayre, speaking at a meeting of the Liverpool Supporters' Committee (LSC).
"At £12,000 to £13,000 per seat, it would take approximately 15 years to pay back, which is not a smart investment for the business."
Ayre told the meeting the club was open to fan investment to help fund further redevelopment of the ground and said conversations should take place.
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The jobless rate fell to 3.8% in the period March to May, having stood at 4.5% in the previous quarter.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) confirmed it was Scotland's lowest rate since comparable records began in 1992.
Over the quarter, unemployment fell by 19,000 to 104,000, while the number of people in work increased by 25,000.
Over the same period, the UK unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 4.5%, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The number out of work across the UK stood at 1.49 million, 64,000 fewer than for the preceding three months.
There was a slight fall on the previous quarter in the economic inactivity rate for Scots between the ages 16 and 64.
However, the rate of 22.9% was 1.2% higher than the equivalent period last year.
Those counted as economically inactive include people who are neither in work nor available for work.
Economy Secretary Keith Brown said: "These latest figures show our labour market remains resilient and robust with unemployment now at a record low.
"Our employment rate is also rising, which is good news, and means 25,000 more people are in employment compared to the last quarter.
"When considered alongside the fact that last week's GDP stats show Scotland's growth rate over the last quarter to be four times that of the UK, this is further evidence of the strength of the Scottish economy."
Scottish Conservative economy spokesman Dean Lockhart described the latest statistics as "encouraging".
He said: "It shows that Scottish businesses have been resilient to any challenges thrown up by Brexit, and continue to perform well.
"It also exposes the SNP's scaremongering on the UK's decision to leave the EU.
"However, we cannot escape the fact that much of this fall in unemployment can be attributed to a rise in those who are now economically inactive."
Scottish Labour's economy spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "It is welcome to see some progress in the Scottish labour market, but there is no room for complacency from this nationalist government.
"Having a year-on-year increase of 40,000 people being economically inactive is deeply troubling."
Business leaders reacted cautiously to the figures.
Scottish Chambers of Commerce chief executive Liz Cameron said: "It is extremely welcome that Scotland's unemployment rate has fallen to just 3.8% in the three months to May.
"Whilst this is an outstanding achievement and compares very favourably to the rate of 4.5% across the UK as a whole, it is worth taking a look at some of the numbers behind the headline figure.
"Compared to this time last year, there are now 6,000 fewer people in employment in Scotland; whilst 65,000 more people are economically inactive.
"These numbers highlight the continuing challenge facing the Scottish economy at a time when businesses are seeking staff with the right skills to help them to succeed and grow."
Colin Borland, from the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "Unemployment in Scotland is now very low indeed. Overall this is great news for firms and families.
"However some Scottish businesses are also reporting rising skills and labour shortages.
"Therefore - as Brexit negotiations continue - it is even more important that no matter when they arrived, European nationals who work for or run businesses in Scotland must be allowed to stay."
This relative fame, achieved off the back of one song uploaded to the internet, came far quicker than members of Pretty Vicious could have imagined.
So much so, they turned down a slot supporting rock heavyweights Muse because it would have been their fifth gig and they did not think they were ready.
A year on, there is a feeling this adulation came almost before they achieved anything and now they must earn it.
At an industrial unit on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, the band are working on their first album - that is still more than six months away.
Yet, it was not long ago that singer and guitarist Brad Griffiths was running round his living room "singing Queen, 'Phonics and ACDC songs with a Hoover".
"I wanted to be a rock star and I knew I'd do it since I was 13 because if I'm not into it, I won't stick to it," said the 17-year-old.
It was in March 2014 that the band started to form around him at The Lido - a field where local teenagers go to "camp and drink flagons around a fire".
Brad discussed with Tom McCarthy, now 17 (guitar) and Elliot Jones, 16 (drums) about leaving the bands they were involved with and playing together.
"I wanted to be in involved too and they said if I got a bass by Friday, I was in," said Jarvis Morgan, 18.
"So I bought a guitar and amp off Gumtree for £65 and met a guy at the train station to buy it.
"I even got him to give me a lift home - which probably wasn't the wisest thing for a teenager to do."
While they gelled musically, they described their first performances - two at the Redhouse in Merthyr and one at an art exhibition above a Brynmawr paint shop in Blaenau Gwent - as dire.
At the time, they only had two songs - Cave Song and Black Sheep, about the pessimism that exists in their hometown and the desire to break free and achieve something.
It was when they uploaded the first to internet site Soundcloud that views kept rising; DJs such as Huw Stephens and Zane Lowe championed their cause and record labels began watching them rehearse.
"That was when we turned down the tour with Muse. It would have been our fifth gig - we didn't have enough songs and weren't ready," explained Tom.
"Instead, we did a gig at Blackwood Miners' Institute in front of 50 people."
This was the time "the world went crazy", according to Elliot's dad Bryn Phillips, who co-manages the band with Tom's father Mark McCarthy.
"Every record label was after the boys, including a Chinese one willing to pay double what everyone else offers," he said.
"In the end, we negotiated with Virgin, with a couple of precedents that nobody had had before."
The band members quit their jobs in a call centre and gym reception, while Jarvis dropped out of college and Elliot took a GCSE exam in the morning, before supporting Manic Street Preachers during their June 2015 Cardiff Castle gig.
During that summer, they played every major UK festival, including headlining the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury.
Supporting roles for The Vaccines, Noel Gallagher and Wolf Alice followed, while they were flown out to play at Club Quattro in Tokyo.
"It was crazy, Japanese people were waiting for us off the plane with picture collages and asking us to sign autographs," said Brad.
"They were singing our songs and there were Welsh flags at the gig."
In an eventful period, they were also caught up in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, when they were performing at a venue close to the Bataclan Theatre where 89 people died.
The band is now working with Owen Morris, who helped produce Oasis' Definitely Maybe and What's the Story (Morning Glory), with their managers keeping a watchful eye.
Mr Phillips worked as a maths teacher, while Mr McCarthy was part of 1980s band Blue Rondo a La Turk, before he quit the industry to become an engineer.
After hearing their sons practicing and recognising their talent, they decided to become closely involved and now drive them to all their gigs.
They also ensure the boys keep to a daily routine - which includes practising for four hours each day.
"When they started gigging, they would come off the stage and say 'Where are we going out to now?'" said Mr McCarthy.
"We also had an incident in Glasgow, when we had a call at 3.30am to say they couldn't find Tom.
"But now they realise it's hard work and when they are on the road, travelling, they don't go out. If they have a day off, there are no issues."
The band are all still teenagers and with their first album not due out until December, their careers have yet to get going in some ways.
In others, they appear seasoned professionals, with the maturity and knowledge that comes with it.
"I've tried [going out partying before gigs] but I can't sing," said Brad.
"But we still go out when we are home. We don't want people to be different around us as I have known all the boys from school since I was five.
"I've got a bit of money now though, so I don't drink flagons any more - I think I'd be violently ill."
Police say traffic officers had been given permission to use a 'box manoeuvre' to bring the car to a stop on the A30 near Camborne in Cornwall.
The car was travelling west on the eastbound carriageway at about 09:30 GMT on Tuesday.
A 58-year-old woman from St Merryn, Cornwall, has been arrested and bailed.
Police said the woman has been bailed until Monday 24 April while they investigate a potential dangerous driving offence.
But Mr Abbott said Australia had developed "incredibly creative" approaches to stopping asylum boats from reaching Australia.
Australia's immigration and foreign ministers have denied allegations a payment was made to the crew.
But Indonesia's foreign ministry has said it is "very concerned".
Police in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province said earlier this week that they had detained the captain and crew of a boat on people-smuggling charges in late May.
The migrants - from Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka - were reportedly heading to New Zealand and are being held on the remote Rote island about 500km (310 miles) north-east of Australia.
They told police that an Australian navy ship intercepted them at sea, and an immigration official on board paid them each A$5,000($3,900; £2,500) to turn back to Indonesia.
Local police chief Hidayat told AFP news agency: "I saw the money with my own eyes. This is the first time I'd heard [of] Australian authorities making payments to boat crew."
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Radio New Zealand reported similar allegations from passengers.
The prime minister's refusal to deny reports that Australian officials are now paying people-smugglers to turn back suggests Mr Abbott is now using financial means to meet his pledge to stop the boats.
His claim that Australia was doing so by "hook or by crook" indicates that he knows such methods stretch ethical boundaries.
Australia has been hammered by human rights groups for its tough policies. But they've worked.
Two years ago tens of thousands were trying to reach Australia's shores by boat. Today that number has been reduced to virtually nothing and polls show, despite the international criticism, Mr Abbott broadly has his public's support.
Speaking to Radio 3AW on Friday morning, Mr Abbott would not deny the allegation that a payment had been made, but said immigration personnel had developed "creative strategies" to stop the migrant boats.
"We have stopped the trade and we will do what we have to do to ensure that it stays stopped," he said.
Under Australia's controversial policies, no migrants and asylum seekers are allowed to reach its territories by boat. They are instead intercepted at sea and turned back or taken to detention facilities on the island nation of Nauru and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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Luminaries past and present from across the UK's computing industry had gathered to mark the 75th anniversary of the Cambridge University computer laboratory.
But there was also one nagging question. Why does a city and a country which have played such a huge part in the history of the computer, still produce so few world-class technology companies?
A strange question to ask, perhaps, in a lecture theatre packed with successful alumni of the lab, some from companies like ARM and CSR which have thrived in Cambridge. After all, this is a city where academia and business have combined very fruitfully in the past two decades.
But in a lecture on what he's learned about innovation, Mike Lynch - who's the founder of another Cambridge technology success story, Autonomy - bemoaned the fact that all the brilliant work done by the university's scientists had failed to translate into many big hitters in the FTSE-100.
Just one UK computer business had made it into the FTSE, he told us, and that was Sage, the Newcastle-based accountancy software firm. "Our universities are second to none," he said. "But they're failing to translate the gold coming out of them into economic growth."
(It now strikes me that Dr Lynch is ignoring the fact that the chip designer ARM is in the top third of the FTSE-100 - but maybe he doesn't count it as a computing company?)
He suggested that many companies with excellent technology got to a certain stage and then they or their backers lost confidence, selling up to American firms. We were, he suggested, producing great R&D labs for overseas firms to exploit rather than going on to turn high quality research into products for global markets.
Dr Lynch, of course, eventually sold Autonomy to America's Hewlett Packard and is now embroiled in a row over just what his company was really worth. But his point was that more firms needed to stay independent long enough to create a lasting infrastructure in Britain, even if they ended up in foreign ownership.
Others in the audience then joined a discussion about the way forward. Lord Broers, a distinguished engineer and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, was worried by how little we spent on research and development as a country compared to rivals - 1.7% of GDP in the UK, as compared to 2.8% in Germany and 2.9% in the United States. "We're underspending by billions, mainly in industry," he said.
There were the usual worries about a gap in capital for technology companies - plenty at the start, then very little when they wanted to make the leap into the big league. And there were calls for government to to think more about using its own procurement budgets to help UK firms in the way the US did - for the different tech clusters, from Cambridge to Bristol to London's TechCity, to collaborate better; even for The Sun newspaper to start celebrating computer scientists on page three.
Mike Lynch's main concern, however, was about the teaching of STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and maths - in secondary schools where he felt we were falling behind. He cited as an example the scarcity of girls taking A-Level physics.
We had brilliant graduates coming out of places like the Cambridge computing laboratory, he said, but that supply could dry up, and we needed a wider hinterland of skilled people. Those worries about a skills gap opening up are now commonplace amongst many in Britain's hi-tech industries.
But Cambridge, the birthplace of computers from the Edsac to the BBC Micro, has at least produced an attempt to address that problem with the Raspberry Pi, which aims to inspire a new generation of computer scientists.
That continuing spirit of innovation should provide some cause for optimism that we can find ways of turning world-class science into world-beating businesses.
The strike has been organised by Cardiff Hackney Carriage Association due to "frustration" about the way complaints against drivers are dealt with.
It will take place from midnight to 02:00 BST on Saturday and Sunday and the following weekend.
Cardiff council said it advised "all drivers to understand and abide by their licensing conditions".
It follows a council clampdown on taxi drivers over reports they had been refusing short-distance fares.
The council had urged people to take note of the badge number or vehicle registration of drivers who refused fares.
But Mathab Khan, chairman of the association, claimed the council's guidance had "instigated a wave of insult and abuse" against drivers.
"It has been very damaging to the taxi trade," he said.
"We are very upset and can't afford to strike but this is the only way we can voice our anger."
He also raised concerns about the way drivers' licences have been suspended.
"If drivers are committing an offence then they should be prosecuted in the courts and not by the council licensing committee," he said.
A council spokesman said the licensing authority "hasn't been informed by organisers if the strike is going ahead" and advised "interested parties" to contact Mr Khan.
The council had "made it very clear about the grounds for a hackney carriage driver to refuse a fare" and took action to ensure "individual drivers are a fit and proper person to hold a licence", the spokesman said.
"The council maintains that rather than threatening strike action, we would advise all drivers to understand and abide by their licensing conditions, or face enforcement action for breaching the law," he added.
Nurul Islam, 32, was wearing his school sweatshirt, which all have surnames on, outside the Coach and Horses in Newgate Street, near Hertford, on Friday.
A member of staff said it was upsetting people after the Nice attack, he said.
A police hate crime officer is investigating what happened. The pub would not comment.
The technology teacher was waiting for a group of pupils from The Thomas Alleyne Academy, in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, who were on a Duke of Edinburgh assignment.
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The pub was the agreed meeting point.
"A staff member came outside and asked if I could I take off my jumper because it was making some customers feel uncomfortable 'after what happened last night'," Mr Islam said.
"I didn't know quite what to say, and at first I didn't link what he'd said with the lorry attack in France, but when it sank in I was shocked."
He went back to his car, leaving another teacher to wait for the pupils.
"I was being discriminated against because of my surname so I was left really upset after the incident.
"We all have surnames on the backs of our hoodies, which is the responsible thing to do."
Mr Islam added: "I'm not a practising Muslim but I am a Muslim.
"It makes me feel terrible that my name is the cause of such contention when all it means is peace.
"If I had the word 'peace' on there, would he still have asked me to leave?"
Miqdaad Versi, the assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain said: "It's shocking and very worrying to see this growth in Islamophobia and bigotry.
"We need to really move beyond this, and the problem that we're facing is this type of attitude seems to be getting more prevalent in society and more socially acceptable."
Hertfordshire Police said: "A specialist hate crime officer is investigating to establish whether offences have been committed."
The Blues are seven points clear of nearest rivals Manchester City with just over half the season still to go.
And speaking on BBC Radio 5 live after the Blues beat Bournemouth for a club record 12th consecutive league win, Savage says he cannot see beyond Antonio Conte's side for the title.
"Give them the trophy now - I can't see anyone catching them," he said.
"Great defence and great attacking play. They can play all styles; they can break teams down.
Former Wales international midfielder Savage added that Chelsea were coping well with teams setting up defensively against them, noting that West Brom, beaten 1-0 by Chelsea earlier in December, had "played six at the back at times".
If Chelsea beat Stoke at home on New Year's Eve, they can equal Arsenal's record 14-game winning sequence from 2002 when they play Tottenham at White Hart Lane on 4 January.
The Blues, who last won the league in 2014-15, also visit champions Leicester and title rivals Liverpool in January. | Roma moved up to third in Serie A as goals from Edin Dzeko and Kostas Manolas secured victory over Inter Milan at the Stadio Olimpico.
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In an academic paper, he said central banks could "sacrifice some political independence" without undermining their ability to do their job.
"We need a more nuanced approach to central bank independence in this brave new world," he added.
A former top Bank official said Mr Balls had raised "an important issue".
Andrew Sentance, who used to be on the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, told the BBC's Today programme: "In the UK we have a model where the government sets a remit for the Bank of England, and the government could change that remit, and I think there is a case for looking again at that remit to say whether it's the right one in the circumstances we now face after the financial crisis."
Mr Balls' views came in a paper for Harvard University's Kennedy School, co-written with James Howat and Anna Stansbury.
For his part, Mr Balls told the Today programme that in order to protect its operational independence, the Bank needed "more political support and accountability". To that end, he said, there should be a "systemic risk body", chaired by the chancellor, to oversee policy.
There needed to be "a better dialogue" between central banks and the government, while the government needed to support the economy better with more spending on infrastructure.
Mr Balls added that he disagreed with Prime Minister Theresa May's recent criticisms of low interest rates, which she said had benefited the rich and made savers poorer.
He said the low-rate policy had been "the only thing which stopped our economy sliding back into depression".
He added that the case for operational independence for central banks remained "as strong as it's ever been" and that it was "very worrying" to see Bank of England governor Mark Carney being attacked for his policies.
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Afridi told BBC South Today he is staying away from his national side as they "give youngsters a chance".
He said: "I've told the selectors it's fine to keep me away and to see where the youngsters are standing."
The 36-year-old all-rounder will play his first game for Hampshire since 2011 against Middlesex on Friday.
"I'm happy to concentrate on my county summer at the moment and then we'll see what happens later," he added. "If they (Pakistan) want me later in the summer, then I'm available."
Afridi captained his country in the World T20 in India in March, which was thought to have been his international swansong.
The right-hander and leg-spinner has not played a 50-over international since March 2015, with his last Test appearance in July 2010.
Afridi is available for Hampshire for the whole of the summer's T20 Blast and will team up with West Indies all-rounder Darren Sammy for the majority of the competition.
Pakistan face England in a four-Test series starting on 14 July, followed by five one-day internationals and a T20 contest from 24 August.
The series is unlikely to clash with Afridi's Hampshire commitments, with the T20 Blast quarter-finals taking place from week beginning 8 August and finals day at Edgbaston on 20 August.
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham made the call following the Hillsborough Inquests, which concluded police blunders caused the tragedy.
He said it was a scandal police officers could retire on full pensions and evade misconduct proceedings.
The Home Office said there is provision for disciplining retired officers in the Policing and Crime Bill.
Labour plans to add its proposals as amendments to be tabled to the bill next month.
Mr Burnham said the party believed families should receive the same level of funding for legal representation as police at inquests involving officers.
And after concerns about the way journalists were fed information by some South Yorkshire Police officers he has called for a ban on off-the record briefings to reporters during investigations.
He said: "It is impossible to say how much harm was caused by those malicious briefings which led to the front page in The Sun that blamed Liverpool supporters."
The paper's infamous and discredited front page on the Monday after the tragedy bore the headline "The Truth", with claims that fans picked the pockets of the dead, urinated on police and beat up an officer administering first aid.
Mr Burnham added some police officers were able to get away with these "malicious lies" because they were communicated anonymously.
He also called for the second stage of Lord Leveson's inquiry into media ethics to proceed with a focus on police and press relations.
Last month a jury concluded that 96 football fans were unlawfully killed and police blunders "caused or contributed to" the 1989 disaster at the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup Semi-Final at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield.
Mr Burnham said: "The Hillsborough families have walked the hardest road imaginable over those 27 years, and that journey has exposed just how unfair this country is, just how the odds are stacked against people and loaded in favour of the authorities.
"Hillsborough must mark a moment of real change - when Parliament resolves to rebalance the police and criminal justice system and put more power in the hands of ordinary people."
He added: "Never again should any bereaved families have to fight like the Hillsborough families have had to fight."
Mr Burnham, who led the Parliamentary campaign on behalf of the Hillsborough families, said he hoped to enlist cross-party support.
"We must call time on the uneven playing field at inquests where public bodies spend public money like water on hiring the best lawyers when ordinary families have to scratch around for whatever they can get.
"Public money should be spent on helping us get to the truth, not on protecting the public sector."
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He added: "After the Hillsborough verdict, Parliament has an unprecedented moment where it can act to rebalance the country in favour of ordinary families."
His call comes on the day Hillsborough Family Support Group chairwoman Margaret Aspinall will speak to MPs about her personal experience of the police and the criminal justice system over the last 27 years.
A Home Office spokesman said: "As the Home Secretary told the House of Commons, lessons must be learnt from the ordeals gone through by families. That is why she has asked Bishop James Jones to write a report to ensure the perspectives of families are not lost."
Dywedodd Adam Price fod y "llanast" o gwmpas cytundeb newydd gwasanaeth reilffordd Cymru, yn ogystal â Chylchffordd Cymru, yn dangos nad oedd Mr Skates yn gallu ymdopi â'i "frîff eang".
Ychwanegodd Mr Price fod angen creu swydd ysgrifennydd cabinet newydd ar gyfer trafnidiaeth.
Ond mae llefarydd ar ran y gweinidog wedi cyhuddo Plaid Cymru o chwarae "gemau gwleidyddol" gyda sefyllfa'r rheilffordd er mwyn eu "dibenion cul eu hunain".
Mae ffrae wedi codi rhwng llywodraethau Bae Caerdydd a San Steffan dros ddyfodol y rhwydwaith drenau yng Nghymru, gyda gweinidogion y DU yn bygwth oedi i'r broses geisiadau ar gyfer masnachfraint Cymru a'r Gororau.
Ym mis Mehefin fe wnaeth Llywodraeth Cymru hefyd benderfynu peidio â chynnig gwarant o £210m ar gyfer trac rasio arfaethedig yng Nglyn Ebwy, chwe blynedd wedi i'r cynlluniau gael eu cyhoeddi gyntaf.
Dywedodd Mr Price, llefarydd Plaid Cymru ar yr economi: "O Gylchffordd Cymru i beth sy'n edrych fel tro trwstan biliwn o bunnoedd wrth gaffael masnachfraint reilffordd nesaf Cymru, mae'n amlwg nad yw adran Ken Skates yn gallu ymdopi a'u brîff eang mwyach."
Ychwanegodd y dylai'r adran orfod hepgor eu cyfrifoldeb dros drafnidiaeth "er lles cyllid Cymru a'r gwasanaethau trên mae pobl yn dibynnu arnynt bob dydd".
Does gan y prif weinidog, Carwyn Jones "ddim dewis", medd Mr Price, ond "creu ysgrifennydd trafnidiaeth newydd ar lefel cabinet er mwyn glanhau'r llanast y mae wedi'i greu".
Ond mae llefarydd ar ran Mr Skates wedi beirniadu ymateb Plaid Cymru i'r ffrae reilffyrdd.
"Mae'n siomedig fod Plaid Cymru'n hapus i ddefnyddio sefyllfa bwysig fel hon i chwarae gemau gwleidyddol a manteisio ar sefyllfa er mwyn eu dibenion cul eu hunain," meddai.
"Fe fyddwn ni'n canolbwyntio'n hymdrechion ar sefyll cornel Cymru a brwydro dros y buddsoddiad mae ein teithwyr yn ei haeddu."
Newhaven Coastguard said the cliff on Seaford Head's coastline could give way at any time and thousands of tonnes of chalk could fall.
It said rain and frost were to blame and geology experts have said the area is "extremely dangerous".
The council said the area had now been roped off with warning signs put up.
People are urged to "keep well away" from the damaged cliff edge and base.
Coastguard Barry Johnson said: "This particular big crack that we've been made aware of today is very close to the footpath and it may not be evident from the footpath that there's a danger a few metres away.
"We'd always urge people to keep a good 5m (16ft) away from the cliff edge at any time of year."
Adding that the cliff base was also a danger, he said: "Potentially thousands of tonnes of chalk are going to fall.
"So if you're on the beach below, obviously that could fall and could go out a good 50m (164ft) from the edge of the cliff, so you'd be crushed."
Mr Johnson said the council may put up extra warning signs, although cliff edge signs were already in place.
Geologist Professor Rory Mortimore said cracks could also stretch back 10m (33ft) to 15m (49ft) into the cliff and were a hazard to walkers.
He said the cliffs were "extremely dangerous" to anyone walking near the edge or underneath.
"It could give way at literally any moment, so people need to keep well away from it, certainly don't go walking across that crack," he added.
James Corrigan, Seaford Town Council clerk, said a 5m (16ft) area - not at the top of Seaford Head but next to the golf course - was in imminent danger of collapse.
He said the area had been roped off with signs put up to warn people away.
"We are letting nature take its course," he said. "There is nothing anyone can do. It will collapse."
Mr Corrigan said there had already been a cliff collapse in the same area recently and this was not the first section to go.
The boy had been at Sutton Lakes at Sutton at Hone, near Dartford, and was reported missing at 13:45 GMT on Friday, Kent Police said.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service are at one of the lakes, which is owned by the Dartford and District Angling and Preservation Society.
The lakes remain closed to the public while the search continues.
But Russia is keeping seasonal limits on Turkish tomatoes, to help its own producers of sauces and juices.
Before the ban, Turkey exported food to Russia worth more than €1bn (£873m; $1.1bn) annually.
Russia is also lifting a ban on Turkish workers in the construction sector, in tourism and in hotel businesses.
The food ban affected many items, including fresh Turkish cucumbers, apples, pears, grapes, strawberries and chicken and turkey offal.
Russia continues to ban imports of most Western food and drink, in retaliation for wide-ranging Western sanctions in place since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict led to a tightening of Western sanctions, which also target close aides of President Vladimir Putin.
Russia's military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad angered Turkey, which backs Sunni Arab rebels fighting to oust him.
In November 2015 a Turkish F-16 jet shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber on the Turkey-Syria border. There was a dispute over exactly what happened, and it triggered a freeze in Russian-Turkish relations.
The thaw however began after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed regret over the incident last year. President Putin's first move was to lift a Russian boycott of Turkish holiday resorts.
The smaller panda cub was incubated by zookeepers because its mother Mei Xiang had trouble nursing both cubs.
Staff swapped the small cub in for feeding with her mother Tuesday night and saw the cub was struggling this morning.
"When we realised the cub wasn't going to make it, it was devastating," zoo staff said.
The zoo said it was "prepared" to rear twin cubs and did everything it could to keep both of them alive.
Antibiotics and other liquids could not save the cub, who was having respiratory issues.
One zoo official said there had been some "misunderstanding" that Mei Xiang preferred one cub over another.
"We were optimistic, we think Mei Xiang was doing everything right, but we don't know," said Dr Donald Neiffer, chief veterinarian at the National Zoo. "She was trying to balance and juggle two kids at the same time. There were days when she was a little less interested in taking a baby, but that occurred for both babies."
No official cause of death has been named, but the zoo is running tests to figure it out.
The small cub weighed 86 grams when it was born, while the larger cub weighed 138 grams. The 17-year-old Mei Xiang weighs 238 lbs (108kg).
Mei Xiang's first cub, Tai Shan, was born in 2005 and returned to China in 2010. Her second cub, Bao Bao, just celebrated her second birthday.
Giant pandas are one of the most endangered species in the world and are notoriously hard to breed in captivity.
The National Zoo is one of only four zoos in the US to have pandas, which are on loan from China.
The 36-year-old Swiss won 6-4 6-4 in 68 minutes to set up a meeting with unseeded Dutchman Robin Haase.
Federer is aiming for the third Rogers Cup win of his career and sixth title of a remarkable 2017 season.
Canada's Denis Shapovalov plays Alexander Zverev of Germany in the other semi-final.
Federer secured the decisive first break at 4-4 in the opening set, then got the better of three consecutive breaks early in the second.
The 19-time Grand Slam champion has now won all 16 sets in his seven matches against Bautista Agut.
"I think it pays off playing aggressive here in Montreal," said Federer.
"Plus I feel comfortable at the net so why not spend some time up there instead of slugging it out from the baseline?"
With world number two Rafael Nadal eliminated on Thursday by Shapovalov and world number one Andy Murray sidelined by a hip injury, Federer has an opportunity to regain his world number one ranking.
He would need to win in Montreal and have an equal or better finish than Nadal in Cincinnati next week to become the world number one on 21 August.
"Now that Rafa is out I know I can make big strides, especially if I was to go further than the semis here. But it's all connected to great play," said Federer.
Haase, ranked 52nd in the world, fought back to beat Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 4-6 6-3 6-3.
Fourth seeded Alexander Zverev defeated South Africa's Kevin Anderson 7-5 6-4 to set up a match of rising stars with Shapovalov.
Zverev, 20, is the youngest player ranked in the top 20 in the world and Shapovalov, 18, is the youngest to reach a Masters 1000 semi-final.
The Canadian, who needed a wild card to gain entry into the tournament, beat Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 2-6 6-3 6-4.
"I've been against the wall a couple times this week. I'm very happy I've come out several times just playing really good tennis in those situations," Shapovalov said. "I think it really shows how I've improved mentally along with just finding my game at the right moments."
Shapovalov beat 10-time French Open champion Nadal to reach the quarter-finals and upset 2009 US Open winner Juan Martin del Potro in the second round.
The city's New Year's Eve Winter Carnival featured street performers, bands and spectacular puppets.
The parade made its way through the city centre, before a firework display outside Newcastle Civic Centre.
Armed police were on duty, which the Northumbria force said reflected higher security concerns.
The event was organised by the city council, NewcastleGateshead Initiative and arts group Walk the Plank.
Carol Bell, culture and major events director at NewcastleGateshead Initiative, said: "Our New Year's Eve celebrations are some of the biggest in the country and it wouldn't be possible without all the amazing community groups and local performers that take part in the carnival parade every year."
Kim McGuinness, cabinet member for culture and communities at Newcastle City Council, added: "There are few better ways to welcome the New Year than to celebrate in the heart of the city."
There were no reported incidents or arrests.
Detectives were called to Llwyndu Road at about 10:45 BST where the woman, named locally as Emma Louise Williams, was found.
The street and a lane have been cordoned off with a heavy police presence in the area and forensic teams have been at the scene.
North Wales Police said no arrests had been made.
Anyone with information is asked to call 101.
Let's not forget that these were top diplomats talking about the gravest humanitarian emergency of our time and the most dangerous crisis in the world's most unstable region.
The UN's founders wanted the horse-shoe desks in the chamber of the Security Council to be the heart of global diplomacy.
Instead, in a blizzard of bitter criticism and recrimination, the assembled representatives of the world's most powerful countries demonstrated why the international response to a crisis like the one in Syria will always be paralysed when the permanent members of the Security Council are in deadlock.
US Ambassador Samantha Power, who made her name with a memorable book about genocide, compared what was happening in Aleppo to other scenes of slaughter "that define modern evil, that stain our conscience decades later. Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica and, now, Aleppo".
No journalist or diplomat has been able so far to investigate what is happening in Aleppo. But the reports coming from the city, if true, are horrifying.
Ambassador Power asked Syria and its allies Russia and Iran a series of questions: "Are you truly incapable of shame? Is there literally nothing that can shame you? Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under your skin, that just creeps you out a little bit? Is there nothing you will not lie about or justify?"
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin was scornful, accusing Ms Power of speaking "as if she was Mother Theresa".
He told her to remember the record of the United States, suggesting that she had no right to the moral high ground. Ambassador Churkin said he had no information about reports of mass arrests and unlawful killing in Aleppo.
The collapse of rebel resistance in Aleppo does not mean the end of the war in Syria. The war will change shape, and will continue.
Anti-Assad rebels, of varying ideological hues, still control substantial territory in Syria. The jihadists of the so-called Islamic State hold a big chunk of the country, and took advantage of the distraction of Aleppo to recapture parts of Palmyra, the ancient city in the desert from which they were ejected earlier in the year.
But as important is the fact that around a dozen foreign countries have intervened in the war. Bigger powers have broader agendas than the Assad regime or the militias that exist only to fight it. If they consider their interests are served by continuing the fight, in whatever form, then they will.
But even though the war has not ended, the Assad regime and its allies have scored their biggest victory. It is a significant moment, which has prompted more agonising about the mistakes that have been made.
In the House of Commons in London came the remarkable sight of the former Chancellor, George Osborne, disavowing the Syria policy of the government of David Cameron, in which he was a powerful number two to the prime minister.
"The Syrian civil war has been raging since 2011 and therefore it is something that we should have foreseen and done something about," Mr Osborne said.
"I think we are deceiving ourselves in this parliament if we believe that we have no responsibility for what has happened in Syria."
"The tragedy in Aleppo did not come out of a vacuum - it was created by a vacuum. A vacuum of Western leadership, of American leadership, of British leadership."
What could loosely be called the Western response to Syria's war has been a failure. Russia and Iran, along with the Lebanese fighters from Hezbollah, had a much clearer idea of what they wanted, which is why their side has won in Aleppo.
Russia and Iran will not want to lose their much enhanced position in Syria. Many rebel fighters might be yearning to put down their guns. But in a destroyed country that could be dominated by foreign intervention, warlords and militias for years, it might be easier to fight on than stop.
And there are those who do not want to stop. Here's a sample comment from the top JFS [Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as the al-Nusra Front]-aligned cleric, Abu Yaqzan Al-Masri, in Aleppo: ""We won't compromise over our religion. We'll leave Aleppo on our own terms."
An oil pipeline, railway and motorway will also be built linking Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Newly independent South Sudan plans to use Lamu as its main oil export outlet.
A BBC reporter says security concerns for the project may explain the presence of Ethiopian and Kenyan troops in Somalia aiming to pacify the region.
Kenya's leader Mwai Kibaki launched the project along with his South Sudanese and Ethiopian counterparts, Salva Kiir and Meles Zenawi respectively.
"I have no doubt that this day will go down in history as one of the defining moments - when we made a major stride to connect our people to the many socio-economic opportunities that lie ahead," AFP news agency quotes Mr Kibaki as saying at the inauguration ceremony.
Known as Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (Lapsset), it is expected to be completed within four years with initial costs coming from the three governments and plans to attract international investment.
Steven Ikuwa, the administrator in charge of Lapsset, told the BBC the scale of the plans was huge.
"I am proud to say this is one of the biggest projects that we are carrying out in Africa."
The BBC's Noel Mwakugu in Lamu says there are worries about the impact of the project on Lamu district, which is one of East Africa's most beautiful and relatively unspoiled environments along the Indian Ocean and includes a cultural heritage site on Lamu Island.
"Lamu is a living heritage. Already Unesco has declared Lamu a World Heritage Site - as an endangered site," Mualimu Badi from the Save Lamu group told the BBC.
"If 500,000 people come to work as workers, we stand to lose that status."
Mr Badi also said local residents fear they would be made homeless by the project as most people in the area are unable to prove their right to live in their homes.
In response to these complaints, Mr Kibaki has announced that residents will be issued with land title deeds and his administration will provide training for 1,000 young people to prepare for future opportunities presented by the port.
Our correspondent says Lamu's 32-berth port will be five times larger than Kenya's only other Indian Ocean port, Mombasa - which has been struggling to serve the needs of landlocked countries to the south and west of Kenya.
Lamu will allow Kenya to earn more revenue from its northern landlocked neighbours, he says.
Ethiopia will have an alternative sea port to Djibouti and another export route if oil is discovered in its Ogaden region, which borders Somalia and where oil exploration is currently under way.
For South Sudan, it offers a solution to its dependence on Sudan from which it split last July - six years after the end of a bitter civil war.
Since the secession, the two countries have been embroiled in a dispute over oil, with South Sudan turning off the tap on its oil exports though Sudan.
Our reporter says the project will also open up development to northern parts of Kenya, which has been neglected since independence from the UK in 1963.
The north-east of Kenya also hosts the world's largest refugee camp, Dadaab, home to more than 450,000 Somalis who have fled conflict and famine during the past 21 years.
Kenya sent in troops over its long border with Somalia in pursuit of al-Shabab militants in October, after several people, including foreign tourists, were kidnapped, including some from near Lamu.
The authorities in Kenya blame the Islamist al-Shabab group, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, for much of the instability affecting the sub-region.
Analysts say Kenya and Ethiopia, whose troops now occupy substantial parts of the country, hope that with progress on the military front, Somalia's bickering politicians can come up with a new constitution that will allow elections to be held and relative peace to return to the lawless country.
The 21-year-old has scored 99 goals in two season with the Combined Counties Football League side, who play in the ninth tier.
Nadesan had trials at Millwall and Norwich this season and worked at McDonald's for his main income aside from playing part-time football.
"I'm buzzing. After all the speculation I'm so happy I've finally signed the contract," he told the club website.
"Jamie Vardy is an inspiration with what he's done, people are trying to compare me to him but I don't want to put that pressure on myself - I'd rather be the first Ashley Nadesan."
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He is Alan Drennan, 21, a mechanic, from Newtownabbey, County Antrim.
Mr Drennan had left Northern Ireland on Saturday with a group of friends for a holiday on the island. He was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday.
Spanish police said there were no signs of violence and the death seemed to be of natural causes. But they are waiting for an autopsy to be carried out.
It is not clear at this stage when that will take place.
Mr Drennan's father, also Alan, told Cool FM: "This is breaking our hearts, it really is. We cannot understand why.
"Alan was called after me and he was just mini me. He was Alan junior. He was me all over and, boy, will I miss him."
A spokesperson for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Ibiza on 19 July.
"We have been liaising with the Spanish authorities and are providing support to the family at this difficult time."
Sickness absence totalled 137 million working days last year, the equivalent of 4.3 days per worker, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
When records began in 1993, the equivalent of 7.2 days were lost.
Minor illnesses such as coughs and colds accounted for a quarter of days lost last year, the ONS said.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "It is a myth that UK workers are always throwing sickies.
"We are really a nation of mucus troopers, with people more likely to go to work when ill than stay at home when well.
"Sickness absence rates have fallen steadily over the past decade, and let us not forget that working people put in billions of pounds worth of unpaid overtime each year."
Back and neck pain were high on the list of causes of sickness absence, as were mental health issues including stress, depression and anxiety.
Sickness absence rates were highest in Wales and Scotland, at 2.6% and 2.5% respectively, and lowest in London, at 1.4%.
Other findings for last year included:
ONS statistician Brendan Freeman said: "Since 2003, there has been a fairly steady decline in the number of working days lost to sickness, especially during the economic downturn.
"In recent years, there has been a small rise in the number of days lost, but due to an increasing number of people entering the workforce, the rate per worker and overall sickness absence rate have stayed largely flat."
Sir Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at the Manchester Business School at Manchester University, said that people were frightened of taking time off for sickness, and that presenteeism was a big threat to UK workplace productivity.
My son Dominic decided to have a complete meltdown tantrum in the middle of Tesco.
It's something I'm used to, but being tired and busy I got a bit flustered whilst letting him get on with it.
I was standing there with my shopping bags and I was bright red in the face when a lady came over and gave me a Mars bar.
She said: "I think you'll need this when he's finished". She was spot on and it was much appreciated.
About 35 years ago, after a seating mix-up, John Cleese and his daughter and her friends ended up sitting behind us at a show-jumping event.
Seeing that my little sister not only recognised him, but was as clearly bored with the horsey stuff as he was, he spent the next couple of hours pulling faces and generally doing whatever he could to make her giggle.
Whether it was a performer's inner spotlight kicking in, or just empathy with my sister, he made it a brilliant evening and stopped the inevitable shuffling and bored whining in its tracks.
I was in a shop when a lady looked at my 10-week-old baby daughter Connie and said how gorgeous she is.
I saw my four-year-old son's face and the lady immediately said how gorgeous he is too. We're having a few jealousy issues at the moment, which isn't helped when people just concentrate on the baby, making Charlie feel bad.
That lady made his day - she's magic.
I was struggling coming out of the post office with a pram and a man came up and helped me - it turned out to be comedian Lee Mack.
After helping me, he walked off - so he wasn't even coming into the shop anyway. He's come on purpose just to be helpful.
My three-year-old boy ran off to the other side of the store when I was at the self-checkout at Sainsbury's.
I had no choice but to leave everything and run after him. He's very fast and I'm 36 weeks pregnant - not a good combination.
I lost it a little bit after he refused to stand up properly so almost had to drag him kicking back to the till. I was in tears at this point and a bit fed up. The lady manning the checkout took over, asking him questions and distracting him while I paid and got myself together.
She then made sure I was OK to drive and helped me out the store with my son and bags.
Thanks lady at checkout, it really helped.
On a flight to Tenerife my three-year-old was sitting a next to a lady travelling on her own. He spent the whole time talking to her, asking hundreds of questions and leaning over her to look out of the window.
When I tried to discourage him from bothering her she said she didn't mind and that she'd never had kids and having someone to talk to would make the journey more enjoyable for her. She certainly made the flight easier and allowed me and my husband to deal with our baby who wasn't so happy on the flight.
On the return flight a young girl spent the entire four hours pulling faces at my baby to keep her amused. She was my saviour.
McDowell has competed at every Open since 2004 but will not play at Royal Birkdale after failing to land one of the final three places on offer for a top-10 finish at Dundonald Links.
The Portrush man ended in a tie for 19th position on five under.
Harrington fired a superb final-round 66 to lie joint fourth on eight under.
The three-time major champion was left to count the cost of a disastrous 79 on Saturday as he recovered to post a bogey-free round, which included six birdies, on Sunday.
McDowell saw his chances of playing at the Open disintegrate as he failed to take advantage of the favourable conditions, which proved conducive to low scoring for many in the field on the final day.
Having made the cut by a stroke, the Northern Irishman went into day four in a share of eighth place and picked up two shots, including a birdie at the 18th, as well as recording two bogeys, on Sunday.
Paul Dunne registered two birdies and four bogeys in a closing 74 to finish equal 26th on four under so he too misses out on next week's third major of the season.
Spaniard Rafa Cabrera-Bello beat England's Callum Shinkwin at the first play-off hole to seal a third European Tour success after both ended 13 under at the top of the leaderboard.
Shinkwin, Frenchman Matthieu Pavon, who was third, and Australian Andrew Dodt clinched the three Open places for next week.
Regulator Ofgem found the company had blocked 40,000 customers from moving to other suppliers.
Refunds totalling £110,000 will be paid to customers who lost out financially as a result.
Utilita has apologised and will pay the rest of the penalty to debt charity StepChange,
Ofgem described the actions of Utilita as "unacceptable" and said that the ability for customers to switch was fundamental to a well-functioning energy market.
The regulator found customers were blocked in various ways between June 2010 and May 2015, such as automatically blocking those on fixed-term contracts.
The company also failed to write to customers to explain why their switch had been blocked and what action they could take to resolve any issues.
A spokeswoman for Utilita said: "We would like to apologise unreservedly to those customers whom we wrongly prevented from switching supplier."
She said that only 10% of customers affected were left out of pocket.
"We will be contacting those customers as quickly as we can to rectify this," she said.
"Our customers are vitally important to us and we have taken quick and decisive action to update and improve our switching procedures. None of the issues investigated remain a problem and all our transfer processes are now compliant."
Csatary died in hospital in Hungary after suffering from a number of medical problems, said Gabor Horvath.
He at one time topped the list of most wanted Nazi war crimes suspects and is alleged to have helped deport 15,700 Jews to death camps in World War II.
He faced charges relating to his wartime activities in both Hungary and in neighbouring Slovakia.
Mr Horvath said his client died on Saturday morning. "He had been treated for medical issues for some time but contracted pneumonia, from which he died."
Csatary had denied the allegations against him, saying he was merely an intermediary between Hungarian and German officials and was not involved in war crimes.
He was charged in June by Hungarian prosecutors in relation to what they said had been his role as chief of an internment camp for Jews in Kosice, a town then part of Hungary but now in Slovakia.
Kosice, known at the time as Kassa, was the first camp to be established after Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944.
Simon Wiesenthal Center: Most Wanted
Prosecutors said in a statement that Csatary, a Hungarian police officer at the time, had "deliberately provided help to the unlawful executions and torture committed against Jews deported to concentration camps... from Kosice".
He was accused of regularly beating prisoners with his bare hands and a dog whip.
Csatary, whose full name is Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary, was sentenced to death in his absence in Czechoslovakia in 1948 for war crimes.
Slovakia was seeking his extradition from Hungary so it could formally sentence him although, with the abolition of the death penalty, it intended to imprison him.
The legal proceedings in Hungary were halted last month on the grounds of double jeopardy.
Csatary was named in 2012 by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center as its most wanted suspect. It claimed he oversaw the deportations of Jews from Kosice to the Auschwitz death camp.
He was tracked down in Budapest in July 2012 by reporters from the UK's Sun newspaper, with help from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and was put under house arrest.
He had fled to Canada after the war, where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal and Toronto, and disappeared in 1997 after being stripped of his Canadian citizenship.
The US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said it was "deeply disappointed" by the news of his death.
"It is a shame that Csatary, a convicted... and totally unrepentant Holocaust perpetrator who was finally indicted in his homeland for his crimes, ultimately eluded justice and punishment at the very last minute,'' Efraim Zuroff, the centre's director, said in a statement.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center last month launched its Operation Last Chance II project, offering rewards for information that could help it track down the last surviving Nazi war criminals and bring them to justice.
Among its most wanted is Alois Brunner, a key operative of Adolf Eichmann, who was last seen in Syria in 2001, and Aribert Heim, a doctor at three concentration camps, who disappeared in 1962 and was last seen in Egypt in 1992.
Note: Locations of areas hit are based on BBC News reports to 20 Nov
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate ceasefire.
Israel's offensive began with the killing of Ahmed Jabari, the leader of Hamas's military wing, on 14 November. His assassination followed months of cross-border violence and mounting tensions.
Negotiations to find a peaceful settlement in the region broke down in 2010. Indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ended in January without progress. There have been no direct talks between Israel and Hamas.
Israel is mobilising up to 75,000 army reservists - but Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has said an Israeli ground invasion would have "serious repercussions".
As of midday on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that militants in Gaza had fired more than 1,400 rockets towards Israel. More than 307 have been intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system (see below).
Israel had launched over 1,500 strikes on the Gaza strip, the IDF added.
Rockets from Gaza have landed as far north in Israel as Tel Aviv, the first time in decades that the city - a major population centre - has come under rocket fire. Rockets have also been fired towards Jerusalem.
It is the first time militants in Gaza have deployed the medium-range Iranian-built Fajr-5 missiles.
Israel has a new missile defence system, called the Iron Dome. Batteries have been deployed in five locations and according to the Israeli army has been very successful at intercepting rockets.
The system uses radar to track incoming rockets and then fires two interceptor missiles to knock them out.
1. Enemy fires rocket or artillery shell
2. Projectile tracked by radar. Data relayed to management and control unit
3. Data analysed and target co-ordinates sent to the missile firing unit
4. Missile is fired at enemy projectile
Each interceptor missile costs about $60,000.
The shield's makers say the radar technology can differentiate between missiles likely to hit built-up areas and those likely to miss their target. Only those heading for cities are targeted and shot down.
When bullying claims at South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) emerged in February the trust commissioned an independent review.
About half the workforce surveyed experienced bullying in the past year.
The trust said the report revealed "unacceptable" behaviour.
In his report, Prof Duncan Lewis from the University of Plymouth said: "Common decency is a right, not a privilege, and harassment or bullying, including sexual harassment must end now."
He pinpointed Coxheath in Kent and Tangmere in West Sussex as areas "plagued by poor practices/behaviours".
In parts of Kent there are "serious questions of sexual harassment and sexual grooming", with newly qualified women often targeted.
42%
of staff reported exposure to bullying
50% said they had been treated in 'disrespectful or rude way'
30% reported feeling 'threatened and intimidated'
2,000 employees responded to survey
The survey revealed good "peer support" between colleagues, with the reasons for bullying firmly located in manager behaviours and often "militaristic" leadership.
Prof Lewis added: "Whilst it is possible sexual harassment might not have been known to the executive because employees are fearful of speaking out against a macho, boys club culture in Kent and in other parts of Secamb, ignorance is no defence."
Key issues raised in focus groups:
Employees also frequently spoke of a fear of reporting bullying.
Those who voiced concerns had "suffered" for it, with more monitoring, work, and pressure because "managers default to supporting each other".
The frequently changing leadership at Secamb was also said to be contributing factor.
Chief executive Daren Mochrie, who has been in the post since April 2017, said: "I am truly disappointed and upset that so many of our staff have experienced bullying and disrespectful behaviour in the workplace.
"Secamb is full of extremely dedicated and professional people who are concerned about caring for their patients as well as each other.
"However, I was also aware that the trust is facing a number of challenges and areas where vital improvements need to be made.
"The behaviours it describes are completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated, in any sense and at any level, moving forward."
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More than 60 firefighters tackled the blaze on a hill behind Barley Lane on Friday night, with flames coming within yards of some homes.
The fire, near St Mary's High School, was reported at about 20:50 BST and was not extinguished until 02:00 BST.
It was just one of 161 incidents crews dealt with since 18:00 BST on Friday.
Local residents watched, some in tears, as the flames moved perilously close to their houses.
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) Group Commander Brian Stanfield said eight fire appliances were used to battle the blaze, which was about a mile from the city centre.
Faye Broadway, who lives a few streets away, told BBC News NI that residents were upset and some had fled their homes in their nightwear.
She said she witnessed two elderly women "in tears" as they looked for missing pets.
Ms Broadway's partner, David Cadden, said they were looking out of their bedroom window when they saw thick, black smoke coming over their house and then flames reaching above tree-level.
"We decided to just take a walk up to make sure that there was no-one in danger, because it looked quite serious," he said.
"As I was going up, there were people running out of their house, crying... it's been quite dramatic really."
Mr Cadden said: "I walked up to the back of their houses and the fire was literally a stone's thrown away, with ash falling down and embers hitting the roof.
"They were all running out of the house in their pyjamas, with dogs in their hands, and running across the street."
He described how the ash was also falling on crowds as they gathered to watch and firefighters moved members of the public back for their own safety.
Some of the crews deployed to the scene were sent from as far away as Belfast, on a very busy night for the service.
Earlier on Friday, firefighters revealed that they had dealt with 221 gorse fires over the last five days, 92% of which were started deliberately.
They said the recent spell of dry, sunny weather, had "provided a tinderbox landscape" for gorse fires.
Mane tapped in the opener from close range in the ninth minute from Lazio forward Keita Balde Diao's low cross.
Henri Saivet, on loan at St Etienne from Newcastle, then struck home a brilliant 20 yard free-kick four minutes later.
Mane also had a lob cleared off the line by Costa Nhamoinesu.
Stoke's Mame Biram Diouf should have increased Senegal's advantage, but blazed his left-foot shot over the crossbar.
Khama Billiat wasted a good chance for Zimbabwe just before half-time when he fired tamely at Abdoulaye Diallo. The keeper also produced a good block to keep out Nyasha Mushekwi's drive.
The Lions of Teranga have a maximum six points from two games in Group B. Tunisia are second with three points and both Algeria and Zimbabwe have a point each.
Match ends, Senegal 2, Zimbabwe 0.
Second Half ends, Senegal 2, Zimbabwe 0.
Foul by Ismaila Sarr (Senegal).
Onismor Bhasera (Zimbabwe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Keita (Senegal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Willard Katsande (Zimbabwe).
Foul by Cheikh M'Bengue (Senegal).
Evans Rusike (Zimbabwe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Senegal. Ismaila Sarr replaces Sadio Mané.
Cuthbert Malajila (Zimbabwe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kalidou Koulibaly (Senegal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cuthbert Malajila (Zimbabwe).
Kalidou Koulibaly (Senegal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cuthbert Malajila (Zimbabwe).
Attempt missed. Khama Billiat (Zimbabwe) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Cuthbert Malajila with a headed pass.
Hand ball by Marvelous Nakamba (Zimbabwe).
Attempt missed. Willard Katsande (Zimbabwe) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Cuthbert Malajila.
Substitution, Senegal. Cheikh Ndoye replaces Cheikhou Kouyaté.
Foul by Keita (Senegal).
Tatenda Mukuruva (Zimbabwe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Keita (Senegal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Moussa Sow (Senegal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Keita with a cross.
Substitution, Zimbabwe. Cuthbert Malajila replaces Nyasha Mushekwi.
Corner, Senegal. Conceded by Tatenda Mukuruva.
Attempt saved. Keita (Senegal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Henri Saivet.
Attempt saved. Moussa Sow (Senegal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Keita.
Attempt missed. Henri Saivet (Senegal) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Moussa Sow.
Attempt missed. Moussa Sow (Senegal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Idrissa Gueye (Senegal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Willard Katsande (Zimbabwe).
Hand ball by Henri Saivet (Senegal).
Attempt blocked. Henri Saivet (Senegal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Idrissa Gueye.
Kara (Senegal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nyasha Mushekwi (Zimbabwe).
Attempt missed. Khama Billiat (Zimbabwe) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Willard Katsande.
Attempt saved. Nyasha Mushekwi (Zimbabwe) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Khama Billiat.
Attempt saved. Keita (Senegal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Khama Billiat (Zimbabwe) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Evans Rusike with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Tendai Ndoro (Zimbabwe) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.
Offside, Senegal. Sadio Mané tries a through ball, but Cheikh M'Bengue is caught offside.
A government committee called for restrictions citing a report from psychologists, who said it encouraged violence and tribal conflict.
The app could also negatively affect family life if teenagers got addicted to the game, warned the committee that polices cyberspace.
Statistics gathered earlier this year suggested that about 64% of mobile gamers in Iran played the game.
The decision to limit access to Clash of Clans across Iran was taken on 27 December.
Fan sites in Iran reported that many players began having problems accessing the title - which requires an online connection - afterwards. Some Iran-based players said local reports had suggested that an age limit would be imposed, but for now all gamers were affected.
They did, however, suggest there were ways to get round the restrictions.
In a statement, Iran's deputy attorney general Dr Abdolsamad Khoramabadi said the "vast majority" of the committee backed the call to limit who could play the app.
Iran has a history of taking action against popular video games. In August, it cut off the Pokemon Go game because of fears about the game's location-based system.
Created by Finnish firm Supercell, Clash of Clans has become a massive hit all over the world. It involves players creating villages and then using troops to protect them or to attack other players' settlements.
Earlier this year, Supercell announced that 100 million people were playing its games every day.
In July, the Chinese firm Tencent bought 84.3% of Supercell in a deal that valued the company at $10.2bn (£8.33bn).
Zofia Noceti-Klepacka, who took part in the Women's RS-X race, says the money will be used to pay for the treatment of five-year-old Zuzanna Bobinska, who has cystic fibrosis.
Before the games, Ms Noceti-Klepacka vowed to win a medal for "Zuzia".
She also promised the girl a bouncy castle and holidays.
"I promise you I'll get this medal for you. And when we have it, we'll sell it and buy a large bouncy castle. With a slide," she wrote on a social networking site in January, according to Polish media.
"We'll spend every autumn in warm countries. So you'll no longer be sick."
"Zuzia is my most faithful fan, and probably the youngest. She is also fighting, but with a disease. Zuzia, I'll blow away these games for you!"
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited condition which affects the functioning of organs including the lungs. The average life expectancy of someone with CF is between thirty and forty years.
Writing on Facebook on Tuesday, Ms Noceti-Klepacka said the auction of her medal would be held "soon", and urged others to donate money for Zuzia in the meantime.
She says that at one point during the race, she had a moment of doubt when she lost points for taking a wrong turn.
"Zuzia called me and said I had to fight on - for honour!" she told Polish broadcaster TVN24.
"But look, Zuzia, I do have a medal and will sell it, and the money will be for you!"
There was an unusual arrival to an away day, a return to remember for one player and one to forget for another, as well as goals galore for one League Two team.
BBC Sport takes a look at the stories you might have missed from Saturday's EFL action.
One Walsall fan has found himself with an invitation to meet the team and have his travel to Portsmouth reimbursed after taking to social media to say he got his accommodation plans a little wrong.
In an effort to find a "cheap" hotel room for a weekend away to watch the Saddlers take on Portsmouth, fan Davey Drew apparently booked into digs 11 miles away.
That 11 miles, however, unwittingly turned out to be across the Solent on the Isle of Wight... an entire ferry trip away from his intended destination.
Inconvenient, sure. But Walsall boss Jon Whitney and his players saw the funnier side and were quick to offer to help cover costs and arrange to meet the fan who needlessly took to the high seas to follow them.
"[Midfielder] Joe Edwards offered to pay his ferry fare. I'll chip in as well," Whitney told BBC WM 95.6.
"It's a funny one but it's great. It's a story for him to tell people so I think it will be quite popular on social media.
"We might get to meet him and bring him out and let him see the fans at one home game. We'll pay his fare for him and help him out."
While all the extra travel did not ultimately end with victory celebrations, as Portsmouth and Walsall played out a 1-1 draw, there are worse stops to make on away days.
Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce admitted earlier this week that they had experienced an "awful" start to the season after they took just one point from their first three games.
"I am the right man for the job, my record in the Championship tells me that," the Villa manager said after their 2-1 midweek defeat by Reading.
Fortunately for Villa, their opponents Norwich were without a win at Villa Park since November 1992, in what was the first season of the Premier League, so the omens were on their side.
Bruce's side enjoyed a rousing performance in front of a crowd of 29,157 as Conor Hourihane scored a hat-trick on the way to Villa winning 4-2.
In his first game for over a year, Chesterfield goalkeeper Tommy Lee had a day to remember as he kept a clean sheet in their win against Port Vale, which lifted them off the bottom of the League Two table.
Lee, 31, missed all of last season with a shoulder injury picked up ahead of the 2016-17 campaign.
And it was a return to savour for the former Manchester United trainee, as he helped ensure the Spireites celebrated victory for the first time this season.
Chasing something out of the game, Vale added pressure right at the end and Lee was on hand to save Tom Pope's 82nd-minute effort off the line.
And the 2-0 win proved a special one for another reason, as the game against Vale was designated 'Ernie Moss Day' to honour the club legend and record goalscorer, who is suffering from a form of dementia.
After moving to Middlesbrough from Nottingham Forest earlier this summer for a club-record £15m, Britt Assombalonga made his return to the City Ground just four games in to the new season.
Assombalonga scored 14 goals last season, but he experienced an unhappy return to his former home as Middlesbrough were defeated 2-1.
The 24-year-old struck wide of the mark in two one-on-one opportunities for Boro at a ground where he scored four goals in his last two appearances. Goals which ultimately helped secure Forest's Championship status for another season.
In the end, Assombalonga was lucky to stay on the pitch after picking up a second-half yellow card for a bad challenge on Jordan Smith that drew the ire of the Forest crowd.
One thing has become abundantly clear in the early weeks of the EFL this season - you get your money's worth by watching Yeovil Town.
There have been 22 goals in their first three League Two games so far.
However, of those 22 goals 14 have been goals they have conceded... so, not great on that front.
After being on the receiving end of an 8-2 drubbing away at Luton on the opening day, they bounced back by beating Accrington.
At that stage, you could say their season was back on track, albeit after just two games.
But the Glovers managed to lose 4-3 against Forest Green on Saturday, despite twice leading by two goals.
In contrast, Northampton Town left it until their third game of the season to register their first league goal. Unfortunately it was a consolation as they were defeated 4-1 away at Charlton.
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Williams finished ninth in the 2013 Constructors' Championship - the lowest finish in their history - which led to reduced prize money and sponsorship.
The British team - third last year - made a £11.9m profit in 2013.
"While 2014 at first glance was disappointing, it really was what we anticipated. We're on track," said chief executive Mike O'Driscoll.
"What we are reporting today is essentially a hangover. We expect 2015 to be materially, significantly, better than 2014."
Williams, currently third after four races this year, had a turnover of £71.2m last year, compared to £106m in 2013.
The whole Williams group, which includes its technology and engineering services, reported a loss of £34.3m - after making profit of £11.9m during the previous year.
The latest figures also included bonus payments of £3,000 for each of the group's 660 employees as a result of the team's improved performance last season.
Williams, which made its constructors' debut in 1978, has won nine team titles and seven Drivers' Championships.
The last success in both championships came in the 1997 season when Canadian driver Jacques Villeneuve claimed individual success.
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The 128-year old company will outsource £3.6bn of equity investment to eight or more other investment firms.
Each will pick at least 20 stocks. This is to spread risk for investors, from 60 up to around 200 stocks.
Some job losses are possible among the 50-strong investment staff but most of the firm's employees in Dundee and Edinburgh will be unaffected.
The main intention of the move is to boost the Alliance Trust share performance.
It follows hostile demands from an activist investor, Elliot Capital, that the previous leadership team should leave.
The investment strategy developed by chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox and chairwoman Karin Forseke was dumped.
Forcing its own director nominees on to the board, Elliott demanded that Lord Robert Smith - who was installed as chairman to handle the shareholder challenge - find a new business model that delivered better results.
Alliance Trust Investment, the asset management team which employs about 200 people in London and Edinburgh, is being sold to Liontrust Asset Management.
That £30m sale could involve some duplication and loss of jobs.
The investment team will retain Alliance Trust's £3.6bn fund until March. It will then be transferred to the new management contractors.
Overseeing the arrangements for about eight different managers will be Willis Towers Watson Investment, which advises on other firms' investments worth $2.3 trillion.
Liontrust is understood to want to retain the Alliance Trust Investment specialist knowledge of environment-related equities.
It currently handles £2.3bn of assets for other companies, including Aviva, with a focus on investments which meet green criteria.
The remaining workforce in Dundee and Edinburgh are expected to remain in place, as most of them work for Alliance Trust Savings.
After a disappointing start, that retail finance division is expected to turn a profit this year.
The battle over control of Alliance Trust, which raged from late 2014 until October 2015, pitted the US-based Elliott partnership against a wide array of retail investors, many with long-standing family links to the Dundee company.
Although it is not necessary to put the change to a shareholder meeting, directors propose that happens by the end of January.
As an attempt to drive up the share valuation, the company is to resume its buy-back of shares. That was suspended while it reviewed strategy.
Speaking about the announcement, Lord Smith said: "The board has evaluated carefully a broad range of options, with an open mind and a clear line of sight on how best we could improve the trust's performance.
"We are proposing a new approach to the investment management of the equity portfolio. Our proposal is that we will move from a single manager to multiple equity managers. All managers will be rated best-in-class and each will create a focused portfolio of their vest investment selections."
The board has pushed up its performance target, from 1% more than comparable stocks, to 2% more.
Analysis by Douglas Fraser, Business/Economy Editor, Scotland
Beware of trying new, more ethical, greener approaches. In the financial world, if you don't get quick results, hard-nosed money will flush you out.
That's what happened to the team who wanted to develop Alliance Trust into a Tayside-based niche. People and institutions could take their investments there if they had strings attached of social, environmental and governance standards.
The niche is still there, and investors can still place their money with that team. But that expertise is being sold on. It no longer belongs on Tayside. Some investors thought they were losing money on "tree-hugging".
Alliance Trust, which began in 1888 as a vehicle for Dundee's wealthy Victorian merchants to invest in the colonies and the USA, reverts to a tighter focus on financial returns, delivered out-of-house.
The plea comes in response to a poll which found more than half of consumers do not use the most suitable settings on their equipment.
One expert said poorly set-up TVs made images look "more like a soap opera rather than a Hollywood movie".
Website AVForums has published a series of instructional videos to help people tune their sets.
Two leading British film directors, Michael J Bassett and Neil Marshall, have supported the campaign.
"As a film-maker it's very important to me that TVs are set up properly so viewers can watch my movies in the way they are intended to be seen," said Mr Marshall, who is best known for films such as The Descent and Dog Soldiers.
Several TV manufacturers have endorsed the campaign, including the likes of Panasonic, Sony, LG, Sharp, Loewe and Toshiba.
Retailers Argos and Richer Sounds have also backed the efforts.
"The default settings of most TVs are optimised for shop conditions and not for viewing content at home," explained Phil Hinton, editor of AVForums.
"These settings could compromise picture detail and colour - undermining the work of movie and programme directors."
In addition to the viewing benefits, imaging specialists THX said using the right settings could also save energy.
"The findings of a THX test indicates that setting up your TV with a picture mode such as Movie, Cinema or THX, uses less energy than your TV's Vivid or Dynamic mode."
The federal government also apologised "for any role Canadian officials may have played in relation to his ordeal abroad and any resulting harm."
Canadian-born Khadr, 30, was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan at the age of 15, and spent a decade in Guantanamo.
He was convicted in 2010 by a US military commission of killing US Army Sgt Christopher Speer.
"We hope that this expression, and the negotiated settlement reached with the Government, will assist him in his efforts to begin a new and hopeful chapter in his life with his fellow Canadians," said Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and the Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale in a statement.
The Liberal government refused to officially disclose the the amount of the legal settlement despite the figure being widely leaked to numerous media outlets.
Khadr was suing the government for $20m on claims Ottawa conspired with the US in breaching his constitutional rights.
Khadr was the youngest prisoner ever detained at the US military prison in Cuba. He became a cause celebre for opponents of the Guantanamo Bay naval base and his case received international attention.
He was convicted of five crimes, including throwing a grenade that killed Speer in 2002.
Khadr said his confessions to US officials were made under duress.
His detention dragged on during the mandates of three previous governments, both Liberal and Conservative.
Canada's Supreme Court twice found that Canada violated Khadr's constitutional rights, holding that Canadian officials had been complicit in Khadr's mistreatment and contributed to his ongoing detention.
In 2010, Canada's Supreme Court ruled that he was interrogated under "oppressive circumstances."
Mr Goodale said at a news conference on Friday that reaching a settlement "was the only sensible course".
On Friday, the Canadian Press wire service reported that the Liberal Trudeau government wanted to get ahead of an attempt by Speer's widow and another US soldier wounded in the 2002 firefight to prevent Khadr from receiving any funds.
In 2015, the pair won a $134m (£103m) settlement in a Utah federal court in a lawsuit filed against Khadr.
The Globe and Mail reports their lawyer filed a court application in an Ontario Superior Court in Toronto this summer in a bid to block any possible payment to Khadr.
Mr Goodale denied any claim the settlement was rushed to block legal attempts to halt the payout by the pair.
He said "they will no doubt seek the redress that they think is appropriate and due to them and the legal process will take its course".
Khadr was repatriated in 2012 after agreeing to a plea deal to leave Guantanamo and serve the majority of his eight-year sentence in Canada. He was released on bail in Canada in 2015.
His case has long divided public opinion in Canada.
His defenders describe him as a child soldier. Others argue he was a radicalised fighter at the time of his capture.
Khadr was taken to Afghanistan by his father, a member of the al-Qaeda terror network. He spent his childhood in Canada and Pakistan.
News that Khadr would be receiving compensation re-ignited the controversy.
A petition by low tax advocacy group The Canadian Taxpayers Federation collected over 50,000 signatures in two days opposing any compensation for Khadr.
In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation released on Friday, Khadr said he was now a different person from the teenager captured in Afghanistan.
He said he hoped the "talk about settlement or the apology does not cause people pain and if it does, you know, I'm really sorry for the pain".
Ralph Clarke, of Birmingham, faces 15 indecent assault charges, two of inciting a girl to commit an act of gross indecency, 10 of gross indecency and two of attempting a sexual offence.
The charges relate to three children and are said to date from 1974 to 1983.
He did not enter a plea at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Mr Clarke, of Holly Lane, Erdington, has been released on unconditional bail ahead of a plea hearing at Birmingham Crown Court set for 6 June.
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Tens of thousands of larvae have stripped a number of trees almost bare in the Belvoir Estate.
If you listen carefully you can hear them eating the foliage. And if you stand under the trees, the larvae rain down on your head.
They were spotted a week ago by Adib Ma'ani and his wife Bahia.
They spent several days trying to establish where the larvae had come from.
They contacted the BBC after failing to get answers from officials.
"It's a bit disconcerting," said Adib.
"We've posted some images and video on social media but our friends are enjoying this much more than we are."
It emerged that the larvae are from the ash sawfly.
Andrew Crory, a moth expert with the Ulster Wildlife Trust, visited the site on Wednesday to help with identification.
He said the recent warm weather may well have kick started the infestation.
"Everything in the insect world goes in cycles of boom and bust," he said.
"It's uncommon and it's always spooky when you see it."
Experts from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs are to be sent for a look.
But, local residents say the same thing happened last year and there were no detrimental effect on the trees.
Many people believed that there would be a late shift to Remain in the final days. And the very final polls to be published gave credence to that view. Clearly, they gave a misleading picture.
Looking at the last polls published by each of the main pollsters, the majority of them over-estimated support for Remain, by varying amounts.
*Excludes the on-the-day YouGov poll published after voting closed, which put Leave on 48%, Remain on 52%.
However, that wasn't the picture throughout the campaign. As we reported on the BBC referendum poll tracker, the polls suggested that the result was in the balance right up to the end.
A persistent feature of the referendum polls was that there was a significant gap between those conducted by phone and those conducted by internet.
There was also a lot of discussion about which type of poll was more accurate.
Various theories were put forward: that internet polls failed to capture the views of people with socially liberal attitudes; that phone polls contacted too many people with degrees; or that it was because online polls make it easier for people to say 'don't know' when they're asked how they'll vote.
A widely-discussed paper by Matt Singh of Number Cruncher Politics and James Kanagasooriam of Populus argued that the phone polls were probably closer to the truth because their samples were more representative of the population as a whole in terms of their social attitudes.
The veteran analyst Peter Kellner also publicly stated his view that, based on the polls, he thought Remain would win - although he added the caveat that "if the phone polls have been systematically overstating support for Remain throughout the campaign, then a victory for Brexit is perfectly possible."
With hindsight it looks as though the internet polls were broadly right - with some notable exceptions, including the final Populus poll.
Throughout almost the whole campaign they put the two sides neck and neck, frequently with small leads for Leave, whereas phone polls tended to put Remain ahead, sometimes by quite wide margins.
On the final polls TNS and Opinium were within 1% of the actual result - easily within the margin of error.
ICM's record of polls close to the actual outcome stretches back for many weeks.
Interestingly, their last poll was published ten days before the referendum.
YouGov's online polls, taken as a set, were good as well.
This isn't to say that online polls are better than phone polls in all cases and for all elections. But for this referendum they were more accurate.
After the result, Andrew Hawkins of ComRes published an interesting statement which set out some of the possible issues that had made accurate polling especially difficult at the referendum.
Regional differences and a large proportion of voters switching between the two sides created unique challenges.
He suggests that it has become harder than ever to forecast national vote shares.
Throughout the campaign, and in post-referendum polls, people were also asked about the issues that affected their decision.
Two issues stood out again and again as being critical: the economy and immigration.
A third issue which was also highlighted, under various different descriptions, was sovereignty - or the ability of the United Kingdom to decide its own laws.
Ipsos MORI found that as 23 June approached, immigration overtook the economy as the most-commonly cited issue that would help people decide how to vote. That could be part of the explanation for the result.
They also found that only 17% believed the Remain campaign's claim that leaving the EU would make households £4,300 per year worse off.
That compared to 45% who believed the Leave claim that Turkey would be fast-tracked into the EU, if we stayed in, with their population given the right of free movement to the UK.
ComRes's post-referendum poll revealed a striking difference between Leave and Remain voters about the relative importance of each issue.
For Remain voters the economy was by far the most significant issue. But for Leave voters it was sovereignty and immigration.
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They are also the sixth best at maths in the world.
They are only behind primary pupils in the East Asian countries Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.
In primary science, however, Northern Ireland ranked above average but in 27th position.
The international rankings - Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS) - have been published every four years since 1995.
TIMSS latest rankings are based on tests taken in 2015 by more than 580,000 students aged nine to 10 and 13 to 14 in 57 countries.
Northern Irish pupils only participate in the primary school tests, and they were also placed sixth in the world in maths in 2011.
Their global ranking of six puts them ahead of pupils in England in 10th and Ireland in 9th.
It also puts Northern Irish pupils ahead of countries like Finland and Norway which are usually high achievers.
The results also revealed that there was almost no difference between how girls and boys in Northern Ireland performed in either the maths or science tests.
Teachers in Northern Ireland said they spent more than 20% of classroom time teaching maths, and the study suggests Northern Ireland had one of the highest rates of computer use in the subject in the world.
The TIMSS study also suggests that pupil attendance has a significant impact on performance, with better attenders scoring higher in the tests.
However, global results also suggest that there is no apparent link between class sizes and level of achievement.
Other global findings from the TIMSS study suggest that pupils are more confident in maths and science in primary school than in secondary school, and that most pupils felt safe in school.
The majority of teachers were also found to be satisfied in their jobs.
Although boys and girls also performed almost equally in the science tests, Northern Ireland dropped from 21st in 2011 to 27th in 2015.
That drop in rankings was despite Northern Ireland pupils performing marginally better in the tests than in 2011.
For both primary and secondary levels in maths and science the top places are taken by Asian countries.
The tests are run by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement in the Netherlands and Boston College in the USA.
Twelve other people died in the attack at Mr Khanzada's office in District Attock, about 80km (50 miles) north-west of the capital, Islamabad.
Mr Khanzada was seen as the man in charge of the anti-terror campaign in Pakistan's biggest province.
A Sunni militant group with ties to al-Qaeda has said it ordered the attack.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi said it was in response to last month's killing of its leader, Malik Ishaq.
Shuja Khanzada is the most senior Pakistani politician to have been killed by militants this year.
The minister's death is being seen as a significant blow to Pakistan's recent gains in the fight against militancy and extremism, says the BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Islamabad.
Our correspondent says questions are being asked about his security as the home minister had reported threats made against him.
Mr Khanzada was meeting supporters in his hometown of Attock when a large bomb exploded, causing the roof to cave in, trapping dozens under the rubble.
Leading tributes to the home minister, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said: "The courage and valour of Shuja Khanzada is message to the masterminds of terrorists that they are bound to be defeated."
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has been behind some of the most violent attacks in recent years.
It was banned in Pakistan in 2001 and designated a terrorist group by the US in 2003. It has claimed the killings of hundreds of mainly Shia civilians in Pakistan.
Mr Maduro said the UN had the expertise to normalise the supply and distribution of drugs in the country.
Venezuela's Medical Federation said recently that hospitals had less than 5% of the medicines they needed.
The president blames the problems on an economic war against his government and the sharp fall in oil prices.
``I've asked for support from the United Nations to help treat the economic and social injuries that have hit our people,'' he said Friday on television.
The opposition says Mr Maduro's mismanagement is to blame for the country's worsening economic crisis.
Shortages of food and many other essential items mean Venezuelans have to face long queues almost daily to buy basic goods.
Medicines are no exception.
Correspondents say Mr Maduro's acknowledgement that Venezuela needs outside help is indicative of the dire situation the country is in, despite having some of the largest oil reserves in the world.
Joshua Parsons, 22, and James Fairbairn, 25, had denied their actions of February 2015 were racist in nature.
Their co-accused, fellow Chelsea fans Richard Barklie, a 52-year-old former policeman, and William Simpson, 27, were tried in absentia.
They were also ordered to pay the victim 10,000 euros in compensation.
Souleymane Sylla was targeted at Richelieu-Drouot station as football fans made their way to a Champions League match between Paris Saint Germain and Chelsea.
The hearing at the Palais de Justice saw a video recorded by a passenger of fans pushing him off the Metro train.
Supporters can be heard chanting "we are racist, we are racist and that's the way we like it".
The AFP agency reported that after giving evidence Parsons apologised to Mr Sylla, a Frenchman of Mauritanian origin, but denied there was any racist aspect to what had happened.
Turning to Mr Sylla in court, Parsons said: "I am very sorry to Mr Sylla, but I was not racist in any way."
Parsons, Fairbairn and Barklie have already been banned from football stadiums in Britain.
Ann Barnes crashed in September 2014, raising questions as to whether the journey was for business and if she was adequately insured.
Tuesday's report said there is evidence an offence may have been committed.
The report has now called for all police and crime commissioners to have valid insurance for business use.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation was sparked after Mrs Barnes's Mercedes was in collision with another car in Princes Road, Dartford, on 16 September 2014. Nobody was seriously hurt.
It said: "It is the investigator's opinion that there is evidence upon which the IPCC Commissioner could determine that an offence of using motor vehicle without insurance on 16 September 2014, contrary to The Road Traffic Act 1998, may have been committed by Mrs Barnes."
The IPCC said Mrs Barnes had visited the Kent Police Safety Shop at Bluewater shopping centre and was on her way to a meeting at Dartford Borough Council.
The report said Mrs Barnes was a named driver for a car insured and registered in her husband's name. She later produced a valid certificate which defined her insurance cover as "social, domestic and pleasure" including "to and from a permanent place of work".
It added insurers Oak Underwriting said it had not paid out under a commuting clause but because it was a non-fault claim.
In February, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was not in the public interest to prosecute.
Responding to the report, Mrs Barnes issued a statement which said: "This issue was dealt with last February when the CPS, having reviewed the evidence supplied by the IPCC, took the independent decision not to charge me.
"I have fully co-operated with the IPCC's lengthy investigation, and I am pleased that the matter has finally been resolved."
But Kent and Medway's Police and Crime Panel criticised the IPCC for taking 13 months to complete the report and the five months it took the watchdog to interview Mrs Barnes.
It said the time taken meant the CPS had to take a decision on prosecution without further investigation.
The process had damaged the PCC, her office, and the administration of justice, the panel said.
It said it had sought an assurance from Mrs Barnes that she had set up a system to ensure she and her staff regularly proved they were fully insured when driving on business.
Politicians have questioned Mrs Barnes's future.
South Thanet Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay said the IPCC report followed controversy over Mrs Barnes's youth commissioner appointments, a Channel 4 documentary, and her vehicle nicknamed Ann Force One.
He said: "It really doesn't end. She's the PCC that keeps on giving. Thankfully we've got elections next year. I don't know if she's considering standing. I hear she might be.
"The people of Kent will have a choice as to who they want to be a rather-more-competent PCC to represent them."
Medway Labour councillor Tristan Osborne has called for Mrs Barnes to be transparent about her intentions to stand again in May.
He said: "After four years of PR disasters, I think it's time she does think about that very closely."
Saving Banksy explores attempts to preserve and profit from the anonymous Bristol artist's work.
The premiere is being held on Saturday 15 April at the Belmont Filmhouse, as part of the NuArt Aberdeen festival.
Belmont manager Colin Farquhar explained: "Banksy is a cultural phenomenon and we are sure the showing will be popular."
Banksy's images are daubed on walls around the world, and are worth vast sums of money.
James Finucane, general manager of the NuArt Festival, said: "Saving Banksy has received widespread critical acclaim since its release in the US earlier this year.
"It's a great coup for Aberdeen and a fascinating insight into current debates about street art practice and the traditional art establishment's efforts to remove the 'street' from 'street art'."
NuArt Aberdeen has been brought to the city by Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council.
Adrian Watson, chief executive of business-led initiative Aberdeen Inspired, said: "Banksy symbolises the debate that goes on around street art and this film is a brilliant platform for discussion.
"We want to get people talking about art and bring it to a new audience in the city and are hugely looking forward to the premiere."
The Shakers lost 5-0 at AFC Wimbledon in their FA Cup first round replay, three days after a 4-1 defeat at home to Southend in League One.
Flitcroft's side have also lost seven straight league games and dropped from from second at the end of September to their current 16th place.
"I'm hurting, the fans are hurting and I understand that," he said.
The 42-year-old told BBC Radio Manchester: "That hurt makes me even more determined to put it right for them.
"I want to put it right and out of that hurt I'm hoping will come some real fight. Sometimes when you're down to your lowest point the only way is up and to fight and I have to instil that in my team."
Bury are in their worst run of form since 2004 which is in contrast to September when they won six games straight.
"I need to apologise to the travelling fans who have taken time off and spent a lot of money coming down here," he added.
"That was an experienced group of players and the preparation led me to believe I would not see a performance like that, so I just have to apologise for the manner of the defeat."
Lost sales and a "significant impact" on growth in south east Asia have contributed to the company cutting its near-term trading outlook.
Sales tumbled after laboratory tests in India revealed high lead levels in some packets of the hugely popular noodles.
In its trading statement, Nestle said it remained in talks with authorities to get Maggi back on the shelves.
Nestle, the world's largest packaged food company, said group sales for the nine months to the end of September fell 2.1% to 64.9bn Swiss francs ($68bn; £44bn), missing analysts' forecasts.
The company cut its 2015 growth outlook to around 4.5%, below its long-term forecasts for 5%-6% growth.
Chief executive Paul Bulcke said: "After a good performance in the first half of the year, we were impacted in the third quarter by exceptional events, with Maggi noodles in India and a rebate adjustment in Nestle Skin Health."
He added that growth in China continued to be lower than expected.
Mr Cotton lived on narrow boat The Spirit at Sawley Marina and was last seen on 11 March.
Police discovered the body near Nottingham's Attenborough Nature Reserve at about 13:00 BST on Tuesday.
A post-mortem exam failed to determine the cause of death but it is not being treated as suspicious.
Further tests will be carried out later in the week.
The site where the body was found is located near Long Eaton, Derbyshire, and sits on the borders of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
It's a scenario that's brought to life in Gemma Bovery, a re-imagining of Gustave Flaubert's 19th Century classic Madame Bovary.
Gemma Arterton, who was born in Kent and who, until this production, did not speak a word of French, takes the title role of naive young Londoner Gemma who, with her older husband Charles, moves to Normandy, just a few miles from where Flaubert's book is set.
Since the novel's publication in 1856, Emma Bovary has become one of literature's classic heroines - a woman who brings about her own ruin by having adulterous affairs and getting deeply into debt while attempting to cope with the boredom of provincial life.
Arterton believes that modern twists on classic literature "can be deeply satisfying and very relevant, because they can still be the original characters, but you can see their motivations more clearly in the modern context.
"You can see, for example, that Gemma Bovery isn't bad," she tells the BBC. "She's just not ready to settle down yet, and she's chosen the wrong man."
The 29-year-old, known for her roles in James Bond film Quantum of Solace and the West End musical Made in Dagenham, says she sees "plenty of real-life modern-day Madame Bovarys".
"But I'm not sure if we can blame the man, the Charles Bovary figure, if a woman is bored in her relationship and life."
Directed by Coco Before Chanel's Anne Fontaine, Gemma Bovery is an adaptation of a 2000 graphic novel of the same name by British author Posy Simmonds, that was first serialised in The Guardian.
Simmonds, 70, claims she was inspired to write it "by seeing a woman in a cafe overloaded with designer handbags and treating her boyfriend like a dog. He had no idea how to make her happy. I thought, 'Emma Bovary, right there.'"
Simmonds is also the author of Tamara Drewe, another graphic novel that became a film in 2010 in which Arterton also starred. "I was initially reluctant to consider doing [Gemma Bovery]," the actress admits.
"But I really wanted to experience learning French and working in French film. Anne Fontaine is the most French of French film directors - she's scarily chic."
Just over 170,000 British ex-pats currently live in France - a figure that has dropped since the beginning of the 21st Century, when areas of rural Aquitaine were nicknamed "Dordogneshire" because of the number of British people buying property there.
Fontaine describes the movie as "Woody Allen" in tone. "It investigates the British belief that France is a green haven and the French puzzlement and suspicion when they arrive in town," she says.
"It plays on the British dream of the French rural idyll," Arterton continues. "We loved every minute of filming it, but I'm not sure about the reality of countryside living - it could get boring.
"But I suppose I have signed up in part for the French dream myself, since I now live in Paris as well as London. This film literally did change my life."
Arterton insists her French skills were non-existent before filming began in the summer of 2013. Now, though, she speaks it fluently.
The actress moves between London and the Paris home she shares with her director boyfriend Franklin Ohanessian - a two-city existence, she says, that "works really well".
"What London lacks Paris has, and vice versa," she explains - though she refuses to be drawn on which is better, saying "you can't compare the two".
The French media appear to have taken Arterton to their hearts, with one magazine describing her as "la Brit girl qu'on adore" (the British girl we love).
Could she become the next Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, an actress able to move easily between French and English roles? Possibly: her current projects include Orpheline, a French comedy-drama co-starring Adele Exarchopoulos.
"I'm so grateful for the new doors that are opening to me," says Arterton. "I love French cinema. That sounds really pretentious, but it's not a job to them.
"Everyone in the crew seems to be really invested, and also they're really well-dressed. The cashmere quota is probably the major difference between working in France and England."
Gemma Bovery is out in the UK on 21 August.
Wagner, 29, who has featured in 18 Tests, will predominantly play first-class cricket during his time at Old Trafford.
"Neil is a world-class bowler with a tremendous pedigree," head coach Ashley Giles told the club website.
"Having him available for such an extended period will give our Division One campaign a real boost."
South Africa-born Wagner made his Test debut for the Black Caps against the West Indies in 2012 and has taken 67 Test wickets at an average of 33.34.
He had a stint in England with Northants in 2014 and has taken 431 first-class wickets at an average of 27.20 since making his first-class debut in 2006.
"I have always admired Lancashire, ever since playing in the Liverpool Lancashire league for Ormskirk in 2008," Wagner said.
"I'm very much looking forward to joining up with the squad and working with Ashley and the rest of the team."
Mrs Johnson, 78, died on 18 August without being able to fulfil her last wish of giving her son a proper burial.
After being diagnosed with cancer last year, Mrs Johnson appealed again to killer Ian Brady to reveal the location of Keith's body, without success.
More than 200 people attended the service, held at St Chrysostom's Church, Victoria Park.
The hearse included floral tributes reading 'Gran' and 'Mam', with a smiling photo of Winnie on top of the coffin.
A book of condolence opened at the church, with a private burial taking place following the service.
Keith was one of five children murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between 1963 and 1965.
The then 12-year-old was abducted on 12 June 1964, and was the only victim whose body has never been found, despite several large-scale searches of Saddleworth Moor.
During the service, hymns The Old Rugged Cross, Lord Of All Hopefulness and The Lord Is My Shepherd were played.
Elizabeth Bond, a friend of Mrs Johnson, gave a eulogy calling her a "woman ahead of her time".
She said: "Her mother was a great influence in her life, and when she became a mother herself she described it as the best thing that she ever did.
"Sadly in 1964, Keith was taken away from his family and Winnie became more and more of a public figure under the tagline - Keith Bennett's mother.
"I don't want us to forget that Winnie was so much more."
She added: "I hope you are playing bingo with the angels like you said you would and all the ones you loved are by your side when you shout house."
Floral tributes at the funeral included wreaths from Greater Manchester Police and her local bingo club.
Assistant priest Father John Grant, said Winnie was a regular face at St Chrysostom's Church.
"The abiding memory is of her arriving and leaving church in the electric scooter and she used to come in the side door, scoot across, park up and into the front pew," he said.
"At the end of every Sunday service she would go and light a candle for Keith.
"We have commended her into God's care, we have prayed that she will be at peace, we have prayed that she is reunited with Keith."
The day before Mrs Johnson's death, police said they were looking at claims Brady had revealed details about Keith's grave to his mental health advocate, Jackie Powell, from Carmarthenshire, south Wales.
Mrs Johnson's solicitor John Ainley said she had not known about the latest development as "she wasn't capable of accepting it".
Teresa Walsh, who helped Winnie search Saddleworth Moor for any signs to where Keith's body might be, attended the service.
She said: "She was a very strong lady, she loved her family.
"She just never gave up looking for Keith, she just wanted to find her son, that's all she wanted, to find him and lay him to rest."
A fund has been started to provide a memorial to Mrs Johnson inside the church and a community garden at the side of the building.
His rival Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a landslide - at least among those in Barack Obama's ancestral village in western Kenya.
The mock poll in Kogelo gave Mr Trump just a quarter of the votes in a place he might not have heard of, were it not for his accusations that it was the outgoing president's birthplace.
"The people of Kogelo are very much annoyed," said one resident.
"Being a woman of great substance and Donald Trump being a reality show personality… Clinton should have won," said one another.
But they would say that - President-elect Trump won't get anything like the reception President Obama received last year when he came to Kenya.
He had strong connections here - his father was Kenyan - and he launched his Power Africa project, which aims to double the number of people with electricity across the continent.
President George W Bush brought the continent the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) - which provided millions of people with the drugs to help them fight HIV.
The US spends billions in Africa through aid and investment, but there is uncertainty over what Mr Trump will do, or even how much he knows about the continent.
"Trump has said very little about Africa - I don't think he knows much about Africa," said Jakkie Cilliers, chairman of the Institute of Security Studies (ISS), a think tank in South Africa.
"It is just not on his radar - it seems like he will be an insular president focused on US interests - in some sense, isolationist."
He questioned what it might mean for Pepfar or the African Growth and Opportunities Act (known as Agoa - a hugely valuable American free trade deal with African countries), and efforts to tackle malaria.
"The fact he doesn't know that much is perhaps our best protection," said Mr Cilliers, only half joking.
The other key pillar of America's involvement in Africa is security.
The US military footprint has slowly and secretly been spreading across the continent in reaction to radical Islamist militants.
There are drone bases and special forces troops watching, and acting against so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda linked groups across the continent.
The key things that need to be in the new President Trump's Africa in-box include:
How America manages its approach to Africa could have a major impact on stability across the continent.
"Obama has done the US proud with his strategic approach," said Mr Cilliers.
The ISS put out what he called a "tongue-in-cheek" article a day before the vote, asking what would a Trump presidency would mean for Africa.
"About a third of American foreign aid is directed at health programmes, and much of that at Africa," ISS researcher Zachary Donnenfeld wrote.
"This means that any reduction in American foreign aid will have far-reaching effects on health outcomes on the continent.
"If Donald Trump were elected and implemented the foreign policy he campaigned on, he could become the single most-effective recruiting tool for terrorist organisations across the globe," he added.
But with a shift from aid to investment, isn't a businessman a good man to have at the helm?
Kenyan tech entrepreneur Mark Kamalu is not convinced.
"We have investments in US dollars and the first direct impact is the markets tank and that's a worry from a business perspective," he said.
"The rhetoric we have heard, the hard-line stance, the America first nationalism, the volatile and lose language makes everyone who is not white and American wonder where they stand."
Some will welcome his conservative values on homosexuality and abortion, but there is a lot of uncertainty over what President Trump will mean to Africa.
Elected with little by way of policy, the continent will have to wait and see how much of what he said on the campaign trail will translate into action.
The Rev Gregory Jacobs joined police on Wednesday in his first public comments since her death to urge anyone to come forward with details on what happened.
The 65-year-old judge was found dead in the Hudson River with no signs of foul play or criminality, police say.
But Mr Jacobs dismissed the possibility that she may have taken her own life.
"These reports have frequently included unsubstantiated comments concerning my wife's possible mental and emotional state of mind at the time of her death," Mr Jacobs wrote in a statement to NBC News.
"Those of us who loved Sheila and knew her well do not believe that these unfounded conclusions have any basis in reality."
Ms Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman to serve in New York's highest court, was discovered on 12 April, a day after her husband reported her missing.
Senior New York judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam found dead in Hudson River
Police had reportedly treated the death as a possible suicide, but an initial autopsy last week was inconclusive and the cause of death is still pending, according to Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Julie Bolcer.
Police are now treating the case as suspicious.
"Until such a determination is made, the death may be classified as suspicious, in that the circumstances have not been clearly established," the NYPD said in a statement to CNN.
Robert Boyce, chief of detectives for NYPD, told reporters there were no apparent injuries to her body and her death did not appear to be criminal in nature.
Surveillance footage showed the judge walking alone near the river in the Harlem neighbourhood about 12 hours before her body was found in the water, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).
She was seen dressed in the same clothing she was wearing when her body was found, according to Sergeant Brendan Ryan.
Ms Abdus-Salaam's extended family has also pushed back on what they said are inaccurate reports that her mother and brother had committed suicide.
"Sheila's mother, the matriarch of our family who died at age 92 in 2012, did not take her own life," the family said in a statement.
"Shelia's younger brother, who died in 2014, lost his battle with terminal lung cancer."
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who appointed her to the New York Court of Appeals in 2013, hailed her as a "trailblazing jurist whose life in public service was in pursuit of a more fair and more just New York for all".
It is thought the silver Vauxhall Astra had been signalled to stop by police in Glenmavis Road in Airdrie, just before the collision.
The car crashed into the wall in Commonhead Street at about 06:20 on Friday.
The 33-year-old man driving the car and a 30-year-old female passenger were both injured.
The woman is in hospital in Glasgow, where staff have described her condition as critical.
The man has been treated for minor injuries.
Spiral galaxies like ours have these satellites, but some are made of "dark matter" that is impossible to see.
The idea is to look for tracks they leave in hydrogen gas at the galaxy's edge, like the wake behind a boat.
Observations based on the idea suggest the existence of a far-flung satellite galaxy weighing up to 10 billion Suns.
Presenting her work at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, Sukanya Chakrabarti, from the University of California, Berkeley, said her method could solve a long-standing problem in cosmology.
Around our Milky Way are a number of satellite galaxies - these and other galaxies form the Local Group that is our conurbation in the cosmos.
However, theory predicts that there should be far more satellites orbiting the Milky Way.
What may account for these missing galaxies is that they are composed overwhelmingly of dark matter - a mysterious counterpart to matter that is believed to make up 85% of matter in the Universe.
But dark matter does not interact with light and cannot be seen down a telescope like normal matter - it is known only because it exerts gravitational forces on matter we can see.
But Dr Chakrabarti explained one aspect of the dark matter theory that is lacking.
"One of the current outstanding problems in cosmology is there's this missing satellites problem," she told the BBC.
The current dark matter theory, she said, "is very successful at recovering the large-scale distribution of galaxies, but when you look on sub-galactic scales, it far overpredicts the number of dwarf galaxies relative to what we actually observe".
"So we wanted to develop a method that allows you to find very dim dwarf galaxies without having to see them directly."
Dr Chakrabarti and her colleagues hope to exploit dark matter's indirect effects to solve the conundrum, by using radio telescopes to carefully analyse disturbances in the vast clouds of hydrogen gas at the farthest reaches of the Milky Way.
A dark matter-dominated galaxy passing through the gas, she said, should leave ripples in the dust that are an indication of not only where the galaxy is, but how big it is.
The method has already been successfully tested out on galaxies that have visible satellites, including the famous Whirlpool Galaxy, as Dr Chakrabarti explains in a paper that will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Using the method, Dr Chakrabarti found a set of ripples that indicate a comparatively huge satellite galaxy, 260,000 light-years from the centre of the galaxy.
The satellite - dubbed Galaxy X in deference to the 19th-Century discovery of Neptune that named it Planet X - should weigh between three and 10 billion times as much as the Sun, about a hundredth as much as the Milky Way itself.
Now all that remains is to confirm it. That will have to wait until Dr Chakrabarti's collaborators are granted time to use the Spitzer Space Telescope.
"This is the first time in my work that I've really gone out on a limb and made a very specific prediction - I didn't give myself any elbow room," Dr Chakrabarti told the meeting.
"If we're right, then it's a huge success and you can find very dim or effectively dark galaxies simply by analysing disturbances in the gas disk."
Dr Chakrabarti said that the method should work for far smaller dwarf galaxies - down to a thousandth the mass of the Milky Way.
Pending the granting of time on Spitzer, the many proposed dark and mysterious galaxies surrounding our Milky Way could be spotted later this year, and a big problem in cosmology could be neatly solved.
Yu Yingzeng, a Chinese-born US citizen, was jailed with her husband Peter Humphrey as part of the GlaxoSmithKline corruption scandal last August.
Mr Humphrey was released earlier this week.
They are expected to leave China in the coming days.
Yu Yingzeng was detained along with Mr Humphrey in 2013.
She was sentenced last year to two years in prison and had been due to be released on 11 July.
The couple were detained after helping GSK investigate a secretly filmed sex tape of its then top manager in China.
GSK was fined £300m ($465m) by the Chinese authorities for bribes to hospitals and officials in an attempt to boost sales.
The couple were found guilty of illegally obtaining Chinese citizens' data and selling it to firms including GSK China.
They both admitted buying background information, but said they did not realise this was illegal.
Mr Humphrey was released on health grounds and has been moved to a Shanghai hospital for tests relating to cancer.
He will be deported on release from hospital.
The couple's family has been told their departure from China could take several days.
Their son, Harvey, a university student in the UK, has not had access to them.
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County Armagh native Hinds was known as one of the 'flying doctors' who provided medical cover at motorcycling events throughout Ireland.
Dr Hinds, 35, died after being in an accident at the Skerries 100 meeting.
"We accept this for John but also for the volunteer teams that John was part of," said his partner Dr Janet Acheson.
Mr Hinds worked as a consultant at Craigavon Area Hospital and saved the lives of many riders at spectators in his role which provided fast-response medical treatment at meetings throughout the island of Ireland.
His colleague Dr Fred McSorley said Mr Hinds's death had been a "tragedy".
The BBC award was aimed at celebrating his work as a volunteer within the sport that he loved.
Dr Hinds had led a campaign for an air ambulance service to be introduced in Northern Ireland.
The British Medical Association renewed calls for boxing to be banned after middleweight Nick Blackwell was placed in an induced coma following his defeat to Chris Eubank Jr.
"I've done the research myself," said national performance coach Mike Keane.
"Boxing is well down the injury list, including concussions and injuries to the head.
"Cycling, swimming and rugby are all way above us with injuries and damage."
Blackwell's British middleweight title fight on Saturday against Eubank Jr left him with a small bleed on the brain.
Keane, who has coached fighters for over 30 years, believes the present focus on the dangers of boxing is unfair and also feels fighters and parents alike will not be put off boxing after the events of the last few days.
"Overall, contact sport is going to come with some sort of risk, but there is no 100% evidence to suggest when and where an injury is going to occur," said the man who oversees the coaching of Scotland's 1,500 registered amateur in 112 clubs across the country.
"A boxer that perhaps has a brain injury might well have had the same injury outwith boxing."
Scotland's first winner of a British women's title, Stephanie Kernachan, is also defending her sport amid the current controversy.
"I've been boxing for nine-and-a-half years and the transformation that boxing has had on me is amazing," she said.
"From going from a really, really shy girl to a really confident woman."
The 23-year-old says that she has had friends this week in the wake of Blackwell's injury trying to stop her fighting.
"I have had conversations with them saying 'that's why we don't like boxing because it's really dangerous'," she added.
"But, to be honest, in my career so far, I've only had a cut lip or black eye - I've never really been hurt."
Esther Hartsilver, 32, was injured in the crash on Denmark Hill on Thursday morning.
Ms Hartsilver, a senior physiotherapist, was taken to King's College Hospital, where she was a member of staff but died later, police said.
She is the sixth cyclist to die on London's roads this year. All have involved HGVs.
Later in the day, in east London, a unicyclist was hurt in a collision with a bus. Bystanders tried to lift it off him after he became trapped underneath.
The crash, involving a number 212 bus, happened in Walthamstow just before 18:00 BST on Thursday.
Cafe owner, Sami Ullah, told London's Evening Standard: "There were so many people gathered there. There must have been about 50 to 100. They somehow managed to pull the bus away a bit.
"We were amazed - it was a heavy bus, a double-decker. Police were here straight away and they took over."
Police said no-one had been arrested in connection with the unicycle crash.
This was also the case with the accident in Denmark Hill, where the lorry driver stopped at the scene.
Other cyclists who have died in London so far this year are:
Last year, Transport for London said it would cut the number of lorries on the roads during peak hours and test equipment on buses to help drivers spot cyclists.
Plans to build two new cycle superhighways, stretching from east to west and north to south London, were given the go-ahead in February.
The former England forward suffered the injury in last week's pre-season fixture against Port Vale.
Bent has scored 28 times in 84 Derby games and news came after Saturday's friendly win over Kaiserslautern.
"Gutted to be having a spell on the sidelines. Great result for the boys yesterday. Long may it continue," the 33-year-old said on Twitter.
Bent's injury was confirmed by a scan and boss Gary Rowett told the club website it was "a bit of a blow".
He added: "He had looked sharp in the games so far but it's something we will just have to deal with."
The RSPCA was contacted by a dog walker who found the puppies in Penlan on 22 December at about 08:30 GMT.
The dogs, three females and four males and thought to be a rottweiler cross breed, were only a few days old and their eyes had not yet opened.
RSPCA inspector Gemma Cooper said they were "soaking wet and hungry" and would have died had they not been found.
"These poor pups are too young to be without mum and demand around the clock care," she said.
"We are thinking about naming them Holly, Ivy, Angel for the girls and then Noel, Sprout, Pudding and Blitzen for the boys."
Four locations between Perth and Inverness will be resurfaced as part of a £1.2m Transport Scotland investment.
The first work will begin at the A9 Drumochter southbound carriageway for two weeks.
Bear Scotland said the 10mph convoy system will be in place at the locations during working hours for the safety of road workers and motorists.
The work at Drumochter will be carried out on a 1km stretch of road between Mondays and Fridays.
Resurfacing will take place overnight for two weeks on a 1km section of road at Newmill, near Luncarty, from 19 June.
Work between 07:00 and 19:00 will also be carried out on 500m sections of road at Ballinluig for two weeks from 27 June and at Badacreamh from 11 July.
Eddie Ross from Bear Scotland, which maintains the route, said the work would "greatly improve" the condition and safety of the route.
He said: "We've taken steps to minimise disruption as much as possible by avoiding working at weekends at all four sites, and carrying out work overnight at Newmill where the route is single-carriageway."
The most performed work category sees Sam Smith's hit Stay With Me nominated alongside George Ezra's Budapest and Rather Be by Clean Bandit.
The annual awards, now in their 60th year, are voted for by songwriters.
Little-known songwriter James Napier leads the nominations after co-writing both Stay With Me and Rather Be.
The latter, which Napier wrote with Clean Bandit's Jack Patterson, is also shortlisted for best contemporary song.
Known as Jimmy Napes, the hitmaker said his three nominations were "a tremendous honour".
Napier's nomination for Stay With Me sees him listed alongside Sam Smith and fellow writer William Phillips.
However, there is no room for veteran musicians Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, who were given a writing credit on Stay With Me in January because of similarities with their 1989 track I Won't Back Down.
Under rules set by the British Society of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (Basca), Lynne and Petty are not eligible because they each received less than 15% of the writing credit.
Speaking after the nominations, Napier said he and his co-writers had not heard I Won't Back Down before Petty and Lynne approached them.
"We were unfamiliar with the song and when it was brought to our attention we had to hold our hands up because there was a similarity in the melody," he told the BBC.
"It was amicably settled but it was a bit of a shock to us because we didn't know the record."
Meanwhile, Rather Be is up for best contemporary song alongside alt-J's Every Other Freckle and Two Weeks, performed by FKA Twigs.
Hozier's Take Me to Church is nominated for best song musically and lyrically, as is Above The Clouds of Pompeii by Bear's Den. The shortlist is rounded off by Ben Howard's I Forget Where We Were.
In the best album category, Bombay Bicycle Club are nominated for So Long, See You Tomorrow, but face competition from Wild Beasts for Present Tense, and the eponymous debut album from Brighton two-piece Royal Blood.
Basca chairman Simon Darlow said the nominations reflected the "health and diversity" of British and Irish songwriting and composing.
He said: "These awards were created to raise the profile of our best creative talent and today's nominations, which include a host of fresh new writers, demonstrate that The Ivors continue to achieve this. Congratulations to everyone represented here today."
The winners will be named at a ceremony in London on 21 May.
Best song musically and lyrically
Best contemporary song
Best album
PRS for Music most performed work
Best original film score
Best television soundtrack
The 28-year-old was struck by a car, possibly a dark coloured "old style" Vauxhall Corsa, while crossing Hillington Road on a night out.
He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital with a fractured leg.
Police closed off the road to examine the scene. Officers are studying CCTV footage and appealed for witnesses.
The injured man was hit on Hillington Road just after midnight, about 20m north of the junction with Birkhall Avenue.
The road was closed for more than two hours for crash scene investigations.
Sgt Joe McGuckien, from Glasgow's road policing unit, said: "We are in the process of checking CCTV images from in an around the area in an effort to identify the car and driver.
"I am appealing to anyone who may have been in that area around the time of the incident to contact and who may have seen this car or witnessed the incident to contact us as you may have information which could assist us in our investigation into this incident."
Silver City Tech sent more than three million unsolicited messages to people across the UK in five months, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said.
The Dorset-based firm was probed as part of an investigation prompted by complaints about nuisance texts.
Oracle Insurance Brokers, which sent 136,000 texts, was also fined £30,000.
'Like postmen'
Bournemouth-based Silver City Tech, and London firm Oracle Insurance Brokers, sent messages inviting people to apply for short-term loans.
An example of the type of message Silver City Tech sent is: "Maxine, we have received your details and could arrange £500 over six months. Click for cash. 1270% rep APR, 292% int. Stop2 opt out."
Both companies told ICO investigators it was a third party company which had sent the texts on their behalf - a practice known as affiliate marketing.
However, it was the firms' responsibility to check that the recipients had specifically consented to receiving marketing texts, the watchdog said.
Andy Curry, ICO enforcement group manager, said: "Affiliate firms are like postmen, delivering the message.
"It's the people behind the message whose job it is to make sure it complies with the law."
Officers in a number of police vehicles have patrolled the area throughout Thursday night and Friday.
Eleven people had been arrested in the area over the two days, said Supt Melanie Jones.
The arrests were for "low-level alcohol and disorder-related offences and some low-level assaults", she added.
Behaviour in the area had generally been better than in previous years, police said.
"At the very maximum number, we would've seen a crowd of about 300 or 400," said Supt Jones.
"We've worked very hard to make sure we're getting the messages out early about what sort of behaviour is acceptable."
Both Queen's University and Ulster University asked their students to stay away from the area on St Patrick's Day, and classes were also cancelled on Wednesday and Thursday.
However, many students have remained in the Holyland despite their universities' pleas.
Ray Farley, from the Holyland Residents' Association, said there was a "huge amount of students, young people and non-residents" in the area, adding that it was very noisy.
"If it wasn't for the police presence, it would've been a really bad situation for everyone here," said Mr Farley.
"It's not as bad as last year - police are managing to keep it at a level that, while not acceptable, is not serious."
About 30 staff from the universities have joined police in the area, along with Belfast City Council workers.
Five off-licences in the Holyland have closed "voluntarily" for a number of hours.
Queen's University insists that the majority of those who traditionally travel to the mainly-student area of the city on St Patrick's Day are post-primary pupils or non-students.
There has been no repeat of the overnight disorder in the area on St Patrick's Day last year.
On 17 March 2016, one officer was injured when bottles were thrown at police in Agincourt Avenue as a crowd of about 300 people gathered.
The Holyland, which is close to Queen's University, is dominated by Victorian housing divided into student accommodation.
The director of banned Radio Biafra was arrested last month and is still being held despite a court order to free him, his mainly ethnic Igbo supporters say.
There are reports of violence during a protest in Port Harcourt.
Biafran secessionists fought a three-year civil war that ended in 1970.
More than one million people lost their lives before the uprising was eventually quelled by the military.
Secessionist groups have attracted the support of many young people in the south-east in recent years.
The BBC's Abdussalam Ahmed in the south-eastern city of Enugu says in reality they do not want a repeat of the civil war but are keen to draw the attention of the central government to some developmental challenges the region faces.
Activists told the BBC that five people were killed and several others injured after police fired shots and teargas to disperse the protesters in Port Harcourt - the largest city in the region.
But police spokesman Ahmad Muhammad said this was untrue.
"Measures have been put in place to handle the situation in such a way that public peace is not disrupted and to ensure life and property are protected," he told the AFP news agency.
Protests were also held on Tuesday in the city of Owerri in Imo state, a day after the region's biggest market in the city of Aba was reportedly shut down by protesters.
Our correspondent says the protests started peacefully on Friday in the oil-rich Delta state and has since taken place in five other major cities in the region.
The demonstrators are mostly young men holding Biafra flags and banners with pictures of Mr Kanu, who is also a leader in the secessionist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
"We won't give up until our director Nnamdi Kanu is released," one protester told our reporter during a protest in Enugu.
It is not clear where Radio Biafra is based but it mainly broadcasts to the Igbo-speaking south-east of the country.
The Nigerian government says it has been operating without a licence and began jamming its signals in July, but its broadcasts are still available online and via mobile phones by a dialling a local number.
An IPOB leader, Uchemna Madu, told the BBC that the group was fighting against the "injustice and inequality" ethnic Igbos faced in Nigeria.
"We believe in Nigeria, we have businesses everywhere in the country but we are getting nothing apart from political and social marginalisation," he said.
"Our lives and properties are not secured, we want to live on our own."
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It was triggered when police said they believed IRA members had been involved in the murder of a former IRA man in Belfast in August.
Mr Hart last visited in March.
The Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan, who is on a visit to Washington DC, spoke to Mr Hart earlier on Wednesday.
Mr Flanagan said there was concern in the United States about the direction in which talks were going.
He will take part in a "full programme of meetings with key Democratic and Republican contacts on Capitol Hill, senior figures in the US administration and other influential Irish-American contacts".
He will talk with key representatives of the US National Security Council and Vice President Joe Biden's staff.
Mr Flanagan will also address an event later to highlight the work of the International Fund for Ireland.
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said his visit would focus on the current situation in Northern Ireland and "the ongoing political talks process".
Discussions began last week at Stormont in a bid to resolve the current political row at Stormont.
Following the murder of Kevin McGuigan, Chief Constable George Hamilton said the IRA was still in existence, but added that the organisation was not engaged in terrorism.
Sinn Féin said the IRA no longer exists after it ordered an end to its armed campaign in 2005.
The claims by Mr Hamilton led to a breakdown in trust between Sinn Féin and unionist parties.
The Ulster Unionists withdrew from Northern Ireland's ruling executive, with three Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) ministers also later resigning, and DUP leader Peter Robinson stepping aside as first minister.
Unionists agreed to join the talks when the government ordered an independent review of paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland earlier this month.
Mr Flanagan will also address an event to highlight the work of the International Fund for Ireland.
It is understood the prospects for US immigration reform will also be discussed during his trip.
Later this week, Mr Flanagan is expected to speak about Northern Ireland issues with US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, in New York.
It stems from a lawsuit the British bank inherited when it bought the US lender Household International in 2003.
Shareholders accused Household International, now known as HSBC Finance, of inflating its share price and engaging in misleading lending practices.
It expects the settlement to result in a charge of about $585m (£409m).
HSBC had previously estimated its potential exposure at about $3.6bn.
The settlement is still subject to court approval.
The British bank bought Household International, which provides loans to low-income homeowners, for about $14.2bn in 2003.
However, following the subprime mortgage crisis, the bank was forced to write down tens of billions of dollars of bad loans.
In March 2009, HSBC chairman Stephen Green said: "With the benefit of hindsight, this is an acquisition we wish we had not undertaken."
Speaking in the House of Commons, James Brokenshire said applying special status was the "wrong approach".
The government is working to get a deal after Brexit that is best for all parts of the UK, he said.
Mr Brokenshire was responding to a question from DUP MP Sammy Wilson, who said that "all parts of the UK should leave the EU on an equal basis".
MPs have been debating a bill that would give PM Theresa May the power to begin negotiations over withdrawal.
The bill, if passed, will allow the prime minister to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty by her own deadline of 31 March.
Sinn Féin and the SDLP have both called for Northern Ireland to have special status after the UK leaves the EU.
But Mr Wilson, whose party campaigned for Brexit, said the DUP wanted to see the process of leaving commence as soon as possible, adding that it would oppose attempts of "parliamentary guerrilla warfare" to block the government's plans.
He told the BBC it was "an historic day for the UK".
"The promise, which was made when the referendum was granted, giving the people of the UK the final say on EU membership, must be honoured," he said.
The SDLP has joined forces with the SNP at Westminster and backed an amendment.
It states: "The government has failed to properly consult with the devolved administrations and has, so far, failed to produce a white paper on its plan for Brexit."
SDLP MP for South Down Margaret Ritchie said: "Brexit will be damaging to our economy and society.
"British and Irish governments working with the Northern Ireland Executive need to secure special status, which involves continued access and membership of the Single Market and Customs Union to protect and safeguard our economy and communities."
The Ulster Unionists, who campaigned to remain in the EU, are to back the move to trigger Article 50.
Its South Antrim MP, Danny Kinahan, said: "We need the whole Leave process to start so we can lessen uncertainty and start tackling all the issues.
"We need clarity as there is so much to cover, affecting everyday lives."
Sinn Féin believes Northern Ireland should have special status within the EU.
Its leader north of the border, Michelle O'Neill, said: "Brexit is not just an issue for the north. It will be a disaster for our economy north and south."
Independent MP Lady Sylvia Hermon said she will vote against the bill: "A clear majority of people in Northern Ireland voted for the UK to remain in the EU and a majority in my North Down constituency voted in favour of remain," she said.
"I voted to remain as I do not believe Brexit will be good for the country. I haven't changed my mind."
The bill being debated at Westminster was published last week, after the Supreme Court decided MPs and peers must have a say before Article 50 could be triggered.
MPS are due to vote on Wednesday night.
A full business case for the Dumfries development is due to be completed "in the next few months".
The Cresswell facility will be turned over to renal dialysis, ophthalmology and other health services.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway said putting them on its new hospital site was "likely" to have been more expensive.
At present, maternity services are run from the suite next to the current Dumfries Infirmary on the town's Bankend Road.
However, they are set to move to the new multi-million pound hospital on the Garroch roundabout which is scheduled to open late this year.
That has prompted the development of plans to put the maternity suite - which opened in 2002 and was funded via a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) - to a different use.
There are still 16 years left to run on its contract with payments averaging about £3m a year.
It means that if the building was to be left empty, the health board would still be liable to pay the annual fee and maintain and upkeep the site.
Instead, it has opted to redevelop the building for new services with the hope that work can start in April next year and be ready to open by December 2019.
The health board stressed that the cost of those works had already been included in its wider acute services redevelopment programme.
It added that any advantages of moving the services to the new hospital would have required higher levels of funding.
"Building a larger hospital with all services on one site would have been a simpler project to manage, but would likely be more costly to the public purse," said a statement from NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
"In addition, our preferred solution allows patients requiring non-acute care - such as regular renal dialysis - to be treated in a dedicated facility away from the extreme busyness of an acute site.
"The board has responsibility for ensuring they maximise efficiency in the use of their full estate."
The health board added that it did not believe that keeping the building in operation would affect efforts to sell the old hospital site.
"We are confident that when we look to sell the old hospital site that retaining the Cresswell building will not impact on this process," the statement said.
Wambach has scored 184 goals in 254 matches, the most of any man or woman in international football history.
Having won the World Cup this year, she will retire after the last game of her country's victory tour, against China on 16 December (Thursday 01:00 GMT).
BBC Sport takes a look at 35-year-old Wambach's legacy and retirement plans.
Wambach was born on 2 June 1980 in Rochester, New York, the youngest of seven siblings with two sisters and four brothers.
After a successful college career at the University of Florida, she made her international debut against Germany in September 2001.
She has since competed in four consecutive women's World Cup tournaments, finally winning the title when she helped the United States triumph in this year's tournament in Canada with a 5-2 victory over Japan in the final.
Her impressive honours list also includes two Olympic gold medals - from Athens 2004 and London 2012.
She missed the 2008 edition which the US also triumphed in, having broken her leg prior to the tournament.
In 2012, she was named Fifa women's world player of the year, becoming the first American to win the award for 10 years.
The mayor of Rochester declared 20 July 'Abby Wambach day' and the striker was given a key to her native city in 2011.
During her club career, she played for Washington Freedom, magicJack and Western New York Flash at the professional level.
Wambach scored her first international goal in a friendly victory over Finland in April 2002, beginning one of the most remarkable scoring records in football history.
Her tally stands at 184, having scored 23 times in major tournaments including 14 World Cup strikes, the last of which came against Nigeria earlier this year.
In a fitting quirk of fate, she scored her 100th international goal in her hometown of Rochester in July 2009 during a 1-0 win against Canada.
Almost four years later, she surpassed childhood idol Mia Hamm's record of 158 goals by scoring four times in a 5-0 thrashing of South Korea.
Renowned for her aerial ability, Wambach has scored a remarkable 77 headed goals in her international career, with her most famous goal coming in the 122nd minute of the 2011 World Cup quarter-final against Brazil. She rose to head in Megan Rapinoe's cross and send the tie to penalties, which the US won.
Wambach spoke to BBC Sportsworld during the week building up to her final game and reflected on her decision to announce her retirement in October.
"My decision to retire was an evolution over the last couple of years, but the reality is that we hadn't won a World Cup so that being the case I was grinding it out for the last year and a half," she said.
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"As you get older it becomes a little bit more difficult to get up for training, to play in games and recover and to keep that passion and that fire burning alive - once that starts to fizzle away, it becomes very clear.
"You just get to a certain point in your life, especially since I've announced it, mentally it's kind of difficult to muster that real competitiveness I've had for so long.
"If we had won the 2011 World Cup [Japan triumphed that year] and then the 2012 Olympics, I probably wouldn't have continued playing, but because I did carry on and we won this World Cup, the minute the whistle blew in Canada I knew deep down it was time to walk away.
"I'm lucky I've been able to play for this long - I've given everything I possibly could to the game and I'm walking away happy as a World Cup champion, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and I've been able to travel the world and learn about different cultures."
Wambach has already waved goodbye to many of her fans during her country's 10-city World Cup victory tour, but says her final appearance will be an "amazing experience".
She added: "It could go one of two ways, I don't think it's going to be anywhere in the middle.
"It's not going to be like I'm kind of sad or kind of happy - I'm either going to be a wreck and can't keep it together or I'm just going to be happy.
"It's going to be completely one or the other and let's hope if it is me being a wreck that I have a pretty 'face cry' rather than an ugly 'face cry'. My team-mates will be pointing fingers and laughing if it's the latter."
Wambach has previously stated her plans to start a family with wife Sarah Huffman, also a former US international.
She also hopes to focus her time on tackling gender equality, inspired by her experience of the pay gap between men's and women's footballers, and has also called for more women to be involved in world football's governing body Fifa.
Yet for now she is relishing the leisure time that comes after retirement, secure in the knowledge the legacy of US women's football will endure.
"I literally have been as social over the last couple of weeks as I have maybe over the last few years," she added.
"Usually I'm just in my room watching TV shows, getting ready for the next practice but I don't have a next practice to get ready for so I'm just trying to spend as much time with my team-mates as possible now.
"The team is in good hands and I can walk away feeling solid that this team is a culture, it's never about one player, and I feel confident this team is not only going to do well but in fact it's going to thrive."
At an opening ceremony, Wang Jing, the president of HKND, the Chinese company building the canal, said this moment would go down in history.
The 278km (172 mile) waterway will be longer, deeper and wider than the Panama Canal.
But critics fear a negative environmental impact and doubt its viability and economic benefits.
The Grand Canal of Nicaragua, as it has been called, aims to rival Panama's waterway and lift the country out of poverty.
The opening ceremony was largely symbolic, as work began on an access road for machinery needed to build a port for the canal on Nicaragua's Pacific coast.
Nicaragua's Vice-President Omar Halleslevens said the canal would change the history and the economy of Nicaragua, one of Latin America's poorest countries.
"With this great canal, Nicaragua expects to move 5% of the world's commerce that moves by sea, which will bring great economic benefits and double the GDP (gross domestic product),'' said Mr Halleslevens.
Analysis: Arturo Wallace, BBC News, Nicaragua
There is a clear sense of expectation here, where the construction of a man made passage between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans designed to dwarf the Panama Canal has officially begun.
But there is also tension: over the past few weeks protests against the canal have increased.
And the authorities' decision to hold the main groundbreaking ceremony in Managua, some 120km away from where the waterway is to built, won't help convince the many sceptics who still doubt the project's viability.
The government claims that the project, awarded to a Hong Kong based international consortium, will finally lift the Western hemisphere's second poorest country out of poverty.
But many fear environmental damage may outweigh the economic benefit, or oppose the extremely generous terms offered to the Chinese investors. Those who live on the projected route simply don't want to lose their land and livelihoods.
HKND says it expects the project to be finished within five years and operational by 2020, and to cost about $50bn (£32bn).
The project is to include two ports, an airport, a resort and an economic zone for electricity and other companies.
But some have questioned the canal's financial soundness and allege that Wang Jing lacks experience in developing or financing big infrastructure projects.
Opponents are also concerned about the impact construction may have on Lake Nicaragua and on poor communities in the area.
The route announced in July would pass through the lake, an important source of fresh water.
Environmentalists have warned of the risks of damming rivers and moving large amounts of soil. Communities along the route have staged protests.
Video shot by a passenger showed smoke in the cabin as staff prepared to get passengers off the aircraft on landing.
Jetstar said there had been a technical fault with an engine.
The budget airline denied it was an emergency landing and said smoke entered the cabin only after the plane landed.
But some passengers reported hearing a noise and smoke filling the cabin while the plane was still in the air.
Passenger Nick Trompf told the Courier Mail it had been "pretty scary",
"Just as we flew over Narrabri smoke started to fill the cabin and there was a scraping and grating noise."
Flight JQ956 was on its way from Sydney to Cairns when the captain shut down one of the aircraft's engines and diverted to Brisbane "as a precaution" the budget airline said.
"The smoke would have entered the cabin through the air conditioning unit, which runs via air from the engines," it said in a statement, adding that it was investigating the cause.
Passengers were transferred to another flight to Cairns later on Thursday evening. There were no reports of injuries.
The Wales Life Sciences Fund was set up in 2012 to get more medical and pharmaceutical firms to move to Wales.
The Wales Audit Office (WAO) said ministers should have handled potential conflicts of interest "more robustly".
A spokeswoman for the Welsh government said: "We will consider this report and respond in due course."
It is understood the venture has created more than 150 highly-skilled jobs in Wales.
It was created on the recommendation of a panel chaired by multimillionaire life sciences entrepreneur Sir Chris Evans.
He later formed a company called Arthurian, which bid for and won the tender to manage the fund.
The fund also invested in ReNeuron, a firm in which Sir Chris held shares.
The WAO report, published on Thursday, found Arthurian and Sir Chris acted properly and potential conflicts of interest were declared.
But auditors made a series of criticisms of the Welsh government and its investment arm, Finance Wales.
It said:
Auditor general Huw Vaughan Thomas said: "This report addresses a range of weaknesses in the Welsh government's and Finance Wales' establishment of the fund and in their oversight of its initial operations.
"These findings underline the continuing need for strong governance in this age of austerity."
Public accounts committee chairman and Conservative AM Darren Millar said: "Once again the auditor general for Wales has published a report which shows the governance and oversight arrangements put in place by Welsh government and Finance Wales to manage large sums of public money were insufficiently robust and have fallen short of what taxpayers should expect."
Plaid Cymru's shadow economy minister Rhun ap Iorwerth said the fund was a "strong idea" which had been "handled poorly".
He said: "There are clear failings in the way this fund has been set up and run."
Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts said: "It's pretty damning to be honest.
"Serious questions have to be asked in regard to the internal workings of the Welsh Labour government."
Arthurian Life Sciences chief executive Martin Walton said: "We are delighted that the Welsh Audit Office found that Arthurian has acted properly, professionally and correctly as manager of the Welsh Life Science Fund.
"The Welsh government was innovative and visionary in establishing this fund and in doing so has put Wales firmly on the international life sciences map."
The fund was one of the best-performing in Europe, he said, and led to a series of biotech firms relocating to Wales.
Finance Wales is carrying out its own review of the fund's performance.
Sam Allardyce left the role by "mutual agreement" on Tuesday after a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers, having been appointed by the Football Association only two months ago.
England Under-21 manager Gareth Southgate will take charge of the national team for the next four games, on an interim basis.
He is a possible candidate to fill the vacancy as the FA, once more, begins its search for a new England manager.
Here are the contenders:
Nationality: English Current job: Crystal Palace
He is the current favourite but has Pardew changed his tune from the summer when he suggested he was not ready to become England manager?
Record: Similar to Allardyce in that he has not pulled up any trees during a 17-year career but rather hovered between 'steady' and 'teetering'. Poor runs at West Ham, Charlton and Newcastle led to him leaving his positions.
His current club, Palace, endured a rotten second half of the 2015-16 season, winning only two games. They did, however, reach the FA Cup final - the second time Pardew has led a team to the final.
Tactics: Pardew prefers to play a 4-3-3, which includes an 'enforcer' sitting in midfield as we saw with Cheick Tiote at Newcastle and James McArthur at Palace and pacey wide forwards. A 4-3-3 formation was utilised by Allardyce's predecessor, Roy Hodgson, during Euro 2016.
Man-management: Former Palace striker Dwight Gayle gave this eulogy in January 2015 after Pardew had guided the club to their third straight win since taking over the previous month.
"He has boosted our confidence. He gives everyone little pats on the back, talks to people individually, he has got everyone going," said Gayle.
But, as already mentioned, he has struggled with teams after making an initial impact.
Nationality: English Current job: Available
The former Hull manager was the only other person to have been approached by the Football Association to replace Hodgson in the summer.
Bruce left Hull shortly after that announcement and has been out of work since. He has recently been touted as a replacement for Mark Hughes at Stoke City, with the Potters struggling.
Record: When comparing his Premier League win percentage to those in the running and managing in the top flight, Bruce fares badly. Based on statistics collated up until the end of last season, his win record is just 28.1% - worse than Pardew and Allardyce. He has, however, led both Birmingham and Hull to two promotions from the Championship. He also led Hull to the 2014 FA Cup final.
Tactics: Bruce was keen on a 3-5-2 formation at Hull, which might suit the more attack-minded England full-backs Kyle Walker, Danny Rose and Luke Shaw.
Man-management: Bruce is understood to have a good rapport with his players. Ex-Hull goalkeeper Steve Harper likened him to former Newcastle boss Sir Bobby Robson.
"He has that human touch," the Sunderland keeper said in 2013.
Nationality: English Current job: Bournemouth
Bournemouth's Howe is widely recognised as one of the best young English managers. Is he too inexperienced though?
Preparation: Howe's ability to guide Bournemouth into the Premier League and keep them there without sacrificing their attractive playing style has won praise.
In an interview in 2015, he said: "I look for several things. Playing ability, of course, and where they fit into the team.
"I am very much against signing a player who is good, but you don't know where he will fit in.
"You think, 'I will mould him into the team', but that usually doesn't work."
Would he be brave enough to drop established England stars in order to ensure the pieces fit?
Tactics: Almost the polar opposite of Allardyce. With Howe, it is about an attacking, passing style with the ball being played out from the back.
But like Allardyce, he is steadfast in his belief his approach to the game is the right one.
Man-management: An insightful interview with the Guardian in 2014 revealed Howe's acute attention to detail and work ethic.
It also highlighted his care for the individual.
"I always think it's important you give players feedback," he said. "It's something that I never really got. You just played game to game, hoping you were doing all right, never really being told. I'll always do the feedback on an individual basis.
"It's probably my biggest drain in terms of time, but I think it's one of the most important aspects."
Stat: Last season, Howe's Bournemouth conceded 20 goals from set-pieces - twice as many as Arsene Wenger's Arsenal.
Nationality: English Current job: England Under-21s
Former England defender Southgate is already an FA man, having been in charge of the Under-21 side since 2013. As a consequence he has worked with many of the current senior side.
Southgate had no interest in succeeding Hodgson in the summer, neither on an interim nor permanent basis. However, now he will take charge of the side for four games - will he hold a different view after that stint?
Record: His first managerial job was at Middlesbrough in 2006, where he took over from Steve McClaren despite not having the necessary coaching qualifications. He kept them in the top flight for two seasons, but the Teessiders were relegated the following campaign. Southgate was eventually sacked in October 2009, despite a good start to the Championship season.
As for the England U21s, he has failed to guide the side past the group stage at two successive European Championship finals.
But is his luck changing? This year Southgate took charge of the England Under-20s for the Toulon Tournament, which they won with a 2-1 victory over France.
Tactics: Southgate has worked closely with the FA's technical director, Dan Ashworth, who was appointed in 2012. Ashworth has wanted the Under-15s through to the Under-21s to stick to a 4-3-3 formation. and "possession-based, counter-attacking" football.
When suggested that Southgate knew the English "system", former Spurs boss Harry Redknapp said: "Knows what system? The losing system? He knows the losing formula?"
Will the Under-21 boss be allowed to be more his own man if he gets the senior job?
Nationality: English Current job: Football media analyst
If it wasn't for those pesky penalties against Argentina, and then later his "serious error of judgement" when he made comments about disabled people, we might today be talking about how Hoddle had led England to a major football title.
Following Hodgson's departure, the former boss said: "If I am asked to speak to the FA, my answer would be, 'any proud Englishman would want to discuss such an opportunity'. I would consider and listen to what the FA said."
Preparation: Hoddle loved to join in with the training sessions, with some suggesting he was simply keen to still show he 'had it'.
His participation didn't go down well with some players of that era, but former internationals Alan Shearer and Rio Ferdinand have backed their former boss for a second crack at the job.
Man-management: Unconventional?
Hoddle was the talk of the back pages when Eileen Drewery, a faith healer, visited the England camp before the 1998 World Cup.
Full-back Gary Neville, in 2011, recalled some players also took injections from Hoddle's favourite medic and prior to a match the manager would "move around the players, shaking their hands and touching them just over the heart".
Tactics: In a piece with ESPN after England's Euro 2012 exit, Hoddle said he was in favour of packing the midfield in order to hunt the ball higher up the pitch.
A creative midfielder as a player, it is no surprise he is keen on ball retention rather than lumping it into the box from deep.
He also liked the sweeper system in his first stint in change, once even trying midfielder Jamie Redknapp in the defensive role.
Does he have right players in the current crop to fulfil his philosophies?
Stat: Hoddle's win percentage as England manager - 60.7% - is the third best behind Fabio Capello and Sir Alf Ramsey.
Nationality: German Current job: United States
He is a former Premier League player, a World Cup winner, an ex-manager of Germany and the current boss of the United States.
Preparation: In an interview with the BBC in 2009, when he was Bayern Munich manager, Klinsmann said he introduced a "holistic" approach to preparation, but added it had not gone down too well at the German giants.
He has repeated this avant-garde approach with the USA team, with mixed results, but has also spent time trying to create a solid infrastructure for the national team from youth level upwards.
Under his guidance, the US reached the knockout round of the 2014 World Cup and in 2016 got to the last four of their home Copa America.
Tactics: Klinsmann has at times been lambasted for his tactical naivety during his managerial tenures.
Former Germany full-back Philipp Lahm said in 2011: "The experiment with Klinsmann was a failure. We were only working on our fitness in training. He didn't care much for tactical stuff. It was up to the players to come together before a match and discuss how we were going to play."
Man-management: While Lahm and other Bayern players didn't necessarily warm to Klinsmann, it is worth noting how he revived Germany between 2004 and 2006. After going out in the first round of Euro 2004, reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup was a distinct improvement and led to the previously critical Franz Beckenbauer hoping Klinsmann continued as coach.
Stat: Klinsmann has a win ratio of 57% as USA coach.
Nationality: English Current job: Football media analyst
The former England captain and striker revealed in June that he had approached the FA "four or five years ago" and said he wanted the England job. Shearer was told he did not have the experience.
Would the FA take a risk and appoint one of the leading figures in English football over the past 25 years?
Record: Shearer has only managed eight games, and lost five of them. All of those were at Newcastle, where their former player could not prevent the club from going down to the Championship during the 2008-9 season.
Nationality: French Current job: Arsenal
It is unlikely the 66-year-old's stance has changed since July when he said he would consider the England role - but only after the end of his contract at Arsenal, which expires next summer.
Record: Under his management Arsenal have won: three Premier League titles, six FA Cups and qualified for the Champions League on 19 successive occasions. He has the best record of all the candidates and his club are currently riding high in the league.
Preparation: The Frenchman's training methods have been blamed for causing injuries to Arsenal players. However, statistics for the first half of last season reveal the Gunners had fewer injuries than Manchester City, Liverpool and Manchester United.
"The general plan is to play in training like you do in the game, or even harder," he told the club website in April 2015. "But some days you have to ease off completely and not have the intensity because you need to recover after games. But basically you need to give the players the same intensity they will face in a game."
Tactics: Do England have the players that can skilfully knock the ball around the area and almost walk the ball into the net?
Man-management: In a Q&A session in Japan in 2013, this is what the Frenchman said about managing star players:
"You must know that a person - no matter how big a star he is - is ready to listen to you if it meets his needs. The condition for him to know if you meet his needs is to test you first: Is the manager capable of making him the player he wants to be."
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Today the Indian Ocean archipelago enjoys a high per capita income, good health care and education.
The former British colony's economy depends heavily on the fishing industry and upmarket tourism. Fine beaches and turquoise seas are among the main attractions.
Seychelles also is home to an array of wildlife, including giant tortoises and sea turtles. Much of the land is protected as part of nature reserves.
Population 87,400
Area 455 sq km (176 sq miles)
Major languages English, French, Creole
Major religions Christianity
Life expectancy 68 years (men), 78 years (women)
Currency Seychelles rupee
President: Danny Faure
Danny Faure was sworn in as president in October 2016 and is to complete the five-year term of outgoing President James Michel, who resigned.
Mr Michel gave no reason for his resignation, but it followed parliamentary elections where the opposition coalition Linyon Demokratik (LDS) took control of the legislature from the ruling People's Progressive Front, called Parti Lepep, for the first time in the country's history.
Mr Faure was previously vice president. He is a former finance minister, a governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
The government controls much of the islands' media, and operates radio and TV stations and the sole daily newspaper.
Private or pro-opposition publications can be robust in their reporting despite tough libel laws, although steep licensing fees have discouraged the growth of private broadcast media.
By the end of 2015 there were some 50,000 internet users, out of a population of 87,400 (Internetworldstats.com).
Some key dates in the history of the Seychelles:
1768 - French planters and their slaves begin settling in the Seychelles.
1794 - Britain annexes the Seychelles, which are then administered from Mauritius until 1903, when it becomes a separate British colony.
1976 - Seychelles become independent and are governed by a coalition, with James Mancham as president and France Rene as prime minister, until a coup in 1977 when Rene becomes president.
1981-1982 - South African-based mercenaries try but fail to restore Mancham to power and an army-led mutiny is thwarted.
2004 - President Rene steps down, replaced by former vice president James Michel; he wins the presidential elections in 2006.
2006 - Parliament bans political or religious organisations from running radio stations, sparking a rare outbreak of unrest.
2009 - Somali pirates move their operations southwards to Seychelles and beyond as patrols are stepped up in the Gulf of Aden. US says it will supply Seychelles with drone spy-planes to help fight piracy. France offers legal help.
Seychelles, European Union sign anti-piracy agreement which will allow EU troops to be deployed on the islands.
Excluding the charge and other one-off items, the firm said its operating profit for the half-year until the end of June was up 7% to €7.5bn.
The better-than-expected performance lifted the firm's shares by 4.6%
VW admitted last year to installing illegal software disguising the level of emissions from its diesel cars.
The so called "defeat devices", which deactivated pollution controls, were placed in 11 million cars worldwide.
Europe's biggest car manufacturer said it had seen an improvement in European car markets and the return of orders from corporate fleets.
"The operating result for the Volkswagen group before special items is significantly higher than market expectations for the first half of 2016," VW said in a statement.
The €2.2bn charge relates mainly "to further legal risks predominately arising in North America," the company said.
VW has already set aside €16.2bn to pay for technical upgrades for cars that break clean air standards, buying back cars, and legal costs.
And it says it still expects 2016 sales revenue to fall by up to 5% compared to 2015.
On Tuesday three US states - New York, Massachusetts and Maryland - said they had taken legal action against VW in the wake of the carmaker's emissions scandal.
New York's Attorney-General called the use of "defeat devices" a "widespread conspiracy" and a "cunningly cynical fraud".
"It is regrettable that some states have decided to sue for environmental claims now, notwithstanding their prior support of this ongoing federal-state collaborative process," VW said.
Last month, the carmaker announced a $15.3bn (£11.6bn) settlement with federal regulators, several states and thousands of owners of the affected vehicles.
That deal included a "partial settlement" with New York and 43 other states worth $603m.
Last week, British MPs said that Volkswagen's failure to compensate UK owners of cars affected by the emissions scandal was "deeply unfair".
UK owners can get affected diesel vehicles repaired, but in the US they can also claim up to $10,000 (£7,400) compensation.
The former Everton and Manchester United boss, 53, takes charge at the Stadium of Light after Sam Allardyce left to become England manager.
"I have taken over a big British club, with a great support, and I'm looking forward to working in the Premier League again," said Moyes.
The Scot has been out of work since being sacked by Spanish club Real Sociedad in November.
Allardyce was confirmed as Roy Hodgson's successor with the national team on Friday.
Moyes must 'hit ground running' - Sunderland fan Steve Cram
Sunderland chairman Ellis Short said Moyes was "by far and away first choice" to take control of the Black Cats and that he had tried to recruit him several times before.
"He is a man whose football pedigree speaks for itself and is someone I have long admired," said Short.
"I have spoken with him on many occasions and I have always been hugely impressed.
"He was my number one managerial target for the last five appointments, but his desire to honour existing contracts meant we were not able to bring him to Sunderland previously. To be able to finally welcome him as our manager is fantastic news for the club."
Moyes, who started his managerial career at Preston North End, was voted LMA Manager of the Year three times during an 11-year spell at Everton.
He succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United boss on his fellow Scot's recommendation when he retired after a trophy-laden 26 years in charge at Old Trafford.
But despite signing a six-year deal with the then Premier League champions, he was sacked 10 months later and went on to manage Real Sociedad in Spain.
Moyes was tipped to take over at Aston Villa earlier in the summer but ruled himself out of the running and the job went to Roberto Di Matteo.
"I look forward to continuing the good work done by Sam," said Moyes of the Sunderland role.
He will be the club's fourth manager in less than three years, following Gus Poyet, Dick Advocaat and Allardyce.
Former Bolton, Newcastle and West Ham manager Allardyce joined Sunderland in October 2015, with the club second bottom in the Premier League and winless in their opening eight games.
But they recovered to finish 17th, one place above their relegated north-east rivals Newcastle United.
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"David Moyes will benefit from the structure and order Sam Allardyce brought to Sunderland and will look to get a full understanding of the club and its players.
"Cautious by nature, Moyes is an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, coach. He knows Allardyce well enough to be aware of the problems England's new manager was having trying to buy players.
"It is also worth remembering that after an excellent first full season at Everton, the second had them flirting with relegation.
"History suggests if Sunderland owner Ellis Short is patient with Moyes, he will be rewarded. Yet patience is a commodity in short supply virtually everywhere in football these days."
Harry Beautyman scored with a shot on the turn in the eighth minute for the Cobblers, who are now 30 games unbeaten in the league.
Alex Revell's glancing header made it 2-0, before Matt Taylor curled in a fine free-kick for a third.
Dean Bowditch pulled one back for MK Dons, and Taylor had a penalty saved before a late Samir Carruthers goal.
Northampton, who won League Two last season, were three goals up inside the first half-an-hour, leading when Jak McCourt won the ball and advanced into the area before finding Beautyman, who beat goalkeeper David Martin from 10 yards.
Former Dons striker Revell doubled the advantage five minutes later, getting on the end of Taylor's excellent cross to find the bottom corner of the net.
Nicky Maynard went close for the visitors with a shot on the turn which goalkeeper Adam Smith saved comfortably, but the hosts increased their lead in the 28th minute when Taylor curled a 20-yard free-kick over the wall and into the top corner of the net.
Ed Upson flashed a shot wide before the visitors reduced the arrears in the 38th minute when Bowditch headed home a cross from Carruthers.
Northampton squandered a great opportunity to restore their three-goal advantage shortly after the restart - Bowditch conceding a penalty when he impeded Kenji Gorre only for Martin to save Taylor's effort.
Smith kept out a fierce drive from Carruthers as the visitors looked to make the most of the let-off.
The home side had further chances on the counter but Carruthers reduced the deficit in stoppage-time, racing on to Darren Potter's pass to beat Smith.
Report provided by the Press Association.
Match ends, Northampton Town 3, MK Dons 2.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 3, MK Dons 2.
Goal! Northampton Town 3, MK Dons 2. Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Baldock (MK Dons).
Substitution, Northampton Town. Marc Richards replaces Alex Revell.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Dean Lewington (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Dean Lewington (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Daniel Powell (MK Dons).
Alfie Potter (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
George Baldock (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alfie Potter (Northampton Town).
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Ryan Colclough.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Reeves (MK Dons).
Substitution, Northampton Town. Sam Hoskins replaces Paul Anderson.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alfie Potter replaces Kenji Gorré.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Adam Smith.
Attempt saved. Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Jak McCourt.
Paul Downing (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Foul by Kieran Agard (MK Dons).
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, MK Dons. Ben Reeves replaces Ed Upson.
Substitution, MK Dons. Kieran Agard replaces Nicky Maynard.
Penalty saved! Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Penalty Northampton Town. Kenji Gorré draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Darren Potter (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she doesn't need to use this election to win a mandate for a referendum because the Scottish Parliament has already voted in favour of having another poll.
But she will obviously use this election to make the case that Scotland should be allowed to choose its own future as the UK prepares to leave the EU.
There is a certain irony to Prime Minister Theresa May calling an election now when she also says that "now is not the time" for another referendum on Scottish independence, saying politicians should be concentrating on negotiating Brexit.
It will be tricky for Tories in Scotland to keep telling Ms Sturgeon that she needs to concentrate on the "day job" whilst fighting a general election called by their party leader.
The SNP hope this could be a great opportunity.
A strong performance in the election could boost their demands for an independence vote.
The only problem is that they did so well in the general election of 2015 - winning 56 out of Scotland's 59 seats - that it's hard to see how they could do any better than that.
If they lose seats then their opponents will argue that shows Scottish voters don't want another indyref.
The Tories say they are optimistic about the prospect of "increasing our number of seats". They only hold one at the moment.
The party will go into this election saying they are the only one which will strongly oppose a second referendum on Scottish independence.
That's a position which served them well in the 2016 election to the Holyrood parliament when they overtook Labour to become the second largest party in Scotland.
Scottish Labour struggle to get their message through to voters when the argument is dominated by the constitution and questions of independence.
They oppose another referendum but aren't seen as the natural party for strongly unionist voters.
Their arguments for a federal Britain with greater powers for Scottish Parliament gets drowned out by the fight between the SNP and the Tories.
The Lib Dems - who also voted against a Scottish referendum in the recent Holyrood vote - may also find it difficult to be heard.
The SNP realise it will be difficult to replicate their success in the 2015 election when they took nearly every seat in Scotland with nearly 50% of the vote.
That was an astonishing result in an election held just a few months after the 2014 independence referendum.
Many of the arguments have changed significantly since then. How the SNP perform in this election will shape the constitutional argument in Scotland for years to come.
Ministers have a complicated "to do" list - make sure help gets to where it is required, turn on the taps for emergency cash and show that it is willing and brave enough to work out how it could have happened, in order to give any credible answer to the common cry of "something must be done".
But this government is already so fragile, facing pressure on many fronts, the PM still reeling from the election result only a week ago.
This is a huge political challenge that would test the most secure and most deft team, not least because the grim expectation at Westminster is that any inquiry may suggest that over the years, successive generations of politicians have just not paid enough attention to social housing.
There are layers of accountability here, the housing association, the developers, the council, the government, but few expect the political class will be covered in glory.
And while the prime minister's decision not to visit victims but fire crews and volunteers instead was made, Number 10 believes, for the right reasons, it may, in time prove to be a miscalculation.
Moments like this can require empathy, not just getting on with the almost impossible job.
Great Britain have to their name as London 2012's equestrian events come to a close.
Think of it like ballet, gymnastics and ballroom dancing combined
GB won the team title at Greenwich Park on Tuesday then Charlotte Dujardin saw off a host of rivals, two of whom employed a medley of Phil's finest numbers, in Thursday's individual final, in which horses perform seven-minute routines to music.
These achievements are great, these hours the finest the sport in the UK has known. But these are also events utterly beyond the comprehension of a good many onlookers.
What is it, exactly, that GB are now double Olympic champions in? What did they have to do to win? How do judges decide? And why Phil Collins?
"Think of it like ballet, gymnastics and ballroom dancing combined," suggests Judy Harvey, respected rider and trainer as well as BBC commentator at London 2012.
"The rider is the man taking the lead, the horse is the partner in time with the music. The riders are trying to achieve the spectacular but make it look easy and smooth, in total harmony."
In other words, dressage is about guiding your horse through a series of moves inside a rectangular arena and getting it to perform those moves in the best-looking way possible.
The idea is that riders demonstrate an understanding with their horse. Harmony, as quoted by Harvey, is a word so central to the sport that it's part of the scoring system.
That might sound a bit fuzzy to people who are used to their sport being hard and fast: in football, you can be as discordant as you like but if you win 1-0, you win 1-0.
But dressage is akin to many other Olympic sports - gymnastics, diving, figure skating at the Winter Games - in being subjectively judged, rewarding interpretations and artistry.
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Judges sit at various points around the rectangle, scoring each move as they see it from that angle.
When you see Dujardin get a score like 90.089, which is what she scored for individual gold, that comes from taking all the artistic and technical scores awarded by each judge, then averaging them. It's a percentage, 100 being the maximum, though scores over 90 are incredibly rare.
"The scoring is broken down into sections," explains Pippa Funnell, one of Britain's leading eventers [eventing being a three-discipline equestrian sport which includes dressage, as well as cross-country and showjumping].
"Rhythm, energy and elasticity is one set, then harmony between horse and rider, then choreography and use of the arena, then degree of difficulty."
Half of the score is down to artistry, and half is based on technical aspects of the routine.
What you should be looking for in terms of the technical score, and what the judges reward, is the way the horse carries itself: does it look the way it should look for each move? This extends right down to the tiniest things like the position of its neck and whether its mouth is open or closed.
You also have to watch for communication between horse and rider. Does it look effortless? Do they look like they are performing together, or fighting each other?
There were two outstanding rides in Thursday's final: Dujardin for Britain and, just before her, Adelinde Cornelissen for the Netherlands, who scored 88.196 for silver.
Dutch dressage fans will tell you Cornelissen deserved to win and that Dujardin won because of home advantage, namely the crowd influencing the judges. It was a tight contest.
Dressage takes a long, long time to master and having the right horse is crucial.
You need to spend years with a horse, ideally, to develop the relationship and understanding that results in that all-important harmony.
Riders will tell you that horses all speak in a different 'language' depending who trained them. If you buy a dressage horse ready-made, so to speak, you need to essentially reverse-engineer it to find out what works. Train your own and you're starting from scratch, which takes years of intensive training.
Dujardin is seen as an overnight sensation, at the age of 27, having not even competed at national level until last year. But even she had been preparing her horse for six years before that.
"Our jaws all hit the floor when Charlotte did her first national event in January 2011," says BBC expert Judy Harvey.
"But she didn't burst onto the scene - she was plugging away, it takes six or seven years to train a horse to that level and she was building her way up throughout that time."
"Charlotte's horse Valegro has a faultless outline, by which I mean there's no tension in the horse," is Harvey's view of the showdown between the two. "The neck is very important, as is the way the horse carries the bit in its mouth.
"Adelinde's horse Parzival gets a bit tight in its neck, whereas Charlotte's horse had a beautiful curve from the front of its withers [the area between the shoulder-blades] up to its ears."
Stephen Clarke is the president of the judging panel, contributing one-seventh of the marks for both riders. The judges award their scores independently, so they don't know who has won until they see the total scores averaged out, at the same time as the audience.
"Our impression was Adelinde's horse had huge power and expression but for us there needed to be a little more lightness," was Clarke's summary. He added that Cornelissen lost a few marks for harmony along the way.
"Charlotte had more [harmony] but maybe not as much power and expression today. They ended up very close. I'm sure lots of people will have different opinions but our decision was for the harmony.
"When we finish the test and send our marks, I've no idea which one is going to come out where. When Charlotte finished, I didn't really know which one would win, Charlotte or Adelinde. They were both fantastic."
Not all dressage events feature music but the individual Olympic finale, known as the Grand Prix Freestyle, traditionally does.
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The music sets the tempo for a routine and if you can make your performance work really well to a certain piece, then that can only help your artistry marks.
Dujardin asked Tom Hunt, a composer well known within the sport for his dressage works, to put together a sequence of rousing British themes that featured The Great Escape and Land of Hope and Glory among others. It did the job. "We talked about using some patriotic music on home ground, and Tom did a fantastic job," said her mum, Jane.
But Phil? Well, if you can get the rights to use his music and think it helps, then it's your choice. Tears for Fears and Billy Idol were other entries, some of which said more about the music taste of the nation in question than they did about the rider's dressage skills.
Austria and Denmark were two of the nations to compete to Phil Collins hits but, against all odds, Dujardin and Valegro can dance into the light.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will "increasingly base" their family in London, it said in a statement.
Prince William said it was a "huge privilege" to fly with the East Anglian Air Ambulance, which he joined in 2015.
"I have had experiences in this job I will carry with me for the rest of my life," he said.
The royal couple and their two children are planning to move from their primary residence, Anmer Hall in Norfolk, which they will keep as a home, to their apartment in Kensington Palace.
"[They] love their time in Norfolk and it will continue to be their home", Kensington Palace's statement said.
The move comes ahead of three-year-old Prince George beginning primary school in London in September, and two-year-old Princess Charlotte starting nursery in May.
The palace said the royal couple "are keen to continue to increase their official work on behalf of the Queen".
It comes as the Queen recently stepped down as patron of 25 charitable organisations, passing some of these patronages to the duke and duchess.
Prince William has replaced the Queen as patron of the Amateur Swimming Association while the Duchess of Cambridge took the role at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in Wimbledon.
The palace said these commitments "will require greater time spent in London".
By Peter Hunt, BBC diplomatic and royal correspondent
This will not have been an easy decision for Prince William to make.
For a second time, he's giving up a role he didn't inherit, but gained on merit.
After stints in the RAF and the air ambulance, his days as a pilot are coming to an end.
He will miss them. He's spoken of how he's loved working in a team - something, he said, "his other job" didn't necessarily offer.
The prince is the only senior royal to have a deep understanding of the NHS the majority of the population experience.
Prince William and his wife will be available to do more royal work. The demands will increase now the Queen has turned 90.
The future king's exclusive focus will very soon be on his role as a Windsor and a destiny he'll one day embrace.
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Prince William said his admiration for the medical and emergency services community "could not be any stronger".
He added: "I have loved being part of a team of professional, talented people that save lives every day."
The duke has previously described his experiences of piloting as having "some very sad and dark moments".
He told the BBC in September: "I love working as a team: that's something that my other job doesn't necessarily do: you are more out there on your own a little bit."
The hospital is cancelling about 15 planned operations a day to deal with the problem.
Bosses have apologised to patients affected and appealed for staff to work overtime.
"Derriford Hospital is extremely busy, operating on red alert," Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust said.
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"We have opened 41 escalation beds - every extra bed in every extra space we have.
"However, these beds are not planned for and therefore we did not have rostered staff to care for patients in these beds."
'Extremely difficult'
It admitted that as an acute care hospital, it was "extremely difficult" to deal with the increased demand from people who are living longer but suffering more illness and disability.
"This is a national phenomenon but felt particularly in the south-west due to the age profile of our population," the trust continued.
"We cannot turn away patients who are medical emergencies but the demand for beds means we are having to cancel around 15 planned operations and procedures per day.
"Our staff are working extremely hard, often giving over and above beyond what we would expect."
The NHS uses a national internal alert system based on the colours green, amber, red and black to rank how busy a local health and social care system is.
The Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital are also both on red alert.
The Foreign Affairs Committee warned against using the football tournament to protest against the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Foreign Office should instead increase consular staff and police co-operation to prepare for any crowd trouble, the committee said.
The competition takes place from 14 June to 15 July 2018.
The committee raised concerns about Moscow's "questionable record" on human rights, the rule of law and state-sponsored doping.
World football's governing body should give "serious continuing consideration" about whether Russia remains a suitable host, the MPs said.
But ministers and officials should only shun the tournament for sporting reasons, not Mr Putin's political position, they added.
The report said: "The FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) should use this tournament and others to enhance and repair the wider relationship between the UK and Russia, rather than boycott sport in response to other strained aspects of UK-Russia relations."
The MPs also called for co-operation between the countries' police forces to avoid the violent scenes among Russian and English fans in Marseilles at Euro 2016.
Last year, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said "all options" were being considered to put pressure on the Kremlin over its actions in Syria.
SAVIA said some witnesses have been suicidal after giving testimony to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
SAVIA's secretary, Allison Diver, said victims' group like hers were being left to "pick up the pieces".
The inquiry has its own witness support service, but Ms Diver said it was not doing enough to help witnesses.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was set up by the Stormont executive to examine allegations of abuse in state-run children's homes and other institutions in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995.
It is being chaired by retired judge Sir Anthony Hart and has already interviewed more than 150 witnesses, many of whom suffered physical, sexual, emotional abuse, and neglect, as children in residential homes.
However, Ms Diver's group, Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse, has said they are taking calls from people who have tried to take their own lives shortly after giving evidence to the inquiry, having relived the trauma of their abuse.
"When you come out, you're left on the street and there's nobody to catch you," Ms Diver told BBC Radio Ulster.
"Some people have ended up on the brink of suicide. We have had to go to bridges, where people were going to throw themselves off."
SAVIA has called for face-to-face counselling, by trained professionals, to be provided to witnesses before and after they go through the interview process.
The group wrote to the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) in June, outlining their concerns, but said they have yet to receive a reply.
"We would have expected, with such a pressing matter, that someone would have come back to us straight away," Ms Diver said.
Stormont tendered for a counselling service last year, and it was expected to be in place by March this year, but SAVIA said so far it has not materialised.
Ms Diver said that, at present, witnesses are still going through the inquiry process and SAVIA is "trying to pick up the pieces in the meantime, and trying to be there for people".
"But I mean, we're not trained councillors, and they do need fully trained councillors," she said.
"We were told that we were going to get a tailored package, that would be what victims need - and we were asked in the process what they needed, what we felt they needed - and we're still just being (referred) back to Lifeline or Nexus.
"People don't want to be going through the same trauma of reliving it and trying to explain to the next person on the phone what it is that's happened to them."
She said a dedicated witness support officer was provided on the day that victims give evidence, but having gone through the interview process herself, Ms Diver questioned the level of support.
"I met with a lovely lady, she gave me a cup of tea and stuff and they take you straight through then to the panel, but I didn't realise that (she) was a support officer."
Having worked in the area of victim support, Ms Diver said that if she did not know that the woman was providing the victim support on offer, then others less familiar with the process probably would not realise either.
Ms Diver said: "Before anyone else goes through the doors of the inquiry, sufficient counselling should be in place to let them know what's going to happen to them."
"When they come out, someone should be standing waiting on them, it's the human contact.
"If you've just gone through and spilled out your guts, and gone through the whole thing in your head, the last thing you want to do is pick up a phone, when you're having an emotional breakdown, and trying to speak to someone on a phone, because there's no contact, there's no human hand there."
BBC Northern Ireland put the issues raised by SAVIA to a representative of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
They referred to an earlier statement on their website that said: "The inquiry is well aware that, for many victims and survivors, the process of recounting relevant events can be traumatic for some of the individuals involved.
"Every effort has been made to ensure that sufficient emotional support is available for victims and survivors while they recount their experiences to the acknowledgement forum or give evidence to the inquiry.
"The inquiry has its own witness support service with dedicated witness support officers who provide this role," the statement said.
A spokesperson for OFMDFM told the BBC that the department will "establish a wider victims support service to provide support and advice to victims and survivors before, during and after the inquiry".
An operation to pump 3,000 tonnes of water out of the Hoegh Osaka is expected to last until Sunday.
But poor weather conditions has made it unsafe for the salvors to board on Saturday to finalise pumping arrangements.
High winds of up to 83mph during the night caused the vessel to drag anchor for approximately 100 metres.
The ship had been anchored to help control its movement.
Salvage company Svitzer described working conditions on board as "difficult".
The Hoegh Osaka has been secured two miles (3.2km) east of the Bramble Bank sandbank from which it freed itself on Wednesday.
Water, described as being "lightly contaminated with oil" is being pumped from the ship's hold, which salvers say will cause the ship's 50-degree list to decrease.
The film of oil on the water is believed to have come from vehicles held within the hold.
With no power from the ship's generators, the water is being discharged using portable pumps during daylight hours.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said there was no evidence of any pollution.
Divers are also waiting until conditions improve to complete an inspection of the hull which began yesterday.
The Queen's Harbour Master has introduced an exclusion zone of 984ft (300m) around the vessel, currently held by tugs between Cowes and Lee-on-Solent.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Hugh Shaw, the Secretary of State's representative for maritime salvage and intervention, said: "I've got confidence the salvors can discharge the bulk of the water from sucking underneath the oil and that will leave us with a small quantity of oil on board the vessel."
The 51,000-tonne vehicle transporter "refloated" itself unexpectedly at 14:00 GMT on Wednesday due to the high tide.
It was towed two miles east of Bramble Bank, where it was grounded on Saturday.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Bram Sperling of Svitzer, said there was some water inside because of a "small opening in the vessel" that had since been closed.
A refloat was the preferred option to avoid further damage to the ship from the sandbank.
Salvage experts boarded the ship on Monday and began carrying out an assessment to form a rescue plan.
The Singapore-registered transporter set sail for Germany at about 20:20 on Saturday, shortly before being deliberately run aground by the crew after it unexpectedly started to list.
There were 1,400 cars on board, including 1,200 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles and 65 Minis, as well as 105 JCB machines and 500 tonnes of fuel.
Two crew members out of 25 rescued by RNLI Lifeboats and the Solent Coastguard on Saturday suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Two senior officers and a pilot stayed on board before being taken ashore.
He joined in April to replace the previous chief executive Andy Chen.
"We are thankful to Peter for stepping in as interim CEO," the company said in a statement.
The service, which re-launched in March this year, is hoping to compete with the likes of Spotify, Deezer and Google Play.
Tidal said that "current executives in New York and Oslo will continue to lead our rapidly developing innovation and content initiatives until our new CEO is in place".
Jay Z bought Tidal when he acquired the Swedish company, Aspiro, earlier this year, for $56m (£37m).
Artists including Beyonce, Madonna and Alicia Keys also have equity stakes in Tidal.
The project is meant to be more artist-friendly than its rivals - with musicians earnings 75% royalties, compared to Spotify's 70% and Apple's 71%.
However, it has a subscriber base of just 770,000, compared with Spotify's 20 million.
Wirral West is a tantalising target for the Conservatives. It's a seat they see as rightfully theirs; former Department for Work and Pensions minister Esther McVey was deposed there after a bitter campaign in 2015.
Margaret Greenwood took the seat for Labour with a wafer-thin majority of 417, which is well within reach for the Tories.
Cushion magnate Tony Caldeira is their candidate and he's basking in the glow of coming second in the recent city region metro mayor election with a 20% share of the vote.
In Wirral South, Alison McGovern won for Labour with a majority of just under 5,000 or 11% of the vote - making it another target for the Conservatives.
They've selected Wirral councillor Adam Sykes as their candidate.
Ms McGovern has a big team of local campaigners, but it remains to be seen whether the Conservatives can knock on enough doors to make a difference.
Elsewhere on Merseyside, Southport is a three-way race, which has been represented by Liberal Democrat John Pugh since 2001.
His personal popularity saw him hang on in 2015 when plenty of his Liberal Democrat colleagues lost their seats but he's standing down this time.
His party has selected Sefton councillor Sue McGuire to stand, but she'll face a tough battle from Conservative Damien Moore who came second in 2015 and Labour also fancy their chances.
Merseyside is Labour-dominated. In Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens constituencies, there are some staggering Labour majorities which are unlikely to be dented significantly.
Liverpool Walton will definitely have a new MP, as Steve Rotheram stood down following his election as metro mayor.
The Labour candidate selected to replace him, Dan Carden, has faced opposition from local Labour members, unhappy about his relative inexperience in local politics. Local businessman Terry May, a former Labour member, is standing against him.
UKIP are standing in fewer Merseyside seats this time, they're not running in places like Bootle where Paul Nuttall came second in 2015.
The Green Party will be challenging in Knowsley and St Helens, where it believes the issue of green space development is costing Labour valuable votes. | The US Envoy to Northern Ireland, former Senator Gary Hart, is set to return next month to help with the current political crisis at Stormont.
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Great Britain have to their name as London 2012's equestrian events come to a close.
Think of it like ballet, gymnastics and ballroom dancing combined
GB won the team title at Greenwich Park on Tuesday then Charlotte Dujardin saw off a host of rivals, two of whom employed a medley of Phil's finest numbers, in Thursday's individual final, in which horses perform seven-minute routines to music.
These achievements are great, these hours the finest the sport in the UK has known. But these are also events utterly beyond the comprehension of a good many onlookers.
What is it, exactly, that GB are now double Olympic champions in? What did they have to do to win? How do judges decide? And why Phil Collins?
"Think of it like ballet, gymnastics and ballroom dancing combined," suggests Judy Harvey, respected rider and trainer as well as BBC commentator at London 2012.
"The rider is the man taking the lead, the horse is the partner in time with the music. The riders are trying to achieve the spectacular but make it look easy and smooth, in total harmony."
In other words, dressage is about guiding your horse through a series of moves inside a rectangular arena and getting it to perform those moves in the best-looking way possible.
The idea is that riders demonstrate an understanding with their horse. Harmony, as quoted by Harvey, is a word so central to the sport that it's part of the scoring system.
That might sound a bit fuzzy to people who are used to their sport being hard and fast: in football, you can be as discordant as you like but if you win 1-0, you win 1-0.
But dressage is akin to many other Olympic sports - gymnastics, diving, figure skating at the Winter Games - in being subjectively judged, rewarding interpretations and artistry.
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Judges sit at various points around the rectangle, scoring each move as they see it from that angle.
When you see Dujardin get a score like 90.089, which is what she scored for individual gold, that comes from taking all the artistic and technical scores awarded by each judge, then averaging them. It's a percentage, 100 being the maximum, though scores over 90 are incredibly rare.
"The scoring is broken down into sections," explains Pippa Funnell, one of Britain's leading eventers [eventing being a three-discipline equestrian sport which includes dressage, as well as cross-country and showjumping].
"Rhythm, energy and elasticity is one set, then harmony between horse and rider, then choreography and use of the arena, then degree of difficulty."
Half of the score is down to artistry, and half is based on technical aspects of the routine.
What you should be looking for in terms of the technical score, and what the judges reward, is the way the horse carries itself: does it look the way it should look for each move? This extends right down to the tiniest things like the position of its neck and whether its mouth is open or closed.
You also have to watch for communication between horse and rider. Does it look effortless? Do they look like they are performing together, or fighting each other?
There were two outstanding rides in Thursday's final: Dujardin for Britain and, just before her, Adelinde Cornelissen for the Netherlands, who scored 88.196 for silver.
Dutch dressage fans will tell you Cornelissen deserved to win and that Dujardin won because of home advantage, namely the crowd influencing the judges. It was a tight contest.
Dressage takes a long, long time to master and having the right horse is crucial.
You need to spend years with a horse, ideally, to develop the relationship and understanding that results in that all-important harmony.
Riders will tell you that horses all speak in a different 'language' depending who trained them. If you buy a dressage horse ready-made, so to speak, you need to essentially reverse-engineer it to find out what works. Train your own and you're starting from scratch, which takes years of intensive training.
Dujardin is seen as an overnight sensation, at the age of 27, having not even competed at national level until last year. But even she had been preparing her horse for six years before that.
"Our jaws all hit the floor when Charlotte did her first national event in January 2011," says BBC expert Judy Harvey.
"But she didn't burst onto the scene - she was plugging away, it takes six or seven years to train a horse to that level and she was building her way up throughout that time."
"Charlotte's horse Valegro has a faultless outline, by which I mean there's no tension in the horse," is Harvey's view of the showdown between the two. "The neck is very important, as is the way the horse carries the bit in its mouth.
"Adelinde's horse Parzival gets a bit tight in its neck, whereas Charlotte's horse had a beautiful curve from the front of its withers [the area between the shoulder-blades] up to its ears."
Stephen Clarke is the president of the judging panel, contributing one-seventh of the marks for both riders. The judges award their scores independently, so they don't know who has won until they see the total scores averaged out, at the same time as the audience.
"Our impression was Adelinde's horse had huge power and expression but for us there needed to be a little more lightness," was Clarke's summary. He added that Cornelissen lost a few marks for harmony along the way.
"Charlotte had more [harmony] but maybe not as much power and expression today. They ended up very close. I'm sure lots of people will have different opinions but our decision was for the harmony.
"When we finish the test and send our marks, I've no idea which one is going to come out where. When Charlotte finished, I didn't really know which one would win, Charlotte or Adelinde. They were both fantastic."
Not all dressage events feature music but the individual Olympic finale, known as the Grand Prix Freestyle, traditionally does.
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The music sets the tempo for a routine and if you can make your performance work really well to a certain piece, then that can only help your artistry marks.
Dujardin asked Tom Hunt, a composer well known within the sport for his dressage works, to put together a sequence of rousing British themes that featured The Great Escape and Land of Hope and Glory among others. It did the job. "We talked about using some patriotic music on home ground, and Tom did a fantastic job," said her mum, Jane.
But Phil? Well, if you can get the rights to use his music and think it helps, then it's your choice. Tears for Fears and Billy Idol were other entries, some of which said more about the music taste of the nation in question than they did about the rider's dressage skills.
Austria and Denmark were two of the nations to compete to Phil Collins hits but, against all odds, Dujardin and Valegro can dance into the light.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will "increasingly base" their family in London, it said in a statement.
Prince William said it was a "huge privilege" to fly with the East Anglian Air Ambulance, which he joined in 2015.
"I have had experiences in this job I will carry with me for the rest of my life," he said.
The royal couple and their two children are planning to move from their primary residence, Anmer Hall in Norfolk, which they will keep as a home, to their apartment in Kensington Palace.
"[They] love their time in Norfolk and it will continue to be their home", Kensington Palace's statement said.
The move comes ahead of three-year-old Prince George beginning primary school in London in September, and two-year-old Princess Charlotte starting nursery in May.
The palace said the royal couple "are keen to continue to increase their official work on behalf of the Queen".
It comes as the Queen recently stepped down as patron of 25 charitable organisations, passing some of these patronages to the duke and duchess.
Prince William has replaced the Queen as patron of the Amateur Swimming Association while the Duchess of Cambridge took the role at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in Wimbledon.
The palace said these commitments "will require greater time spent in London".
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This will not have been an easy decision for Prince William to make.
For a second time, he's giving up a role he didn't inherit, but gained on merit.
After stints in the RAF and the air ambulance, his days as a pilot are coming to an end.
He will miss them. He's spoken of how he's loved working in a team - something, he said, "his other job" didn't necessarily offer.
The prince is the only senior royal to have a deep understanding of the NHS the majority of the population experience.
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Prince William said his admiration for the medical and emergency services community "could not be any stronger".
He added: "I have loved being part of a team of professional, talented people that save lives every day."
The duke has previously described his experiences of piloting as having "some very sad and dark moments".
He told the BBC in September: "I love working as a team: that's something that my other job doesn't necessarily do: you are more out there on your own a little bit."
The hospital is cancelling about 15 planned operations a day to deal with the problem.
Bosses have apologised to patients affected and appealed for staff to work overtime.
"Derriford Hospital is extremely busy, operating on red alert," Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust said.
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"We have opened 41 escalation beds - every extra bed in every extra space we have.
"However, these beds are not planned for and therefore we did not have rostered staff to care for patients in these beds."
'Extremely difficult'
It admitted that as an acute care hospital, it was "extremely difficult" to deal with the increased demand from people who are living longer but suffering more illness and disability.
"This is a national phenomenon but felt particularly in the south-west due to the age profile of our population," the trust continued.
"We cannot turn away patients who are medical emergencies but the demand for beds means we are having to cancel around 15 planned operations and procedures per day.
"Our staff are working extremely hard, often giving over and above beyond what we would expect."
The NHS uses a national internal alert system based on the colours green, amber, red and black to rank how busy a local health and social care system is.
The Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital are also both on red alert.
The Foreign Affairs Committee warned against using the football tournament to protest against the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Foreign Office should instead increase consular staff and police co-operation to prepare for any crowd trouble, the committee said.
The competition takes place from 14 June to 15 July 2018.
The committee raised concerns about Moscow's "questionable record" on human rights, the rule of law and state-sponsored doping.
World football's governing body should give "serious continuing consideration" about whether Russia remains a suitable host, the MPs said.
But ministers and officials should only shun the tournament for sporting reasons, not Mr Putin's political position, they added.
The report said: "The FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) should use this tournament and others to enhance and repair the wider relationship between the UK and Russia, rather than boycott sport in response to other strained aspects of UK-Russia relations."
The MPs also called for co-operation between the countries' police forces to avoid the violent scenes among Russian and English fans in Marseilles at Euro 2016.
Last year, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said "all options" were being considered to put pressure on the Kremlin over its actions in Syria.
SAVIA said some witnesses have been suicidal after giving testimony to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
SAVIA's secretary, Allison Diver, said victims' group like hers were being left to "pick up the pieces".
The inquiry has its own witness support service, but Ms Diver said it was not doing enough to help witnesses.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was set up by the Stormont executive to examine allegations of abuse in state-run children's homes and other institutions in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995.
It is being chaired by retired judge Sir Anthony Hart and has already interviewed more than 150 witnesses, many of whom suffered physical, sexual, emotional abuse, and neglect, as children in residential homes.
However, Ms Diver's group, Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse, has said they are taking calls from people who have tried to take their own lives shortly after giving evidence to the inquiry, having relived the trauma of their abuse.
"When you come out, you're left on the street and there's nobody to catch you," Ms Diver told BBC Radio Ulster.
"Some people have ended up on the brink of suicide. We have had to go to bridges, where people were going to throw themselves off."
SAVIA has called for face-to-face counselling, by trained professionals, to be provided to witnesses before and after they go through the interview process.
The group wrote to the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) in June, outlining their concerns, but said they have yet to receive a reply.
"We would have expected, with such a pressing matter, that someone would have come back to us straight away," Ms Diver said.
Stormont tendered for a counselling service last year, and it was expected to be in place by March this year, but SAVIA said so far it has not materialised.
Ms Diver said that, at present, witnesses are still going through the inquiry process and SAVIA is "trying to pick up the pieces in the meantime, and trying to be there for people".
"But I mean, we're not trained councillors, and they do need fully trained councillors," she said.
"We were told that we were going to get a tailored package, that would be what victims need - and we were asked in the process what they needed, what we felt they needed - and we're still just being (referred) back to Lifeline or Nexus.
"People don't want to be going through the same trauma of reliving it and trying to explain to the next person on the phone what it is that's happened to them."
She said a dedicated witness support officer was provided on the day that victims give evidence, but having gone through the interview process herself, Ms Diver questioned the level of support.
"I met with a lovely lady, she gave me a cup of tea and stuff and they take you straight through then to the panel, but I didn't realise that (she) was a support officer."
Having worked in the area of victim support, Ms Diver said that if she did not know that the woman was providing the victim support on offer, then others less familiar with the process probably would not realise either.
Ms Diver said: "Before anyone else goes through the doors of the inquiry, sufficient counselling should be in place to let them know what's going to happen to them."
"When they come out, someone should be standing waiting on them, it's the human contact.
"If you've just gone through and spilled out your guts, and gone through the whole thing in your head, the last thing you want to do is pick up a phone, when you're having an emotional breakdown, and trying to speak to someone on a phone, because there's no contact, there's no human hand there."
BBC Northern Ireland put the issues raised by SAVIA to a representative of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
They referred to an earlier statement on their website that said: "The inquiry is well aware that, for many victims and survivors, the process of recounting relevant events can be traumatic for some of the individuals involved.
"Every effort has been made to ensure that sufficient emotional support is available for victims and survivors while they recount their experiences to the acknowledgement forum or give evidence to the inquiry.
"The inquiry has its own witness support service with dedicated witness support officers who provide this role," the statement said.
A spokesperson for OFMDFM told the BBC that the department will "establish a wider victims support service to provide support and advice to victims and survivors before, during and after the inquiry".
An operation to pump 3,000 tonnes of water out of the Hoegh Osaka is expected to last until Sunday.
But poor weather conditions has made it unsafe for the salvors to board on Saturday to finalise pumping arrangements.
High winds of up to 83mph during the night caused the vessel to drag anchor for approximately 100 metres.
The ship had been anchored to help control its movement.
Salvage company Svitzer described working conditions on board as "difficult".
The Hoegh Osaka has been secured two miles (3.2km) east of the Bramble Bank sandbank from which it freed itself on Wednesday.
Water, described as being "lightly contaminated with oil" is being pumped from the ship's hold, which salvers say will cause the ship's 50-degree list to decrease.
The film of oil on the water is believed to have come from vehicles held within the hold.
With no power from the ship's generators, the water is being discharged using portable pumps during daylight hours.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said there was no evidence of any pollution.
Divers are also waiting until conditions improve to complete an inspection of the hull which began yesterday.
The Queen's Harbour Master has introduced an exclusion zone of 984ft (300m) around the vessel, currently held by tugs between Cowes and Lee-on-Solent.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Hugh Shaw, the Secretary of State's representative for maritime salvage and intervention, said: "I've got confidence the salvors can discharge the bulk of the water from sucking underneath the oil and that will leave us with a small quantity of oil on board the vessel."
The 51,000-tonne vehicle transporter "refloated" itself unexpectedly at 14:00 GMT on Wednesday due to the high tide.
It was towed two miles east of Bramble Bank, where it was grounded on Saturday.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Bram Sperling of Svitzer, said there was some water inside because of a "small opening in the vessel" that had since been closed.
A refloat was the preferred option to avoid further damage to the ship from the sandbank.
Salvage experts boarded the ship on Monday and began carrying out an assessment to form a rescue plan.
The Singapore-registered transporter set sail for Germany at about 20:20 on Saturday, shortly before being deliberately run aground by the crew after it unexpectedly started to list.
There were 1,400 cars on board, including 1,200 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles and 65 Minis, as well as 105 JCB machines and 500 tonnes of fuel.
Two crew members out of 25 rescued by RNLI Lifeboats and the Solent Coastguard on Saturday suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Two senior officers and a pilot stayed on board before being taken ashore.
He joined in April to replace the previous chief executive Andy Chen.
"We are thankful to Peter for stepping in as interim CEO," the company said in a statement.
The service, which re-launched in March this year, is hoping to compete with the likes of Spotify, Deezer and Google Play.
Tidal said that "current executives in New York and Oslo will continue to lead our rapidly developing innovation and content initiatives until our new CEO is in place".
Jay Z bought Tidal when he acquired the Swedish company, Aspiro, earlier this year, for $56m (£37m).
Artists including Beyonce, Madonna and Alicia Keys also have equity stakes in Tidal.
The project is meant to be more artist-friendly than its rivals - with musicians earnings 75% royalties, compared to Spotify's 70% and Apple's 71%.
However, it has a subscriber base of just 770,000, compared with Spotify's 20 million.
Wirral West is a tantalising target for the Conservatives. It's a seat they see as rightfully theirs; former Department for Work and Pensions minister Esther McVey was deposed there after a bitter campaign in 2015.
Margaret Greenwood took the seat for Labour with a wafer-thin majority of 417, which is well within reach for the Tories.
Cushion magnate Tony Caldeira is their candidate and he's basking in the glow of coming second in the recent city region metro mayor election with a 20% share of the vote.
In Wirral South, Alison McGovern won for Labour with a majority of just under 5,000 or 11% of the vote - making it another target for the Conservatives.
They've selected Wirral councillor Adam Sykes as their candidate.
Ms McGovern has a big team of local campaigners, but it remains to be seen whether the Conservatives can knock on enough doors to make a difference.
Elsewhere on Merseyside, Southport is a three-way race, which has been represented by Liberal Democrat John Pugh since 2001.
His personal popularity saw him hang on in 2015 when plenty of his Liberal Democrat colleagues lost their seats but he's standing down this time.
His party has selected Sefton councillor Sue McGuire to stand, but she'll face a tough battle from Conservative Damien Moore who came second in 2015 and Labour also fancy their chances.
Merseyside is Labour-dominated. In Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens constituencies, there are some staggering Labour majorities which are unlikely to be dented significantly.
Liverpool Walton will definitely have a new MP, as Steve Rotheram stood down following his election as metro mayor.
The Labour candidate selected to replace him, Dan Carden, has faced opposition from local Labour members, unhappy about his relative inexperience in local politics. Local businessman Terry May, a former Labour member, is standing against him.
UKIP are standing in fewer Merseyside seats this time, they're not running in places like Bootle where Paul Nuttall came second in 2015.
The Green Party will be challenging in Knowsley and St Helens, where it believes the issue of green space development is costing Labour valuable votes.
Opened in 1973, the Sydney Opera House has a "national identity value" estimated at A$4.6bn (£2.7bn; $3.5bn) by Deloitte, attracts 8.2 million visitors a year and is a World Heritage site listed as a "masterpiece of human creative genius".
No other piece of architecture epitomises Australia so well.
Now plans have been unveiled for its largest renovations ever, begging the question: how do you upgrade one of the most iconic structures in the world?
As architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall said as reported by news outlet The Australian, "so delicate are the nips and tucks at Bennelong Point [where the Opera House sits], it's like doing cosmetic surgery on the Queen".
Part of a "decade of renewal", the A$202 million revamp will start next year and is due to finish in 2023 in time for the Opera House's 50th anniversary.
Blueprints include the installation of a new creative learning centre and function centre in former office space, a A$45-50m upgrade to stage machinery in the Joan Sutherland Theatre, improved access for wheelchair users, and the creation of a car-free entrance under the Monumental Steps.
The lion's share of the state government funding - A$150m - will go towards bolstering acoustics and accessibility in the Concert Hall, which sits up to 2,679 people.
Such works are "essential" in a structure erected before the digital revolution, insists Sydney Opera House CEO Louise Herron.
"The Opera House is one of the busiest performing arts centres in the world, staging more than 2,000 performances a year for more than 1.5 million people," she says. "We need to equip it to keep inspiring people well into the 21st Century."
Herron envisions the upgrades as allowing seamless movement between different "modes and moods" of performers who might range from a full symphony orchestra to a rock band to one-man talks from the likes of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver or philosopher Alain de Botton.
Past renovations have included the refurbishment of the Reception Hall in 1999 by Jørn Utzon, the Opera House's original architect. He had a falling out with the New South Wales state government and resigned before his masterpiece was opened, but was re-engaged in the 1990s to work on the hall, now known as the Utzon Room.
In 2006 a 45-metre Colonnade was constructed along the western facade, with glass windows providing panoramic views of the Harbour. And last year the outside forecourt was made more pedestrian-friendly in a A$150m project.
Critical for the even bigger renovations to come will be keeping the Opera House's heritage and celebrated exterior intact while making much-needed improvements.
For some, however, the renovations present a risk. Success will be measured in balancing "justifiable alterations… [and] the gamble of compromising a masterwork," writes Gerard Reinmuth, a professor of architectural practice at University of Technology Sydney, on The Conversation's website.
Reinmuth believes that the four different architectural practices hired for the renovations might be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth.
"The Opera House is the work of a single vision... while such oversight [in spreading the responsibility] may not result in a poor outcome, it is unlikely to elicit a great one," he states.
Jan Utzon, a member of the architectural panel reviewing the plans and the son of Jørn Utzon, preaches on the side of caution: what is crucial is not "implementing changes that could detract or ruin this iconic value for Australia".
Utzon, however, believes his father would have approved: "I think he always felt that the Opera House is alive and has a life brought about by the society at the time."
One person happy to see renovations is David Robertson, chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, who rehearse in the Concert Hall.
"For Australians it shows a sense of pride which is unparalled - it's like how the French look at the Eiffel Tower or the Indians look at the Taj Mahal," he says.
Acoustics in the Concert Hall, however, lag behind other major worldwide venues. Currently "you don't hear all the wonderful colours and blends and subtleties and choices that the [orchestra] are making," says Robertson.
"Given that there are various shadings - and we would like acoustics that go from a single speaker to a whole orchestra and chorus to the possibility of jazz and rock groups that use amplification - the demands on the hall are quite substantial," he adds.
Such acoustic drawbacks were present when the hall first opened. To attempt to rectify this clear plastic "doughnuts" were retrofitted as acoustic reflectors, black curtains added as sound dampeners, and risers used on stage to vary the height of musicians.
The challenge is the "huge size of the hall, with a really large distance between the stage and the last row of the audience," says Gunter Engel, an acoustic consultant at Munich-based Muller-BBM, the firm hired to work on acoustics.
He explains: "The distribution of the volume in the hall is very unusual with the main volume above the stage instead of above the audience. This presents… difficult conditions not only for the audience but also for the musicians on stage."
New designs include an adjustable stage and wing-like panels that will act as sound reflectors. Air-conditioning plants on the ceiling - currently equivalent in size to four shipping containers - will also be replaced to lower background noise.
Robertson says such acoustic improvements are akin to sending the Hubble Telescope into space. For musicians and audience alike, it will be like seeing "the wonders of the universe for the first time".
Manohar Lal Sharma told the BBC the three - Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur and Ram Singh - should get a fair trial.
The five accused were charged on Monday. The next hearing in the case will be held on Thursday.
The case has shocked India and prompted a debate about the treatment of women.
A sixth suspect, who is thought to be 17, will be tried separately in a youth court if it is confirmed he is a minor.
On Thursday, a magistrate is expected to transfer the case for trial to a special fast-track court.
If convicted, the suspects could face the death penalty. Prosecutors have said they have extensive forensic evidence.
Mr Sharma said he would file a representation letter on behalf of his clients on Thursday.
"I believe the accused should get a fair trial and I have come forward to represent them," he said, adding that he plans to challenge the police over their handling of the evidence linking the accused to the case.
It is not clear how the other two suspects - Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma - will plead or who will represent them.
Earlier reports said they had offered to give evidence, possibly in return for a lighter sentence.
The lawyers' association in the district of Saket, where hearings in the case are being held, has refused to defend the accused because of the outcry the crime has provoked.
The case has triggered numerous protests, as have suggestions by various public figures that women themselves can be partly to blame for being raped.
Most recently the popular guru Asharam, known to his followers as "Bapu" or father, told followers that the tragedy would not have happened if the victim had chanted God's name and fallen at the feet of the attackers.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, spokesman for the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, condemned the remarks.
"For him to make the statement in relation to a crime which has shocked the conscience of the country is not only unfortunate, but deeply regrettable," he said.
The victim and a male friend were attacked on a bus in south Delhi on 16 December. She died two weeks later in a hospital in Singapore.
Campaigners are calling for tougher rape laws and reforms to the police, who - critics say - often fail to file charges against accused attackers.
Or any journalists, for that matter.
A few days before the British chancellor was due to begin his five-day tour of China - including the controversial stop in Xinjiang's capital city, Urumqi - our BBC team set off for Kashgar, the ancient Silk Route city that has long been the beating cultural heart of this remote western region.
We picked up a rental car at the airport and drove south and then east out of the city.
Hired drivers in Xinjiang make easy police informants so we decided to drive ourselves.
In a few hours we'd made it to the county of Yarkand, slipping unnoticed on the back roads past the checkpoints.
Yarkand is a part of Xinjiang that has seen some of the worst violence. In one incident last year, state media says, 59 "terrorists" were shot dead here.
But according to some foreign media reports it was in fact a local uprising in response to police brutality, then heavily put down with live ammunition.
We hoped we could speak to eyewitnesses and form our own view of where the truth really lay.
Down a quiet lane, at the edge of a tiny hamlet, we stopped at one house and struck up a conversation with the occupants, all ethnic Uighurs.
One young man, a construction worker, agreed to be interviewed as long as we disguised his identity.
We began recording at once, keen not to linger too long to avoid being discovered by local officials or the police.
If they had have shown up they would have been delighted though. The man was a propaganda department's dream.
Did he feel, as some allege, that most of the good jobs in Xinjiang go to China's majority Han Chinese - incomers over recent years - at the expense of Uighurs?
No, he replied, things were pretty fair.
Did he feel any grievance about rule from Beijing, more than 2,000 miles (3,200km) away?
No, he supported the Communist Party, he replied.
And he went on to echo the Chinese authorities' constant refrain: that the violence of recent years, in which many innocent lives have been lost, is caused by isolated terrorists, fuelled by extremist ideology, without real roots in the community.
He just wanted a quiet life, he said, although he did have one grumble - corruption.
The system wasn't the problem, it seemed, but the people who ran it sometimes were.
It could be a message written by Chinese President Xi Jinping himself.
It's impossible to know how deeply his opinions were held as, of course, to express any other views in Xinjiang would be dangerous.
But it felt, in large part at least, that he was being frank and the exchange is an illustration of how complex and nuanced the picture is.
There are indeed many Uighurs loyal to the party and the state - both within and without the security services - who may well be enthusiastic supporters of the kind of trade deals the British chancellor is hoping to foster.
But then there are clearly plenty of others who are not so keen on the status quo - why else the need for such tight security, surveillance and control?
As feared and just minutes after our interview was over, as we were driving away, our car was pulled over by village officials and we were handed over to the local government who kept us for hours in their office before escorting us all the way back to our hotel in Kashgar.
For the rest of our time in Xinjiang we entered a now familiar pattern for anyone who has tried to report here.
First the futile attempts to gather testimony from local people, each time encountering something between reluctance and outright fear of offering an opinion, even off camera.
And then at some point during the day, the inevitable encounter with the police and local officials, insistent always that we were to be prevented from doing any journalism without their constant presence.
That China faces a serious and growing threat in Xinjiang is undisputed.
In the rising tide of violence in recent years, in markets, train stations and tourist spots, militant Uighurs have hit hard at home as well as taking their attacks to other Chinese cities, including Beijing.
China's response though has been ruthless: ratcheting up surveillance and security, mass arrests and the rapid processing of suspects through the Communist Party's notoriously rigged courts.
One prison, on the outskirts of Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi - not too far from where George Osborne is staying - holds Ilham Tohti, a respected Uighur academic and moderate critic of Chinese policy whose life sentence sparked an international outcry.
There's an uncomfortable piece of timing in his incarceration - Mr Osborne and his trade delegation are here exactly one year to the day that Ilham Tohti was convicted.
His daughter, Jewher Ilham, is studying in the US, from where she told me she wants George Osborne to raise her father's case.
"I want the British politicians to tell the authorities that Ilham Tohti is not a terrorist," she tells me.
"He has been shackled and beaten and denied food and… he has suffered a lot."
On our final day in Kashgar, finding ourselves once again in the custody of the Chinese police, we submitted to their enforced guided tour.
They took us to the old city, until recently a 2,000-year-old architectural treasure and home to many thousands of Uighur residents.
In the past five years it has been all but flattened and rebuilt, modernised and remoulded, to make it "earthquake proof," China says, complete with Chinese style pagodas and cheap camel statues for tourists to pose on.
The police agreed that we could film at the city's old Id Kah mosque - under their guidance of course.
I was keen to ask worshippers what they thought of the heavy restrictions placed on their faith in response to the perceived threat of growing Islamic radicalisation.
Young men are banned from growing long beards, women from wearing the full veil and government officials, even ethnic Uighur ones, are prevented from attending the mosque at all.
But as prayers finished our minders told us that the permission to speak to ordinary people had been withdrawn.
I replied that we were going to interview people regardless, and we headed off into the square where we were able to record a few comments from a curious, but nervous group of Uighur men.
"We're just ordinary people," one man told me in answer to my question about whether the restrictions were fair.
"We have no rights."
Suddenly, one of our police escorts heaved into view, arms flailing and pushing the small crowd that had gathered out of the way.
As our camera turned to film him, he lunged in fury, violently grabbing it and trying to rip it from its shoulder strap, breaking off the microphone as he did so.
After the crowd dispersed and his anger subsided he spent the next hour or so searching our video files, forcing us to delete the footage of the incident.
Even by China's standards Xinjiang is an extremely difficult place to operate as a journalist. But nothing has changed there.
The big question is whether this is now the right time for what is thought to be the first government delegation from a major Western power?
Amnesty International's East Asia director, Nicholas Bequelin, thinks not.
"For the Chinese this is a major political coup," he says.
"At the highest level of the UK government, there is certainly a sense that not only you have to ignore human rights in China to do business, but you have even to make a song and dance about how much you're ignoring it, which is a very naive approach and very destructive in the long term."
The British government says it does raise human rights concerns, in private.
In public, though, the talk is of an ever-closer partnership, including here, in one of China's most troubled regions.
The payout refers to tracks with unknown owners used on the platform between August 2012 and December 2015.
Publishers who opt in will be sent a list and will then have a window in which to claim ownership.
After that, the remaining unclaimed royalties will be shared among them.
The total amount to be offered has not been confirmed, but was reported by the New York Times to be more than $40m (£31m).
The opt-in period, which opens on Monday, 12 December, ends on 28 February 2017. Publishers will then have three months to make a claim.
The process will be repeated in 2017, 2018 and 2019 for the previous year's royalties.
"It is essential that we work with digital services like YouTube... to fix the challenge of incomplete ownership information to ensure royalties are no longer unmatched and music owners are paid accurately by the platforms that rely on their work," said NMPA founder and chief executive David Israelite in a statement.
YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl wrote in a blogpost this week that the Google-owned platform had paid more than $1bn in royalties to artists in 2016.
But the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said that it was not enough.
"With 800 million music users worldwide, YouTube is generating revenues of just over $1 per user for the entire year," a spokesman told the BBC earlier this week.
"This pales in comparison to the revenue generated by other services, ranging from Apple to Deezer to Spotify. For example, in 2015 Spotify alone paid record labels some $2bn, equivalent to an estimated $18 per user."
He had been suffering from a rare kidney disorder and was undergoing dialysis.
New Zealanders, fans and members of the worldwide rugby community have been paying tribute.
The report says: "The UK currently hands over £19bn to the EU every year. We get £9bn back in services and the rebate which means when we vote Leave we will be able to guarantee all the funding to farmers, universities and regional grants that currently come from the EU and still have £10bn more to spend on our priorities like the NHS."
Let's have a look at those figures in turn.
The gross contribution in 2014 was indeed just under £19bn, although that wasn't the amount "handed over" to the EU, because the rebate is deducted before the contribution is paid.
The amount that we got back via the rebate was £4.4bn and then services to the public sector such as support for farmers and regional grants added up to another £4.6bn, making up the £9bn the report refers to.
But that money will not cover private sector grants such as those to universities, to which the report also refers, which adds another £1.4bn.
It means that the amount the government had left to spend would be £8.4bn and not £10bn.
And that assumes that the UK would not end up having to make any contributions to the EU Budget in order to get access to the single market, as countries such as Norway do, and there would be no other costs to the economy as a consequence of leaving the EU.
Reality Check Verdict: They've got their sums wrong - post-Brexit UK certainly wouldn't have £10bn extra to spend and it could be considerably less.
READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
It wasn't even his worry that ATMs up and down the country might simply stop functioning.
Those answers were of course chilling. But they were symptoms of a wider disease.
Mr Darling's most striking answer was the "absolute astonishment" he felt when he asked Britain's largest banks to account for the risks contained in their businesses - and they were unable to come up with a coherent answer.
This total lack of knowledge - coupled with the hubris of profit-taking built on lax credit - went to the heart of the financial crisis.
Regulators appeared similarly non-plussed.
Such was the global complexity and lack of governance in the international financial system, when it came to rescuing the banks from having to eat their own sick, the UK government - and many other governments around the world - initially had no idea how large the bill would be.
And neither did the banks.
The only funding avenues large enough to contain such unquantifiable risks were those provided by central banks and the taxpayer.
The alternative was financial meltdown.
The numbers turned out to be astronomical. A National Audit Office report in August this year suggested the value of the UK government's total support for the financial system alone exceeded £1.1tn at its height.
Many tens of billions of pounds worth of capital was directly injected into failing banks and building societies.
The rest of that dizzying £1.1tn was the total value of liability insurance - the government guaranteeing banks' security as lender of last resort.
Put simply, the taxpayer had become the guarantor of the global financial system and the banks that are the essential plumbing of that system.
In direct capital the UK government (the taxpayer) ultimately had to find over £100bn. More than £66bn was used to rescue the Royal Bank of Scotland (still 80% owned by the government) and Lloyds Bank (still 25% owned by the government).
Of that, the sale of two chunks of Lloyds since the last election in 2010 has raised the princely sum of £7.4bn.
UK Asset Resolution, the state agency charged with handling the collapse of those other lead players in the the financial crisis, Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley, has so far paid back £12bn of a near-£50bn government loan.
What is clear is that the taxpayer is still a good deal out of pocket.
Never again, went out the cry. At the G20 summit in London in 2009, world leaders from President Barack Obama to Gordon Brown demanded that the ugly canard of "too big to fail" - banks so large that their collapse would spark economic chaos - was brought to an end.
They demanded that the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a grouping of central bankers and financial policy makers, come up with a plan. Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, is chairman of the FSB.
Today, after years of weighty policy documents and discussion, Mr Carney says that in the battle to end taxpayer exposure to failing financial institutions the world has reached a "watershed moment".
The FSB has published new standards on "loss absorbing capital" for all globally significant banks - major chunks of money banks will have to raise to ensure they have access to enough money to weather any future crisis without recourse to government coffers.
The FSB says banks will have to be able to access capital worth between 15% and 20% of their assets.
That is a very big number. Analysts suggest that the bill for this major amount of new capital could be as high as €200bn (£157bn) for Europe's banks alone.
The bill for American, Japanese and Chinese institutions which also make up the list of "globally significant banks" would be far higher.
As Roberto Nicastro, group general manager at UniCredit, told the Financial Times: "Banks would need to comply by further reducing lending activity."
And that could mean less money to support the economy.
So, is the taxpayer now protected?
Well, these new rules are unlikely to come into force until January 2019 at the earliest - so not yet.
And some economists are not convinced that in a systemic crisis any new regulations will be able to cope. In the teeth of an economic meltdown, could governments and regulators really organise the successful winding-down of failing institutions without the taxpayer once again footing the bill?
As we know, the best laid strategies of governments and regulators can come unstuck at the first contact with the enemy - events in the real world. The markets can gain a life of their own.
Mr Carney is sure banks are now safer than they were. And these new rules, which will be one of the main topics of debate at the G20 summit in Brisbane next week, will mean they are better prepared for the future.
Banks already have a lot more capital on their balance sheets to withstand global shocks.
"Living wills" - banks' emergency plans to be used in the event of a crisis - will eventually allow one part of a bank to be wound down in an orderly fashion without bringing down the whole operation.
That's the theory at least.
The UK's policy of "ring-fencing" - protecting the central retail bank from a collapse in investment banking activity - is also coming to help that process.
As is "bail-in" debt which means that investors carry the brunt of the cost of collapse. Rather than being paid back, they will be obliged to take an equity stake in the failing institution.
Central banks hope that will concentrate investors' minds on the stability of the bank rather than the short-term returns an institution can generate.
The end of "too big to fail"? Not yet. A major step on the journey? Mr Carney would like us to believe so.
Mohammed Moshin Ameen, of east London, admitted five counts of encouraging the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism on Twitter.
He admitted inviting support for IS and disseminating a terrorist publication.
He was remanded in custody at the Old Bailey until sentencing on 28 April.
The tweets were sent on the social media site in the six months between May and October last year.
The charge of disseminating a terrorist publication relates to a link to a video entitled "For The Sake Of Allah", which was posted on Twitter in September.
Ameen appeared in court via video-link from Wandsworth Prison and spoke only to confirm his name and enter his pleas.
The game was scoreless when Kyle Amor was sent off for a high tackle on Liam Marshall, before Mark Percival kicked Saints in front.
Joe Burgess' try gave Wigan a half-time lead only for Morgan Knowles to level.
But two tries from Marshall, another from Liam Farrell and Burgess' second eased Wigan clear despite replies from Regan Grace and Tommy Makinson.
In a typically full-blooded derby between the old rivals, the dismissal of Amor was a significant talking and turning point.
At first sight his tackle appeared high and referee Ben Thaler had no hesitation in pulling out the red card. But television replays suggested the tackle was chest high until Amor's arm bounced up off the ball.
Saints defended resolutely despite their numerical disadvantage and were very much in the game at 15-12 when debutant Grace, whose initial break set up Knowles' try, capped another stunning Saints move in the corner.
But Wigan replied immediately through Farrell before Marshall dived in brilliantly at the corner and Burgess seized on George Williams' delightful kick through to put the result beyond doubt.
Makinson gave Saints hope of a late comeback with his side's third try, but Warriors saw it through to the hooter to claim local bragging rights.
Wigan head coach Shaun Wane: "I'm not really bothered how we play in a game like that, we just wanted to get two points. Lots of credit needs to go to St Helens, who had a real dig at us.
"I thought we could have been a bit smarter but we scored some good tries. I thought Liam Farrell and Lockers (Sean O'Loughlin) were good.
"Michael McIlorum asked to come off 12 minutes into the second half, which is not like him, and he wanted to go back on at the end but my physio would have killed me. I had to over-rule here to play him. His return was one of the biggest positives."
St Helens interim coach Jamahl Lolesi: "It just wasn't a red card. Ben Thaler didn't lose us the game - he didn't miss the tackles or pass the balls - but what I thought was really poor was that the video ref is there to make calls on foul play.
"When you are an official, take the emotion out of it, take the crowd out of it and make the right decision, especially in a derby game. I just don't understand why you don't do that. I can't figure it out. What's most important is making the right decision, whether it's a red or whether it's a yellow, make the right one. Today it was the wrong one.
"We didn't get lots of other calls throughout the game. I didn't think the officiating was great and I thought it affected what was going to be a great game. I feel sorry for the fans that paid to come and watch a 13 v 13 derby, they got short-changed as well as us."
Wigan: Escare, Davies, Gelling, Burgess, Marshall, Williams, Leuluai, Nuuausala, Powell, Flower, J. Tomkins, Farrell, O'Loughlin.
Replacements: Tautai, Sutton, Isa, McIlorum.
St Helens: Makinson, Grace, Percival, Morgan, Swift, Fages, Smith, Amor, Lee, Douglas, Taia, Wilkin, McCarthy-Scarsbrook.
Replacements: Walmsley, Thompson, Richards, Knowles.
Sent-off: Amor (13)
Referee: Ben Thaler (RFL)
The Belgian, 26, began his career with the Shrimpers, making 90 league appearances and scoring seven goals.
"Franck's on a non-contract basis; it's almost a pay-as-you-play," Brown told BBC Radio Essex.
"At this moment in time he's not ready to play. He's played behind closed doors for us, but Wednesday and Saturday are games too early for him."
Southend are currently 13th in League One following Friday's heavy defeat against Rochdale, but still have an outside chance of reaching the play-offs.
"With eight games to go if Franck plays some part in the run-in, all well and good for him and all well and good for us," Brown continued.
"There might be a contract for him here at the end of the season.
"It was a win-win, a no-brainer, it's not going to cost the club anything. We're getting him fit for a contract to us or somebody else."
US streaming service Netflix will launch in Australia and New Zealand on 24 March, hoping to entice viewers with new series of hits House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, as well as the Disney super movie Frozen.
The Internet television network boasts more than 57 million members who have access to an insomniac's trove of more than two billion hours of shows and movies each month.
But the California-based video-on-demand provider will face stiff competition in the Australian streaming market from several incumbent players, including global media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
An even bigger challenge could be Australia's entrenched habit of illegally downloading digital content. Annoyed by the delay in release dates for new films and TV shows, and by the higher prices they face for digital content, many Australians have already found surreptitious ways to view their favourite shows.
To further muddy the waters, Australian download limits on broadband and mobile accounts could curb local appetite for the flood of material now coming their way, say experts.
In the Australian market, Netflix will go head-to-head with Presto Entertainment, which is owned by local TV network Channel 7 and pay TV firm Foxtel, (itself a joint venture owned by Rupert Murdoch and Australia's dominant telecommunications player, Telstra).
Stan is another competitor. Launched in January, it is a partnership between media heavyweights TV network Channel 9 and the Fairfax newspaper group. Stan has secured exclusive rights to Better Call Saul, a spin-off from Breaking Bad, while Presto will show Game of Thrones.
Meanwhile, the trans-Tasman company Quickflix, which began more than a decade ago, has reinvented its disc rental operation into a streaming service.
Netflix argues it has a unique blend of original content, local series and films, and popular movies and TV shows from around the world. Its service will be available on all major Australian broadband systems and be accessible on a range of devices, including smart TVs, smartphones, Xbox and tablets.
Australians and New Zealanders have been waiting for years for an all-you-can-eat on-demand feast partly because free-to-air and pay TV networks have controlled programmes made by major US studios, says Professor Nick Wailes, Associate Dean of Digital and Innovation at the University of New South Wales Business School.
"After almost a decade of nothing it is just exploding out of all recognition," he told the BBC. "Consumers will get more than they could possibly watch in a lifetime."
And Netflix has undercut its Australian competition on price. Prof Wailes believes the big loser in the country's online entertainment revolution will be Foxtel, which has already responded with aggressive price cuts of its own.
"This is going to dilute the viewers' eyes even more, which is going to undermine the value of their advertising," he warns. "If I was in TV I'd be worried."
Netflix's expansion into the Pacific is part of a global push but academics have estimated that there are already 200,000 Australians using virtual private networks to pretend they are in America and download US content from Netflix. The question is will they leave the shadows and subscribe instead to the Australian model?
Australia is a land of digital pirates. Last year it headed the list for illegal downloads of the finale of Breaking Bad. Curbing that subversive appetite will be a challenge to all the streaming operators in a country where traditionally free-to-air networks have dominated, unlike in the United States where the popularity of subscription television has soared.
Then there is the issue of just how many programmes and films subscribers can watch before they exhaust their download limits on broadband or mobile accounts.
"The biggest challenge will be for people to understand the data demands of these services, that streaming movies and TV shows are really going to place a strain on data allowances," says Stephen Fenech, editor of technology blog techguide.com.au.
Some ISPs have promised unmetered viewing of Netflix, Mr Fenech adds.
"In terms of free-to-air TV obviously they are going to have to play to their strengths with unique programming and great live sport. I think that the competition will drive up standards in Australia," he says.
Australians will soon have at their fingertips more drama, comedies and films than they could ever hope to (sensibly) watch.
"I think I'll be doing a pretty solid House of Cards binge as soon as the service starts," says Mr Fenech.
The National League side have brought in 19-year-old Erlandsson as cover for Joel Dixon, who sustained a bad knee injury late on in Tuesday night's 3-0 win at home to Guiseley.
Dixon was stretchered off, forcing outfielder Liam Hughes to take over in goal for the final few minutes.
He is now ruled out until next season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Erlandsson, who has represented Sweden at Under-17, Under-19 and Under-21 level, played in this summer's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
He will join up with fellow Forest youngster Ryan Yates at Holker Street, having initially signed up for a month, until his 20th birthday on Christmas Day.
Erlandsson is set to make his debut on Saturday when fourth-placed Barrow meet third-placed Dagenham & Redbridge.
Barrow, who have not lost in the National League since the opening week of the season, go into the game on a club-record 19-game unbeaten run.
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The Welsh government is launching a task force with "key players" pooling knowledge and resources.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said Wales had a "well-established support infrastructure in place".
Tesco is consolidating its customer engagement centres (CEC) on to a single site in Dundee, creating 250 jobs.
"At times like this when one organisation is proposing to cut a high number of jobs, it is really helpful to get all the key players around one table so we can discuss the best and innovative ways of supporting affected workers," said Mr Skates.
"This is a tried and tested approach as demonstrated by the success of a similar task force to support employees affected by the closure of the Murco site in Pembrokeshire."
"He added: "I'm determined to do everything I can, working alongside our partners, to ensure that the impact of the potential closure on our workers and wider economy is kept to an absolute minimum."
The supermarket giant has been criticised over its handling of the closure in February 2018 which is subject to a consultation.
Some workers believed they were going to move from the Llanishen site to another location in Cardiff when the lease expired in 2020.
Politicians have also been critical over the sudden nature of the announcement and that some workers found out the news on social media.
Tesco said at the time the "retail sector is facing unprecedented challenges" and it had to meet the "changing needs of our customers".
The minibus ended up on its roof following the accident on the A74(M) motorway four miles north of Moffat at 17:25 on Wednesday.
The baby was taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.
She was kept in overnight after suffering suspected head injuries.
The 33-year-old male driver, a 37-year-old male passenger, two girls aged 16 and 13 and three boys aged 12, 10 and eight were all taken to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary where they remained overnight with a variety of minor injuries.
All eight of the injured people were from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.
The Scottish Ambulance Service sent four ambulances and a special operations rescue team to the scene and firefighters used cutting equipment to free some of the passengers.
HGV drivers and passing motorists managed to halt the traffic and comfort the injured until the emergency services arrived.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said the seven people in the Dumfries hospital are expected to be discharged on Thursday.
The baby is expected to discharged on Friday.
One motorist said: "The unsung heroes were the HGV drivers who were diverting the traffic away from the accident.
"They were risking their own lives because the road was very busy with lorries and cars."
The road was closed in both directions for about 90 minutes and a further 30 minutes on the southbound carriageway as work went on to free the injured and investigate the cause of the accident.
Police have appealed for any witnesses to contact them. The vehicle involved was a white LDV minibus.
Ella Barber was born when her mother Michelle went into labour at their Derbyshire home on 15 August 2016.
Ms Barber's sister Jo Lambert called 999 when they realised there was a problem with the cord and Ella was struggling to breathe.
Paramedic Amanda Bird said it was "brilliant" she was now fully fit.
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Michelle Barber, from Sandiacre, suddenly went into labour at home, but there was not enough time to get her to hospital.
Her sister realised the cord was wrapped around Ella's neck while talking to the emergency call handler.
"I was really scared." she said. "Michelle was screaming 'she's going to die, she's going to die.'
"I just thought I need to get her breathing and I did my best."
Joanne Shepherd took the emergency call and told Ms Lambert calmly to slide her finger under the cord and carefully pull it over the baby's head.
She said: "It was only my second baby delivery coming out of training so one I won't forget... not an easy one, but a really nice outcome."
Ms Bird arrived at the house within three minutes of the call.
She said: "She wasn't breathing, she was blue and she needed stimulation to breathe otherwise she wouldn't be here today celebrating her first birthday.
"I was thinking 'come on you little monkey, you are going to breathe' and she did, which was wonderful."
She added that it was "absolutely brilliant" that Ella was fully fit a year on.
Mum Michelle said of the reunion: "It's amazing and lovely to catch up again... people don't normally get to see [medical staff] afterwards."
From the stores that sell fertiliser and pesticides, to the ubiquitous pool halls where "raspachines" (field hands who harvest the coca leaves) come to spend their modest earnings on cold beer and fried empanadas, it all comes back to one plant.
Colombia's government wants to change this, as part of the peace deal it reached with the country's left-wing rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) last year. It will not be an easy task.
"Everyone from here who has gone to university has done so because of money from growing coca," explains Jon, who has been harvesting the leaf since childhood and is now studying forensic science at a technical institute in Mocoa, Putumayo's capital.
As per the terms of the peace deal, the government has signed up almost 76,000 families to an ambitious campaign to substitute the growing of coca, poppy and marijuana with legal agricultural projects.
Jon's family was one of 500 selected from the communities around the village of La Carmelita to participate in a pilot of the national programme.
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Success, in the long term, will depend not only on the viability of the new crops, but on the state's ability to transform its relationship with the marginalised regions where the 50-year armed conflict raged.
"For years, we've made clear that we're committed to leaving coca behind, given certain necessary conditions for our survival," said Luz Deify Velázquez Quintero, a community leader in La Carmelita.
"Now it's time to find out if the government is serious."
This is not the first attempt to wean Putumayo off growing coca.
Under the US-backed Plan Colombia, the authorities attempted to eradicate the plants from the air by spraying them with herbicides.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were also channelled to the country for "alternative development" assistance, resources that locals say rarely found their way to Putumayo and the pockets of farmers there.
While the new programme is largely welcomed by La Carmelita's coca growers, distrust of government programmes is an all-too-familiar sentiment.
"Unless there's transparency and a real willingness to involve and empower the communities, what's most likely is that people end up going back to coca," warns Yuli Zuluaga, a regional representative of a recently formed national coca-grower's association.
Government officials say they have learned the lessons of Plan Colombia. They think that having former Farc rebels on board will make a big difference.
The rebels financed their armed struggle through "taxes" on coca production and therefore had a vested interest in the business flourishing.
But even with a peace process now firmly in place, challenges remain.
In June, participants in the pilot scheme received the first of six bimonthly food subsidies worth 2m Colombian pesos ($665; £500) each.
In exchange, those who received it have promised to take part in a two-month voluntary coca eradication scheme.
But whether the farmers' new projects will be productive will ultimately depend on whether money is invested in Putumayo's poor healthcare, education, and infrastructure, conflict monitoring group Ideas for Peace Foundation concluded in a recent report.
There are no hospitals or drinking water and only little electricity for miles in any direction from La Carmelita.
The only adequately funded public institutions are the military bases built to protect the region's oil pipelines.
"The problem isn't figuring out what to produce," explained Jesús Antonio Toro Martínez, president of Agropal, a local farmer's association.
"The problem is that we don't have electricity to store it, we don't have the equipment to process it, and we don't have roads to bring it to market. In other words, we don't have commerce."
Mr Toro, a local farmer and former "raspachin", says that taking plantains the nearest urban centre if Puerto Asís is no easy task.
He says that the costs for transporting bundles on speed boats or local buses known as "chivas" can add up to as much as 90% of the final sale value.
In March, the US released figures suggesting that a record 188,000 hectares (1,880 sq km) of land in Colombia had been planted with coca last year, an 18% increase compared with 2015.
The report triggered renewed claims from opponents to the peace process in Colombia and conservatives in Washington that the government's reformist approach has promoted lawlessness.
With pressure mounting and the 2018 national elections looming, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that he intends to eradicate 100,000 hectares by next year, half through substitution, and half through manual eradication.
"We need results, to prove to ourselves, to the country, and to the world that this is the right way forward," Miguel Ortega, a government substitution official, told La Carmelita residents.
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Hadzic led Serb separatist forces in the 1991-1995 war in Croatia, and was charged with the murder of non-Serbs.
He had pleaded not guilty and died at a hospital in Novi Sad in northern Serbia.
"After a severe illness Goran Hadzic died today," the regional hospital of Vojvodina said, according to Serbia's state-run Tanjug news agency.
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The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed parallel suits in North Carolina.
Attorney General Eric Holder said the government wanted "justice for those who have been victimized."
Bank of America denied the charges, arguing "these were prime mortgages sold to sophisticated investors."
The bank already hinted it expected the suits in a filing last week.
In the Justice Department suit, the government alleged that Bank of America "knowingly and wilfully misled investors about the quality and safety of their investments" in a residential mortgage-backed security known as BOAMS 2008-A.
The security, worth around $850m when it was issued in January 2008, eventually collapsed during the crisis as the quality of the loans contained in it soured.
This led to investor losses of more than $100m according to the complaint.
Bank of America says that the fact that the security failed was not the fault of the bank.
"We are not responsible for the housing market collapse that caused mortgage loans to default at unprecedented rates and these securities to lose value as a result," it argued in a statement.
Bank of America has recently announced a series of settlements, including an $8.5bn settlement with investors dealing with similar mortgage-based securities and a $1.6bn deal with MBIA Inc, a bond insurer.
Online payments were introduced on the crossing in November when the toll booths were scrapped.
The AA said early teething problems had persisted and complaints from drivers paying online were not being resolved quickly enough.
Highways England said the vast majority of payments were processed accurately.
The AA said one customer had two payments taken for the same crossing in February. In an email, the driver said he had phoned customer services.
He wrote: "The chap I spoke to had a very poor attitude saying `yeah a lot of people have been getting this'."
Clive Turrell tweeted: "Twice I've credited my account online without it appearing on my account. When you call, staff haven't a clue."
Edmund King, the president of the AA, said: "The new scheme has undoubtedly eased the congestion at busy times but, for some, there is a new concern regarding the behind-the-scenes bureaucracy that accompanies this supposedly high-tech, non-stop tolling."
A spokesman for Highways England said: "The vast majority of the 100,000 chargeable crossings at Dartford made each day are processed accurately and smoothly.
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Read the reports from all of Tuesday's Championship matches:
Birmingham City 2-2 Preston North End
Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Charlton Athletic
Brentford 2-1 Cardiff City
Brighton & Hove Albion 4-0 QPR
Bristol City 2-3 Derby County
Burnley 1-1 Middlesbrough
Ipswich Town 1-1 Fulham
Leeds United 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Blackburn Rovers
Reading 1-2 Hull City
Rotherham United 1-1 Huddersfield Town
Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 MK Dons
The new species has been named Dracoraptor hanigani, which means 'dragon thief', after the red dragon which is the national symbol of Wales.
The Dracoraptor's skeleton was found by two fossil-hunting brothers, who spotted the bones in a pile of rubble from a rock fall in 2014.
The brothers found its skull, claws, teeth and foot bones, which had all been hidden in the cliff face.
Although it's thought to have only been about the size of a dog, the Dracoraptor was a meat-eater, with small sharp teeth.
It probably ate large insects, lizards, and other small animals.
Researchers think it may even have eaten other young dinosaurs.
The dinosaur probably lived on a prehistoric island, but was washed out to sea before eventually being buried in the Welsh cliff face.
The brothers have donated the bones to the National Museum of Wales.
Defender Darren McGregor looped home a header then flicked in a Jason Cummings corner before the interval.
Cummings was the supplier again as captain David Gray squeezed in a header early in the second half.
With nearest challengers Falkirk drawing at home to St Mirren, Neil Lennon's men cannot be caught with three games remaining.
A crowd of 17,056 turned up for the Easter Road party, ending a period of three seasons in the second tier for the Edinburgh club.
Having drawn four of their past five games, there was no sign of any malaise as the hosts started in whirlwind fashion, with John McGinn and Martin Boyle having early chances.
But the Dumfries side showed they were not simply making up the numbers as Dominic Thomas fired just wide from 18 yards.
The breakthrough came on 13 minutes as McGinn floated a free-kick to the back post, where McGregor sent a header arcing over the outstretched arms of Lee Robinson and into the net.
It was the centre-half's first goal of the season and the huge home support roared their approval.
They were then infuriated by referee Barry Cook, who called back play when Cummings was clean through on goal. Queens midfielder John Rankin was booked for a challenge on Andrew Shinnie but, rather than playing advantage, Cook blew his whistle.
The visitors almost drew level when former Hibee Stephen Dobbie got on the end of a mishit shot by Thomson, but Ofir Marciano pulled off a magnificent stop.
Robinson then denied the home side a second with a wonderful save from a Boyle shot but, moments later, Lennon's side doubled their advantage.
Cummings sent in a corner that was met by the right boot of McGregor for his and his team's second of the day.
The home side continued to drive forward and scored number three just after the break.
Robinson did well to parry away another Cummings volley but, from the corner, Gray rose above the Doonhamers' defence to nod in at the back post.
Hibernian introduced Alex Harris and James Keatings but, despite carving out more openings, they could not add to their tally.
The home players left to a standing ovation and the Scottish Cup holders can now look forward to next weekend's semi-final with Aberdeen at Hampden.
Match ends, Hibernian 3, Queen of the South 0.
Second Half ends, Hibernian 3, Queen of the South 0.
Attempt saved. Jason Cummings (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Jordan Marshall.
Attempt blocked. Alex Harris (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Hibernian. Marvin Bartley replaces Dylan McGeouch.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Jordan Marshall.
John McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dale Hilson (Queen of the South).
Attempt missed. Jason Cummings (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by John Rankin.
Chris Higgins (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. James Keatings (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Hibernian. James Keatings replaces Martin Boyle.
Attempt missed. Connor Murray (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Dale Hilson replaces Lyndon Dykes.
Attempt blocked. John McGinn (Hibernian) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked.
Attempt missed. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.
Foul by Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian).
Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Hibernian. Alex Harris replaces Andrew Shinnie.
Attempt missed. John McGinn (Hibernian) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the left wing is close, but misses to the left.
Andrew Shinnie (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South).
John McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South).
Darren McGregor (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South).
Substitution, Queen of the South. Connor Murray replaces Dom Thomas.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Connor McManus replaces Daniel Carmichael.
Attempt missed. John McGinn (Hibernian) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Jason Cummings (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Higgins (Queen of the South).
Attempt saved. Dylan McGeouch (Hibernian) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. John Rankin (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
David Gray (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South).
Goal! Hibernian 3, Queen of the South 0. David Gray (Hibernian) header from the left side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a corner.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Jordan Marshall.
Attempt saved. Jason Cummings (Hibernian) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
It's raised far-reaching questions about campus culture and the boundaries of free speech.
Much of this battle has been fought out in symbols and arguments over language.
In Harvard, there are calls to ditch "master" from the academic title of "house masters", the heads of residential houses, because of the word's associations with slavery.
The title has more to do with the British education system, with its "school masters" and "house masters". But in the US context, where "master" has different historical echoes, the word itself has become toxic.
And reflecting the mood on campus, this argument has been accepted by the Harvard house masters themselves, who say they are now looking for a different title.
They say the use of the word "master" causes discomfort and creates images of "human subjugation".
Harvard's Law School has been embroiled in a row over its crest, which displays the coat of arms of the Royall family. This is a link to an 18th Century college donor, Isaac Royall, who as well as establishing the college's first professorship in law, was a particularly brutal slaveholder.
This has been the law school's official seal since the 1930s, but now this winter, following accusations that this was a racist emblem, a committee has been set up to reconsider its use.
In Princeton, the dispute has focused on a school named after Woodrow Wilson. The former US president stands accused of holding deeply entrenched racist views, and protesters from the Black Justice League want the building renamed.
In Yale, there has been a campaign to rename Calhoun College, to remove links with John Calhoun, a 19th Century advocate of slavery.
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The thread linking the protests is the suggestion that racism is not a thing of the past but remains as an unresolved question on campus.
There is a website, the Demands, listing the grievances in more than 70 universities where students have "risen up" against such prejudice.
But why are so many protests hitting universities now?
Carol Christ, director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, says that "symbolic fights are always about real and current political issues" and in the US, the issue of race is never far from the surface.
"Race is so traumatic and central an issue in American culture - with both the history of slavery and the genocide of Native Americans always present," says Dr Christ.
The sensitivity over race and discrimination was heightened by events such as the shooting of a young black man by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
"That created a lot of activism on college campuses," Dr Christ says.
And the arguments over emblems and traditions are part of a wider battle over identity and whose culture should be commemorated on campus.
"Colleges and universities in the United States make a huge amount of their history, they're always telling their story, it's the way in which they try and make almost a tribal identity," Dr Christ says.
But these stories might make difficult listening for minority groups, with the college names and emblems having echoes of slavery and segregation.
"They will feel an alienation from the stories that they're told to accept as part of their college identity," says Dr Christ.
What makes this an even more significant struggle is that university is now seen as the gateway to a better job.
Even though universities might have a public commitment to inclusion and diversity, protesters have accused them of remaining the domain of a white middle and upper class.
Only about 5% of lecturers in US universities are black, according to official figures. Protesters have argued that universities have turned a blind eye to a long legacy of discrimination.
"It's about the increasing sense that college is the way to economic security and power in modern society," Dr Christ says, adding this is combined with fears prestigious colleges are increasingly being dominated by the wealthy.
Another provocative thread in the campus disputes has been about free speech and whether activities or language or opinions should be blocked if they upset some students.
This has included the concept of "safe space" where students can be protected from language or arguments that might offend them.
But this has been criticised by opponents as contradicting the intellectual purpose of a university, which should be about challenging ideas and contesting beliefs.
Among the most forthright attacks came from Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
Dr Piper told his students: "This is not a day care. This is a university."
And he warned: "Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic. Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims.
"Anyone who dares challenge them and thus makes them feel bad about themselves, is a 'hater', a 'bigot', an 'oppressor' and a 'victimiser'."
There have also been arguments that changing the names of buildings is a way of avoiding uncomfortable questions about past attitudes, rather than addressing the historic legacy of universities.
But this simmering winter protest shows no sign of subsiding.
The president of the University of Missouri resigned last month, amid claims he had failed to respond adequately to allegations of racism.
And this week, a Yale lecturer, caught up in a row over the right to wear Halloween costumes, even if they caused offence, decided to step down from teaching.
Dr Christ says that "because race is so vexed and turbulent a subject" in the United States, the "controversies will continue".
The RQIA highlighted issues with the flow of patients through the emergency department during particularly busy periods.
The RQIA said overcrowding "made it difficult for staff to provide basic nursing care and maintain the dignity and privacy of patients".
Patients and relatives who spoke to the RQIA's inspectors were positive about the care they received.
However, the report said "when the ED was busy issues were identified in relation to communication, staff shortages and waiting times".
The unannounced inspection was carried out last December over a three-day period.
Stuart Teese had not been seen since leaving his home in Bearsden on Saturday evening.
Police Scotland appealed for information on Monday after becoming "increasingly concerned" for his welfare.
But officers said he had been traced "safe and well" in the Loch Lomond area on Tuesday afternoon.
The Association of British Commuters said it planned "to hold the government to account" with a judicial review into the Department for Transport.
Services have been disrupted for months amid a long-running dispute over the role of conductors.
The Department for Transport declined to comment.
Last week the government unveiled a £20m fund in a bid to improve services and "get to grips" with problems on the network.
RMT union members are due to stage a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday in their fight against changes to the way services are operated, including giving drivers responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.
The company began imposing the changes in August despite union concerns over safety and job cuts.
Southern said more than two out of five trains would be cancelled, with some routes having a limited service or "no service at all".
Passenger services director Alex Foulds said: "This two-day strike will achieve nothing.
"After many months of trying to reach agreement with the RMT, we are now moving forward with our plans for the benefit of customers and we urge the RMT to join us in putting passengers first."
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the union remained available "for serious talks".
The Association of British Commuters said it would be working closely with lawyers to compile evidence of people losing their jobs because of cancelled trains, as well as any disruption to home and family life.
It has launched an appeal to raise money to fund the legal action, and hopes to reach a target of £25,000 within the next 30 days.
Spokeswoman Summer Dean said: "We believe that the government has been very quiet during this crisis and we are now ready to use the law to demand answers."
While the government lost that fight, it won another.
The Supreme Court judges ruled the government was not legally obliged to consult the Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland assemblies on triggering Article 50 - getting formal exit negotiations with the EU under way.
There were two legal challenges from Northern Ireland to the UK leaving the EU - the first, brought by a cross-party group of Stormont politicians, argued that the consent of the assembly was needed as well as legislation in Westminster.
The second, brought by victims' campaigner Raymond McCord, argued Brexit was a constitutional change and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement meant Westminster had given sovereignty of Northern Ireland over to its people.
However, the judges said the peace deal covered Northern Ireland's place in the UK, not its place in the EU.
Speaking after the judgement, Mr McCord said the headline ruling was a "great result" for democracy and he hoped Northern Ireland's mostly DUP MPs would vote to remain in the EU.
"Are they going to go along with the wishes of the people of Northern Ireland, who voted to remain? Are they going to put the party before the people?"
Although the UK voted overall to leave the EU, a 56% majority in Northern Ireland voted to remain.
East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson, from the Democratic Unionist Party which campaigned for Brexit, said it would have been "totally irrational" to have the devolved administrations "dictate the direction in which the nation should go after such a clear and decisive vote".
"The battle now commences at Westminster and as far as the DUP is concerned, we will be using our votes and voice to ensure a rapid commencement on the negotiations to leave the EU," he added.
By BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani
During the four-day hearing in December, the justices heard arguments that Northern Ireland had a unique place in the UK constitution because of the nature of the 1998 Belfast Agreement and the devolved bodies that flowed from it.
Counsel argued that Northern Ireland's constitution cannot be changed without a vote by its people. In its judgement, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that not only did the devolved bodies have no role in deciding the future of the UK as a whole in the EU, Northern Ireland had no special status beyond this either.
They ruled that while Northern Ireland's people did indeed have a fundamental constitutional say on being part of the UK, that did not extend to being part of the EU.
The court said: "In our view this important provision which rose out of the Belfast Agreement gave the people of Northern Ireland the right to determine whether to remain part of the UK or to become part of a united Ireland. It neither regulated any other change in the constitutional status of Northern Ireland nor required the consent of a majority of the people of Northern Ireland to the withdrawal of the UK from the EU."
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said the judgments underlined the "importance of the Irish government's role in defending the rights of Irish citizens in the north".
"Brexit will undermine the institutional, constitutional and legal integrity of the Good Friday Agreement," he said.
The UK government's position is that it fully backs the implementation of the Belfast Agreement and its successors.
"The UK government is absolutely clear: None of the institutions and provisions set out in the Belfast Agreement are in any way undermined by the decision of the UK to leave the EU," said a spokesman. "There will be no return to the borders of the past."
But Sinn Féin's new leader north of the border, Michelle O'Neill, said the judgment that the Assembly did not need to be consulted before the UK government triggered article 50 ignores the wishes of the majority of people in Northern Ireland.
Mrs O'Neill said her party would continue to support special status within the EU for Northern Ireland.
It was now up to the Irish government to work to protect the interests of all the people on the island, north and south, she added.
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan welcomed the UK government's confirmation that it would proceed with the triggering of Article 50 by the end of March at the latest.
"The government's preparations for the upcoming negotiations on the UK's withdrawal from the EU have been extensive and comprehensive," he said.
"Our priorities in these negotiations remain our citizens, our economy, Northern Ireland, our Common Travel Area and the future of the EU itself."
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader Colum Eastwood, who was one of the politicians involved in the Stormont legal challenge, told the BBC he was "very disappointed" by the judges' decision on the devolved nations.
"I think that runs a coach and horses through our devolutionary settlement and it makes us all ask what this is all about?" he said.
"It's very dangerous for the Good Friday agreement and our peace process."
Stephen Agnew, from the Green Party, who was also part of the politicians' challenge, said he was "pleased" the Supreme Court had decided that Parliament would have its say on the triggering of Article 50.
"This decision upholds democratic principles and provides an opportunity for consideration of the specific circumstances of Northern Ireland," he said.
Ulster Unionist MP Danny Kinahan urged Brexit Secretary David Davis to include his party in discussions regarding the negotiations.
"Unlike their counterparts in Scotland and Wales, the Northern Ireland Executive has not submitted a position paper to the Joint Ministerial Committee, leaving Northern Ireland's unique needs unrepresented," he said.
"The Brexit secretary appeared receptive to the idea of including other parties in correspondence."
Nelson Cheung, 65, died and his wife, Winnie, 57, was injured after they were attacked and robbed on the Caddy Road.
Their car had been forced off the road. Mr Cheung died from stab wounds.
The 25-year-old was arrested on Sunday. Two men, aged 30 and 43, have been released unconditionally.
In total, six people remain in police custody, including a boy of 14 and a girl of 16.
Meanwhile, the police have renewed their appeal for information about the attack that happened in the early hours of Thursday.
The couple's car was intercepted by two other vehicles. Mrs Cheung managed to raise the alarm at a nearby house.
When police arrived at the scene a short time later, they discovered Mr Cheung's body.
Kylie Minogue, Katherine Jenkins and Gary Barlow were among those who sang on a night of military and musical displays in Windsor Castle's grounds.
Actors including Dame Helen Mirren and Damian Lewis narrated historic moments from the Queen's life during the show.
The Queen's birthday was on 21 April, and formal celebrations will take place next month on her official birthday.
Sunday's show was hosted by Ant and Dec and broadcast live on ITV.
The Queen was joined at the event by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
Writing in the official programme, Prince Charles wished his mother "the happiest of very special birthdays".
The show included hundreds of horses, a dancing Shetland pony, a pantomime horse and a pantomime corgi.
Acts from around the world entertained the 6,000 spectators, and the performers all gathered on the showground as a giant model birthday cake was brought out for the ending.
Dame Shirley Bassey sang the James Bond theme Diamonds Are Forever, before Happy Birthday was played, followed by the National Anthem.
Production of staple foods has declined sharply, resulting in higher food prices. Residents are said to be eating seeds and selling animals to cope.
More than half of those affected are acutely food insecure, the UN adds, meaning that they need urgent humanitarian assistance.
The situation has been made worse by the El Nino weather phenomenon.
The lack of sufficient rains in the southern region of Androy alone resulted in an 80% decline in maize production this year compared with the already reduced levels of 2015, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report.
The drought also affected the production of another staple food, cassava, in Androy and also in Atsimo-Andrefana, where production dropped by approximately half, the agency added.
The situation was also critical in Anosy region.
"Households are reducing consumption of locally produced crops," the report said.
"[People are] adopting survival strategies such as consuming seeds, selling their animals and agricultural tools and increasing their consumption of nutritionally inadequate wild foods, such as red cactus fruits."
Across the country, rice production was also affected, the agency said, with declines of up to 60% in some regions.
Working with the World Food Programme, the FAO said it would help residents and small farms in the worst-affected districts with food, seeds and farm tools, so they could take advantage of the planting season, which starts in November.
Other African nations have also suffered from severe droughts recently, made worse by the El Nino phenomenon.
El Nino is a naturally occurring weather episode that sees the warm waters of the central Pacific expand eastwards towards North and South America, causing unusually high temperatures.
The 30-year-old former Peterborough and Torquay keeper has spent the last two seasons with the Stags' League Two rivals Exeter before being released.
"The lad is an experienced goalkeeper who has a real burning desire to again play Championship football," Stags boss Steve Evans said.
"I am delighted that Bobby has joined us, considering he had a few options."
The length of Olejnik's deal has not been revealed.
The former Austria Under-21 international, who has also played for Scunthorpe and York City, played in both legs of the League Two play-off semi-finals last season, but was on the bench for the final as the Grecians lost to Blackpool at Wembley.
He will compete for the number one goalkeeping position with another recent signing, Conrad Logan.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
It will match the movement of boats with that of whales and dolphins sighted or heard by using underwater equipment in the same area.
HWDT said it would be the first time it had attempted such a project.
The work will be done during the charity's latest season of research trips using its yacht Silurian.
The research will be conducted over the summer out of Tobermory on Mull as well as Kyle of Lochalsh and Ullapool.
Project Helix, funded by the European Union, aims to create 370 jobs over five years in west Wales and the valleys.
The money will fund research into global food trends and new ways of reducing waste.
It comes three years into a government strategy to increase the turnover of food producers in Wales by 30% by 2020.
A two-day Taste Wales event has been organised in Newport to bring together Welsh food producers and buyers from across the UK and beyond.
£4.8bn
turnover
22,100 people employed
555 businesses
85% with nine or fewer employees
30% target increase for turnover by 2020
In 2015 there were 22,100 people working in more than 500 food and drink companies in Wales.
When catering, retail, wholesale and farming are included the total working in that field reaches 223,100 and joint turnover reaches £16.8bn.
Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths said the industry was "firmly on course" to meet its growth target.
"Project Helix is the next step on the journey to ensure our food and drink industry is globally recognised for quality, creativity and skills," she said.
Cwm Farm Charcuterie was set up in Pontardawe near Swansea in 2010 by farmers Ruth and Andrew Davies.
The couple started by selling their own sausages and burgers locally from a trailer.
Their food was spotted at Conwy Food Festival and someone bought their product and sent it to a friend - Tomos Parry - who is a chef in Mayfair in London.
In 2011, they won four gold awards at the Royal Welsh Show and the following year won a grant from the Welsh Government to go to Denmark to learn how they produce pork products there.
Since then Ruth and Andrew have worked at Food Centre Wales at Horeb in Ceredigion for 18 months, perfecting their products, and have also studied salami production in Italy.
The couple now work from a small unit in Pontardawe making Welsh salami using laver bread or leeks as well as Welsh Nduja - spreadable salami.
She has meetings with major buyers, including from the United States and Hong Kong, at Taste Wales at the Celtic Manor.
"I feel I'm not going around knocking on doors, they're coming to us, all under one roof and I'll speak to as many as I can and hopefully get some orders," Mrs Davies said.
Eirlys Lloyd, of Food Centre Wales, said: "By being more strategic there is huge potential for the Welsh food and drink sector to improve and realise its ambitious growth targets."
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It took about ten jumbo rolls to make each of them.
They've been sewn and glued together and even had crystals and pearls put on, just like real wedding dresses.
The models said the unusual dresses were quite heavy, but comfortable to wear.
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The Olympique Lyonnais striker netted 18 compared to Real Madrid forward Ronaldo's 17 in 2016, and played a significant role in her French club's treble-winning season.
The Norway international scored the opening goal in the Champions League final against German side Wolfsburg and achieved her dream of lifting the trophy when they won 4-3 on penalties, adding the European crown to their Couple de France and Division One titles.
"It doesn't come after one summer of hard work or one year - I think it's been something I've been working on since I was a little kid, but now I see the results," said the 21-year-old, who scored 13 goals in the Champions League and 33 goals in the league last season.
"It's hard to do another season like that. I need to improve and that's what I'm working on, I have the hunger to keep scoring goals."
She was voted Uefa Best Women's Player in Europe for 2016 and became the first female winner in 20 years of Norway's Golden Ball award for the country's best footballer.
Football is something that has always been in the family for Hegerberg.
"I remember growing up and those Champions League nights, making tacos and sitting down with the whole crew [family] - I got a lot of good memories," she said.
"I liked [former Arsenal striker] Thierry Henry a lot, I used to watch Arsenal. I found him such a fantastic player - he could finish from every angle when he had the ball at his feet, he was a complete player."
Since making her top-flight Norwegian debut for Kolbotn at the age of 15, Hegerberg has been making an impression.
She finished top scorer in 2011, leading to a move to Norwegian club Stabaek along with her sister Andrine, 23.
They won the Norwegian Cup 4-0 against Roa with Ada scoring a hat-trick in the final and she finished the league's top scorer on 25 goals.
That success earned the two Hegerbergs a move to Germany's Turbine Potsdam.
Ada says having her sister, who now plays for Birmingham City, alongside her through her career and at international level has been a huge support.
"We've always been tough with each other, direct and honest - that's the kind of relationship we have and it's made us really close," she said.
"She was the one dragging me out to play when I was younger and if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have the competition feeling between us and she has always been a role model."
The move to Turbine Potsdam proved to be an instant success for Ada, who scored on her Frauen Bundesliga debut against Freiburg and she helped guide the club to a second-place finish in 2012-13.
She caught the eye of arguably the biggest club in Europe, signing for Olympique Lyonnais in 2014.
Two Division One titles, a Champions League and two Coupe de France trophies followed. With an array of awards already, will the BBC trophy be added next to her cabinet?
"It's a huge honour to be nominated. I'm a winner of the Treble, didn't compete in the Olympics though [as Norway didn't qualify]. It's up to the people to decide. I've got my focus on becoming a better player now, but the Champions League victory speaks for itself."
The 29 London Plane trees, which cost £1,100 each, were planted by Cornwall Council on Tolvaddon Road in Pool.
The authority said they were chosen for being good in urban areas, but they did not grow as well as expected.
Former councillor Dave Biggs described it as a "£100,000 mistake".
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"The advice was very clear that the trees were unsuitable, but for whatever reason [the council] went ahead and ordered them from Italy anyway," he told BBC News.
Mr Biggs said the cost of buying, transporting, planting and maintaining the London Planes would have been in excess of £100,000, which the council could not afford to waste.
"I can't believe it's anything less than a £100,000 mistake... and for the life of me I can't understand why London Plane trees couldn't be sourced in the UK."
According to the Woodland Trust, the origin of the London Plane is uncertain, but is thought to have been brought to the UK from Spain in the 17th Century.
The council said it was unable to say why London Planes, which thrive in other UK urban settings, were used or imported from Italy, as the forestry team leader of the project in 2009 had since left the council's employment, however it said they were planted in 2010 "in accordance with recommendations".
It said that despite aftercare and watering, the trees had not developed "at a rate that was expected" and tree officers had recommended trialling some alternative species.
In a statement, it said the London Planes had been removed and replaced with 16 Acer trees at an additional cost of nearly £6,000.
Lautaro Martinez was sent off after the video assistant spotted him elbowing Fikayo Tomori and alerted the referee.
Everton's Dominic Calvert-Lewin headed the opener, Newcastle's Adam Armstrong added a second and Chelsea's Dominic Solanke scored a late penalty.
It was a first finals win since 1997.
Paul Simpson's side now face Guinea on Tuesday before a game against hosts South Korea next Friday.
"The difference between the two teams was that we were outstanding in both 18-yard boxes," he said.
"It's not just about possession, it's about taking your chances and doing the other side of it as well."
Video reviews are being trialled at this competition, and may be introduced in some competitions in England next season.
They have previously been used to correct two wrong decisions as Spain beat France in a friendly in Paris in March, as well as in domestic leagues.
Last September, Willem's Anouar Kali was the first player to be shown a red card on the advice of a video referee in a Dutch Cup contest against Ajax.
Meanwhile, England Under-17s came agonisingly close to lifting the European Championship trophy in Croatia on Friday.
England Under-17s coach Steve Cooper said he was proud of his side despite a penalty shootout defeat by Spain in the final.
Cooper's side had been seconds from victory when Nacho Diaz scored a stoppage-time equaliser with the last touch.
Spain defender Mateu Morey cancelled out Callum Hudson-Odoi's opener, before Phil Foden's second-half strike had restored England's lead.
But in a new penalty shootout format Spain triumphed 4-1 to clinch victory.
"We've had a fantastic tournament and a fantastic season, which I've said to the players," said Cooper.
"We managed to take the lead and tried to see the game out, but I don't think anybody would have written that script at the end of the game. It hurts."
The new shootout format being trialled in the tournament sees an 'ABBA' system rather than the traditional ABAB pattern - it is similar to the tie-break format in tennis and is designed to make the shootouts fairer.
England were aiming to become the first nation to win the competition for a third time having triumphed in 2010 and 2014, but it was Spain who clinched a third tournament victory instead.
Despite the defeat, England secured qualification for the Under-17 World Cup in India in October. The draw for the group stages takes place on 7 July in Mumbai.
The hi-tech criminals behind the web attacks said the payment would stop the deluge of data hitting the site.
But despite paying up, the web attacks continued, leaving Protonmail struggling to operate.
It has now launched a fund-raising drive to raise cash to tackle any future attacks.
In a blogpost, Protonmail said it received an email on 3 November that contained a threat to attack its website unless it paid a ransom of 15 bitcoins (£3,640).
Protonmail did not respond to the message and, soon afterwards, was hit by what is known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This tries to knock a server offline by bombarding it with more data than it can handle.
Protonmail is a free, web-based, encrypted email service that needs its site up and running to serve customers.
The first attack knocked out Protonmail for about 15 minutes and then stopped. A second attack the next day was much bigger and overwhelmed efforts by the email firm and its ISP to stop it.
"This co-ordinated assault on key infrastructure eventually managed to bring down both the datacenter and the ISP, which impacted hundreds of other companies, not just Protonmail," it said on the blog.
In a bid to halt the attack, Protonmail said it "grudgingly" paid the 15 bitcoin ransom.
However, it said, this did not stop the attacks which continued to cause problems for many other firms.
Eventually, Protonmail's ISP took action to remove the company's site from the net to stem the flow of data.
Post-attack analysis suggests Protonmail was targeted in two phases, the company said. The first aided the ransom demand but the second was "not afraid of causing massive collateral damage in order to get at us".
Switzerland's national Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert), which helped Protonmail cope, said the attack was carried out by a cybercrime group known as the Armada Collective. This group has also targeted many other Swiss web companies over the last few weeks, the team said.
It said anyone who received ransom email should not pay up. Instead, they should talk to their ISPs about the best way to defend themselves against attacks.
Protonmail said that despite its work to harden itself against attack, it was still vulnerable to DDoS data deluges. It said it planned to sign up with a commercial service that can defend against the attacks but this would be likely to cost it more than $100,000 (£66,000) a year. It has started a fund-raising drive to gather the cash to pay this fee.
"We are fighting not just for privacy, but for the future of the internet," it said.
Dwindling congregations meant St John's Church in Ysbyty Ifan, Gwynedd, closed as a place of worship last month.
Campaigners say it is an important historical location and want to preserve the building.
A Church in Wales spokesman said it was "working with the local community to try to see if there is a new future for the church building".
Located on a busy medieval pilgrim route, a hospice was first established there by the Hospitaller Knights of St John of Jerusalem in 1190.
At the time, they provided pilgrims across Europe with rest, refreshment and spiritual care.
Centuries later, the Order of St John is today a major humanitarian charity, perhaps best known in the UK for its volunteer ambulance first aiders.
The hospice at Ysbyty Ifan was one of the knight's first in north Wales, located about half way along the pilgrim's route between Holywell, Flintshire, and Bardsey Island, off the Llyn Peninsula.
The village was first known as Dolgynwal, but with time the name Ysbyty Ifan - roughly meaning John's Hospice - was adopted.
A hospice in Slebech, Pembrokeshire, is believed to be the order's first in Wales.
The Friends of the Church of St John has been set up and are in discussions with the Church in Wales as to how the building can be preserved.
A spokesman for the Church in Wales said: "We are in the early stages and the nature of any future arrangements are not yet clear.
"But we will certainly work with the community representatives to see what can be achieved - this may involve outright sale or lease of the building.
"The precise use of the building will also become clearer as the community considers future options."
Ex-Leeds United managing director David Haigh pleaded not guilty to cyber slander at a Dubai hearing on Monday.
Mr Haigh, 38, had been due to complete a two-year prison sentence in Dubai for financial misappropriation.
He says he could not have committed the alleged Twitter offence while in jail.
The authorities in Dubai and the investment bank at the centre of the social media complaint have both so far not commented on the matter.
The maximum penalty for cyber slander is three years in prison and a fine of up to £5,500.
The social media case was adjourned until 4 January. Mr Haigh's solicitor said his client will not seek bail as he is already under a sentence of deportation so would be considered a flight risk.
The Yorkshire-born solicitor and businessman had expected to return to the UK on 16 November, after serving 18 months behind bars.
He was originally arrested in Dubai on 18 May last year, when he was detained without charge for 14 months and had his worldwide assets frozen.
In August 2015, he was convicted of misappropriating items of monetary value from a position of trust from his former Dubai-based employer and sentenced to two years in prison - the majority of which he had already served.
Mr Haigh's lawyer says he is considering seeking a retrial of his criminal conviction.
The former vice-chairman of the Gulf Tories had said that after returning to the UK he would campaign for Britons unfairly imprisoned around the world.
The new complaint is from Mr Haigh's former employer, investment bank Gulf Finance House (GFH), and referred to remarks made on Twitter.
Mr Haigh was the deputy chief executive of GFH Capital Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of GFH, before resigning on 10 March last year.
Mr Haigh strongly denies the latest allegations against him.
When contacted by the BBC, GFH Capital Limited declined to comment.
GFH is an investment bank headquartered in Bahrain with an office in Dubai that once owned Leeds United Football Club and continues to hold a 25% stake in the club.
Speaking to the BBC from his police cell last week, Mr Haigh said he felt scared, frightened and worried.
When asked if he sent the tweets in question from his @haighdavid account, he said: "Absolutely not. I was held in a jail in Dubai."
He insisted he did not have access to a computer.
Tweets on the account are written in the third person and the account description states it is "managed for ex Leeds Utd FC MD while he remains in a Dubai jail".
Local authorities have so far not commented on the case despite repeated requests from the BBC.
Radha Stirling, chief executive of British-based group Detained in Dubai - which helps foreigners abroad - warned the UAE judicial system was still in development and the burden of proof on the complainant or prosecution, is quite low.
Ms Stirling told the BBC: "Without necessary safeguards in place, this legislation is open to abuse by disgruntled parties or parties who have an alternative agenda.
"This can render the respondent stuck in the UAE until the matter is resolved."
She said in some cases that could take months or even years.
The UAE government has reported that millions of tweets are sent in the UAE every day by hundreds of thousands of users.
Strict and wide-reaching guidelines prohibit the publication of content "which is contrary to public morals, the principles of Islam and the social and moral welfare of the UAE".
Cyber crime laws were introduced in the UAE in 2012 to make it an offence to use the internet to mock or deride organisations and individuals.
Ms Stirling said the new laws have increased the number of queries from Britons in relation to slander accusations by 150% in the past year.
In March, an expat American was jailed for comments he made on Facebook.
The British Foreign Office confirmed that Mr Haigh is still in Dubai.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We have been providing assistance to a British national detained in Dubai since May 2014, including regular visits to check on his welfare."
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said they were called in by police at 11:25 GMT on Saturday to an area near the Crisp and Fry cafe on Llandeilo Road.
Fire crews said about 100 people were evacuated from their homes, along with 150 in a supermarket.
The incident is now over, and people have returned to their homes.
Instead, he was chairing a meeting in Wrexham's Glyndwr University about a potential growth deal for north Wales.
The secretary of state's choice of priorities was an indication of how serious he is about the plan.
But did the meeting - attended by 18 English and Welsh council leaders and business representatives - actually decide anything?
A Wales Office spokesman said: "The discussion made clear that any growth deal needs to be about more than transport infrastructure or a 'wish list' - it must involve genuine devolution of powers.
"What was achieved was a commitment from local partners to work together and to make the bid cross-border."
Yet according to one person at the meeting, this new cross-border partnership potentially creates a huge "governance challenge" for both Westminster and Cardiff.
He said: "We have our cross-border links with England, which are very real, and then we have the link with the northern powerhouse and then obviously there is the role of the Welsh Government.
"But how will it all work - and will Cardiff ignore north Wales like they have for the past five years?"
Wrexham MP Ian Lucas, who in January set up an all-party parliamentary group for the Mersey-Dee North Wales region, said existing bodies - such as the Mersey Dee Alliance and the North Wales Economic Ambition Board - could be used to lever external investment in the same way as the Cardiff city deal.
"It's not the body that matters, it's the power they have," Mr Lucas said. "Cross-border collaboration is really important."
But the key battlefields of railway electrification and better links to both Manchester and Liverpool airports remain.
"It takes 50 minutes to drive from Wrexham to Manchester Airport and 2 hours 11 minutes by train. There has been underinvestment for decades and the area is held back by lack of infrastructure.
"We have got a long shopping list because we have been short changed in the past."
Gwynedd council leader Dyfed Edwards also attended the meeting and told the BBC that working alongside north Wales could "add value" to the northern powerhouse project across the border.
"An example could be a link between north Wales expertise in the energy sector with research departments at Sheffield and Manchester University," he said.
"Devolution was never just about Cardiff. If this plan means that people in regions and communities will be making their own decisions, that will be very much welcomed."
But, like Mr Lucas, he said these partnerships depended on "improved transport links".
"Some of these issues we have been talking about for a long time. We are hearing more now about the north Wales metro, which we welcome," he added.
"But it is time to get some meat on the bones and find out what this really means.
"We must ensure that north Wales does not lose out on economic opportunities and new infrastructure in north west England."
Robert Lloyd Griffiths, director of the Institute of Directors in Wales, was cautious on the need for further devolution.
"Let's get it right now; there's a lot of collaboration taking place already," he said.
"If the growth deal does come off it will be massively beneficial."
Nisreen Mansour, policy and research officer at the Bevan Foundation think tank, agreed that the mechanism of local authorities and businesses working together made the plan very similar to the Cardiff city deal.
But, she warned, it was crucial that any growth deal benefited people across the region - including those working in rural low-paid tourism and farming industries.
According to 2015 TUC research, workers in north Wales' constituency of Dwyfor Meirionnydd were the third poorest in the UK, with more than half getting less than the living wage.
Ms Mansour said: "There is faith in the trickle down effect - but we have yet to see any evidence that that will happen. And with all the recent news about Tata, it is really, really important that any deal retains big business in north Wales."
The Welsh Government said it was "committed" to investing in every part of the country and said any claims north Wales has missed out "does not stand up to the facts".
It said more than £40m was being spent on improving the A55 by refurbishing tunnels and more than £200m in the A494/A55/A458 Deeside corridor, among other road projects, with a business case having been submitted to the UK Government for the electrification of the north Wales main line.
A spokesman said: "More money has been spent on road schemes in north Wales than the south east, with £135 per head spent in north Wales compared to £118 in south east Wales since 2011.
"In education, during the last financial year spend per school pupil in north Wales was £5,651 compared to £5,460 in south Wales, and over the past two financial years we have released funding of £5,410,892 to tourism businesses or projects in north Wales compared to £3,796,232 in south Wales."
The Welsh Government also pointed to a number of capital projects supported in north Wales, including the £2.7m Coleg Cambria/Airbus and Aerospace Training facility on Deeside, and the £30m Holywell Learning Campus.
Watford, whose owners also own the Italian side, came within a game of promotion, losing the play-off final.
The Football League has limited match-day squads to five loanees, with four from any one club - in line with quotas for domestic loans.
Currently overseas loans are regarded as full transfers, so not limited.
A spokesman for the Football League said, "The proposal was voted for unanimously."
The influx of players from Udinese and Granada, who are also owned by the Pozzo family, into Watford's ranks was after the two teams had drawn 2-2 in February.
The Hornets had named seven loan players in their squad for the match, but only Nathaniel Chalobah, on a temporary deal from Chelsea, counted towards their official loan quota.
Their line-up also included Czech striker Matej Vydra, on loan from Udinese, who scored 22 goals en route to landing the Championship Player of the Year award.
"That gives a licence to people to buy English clubs, chuck all their players over here and have a reserve team," said Holloway at the time.
"What if Barcelona wanted to buy us and play their 'B' team for us? We've got to sort this out."
Watford, who are currently under a transfer embargo until 31 August because of their previous owners' financial irregularities, have said they will try to secure the best of their loan players on a permanent basis for next season.
The Football League, which appointed a working party to look at the issue following complaints, required 51% of their 72 members to vote in favour to change the rules.
Riot police fired tear gas after migrants began throwing boulders inside the camp. At least 12 shacks were set ablaze, reports say.
The demolition teams appeared to leave inhabited huts intact as they move through the camp's southern sector.
The government plans to relocate migrants to reception centres.
Those living in the camp, mainly from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa, hope to cross the Channel, often using people traffickers to try to enter illegally.
Hidden by the cover of darkness, groups of migrants tried to access trucks on the motorway heading towards the port of Calais. Riot police fired tear gas, forcing them back.
On Monday the demolition squads moved through the Jungle. They were met by some resistance. A few migrants and protesters threw rocks in an effort to delay their eviction.
Little remains of the sprawling southern section of the settlement now.
The government is trying to encourage people to relocate to official accommodation provided inside converted shipping containers nearby. But most have refused the offer, fearing they'll be forced to claim asylum in France.
It's still unclear where the hundreds who've been evicted will go now.
They fear the changes mean they will be forced to give their fingerprints and claim asylum in France, dashing their dreams of reaching the UK.
The authorities believe some 1,000 migrants will be affected by the eviction plan while aid agencies say the number of people living there is much higher.
Clashes continued on Monday evening as groups of migrants fanned out across scrubland towards the motorway heading to the port of Calais, reports the BBC's Anna Holligan at the camp.
French media say about 150 people, some wielding iron bars, climbed onto the road to block vehicles.
Riot police pushed them back into the camp. Earlier water cannon were also used to extinguish a fire in the shacks at the camp.
About 100 homes were dismantled on Monday, with demolition teams expected to return the next morning, our correspondent says.
At least four people, including activists from the UK-based No Borders group, were arrested during the unrest, police say.
Earlier Good Chance, a theatre group which works in the camp, said police were preventing volunteers from entering the camp.
"No volunteers access," it said in a tweet. "People removed from houses. Police blocking entry. This is what they call a 'soft demolition'."
French officials say public areas in the camp such as places of worship or schools will not be affected and describe the clearance as a "humanitarian operation".
Conditions in the southern sector are squalid and the camp's sprawling presence has become a controversial issue in both France and the UK.
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Officials say migrants can either move into heated container accommodation in the northern sector of the camp, where there is room for 1,500 people, move to similar accommodation centres elsewhere in France or claim asylum in France.
But many residents are reluctant to leave the Calais area.
"Going to Britain... is what people [here] want," Afghan migrant Hayat Sirat told AP. "So destroying part of the jungle is not the solution."
Of course, parents may make good or bad choices, but they have the right to make those decisions, whether that is about their child's diet and physical activity, their name, what school they go to, what religion they are raised in or what medical treatment they receive.
Professor of medical ethics at the University of Oxford, Dominic Wilkinson, says: "The principle is that if parents' decisions risk significant harm to their child then they should not be allowed to make those decisions. But the state doesn't intervene every time parents don't make the best decision."
The concept of parental responsibility is set out in law. The Children Act 1989 describes it as "all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which, by law, a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property."
If a public body disagrees with those choices, they must go to court in order to override this parental responsibility.
In the case of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard, medical professionals disagree with his parents over what is in his best interests. They want to stop his parents taking him to the US for experimental medical treatment, something they say is futile. And they want to stop providing his life support and allow him to die.
His parents say they believe that Charlie is "not in pain and suffering" as doctors have claimed, and there is nothing to be lost in trying the experimental therapy.
The team at Great Ormond Street has said Charlie is suffering and that that outweighs the "tiny theoretical chance there may be of effective treatment".
Charlie is unable to move his legs and arms, breathe unaided or hold his eyelids open. He is also deaf, has severe epilepsy and his heart, liver and kidneys are affected.
Undoubtedly, both doctors and parents want the best for Charlie. But in the final analysis, it will be for a judge to decide. This is because in the UK, in the absence of a parent's consent, a hospital needs a court order if stopping treatment would bring about death.
So far, the courts have ruled that Charlie should not be given treatment and that Great Ormond Street Hospital should be allowed to withdraw Charlie's life support.
Chris Fairhurst, children's law expert from Slater and Gordon, explains that in these situations, parents' wishes can only be overridden by going to court because a hospital has no legal right or responsibility to make such a decision without either the parents' or the courts' permission. It takes a judge ruling in favour of the hospital in order for the legal status of the parent's responsibility to be overridden.
The hospital has given evidence that it does not believe keeping Charlie on life support is in his best interests.
When it comes to cases involving the medical treatment of children, views range from thinking that the doctor always knows best to the idea that parents should have complete freedom to make all decisions over their children's health. The law in the UK falls somewhere in-between.
In 2006, the parents of a disabled baby boy called Mahdi Bacheikh won their fight against the hospital's request to turn off the ventilator that kept him alive. The 19-month-old had spinal muscular atrophy, was almost totally paralysed and could not breathe unaided, but did not have any sign of brain damage. He died later, aged two.
In 2009, the parents of a baby known only as OT who, like Charlie suffered from a form of mitochondrial disease, lost their right to keep him on life support. The judge heard he had suffered brain damage and was in discomfort and pain. He died the next day.
In the US, though, where Charlie's parents are suggesting he could be treated, the law falls much more heavily on the side of the parents even if this goes against the recommendations of medical professionals.
In the UK, while parents have the right to make decisions about their children's medical treatment, their wishes will be overruled if they refuse a reasonable life-saving treatment which has a very high chance of working.
The classic example of this is parents who are Jehovah's Witnesses and refuse blood transfusions due to their faith. There have been many cases where the courts have sided with the doctors against the wishes of the parents.
There is a difference, of course, between parents refusing recommended treatment and parents, as in Charlie's case, asking for treatment against advice.
It is far simpler to prove that a treatment that almost certainly will keep a child alive is in their best interests than it is to argue that keeping a child alive is not in their best interests.
When it comes to disputes between parents and the state, the vast majority involve a local authority going to court to remove a child from the care of their parents. In these cases, the authority must prove that a child is at risk of significant harm.
But because cases like Charlie's are relatively rare, unlike in care cases there is no statutory test for how judges should treat them. This means it varies case by case as to whether a judge decides what is in a child's best interests or uses the more onerous test of whether they are likely to come to significant harm.
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The 24-year-old finished his 36 holes of qualifying on nine under and then emerged from a seven-man play-off to grab one of the final four spots.
In all, there were 15 places available at the qualifying tournament.
Three-time major champion Padraig Harrington missed out on qualification after finishing on one over.
Gryestones golfer Dunne joins Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry in the field at Erin Hills in Wisconsin on 15-18 June.
2011 winner Rory McIlroy's participation in the tournament is in doubt as he continues to recover from a rib injury.
Qualifiers: Aaron Rai (Eng) -14; Haotong Li (Chi) -13; Alexander Levy (Fra) -12; Richie Ramsey (Sco) -12; Oliver Bekker (SA) -11; Joel Stalter (Fra) -11; Bradley Dredge (Wal) -11; Eddie Pepperell (Eng) -11; Brandon Stone (SA) -10; George Coetzee (S Africa) -10; Andrew Johnston (Eng) -10; Paul Dunne (ROI) -9; Matt Wallace (Eng) -9; Thomas Aiken (SA) -9; Wade Ormsby (Aus) -9.
The Brighton-born defender, who has an English mother and Egyptian father, won the last of his seven caps in 2013.
And at the age of 31, he hopes it is not too late to add more appearances.
"I was very much the English boy in the Egyptian squad, but I would love another opportunity," El-Abd told BBC Radio Shropshire.
"It was a good experience which I'll cherish and look back on with pride."
"I'm told I walk like one apparently," joked El-Abd. "I'm half Egyptian by blood, but I grew up in Brighton, I feel more English and I don't speak great Arabic.
"But I've never forgotten my roots. That was driven into me from an early age by my dad and my brothers."
He comes from a sporting family, elder brother Joe having played professional rugby union in France with Top 14 team Oyonnax, while younger brother Sami was a Brighton apprentice before playing non-league football with Crawley Town, Hayes & Yeading, Whitehawk and Bognor Regis.
El-Abd was first called up by former US coach Bob Bradley to represent Egypt in 2012 and, although he is only nine matches into his career in Shropshire, the former Brighton, Bristol City, Bury, Swindon and Gillingham man is hoping to feature in the Africa Cup of Nations in the new year.
The biennial competition, won a record seven times by Egypt, is a lot more than what El-Abd light-heartedly refers to as all "pot holes and two-footed tackles".
"It's not always played on the best pitches," he said. "But the players are very athletic, and it's very technical, with a pass-the-ball mentality. And I would love to play in it."
Prop Moon, 27, who helped Chiefs win promotion to the Premiership in 2010 and has since made 120 top-flight appearances, signs a three-year deal.
Fellow prop Rimmer, 30, has penned a two-year contract, having played 15 times this season.
Hooker Malton, 27, signs a one-year deal after his first Exeter Premiership start, against Worcester on Saturday.
"All of the re-signings we're making at the moment, we genuinely see them as good players," head coach Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"They've all done well in the Premiership and European competition, and yet we still see us and them individually progressing."
The Carrickfergus rider holds a record 17 victories at the international event and won both Supersport races in the same team's colours last year.
Seeley, 37, also won a Supersport race for Gearlink Kawasaki in 2013.
The former British champion is still on the lookout for 1000cc bikes to ride at the North West and is seeking a suitable British Championship berth.
Seeley parted company with the Briggs Construction BMW outfit at the end of last year's British Superbike campaign.
"I am looking forward to joining the Gearlink Kawasaki team again on the record breaking ZX-6R," said the ex-British Superstock and Supersport champion.
"Everything I asked from the team in 2016 was given to me, the same again would be nice and repeat results would be awesome.
"My crew chief will once again get the bike dialled in like in 2013 and last year and hopefully that will mean we can pick up where we left off."
The 31-metre memorial spire unveiled in Lincoln earlier displays the names of tens of thousands of air crew.
Event organisers sent a message out on Facebook asking for help in tracking down 93-year-old Donald Nicholson's five medals.
The message asked people to spread the word and help to get them back safely.
Mr Nicholson, from Houghton-le-Spring in Tyne and Wear, was attending the event which is part of the development in the creation of the International Bomber Command Centre.
The ceremony, presented by historian Dan Snow, was attended by 300 of the remaining Bomber Command veterans.
Nicky Barr from the International Bomber Command Centre said: "He has kept those medals for 70 years and to have lost them today of all days is heartbreaking.
"We are pleading for anyone who might have found them to hand them back."
The medals may have been left at a service area near Blyth in Nottinghamshire.
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Mane, 22, suffered the injury in Saints' 2-0 Premier League win over Arsenal on 1 January and missed Sunday's 1-1 FA Cup draw with Ipswich.
"Sadio has an injured calf muscle, it will be four to six weeks," Southampton manager Ronald Koeman said.
"Senegal may call him up and see the player, but he will not play in the Africa Cup of Nations."
The competition begins in Equatorial Guinea on 17 January and Senegal, runners-up in 2002, are aiming to win the competition for the first time.
Coached by Frenchman Alain Giresse, the Teranga Lions face Ghana on 19 January, South Africa on 23 January and Algeria on 27 January in Group C.
Mane's injury could give an opportunity to former Chelsea striker Demba Ba, who was left out of the provisional 28-man squad, with Giresse expected to finalise his 23-man squad on 7 January.
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The council has proposed closing nine of its centres which support families, particularly disadvantaged ones.
Its cabinet is expected to approve a three-month public consultation over the proposals on 26 February.
The council said a government grant which funded the centres had been cut by nearly a third.
The reduction was equivalent to £3.8m over the next two years, a spokesman said.
Councillors had agreed not to pass on "the full extent of the cuts" to children's services, but are slashing £1.5m a year from the service, a 23% budget cut.
The centres provide activities and services, including baby clinics, parenting classes and play sessions.
Under the proposals, centres would be retained in eight designated areas and these would "act as a focus for early year's children and family support services".
John Welsby, assistant director for children, young people and families, said: "We are determined to minimise the impact that this will have by continuing to provide the help and support that young children and their families in Wolverhampton need."
The Labour-run council announced on Tuesday it would make £17m of cuts in its 2013-2014 budget.
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The 800-acre (323.7ha) Tanera Mòr is the largest and only inhabited island in the Summer Isles in Wester Ross.
Current owners, the Wilder family, bought the island in 1996 and put it back on the market in 2013.
Breaking up the sale into lots is part of a new effort to sell Tanera Mòr, which has a post office and its own stamps for sending mail from the isle.
The guide price for the whole island has been set at almost £2m.
Lot one, the north end of the isle, involves about 231 acres (93ha) and has been priced at £700,000.
It also includes the Summer Isles Post Office which issues two stamps for mail leaving the island - a Tanera Mòr stamp for it to leave the isle to the mainland and a Royal Mail one for the rest of journey.
Tanera Mòr is the only Scottish island to operate a year-round private postal service.
Lot two involves a central area of about 196 (79ha) acres, including Mol Mòr which is the largest of the isle's beaches, and would cost about £430,000 to buy.
In the 1930s, scientist and writer Frank Fraser Darling transformed large parts of moor on this part of the island into fertile land using manure and shell sand
The south of the Tanera Mòr makes up the final lot and involves about 333 acres (134ha) and has a guide price of £820,000.
John Bound, a partner at selling agents CKD Galbraith, said: "The sale of Tanera Mòr offered now as a whole or in three separate lots adds an exciting dynamic to the sale of this idyllic island as it now allows a number of interested parties the chance to tap into island life.
"Each lot offers comfortable family living with some established and potential business opportunities.
"We believe that by offering Tanera Mòr in lots we will attract potential buyers who are looking to buy into the idyllic island lifestyle."
The island was put up for sale after talks were first held about a possible buyout by the local community living on the mainland nearby.
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Francesco Guidolin's team will be in the US from 7 July to 17 July and play games on 13 July (TBC) and 16 July against Richmond Kickers who play in the United Soccer League.
The first week of the tour will be a training camp based in Washington DC.
Swansea also have four friendly matches scheduled after their return to the UK in late July and early August
July 13: America tour: Opponents tbc
July 16: Richmond Kickers (City Stadium, Virginia) 19:00 local time
July 23: Bristol Rovers (Memorial Stadium) 15:00 BST
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July 30: Wolverhampton Wanderers (Molineux) 15:00 BST
August 6: Stade Rennais (Liberty Stadium) 15:00 BST
Caixinha takes charge of his first Rangers match on Saturday against Hamilton Academical.
Miller, 37, has been helping coach the club's under-20s.
"I'm about to assess that situation," said Caixinha. "We have a list of candidates. We are going to start the assessment as soon as possible."
And he added: "We are going to have someone that can give me that knowledge, someone that is really linked with the history and tradition of this club and how big it is to represent this club."
Caixinha will work with assistant Helder Baptista, fitness coach Pedro Malta and goalkeeping coach Jose Belman, the latter replacing Jim Stewart.
Former Scotland striker Miller is out of contract in the summer but is hopeful of continuing to play.
"My focus is firmly on being a player for as long as I can," he said. "You're a long time retired so I'm firmly focused on the game at the weekend and continuing my duties as a player until the end of the season and hopefully beyond.
"I still feel like I have a lot to offer on the field at the moment. It would definitely have to involve still being a player."
Caixinha held a meeting with Miller and other senior players, including captain Lee Wallace, and the manager said: "Kenny spoke to me for one more minute and he told me something I already knew, that he was doing something part-time with the under-20s.
"OK, perfect, all the time that is not colliding with our work, I am very glad that you keep doing that work. But I also know that he wants to still play."
And the Portuguese says it's "not clever to change everything" before his debut as Rangers manager.
"We are just trying to pass the biggest principles, the biggest behaviours in each moment in the game," added the 46-year-old. "We don't have time to do that much.
"We want to combine two moments and be aggressive in those two moments. I am talking about the defensive organisation, so I want a team that is more dynamic.
"I want to have the ball - of course to attack you need to have the ball. But I need to have a team that attacks spaces rather than just touches the ball. And especially I want a team that is much more aggressive landing on the finishing position.
"After that, I want a team that is always attacking. So, we have the ball, we attack our opponent's goal. We don't have the ball, we attack the ball again."
William and James Turner beat Matthew Goddard to death in his home in Chobham Street in Belfast on 23 December 2014.
They punched, kicked and battered him with an electric guitar before stamping on his head, the judge told the court.
Belfast men William Turner, 37, of Glenlea Grove, and his brother, 30, of Dunraven Court, pleaded guilty in May.
They were both sentenced to life imprisonment, but returned to Belfast Crown Court on Friday to hear how long they will have to serve before being considered for release.
The court was told that Mr Goddard was murdered after he allegedly insulted the younger brother, by saying he was "a sandwich short of a picnic".
During the fatal attack, which lasted about 10 minutes, the brothers made their 41-year old victim crawl and apologise for the remark.
His body was discovered the next evening - Christmas Eve - wrapped in a curtain at the bottom of the stairs.
He was believed to have been alive when the Turner brothers, and co-accused Christian Walker, left his house.
The judge said that in the hours before the murder, the brothers had been drinking alcohol and taking cocaine.
While they were drinking in the King Richard pub, William Turner got into a fight with another man over a game of pool and gouged his eye, leaving the man completely blind in the eye.
According to the judge, William Turner later admitted that he had intended to "give Matt a good slap" for insulting his brother.
"After they secured entry to his house, William Turner and James Turner subjected the victim to a sustained, merciless and brutal assault," the judge said.
"They used fists, feet and smashed an electric guitar over his head with such ferocity that it smashed in to pieces."
As well as the murder sentence, William Turner was also given a discretionary life sentence with a tariff of 10 years for blinding his other victim.
Co-accused Christian Walker, who was with the Turners as they carried out the murder but who did not participate, provided a false alibi for the pair.
The 27-year old, from Ribble Street in Belfast, later gave a full and frank admission to police about what happened to Mr Goddard.
Walker was given a suspended prison sentence for perverting the course of justice.
Speaking after the hearing, Mr Goddard's widow said the sentence "didn't really matter to me" and "that is not going to bring my husband back."
Maureen Goddard, who is originally from Zimbabwe, was attending a family funeral in her native country when the murder happened.
She said her Christian faith "waivered" at the time, but she has since found the strength to forgive her husband's killers.
"But when they meet their maker, they will be judged," she added. "May God have mercy on their souls."
Mrs Goddard said her husband was a "wonderful" stepfather to her two children.
"I love him and miss him every day and I just feel so alone now - I never even got the chance to say goodbye to him," she said.
Ben Ashworth, 38, from Preston, was diagnosed with the disease in 2012 and told he only had months to live.
Since then he has run marathons, including four ultras, to raise money for charity and combat the stigma of bowel cancer.
His wife Louise said his family was "heartbroken" but "in awe" of how he "defied the odds".
The former librarian, who has three daughters, started his charity runs in April 2014 in Blackpool.
While undergoing chemotherapy he ran other marathons including Windermere, Wakefield, Northampton and the Isle of Man.
His final few marathons, Greater Manchester, Temple Newsam and London, were completed last year, taking his final tally to 24 in 24 months.
A statement written by his wife Louise was posted on his Facebook page, Ben's Bowel Movements: "This is the hardest post to write. Ben found peace early this morning.
"With myself and his mum holding his hand, he drifted away to meet our Heavenly Father.
"We are heartbroken, but we are also in awe of the time we have been blessed with.
"How he has defied the odds. The way he won every race. We are grateful this wasn't a marathon and his last days were spent surrounded by those he loves and we were able to keep him at home."
Before he became ill Mr Ashworth had completed the Great North Run and a half-marathon, but said it was his dream to conquer a full marathon.
He also donated the suits he wore at the Grammy and Brit Awards to the St Elizabeth Hospice shop in his home town of Framlingham, Suffolk.
They were among 13 bags of clothes donated by the pop star.
Rachail Pollard, the shop's manager, said they hoped to raise a "few thousand pounds" from the donation.
"We are delighted that Ed has chosen to donate so many of his clothes to us," she said.
"Over the last few years we have had multiple donations from him and they have proved very popular, with people coming from all over to queue outside the shop to buy them, as well as people all across the globe bidding on the online."
The donations will go on sale in the Market Hill store and online on Saturday.
The checked shirt worn by the 25-year-old when he met Renee Zellweger's character, Bridget, in a bar in the film, will be auctioned on eBay.
It is the second time Sheeran has donated goods to the hospice.
Ms Pollard added: "We have raised over £4,000 so far from his donations and we hope to raise a few thousand pounds from these fantastic donations.
"We are really grateful to Ed for choosing to support us and we're sure his clothes will fly out of the shop."
It is also not the first time this year Sheeran has supported the Suffolk hospice.
As part of the Pigs Gone Wild art trail in Ipswich this summer, he had a pig sculpture designed to look like him. It was named Ed Sheer-Ham.
The pig goes up for auction on Thursday.
The reigning Olympic -57kg champion is only a few points from guaranteeing her place at the 2016 Games in Brazil.
The Welsh athlete, 22, took gold at the inaugural European Championships in Baku last June to boost her Rio bid.
"I just need to use these Grands Prix more for improving and trying things... for Rio," Jones told BBC Sport Wales.
"Because I don't need the points as much as other people I'm in a lucky position to practise things.
"I got gold in Baku so I'm feeling good again and I'm in a super strong place for Rio, so I've just got to keep chipping away at the points.
"Apart from the Worlds I'm undefeated, that's why it was so frustrating because of how I lost, but I'm still in such a good place for Rio."
Jones was knocked out of the quarter-finals of the World Championships in Russia amid controversy when the electronic scoring system froze.
But she bounced back in Baku and after her success in Azerbaijan returns to Russia for the first of four Grands Prix events, which includes a leg in Manchester next October.
The level of competition will be high this weekend at the Dinamo Krylatskoye Gymnasium in Moscow, with 20 Olympic medallists among a high-quality field of 245 athletes.
"Every Grands Prix is like a World Championship," Jones added.
"The top 32 in the world are there and some people have to get these points to qualify for Rio, so everyone is wanting it, everyone is hungry for the points."
The top six athletes in each weight category will qualify for Rio 2016, with the Grand Prix Final in December 2015 the last chance to earn points.
Jones is currently second in the -57kg Olympic rankings on 400.36 points, just behind leader Eva Calvo Gomez of Spain (414.64) and well clear of France's Floriane Liborio in seventh (199.21).
Winning a major event such as the European Championships earns 40 points, with between 20 and 10 points on offer for first place in other competitions. Lesser placings receive lower points.
Sam Gould was 33 years old.
He had filmed a video within 24 hours of being diagnosed in April warning others not to ignore the symptoms of the illness.
Former UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill described Mr Gould as "my friend, colleague and possibly the bravest man I've had the pleasure of meeting".
Mr Gould had served as UKIP campaign co-ordinator for the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, when the party won seats in the Senedd for the first time.
The former music promoter was the party's 2015 general election candidate in Caerphilly - when he came second - and assembly candidate there the following year, when he came third.
He was a prominent campaigner for Brexit in the 2016 referendum on EU membership.
Mr Gould, who died on Monday morning, had worked for Mr Gill, a UKIP MEP and independent assembly member.
"Sam Gould was my friend, colleague and possibly the bravest man I've had the pleasure of meeting," Mr Gill said.
"He was a bundle of energy, enthusiasm and positivity - and all of this was put into his campaigning for the general election in 2015 and then the two campaigns in 2016.
"He truly believed in what he was doing and put everything in, even devising some crazy stunts to get a cheeky news headline."
Mr Gill said Mr Gould's video on bowel cancer was viewed by more than 100,000 people.
"More than anything I will miss his warm and caring nature and our phone calls when we'd speak about nothing in particular yet somehow put the world to rights," Mr Gill said.
Alex Phillips, a former head of UKIP's media operation, said she "can't express how devastated I am to lose Sam".
"Boundlessly happy, bouncy, selfless and honest. A truly magical human," she added.
The Bowel Cancer UK charity said it was deeply saddened to learn of Mr Gould's death.
Its chief executive Deborah Alsina said: "He was an inspiration to us when he was dealing with the tough reality of his own situation.
"A campaigner until the end his support has meant so much to us all at the charity.
"Our thoughts are with his family at this very difficult time."
Mr Gould is survived by his wife, Caroline, and three children aged five, four and one.
The contracts mean maximum flexibility for the employer and minimum security for the worker - the sense of David being, well, thoroughly crushed by Goliath - undervalued, underpaid and thrown to the wolves when it suits.
It's all pretty fertile territory for the man who's built his economic case around the "cost-of-living crisis". Labour leader Ed Miliband has bemoaned zero-hours contracts in the past - but Newsnight has learned that on Friday he'll attempt to turn words into policy.
Speaking in Scotland - in what's being billed as his first attempt to make his mark on the pro-Union side of the independence debate - he'll offer legislation under a Labour government to stop what he's called an exploitative practice.
He will promise some key measures:
Mr Miliband will say the key to these policies is that they are UK-wide (a nod, then, to No to Scottish independence), to ensure that the economies both sides of the border don't try to undercut each other in a race to the bottom.
So far so good.
It'll chime with a lot of people pulling pints, stacking shelves, building houses and so on.
But it doesn't take a genius to spot where such a plan might unravel. Who's to stop a boss, for example, offering five months' work instead of six to get around the legislation.
Who's to stop a boss firing a worker just short of a year in, if they suddenly fear a little bit too much commitment coming round the corner?
Critics also point out that the realities of life for those who work under zero-hours contracts mean few may be willing to stand their ground and fight for their rights.
They often apply to the vulnerable - young workers, first-timers - those generally less likely to flex their muscle against all-powerful boss.
Mr Miliband may be the first to put a legislative pledge in writing - but he's certainly not the first to raise the zero-hours contracts issue.
Last week UKIP leader Nigel Farage told the Express he wanted to "tackle" the practice, saying: "I do not believe in banning zero-hours contracts. But I do believe there is a very strong case for expecting large employers to sign up to a tough code of conduct as to how they are applied.
"For instance, if an employee proves reliable enough to be working for a big company for a year or more then there should be an expectation that the company will offer him or her a permanent position."
And this is where the politics gets interesting. Mr Miliband and Mr Farage may be seeking the same kind of voter - badly paid, disenfranchised, frustrated with the perceived big, bad corporate world.
What the other two main parties do in response will be key. Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable has already ruled out a complete ban on the contracts and the Conservatives are unlikely to want to take employers on with this one either.
But payday loans and energy prices - both of which the coalition has acted upon - began as "Labour issues". Mr Miliband's ideas on zero-hours contracts may start by being rubbished and ridiculed. Yet could they also end up influencing his opponents?
See my full report on Newsnight on BBC Two from 22:30 BST on Thursday and on the BBC iPlayer later.
The England opener hit 148 as England beat South Africa by 68 runs on 5 July in Bristol, where Tuesday's semi-final will also be played.
Despite victory, England conceded their highest one-day total of 305 runs.
"It is going to be a clean slate on Tuesday with a lot more to play for," said Beaumont, 26.
After an opening defeat by India, England won six consecutive matches to finish top of the group, while South Africa finished fourth.
Defending champions Australia take on India in the other semi-final in Derby on Thursday for a place in the final at Lord's on Sunday.
"We have put the loss to India behind us and we have gone from strength to strength as the tournament has progressed," added Beaumont, who is the tournament's top run-scorer with 372.
"The best part of our squad is that someone different steps up every single game. [captain] Heather Knight was excellent against West Indies with a really crucial knock and Alex Hartley with the ball.
"It is really key that everyone is on song for the semi-final - South Africa have a really good all-round team to suit all sorts of pitches, they have a lot of pace up front and then leg-spinners in the middle and some pretty destructive batters."
England have won 18 of their previous 19 one-day internationals against South Africa, who are playing in their first World Cup semi-final since 2000.
The Proteas have the leading wicket-taker in this year's event, with captain Dane van Niekerk, 24, having claimed 15 wickets in her six matches so far.
"We're excited, we know any team that is in the semi-final are going to be tough to beat so we're going to have to bring our very best," said Van Niekerk.
"I don't think there's any pressure on us at all, I don't think most people thought we would be here - in that sense I'm very proud of the girls.
"I'm really excited to be in this position and the girls are really excited for the challenge ahead."
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Organisers had concerns the 14th festival would not go ahead because of a £15,000 funding gap, before a public appeal raised the money needed.
Guests announced include comedian and broadcaster-turned chef Hardeep Singh Kohli.
Novelists Simon Mawer, J David Simons, SG Maclean, and Cynthia Rogerson and STV's political editor Bernard Ponsonby will also be attending.
Prizewinning poet Jo Shapcott, young Scots singer Siobhan Miller, musician and author Malachy Tallack, pianist Christina Lawrie, playwright and novelist Alan Bisset and award -winning Edinburgh band The Blueswater are almost among those to appear.
The festival's Wine and Crime afternoon will feature Nicola Upson, Louise Welsh and Lesley Kelly.
Nine children lived in bedrooms that smelled of urine and animal faeces and mattresses were soiled, Gloucester Crown Court heard.
The pair from Gloucestershire were due to be sentenced last week but this was delayed after they took an overdose.
The mother was sentenced to two years nine months; the father for two years.
At an earlier hearing, the pair pleaded guilty to neglecting five children, between 2007 and 2012. The ages of the children ranged from a baby to a young teenager.
Charges relating to the other four will lie on file.
The children were reported as often being dirty and smelly and suffered badly with head lice infestations, which the mother told police she had treated with mayonnaise.
It was after the youngest child was admitted to hospital with severe nappy rash, which had left ulcers on the child's skin, that police arrested the couple.
When officers searched the house they found it in an unhygienic state.
Carpets and walls were filthy, rubbish and clothes were strewn everywhere and a plug socket was left hanging out of the wall.
In a child's bedroom, ivy had come in from outside and was growing across the wall.
Judge Tabor said of the couple: "They are not wicked and they did not deliberately inflict pain and suffering upon their children...
"In short the degree of neglect was so high and so prolonged that the margin between reckless neglect and deliberate cruelty narrows to a perceptible but very small margin."
Speaking to the BBC before sentencing the father said there had been "a range of failing on my behalf, on my wife's behalf", but also claimed "social services let us down in a big way"...
"I hope they [social services] learn a lot from this case and they don't let this happen again.
"[The children] are very upset they're away from their mother and father.... As a parent it's completely broken me," he added.
Roger Clayton, chairman of Gloucestershire Children Safeguarding Board, said the neglect the children suffered was "unacceptable".
He added: "I'm pleased that because action has been taken the children are now safe and doing well, and their parents have been successfully prosecuted."
A serious case review will now take place.
Det Insp Katy Miles from Gloucestershire Police said: "This was the most horrific case of child neglect the team has dealt with.
"It's hard to imagine how any parent could just sit back and let their children live in such squalor but that's what happened.
"When they were challenged they were obstructive and didn't understand what they had done wrong - now they must live with the consequences.
"There are no winners but I'm pleased to say that since the children have moved into a caring and loving environment they have shown encouraging signs of improvement and their future is bright again."
Should the engines have a so-called "defeat device", this could widen the number of vehicles affected.
VW has been embroiled in a scandal over emissions test rigging on its EA 189 engines.
It is now looking into older versions of EA 288 engines, although versions sold in Europe are not affected.
In September, Volkswagen said that 11 million diesel vehicles were affected by the scandal, first disclosed by the US regulator, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The EPA discovered that certain engines were fitted with a cheat-device that could detect when the car was being tested and reduced emissions to improve results.
VW had previously said that the software was installed on cars with variants of the EA 189 diesel engine built to the "Euro 5" emissions standard.
The company is now checking whether models with the EA 288 diesel motor built to the same emissions standard may also have the software.
Newer EA 288 cars built to the "Euro 6" standard are said not to be affected.
Criminal investigations have been launched in Germany and in France and Italy, and VW has faced questions by MPs in the UK.
The firm has set aside €6.5bn to cover the costs of the scandal but many analysts expect this will not be enough.
This gathering in Nottingham looks like any group of friends, but the adults have one thing in common - they have all been widowed.
Way: Widowed and Young is a peer support organisation, introducing people in similarly tragic situations to others who can understand their complex grief.
All the members present agree that its regular meetings and internet chatroom have been an essential part of coping in the days and years since their bereavements.
"When my husband first died, suddenly from meningitis, I couldn't be in the house on my own. I had panic attacks," says Georgia Elms, who is now chair of Way.
She was widowed 10 years ago and discovered she was pregnant with her second daughter the following day.
"It really does affect your mental health. You become a different person and your self-confidence goes," she adds.
"You think you're going mad when you're grieving. For me - and everybody grieves differently - I wanted to check that what I was feeling was normal. It made me feel a lot calmer, that everybody else felt the same way."
Mental health concerns are a common theme in the group.
"It's normal to feel a little bit crazy. You feel these hugely strong emotions and the kids do too," says Sarah Philips, another member of the group.
"If that's not handled well, you can end up being a bit crazy."
Kevin Moore lost his wife to breast cancer eight years ago and joined Way in order to meet other fathers in the same position.
"It's a very traumatic experience. It turns your whole world upside down. It certainly does affect your mental health overall," he says.
"There are some very dark times and it's very despairing at times when you don't know what happens next. Being able to share your concerns helps you move through those times together.
"It's not a medical condition you can go to the doctor's with."
Being widowed at all is highly traumatic, but for Angela Sumata, whose husband Mark took his own life 13 years ago, her grief was almost impossible to process.
"Bereavement and grief is something that we all have to deal with in life. The thing that compounds it when somebody takes their life, is that it brings with it a whole different level of complexity, the emotions you feel, how they can change from day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute."
Angela joined Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide, another peer support organisation, in the wake of her experience.
"When Mark took his life we were very well treated on the night, but after that you're really reliant on your friends and family. What we didn't have was the offer of support from any professional.
"All of my help has come from the charity sector, from people realising that the specialist services aren't there and forming charities themselves."
It is especially important for people affected by suicide, says Angela, who is now a campaigner and fronted the BBC documentary Life After Suicide.
"There's people who consider suicide because they've been bereaved by suicide. If you don't receive the help you need to navigate through the issues, then absolutely it can lead to mental health issues."
One of the biggest issues, according to former cathedral minister Yvonne Tulloch, is finding the support when you need it.
Her husband died suddenly nine years ago while on a business trip. She found her grief hard to contain and says she had suicidal thoughts herself.
"It's this massive sadness that comes over you and you just can't get out of that, and you feel like life just isn't worth living," she says.
"These days it feels like people just don't understand what you're going through, and society's not geared up to help.
"I spiralled down very rapidly and got to the point of beginning to think there's no point to my life any more. The thought of ending it began crossing my mind."
She has set up the website At A Loss, where users can search for the most suitable support, be it for the loss of a parent or partner, tailored to the individual's age.
"We are providing a one-stop shop website to help signpost the bereaved to support," she says.
"If you find somebody who's been through what you're going through, and has come out the other side, it gives you hope."
The blaze was spotted at 07:45 BST on Sunday at the former cinema in Alexandra Street in the resort.
Essex Fire Service's incident commander said: "A large amount of smoke has been generated by the fire so we are advising nearby residents to close their windows."
No casualties have been reported and fire crews were damping down the fire from above.
The 26-year-old previously spent four years in Sweden with Eskilstuna United, who she captained last season.
"I'm really excited to have signed for Notts, it's a great club with lots of history," she told Notts' club website.
Manager Rick Passmoor added: "Louise brings with her a wealth of experience, including Champions League football."
Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is attending meetings in Washington to appeal for US support.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has dismissed his US visit as a "waste of time" that would have been better spent completing talks in Northern Ireland.
But he said the US administration "remains engaged" with the process.
Mr McGuinness said he made it clear to White House officials that Northern Ireland's devolved political institutions were "facing a real crisis as a result of the policies of this British government".
His party is opposed to welfare reforms, implemented in other parts of the UK, being introduced in Northern Ireland.
Earlier, DUP minister Arlene Foster criticised the deputy first minister's decision to speak to US officials rather than those more closely involved in the issue.
She said the American government had no role in terms of UK welfare reform.
"Martin McGuinness's trip is a waste of time because Westminster of course is in charge of our budget," she said.
"After these visits have taken place we will get a statement from the (US) administration urging us all to work together and that's exactly what we should be doing here in Northern Ireland.
"There is no need to go to America to get that message across," Mrs Foster added.
But Mr McGuinness said: "I had a positive and encouraging meeting with senior officials at the White House today.
"The US administration clearly remains engaged with the political process in the North and they continue to play a constructive role."
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) commissioned the external report in the wake of complaints from surgeons.
The results come after a senior surgeon sparked outrage over claims doctors should "comply with requests" for sex to save their careers.
The RACS has apologised to surgeons, stressing the need for change.
"I'm sorry that too many of us have been silent bystanders," RACS president Prof David Waters said. "This silence has been part of the problem."
The head of the RACS advisory group, former Victorian health minister Rob Knowles, said he was disturbed by the results, and surprised "at the depth and the entrenched nature of bullying and harassment".
The report recommends training, education, addressing gender inequality and actively holding surgeons and their employers to account.
The spider was revealed at the World Science Festival in Australia, and was given the name 'Brian', after a famous scientist called Professor Brian Greene.
The spider can be found in Queensland, Australia, and eats fish, frogs, tadpoles, and even big cane toads, but luckily isn't dangerous to humans.
Brian catches its prey by sitting on the surface of water, and feeling vibrations caused by the creatures it wants to hunt.
When it feels a vibration, it runs across the water to grab its prey.
It then dives under the water with it, before swimming back to shore to eat it up.
A £300,000 digital scanning project was announced in 2014.
The road and rail bridges, and new Queensferry Crossing, were mapped on foot, using ropes and from vehicles and boats, over a 90-day period - with billions of images amassed.
The information gathered will form the basis of technology aimed at promoting engineering skills for school children.
Transport Scotland has provided a grant of £425,000 to enable digital heritage experts to start work on learning games, augmented reality apps, real-time interactive models for virtual headset tours and video fly-throughs for release in 2018.
They will be used to develop Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) skills among Scottish school pupils.
Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said: "The Forth bridges represent Scotland's industrial past, creative present and our dynamic and innovative future. They are the pinnacle of world-leading design and engineering and it's right that we conserve and protect them and also seek to inspire and educate the young engineers of the future.
"If the bridges are a globally unique showcase of Scotland's world-class engineering skills, this amazing 3D scanning project also showcases the world-leading design, research and innovation in our higher education institutions.
"The possibilities for this comprehensive digital data are almost endless. It allows the production of detailed information and tools for conservation, educational resources, improving accessibility and delivering virtual records to help health and safety training as well as promoting tourism."
The laser scanning was carried out by the Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation, a partnership between The Glasgow School of Art and Historic Environment Scotland.
The team had previously carried out similar work on the Sydney Opera House and Mount Rushmore in the US.
Animations of the bridges, which will form part of the 2018 education resource, have already been released.
Alastair Rawlinson, head of data acquisition at The Glasgow School of Art, said: "Laser scanning each of the three bridges has posed unique challenges for our team.
"We have had to use our combined experience, gained through digitally documenting globally iconic structures such as the Sydney Opera House and Mount Rushmore, to create innovative methodologies to allow us to capture these incredible bridges in great detail.
"We will now use this specialised 3D dataset to develop interactive learning resources based on advanced gaming technologies and virtual reality to make the information accessible to school children across Scotland and beyond."
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Two goals from Harry Martin and one from David Ames gave the hosts a 3-0 lead at half-time.
Malaysia pulled one back through Faizal Saari's strike but Phil Roper's drilled shot secured the win for the hosts.
Victory books England's place at December's World League Final in India, having already qualified for the 2018 World Cup by reaching the last four.
Martin put England in front after five minutes. Malaysia goalkeeper Kumar Subramaniam had initially made a good save from the first penalty corner of the game, but Martin was quick to react to convert the rebound.
Ames, on his 28th birthday, doubled England's lead with a fierce shot after some good build-up play from the hosts.
Martin scored his second of the game after a well worked routine from a penalty corner.
Saari did well to deflect a shot into the goal to give Malaysia some hope in the final quarter, before Roper's late goal completed the win.
England finish third in the tournament, having lost 2-0 to Netherlands in the semi-finals on Saturday.
Speaking to BT Sport, Martin said: "It feels good, we wanted to come here and the aim was to qualify for the World Cup.
"The semi-final loss was disappointing but we came back and showed some character."
The Netherlands dominated Argentina 6-1 in the final on Sunday to win gold.
It says the allegations relate to 20 people being paid from the EU budget as assistants to the French party's MEPs.
There are doubts whether they do work directly connected to the parliament.
The party leader said she would file a complaint against the parliament's president over the "false accusations".
Ms Le Pen also said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was "mobilising his socialist friends against the National Front".
Mr Valls has said he fears for his country over the rise of the Front, which is leading in some French opinion polls.
He warned that the FN could win the next presidential election in 2017, saying its policies were a "disaster" for France.
In a statement, the European Parliament said its president, Martin Schulz, had alerted the EU anti-fraud agency Olaf about information noted in February relating to the salaries of FN staff members.
It said many of the assistants had listed their working address as the National Front's headquarters in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris, while some had different job descriptions on their EU contracts compared with FN documents.
It added that party paperwork also showed certain assistants did not work for the MEPs listed on their EU contracts.
Ms Le Pen denounced the move as "political manipulation", according to AFP news agency.
"The EU parliament's president is bringing out the big guns," she wrote on Twitter.
"A complaint will be filed against him [Martin Schulz] for making false allegations," she added, although she did not say where such an action would be brought.
A spokesperson for Olaf said it was assessing the information to decide whether there were sufficient grounds to launch an official investigation.
The FN won France's European Parliament elections in May 2014 with 25% of the vote, taking 24 seats.
Jeffrey Blue told the court Newcastle United's owner reneged on a promise to pay him a multimillion-pound sum if he increased the firm's share price.
The court heard about "drink-fuelled" meetings in pubs, including one where Mr Ashley "vomited into a fireplace".
Mr Ashley's lawyers said he had won a "comprehensive" victory.
The hearing was told that four years ago Mr Ashley met Mr Blue and three other finance specialists at the Horse and Groom in London and "consumed a lot of alcohol".
Mr Ashley said: "I can't remember the details of the conversations that we had in the pub as it was a heavy night of drinking.
"If I did say to Mr Blue that I would pay him £15m if he could increase [Sports Direct's] share price to £8, it would be obvious to everyone, including Mr Blue, that I wasn't being serious."
He said he paid Mr Blue £1m in "other deals" unrelated to the Horse and Groom meeting.
Mr Blue described Mr Ashley as a "serious businessman", but said the work ethic at Derbyshire-based Sports Direct was "like nothing else I have ever seen" with business conducted "in unorthodox ways and in unusual venues".
The £14m High Court case between Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley and a banker offered a revealing insight into how business is done in some quarters.
Stories of monster drinking sessions, kebabs and vomiting into a fireplace emerged as financial expert Jeffrey Blue tried get Ashley to cough up.
He claimed the Sports Direct founder had promised him the money in a deal struck in a pub, but Ashley said the conversation was no more than a joke.
And a judge has now agreed no-one could have thought he was being serious.
The judge said that during the Horse and Groom meeting Mr Ashley promised him £15m, but Sports Direct chairman Keith Hellawell said Mr Blue only mentioned the figure of £1m to him.
Ruling in Mr Ashley's favour, judge Justice Leggatt said: "No reasonable person present... would have thought that the offer to pay Mr Blue £15m was serious and was intended to create a contract.
"They all thought it was a joke. The fact that Mr Blue has since convinced himself that the offer was a serious one, and that a legally binding agreement was made, shows only that the human capacity for wishful thinking knows few bounds."
He ordered that Mr Blue would have to pick up Mr Ashley's legal bill of £1.5m, as well as his own of "one million odd".
In a statement after the ruling Mr Ashley said: "The only reason the Sports Direct share price exceeded £8, and will hopefully do so again, is because of the sterling efforts of all the people who work at Sports Direct."
Colin Pitchfork was the first person to be convicted using DNA profiling for killing Leicestershire schoolgirls Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, both 15.
The Parole Board will review his case in September as he nears the end of a 28-year minimum term on his sentence.
Lynda's sister, Rebecca Eastwood, has now gathered almost 16,000 signatures.
Ms Eastwood, from Liverpool, was two years old when her sister was murdered by Pitchfork in 1983.
She said: "It's really difficult having to relive the stories and see his picture on the petition, but I think the sadness and anger is bringing a determination to get this petition done and hopefully win our fight to keep him where he is."
More than 13,200 people have signed the online petition with a further 2,500 signatures collected on paper.
Pitchfork, now 55, was jailed for life in 1988 after he admitted two charges of murder, two of rape, two of indecent assault and one offence of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Lynda was killed in Narborough in 1983 while Dawn, from Enderby, was murdered three years later.
The Parole Board said he had made progress in prison and could either be released or transferred to an open prison later this year.
"I have heard he has a glowing record and has never been on report while he's been in prison, but it's not very hard to be well behaved when you are locked up," said Ms Eastwood.
"I do think he's a threat to the public and I don't think what he's done could ever be fixed. He's a very calculating killer and he shouldn't be free."
Mrs Eastwood is hoping to send the petition to the Parole Board along with statements from the families of Pitchfork's victims.
The 18-year-old was last seen on CCTV on the city's Longman Road at 01:00 on 10 November.
Police, RNLI Kessock lifeboat crew and the Coastguard have been involved in searches for Mr Mitchell.
His family said: "We are desperately concerned for our son who seemed to have lost his way. We would dearly love for our son to return home to us."
Police officers and dogs and specialist search teams have been focusing the search around Inverness' Longman Industrial Estate and nearby Moray Firth coastline.
In a statement, his family said: "Our son Adam left home on Wednesday afternoon (9 November) to go in town, where he was seen talking and having a laugh with people he met in the Tooth and Claw pub.
"He last spoke to his father at 20:30 in the evening."
Mr Mitchell is known to have left another pub, Wetherspoons, just after 00:00 and he was alone when seen walking down the Longman at 01:00 on CCTV on 10 November, his family said.
The statement said: "Adam is a typical teenager who loves heavy metal music. He constantly wore his off-cut denim jacket that was decorated with patches of his favourite bands, it was his pride and joy.
"He was wearing it when he was last seen over the top of his leather jacket, he always wore black jeans and black boots."
His family added: "Adam has a very distinctive look, long flowing brown hair and a beard.
"He didn't wear jewellery unless you include his headphones, he was always listening to music when he walked anywhere. He was friendly and open with everyone he met and he was a gentle, fun-loving young man who was loyal to his friends.
"This is totally out of character for Adam who rarely strayed from home without letting his parents know when he would be home."
Robert Butler, 30, was charged on Tuesday following last month's fatal stabbing of new father Jamal Mahmoud, 21, on the north London prison's G wing.
The Met Police said Mr Butler was remanded in custody until a court date can be set.
Basana Kimbembi, 34, has also been charged with Mr Mamoud's murder and will appear at court at a later date.
The G wing is the same wing from which two prisoners, James Whitlock and Matthew Baker, escaped on Monday.
Sir Ian Botham, Dickie Bird and Micky Stewart joined family and friends for the service at St Chad's Church in Headingley, Leeds.
Close, who lived in Baildon, died aged 84 following a long battle with cancer.
Sir Ian described Close as "simply the best captain a young player could have ever wanted".
Close became the youngest player ever to represent England at 18 and went on to lead his country seven times in 22 Tests.
He leaves behind his wife Vivienne, a son and a daughter.
In a glowing tribute to Close, Sir Ian said: "He was the first man to congratulate you but he was also the first man to pull you down and take your legs away from you if you didn't get it right.
"But then in the evening he'd be the first guy to come up put his arm around you and say, 'Ian lad, come here, that's what I thought was wrong... but here's a drink, let's learn from that and move on'."
Speaking in an earlier interview, Mrs Close said she did not see her husband as a famous cricketer, he was "just Brian".
"I see him as my husband, the father of my children, someone who could be awkward, someone who I loved very much and who I know loved me."
She said one of his other talents was being a "wonderful dancer".
"He always maintained that cricketers should learn to ballroom dance because it keeps them on the toes.
"He was lovely but we argued because we both wanted to lead, which doesn't work in ballroom dancing; there's only one leader. He always won."
Colin Graves, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, former Yorkshire batsman Bryan Stott and former Yorkshire and England captain Ray Illingworth also attended the service.
Illingworth said: "We go back a long way. There won't be another like him. It's been shown by a wonderful turnout and the tributes. I think it's tremendous."
Bird said: "Brian was a tremendous captain and a wonderful man. I shall miss him and feel for his wife Viv and all her family.
"He was a hard man, believe me, but a good man."
The women both worked for Village Home Care in Carmarthenshire, where they were only allowed five minutes to get from one rural location to another.
One visit was 16 miles (26km) from the last, a journey time of 25 minutes.
Parent company Mitie said it would investigate the allegations.
Mitie own MiHomeCare, of which Village Home Care is a part, which operates throughout Wales and England.
MiHomeCare is currently being examined by HM Revenue and Customs over pay after an internal review examining pay at its Penarth branch in the Vale of Glamorgan found workers were effectively not being paid the minimum wage as they were not paid for time spent travelling between appointments.
The women, named only as Clare and Emma, told BBC Radio Four that long hours, stress and the practice of "clipping", as cutting short visits to enable the workers to reach the next client on time is called, had led to them both resigning from the company.
Clare described a journey from a rural location between St Clears and Llanybri to the east side of Carmarthen which would take far longer than the time allocated for travelling.
"It's going to take us 25 minutes and we're going 16.1 miles and we've got five minutes to do it in," she said.
Both felt the people they cared for were affected by the practice.
Emma said: "Bear in mind that for some of them we are the only people they spoke to in that day.
"And then we're running out of there in 15 to 20 minutes because we know the travelling time to the next call is more than the travelling time we've been allowed. It breaks your heart."
Clare added: "Some people used to say 'small wash today we haven't got time' and you'd say 'We need to do a full wash'. This person is going to be in bed until lunchtime maybe. You have to give them a full wash.
"It's not the fault of the carers although it does sound as though it is. It's going back to the company and how it's run."
Both women said they came under pressure not to let visits overrun.
A report by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales raised some concerns about working hours and stress among employees, and recommended reviewing travel times between calls depending on location.
Mitie said in a statement the employees had raised some serious allegations and they were going to conduct an investigation into them.
Gillesphey, 20, made 27 appearances and scored two goals for the Cumbrians during a loan spell last season.
"He is a young man who I think is going to have a very bright future," Carlisle boss Keith Curle told the club website.
"It's excellent that we can be part of his development. We're forging links with a fantastic club in Newcastle."
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The Englishman, 41, had been level with Stephen Hendry on six titles, but moved ahead after coming from 4-1 behind to beat Joe Perry 10-7 in the final.
"I am a competitor and I needed to fight until the end," he added.
O'Sullivan also said he was "not really into records or the history side of stuff" and the only downside to winning was he did not get to keep the trophy.
'The Rocket' had to repair a broken cue tip during his semi-final against Marco Fu on Saturday, and bit the tip off following his victory over Perry.
"Yesterday it played fantastic, today I couldn't do a lot with it, but I managed to hold it together under extreme pressure," he said.
"I have never felt so vulnerable because I couldn't play three quarters of the shots I wanted to so I had to hang in there and I'm proud that I was able to do that in such a major tournament."
O'Sullivan has won five World and five UK Championship titles to go alongside his Masters victories.
It means he is just one behind Hendry's haul of 18 triumphs in Triple Crown events - the Masters, World Championship and UK Championship - and is hungry for more success.
"I don't want to stop at seven but to keep enjoying playing," said O'Sullivan. "I am one for enjoying the sport I have played for a long time.
"Records are there to be broken, but I am not into this records thing. I am more into the love of the game, competing and if I break a few records on the way then fantastic. That is what I have done all my life."
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The Essex player became the first person to win the Paul Hunter Trophy, which was named after the three-time champion who died of cancer aged 27 in 2006.
I just love trophies, especially a beautiful trophy like that
However, O'Sullivan pleaded with the sport's governing body to allow him to keep the trophy for good.
"When growing up, I was not interested in the money, I was just into the trophies," he said.
"World Snooker need to give me a little replica, which I can put on my mantelpiece because looking at trophies is what I enjoy. It motivates you to win more. I just love trophies, especially a beautiful trophy like that."
Fellow Englishman Perry was appearing in his first final of a Triple Crown event at the age of 42. He had won just one ranking title in his career and was runner-up on three other occasions.
Having taken the lead in the match, a missed final red down the cushion in the sixth frame was "a turning point".
Cambridgeshire-born Perry added: "I wasn't happy with how I handled the situation from 4-1 up, I was not composed enough and let him back into the session.
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"It is different playing Ronnie, especially out there. You put him tight behind the yellow ball and the crowd scream 'come on Ronnie'.
"You can't go anywhere and it is a cauldron out there. You have to handle it. I did for the most part but lost my way."
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Sean Smith, 19, from Spittal, South Lanarkshire, taunted the West African striker as he took a corner kick at Celtic Park on 20 February.
He admitted committing a racially aggravated breach of the peace after being reported by fellow Celtic fans.
Smith was also banned from attending football matches for five years.
Sentencing him at Glasgow Sheriff Court, Sheriff Lindsay Wood told Smith he had pleaded guilty to "despicable racist behaviour".
"You thought you were making a fool of the player but you were actually making a fool of yourself.
"You have brought shame on the club you support and on Scottish football generally."
Sheriff Wood noted that Smith had been drinking before the game, but said this was "no way to go to a football match and appreciate it".
He added: "I have to look at these matters in the context of an Old Firm match where tensions are running high and I can see no alternative to a custodial sentence to mark the court's disapproval of such behaviour."
Defence lawyer Raymond McIlwham told the court that his client has received death threats as a result of what he did.
He also added that Diouf has a bad relationship with Celtic fans.
Mr McIlwham said: "The relationship between the player involved and the Celtic fans has been a difficult one.
"That in no way excuses Mr Smith's actions but it's conceivable that another player may not have roused that level of passion in a supporter."
The lawyer added that his client is ashamed and now "deeply regrets" what he did.
Caoimhín Hynes, 20, was attacked by a group of men wearing tracksuits at Donegall Place at about 02:50 BST.
He was slashed on the cheek and has undergone surgery at the Ulster Hospital.
Caoimhín boxes for Holy Trinity club.
His uncle, Jim Hynes was a champion boxer for the same club.
On Monday afternoon, Belfast boxing champion Carl Frampton tweeted: "Disgraceful and disgusting.
"Hope he'll be back to doing what he does best soon."
Holy Trinity boxing club coach Michael Hawkins told the BBC that he had undergone two operations.
"They have patched up the wound which is four and a half or five inches long. It is just an inch or so away from the main artery.
"He is not too bad. It is just a shock to the system. He went out for a night last night, he doesn't drink, he doesn't do anything else. He is a good lad. All the kids look up to him in the club. He has a great personality.
"He got into a bit of an altercation in Belfast, it's not the done thing, for it to finish how it did, we could have been in a really, really bad place today."
Mr Hawkins said the boxer was one of a group who travelled to Paris last week, where he won three fights out of three.
"He won the Montana belt and he is on a high. He is up there," Mr Hawkins said.
"He is a real good lad. Hopefully we will get this wound sorted out properly and we can carry on."
Mr Hawkins said that Caoimhín's mother allowed the media to use photographs of her son's injuries "to remind people how easily something can turn nasty".
Following his operation, Caoimhín posted on Facebook: "I am blessed!! very lucky guy to still be alive - any lower and things could have been a lot different. What a long day this has been, very lucky to have unreal friends, family and definitely girlfriend."
Police said this was a serious assault. They have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The horse chestnut trees, which line Tenby's medieval town walls along South Parade, were investigated after one fell in strong winds this month.
They were all found to have fungal infections which could make them unstable.
Pembrokeshire council's environment cabinet member, Cris Tomos said the felling was "reluctant".
But he said the action was needed as "safety always comes first".
Ryan Currie has been charged with stabbing Kirk Cole, 36, at a flat in Crookston, Glasgow, on 22 June.
The 27-year-old faces a second charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of items and placing a knife in the hand of Mr Cole.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court he made no plea and was remanded in custody.
Unemployment fell to 9.8% in October - its lowest rate for seven years - from a revised 9.9% in September, the EU statistics agency Eurostat reported.
Eurostat had originally estimated the September rate at 10%.
Germany's jobless rate was 4.1% while Portugal's was 10.8%. Greece had a rate of 23.4% in August, the latest month for which statistics were available.
Nearly 16 million people in the 19-nation bloc are seeking work Eurostat said, down 178,000 on September and some 1.12 million lower than a year earlier.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has been taking continued action to stimulate the bloc's economy.
In March this year, the ECB stepped up its efforts, cutting its main interest rate from 0.05% to 0% and its bank deposit rate from minus 0.3% to minus 0.4%.
It has also stepped up its programme of quantitative easing, and is now buying €80bn worth of bonds a month.
The bank is currently worried about political uncertainty within the eurozone, with a constitutional referendum in Italy on 4 December and elections in France and Germany next year.
Across the eurozone, the rate of unemployment has gradually fallen since a peak of 12.1% in early 2013.
But it remains much higher than the rate seen before the global financial downturn. In March 2008, the jobless rate was 7.2%.
And youth unemployment remains high, at 20.7% in the eurozone area, although down from the 22.2% figure of a year earlier.
Of the 17 nations to report figures for October, 14 saw their jobless rate fall, in Cyprus and Lithuania it was unchanged and the rate rose slightly in Malta. There was no fresh data from Greece or Estonia.
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Roedd Huw Jones, cadeirydd S4C, ac Ian Jones, prif weithredwr y Sianel, yn rhoi tystiolaeth gerbron Pwyllgor Materion Cymreig Tŷ'r Cyffredin ddydd Llun.
Mae S4C yn cael eu hariannu gan gyfuniad o ffi'r drwydded deledu, gyda swm llawer llai yn dod o'r Adran Ddiwylliant Chwaraeon a'r Celfyddydau.
Yn 2015 dywedodd S4C eu bod wedi cael gwybod y byddant yn gorfod gwneud arbedion o £1.7 miliwn erbyn 2020 o ganlyniad i Adolygiad Gwariant y Llywodraeth.
Byddai hynny'n golygu y byddai gwariant blynyddol yr Adran Ddiwylliant Chwaraeon a'r Celfyddydau yn cael ei dorri o £6.7m i £5m.
Ond cafodd y toriadau eu rhewi tra bod arolwg yn cael ei gynnal o'r modd y mae'r Sianel yn cael ei chyllido.
Dywedodd Ian Jones, sydd wedi cyhoeddi y bydd yn gadael ei swydd fel prif weithredwr ar ôl yr arolwg, fod y Sianel wedi wynebu "toriadau ar ôl toriadau, ac na all hyn barhau".
Dywedodd AS Ceredigion, Mark Williams fod aelodau'r pwyllgor wedi ymweld ag S4C yn ddiweddar a'u bod yn credu fod y gwasanaeth yn cael ei redeg yn effeithiol a'i "bod yn anodd gweld lle bod modd gwneud mwy o doriadau".
Mae rhai yn amcangyfrif y gallai Adran Ddiwylliant San Steffan dorri £700,000 ar wariant ar S4C yn 2017/18.
Ond mae ansicrwydd ynglŷn â phryd yn union fydd hyn yn digwydd.
Dywedodd Mr Ian Jones y byddai hynny'n cael effaith sylweddol ar S4C ac y byddai'n rhai torri popeth yn ôl i'r asgwrn.
Byddai'n rhaid, meddai, edrych ar leihau'r defnydd o isdeitlo.
Yn ôl Mr Jones roedd hi'n aneglur a fyddai S4C yn wynebu toriadau o £700,000 yn y flwyddyn ariannol 2017/18, neu a fyddai unrhyw doridau yn gorfod aros tan fod yr arolwg ariannol wedi ei gwblhau.
Dywedodd Huw Hones, Caerdiydd S4C, ei fod o'n gobeithio y byddai'r arolwg ddim yn cymryd mwy na chwe mis i'w gwblhau.
Yn ôl Ian Jones, yr unig fodd i S4C allu goroesi yn y dyfodol yw ei bod yn gallu cynnig gwasanethau ar wahanol blatfformiau.
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Ychwanegodd fod y BBC a Channel 4 wedi gallu cynnig gwasanaethau newydd a hynny drwy dargedu cynulleidfaoedd penodol.
Dyw S4C, meddai, heb fod yn gallu gwneud hyn ohewydd diffyg cyllid.
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Police reported Aubrey McClendon, 56, was the only person in the vehicle when it smashed into a concrete pillar.
He was charged on Tuesday with conspiring with two energy companies to rig the price of oil and gas contracts.
Mr McClendon, who stepped down from Chesapeake in 2013, denied the charges.
In a statement on Tuesday, he said: "Anyone who knows me, my business record and the industry in which I have worked for 35 years, knows that I could not be guilty of violating any antitrust laws."
Police are still investigating the cause of the accident, but said the car was so badly burnt it was difficult to tell if Mr McClendon had been wearing a seatbelt.
A spokesperson for Oklahoma City police said the former energy boss "drove straight into the wall".
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice accused Mr McClendon of having been involved in an anti-trust scheme between 2007 and 2012.
The scheme involved two companies - which the Justice Department did not name - deciding who would have the winning bid for oil and gas leases ahead of the offer and then splitting the contract after it was awarded.
Mr McClendon stepped down as the head of Chesapeake Energy in 2013 amid concerns about his heavy spending and its corporate governance. He was considered to be one of the fathers of the US fracking industry.
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The Amnesty International report is based on interviews with nearly 40 Chinese human rights lawyers.
Despite China's top court banning torture in 2013 and criminal justice reforms, rights groups say the practises are still widely used.
Chinese authorities have not responded.
After similar allegations by Human Rights Watch in May, the foreign ministry said Chinese law prohibited torture during interrogation.
The report describes suspects being slapped, kicked and hit with shoes or with bottles filled with water.
It also details tools of torture including "'tiger chairs' in which individuals' legs are tightly bound to a bench, with bricks gradually added under the victim's feet, forcing the legs backwards as well as long periods of sleep deprivation and the denial of sufficient food and water.
Amnesty said that for police, obtaining a forced confession is still considered the easiest way to secure a conviction.
The author of the report, Patrick Poon, said local officials and police "continue to pull the strings of China's criminal justice system. Despite defence lawyers' best efforts, many claims of torture are simply ignored".
The report comes a week before China's human rights record is set to be reviewed by the United Nations anti-torture committee in Geneva.
The UN and the International Red Cross say the government has reported 133 deaths with nearly 400 people missing and homes and crops destroyed.
Rescue teams have been unable to reach some of the worst-hit areas.
North Korea already has chronic food shortages and is heavily dependent on foreign aid to feed its population.
The UN has allocated $8m this year for humanitarian aid in the isolated country.
The flooding, triggered by the recent Typhoon Lionrock, comes as North Korea faces global anger for conducting its fifth nuclear test.
Friday's detonation, believed to be the North's biggest test so far, is expected to lead to a tightening of sanctions.
The worst flooding is along the Tumen river, which borders China. Many areas in Musan and Yonsa counties are entirely cut off, said the UN.
Chris Staines, who is leading a Red Cross delegation in North Korea, said the region was facing "a very major and complex disaster".
"The floods came through with such force, they destroyed everything in their path," AFP quoted him as saying. In some villages close to Hoeryong City there was "barely a building left unscathed".
"People displaced from the floods are now in a very difficult situation and there are real risks of secondary disasters, particularly relating to people's health," he added.
The UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said 140,000 people are "in urgent need of assistance".
Murat Sahin, a UN official in North Korea, said the scale of the disaster was "beyond anything experienced by local officials".
North Korean state media said people are experiencing "great suffering" in the region.
A week after the disaster struck, state media told citizens about the extent of the floods and launched a "200-day" campaign to rebuild affected areas.
According to one report from state news agency KCNA, the campaign means that workers have been diverted from many of North Korea's set-piece construction projects and sent to Hamgyong Province to shore up river banks and build new homes.
Tuesday's main evening news showed labourers hard at work in what could easily be a scene orchestrated for the cameras. Workers dug and shifted mud in front of propaganda banners, while a uniformed musical troupe sang in the background.
However, the emergency is not the main news story in the country. That honour was given to Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's visit to a farm, which was seen heaving with ripening crops.
Coastguard and police received "multiple" calls from East Cliff beach on Sunday afternoon when three people parachuted off the 150ft-high cliffs.
West Bay Coastguard said "falling debris and rocks" were reported.
Police officers attended but confirmed as no criminal offences had been committed they were not investigating.
The three base jumpers had packed away and left the beach before police and coastguards arrived.
An onlooker who was on the beach at the time described the jumpers as "idiotic".
"It's one thing putting their own safety at risk, but those cliffs are really unstable and they are putting other people at risk," she said.
Base jumping involves leaping from a man made structure or natural feature and then deploying a wing suit or parachute to descend to the ground.
West Bay Coastguard said the 150ft (45m) cliffs allowed "only a small margin of error" for deploying a parachute.
"There was a safety concern for the jumpers launching from such a low altitude, the safety of the beachgoers below and the state of the cliffs."
The cliffs, which have featured a backdrop to the ITV drama Broadchurch, have been the subject of numerous warnings following landslides and rock falls in recent years.
In 2012, tourist Charlotte Blackman died at nearby Hive Beach when she was buried under a rock fall.
The homemade objects, made of wooden boards with screws embedded, were found on Deerdale Lane near Bilsthorpe, near an area known locally as the desert.
Police, who were called to the area on Tuesday, said they had been placed in sand and covered in leaves.
Officers said they may have been intended to deter off-road bikes but could also have caused "considerable injury" to horses or walkers.
The area of undeveloped land close to the A614 has been popular with illegal bikers for years.
It has also been the focus of complaints from nearby residents, prompting a series of police crackdowns.
The National One club is looking for a new director of rugby after Graham Dawe stood down on Monday.
Gibson, along with Exeter academy manager Robin Cowling, attended a players' meeting at the Brickfields on Monday night as representatives of the club's new owners met with the squad.
Gibson will be assisted at Albion by fellow Exeter academy coach Sam Morton.
His first game in charge will be against Hartpury College on Saturday 24 April.
Romanian defence ministry officials are reported to have said those killed were members of the Romanian special forces.
The troops were shot while training police in the city of Kandahar.
There have been several incidents in recent years of Afghan security forces turning their arms on coalition troops.
However more recently so-called "green-on-blue" insider attacks - usually committed by Taliban members or supporters - have become much less frequent.
The attackers on Saturday were killed, a Nato statement said, and an investigation is under way.
One Afghan policeman is reported to have been been arrested and is being questioned.
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The latest violence comes as Nato commander General John Nicholson reviews plans to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan by next year almost 50% in a move that officials say would adversely effect the training mission.
The Nato statement insisted however that the incident would not jeopardise its training and advisory mission with Afghan forces.
Romania contributes about 600 soldiers to the nearly 12,500-strong Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.
US troop numbers are due to be reduced from 9,800 to 5,500 by the start of 2017, but there is increasing speculation that Gen Nicholson may request a delay in the drawdown to keep the training mission running.
The RNLI said the Denbighshire station's 24-year-old current boat will be replaced by a Shannon class vessel.
Coxswain Martin Jones described it as "an exciting new chapter in the station's 170 year history".
While an arrival date has not been finalised, the new boat, set to be built in Poole, Dorset, will be 50% faster than the current vessel.
Manchester-based Prolific North, which has been using its logo since it launched in January 2013, said even an "amateur eye" could see the similarity.
Editor David Prior said readers alerted him to the new Netflix icon, which was unveiled on Monday on the company's social media accounts.
Netflix has declined to comment.
An article highlighting the similarity on Prolific North's website said some people "found the red strip, folded into an 'N', strikingly familiar".
"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so I suppose we should all be feeling fabulous at Prolific North this week," it read.
Mr Prior said this "may or may not cause problems in the future" and was "probably completely accidental" but the company would not consider changing their "very well-established logo".
Prolific North's logo was designed by Origin and reworked by Don't Panic in March 2015.
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This year the title race has again come down to the last weekend of the season and, just like 12 months ago, it is Chelsea Ladies who have it all to lose.
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However, second-placed Manchester City are the only team still harbouring hopes of pipping leaders Chelsea to the title.
Just like last year, Chelsea hold a two-point lead. Will Emma Hayes's side hold their nerve? Or is history about to repeat itself?
BBC Sport assesses the chances of the two contenders ahead of what promises to be a tense Sunday evening for the women's game.
Leaders Chelsea host fourth-placed Sunderland knowing that a win will secure their first league title.
A draw will also be enough for Chelsea if City fail to win by more than a two-goal margin at home to Notts County.
Should Chelsea lose, City would then win the title if they beat Notts.
But City have taken four points from their two league games against Chelsea this season, so why do the London club hold the advantage in the table?
City made a slow start to the season, and went into the international break in sixth place in the table, with just five points from their opening five matches.
The club were not helped by key players including Steph Houghton and Lucy Bronze missing the start of their campaign with injuries, while goalkeeper Karen Bardsley and midfielder Jill Scott both received three-match bans for separate violent conduct charges.
Scoring league goals was a problem as well, with City only netting three times in those five games.
Manager Nick Cushing also put their poor start down to his players being distracted by the World Cup, with five of them eventually being called up for the tournament in Canada.
By contrast, Chelsea won their first four league games and held a nine-point advantage over City before the break for the World Cup.
In July, a 4-0 defeat at Sunderland and a 2-1 home loss to City cast doubt over Chelsea's title credentials, but they responded strongly, winning the FA Cup and developing what defender Gilly Flaherty called a "champions' mentality".
With an in-form front four of Eniola Aluko, Fran Kirby, Gemma Davison and PFA Women's Player of the Year Ji So-Yun, Chelsea have found the net 32 times in their last nine games in all competitions.
If they play with the same ruthless, clinical edge they showed in easing past Liverpool last Sunday, Blues boss Hayes knows her side can "finish the job" this weekend.
Since the World Cup, City have gone on an extraordinary run of form and are now unbeaten in 13 league and Continental Cup games, winning 12 of them.
In that time, they have only conceded six WSL goals and scored 20, including five each by Toni Duggan and Isobel Christiansen.
Scott said the team were fully aware of what they needed to do after the break to give themselves a chance of winning the title.
"We knew we'd have to win all of our games and that was our aim," she told BBC Sport.
"I remember talking to Lucy Bronze about it at the World Cup and we said 'let's get back and win them all'.
"But if you ask me honestly if I thought it would happen, probably not."
The only blip on City's post-World Cup record was a 2-2 draw with Notts County at the end of August when, having gone 2-0 in front, the team were pegged back by a 90th-minute equaliser.
Those two dropped points could prove costly for City.
Sunderland certainly have the potential to ruin Chelsea's party, having surprised them with a 4-0 win in the reverse fixture.
And the Lady Black Cats have something of a point to prove, after failing to win any of the last six games in all competitions.
Meanwhile Notts, who drew 2-2 with then-title-chasing Birmingham City on the final day last year, say they are determined to upset the odds once again - this time in Manchester.
"It means a lot to all of us, it is our last league game of the season and you always want to go out on a high - that is what we are focused on," said Lady Magpies captain Laura Bassett.
"We can build on confidence and it can be a rehearsal run for our Continental Cup semi-final against Liverpool.
"We didn't convert the chances against Birmingham City (in last Sunday's 1-0 home loss), maybe against Manchester City it is the week we do that."
A win for Notts County would not only see Chelsea crowned champions, but could also see Arsenal move into second to clinch the last remaining Champions League spot.
Having added to their squad at the start of the year and now having their own stadium to play in, City have been compared to an "international team" by Liverpool Ladies boss Matt Beard.
And while title success is not in their own hands, finishing second and gaining a Champions League qualifying spot would be a huge achievement for a club in only their second season in the WSL.
City lifted the Continental Cup in 2014 but, following a fifth-place finish in WSL, they were determined to produce an improved league performance this time around.
And midfielder Jennifer Beattie said the progress City have made in the last 12 months was obvious.
"There's always more to come from us, that's why we work so hard on the training ground," she said.
"It's just stepping stones, if we get Champions League that'll be fantastic, but if we get anything more then we'll be ecstatic."
Mewn colofn bapur newydd wythnosol i'r North Wales Weekly News dywedodd Guto Bebb, sydd hefyd yn chwip Ceidwadol yn San Steffan, fod trip diweddar i Gaeredin wedi'i atgoffa o ddinas Dulyn.
"Darllenwch eu papurau newydd, gwrandewch ar eu rhaglenni trafod a gwyliwch y newyddion, ac mae'n amlwg iawn yn wlad wahanol," meddai AS Aberconwy.
Ychwanegodd: "I mi mae Dulyn yn rhywle sydd yn gyfarwydd ond eto yn wahanol iawn.
"Mae hynny'n iawn yng nghyd-destun prifddinas gwlad annibynnol, ond dylai fod yn rhybudd wrth ymweld â dinas sydd yn rhan hanfodol o'r DU. Mae'r ymdeimlad o genedligrwydd yng Nghaeredin yn amlwg.
"Ers amser maith mae hi wedi bod yn fodlon o fewn y DU. Hyd yn oed yn 2014 roedd mwyafrif yn gweld eu hunain fel Prydeinwyr ac Albanwyr.
"Ond ydi hyn yn newid? Mae gen i deimlad ym mer fy esgyrn mai ydi yw'r ateb, a dylai hynny fod yn destun pryder i bob un ohonom."
Cafodd Ysgrifennydd Cymru, Alun Cairns ei herio ar sylwadau Mr Bebb ar raglen Peston on Sunday, gyda'r cyflwynydd yn gofyn iddo a oedd wedi mynd yn groes i bolisi'r llywodraeth wrth awgrymu bod yr Alban yn mynd i'r un cyfeiriad ag Iwerddon.
Dywedodd Mr Cairns fod Mr Bebb yn "codi cwestiynau er mwyn datblygu'r drafodaeth fel bod pob rhan o'r DU yn sylweddoli ein bod ni'n cyflawni mwy gyda'n gilydd".
Dros y penwythnos mae prif weinidog yr Alban, Nicola Sturgeon wedi ategu ei dyhead i gynnal ail refferendwm ar annibyniaeth yn y blynyddoedd nesaf.
Stephen Potts was attacked by the dogs in Priors Grange, High Pittington, County Durham, on Sunday evening.
Bystanders tried to intervene by beating the dogs with golf clubs and spades while some even tried ramming them with their cars, but to no avail.
Mr Potts' father Geoffrey said he was in a "stable condition" in hospital but his right arm had been removed.
Mr Potts Snr said he did not know what had happened for the "devastating" attack to occur, but thought it was down to fireworks "startling" the dogs.
He said: "I would just like to thank everybody from High Pittington who helped him.
"Stephen is recovering, he's in a stable condition and they [the hospital] are just taking it day to day.
"I don't think there are many dogs that like fireworks. I think they've got a fright and wanted to escape."
Northumbria Police visited the kennels of the dog breeder in Low Pittington to check the condition of his animals following the attack.
A spokesman said they were being properly cared for and none was classed as a dangerous dog.
Witnesses said they saw Mr Potts being thrown around "like a rag doll" and the dogs "almost ripped off" his arm.
One of the dogs was caught at the scene and shot by police officers. The second dog was taken to kennels.
Shanay Walker was living with her aunt and guardian Kay-Ann Morris when she was found dead in July 2014.
Ms Morris, 24, of Beckhampton Road, Nottingham, has denied murder and cruelty charges.
Shanay's grandmother Juanila Smikle, 53, of Easegill Court in Top Valley, also denied cruelty charges relating to Shanay and four other children.
Ms Morris, is also charged with cruelty against two other children in 2011.
The court heard Ms Morris told police officers Shanay had accidently fallen down the stairs.
The prosecution said the aunt was "covering up the truth" that she had subjected her niece to a "sustained, vicious and brutal beating".
A paramedic who arrived at the scene said the child's leg were "covered in bruises and scab wounds".
A post-mortem examination found more than 50 injuries to Shanay's body, face, arms, legs and buttocks and the cause of death was a brain injury.
Teachers at Shanay's school told police her personality changed from "bubbly and happy" to "introverted and anxious" when she was around her aunt.
The prosecution said two neighbours had told police they had seen Shanay "upset, crying and even hysterical" at times.
The trial continues.
The company plans to hire 4,000 staff at its Dunfermline facility, where 1,500 permanent employees are based.
More than 1,000 seasonal recruits are also being sought for its distribution centre in Gourock, Inverclyde.
Amazon is looking to hire more than 20,000 seasonal staff across the UK in the run-up to Christmas.
The company said that it was anticipating its biggest festive period on record, including Black Friday.
Black Friday is the discount shopping day that follows Thanksgiving in America, and signals the start of the Christmas shopping period.
John Tagawa, Amazon's vice president of UK Operations, said: "The thousands of seasonal associates who join us at this time each year play an integral role in helping us deliver an exceptional experience for our customers during the Christmas season."
MB Aerospace said it would recruit 160 new staff as part of the 10-year agreement with Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corporation (UTC).
The Motherwell-based company said the contract was a "milestone opportunity".
MB Aerospace also has manufacturing operations in the US and Poland and employs about 1,600 people.
A majority stake in the Scottish firm was taken by Blackstone private equity in 2013.
Chief executive Craig Gallagher said: "We are hugely respectful of the trust placed in us by United Technologies and Pratt & Whitney to support their programs.
"MB Aerospace and UTC already possess a strong working relationship across Pratt & Whitney's installed base programs, and this contract represents a milestone opportunity for our world class teams to support UTC.
"The MB Aerospace group has already invested more than $50m in machining technology, facilities expansion and in the last year has recruited an additional 100 new full-time employees in support of this growth and ahead of the agreement of this exciting contract.
"Included in our investment in people is a ground-breaking engineering services team of more than 40 technical and programming specialists to support each of our business units from a central hub located in Rzeszow, Poland.
"We plan to grow this team to at least 100 engineering specialists to support our customers through the intense period of growth facing the industry in the next three to five years."
Sam Abdelmalek, Pratt & Whitney vice president, said: "We value our long-standing relationship, and MB Aerospace is a critical supplier in our world-class supply chain.
"As Pratt & Whitney strives for supply chain excellence, suppliers like MB Aerospace that commit to our supplier gold program, cost reductions and contractual governance will have opportunities to grow with us."
A lawyer for the group said they had not taken part in the uprising, and had fled to Greece by military helicopter after being shot at by Turkish police.
They arrived in Greece the day after the attempted takeover.
The soldiers are applying for asylum and will be interviewed by the Greek authorities next week.
They are to remain in prison until their cases are heard.
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Turkey has demanded the immediate extradition of the men - three majors, three captains and two sergeant-majors - who it says are "traitors" and "terrorist elements".
One of the soldiers told the court they were afraid to go back to Turkey because of the "indiscriminate arrests" being carried out in the aftermath of the coup.
Their lawyers said the soldiers had not realised a coup was under way when they followed orders to collect the wounded.
They decided to escape from Turkey when their Black Hawk helicopter came under fire by police on the ground, the lawyers said.
The BBC's Bethany Bell in Greece says while the helicopter has been returned to Turkey, the fate of the soldiers is much more complicated.
Our correspondent says the case puts Greece in a difficult position.
Diplomatically speaking, extraditing the soldiers would probably be the easiest option for Greece, which does not want to upset relations with Turkey.
But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comments about the possibility of reintroducing the death penalty may have changed matters.
The Turkish authorities have launched a major purge of the armed forces, judiciary, civil service and the education system, rounding up thousands, since the abortive coup.
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1. Charlton Athletic fans paid the lowest amount per home league goal in England last season. The cheapest season ticket holder's £150 outlay works out at £4.68 for each of the 32 goals the Addicks scored at The Valley.
2. However, supporters of relegated Hull paid £26.36 for each of their 19 home goals last season, the highest amount of the 200 UK clubs.
3. A £299 Manchester City season ticket pays for 0.00054% of Kevin de Bruyne's £55m transfer fee.
4. The price of Premier League shirts was criticised but 11 shirts sold by European clubs cost more than Manchester United's UK high of £60.
5. National League side Gateshead can claim to be the cheapest in the top five divisions of English football. Most of their fans pay between £1 and £10 for a match-day ticket - the lowest price range in those leagues.
6. Eight clubs - Fleetwood, Halifax, Inverness, Leicester, Peterhead, Rochdale, St Johnstone and Swindon - offer free season tickets for some under-18s.
7. The average price of the Championship's cheapest match-day ticket had increased most of those in the study - 12 clubs put this ticket price up, taking the average to £20.90.
8. Fleetwood, Torquay and Bristol Academy were the only clubs out of 227 to reduce the price of their programme.
9. In five years of the Price of Football study, League One's cheapest match-day ticket has seen the biggest rise - up 30.6% to £20.27 from £15.52.
10. Arsenal's Premier League-high season ticket of £2,013 is 6.71% of the average Premier League player's £30,000 weekly wage.
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Moray Council approved the proposals for Findhorn in May.
Planning officers had recommended refusal, warning the huts could harm the beach's character. There were also 175 letters of objection, mainly from local residents.
Objectors are taking legal advice.
They ultimately hope to secure a judicial review.
Council development officers had said the huts could significantly enhance the area's tourism appeal.
The plans were approved by eight votes to six.
On Tuesday, an official overseeing the salvage operation said opportunities to move it from a bay on the Isle of Lewis before winter were "diminishing".
Poor weather conditions have hampered the effort to float the 17,000-tonne rig to the Hawk, which would transport it first to Malta then Turkey.
The semi-submersible ship is due to leave on 10 October for another job.
Work began earlier to submerge the massive deck of the Hawk and begin moving Transocean Winner towards the ship.
Once in Malta, parts of the rig such as its generators would be stripped off for recycling before the structure was moved to a yard in Turkey to be broken up.
The Transocean Winner was being towed to Malta when it broke free from its towing lines during stormy weather in August.
It washed ashore at Dalmore beach, near Carloway, on Lewis.
Later that same month it was refloated and towed to Broad Bay, which provided a more sheltered anchorage.
Ex-England captain Vaughan says the demands of the job, coupled with England's good form, make it unlikely Bell can ever get back in the squad.
Bell, 33, has replaced Varun Chopra as captain of the county side but still harbours England ambitions.
"I really don't see how Ian Bell at this stage of his career will get back in the side," Vaughan said.
"I think he'll struggle. When you see someone take over a county captaincy it's almost the final bow of a career," he told BBC Radio 5 live's Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show.
"I might be proven wrong because of the amount of runs he'll possibly score for Warwickshire . But when you get the opportunity to captain your county side, it's such a big job, a day in day out job."
Bell, who has played 118 Tests for England, was dropped for the current tour of South Africa after a poor run of form.
He said: "I know as much as anyone my last 10 Test matches weren't good enough. I was very short of runs so I'm not going to sit here and say I didn't deserve to be dropped.
"For me now it's about dusting myself off, getting back to doing what I do and that's scoring runs and getting stuck into Warwickshire."
England play the fourth and final Test against South Africa on Friday with the series already won.
Former England spinner Phil Tufnell said: "This England side now are just moving forward at such a pace, everyone who's coming in now is contributing massively and there's such a buzz about it, we haven't really thought about Ian Bell or him not being there.
"He's got a tough task. He will go back to Warwickshire and will score a mountain of runs because he's a class player but is there any room for him? Only time will tell."
The organisation has suggested creating a visitor centre and new parking to improve access to the Old Man of Storr and Trotternish Ridge.
A survey of local residents and groups on the idea closed last month.
SCT said early indications drawn from the results suggested there was support for its plans.
The trust has proposed managing or taking over 202 acres (82 hectares) of land at The Storr owned by Highland Council.
SCT has begun a more detailed analysis of the survey results and will hold further discussions with the local authority.
The trust regards The Storr to be "a vital entry point and economic driver" for Staffin because 70% of those who visited The Storr earlier this year then travelled north to Staffin.
The Old Man of Storr and Trotternish Ridge are among Skye's most recognisable landscapes.
The 32-year-old, who has not yet been named, was found with a head injury at the property on South Parade, Whitley Bay on Wednesday.
Jonathan Armstrong, 44, of the same address, had been charged with assault and has now been charged with murder.
He was remanded in custody at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court and is due to appear at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday.
However, just before 17-year-old Ana Konjuh lifted her maiden WTA title last week, there was an awkward moment of realisation during the trophy presentation that the bubbly would have to remain on ice.
A former junior world number one with two junior Grand Slam singles titles to her name, the Croatian's rise to being the only under-18 in the top 100 of women's tennis today has been remarkable.
And now a Wimbledon run is in her sights.
"When I was seven or eight, I was watching Grand Slams on TV and I said to myself, 'One day I'm going to be there'. Now I'm the one playing in them," she told BBC Sport.
"Right now, I'm living my dream."
As many young tennis stars are forced to do, Konjuh moved almost 400 miles away from home at the age of 10 to pursue her dream.
But, speaking with her at the Nottingham Tennis Centre, where she won the WTA's inaugural Aegon Open last week, it became clear she attributes that early success to the encouragement her dad Mario gave from the age of five.
"I grew up on the tennis court with my older sister, collecting balls and interrupting her practices - my father would say 'Come on Ana, move!' - and now look who's here," she said.
"If they let me go when I was 10 to live alone, they are okay with it. But I do miss them.
"They come to a lot of tournaments when they have the chance, because they normally take care of my three sisters. But that's fine. They're coming to Wimbledon, so that will be great."
About halfway through our conversation, a delicate wisp of body art became visible on Konjuh's wrist.
She had just finished her warm-down after winning two matches in one day at the Aegon Open, as both her quarter-final and semi-final were postponed because of rain in Nottingham,
The teen rolled up her sleeve to show the tattooed inscription and explain how it came about before she won her first junior Grand Slam in 2013.
"It says 'Faith' with a cross on the side. I have a lot of faith in my life - in God, in my family, in myself. It really means a lot. It gets me through," she began.
"The tattoo was actually a bet with my father. He didn't let me have one until I was 18, so I said 'If I win the Australian Open, I can get a tattoo'. He didn't expect it at all, so he said 'Okay', and we shook hands."
Konjuh then secured both the girls' doubles and singles finals in two days - and was quick to ensure her bet would be honoured.
"I called him right after I won - 'Ha ha, I'm getting a tattoo now!' - he was like 'Alright, but don't make it big please!'"
It is that sort of steely resolve that influenced her decision to join the WTA Tour after also clinching the girls' US Open singles title in 2013, despite being able to continue on the junior circuit for two more years.
"I won two Grand Slams and did everything I could on the juniors," she explained. "I couldn't improve there, so I decided to join the Tour.
"I'm still at an early age and have to get a lot of experience, but I think it was a good choice."
Not even extensive surgery on her elbow, which kept her out of action for four months last year, could stunt her growth.
Konjuh went on to reach the third round of Wimbledon at the age of 16, becoming the youngest player since Jelena Dokic in 1999 to do so, before losing out to former world number one Caroline Wozniacki.
And, through fate or faith, Konjuh earned her first senior crown against all odds.
"Everyone around me said that God gave me something," she said. "I was really happy to hear that and I hope to make the best of it. It's going to hold a special place in my heart, this tournament."
The days when teenagers lifted trophies in tennis seemed long gone.
At the age of 16, Monica Seles won the 1990 French Open and Martina Hingis won three out of four Grand Slam finals in 1997.
And, although Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon and Svetlana Kuznetsova claimed the US Open as teenagers in 2004, no ladies' singles Grand Slam champion has been younger than 21 since then.
Should Konjuh continue her ascent, she may well be the next big thing in the women's game.
Konjuh's potential is something that daunts those in her wake, too. She knocked out previous WTA title winners Alison Riske and Niculescu - no oldies at 24 and 27 respectively - to collect the Elena Baltacha Trophy.
Niculescu said: "To have a title at 18 - what's her age, 18?" Niculescu queried, before she was corrected and giggled. "Oh, 17! It's amazing. This is just the beginning for her."
But whether it takes her another six months or six years to reach the top, Konjuh remains determined to be clinking glasses with the tennis elite in future.
"I would be happy with top 10," she said. "But my dream is to be number one."
The Queen Mary 2, the Queen Victoria and the Queen Elizabeth saluted the city where Samuel Cunard began his transatlantic line in 1840.
Thousands of people lined the River Mersey to watch the "three queens" perform a synchronised sailing display.
As the fleet completed its manoeuvres, the Red Arrows performed a fly-past.
Captain Christopher Wells, who was at the helm of the Queen Mary 2, said it was a "very special weekend".
"It allows us to celebrate our anniversary in the city where the company was founded.
"To have that celebration is very important not only to us, but also to the city," he said.
The display was part of a three-day celebration, which ends on Tuesday, marking the company's first transatlantic crossing from Liverpool.
Sir Samuel Cunard, who founded the service, sailed aboard the RMS Britannia to Boston on its maiden voyage on 4 July 1840.
The Cunard company revolutionised travel in the 19th Century with its steam ships which added speed and safety to journeys which had previously been made on less reliable sailing ships.
By the early part of the 20th Century, the company's "big three" liners - Mauretania, Berengaria and Aquitania - were the primary means of passenger transport across the Atlantic
The shipping company moved its headquarters from the Cunard Building on Liverpool's waterfront to Southampton in 1965.
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Murray and Soares, who beat the Scot in the 2014 final, came through 6-2 6-3 to claim their sixth title together.
The pair teamed up in 2016 and have since won major titles at the Australian and US Open.
"We played some amazing tennis today," said Murray, 31.
Murray is the first British player to win the doubles at Queen's since Jeremy Bates and American Kevin Curren won in 1990.
Murray and Soares first had to complete their semi-final, as they trailed Croatia's Marin Cilic and Poland's Marcin Matkowski 1-6 5-3, 40-40, when play was suspended because of rain on Saturday.
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Cilic returned to the court less than an hour after losing the singles final to Feliciano Lopez, but Murray and Soares won 1-6 6-3 10-8.
They carried that momentum into the final, which followed immediately - once their next opponents had arrived on Centre Court.
A Soares return gave them the first break for 3-1 and another brought them the set in game eight.
Murray fended off two break points at the start of the second and again it was a Soares return that provided the breakthrough in game eight.
That left Murray to serve for the title and, after the French pair saved two match points, a first serve clinched the third.
"I think my heart rate dropped below 180 for the first time once we won the first set of this match, having had to get through the semi-final before," added Murray.
"We played a great match, a long day today, but it was worthwhile."
The group's profits after tax were £1.7bn (18.636bn kronor) in the year ending 30 November 2016.
Sales were lower than expected, partly because people held off from buying new clothes in Spring thanks to colder weather, prompting discounts.
However, in the last three months net profits rose by 7% and sales increased.
The fashion chain continues to expand its global reach.
Karl-Johan Persson, H&M chief executive, said: "During the year, we opened 427 new stores net worldwide and added three new markets, and we also rolled out our online store to 11 additional markets."
Mr Persson said the company was continuing to develop a strong online presence and was planning stores in Kazakhstan, Colombia, Iceland, Vietnam and Georgia.
But he also made reference to "geopolitical events" which he said had had a negative impact on the retail trade, particularly in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy as well as the US and China.
"Since these markets represent a large share of our sales, this consequently had a great impact on our overall sales development." Mr Persson said.
Rebels said the new assault, backed by heavy Russian air strikes, was unprecedented and that the divided northern city might soon be encircled.
The UN special envoy declared on Monday that the talks in Geneva had begun.
But government and opposition officials contradicted Staffan de Mistura on Tuesday, as the fighting escalated.
Mr de Mistura acknowledged on Tuesday evening that the collapse of the talks was possible during what he described as "the preparatory phase".
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"The level of trust is close to zero between the two sides," he told the BBC.
"A ceasefire for me is essential. In fact it is the test that shows the talks are successful," he added, urging Russia and the US to help bring it about.
In an interview with the BBC, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the international community to show the same unity of purpose and political commitment to resolving the conflict in Syria as it had with the Iranian nuclear issue.
"We have seen the power of diplomacy in the case of the Iranian nuclear deal. Can we not do the same way?" he asked.
More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria.
Eleven million others have fled their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other, as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State (IS).
Activists said the assault north-west of Aleppo was the first major government offensive there since Russia launched an air campaign in support of Mr Assad in September.
A Syrian army colonel told the AFP news agency that it planned to break a long-running rebel siege of two pro-government Shia villages, Nubul and Zahraa, and also to cut a rebel supply route from Turkey to opposition-held parts of Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Russian warplanes had carried out more than 320 air strikes in the area since Monday morning.
At least 18 civilians, including three children and two emergency workers, were killed in the raids on Tuesday, the UK-based monitoring group said.
"The regime's and Russia's actions gravely threaten the political process," said Farah Atassi, a member of the opposition High Negotiations Committee.
A senior Western diplomat meanwhile told the Reuters news agency: "How can you accept to enter negotiations when you have unprecedented military pressure? The Russians and regime want to push the opposition out of Geneva so the opposition bears the responsibility for the failure."
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it would not stop the air strikes "until we really defeat terrorist organisations like al-Nusra Front". The Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda is part of a powerful rebel alliance that controls parts of Aleppo.
Mr de Mistura said he had expected both sides to attempt to seize territory before the negotiations began in earnest.
"Every time there is a chance or a feeling that there is going to be negotiations, there is just the opposite happening on the ground. They are increasing their attacks, everyone, their rhetoric, their positioning, to be in a better position."
He also expressed support for the opposition's demand that the government and its allies end sieges and air strikes against rebel-held areas and release prisoners, in line with a UN Security Council resolution approved last month.
Rovers had the better of the first-half chances, Andy Cook and Lois Maynard going close early on before Jeff Hughes had a close-range effort well saved by Kyle Letheren in the closing stages.
The game swung in York's favour after Hughes was sent off for a challenge on Richard Brodie in the opening minutes of the second half but Tranmere threatened again when James Norwood headed the ball against the crossbar.
Justin Johnson fired well over for York in injury time as they failed to make their numerical advantage count.
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Match ends, York City 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, York City 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Lee Vaughan (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, York City. Scott Fenwick replaces Daniel Nti.
James Norwood (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, York City. Justin Johnson replaces Jake Wright.
Jeff Hughes (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the red card.
Second Half begins York City 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
First Half ends, York City 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Andy Cook (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Shaun Rooney (York City) is shown the yellow card.
Liam Ridehalgh (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Secamb) has been told it must adequately manage NHS 111 calls in a timely manner.
It was also told by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to make improvements to several other systems and processes.
The trust said efforts to address the issues were already under way.
It follows an inspection by the CQC at the beginning of May.
At the time it was announced chief executive of the trust, Paul Sutton, had resigned after it emerged Secamb had run a secret and controversial pilot during which up to 20,000 patients had their ambulances delayed.
A review by Secamb said failings in how the trust was run led to the "high risk" project, which did not have approval from board members, the 111 NHS helpline or commissioners.
The trust has until September to address the immediate concerns highlighted by the CQC, including problems answering NHS 111 calls and the availability of kit, before a full report will be published later in the year.
Its action plan includes:
This warning notice is piling the pressure on the ambulance service.
A full inspection in May highlighted a range of issues, and this notice makes it clear some of those issues need sorting immediately.
Problems answering the NHS 111 service are perhaps the most worrying for inspectors.
Secamb is already being investigated after it dodged national response targets to gain more time to assess some seriously ill patients.
In a pilot project during the winter of 2014/15 the trust delayed sending help for certain 111 calls and transferred them to the 999 system, thus gaining an additional 10 minutes to respond.
Here we are a year-and-a-half on and the NHS 111 system is still a major cause of concern for the CQC.
Add to that issues with kit, medicines, staffing, a temporary chief executive, a temporary chairman and a huge demand on their services from us - the public - and this is an ambulance service struggling to cope.
Acting chief executive of Secamb, Geraint Davies, said the trust was "sorry for not providing the service that the communities we serve should expect and deserve".
He said: "Along with the rest of the trust's executive team, our priority now is to focus on addressing the issues which the CQC has highlighted.
"We know that there is a lot that the trust needs to do to improve compliance with a number of systems and processes to ensure the safety of our patients.
"My aim is to restore public confidence and faith in our service."
Ebdon, winner in 2002, won 10-9 against fellow Englishman Gerard Greene, while Carter - a finalist in 2008 and 2012 - saw off China's Cao Yupeng 10-8.
Players outside the world's top 16 are required to win three qualifying matches to reach the Crucible.
China's Ding Junhui and 1997 world champion Ken Doherty are also through to the final round.
Ebdon, 45, fashioned a remarkable escape against Greene, having been 9-3 down before winning seven successive frames, with the match finishing just after 02:00 BST on Tuesday.
Carter's win was a more fluent affair - from 7-7, the 36-year-old knocked in breaks of 138, 111 and a match-clinching 54 to set up a meeting with Welshman Dominic Dale.
Ding secured comfortable victories over Greg Casey and Ross Muir and will now face Nigel Bond on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Doherty faces Wales' Ryan Day after winning 10-7 against Iran's Hossein Vafaei Ayouri.
Elsewhere in round two of qualifying, Anthony McGill beat Craig Steadman 10-9 and will now face Thailand's Thepchaiya Un-Nooh.
Liam Highfield beat Belgium's Luca Brecel 10-8, Jack Lisowski won 10-5 against Rory McLeod while China's Zhang Anda saw off Mark Davis by the same score.
Two-time Crucible finalist Matthew Stevens thrashed Zhang Yong 10-3 while Thailand's Dechawat Poomjaeng secured a 10-5 win over Robin Hill.
Detlev Guenzel, 56, strangled and dismembered the 59-year-old at a small bed-and-breakfast run by Mr Guenzel in eastern Germany in 2013.
Guenzel was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail.
Prosecutors could not confirm that he had actually eaten the victim, but some body parts were never found.
Lawyers representing the family of the murdered man - 59-year-old Polish-born Wojciech Stempniewicz - sought a 15-year sentence for Guenzel, the father of three adult children described by neighbours as affable, warm hearted and courteous.
Guenzel went on trial in August for killing Stempniewicz at his home, a bed-and-breakfast inn in the town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau in the Erz mountains near the border with the Czech Republic.
He was accused of cutting the body into small pieces and burying them in his garden, making a macabre home video in the process.
The pair met in October 2013 on a website for slaughter and cannibalism fantasies which described itself as the "#1 site for exotic meat" with more than 3,000 registered members, correspondents say.
Guenzel, who had served in the police for 30 years, retracted a confession he initially made to detectives soon after Stempniewicz's killing in which he said that he had cut his throat.
The defence argued that Stempniewicz had a death wish and had already hanged himself in Guenzel's cellar "S&M studio" before he took a knife, then an electric saw, to the gagged-and-bound man.
Investigators have been unable to determine the cause of death definitively because of the poor condition of the corpse.
They have, however, been able to ascertain that the pair had extensive contact online and by telephone before finally arranging their date on 4 November 2013.
The video Guenzel made was played during the trial, at one point showing him covered in blood while mutilating the corpse. "I never thought I would sink so low," he can be heard murmuring.
The defendant is reported to have broken down when the footage was shown, telling presiding judge Birgit Wiegand that he had made a mistake but was not a murderer.
The case has echoes of the 2001 murder of Bernd Juergen Brandes by Armin Meiwes in Rotenburg in western Germany.
Meiwes is serving a life sentence after killing and eating parts of his victim, who agreed to his death.
The 19-year-old, who resumed the final day at Old Trafford on 30, was given time to reach his hundred off 124 balls before Lancashire declared on 232-3.
Yorkshire were left with a target of 367 in 71 overs and batted positively to reach 188-0, Alex Lees making 114.
But with 19 overs remaining and 179 still needed, the captains shook hands.
England Under-19 opener Hameed also went past 1,000 Championship runs for the season, becoming the first teenager to do so since James Taylor for Leicestershire in 2009.
And following his 114 in the first innings, Hameed joined only Percy Holmes in 1920 and Ted Lester in 1948, both Yorkshiremen, in scoring a hundred in each innings of a Roses match.
Lancashire began day four on 70-0 and pushed for quick runs with Tom Smith falling for 87 having shared an opening stand of 168 with Hameed.
But once Hameed had reached his milestone and the declaration followed, the draw always looked the most likely result with Lees and fellow opener Adam Lyth (63 not out) left with too much to do.
The result means Yorkshire are 26 points behind Division One leaders Middlesex with a game in hand, while Lancashire are eight points adrift of their biggest rivals.
In December the PM's joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, travelled to the US to build links with the incoming president's team.
A source said Mrs May "looks forward to visiting the new president in the spring".
The meeting is expected to take place at the White House and could be as early as next month, it is understood.
The December trip by Mrs May's closest aides was part of efforts to build a relationship with Mr Trump ahead of his inauguration on 20 January.
The president-elect first invited the prime minister to visit in a phone call shortly after his election victory in November.
It had been expected that she would visit Washington in the early months of 2017.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling told Sky News that there was nothing out of the ordinary about what was happening.
"You would expect a meeting between the new US president and our prime minister relatively soon after he takes office and that is what is happening," he said.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage was the first British politician to meet Mr Trump after his election victory - meeting him in his Trump Tower residence in New York.
Mr Farage, who appeared with Mr Trump during the election campaign, suggested that Mrs May's advisers had not met key players in the president-elect's team.
"I think it's almost impossible that they could have got into Trump Tower, somebody would have recognised that photograph," he told LBC Radio.
"It sounds to me like they went to Washington, they might have met either the existing State Department or perhaps some of Trump's transition team down there."
Mrs May and other ministers have been critical of Mr Trump in the past, attacking his call in December 2015 for a ban on Muslims entering the US in the wake of the mass shootings in San Bernadino, California.
A year ago, MPs debated calls for Mr Trump to be denied entry to the UK.
But historian Sir Anthony Seldon said he was sceptical of the "conventional wisdom" that Trump's election would put a strain on US-UK relations.
The two leaders, he said, shared a "similar ideological outlook" and a "common enemy" in Islamist terrorism which would provide the basis for close co-operation, while he believed Mrs May's "no-nonsense gravitas" would appeal to the new president.
"The US will need special friends," he said. "Who else but Britain? Israel - hardly. Russia - unlikely. Germany - not under Angela Merkel. Trump is above all transactional. If he can do deals with Britain, he will want more."
Britain's ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, has suggested that the so-called "special relationship" between the two countries will continue and that Mrs May and Mr Trump will "build on the legacy" of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Mr Trump has strong business links with the United Kingdom and, during the summer, signalled his support for the UK's decision to leave the EU.
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Kane - with 29 goals for Tottenham this season - emerged as a substitute after 70 minutes with England already on the way to a fifth win from five qualifiers with goals from Rooney, Danny Welbeck and Raheem Sterling.
The stage was set for the 21-year-old but even the man with the Midas touch in front of goal this season would have struggled to believe he would score with his third touch as a full England international, heading in Sterling's cross at the far post.
It was the final flourish on an England win that was little more than a formality in a group that surely provides the safest of passages to France next summer.
Rooney got the night off to the perfect start when he headed his 47th goal for England after only six minutes, leaving him just two adrift of Charlton's tally ahead of Tuesday's friendly against Italy in Turin.
England's captain also hit the woodwork twice before man of the match Welbeck, who deservedly kept his place despite public clamour for Kane's inclusion, headed a deflected second just before half-time.
Sterling was rewarded for a lively performance with his first England goal - but it was Kane who did what he has been doing all season and stole the show with a predator's effort as part of a confident cameo.
Hodgson refused to rush Kane into his England starting line-up despite his golden run of form but he will be delighted that he has demonstrated, albeit briefly and against desperately poor opposition, that he is an added weapon in his attacking armoury.
In the wider context of Euro 2016, Lithuania provided further proof of how England have been handed a gloriously favourable group in which to continue their rehabilitation following the World Cup debacle in Brazil. There could never be any excuses for not reaching France.
Rooney started the night with Charlton's record firmly in his sights - and could have equalled it by the interval.
He was put through by Fabian Delph in the third minute but slid a low shot against the post with Lithuania keeper Giedrius Arlauskis beaten.
Rooney was not to be kept at bay for long, and he took another stride towards that landmark three minutes later with a simple header from six yards after Arlauskis blocked Welbeck's shot.
A looping header against the woodwork and a low free-kick clutched by Arlauskis continued Rooney's efforts - but it was Welbeck who ended any fanciful suggestion that this might develop into a serious contest with England's second from a deflected header right on half-time.
It was little more than a procession and Arlauskis distinguished himself again with a superb save from Delph's volley and a Welbeck snapshot as England resumed the siege.
The gallant keeper was powerless to stop England adding a third just before the hour, Sterling's simple tap-in the perfect conclusion to Rooney's inviting cross.
The moment Kane, and indeed most of Wembley, had been waiting for arrived with 20 minutes left as he was introduced, along with Everton's Ross Barkley, for Rooney and Jordan Henderson.
And in keeping with the rest of his season, he penned the final chapter of this Wembley storyline on a dream England debut.
Match ends, England 4, Lithuania 0.
Second Half ends, England 4, Lithuania 0.
Raheem Sterling (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vaidas Slavickas (Lithuania).
Donatas Kazlauskas (Lithuania) is shown the yellow card.
Raheem Sterling (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Donatas Kazlauskas (Lithuania).
Corner, England. Conceded by Georgas Freidgeimas.
Substitution, Lithuania. Donatas Kazlauskas replaces Saulius Mikoliunas.
Offside, England. Harry Kane tries a through ball, but Theo Walcott is caught offside.
Foul by Raheem Sterling (England).
Vaidas Slavickas (Lithuania) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Fabian Delph (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Leighton Baines.
Substitution, Lithuania. Vaidas Slavickas replaces Vytautas Andriuskevicius because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Raheem Sterling (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Raheem Sterling (England) because of an injury.
Delay in match Vytautas Andriuskevicius (Lithuania) because of an injury.
Foul by Raheem Sterling (England).
Vytautas Andriuskevicius (Lithuania) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Karolis Chvedukas (Lithuania).
Substitution, England. Theo Walcott replaces Danny Welbeck because of an injury.
Corner, England. Conceded by Marius Zaliukas.
Attempt blocked. Danny Welbeck (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Attempt blocked. Gary Cahill (England) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Leighton Baines with a cross.
Corner, England. Conceded by Marius Zaliukas.
Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Goal! England 4, Lithuania 0. Harry Kane (England) header from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a cross.
Offside, Lithuania. Georgas Freidgeimas tries a through ball, but Deivydas Matulevicius is caught offside.
Substitution, England. Harry Kane replaces Wayne Rooney.
Substitution, England. Ross Barkley replaces Jordan Henderson.
Foul by Fabian Delph (England).
Saulius Mikoliunas (Lithuania) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Lithuania. Simonas Stankevicius replaces Tomas Mikuckis.
Raheem Sterling (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Karolis Chvedukas (Lithuania).
Attempt missed. Deivydas Matulevicius (Lithuania) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Offside, England. Danny Welbeck tries a through ball, but Jordan Henderson is caught offside.
Foul by Fabian Delph (England).
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About 26 civilian and military head office posts will go and a new senior structure will come in from April 2013.
The move is expected to save the Ministry of Defence (MoD) about ??3.8m a year.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said one in four posts from the ranks of commodore, brigadier, air commodore and above will go.
Mr Hammond said: "At a time when we are making difficult decisions about defence spending and have had to accept reductions across the board, we cannot ignore the volume of posts at the top.
"For too long the MoD has been top-heavy, with too many senior civilians and military.
"Not only does this new structure reduce senior staff posts by up to a quarter in the next two years, but it allows clear strategic priorities to be set for the armed forces.
"It will hold the frontline commands to account for their delivery and support them in the tasks they are set."
The new team will no longer be involved in day-to-day management of frontline commands, but will instead take over responsibility for managing their own budgets, the MoD says.
Government cuts will reduce the number of regular soldiers from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2020, with reservist numbers doubled to 30,000 to help fill the gap.
Tom McKane of the MoD said: "All parts of defence are being restructured as we transform the way the Ministry of Defence does business - and head office is no exception.
"A smaller head office focused on strategic direction and policy, which hands more responsibility to the frontline commands, allows for a better-run organisation."
But the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation think tanks found most admissions were for physical ailments.
Researchers said the findings suggested the NHS was too often treating mental health conditions in isolation.
Overall, just 20% of admissions were explicitly linked to mental health.
Instead, mental health patients were more likely to be admitted as an emergency for what are usually routine problems like hip replacements.
The think tanks looked at more than 100 million hospital records between 2009-10 and 2013-14 for people with mental health problems and those without.
In the final year, for every 1,000 people with mental health problems there were 628 emergency admissions, compared with 129 among those without - five times the rate.
Visits to A&E units were also three times higher, with more than 1,300 attendances for every 1,000 patients with mental health problems.
The researchers said many of these could have been prevented with better care.
Report author Holly Dorning said: "It is striking that people with mental ill health use so much more emergency care than those without and that so much of this isn't directly related to their mental health needs.
"This raises serious questions about how well their other health concerns are being managed.
"It is clear that if we continue to treat mental health in isolation, we will miss essential care needs for these patients."
The group is to "remain neutral" on the issue, but will "act as a watchdog" over the process and contact other European countries and institutions to examine "the best ways forward".
The eight-member group will be headed by SNP MSP Alex Neil, who has spoken out about his backing for Brexit.
Holyrood's standards committee agreed to approve the group on the condition its membership is reviewed annually.
The group will be led by Mr Neil, with another Brexiteer, Tory Oliver Mundell, as secretary.
The deputy conveners will be Labour's Johann Lamont and Lib Dem member Tavish Scott. The remaining MSPs making up the group are Labour's Neil Findlay and Pauline McNeill, Tory Murdo Fraser and Lib Dem Liam McArthur.
Mr Scott told a meeting of the standards committee that the group wanted to act as a "genuine forum" for people to bring forward views that have not been heard outside other parliamentary discussion on Brexit.
He said the group would look to add external members as well as MSPs, and would look to bring in a high calibre of speakers from Scottish and international forums.
Patrick Harvie questioned the group's balance of activities, asking whether the group would be restricted to accepting that Brexit is happening.
Mr Scott said members like himself who campaigned for Scotland to remain in the EU would make sure that was not forgotten about.
SNP member Clare Haughey also asked for more information before the group was approved. Committee convener Clare Adamson said the membership of the group could be reviewed on an annual basis, and the committee agreed the proposal on that basis.
The committee also approved applications for cross-party groups on health improvement and nuclear disarmament.
John Morgan, 59, was attacked in Peterborough on 18 August by PCs John Richardson, 50, and David Littlemore, 35, Luton magistrates heard.
The officers confronted Mr Morgan while seeking a missing man.
The two were each sentenced to three months in jail, suspended for two years, for common assault.
They were found to have used excessive force.
Richardson must also complete 200 hours community service while Littlemore must complete 150 hours.
They were also each ordered to pay £500 in costs, £450 compensation and an £80 victim surcharge.
Both officers were put on restricted duties while the investigation was being carried and suspended from duty following the guilty verdict. They will now face internal misconduct proceedings.
The officers, based at Thorpe Wood police station in Peterborough, saw Mr Morgan sitting on a park bench as he was out walking his Jack Russell dog, the court heard.
Mr Morgan told police he was not the missing man they were looking for, but he refused to give his name and address, magistrates were told.
The retired engineer, who has poor sight and diabetes, was approached by Littlemore who "was suspicious of him because he thought he was putting on an accent because he spoke with a Welsh accent", magistrates heard.
Mr Morgan said he was "dragged to the floor" by Littlemore and Richardson, who twisted his arms behind his back. His phone and glasses fell to the ground.
"He [Richardson] then stamped on my hand repeatedly and a lot of pressure was put on my back by officer one [Littlemore]. It could have killed me," said Mr Morgan.
Mike Humphreys, prosecuting, told magistrates that the PCs had "no legal authority to do what they did".
He said: "They had no lawful authority to stamp on his hand and push him to the ground. He was simply walking his dog in the park."
The court heard that the missing man, Bill King, had a black and white dog with him. Mr Morgan was released only when Littlemore confirmed via his radio that the missing man's dog was a Staffordshire Bull Terrier type - not a Jack Russell.
The pair pleaded not guilty, but were convicted by Luton magistrates.
Payne, 31, made his return in Ulster's Pro12 win over Zebre after three months out because of a kidney injury.
Leinster fly-half Joey Carbery comes in at the expense of Munster counterpart Ian Keatley, while forwards Dave Kilcoyne and Jack Conan are recalled.
There is no place in the squad for Ulster winger Tommy Bowe however.
Carbery, who made his three international appearances to date in the November autumn international series before injuring his ankle, will offer back-up for Johnny Sexton and Paddy Jackson at number 10.
Loose-head prop Kilcoyne boasts 17 international caps and has recently scored tries for Munster against the Dragons and the Ospreys in the Pro12.
Ireland play Wales in Cardiff on 10 March and then face England in a potential title decider in Dublin on 18 March.
Full-back Rob Kearney underwent a scan on Monday after being forced off in Saturday's win over France because of a groin injury.
While no details of the scan results have been revealed, the Ireland management appear reasonably confident that the Leinster man will be available for the Wales game.
If Kearney was ruled out, Payne would be a full-back option although a switch for Simon Zebo from wing to the number 15 jersey, with Andrew Trimble coming into the starting line-up. might be a more likely scenario.
Payne came off the bench in the second half of Ulster's game in Italy on Sunday to make his first appearance since sustaining a fractured kidney in Ireland's game against Australia in November.
The New Zealander, who has been a regular at centre alongside Robbie Henshaw since Brian O'Driscoll's retirement, is expected to get further game time with Ulster against Treviso on Friday.
Connacht lock Ultan Dillane is recalled to coach Joe Schmidt's squad, with Quinn Roux providing additional cover in the second row.
Ireland extended 36-man squad for the Six Nations against Wales and England:
Forwards (19): Rory Best (Ulster), Jack Conan (Leinster), Ultan Dillane (Connacht), Tadhg Furlong (Leinster), Cian Healy (Leinster), Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), Iain Henderson (Ulster), Dave Kilcoyne (Munster), Dan Leavy (Leinster), Jack McGrath (Leinster), Sean O'Brien (Leinster), Tommy O'Donnell (Munster), Peter O'Mahony (Munster), Quinn Roux (Connacht), Donnacha Ryan (Munster), John Ryan (Munster), Niall Scannell (Munster), CJ Stander (Munster), Devin Toner (Leinster), James Tracy (Leinster).
Backs (17): Joey Carbery (Leinster), Andrew Conway (Munster), Keith Earls (Munster), Craig Gilroy (Ulster), Robbie Henshaw (Leinster), Paddy Jackson (Ulster), Rob Kearney (Leinster), Kieran Marmion (Connacht), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Luke McGrath (Leinster), Conor Murray (Munster), Tiernan O'Halloran (Connacht), Jared Payne (Ulster), Garry Ringrose (Leinster), Johnny Sexton (Leinster), Andrew Trimble (Ulster), Simon Zebo (Munster).
The fare increase only applies to cash journeys. The price for people using a pre-paid Avanchi card depends on the journey length.
People using an Avanchi card for longer journeys will see a cut from £1.80 to £1.60 but for shorter journeys it will rise from £1.20 to £1.30.
The cash fare will be £2 for longer journeys and £1.50 for shorter routes.
Kevin Hart, general manager of LibertyBus, said they planned to introduce a single island-wide fare for pre-pay users.
"The results of the independent LibertyBus customer satisfaction survey in 2014 and lots of customer feedback indicated that there is a demand for one flat fare Island-wide," he said.
"As the first step towards this goal, we have changed the fare structure on the Avanchi Card Pay-as-you-go".
Mr Cameron's spokesman has said "nothing is off the table" when it comes to talks between the pair.
Earlier, the prime minister told MPs he would raise the issue of subsidised Chinese steel with his counterpart.
Human rights and cyber attacks are also likely to be discussed.
The visit comes after Chancellor George Osborne visited China last month, where he said it was the government's intention to make the UK China's "best partner in the west".
Mr Osborne also announced earlier this month that the UK will allow Chinese companies to take a stake in British nuclear power plants - a move questioned by some.
Mr Cameron told Chinese state TV Mr Xi's visit marks a "very important moment".
The Communist leader and his wife Peng Liyuan arrived at Heathrow Airport, where they were greeted on behalf of the Queen by Viscount Hood. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond joined the welcome party.
Large red flags of the People's Republic of China are lining The Mall in central London, along with the union jack, in preparation for the official welcome on Horse Guards Parade on Tuesday.
During their visit they will meet members of the Royal Family and stay at Buckingham Palace, visit businesses and address members of the Houses of Parliament at Westminster.
Amnesty International and other groups concerned with human rights issues in China are expected to protest in St James' Park on Tuesday and it is expected that there will also be a pro-China protest.
The start of the visit comes as parts of Caparo steel were put into administration - with unions saying cheap steel from abroad may be a cause.
Concerns have already been raised about the impact of cheap steel from China on the European market. Shadow business secretary Angela Eagle said earlier that "anti-competitive dumping... is driving down steel prices."
Mr Cameron told the Commons: "We're doing everything we can in Europe to help our steel industry.
"That is why we voted in favour of dumping tariffs against the Chinese and we'll do everything we can to help our steel industry, including looking at how we help on high energy usage and the clearances that we need with that.
"Will we raise it with the Chinese? Of course, we'll raise all these issues. That is what our relationship with China is all about."
Mr Cameron's spokeswoman also said she expected human rights and the threat faced from cyber attacks to come up during talks.
Developing a strong and engaged relationship "means we are able to talk to them... frankly and with mutual respect," she added.
China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, said on Sunday that his country does not "shy away" from discussing human rights.
Mr Liu said he doubted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would raise human rights abuses during a state banquet at Buckingham Palace this week after Mr Corbyn's spokesman said he would use the visit to discuss the issue.
Meanwhile, the Duke of Cambridge has recorded a speech on the illegal ivory trade for Chinese state TV.
He also raised the issue with Mr Xi when they met in Beijing earlier this year and his broadcast will form part of a series of programmes called Let's Talk.
Also ahead of Mr Xi's visit, former defence secretary Liam Fox questioned the deal with China over nuclear power.
Dr Fox said he would be happier if "central elements" of software were produced in the UK.
Asked if he was happy with the arrangement, Dr Fox said: "I think we have to question it."
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The Irish trainer also claimed the Queen Mother Champion Chase in 2010 with Big Zeb.
Murphy made the surprise announcement after what he called "a difficult few years" financially.
"My accountancy background told me we just can't make it pay any more," said the Wexford-based Murphy, who began training in 2000.
"It's been a very difficult decision and not one we've made lightly, but in the end, it was a financial decision that was made for us."
Murphy enjoyed a Cheltenham Festival winner in March as Empire of Dirt, owned by Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud, took the Brown Advisory And Merribelle Stable Plate.
He said Black Zambezi could be his final runner at Gowran Park on 1 October.
The sum is more than double the £72,000 figure the cap will be set at when it comes into force in 2016.
That is because extra costs, such as the fees for accommodation, do not count towards the cap.
Labour said the public was being conned, but ministers said they had been clear about what the cap covered.
The research also suggested that the majority of people - six out of seven - who end up in a home will die before they hit the cap.
That is because the average length of stay in a care home is just over two years whereas it will take five years for most to reach the cap.
The £150,000 figure is based on how much a person would pay if so-called hotel costs, which include accommodation, food and bills, are factored in.
This will be set at £12,000 a year to start with.
It also includes the higher costs individuals face when purchasing care home places compared with the price councils get, which is what will count towards the cap.
As councils buy places in bulk, they are able to get cheaper deals.
Figures from analysts Laing and Buisson suggest the gap is about £90 a week.
According to the Labour analysis, that would mean individuals paying £610 a week for a care home place but only £292 counting towards the cap.
Labour itself is not proposing to cover accommodation costs, but said it was highlighting the figures because the government was not being "straight" with the public.
Shadow care minister Liz Kendall said: "Families deserve to be told the facts rather than being conned so they can properly plan for the future and not have the government attempt to pull the wool over their eyes."
Caroline Abrahams, of Age UK, said: "Many older people and their families who have assumed they will benefit from the social care reforms will be shocked and disappointed to find they may not receive much help.
"It is crucial that the public understands what costs are included under the cap and the impact the proposals will have."
Ministers said they had always been upfront about the accommodation costs and said one of the aims of the cap was to encourage the insurance industry to develop policies for old age that could cover much more of the fees.
They also pointed out that once a person's assets - including house and savings - started to drop below £118,000 the state would start contributing towards the cost of care which would mean those people would not have to pay the full amount towards the cap anyway.
This has been incorporated into the policy to protect the less well-off. What is more, they are also looking at allowing individuals to purchase care home places through their local authority to allow them to benefit from the lower rates.
A Department of Health spokeswoman added: "The government is introducing the first ever cap on care costs so that people no longer have to live in fear of unlimited care costs.
"Our changes will help hundreds of thousands and give peace of mind to many more."
The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, upheld complaints about the programme Lies, Laws and the Bin Lorry Tragedy, broadcast in 2015.
The half-hour film looked at the decision not to prosecute driver Harry Clarke over the December 2014 crash.
The complaints were brought by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
A spokeswoman said: "We raised a complaint about the BBC's failure to accurately report our position and we note that the BBC Trust has now accepted that was the case."
BBC Scotland said it disagreed with the BBC Trust's decision. It said it "took great care to make sure the programme was fair to the Crown Office".
Mr Clarke, 58, was unconscious when the Glasgow City Council bin lorry veered out of control on 22 December 2014, killing six people and injuring 17 others.
It later emerged that Mr Clarke had a history of blackouts that he failed to disclose to his employer.
The Crown decided not to prosecute Mr Clarke after saying there was no evidence that he knew, or ought to have known, that he was unfit to drive.
In the BBC programme, broadcast in November 2015, two families questioned whether the Crown Office was aware of all the evidence when they made the decision not to prosecute.
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service complained to the BBC Trust on five points.
Three were about the BBC Scotland programme and two were about a discussion on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio Two.
While upholding all three complaints against BBC Scotland, the Trust said "the documentary was a thoughtful piece of programme-making made in the public interest".
The complaints were:
There were two complaints about the Jeremy Vine show:
A BBC Scotland spokesman said: "While we appreciate the consideration given throughout this process, we disagree with the BBC Trust's decision to uphold these elements of the complaint.
"BBC Scotland made considerable efforts to ensure that the programme's journalism was robust, fair and accurate and accorded in full with the BBC's Editorial Guidelines.
"The testimony provided to us by the victims' families was compelling. We remain convinced of its veracity and we took great care to make sure the programme was fair to the Crown Office."
Wallace, 29, has made 18 appearances this season as the Clarets were relegated from the Premier League, while Duff, 37, has featured 22 times.
"Ross will be leaving and, of course, we thank him for his contribution," said manager Sean Dyche.
Duff has played more than 350 games for Burnley and will begin contract talks.
He joined from Cheltenham for £30,000 in 2004.
Midfielder Steven Reid has already announced he will retire at the end of the season, while top scorer Danny Ings is also expected to leave the club.
But Carwyn Jones is to tell Labour colleagues that they cannot block the Article 50 process to leave the EU.
He said ministers in Westminster "politically" had an obligation to take a note of the vote in the Senedd.
Mr Jones added he was disappointed with a court case which said UK ministers had no legal obligation to consult AMs on Article 50.
Welsh ministers had argued that the assembly should be consulted.
The same ruling stated that the assembly did not have a veto.
The vote will not have a legal impact on the process, and Prime Minister Theresa May has said that the UK government will set out its Brexit plans in a white paper, after the Supreme Court ruled MPs must vote on whether her government can trigger Article 50.
A parliamentary bill paving the way for talks with the EU, following the ruling, could be introduced as early as Thursday.
Mr Jones, speaking to BBC One's The Wales Report programme, said: "I think the key words were we are not legally compelled to be consulted. But constitutionally, we are."
He said: "There will be a vote in the assembly on Article 50."
"It's important that members are able to express their views."
He said he would be telling party colleagues that they "can't block the article 50 process and we can't look to overturn the referendum result".
But the first minister argued "it is hugely important that the process is done in such a way it is least harmful to Wales and to Britain".
Mr Jones said "politically" ministers in London had an obligation to take note of the vote in the Senedd.
"The UK is in a precarious position," he said, saying he warned against Brexit leading to the UK "collapsing" and that it was important "the deal itself has the widest possible support".
BBC Wales understands that the vote may take the form of a motion put during a debate in the Senedd, rather than a so-called legislative consent motion - which states whether AMs think a Westminster law should apply in Wales.
Meanwhile the first minister suggested that a debate on whether the assembly needs more AMs could last years, and that it would be "ridiculous" for the assembly to rush into expanding its numbers.
The Wales Bill gives the assembly the power to increase the number of assembly members - an idea backed by the presiding officer Elin Jones.
Mr Jones said there was "no doubt the workload of assembly members is huge compared to people who are members of legislatures elsewhere".
But he said that was "not going to win the public over, necessarily".
The Welsh Labour leader said he did not want, within weeks of getting the powers, to say "the first thing we're going to do is increase the number of politicians", arguing that would "make us look ridiculous".
He said the current system, which has 60 AMs, "works, but it's under strain".
"What I wouldn't do is say what we need are more politicians. That has to be part of a package around how the assembly operates, and of course bearing in mind we may end up with fewer MPs," he said.
In 2016, the Boundary Commission proposed the number if Welsh MPs should be cut by more than a quarter, from 40 to 29.
Mr Jones said he was not saying there should be fewer MPs, but added: "These are issues that will have to be debated over the next few years."
Mr Jones also reiterated that he would like to see the voting age reduced to 16.
"It was 16 at Scotland at the referendum. If it's OK for Scotland at a referendum, it's difficult to argue against it being OK in every other election."
The Wales Report, Wednesday 25 January, 22:40 GMT BBC ONE Wales
The EU said a Portuguese soldier and a Malian woman who worked for the bloc's mission in Mali were among the dead.
A Malian soldier and two other civilians, one Chinese and the other Gabonese, were also killed.
An al-Qaeda-linked group said it carried out the attack near the capital Bamako. Mali has been fighting a jihadist insurgency for years.
Islamist fighters are roaming the West African country's north and centre.
"It is a jihadist attack. Malian special forces intervened and hostages have been released," Mali Security Minister Salif Traore told AFP news agency after Sunday's attack.
Four assailants were killed by security forces and four others were arrested, he said.
"We have recovered the bodies of two attackers who were killed," he said, adding that they were searching for the bodies of two others.
One of them left behind a machine gun and bottles filled with "explosive substances", he said.
The ministry said another two people had been injured.
A security ministry spokesman told Reuters news agency that 32 guests had been rescued from the Le Campement Kangaba resort, east of Bamako.
Malian special forces intervened, backed by UN soldiers and troops from a French counter-terrorism force.
Witness Boubacar Sangare was just outside the compound as the attack unfolded.
"Westerners were fleeing the encampment while two plainclothes police exchanged fire with the assailants," he said.
"There were four national police vehicles and French soldiers in armoured vehicles on the scene."
He added that a helicopter was circling overhead.
The European Union training mission in Mali, EUTM Mali, tweeted that it was aware of the attack and was supporting Malian security forces and assessing the situation.
Earlier this month, the US embassy had warned of "possible future attacks on Western diplomatic missions, other locations in Bamako that Westerners frequent".
BBC correspondent Alex Duval Smith says many expats and wealthy Malians go to Kangaba at weekends, to enjoy the pools, cocktail bar, canoeing facilities and activities for children.
A spokesman for the Portuguese armed forces, Helder Antonio da Silva Perdigao, said that the location is used by soldiers in the EUTM Mali as a place to relax between operations.
He added that soldiers from several countries were there at the time of the attack.
The Portuguese soldier who died was part of the EUTM Mali, he said.
In November 2015, at least 20 people were killed when gunmen took guests and staff hostage at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako.
Al-Qaeda's North African arm, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said it was behind that siege.
Mali has been in a state of emergency since the Radisson Blu attack. It was extended for a further six months in April.
The country's security has gradually worsened since 2013, when French forces repelled allied Islamist and Tuareg rebel fighters who had seized control of much of the north.
French troops and a 10,000-strong force of UN peacekeepers have been battling to stabilise the former French colony.
The searches are to end at Highlands and Islands Airports Limited's (Hial) Barra, Tiree and Campbeltown airports from 1 February.
Prospect, which has members among Hial's workforce, wants a delay to allow for a "full consultation".
Hial said it had carried out a thorough review of security procedures.
Prospect negotiator David Avery said: "Prospect believes this change is unreasonable and disproportionate and puts staff and passengers at risk.
"The current regime of security checks was introduced more than ten years ago and has been largely successful.
"But despite the long-standing rules, security staff regularly find passengers carrying prohibited liquids, small knives and in extreme cases, firearms ammunition."
Hial said the move followed a thorough review of security procedures at each of its sites.
It said the new regime would help improve the general passenger experience travelling from the airports to Glasgow, while maintaining appropriate security standards.
Content providers regularly update the lists of sites they want blocked and the latest one includes popular file-sharing index Demonoid.
The list was started in 2012 when ISPs were forced to block access to the Pirate Bay.
At least 23 new URLs are on the latest list being sent to the main UK ISPs.
Content providers must apply for a court order to block individual sites such as Pirate Bay but, after that, they can add URLs that link to that particular site without any formal order.
The sites they choose link to pirated software including music, films, TV shows and e-books.
Content providers say that they carefully target sites whose sole purpose is to make money from other people's content.
In response to the latest requests, BT told the BBC: "BT will only block access to websites engaged in copyright or trademark infringement when ordered by a court to do so. The list of websites that BT has been ordered to block access to can be found here."
The list includes content from the Football Association, the Motion Picture Association of America and even some watchmakers - such as Cartier and Montblanc - who have requested that counterfeit sites be shut down.
But by far the largest number of requests comes from members of the BPI, which represents UK music labels.
"The recent expansions show that copyright holders remain concerned about people circumventing blockades, which is a common practice among users," said Ernesto Van der Sar, editor of technology news website TorrentFreak.
"New unblocking opportunities continue to appear so this is the only way to ensure that the efficacy of existing court orders isn't further diminished. It's a never-ending game of whack-a-mole."
How effective such blocks are remains open to debate.
A study conducted in May, by US universities Carnegie Mellon and Wellesley College, found that blocking the Pirate Bay had little impact on the rise in legal channels - instead people just turned to other piracy sites, Pirate Bay mirror sites or virtual private networks that allowed them to circumvent the block.
But, on the other hand, researchers found that bulk blocking - where multiple sites are shut down - was much more effective. Following such blocks in 2013, use of legitimate sites such as Netflix rose by around 12%, they found.
Ryan Hinchcliffe's early try put Giants ahead but Ben Roberts, Jake Webster and Mike McMeeken crossed in response to put Tigers 16-4 ahead at the break.
Gale and Adam Milner extended the lead before Ryan Brierley hit back.
Two more tries from Gale in a 24-point contribution and a Monaghan treble followed as Tigers dominated.
While Lee Gaskell added a further consolation try for Huddersfield in the second half, it did little more than add a semblance of respectability to the scoreline as they became the latest club to suffer a heavy loss at the Jungle.
Castleford have scored at least 43 points in each of their first four home games in Super League this season.
However, they were left to bemoan a series of handling errors after Hinchcliffe's try put Huddersfield ahead.
That was before Roberts scooped up a neat grubber kick by Gale to help put the hosts ahead after 21 minutes.
Huddersfield then saw their restart go out on the full, allowing Roberts the chance to quickly play provider for Webster as Tigers piled the points on.
Gale gave Daryl Powell's side the ideal start to the second half, crossing for the first of his tries after just 30 seconds, as Castleford went on to win big to remain top.
They are level on points with Leeds Rhinos, who beat Wigan 26-18 in Friday's other Super League game.
Castleford Tigers: Hardaker; Monaghan, Webster, Shenton, Eden; Roberts, Gale; Sene-Lefao, McShane, Moors, Millington, McMeeken, Milner.
Replacements: Cook, Springer, Chase, Holmes.
Huddersfield Giants: McIntosh; McGillvary, Cudjoe, Mellor, Ormsby; Gaskell, Brierley; Ikahihifo, Hinchcliffe, Wakeman, Ta'ai, Ferguson, Clough.
Replacements: Rapira, Leeming, Smith, Dickinson.
Referee: Richard Kendall
Emergency services had to help bring the flood under control and prevent it spilling into underground car parks.
Those responsible said they belonged to the militant group the Regional Action Committee of Winemakers (Crav), France 3 reported.
Crav has been alarmed by cheap imports and has claimed previous attacks.
"Why this action? Because we are never listened to," a Crav representative told France 3.
The attack happed in Sete, a port town in Languedoc-Roussillon, one of France's biggest wine producing regions.
Basements and nearby homes were flooded, according to Midi Libre.
Earlier this year, Spain summoned France's ambassador after French farmers seized Spanish lorries and drained their cargo of wine, near Le Boulou in southern France.
A local union leader for winemakers, Frederic Rouanet, condemned the latest attacks but told Decanter magazine he too was concerned about the rise of cheap imports making it into French shops.
Three airmen were killed and another seriously injured when the aircraft collided over the Moray Firth in northern Scotland.
The planes from 15 (Reserve) Sqn at RAF Lossiemouth, in Moray, crashed into the sea during a training flight.
The families of the victims said they were disappointed by the decision.
Each of the Tornados had two crew members on board when they crashed in July 2012.
Flt Lt Hywel Poole, 28, who was born in Menai Bridge on Anglesey in north Wales, died in hospital after being airlifted from the scene.
Sqn Ldr Samuel Bailey, 36, from Nottingham, and Flt Lt Adam Sanders, 27, who grew up in Lancashire, were also killed.
A fourth RAF serviceman, Sqd Ldr Paul Evans, survived but was badly injured.
SNP MP Angus Robertson has also said he was extremely disappointed by the decision.
Mr Robertson, who represents Moray at Westminster, had been calling for an inquiry.
He said: "I am totally mystified why there won't be a fatal accident inquiry. There are critical outstanding questions about Tornado safety and the delayed collision warning system.
"The MoD failed in its duty of care towards the RAF personnel involved in the Tornado collision. I believe they, their families and colleagues deserved better and a proper inquiry."
It's the decision which campaigners have fought for many months to persuade the Crown Office against. And they are hugely disappointed.
They concede that the Military Aviation Authority report detailed the cause and lessons to be learned.
But they also argue that there are still many questions to answer in addition to the failure by the MoD to fit a collision warning system, a decision essentially made on cost grounds.
They question the accountability of senior officers who said the aircraft was safe to fly when some of the warnings contained in the MAA report suggest otherwise.
Campaigners also link this accident with many which preceded it, like the RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre and the RAF Nimrod accident in Afghanistan where warning signs were ignored.
They also criticise what they believe is a loophole in the law in Scotland which means that fatal accident inquiries are not held there into RAF accidents, when inquests would be held in England.
While the RAF insists that a new collision warning system is being fitted to Tornados - it's only been installed on a handful of jets so far and doesn't yet work.
So while the MoD insists that it is committed to flight safety, its critics are not fully convinced.
The Crown Office said the incident had been the subject of a "very detailed" report following an investigation by the Military Aviation Authority (MAA).
All of the 42 recommendations in the MAA report have been accepted by the Ministry of Defence and were in the process of being implemented, including installation of collision warning systems, the Crown Office said.
It said the purpose of an FAI was to set out in law to establish the cause of death and ensure that lessons are learned for the future.
In a statement, the Crown Office said: "After thorough consideration of the circumstances of the case, Crown Counsel have concluded that all the relevant issues have been comprehensively examined in the course of the Military Aviation Authority report and could not have been better considered in any FAI."
The Crown Office said an FAI "would only duplicate the months of thorough work undertaken by the Military Air Accident Investigation Branch and the Military Aviation Authority in preparing the Service Inquiry".
It added: "As a result, Crown Counsel have instructed that no FAI is to be held."
David Bell, a lawyer representing the families, said: "Whilst we accept that the service inquiry report does identify the immediate causes of the accident, there are many questions about how and why many of those causes arose, which need to be answered.
"If a fatal accident inquiry is not to be held, those broader questions should be addressed by a public inquiry.
"The families of victims of the crash need answers as to how this crash occurred and want reassurances that any wider issues will be identified and resolved to prevent the risk of other similar accidents in future.
"Without the appropriate inquiry, it is difficult to see how lessons will be learned."
In January, the MoD came under renewed fire over its efforts to install safety equipment on RAF jets after the department confirmed to the SNP that only eight of the RAF's fleet of 100 Tornado GR4s had been fitted with a collision warning system.
Responding to the Crown Office announcement, an MoD spokesman said: "The Ministry of Defence has provided all information requested by Scotland's Crown Counsel in their consideration of this matter and has assisted fully during the completion of a comprehensive Service Inquiry, the thoroughness of which was one of the main factors in the Scottish government's decision not to hold a Fatal Accident Inquiry.
"The Service inquiry made 42 recommendations, all of which have been implemented, including the ongoing introduction of a collision avoidance system to Tornado GR4 aircraft which will be another tool for aircrew to use.
"This is the first time such a system has been fitted to an existing combat fast jet anywhere in the world."
The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration said records should be kept in case the same people later claimed asylum in the UK.
John Vine also said people-smugglers were not being fined heavily enough.
The Home Office pointed to positive elements of the report and said it had "already addressed" some of the issues.
However, Home Secretary Theresa May has redacted [blacked out] some sections of the reporting, prompting opposition politicians to ask what the government was trying to hide.
Overall, Mr Vine said the UK was working well with France and Belgium on stopping illegal immigration.
But inspectors found UK officials at Calais had stopped taking photographs and fingerprints of illegal immigrants in 2010 because of problems with the availability of cells to hold people in. This was also later stopped at Coquelles.
Mr Vine said: "Gathering biometric information such as fingerprints could assist the decision-making process if these individuals were ultimately successful in reaching the UK and went on to claim asylum."
In the 12 months from September 2011, more than 8,000 illegal immigrants were caught and stopped from entering the UK in vehicles and other containers at Calais, Coquelles and Dunkirk.
Under a system called "juxtaposed controls", people travelling on certain routes between the UK, France and Belgium go through immigration checks before boarding a train or ferry rather than on arrival.
Among his findings, Mr Vine said those trying to smuggle immigrants into Britain were being fined far less than the legal maximum.
None of the fines imposed were "remotely close" to the maximum of £2,000 each for the driver and the vehicle owner for every immigrant found, he said.
The report also said border staff remained concerned over the so-called "Lille loophole", which effectively exempts from immigration checks some passengers who travel on the Eurostar from Brussels, in Belgium, via Lille, in France.
This section contains one of 15 passages in the report to be redacted by Theresa May.
The immigration minister, Mark Harper, acknowledged it would be useful to have the fingerprints of people trying to illegally enter Britain in case they tried it again.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "It would be useful but equally it consumes a large amount of time for our officers.."
But he added: "We've accepted that it would be appropriate to review our approach and that review will be completed by the end of the year."
Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz said he was concerned about information being blanked out.
"The committee has been assured in the past that the loophole would be closed," he said.
"The withholding of information prevents us from properly holding the Border Force to account."
The Labour party has criticised the Government for its handling of border controls.
Shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant said that Mrs May should publish the full report as a "matter of urgency. Otherwise the British public will doubtless conclude that the Government has something to hide".
Mr Bryant added: "Yet again the Government refuses to be straight with the British people about immigration and our borders. This cover-up and the failure at our borders provide yet more dents in this government's much-tarnished credibility."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: "We have to ask, what on earth are they hiding?"
A Home Office spokesman said Mrs May was required to take out any information which would be "prejudicial to the interests of national security".
Commenting on the public findings, the spokesman said: "John Vine acknowledges the high level of security checks and the courteous and professional approach of Border Force staff.
"Border Force has already addressed many of the issues raised in this inspection and will look at all the recommendations in detail as part of our continuing drive to improve performance."
The Border Force started operating in April following the break-up of the UK Border Agency, which was divided into two parts covering visas and immigration and immigration law enforcement.
Bob Higgins, 64, of Litchfield Road, Southampton, appeared at Winchester Crown Court earlier charged with 65 counts of indecent assault against 23 boys, all aged under 17.
The alleged offences took place between 1970 and 1996.
Mr Higgins, whose first name is Robert, did not enter a plea but a provisional trial date has been set for 9 April.
The 29-year-old joined the club in 2009 and made 243 league appearances.
Goalkeeper Aaron Chapman, 25, defender Chris Herd and strikers Mani Dieseruwe, 21, Jordan Slew, 23, and Byron Harrison, 28 have also been released by the League One side.
Forwards Rai Simons, 20, Jake Orrell, 18, and 19-year-old Jake Beesley, have all signed new deals.
Of the three who have extended their contracts, only Simons has been a regular fixture for the Spireites, making 22 appearances and scoring five goals.
Aberdeenshire council said a significant number of staff and pupils at Markethill School and Nursery in Turriff had been suffering from Norovirus.
Letters have been sent to parents advising them of what to do if their child is affected.
The council said it was offering alternative childcare where possible.
The Scottish National Party is one of those.
The story of the SNP is one of success and failure, highs and lows, rogues and visionaries - but, most of all, it's the story of a party which started life on the fringes and moved in to claim political success.
Despite the party's turbulent history, it will now realise its vision for an independence referendum, planned for Autumn 2014, after first emerging as the government of Scotland in 2007.
The case for Scottish home rule goes right back to its unification with England in 1707.
The view that the Scots who put their names to the Act of Union had been bribed, famously spurred Robert Burns to write: "We are bought and sold for English gold. Such a parcel of rogues in a nation."
Many years later, the realisation that a pro-independence, election-fighting party was the way to go eventually led to the creation in 1934 of the Scottish National Party, through the amalgamation of the Scottish Party and the National Party of Scotland.
Election-fighting
But for years the SNP struggled to make an impact, party due to the on-going debate between those who wanted to concentrate on independence - the fundamentalists - and those who wanted to achieve it through policies such as devolution - the gradualists.
The young Nationalist party's other problem was that, put simply, it just was not any good at fighting elections, because of its lack of funding, organisation and policies beyond independence.
In its first test, the 1935 General Election, the SNP contested eight seats and won none.
It was not until a decade later, at the Motherwell and Wishaw by-election, when the party finally got a break.
When the contest was announced following the death of sitting Labour MP James Walker, the Nationalists sent in one of their up-and-comers, Robert McIntyre, to fight the seat.
After standing largely on a platform of Labour failures in post-war reconstruction, the SNP took the seat with 50% of the vote, but lost it months later in the election.
Even though this brief victory provided much excitement over what the party could achieve, it failed to make progress in subsequent elections and disquiet set in.
But it was this disquiet which forced the party to reorganise - a move which would help the SNP to its most famous early achievement.
The Hamilton by-election should have been a breeze for Labour, but, as the party's vote collapsed, the SNP's Winnie Ewing romped home on 46%, declaring: "Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on."
The 1970s was the decade of boom and bust for the SNP. They failed to hang on in Hamilton, but 1970 brought the SNP its first UK election gain, in the Western Isles.
That same decade also saw the beginnings of the party's "It's Scotland's Oil" strategy, which sought to demonstrate Scotland was seeing little direct benefit of the tax wealth brought by North Sea oil.
More success followed in 1973, when Margo MacDonald, "the blonde bombshell" won the Glasgow Govan by-election and, the following year, an under-fire Tory government called an election, which it lost.
The SNP gained six seats and retained the Western Isles, but lost Govan - however, there were to be further gains.
With Labour in power as a minority government, the party had little choice but to call a second election in 1974 - but not before committing to support for a Scottish Assembly.
Even so, the SNP gained a further four seats, hitting its all time Westminster high of 11.
The party's turn of fortunes was largely down to its visonary leader-of-the-day, Billy Wolfe, who transformed the SNP into an election-fighting force to be reckoned with.
Despite the success, tensions began to develop between those in the SNP who were elected and those who were not.
'Tartan Tories'
Then came 1979 - the year which provided two killer blows to the SNP.
Margaret Thatcher's Tories swept to power, and Scots voters failed to support the establishment of a Scottish Assembly in a referendum.
To be more precise, a requirement that 40% of the total Scottish electorate had to vote yes for the 1979 referendum to become law, was not met.
Nevertheless, it meant the constitutional issue was not only off the table, but had been completely blown out of the water.
The SNP had also come under a period of heavy fire from rival parties, portrayed by Labour as the "Tartan Tories" and "Separatists" by the Conservatives.
With a post-election SNP slashed back to two MPs, the party needed a serious jump-start - but that jump-start dragged the party into a period which could have finished it off for good.
The start of the 80s was a torrid time for the SNP.
Many in the party felt bitter that it had come so far, but was now practically back at square one in terms of its performance and the independence argument.
The deep divisions gave rise to two notorious splinter groups.
One was the ultra-nationalist group Siol Nan Gaidheal - branded "proto fascists" by the then SNP leader Gordon Wilson - whose members used to march around in Highland dress.
The other was the Interim Committee for Political Discussion - more infamously known as the '79 Group.
Formed to sharpen the party's message and appeal to dissident Labour voters, the group also embarked on a campaign of civil disobedience, spearheaded by the former Labour MP Jim Sillars, who had founded the Scottish Labour Party before defecting to the SNP in 1980.
The campaign took a radical turn when Sillars, with several other group members, broke into Edinburgh's old Royal High School building.
Then, a leak of '79 Group minutes to the media raised the prospect of links with the Provisional Sinn Fein.
Despite claims the leaked version was inaccurate, Mr Wilson had had enough.
His view that the party had to unite or die led to a ban on organised groups, but when the '79 Group refused to go quietly, seven of its members were briefly expelled from the party.
They included Scotland's future justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, and one Alex Salmond.
The 1987 election saw another bad SNP performance. The party emerged with only three seats - but with the collapse in the Conservative vote, the constitutional issue was back.
Independence case
The SNP needed new blood at the top - and it came in the form of Alex Salmond.
Despite previous form with the '79 Group, Mr Salmond had risen through the SNP ranks, becoming MP for Banff and Buchan and deputy leader of the party.
Mr Salmond did not have his work to seek on becoming leader in 1990.
As well as having to deal with on-going internal issues over the party's independence policy - future minister Alex Neil had declared Scotland would be "free by '93" - there was an election to fight.
In 1992, the SNP increased its vote, but the party was only able to retain the three seats it already had, and lost Govan, which Mr Sillars re-took for the party in a 1988 by-election.
Mr Salmond moved to modernise the SNP, repositioning the party as more socially democratic and pro-European and pushing the economic case for independence.
Labour's commitment to a Scottish Parliament, delivered in 1999, was both a blessing and a curse for the Nationalists.
Although devolution presented a great opportunity for the SNP, many questioned how relevant a pro-independence party would be - Labour's George Robertson famously quipped devolution would "kill nationalism stone dead".
The SNP won 35 seats in the first election and also had two MEPs and six MPs.
But the best it could manage in 1999 was becoming the main opposition to the Labour-Lib Dem coalition government.
Mr Salmond's decision to quit as leader and an MSP came as a surprise.
Despite much speculation over his reasons for returning to Westminster, ultimately, after a decade in the job, he decided it was time to step aside.
His successor in 2000 was John Swinney, but, despite being among the party's brightest talent, as he later showed as Scotland's finance secretary, his four-year tenure was plagued by dissenters from within.
The party dropped a seat in 2001, and, despite a slick 2003 election campaign, the SNP once again ended up as the opposition.
Later that year, a little-known SNP activist called Bill Wilson challenged Mr Swinney for the leadership, accusing him of ducking responsibility for a "plummeting" SNP vote.
Close result
Mr Swinney won a decisive victory but was left weakened, and, at Holyrood, SNP MSPs Bruce McFee and Adam Ingram declared they would not support Mr Swinney in a leadership ballot.
Another, Campbell Martin, was flung out of the party after bosses found his criticism of the Swinney leadership damaged its interests in the run-up to the SNP's poor European election showing in 2004, where it failed to overtake Labour.
Mr Swinney quit as leader, accepting responsibility for failing to sell the party's message - but warned SNP members over the damage caused by "the loose and dangerous talk of the few".
When the leaderless party turned to Mr Salmond, he drew on a quote from US civil war leader General Sherman to declare: "If nominated I'll decline. If drafted I'll defer. And if elected I'll resign."
Then, in a move almost as surprising as his decision to quit, Mr Salmond launched a successful leadership campaign on a joint ticket with Nicola Sturgeon, winning a decisive victory.
Nobody thought the 2007 Scottish election result could be so close.
In the end, the SNP won the election by one seat, while Mr Salmond returned to Holyrood as MSP for Gordon.
With the SNP's pro-independence stance ruling out a coalition, the party forged ahead as a minority government.
The SNP government had promised to seek consensus on an issue-by-issue basis, but when the opposition parties thought the government was being disingenuous, they converged to reject the Scottish budget in 2009.
It was passed on the second attempt, but served as a reminder to the SNP the delicate position it was in.
Other key manifesto commitments also ran into trouble - plans to replace council tax with local income tax were dropped due to lack of support, while ambitious plans to cut class sizes in the early primary school years ran into problems.
Eventually, the bill on an independence referendum was dropped.
Such is life in minority government.
Although the SNP's focus had become the Scottish government, it was keen not to lose sight of its status beyond the Holyrood bubble and, in 2009, won the largest share of the Scottish vote in the European election for the first time.
Continuing its knack for winning safe Labour seats in by-elections, the SNP delivered a crushing blow to Labour, winning Glasgow East by overturning a majority of 13,507 to win by just a few hundred votes.
But the party failed to repeat this success a few months later in the Glenrothes by-election and, later, in Glasgow North East.
In a story that bore echoes of the past for the SNP, the 2010 UK election saw Labour regain Glasgow East, while the Nationalists concluded that, with a resurgent Tory party on course for victory, Scots voters came out in their droves to back Labour.
The 2011 Holyrood election was Labour's to lose. In the event, that is exactly what happened.
Despite polls predicting a Labour lead over the SNP of up to 15 points, the Nationalists threw themselves into the campaign.
They say their positive campaign, versus Labour's negativity, was what won it for them.
The SNP's 2007 win was rightly described as a historic one - but, four years later, it has re-written the history books again.
Its jaw-dropping victory has seen it form Scotland's first majority government - and the independence referendum will happen.
As the UK government has sought to ratchet up the pressure on the issue, Mr Salmond has now named the date - or the season at least - of Autumn 2014.
The SNP has truly come a long way since the fringes of 1934, but now faces one of its greatest challenges.
With suggestions putting support for independence at about one third of the Scottish population, could it be a case of so near, yet so far for the Scottish National Party?
The ban for EU fishing crews has existed since 2003, but with special permits they were still allowed to remove the fins from shark carcasses.
Ministers have now agreed with MEPs to eliminate that legal loophole.
The Shark Trust campaign group says the EU exports 27% of the fins traded in Hong Kong - a major fin-trading centre.
Hong Kong accounts for more than half of all the fins traded worldwide, the group says. They are used in soups and traditional cures in Asia, where they are valued much more highly than the rest of the shark.
Finning is deemed cruel because the fins are often removed while the shark is still alive - it then drowns when it is thrown back into the sea.
A statement from the EU Council, which groups ministers from the 27 member states, said finning had contributed to a serious decline in shark populations.
It said that "with its policy of fins remaining attached, the EU will also be in a better position to push for shark protection at international level".
On a global level Indonesia lands the highest tonnage of sharks.
Conservationists argued that the issuing of Special Fishing Permits (SFPs) that allowed fins to be removed at sea prevented the EU ban from becoming fully effective.
According to European Parliament data, the largest number of SFPs issued were to Spanish and Portuguese vessels (1,266 and 145 respectively, in 2004-2010).
Portugal voted against the new controls, the Council said.
The 31-year-old, who has won 22 Olympic gold medals, quit after London 2012 only to reverse that decision in 2014.
"I'm not going four more years and I'm standing by that," he insisted after finishing in a three-way tie for silver in the 100m butterfly final.
"I've been able to do everything I've ever put my mind to in the sport. I'm happy with how things finished."
He added: "No more. This is it. I said it a bunch before. But I'm not doing it.
"I swore in London I wasn't coming back and this is final. Were the papers here, I'd sign them tomorrow."
However, team-mate Ryan Lochte thinks Phelps will be in Tokyo in 2020.
"I guarantee he will be there,'' Lochte told NBC. "I think so. I really think so. So Michael, I'll see you in Tokyo."
Phelps can add to his Olympic tally in the 4x100m medley relay at 03:04 BST on Sunday.
"I'm happy," added Phelps, who said he wanted to spend more time with newborn son Boomer and fiancee Nicole.
Phelps made his Olympic bow in 2000, winning his first gold in Athens in 2004. He has 27 Olympic medals in total, nine more than his closest rival.
The KSI says EA's financial offer of 15,000 US dollars (£11,501) for their inclusion was below their expectations.
Iceland, who knocked England out of Euro 2016 in June, made a counter offer which they say was not accepted by EA.
"They are the ones buying these rights and they almost want it for free," said KSI president Geir Thorsteinsson.
"The performance at the Euros show that we are quite a good team and many would like to play with our team. It's sad for the players - but the criticism should be towards EA Sports."
The fee that EA pays teams included in the game covers the use of trademarks and image rights.
"I really feel if we are giving away rights, or offering rights, it has to be proper negotiations and fair fees." added Thorsteinsson.
"I didn't feel that this was done in a fair and open manner."
The BBC has asked EA for comment.
Iceland, who are ranked 27th in the world, have not featured in previous editions of the game, but were hopeful of getting into latest version after their run to the quarter-finals of the European Championship this summer.
A total of 47 men's international sides, including all of the home nations, will feature.
India, who are 148th in the world, are the lowest ranked national side in the game.
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The blaze, described by firefighters as "serious", started on Friday morning at Skip-It containers in North Quay Road.
White smoke is continuing to billow hundreds of feet into the air, causing problems with visibility on the roads.
Residents and motorists have been advised by Public Health England to close their windows and doors.
Fire crews, which are being changed every six hours, remained at the site throughout Sunday night and the area is still cordoned off.
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service (ESF&RS) is being supported by crews from neighbouring Surrey and West Sussex.
The fire service, Highways Agency and Sussex Police are due to hold talks to discuss whether cordons can be changed or lifted to allow greater access to the area.
Chief Fire Officer for ESF&RS Des Pritchard said he expected crews to be on the scene for some considerable time.
He said thousands of litres of water from the River Ouse were being poured on to the fire each hour, which was causing a lot of run-off.
"We are conscious about pollution in the river Ouse so we are working very closely with the Environment Agency about where the water goes," he said.
"We are dragging the waste out from the site into smaller piles and taking it away to another site about half a mile down the road.
"As far as we are aware it is all household waste so there are no particularly toxic or noxious chemicals within the waste pile - but it is unpleasant."
Public Health England said any smoke could be an irritant and people should either avoid being outdoors in the smoke or limit their exposure to it.
Respiratory symptoms could include coughing, wheezing, breathlessness, phlegm and chest pain. People affected should seek medical advice or call NHS 111.
The Environment Agency said its officers were monitoring the blaze and at this stage environmental impact was considered to be minimal.
The cause of the fire is not yet known. No-one has been injured.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.6% to 18,873.35 despite economic data painting a gloomier picture of the world's third-largest economy.
Figures showed Japan's factory output fell 1% in November from the previous month, the first drop in three months.
Retail sales also fell below forecasts and declined 1% from a year ago.
Japan's economy narrowly avoided a recession in the third quarter and economists are expecting only modest growth in the current one.
Shares of Sharp, however, were up 7.3% on reports that the struggling consumer electronics firm had received a purchase offer from Taiwan's electronics supplier Hon Hai Precision.
Chinese shares were lower, with the Shanghai Composite ending the day down 2.6% at 3,533.78, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed 1% lower at 21,919.62.
Economic data released on Sunday showed that profits earned by Chinese industrial firms in November fell 1.4% from a year ago, marking the sixth month of declines.
Hong Kong-listed shares of China Telecom also fell 1.6% after the country's anti-corruption watchdog said it was investigating its chairman, Chang Xiaobing.
In South Korea, the Kospi index ended down 1.3% at 1,964.06 points.
The Australian market was closed for a public holiday.
Navas, 31, joined City from the La Liga side on a four-year deal worth £14.9m in June 2013.
He made 173 appearances for City, scoring eight goals, but played just 24 league games last season.
Navas' contract with City expired in the summer, leading him to return to Sevilla, where he began his career, on a four-year deal.
He was part of the Sevilla side that won the Uefa Cup in 2006 and 2007 but suffered from chronic homesickness, which led him to turn down a move to Chelsea in 2006.
Navas will break Sevilla's appearance record if he makes 27 more appearances for the club. He played 393 times in his first spell, with Juan Arza Inigo holding the record on 419.
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Six people, two of whom had worked for Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) - owned by Lloyds - were jailed in February.
The court heard they stole hundreds of millions of pounds from small businesses who were their clients.
At the same time, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that it is re-opening an enquiry into the fraud.
Lloyds has already set aside at least £250m to cover other costs arising from the case, which was centred on the HBOS office in Reading.
"As I have stated before, we would like to express our deep regret and apologies to any customers directly affected by the criminal behaviour of these individuals," said António Horta-Osório, the chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group.
"We are absolutely determined that victims of the crimes committed at HBOS Reading are fairly, swiftly and appropriately compensated. We take responsibility for putting right the wrongs that were committed at HBOS Reading at the time."
Some of the small businesses that lost money from the fraud collapsed as a result.
The bank said it would provide such victims with immediate payments on a case-by-case basis. Those in financial difficulty will be helped with day-to-day living costs.
They will also be helped with legal fees, and have their existing debts written off.
Joanne Dove, who said the fraud had caused the collapse of her environmentally-friendly nappy business, said she welcomed the news that money was being set aside for compensation.
"But the proof of the pudding is in the eating," she told the BBC.
"I'll wait to see how much they're offering for an interim fee. The least they can do is cover legal costs."
Professor Russel Griggs has already been appointed to assess which customers will get compensation, and how much they will receive.
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In addition, Lloyds will appoint an independent lawyer to determine whether the bank investigated the crime properly at the time.
The FCA said it would resume an investigation into the fraud, which it suspended in 2013, pending an enquiry by Thames Valley Police.
It will examine who knew what within HBOS, and whether they told the regulator.
The resumption of the FCA investigation was welcomed by Andrew Tyrie, the chair of the Treasury Committee.
"The public deserves to know the full truth about this and other HBOS failures," he said. "That this is taking so long is regrettable, but understandable."
The crimes took place before Lloyds bailed out HBOS in October 2008.
It said that the violence started when a group of "terrorists" attacked civilians in Shache county, 200km from the regional capital of Kashgar.
Xinjiang is home to the Muslim Uighur minority group.
There has been a wave of violence in the region, with more than 150 people being killed so far this year.
China has blamed the unrest on Uighurs pushing for the region's independence.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported that the attackers on Friday threw bombs out of a vehicle before they stabbed people on a street lined with food stalls.
Eleven of the dead are reported to be the attackers.
An attack in the same region in July left nearly 100 people dead, including 59 assailants, state media said.
Confirming reports about incidents in Xinjiang is difficult, because access is tightly controlled and information flow restricted.
China is enforcing a security crackdown in Xinjiang, and Uighur activists say that the government's repression of Uighur culture and religious customs is fuelling the violence.
Earlier this week, the authorities announced plans to hire 3,000 former soldiers to patrol residential areas in the region.
Why is there tension between China and the Uighurs?
Shinjuku has a population density of about 17,000 people per square kilometre but undeterred by this it has granted citizenship to a new resident, who only goes by one name - Godzilla.
Name: Godzilla
Address: Shinjuku-ku, Kabuki-cho, 1-19-1
Date of birth: April 9, 1954
Reason for special residency: Promoting the entertainment of and watching over the Kabuki-cho neighborhood and drawing visitors from around the globe
Previous visits to Shinjuku Ward: 3 times; Godzilla (1984), Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991), Godzilla 2000 Millennium (1999)
While Godzilla's genus is uncertain (thought to be a cross between a gorilla and a whale) in Shinjuku he will find much to do and see. Apart from Tokyo's flagship station, it has the capital's city hall, a high concentration of skyscrapers, Tokyo's best known red light district as well as some quieter residential areas as his potential stomping ground.
The city describes itself like this on its website: "A town of remarkable growth as a new downtown district, a town with many cultural assets and traditional events, a town where many people lead active lives together… This is Shinjuku!" It says urbanisation began a while back in 1636.
It's obviously a PR move by Japan and Shinjuku - but ever since Godzilla first appeared in Ishiro Honda's 1954 film and then a series of tokukatsu (live action) films in Japan, the character has remained important in Japanese pop culture and history.
To mark the arrival of its newest resident, the Shinjuku City Office distributed 3,000 copies of Godzilla's certificate to delighted fans on Saturday.
A replica of Japan's undisputed "King of Monsters" was also placed on top of the district's iconic Toho building. The Japanese film company will release a new Godzilla film in 2016, following the success of a 2014 Hollywood remake by British director Gareth Edwards.
Godzilla attended an awards ceremony in April, where he was presented with a sash from Shinjuku mayor, Kenichi Yoshizumi.
Many ward residents and Japanese alike welcomed Tokyo's undisputed "King of Monsters".
"Congrats, big guy! It's about time," said a Shibuya resident on Twitter.
Others showed generosity of spirit. One Tokyo Twitter user remarked: "Welcome to Tokyo! We forgive you for destroying our city previously."
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The confident, booming country that was awarded the right to host the Games back in 2009 is very different to the troubled, economically challenged Brazil that we see today.
For weeks Brazil and the host city of Rio de Janeiro have been engaged in an epic struggle to convince the world that it was the right choice to hold a first ever Games in South America in a country that, arguably, had more important priorities.
At times the so-called "marvellous city" has absolutely felt up to the challenge. New sporting venues have, by and large, staged great events and many of the things we thought might be problematic issues before the first opening ceremony on 5 August - like the Zika virus and security for visitors - the organisers took in their stride.
At other times, Rio has fallen short. Behind the scenes, Olympic officials talk about too much having been made ready at the last minute, a feeling of "crisis management" and of broken promises.
If the constant stench of untreated sewage in the lagoon that surrounds the Olympic Park wasn't enough to embarrass city and state officials over their hollow environmental pledges, then perhaps nothing can.
Rio de Janeiro's controversial and sometimes outspoken mayor is Eduardo Paes. In many ways he is the political "face" of Rio 2016 and he certainly feels vindicated when challenged about the rights and wrongs of putting on these mega-events in what is a still developing, socially unequal country.
"It's arrogant to say these events don't belong in the developing world," Mr Paes said when we met this week at a new transport interchange in Rio - one of the many Olympic legacies the mayor insists would not have happened, had it not been for the impetus of holding the Games.
"We showed in Brazil that these Games have been for everyone with lots of legacies for the city," he said. "We still have a lot of problems here but people's lives are much better because of the Games so let's not be prejudiced about where we hold these events in future."
The Paralympic Games, which finished this weekend, certainly felt more inclusive than their Olympic counterpart.
The prospect of swathes of empty venues forced organisers to slash Paralympic ticket prices, allowing thousands of Brazilians who'd been priced out of the Olympics to witness and be inspired by some top quality international sport.
If the Olympic and Paralympic Games are all about inspiration and encouragement, then in Davi Texeira they could have a future champion.
The 11 year old, from Rio, is sports mad. He is already an accomplished surfer. We met him at a city centre skate park, where he's working on his dream to become a future Paralympian.
"Sport is my life because without sport I'm not Davi. I wouldn't be who I am today," he said, brimming with confidence.
Davi was born without fully developed limbs but he's not been discouraged, despite the haphazard nature of facilities for children like him in Brazil.
"Davi doesn't see any barriers - he does what he wants and has overcome a lot in his life already," said his mother Denise. "He loves the Olympics and knows it's a unique moment in his life."
But, she added, "as a mother it's a constant struggle to get improvements. Transport facilities here are pretty bad and getting around isn't easy, but things have improved in the run up to the Games".
Davi lives in a country where 40% of disabled children don't go to school, where there's a huge gap in equality of opportunity depending on race or social background. That has to change, say campaigners, if Brazil is to build on Rio 2016.
The cost of staging the Games has left the city and state of Rio virtually broke. Providing 80,000 extra security personnel, for example, doesn't come cheap.
And while the tourists may leave happy, what happens in the rest of this notoriously violent city when budgets for policing programmes in Rio's favelas are cut?
In the past few weeks, Brazilians have found new Olympic and Paralympic heroes - Rafaela Silva, Daniel Diaz and Thiago Braz.
But, facing a difficult economic climate, there are tough funding decisions to come which could make or break the sporting ambitions of youngsters, like Davi Texeira, who've been inspired by what they've been part of this summer in their own city.
Round two was halted about 10:30 GMT because of strong winds and it was announced soon after that play would resume at 03:30 GMT on Saturday.
McDowell lies tied fifth on four under par after six holes of his second round, having carded a 68 on Thursday.
The Portrush man posted two birdies and two bogeys on Friday, with George Coetzee leading on nine under.
South African Coetzee was three under for his first eight holes when the players were called to the clubhouse at the Emirates Golf Club.
First-round leader Sergio Garcia is eight under after completing five holes, with fellow Spaniard Nacho Elvira third on six under and American David Lipsky five under.
McDowell posted bogeys at the first and fifth holes on Friday, but picked up shots at the second and third.
Darren Clarke looks set to miss the cut as he is joint 80th on three over after eight holes, while Paul Dunne struggled to a three-over 75 on Friday to lie in a tie for 63rd on one over.
2010 US Open champion McDowell finished joint 28th at the Qatar Masters in Doha last week.
About 70 people attended the meeting at Kesgrave Town Council on Monday night.
On Thursday evening residents blocked green spaces with wheelie bins and cars amid reports of more travellers descending on the town, after 13 caravans arrived last month.
The Gypsy Council called the blockades "pathetic" and "shameful".
Caravans were already in Kesgrave when rumours on social media last week suggested 100 more travellers were set to join an unauthorised camp at Grange Farm.
It led to dozens of people blockading parks, verges and gardens, with agricultural machinery also used to block off an access road.
But despite the reports, just five children and their families attended Holy Family Church for a normal daily Mass on Friday morning.
The travellers at the site are expected to leave soon, but if they do not go, the local council is due to attend another court hearing later to get them evicted.
After the meeting, one resident told the BBC: "The police have got no intention of moving them on. It's like they're scared of them, it's just a big joke really.
Suffolk Coastal District Council leader Ray Herring, who oversaw the meeting, said: "When the last caravan goes we will put in a team to clean up the site and put some temporary measures in to restrict travellers returning."
Speaking about last week's blockades, Candy Sheridan from the Gypsy Council said it was "pathetic" and "un-Christian" when people had travelled miles to celebrate a first communion for the children.
There are 185 authorised travellers pitches in Suffolk, but none in the Suffolk Coastal area.
Labour's Yvette Cooper said the relocation powers contained in control orders should not have been ended.
But Mrs May said it would not have stopped Britons travelling to Syria.
It follows the identification of Mohammed Emwazi - the Islamist extremist known as "Jihadi John"- who was known to MI5 before going to Syria.
Former independent reviewer of anti-terror legislation Lord Carlile has said Emwazi, who lived in west London, and his associates would have been subjected to control orders had they not been abolished.
The orders included relocation powers for terror suspects, who were placed under close supervision.
Asking an urgent question in the Commons, Ms Cooper said a "west London network of terror suspects" had been identified in court papers in 2011, the year before the decision to abolish control orders was implemented "against advice" from police.
The group, she said, was involved with "the provision of funds and equipment to terrorism" as well as helping individuals' travel from the UK to Syria to join terrorist-related activity.
She questioned whether Mrs May's decision to end control orders and cancel relocations had made it easier for the group to "operate, recruit and send people to Syria", given that some of the members had escaped the security services' supervision and others had been been reported as joining the fighting in Syria.
Mrs May said she could not discuss individual cases, but told MPs that control orders had been "whittled away by the courts" by the time they were scrapped.
"The cases raised in the media date from the time when control orders or the power of relocation were in place," she said.
She added: "No-one has said if we had the power of relocation we would be able to prevent people from travelling to Syria."
Control orders were replaced with Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPims) which did not initially include the power to relocate terror suspects. This power was recently restored as part of a package of anti-terror measures.
As home secretary, Mrs May said she does not take operational decisions on who should be placed on a TPim.
"We took the decision we did in 2011 based on the situation in 2011," she added. "We have now reviewed the situation and put measures in place."
The home secretary also confirmed that a new power allowing the police to temporarily seize an individual's passport if it is suspected they may be travelling to join the extremist group which calls itself Islamic State had been used.
The cabinet security chief told Finnish media that Mr Sipila's offer last September had made the house "too public" for any family to stay there.
The prime minister had said everyone should "look in the mirror and ask how we can help" new arrivals in Finland.
However, anti-immigrant sentiment has hardened in recent months.
One report by Iltalehti newspaper said there were concerns that the arrival of asylum seekers at the house in Kempele in northern Finland would attract anti-immigration protesters.
Some 32,000 people applied for asylum in Finland in 2015, double the expected number, and the Finnish government has predicted 20,000 will be deported.
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Mr Sipila said on Sunday that his offer still stood and once the security situation improved then a family would be able to move in.
Other Nordic countries, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, have all tightened restrictions on asylum seekers in recent weeks.
MPs in Denmark last week backed a proposal to delay family reunions and enable police to seize valuables worth more than 10,000 kroner (1,340 euros; £1,000) from refugees to cover housing and food costs.
More than a million irregular migrants and refugees crossed into the European Union in 2015, mainly via Austria into Germany, and the size of the influx has prompted increasing concern about how they will be integrated.
Austria announced last month that it would place a cap on the number of asylum claims at 1.5% of the country's population over the next four years.
The government said the number of asylum claims would be limited to 37,500 in 2016, falling annually to 25,000 in 2019.
Defence Minister Hans Peter Doskozil said on Sunday that at least 50,000 people, who had either failed in their asylum applications or withdrawn them, would be deported by 2019.
Austria and Germany hope to expand an EU list of "safe" countries, whose citizens have little chance of securing asylum, to include Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Germany, which took in more than 1.1 million asylum seekers last year, is looking at cutting benefits for new arrivals who do not try to integrate into society. Most refugees in Germany are from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Labour Minister Andrea Nahles, from the left-of-centre SPD party, told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that "whoever comes here to seek refuge and begin a new life must adhere to our rules and values". She said they would be expected to take language courses and adhere to German values.
Anti-immigrant sentiment has increased in Germany too, since the New Year's Eve sex attacks on women in several cities including Cologne and Hamburg.
Police blamed the hundreds of attacks outside Cologne station on men of North African or Arab appearance.
According to one opinion poll, support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU and Bavarian CSU ally has fallen to 34%, the lowest rating since 2012.
At the weekend, Mrs Merkel told a party meeting that refugees would be expected to return to their home countries once there was peace in Syria and so-called Islamic State had been defeated in Iraq. ""We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status," she said.
The single-vehicle collision happened on the Randox Road just before 23:00 BST on Thursday.
Crumlin Sinn Féin councillor Anne Marie Logue said he was "very popular and his death will be felt throughout this community."
The Randox Road and Nutts Corner Road were closed but have since re-opened.
There was a worrying incident in the first half when Tottenham's Tashan Oakley-Boothe was knocked unconscious and the game was halted for 15 minutes.
The midfielder, 17, was taken to hospital but later tweeted to say he was "well".
Goals from Callum Hudson-Odoi and Jadon Sancho saw England into Friday's final in Varazdin, Croatia.
Spain beat Germany 4-2 on penalties after their semi-final finished 0-0.
"At half time in the dressing room, we had some messages that he was conscious and awake and he was going for further assessment at the hospital," said manager Steve Cooper of Oakley-Boothe's injury.
"The initial assessment is that the signs are positive and that's as much as I know now. I didn't see the incident, but great credit to our medics and the way they dealt with it so quickly and also Turkey as well, with their medics.
"It was a really good sign of respect and it epitomises what the tournament is all about."
England are now aiming to become the first nation to win the competition for a third time having triumphed in 2010 and 2014.
"The object of the game was to win and give ourselves the chance of getting to the final and we've done that," Cooper added.
"Whatever these boys do in the tournament it will be good learning and the way we ran and dug in in the second half, we were really pleased with the heart and soul."
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The Care Inspectorate said an inspection of Brae Cottage Residential Home in Broughty Ferry raised "serious concerns."
The regulator has served the home with a formal improvement notice listing five areas requiring immediate attention.
These include staffing levels and restraint of residents.
A Care Inspectorate spokesman said: "Our inspection raised serious concerns and we will report on that inspection in full in due course.
"The improvement notice we have issued clearly lays out the improvements we must see so that the care provided to residents improves quickly.
"We will visit this care home again soon to check on progress and if we are not satisfied that the matters raised are being addressed urgently we will not hesitate to take further action."
The home's manager has been given until the end of April to ensure there are sufficient numbers of staff "appropriate to the health, welfare and safety of service users."
A system to ensure no resident is subject to restraint "unless it is the only practicable way of securing their welfare and safety" must be in place by 30 March.
The service must also carry out full assessments on all environmental issues which may cause harm to people in the home.
The notice also said that radiators in the home must be fitted with covers by the end of February to protect residents from the risk of burns.
Mohammed Haneef sent the card just a week after their wedding. It said "talaq" (divorce) three times, enough to enact divorce for an Indian Muslim.
His wife complained to Hyderabad police who found the marriage invalid as she had not declared an earlier divorce.
Mr Haneef, 38, was bailed but, acting on legal advice, police say they will now charge him with rape.
"Our investigation showed that the marriage procedure was not correct because he did not have the right papers," V Satyanarayana, deputy commissioner of police, told the BBC.
"We are cancelling the bail given to Haneef first and we will arrest him for rape as per our legal advice," he added.
Mr Haneef is still married to his first wife, and reportedly married again with her consent. Under Islamic law a man is allowed to have up to four wives.
The practice of triple talaq, which allows Muslim men to divorce their wives in an instant, is facing fierce opposition in India.
Women's groups have been campaigning against the practice and India's top court is in the process of deciding whether it is unconstitutional.
Activists say most Islamic countries, including Pakistan and Bangladesh, have banned triple talaq, but it thrives in India.
University of California researchers found tumour cells that stuck less to surrounding cells are more likely to migrate and invade other tissue.
They hope it could one day help identify cancer patients who need aggressive treatment at an early stage.
But they warn the laboratory research is at a very early stage and many years from being studied in clinical trials.
Cancer cells spread by detaching and migrating away from the primary tumour to form a secondary, metastatic, site.
But only a small number of cancer cells from a tumour are capable of forming secondary tumours.
So far, attempts to find a marker that identifies these cells across tumour types have been unsuccessful.
This study, published in Biophysical Journal details how the research team built a custom spinning disc device that was able to measure the adhesion strength of breast and prostate cancer cells - and how much force was needed to detach them.
Dr Adam Engler who was one of the lead authors of the study said: "There is no common biological marker that says that a tumour is more likely to spread. However, our device shows that there may in fact be a physical marker that is predictive of the likelihood of spreading."
In the future, they say clinicians could use this device to examine tumour biopsies and estimate the likelihood of the cancer spreading.
This information they could use to assess whether patients might need more aggressive treatment at earlier stages of the disease.
But Dr Engler said: "Patients should realise that that the timing for these results to hit even the initial clinical trials is several years away."
Dr Justine Alford, senior science information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "Cancers moving to new areas of the body is the main reason why people die from the disease, and is a process we don't fully understand.
"This study helps us to understand more about how cancer cells can spread in the lab and helps build a clearer picture of cancer development."
In an interview with ABC News on Monday 6 September, he said: "Well, I just don't think she has a presidential look. And you need a presidential look. You have to get the job done."
And on Wednesday Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, added that in his opinion Mrs Clinton is unfit to be Commander in Chief because she doesn't smile.
This sparked the hashtag #PresidentialFace by feminist Ella Dawson who was angry that a woman should be told to smile. She urged people to share their #PresidentialFace pictures with each other and Reince Priebus.
Kim Kurzatkowski joined in, also objecting to women being told to smile.
And there were many other stern posts:
Comedian Akilah Hughes adds that smiling isn't what being president is about.
Robyn Kanner, who has worked at the White House, was particularly unimpressed:
Social Justice Mage posted her picture and Ella Dawson joked that her lipstick was on point.
Another hashtag to emerge from this is #stoptellingwomentosmile:
Oxlade-Chamberlain, 22, scored a superb individual goal as Arsenal beat Chivas de Guadalajara 3-1 on their pre-season tour in the United States.
Chuba Akpom and centre-back Rob Holding, who joined from Bolton in July, also scored in Los Angeles.
"It's a very important season for him," Wenger told the Arsenal website.
"He has been out for a long, long time."
The England international, capped 24 times, injured his knee during the Champions League loss to Barcelona on 23 February.
He played 70 minutes of Sunday's match at the StubHub Center, following 45 minutes against the MLS All Stars in Thursday's 2-1 win.
Wenger said Oxlade-Chamberlain gave the team "power and penetration".
The Gunners boss added: "He has it all. That's why I would like him to get to the level he can go to.
"Maybe he doesn't completely believe himself how good he can be and that's the final step for him."
Arsenal conclude their pre-season schedule with a friendly against Manchester City in Gothenburg on Sunday.
A week later, they begin their Premier League season at home to Liverpool.
30 May 2013 Last updated at 07:45 BST
Prayers were held for soldier Lee Rigby, who was killed in the street in south-east London, during the meeting at Kashmiri Community Centre in St Anns on Wednesday evening.
Vicar Karen Rooms said the aim was also to open up a dialogue about how to create a more cohesive society.
Jeremy Ball reports.
This image from Bangladesh, taken by Shoeb Faruquee and entitled Food for God, has been named overall winner of the 2017 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition.
"For many people, food is not simply for physical nourishment, it is religious or spiritual too," says one of the judges, Michael Pritchard, who is chief executive of the Royal Photographic Society.
"And in this image the photographer has combined these two elements, showing the cook as he prepares food for worshippers on the right."
The photo won the competition's Food for Celebration category. The following images show all of the other category winners - and a selection of judges' comments.
Caramel!
Hein Van Tonder (South Africa)
Oua Look at This One!
Kyriacos Arkatities (Cyprus)
"There's a real sense of discovery about this picture - the wonder on the boys' faces, the strange fish, the dynamic angle."
Xanthe Clay, president, Guild of Food Writers and Daily Telegraph food columnist
"This is a shot at the perfect moment. These children are utterly captivated by the weird and wonderful seafood in front of them, the reflection of both children and the produce is magical."
Caroline Kenyon, founder, Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year
Swiss Chard Forest
Sally Ann Stone (UK)
"This wittily angled shot of an ordinary domestic garden vegetable crop transforms it into a magical, exotic and seductive landscape."
Caroline Kenyon, founder, Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year
Pheasants at Sunset
Matthew Thomas (UK)
Mac and Cheese
Jean Cazals (UK)
Villefranche Market
Azalea Dalton (UK)
The Grandmother
Francesa Brambilla and Serena Serrani (Italy)
"The food is steaming hot and freshly prepared and the concentration on the grandmother's face is very engaging. The viewer can immediately understand that she is the expert in this kitchen even though the other chefs are in their professional whites whilst she is wearing a T-shirt and pearls."
Helen Lewis, creative director, Quadrille Publishing
"This is a very familiar image, the black and white behind the scenes restaurant shot. But right in the middle is the most unexpected element. The elderly lady, so short she has her elbows raised high to reach into the pot, intense concentration showing on her face."
Elizabeth Galbraith, freelance creative director
Breaktime
Leonardo Salomao (Brazil)
Smoked Mackerel
Wesley Dombrecht (Belgium)
"This image is simply beautiful with a colour palette that reminds me of an old master painting which, at the same time, like those paintings, tells a story about the smoking of fish."
Michael Pritchard, chief executive, The Royal Photographic Society
Crouch End
Robin Stewart (UK)
"The interactions of the four people in the foreground are engaging for us as observers and tell us immediately about the relationships between those people over shared street food. Look more deeply behind and the wider context becomes apparent."
Michael Pritchard, chief executive, The Royal Photographic Society
"This has the look of a Renaissance painting, a stage of actors telling the story of their meal. I like the idea that you don't have to have a table to eat together and interact over food."
Xanthe Clay, president, Guild of Food Writers and Daily Telegraph food columnist
Rose Wine Tank
Patrick Desgraupes (France)
"This image of wine made me stop. It's like a scene from a Tarantino movie. There's a macabre feel - the white tiles, the spanner, hose and viewing window. It's almost medical.
"And just when you think it's the slaughter of the innocents you realise it's rose wine production. I think it's innovative, challenging and beautifully photographed."
Paul Sanders, FujiFilm ambassador and photographer
Hunters and Kill
Tom Parker (UK)
"As a straightforward portrait it's engaging and tells an immediate story - we understand there has been a shoot. The spoils are behind the shoot and it looks like they had a successful outing. But this image goes beyond that - using a portrait, vertical format to compress the visual elements into classic horizontal strips. The men, the birds, the landscape beyond. Each strip is an integral part of the narrative."
Elizabeth Galbraith, freelance creative director
Salad Plate
Darren Hickson (UK)
"Our food is so much about colour and in this portrait of salad the photographer has produced a great, vibrant, colourful, image of salad leaves and vegetables, complimented by the paint-spattered table top. I just want to drizzle the oil and start eating!"
Michael Pritchard, chief executive, The Royal Photographic Society
Collecting Egg Rations
Emma Brown (UK)
"I love the expressiveness of the girls' eyes and it moves me to see their vivacity and spirit behind their veils - despite the fact they are forced to be dependent on food aid for survival."
Caroline Kenyon, founder, Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year
Vegetables
Jonathan Gregson (UK)
Waiting for Stew
Laura Cook (UK)
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The Transport Select Committee warned that police cuts would stop some offences being detected.
The number of specialist road policing officers in England and Wales fell from 7,104 to 4,356 between 2005 and 2014.
But the Home Office said the police had the resources they needed.
As the number of specialist road policing officers has fallen, there has been increasing use of technology to enforce traffic laws, the report said.
"For enforcement to be successful and for educational campaigns to be convincing there must be the likelihood that offenders will be apprehended.
"There is a growing concern that the lack of specialist dedicated road traffic officers means that 'minor' offences such as careless driving cannot be effectively detected and enforcement action taken."
The total number of offences detected on roads in England and Wales went from 4.3 million in 2004 to 1.5 million in 2014, the report said.
However, the number of offences resulting in a fatality - which will always be recorded - did not fall.
"This is significant as this suggests that the reduction in overall offences that are recorded does not represent a reduction in offences actually being committed," the report said.
Labour MP Louise Ellman, who chairs the committee, said: "The fall in overall road offences does not reflect an improvement in driving."
The report said the government was right to focus on the "fatal four" - the main causes of road deaths - drink-driving, speeding, mobile phones and not wearing a seat belt.
It urged the Department for Transport to ensure detection rates for these offences were high, "whether through specialised road traffic police officers or by detection technology".
It recommended research into whether educational courses for poor driving had the required deterrent effect.
"By use of specialist officers, and appropriate use of technology, enforcement can be used alongside education which can make road users aware that serious driving offences will be detected," it added.
RAC spokesman Pete Williams said: "The sharp decline in roads policing officers appears to be having the very unwelcome effect of leading to fewer people being caught for illegal activity."
But the Home Office said: "Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary has been clear that there is no link between police resources and crime levels and effective roads policing is dependent on a range of factors, from better driver awareness to increased use of fixed penalty notices."
It said the enforcement of traffic offences was an operational matter for the police.
Aid agencies estimate that there are approximately 750,000 civilians trapped in western Mosul, unable or too frightened to leave despite the very real prospect of a prolonged, intense battle over the city between Iraqi government forces and IS fighters.
The assault on western Mosul has, thus far, been largely as expected - a much better equipped and better trained Iraqi army than the one humiliated by IS in 2014, methodically pushing towards the edge of the city thanks to overwhelming fire power and the cover of coalition air strikes.
For all their brutality and intolerance, IS fighters are nothing if not ingenious and in recent days they have been deploying a battle tactic almost unprecedented in modern urban warfare - the use of commercially available drones to drop bombs and grenades against civilian and military targets.
Large military drones are, of course, used to devastating effect by armies all over the Middle East, often resulting in huge loss of life. But the frequency and accuracy of how the Islamic State group is utilising small, relatively unsophisticated drones in Mosul has significantly slowed the advance of government forces.
The drones have also caused panic among the civilian population, including residents of eastern Mosul. That part of the city was recaptured from IS last month during the first part of a campaign to drive the Islamists from their last stronghold in Iraq.
At a hospital in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil I met 55-year-old Umm Mohammed. The mother of seven, from the eastern side of Mosul, was sitting up in her bed, attached to a drip and unable to rest because of the searing pain from her right leg.
It had been shattered in several places by a grenade or small bomb dropped from a drone.
"I'd just gone to the market for some shopping... The next thing I was lying on the ground and looking up. People started pointing up to the sky from where the bomb had come," she told me. "Where's the security when these machines are hovering over people and killing us?"
The use of drones, with their relatively light payloads, will not change the course of this conflict.
There are much more expensive, lethal and sophisticated weapons being deployed each day in their thousands.
Yet the psychological impact of drone attacks cannot be discounted, says Emanuele Nannini from the Italian aid agency Emergency, which helps run the hospital where Umm Mohammed and several other drone victims are being treated.
"Physically they are very similar to a mortar attack but actually they are very precise," Mr Nannini tells me, as he supervises a rapid expansion of the hospital beds and wards in anticipation of the battle unfolding in western Mosul.
"So each of these drones is actually striking the target that was chosen. Psychologically it can be very bad for the population because they can strike at any moment and at any place."
The residents of eastern Mosul are, ironically, getting a brief respite from the drone attacks because IS militants have diverted their attention to the new front line to the south and west of the city.
A colleague who returned from reporting duties at the front over the weekend told me in graphic terms that it was "almost raining bombs" - such was the frequency and intensity of the drone attacks on forces trying to enter the city.
Again, it's important to emphasise the overwhelming military and numerical advantage that Iraqi military units have over their IS enemies.
They are also getting considerable help from their American and other coalition allies.
"The fight in Mosul would be a huge challenge for any army, but this battle is only going to end with one result," says Lieutenant Colonel John Hawbaker, commander of the 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry.
American "advisers" and troops are a common sight on and just behind the front line and at forward command bases, assisting and advising their Iraqi counterparts.
But, as Lt Col Hawbaker readily acknowledges, American soldiers - so-called "boots on the ground" - are seeing action where it is deemed appropriate.
At the base I visited a few kilometres back from the western edge of Mosul, huge American artillery pieces fired shells at IS positions in and around the besieged city.
The day before, the gunners told me, they'd had the busiest period yet in this conflict, lobbing hundreds of shells at distinctive targets picked out by their own spotters and much more sophisticated "eyes in the sky", or surveillance drones.
The state of the art US weaponry will be of less use as the battle moves into the narrow, winding streets of Mosul itself.
On the first day of real fighting inside the western zone, government troops reported encountering "dozens" of booby-trapped car bombs. Some of them were successfully defused but others exploded, killing and wounded several Iraqi soldiers.
It's also thought that, in another example of drones adapted for urban warfare, IS militants are using the small aircraft to guide suicide car bombers to their targets.
Amid the chaos and mayhem, Mosul's civilian residents are being exposed to unimaginable daily horrors.
American and Iraqi generals say the fighting will be "house-to-house" in buildings where IS militants have deliberately placed themselves among the civilian population and in which they have constructed an elaborate network of tunnels to move themselves and their weapons.
Outside the city, aid workers wait nervously. The UN refugee agency is building new camps, just to the south, preparing to receive as many as 250,000 internally displaced people.
The real concern, as one UN aid official told me, is that most of the population won't able to escape, that they'll be trapped inside Mosul until the fighting finishes, the guns fall silent and Islamic State is defeated.
Under the agreement, the broadcaster will hold exclusive UK television, radio and digital rights to the race.
Barbara Slater, the BBC's director of sport, said: "The London Marathon is an event that unites the nation via huge participation.
"The BBC's coverage brings audiences to the heart of the action while telling the incredible stories of those taking part."
Having televised every London Marathon since the event's inception in 1981, the BBC's coverage will continue up to and including its 40th anniversary.
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge won last year's men's race while Tigist Tufa of Ethiopia won the women's event. Both will attempt to defend their titles when this year's race takes place on Sunday.
Get involved: Send us your London Marathon stories and messages by using the hashtag #GetInspired on social media
"We have to find out where they came from... and how they were financed," Francois Molins told reporters.
He said seven attackers had been killed, and that all had been heavily armed and wearing explosive belts.
Friday's attacks, claimed by Islamic State militants, hit a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said France will continue with air strikes against IS in Syria and described the group as a very well-organised enemy.
Mr Molins confirmed that one of the dead attackers had been identified as a 29-year-old Frenchman who had a criminal record, but had never spent time in jail.
Omar Ismaïl Mostefai was identified after his finger was found at the Bataclan concert hall and matched fingerprints the police had on file, AFP reported.
Who were the victims?
Fear stalks Paris
Mostefai came from the town of Courcouronnes, 25km (15 miles) south of Paris. He had been identified by the security services as having been radicalised but had never been implicated in a counter-terrorism investigation.
Investigators are trying to find out whether he travelled to Syria in 2014, judicial sources told AFP.
French police have taken Mostefai's father and brother into custody and searched their homes.
Mostefai's older brother attended a police station voluntarily.
"It's crazy, insane. I was in Paris myself last night, I saw what a mess it was," he told AFP before being placed in custody.
He said he had not had contact with his younger brother for several years.
Mr Molins also said the arrests of three men in Belgium on Saturday were linked to the attacks.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said investigators were trying to establish whether one of the suspects picked up near Brussels might have been in Paris on Friday evening.
Speaking in Paris on Saturday evening, Mr Molins told reporters: "We can say at this stage of the investigation there were probably three co-ordinated teams of terrorists behind this barbaric act."
Mr Molins said all seven militants had used Kalashnikov assault rifles and the same type of explosive vests.
New and frightening watermark
Bar reels from attack
How will Paris cope?
A new type of terrorism?
Mr Molins also gave details about the state of the investigation, which he said was at a very early stage.
He said police were focusing on two vehicles. One is a black Seat used by gunmen at two of the attacks, and still untraced.
The other is a black Volkswagen Polo with Belgian registration plates found at the concert venue that was targeted.
He said this had been rented by a Frenchman living in Belgium.
He was identified while driving another vehicle in a spot check by police on Saturday morning as he crossed into Belgium with two passengers.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says investigators are working on the theory that these three may be another team of attackers who managed to flee the scene.
The Greek authorities say two people under investigation by the French police had registered in Greece as Syrian refugees. A Syrian passport was found near the body of one the attackers at the Stade de France.
An Egyptian passport has also been linked to the attacks.
French President Francois Hollande imposed a state of emergency after the worst peacetime attack in France since World War Two. It is also the deadliest in Europe since the 2004 Madrid bombings.
The violence began soon after 21:00 (20:00 GMT) as people were enjoying a Friday night out in the French capital.
Gunmen opened fire on Le Carillon bar and Le Petit Cambodge (Little Cambodia) restaurant, near the Place de la Republique in the 10th arrondissement (district), killing 15 people.
"We heard the sound of guns, 30-second bursts. It was endless," resident Pierre Montfort said.
A few streets away, diners sitting on the terrace of La Casa Nostra pizzeria were also fired on, with the loss of five lives.
Mr Molins said 19 people had been killed at the Belle Equipe bar in the 11th arrondissement, while the toll from the attack on the Bataclan concert hall stood at 89.
At about the same time, on the northern outskirts of Paris, 80,000 people who had gathered to watch France play Germany at the Stade de France heard three explosions outside the stadium.
President Hollande was among the spectators and was whisked away after the first blast.
Investigators had found the bodies of three suicide bombers around the Stade de France, Mr Molins said. One other person died in the blasts.
La Belle Equipe, 92 rue de Charonne, 11th district - 19 dead in gun attacks
Le Carillon bar and Le Petit Cambodge restaurant at rue Alibert, 10th district - 15 dead in gun attacks
La Casa Nostra restaurant, 92 rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 11th district - five dead in gun attacks
Stade de France, St Denis, just north of Paris - explosions heard outside venue, three attackers and bystander dead
Bataclan concert venue, 50 Boulevard Voltaire, 11th district - 89 dead when stormed by gunmen
What we know
Images of aftermath of shootings
Eyewitness accounts from the scene
'I saw people on the ground and blood'
#Paris: Power, horror, and lies
The 1,500-seat Bataclan concert hall in the 11th arrondissement suffered the worst of Friday night's attacks. Gunmen opened fire on a sell-out gig by US rock group Eagles of Death Metal, killing 89 people.
"At first we thought it was part of the show but we quickly understood," Pierre Janaszak, a radio presenter, told AFP news agency.
"They didn't stop firing. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere. We heard screaming. Everyone was trying to flee."
He said the gunmen took 20 hostages, and he heard one of them tell their captives: "It's Hollande's fault, he should not have intervened in Syria."
Within an hour, security forces had stormed the concert hall and all three attackers there were dead.
Islamic State released a statement on Saturday saying "eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying assault rifles" had carried out the attacks on "carefully chosen" targets, and were a response to France's involvement in the air strikes on IS militants in Syria and Iraq.
Shortly before, President Hollande said France had been "attacked in a cowardly shameful and violent way".
"So France will be merciless in its response to the Daesh [Islamic State] militants," he said, vowing to "use all means within the law.. on every battleground here and abroad together with our allies".
Many officials buildings as well as Disneyland Paris have been closed, sports events have been cancelled and large gatherings have been banned for the next five days.
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Dolphins are one of Aberdeen's biggest tourist attractions, with the city regarded as being among the best places in Europe to spot them.
Volunteers from RSPB Scotland's Dolphinwatch expect thousands of visitors to try to catch a glimpse of the spectacular sea antics over the summer.
The Dolphinwatch project was pioneered in 2013.
The team will be at Torry Battery from 11:00 to 18:00 every Thursday to Sunday until 16 August.
Dolphinwatch team member Helen Hiley said: "Aberdeen is such a fantastic place to see dolphins and it's amazing to have a wildlife spectacle like this so close to a city centre.
"You often get great views of them feeding and playing at the harbour entrance."
Amateur photographer David McCulloch, who took a recent dramatic shot which has proved popular on social media, described the experience of capturing the image as "out of this world".
Since 2014, hundreds of people from Western countries, including the UK, have joined Kurdish rebel group YPG.
The Henry Jackson Society said YPG was a front for the banned PKK group and warned that those who joined it could be drawn into terror activity at home.
It said the government urgently needed to stop Britons joining the group.
Security minister Ben Wallace said: "We deter all UK citizens from travelling overseas to fight with any form of irregular forces.
"People who do so should be aware that they potentially open themselves up to a range prosecutions linked to such behaviour."
The Centre for the Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism, at the Henry Jackson Society, said the YPG was a subsidiary of the PKK, a "violent terrorist organisation" banned by the UK and the US.
The foreign affairs think tank said there was a danger those who fought for the group could participate in its "criminal-terror activities" or carry out "lone actor atrocities" when they returned home.
The training they are given in firearms and explosives also posed a risk, the report said.
Four British men have been killed fighting with the Kurds against IS and 29 Western volunteers have died in total.
Kurdish fighters on the ground in Syria have driven IS out of large areas of territory.
Kyle Orton, a fellow at the centre, said: "Far from battling terrorism they're in effect aiding one proscribed terrorist organisation overcome another.
"The government needs to act now to prevent Britons falling into this trap.
"If they're already there and want to come back, comprehensive tests need to be put in place to prevent potentially dangerous individuals within our communities."
The father of a British man who died fighting with the YPG against IS in March 2015 told the BBC he was "deeply hurt" by the think tank's report.
Chris Scurfield, the father of Erik Scurfield, the first British man to be killed fighting against IS with the Kurds, said the report had upset families of British volunteer fighters.
He said: "We are speaking with other bereaved parents whose children also lost their lives in Syria, fighting alongside coalition forces to defeat ISIS and save the lives of civilians."
In a statement the Kurdistan Solidarity Campaign said: "British fighters who join the Kurdish units of YPG are not terrorists.
"They are fighting for the same values as British people hold dear, against the ISIS threat and for freedom and democracy. The YPG are in coalition with the UK and US forces.
"The Kurds do not encourage Brits to travel to Syria to fight ISIS, however many do. They are seen as heroes and to label them as this ill-informed report does is wrong."
By Emma Vardy, BBC News
The issue of foreign fighters has become a central security and political question for the UK since the rise of so-called Islamic State.
British volunteers travelling to fight against IS with the Kurds have been likened to Britons in the 1930s who went to fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war.
Authorities continually warn against going to fight for any group, but no returning fighters have yet been prosecuted specifically for joining Kurdish militia.
The YPG and PKK are seen as two different organisations by the British government.
The YPG is recognised as an important ally for the West and is currently fighting a difficult ground war to push IS out of the key city of Raqqa.
But whether to charge returning fighters is still being reviewed by the police and Crown Prosecution Service on a case-by-case basis.
Some say they go to fight for humanitarian reasons, while others are attracted by the Kurdish left-wing ideology.
But small companies in Germany and Canada are doing precisely this - capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and finding ways to sell it.
German company Sunfire produced its first batches of so-called e-diesel in April. Federal Minister of Education and Research, Johanna Wanka, put a few litres in her car, to celebrate.
And the Canadian company Carbon Engineering has just built a pilot plant to suck one to two tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air daily, turning it into 500 litres of diesel.
The process requires electricity, but if the start-ups use renewable electricity they can produce diesel that is carbon neutral.
In other words, burning it in your car only returns to the atmosphere the CO2 removed in the first place.
Fossil fuels, on the other hand, are carbon positive, which means that burning them adds to the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
And halting the growth of CO2 and other greenhouse gases has become of paramount importance given the many threats posed by climate change.
The concentration of CO2 in the air reached 400 parts per million in 2012-2013 - the highest since scientific measurements began. And the year July 2014-June 2015 was the warmest on record, says the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The chemistry to make fuel from CO2 isn't especially hard - split water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis, add the hydrogen to CO2 to make carbon monoxide and water, then bung in more hydrogen to build up hydrocarbon chains.
This last bit's called the Fischer-Tropsch process, and dates back to the 1920s.
But it's the technologies capturing the CO2 straight from the air that are new and now becoming cheap enough to be viable.
The biggest technological challenges have centred on the high-temperature furnaces, says Adrian Corless, chief executive of Carbon Engineering.
He says there is still "a month of hard work" to get these to work as the company would like.
But these also have been his company's chief innovation, he says - precipitating captured CO2 into solid calcium carbonate pellets that can be easily washed and dried.
These pellets are then heated to 800-900C, whereupon they release a pure CO2 stream. As a residue, they leave calcium oxide which, handily, can be fed back in to the first air capture stage.
Besides fuel, there are other options for selling captured CO2.
Swiss company Climeworks, spun off from a local university, is readying its first commercial-scale plant, selling captured CO2 to a nearby greenhouse.
Climeworks sees a long-term market in supplying fizzy drinks bottlers in Africa, Japan, and hard-to-reach islands, by setting up locally and beating transport costs.
The expense of compressing, liquefying, and shipping carbon CO2 is up to 10 times more in such places, says Dominique Kronenberg, the firm's chief operating officer.
It is certainly easier to remove CO2 from the exhaust of fossil fuel-burning plants than capture it from the air, because exhaust streams from gas and coal plants contain 3% and 15% CO2 respectively.
Air, by contrast, contains about 400 parts per million of CO2.
So why bother?
"We don't have to purify exhaust gases from a boiler or coal - these have a lot of sulphur and other molecules that might be difficult to purify out," says Mr Kronenberg.
Another attraction of air capture is it that it is easier to extract the CO2 this way than from the exhaust gases of cars and other forms of transport, says Mr Corless.
But could e-diesel ever compete with fossil fuels on price?
Sunfire estimates its e-diesel will sell for €1-€1.5 (73p-110p) per litre - slightly cheaper than the current UK diesel pump price of 119p per litre.
But a lot depends on government policy. The actual price of the fuel can be as low as 30% of what we pay at the pump - the rest of the cost is made up of fuel duty, VAT, and the retailer's profit margin.
"So we assume certain taxes might not be applied to these renewable fuels we produce," says Mr Kronenberg, perhaps more in hope than expectation.
In the US and the UK there are government initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the use of cleaner transport fuels.
But it's the cost of electricity that could make or break e-diesel's commercial viability, because the process requires a lot of energy.
''You can take electricity and convert it to fuel for your vehicle with about 13% efficiency," explains Dr Paul Fennell, reader in clean energy at Imperial College London.
"If you compare that to taking electricity and charging up an electric vehicle, then that can be done with about 80% efficiency," he adds.
But Mr Corless points out that "in the last two or three years, the cost of renewable electricity has dropped dramatically - especially solar."
And another point in e-diesel's favour is that there are hundreds of millions of diesel vehicles already on the road, so at least this cleaner fuel could help ease the transition to zero carbon transport while we wait for an electric or hydrogen charging infrastructure to be built.
Climeworks and Carbon Engineering say their modular technology will make it very easy for them to scale up to larger projects.
Meanwhile, the US Naval Research Laboratory says it's interested in using e-diesel to fuel its ships.
So you never know, your car may be running on fuel made from thin air sooner than you expect.
Michael O'Hanlon, who was 45, was found with serious injuries at Moorpark Industrial Estate in Stevenston, Ayrshire, on Monday.
The emergency services were called but he died at the scene.
Steven Kirkwood, 43, appeared from custody at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court. He made no plea or declaration at the private hearing.
Mr O'Hanlon won the National Amateur Body Building Association (NABBA) Mr Scotland title in March this year.
According to the NABBA website, he won the class two contest and the overall competition in 2016, having first won the title 23 years ago.
Mr O'Hanlon ran the Musclebox bodybuilding shops.
The Northamptonshire batsman admitted criticism on social media had affected him, after he averaged 15.71 in seven innings against Bangladesh and India.
"I actually started to believe some of the stuff I was reading," left-hander Duckett, 22, told BBC Look East.
"It was extremely tough but a lot of the England boys were very helpful to me. I spoke to Root a lot."
Duckett was given his Test debut against Bangladesh in Chittagong in October after scoring 2,706 runs for Northants across all formats in 2016.
Initially opening the batting with then-captain Alastair Cook, Duckett made a half-century in the second Test in Dhaka, which England lost, and that was to be his only score above 15.
He dropped to number four for the first two Tests in India before being discarded for the rest of the series having struggled for runs.
Duckett, named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year on Wednesday, revealed that the public scrutiny of his performances had got under his skin but he believes he has learned from the experience.
He said: "I was kicking myself after every bad score, sitting in my hotel room not talking to anyone.
"In India and Bangladesh there's no getting away from it. Your down time is sitting in your hotel room on your phone and it's all over social media.
"Then you start believing it. But no-one has played Test cricket and from game one done amazingly throughout their career - people have gone up and down.
"Root had the same thing. He got dropped and came back into the side and hasn't really looked back.
"You forget they're just normal blokes who have been through what you've been through.
"I'm only 22. It was a bonus for me playing in the winter. Fingers crossed, now I've learned and matured from it and I can take that into the summer."
The cash is believed to be linked to a $1bn pyramid scheme involving TelexFree, a company that claimed to provide internet phone services.
Investigators uncovered the cash while following a Brazilian man, who was charged in connection to the haul.
Federal prosecutors say the defunct company swindled almost a million people worldwide out of about $1bn.
The US attorney's office in Massachusetts tweeted a photo of the windfall of cash, which was found at the flat of Brazilian national Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, 28, in Westborough, Massachusetts.
Mr Rocha was arrested and charged with conspiring to commit money laundering.
A judge on Monday ruled that Mr Rocha was a flight risk and held him without bail.
Prosecutors argue Mr Rocha was part of the scheme, transferring millions of dollars to Brazil by laundering the cash through Hong Kong.
TelexFree, which purported to sell Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, allegedly made most of its revenue from people buying into the company scheme with the promise of payouts for posting online ads, according to federal prosecutors.
Those investors were then compensated with money from new recruits, who were often friends and family members.
"TelexFree purported to aggressively market its VoIP service by recruiting thousands of 'promoters' to post ads for the product on the Internet," the Department of Justice said in a statement on its website.
A BBC Wales investigation has found that 49 of the 100 homes are not meeting the benchmark of 80%.
Chief executive of Youth Cymru, Helen Mary Jones, said a lack of qualified employees puts the children and staff "in a very risky position".
The Welsh government said it invests £8m a year in social care training.
In 2014, there were at least 550 children in residential child care settings in Wales.
Employees in these homes must have the relevant diploma in health and social care or a similar qualification recognised by the Care Council for Wales (CCW).
If they do not have this qualification, they have three years to complete it and at least 80% of staff in each home must have it.
Ms Jones said: "It's been set because it is regarded as the minimum standard to properly provide for the needs of those children. I'd like to stress that these are likely to be some of the most vulnerable children."
However, some who work in the sector said the standard is out of date.
Director of Genus Care, which runs children's homes in Wales, Gareth Hemming, said: "I've got people who have got degrees that they've spent three years studying all aspects of youth work and children and yet their qualification isn't cross referenced by the Care Council for Wales so they've got to go back to college and do their level-three diploma."
The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales said it takes enforcement action where it thinks services are being compromised and there is a risk to the wellbeing of children.
Mr Hemming said the company achieved the 80% target by paying for staff training and offering bonuses to those who became qualified as quickly as possible.
Director of standards and regulation for CCW, Gerry Evans, said: "What happens is that people come into the sector, they achieve the qualification but then move on to work in other places and then are replaced by people who haven't got the qualification."
The Children's Commissioner for Wales, Dr Sally Holland, added: "We shouldn't be treating it the same as stacking supermarket shelves, for example, in terms of pay and conditions.
"I think we need to be saying to those workers 'we value you and we will pay you to do a really good job'."
A Welsh government spokesman said it has a "robust framework for the regulation of children's residential homes" and is currently reforming its approach to regulation.
The tie-up will create one of the largest exchange companies in the world with a combined value of about £21bn.
Under the terms of the deal, LSE shareholders will own 45.6% of the new holding company, while Deutsche Boerse shareholders will own 54.4%.
LSE chief executive Xavier Rolet said the two firms were "creating an industry-defining combination".
The two companies said together they should be able to make cost savings of €450m (£354m) a year, about 20% of the combined group's operating costs of €2.2bn last year.
The LSE group already owns Milan-based Borsa Italiana.
The two exchanges said the "combination of London, Frankfurt and Milan will provide a platform for financing and promoting economic growth of European companies and be an attractive offering to Asian and US companies looking to access investors and capital".
The newly-merged company will keep both the London and Frankfurt headquarters. The new holding company, UK TopCo, will be incorporated in the UK.
The merger is expected to be completed by the end of this year or early next year.
When it goes through, Mr Rolet will step down from his role as LSE chief executive, but will stay on for about a year to advise on the transition.
LSE chairman Donald Brydon will become chairman of UK TopCo and Deutsche Boerse chief executive, Carsten Kengeter, will become chief executive.
The boards of both the LSE and Deutsche Boerse have said they will recommended that their shareholders accept the offer.
However, earlier this month, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange, said it was considering making an offer for the LSE. It is not yet known whether it will go ahead with a hostile bid.
The LSE and Deutsche Boerse have set up a referendum committee to consider what impact a Leave vote in the EU Referendum might have.
At this stage, though both companies say the outcome of the Referendum is not a condition of the merger because they believe the combined group would be "well positioned to serve global customers irrespective of the outcome of the vote".
However, they added: "The outcome of that vote might well affect the volume or nature of the business carried out by the Combined Group. "
About 30% of the new group's revenue would come from the UK, 15% from Germany, 30% from the rest of Europe, 19% from North America and 6% from the rest of the world, mainly Asia.
The merger would mean the group is "better positioned to compete against large US peers in North America", as well as boosting its position in China and Asia generally," said the LSE in its statement.
After an innings defeat in the first Test, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 101 in the second, but then resisted for 475 to delay England's nine-wicket win.
"After the first innings we talked about bringing the fight back into the team," Mathews told Test Match Special.
"We showed a lot of resilience in the second innings. It was a good effort by the whole batting unit."
By sealing victory at Chester-le-Street, England completed a series victory before the third and final Test at Lord's, which begins on 9 June.
"We have nothing to lose," said Mathews. "We've lost the series already so we just have to go out there to try to win the game."
For England, the win in Durham means they have won nine of their past 12 Tests at home and Alastair Cook's men have lost only one of their past seven series, dating back to when Sri Lanka won in the UK in 2014.
"It was an eight out of ten performance," England coach Trevor Bayliss told Sky Sports. "We've got to work on our bowling on flattish wickets, and I'd like to see our batters turn starts into bigger scores. We're still a work in progress."
England have named the same 12-man squad for the final Test, with Nottinghamshire pace bowler Jake Ball perhaps in contention to replace Steven Finn, who has taken four wickets at an average of 34.50 in the series.
"We'll consider all options for Lord's," said Bayliss. "I'd be interested in having a look at Bally if possible, but if not, his time will come."
Bottom-of-the-table Vikings are looking for a third straight win in front of their own fans that would move them above 11th-placed Leigh.
The Centurions have included Nick Rawsthorne after he joined on a one-month loan from Hull FC.
Ben Crooks, James Green and Atelea Vea come back in for Leigh.
Widnes Vikings (from): Bridge, Buchanan, Burke, Cahill, Chase, Craven, Dudson, Gerrard, Heremaia, Houston, Johnstone, Marsh, Mellor, O'Carroll, Olbison, Runciman, Thompson, White, Whitley.
Leigh Centurions (from): Brown, Burr, Crooks, Dawson, Drinkwater, Green, Hampshire, Hansen, Hood, Hopkins, Maria, Paterson, Pelissier, Rawsthorne, Reynolds, Stewart, Tickle, Vea, Weston.
For 25 years Kerry Needham believed she would find her son alive and one day be reunited with him.
But that last flicker of hope seems to have vanished as police confirmed their belief he was killed accidentally by a digger when he went missing in 1991.
Mrs Needham told The Mirror: "I can't say goodbye until I know where he is."
From the moment he disappeared on the Greek holiday island, 43-year-old Mrs Needham maintained Ben was alive and had probably been abducted.
Speaking at the time of his disappearance, she said: "I've just got to keep that hope for Ben's sake, because we love him too much. I won't give up."
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The search for her son took over Mrs Needham's life as she repeatedly appealed for help.
"He's got to be found. He didn't disappear off the face of the earth - he is out there somewhere," she said.
But last month, police told her to "prepare for the worst" and revealed that a friend of a digger driver, who was clearing land with an excavator on the day the toddler went missing, said the man may have been responsible for Ben's death.
In the years before the latest investigations, Mrs Needham said that "not even in my worst nightmares" did she believe Ben would be found dead near the same spot where he had vanished more than a quarter of a century ago.
It had certainly not entered her mind that her little boy may have been crushed to death by a digger.
"It's a long time to wait thinking you're going to find your son and then suddenly your world comes crashing down," said Ellie Martin, who co-runs the Help Find Ben Needham campaign group.
"For 25 years all she's thought about when she woke up in the morning is to find Ben."
The 21-month-old toddler, from Sheffield, was last seen playing outside a farmhouse in Iraklis - which his grandfather Ed was refurbishing - on the afternoon of 24 July 1991.
He was being looked after by his grandparents while his mother was out working.
When his grandmother realised she hadn't heard his voice as he played they began looking for him. Initially it was thought his uncle Stephen had taken him for a ride on his motorbike but it later transpired this was not the case and the family contacted the Greek police.
Ben's disappearance sparked one of the biggest and longest-running search operations ever seen in Europe.
This arid corner of Kos became the centre of a huge inquiry and international media attention.
In the weeks and months that followed, the family's anguish deepened as they travelled back and forth between the UK and Kos while Greek and British police followed various leads.
Hundreds of sightings of Ben were claimed with none of them amounting to anything but more pain for the family.
Pictures of what Ben may have looked like aged 12-14 years old were issued by police in 2003 and another computer-generated image was released in 2010 to illustrate how he may appear at 21.
DNA tests were carried out on two men who it was thought may have been Ben, but both were negative.
In December 2013, Mrs Needham accused then-Prime Minister David Cameron of not giving her case the same backing as he gave to the parents of Madeleine McCann, who went missing in 2007.
It came after a reports from eight witnesses who all saw a boy possibly matching Ben's description with the same Greek family.
Earlier this year, a South Yorkshire Police team returned to Kos to carry out house-to-house visits and chase new leads. They were given the tip that Ben may have been accidentally crushed by a digger while he was out playing.
The police officer in charge of the latest operation, Det Insp Jon Cousins, told a press conference: "My team and I know that machinery, including a large digger, was used to clear an area of land on 24 July 1991, behind the farmhouse that was being renovated by the Needhams.
"It is my professional belief that Ben Needham died as a result of an accident near to the farmhouse in Iraklis where he was last seen playing."
He revealed that an item found on Saturday, that it is thought Ben had with him when he went missing, had been shown to the Needham family.
"The recovery of this item, and its location, further adds to my belief that material was removed from the farmhouse on or shortly after the day that Ben disappeared," Det Insp Cousins said.
While there are still myriad unanswered questions for the Needham family, the latest find in that hot dry corner of Kos may mean they can finally begin to mourn for their lost son.
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Experts at the Natural History Museum bestowed the accolade upon the annelid after it ventured above ground in a Cheshire vegetable plot.
However, the trip from Widnes to London took its toll and the Lumbricus terrestris did not survive.
It is now in a jar and will be "useful to science", the museum said.
The 26g (1oz) worm was found by Paul Rees and given the moniker Dave by his stepson George.
Natural History Museum scientist Emma Sherlock said: "I was bowled over by the size of this worm when I opened the plastic box they sent it in.
"Not only was it really long, it is almost twice as heavy as any other wild earthworm ever seen, weighing the same as a small chocolate bar.
"Dave is now preserved in the museum collections, and will now be useful to science."
She added: "Although his name on the jar is Lumbricus terrestris little George did request that his real name, Dave, be preserved forever too so on the label it clearly states 'known as Dave' and that will be reflected in the museum database forever too."
Ms Sherlock said Dave was bigger than the longest Scottish worm, unearthed in 2015, which grew to 39.6cm (15.6 inches) on the island of Rum.
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Mr Farage challenged David Cameron and Ed Miliband to commit to opt out of any common asylum policy.
EU leaders met to discuss the crisis last week.
The UK said it would provide naval support, but it would not accept more asylum seekers.
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In a break from domestic campaigning for the UK general election, the UKIP leader travelled to Strasbourg for a debate in the European Parliament, following the meeting of the European Council on 23 April.
European leaders agreed to triple funding for rescue operations aimed at migrant boats in the Mediterranean, and to look at ways to capture and destroy smugglers' boats and deploy immigration officers to non-EU countries, officials said.
But many MEPs demanded bolder action, passing a resolution calling on the Commission to set a "binding quota" for the distribution of asylum seekers among EU states, amid concerns that southern European countries are bearing the brunt of the crisis.
The resolution, which was backed by four of the European Parliament's major political groups, also called for expanded search and rescue operations, bigger contributions to resettlement programmes, better cooperation with non-EU states and tougher measures against people smugglers.
The resolution is not binding on the Commission but Mr Farage alleged that a common asylum policy had been "agreed already" - and further claimed that extremist group Islamic State - also known as Isis - had threatened to send extremists to Europe through the Mediterranean route.
Mr Farage, who is an MEP for the South East region, told the European Parliament: "When Isis say they want to flood our continent with half a million extremists they mean it."
He added: "If the message is that anybody that comes will be accepted we are headed for disaster."
It's shock and awe part two from Nigel Farage.
As the final week of the election campaign approaches the UKIP leader has deployed the tactic that he is convinced worked so well for him and his party in the TV debates.
A few weeks back it was foreigners with HIV getting free treatment on the NHS. Tonight it's the threat of IS inspired extremists coming to the UK on boats across the Med.
He claims half a million could arrive in Europe.
Nigel Farage is breaking off from the campaign on Wednesday to fly to Strasbourg to speak against plans for what he says is an EU common migration policy. Something he believes could pose "a direct threat to our civilisation".
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told the same debate that there was a need for member states to "share refugees geographically".
Arguing that allowing a certain measure of legal migration could reduce the number trying to enter Europe illegally, he called for the door to Europe to be left "partly ajar".
Speaking to journalists ahead of the debate, Mr Farage claimed: "The principle [of common asylum] has been accepted. All we're now talking about is the detail.
"If people in Britain see what I'm doing today and understand the significance of what is going on, I think they will be very, very angry indeed and they would want to know from the two potential prime ministers: do they intend to opt us out of this or will they stick with the legal agreements that we agreed back in 2013?
"We've got to a point here with this where, unless we stand up and say something, we will be opening up our doors not just to many more people but to the Islamic extremist threat."
Also speaking in the Strasbourg debate was Dutch MEP Sophia in 't Veld from the Liberal ALDE group, who called the UKIP leader's words "populist and despicable".
She claimed the idea of a "flood of jihadists" had been "invented by Mr Farage to get himself elected on 7 May".
An EU directive in 2013 reaffirmed the aim of a common asylum policy. However, EU leaders have not agreed a common asylum and immigration policy within the EU.
An emergency meeting of EU leaders was convened last week after more than 750 people died on a boat crossing from Libya on 19 April.
Whereas the total number of deaths in 2014 was 3,279, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says it fears the figure for this year could top 30,000, based on the current death rate.
The UK - in the past a leading advocate of reducing naval patrols - said it would contribute helicopter carrier HMS Bulwark, two patrol boats and three helicopters. Germany, France and Belgium also offered ships.
Prime Minister David Cameron did not commit the UK to accepting more refugees.
Mr Farage also told the European Parliament that "we are guilty for this crisis", echoing earlier comments that the bombing of Libya has "directly caused" migrant disasters in the Mediterranean Sea.
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The blaze broke out at the Woodgreen furniture store on Broughshane Street at about 17:00 BST on Tuesday and spread to several other units.
Part of Broughshane Street remains closed on Wednesday.
Ronan McCann said: "People's livelihoods are without doubt going to be affected.
"It's devastating. The only positive is there were no fatalities," he added.
He said the local business community would help in any way they can. One firefighter has been slightly injured while tackling the blaze.
Eyewitness Emma Hamilton had been shopping in Broughshane Street just minutes before the fire was spotted.
She filmed the flames from a car park on the roof of a nearby shopping centre.
"We could see a large plume of black smoke and straight away ran over to see what it was", she told BBC Radio Ulster.
"We could see, over into Broughshane Street, two buildings heavily ablaze, with the roofs of the adjoining properties on either side starting to disintegrate, and flames coming through those as well."
Houston Bell, who works in Ballymena, was driving home when he spotted the blaze and stopped his car to film the incident on his mobile phone.
He told BBC News NI that several shoppers walked past the shop just as the fire was taking hold, unaware of the flames above them.
Mr Bell said warnings were shouted at people on the street to get back from the shop front, and he described hearing the sound of breaking glass as he drove away from the scene.
An estate agent, whose premises was damaged in the blaze, has said that all its diaries and contact details for clients have been destroyed.
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The locks were introduced after VR fans made software called Revive that let people move or port Oculus games on to the HTC Vive.
A software update for the Oculus Rift released over the weekend has stripped out the software controls.
Revive developers said they were still in "disbelief" about the change.
Oculus worked closely with many studios and developers to ensure that there was a significant library of games available for owners of its Rift headset when it launched in March.
Many of these games became available on the rival HTC Vive via the Revive software which was released in April this year - soon after the headset itself went on sale.
Shortly afterwards, Oculus sought to thwart Revive by updating its core software to carry out a headset check to ensure a Rift was being used to play the games. The decision stood at odds with statements by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey who said it did not want to succeed by "locking" people into using only its hardware.
Online, many VR headset owners criticised Oculus's efforts to keep people playing games with only its headset.
The developers behind Revive sought to get around the Oculus check to ensure games still ran - though some users reported problems because each headset uses different types of controllers to let people play with objects in virtual worlds.
The headset check has now disappeared from the software needed to get the Oculus working. The change was noticed by Revive developers who posted a message about the update on their page on the Github code-sharing website.
In a statement to tech news site Ars Technica, Oculus confirmed that it had stripped out the headset checks and added that it would not use them in the future.
It added: "We believe protecting developer content is critical to the long-term success of the VR industry."
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They were joined by more than 200 Alaskan and Siberian Huskies on the Fjallraven Polar expedition from Norway to Sweden in Europe.
The participants slept in the open, braving snow storms and freezing cold temperatures. Brrrr!
Watch Martin's report.
The Daggers took little time to get their next potential promotion campaign under way. Morgan Ferrier was felled in the box and Corey Whitely made no mistake from the penalty spot after 18 minutes.
Michael Cheek doubled the advantage before the midway point of the first half with a decisive finish. The away side however responded with determination after the break.
Paul Cox's visitors imparted late pressure with an 86th-minute goal. Alex-Ray Harvey found the onrushing Dan Jones with a delectable lofted pass, and the defender reduced the arrears with a deft lob.
Barrow had half-chances to equalise, but Dagenham held on.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Barrow 1.
Second Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Barrow 1.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Barrow 1. Dan Jones (Barrow).
Substitution, Barrow. Daniel Cockerline replaces Jordan White.
Substitution, Barrow. Harry Panayiotou replaces Asa Hall.
Jack Barthram (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Adi Yussuf (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Thierry Audel (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Oliver Hawkins replaces Morgan Ferrier.
Second Half begins Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Barrow 0.
First Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Barrow 0.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 2, Barrow 0. Michael Cheek (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 1, Barrow 0. Corey Whitely (Dagenham and Redbridge) converts the penalty with a.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
O ganlyniad i'r helynt, mae'r llywodraeth wedi talu £100m mewn iawndal i ddau gwmni.
Dywedodd y Gweinidog Ynni Greg Clark y byddai ymchwiliad annibynnol yn cael ei gynnal, gyda'r posibilrwydd o gymryd camau disgyblu i ddilyn.
Roedd y cytundeb ariannol yn ymwneud â 12 pwerdy Magnox, gan gynnwys Wylfa ar Ynys Môn, a Thrawsfynydd yng Ngwynedd.
Yn 2014 rhoddwyd cytundeb 14 mlynedd i bartneriaeth Cavendish Fluor i reoli a dad-gomisiynu'r gorsafoedd.
Ond yn ôl y Gweinidog Ynni doedd y gwaith yn y cytundeb tendr ddim yn cyfateb i'r gwaith oedd angen ei wneud.
Fe ddaeth y gweinidog i'r casgliad fod nam sylweddol yn y broses dendro ac mae hyn wedi arwain at gostau ychwanegol sylweddol.
Dywedodd Mike Clancy, ysgrifennydd undeb Prospect: "Mae hyn yn sefyllfa ryfeddol o gofio pwysigrwydd a maint y cytundeb Magonx i'r diwydiant niwclear
"Bydd y cyhoedd a'n haelodau yn awyddus i gael eglurhad a sicrwydd ynglŷn â dyfodol y broses gomisiynu."
Mae'r wrthblaid yn San Steffan wedi herio gallu'r llywodraeth i ddelio â'r cytundeb ac wedi cwestiynu eu strategaeth dadgomisiynu niwclear.
Dywedodd llefarydd Llafur ar ynni Rebecca Long-Bailey: "Mae'r llywodraeth wedi dangos lefelau dramatig o ddiffyg gallu".
Mae disgwyl i'r gwaith ymarferol o ddadgomisynu'r safleoedd niwclear barhau wrth i'r llywodraeth geisio datrys yr anghydfod ariannol.
Emergency admissions due to the effects of alcohol, such as liver disease, have also risen by more than 50% in nine years to 250,000 a year in England.
Rates were highest in deprived areas and in the north, and among men aged 45-64, the Nuffield Trust revealed.
The government said it had banned the lowest priced drinks.
The Nuffield Trust said their figures were an underestimate of the impact of drinking because they did not include alcohol-fuelled falls and fights, just illnesses such as alcohol poisoning and liver disease.
Nor do they count people who come to A&E drunk and are then sent home without being treated or admitted as a patient.
Half of all A&E attendances likely to be due to alcohol poisoning - when a person drinks a toxic amount of alcohol, usually over a short period of time - took place on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, peaking between midnight and 2am.
Three in four arrived by ambulance - putting a strain on already stretched resources, said the Nuffield Trust.
Young women aged 15 to 19 were admitted to hospital for alcohol poisoning 1.4 times as often as young men in the same age group.
A&E attendance rates that are likely to be due to alcohol poisoning and emergency hospital admissions linked to alcohol were three to four times higher in the poorest fifth of the population, the figures showed.
There were also more hospital admissions in the north of England and in urban areas.
The report also reveals the number of people actually being admitted to hospital with alcohol-related problems, such as liver disease.
Men aged between 45 and 64 made up the largest share of this group.
Occurs when a person drinks a toxic amount of alcohol, usually over a short period of time.
What to look for:
'I ended up in hospital because of alcohol so many times'
Joint author of the report Claire Currie said: "With the Christmas party season in full swing, it's worth considering the full burden over-indulgence in alcohol is placing on our NHS, as well as the obvious human cost.
"Our research has uncovered a picture of rising and avoidable activity in hospitals, representing a stark challenge for the Health Service at a time when it's already great pressure. Hospitals alone cannot tackle this issue - the government must consider measures such as minimum unit pricing, restricting availability and limiting marketing and advertising."
In England in 2013, approximately 18% of men and 13% of women drank at a level considered to be putting them at increased risk of harm.
In 2013/14, approximately 1 in 20 emergency admissions in England were related to alcohol.
In recent years, alcohol admissions have been going down in Scotland and stabilising in Wales.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest binge-drinking among young adults in Britain is continuing to fall, and more than a fifth of UK adults now say they do not drink alcohol at all.
Jackie Ballard, of Alcohol Concern, said middle-aged and older people drinking above recommended limits, often in their own homes, were of particular concern.
"These are the people who tend to require the most complex and expensive health care due to the mental and physical problems caused by drinking too much and alcohol's impact on the ageing body.
"Alcohol is linked to over 60 medical conditions and unless society and the government starts to take this seriously and acknowledges the health problems too much alcohol can cause, the situation will only get worse and the NHS will continue to strain under the burden of alcohol harm."
A government spokesman said: "People should always drink alcohol responsibly - very busy ambulance services and A&E staff can do without this extra demand.
"The government has taken action to tackle cheap alcohol by banning the lowest priced drinks and we are already seeing fewer young people drinking on a regular basis."
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) survey of 2,500 people also found 57% did not trust the companies to handle their data responsibly.
And 51% complained that they had been contacted by organisations that had misused their data.
The CIM says personal data policies on websites should be clearer and simpler.
It says businesses have failed to persuade people to read their online terms and conditions to understand what they do with personal details.
Instead, according to its research, people are in the dark about data and scared of being spammed or scammed.
The CIM questioned more than 2,500 consumers and marketing professionals, to help businesses looking for new ways to sell to us over the internet.
But rather than discovering an army of well-informed consumers who were happy to share their data, the research unearthed a wall of public bewilderment and mistrust.
Some 92% of respondents did not fully understand how information that companies gleaned about them was being used, and they were highly sceptical about marketing practices.
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Most said they did not trust the way organisations handled data, and most also complained that they had been contacted by someone misusing their personal information.
"People are nervous about sharing personal data," said Chris Daly, from the Institute. "Fear of data breaches and misuse has them on high alert."
Businesses are keen to cash in on our individual wants and needs by learning from our previous shopping habits and internet activity.
But there is a mismatch between public feeling and commercial ambition.
For instance, 71% of consumers did not feel comfortable with businesses tracking their whereabouts through their smartphones. Yet, 20% of businesses are already collecting this geo-location data.
Most people do not like sharing data from their social media profiles. Yet, 44% of businesses are collecting it.
The bewilderment about what happens to our data is made worse by lengthy and turgid terms and conditions and privacy policies.
Only 16% of people read them, the CIM found.
The danger is that most internet surfers agree to a website's terms without mugging up on how any information they give away will be exploited.
The CIM says organisations will have to be simple and clear about their policies in order to have any chance of improving trust and confidence.
Among the results discovered by the CIM:
State media and activists said troops, backed by Russian air strikes, had seized the towns of Mahin and Hawwarin.
They lie to the east of a strategically important motorway connecting Damascus with major cities to the north.
The army has launched a series of offensives since Russia launched an air campaign to bolster President Bashar al-Assad's government on 30 September.
Russia has said it has targeted only "terrorists", but activists say its strikes have mainly hit Western-backed rebel groups which are opposed to IS.
On Monday, the official Sana news agency reported that army units and local pro-government militiamen had taken full control of Mahin and Hawwarin, about 65km (40 miles) south-east of the city of Homs, after destroying IS positions in the towns.
A military source said a large number of IS militants had been killed and that soldiers were dismantling bombs planted on roads, in farmland and homes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said Syrian and Russian aircraft had carried out dozens of strikes in support of the ground assault.
In addition to lying to the east of the north-south motorway connecting Damascus and Homs, Mahin and Hawwarin are close to the roads that link the IS-held town of Palmyra.
In a separate development on Monday, civilian flights in the Middle East faced further disruption as a result of Russian missile strikes in Syria.
Airports in northern Iraq have been closed for two days, and flights in and out of the Lebanese capital Beirut are being routed around an exclusion zone in the northern part of the eastern Mediterranean.
The Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq has protested to Moscow about the flight of cruise missiles launched in the Caspian Sea over its territory.
Russian warships in the Mediterranean are also firing eastwards into Syria.
Talks in Tehran on Monday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were expected to focus on the conflict in Syria and renewed international efforts to negotiate a political solution.
Iran and Russia have been staunch allies of President Assad throughout the four-year war, which has left more than 250,000 people dead and forced more than 11 million from their homes.
They were among 19 countries which signed a UN statement setting a deadline of 1 January for the start of peace talks between the government and opposition.
The 35-year-old, fifth in the world rankings, says he made the decision in an attempt to continue playing on the ATP Tour "for many years to come".
The Swiss added he will now prepare for the grass and hard-court seasons, which begin in June.
"I need to recognise that scheduling will be the key to my longevity," he said.
"Thus, my team and I concluded that playing just one event on clay was not in the best interest of my tennis and physical preparation for the remainder of the season.
"I will miss the French fans, who have always been so supportive and I look forward to seeing them at Roland Garros next year."
Federer missed last year's French Open through injury - the first time he did not compete in Paris since his debut in 1999.
He won the tournament for the only time in 2009 and is a four-time runner-up.
Federer has won three titles so far this season, including the Australian Open - his first Grand Slam success in five years.
He also claimed the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells in March and, two weeks later, won the Miami Open.
The French Open begins on 28 May.
Former Olympic champion Marc Rosset backed his compatriot, saying it was a matter of Federer prioritising tournaments he can win.
"The chances of him winning on clay at the French Open were quite low," Rosset told the BBC's World Service.
"Roger is the kind of guy who goes to a tournament to win. If he doesn't feel he is capable of winning the tournament, I don't see any sense in him attending.
"I don't think it is a matter of age, it is one of priority. He is going to play the two tournaments on grass before Wimbledon."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
Federer was in such devastating form in the first three months of the year that an eighth Wimbledon title seems very much within his grasp. Trying to win a clay-court Grand Slam at the age of nearly 36 without playing any other tournament to prepare would surely have been beyond even him, and I say that with memories of Australia still very vivid.
Federer is talking like a man who would still love to be competing at 40, and to do so the clay-court season may need to become a permanent casualty.
I suspect he will want to play Roland Garros at least once more before he is done, and he says he looks forward to returning next year.
But he did say exactly the same thing 12 months ago when making a very late withdrawal because of concerns about his back.
Footage recorded by one of the students shows a bouncer agreeing they were being barred "because they were black".
A statement from Ghost Nightclub said it welcomed people "from all walks of life" and had suspended the doorman.
In the mobile phone video, the bouncer says he was enforcing the club's rules and claimed it was not his decision.
Kosi Orah, a 19-year-old University of Leicester student from Essex, who was celebrating his birthday on a night out with friends, said they were turned away from the nightclub.
But the owners of Ghost Nightclub said: "We reiterate that we only have a shoes-only, 18-plus door policy.
"I urge people to take a look at our Facebook page to see that we welcome people from all walks of life.
"This is a 45-year-old business - the oldest nightclub in the city - which has been owned by the same family for all that time.
"We urge the group of students who were turned away to get in touch with the management of Ghost Nightclub so that we can resolve this."
Leicestershire Police said it took hate crime seriously and was looking into the complaint.
"The incident has been reported and recorded and inquiries are ongoing," a police statement said.
"We take reports of racism extremely seriously and would encourage anyone who has been a victim of such a crime to contact us."
In the video, the doorman, who has not been identified, is heard to say: "I have no problems with you guys at all, but that is the rules of the club."
One of the group asks: "It is because we're black?", followed by the doorman's reply of: "Yes, that's what I am saying."
Mr Orah said he was shocked by what happened and the experience had "tainted my view of the city as a whole".
Claire Lewis, from Tonypandy, saw what she thought was a small snake trapped in the packaging of a chocolate cake from Asda.
It was later confirmed to be a slow worm - a limbless lizard.
The supermarket has apologised and sent Ms Lewis a "goodwill" gift voucher, which she will donate to her local food bank.
"It scared me before I knew it was a harmless slow worm," said Ms Lewis. "They're very snake-like."
Ms Lewis released it into her garden.
"Sadly the cake and the bag's other contents went in to the bin... but the slow worm was free to live another day," she said.
Asda refunded Ms Lewis £6 for the contents of her shopping bag and sent her a £30 gift voucher.
An Asda spokeswoman said: "We're really sorry that there was an unexpected visitor tagging along with Ms Lewis' home shopping.
"We have given Ms Lewis a refund and have offered a gesture of goodwill to go some way towards making up for any upset caused."
21 January 2016 Last updated at 17:33 GMT
A massive hole has been left in the wall of the bank in Basildon and a cash machine strewn on the floor, after the smash during the early hours.
Police do not yet know if any money was taken and have appealed for witnesses.
The body of Jiri Ulman, 52, was discovered with "multiple serious injuries" near Ten Acres Lane in Newton Heath, Manchester, on 8 August.
Miroslav Kolman, 35, is due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
Josef Janda, 57, of Kenyon Lane, Moston, was also charged earlier this week with Mr Ulman's murder.
A 60-year-old woman held on suspicion of assisting an offender was released while inquiries continue.
The last major episode to grab the headlines came a year ago when many areas of Britain were blanketed in a noxious brew that turned the skies grey-brown for several days.
At the time, all eyes were focused on the most exotic -sounding ingredient - dust that had been blown up from the Sahara.
Tiny grains from the desert had indeed made the long airborne trek from the desert but most of the problem was caused by a nasty mix of pollutants created here and abroad.
Britain frequently finds itself on the receiving-end of pollution wafted in from the Continent - and more of that is forecast tomorrow with a current of air circling from central Europe across southern France and over the English Channel.
A computer model from the American weather agency NOAA calculates where the air that will be over London tomorrow has come from.
A so-called "back-trajectory" plots the position of a single parcel of air every six hours so you can see its path over the past four days.
The chart also shows that the pollution cloud will generally remain below 500m in altitude which means it is concentrated in a relatively small air space and therefore packs more of a punch.
As often happens, this shows that much of the contamination comes from the industrial sites and major cities of northwest Europe.
But farmers in those regions may also be to blame. April often sees them spreading fertiliser on their fields which releases plumes of ammonia that are lofted into the atmosphere and carried on the air currents.
How much of this stuff actually reaches Britain all depends on the precise pattern of the winds - a slight shift in one direction can despatch it all over the ocean, a tweak the other way could see it billowing our way.
But continental pollution is only one part of the story. A major and awkward factor behind dirty British air is Britain itself - home grown pollution from our factories and power stations and traffic.
Scientists have an array of instruments to tease out the different sources of pollution - a version of CSI forensics that can pick out where the muck has come from.
The tiniest particles are known as PM2.5 - because they're smaller than 2.5 microns across.
If these are more than a few days old, they are known as "aged particulates" and were produced across the Channel before being sent our way.
If they are identified as sulphates they will have been emitted from industries; nitrates on this scale come from the exhaust fumes of traffic.
Taking a breath of these "aged particulates" means you may well be inhaling a blast of pollution generated when someone accelerated away from traffic lights in northern France. Dirty air knows no boundaries.
But the same techniques can nail which pollution has been produced here. "Fresh" or "primary" particulates - only several hours old - serve as a smoking-gun to identify sources in Britain.
And research indicates an ugly truth: that we export more air pollution than we receive. An infamous "London plume" of contaminated air frequently stretches eastwards to northern France.
This clearly showed up in instruments deployed by a pollution research plane that I joined during the London Olympics in 2012.
According to Dr Ben Barratt of King's College London, the problem is worst in urban areas and is both chronic and serious.
"We can't solve the problem merely by reacting to every episode - we need to change our behaviour every day because it's the long-term exposure that matters for your health."
All this comes as the British government faces another stage in a long legal battle for breaching European Union standards on nitrogen dioxide, one form of air pollution.
An environmental campaign group, Client Earth, has brought a series of challenges. Next Thursday, the Supreme Court will hold a hearing on whether the government should be ordered to produce a more radical pollution reduction plan than already outlined.
Under current proposals, Britain will meet EU standards by 2030, with the conurbations of London, the West Midlands and North West England forecast to be the last to fall into line.
None of this is remotely on the scale of what Chinese city-dwellers have to put up with. A couple of years ago I saw for myself how grim the situation can be in China and what the authorities are now trying to do.
But nothing attracts attention like your own skies turning a slightly funny colour, and yet again hearing the health warnings to the aged, the asthmatic and the infirm to keep out of harm's way.
Only minor work will take place along a contested section of the route near the home of Seamus Heaney, which is set to face a further legal challenge.
The development of a stretch of the A6 at Toomebridge was the subject of an unsuccessful court case over concerns about its environmental impact.
The £160m road was a flagship project for the former NI Executive.
Work will begin on sections between Randalstown and Toomebridge and from Moyola to the Castledawson roundabout.
The A6 Hillhead Road in Toomebridge will be closed from 20:00 BST on Friday until 18:00 BST on Saturday for work on a 350m-stretch from Blackpark Road to the Creagh roundabout.
Environmentalist Chris Murphy lost a court case challenging part of the route around Toomebridge on the basis that a proper assessment had not been completed in to its impact on protected swans.
The part of the route he challenged runs close to the key wetland of Lough Beg, which has internationally protected status.
Mr Murphy plans to lodge an appeal next week.
The authorities have said the project will reduce peak journey times by a quarter and improve safety on a busy road used by 18,000 vehicles a day.
They hope the entire scheme will be substantially complete in early 2021, with the Randalstown to Toomebridge section open to traffic by 2019.
The Department of Infrastructure said it had met all of its environmental commitments to ensure no adverse impact on protected flowers or animals, including the whooper swans.
It said that along the contested section of route only "essential work involving alterations to utility supplies, minor archaeology/geotechnical testing and ground preparation to the south of the existing bypass will be completed at this time".
It added that it would work to conclude any further legal challenges as soon as possible.
Roedd Dr Felix Aubel wedi ymateb i neges at Twitter gan flogiwr asgell dde eithafol o Sweden drwy ofyn a ddylai Cristnogion yn Ewrop wneud yr hyn a wnaeth pobl Sbaen ar ddiwedd yr Oesoedd Canol.
Roedd yn cyfeirio at Chwil-lys Sbaen, pan gafodd Mwslemiaid ac Iddewon eu herlid a'u harteithio wrth gael eu llosgi.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: "Barn Felix Aubel ei hun yw hyn ac ni yw mewn unrhyw ffordd yn cynrychioli barn y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig.
"Ni allwn esgusodi'r defnydd o'r math yma o iaith."
Mae Dr Aubel, sydd yn weinidog ar nifer o gapeli yn ardal Caerfyrddin, wedi dileu'r neges oedd yn cynnwys ei ymateb ar Twitter, ond dywedodd wrth BBC Cymru fod camddealltwriaeth wedi bod.
"Roeddwn i'n gofyn cwestiwn pen agored am sylwadau gwrth-grefyddol y trydariad, ac nid yn gwneud datganiad," meddai.
"Rwyf o dras cymysg fy hun ac nid ydw i'n cytuno gydag unrhyw ragfarn grefyddol neu hiliol."
Fe ddaeth teulu Dr Aubel i dde Cymru fel ffoaduriaid wedi'r Ail Ryfel Byd.
Mae'r teulu'n hanu o Slofenia, ac fe wynebodd aelodau erledigaeth gan Serbiaid yn yr Iwgoslafia newydd gafodd ei chreu yn dilyn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf.
Mae Dr Aubel wedi sefyll fel ymgeisydd mewn nifer o etholiadau'r Cynulliad a San Steffan, ond ni fydd yn sefyll fel ymgeisydd ar ran y Ceidwadwyr yn yr etholiadau lleol ym mis Mai.
A study rejects the idea that such determination is linked to extreme behaviour, such as missing out on sleep or working excessive hours.
Four thousand teenagers took part in the research project by Wellington College and Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Researchers want to help other schools to teach about building "character".
There has been much recent interest in the idea of whether pupils should be taught about resilience and a sense of well-being, as well as academic subjects.
It follows warnings that pressure on exam results is neglecting harder-to-measure ideas such as self-reliance and determination.
Last week, the think tank Demos called for more teaching of character in schools.
In this study, the researchers argue that "grit" could be a better way of predicting academic success than a student's intelligence.
They define grit as a set of qualities such as "determination, courage and persistence".
But they challenge the popular belief that displaying grit "goes hand-in-hand with unhealthy behaviours such as sacrificing sleep or adopting poor eating habits in a quest for achievement".
Instead the research found that such determined pupils were more likely to be well balanced and with healthy lifestyles.
For example, these pupils would not miss a night's sleep to enhance their exam performance.
"We are very good in this country at measuring performance but we're bad an unseen variables of a student's life," says Carl Hendricks head of research at Wellington College.
"This project is an attempt to measure the more unmeasured aspects of student progress."
Neuroscientist Christina Hinton, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says: "Our results suggest that grit does not require pushing yourself at all costs, but rather cultivating healthy emotional regulation skills and effective learning strategies."
The researchers are working towards an intervention programme that other schools will be able to use, studying the effects of targeted teaching on student self-regulation and grit.
The Border Force said it discovered 380 kilos of the drug during a search of a British-registered lorry at Dover docks on Tuesday.
A 46-year-old man from Ballymoney in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, has been bailed while enquiries continue.
The investigation has been passed to the National Crime Agency.
They say a number of people from the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) group were injured at Camp Liberty in Baghdad.
Baghdad has in the past repeatedly denied attacking the group.
MEK members fought with Iraq against Iran in the 1980s, but have since fallen out with the current Iraqi government.
In an emailed message, the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the MEK's parent group, said dozens of missiles hit the camp on Thursday evening.
It said two residents were killed and a third later died in hospital of his wounds.
The US condemned the attack "in the strongest terms" and urged Iraq to better protect the camp.
An Iranian-backed Shia militia, al-Mukhtar Army, said it had fired rockets at the camp, Reuters news agency reported.
The camp is located in a former US military base, near Baghdad's airport.
The Iraqi authorities have made no public comments on the report. However, one security official was quoted by the Associated Press as saying four rockets hit the camp, injuring two people.
In September, the MEK accused Iraqi forces of attacking Camp Ashraf north-east of Baghdad and killing 52 of the group's members.
In recent years, Baghdad has been trying to dismantle MEK camps and eject the group.
Iran considers the MEK a terrorist group.
The group was removed from the US state department's list of terrorist organisations last year.
Council leaders have been asked to agree a new charging structure for social care services in the county, in a bid to ease budget burdens.
An analysis shows about 40% of those using services, such as help to dress and clean, could be affected.
However, the council stresses no-one will be charged more than a £60 weekly cap set by the Welsh Government.
A report to the council's cabinet will be considered at a meeting on Tuesday in Caernarfon.
It warns that failing to implement new charges will mean money must come from other parts of the council budget.
"If members do not approve the charging policy, then it would be necessary to offer alternative savings in its place which could lead to an adverse impact on some services for the citizens of Gwynedd," stated one council officer in the report.
Under the plans, anyone receiving more than a set minimum income will have to pay charges on a sliding scale, up to the £60 a week limit.
It means any retired or out-of-work resident in Gwynedd using non-residential care services with a weekly income above £226 will have to pay.
For those in work, the minimum income before charges is lower, at £148 a week.
According to the council, it could mean someone earning about £269 a week and working would see a bill for care charges rise from £16 a week to £43 - an extra £1,400 a year - an increase of 168%.
"Clearly, as a result there will be a significant impact especially in some cases," accepted the council's chief executive, Dilwyn Williams.
"However, the wider context for all this is that the council cannot maintain its services without a robust charging regime that can be adequately defended and justified. Clearly, these proposals seek to do so."
The report stresses that the changes have been part of widespread consultation across the county, with over 500 responses on the matter.
It states that 58% of those who took part "agreed that those who could afford to pay for adults care service should contribute to the cost of their social care".
Huddersfield-born Ellis, 27, was part of Great Britain's first men's doubles medal-winning partnership at Rio 2016, along with Chris Langridge.
However, UK Sport named it as one of five sports to lose financial support.
"I'm quite scared for our future," Ellis told BBC Look East.
"People coming up, wanting to have a good career in badminton, who are 16, 17, 18 years old and just starting out, without this funding, they have no chance at all.
We are going to fight for this - we're not just going to take this lying down
Speaking at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes, the world number 20 continued: "The Athlete Personal Award funding goes a long way to helping me play every single day, it's not the money for myself.
"It pays for the programme, the shuttlecocks, the courts - so it won't just be me that is affected.
"It's the people coming up, wanting to get involved, without this funding effectively they have no chance at all to make it."
Archery, fencing, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby have also lost their funding.
However, the next step for badminton will be to appeal and fight the decision, something Ellis says is down to the sport's administrators.
"It's not the players' role that we can get involved. We've got a fantastic support term who will fight to the very end, we've got faith in our support team," he added.
"We have faith in our chief executive and our performance director have got what it takes to get this decision turned around in our favour."
Syrian and Russian planes were pounding eastern Aleppo, according to activists. A rescue worker described what was happening as "annihilation".
The government has urged people to avoid positions held by rebels. Russia has not confirmed its involvement.
US-Russian talks to revive a collapsed truce have broken up without progress.
Russia supports the Syrian government, while the US backs the opposition. The two powers accuse each other of failing to rein in their respective allies on the ground.
The White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer rescue group, says dozens of air strikes were carried out in Aleppo on Friday morning.
The group says the centres set up to help victims of bombardments were being targeted, and three out of four had been put out of action.
The Al Jazeera news agency tweeted that its bureau in the city had been partly destroyed.
Announcing the new offensive on state television late on Thursday, the Syrian government warned Aleppo residents to "stay away" from "terrorist positions".
Syrian military sources said a ground offensive would follow.
One told the Agence France-Presse news agency that the bombardment "could go on for hours or days before the ground operation starts. The timing of the ground operation will depend on the results of the strikes".
Army officials said there would be exit points for anyone, including rebels, who wanted to flee.
Russian and Syrian commanders - always sceptical about the merits of the ceasefire - now appear to have been given a green light to sort out the Aleppo problem once and for all.
Imagery of the shattered city presents a gaunt vista in which thousands of innocent people remain trapped on both sides. Targeted attacks by government forces against medical and civil defence facilities add another element of horror to the situation.
The fact that this new onslaught is taking place against a backdrop of the total failure in the US and Russian brokered efforts to implement a ceasefire in Syria is also significant. In the wake of this failure there is a good degree of bitterness on all sides.
This provides space for the stepping up of military action on the ground. Indeed the pause may well have enabled government forces to reposition in key areas and to improve intelligence gathering.
The government's warning came after days of air strikes on Aleppo. Syria declared the week-long ceasefire over on Monday.
Residents told the BBC earlier this week that barrel bombs had struck rebel-held districts, causing many fires. Dozens of civilians were reported to have been killed.
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Thursday night's meeting in New York brought together members of the International Syria Support Group, which includes the US, Russia and other powers.
After the talks broke down without agreement, UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura described them as "painful and disappointing".
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington could not be the only one trying to hold open the door to peace.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused US-backed rebels of ignoring the truce, and said a new one would amount to a "unilateral pause".
Also on Thursday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied claims that he was responsible for the ongoing fighting.
In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, he reaffirmed his government's position that a deadly strike on an aid convoy in Aleppo on Monday had not been carried out by Syrian or Russian planes.
Mr Assad also ridiculed concern about the army's use of barrel bombs, saying: "What's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it. When you use armament... you kill terrorists in order to defend civilians."
More than 100 18-24 year olds took on five politicians in the debate organised by BBC's Newsbeat.
Trust was the main issue but tuition fees, gender equality and the voting age also dominated.
Voters were joined by politicians from five major parties at Leeds City Museum on Tuesday evening.
Sam Gyimah, from the Conservatives, Sadiq Khan of Labour, Sal Brinton from the Liberal Democrats, Mhairi Black of the SNP and Rhun ap Iorwerth, from Plaid Cymru were all in the line of fire.
BBC Wales followed six Welsh audience members to hear their views on the debate.
Guto Gwilym, 21, Lampeter
"It was brilliant to have that one hour that was purely focused on young people and the issues we have. It was very much a night where politicians heard what we have to say and I very much hope that they've been taking notes.
"For me - one thing we do need to tackle urgently now is diversity among MPs."
Aled Illtud, 20, Aberystwyth
"It was nice to see a different kind of debate - it was much more energetic.
"I did feel like there were more questions than there were answers but that maybe reflects how passionate the audience members were.
"We seemed to have a battalion of questions thrown at the politicians. It was beautiful to see but I would have liked more answers from the politicians."
Peter Gillibrand, 18, Carmarthen
"I think the debate concentrated too much on tuition fees. I would have liked to hear more about what politicians would do for disabled people like my brother. He's severely autistic but the funding for lots of the services he uses has been cut.
"I'm a Plaid Cymru voter but I think the real people who won this debate were the SNP and Lib Dems.
"The SNP lady was really inspirational and the lady from the Lib Dems came across well too. She said 'look we made a mistake on tuition fees' but you felt she did really care about young people."
Robyn Holley, 21, Cwmbran
"It was everything I expected it to be - people shouting, lots of opinions whirling around and politicians just being politicians. I wasn't impressed by what they had to say - it was just a lot of hot air.
"I have considered not voting but I think I will probably turn out if only to try and change things."
Gwion Dafydd, 20, Pembrokeshire
"I think a couple of politicians said the right things. I liked that Labour, Plaid Cymru and the Lib Dems all supported lowering the voting age for 16 and 17 year olds. It shows they care about what young people have to say.
"I have more respect for some of the parties now."
Rhys Taylor, 21, Bangor
"I stood up and made a comment during the discussion on tuition fees. I think it's important that politicians admit when they've made a mistake and apologise if they can't carry through with their promises.
"It's not often that we hear politicians apologising but the more we can get them to own up to their mistakes the more we will be able to trust them."
It the latest stage of a bitter row over UK ministers' Trade Union Bill.
Welsh ministers want some clauses removed - including a required 40% turnout of members to make a public sector strike ballot valid.
They say the reforms involve devolved services such as the NHS, although employment law is not devolved.
Carwyn Jones told AMs on Tuesday that the Welsh government could put that issue to the test in the courts.
"If it comes to the point where that bill is passed, and its provisions are applied to devolved public services, we will seek to introduce a bill in this chamber to overturn the sections of the bill that impact on devolved areas," he said.
"It's a matter for the UK government if they then want to go to the Supreme Court in order to frustrate the will of this democratically elected assembly."
UK ministers have said they want to ensure that essential services are not disrupted at short notice by strikes supported by a small proportion of union members.
If an agreement is struck, crippling sanctions which have affected everyday life in Iran will be lifted.
BBC Persian heard from ordinary Iranians about what they think will happen in the talks.
The nuclear negotiations affect every Iranian's life. The reason is inflation caused by sanctions. Many families can no longer afford to live the way they used to.
If they don't reach an agreement now while President Rouhani is in office, both sides will face many troubles in the future.
Iran's economy has been crippled since the last set of sanctions on the oil and banking sectors.
I own three factories. Eight years ago they were working at full capacity, now all three are shut.
About 400 workers, technicians and engineers have lost their jobs. There are many people like me who used to have small manufacturing companies in industrial cities.
These days our cemeteries are growing faster and doing better than our industrial cities.
I was following every single minute of the last round of negotiations. If you remember, you could really see the stress on John Kerry's face. It shows Mr Obama needs to find a way to resolve this matter.
However strong the lobbies are on the other side, I believe the US president is determined to make a deal and he can achieve that.
I'm not optimistic. As our leader says we don't trust the US, the UK or the West in general. Now we see that some people in Iran have put their trust in them and think they can move things forward by negotiation, and the [Supreme] leader has agreed to that.
It's happening but personally, I believe the process will fail. It is just a question of when.
I don't think a deal is possible. There are a lot of entrenched groups in Iran like the Basij [volunteer paramilitary force] and most importantly those who are linked to the office of the Supreme Leader.
These groups won't let it happen and people will keep feeling the pressure.
I'm a farmer but I can't sell the rice I produce. It's not fair on our people.
I am a teacher. I'm following negotiations with excitement. But sometimes it feels like it's dragging on and on.
Either way I don't think we will witness any major changes straight away.
Change will take time to achieve. It won't happen the day after an agreement.
He said little but, through his translator, this dark haired young man did offer a brief glimpse of an underworld which Germany is only just beginning to confront.
Younis is a 23-year-old Moroccan. There is no way to verify that because he says he has no papers or passport. And no way to substantiate his claims that he has a degree and some training in mechanics.
He entered the country illegally about a year ago and recently applied for asylum. He now lives in a refugee home where he says drugs are passed around - he was found with amphetamine on New Years Eve - and where he has acquaintances rather than friends.
The police have picked him up before for travelling without a rail ticket and say they have also caught him before in possession of stolen goods.
He is living in limbo, in a shadow world of petty crime. It will be months, probably years, before his asylum claim is even examined. The German authorities admit to a backlog of some 700,000 asylum applications.
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Younis admits he snatched a phone from a young woman in the crowd on New Year's Eve in Cologne. He stood briefly in the courtroom to mumble an apology in her direction. On Wednesday he became the first person to be convicted in connection with the New Year's Eve attacks. Another Moroccan and a Tunisian were also found guilty of theft.
Police have identified more than 70 other suspects. Most, they say, are like Younis: from North Africa and here either illegally or because they are seeking or have been granted asylum.
And, like Younis, most are suspected of theft. Detectives have only arrested one man on suspicion of sexual assault. Yet nearly 600 women say they were groped, even raped, that night.
Cologne's police chief told me it was possible that many of the perpetrators will never be caught. He wearily cites lack of evidence.
Officers, including so called "super recognisers" from Scotland Yard, are largely reliant on CCTV and mobile phone footage from the night. But they have found that while the cameras can pick up a bag being snatched, they do not often capture sexual assaults in a crowd.
It is not what Germany wants to hear. The attacks have affected this country profoundly, shaken its sense of security.
Younis A's case took place amid intense media scrutiny. And perhaps it was unsurprising that his lawyer felt it necessary to deliver a passionate speech accusing the court of turning his client into a scapegoat.
New Year's Eve, he said, was "a terrible event with terrible consequences".
"People are now buying pepper spray, vigilantes run through the city and beat up foreigners. But do not hold my client responsible for that."
But, arguably, simply by committing his crime in the crowds on New Year's Eve, while all around him women were being molested, Younis A was part of a phenomenon that has altered this country.
The young woman whose phone was stolen and her friends say they were sexually assaulted too, although they cannot identify the perpetrator.
The government - previously so welcoming - has hardened its rhetoric on asylum. Ministers are trying to toughen deportation laws and want to make it all but impossible for people from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria to claim asylum.
And public perception has shifted. It does not help that Angela Merkel has failed to negotiate a meaningful European response to the refugee crisis. And that, in January, well over 90,000 people arrived in Germany seeking asylum. A recent poll found that more than 80% of Germans no longer feel the German government is in control.
It was an Afghan refugee who brought Younis A to justice. He saw the theft, helped the woman get her phone back and then testified in court. Afterwards Mr A's lawyer thanked him.
"There is a debate about foreigners going on in this country. I think it is really good that you, as an Afghan, supported the victim. I thank you for trying to protect her from my client."
London's mayor revealed the line's name and purple logo as he visited Bond Street station with the monarch.
Trains on the railway will travel under the centre of the city, linking parts of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire to Essex when it opens in December 2018.
Mr Johnson said it was "wonderful" the line had "such a significant name".
"The Elizabeth Line will provide a lasting tribute to our longest-serving monarch", the mayor said.
The Queen visited a station construction site 28m (92ft) below ground where she viewed part of the tunnel and met construction apprentices.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, who was also at the event, said the name was "very fitting" given the Queen's long association with UK transport.
About 24 trains an hour will travel both ways on the new Elizabeth Line when it opens.
Rosemary Caskin, from Gloucestershire, began sending letters 10,193 miles (16,400km) to Edith Dawson in Australia when she was nine-years-old.
Ms Dawson, three years her senior, has now made the journey from Kapunda in South Australia, to Wotton-under-Edge, for Mrs Caskin's 60th birthday.
The pair said it was a "very exciting" point in their lives.
A celebratory cake was made for the occasion featuring a map of the UK and Australia, an airmail letter and some flying '50' banners.
Ms Dawson said: "When we were [nine] and 12 you couldn't even imagine being 50, let along actually corresponding with someone for that time."
Reflecting back to the 1960s, Mrs Caskin said: "It was the thing to have pen friends. Schools were encouraging it and my school friend had a pen pal."
That pen pal was actually Mrs Caskin's sister, she added.
The two have shared much of life for half a century, corresponding through hand-written letters, emails and sending gifts.
"We've both had two marriages so there was the joy of our first marriage, the joy of having children, the sadness of when our first marriages failed and identifying one with another over that and really feeling for each other," added Mrs Caskin.
Thousands of people joined a march and the rally in Trafalgar Square.
Labour leader Mr Corbyn said peace was not achieved by "planning for war", while Scottish First Minister Ms Sturgeon described Trident as "immoral" and "impractical".
The MoD estimates renewing the Trident system will cost £31bn over 20 years.
That involves acquiring four new submarines to carry the missiles, while a further £10bn has been earmarked for any unexpected costs.
Mr Corbyn told campaigners: "We live in a world where so many things are possible. Where peace is possible in so many places.
"You don't achieve peace by planning for war, grabbing resources and not respecting each other's human rights."
He added: "Today's demonstration is an expression of many people's opinions and views. I'm here because I believe in a nuclear-free Britain and a nuclear-free future."
Mr Corbyn has asked shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry to carry out a review of Labour defence policy, including its stance on Trident renewal.
The Labour leader supports unilateral disarmament but some members of the shadow cabinet, including shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, are in favour of Trident.
SNP leader Ms Sturgeon said the norm in the world today was to be nuclear-free.
"It is the exception to the rule to possess nuclear weapons, let that message ring out loudly and clearly," she said.
"The use of Trident nuclear weapons would bring about human devastation and suffering on an unimaginable scale."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: "The world has been and continues to be an unstable and unpredictable place but there are some values that we should hold on to through peace, through war, through instability and unpredictability.
"It is never acceptable, it is never justifiable to unleash weapons of mass destruction on a population. Nuclear weapons belong in the dustbin of history alongside the Cold War."
Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas described nuclear weapons as "a Cold War relic".
"To contemplate using nuclear weapons is both illegal and immoral," she said.
Actress and campaigner Vanessa Redgrave also spoke at the Stop Trident event, which was organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Supporters say Trident is indispensable for protecting the UK's security, and the nuclear defence industry is also a major employer.
Replacing Trident was a Conservative manifesto pledge at the general election.
A Commons vote on Trident renewal is expected to be held later this year.
Neal Gray told BBC Radio 4 that his granddaughter was "petrified" of being returned to Ben Butler and her mother.
He described Gray as Butler's partner, not his daughter, as he had disowned her.
He said he and his wife "fought tooth and nail" to keep Ellie but were seen as "troublemakers".
Mr Gray has called for a public inquiry into the case, adding: "Everybody failed Ellie completely and utterly."
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The youngster went back to live with her parents 11 months before her death.
Butler, 36, was convicted of her murder on Tuesday and jailed for a minimum of 23 years. Ellie's mother (Mr Gray's daughter) was found guilty of child cruelty but had admitted perverting the course of justice. She was jailed for 42 months.
The exonerated father who went on to kill
Butler was convicted in 2009 for shaking Ellie as a baby, although this was later quashed on appeal.
The couple then won a High Court judgement to have Ellie returned to their care in 2012.
Mrs Justice Hogg sided with Butler despite objections from police, social services and Ellie's maternal grandfather, Mr Gray.
"We tried to fight it tooth and nail but every time we protested we were told we were troublemakers and we were elderly people and we weren't worthy of looking after children," Mr Gray said.
"I said I hope you all have a conscience because one day you might have blood on your hands."
Mr Gray said he and his wife used to take Ellie to a children's centre for troubled families every few weeks to see her parents but in two-and-a-half years, her father went only twice and her mother went four times.
"She hadn't known them as parents," he said. "But her mother turned around and said 'If you don't come back and live with mummy and daddy we won't love you anymore'."
Mr Gray said he had hoped to adopt Ellie and care for her until she was 18.
"She was fantastic, very bubbly, a beautiful little girl, always on the go all the time, lots of energy like little children have, very brainy, nobody's fool. It was the best years of our life."
He said Ellie had nightmares that social workers would come and return her back to her parents.
Mr Gray saw Ellie the day before she died, in October 2013.
"We had half an hour to see her and she wasn't the Ellie we knew.
"She had bruises on her forehead and scratches, her hair was all bedraggled. She had odd shoes, socks and clothes and looked as though she had been dragged through the back of a hedgerow.
"You could see her eyes were sunken and there was sadness in her eyes."
He added: "Stories from her and Butler saying she was rude and lazy are complete and utter false lies. She was a gorgeous little girl and it was a great privilege to be her grandparent."
Speaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, he said: "You don't think one of your own offspring could possibly be involved in a terrible, tragic crime. Unfortunately she was," he said.
"I understand he was violent and controlling but I think she's also capable of being the same with him."
He added he thought the violence in the household was "50/50" between Butler and Gray, and that Gray should have been jailed for at least 20 years, and that Butler should have had 40 years.
"Jennie was aggressive and threatening. I had a premonition that Ellie wouldn't be safe.
"I think she [Jennie] knew what had happened because she knew what he was capable of."
He added that more needed to be done to protect vulnerable children.
"I believe the social services laws have got to be brought into the 21st century and the family courts system has to be changed radically.
"Somebody has got to stand up and make sure no other child gets hurt like my granddaughter got hurt.
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Pte Martin Bell, 24, was killed in an explosion in January 2011 while going to the aid of a wounded friend and saving his life.
He was posthumously awarded the George Medal for his selfless act.
Martin Bell Way, a road in a new housing development in Leeds Road, Shipley, was officially named by Bradford's Lord Mayor Mike Gibbons.
Councillor Joanne Dodds said: "This is an ideal opportunity for us to show our appreciation for those who were prepared to sacrifice their lives for their country.
"The least we can do is to ensure that they are never forgotten in their home city."
The George Medal is awarded for gallantry not directly in the face of the enemy and was presented to Pte Bell's family by the Queen in 2012.
Pte Bell had worked as a police community support officer with West Yorkshire Police before joining the Army.
The paratrooper was on his first tour in Afghanistan, serving with the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, when he was killed.
There will be a grace period for projects which already have planning permission, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said.
Energy firms had been facing an end to subsidies in 2017.
The funding for the subsidy comes from the Renewables Obligation, which is funded by levies added to household fuel bills.
After the announcement was made, Fergus Ewing, Scottish minister for business, energy and tourism and member of the Scottish parliament, said he had warned the UK government that the decision could be the subject of a judicial review.
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The Conservatives promised in their manifesto to hold down bills and increase renewable energy.
But onshore wind is the cheapest readily-available form of clean energy in the UK. That's why some experts have described their decision to kill the onshore wind programme as bizarre and irrational.
Speaking to business leaders in London last night, Amber Rudd said it was time to shift subsidies from onshore wind to other technologies that needed them more. But she did not say what those technologies would be, and the government has not announced compensatory subsidies for other forms of energy.
Some of the business leaders are baffled why ministers will give local people a unique veto over wind turbines, when they cannot veto shale gas fracking or even a nuclear power station on their doorstep.
The government's policies are seen by green groups as nakedly political. Another reason may be partly at play - the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange calculates that the energy subsidies programme has simply run out of cash.
If this is accurate, it presents a formidable challenge to an energy secretary who says she is committed to transforming the UK into a low-carbon economy.
"The decision by the UK government to end the Renewables Obligation next year is deeply regrettable and will have a disproportionate impact on Scotland, as around 70% of onshore wind projects in the UK planning system are here," he added.
The move was part of a manifesto commitment by the Conservative party ahead of the general election in May.
"We are driving forward our commitment to end new onshore wind subsidies and give local communities the final say over any new wind farms," said Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.
"Onshore wind is an important part of our energy mix and we now have enough subsidised projects in the pipeline to meet our renewable energy commitments," she said.
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18,000 gigawatt hours of electrcity generated by onshore turbines in 2014
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5.6% of the UK total electricity needs
The Conservatives also say that the onshore turbines "often fail to win public support and are unable by themselves to provide the firm capacity that a stable energy system requires".
Some reports estimate that almost 3,000 wind turbines are awaiting planning permission and this announcement could jeopardise those plans.
Friends of the Earth's renewable energy campaigner Alasdair Cameron said: "While the government rolls out the red carpet for fracking, they're pulling the rug out from under onshore wind.
"Proposed changes to the planning system could make it more difficult for local authorities to give the go-ahead to new wind installations - even if it's the local community who want to build and run them."
And Gordon MacDougall, managing director of Renewable Energy Systems, a Sir Robert McAlpine Group company, told the BBC that "what we are seeing is political intervention".
He criticised the intervention in what he says is the cheapest form of low-carbon energy.
The grace period could allow up to 5.2 gigawatts (GW) of wind capacity to go ahead, which could mean hundreds more wind turbines going up across the UK.
The government's health arm has bought the former GlaxoSmithKlein site in Harlow for £25m as its major centre.
This heralds the transfer of 2,745 jobs from other parts of the country, many from Porton Down in Wiltshire, by 2024.
Plans for the move were announced in September 2015 bringing a protest from Salisbury MP John Glen.
He told George Osborne, then the Chancellor, who announced the move while visiting Harlow that he was "extremely disappointed" with the step.
Harlow MP Robert Halfon, expressed his delight that one of the world's leading science hubs was now almost certain to come to Harlow.
"We're going to be the public health science capital of the world as the only other place that does this work is Atlanta in the United States," he said.
"It will bring thousands of jobs in to Harlow. These are people with scientific expertise and the step will encourage micro-business in the town."
Richard Gleave, deputy chief executive and chief operating officer, said: "This will be Public Health England's main centre in the country and will offer lots of job and career opportunities with an organisation committed to education and development."
Jay Bolton, 28, of Conwy, admitted possessing 94 indecent child images in April 2014 and making child abuse images in 2012.
He also pleaded guilty to having bestiality pornography during a hearing before magistrates in Llandudno.
Bolton will be sentenced at Caernarfon Crown Court on 19 June.
The first minister was speaking at Stanford University in California as she continued her five-day US trip.
Ms Sturgeon also urged the UK government to recognise the "right" of Scots to decide their own future.
Opposition parties said she was trying to build support for a referendum which the majority of Scots did not want.
The Scottish Parliament last week voted to back the first minister's call for talks to take place with the UK government over a second independence referendum.
But the UK government has already declined Ms Sturgeon's request to be given the powers to hold a legally-binding independence referendum before the Brexit process is complete.
It has argued that the focus should instead be on getting the best deal for the whole of the UK in the forthcoming negotiations with the EU - with the prime minister repeatedly saying "now is not the time" for another vote on independence.
Voters in Scotland rejected independence by 55% to 45% in September 2014.
Ms Sturgeon used her speech to highlight the global role an independent Scotland could have, stressing it would remain an "open, outward-looking and inclusive" nation that would continue to welcome people from across the world.
It would also seek to "build partnerships around the world", including with governments, businesses and universities, she said.
Ms Sturgeon said the Brexit vote in June 2016 posed a "fundamental question for Scotland", saying the country now faces an "exit against our will from the largest trading block in the world, at the hand of a UK government prioritising curbs on immigration above all else".
The alternative to this is independence, with its "opportunities and challenges", she said, claiming this would give Scotland "the freedom to be an equal partner with the other nations of the UK and Europe and with countries across the world".
The first minister added: "Independence, combined with equal partnership, is the best way for us to build a fairer society at home and to make a positive contribution to the world.
"However that is something which will be debated and discussed across Scotland as we move forward. The immediate point that the UK government must recognise is that the people of Scotland have the right to make that choice."
The SNP leader accepted some people "understandably are reluctant" to hold another vote on the issue so soon after the first one, but also claimed Mrs May's refusal to grant permission for a second referendum was "not a sustainable position".
She added: "It is a bit of a holding position just now. There will be another referendum on Scottish independence, of that I am fairly certain."
While the legislation that created the Scottish Parliament reserved powers over constitutional issues to the UK, Ms Sturgeon argued that "is quite a vague term" and said the issue had never been tested in court.
The first minister sketched out a political philosophy here which used to be very popular.
The vision she described at Stanford University was of an open country which uses the fruits of trade to help everyone in society.
The free movement of people and goods was, Nicola Sturgeon claimed, particularly important for a small country like Scotland.
But immigration and trade must go hand-in-hand with a more caring economic model, she argued, in a speech which cited as an example "Rhine Capitalism", the co-operation between workers, firms and government which produced such remarkable success for the economy of post-war Germany.
In essence Ms Sturgeon was arguing that the election of President Trump in the United States and Brexit in Europe were symptoms rather than solutions.
The extent to which voters in Scotland agree or disagree with the first minister's assessment and philosophy may play a role in determining whether or not her country eventually becomes independent.
The first minister also used the speech to set out her views on the challenges and opportunities of globalisation, migration and climate change.
The event, which was billed as discussing Scotland's place in the world, came on the second day of Ms Sturgeon's visit to California.
On Monday she signed a climate change agreement with the state's governor, Jerry Brown.
Ms Sturgeon is to spend a total of five days in the US, with the aim of "promoting trade and investment, boosting tourism, sharing best practice across the public and private sector and promoting Scottish innovation and entrepreneurship".
As well as Mr Brown, she has already met senior executives from Apple and Tesla, but will not be meeting anyone from President Donald Trump's administration.
She will be in New York on Wednesday, where she will give a speech at the United Nations headquarters, before completing her trip on Friday.
Responding to Ms Sturgeon's speech, John Lamont of the Scottish Conservatives said it was a "great shame that she has chosen to use her taxpayer-funded trip to America to promote independence, and an unwanted referendum."
He added: "She may be representing the SNP in doing so - but she does not represent mainstream Scottish opinion."
Scottish Labour's James Kelly said Ms Sturgeon should use foreign trips to represent the interests of all the people of Scotland, rather than "trying to build up support for a second referendum that the majority here don't want".
And Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie accused Ms Sturgeon of using California as the next stop in her "global grievance tour".
20 July 2016 Last updated at 06:02 BST
Growth had slowed and many businesses could not repay money they had borrowed. That hit the country's banks hard - and some are still swamped with bad debts.
Now India has put in place its first bankruptcy laws - designed to try and help lenders.
Sameer Hashmi reports from Mumbai.
"We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out," Mr Trump said in late February.
"We're getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that nobody's ever seen before."
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids have been executed across the nation. Hundreds of people have been apprehended and deportation proceedings have been initiated for them.
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According to figures provided by Ice, there were 18,378 removals in January. Mr Trump took office on 20 January. Of those, 9,580 had some type of criminal record, or about 52%.
In February, 17,226 people were deported - again, 52% had past criminal convictions.
But who are the people behind the deportations?
Arrested: 25 February, Charlotte, North Carolina
Mr Zamudio was arrested for allegedly stealing nearly $3,000 (£2,427) from the convenience store where he worked as a cashier. The 18-year-old high school senior was transferred into Ice custody after his arrest, and now faces deportation.
Before his arrest, he was protected by an Obama-era policy called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as Daca, that allowed people who immigrated to the US illegally as children to apply for renewable two-year deferrals of immigration enforcement. Mr Zamudio's family moved to the US from Mexico when he was only five years old.
Under the Obama administration, Daca recipients convicted of crimes typically served their sentence and then went through immigration hearings to determine whether they would face deportation.
Lawyers for the Trump-led Department of Homeland Security have argued that agents can revoke Daca on the spot, at the time of arrest.
"I don't want him to be deported because he doesn't remember Mexico," Mr Zamudio's mother, Maria Aguilar, told a local news station.
"It's not his fault for me bringing him here. He's afraid, afraid of leaving because he doesn't know anyone there."
A judge denied Mr Zamudio bail and he is still in an immigration detention facility in Georgia awaiting further action in his case.
Deportation ordered: 7 March, from Chicago
Ms Lino has lived in the US for the past 18 years as an undocumented immigrant. She married a US citizen and has six children.
At a routine check-in with Ice in Chicago, Ms Lino was told that although she had no criminal history or violations on her record, she would nonetheless be deported to Mexico by this summer.
"It's very hard imagining life without my mother," Ms Lino's daughter, Britzy, told the Washington Post. "We've been talking about what we're going to do, what our plans are."
Ms Lino, her family and community members, as well as US Representative Luis Gutierrez gathered in front of the Ice office in the Chicago federal building on Monday to protest against her deportation order. When their requests were ignored, Mr Gutierrez and other immigration activists staged a sit-in at the office and were arrested on Tuesday.
Ms Lino isn't being held in an immigration detention centre, but Ice officials told her that she should return to their offices, prepared for a flight to Mexico, on 12 July.
Deported: 2 March, from Houston, Texas
Mr Escobar moved to the US legally from El Salvador with his mother when he was 15, and both qualified for protected status. However, his mother made an error when filing their renewal paperwork when Escobar was still a teenager, causing his protected status to lapse.
He didn't know that he was living in the country illegally until the government put an order for his deportation in motion in 2006. Mr Escobar spent years trying to sort out his status and received a stay of deportation from a judge in 2012.
Mr Escobar is married to a US citizen, has two children and got a work permit so he could take construction jobs.
But under the Trump administration, the deportation process started up again for Mr Escobar, who was detained at his annual check-in with Ice and flown to San Salvador in early March.
His family is devastated.
"I'm begging President Donald Trump to look into my case and see if my husband is really destroying America," his wife told reporters.
Deported: 13 March, from Ice detention centre in Georgia
In 2006, Adem, originally from Addis Ababa, was convicted of female genital mutilation, a federal offence.
While living near Atlanta, Georgia, Adem used scissors to remove his two-year-old daughter's clitoris. His wife testified against him at the trial.
A judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison, and which he completed in October 2016.
Adem was transferred immediately into Ice custody where he had been awaiting a decision on his immigration status - he was deported this month back to Ethiopia.
The case was the first of its kind in the US and inspired state laws against genital mutilation in Georgia and other states.
Deportation hearing: 6 February, Chicago
Perez joined the US Army on his 23rd birthday in April 2001. At the time, he was a green card holder, as were his parents, who immigrated legally to the US from Mexico. He served in Afghanistan in 2003.
When he returned to America, he made the common assumption that he had been granted citizenship automatically by virtue of his military service. In reality, he was still a lawful permanent resident.
The transition back to civilian life did not go smoothly for Perez. He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and started using and distributing cocaine. Perez went to prison on drugs charges for seven years, and when the sentence was up in February, he was transferred directly into Ice custody.
He faces a deportation order to Mexico because of his felony drug conviction.
Perez's son and a daughter still live in the Chicago area, as do his parents and siblings.
"We want our brother home," Perez's sister, Sandra Marshall, said at a press conference. "He's been gone for a long time. No holidays together. He needs to see his kids, his kids need to know him again."
Arrested: 7 March, Nogales, Arizona
US Customs and Border Patrol agents arrested Rene Murillo-Almansa as he was crossing the border into the US near Nogales, Arizona.
When officers ran a background check, they noticed that he had a criminal record that reached back to the 1990s.
Murillo-Almansa was convicted of the sexual assault of a minor in 1994 and served 26 months in jail, followed by a two-year probation.
In February, he was deported, but crossed back into the US illegally. He now faces felony charges for illegal re-entry and will probably be deported again.
A bill brought by the Labour MP Pat Glass was backed by 253 votes to 37, a majority of 216.
The government wants to cut the number of MPs by 50 and create constituencies roughly the same size.
The changes would see Northern Ireland lose one of its 18 MPs and Belfast's four Westminster seats would go down to three.
If the move goes ahead it could cause difficulties for well-known politicians including the Ulster Unionist Party MP, Tom Elliott, Alasdair McDonnell of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) deputy leader Nigel Dodds.
Well known seats could also disappear including Lagan Valley, West Tyrone and Mid-Ulster.
There would also be new names on the electoral map such as Dalriada, Glenshane, and West Down.
Last month, the BBC Northern Ireland programme The View reported that a number of Tory MPS would vote against the planned reduction which could put the entire proposal in jeopardy.
Mr Dodds said the political parties at Westminster, bar the Conservatives, voted against the plans.
He said: "With rebels in their own ranks added in, the government needs to face reality and pull the plug now."
The North Belfast MP told the Commons that if the government proposals were passed, the majority of Northern Ireland seats will be "represented by abstentionists".
Sinn Fein's four MPs abstain from taking their seats in the House of Commons.
It is thought that Labour will lose the most seats under the boundary changes intended to be introduced in time for a general election in 2020.
During the debate in Westminster Labour MP Pat Glass argued that plans to reduce the number of MPs would mean politicians would become more remote from their constituents.
Her Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill aims to ensure constituencies:
She told MPs her bill was not motivated by self-interest as she intended to stand down from her constituency at the next general election.
She also expressed concerns about cutting the number of MPs while the number of peers in the House of Lords are increased regularly.
Conservative MP Wendy Morton spoke out against Ms Glass's bill, calling it "regressive".
Ms Morton said she was elected on a manifesto pledge to reduce the number of MPs and it would be "wrong" to ignore the views of the public.
The Cabinet Office minister Chris Skidmore said the government remain focussed on pushing through boundary changes.
He said: "The government remains committed to ensuring that we have a democracy that works for everyone, ensuring that every seat is of equal size, so that each person's vote is equal."
Ms Glass's bill will now progress to committee stage.
However, it is unlikely to become law without the government support.
It was a tournament full of intrigue.
England retained the title, but ended on a flat note as a repeat Grand Slam proved out of reach in Dublin.
Ireland's rousing final-day performance hid disappointments on the road and a failure to fulfil their favourites' tag.
Scotland won three matches for the first time since 2006, but suffered a record-equalling defeat by the Auld Enemy.
Wales finished fifth, but were just a few minutes and seconds respectively from victories over England and France. That would have given the table a very different look.
But what does it all mean? Fortunately, former Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips, ex-England centre Jeremy Guscott and Ireland legend Keith Wood are here to help unpick it.
The trio have handed out their Six Nations awards before trying to get their head around who should follow in their footsteps and represent the British and Irish Lions on the summer tour of New Zealand.
Mike Phillips: For me, it has to go to a guy who has won the tournament, and Owen Farrell has been outstanding. His distribution skills at inside centre have given England an extra dimension, his kicking has been immaculate and defensively he is never going to let you down.
Jeremy Guscott: Joe Launchbury might not have been one of England's first-choice second rows at the start of the season, with Saracens pair George Kruis and Maro Itoje in harness, but he has pushed his way in. He is just 100% commitment, there is no halt to his work-rate. He is an all-action, in-your-face player, making a tackle one moment and a carry the next. It takes a huge amount of fitness for a man that size to soak up the hits, get off the floor and keep getting through the work.
Keith Wood: Notwithstanding the final-round defeat against Ireland, where it was difficult for any of the England backs to get going, Owen Farrell has been excellent.
Mike Phillips: Elliot Daly only made his first England start in November but has really taken the chance to make himself a first-choice pick on the wing. He has backed up every great performance with another.
Jeremy Guscott: All I want as a back is for my scrum-half to provide whip-fast service and Baptiste Serin has come in and delivered that for France to get their backline moving. He focuses on that part of his game, but can make a break as well.
Keith Wood: There has been a sense of joy every time Serin has got his hands on the ball. That is something that has been missing from French rugby for a while.
Mike Phillips: I think you have to look at the opposition and the way Wales cut through a strong Ireland team with Scott Williams barrelling through midfield, Rhys Webb and Leigh Halfpenny linking up and then George North finishing out wide was sensational.
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Jeremy Guscott: England wing Elliot Daly's decisive try at the death against Wales was just so well executed. The passes from George Ford to Owen Farrell and then Farrell to Daly were pinpoint. Daly still had to burn off Alex Cuthbert and the whole thing came together in a magical 10 seconds or so.
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Keith Wood: The same for me. It was not so much Daly's involvement but the two passes beforehand were perfection. And you very rarely get anything in rugby that is perfect.
Mike Phillips: Wales' 22-9 win over Ireland was a great way to bounce back from the defeats by England and Scotland in the previous two weeks. There was a lot of pressure on the lads and, as a Welshman, it was great to see the guts they showed.
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Jeremy Guscott: That Wales win over Ireland was the most gladiatorial, intense game of rugby that I have seen live and up close in a long time. It was bruising, brutal and brilliant. It reminded me of the battle scene that was the British and Irish Lions' second Test defeat by South Africa in 2009.
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Keith Wood: Ireland's win over England was the first Six Nations match I have attended as a fan rather than for work - either as a player or in another role - since 1992. I went with my wife and children and to have that victory out of the dirt and murk of Dublin was the perfect family day out.
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Mike Phillips: When I switched on the television midway though the match, expecting to find England 30 or 40 points up against Italy at Twickenham. Instead, Italy were leading, with their 'no-ruck'tactics creating chaos. It was so unexpected, so innovative and such a talking point. I thought we would be spending the next week at Sale trying to work out how to counter it!
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Jeremy Guscott: When England captain Dylan Hartley and team-mate James Haskell asked for clarification about Italy's tactics and referee Romain Poite delivered that brilliant line: "I am a referee, not a coach." To deliver that in the middle of the hurly-burly was exquisite. It showed the game's human side.
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Keith Wood: The fact the clock stopped at 99 minutes and 55 seconds, after very nearly 20 minutes of added time, in that France v Wales game was just odd on every single level. I was at the Aviva and just couldn't understand what was happening in Paris. With the allowance that the organisers make to ensure that the games don't overlap, it just didn't make sense to me.
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Mike Phillips: Some form of relegation has got to come in for me. Italy have improved since their introduction in 2000, but the prospect of dropping out would spur them on again. They are too comfortable, knowing their place in the tournament is assured ever year. The prospect of Georgia potentially coming in would be exciting as well.
Jeremy Guscott: It was an excellent tournament - I think the performance has stepped up from where it has been in previous years. There is nothing that I would especially change.
Keith Wood: I have not been a fan of how replacements are used for a long time. If there were fewer of them, I think you would get lighter weight guys with more stamina who could last 80 minutes. You wouldn't get that situation where a team have worked hard to get on top over their opposite numbers only to see them replaced by fresh legs.
I understand you have to have cover for safety reasons in the front row but perhaps you could limit the replacements to a front row, a utility back and a utility forward.
Mike Phillips: It was tough on the wing, but I think the Scots need to be rewarded for their campaign and that edged Tommy Seymour ahead of Elliot Daly. Sam Warburton might well go as captain and first choice under Warren Gatland, but, for me,Justin Tipuric just edges it at open-side flanker. It is very close, though.
Jeremy Guscott: My selection is based purely on form. If we had to play the All Blacks this week, and everyone was fit, this is what I would go for. Justin Tipuric gets very close to earning a spot in the back row, but is just edged out by the combined excellence of team-mate Sam Warburton and Ireland's CJ Stander.
Keith Wood: At this moment I just can't pick a Lions XV. We are in the middle of March and the first Test is not for more than three months. There are so many factors to consider.
You have the alchemy of how different combinations work together, how players have done against New Zealand in the past and there will always be a bolter. There is always a player who comes on the tour and is expected to be a bit-part player but makes a huge leap in performance surrounded by great players.
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The clubs are charged with failing to ensure their players conducted themselves properly.
Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic will not face any further action after he clashed with Everton midfielder James McCarthy in the 86th minute.
Jose Mourinho's side won 1-0 in Wednesday's Premier League game.
But there was controversy late on as Everton had Gareth Barry sent off for a second bookable offence after he tripped Willian.
That foul sparked a melee during which Ivanovic locked his arm around McCarthy's neck and then pushed his head towards the midfielder.
After the game, Toffees' boss Roberto Martinez claimed the Chelsea player should have been dismissed for the contact.
"Ivanovic's behaviour is wrong," said Martinez. "He grabs McCarthy around his neck in a very forceful manner, then puts his head against him. James McCarthy doesn't react.
"If you want to be on top of the law, that's a red card and we got nothing out of that moment."
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In Premier League matches if an incident has not been seen by the match officials a three-man panel of former referees review it after the game and advise if any action should be taken.
The FA said: "For an FA charge to follow, all three panel members must agree it is a sending-off offence. In this instance, the panel did not believe the conduct was worthy of a dismissal. "
The full charge facing both teams is that they 'failed to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative behaviour'.
The TV series is a spin off of the How To Train Your Dragon films, which are based on children's stories written by Cressida Cowell.
The author's tales are influenced by childhood holidays spent in the Inner Hebrides.
The characters in Defenders of Berk have been given Gaelic voices so it can be screened on BBC Alba.
Glasgow-based Solus Productions has produced the 11-part series for the TV channel.
Peppa Pig and Postman Pat have been among other children's adapted for a Gaelic audience.
The How To Train Your Dragon films feature characters voiced by Scottish actors Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson.
Claudia Philips was last seen leaving the house, in Crail, where she was staying, at about 13:00 on Tuesday.
At that time she was heading towards Anstruther along the Fife coastal path.
Police Scotland said the 51-year-old had failed to return to the house and concern was now growing for her welfare. They are appealing for information.
Ms Philips was described as white, 5ft 2in, of slim build with grey, wavy, collar-length hair.
Insp Neil McKenzie, of Police Scotland, said: "Claudia is on holiday in Crail, so is unlikely to know the north east Fife area well and as such we are keen to trace her as soon as possible.
"Anyone with information that can help us locate Claudia should contact police immediately."
Dougie Imrie's looping header proved the difference between the teams.
The result moves Accies six points clear of their opponents and continues a long unbeaten home run, now stretching to nine games.
Motherwell's lack of goalscoring threat once again proved to be their downfall as they fall to 10th.
Only bottom side Partick Thistle have scored fewer than Ian Baraclough's side, with the two set to meet at Fir Park next weekend.
In truth, this was a game of few chances at either end, but crucially Imrie took one of those created by Accies.
Antons Kurakins swung in a deep cross from the left and the winger climbed above Joe Chalmers to head past Motherwell goalkeeper Connor Ripley.
The visitors had survived two big scares in the first period, which was otherwise low on thrills.
Lucas Tagliapietra thought he had given Accies an early lead as he headed Ali Crawford's free kick into the net, but referee Craig Thomson awarded a foul for an infringement on Ripley.
And then, late in the half, Crawford hammered a left-foot shot off Ripley's bar from just outside the box.
Following Imrie's strike, Ripley did well to push away Greg Docherty's fierce shot, to keep Motherwell in the game.
But save for a late penalty shout for handball by Tagliapietra, they scarcely looked like salvaging anything from the match and on current form could be heading for another battle at the bottom end of the table.
Match ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Motherwell 0.
Second Half ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Motherwell 0.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Christian Nade.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Jesus Garcia Tena.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Christian Nade.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Grant Gillespie.
Foul by Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical).
Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Attempt blocked. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Jesus Garcia Tena (Hamilton Academical).
Jake Taylor (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Louis Longridge replaces Greg Docherty.
Lucas (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Louis Moult (Motherwell).
Substitution, Motherwell. Dom Thomas replaces Lionel Ainsworth.
Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Grimshaw (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Gramoz Kurtaj (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Motherwell. Scott McDonald replaces Keith Lasley.
Attempt missed. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Jesus Garcia Tena replaces Darren Lyon.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Liam Grimshaw.
Attempt saved. Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Darren Lyon (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Stephen McManus (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen McManus (Motherwell).
Goal! Hamilton Academical 1, Motherwell 0. Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) header from the right side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Antons Kurakins.
Substitution, Motherwell. Marvin Johnson replaces Theo Robinson.
Foul by Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical).
Jake Taylor (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Theo Robinson.
Attempt saved. Kieran Kennedy (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Michael McGovern.
Attempt saved. Theo Robinson (Motherwell) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical).
The band told fans there were "rumours" the show could be hit by a "next wave of terror attacks" like Paris.
In a Facebook post they said they had worked with authorities and the local promoter to try to boost security.
However they could not "ensure that our fans would be safe at the event" so had been forced to postpone the show.
According to the International Business Times, the threat had been uncovered by the collective of online activists known as Anonymous.
It said it had uncovered information that the Islamic State group was planning several attacks at venues in Paris, the Five Finger Death Punch show in Milan and the WWE Survivor Series event in Atlanta.
"We did our best in a very short amount of time to work with the local promoter and authorities to ensure that security would be adequate," read Five Finger Death Punch's statement online.
"Unfortunately, we did not receive confirmation in time to satisfy our requirements and to ensure that our fans would be safe at the event. Therefore, we were forced to postpone the show to a later date."
The Las Vegas band had called off a show in Strasbourg the week before "out of respect for the victims and to observe France's three national days of mourning".
More than 120 people were killed during the attacks in Paris, 89 of them at the Bataclan concert venue where rock band Eagles of Death Metal had been performing.
In a separate Facebook post published at the time, Five Finger Death Punch told fans: "We followed the tragic events in Paris Friday night with great sadness. We are devastated at the loss of life and have friends and fans who were at the concert."
They added: "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and those affected by the terror attacks in France."
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust said its nurseries at Hartlepool Hospital and University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton had become uneconomic to run.
Protesters gathered at the Stockton hospital from 11:00 BST.
Unison said a consultation over the closures was "neither fair nor meaningful".
The protest was timed to coincide with a meeting of the trust's executive board.
Fifty-four full and part-time staff will be affected and they have urged the trust to reconsider its decision.
Mark Edmundson, of Unison, said "Unison lodged a formal dispute with the trust earlier this month as this consultation is clearly neither fair nor meaningful.
"A fixed intention to close was made long before the trust fully engaged with Unison."
A North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust spokeswoman said: "We have taken the decision to close our nurseries because they are no longer economic to run.
"Because of cuts in grants we were having to subsidise the nurseries with money which should have been directed to patient care and this can no longer continue.
"We are currently having one to one discussions with the nursery staff and we are looking to redeploy staff where possible."
Economy Secretary Ken Skates has written to AMs saying the sites have been chosen from a list of 46 proposals for more detailed scrutiny.
They include new suburban stations in Cardiff, Newport, Swansea and Wrexham.
The Deeside industrial park, Llangefni on Anglesey, Bow Street near Aberystwyth and St Clears, Carmarthenshire, are also on the list.
In his letter, Mr Skates said the first part of a three-stage process had whittled the list of 46 down to 12.
"The more costly work on producing detailed cost estimates for a new station and timetable modelling is only carried out on the highest priorities," he wrote.
"The stage two assessment will look in more detail at the strength of the financial and economic case for a new railway station, including advice from Network Rail on deliverability."
Bow Street, Llangefni and St Clears had stations open during the 19th Century railway boom but saw them close in the 1960s in the Beeching cuts, which reduced Britain's rail network by a third.
South Wales Police said the black Ford Focus hit a wall near a McDonald's on Old Road, Briton Ferry, at about 04:00 BST.
The matter has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, as officers had previously searched for the vehicle, following reports of suspicious activity.
Witnesses are asked to call police on 101.
The men who died are believed to have been the only occupants of the car.
Firefighters used cutting equipment to free them, and a rapid response paramedic along with two ambulances attended, but the men were pronounced dead.
Police want to speak to anybody who saw the Ford as it travelled eastbound from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, along the M4, and over Briton Ferry bridge.
They want to contact the occupants of a black vehicle - believed to be a taxi - seen on the Briton Ferry roundabout at the time of the incident.
In a statement, South Wales Police said: "In accordance with force policy and statutory guidance, South Wales Police can confirm the incident has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission as prior to the collision, officers were searching for the vehicle after receiving information from Heddlu Dyfed-Powys Police that it had been seen acting suspiciously in the Ammanford area."
The charge follows Saturday's Championship game at the John Smith's Stadium, which Burton won 1-0 thanks to Jackson Irvine's stoppage-time winner.
The FA allege that, on approximately 88 minutes, both clubs "failed to ensure that their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion".
Both the Terriers and the Brewers have until 18:00 BST on 7 April to respond.
The service for Margaret Elizabeth Challis, 66, from Merthyr Tydfil, is being held at Georgetown Chapel, in the town.
She died in a collision on the A470 near Storey Arms, Brecon, on 6 March.
Her service follows last week's funerals for Alesha O'Connor and Rhodri Miller, both 17 and from Barry.
A funeral for Corey Price, 17, also from the Vale of Glamorgan town, is on 25 March.
Gal Gadot was formerly in the Israeli army. Military service is compulsory in the country.
The Lebanese interior ministry banned the film hours before its release, on a recommendation from the General Security directorate, reports say.
The nations are officially at war, but have observed a ceasefire since 2006.
A formal request to ban Wonder Woman was first made by the Ministry of Economy and Trade, which oversees a long-standing policy of boycotting Israeli exports, which it considers "enemy attempts to infiltrate our markets".
But the decision took cinemas by surprise. One of the first indications that the ban was approved came from Lebanon's Grand Cinemas chain, which tweeted on Wednesday: "#WonderWoman has been banned in #Lebanon."
Just 12 hours before, it had responded to a follower's concerns, saying: "It won't be banned dear."
The film was due to have had its Lebanese premiere in Beirut the same night.
Film distributor Tony Chacra of the company Joseph Chacra and Sons said that decision was "very frustrating". "The movie has nothing to do with Israel," he told the Reuters news agency.
As news of a possible ban spread, Lebanese users on social media site Reddit said publicity for the movie had been high.
"I am Lebanese and I'm seeing ads for WW everywhere in Beirut. Pretty much everyone of my friends want to see it. This is just a vocal minority [against it]," one user wrote.
Ms Galdot has previously appeared as Wonder Woman in 2016's Batman v Superman, which was shown in Lebanese cinemas.
The Ministry of Economy and Trade had requested that movie be banned on the same basis, but was not successful.
Lebanon and Israel have no diplomatic relations.
Lebanon's Hezbollah movement fought a brief war against Israeli forces in 2006. Since then, a United Nations-monitored ceasefire has largely been observed.
However, there have been occasional border clashes between the two countries, and Israel has targeted Hezbollah with strikes in Syria in recent years.
Syria blamed "terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda" for the blast, which hit a central district near the headquarters of Syria's ruling Baath Party.
TV pictures showed images of bodies, wrecked cars and shattered windows.
The violence comes as Russia and the Arab League say they want to broker direct government-opposition talks.
No group has yet admitted the attack.
The Syrian foreign ministry blamed the bombing on "armed terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda that receive financial and logistic help from abroad".
The militant Islamist al-Nusra Front previously said it had carried out many of the bombings that have rocked Syria since the uprising began in March 2011.
Meanwhile Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the war as "a road to nowhere".
The opposition Syrian National Coalition is holding a two-day meeting in Egypt to discuss a framework for a possible solution.
Also on Thursday, the UN and Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, agreed to remain in office through the rest of 2013, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told the Associated Press. Mr Brahimi's contract was due to expire on Friday.
The UN has estimated up to 70,000 people have died in the conflict in the past two years.
Police and witnesses said the blast was a car bomb. It went off in the central Mazraa neighbourhood, close to the Baath offices and Russian embassy.
State and pro-regime TV showed pictures of dead bodies and destroyed cars. State media said at least 53 were killed and another 200 injured in the blast. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activist group, said at least 42 had died, most of them civilians.
Surrounding roads are reported to have been closed off to traffic and firefighters and medical staff were soon at the scene.
Witnesses told AP news agency the car had exploded at a security checkpoint between the Russian embassy and the Baath Party central headquarters.
"It was huge. Everything in the shop turned upside down,'' one local resident said. He said three of his employees were injured by flying glass that killed a young girl who was walking by when the blast hit.
"I pulled her inside the shop but she was almost gone. We couldn't save her. She was hit in the stomach and head."
State media said the explosion had struck near a school and clinic and that schoolchildren were among the casualties.
It seems to have been targeted at the Baath party offices, but also affected residential areas, says the BBC's Lina Sinjab in Damascus.
Heavy fighting between government and rebel forces continued around the city, with the government carrying out air strikes in the suburbs.
Shortly after the car bomb, two mortars were fired at a military headquarters in Damascus, reports say.
And there were two other explosions in the city, also at security checkpoints, according to the SOHR.
The UK-based activist group is one of the most prominent organisations documenting and reporting incidents and casualties in the Syrian conflict. The SOHR says its reports are impartial, though its information cannot be independently verified.
Mr Lavrov said the Kremlin and the Arab League wanted to establish direct contact between the Syrian government and the opposition.
Speaking in Moscow, where he hosted league officials and several Arab foreign ministers, the Russian foreign minister said that sitting down at a negotiating table was the only way to end the conflict without irreparable damage to Syria.
"Neither side can allow itself to rely on a military solution to the conflict, because it is a road to nowhere, a road to mutual destruction of the people," he said.
Mr Lavrov and Arab League General Secretary Nabil Elaraby said their priority was to create a transitional government to navigate a way out of the violence.
No conditions for the negotiations have been set, they said.
The proposal initially received a cool reception from the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), with senior member Abdelbaset Sieda insisting Mr Assad and his allies "must go first".
"After that we can discuss with others in the regime who didn't share in the killing of our people," he said.
But the news agency Reuters says it has seen a draft SNC communique being discussed in Cairo which demonstrates an apparent softening in the group's stance.
The document reasserts the group's position that Mr Assad's apparatus cannot be part of any political solution in Syria, but omits previous demands that Mr Assad's regime must go even before any talks, Reuters says.
But that may still prove unacceptable in Damascus, says the BBC's James Reynolds in Istanbul.
Ingram was unfit for the start of their season due to knee surgery, after playing only limited-overs cricket for Glamorgan in 2016.
A Warriors statement said: "Colin feels that he would not do justice to the role of captain.
"His rehabilitation is going well, but he is some time away from getting out into the middle."
Ingram, 31, told BBC Wales Sport in August that he expected to return to action in October or November.
After joining Glamorgan in November 2014 as a non-overseas player under the Kolpak ruling, Ingram was the Welsh county's 2016 Player of the Year in white-ball cricket, but was not fit enough to play in the Championship.
"Colin has been an outstanding captain and we are grateful for his leadership over the past season," coach Malibongwe Maketa told the Warriors website.
"He still has a big role to play as a senior player in the squad and we are looking forward to his continued commitment to the team albeit not in a captaincy role."
Ingram, who played in 31 one-day internationals and nine Twenty20 internationals for South Africa, last played for the national side in November 2013.
"So, what's your opinion on group sex?" asked Evgeny Lebedev, Britain's youngest newspaper proprietor, who had flown to Minsk to interview the Belarusian leader.
The question, prompted by comments about the merits of group sex made by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a discussion about jailed punk band Pussy Riot, caused Mr Lukashenko to pause for just a fraction of a second, before he shrugged his shoulders and said matter of factly: "I really don't have an opinion on group sex."
It felt as if the room, full of political advisers and camera operators, sighed with relief as the conversation moved to the apparently less awkward issue of human rights abuses.
But the brief exchange on group sex was hardly the only surreal moment in the conversation between the son of a Russian oligarch, once labelled London's latest "It boy", and the man whose iron rule has earned him the title of Europe's last dictator.
Seated in ornate chairs in front of a faux fireplace, slim Mr Lebedev, dressed in fashionable tight grey jeans and the bulky, plain-speaking president in a dark grey suit made an odd pair.
The four-hour interview touched on many subjects, from democracy and economy, to the fall of the USSR and the war in Iraq, from Mr Lukashenko's friendship with the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi - "I told Muammar 'beware of Europe!'" the Belarusian president recalled.
Also on the agenda were his seven-year-old son Kolya - who often attends official meeting with him, something Mr Lukashenko claimed was because the boy was so attached to his father that he will not go to sleep without him, not because, as has been claimed, he is being groomed for succession and the human rights abuses that Mr Lukashenko is accused of.
There was even a brief toast with the specially brewed "presidential vodka", although Mr Lukashenko took only a tiny sip, saying he does not handle alcohol well.
Mr Lukashenko, who has been in power for 18 years, is banned from travelling to the United States and Western Europe. He has been accused of torture and human rights abuses - he has thrown his opponents in prison, banned protests and restricted freedom of expression.
Western journalists rarely get a chance to hold him to account, but Mr Lebedev managed to get the rare opportunity through his personal connections. BBC Newsnight was invited along, but as observers not interviewers.
Mr Lebedev, who hates being called an oligarch, went to Belarus as a journalist for the Independent, the British newspaper, which along with London's Evening Standard newspaper, his father Alexander Lebedev bought for him.
Speaking the night before the interview, Mr Lebedev had said he was determined to ask tough questions, adding: "I am told that apparently the president is ready for a fight".
But the interview never became much of a fight and from his very first answer Mr Lukashenko took firm charge of it.
Mr Lebedev's father made his billions after the break-up of the Soviet Union, in the chaotic, rapid privatisation of state monopolies that made a handful of Russians rich and left millions in poverty.
Mr Lukashenko never allowed this to happen in Belarus, and he dismissed Mr Lebedev's first question asking whether in the early 1990s Russia chose democracy over fairness, while Belarus went the opposite route:
"The sort of question you ask makes me wonder: but isn't fairness the very essence of democracy?" Mr Lukashenko said. "I have always believed that genuine democracy is fairness. The basis of my politics is first of all fairness and honesty."
"I would not say what happened in Russia in the 1990s was democracy, it was anarchy, and here you are right, we managed to nip these anarchic tendencies in the bud, we saved the country," he said.
Time and again through the interview, Mr Lukashenko referred to the stability he had brought to the people of Belarus.
"Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe," he said.
But the relative stability of Belarus comes at a price.
There is no presidential term limit here and the 1996 referendum consolidated Mr Lukashenko's power. Not a single election in Belarus has been deemed as free or fair by the West. Not a single opposition candidate won a seat in the recent, parliamentary vote. Protests have been violently supressed.
But every time Mr Lebedev pointed at deficiencies of the Belarusian political system, Mr Lukashenko came back with an articulate and colourful attack on what he described as hypocrisy inherent within Western democracies:
"Americans want to democratise us. OK, but why not go and democratise Saudi Arabia. Are we anything like Saudi Arabia? No we are far from that. So why aren't they democratising Saudi Arabia? Because they are bastards but they are their bastards," Mr Lukashenko said at one point - adapting Franklin D Roosevelt's famous description of Nicaraguan leader Anastasio Somoza.
"Don't you think you have too much power?" Mr Lebedev asked him.
"Yes it is a lot of power," Mr Lukashenko readily conceded, "but I believed then (in 1996), and many believed then, that we had no choice. We had to save the country, unite around something or someone to survive,"
"Isn't it time to open up now?" Mr Lebedev countered.
"If there wasn't for this insane pressure from you maybe we would, this unnecessary pressure which is trying to separate us from Russia for example. You are having the opposite effect, you are pushing us away from that very process. You don't want any democracy here," Mr Lukashenko replied.
The West's real agenda, the president said, was to open up Belarus' state controlled economy, which would make it vulnerable to the economic problems of the rest of Europe.
But many disagree with this assessment. Irina Khalip is a Belarusian opposition journalist for Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper also owned by Mr Lebedev's father.
In 2010 Irina and her husband - opposition leader and former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikova - were jailed for organising protests. International pressure got Irina out of jail and from under house arrest, but she is not allowed to leave the city, is visited regularly by the police, often in the middle of the night, and has another trial pending.
Several people have asked Mr Lukashenko about the fate of Irina Khalip before, and yet he looked surprised when Mr Lebedev broached the subject.
Mr Lukashenka said he thought Ms Khalip was already out of the country. He then turned to his aides and told them to send her to Moscow with Mr Lebedev. "Don't bother bringing her back" he added.
Minutes later a memo to that effect arrived. "You see, being dictator isn't such a bad thing," Mr Lukashenko joked handing the memo over to Mr Lebedev.
Later that day Mr Lebedev brought Ms Khalip the news that she could travel again. Irina was visibly grateful, but also sceptical. Mr Lukashenko's Belarus, she explained, can be a dark, secretive place where what is said in public does not necessarily correspond to reality.
Take for example the case of the Minsk metro bombing, an explosion that killed 15 people in April of 2011. Within 48 hours, police arrested two young men. Within weeks they were convicted and executed.
A BBC Newsnight investigation in July into the attack raised the possibility that security services were involved in the bombing, and the mother of one of the men said confessions were extracted under torture.
Mr Lebedev asked the president whether he had any doubts about the verdict.
"Not a single one," Mr Lukashenko answered firmly. He said that allegations that confessions were extracted under torture were not true. He spoke at length about how international criminologists, including teams from Israel, France and Interpol, backed the result of the investigation, which he said was under his personal control.
"All were unanimous that these were the people who had committed these acts of terrorism," he said.
Although we, the BBC, were present only as observers I told the president about the findings of the Newsnight investigation and Mr Lebedev's own Independent newspaper, which covered the trial extensively, and asked him why the verdict was so rushed.
In response Mr Lukashenko suggested that I watch the footage of the entire trial myself before "jumping to conclusions".
"Are you trying to convince me that I blew myself up?" he said "We have an image of a calm, stable Belarus, which we don't want to lose. The worst thing for us is to lose that. Are we such idiots that we would have planted and detonated the bomb ourselves?"
After the interview, the president put his arm through Mr Lebedev's and the two men disappeared for a private meeting. Mr Lebedev later told me he came to Minsk with a message from somebody in Europe, but refused to elaborate.
When I caught up with him afterwards Mr Lebedev sounded pleased with the interview, and seemed genuinely surprised when I asked him why he spent so much time debating with Mr Lukashenko on the perils of Western democracy instead of challenging him on problems in Belarus. Or why he chose to grill him on failure to rename the KGB, but not on torture that it is accused of.
"I did challenge him," Mr Lebedev replied,"... and I managed to get Irina Khalip out".
But back at her house Ms Khalip said she has nothing to celebrate yet:
"Lukashenko made a promise to Yevgeny Lebedev, he didn't say it to the criminal police who are looking after me. Words don't have legal meaning. We need a piece of paper with a signature and a stamp - even in a totalitarian state," she said.
And even if Mr Lukashenko keeps his promise, she does not want to leave Minsk. This is her home. Like so many others, Ms Khalip wants to find her freedom in Belarus.
The 28-year-old Israel international, who is recovering from surgery on an ankle injury, will remain at the Amex Stadium until the summer of 2019.
Kayal has scored three goals in 72 appearances for the Seagulls since joining from Celtic in January 2015.
"It is important to us that we keep hold of our key players," Albion boss Chris Hughton said.
The new note will debut in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the US Constitution's 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
The treasury will seek the public's input in the selection, looking for a "champion for our inclusive democracy".
Former US political leaders - all white men - currently headline US notes.
The woman who the Treasury Department ultimately selects will replace Alexander Hamilton, a key figure in the American Revolution and the first secretary of the US Treasury.
Hamilton began appearing on the $10 note in 1929. He along with diplomat and inventor Ben Franklin are the only non-presidents featured on current US notes.
Women have been featured on US money before, but the notes and coins were not widely used. Most recently women's rights activist Susan B Anthony and Native American Sacagawea appeared on dollar coins, but both coins quickly went out circulation.
The primary goal of the redesign is to add measures to thwart counterfeiters, the Treasury Department said. But women's groups have recently pressed for more representation on US notes.
"We have only made changes to the faces on our currency a few times since bills were first put into circulation, and I'm proud that the new 10 will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman," said Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.
In March, an independent group held a contest to select a woman to headline the $20 note, replacing former President Andrew Jackson.
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman was the public's top choice, beating out finalists, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, civil rights activist Rosa Parks and leader of the Cherokee nation Wilma Mankiller.
Tubman was known as the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad that allowed many slaves to escape to freedom in the 1850s.
Mr Lew will make a decision about the selected woman by the end of year.
Since giving up his membership last year to focus on the PGA Tour, the 38-year-old Englishman has climbed from 75th to 24th in the world rankings.
Casey said staying in America was the "right decision for my family" but he was "very sad" he would not be able to qualify for Europe's Ryder Cup team.
Europe captain Darren Clarke said Casey's decision was "disappointing".
Clarke can only select players who hold European Tour membership.
Former world number three Casey played in Europe's nine-point victories in 2004 and 2006, and their defeat at Valhalla in 2008.
He was left in tears when he was overlooked for a wildcard by Colin Montgomerie in 2010, when he was ranked seventh in the world.
Casey said: "With my wife and young son as my priority, I have decided to continue to concentrate on the PGA Tour, which has worked well for us this past year.
"I believe this decision will help me to be the best I can be both on and off the course."
Clarke, who played alongside Casey at Oakland Hills in 2004 and the K Club in 2006, said: "It is obvious that representing Europe in the Ryder Cup is not on Paul's priority list, which is disappointing, but I wish him all the best for the future.
"The focus is firmly on the players who are committed to the European cause as we move towards Hazeltine and I look forward to working with these players over the next 10 months."
The 2016 Ryder Cup begins on 27 September.
A glass shield now protects the House of the Tragic Poet, where tourists can see the dog with the inscription "Cave Canem" - Latin for "Beware of the dog".
Frescoes at the house's entrance were also restored. Ash from a volcanic eruption buried Pompeii in AD79.
A staffing dispute caused long queues at Pompeii on Friday, in searing heat.
Pompeii gives visitors an extraordinary insight into everyday life in ancient Rome because many buildings were protected from the elements under the thick blanket of ash from Mount Vesuvius.
The site, near the southern city of Naples, has suffered from funding problems for years. Staff unions at Pompeii have criticised a management reorganisation there.
The House of the Tragic Poet has some of Pompeii's finest examples of interior decoration, including scenes from Greek mythology.
But the house's owners remain unknown - they may have died in the eruption along with many other Pompeii citizens.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde needs to save about £69m in the coming year.
Options include closing Lightburn Hospital and the birthing unit at Vale of Leven. Consultation begins next month with a decision due in December.
Scottish ministers have said they would not approve any plans that "do not properly reflect" local concerns.
The board has claimed that the proposals are motivated by the clinical need for change and would not in themselves save £69m.
NHS GGC chairman John Brown said: "It is only right that the public have an opportunity to hear the clinical case for change and to have their views heard.
"We want to ensure that all affected, including those who have campaigned against change, are able to become fully involved in this process of service modernisation.
"Our services are continually evolving and improving. Whilst the proposals do signal change, it is important to stress that, in each instance we are planning to retain local services within local communities."
Other proposals which will be part of the consultation are ending in-patient care at the Centre for Integrative Care at Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow.
Another is transferring some services for children at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley to Glasgow.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "No final decisions have been made on these proposals and the Scottish government has not approved the proposals considered by the board."
Ms Robison pointed out that the government had ended "damaging uncertainty" and secured services at the Vale of Leven back in 2009.
It had also rejected, she said, proposals to close Lightburn Hospital in 2011 "because both patients and clinicians were of the view that the hospital provided high quality services that were greatly valued by the community".
The health secretary added: "Any proposals that do not properly reflect these concerns will not be approved by this government."
Scottish Labour's health spokesman Anas Sarwar urged the government to "step in to stop cuts to local services in Glasgow and the west of Scotland".
He believed that to do anything else would be "unacceptable".
Mr Sarwar added: "The NHS in Greater Glasgow and Clyde is facing £69m worth of cuts under the SNP government and that is putting local services on the line."
In January, NHS GGC said a leaked paper outlining £60m of possible cuts was a "discussion paper" rather than an "approved plan".
Now that the health board has working proposals for savings, these will be put to consultation before a final decision.
In a statement the accountancy firm said they "have now retired following a period of administrative leave".
Jon D'Arcy, Eamonn Donaghy, Arthur O'Brien and Paul Hollway were detained by HM Revenue and Customs on 25 November.
KPMG subsequently ordered its own internal investigation.
However, it said the arrests were not connected to its business or clients.
The company employs more than 200 people in its Belfast office.
KPMG added on Friday: "The firm has co-operated fully with the HMRC investigation which relates solely to the personal affairs of the four individuals."
The four are directors in a property investment company, JEAP Limited, which made a £4m loss when the Irish property market crashed in 2008.
Mr Donaghy was KPMG's head of tax in Belfast and was heavily involved in the campaign to devolve corporation tax powers to Northern Ireland.
Mr Hollway was the firm's head of corporate finance in Ireland and Mr D'Arcy its chairman.
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Lewis Stratford, 24, from Field Avenue, Oxford, crashed through the central reservation of the A34 in June and collided with another vehicle.
The other motorist, Australian national Gavin Roberts, 28, was killed.
Appearing at Reading Crown Court, Stratford admitted he was distracted by his phone. He was released on bail to be sentenced on 3 March.
The court heard that over a 35-minute period Stratford was speeding and made three "emotional" phone calls.
It was on the third call that he lost control of his Vauxhall Corsa and crashed through the barrier into Mr Roberts' BMW.
The defence argued Stratford had not been holding his phone at the time of the accident and it was in a cradle attached to his dashboard.
But Stratford was disqualified from driving with immediate effect and told to expect a custodial sentence.
Mr Roberts, who was living in Swindon where he worked for Network Rail, died of a brain injury on 15 June four days after the collision near the Compton junction in Oxfordshire. | A driver who crashed and killed a man while using a mobile phone has admitted causing death by dangerous driving. | 38,736,201 | 239 | 25 | false |
The operator will carry out the work on 27 and 28 December.
Passengers will face journeys of up to 90 minutes longer if they are travelling between south Wales and London over those two days.
Network Rail's Nick Mann said they "got it wrong last year".
Elsewhere, passengers travelling between north Wales and London are facing disruption because of engineering work on the West Coast main line over the same days with replacement buses running between Crewe and Stafford.
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Richard Ratcliffe said charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested in April, had called him from prison and said: "I can't bear to be in this place any longer."
She also said she missed her two-year-old daughter Gabriella "all the time".
Gabriella's passport was taken after her mother's arrest. The child is staying with her grandparents in Iran.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at Tehran airport after visiting her family on holiday.
The UK Foreign Office said it was "deeply concerned" about the reports of her sentence and ministers would continue to raise the case with Iranian officials.
Mr Ratcliffe, from north London, said his wife had phoned just before 09:00 BST on Friday to tell him she had been given a five-year sentence.
She told him: "It has been horrendous. I do not want to wake up each morning and remember where I am. I want to stay in my dreams."
She added: "I have been here so long. Do you understand what it is like to be a mother kept away from her child this long?
"I have missed over a fifth of her life. What does that do to her?"
The family say there has never been clear information about what Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is accused of, but Iranian officials have previously accused her of leading a "foreign-linked hostile network".
Mr Ratcliffe said he had asked his wife during the phone call what the charges against her were.
He said she had asked a guard who was standing next to her by the phone and the guard had said: "National security charges."
By Richard Galpin, BBC world affairs correspondent
For weeks following Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's arrest, her husband said nothing in public, hoping pressure from the Foreign Office might persuade Iranian authorities to release her quickly.
When nothing came of that, he started campaigning publicly for his wife and two-year-old daughter to be allowed to return to Britain.
The story was reported in the media in many countries, with more than 800,000 people signing a petition calling for her release.
But now that too seems to have failed, and may even have backfired.
The judge who convicted her made it clear he was unhappy about the media campaign, and even claimed it was evidence she was guilty.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have reportedly claimed her work in helping to provide training for journalists and human rights activists, was part of a plot to undermine Iran's government.
But it may be more about splits between the hardliners and moderates within the regime.
Alternatively, some analysts believe hardliners may want Western prisoners available to use as bargaining chips or for prisoner swaps.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her lawyer were in court to hear the sentence passed down, but Mr Ratcliffe said it was not clear whether she had been told what she was charged with.
He told the BBC it was possible that she knew but had been forbidden from telling her family.
"It remains extraordinary that Nazanin's interrogators clarify the sentence but not the crime - because there is none," he said.
The case was "shrouded in shadows and internal politics", he added.
He also noted the timing, saying the court's decision - on 6 September - came a day after the UK had appointed an ambassador to Iran for the first time since 2011.
"Nazanin's detention and charges have always felt like she and Gabriella are being held as a political bargaining chip for internal and international politics," Mr Ratcliffe said.
"The fact that she was sentenced with unrecognisable charges the day after the UK embassy was upgraded makes this all the clearer."
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is expected to serve her sentence in Evin Prison, where she is currently being held in a high-security wing controlled by the Revolutionary Guard.
Maziar Bahari, a journalist and former detainee at Evin Prison told the BBC it was an infamous jail with a history of executions and torture.
"Thousands of innocent lives perished in that prison and for someone like her who has not had any prison experience, being there will be a real torture," he said.
Mr Ratcliffe said he had told his wife she was "much loved".
"I have thousands of messages for her to read one day. They keep me going now," he said.
"They will be so important for her journey back once this cruelty is over.
"I told her we so look forward to having her home."
Mr Ratcliffe visited Downing Street in May as part of the campaign to free his wife, and last month Theresa May "raised concerns" over the case with Iran's president.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said Mrs May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson would continue to raise the case "with their counterparts in Iran".
She said the government would also "continue to press the Iranians for consular access and for due process to be followed".
Labour's Emily Thornberry, shadow foreign secretary, said it was "no longer good enough for Downing Street and the Foreign Office to 'raise concerns' about this case".
She said it was time to "demand answers".
Monique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said: "I want to reiterate my total support to Nazanin and her family in these terrible circumstances and I ask the Iranian authorities to release her as soon as possible.
"I am convinced of her innocence and reiterate that she had no dealings with Iran whatsoever in her professional capacity at the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"The foundation does not operate in Iran directly or indirectly."
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The Royal College of GPs is concerned that doctors from EU countries may not be allowed to stay in the UK.
It has called on all political parties to guarantee the status of healthcare professionals from the EU who are already working here.
The Scottish government said it was vital that GPs already in Scotland were protected, and that their successors could be attracted in future.
The number of GPs in Scotland has dropped by 90 in the past four years and there are projections that by 2021 the country could need an additional 800.
The Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland (RCGP) said that if 226 GPs from other EU countries working in Scotland had to leave following Brexit, it could have grave consequences for patient safety.
Chairman Dr Miles Mack, whose practice is in Dingwall in the Highlands, said: "To learn that Scotland could face the loss of an additional 4% of its already stretched GP workforce is extremely worrying.
"It is one in 25 of Scotland's GPs. It could negatively affect over 226,000 patients in Scotland.
"We are calling for government to safeguard the GP workforce during international negotiations by guaranteeing the status of healthcare professionals already working in Scotland and the UK.
"Last June's publication of the 2015 Primary Care Workforce Survey showed that numbers of Whole Time Equivalent GPs had already fallen by 90 since 2013 (around 2.4%, from 3,735 to 3,645).
"We are now faced with a possible removal of a further 226 GPs who, as nationals of other EU member states, might be lost to the workforce if their status is not protected.
"Again, we must call for immediate action to prevent that clear harm to the health service."
He added: "Repeated surveys have shown the considerable percentage of GPs in Scotland who plan to soon leave the service as a result of overwork and consistent underfunding. An enormous and urgent effort is required in Scotland to save general practice."
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "The uncertainty surrounding the UK's withdrawal from the EU presents us with many challenges for planning the future NHS and social care workforce.
"The contribution of EU and EEA [European Economic Area] nationals to our NHS cannot be overestimated. Doctors, nurses and care workers from across Europe help to staff our GP surgeries, our hospitals and our care homes."
UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has previously paid tribute to "the fantastic work carried out by doctors trained overseas" in the NHS.
Giving evidence to Westminster's health committee in January about the impact of Brexit, Mr Hunt said the prime minister had said one of the government's "top priorities, as part of the Brexit negotiations, is to secure their rights to continue to live and work in the UK".
Scottish Labour said "the GP crisis began long before Brexit". The party's health spokesman Anas Sarwar said they would call for "a special arrangement for NHS staff so we can continue to attract health care professionals to come and work here and make Scotland their home".
The Scottish Lib Dems said they supported RCGP Scotland's demands.
Moriarty enjoyed a fine Six Nations campaign despite Wales' three defeats, keeping usual first-choice number eight Taulupe Faletau out of the team.
The Gloucester player was rewarded with a place in Warren Gatland's 41-man Lions squad to tour New Zealand.
"This is Christmas and birthday all wrapped up in one," said Moriarty.
He continued: "I don't think it's sunk in properly yet - I was pretty emotional after that. It was a surprise with so many big names in that squad.
"The list was getting longer and longer and my doubt was setting in, I just couldn't believe it.
"I listened to on my phone at the same time as everyone else. I was sitting in a restaurant trying to eat my food."
Moriarty's inclusion was one of the most surprising elements of Wednesday's Lions squad announcement.
Among his competitors for a back-row Test place in New Zealand will be compatriots Faletau, Justin Tipuric and tour captain Sam Warburton.
Moriarty, whose father Paul and uncle Richard both played for Wales, will become the first man in his family to represent the Lions.
"It's definitely been an emotional day for all my family. I couldn't ask for anything more. This is the biggest achievement of my career to date so it's massive," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"I've not even had the Lions on my mind this season, until the end of the Six Nations.
"All I've been concentrating on is my own personal performance, and that's paid off for Gloucester and for Wales. I'm just really happy with the call-up.
"I've not spoken with Warren since he was last involved with Wales so I've had no inkling of being involved or not.
"Since the last World Cup I've been involved a lot more [with Wales], I feel I've taken my chances and created my own luck."
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Scarlets and Wales centre Jonathan Davies, who made three appearances for the Lions on their successful tour of Australia in 2013, says the Welsh contingent will be at an advantage having toured New Zealand in the summer of 2016.
"From a Welsh perspective, we toured there last summer and first two tests we were competitive for the first 60 minutes or so," Davies said.
"It just showed the quality and you can't let up in the tests with them because any mistakes you given them they capitalise.
"They put pressure on you and inevitably they win the close games. I think what helps is a lot of the Irish boys went well against them in the Autumn last year had that victory in Chicago and there's experience in the squad of being in New Zealand and hopefully that will help them on the trip."
Davies will not be joined in New Zealand by his Scarlets teammate and fellow centre Scott Williams, but was full of praise for his partner.
"I've spoken with Scott a bit as well and he seems alright and I think for us now as a partnership moving forward with the Scarlets we have to focus on securing the play offs in the Pro12," he continued.
"He congratulated me over text and we had a bit of a chat. He'll cope with it I'm sure and he'll bounce back. He's an excellent player. I'm disappointed for him but he'll be fine.
I was very appreciative of the text from him and I have every confidence he can show what he's capable of."
Fellow Scarlet Ken Owens also received his call-up to travel to New Zealand, along with fellow hookers Jamie George and Rory Best, but England's Dylan Hartley missed out on selection.
Owens, who has won 50 caps for Wales since making his debut in 2011, found out about his selection while on a short holiday.
"I know people think that we have advanced warning but I found out like everyone else," Owens said.
"We are away in Pembrokeshire on a short break with family and friends and we managed to find a TV to watch the announcement.
"It was a bit surreal hearing it to be honest. I've watched a couple of Lions squads named in the past and it was definitely nice to have my name read out.
"As nice as it was it was definitely quite nerve-wracking. 'O' is quite far down the alphabet so I had to wait quite a bit for it to be read out."
He is known as the king of Andean architecture, building dozens of houses that are changing the face of the El Alto which has, up until now, been full of simple red-brick and concrete houses.
Using bright coloured paint, geometric patterns and folkloric elements, he says he has broken traditional architectural rules.
Freddy's creations are certainly impressive. Two-storey dance halls with capacity for 1,000 people, chandeliers imported from China and flashing lights coming out of every luminous-green pillar he builds.
"With my architecture I want the world to know that Bolivia has its own identity," he says.
"There have always been rich Aymaras. The problem was they didn't identify with it. Now, with this architecture they come to the fore saying, 'We are Bolivians, we are Aymara and we can show off our Indigenous Bolivians' new confidenceidentity.'"
Freddy's work encapsulates the huge transformation in indigenous identity that has swept through Bolivian society in recent years following the election of Evo Morales as president in 2006.
Mr Morales represented profound change for Bolivia. Not only was he the country's first indigenous president, he came to power promising a better deal for the nation's indigenous people, who make up nearly two-thirds of the population.
One of his biggest achievements was passing a new constitution in 2009 that included comprehensive rights for Bolivia's indigenous communities - 36 identified groups in total.
The constitution explicitly recognised their cultural identities and customs, as well as collective ownership of land, the granting of more regional and local autonomy and - controversially - the right of indigenous groups to carry out community justice under their own legal system.
It is seen by many experts as one of the most comprehensive constitutions for indigenous rights in the world.
"It's a very significant document," says Maxwell Cameron, who teaches comparative and Latin American politics at the University of British Columbia.
"It was almost like going back to the creation of Bolivia by Simon Bolivar in the 19th Century and saying, 'Well how can we create a more inclusive democratic country?'"
Bolivian population:
But it has not been a smooth ride. While the western media may call him a firebrand, he is also seen as a pragmatist.
It is this pragmatism that has led some to question his commitment to the indigenous cause.
Indeed, some critics even point out that although he is an Aymaran Indian, he does not speak the language and therefore is not a true indigenous Bolivian.
Some also point to his background as a cocalero, arguing that coca growers are more focused on capitalism than they are on indigenous rights.
"This government is the most anti-indigenous government in the history of contemporary Bolivia," says Luis Tapia Mealla, a philosopher and one of Mr Morales' critics.
"The government's politics is one of extracting natural resources."
In 2011, this debate came to a head. After protests, Mr Morales cancelled the building of a road through an Amazon reserve known as TIPNIS.
The route was meant to link the Brazilian Amazon with ports on the Pacific coast of Peru and Chile but the project was shelved after protests.
Indigenous tribes said that it would destroy their homeland; other communities saw it as a much-needed way to boost economic development.
"There is a tension between the exploitation of natural resources on the one hand and the respect for indigenous land rights on the other," says John Crabtree, academic and author of Bolivia: Process of Change.
"That is a tension not just in the TIPNIS but all over - particularly in lowland Bolivia where oil and gas are to be found."
Some say TIPNIS is just one of many examples where Mr Morales has broken his promises.
"There's no substance to the constitution," says Raul Prada, a former deputy minister in Mr Morales' government.
The document renamed the country as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, to recognise Bolivia's diversity, and that included important steps for indigenous autonomy.
But, according to Prada nothing has changed.
"It's in the constitution but the government is not practising it. They've just continued with building a nation-state, just as the previous governments did."
Not everybody agrees. Saturnina Quispe, an Aymaran sewing teacher at the women's centre at El Alto, says Mr Morales has had a huge impact.
"We women in traditional dress never used to be able to enter offices - we were only allowed as far as the door," she says.
But she admits the fight is not over yet. "Racism has got better but not totally. We still have to work hard. It shouldn't exist but it does."
While not all of Mr Morales' investments are solely about the indigenous communities, they are very much about creating a country that is open to every Bolivian.
One of the most visible signs of that is Mi Teleferico - a new cable car system and Bolivia's answer to an urban metro system.
These space-age bubbles in the sky, complete with wifi, connect up the wealthy city of La Paz with indigenous El Alto.
They are two cities that, despite their proximity, are often seen as worlds apart, but the cable cars that travel up and down the mountain are blurring those boundaries.
Mi Teleferico has been paid for by a government flush with cash.
With one of the largest natural gas reserves in South America, as well as an abundance of minerals, Bolivia has done well out of the commodity boom - last year, the economy grew 6.5%, its fastest pace in decades.
At the same time, Bolivia has undergone a nationalisation programme, the aim being to keep as much money in Bolivia as possible.
Coupled with stable macroeconomic policy, even the International Monetary Fund, an institution long criticised by Mr Morales, has praised the country's prudent approach to its finances in recent years.
But the work is not over for Mr Morales. The constitution marked a major step, but there is criticism from some quarters that economic development goes against indigenous interests.
No doubt a growing economy that has benefited people has helped keep his critics at bay but if commodity prices fall, Bolivia will be vulnerable - a slowing economy would see Morales' popularity wane too.
The famously unpretentious Pope used his address to encourage Bolivian Catholics to reject consumerism.
He told them the economic system excluded people and created barriers.
The Pope will now travel to Paraguay, the third and final country on his tour of South America.
On Thursday Pope Francis rode through the streets of Santa Cruz for about an hour.
The Burger King restaurant had been booked by the Pope's organisers and curtained off in advance so he could change into his religious vestments before the Mass.
It reopened later in the day for business but with the altar and throne used in the Mass still inside.
During his sermon he denounced what he said was a "mentality in which everything has a price, everything can be bought (...) making room only for a select few".
Later in a long speech to civic leaders, Pope Francis apologised for the actions of the Catholic Church against indigenous peoples during the conquest and colonisation of the Americas.
He said he humbly begged for forgiveness for the crimes that were committed.
The French interior ministry said Kristian "Varg" Vikernes constituted "a potential threat to society".
He was arrested in central France after his wife bought four rifles.
Vikernes, described by French officials as a neo-Nazi, had in the past received a copy of a manifesto from Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.
Breivik planted a bomb in central Oslo and went on a shooting spree on the nearby island of Utoeya in July 2011. He was imprisoned for the maximum 21-year term last year.
An official at the Paris Prosecutor Office said Breivik sent a copy of a manifesto setting out his ideology to Vikernes, who is also a convicted murderer.
The official said: "There were several indications that made the services fear he could possibly carry out a violent act."
Kristian Vikernes was arrested along with his French wife in Correze, a region in central France.
Police sources said officers were searching their home for weapons and explosives.
By Hugh SchofieldBBC News, Paris
French police have very broad powers to detain suspects, and they have used them here. On their own admission, there is no evidence that Kristian Vikernes was formulating any kind of plan.
But intelligence officials obviously believe that given his background and his known beliefs, Vikernes is potentially a very dangerous individual. So after his wife bought the guns, they decided to take him in.
The dark world of black metal neo-Nazism is not one with many supporters in France. It is in Scandinavia where the crude mix of Norse mythology and racial obsession has more of a following.
Still, some of Vikernes's internet warnings against immigration and the European Union might have struck a wider chord in France - had anyone been reading - and in a recent pronouncement he expressed wholehearted support for National Front leader Marine Le Pen.
It was the kind of extremist endorsement which Ms Le Pen will certainly not have appreciated.
Officials say Vikernes' wife had a legal firearms permit when she bought the four rifles.
Vikernes, a black-metal musician and writer known as Varg, was convicted in 1994 of stabbing a man to death in Oslo and burning down several churches.
He was released in 2009 and moved to France with his wife and three children.
On his website, Vikernes discusses Breivik's manifesto, but also criticises him for killing innocent Norwegians.
Breivik's 1,500-page manifesto outlined his planned crusade against Muslims, who he said "were taking over Europe and could only be defeated through a violent civil war".
Kristian Vikernes founded the one-man music project called Burzum in the early 1990s, which soon became a fixture of Norway's black metal scene.
The word "burzum" means "darkness" in the Black Speech, a fictional language crafted by JRR Tolkien.
"In 1991, 18-year-old guitarist Varg Vikernes founded one of Norwegian black metal's most important bands upon a simple, yet powerful, platform: to bring darkness into the world," the magazine Guitar World wrote in 2010 after interviewing him.
But he soon became involved in violent crime. In 1992, he took part in the arson of at least three churches in Norway.
The following year, he stabbed to death fellow Norwegian guitarist Oeystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, who played with him in the black metal band Mayhem.
Vikernes was given Norway's maximum 21-year sentence and released from prison in 2009 after serving 16 years.
Since then he has continued releasing music and writing.
Through his writings he promotes what he calls "Odalism", an ideology based on the idea that White Europeans should re-adopt "native European values".
It includes racism, anti-Semitism and elements of ethnic European paganism.
The 23-year-old world number 143 was found guilty of altering the outcome of his match against Kamil Majchrzak at an ATP Challenger in Morocco in October.
Riccardo Accardi and Antonio Campo have also been banned and fined for their roles in attempts to fix matches.
Accardi was given a 12-month ban while Campo was suspended for four months.
Cecchinato, who is able to appeal, was found guilty of "several other instances of sports corruption" and suspended until January 2018.
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Keepers threw a party for Nickel - who was born at the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay in 1995 - to celebrate the milestone on Thursday.
Nickel and the zoo's 10 other chimps were given some treats to unwrap.
Head keeper Michelle Pywell said: "It was wonderful to see the chimps all taking part in the celebration and sharing many presents."
Chimpanzees can live up to about 50 years.
Investors' confidence took another hit owing to growing concerns about the eurozone debt crisis and the weak economic recovery in the US and Europe.
European markets closed sharply lower for the second day but US shares recovered to close slightly higher.
Meanwhile, a report suggests credit rating agency Standard & Poor's will downgrade US government debt.
US network ABC reported that Washington expected S&P to cut its AAA rating following the protracted and acrimonious process of raising the country's debt ceiling.
Any downgrade would further erode global investors' confidence in the US economy. S&P has declined to comment on the report.
Earlier, a decline in the US jobless rate caused the US markets to open higher and gave temporary relief to European indexes.
But London's FTSE and Frankfurt's Dax both closed down about 2.7%.
US stocks recovered from a late-morning slump to end the day slightly higher.
At a specially-convened press conference after European markets closed, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that G7 finance ministers would meet within days to discuss measures to combat the eurozone debt crisis, which is the main cause of the growing turmoil in global financial markets.
He also said that Italy would speed up measures to balance its budget by 2013, a year earlier than planned, and work to amend the Italian constitution to make balanced budgets a requirement for future governments.
He also announced some labour market reforms.
European markets had been down as much as 4% in the morning, before recovering, and then lurching back down again by the end of the session.
"Failed rallies are not a good sign," said markets analyst Louise Cooper, from BGC Partners.
"Investors are just really, really nervous, thinking what can be done to get us out of this hole, and there are not many answers," she told BBC radio.
The FTSE 100 closed down 2.7%, with banking shares such as Lloyds, RBS and Barclays suffering falls as large as 7%. The London market has now lost 10% in the past week.
In Germany the Dax closed down 2.8%, while the French Cac 40 ended just over 1% down.
US stocks ended the session up 0.5% as investors recovered their poise following heavy falls in late morning trading.
Investors are also worried about the state of the US economy after recent data on economic growth and consumer spending raised questions about the strength of the recovery.
Some analysts have even suggested the US could be heading for another recession.
Earlier, the EU's Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, Olli Rehn, said he thought the movements were "incomprehensible" and "not justified by the economic fundamentals", particularly in Italy and Spain, the latest focus of investors' concerns.
Analysts suggested the instability would continue as the main reasons for the concerns had not gone away.
"The markets are looking for a resolution on the eurozone debt crisis and that resolution is not easily at hand," said Jan Lambrets, head of financial markets at Rabobank, who forecast "a very grim road" in the months to come.
Investors are worried as European authorities have so far been unable to control the crisis and are unhappy that changes to a key rescue fund agreed last month have not yet been enacted.
"Until markets have seen some resolution, we're not going to see any return of confidence," Nomura economist Peter Westaway told BBC News.
"There was a lot of mutual backslapping after the eurozone summit a couple of weeks ago, but they haven't delivered," he said.
By Robert PestonBusiness editor, BBC News
Peston: Origins of today's market mayhem
US unemployment rate down in July
Mr Rehn stressed that measures to improve the scope and effectiveness of the 440bn-euros rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), agreed on 21 July, should be in place by September.
"The political will to defend the euro should not be underestimated," Mr Rehn added.
On Thursday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called on eurozone countries to approve those changes as soon as possible, but also to consider expanding the fund further.
Many analysts argue these changes need to be implemented quickly in order to calm stock markets.
Mr Barroso said that authorities were failing to prevent the sovereign debt crisis from spreading. "We are no longer managing a crisis just in the euro-area periphery," he said.
His comments triggered sharp falls in markets across Europe because of fears that Italy and Spain might become engulfed in the crisis which has led to Greece, the Irish Republic and Portugal already being bailed out.
That sentiment ripped across the world, hitting markets in Asia and the US, where the Dow Jones index had its worst day since December 2008, closing 4% down.
This latest crisis of confidence has come at a time when many of Europe's leaders are on holiday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a telephone conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to discuss the latest problems in the eurozone.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who is on holiday in Italy, discussed the financial situation with Chancellor Merkel and the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, on the telephone.
There were rumours earlier that the European Central Bank (ECB) was preparing to buy Spanish and Italian bonds to try to help those countries, which briefly helped their stock markets.
By Stephanie FlandersEconomics editor, BBC News
Flanders: Echoes of 2008
The ECB was said to have bought up bonds issued by the Irish and Portuguese governments on Thursday.
But traders were disappointed that the bank did not appear to have intervened to help Spain and Italy, whose borrowing costs have risen significantly recently.
Reports suggest the Italian government is under pressure from the ECB to implement reforms, hence Mr Berlusconi's hastily-arranged press conference.
On Friday, the head of the Belgian central bank and ECB governing council member, Luc Coene, said that a buy-back of Italian and Spanish debt was possible - if Rome and Madrid pressed ahead with economic reforms.
The gap between German bonds - the safest in Europe - and Spanish and Italian debt again reached a record since the euro was introduced in 1999.
It is hoped the service at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, in Llantrisant, will provide faster diagnosis and shorter stays.
It will be located at the entrance to A&E so care can be brought straight to the patient - easing pressure on the department.
It will be staffed 24 hours a day, daily by doctors and nurses.
Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: "The Royal Glamorgan Hospital will become a beacon site for acute medicine, with the aim of strengthening care."
The announcement comes after a leading doctor warned hospital emergency departments in Wales are "on the edge" with staff shortages and waiting times too long.
Dr Robin Roop, head of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in Wales (RCEM), said some patients were waiting more than 24 hours in A&E.
The charges follow a forensic report into the death in prison of Gen Alberto Bachelet in 1974.
The report suggests Gen Bachelet died as a result of torture.
Gen Bachelet was loyal to President Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a military coup in 1973.
Judge Mario Carroza ordered air force colonels Ramon Caceres and Edgar Ceballos be held at a detention centre pending trial on charges of being "co-authors of the crime of torture that caused the death" of Gen Bachelet.
The two ex-military officials have not yet commented on the charges.
Judge Carroza agreed to investigate the death of Gen Bachelet last year following a complaint brought by relatives of the victims of Chile's military rule alleging that the general had been tortured to death.
Last month, Judge Carroza said investigators had found that Gen Bachelet had died of heart problems aggravated by torture sessions after his arrest.
He said a new forensic study concluded that "all the interrogations to which Gen Bachelet was submitted damaged his heart and was the likely cause of death".
Gen Bachelet was held in a military academy for six months and tortured by members of the same air force he had led before the 1973 military coup led by Gen Pinochet.
Gen Bachelet died on 12 March 1974 while serving a sentence for treason in the capital, Santiago.
His wife, Angela Jeria, and his daughter Michelle were also held and tortured before fleeing to Australia.
Ms Bachelet became Chile's first female president in 2006. She now heads the UN women's agency.
The incident happened at a home in Wood Place in Livingston between 21:00 and 23:00 on Tuesday.
A 36-year-old man sustained serious injuries to his face and was taken to St John's Hospital in the town for treatment.
The 43-year-old man is due to appear at Livingston Sheriff Court later.
It is the third time in four days a Ferrari has been fastest, as the teams reached one-third distance in their preparations for the 2015 season.
Sauber's Marcus Ericsson was second ahead of Lewis Hamilton, whose Mercedes team completed by far the most mileage.
McLaren had another tough day, still struggling with their new Honda engine.
Jenson Button did only 35 laps and was 6.8 seconds off the pace as he was hit initially by a problem with oil levels and then was forced to abandon the day's running following a fuel-pump failure.
McLaren posted 79 laps over four days - compared to more than 500 by Mercedes. But director of engineering Matt Morris insisted the team had had a positive test as they bedded in their relationship with Honda.
"We have had a number of problems," Morris said. "We have had some operational issues - all of us working together as a team for the first time - things you take for granted when you have been with an engine supplier for many years.
"You drop the ball sometimes, like saying getting oil levels wrong and all these sorts of things. We have had a few issues like that.
"We have also had some minor electrical issues, which resulted in a lot of downtime but have actually been relatively easy to fix.
"The main thing is that we have not been burning bodywork or blowing up engines.
"I am pretty happy that we are going to come out of this test with no major issues to resolve."
Hamilton had a harmless spin at the chicane in the morning but still managed 117 laps as Mercedes completed an impressive overall distance of 1,419 miles in four days.
Hamilton told his team over the car radio: "Well done, guys. Great first week back."
On his spin he said: "It was a bit damp, I was the first on slicks, so I just had a spin.
"But reliability has been pretty special this week. It's one of our highest weeks of mileage.
"The car feels very similar to last year. It's very difficult to pick out any differences, really."
Lotus also had an encouraging final day as they completed their first test with a Mercedes engine, after switching from Renault last year.
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The team, who slipped from fourth to eighth in the championship last season, had initially not planned to be at this test with their new car, but ended up ahead of schedule and ran for two and a half days.
Frenchman Romain Grosjean was sixth fastest and his day was ended by an engine problem, but the team said they were confident the car was a major advance on last year.
"It's a shame it's ended early," said trackside operations director Alan Permane. 'It's been going really well, especially as a week ago we did not even expect to be here.
"The car is most definitely a big step forward over last year, even though we are still short of a lot of parts so it's not very representative.
"It's surprising we were running as quickly as we were given that. It's very encouraging - in fact, Romain was just saying that the car feels a lot like the 2013 car. He's a lot happier.'"
The second test is at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya from 19-22 February.
1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:20.841
2 Marcus Ericsson (Swe) Sauber-Ferrari 1:22.019
3 Lewis Hamilton (GB) Mercedes 1:22.172
4 Max Verstappen (Ned) Toro Rosso-Renault 1:22.553
5 Felipe Massa (Brz) Williams-Mercedes 1:23.116
6 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Lotus-Mercedes 1:23.802
7 Daniil Kvyat (Rus) Red Bull-Renault 1:23.975
8 Jenson Button (GB) McLaren-Honda 1:27.660
Loch Ness RNLI went to the aid of the 5.5-tonne boat after it got into difficulty at Dores, south of Inverness.
The Inverness Coastguard Team assisted in the operation to pull the vessel off the shore and a lifeboat towed it to Dochgarroch.
There was one person on board the boat. He was uninjured.
Fishing boats use the loch when travelling between Fort William and Inverness.
The latest "shout" was Drumnadrochit-based Loch Ness RNLI's 24th of the year, making 2016 the volunteer-run station's busiest year so far.
Both cases concerned the way the companies had enforced their ownership of critical technologies that devices require to connect to mobile networks.
They had both tried to ban Apple products from sale based on their use of these standard-essential patents.
The regulator ruled Motorola had abused its position. Samsung settled its case.
The South Korean firm escaped an official rebuke by offering to respect restrictions on its use of standard-essential patents (SEPs) over the next five years.
SEPs are inventions recognised as being critical to being able to implement an industry standard technology.
Examples of such technologies include the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a cellular standard at the heart of 3G data; and H.264, a video compression format used by YouTube, Blu-ray disks and Adobe Flash Player among others.
By creating and recognising such standards, device manufacturers are able to make sure their products can share content and communicate with each other.
Owners of standard-essential patents can register them to qualify for Frand (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) payments.
This commits the owner to offering a licence to all so long as the applicants agree to a non-excessive fee. In return the owner expects anyone who uses their innovation to pay, and the status can mean cheaper patent renewal fees.
In the tech sector the idea is to ensure different companies' products can communicate and share data formats with each other.
However, the principle has run into problems when companies disagree what constitutes a "fair" price, and the owner then attempts to ban their rival's products.
The commission chose not to impose a fine on Google-owned Motorola. However, its ruling against the firm set a new legal precedent.
It confirmed that a "safe harbour" provision exists if an organisation using another's SEP agreed to abide by whatever a court said would be a fair payment if the two parties could not agree a fee between themselves. Under such circumstances, the patent owner cannot seek an injunction against the licensee.
However, the European Commission added, the licensee need not give up their right to challenge the validity of the patent.
The cases both date back to 2012 when the regulator announced it would investigate the two firms.
Motorola had temporarily caused several iPad and iPhone models to be pulled from sale that year on the basis that Apple had failed to license some of its 2G GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) inventions.
Apple managed to end the ban by offering to pay a bigger licence fee, but was subsequently made by Motorola to give up the right to challenge the patents at a later date in order to end the dispute - a move the European Commission has now ruled was "an abuse of a dominant market position".
The Samsung case centred on the firm's 3G mobile data inventions.
After the South Korean firm and Apple failed to agree royalty fees for the technologies, Samsung launched lawsuits in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere.
Following the announcement of the European Commission probe, the Galaxy phone maker dropped the cases. It added it would not seek similar SEP-related injunctions in Europe for five years so long as those using the patents agreed to take part in a 12-month negotiation processes, and would respect a court ruling if those talks failed.
The European Commission has now made that offer legally binding.
"[The] decisions reflect the commission's balanced approach with respect to intellectual property rights and competition rules," said competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia.
"Both competition and the protection of intellectual property are essential to innovation and growth."
The decisions restrict the ability of companies to counter Apple's own patent claims - the US firm has sued several others based on its ownership of non-SEP inventions.
But consultant Florian Mueller noted that Google might still welcome the news bearing in mind it is in the process of selling the Motorola handset division to Lenovo.
"It helps to clear up a mess before a major transaction is consummated," he wrote.
The floors are grubby and almost everything there, crammed tightly into every available nook and cranny, appears to be on sale or part of a bulk buy special offer.
The sole customer on a hot June afternoon is an Italian tourist, who buys a huge bag of chocolate which she says is "for presents".
The store appears more akin to a discounter, a place for bargain hunting, and offers no obvious improvement on buying the products in a supermarket.
This, say critics, is exactly the high street chain's problem. Its products are sold so widely - in supermarkets and even in newsagents - that it appears mass market, yet its prices suggest a premium product.
And it's the problem which Thorntons' new owner, Italian firm Ferrero, will have to address, assuming shareholders agree to the £112m offer which its board has recommended.
The deal, if it is completed, will enable Ferrero to step ahead of its Swiss rival Lindt to become the UK's fourth-largest chocolate brand, behind Mondelez, Mars and Nestlé, giving it a near 7% UK market share.
But Ferrero will have to decide what to do with that market share. Should it continue with outgoing chief executive Jonathan Hart's already well-advanced plan of reducing the number of shops, and instead focusing on wholesale sales - the cheaper end of the market? Or should it try moving the brand more upmarket?
Put simply, says independent analyst Nick Bubb, it's a choice between continuing to be "Motel Chocolate" or Hotel Chocolat.
The competition between Thorntons and its upstart Hotel Chocolat rival was once so intense that in 2007 Thorntons' then top chocolate maker, Barry Colenso, was forced to resign after being caught squashing truffles in one of Hotel Chocolat's stores.
Thorntons' rival seems to have caught and overtaken the older brand. Recently, Hotel Chocolat reported a £6.6m pre-tax profit for the six months to 28 December, beating Thorntons' £6.5m profit for the half year, despite having just 81 stores compared with the latter's 242.
The firms' diverging fortunes illustrate the wider problem facing the British chocolate industry. People may like chocolate, but, in the UK at least, they're eating less.
UK chocolate sales grew by 1.6% last year to just over £4.1bn, but the amount of chocolate sold fell 1% to 437 million kg, according to market research firm Mintel.
In the meantime, the costs of core ingredients such as cocoa and palm oil have increased, putting more pressure on chocolate firms.
With the amount of chocolate people are eating unlikely to grow, manufacturers are under pressure either to cut costs or put up prices.
Mass market brands such as US firm Mondelez have taken the drastic step of offering less product for the same money. For example, this year the group said that multi-packs of creme eggs would contain five rather than six eggs due to "economic factors".
But other firms have tried to make their products more upmarket so they can charge more money for them, says Euromonitor food analyst Jack Skelly.
"It's hard to get people to eat more chocolate, so the idea is to increase value sales by making a more premium product," he says.
He points to Cadbury's decision to make pouches containing chunks of some of its most popular bars, such as Wispa and Twirls, which he says have a more expensive and bulky feel. This then allows the firm to charge a bit more.
Ultimately, Mr Skelly says all firms need to decide which audience they're targeting: the hungry impulse buyer in a local newsagent, or the more discerning customer who treats chocolate as a luxury.
"For a firm which wants to make billions of dollars globally, it's about getting it sold in as many different stores of possible; for a lower scale product it's about getting the brand message across," he says.
But for a product like chocolate, deemed a treat by many, it seems a significant number of people are willing to spend more for a spot of indulgence.
More than a third of British chocolate buyers splash out on premium products either "regularly" or "all the time", according to market research firm Canadean.
"Irrespective of their financial situation, consumers are still willing to trade up on a regular basis in categories inherently associated with treating and indulgence," says Canadean research manager Michael Hughes.
To take advantage of this, manufacturers need to push the luxury concept to make consumers "feel they're getting a real treat", he says.
Hotel Chocolat co-founder and chief executive Angus Thirlwell says that's exactly what his company has aimed to do.
"It's an emotionally charged food product that people are buying for the taste and the way it makes them feel," he says.
To capitalise on this, he says the chain has focused very carefully on ensuring a high cocoa content in its chocolates, and making its stores feel like a "sanctuary" providing "escapism" for customers.
While Mr Thirlwell's aims may sound a bit lofty - it's just chocolate after all - the firm's growth into a multi-million pound empire, with 81 shops, eight cafes, two restaurants, and a hotel, in just over a decade, suggests he's on the right track.
Hotel Chocolat has also been careful about its distribution network, he says, selling through its own stores or selected partners, such as John Lewis, that fit the brand's values.
The intention, he says, is to make people feel good about eating chocolate, so that it becomes "an emotional experience" rather than just something to "munch".
"We started with a basic premise: let's distribute it in a way that will make people feel good about buying chocolate, so not in a commoditised way," says Mr Thirlwell.
This approach extends to store openings, which he is happy to grow at a "natural pace", he says.
"Certainly we want to strike the right balance, between making our creations sufficiently available but not so ubiquitous that they become a commodity. It's a real treat to savour and enjoy, and if they become too widely available there's a risk that could diminish."
The quartet are Manchester City defender Demi Stokes, midfielder Isobel Christiansen and striker Nikita Parris plus Chelsea's Millie Bright.
Alex Greenwood, Fran Kirby and Jo Potter are also in, despite currently being out with long-term injuries.
Eniola Aluko, Rachel Daly, Gemma Davison and Claire Rafferty miss out.
Sampson's squad includes 19 players from the 2015 World Cup, and there are no players aged under 23.
"An important part with any major tournament is you've got to be able to handle pressure. This team is experienced in doing that," said Sampson.
"We go into the tournament in a good place. The players are growing in belief that we can win the big games."
Chelsea striker Kirby has been out for much of the last year with a knee injury but has returned to training.
Her team-mate and fellow forward Aluko was last season's top goal scorer in the Women's Super League but has again been overlooked.
She last played for England on 12 April last year against Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Striker Daly plays for Houston Dash in the United States and scored on her England debut against Serbia last year but has not been picked.
The tournament, which starts on 16 July, will take place in the Netherlands and England's first match is against Scotland on 19 July.
Sampson has named his squad more than three months before Euro 2017 because he recently said form "isn't a priority" and "we've worked with our player pool for three years now and are clear on the right players we want".
Some of England's players are currently representing their clubs in the FA Cup, with the one-off Women's Super League Spring Series kicking-off on 22 April.
That will serve as a transitional tournament due to the traditional WSL season being moved to a September start.
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Manchester City defender Lucy Bronze says she is sympathetic to those who have missed out with the Spring Series season still to come but has questioned how many big games there are to come which will emulate the Euros.
She also denies there will be complacency among the squad now they know their places are secure.
"If you get complacent between now and the Euros, you won't play. Even I couldn't tell you England's starting XI," she said.
"Mark likes to pick specific people for specific games and if you become complacent in the squad, you're knocking your chances of playing."
Following the Euro 2017 opener against Scotland, England face Spain in Breda on 23 July and Portugal in Tilburg on 27 July.
The Lionesses - who finished third at the 2015 World Cup - were unbeaten in eight qualifying games but have won just one of five outings, including defeats by France and Germany at the SheBelieves Cup.
Full squad:
Goalkeepers: Karen Bardsley (Manchester City), Siobhan Chamberlain (Liverpool), Carly Telford (Notts County)
Defenders: Laura Bassett (Notts County), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City), Alex Greenwood (Liverpool), Steph Houghton (Manchester City), Jo Potter (Notts County), Alex Scott (Arsenal), Demi Stokes (Manchester City), Casey Stoney (Liverpool)
Midfielders: Millie Bright (Chelsea), Isobel Christiansen (Manchester City), Jade Moore (Notts County), Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal), Jill Scott (Manchester City), Fara Williams (Arsenal)
Forwards: Karen Carney (Chelsea), Toni Duggan (Manchester City), Fran Kirby (Chelsea), Nikita Parris (Manchester City), Jodie Taylor (Arsenal), Ellen White (Birmingham City)
The University College Union has also pledged to disrupt open days and graduations if it is not settled.
The row, which led to a two-day walkout last week, is over a 1.1% pay offer, which the Universities and Colleges Employers Association say is "good".
However, union general secretary Sally Hunt says the offer is an "insult".
The employers group has argued that the offer is at, and even, beyond the "limit of affordability" for some higher education institutions.
But the UCU says its members have suffered a real-terms pay cut of 14% since 2009 and complains the squeeze on staff salaries has come as university leaders enjoyed hefty increases.
Ms Hunt is unhappy with the offer, especially in light of the 5% pay rise her union says that vice-chancellors have enjoyed.
UCU members rejected a 1% offer in a strike ballot in early May.
Ms Hunt said: "Following the decision to back escalating strike action, local branches have already come forward with strike dates timed to target open days and graduation ceremonies.
"The employers need to recognise that staff will no longer accept their pay being held down while a few at the top enjoy the rewards of increased money for universities. Nobody wants to take industrial action, but clearly enough is enough.
"We hope the employers will respond positively to members' decision to escalate their action and come back to us with a serious pay offer."
A spokesman for the university employers' association said the pay offer rose to 2.7% for about half of employees when progression was taken into account.
He added: "Higher education institutions were pleased that their students were not affected where examinations were taking place.
"Few academic staff actually voted to support this strike action and the institutions tell us that the majority of their staff understand the financial realities for their own workplaces.
"Rather than ask their members to inflict damage on themselves, their students and their HE institutions, we feel it is time for UCU to conduct a consultation that enables their members to consider all the elements of the full, fair and final offer that is on the table."
He argued the weighting of the offer meant the worst paid university staff will get a rise of more than 5%.
Talks on zero-hours contracts and on improving lower pay for female academics have also been offered, they added.
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The 20-year-old County Down swimmer clocked one minute 04.05 seconds to beat the previous record of 1:04.53 she set in the heats earlier in the day.
Firth was 2.28 seconds ahead of Dutch woman Marlou Van der Kulk as she repeated her London 2012 triumph.
The Northern Irishwoman's British team-mate Jessica-Jane Applegate won bronze.
"It feels amazing. I'm just so happy," said Firth after her triumph.
"I've had a lot of setbacks in the last four years, breaking my wrist. I'm so glad to have retained my title."
Firth will be back in action on Sunday in another of her strongest events, the 200m freestyle, while she will also compete in the 100m breaststroke and 200m individual medley later in the Games.
As a 16-year-old, Firth clinched gold for Ireland in London and went on to win three silver medals at the IPC World Championships in Montreal a year later before opting to switch allegiance to Great Britain.
She subsequently had to sit out the 2015 World Championship after suffering the wrist injury.
The Northern Irishwoman competes in the S14 classes, for competitors with an intellectual disability, and she raced in eight events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Firth set a new world record for the S14 200m freestyle at the Scottish National Championships in Glasgow in June.
Protective hoardings were removed and holes made at the four corners of the artwork "Spy Booth".
Businessman Hekmat Kaveh, who has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to keep the artwork in place, said he had arranged for a restorer to look at the artwork, to see if it could be saved.
Two weeks ago, a Perspex cover was put up to protect the artwork, after it was daubed with silver writing.
The piece, depicting men "snooping" on a phone box, appeared in April, three miles from government listening post GCHQ.
Mr Kaveh said: "There are four very large holes on the four corners, which I've measured, and one is 10cm.
"It looks as if it was being prepared to be taken away, despite the fact I'm in the process of purchasing it to make sure it stays.
"There's been damage to the plaster and the painting.
"It's been reported to the police and the council. It's on a listed building, it's criminal damage."
In a statement, Gloucestershire Police said it was called at about 13:00 BST on Monday "to investigate a reported offence at the Banksy site in Fairview Road Cheltenham".
It continued: "Unknown offenders removed a piece of wood surrounding the Banksy artwork on the side of the building and a number of holes were drilled around the image.
"The artwork was not damaged and there is no sign of forced entry to the property. "
Campaigners have been trying to keep the artwork in situ on the corner of Fairview Road and Hewlett Road, after the owners of the house claimed it had been sold and workmen arrived to remove it.
Last month, Cheltenham Borough Council issued a temporary stop notice preventing further removal work from taking place on the Grade II* listed building.
Mike Redman, the council's director of environmental and regulatory services, said: ''As the property is listed, the removal of the wall, or a section of the wall, requires listed building consent (LBC)."
Sales growth in their home market slowed to a virtual trickle last year, at least when compared with the ballooning market a couple of years back, and it is set to remain relatively weak throughout 2012.
So Chinese carmakers, which have long fought tough rivals from well-established non-Chinese manufacturers, are looking to diversify abroad.
Many of the new Chinese cars displayed at Auto China 2012 are expected to be exported to Europe.
Some Chinese carmakers have entered Europe, already, of course, mainly through acquisitions.
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) owns MG in the UK. Geely owns Volvo and has a stake in Manganese Bronze, the maker of London's black cabs.
Others are even gearing up for direct investments in the mass-production of their own marques within the European Union.
Great Wall Motors was the first to arrive with The Steed, a small pickup truck that will be produced in its recently opened factory in Bulgaria.
Others are sure to follow as cash-rich Chinese companies target parts of the world where local investment has dried up because of the financial crisis.
"Just as the Japanese and Koreans did decades ago, Chinese carmakers are hoping to gain strong positions in the longer term in the Western European and US markets," observes the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Great Wall's Bulgarian factory, in the village of Bahovitsa, near the town of Lovech, is not the first car plant in the area.
Bulgarians used to assemble the infamous Soviet Moskvich here during communist times, and this was where Rover's plans to produce its old Maestro model flopped some 17 years ago.
Great Wall's joint venture with Bulgaria's Litex Motors comes across as much more ambitious than either of those, however.
Though initially no more than 120 people will work here, European Whole Vehicle Type Approval has already been granted for several models, and the plan is to expand the workforce to 2,000 people and produce 50,000 cars a year for the European market.
"Bulgaria is an excellent starting point for our entry into the European markets," Great Wall's president Wang Fengying said after opening the plant in February.
"In the next three to five years, we will have a great variety of car brands, which will be sold in all European countries," she said, according to an exuberant Bulgarian media.
"Bulgaria will flood the rest of Europe with cars made in Lovech," exclaimed the daily newspaper Standart, "just as the Japanese and Koreans."
Others were more guarded, pointing out that Chinese cars have yet to establish a reputation of quality and reliability in Europe.
Bulgaria might one day be remembered as "the place where the Chinese car expansion into Europe started", observed weekly magazine Kapital.
"The only question is, what cars will the plant produce, and who is going to buy them?"
Bulgarian-produced Chinese cars will go head-to-head with the Dacia brand, which is built at Pitesti in neighbouring Romania.
The Pitesti plant, owned by the French carmaker Renault, produces affordable cars that also rely on an "inexpensive but reliable" marketing strategy.
But Dacia and Renault are far from worried.
According to the Romanian website Ziare, Great Wall's cars will be more expensive than Dacia's, as well as inferior because of the company's lack of experience.
Great Wall's president acknowledges that the carmaker has much to learn.
"We realise that we have a long way to go to achieve some of the standards that German cars have," she told Bulgarian daily Dnevnik.
"But from a market point of view, we know that there are also people in Germany who would like to buy a quality car at a reasonable price.
"This is our chance to establish a presence in Germany."
Henry Li, general manager of BYD Auto's export division, agrees.
"In the short term, competition will be more fierce, especially when international brands are launching low-cost vehicles," he says.
"We try to create our own competitive edge. We are not only staying in a low segment, but are creating new technologies and improving quality."
Chinese ambitions in Europe are not limited to the motor industry, however.
"China is buying up Europe," the European Council on Foreign Relations notes in a current policy brief.
"Its automobile manufacturers have bought MG and Volvo. Its transportation firms are acquiring, leasing or managing harbours, airports, and logistical and assembly bases across the continent. Its development bank is financing projects in Europe's periphery, much like it does in Africa."
China has been actively seeking business opportunities in the Balkan region, "especially in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria", according to Prague-based website Transitions Online.
In October last year, for instance, Guangdong Nuclear Power Group said it might take part in efforts to build two new reactors at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania.
In Serbia, a consortium of Chinese companies is investing some 2bn euros in the country's EPS power utility. Another Chinese company is building a 1,500m bridge over the Danube near Belgrade.
Similar stories are emerging across Europe, which last year attracted more investment from China than the rest of Asia or North America did.
"In 2011, for the first time since Chinese companies started heading abroad, Europe became their favoured destination," according to the French newspaper Les Echos.
As yet, China's non-financial investment in the 27 European Union member states totals just $15bn, or less than 0.2% of all foreign investment in Europe, according to the consultancy Rhodium Group.
But that proportion is set to soar as China's investment overseas trebles by 2020, Rhodium predicts.
The Beijing motor show is open to the public from 27 April until 2 May.
Four engines and a command support unit were sent out to the Technotots Nursery at the Wester Gourdie Industrial Estate at 06:30.
Crews wearing breathing apparatus used hose reels to control the fire. The blaze was contained within an hour, but crews remained on the scene to ventilate the building and damp down.
Police were called to assist, and advised motorists to avoid the area.
Voting will be held in Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said.
Polling will be held from 4 February to 8 March. Votes will be counted on 11 March.
Analysts say that the effect of the rupee ban is expected to play a crucial role in all five state elections.
The government said the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes was to curb corruption and the illegal hoarding of wealth as well as promote a shift to digital modes of payment. However, critics said the ban mostly impacted the poor and agrarian communities who largely depend on cash for their daily transactions.
Mr Zaidi said a total of 160 million voters would be eligible to cast their votes in the five states.
Voting will be held in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh in seven phases on 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 February as well as 4 and 8 March.
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A victory in this state will be crucial to India's ruling BJP, but they will be up against two strong regional parties, the Samajwadi Party (SP) which currently rules the state and the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP), which is led by Dalit icon and former chief minister Mayawati.
The north-eastern state of Manipur will go to polls in two phases on 4 and 8 March.
The western state of Goa and the northern state of Punjab will vote in a single phase on 4 February while the northern state of Uttarakhand will go to polls on 15 February, along with parts of Uttar Pradesh, which it borders.
Goa is currently ruled by the BJP while India's main opposition party Congress governs Manipur and Uttarakhand. Punjab is ruled by an alliance between the BJP and the regional Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) party.
Mr Zaidi said that steps were being taken to encourage the participation of women in all five state elections.
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A gang of masked men broke into a house at Ballygomartin Drive on Friday shortly before 21:40 BST and attacked him with iron bars and a hatchet.
They beat the man, who is a Catholic, in front of his girlfriend and their eleven-week-old baby.
Sectarian graffiti was daubed on the house claiming to be from the UDA.
The couple had been living in the home for less than five weeks.
A red car parked outside was also damaged in the attack.
Police have appealed for information.
The UK anthem, God Save the Queen, is currently used during some sporting events but Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins believes England should have its own.
He intends to bring his English National Anthem Bill to Parliament on 13 January.
If MPs voted in favour, a public consultation would be held to choose a song.
The Labour MP said: "I have nothing against God Save the Queen but that is the national anthem of the United Kingdom.
"England is a component part of the UK but it competes as a country in its own right and I think a song that celebrated England rather than Britain would be more appropriate."
Mr Perkins said he was proud to be both English and British but they were "not the same thing".
His proposed new law would bestow a responsibility on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to hold a consultation.
All relevant sporting bodies would be instructed to use the chosen anthem prior to international sporting contests, at medal awarding ceremonies and whenever else a national anthem was required for teams or athletes representing England.
God Save the Queen would continue to be used for teams or individuals representing Great Britain or the UK.
"I hope that Scots and Welsh will also recognise this not as an anti-union move, but a pro-union one," said Mr Perkins.
"By recognising that England is a component part of the union but a different entity, I think this strengthens both our Englishness but also reminds us all of what the union is."
Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland raised the same issue in Parliament in 2010.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that Jerusalem would be his choice for England's national anthem, according to the ConservativeHome website.
Jerusalem was chosen as the anthem to be played for English athletes competing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi following a month-long public vote.
Voters were able to choose from three songs, and Jerusalem beat both the UK national anthem and the anthem previously used for English athletes competing at Commonwealth Games.
Jerusalem drew 52.5% of the votes
Land of Hope and Glory was voted for by 32.5%
God Save The Queen was voted for by 12%
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The 23-year-old defender played 42 games for the Whites prior to joining Orient in July 2015.
Essam, who has made 26 appearances for Orient this season, last featured in their 1-0 win at Oxford on 12 March.
He could go straight into the side when Dover Athletic play host to Torquay United on Saturday.
The vessel, called the Mangyongbong, will sail once a week to the port city and will also carry cargo. North Korea is under wide-ranging UN sanctions.
The ferry service comes amid heightened tension between North Korea and the US over Pyongyang's missile tests and efforts to develop a nuclear arsenal.
A Chinese tour operator sent some staff on the inaugural voyage.
The ferry has a restaurant, bars and a karaoke room. Chinese tourists are expected to use the service to visit communist North Korea and Russia.
A Russian firm, InvestStroiTrest, is operating the ferry from the North Korean port of Rajin. The firm runs an import/export business at Rajin, handling freight shipping as far as Vietnam and Thailand.
In 2015 the BBC's Stephen Sackur visited Vladivostok and found many North Koreans employed on building sites, earning much-needed cash for the isolated communist regime in Pyongyang.
Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has voiced concern to Russia about the new ferry service, noting the UN sanctions imposed on North Korea because of its nuclear programme.
Russia's close economic links with North Korea date back to the Cold War, when they were ideological allies hostile to the West.
Russia's government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta says the Mangyongbong will carry essential goods and other cargo, "which will undergo strict control at Russian customs".
The Mangyongbong was built in 1971 and modernised last year, Russia's Tass news agency reports. It can carry up to 200 passengers and about 1,500 tonnes of cargo.
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American Snedeker, 35, posted his score on a weather-hit Sunday before play was curtailed.
Jimmy Walker resumed his final round with a one-stroke lead but bogeyed four of his last eight holes to slip back.
South Korea's KJ Choi had a chance to force a play-off but missed a 30-feet putt on the 18th green.
Snedeker, who also won the event in 2012, carded a 69 in his final round, despite gusting winds and bursts of heavy rain.
The wind was still bad enough on Monday to prevent any spectators being allowed on to the course near San Diego in California.
And no-one was able to conquer the conditions to beat Snedeker's clubhouse lead as he collected his eighth USPGA tour title.
"I thought I was out of the tournament starting on Sunday morning," he said.
Meanwhile, Jim Furyk, 45, is expected to miss the Masters in April as he requires surgery to clear up an ongoing wrist injury.
The 2003 US Open champion will be out for a further three months.
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Mary Bates, from St Albans, did not know the ink used in the tattoo she had done in Turkey contained paraphenylenediamine (PPD) - a substance which is strictly controlled in the European Union.
When she returned to the UK Ms Bates was referred to the specialist burns service at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital by her doctor.
Dr Chris Flower, of the Cosmetic, Toiletry & Perfumery Association, warned people could be scarred for life if they had black henna tattoos.
BBC London's Yvonne Hall spoke to Ms Bates and Dr Flower.
They heard a loud bang coming from the north, but paid little attention to it. Minutes later his neighbours started shouting that one of the dams in a nearby mine had burst.
Everyone was overcome with panic. Renato went to the house where his wife and baby were and took them to higher ground. There he managed to scramble them into a truck that drove away to the centre of the town of Mariana.
Renato stayed behind to find his mother. As he grabbed her and brought her safely to higher ground, the rest of Bento Rodrigues was wiped out by a violent mudslide.
Isolated by a sea of mud, they stayed there overnight and lit a campfire with a few other stranded locals. The following morning, they made their way back on foot through the forest, until they were eventually saved by rescue teams.
When I meet Renato, he is living with his wife in a hotel paid for by the mining company that operated the two dams that burst and wiped out districts where more than 600 people lived.
I ask him to show me a picture of his former home, but he says he has nothing left, because he never had time to go back for his cell phone.
He lost all records of his former home and the birth of his son. Everything he now possesses - including the clothes he is wearing - was donated by the townspeople. He had to go to the police to make new documents.
Later I meet Jairo Cota, who agrees to take me to his former house and bar in the district of Paracatu Baixo. We drive for almost two hours in back roads that run through private farms - the public highway to the district is no longer safe.
Jairo had been building his bar for his whole life. It was completely wiped out within minutes, along with everything else in Paracatu Baixo.
Both Renato and Jairo say they have no idea how they will rebuild their lives after having lost all possessions and livelihood in the disaster.
All they know is that they cannot do it without some sort of compensation from the mining company Samarco and its owners - Brazil's Vale and Australia's BHP Billiton - who operated the dams.
"This was not caused by God, this was caused by humans", says Jairo.
"I hope to get some sort of compensation, it will be on their conscience if this mining company doesn't pay back. We didn't do anything wrong."
The head of Brazil's environmental agency Ibama said the bursting of the two dams was the worst mining accident in the country's history.
Eleven people died and 12 are still missing - with hopes of finding anyone alive all but gone.
The causes of the accident are still under investigation.
The companies have already been fined $66.3m (250m reais) by Brazil's environmental agency and have agreed to pay $261m for social and environmental damages.
A column of mud full of chemical components used in the mining process is making its way down the river Doce. Towns along the way are having to find alternative water supplies; some fish have died of asphyxiation.
Despite the trauma suffered by hundreds of families in Mariana, many in the town do not want mining to stop.
Mining has been the heart of Mariana since colonial times in Brazil, when the town was the main source of gold for the Portuguese Empire.
Since the 1970s, when Samarco built its dams and dug its mines here, iron ore has taken over as the main source of income.
"The mining sector and us politicians, we are all responsible for our complete dependence on mining, because we never diversified our economy. More than 80% of our town's revenues come from it", Duarte Junior, Mariana's mayor tells me.
"Samarco alone is responsible for 1,800 direct jobs and another 2,000 indirect. I know that if they stop operating here, our problems will be far greater. We can't look at this crisis and not understand that soon life will have to go on."
But a fundamental trust has been broken between Mariana and the mining companies after this incident.
"We understand that mining cannot stop, but we need to take a new path, with less greed and respecting the environment", says Ronilton Condessa, from the miners' union.
He says the global commodities boom drove everyone in Mariana to become obsessed about increasing production. In 2011, iron ore was sold above $180 per tonne.
When the supercycle ended and prices fell to around $50, everyone felt under pressure to compensate by working harder.
"This year, we were beating production records every day - one right after the other. The firms are under pressure to deliver profits. But we don't care just about profits. We want security, quality of life, health and good wages."
The mines in Mariana are the sole reason for Samarco's existence - it was why Vale and BHP Billiton went into a joint venture.
The company made a net profit of 2.8bn reais in 2014 by extracting iron ore from Mariana and producing pellets in a plant in the neighbouring state of Espirito Santo.
All mining operations have been suspended until 3 January and workers have been placed on paid leave. No one knows what will happen after that.
There are still many questions hanging over the incident: what caused it? What was Vale, BHP Billiton and Samarco's role in it? Was there any negligence involved? Were the two dams that burst operating under all required conditions?
We tried to raise these questions with Samarco, but the company says it does not comment on ongoing investigations into the causes.
For now, its spokesperson only gives interviews about the relief efforts. The company paid accommodation costs for 185 families and is now in the process of moving them from hotels to temporary homes, until a final solution is reached.
Three hundred houses that fit minimum conditions have already been found.
As the town of Mariana slowly tries to move on from this tragedy, some are still agonizing in search for crucial answers.
Aline Ferreira Ribeiro has been spending her days going to press conferences and official events in Mariana.
She asks journalists and local authorities for updates on the search efforts.
Her husband, 34 year-old Samuel Vieira Albino, worked for a company hired by Samarco to survey grounds. He was working in one of the dams in the day they burst. She has heard nothing since.
"We want answers and it is taking too long for us to get them", she says.
When I met her, Aline hadn't yet told the couple's four children that their father is missing.
"I didn't speak to them yet because I don't have any answers. Without answers, we can't have that conversation yet."
Centre Mallinder, 19, crossed as Saints beat Scarlets to take them through to the European Champions Cup last eight.
"He was pretty good. He's not played in the Premiership yet so it was a big ask to play in Europe," said Jim Mallinder.
"But we've seen what he can do, I've seen it in [reserve] games, he's been doing it for a long time but matured, particularly over the last year."
Mallinder Jr, who stands 6ft 5ins tall, is a former pupil of Rugby School and has progressed to the Saints first-team squad after playing for them at the World Club Sevens as a 17-year-old.
His father told BBC Radio Northampton: "I think he's really enjoyed being around good players who have helped him in training.
"It's nice to have a 12 who can kick, can take the ball to the line and can distribute."
Northampton's 22-10 win over their Welsh opponents was enough to see them through as runners-up in Pool Three, as other results went their way.
"We were very aware we needed the bonus point," said boss Mallinder.
"We refused to go out and play sevens rugby from the start because that doesn't get you anywhere.
"We knew we needed a disciplined performance, the scrum and our forwards to get on top, to play territory because handling wasn't easy."
Former all-rounder McGrath, 40, spent 17 years at Yorkshire as a player before becoming a coach in 2014.
He joined Essex on Friday as the assistant to former Yorkshire bowler and Essex head coach Chris Silverwood.
"I've been at Yorkshire since I was 12 years old, and a new project and seeing how new teams operate will make me more rounded," McGrath told BBC Essex.
"If you're at a club for over 20 years it's going to be strange to leave, but the new role excites me more than anything."
McGrath worked as Jason Gillespie's assistant last season as Yorkshire secured back-to-back Championship titles.
Essex have struggled to make an impact in recent scampaigns, having been in Division Two since 2008.
"It goes in cycles - I had years at Yorkshire where we really struggled, but it happens at every county," added McGrath.
"Essex want to get to where Yorkshire are now, in terms of the Championship, and they've got young players coming through who can achieve that."
All of them denied charges during hearings at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The 12 were bailed by Sheriff Neil MacKinnon pending trials later this year.
Sheriff MacKinnon freed them on the condition they do not attend a football match in the UK meantime.
Scott Robertson, 23, Mark Richardson, 50, Shaun Harrold, 25, Graham Smith, 29, Christopher Jardine, 34, Jordan McArthur, 23, Christopher Forbes, 18, Mark Kerr, 21, Christopher Learie, 29, Grant Ross, 29, as well as twins Mark and Liam Cumming all appeared separately.
Rain meant the match was reduced to 18 overs when play got under way at 18:30 BST, with the hosts asked to bat.
Another disruption saw Middlesex lose a further two overs and post 101-8 with fast bowler Tom Curran claiming 3-26.
Surrey slumped to 35-4, but wicketkeeper Ben Foakes (45) and Zafar Ansari (29 not out) helped them to 105-5 with four balls to spare.
The victory pushed Gareth Batty's men above Hampshire and Middlesex into fourth in the South Group to set up a trip to Northants in the last eight.
Middlesex's innings was played in near constant drizzle, but with both sides needing a win to be in with a chance of going through to the knockout stages, the players were reluctant to come off.
However, the hosts could not find any momentum on a slow pitch as John Simpson top scored with 29.
Surrey's chase got off to the worst possible start when Jason Roy nicked the first ball from Toby Roland-Jones behind and Steve Davies followed at the start of James Harris' next over.
Aaron Finch finally got the visitors going with three sixes before he played across the line to Ollie Rayner, but Foakes and Ansari played sensibly with a stand of 66.
Foakes chipped James Franklin to Neil Sowter with one run required, but the hard work had already been done.
When the Rangitaiki River burst, Tautini Hahipene was working on the opposite side of town to the affected area, which included his mother-in-law's house.
By the end of a frantic day, he had helped to rescue nearly 30 people.
"It wasn't that bad to start with," he says. "But they still had to get people out.
"When it all started off, while I was at work at Edgecumbe Dairy Company across the river, a colleague on the same street as my mother-in-law said it was OK.
"I carried on. About 8.30, 9am, I heard people were being evacuated. I rang my mother-in-law but the phone was cut off.
"I rang my wife, asked about my mother-in-law. She said they'd got water right through the house, and 'to get over there, she's on her own, she's crying'."
When Tautini informed his work colleagues he was going to get his mother-in-law, one of them let him borrow his 4x4 utility vehicle.
Although the Civil Defence Force was in attendance, Tautini found the situation more difficult than the vehicle could handle.
"Water was halfway up my wheels and then a large wave of water came towards me so I backed up, but I passed a guy pulling a trailer.
"I said 'You've got to go back! There are still people there'."
When Tautini reached his mother-in-law's, he found her hanging on to the side of her house on a trestle with her dog.
"We had to take baby steps but we got her and her next-door neighbour on board the trailer.
"We heard neighbours call for help. We ended up with 20 or 30 people, including a guy in a wheelchair, his wife and his son.
"The water was moving in a swift torrent and there were lots of elderly people. Luckily it wasn't too cold.
"The Civil Defence guys were busy elsewhere, tied down co-ordinating refuge for people. Me and my buddy were directing people out.
"We were moving slowly through dirty water all the way and we had to ask people 'What's below us? Is it grass or concrete?'
"One lady, it took four or five of us to lift her. There were more kiddies, more families. The fire brigade turned up with a tractor and got the kiddies away."
People who know Tautini have said he deserves a medal from the Queen, but he is modest about his accomplishments.
"I was lucky I saw the guy with a digger pulling a trailer," he says. "A normal 4x4 would not have been good enough."
And his mother-in-law is well, having a "couple of wines" with Tautini's wife while he has rewarded himself with a "couple of beers".
It comes days after an article in a university newspaper called for the United Nations to recognise as Hong Kong as a separate country by 2047.
Hong Kong has certain rights enshrined in its mini-constitution, the Basic Law, which came into effect in 1997 when the UK handed it over to China.
It guarantees the "one country, two systems" principle for 50 years.
Following the 2014 mass pro-democracy protests, a small but growing number of people in Hong Kong have pushed for greater independence from China, giving rise to what is known as the "localist" movement.
The latest call was made in an issue of Undergrad, the student magazine of the University of Hong Kong, published online this week.
An article titled "Our 2047" called for Hong Kong to be recognised by the United Nations as a sovereign country, as well as the establishment of a democratic government and its own constitution.
Qiao Xiaoyang, head of China's parliamentary law committee, was addressing queries from reporters on Wednesday as the annual meeting of China's parliamentary National People's Congress drew to a close.
Asked what he thought of calls for Hong Kong's independence, Mr Qiao responded saying it was "impossible" and asked: "How could Hong Kong be independent?"
The article also said Hong Kong's identity and heritage needed greater protection, pointing out that the Umbrella Movement had failed to secure demands for greater freedoms.
It also criticised Hong Kong's government as a mainland "puppet", as well as opposition pan-democrat lawmakers for their "weak response" to increasing localist sentiment.
Beijing has repeatedly promised to stick to the dual mode of governance known as "one country, two systems", where Hong Kong's basic freedoms are guarded.
But it refused to give in to demands by protesters in 2014 to allow the city to have greater say in picking its leader, the chief executive, in the next election due in 2017.
In February, violence broke out in the working-class neighbourhood of Mong Kok as police tried to clear illegal hawkers who were supported by the localist movement.
Several localist protesters and leaders have been charged with rioting.
A 6.2% rise for the lowest paid UK workers meant pay inequality narrowed between April 2015 and early April 2016, the figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate.
The pay gap between men and women has also shrunk slightly, it said.
Pay overall rose at its joint highest rate since the financial crisis, driven by wage rises in the private sector.
Weekly earnings for full-time workers were 2.2% higher in April from a year earlier, or by 1.9% after inflation.
Despite the increases, the Resolution Foundation think tank points out that typical earnings still remain 6.8% below pre-financial crisis levels. The median average full-time worker was paid £539 a week - or £28,028 a year - before tax in April 2016.
In a sign of the growing "gig" economy - in which workers have a more flexible, short-term, sporadic work pattern - part-time earnings were up by 6.6%.
Generally, a worker in the highest paid 5% of employees saw a 2.5% rise in earnings in the year to April, but it was the lowest paid who have seen the fastest increase.
The National Living Wage (NLW) came into force on 1 April, requiring employers to pay workers aged 25 and over at least £7.20 an hour. This led to an immediate pay rise for 1.8 million workers.
Workers aged 21 to 24 have been paid the National Minimum Wage of £6.95 an hour since 1 October. Previously it was £6.70 an hour.
Hourly earnings, excluding overtime, for full-time jobs among the lowest-paid increased by 5.9% from £6.86 to £7.26 between 2015 and 2016.
Laura Gardiner, senior policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: "The introduction of the National Living Wage has well and truly made its mark on pay across Britain. The new wage floor has contributed to a significant closing of the gender pay gap and a welcome fall in pay inequality.
"But while 2016 has been the strongest year for pay in over five years, we may not see this level of growth again this parliament given the outlook for lower earnings growth and higher inflation in the wake of the Brexit vote.
"It is encouraging to see pay finally recovering after a long and painful squeeze, but with the pace of recovery set to slow it could be another decade before we see a return to pre-crash pay levels."
To represent the lowest paid, the ONS uses someone who would be fifth worst paid among 100 people in a cross-section of the UK population.
The gap between typical pay of men and women had changed relatively little over the last six years, the ONS said.
The gap has narrowed slightly, with full-time female employees typically paid 9.4% less than men. The gap remains at about 20% for high earners,
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "The full-time gender pay gap is closing at a snail's pace. At this rate, it will take decades for women to get paid the same as men.
"We need a labour market that works better for women. This means helping mums get back into well-paid jobs after they have kids, and encouraging dads to take on more caring responsibilities."
Business Minister Margot James said: "I am particularly pleased the gender pay gap is closing, but there is still more to be done to make sure women are treated equally."
Debbie Abrahams, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, said: "The figures are yet more disappointing news for working people, with real earnings still below their pre-recession peak in 2008 and the number of people stuck in low-paid jobs increasing by 66% on last year."
About 250,000 people were hit by power cuts, officials said, mostly caused by snow-laden trees falling on cables.
One death was reported - of a worker trying to clear ice - and two other people were injured by a fallen power line, Chilean media said.
Meteorologists say it was the heaviest snowfall in Santiago since 2007.
It came as the city and surrounding region were enduring an unusually cold snap.
As well as the power cuts, the weather has caused traffic disruption in the capital and several sporting fixtures have been postponed.
The big freeze was not bad news for everyone, however, and thousands of children headed outdoors to build snowmen and throw snowballs.
Forecasters say lighter amounts of snow are still expected to fall.
The Food Standards Agency said the websites selling 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) were shut down in the last year.
But a BBC investigation has found hidden sites on the so-called dark web were still selling the products.
DNP is an industrial chemical licensed for commercial use but not for human consumption.
In April 2015, Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury took diet pills she had bought over the internet. Later that day she was dead.
Sean Cleathero died in October 2012 aged 28, after taking an illegal slimming pill in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
His mother Sharon Ayres, said: "Why would people still want to take it anyway, whether they think there is a safe dose, because there isn't a safe dose?"
Former Prime Minister David Cameron raised the issue in the Commons following the death of Sarah Houston who died in Leeds in 2012 after she had taken pills containing DNP.
The BBC investigation found a number of suppliers were marketing DNP as a diet product for human consumption.
A number of samples were bought online and sent for laboratory tests which found they contained about 40% DNP - a potentially lethal amount.
Jon Griffin, analyst for Kent Scientific Services at Kent County Council, said: "You're not being able to control your body temperature, at 40 per cent that danger rises significantly, this has got some potential in there for very serious repercussions.
"Worst case scenario would be death."
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seized £1.4 million worth of unlicensed dietary medicines in 2015-16, £960,000 more than two years before.
Lynda Scammell, senior policy manager at the MHRA, said: "The internet offers access to a vast number of websites offering products marketed as 'slimming' or 'diet' pills.
"Many of these pills will not be licensed medicines. That means their contents are unknown and untested.
Chances are they simply will not work, but they may contain dangerous ingredients," she said.
"The consequences for your health can be devastating."
The SNP took 56 of Scotland's 59 available seats at Westminster, swamping Labour's historic strongholds.
The former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown's old seat switched to the SNP with an astonishing 35% swing to the nationalists - this in an electoral system where a 10% swing is considered large.
In Glasgow, where all seven Labour seats were won by the SNP, one - Glasgow North East - notched up a massive swing from Labour to the SNP of 39.3%.
Some of the big beasts in the Scottish Labour jungle were swept from parliament including Jim Murphy, the Scottish Labour leader himself, and Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary.
The SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said she wanted Scotland's voice to be heard and that it would be hard to ignore.
Alex Salmond, the man she replaced as party leader after last year's independence referendum, put it more rhetorically: "The Scottish Lion has roared," he said.
But what will that roar mean in the months ahead?
The SNP has won 56 seats, the Tories, Lib Dems and Labour have just one each. Scotland's political map has changed from a distinctive red/orange to a widespread yellow.
The SNP had hoped to share power or exert influence in Westminster - but with the Conservatives commanding an overall majority, that is now less likely.
David Cameron said he would govern for "one nation".
But Bob Thomson, a former Scottish Labour Party treasurer who came out for independence last year, said Mr Cameron showed "breathtaking hypocrisy" after suggesting during the election campaign that SNP influence on a Westminster government would be almost "unconstitutional".
He said Mr Cameron had put a "big nail in the coffin" of the union with his campaign, which he said was aimed at frightening English voters about SNP influence.
Nicola Sturgeon made it clear that the election was not about independence, but the fault-line in UK politics is bound to open again and those tectonic plates could push England and Scotland further apart.
Scotland's centre of gravity has shifted to the left politically, just as England's has moved definitely to the right.
That gap will be harder to bridge without a left-of-centre party with large numbers of Scottish MPs committed to the union, as Labour was.
Ms Sturgeon's party - now the undisputed voice of Scotland - has pledged to oppose austerity.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron wants to cut the deficit sharply, and the SNP will claim London has no mandate to do so in Scotland.
Bob Thomson said that, unless there was dramatic constitutional change, the union would last no more than five years.
He said if Mr Cameron tried to block another independence referendum there could be "widespread civic unrest".
Though Nicola Sturgeon did not campaign for independence during the election, she did argue strongly against the renewal of Trident - a submarine-based nuclear deterrent the SNP calls Britain's "weapons of mass destruction".
"[The SNP] didn't run on independence so they can't say this is a vote for another independence referendum," said Dr Phillip O'Brien, director of the Scottish centre of war studies at Glasgow University and a reader in political history.
"But they did run on getting Trident out of the UK, and so the SNP can say there is a clear division between Scotland and the rest of the UK."
He says the SNP will exploit that division.
More important, he says, is the referendum on EU membership that David Cameron has promised.
If the UK votes to leave the EU but Scotland votes to stay, the SNP would see it as "clear grounds for another independence referendum" and the Scottish people would certainly support another vote, he says.
Nicola Sturgeon will now turn her attention to the Scottish parliamentary elections next year in the hope of further consolidating the SNP's grip on the levers of power north of the border.
"The SNP has sealed its position as Scotland's dominant party," says Magnus Gardham, political editor of the Herald newspaper in Scotland.
He says the SNP leadership will not want another vote on independence before the polls show they can definitely win.
"What they can't afford to do is lose a second referendum in quick succession," he says.
Scotland is setting a different course from the rest of the United Kingdom.
The union which bound them to England and saw them jointly build a global empire is more fragile than ever.
Expectations are running high in Scotland and could easily be dashed, but the UK parliament will now hold 56 restless MPs whose loyalties are not really to the parliament in which they sit.
The constitutional crisis the vote could engender has only just begun.
Donnelly, 26, has agreed a two-year contract after scored 13 goals in 86 appearances for Dale.
Brezovan, 34, spent the beginning of this season with Portsmouth on a short-term deal but has now signed for a season with Rovers.
Meanwhile, defender Matt Hill has also earned a one-year deal, having played five games on non-contract terms.
"George is a fast, powerful striker who will run behind defences and cause them a lot of problems," manager Rob Edwards told the Rovers club website.
"He gives us an option we haven't currently got in the squad.
Edwards added: "I'm delighted to bring Peter to the club. He's an experienced keeper who has played at Championship and League One level and it gives us good competition for places."
His place in the back-row is taken by Dan Lydiate, with Justin Tipuric restored to the open-side and Taulupe Faletau on the bench after injury.
Leigh Halfpenny moves to full-back after playing on the wing in the 33-30 win over Japan.
Scott Williams is preferred at centre to Jamie Roberts in a side showing one change from the win over Argentina.
Loose-head Gethin Jenkins is captain after recovering from a shoulder injury.
Warburton missed the opening game of the autumn series against Australia as he recovered from shoulder and neck injuries, but played in the wins over the Pumas and Japan.
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Faletau appears in the squad for the first time this autumn having played an hour for Bath against Bristol following a knee injury suffered in September.
Halfpenny's return to the number 15 shirt sees Liam Williams move to the wing.
Dan Biggar returns at fly-half, with Sam Davies - whose last-minute drop goal clinched the win against Japan - getting the nod ahead of Gareth Anscombe on the bench.
"Sam [Warburton] had a stinger on Tuesday afternoon in training and it's the same injury he had when training with the Blues," said Howley.
"He felt he would get through the next 24-48 hours, but the medical staff saw him yesterday and this morning and it's just a wise decision that he won't be fit - it's much too early.
"We looked at the back-row and in light of playing against South Africa Dan Lydiate, who played well at the weekend has come into that number six position."
Howley added he had not been tempted to start Faletau in the back row.
"Not really because he's played 45 minutes for Bath," said Howley.
"The impact he would have - he's a world class player - to come off the bench - it will be big from Toby and in terms of what we're expecting from South Africa we felt this was the best way to go."
Liam Williams' move back to the left wing comes after the player was unimpressed with his own display against Japan, according to Howley.
"I spoke to Liam after the weekend. He was very disappointed with his performance," he added.
"I talked about him being a connection in the back field and the way we defend, I think the amount of work Leigh Halfpenny does on and off the ball [is significant] and Liam's a very intuitive player.
"There's an X-factor about Liam and probably in terms of his ability to add value in the wider channels, but Leigh Halfpenny is equally important and for me that is the best back three.
"Liam is probably a left wing who can play full-back, where I think Leigh Halfpenny can play both."
Wales: Halfpenny; North, J Davies, S Williams, Liam Williams; Biggar, G Davies; Jenkins (capt), Owens, Francis, Charteris, Wyn Jones, Lydiate, Moriarty, Tipuric.
Replacements: Baldwin, Smith, Lee, Hill, Faletau, Lloyd Williams, S Davies, Roberts.
"The Security Council,
Recalling its resolution 1970 (2011) of 26 February 2011,
Deploring the failure of the Libyan authorities to comply with resolution 1970 (2011),
Expressing grave concern at the deteriorating situation, the escalation of violence, and the heavy civilian casualties,
Reiterating the responsibility of the Libyan authorities to protect the Libyan population and reaffirming that parties to armed conflicts bear the primary responsibility to take all feasible steps to ensure the protection of civilians,
Condemning the gross and systematic violation of human rights, including arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture and summary executions,
Further condemning acts of violence and intimidation committed by the Libyan authorities against journalists, media professionals and associated personnel and urging these authorities to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law as outlined in resolution 1738 (2006),
Considering that the widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity,
Recalling paragraph 26 of resolution 1970 (2011) in which the Council expressed its readiness to consider taking additional appropriate measures, as necessary, to facilitate and support the return of humanitarian agencies and make available humanitarian and related assistance in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Expressing its determination to ensure the protection of civilians and civilian populated areas and the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian assistance and the safety of humanitarian personnel,
Recalling the condemnation by the League of Arab States, the African Union and the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference of the serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law that have been and are being committed in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Taking note of the final communiqué of the Organization of the Islamic Conference of 8 March 2011, and the communiqué of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union of 10 March 2011 which established an ad hoc High-Level Committee on Libya,
Taking note also of the decision of the Council of the League of Arab States of 12 March 2011 to call for the imposition of a no-fly zone on Libyan military aviation, and to establish safe areas in places exposed to shelling as a precautionary measure that allows the protection of the Libyan people and foreign nationals residing in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Taking note further of the Secretary-General's call on 16 March 2011 for an immediate ceasefire,
Recalling its decision to refer the situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya since 15 February 2011 to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and stressing that those responsible for or complicit in attacks targeting the civilian population, including aerial and naval attacks, must be held to account,
Reiterating its concern at the plight of refugees and foreign workers forced to flee the violence in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, welcoming the response of neighbouring States, in particular Tunisia and Egypt, to address the needs of those refugees and foreign workers, and calling on the international community to support those efforts,
Deploring the continuing use of mercenaries by the Libyan authorities,
"Considering that the establishment of a ban on all flights in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya constitutes an important element for the protection of civilians as well as the safety of the delivery of humanitarian assistance and a decisive step for the cessation of hostilities in Libya,
"Expressing concern also for the safety of foreign nationals and their rights in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Welcoming the appointment by the Secretary General of his Special Envoy to Libya, Mr. Abdul Ilah Mohamed Al-Khatib and supporting his efforts to find a sustainable and peaceful solution to the crisis in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Determining that the situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security,
"Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,
1. Demands the immediate establishment of a ceasefire and a complete end to violence and all attacks against, and abuses of, civilians;
2. Stresses the need to intensify efforts to find a solution to the crisis which responds to the legitimate demands of the Libyan people and notes the decisions of the Secretary-General to send his Special Envoy to Libya and of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union to send its ad hoc High-Level Committee to Libya with the aim of facilitating dialogue to lead to the political reforms necessary to find a peaceful and sustainable solution;
3. Demands that the Libyan authorities comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law, human rights and refugee law and take all measures to protect civilians and meet their basic needs, and to ensure the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian assistance;
4. Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, and acting in cooperation with the Secretary-General, to take all necessary measures, notwithstanding paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011), to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory, and requests the Member States concerned to inform the Secretary-General immediately of the measures they take pursuant to the authorization conferred by this paragraph which shall be immediately reported to the Security Council;
5. Recognizes the important role of the League of Arab States in matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security in the region, and bearing in mind Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, requests the Member States of the League of Arab States to cooperate with other Member States in the implementation of paragraph 4;
6. Decides to establish a ban on all flights in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in order to help protect civilians;
7. Decides further that the ban imposed by paragraph 6 shall not apply to flights whose sole purpose is humanitarian, such as delivering or facilitating the delivery of assistance, including medical supplies, food, humanitarian workers and related assistance, or evacuating foreign nationals from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, nor shall it apply to flights authorised by paragraphs 4 or 8, nor other flights which are deemed necessary by States acting under the authorization conferred in paragraph 8 to be for the benefit of the Libyan people, and that these flights shall be coordinated with any mechanism established under paragraph 8;
8. Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to take all necessary measures to enforce compliance with the ban on flights imposed by paragraph 6 above, as necessary, and requests the States concerned in cooperation with the League of Arab States to coordinate closely with the Secretary General on the measures they are taking to implement this ban, including by establishing an appropriate mechanism for implementing the provisions of paragraphs 6 and 7 above,
9. Calls upon all Member States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to provide assistance, including any necessary overflight approvals, for the purposes of implementing paragraphs 4, 6, 7 and 8 above;
10. Requests the Member States concerned to coordinate closely with each other and the Secretary-General on the measures they are taking to implement paragraphs 4, 6, 7 and 8 above, including practical measures for the monitoring and approval of authorised humanitarian or evacuation flights;
11. Decides that the Member States concerned shall inform the Secretary-General and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States immediately of measures taken in exercise of the authority conferred by paragraph 8 above, including to supply a concept of operations;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to inform the Council immediately of any actions taken by the Member States concerned in exercise of the authority conferred by paragraph 8 above and to report to the Council within 7 days and every month thereafter on the implementation of this resolution, including information on any violations of the flight ban imposed by paragraph 6 above;
13. Decides that paragraph 11 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall be replaced by the following paragraph : "Calls upon all Member States, in particular States of the region, acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, in order to ensure strict implementation of the arms embargo established by paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 1970 (2011), to inspect in their territory, including seaports and airports, and on the high seas, vessels and aircraft bound to or from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, if the State concerned has information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo contains items the supply, sale, transfer or export of which is prohibited by paragraphs 9 or 10 of resolution 1970 (2011) as modified by this resolution, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel, calls upon all flag States of such vessels and aircraft to cooperate with such inspections and authorises Member States to use all measures commensurate to the specific circumstances to carry out such inspections";
14. Requests Member States which are taking action under paragraph 13 above on the high seas to coordinate closely with each other and the Secretary-General and further requests the States concerned to inform the Secretary-General and the Committee established pursuant to paragraph 24 of resolution 1970 (2011) ("the Committee") immediately of measures taken in the exercise of the authority conferred by paragraph 13 above;
15. Requires any Member State whether acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, when it undertakes an inspection pursuant to paragraph 13 above, to submit promptly an initial written report to the Committee containing, in particular, explanation of the grounds for the inspection, the results of such inspection, and whether or not cooperation was provided, and, if prohibited items for transfer are found, further requires such Member States to submit to the Committee, at a later stage, a subsequent written report containing relevant details on the inspection, seizure, and disposal, and relevant details of the transfer, including a description of the items, their origin and intended destination, if this information is not in the initial report;
16. Deplores the continuing flows of mercenaries into the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and calls upon all Member States to comply strictly with their obligations under paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011) to prevent the provision of armed mercenary personnel to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;
17. Decides that all States shall deny permission to any aircraft registered in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or owned or operated by Libyan nationals or companies to take off from, land in or overfly their territory unless the particular flight has been approved in advance by the Committee, or in the case of an emergency landing;
18. Decides that all States shall deny permission to any aircraft to take off from, land in or overfly their territory, if they have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the aircraft contains items the supply, sale, transfer, or export of which is prohibited by paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 1970 (2011) as modified by this resolution, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel, except in the case of an emergency landing;
19. Decides that the asset freeze imposed by paragraph 17, 19, 20 and 21 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall apply to all funds, other financial assets and economic resources which are on their territories, which are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Libyan authorities, as designated by the Committee, or by individuals or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, or by entities owned or controlled by them, as designated by the Committee, and decides further that all States shall ensure that any funds, financial assets or economic resources are prevented from being made available by their nationals or by any individuals or entities within their territories, to or for the benefit of the Libyan authorities, as designated by the Committee, or individuals or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, or entities owned or controlled by them, as designated by the Committee, and directs the Committee to designate such Libyan authorities, individuals or entities within 30 days of the date of the adoption of this resolution and as appropriate thereafter;
20. Affirms its determination to ensure that assets frozen pursuant to paragraph 17 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall, at a later stage, as soon as possible be made available to and for the benefit of the people of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;
21. Decides that all States shall require their nationals, persons subject to their jurisdiction and firms incorporated in their territory or subject to their jurisdiction to exercise vigilance when doing business with entities incorporated in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or subject to its jurisdiction, and any individuals or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, and entities owned or controlled by them, if the States have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that such business could contribute to violence and use of force against civilians;
22. Decides that the individuals listed in Annex I shall be subject to the travel restrictions imposed in paragraphs 15 and 16 of resolution 1970 (2011), and decides further that the individuals and entities listed in Annex II shall be subject to the asset freeze imposed in paragraphs 17, 19, 20 and 21 of resolution 1970 (2011);
23. Decides that the measures specified in paragraphs 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 21 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall apply also to individuals and entities determined by the Council or the Committee to have violated the provisions of resolution 1970 (2011), particularly paragraphs 9 and 10 thereof, or to have assisted others in doing so;
24. Requests the Secretary-General to create for an initial period of one year, in consultation with the Committee, a group of up to eight experts ("Panel of Experts"), under the direction of the Committee to carry out the following tasks:
(a) Assist the Committee in carrying out its mandate as specified in paragraph 24 of resolution 1970 (2011) and this resolution;
(b) Gather, examine and analyse information from States, relevant United Nations bodies, regional organisations and other interested parties regarding the implementation of the measures decided in resolution 1970 (2011) and this resolution, in particular incidents of non-compliance;
(c) Make recommendations on actions the Council, or the Committee or State, may consider to improve implementation of the relevant measures;
(d) Provide to the Council an interim report on its work no later than 90 days after the Panel's appointment, and a final report to the Council no later than 30 days prior to the termination of its mandate with its findings and recommendations;
25. Urges all States, relevant United Nations bodies and other interested parties, to cooperate fully with the Committee and the Panel of Experts, in particular by supplying any information at their disposal on the implementation of the measures decided in resolution 1970 (2011) and this resolution, in particular incidents of non-compliance;
26. Decides that the mandate of the Committee as set out in paragraph 24 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall also apply to the measures decided in this resolution;
27. Decides that all States, including the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, shall take the necessary measures to ensure that no claim shall lie at the instance of the Libyan authorities, or of any person or body in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, or of any person claiming through or for the benefit of any such person or body, in connection with any contract or other transaction where its performance was affected by reason of the measures taken by the Security Council in resolution 1970 (2011), this resolution and related resolutions;
28. Reaffirms its intention to keep the actions of the Libyan authorities under continuous review and underlines its readiness to review at any time the measures imposed by this resolution and resolution 1970 (2011), including by strengthening, suspending or lifting those measures, as appropriate, based on compliance by the Libyan authorities with this resolution and resolution 1970 (2011);
29. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter."
As Aphra watched her son Allan graduate from Cambridge University last month, she thought back to the moment he was born.
"I'm so sorry your baby is blind," a neighbour in Baghdad had said.
Aphra became the talk of the town because of the taboo associated with her son's condition.
It was Iraq in 1995 - Saddam Hussein was president, the Gulf War had ended only three years earlier and citizens were suffering under sanctions placed on the country.
As a blind child, Allan Hennessy's prospects were poor.
Today, walking around his college in Cambridge, Allan is confident and articulate:
"I have so many accents now," he says.
"If someone from Iraq calls, I answer in Arabic, 'As-salaam-alaikum'.
"At Cambridge I have a posh, round-vowelled voice.
"Then I speak to a mate from the estate - 'Oh my days, all right bruv?'
He is only 22 but already Allan has smashed barriers that many will not face in a lifetime.
So how did a baby born blind in a war-torn country become a top student at a world-leading university?
In Iraq, Allan's family were middle class - his grandfather was a sheikh and they lived a comfortable, even luxurious life.
But Iraqi hospitals could not offer Allan hope of sight.
"My dad tried to get me treatment but there weren't enough eye specialists - they thought I would always be blind."
But when Allan was six months old, an opportunity came and Allan's father seized it.
"My dad sold up to pay for the treatment - his car, belongings, some of his land. We left Iraq with very little."
The opportunity was an operation in London which restored partial sight in Allan's left eye.
"My mum remembers the first time I looked at her - the first time we made eye contact. She burst into tears.
"Since then I've just been rocking on with the little sight I have," he explains.
Allan's mother and his siblings also sought political asylum in London, but life as immigrants was challenging.
"They enjoyed their life in Iraq, but when circumstances changed, they were forced to become refugees.
"They did not speak English, and we lived on London council estates - they had a real culture shock."
"Jihadi John" - who joined so-called Islamic State in Syria and appeared in videos showing beheadings of prisoners - grew up on the same estate.
Although Allan is visibly uncomfortable at any mention of the militant, the link highlights the difference between his childhood and many of his peers at Cambridge.
"When people at university ask me about my life, they think 'he's had a really difficult life'.
"But the reason I'm able to get on with it is because I look back at my family in Iraq and I think I'm very privileged."
Allan is not the type of person to do what he is told.
"I've lived my life thinking I'm not partially-sighted.
"I loved riding my bike and climbing scaffolding, even though I wasn't really meant to.
"When we went to the fairground, I always wanted to drive the bumper cars."
Like many children, Allan was no angel at school.
"I was in the lowest set for everything and I would bunk off school. I threw eggs at buses, stuff that teenagers do," he says.
But eventually Allan realised he could do better:
"After GCSEs I got a new energy and I realised the kids in the top sets weren't any smarter than me."
In 2012 he applied to study law at Cambridge University.
"Everyone and everything was so white - I felt visibly different," he says, recalling his first impressions.
He became one of only seven people with impaired sight accepted that year and the first person in his family to attend university.
"All my life I've been told I cannot, must not, should not and would not. The disabled stereotype is subdued, helpless - and the biggest struggle for me is to overcome that stigma.
"When you leave your lane, you are treated with negativity and scorn. You receive a lot of hatred for what you do, but all you're doing is what 'normal' people are doing," he says.
Allan spent three years at Fitzwilliam College and says it has been transformative.
"I met the most amazing people from all over the world. But there was also a lot of negativity directed at me.
"When you're an overweight, brown, blind guy climbing the greasy pole, everyone can see and they judge you - even though they are doing it too."
What would his life be like if he had stayed in Iraq?
"I wouldn't have a Cambridge law degree - I wouldn't even be sighted.
"My family there have faced terrible, traumatic events, including capture by so-called Islamic State.
"Perhaps I wouldn't be alive."
After graduating this summer, Allan is taking up a prestigious scholarship at law school.
"If you've got a first-class law degree from Cambridge University, that should set you up for life," he says.
"But when you're a blind, Muslim immigrant living in Britain today, there is so much more I have to do. The journey has only just begun."
Mr Peskov said his 36.7m rouble (£383,000; $544,000) income in 2015 "was salary - and sadly I got an inheritance when my father died".
Mr Putin's income was put as 8.9m roubles - slightly more than in 2014.
Western analysts believe Mr Putin has amassed a huge secret fortune.
In a BBC Panorama interview in January US Treasury official Adam Szubin said Mr Putin's declaration "is not an accurate statement of the man's wealth, and he has long time training and practices in terms of how to mask his actual wealth".
Mr Peskov later hit back, calling the allegations a "total fabrication".
In the Panama Papers revelations this month, it emerged that members of Mr Putin's elite circle had channelled millions of dollars through offshore accounts. Among them was cellist Sergei Roldugin, one of Mr Putin's closest friends.
Mr Putin has denied "any element of corruption" over the offshore schemes, saying his opponents are trying to destabilise Russia.
In his declaration published last week (in Russian) Mr Putin said he owned three Russian-made cars, a trailer, a plot of land measuring 1,500 sq m (16,146 sq ft), a flat of 77 sq m and a garage.
That was dwarfed by the wealth declared by Mr Peskov and his wife Tatyana Navka, a champion ice dancer, who declared income of 89m roubles (£930,000; $1.3m) - nearly three times what Mr Peskov earned.
Ms Navka also owns two plots of land, a house, four flats - including one in the US - and a garage. She also owns two Mercedes-Benz luxury cars, a Lexus car and a quad bike. She won an Olympic gold medal as an ice dancer with Roman Kostomarov in 2006.
Mr Peskov has three flats of his own and a Toyota Land Cruiser. Their children also have their own properties.
At his wedding last year Mr Peskov was photographed wearing a Richard Mille watch worth $620,000.
Mr Peskov made a rare confession last week, saying he had wrongly informed Mr Putin that Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung - the paper that revealed the Panama Papers - was owned by US bank Goldman Sachs.
When asked about Mr Putin's reaction, Mr Peskov said "I got it in the neck" - but did not specify the punishment.
Top of the list for income in the Kremlin administration was Mr Putin's deputy chief of staff, Vyacheslav Volodin, who declared earnings of 87.1m roubles.
In the Russian cabinet the highest income was that of Mikhail Abyzov, minister without portfolio, with 455.5m roubles.
Mr Andrew lost his hands and feet to frostbite after he and his climbing partner were trapped for five nights in the French Alps in 1999.
His ascent of the 4,478m (14,692ft) Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps was five years in the planning.
He told BBC Scotland: "It was very hard, but all the preparation made the climb go like a dream."
Mr Andrew, from Edinburgh, survived a storm on Mont Blanc in 1999 which killed his climbing partner. He suffered hypothermia and frostbite and had to learn to walk again after his hands and feet were amputated.
After working with rehabilitation specialists he took up skiing, has run marathons and iron-man triathlons, and also returned to climbing.
The 47-year-old conquered the Matterhorn accompanied by two friends, mountain guides Steve Jones and Steve Monks.
"It was five years ago, I first had this amazing idea that I could climb the Matterhorn without hands and feet," he told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme.
"I've got fantastic prosthetic legs which are custom-made for me. For my arms I used special poles - like ski poles - to gain purchase and keep balance on the very tricky terrain that you find all the way up."
With storms forecast later on the day of the planned climb, Mr Andrew said getting up and back down as fast as possible was essential.
"You've got to move fast to do that and that was my main challenge, just going as quickly as possible to get up and down before any storms came in."
Two other British climbers died on the other side of the Matterhorn shortly after Mr Andrew and his team completed their challenge.
It is believed that the pair, who have not been named, were surprised by unseasonably cold weather, and reports suggest one was wearing light clothing.
"It is a hazardous environment and there are dangers," said the Scottish climber.
"I take the attitude that the more well-prepared you are, the more you can lessen the risks you face. I am married, and a father of three, and my biggest priority is to get off the mountain safely - getting to the summit is a bonus."
Mr Andrew described his climb as "exciting" and "amazing" and said it pushed him "absolutely to my limit".
"The summit is incredible. It's such a tiny, little summit for such a big mountain," he added.
"It's just a tiny perched, arete of snow, right on the very crest with massive drops on either side of you. It is very, very exposed.
"There was not a cloud in the sky all around. It was just beautiful to be standing there, and the summit of achievement for me after all the planning, preparation, trials and heartache that went in to it."
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The two sold 180 bags of rice donated by an international aid agency, the court in Maiduguri, Borno State, heard.
They were jailed for two years and fined 1m naira ($3,200; £2,500) each.
More than two million people have been displaced in north-eastern Nigeria where security forces are battling Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
The prosecution of the two officials was brought by Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the EFCC.
Umar Ibrahim, a local councillor, and Bulama Ali Zangebe, a member of a camp feeding committee, are said to be the first convicted for corruption in relation to food aid in Nigeria since the insurgency began in 2009.
The rice had been donated by the Danish Refugee Council for victims of insurgency in the town of Mafa, and had been marked as not for sale.
The two admitted the charges against them but told the court that the rice was about to expire.
President Muhammadu Buhari took office in 2015 with a pledge to root out corruption in government.
Last month his office ordered an investigation after the head of the national intelligence agency was suspended over corruption allegations.
He acted after anti-corruption officers found more than $43m (£34m) in a flat in the main city, Lagos.
The "black alert" at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham comes less than a week after plans to cut hundreds of beds were announced.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has urged people to only attend the department in a "real emergency".
A black alert means there are not enough beds to cope with the number of patients being admitted.
Dr Alun Harcombe, divisional director for medicine, said staff have been "working tirelessly" and the department "remains open".
He said: "We are working closely with our health and social care partners across Nottinghamshire to provide timely emergency patient care in hospital as well as timely transfers of care out of hospital to other facilities in the community.
"We ask the public to help our patients, families and staff and only use the emergency department in a real emergency."
He added that people should "consider walk-in centres" for minor injuries or illness advice.
On Thursday, the trust proposed to cut 200 hospital beds over the next two years.
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Bernice Williams, 50, from Lutton, was last seen on 25 March.
Lincolnshire Police said two bodies were found at her home in the Lutton area on Monday.
The force said it is treating the deaths as "unexplained" but is not seeking anyone else in connection with its inquiry.
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Mrs Williams is understood to be a teacher at Sutton Bridge Westmere Community Primary School and a church warden at St Nicholas Parish Church in Lutton.
A force spokesperson said: "The bodies of a male and female were found at a house in the Lutton area.
"Police are investigating the cause of death and the circumstances surrounding the incident.
"Whilst the deaths are unexplained, police are not seeking anyone else in connection with this inquiry."
The line-up has been announced for the 14th edition of the event which runs from 15 to 18 June.
It promises to bring "some of the biggest names from the world of books, entertainment and politics".
The programme of over 100 events includes writers and broadcasters from across a huge range of genres.
Among the participants this year are:
A wide selection of political events are scheduled throughout the festival.
Also taking part from the world of children's books are Philip Ardagh, Guy Bass, Vivian French, Petr Horacek and Derek Landy.
The winner of this year's prestigious £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction will be announced at the event on Saturday 17 June.
Festival director Alistair Moffat said: "Every year we aim to bring some magic to the Borders within the walls of Harmony Garden and this year is no exception.
"John Cleese, Michael Parkinson, Judy Murray, Anne Reid, Richard Ingrams, Allan Little, Steve Backshall, Rory Bremner, Jim Naughtie, Carol Klein, Joanna Trollope, and Melvyn Bragg will all, without doubt, enthral our audiences."
Kaite Welsh, literature officer at Creative Scotland, said the event had become an "essential fixture" on the literary calendar.
"Always with a diverse programme of literary events in a beautiful setting, the talks enthral younger readers and stimulate debate in older ones," she said.
"With a brilliant roster of well-known and emerging voices, 2017's festival promises to be a highlight."
The emergency services were called to Prestonhill Quarry in Inverkeithing at about 21:20 on Thursday following reports of a teenager in the water.
The body of 18-year-old John McKay was recovered the following day.
Police inquiries are continuing to establish the circumstances of his death.
In August 2014, Cameron Lancaster, from Burntisland, Fife, died at the quarry.
The 16-year-old boy, from Kent, was held by counter-terrorism officers on Sunday as he prepared to board an international flight.
He was arrested on suspicion of the collection of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
He was detained under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE).
Andrew Maling, 47, from Sigglesthorne, near Hull, was jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of Amy Gough in June.
Miss Gough, 34, from Sandiacre, Derbyshire, died several days after suffering stomach injuries inflicted by Maling in March 2015.
The Appeal Court said his history of domestic violence should be reflected.
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Maling, who watched the court hearing via video-link from prison, had inflicted serious injuries to Miss Gough "over a period of several years".
Last year, Miss Gough suffered serious abdominal injuries, which had been caused by "blunt force trauma".
Her heart failed and she died in hospital on 29 March 2015, several days after the attack.
At trial at Nottingham Crown Court, Maling had denied guilt, insisting Miss Gough's injuries resulted from an "accidental drunken fall".
Lawyers for the Attorney General argued there was "no mitigation whatever" for his crime.
Lady Justice Hallett, sitting with Mr Justice King and Mr Justice Dove, said she had no doubt the original 10-year sentence was "too short".
"If a killing results from a campaign of domestic violence, that is a serious aggravating factor which must be properly reflected in the sentence imposed," Justice Hallett said.
The impact of Miss Gough's death had been devastating for her family, the court heard.
Her mother, Christine, had spoken of the void left by her daughter's loss - describing her as a "caring, beautiful and warm person".
Speaking after the hearing, the Attorney General said: "This was a one of many violent attacks the offender inflicted on the deceased over a number of years, and this attack lasted several days.
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A study of 3,000 patients found that chest compressions alone increased chances of survival by more than 22%.
But training in how to give both chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths is the best option, experts say.
The UK Resuscitation Council is due to produce new CPR guidelines next week.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a combination of chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths, given in the event of a cardiac arrest.
The study, compiled by doctors from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, looked at the survival rates of people treated by untrained members of the public taking instructions from the emergency services over the phone.
Dr Peter Nagele, from the department of anaesthesiology, critical care and pain therapy at the Medical University of Vienna, said that if untrained bystanders avoided mouth-to-mouth breaths during CPR, they were more likely to perform uninterrupted chest compressions.
That then increased the probability of CPR being successful.
The research in The Lancet involved two analyses.
The first used data from three randomised trials involving more than 3,000 patients.
It showed that chest-compression-only CPR was associated with a slightly improved chance of survival compared with standard CPR (14% v 12%).
In the second analysis of seven observational studies, researchers found no difference between the two CPR techniques.
The study authors maintain that continuous, uninterrupted chest compressions are vital for successful CPR.
Dr Jas Soar, chair of the Resuscitation Council from Southmead Hospital in Bristol, said: "Any CPR is better than no CPR. If you witness a cardiac arrest, dial 999 immediately. Those trained in CPR should follow existing guidance of 30 chest compressions followed by two rescue breaths.
"Those not trained should start compressions and follow instructions until an expert arrives," Dr Soar said.
Dr Meng Aw-Yong, medical adviser at St John Ambulance, acknowledged that rescue breaths could be off-putting.
"The current advice is that if you're unwilling or unable to do full CPR then chest compressions are better than nothing.
"The best solution, however, is for people to get trained in how to carry out chest compressions and rescue breaths so they can be the difference between a life lost and a life saved," he said.
The British Heart Foundation says that being able to do CPR more than doubles the chances of survival.
Claire O'Neill, community resuscitation programme lead at the BHF, said: "For someone who is untrained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, doing both chest compressions and rescue breaths really can be difficult.
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The three skeletons unearthed at Nimes show indications of Islamic burial rites and are thought to date to the eighth century AD.
A team used DNA, radiocarbon dating and archaeological analysis to show the individuals may have been North African soldiers from a brief occupation of southern France by an Islamic army.
Details of the analysis are published in the journal Plos One.
In each of the three graves, the bodies were placed on their right-hand sides facing south-east - in the direction of Mecca. The way the burial pit was dug, with a lateral niche closed off by slabs or stones also corresponds to a traditional Islamic burial practice.
Analysis of the skeletons reveals that two of the three males were in their late twenties or early thirties, while the other was about 50 years of age.
Radiocarbon dating of all three burials gave age ranges within the 7th and 8th centuries.
The scientists also carried out genetic analysis on the remains. They found that the Y chromosome DNA from all three males belonged to a type very common in Berbers from North Africa, but largely absent from Europe, including France.
Mitochondrial DNA - which is passed down from a mother to her offspring - from one of the younger males also belonged to a specifically African lineage. But mitochondrial DNA from the other two burials belonged to types that are found both in Europe and North Africa.
In their Plos One paper, the team from the University of Bordeaux and France's Inrap archaeological centre, propose how the apparently Muslim individuals came to be in southern France at this time.
In the early 8th Century, Nimes was part of the Visigothic Kingdom, comprising the territory of present-day Spain, Portugal and south-eastern France (Septimania).
But in 711, Muslim troops invaded the Iberian Peninsula and rapidly conquered the territories held by the Visigoths, crossing the eastern Pyrenees into what is now France in 719.
This army, representing the medieval Umayyad Caliphate may have established alliances with the local population against a common enemy from the north: the Franks, a Germanic people who later gave their name to France.
Co-author Yves Gleize and colleagues propose that the three individuals were troops in this conquering Umayyad army, possibly as part of a local garrison.
"The joint archaeological, anthropological and genetic analysis of three early medieval graves at Nimes provides evidence of burials linked with Muslim occupation during the 8th Century," said Dr Gleize.
The next earliest Muslim burials in France are from the 13th Century in Marseille.
The 30-year-old, who came through the ranks with Ajax in his homeland and also played for AC Milan, was a free agent after leaving Verona.
He has won 16 international caps and also had a spell on loan with Fulham under Martin Jol in 2013.
Emanuelson will be available to play in Saturday's home game against Wigan.
Details about the length of his contract have yet to be disclosed.
"The Championship is new to me but I know it is a long season, with lots of games and a lot of competition. It is a tough division but I hope I can help the team and show the fans what I'm all about," he told the club website.
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Writing for the Sunday Times, the Woman's Hour host said "it takes more than a sex change and make-up" to "lay claim to womanhood".
LGBTQ campaign group Stonewall called the comments "reductive".
But Dame Jenni said she was not "transphobic or anti-trans".
The Radio 4 presenter, 66, questioned whether someone who had enjoyed the privileges of growing up as a man could really be a woman.
She recounted how "the first time I felt anger when a man claimed to have become a woman" was when she met the Rev Peter Stone, the first serving Church of England priest to have a sex-change operation, in 2000.
"Her primary concerns, she told me, were finding the most suitable dress in which to meet her parishioners in her new persona and deciding if she should wear make-up or not," she wrote.
"I remember asking... what she owed those women who had struggled for so long to have their calling to the priesthood acted upon.
"His calling, as a man, had never been questioned. I had nothing but a blank look and more concerns about clothing," Dame Jenni said.
Discussing a more recent occasion, when she met transgender presenter India Willoughby, she wrote: "India held firmly to her belief that she was a real woman, ignoring the fact that she had spent all of her life before her transition enjoying the privileged position in our society generally accorded to a man."
Dame Jenni continued: "In a discussion about the Dorchester hotel's demands that its female staff should always wear make-up, have a manicure and wear stockings over shaved legs, she was perfectly happy to go along with such requirements.
"There wasn't a hint of understanding that she was simply playing into the stereotype - a man's idea of what a woman should be."
Responding to the article on Twitter on Sunday, Ms Willoughby wrote: "Delighted you're still narked. If ever want a make-over (attitude & clothes) give me a shout."
Stonewall, which campaigns for the equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people across Britain, criticised Dame Jenni's remarks.
"Trans women have every right to have their identity and experiences respected too. They are women - just like you and me - and their sense of their gender is as engrained in their identity as yours or mine," it said in a statement.
"Being trans is not about 'sex changes' and clothes - it's about an innate sense of self.
"To imply anything other than this is reductive and hurtful to many trans people who are only trying to live life as their authentic selves."
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But Dame Jenni said that she "firmly" believed that transsexuals and transvestites..."should be treated with respect and protected from the bullying and violence".
Dame Jenni is not the first to cause controversy with remarks about trans woman.
In 2015, academic and writer Germaine Greer said that in her opinion, transgender women were "not women".
Her views prompted thousands to sign a petition in an attempt to prevent her lecturing at Cardiff University.
Dame Jenni called her comments "unacceptably rude".
Multiple birth pregnancies have a higher chance of miscarriage, and of leading to premature birth and of babies with cerebral palsy.
The HFEA said 23.6% of IVF births led to more than one child at the beginning of 2008, which fell to 22% in mid 2009.
The Multiple Births Foundation said it was "great news".
Multiple births are a consequence of increasing the odds of IVF working. Implanting more embryos increases the chance of success, but also the chance of twins or triplets.
The HFEA has introduced targets for reducing multiple births because of the health concerns for mother and child.
It has aimed for fewer than 24% IVF births resulting in more than one child by April 2010, 20% by April 2011 and 15% by April 2012.
The reduction so far has largely been down to increased use of a technique called single embryo transfer.
Only one embryo is implanted in women who have the greatest chance of getting pregnant. HFEA figures show this has not affected the success rate.
Professor Lisa Jardine, chair of the HFEA said: "It is excellent news that the number of multiple births is coming down whilst overall success rates for patients are still being maintained. This shows that the policy is proving successful."
Susan Seenan, from the Infertility Network UK, said: "With full funding on the NHS - if patients could access three cycles - a lot more women would be willing and able to go for single embryo transfer.
"Some women who are only getting one cycle feel they are limiting their chances of success."
Jane Denton, director of the Multiple Births Foundation said: "There is no doubt that a multiple pregnancy creates risks for both mother and babies. The good news is that the strategy is working."
Jose Mourhino's side will clinch the title if they follow victory at revitalised Leicester City on Wednesday with three points against Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge next Sunday.
Arsenal's fans vented their frustration with chants of "boring boring Chelsea" at the final whistle after the Gunners failed to make the most of their second-half chances, but this was the performance of a side fixing a steely gaze and determination on the title.
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The criticism fell on deaf ears as Chelsea's players celebrated earning a vital draw - especially captain John Terry as he gave triumphant clenched fist salutes before taking the acclaim of the visiting supporters.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will have been as frustrated as his team's fans, having now gone 13 games without a win against his old adversary Mourinho. The Gunners had plenty of possession but could not find the inspiration to alter that grim statistic.
Chelsea mounted a defensive rearguard action after the break with Per Mertesacker and substitute Danny Welbeck missing from the rare opportunities that fell Arsenal's way.
It was not all one way, however, and Chelsea complained bitterly about three first-half penalty claims that were ignored by referee Michael Oliver, twice for incidents involving Oscar and the other on returning former Arsenal star Cesc Fabregas.
Ultimately, though, Mourinho and Chelsea will regard this as another precious point on what now seems the formality of the first title triumph of his second spell in charge at the club.
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Mourinho's decision to operate without a recognised striker after injuries to Diego Costa and Loic Remy did not prevent Chelsea getting players into the Arsenal area - and he was left bemused as those penalty appeals went unanswered.
Referee Oliver did not penalise Hector Bellerin when Oscar fell under his challenge and the same player was involved again when he was cleaned out by Arsenal keeper David Ospina as they challenged for Fabregas's pass.
Oscar was left prone and required lengthy treatment amid much animation from the Chelsea bench, who were left nursing a sense of injustice once more.
The third claim came when Fabregas fell theatrically to the floor after coming into contact with Santi Cazorla. The only outcome, much to the delight of Arsenal's fans, was their former idol being shown a yellow card for diving.
Amid this chaos, chances were at a premium but Ospina came to Arsenal's rescue with a fine low save from Ramires after he ran on to Willian's pass.
Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois remained untroubled apart from one routine save from Mesut Ozil.
Mourinho made a change at half-time, sending on Didier Drogba for Oscar, who may well have been feeling the after-effects of that collision with Ospina.
Arsenal had a rare opening when Courtois could only half-clear a free-kick but the loose ball did not fall to the ideal person, giant defender Mertesacker screwing a finish well wide.
Welbeck then scuffed a clear chance in front of goal in stoppage time as Arsenal did most of the second half pressing - and Chelsea held out to leave their supporters celebrating a vital point.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"In the first half we had the right intensity. We dropped that in the second half and came back into the right level for the last 20 minutes.
"We could have finished the game off. Mesut Ozil had a great chance in the final minute of the game.
"But they came to defend well, and they did that well, and everybody knows that."
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He recalls the moment he filmed the then Fr Edward Daly waving a blood-stained handkerchief as the body of dying Jackie Duddy was carried from the street.
Mr Cave's footage provided residing images of the day.
Speaking after the death of the retired bishop, he said Edward Daly had to be admired for his actions.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8% to 17,050.7 points.
The other main US indexes also gained, with the S&P 500 up 0.9% at 2,013.4 and the Nasdaq 0.4% higher at 4,810.7.
It was the highest close for the S&P in seven weeks as the Fed waited for more information about the US recovery before raising rates.
The minutes "were certainly not suggesting the Fed may raise its rates anytime soon", said Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial.
Energy stocks rose more than the rest of the market as the price of oil continued to recover, with Chevron adding 2%.
Brent crude was up 0.4% at $53.28, and US oil was 0.5% higher at $49.66, helped by a weaker dollar.
Netflix jumped 6% after the video streaming company said it would raise its prices in the US.
Avon was the biggest riser on the S&P, adding almost 14%,
EMC rose 4.7% after Reuters reported that Dell was in talks to buy the data storage company.
NHS Lanarkshire spent £1,565 on a single shift in 2015-16, while the largest amount paid by NHS Lothian in the past three years was £1,528.
The figures were obtained under Freedom of Information by the Scottish Conservatives, who branded them "a slap in the face" to NHS staff nurses.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said agency bills were down 11% in 10 years.
Other health boards to pay more than £1,000 on a single nursing shift since 2013 included NHS Ayrshire and Arran, which said its highest fee was "between £1,300 and £1,600".
NHS Tayside confirmed it paid £1,251 for a shift in 2015-16.
Using agency and bank staff cost health boards across Scotland a total of £158m in 2015-16.
Tory health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was "staggering that hard-pressed health boards could find themselves paying this much to an agency for a nursing shift".
He added: "Not only is it an astonishing waste of taxpayers' money, but it's a slap in the face to staff nurses who can only dream of such remuneration.
"Bank and agency nurses play an important role when it comes to helping plug gaps in the NHS.
"But demands of more than £1,500 for a single shift are an abuse, and one health boards should not bow to.
"The SNP's woeful lack of workforce planning and failure to train enough nurses has created a situation where hospitals are too dependent on bank and agency staff.
"The result of that is health boards paying through the nose, when an adequately resourced rota could have done the job at a fraction of the price.
"Following these revelations, ministers should examine these instances of extremely high payments to agencies, and act to ensure they don't occur again."
Shona Robison said bank and agency staff allowed heath boards to cope with peaks in demand.
She added: "Boards only use bank and agency staff when they have to and the vast majority are the board's own nursing staff agency staff.
"Agency staff make up only 0.4% of overall staffing numbers and the amount of money spent on agency nurses and midwives is 11.3% lower today than it was a decade ago.
"We want to reduce agency use as much as possible and earlier this year we launched a new initiative, in partnership with NHS National Services Scotland, to drive down the cost and use of all temporary agency staff.
"Around £6bn is spent on the NHS workforce annually. A record number of people now work within the NHS in Scotland, with 99.6% of all care delivered by NHS staff.
"This includes more than 43,100 qualified nurses and midwives, an increase of more than 2,100 since this government took office."
Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother Tonya were taken into custody in the west coast resort town of Puerto Vallarta.
An arrest warrant was issued earlier this month for Couch after he failed to report to his probation officer.
Couch became known for his unusual defence, which argued his privileged upbringing was to blame for the crash.
Officials in the Tarrant County District Attorney's office in Texas informed local media of the arrest in Puerto Vallarta.
Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson has said he believes Couch and his mother fled in late November after a video surfaced that appears to show the teenager at a party where people were drinking.
If found to be drinking, Couch's probation could be revoked and he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
In June 2013, at age 16, Couch was driving drunk and speeding on a dark road when he crashed into a stationary car, killing four people and injuring several others, including passengers in his own pickup truck.
He pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication and manslaughter, and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury.
Because of his age, he was not certified as an adult for trial. A judge sentenced him in juvenile court to 10 years' probation and a stint in a rehabilitation centre.
During the sentencing phase of his trial, Couch's attorneys argued that the teenager's wealthy parents failed to instil a sense of responsibility in him - a condition the expert termed "affluenza".
The condition is not recognised as a medical diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association and was widely ridiculed.
She follows in the footsteps of her father, Henry Fonda, who was handed the AFI's highest honour in 1978.
Fonda has made more than 40 films, winning Academy Awards for both Klute in 1971 and 1978's Coming Home.
She returned to acting in 2005 after a 15-year hiatus and has recently been seen in HBO drama The Newsroom and as Nancy Regan in Lee Daniels' The Butler.
"Jane Fonda is American film royalty," said chair of the AFI board, Howard Stringer, in a statement.
"A bright light first introduced to the world as the daughter of Henry Fonda, the world watched as she found her own voice and forged her own path as an actor and a cultural icon.
"Today she stands tall among the giants of American film."
Off screen Fonda is well known as a political activist, protesting against the war in Vietnam in the 1970s, and campaigning for other causes such as equal rights and the environment.
The actress was also a prominent figure in the aerobics craze of the 1980s, releasing two dozen workout videos and numerous books.
She received an Emmy nomination earlier this year for her role as Leona Lansing in Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom, which also stars Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer.
Her autobiography, My Life So Far, topped the New York Times bestseller list.
The Fondas are the first father and daughter to both be recognised by the AFI, although several other families have received double honours, including father and son Kirk and Michael Douglas and brother and sister Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine.
Fonda made her film debut in 1960 comedy Tall Story but it was her performance in 1969 depression-era drama They Shoot Horses, Don't They? that earned her her first Oscar nomination.
The actress, whose other film credits include Barbarella, The China Syndrome and The Morning After, will be presented with the honour at a gala ceremony in Los Angeles next year.
The note, worth an estimated £50,000, was found in Northern Ireland by a woman known only as "J".
She sent the fiver back to the Scottish gallery it came from, and asked for it to be used to benefit a charitable cause.
"£5 note enclosed, I don't need it at my time of life. Please use it to help young people," she wrote.
The anonymous benefactor is known to be from County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.
The Tony Huggins-Haig Gallery, in Kelso, Scotland, told BBC News NI the five-pound note would likely be auctioned off in aid of Children in Need.
The gallery created the notes in conjunction with Birmingham micro-artist Graham Short.
Just four notes were specially engraved and spent in each of the home countries.
The first was found in a café in south Wales in December, with the second discovery coming in Scotland inside a Christmas card the same month.
England is now the only area yet to discover its jackpot Austen note.
However, it is Ireland's anonymous donor who is causing the biggest stir after she discovered the rare fiver - and handed it back.
According to the gallery, the woman got in touch in mid-January to tell them she had found the note while visiting Enniskillen in County Fermanagh.
The artist, Graham Short, had previously told the BBC that he spent it "in a small bar called Charlie's Bar".
When the gallery asked the woman to prove her find, she sent them a picture of the note, verifiable through its serial number, along with a dated copy of her local newspaper, the Donegal Democrat.
Michael Huggins, the gallery's assistant manager, said the woman then asked for a couple of weeks to "mull over" what she might do with it.
"Then we received this note in the mail along with the fiver," he told BBC News NI. "The note just said she wanted it to be used to help young people."
There are few clues as to the identity of the unidentified Donegal donor.
The woman spoke on the phone to gallery artist Tony Huggins-Haig, Michael said, who described her voice as "soft" and "older".
"With that and the note when she refers to her age, we think it's an older woman," he added. "But, all we know is that she is from County Donegal and that she wants the money to go to benefit young people."
He added that the gallery had been in touch with Children in Need, and it's likely the note will be auctioned with an added bonus.
"It seems we'll auction it off, but we've also spoken to the artist Graham Short about creating another one-off note as well. So we'll auction both off together."
The 22-year-old joins for an undisclosed fee, reported to be £11.44m (13m euros) plus add-ons.
The Benin international, who scored 14 goals in 32 starts for Montpellier last season, has signed a four-year deal.
The Terriers have also signed full-back Scott Malone from Championship side Fulham on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
Huddersfield have broken their transfer record three times in a fortnight. Porto striker Laurent Depoitre joined for £3.5m on 23 June before Manchester City midfielder Aaron Mooy was signed for an initial £8m last week.
Huddersfield head coach David Wagner said: "Steve has real physical attributes that should be perfect for the Premier League.
"We have met and I know he is a great character," Wagner added. "At just 22 years old, he is only going to improve too. Given what he is already capable of, that is very exciting."
Mounie has been capped seven times by Benin, but does not require a work permit as he has dual French nationality.
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The Guinea international joined the Championship side from French top-flight team Angers in January 2016, playing 26 games and scoring once.
But the 27-year-old only made one substitute appearance under Gary Rowett, who took over as manager in March after Steve McClaren's sacking.
Camara's only goal came in a 3-1 FA Cup defeat by Leicester in February 2017.
In Katanga, it is common to hear people complain that they are not benefiting from their region's immense copper and cobalt resources, so it was no surprise that many young people initially responded to the separatists' call.
It is also an issue on which the southern province has infamous form.
Less than a week after Congo's independence in June 1960, it announced it was seceding, sparking a conflict fuelled by Cold War rivalries.
Secessionist leader and businessman Moise Tshombe was backed by Belgium, the ex-colonial power, and the UK and US, which all had mining interests in Katanga and baulked at the idea of a Congo led by a government allied to the Soviet Union.
Within four months Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba had been overthrown. He was later assassinated, while Mr Tshombe eventually bowed to UN pressure and superior firepower. Katanga was reintegrated in 1963.
Cold War politics may no longer be an issue for the Swahili-speaking province almost the size of France, but the alienation from the rest of DR Congo its many residents feel still is.
However, the current separatists - the Mai Mai Kata Katanga movement - are not using tactics that will win the hearts and minds of the civilian population.
"They tied my mum to a tree and stuck an arrow through her rib cage," 18-year-old Antoinette told the BBC, recalling the secessionists' attack on her village of Montofita in which some houses were burnt and she and her mother were kidnapped.
"They cut off her breasts. I saw it all. Then each of the two men raped me. My neighbours were burned alive."
Antoinette has found refuge in the small dusty town of Pweto on the border with Zambia where some 60,000 other Katanga villagers have gathered.
The UN refugee agency estimates that more than 1,700 displaced women were raped before fleeing.
In total nearly 400,000 people now live in camps for displaced persons - a huge number, often overshadowed by the even more numerous people forced from their homes by other conflicts in DR Congo.
"Maybe the population could have supported the Kata Katanga's cause, but they didn't give us a chance: they don't behave like a liberation movement. They burn villages and kill people," said Priscille, a Pweto resident.
There are several groups of Mai Mai, the term for armed community groups, in Katanga.
The Kata Katanga, which in Swahili means "secede Katanga", is the newest and was formed after Gedeon Kyungu Mutanga escaped from prison in September 2011.
Before he was imprisoned in 2006, he had been head of a militia which fought alongside the Congolese forces against pro-Rwandan rebel groups in the 1990s.
After the end of that conflict, he allegedly continued to receive discreet support from someone in the military.
Following his escape, such links are thought to have continued - with top decisions and financing coming from a Katangan living abroad.
A man who recently fled a rebel base with two wives and eight children told the BBC about the group's recruitment process.
"Gedeon came to our village in August 2012," he said.
"We did not see him with our eyes; he hid in a hut to talk to us.
"He told us that if we joined the Kata Katanga, we would have a better life. He told us that if Katanga became independent, it would put an end to the harassment by the soldiers, and would give us access to the resources that belong to us.
"Katanga is very rich, but we don't benefit at all. He told us that would change."
The largest cobalt deposits in the world are in Katanga - and the province is the second biggest African provider of copper.
While thousands of people walk for days on dusty roads to escape armed groups, other brand-new roads are used to transport millions of dollars' worth of minerals out of the country.
Lorries full of cobalt and copper can be seen every day lining up for kilometres on end at the Zambian border.
According to Congolese law, the government has to transfer 40% of the taxes paid by companies based in Katanga back to the province, but local human rights organisations say the tax money has had no visible impact.
The skyline of Lubumbashi is dominated by its slag heap, but outside the provincial capital, schools, hospitals and asphalt roads - besides those heading to the border - are rare sights.
Lucien, a school teacher from Kabisa now in Pweto, said a dozen men joined up with the separatists from his village.
"I was targeted by the armed groups because I am educated, I tell people the truth, and so I deterred young men from joining armed groups," he told the BBC.
"I told them it would bring them only misery."
According to local authorities in Pweto, hundreds of Mai Mai fighters have deserted the movement since the beginning of the year, exhausted and demoralised.
"We will never achieve independence. We are poorer than before, many of us died," one former fighter said.
Yet in March, more than 200 Kata Katanga fighters, lightly armed, covered with magic charms and waving flags of the independent State of Katanga, entered Lubumbashi.
They raised their flag in the town's central square before surrendering to UN peacekeepers after a battle in which 23 people died.
Since then, the Mai Mai has threatened to enter the city again.
"We are afraid, the last time they entered many people were killed by stray bullets. It's almost like a rebellion," one Lubumbashi resident said.
The villagers who fled to Pweto said soldiers from the UN or Congolese army were nowhere to be seen when they came under attack.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR has called on the UN peacekeeping mission, Monusco, to increase its presence in the region to protect civilians.
Monusco did send an unspecified number of Egyptian special forces to Lubumbashi in June, to reinforce the 450-strong brigade already in Katanga.
The UN says the situation in Katanga is "very concerning" but the province of North Kivu, where some 6,000 peacekeepers are stationed, remains the priority of the mission at the moment.
It is not clear how many government soldiers are deployed in Katanga and the government says it has no intention of sending reinforcements.
"For me there is no rebellion," said Congolese Prime Minister Matata Ponyo, adding that people had a democratic space to express their views and the government would attempt to control such movements.
The governor and local interior minister declined to comment on the situation.
According to the UNHCR, government soldiers are responsible for a large portion of the cases of sexual violence registered among the displaced people.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says it is struggling to assist even half of those displaced by the unrest as it does not have the funds.
"Katanga is still seen as a 'rich' province," explains Anne Nardini, head of the WFP programme in Lubumbashi.
One resident of Lubumbashi summed up the general feeling of many people in Katanga.
"Independence could be a good thing for Katanga, but it depends primarily on how it is achieved," he said.
"If this is for the people, yes, but to serve the interests of a small group, no thank you."
Accountancy firm Deloitte also found that the High Street was outperforming retail parks and shopping centres when it came to re-occupying empty shops.
Many big names, including HMV, Comet and Blockbuster, went under as the recession hit and online shopping grew.
But Deloitte said the High Street was "showing great resilience."
The firm analysed data from 27 major company administrations since 2009, many where it had an involvement in the process.
Then, using data from the Local Data Company, it traced the fate of nearly 5,900 shops.
Weston-Super-Mare is a traditional seaside town that was hit hard by a wave of retail collapses.
Like many places, the loss of Woolworths, right in the heart of the high street, was a big shock. And plenty more shop closures followed.
It is by no means out of the woods, but it isn't all bad news either. Woolworths is now a Poundland, Blockbuster has turned into Iceland, and the building which was home to the department store chain TJ Hughes, has finally been sold for redevelopment, after standing empty for two years.
Retail is clearly still important for this town, but it also knows that it has to come up with good reasons for people to come into the centre.
The big, shiny Cribbs Causeway mall is just a short drive away up the M5, and lures in a lot of shoppers.
There's a new development taking shape, close to the seafront, where the focus will be on leisure, with a big new cinema and restaurants.
In the old days, retail would have led the way.
Not any more.
Nearly a third of these premises were never vacated.
Many retailers, of course, did not disappear from the High Street, although they did come out of administration with fewer shops.
More than 4,000 stores, though, were vacated in one form or another.
There are some big regional differences, with some areas faring better than others.
For instance, Greater London has a vacancy rate of 18%, compared with the north-west of England which has a vacancy rate of 32%.
But perhaps the most striking detail in this research is the evidence that the High Street has done better than other parts of retail.
Deloitte found that the average vacancy rate for the High Street is 20%, but it rises to 29% for shopping centres and 37% for retail parks.
The author of the report, Hugo Clarke, said the High Street had recovered much better than expected.
"The results of this research are surprising and seem to challenge a number of myths around the state of the High Street," he said.
"They would suggest that far from being dead, the High Street appears to be showing great resilience and a capacity for re-invention.
"It seems that a structural shift is taking place with the High Street emerging as an unexpected winner."
And Jon Copestake, a retail analyst at The Economist Intelligence Unit, agrees that there is a change under way.
"Specialist stores that closed in the face of online competition or due to product obsolescence - such as Jessops and Blockbuster - are being replaced by major chains like Morrisons stepping up their convenience offering, or by discounters looking to tap into consumer austerity drives," he said.
So what kind of businesses have filled the gaps?
Deloitte found that discount and pound shops acquired one in five of the empty properties, with Poundland taking more than anyone else.
Convenience stores, including those run by supermarkets, have also expanded strongly, accounting for nearly 12% of the space, with close to three-quarters of them on High Streets.
Ian Geddes, head of retail at Deloitte, said the pattern suggested a big change in shopping habits was under way.
"Rather than taking shoppers away, the internet is pushing people back to shops with the growth of click and collect," he said.
"The evidence suggests that we may be entering a new era of 'en route' shopping, powered by mobile shopping and the demand for collection points strategically located at a point between where the consumer is travelling from and to."
In other words, the High Street these days is becoming more about convenience.
But things are far from rosy.
The Local Data Company believes there are still a total of 43,600 shops standing vacant. That is just under one in seven shops, on average.
Every town is different. But this research shows that, overall, things aren't quite as gloomy on the High Street as some people might think.
The Public Administration Select Committee said the arrangement could end up as a "short term experiment" due to levels of opposition in the Commons.
Legislation deemed to affect England, or England and Wales only, is now subject to an extra stage of scrutiny, involving only MPs elected there.
Ministers said it was an "important balance" to devolution elsewhere.
The rules, introduced in response to calls for a stronger voice for English MPs following increased devolution to Scotland, were activated in the House of Commons for the first time last month.
English and Welsh MPs gave their consent to parts of the Housing and Planning Bill that only apply to their constituencies, as part of a new stage in the legislative process for considering bills applying only to their constituents.
In a report on the new system, the cross-party committee of MPs said there was "strong English demand" for measures to address the "constitutional anomalies" that devolution had brought.
But it said the new provisions were "ad hoc", lacked transparency and appeared incompatible with the 40-year old Barnett Formula for distributing funds to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"The new standing orders do require further consideration and evaluation if they are to be anything more than a short-term experiment in the House's internal procedure," the MPs said.
"That former clerks of the House of Commons - individuals steeped in decades of learning about Parliamentary procedure - should have difficulty in discerning what these standing orders mean should raise serious further doubts about how sustainable they are."
The report said the test for whether legislation applied only to England, which is determined by the Commons Speaker, was not "very simple" and risked putting the Speaker in an "unnecessarily controversial position".
The extent of the opposition to the system, which has united Labour, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Democratic Unionist Party, "underlined their vulnerability", the committee said.
The SNP has said the changes are "driving Scotland out of the door".
"With only the Conservative Party in favour of the new arrangements, these standing orders face a high risk of being overridden as soon as there is a non-Conservative majority in the House of Commons," it said.
"That the standing orders have attracted such hostility and can be removed on the basis of a simple majority must raise doubts as to whether they can ever be more than a temporary expedient, and currently they cannot be considered to be part of a stable constitutional settlement that will endure."
Tory MP Bernard Jenkin, who chairs the committee, said the new system had little cross-party support and urged ministers to come back with "more comprehensible proposals" during a review later this year.
A government spokesman said: "The government is committed to a stronger Union and a fair settlement for the whole of the United Kingdom, and English votes for English laws brings an important balance to the unprecedented powers that have been devolved to other parts of the country.
"We will be reviewing the operation of the standing orders later this year, drawing upon the work of both the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee and the House of Commons Procedure Committee."
Those identified were then subjected to anti-semitic abuse via social media.
The symbol has been described as a secret signal because punctuation does not show up in ordinary web searches.
Google said that the extension was blocked from its store because it broke its hate speech rules.
The tech giant declined to comment further.
It was called the "coincidence detector" - a reference to a conspiracy theory about Jewish people and global control.
The extension was developed by a far-right group called alt-right.
It had around 2,500 users and a database of 8,800 common Jewish names which it could pick out on websites reported tech site Mic.
The symbol stems from a right-wing group called the Right Stuff, who told Mic it was "a critique of Jewish power".
Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the New York Times, wrote about his experience of receiving a tweet with his name wrapped around with brackets.
When he asked what it meant the tweeter replied that he was "belling the cat".
"The anti-Semitic hate hasn't stopped since," wrote Mr Weisman, who has now altered his name on Twitter to include the brackets himself. Others are doing the same in support.
"Nobody's telling us to self-identify. We are showing strength and fearlessness," he tweeted in response to a journalist who said it made her uncomfortable.
He also said that much of the hate appeared to come with "self-identified Donald J Trump supporters" - and many had Twitter names which included the US presidential candidate's name.
The 37-year-old scored 191 runs and took nine wickets in 11 T20 matches for Hampshire in last season's competition.
This will be his third spell at the Ageas Bowl, having helped the county reach T20 finals day in 2011.
"He's a great fit for us in T20, a big-hitting all-rounder adds to what we've got," director of cricket Giles White told BBC Radio Solent.
Afridi hit 80 from 42 balls against Somerset in the 2011 semi-final, only for Hampshire to lose in a super over after a tie on the Duckworth-Lewis method.
He played 27 Tests, 398 one-day internationals and 98 Twenty20 internationals for Pakistan and retired from playing for his country in all formats in February 2017.
"He's come off the back of a very good Pakistani Super League, certainly with the bat, which bodes well," White added.
"Obviously with the ball he's shown his quality over the years and hopefully he remains the high-quality all-rounder that we expect.
"He forms a very good partnership with [Liam] Dawson and being an all-rounder gives us the option of playing an extra bowler - maybe a [Mason] Crane as a trio of spinners."
The report, seen by the BBC, indicates a "worst-case scenario" of the new Sprucefield store would see spending in central Belfast reduce initially by 9%.
This represents annual spending of £47m. The report also ranked Belfast 16th as a "UK retail venue", below cities like Glasgow and Leeds in terms of luxury or high-end retail.
"Belfast should look to attract more upmarket retailers and the addition of John Lewis would be a major catalyst in delivering this," the report by London consultants Javelin added.
The report states John Lewis would "be very positive for Belfast", potentially increasing retail spending in the city by 17%.
John Lewis has almost 50 stores in the UK, but none in Northern Ireland.
It has always been thought to favour opening at Sprucefield, near Lisburn, but the report will only add to Belfast's desire to challenge that.
John Lewis has been mooted as a potential tenant in the city's major Royal Exchange project, currently in planning.
The site encompasses a swathe of properties between Royal Avenue and the Cathedral Quarter.
It was recently bought by London-based developer Castlebrooke Investments.
For those of us covering this area of news, 2016 has been just as relentless, momentous, frantic and exhausting as it was for our colleagues in Westminster and Washington, trying to make sense of a defining year in politics.
Having spent a significant part of 2015 regularly dashing to Zurich for the climax of Fifa's corruption scandal, this was meant to have been a far more predictable 12 months.
Instead, it has proved anything but.
This time last year, few would have foreseen the entire Russian team's expulsion from the Paralympics after sport's worst ever doping scandal. No-one expected two sporting knights of the realm - Sir Bradley Wiggins and Sir Dave Brailsford - to come under such intense scrutiny. Nor the England football manager to leave his job after just one match in charge.
Meldonium, Rodchenkov, and the Fancy Bears were yet to enter the sports news lexicon.
Having seen England's rugby union team crash out of their own World Cup at the group stage, who would have put money on a perfect year under new coach Eddie Jones?
The child sex abuse allegations that plunged the FA into an unprecedented crisis came from nowhere. As did Wales reaching the last four of a major football tournament. And the smashing of Michael Johnson's legendary 400m record.
And then there was Leicester City winning the Premier League.
Their "miracle" truly defied all expectations, providing a welcome reminder of sport's enduring ability to surprise and delight, even in a league where money and success have become so closely tied.
In an interview I will always look back on fondly, Claudio Ranieri told me when we met in April that, with just four games to go, and his team five points clear at the top of the Premier League, it was "now or never". His players never looked back.
The underdogs' win masterminded by the likeable Italian was a welcome tonic, a heart-warming, feel-good piece of classic escapism at a time of almost constant negative headlines in sports news, and will never be forgotten.
Having reached their first major tournament for 58 years, Wales' wonderful journey to the semi-finals of the Euros was no less magical. Like Leicester City, they played with a smile on their faces, and won admirers for their team spirit.
If the success of Chris Coleman's side in the immediate aftermath of Brexit acted as a unifying force at a time of division in Britain, over in the US, sport and politics were truly colliding.
American football star Colin Kaepernick's highly controversial kneeled protest against racial oppression shattered the assumption that in an age of lucrative endorsements and anodyne interviews, athletes must remain neutral and somehow removed from society.
It also sparked memories of the late, legendary Muhammad Ali - a figure who transcended sport like no other competitor in history, and who so sadly died in June.
Back across the Atlantic, a glorious summer for British sport was gathering pace, with Andy Murray winning his second Wimbledon title,Chris Froome his third Tour de France, and Danny Willett golf's Masters, the first British winner for 20 years.
Rio 2016 was simply remarkable, Team GB setting a new standard, and the Games firmly establishing Britain as a true sporting superpower. Second place in the medal table - above China - was testament to the high-performance revolution brought about by National Lottery funding since 1996, when Britain languished in 36th place.
Whether this record success results in a more active nation - unlike after London 2012 - could depend on the government's new community sport-funding strategy. But it is hard not to be optimistic when you discover that a TV audience of 9 million watched Britain's women's hockey team win gold.
Beyond TeamGB, legends Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps delivered in their final Games, while new stars like Wayde van Niekerk and Simone Biles exploded onto the world stage.
But if Rio will be remembered as as an iconic Games, it was also chaotic, and at times toxic. The build-up was dominated by political upheaval, economic recession, worries over the Zika virus, pollution and security concerns.
Once the action began, there were empty seats, stray bullets, dubious green water in the diving pool, and a ticket scandal.A financial crisis then threatened the Paralympics. In the end they went ahead, and proved another triumph for ParalympicsGB, but had to be seriously scaled back.
And then of course, there was the great Russian doping scandal. This was not so much of a surprise. After all, the country was banned last year by the IAAF, the governing body of athletics.
But then it became worse. Much worse.
The barely believable details of the rogue state's institutionalised cheating across many other sports was suddenly revealed by the former head of Moscow's anti-doping lab, Grigory Rodchenkov.
Professor Richard McLaren's damning World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report - on the eve of the Olympics - would surely see Russia banned.
But, with competitors arriving in Rio in limbo, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) then provoked fury by allowing the country to compete.
For many, this represented a devastating blow to clean sport, and brought the Olympics into disrepute.
It also sparked bad blood between rival athletes and laid bare bitter divisions - not just geopolitical, but also within the sports community: between the IOC and WADA (who wanted Russia banned), but also the IOC and the International Paralympic Committee (who did ban Russia).
Rarely has international sport felt so divided - or discredited.
McLaren's second report earlier this month was even more explosive, the full scale of Russian cheating laid bare. With IOC President Thomas Bach telling me in Doha last month that he had no regrets over the his handling of the crisis, sport now faces a long, hard road to recovery.
The future of anti-doping, as well as the Games themselves, will be a major theme throughout next year, when the hosts for the 2024 Games will be chosen.
The doping saga had other significant twists, and some of sport's biggest stars became embroiled.
Maria Sharapova was suspended after testing positive for banned substance meldonium, and Britain's most decorated Olympian, Sir Bradley Wiggins, had to defend his use of steroids after hackers calling themselves The Fancy Bears leaked details of western athletes' therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs).
Team Sky were forced to do the same after revelations about a mystery medical package delivered to Wiggins in France in 2011, and a BBC interview with former rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke about the use of controversial painkillers.
Despite more triumphs on both road and track, the wheels were coming off at British Cycling, governing body of the country's most successful sport.
One drugs test was failed, several were missed, there were accusations of bullying, sexism, discrimination and misappropriation of kit, several investigations, bitter recriminations, and finally, two major resignations; of technical director Shane Sutton and chief executive Ian Drake.
Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford, the man credited with establishing Team GB's "medal-factory", came under heavy and sustained pressure.
He finally revealed to a parliamentary committee that the infamous Jiffy bag contained a mere decongestant, but plenty of questions remain and the reputation of both his team and the sport's governing body has taken a battering.
In the business of sport, one of the biggest deals came in motor racing where, despite the continued domination of Mercedes, Liberty Media agreed a multi-billion pound purchase of Formula 1 that marks the beginning of the end of Bernie Ecclestone's long reign.
Manchester United set a new British transfer record when they spent £89m on Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, helping Premier League summer transfer spending surpass £1bn for the first time.
But as well as commerce, there was conflict. Not least in France, where despite significant fears over the threat of terrorism, it was actually hooliganism that blighted the Euros.
A weekend of mayhem in Marseille saw both Russia and England threatened with expulsion. The appalling violence once again raised serious questions over Russian's suitability to host the 2018 World Cup.
And as if that was not bad enough for the FA, England then disgraced themselves on the pitch too. Their abject defeat to minnows Iceland was probably the national team's worst ever defeat, and brought manager Roy Hodgson's four-year reign to an end.
In their wisdom, the FA hired Sam Allardyce as replacement, hailing him as the obvious choice to lead England for years to come. Incredibly, just 67 days later, he was gone, caught out and made to look greedy, foolish and naive by the Daily Telegraph's undercover sting, part of an investigation into alleged corruption into football's barmy and deregulated transfer market.
By this point, the beleaguered FA - along with those of us trying to somehow keep up with a decade's worth of crises crammed into just a few months - must have been hoping that the annual soap-opera of the Premier League would finally win back control of the sports news agenda.
With the BBC having broken the news of Manchester United's appointment of Jose Mourinho, I was fascinated to see how he would fare against his old sparring partner Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, and whether Liverpool could continue their revival under Jurgen Klopp.
There was off-field controversy of course. In March, former England player Adam Johnson was jailed for six years for grooming and sexual activity with a girl aged 15. Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne was forced to resign in the wake of the scandal. In October, former Wales international Ched Evans was cleared of rape following a retrial, and resumed his playing career with Chesterfield.
British football bosses had been pleased to see Gianni Infantino become the new Fifa president, but then got themselves embroiled in a heated row with the sport's world governing body over the wearing of poppies.
But if the FA thought the focus would then return to the action, they were sadly mistaken. Instead of the current crop of stars, it was the name of former player Andy Woodward that suddenly and disturbingly grabbed football's attention. The former Crewe trainee told the Guardian how he had been sexually abused as a young player by his coach.
The initial sense was that this was a tragic but isolated story. Soon however, it became dreadfully apparent that Woodward was far from alone, and with the floodgates finally open, the dark secret that football had harboured for so long finally emerged.
This is another scandal that has a long way still to run, raising some of the toughest questions the sport has ever faced.
Over the coming months, expect sport to continue to be shocking, politically charged, and full of intrigue. And do not be surprised if the relatively recent trend of sports news regularly providing the lead story on the News at Ten, continues. Such are the huge levels of interest, and the richness of the stories, sports news has gone mainstream, and it will stay there.
With athletics' world championships in London, arguably the most anticipated ever Lions tour in New Zealand, and the return of the Ashes in Australia, there is much to look forward to over the next 12 months.
But there will surely never be another sports year like 2016.
John O'Neill said restrictions over his use of communications devices - another condition of his Sexual Risk Order (SRO) - had restricted his ability to work and claim benefits.
A court will decide on Friday whether the interim order is to be extended. Mr O'Neill was cleared of rape last year.
North Yorkshire Police said it was satisfied the order was proportionate.
The Department for Work and Pensions has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Mr O'Neill, 45, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that when he contacted Universal Credit to inform them of a change in his circumstances, he was told the SRO's restrictions meant he could no longer meet the criteria for claiming unemployment benefits.
This was because, he said, the SRO states he must be able to make any communications device he uses, such as computers or telephones, available to police.
This prevented him for applying for jobs in which he would be required to use an office computer or telephone.
He said, although he was prepared to do manual labour, he had been told he could not claim benefits because he was not making himself available for all work.
Mr O'Neill claims he has also been told that, as he is no longer eligible for Universal Credit, he cannot receive legal aid.
He said this had forced him to represent himself in court.
He said the conditions of the order were "incredibly broad and extreme" and went "far away from the Home Office guidelines".
The police applied for the order in part after the judge at Mr O'Neill's rape trial - at which he was cleared - called him "dangerous". The father-of-two has denied this and said the police had misinterpreted the judge's words.
He said he had an interest in sado-masochism and used to visit a fetish club.
The SRO requires Mr O'Neill to disclose any planned sexual activity to the police or face up to five years in prison.
He is currently living rough on the outskirts of York, sleeping in a tent.
He said he was homeless four years ago, but had "thought all of [those problems] were behind me".
"There's enough to live, enough to survive," he said, referring to his living arrangements, but added: "Obviously the circumstances are far less than ideal."
Mr O'Neill told the BBC in July that he had lost contact with his children since the order was imposed.
North Yorkshire Police said in a statement it "will only make an application to the court for a Sexual Risk Order in circumstances where it is considered necessary to do so to protect the public from the risk of sexual harm".
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays from 09:00-11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
Dywedodd yr adroddiad nad oedd gan fwrdd y sefydliad y sgiliau na'r profiad i wario arian cyhoeddus.
Yn sgil yr adroddiad fe dorrodd Ysgrifennydd yr Economi, Ken Skates, gyllid a chyfrifoldebau Llenyddiaeth Cymru.
Cafodd adroddiad yr Athro Medwin Hughes ar y diwydiant cyhoeddi a llenyddiaeth yng Nghymru ei gomisiynu gan Lywodraeth Cymru.
Fe wnaeth cynrychiolwyr o Lenyddiaeth Cymru gwrdd â Mr Skates ddydd Mercher i leisio "pryderon difrifol ynghylch yr Adolygiad i Gyhoeddi a Llenyddiaeth."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Llenyddiaeth Cymru: "Cafodd Llenyddiaeth Cymru gyfarfod gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet a'i swyddogion ddoe (21 Mehefin) i godi pryderon difrifol ynghylch yr Adolygiad i Gyhoeddi a Llenyddiaeth.
"Ymhlith rhain, mae pryderon ynghylch y dystiolaeth a gynhigiwyd yn yr adolygiad a'i berthynas â'r argymhellion.
"Mae Llenyddiaeth Cymru yn falch o fod wedi cynnal, mewn partneriaeth â Llywodraeth Cymru a Chyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, nifer o brosiectau sylweddol sydd wedi ehangu'r cyswllt â llenyddiaeth yn ei holl ffurfiau.
"Mae'r rhain yn cynnwys: Menter Datblygu Llenyddiaeth De Cymru, prosiectau cymunedol yng Nghanolfan Ysgrifennu Tŷ Newydd, Roald Dahl 100 Cymru, Bardd Cenedlaethol Cymru, Bardd Plant Cymru, Awdur Ieuenctid Cymru, Y Lolfa Lên, Diwrnod Rhyngwladol Dylan Thomas, Her 100 Cerdd, a datblygiadau newydd mewn twristiaeth lenyddol.
"Gan weithio'n agos ag ystod eang o awduron ac unigolion sy'n gweithio ym maes llenyddiaeth, mae Llenyddiaeth Cymru yn ymrwymedig i sbarduno a dathlu rhagoriaeth lenyddol, ymestyn y diffiniad o lenyddiaeth, ei ddemocrateiddio ac ehangu ei gyrhaeddiad.
"Mae Llenyddiaeth Cymru yn rhan o drafodaethau parhaus â'r rhanddeiliaid allweddol er mwyn datblygu strategaethau a fydd yn fuddiol i'r sector drwyddi draw".
Stuart Craig was last seen in the Dunsire Street area a week ago and extensive searches for him had been carried out.
Police said a body found on Thursday afternoon had been confirmed as Mr Craig.
His family described him as "a much loved son, brother, nephew and grandson".
In a statement issued through Police Scotland, his mother added: "He was a special person who fought a long battle for so long and now he is finally at peace."
The Spanish football league body wants talks with the club about the agreement they came to with the Spanish Public Prosecutor's Office over the signing.
In June, Barcelona paid a €5.5m (£4.3m) fine over the 24-year-old's move from Santos. The La Liga club were accused of tax fraud, which they denied.
Club president Josep Maria Bartomeu had blamed the dispute on "a mistake... in tax planning".
Barcelona said it paid €57m (£43m) for the forward, with the player's parents receiving €40m and Santos €17m.
But investigators said the fee was closer to €83m and that Barcelona had concealed part of the deal. The club denied the claim.
Spain's La Liga has announced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Brazil star Neymar's 2013 transfer from Santos to Barcelona.
Bartomeu added at the time: "It was better to accept this agreement than continue on with the uncertainty that has dragged on for a long time over the Neymar case."
A La Liga statement on Thursday read: "Following widespread media reports, La Liga confirms an informative hearing will be launched with FC Barcelona in relation to the agreement reached between the club's board and the Spanish Public Prosecutor's Office in the Neymar legal case."
Neymar signed a new five-year contract with Barcelona in July.
The forward, who won Olympic gold with Brazil in Rio de Janeiro in August, has scored 55 goals in 94 La Liga games for his club.
About 3,000 direct and indirect jobs were lost after the SSI plant closed.
The 90-page document by Lord Heseltine proposes a new development corporation as well as plans to increase tourism.
Redcar and Cleveland Council leader, Sue Jeffrey, said the area still had "huge potential".
The Labour council leader has been put on the new South Tees Development Corporation's board of local business people and local authority leaders charged with drawing up proposals for the use of the former steelworks site.
They had to "come up with a vision for that whole site about how it could be regenerated, how it can be refreshed, how we can bring inward investment and jobs and actually make the most of what is a key industrial site for the whole of the Tees Valley", she said.
The former Conservative deputy prime minister, Lord Heseltine, said he had been "slightly surprised" by the area's "can-do attitude".
"Wherever you go, you find bright, intelligent and hard working people who are determined to make a success of this place and know how to do it," he said.
Lord Heseltine wants to see more apprenticeships created, more starter homes built and a change in the industrial identity of Teesside to try to attract more tourists.
The steel works have been in the hands of receivers since the site's owner Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK (SSI) was wound up on 2 October.
The closure of the coke ovens and blast furnace saw the end of steel production at the 98-year-old Redcar works.
Lord Heseltine was asked by Business Secretary Sajid Javid to look at ways of bringing investment to Teesside after the site closed.
SSI blamed a global slump in the value of steel for its original decision to mothball the Redcar works.
The move comes two days after the European Central Bank warned that Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca were failing or likely to fail.
The banks' "good" assets will be taken on by Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said the rescue was needed to protect savers and ensure "the good health of our banking system".
The two banks' branches and employees will be part of Intesa by Monday morning in a move designed to avoid a potential run on deposits that could have spread to other Italian banks.
Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said Rome would also offer guarantees of up to 12bn euros for potential losses to Intesa from bad and risky loans.
"Those who criticise us should say what a better alternative would have been. I can't see it," he told a press conference on Sunday.
Rome's plan has been approved by the European Commission and avoids a bailout under potentially tougher European rules.
The EC's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said allowing Italy to use state aid would "avoid an economic disturbance in the Veneto region".
She added: "These measures will also remove 18bn euros in non-performing loans from the Italian banking sector and contribute to its consolidation."
Intesa, Italy's biggest retail bank, has paid a symbolic one euro for the two banks' good assets.
"Without Intesa Sanpaolo's offer - the only significant one submitted at the auction held by the government - the crisis of the two banks would have had a serious impact on the whole Italian banking system," financial analysts at Messina said.
The failure of the two Venetian banks could result in as many as 4,000 job losses, La Repubblica newspaper reported.
Sunday's rescue is the latest twist in the drive to fix the Italian banking system, which is saddled with bad loans worth about 350bn euros - a third of the eurozone's total bad debt.
In early June the European Commission and the Italian government agreed a state bailout for Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) that included big cost cuts, losses for some investors and a pay cap for its top executives.
The agreement followed months of talks over the fate of the world's oldest bank and Italy's fourth-biggest lender - the worst performer in last year's European stress tests.
Monte dei Paschi was forced to ask for state aid in December 2016 to help cover a capital shortfall of 8.8bn euros after investors declined to put more funds into the troubled bank.
The same month Mr Gentiloni said his government had set up a 20bn euro fund - largely to bail out MPS.
Sunday's announcement comes less than a month after Spain's Banco Popular was rescued by Santander.
The European Central Bank said Banco Popular was "failing or likely to fail" due to its dwindling cash reserves.
The bank has struggled after billions in property investments turned sour.
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Ms Cox, 41, died after being attacked in Birstall, West Yorkshire in June. A man has been charged with her murder.
Seen off by Ms Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater, the cyclists will pedal from her constituency to Parliament.
They will visit community groups supported by Ms Cox's charities along the 260-mile (418 km) route.
The event's organiser Sarfraz Mian, said he hoped local people would join the riders on each of the five days.
"I didn't know Jo, but I was struck by her principles and beliefs and the fact that communities are always stronger when working together," he said.
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There have been accusations the selection of Neil Hamilton and fellow ex-Tory MP Mark Reckless as UKIP candidates in Wales was imposed by the party centrally.
On Tuesday, Nathan Gill said he would "probably not" have chosen them.
Mrs Hamilton criticised his revelation.
She tweeted: "Only a 3rd rate General would diss his crack troops on the eve of battle."
On BBC Wales' Ask the Leader programme, Mr Gill said: "Would I have allowed people to come in over our hardworking Welsh membership?
"Probably not... but it wasn't my decision."
"The members have given us these candidates and therefore I back them."
Mr Gill added: "Of course they've got years of experience.
"Mark Reckless was an MP. He did a very brave thing when he came over to UKIP. We all recognise that. He's a very intelligent and clever man.
"Of course they're an asset."
Opinion polls suggest UKIP are set to win their first ever assembly members when voters go to the polls on 5 May.
But the party has been hit by a succession of rows over candidate selection.
Mr Hamilton is UKIP's lead candidate in the Mid and West Wales region, while Mr Reckless is the lead candidate in South Wales East.
Mr Gill holds the same position on the North Wales list. | Christine Hamilton has accused UKIP Wales' leader of acting like a "third-rate general" after he said he would "probably not" have chosen her husband as an election candidate. | 36,034,276 | 297 | 41 | false |
Opened in 2012, the institute aims to develop academic, economic and social ties with China.
The university's vice chancellor Prof Paddy Nixon has said the institute is not at risk.
UU decided to close its school of modern languages earlier this year as part of a response to budget cuts.
However, it said they would "continue to support the teaching of Chinese" in schools across Northern Ireland.
Although UU decided to close its school of modern languages, the university said it would "continue to support the teaching of Chinese" in schools across Northern Ireland.
Degrees in Chinese, French, Spanish and German will not be taught after 2019.
In its original bid for the Confucius Institute in 2011, UU said it wanted to lead "the development of the study of Chinese language and culture throughout Northern Ireland at all levels".
It also said it was "committed to the study of languages for professional life".
But in the letter to UU's vice-chancellor Professor Paddy Nixon, seen by the BBC, the nine academic staff in the university's modern language department warned: "Our reputation at a whole series of levels will be further damaged when the Confucius Institute, in the bid for which we showed unwavering commitment to the promotion of modern languages, is withdrawn from us, as inevitably it must, and relocated elsewhere in NI."
They also said the decision to close the school will cause "enormous damage" and expressed concern about how existing students will be able to finish their degrees.
In the letter, the staff took issue with "the reassurance given to new students and those in the early stages of their studies... that the quality of their student experience will be in no way compromised".
"It is hard to understand how you can give these students such an assurance," the letter said.
"No-one knows and no clear decision has as yet been taken, let alone communicated to interested parties, what the exact scenario for teaching out the final year of an honours degree in modern languages at Ulster University will be."
Under UU's voluntary redundancy scheme, staff whose applications are accepted may leave at the end of April 2016.
UU hopes to employ staff on an hourly or part-time basis to teach languages students for the remainder of their undergraduate degrees until 2019.
However, in a separate internal document from the school of languages seen by the BBC, concerns are expressed about whether some staff will return to teach on such contracts.
In a statement in response, a university spokesperson said they were "currently exploring options for the teaching out of affected courses and would reassure students that their needs are being prioritised".
"The Confucius Institute remains an integral part of the university and will continue to enhance academic, cultural, economic and social links between Northern Ireland and China.
"It will continue to support the teaching of Chinese in well over 100 schools across Northern Ireland, as well as the education of Chinese culture through community liaison initiatives and events." | Modern languages staff at Ulster University (UU) have warned its vice chancellor that its Confucius Institute may have to close. | 34,610,344 | 627 | 30 | false |
The charity's research suggests many lose out as they have no school place or are unknown to the authorities.
The findings, based on Freedom of Information requests to councils, show that across 79 authorities 7,701 children on any day are down as missing class.
The Department for Education says the findings are misleading and unhelpful.
The NCB said that if 7,701 young people are missing school every day in the authorities that provided information, this would suggest more than 14,800 children are not in education at any time across the country.
A further analysis, based on detailed Freedom of Information responses from 45 councils, suggests that, on any given day, of those who are missing education, there are an estimated 3,000 youngsters in England whose whereabouts are unknown.
The study claims almost 5,000 children are losing out because they are waiting for a school place.
Other reasons given by local authorities for children being classed as "missing education" included being excluded from school; having special educational needs; being pregnant or a teenage mother; not enrolled in school or moving between schools; or because they have moved or are believed to have moved overseas.
Children are considered to be missing education if they are not on a school roll and not receiving suitable education other than at school, according to government guidance.
The NCB said it was calling for the government to conduct a national review of children missing education.
The charity's chief executive, Dr Hilary Emery, said: "Children who miss out on education are at significant risk of failing academically, and may end up as Neets [not in education, employment or training] in later life because their school life has been disrupted.
"There is also the real possibility that some of these children will suffer physical and emotional harm, particularly if they are taken off the school roll and their whereabouts become unknown.
"Recent high-profile cases of child sexual exploitation have involved children missing from education, and there is also a correlation between missing education and becoming a victim of forced marriage."
Dr Emery said the NCB was calling on the government to conduct a national review of children missing education and to improve the way data is collected both locally and nationally.
"The review should consider how local authorities, schools, social services and their partners can work with children and their families to ensure they and their families receive the best support possible, so they can get back into education."
But a Department for Education spokesman said: "These findings are misleading and unhelpful.
"Missing education is defined as a child not being registered at school when they should be or not being otherwise educated.
"This report inappropriately includes children who have missed one or two days of school, for anything from moving between schools to being sent home for having behavioural problems."
The report wrongly assumed these children were all automatically vulnerable or had slipped off the radar, the spokesman added.
"Local authorities and schools are best placed to keep accurate records of children in education and our recently revised guidance makes clear there is no excuse for them not to meet their responsibilities in this area."
Parents had a legal responsibility to ensure their children were receiving a proper education, he added. | Thousands of children in England are missing out on an education, the National Children's Bureau says. | 27,800,526 | 682 | 22 | false |
The season is in its infancy with only three games gone - but the aims and aspirations of last season's top six will be the same now as they were at this point last season.
As the new campaign starts to settle down, how have they looked so far and what issues will they be looking to address before the transfer window closes on 1 September?
Good: Good news is thin on the ground but things are looking up with Sunday's win at West Bromwich Albion, albeit without Chelsea being at their best.
The £21m signing of Pedro from Barcelona is a fine piece of business and the impression remains that Chelsea will only improve as they grow into the season, especially with the possibility of further additions before the transfer deadline.
Bad: Results for a start. Chelsea were top of the table with a 100% record at this stage last season, had introduced £32m striker Diego Costa and scored 11 goals in their first three games.
This season, on top of manager Jose Mourinho's problems with his medical staff and the demotions of Eva Carneiro and Jon Fearn when they angered him by coming on to treat Eden Hazard against Swansea City, has been a different tale.
Chelsea have been porous at the back, conceding seven goals in their first three games, with Branislav Ivanovic and John Terry looking increasingly vulnerable. Even the midfield defensive wall of Nemanja Matic has not been solid.
Their opponents feel they can be got at - unfamiliar territory for a Mourinho team and one which must be solved.
Transfer 'to do' list: One big, expensive item in the in-tray - namely finding a way of persuading Everton to shift their stance on refusing to sell John Stones.
Chelsea have had three bids, the latest of £30m, rejected out of hand by Everton but Mourinho still wants the 21-year-old England international to be the cornerstone of his defence for the next generation.
Stones has handed in a transfer request but time is running out so Chelsea will need to make their move soon. Everton have been fiercely resistant so far and manager Roberto Martinez will be acutely aware £40m is no use in the bank with little or no time to spend it on reinforcements and replacements. Watch this space...
Did you know? Four points from three games is Chelsea's worst start to a Premier League season since 2000-01 - they also had four points then and went on to finish sixth.
Good: Just about everything. No goals conceded, eight scored and a team that looks lean and hungry again after a poor defence of their title last season.
Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure look rejuvenated, while David Silva and Sergio Aguero seem as potent as ever. The addition of Raheem Sterling from Liverpool, albeit at an expensive £49m, has given City an added dimension of width and pace. Ominous.
Bad: The only bad news has been for their title rivals. Flawless so far, especially in tough fixtures at home to Chelsea and away to Everton. Eight goals without reply in their three games and with £32m signing from Valencia Nicolas Otamendi yet to figure in defence.
Transfer 'to do' list: Looks like the last main piece of business will be an attempt to complete a £50m deal for Wolfsburg's Belgium midfielder Kevin de Bruyne - and then it remains to be seen whether manager Manuel Pellegrini wishes to thin out his squad.
Did you know? This is the fourth time Manchester City have started a Premier League season with three wins - the last time they did so was in 2011 and they went on to win the title.
Good: Recovered from a very poor start when they lost at home to West Ham United to grind out a tough win at Crystal Palace, then earn a point from a thrilling goalless draw at home to Liverpool.
Goalkeeper Petr Cech also bounced back from a nightmare against West Ham to show his class with a virtuoso performance in the draw against Liverpool, an object lesson in why manager Arsene Wenger was so keen to bring him in for £10m from Chelsea.
Alexis Sanchez is still short of full match fitness so there is plenty more to come from him, while Wenger believes this is the season when Mesut Ozil - a £42.4m signing from Real Madrid in 2013 - will unveil the full range of his talents on a consistent basis.
Bad: Yet another injury lay-off with ankle problems for England midfielder Jack Wilshere, a central defence that saw its soft underbelly exposed against Liverpool when Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny were ruled out through injury and illness respectively, and a midfield that looks like it may be lightweight against opposition of the highest calibre.
Transfer "to do" list: Arsenal fans are still frustrated by Wenger's lack of activity and two areas stand out where he must surely consider additions, even this late in the day.
Olivier Giroud is a good striker but is he a title-winning one? He falls short of that and, with Danny Welbeck not a natural goalscorer, Wenger must pursue more quality at the top end of the pitch.
It costs, however, and Wenger is always reluctant to pay the biggest money if there is the slightest element of a gamble.
Is it too late to prize a big name like Uruguay's Edinson Cavani from Paris St-Germain or Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain from Napoli? Or maybe even 33-year-old Sweden international Zlatan Ibrahimovic?
Also Wenger needs a powerful, quality defensive midfield player to lessen the load on Francis Coquelin.
Did you know? Arsenal have the lowest shot conversion rate in the top flight so far this term, scoring with just two of their 40 shots (5%).
Good: Solid start without anything spectacular and three clean sheets in the Premier League despite manager Louis van Gaal's decision to leave goalkeeper David De Gea on the sidelines as speculation continues about a move to Real Madrid.
Van Gaal has gone with summer signing Sergio Romero and has been rewarded so far, with a defence that had also been questioned doing the job.
There have been signs of plenty more to come from summer signings Morgan Schneiderlin and Bastian Schweinsteiger, while Memphis Depay has shown his match-winning qualities in the Champions League qualifier against Club Brugge.
Bad: Only two goals in three league games - one of those an own goal from Tottenham's Kyle Walker that gave United victory on the opening day of the season.
United have been a colourless side so far this season, although an efficient one. Questions are being asked about Wayne Rooney already - but he usually answers those.
Chelsea's move to sign Pedro despite interest from United was a blow to the ego and pride of club that labels itself as the biggest in the world.
Transfer "to do" list: Manager Louis van Gaal may seem relaxed but he must find a quality striker from somewhere in the coming days with Robin van Persie gone and Javier Hernandez clearly not regarded as a guarantee for the future.
Usual suspects such as Tottenham's Harry Kane (which surely won't happen) and Edinson Cavani have been touted - but can Van Gaal pluck a name out of left field?
And is the situation of keeping the disaffected De Gea in the stands with the apparent expectation of restoring him once the window is closed without any hangover from the speculation realistic or sustainable?
This must be dealt with before the deadline.
Did you know? United have started a top-flight season with three successive clean sheets for only the fifth time - the first since 2005.
Good: Still waiting on this one. It's been a poor start and even their best 45 minutes of the season, when they went 2-0 up against Stoke City at White Hart Lane, was ruined when they allowed their opponents to come back and earn a draw.
A slow start all-round but coach Mauricio Pochettino is a shrewd operator and he will be confident Spurs will soon be playing the intense pressing game he demands.
Bad: Lack of thrust up front and lack of support for the prolific Harry Kane has been exposed in the first three games and has to be addressed before the transfer window closes.
Transfer "to do" list: Simple. Sign a striker - and most people know who it will be as well.
Spurs have had two offers for West Brom's Saido Berahino rejected, while the player's request to leave The Hawthorns has also been turned down.
There is more to come on this one, which is only to be expected when negotiations are being conducted between Spurs chairman Daniel Levy and his equally tough West Brom counterpart Jeremy Peace, but this does have the appearance of a deal that will be done in time for Berahino to form a strike partnership with his England Under-21 team-mate Kane.
A mouth-watering prospect.
Did you know: Tottenham's Harry Kane has only managed two shots on target in 244 minutes so far. Last season, from his first start in November until the end, he averaged one every 56.5 minutes.
Good: Most things - three games and three clean sheets as Liverpool and manager Brendan Rodgers begin the period of rehabilitation and rebuilding after a dreadful end to last season that saw his position questioned.
Christian Benteke has added physical and aerial presence to attack, while James Milner's solid presence has bolstered midfield. In a defence that was vulnerable last season, new full-backs Nathaniel Clyne and youngster Joe Gomez have given Liverpool a more steely look.
And there may be more good things to come if striker Daniel Sturridge can actually get himself fit.
Bad: Not much so far - although Liverpool have been lucky to be the beneficiaries of two poor decisions when Benteke's winner against Bournemouth was clearly offside and Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey had a good goal ruled out at Emirates Stadium on Monday.
Transfer "to do" list: Pruning a large squad rather than additions. Mario Balotelli is on his way back to AC Milan and Rodgers may try to find a new home for misfits such as striker Fabio Borini and defender Jose Enrique. Midfielder Lucas Leiva has also been strongly linked with a move away.
Did you know? Like Manchester United, Liverpool have also started a top-tier season with three consecutive clean sheets for the fifth time. The last time was in 2013 - and they finished second that season.
The Black Cats beat relegation rivals Norwich on Sunday to move one point from safety with five matches left, but still have to play Arsenal and Chelsea at the Stadium of Light.
"I'm seeing five games left and I think we can win every one of them," he said.
"It would be unbelievable if we did but that is what we are aiming to do."
Cattermole has made 27 appearances for Sunderland in the Premier League this season and has fought to keep his place in manager Sam Allardyce's starting 11.
"I've been out of the team this season and changed positions and you find yourself frustrated but you've got to look away from yourself at times and look at why the manager is doing it," he told BBC Newcastle.
"He knows what's best for the team and you've got to follow him. We've got a lot of good professionals in the squad and it's important we all believe and hopefully not find ourselves in this position again."
Sunderland's final run-in begins against Arsenal on Sunday, followed by matches against Stoke, Chelsea, Everton and Watford.
Cattermole added: "One thing we have done over the years is focus on ourselves. After the game you think 'how did they get on?' which is normal and you want to know if the results have gone our way.
"We haven't managed to get the goals we deserve and hopefully on Sunday we can find a bit of space and get the shots off."
Adidas will receive $425m (£330m) for the business, which comprises the golf brands TaylorMade, Adams Golf and Ashworth.
The deal comes after years of falling sales for its golf unit.
It also comes just a day after one of golf's superstars, Rory McIlroy, signed an equipment deal with TaylorMade reported to be worth $100m.
Adidas has owned TaylorMade since 1997, and added Ashworth in 2008 and Adams four years later to make it the world's biggest golf supplier.
But it has struggled to generate growth at those brands and last year combined sales fell 1%.
Why are Nike and Adidas abandoning golf?
Adidas does not report the profitability of the golf unit, which sits in a bigger division called Other Businesses. The unit reported a loss of 14m euros last year, with golf making up more than half of its sales.
"We are concentrating clearly on our primary competencies in footwear and sports clothing and on our two main brands Adidas and Reebok," said Adidas chief executive, Kasper Rorsted, in a statement.
The popularity of golf has fallen sharply in the US since the early 2000s, when Tiger Woods was at his peak.
In August last year, Nike announced it would stop selling golf clubs, balls and bags after years of falling sales at its golf division.
KPS Capital Partners will be hoping that it has bought into golf at the bottom of the market.
It is a private equity firm, which has previously specialised in buying manufacturing firms.
Private equity firms buy up firms with the aim of raising their profitability and then selling them at a profit.
This move concludes nearly a year of intense behind-the-scenes efforts by German sportswear giant Adidas to offload its golf businesses.
The world's second largest sports apparel and equipment group has seen golf fall out of favour with the middle classes, who have, if anecdotal evidence is to be believed, turned to more fashionable pastimes such as cycling.
Adidas put the golf brands, which have struggled as the sport has declined in popularity in its traditional markets in the US and Western Europe, up for sale last year.
From a sales point of view, other sports such as athletics and basketball offer more attractive opportunities for sales growth.
So no doubt Adidas are relieved to have finally concluded the sale, which had involved them bringing in investment bank Guggenheim Partners in order to find a buyer.
As a female, you get to a certain age and assume it will not be possible, as there are not many opportunities.
So it is a dream come true to be Wales' first female rugby player with elite athlete status and the Royal Air Force's first full-time female athlete.
To start with I will be flying solo but hopefully this is just the start and more women will become full-time too.
Personally, I would not be where I am today without the RAF's support. They have released me for at least two years to be able to train full-time with Wales.
I have been in the RAF for seven and a half years and I have always played RAF rugby as well as being in the Welsh setup.
I have juggled work and rugby at the same time. I lived in Oxford and travelled to Cardiff three times a week to train with Wales, and trained at Worcester for my club twice a week.
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I would spend around 12 hours a week in the car, travelling back and forth, so it was difficult to get a good balance between work and rugby.
That will not happen anymore - that time can now be spent training.
That is why, when wing commander Jackson, the chairman of women's RAF rugby, told me there was a possibility I could go full-time, it was an opportunity I could not miss at all.
I chose to join the RAF because I am not very academic and I did not want to go into higher education. I wanted to do a job that was exciting and has got that physical aspect, to help me play my sport.
It is a male-dominated trade and the boys do not hold back. They really get stuck in with the banter.
The boys are a lot more lethal with the banter than the girls in the dressing room, because they do not hold back.
But all the boys haven been really supportive of me.
Now I will be posted to RAF St Athan, near Cardiff, using the centre of excellence daily.
We have a full-time conditioner, full-time physio, plus Rhys Edwards our head coach with Wales, and I will not have to juggle work with training.
The biggest benefits are going to be in recovery, getting some rest after matches, and getting my sleep back to normal rather than working nights with the RAF.
I cannot have excuses now, for not being the best I can possibly be.
People are going to look at me and say 'you're full-time', so there is a little bit of pressure, but I like pressure.
It is really exciting and I have got to make sure I push myself forward and make the most of the opportunity.
The RAF sets you up mentally for any challenge that comes at you. It is not enough to be robust and strong - you have to become mentally tough.
I hope that training helps me on the field, especially in the current Six Nations campaign after our disappointing loss to Ireland in our opening game.
Scotland are going to come at us all guns blazing on Sunday. It is going to be a battle and we will need to weather the storm.
Patience will be key and then we need to take every opportunity we create, to get points on the board.
It is a must-win game for us after losing 21-3 to Ireland. Last Saturday, we definitely did not perform in parts.
Ireland had really done their homework and they completely shut us down.
There are positives to take defensively and our defensive lineout was really strong but it is really disappointing.
But it is good that we have had this blip now, rather than a few games in, because we can learn all our lessons early.
Sian Williams was talking to BBC Wales Sport's Tom Garry.
The 29-year-old Scotland international previously played under Tony Mowbray at Celtic and most recently for Bury on a short-term deal.
Caddis played in Rovers' pre-season friendlies against Barrow, Sparta Prague and York City prior to signing.
He scored a 93rd-minute equaliser in Blues' draw at Bolton in 2013-14 which secured their Championship status.
Caddis won his sole international cap so far as a substitute in Scotland's 1-0 win over the Czech Republic in March last year.
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The last time I played my second-round opponent Robin Haase was at the US Open in New York last August, and it was one of my toughest matches as I suffered with terrible cramps.
I came through in four sets but could have gone out of the tournament, not necessarily through me being the worse player but because I missed something in my preparation and became very dehydrated.
You have a match like that and it's a bit of an eye-opener.
I had always eaten well and tried to drink the right things but this was about being more meticulous; actually getting the correct information and just sticking to it.
I take that side of things more seriously now, for sure. My diet is pretty well managed during events.
It would be hard to take if I went out of a Slam because I hadn't drunk enough beforehand, or hadn't checked the weather and the humidity so I knew how much I was supposed to be taking on board.
The margins are very small at this level and I train very hard - I wouldn't want to put in all the preparation and then blow it because of a small detail.
I'm sure good preparation played its part on Tuesday for my first-round match against Mikhail Kukushkin, because I haven't played too many matches on Centre Court when the temperature reached 41 degrees.
I spent just over two hours out there. My recovery might change a little bit depending on circumstances and how a match went.
I could spend more time with the physio after a longer match because in that situation you come off court and things actually hurt! You need that extra time.
I do an ice bath after every single match throughout the year, whether it has lasted one hour or four hours, because I just feel like it helps me.
After Tuesday's match I came off court and went on the bike, and was given water and a sports drink by my fitness coach Matt Little. I probably drank about a litre or so in the 30 to 40 minutes after I came off.
I then had a shower, drank a protein shake and ate some pasta and chicken. Then it was about 45 minutes with physio Shane Annun for a massage and a stretch, and then an ice bath.
Normally during Wimbledon I would use my ice bath at home but they have them on site at the All England Club this year, so I did eight minutes at eight degrees Celsius.
The Spanish player Pablo Andujar was in the 12-degree one next to me, and there was a bit of chat. Ice baths can be competitive too! He was saying that he's Mediterranean and so doesn't like the cold, whereas apparently I'm used to it.
I can go colder but that's not always intentional. We check the temperature with a little thermometer and I normally go between 10 and 12 degrees.
This is the first time I've been at a tournament with both my coaches, Amelie Mauresmo and Jonas Bjorkman, and that means the tennis side of my preparation is well covered.
The three of us sat down and chatted about what to expect in my first match after my practice session.
Normally I'll have some video sent to me and various statistics, which I'll look at myself, and when I watch the videos I'll message Amelie and Jonas and point out things I saw that are maybe different from what we spoke about.
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During the week at Queen's Club, Jonas went out and watched a couple of the guys that I might be playing, but nowadays I do a lot of it on video and with statistical analysis.
Sometimes going out onto the court can help though because you can't always see exactly what's happening on the video.
It will be the fifth time I've played Haase on Thursday, so hopefully there won't be too many surprises.
Andy Murray was speaking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery. You can follow Murray on Twitter,Facebook and Instagram.
The Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations (Inado) says the governing body "lost the anti-doping battle" before August's Olympics began.
The IOC allowed sports federations to decide whether Russians should compete following allegations of a state-sponsored doping programme.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC), however, imposed a blanket ban.
Inado, a 59-member group of anti-doping bodies including UK Anti-Doping, said the IPC "did not make the same mistakes" as the IOC at Rio.
In a statement, Inado said the IOC had ignored its "own calls for harmony and independence" as well as the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) recommendation of a complete ban on Russians from the Olympics.
More than 270 Russians were cleared to compete at Rio after a three-person IOC panel ratified the individual governing bodies' decisions on who was eligible.
Inado compared Russians competing in Rio to Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson being disqualified for doping at Seoul in 1988 after breaking the 100m world record in the final.
"Just as the 1988 Seoul Olympics are remembered for Ben Johnson's infamy, this year's Games will be remembered for the participation of athletes served by a Russian system that corrupted clean sport," it said.
"Equally disappointing, in the eyes of many, the IOC chose to associate itself with such a system by failing to reject it categorically."
However, it said the IOC could redeem itself before the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
A starting point, it said, would be to recognise that the findings of the McLaren report, the Wada-commissioned investigation which revealed the state-sponsored doping, were well-documented and reliable.
The IOC has been re-analysing tests from the London 2012 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
On Thursday, it retrospectively banned Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova after she returned a positive retest from the 2008 Games.
Chicherova, 34, took bronze in Beijing, ahead of compatriot Yelena Slesarenko.
The woman was walking along Ferry Road in Partick at about 18:45 on Friday when she was approached by a man who tried to engage her in conversation.
He sexually assaulted her before running away when the alarm went off.
The man was white, about 5ft 10in, aged between 20 and 25 and slim. He had a local accent and was wearing a black jacket and a dark beanie hat and jeans.
He ran off in the direction of the Clydeside Expressway.
Police said the woman did not need medical treatment but was badly shaken and upset by the incident.
Officers have been carrying out door-to-door inquiries and looking for any relevant CCTV footage.
Det Con Gordon Semple said: "I am appealing to people in the area to get in touch with us, the lady activated a personal alarm so I'm sure people will have heard the sound and perhaps went to the window to see what was happening.
"Perhaps you noticed something or saw the suspect run off. If you have any information at all, please contact us. It's imperative we trace this man and we are doing everything we can to locate him.
"Anyone with information is asked to pass it on, no matter how insignificant it seems, let us assess it and judge is relevance to our ongoing inquiries."
Rhondda Cynon Taf council spent £80,000 on new shelters and raised kerbs for people to get on and off buses easily in Tonypandy.
But nothing was done on the Mitchell Court side of the station to help those with mobility issues.
The council is to to add drop kerbs.
Buses stop at the station to carry people to places such as Cardiff, Porth, Bridgend, Aberdare and Porth.
Resident Wendy Allsop said: "They've refurbished and said we've got these nice raised kerbs here but unfortunately they haven't thought outside the box and how do they get disabled people at the bus station in the first place.
"I know people have been affected because they have problems and issues with their mobility so therefore they can't use this bus station because they can't alight on to the pavement even if they park in the local car park."
Tonypandy councillor Craig Middle said he was taking the issue up with the council.
He said: "We are also looking at the shelters because sometimes the rain and wind comes and it is exposed."
An Rhondda Cynon Taf council spokeswoman, said funding is in place to ensure step-free access:
She added: "Following the recent announcement that £180,000 has been awarded to the council from the Welsh Government to undertake further bus corridor works throughout the Rhondda Fawr area, the council can now confirm that dropped kerbs will shortly be installed at Tonypandy bus station to further enhance disabled access."
The 22-year-old former AFC Wimbledon player will join the Bees for training on Friday but will not be eligible to play competitively until January.
He played 25 league games at Maidstone.
"Dan brings a level of maturity into central midfield with great positional awareness," Barnet's interim head coach Rossi Eames told the club website.
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Ahead of the Housing Bill's second reading, Speaker John Bercow said parts of it "apply exclusively" to England and others to England and Wales only.
Under new rules, English and Welsh MPs have been given a veto in these areas.
The SNP has said the move makes Scottish MPs "second-class citizens".
Right-to-buy is being outlawed in Scotland and is not an issue the SNP would normally have voted on - but the SNP is furious about the move.
They have promised to act responsibly when deciding when to challenge the application of the new rules - but sources say they will create "mischief" when the opportunity arises.
The Housing Bill could provide their first opportunity - particularly if it is found to contain financial implications for Scotland.
It is the first bill that has been designated as containing proposals that affect only England and Wales under the new English votes for English laws standing orders.
During the bill's passage through Parliament, there will now be a new stage added to the usual law-making process at Westminster allowing MPs for English constituencies to vote on issues deemed to only affect England.
If the bill is approved at second reading, it will move on to detailed scrutiny by a committee made up only of MPs representing English constituencies. They will make changes and recommend others which will be considered later by all MPs at report stage.
After this, the bill will be scrutinised by a Grand Committee of English MPs which will be asked to give its consent to the relevant clauses. Those clauses which are rejected will be reconsidered by all MPs before being subject to English-only scrutiny again, at which point any disputed clauses will fall.
Any amendments later made by the House of Lords will be subject to "double majority" approval by all MPs and by English/Welsh MPs.
Plans to extend right-to-buy to housing association tenants, first announced by the Conservatives during the election campaign, were altered last month to make them voluntary rather than mandatory.
The government has agreed to compensate housing associations for the sales discount offered to the tenant and housing associations would retain the sales receipt to enable them to reinvest in the delivery of new homes.
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The 28-year-old was part of a swap deal that would have seen United keeper David De Gea go to the Bernabeu.
But the paperwork could no be completed before the Spanish deadline on 31 August and the move fell through.
"I cried when I found out I was staying, it was a build-up of emotions," Navas told Spanish radio.
"I didn't want to leave, Madrid is my home," he added.
The Costa Rica international told Cadena COPE: "My agent told me to be alert to my phone. We had to go to Barajas, although I never actually got on a plane, I was in a waiting room.
"I thought that if God wanted me to leave Madrid, it would be for the best, but he didn't want me to and I'm still here."
Navas joined Real from Levante in the summer of 2014 following an impressive World Cup for Costa Rica, but played just 11 times last season.
Despite Real looking to replace him with De Gea, Navas has benefitted from the departure of long-time number one keeper Iker Casillas to Porto, and has gone on to play in all five games this term, having yet to concede a goal.
"I signed the Manchester United contract on a stretcher while I had my medical, but I want to write my own story at this club and win everything this season," he said.
"We have things to improve, but we're on the right path,"
The incident took place in a motel room on Saturday afternoon in Albuquerque in the state of New Mexico.
The toddler was apparently reaching for an iPod.
The bullet passed through his father's buttock and hit his mother, who is eight months pregnant, in the arm. Both parents are said to be recovering.
The boy's two-year-old sister, who was also in the room at the America's Best Value Inn, was unhurt.
Justin Reynolds told NBC News station KOB he and his girlfriend Monique Villescas were about to order a pizza when he heard the shot.
"The next minute I realised my girlfriend was bleeding. Then I sat down and realised I was shot too."
He called emergency services and tried to staunch Ms Villescas's bleeding with towels.
He said: "I was more worried about my girlfriend than myself and anything else that was going on. And my son because I didn't know if he had shot himself or not. He was shocked and crying. It was traumatising."
Mr Reynolds has been released from hospital and Ms Villescas is in a stable condition.
Albuquerque police said the district attorney's office would decide whether the parents would face negligence charges. The children have been taken into care.
In December a woman in the state of Idaho was killed after her two-year-old son accidentally shot her with a gun he found when reaching into her handbag in a Wal-Mart store.
The Scots have won three games in the Championship in the past four years.
"It doesn't matter how much history has gone before, it doesn't make any difference to us," said assistant coach Nathan Hines, the former Scotland lock.
"We are not playing history, we are playing England. I think we are in a good place as a squad."
Hines, brought in by head coach Vern Cotter to work as a specialist resource coach and mentor, started Scotland's last win over England in 2008, and was also a replacement in their 2006 victory at Murrayfield.
"I don't think it matters too much that we haven't beaten them for a couple of years," said the 39-year-old, who retired from Test rugby after his 77th cap, against England in the 2011 World Cup.
"Statistics are about the past. If we are just going on statistics, we may as well not play Saturday. We are not worrying about the past, we are just worrying about what is happening now.
"We are just trying to build on what happened at the World Cup. We have sorted things out that needed to be done and we are coming together nicely."
The optimism in the Scotland camp stems from a largely positive World Cup, where they narrowly failed to beat Australia in the quarter-finals, and a talented group of young players blossoming at the same time.
Stuart Hogg, Finn Russell and Mark Bennett, all 23 or younger, have provided creativity and spark to the backline, while 21-year-old lock Jonny Gray is an emerging force alongside elder brother Richie, 26, up front.
"They know each know each other quite well, which helps!" Hines said of the brothers' second-row partnership. "And they like each other too; they are not the sort of brothers that don't like to be around each other.
"They are both great athletes and complement each other well. They are young and want to learn, and are very coachable."
The potential of Jonny Gray, already captain of Pro 12 champions at just 21, is limitless, Hines believes.
"The good thing about Jonny is he is quite a humble guy. He is a really hard worker," he added.
"If he wants to play for Scotland until he retires, it is up to him. He is developing as a leader, and being captain of Glasgow is a good thing for Scotland and great for him to have in his locker. He has that ability to lead, and we are very happy with him.
"He is only 21 and not a massive extrovert but he leads by example. What he says is poignant, and boy do guys listen to him."
An electoral college of 47 people, including all the bishops in Wales, had met over three days to vote on a confidential candidates list.
The election follows the retirement of Dr Barry Morgan at the end of January.
The Church in Wales said none of the candidates received the number of votes required for election - a two-thirds majority.
Under the terms of the Church's constitution, the responsibility of filling the vacancy now falls to the Bench of Bishops.
The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, John Davies, who is president of the electoral college, said the process leading up to an eventual appointment would include a wide-ranging consultation of both the laity and the clergy.
It is only the second time in the Church of Wales' history that it has not been able to reach a decision on a bishop's appointment.
The first was in 2004, when the electoral college could not reach agreement on a new Bishop of Bangor.
Dean Goble of Siddington in Gloucestershire was found guilty of two counts of dangerous driving and sentenced to two-and-a-half-years.
In 2014, Goble deliberately swerved his Peugeot 306 at cyclist David Jones in Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire.
A camera mounted on Mr Jones's helmet recorded the incident.
Goble had claimed he was avoiding potholes, but when the footage was shown in court he was unable to point any road damage out to the jury.
Mr Jones said he "froze on his bike", and if the car had hit him it would have been "pretty devastating".
He said: "It's difficult to believe that someone would do that. It was only half an hour later when I got home and looked at the video I realised how lucky I was."
Mr Jones added that despite being a keen cyclist the incident had put him off going out on his bike.
In a two-hour private meeting Mr Obama sought to rally members of his party, as Republicans took their first steps to dismantle his signature bill.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence was also at Congress, where he told his party they would replace Obamacare.
The law has extended health coverage to an estimated 20 million Americans.
But the 2010 Affordable Care Act law has been hit by soaring premium costs and major insurers withdrawing from the scheme, leaving Americans with fewer choices for coverage.
After the outgoing president's rare visit to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings told reporters Mr Obama had "encouraged us to fight" to protect his flagship domestic policy accomplishment.
Some of those present told US media the president had also urged them to "stay strong" as Republicans prepare to take control of the White House and both chambers of Congress for the first time in a decade.
He spoke as Republicans in the Senate took the first step to begin demolishing Obamacare.
They voted by 51 to 48 to debate a budget resolution designed to starve the programme of funding.
President Obama is not prepared to give up on his healthcare reforms without a fight. His final visit to Congress is a reminder that in just 16 days' time, his fellow Democrats will hold very little political sway in this battle.
But publicly they've decided to talk tough. Congressman Gregory Meeks told me he knows Obamacare has its faults but it brings healthcare to millions who wouldn't otherwise have it. That's a key message Democrats are trying to publicise, but it is one they perhaps didn't make clearly enough during the election campaign.
They also know Republicans have a weak spot. Repealing Obamacare will be the easy part - they have the votes they need and the backing of a president-elect who made it a key campaign pledge.
However, so far no Republican has come forward with a clear replacement plan. Congressman Bruce Westerman told me they don't want to rip up and get rid of all of the reforms.
Democrats hope they can at least exploit this to delay any dismantling of the Affordable Care Act and in doing so preserve President Obama's key legislative achievement.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned that scrapping the law would throw the insurance marketplace into turmoil and - in a play on Mr Trump's campaign slogan - "Make America Sick Again".
But Vice-President-elect Mike Pence, after meeting fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill, said they would bring about a "smooth transition to a market-based healthcare reform system".
He said repealing and replacing Obamacare was "first order of business" for President-elect Donald Trump and Congress.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said Republicans - who have voted more than 50 times to try to repeal all or part of Obamacare - "have a plan" and "plenty of ideas."
But during two news conferences, Mr Ryan, Mr Pence and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell offered few details on their proposed replacement.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said: "One of the most articulate Republicans on Capitol Hill is the speaker of the House.
"And he did a news conference today where he was unable to explain why Republicans have not put forward their replacement plan."
Mr Trump - who will be sworn in as president on 20 January - wrote earlier on Twitter that Republicans "must be careful in that the Dems own the failed ObamaCare disaster".
He predicted it would "fall of its own weight - be careful!"
The Obama administration said on Wednesday that 8.8 million Americans had enrolled in Obamacare for 2017, about 200,000 more than at the same time a year ago.
Mr Trump criticised the Affordable Care Act during his campaign, promising it would be replaced by something "much better and much less expensive".
But after meeting President Obama in the days following his November victory, he vowed to keep some popular elements of the law in place.
Mr Trump said he liked the rule barring insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions.
The soldiers, who were to be killed by a firing squad, will each serve 10 years in prison.
They were convicted by court martial over their refusal to drive down a road at night after dozens of colleagues died in a Boko Haram ambush.
The sentences were commuted following a review of court martials.
The review was ordered by General Tukur Buratai, the country's army chief of staff.
Nearly 600 other cases are also being considered.
Hundreds of Nigerian soldiers have deserted their posts, complaining that they are not properly equipped to fight Boko Haram, a terror group which has allied itself with the Islamic State group.
The group has been waging an insurgency since 2009 and is seeking to create an Islamist state in north-eastern Nigeria. It is responsible for the deaths of about 20,000 people.
The reprieves come as a former presidential adviser on national security is on trial for allegedly diverting $2.1bn meant to buy weapons for the military.
The review of the soldiers' cases is part of a wider investigation ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari into the military and corruption.
President Buhari won the country's March general election after pledging to destroy Boko Haram and to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremists.
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Bolt, looking to retain his other individual sprint title after that extraordinary 100m victory here in the Bird's Nest, looked to be saving his strength for the next showdown as he eased off in 19.95 seconds.
Gatlin, comfortably the fastest man in the world this year over 200m, as he was over 100m, ran a controlled 19.87 as he seeks revenge for his shock defeat on Sunday night.
Britain's talented youngster Zharnel Hughes, who trains with Bolt in Jamaica, remains a shot for the podium as he won the first of the three semi-finals in 20.14.
Gatlin, twice banned for doping, has run more than two tenths of a second faster than any other man in the field this year, and almost half a second quicker than Bolt.
The Jamaican holds the world record at 19.19 but has neither the times this summer nor the races, a pelvic injury restricting his season, and he was solid rather than spectacular round the bend.
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But transitioning into the straight he was able to open a two-metre lead, and could coast the final 20m to save as much as possible for the battle ahead.
"I'm a bit tired as expected but just trying to get through these rounds," Bolt told BBC Sport.
"Right now I'm feeling OK. I didn't run a hard corner but I'm trying to preserve as much as possible for the final. The 200m is my best event."
Gatlin is desperate to take something away from the championships, having arrived as clear favourite to win back the 100m and 200m world titles he first won in Helsinki a decade ago.
And the controversial 33-year-old got out well to dominate the second semi-final and stay on track for another head-to-head with his Jamaican nemesis.
"I didn't know I was running that fast," Gatlin said. "Hopefully I'll put more energy into the finals and come out on top."
Hughes, born in the British Dependent Territory of Anguilla, formally gained British citizenship in June this year and won the national trials in some style.
In his first major global championship he is one of several athletes scrapping behind the big two, his win in his heat guaranteeing him a favourable lane draw for the final.
Hughes told BBC Sport: "I hit my toe on the block and it kind of slowed me down when I got out.
"I wanted a great lane for the final and that's what I got. I train with the greatest in the world and I'm ready for them."
His compatriot Danny Talbot went out after finishing sixth from the lane outside Bolt but with a new personal best of 20.27.
Britain's 100m champion and national record holder Dina Asher-Smith ran a superb personal best of her own of 22.22 to move into the semi-finals of the women's 200m.
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The 19-year-old made light of her inside lane to run a splendid bend and then held her form down the straight to go close to Kathy Cook's 31-year-old British record.
"I'm really, really happy," Asher-Smith told BBC Sport. "I didn't expect to run a PB in the heat.
"I did feel relaxed which is why I was quite surprised with the time."
That time made Asher-Smith the fastest qualifier by more than two tenths of a second, 100m silver medallist Dafne Schippers [Netherlands] also impressive as she won her heat in commanding fashion, easing off in 22.58.
Asher-Smith will be joined in Thursday's semi-finals by her team-mates Margaret Adeoye and Bianca Williams, but former world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown is fortunate to progress with them after running out of her lane off the band.
The hugely experienced Jamaican began in lane five but ran the final 90m in the sixth, coming home directly ahead of Adeoye.
But because she gained no advantage from going wider and did not impede the Briton, she could not be disqualified and, like Asher-Smith, is one of several athletes in medal contention in a very open event.
The 21-year-old's deal includes the option for a further 12 months, depending on appearances next season.
A graduate of Crewe's famed academy, Ng played 20 times for the first team this season, ending the campaign in the centre of midfield.
Meanwhile, Crewe's head of recruitment Neil Baker has left the club for a third spell as manager of Leek Town.
In a new campaign, Public Health England says too many smokers remain unaware of the risks of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
COPD, which narrows the airways, can leave people struggling to do simple tasks such as climbing stairs.
Figures show more than 1m people in England are living with it, with nine in 10 cases caused by smoking.
COPD is actually the umbrella term for a number of serious lung conditions including chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
People with the disease have difficulties breathing, primarily due to the narrowing of their airways and destruction of lung tissue.
Typical symptoms include breathlessness when active, a persistent cough and frequent chest infections.
But in the Public Health England (PHE) campaign, experts say smokers often dismiss the early signs as a "smoker's cough" but, by continuing to smoke, the condition can get worse and damage their quality of life.
While there is no cure, stopping smoking, tailored exercise programmes and medication can slow the progression of COPD.
To raise awareness about the disease, PHE's short film will run on the internet.
It features former Olympic athlete Iwan Thomas, whose mother was recently diagnosed with COPD, doing an experiment with smokers to see what COPD is like.
Mr Thomas said: "I've never fully understood COPD or the everyday consequences, but when the simple things like climbing the stairs, making a cup of tea or walking to the bus stop become impossible, it is serious.
"After years of smoking, it is great that my mum is making 2016 the year she quits and I'd urge anyone who smokes to do the same."
Prof Dame Sally Davies, England's chief medical officer, added: "COPD is a serious lung disease and is not particularly well known.
"The single best thing a smoker can do to reduce their chances of developing this devastating disease and prolong their life is to stop smoking."
The RSPCA's Rohan Barker was called to Greenhill Crescent, in Haverfordwest, after reports a ginger cat had been spotted on a roof in the rain.
The rescued cat was unharmed but "very scared" and seemed in good health.
Mr Barker said it was "very odd to see that a crisp packet was stuck on his head".
"He looked very wet as it was raining quite heavily," he added.
Mr Barker said there was a chance the cat was feral or unowned, but asked the owner, if there is one, to let the RSPCA know of his progress.
The 54-year-old president was responding to a Cambodian student who asked him for wise advice.
Mr Obama entered office in 2009 with dark black hair, however in recent years it has turned markedly more grey.
The colour of a president's hair has been controversial at times, with some leaders keeping secret the fact that they dyed their hair.
"The first thing I want from young people is to stop calling me old," the president told the student.
"I don't dye my hair and a lot of world leaders do," he said. "I won't say who. But their barbers know, their hairdressers".
President Ronald Reagan, for instance, never admitted to dying his jet-black hair, and his barber never spilled the beans, either.
Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor, once sued a news agency for claiming that he hued his hair.
Rory Doyle, 41, went on a 24-minute wrecking spree at the site at Chivenor Cross, near Braunton, north Devon.
He ripped up the road surface, demolished lampposts and dug up drains.
Doyle, who admitted criminal damage, has been given an 18-month suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay £2,500 in compensation.
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Exeter Crown Court heard he was angry about the manner of his sacking, following a dispute with his foreman, in April 2016.
Doyle, of Waterloo Road, Torquay, said his foreman was bullying him and paying him less because he was a contract worker.
He told a workmate: "I swear blind I will come back and tear the place up. They don't realise things swing both ways."
Doyle has also been handed a five-month curfew and ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid community work and to attend anger management sessions.
Judge Mrs Justice May said: "It would appear he was trying to undo all the work he had done in the previous week."
The total cost of the wrecking spree was estimated at just over £100,000.
This included a £22,000 penalty payment the contractors incurred for overrunning.
Greg Richardson, defending, said Doyle was a hard-working man and the only breadwinner for his family, who would suffer if he went to jail.
He said: "He would like to express his regret for letting his anger get out of control and get the better of him in a serious way.
"He felt that as an agency worker he was bullied in the workplace and particularly put upon by the foreman."
The charity's research shows that the share of the world's wealth owned by the richest 1% increased from 44% in 2009 to 48% last year.
On current trends, Oxfam says it expects the wealthiest 1% to own more than 50% of the world's wealth by 2016.
The research coincides with the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The annual gathering attracts top political and business leaders from around the world.
Oxfam's executive director Winnie Byanyima, who will co-chair the Davos event, said she would use the charity's high-profile role at the forum to demand urgent action to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
In a statement ahead of the gathering, Ms Byanyima said the scale of global inequality was "simply staggering".
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$1.9tn wealth of 80 top billionaires - equal to bottom 50% of rest of world
$600bn increase in wealth for 80 top billionaires in 4 years - or 50% rise
$750bn drop in wealth for the poorest 50% of the world in 4 years
"It is time our leaders took on the powerful vested interests that stand in the way of a fairer and more prosperous world.
"Business as usual for the elite isn't a cost-free option - failure to tackle inequality will set the fight against poverty back decades. The poor are hurt twice by rising inequality - they get a smaller share of the economic pie and because extreme inequality hurts growth, there is less pie to be shared around," she added.
Oxfam based its prediction on data from the annual Credit Suisse Global Wealth datebook, which gives the distribution of global wealth going back to 2000. It uses the value of an individual's financial and non-financial assets, mainly property and land, minus their debts to determine what individuals "own".
The data excludes wages or income.
The BBC's head of statistics, Anthony Reuben, said in order to be part of the wealthiest 1% of the world's population, an individual would need to be worth just over half a million pounds.
"So it is not necessarily talking about people who own yachts and ski chalets. Owning an average house in London (without a mortgage) would just about put you in the 1%. "
He also noted that Oxfam had chosen to use figures which showed the disparity between the 1% and the rest of the world in the worst light.
"From 2000 until 2009, the proportion of wealth held by the wealthiest 1% fell every year. From 2010 until 2014 it rose every year. Oxfam has taken the figures since 2010 and used them to extrapolate what will happen in the coming years. Clearly, that is the methodology that will make inequality look the most severe," he added.
Oxfam is calling on governments to adopt a seven-point plan to tackle inequality, including a clampdown on tax evasion by companies and the move towards a living wage for all workers.
Oxfam made headlines at Davos last year with the revelation that the 85 richest people on the planet have the same wealth as the poorest 50% (3.5 billion people).
It said that that comparison had now become even more stark, with the 80 richest people having the same wealth as the poorest 50%.
To be clear, Oxfam's claim today that by 2016 the richest 1% could own as much or the same as the bottom 99% is not wildly implausible.
There are all sorts of reasons why such increases in inequality are troubling, and not just for those at the bottom of the income and wealth pyramid.
One is that aspirational people on lower incomes have massive incentives to take on too-great debts to support their living standards - which exacerbates the propensity of the economy to swing from boom to financial-crisis bust.
Another is that the poor in aggregate spend more than the rich (there are only so many motor cars and yachts a billionaire can own, so much of the super-rich's wealth sits idle. as it were), and therefore growth tends to be faster when income is more evenly distributed.
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The charity said the research, published on Monday, showed that 52% of global wealth not owned by the richest 1% is owned by those in the richest 20%.
The remaining population accounts for just 5.5% of global wealth, and their average wealth was $3,851 (£2,544) per adult in 2014, Oxfam found.
That compares with an average wealth of $2.7m per adult for the elite 1%.
The study comes just a day before US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, in which he is expected to call for tax increases on the wealthy to help the middle class.
In October, a report from banking giant Credit Suisse also said that the richest 1% of people own nearly half of the world's wealth.
Rocket launchers, anti-tank mines and automatic guns were among the weapons seized in northern Serbia, close to the Croatian border.
A police video shows officers arresting suspects amid piles of weapons.
Hand grenades, rifles, pistols, bullets, night-vision equipment and various explosives were also seized.
Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said the authorities would be investigating if the arms were going to be sold, and where to.
The Balkans have been a hot spot for arms-smuggling since the wars in the region in the 1990s.
Weapons originating in the Balkans were used in attacks by militants in France last year:
Mariusz Krezolek, 36, died of a heart attack in January 2016 at Full Sutton prison in Yorkshire after complaining of chest pains but refusing help.
He was given a life sentence in 2013 after being convicted of murdering Daniel in Coventry.
Daniel's mother, Magdalena Luczak, was found hanged in her cell in July 2015.
She was also found guilty of Daniel's murder and the pair were ordered to serve a minimum of 30 years each.
Krezolek also tried twice to kill himself after Luczak's suicide at HMP Foston Hall, the report by the Prisons Ombudsman into his death found.
It said he had been treated for a fistula and inflammatory bowel disease but refused to go to hospital as he was afraid he would be recognised.
He also refused to be admitted to the prison's inpatient unit.
On 27 January last year he complained of chest paints but again refused to go to the healthcare unit. He was found unresponsive in his cell the next morning and confirmed dead a little while later.
The cause of death was given as a heart attack.
The report also reveals Krezolek twice tried to kill himself after Luczak killed herself at HMP Foston Hall.
Daniel Pelka weighed just over a stone and a half at the time of his death in March 2012.
He had been denied food, poisoned with salt, locked in a small room, forced to perform punishment exercises and subjected to water torture.
The trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard experts said Daniel's emaciation was "unprecedented" in Britain.
The trial judge said his mother and stepfather had acted with "incomprehensible brutality" towards him, causing the boy "severe physical and mental suffering".
The gathering in Brussels will be the first time his objectives have been collectively discussed by EU leaders.
Ahead of the meeting, Council President Donald Tusk warned the EU's fundamental values were "non-negotiable".
There will be limited time to discuss the UK plans, with the agenda dominated by the Greek debt and migrant crises.
Greece must repay a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF loan by next Tuesday or face default, and the latest talks between Greek PM Alexis Tsipras and international lenders ended without agreement.
Eurozone finance ministers had hoped to finalise a deal, but will now discuss a plan proposed by creditors.
The summit's first "working session" and dinner will be dedicated to the Mediterranean migrant crisis, amid a difference of opinion over Europe-wide quota systems and following what Mr Cameron called the "totally unacceptable" sight of hundreds of migrants trying to board UK-bound vehicles at Calais.
At the end of the dinner, Mr Cameron will address the leaders about his planned reforms and referendum of the British public by the end of 2017.
The PM hopes this will pave the way for official negotiations to begin on the terms of the UK's EU membership.
He has not set out the full details of his negotiating aims but his priorities include restrictions to welfare entitlements, greater powers for national Parliaments and an opt-out for Britain from the principle of "ever closer union".
As the leaders arrived in Brussels, European Council President Mr Tusk said Mr Cameron's concerns would be considered, "but only in a way which will be safe for all Europe".
He added: "Today we will start this process. However, one thing should be clear from the very beginning: the fundamental values of the European Union are not for sale and so are non-negotiable."
Speaking as he arrived at the summit, Mr Cameron said: "Today marks a significant milestone in the process of saying that it's right for Britain to have this renegotiation and this referendum to address the concerns that the British people have about Europe and to make sure the British people have the final say about whether we stay in a reformed European Union or leave."
When you turn up for dinner it's polite to take a gift but when David Cameron shows up in Brussels tonight he won't be bearing flowers or chocolates.
What he'll hand over to his host to share with the 27 other guests is the "British problem". This is the important moment that it becomes the EU's shared problem.
Gone are the days when Europe's politicians and officials could kid themselves that if they waited long enough the British would change their mind or change their government.
They now know that, like it or not, there will be a renegotiation of the UK's membership of the EU followed by a referendum.
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Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One programme, UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said the EU project was "lurching from crisis to crisis".
"There's something existentially wrong with the whole European project, and things are coming to a head pretty fast," he said.
Former Conservative minister Damian Green cautioned against labelling every EU summit "a crisis summit" but added: "Clearly this is an important moment."
On the eve of the summit, Mr Cameron had talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin as part of his efforts to speak face-to-face with his European counterparts about his aims.
On Wednesday evening, during a state banquet for the Queen, who is visiting Germany, German President Joachim Gauck said the EU "needs Britain".
"We know that we need an effective European Union based on a stable foundation of shared values," he said.
"A constructive dialogue on the reforms Britain wants to see is therefore essential. As a good partner, Germany will support this dialogue."
However, French minister Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC the UK should not be able to cherry-pick aspects of EU membership.
"I don't understand how it is possible to say 'We, the UK, have all the positive aspects of Europe but don't want to share any of the risk with any member states'."
At the state banquet, the Queen spoke of the need for unity in Europe and how the continent must strive to "maintain the benefits of the post-war world".
She warned in her speech that "division in Europe is dangerous".
Buckingham Palace officials later stressed that the Queen's comments were not a reference to Mr Cameron's EU reforms or upcoming referendum, but rather about the risks of wider differences dividing the continent.
David Cameron is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum. Here is some further reading on what it all means:
Q&A: The UK's planned EU referendum
UK and the EU: Better off out or in?
What Britain wants from Europe
Timeline: EU referendum debate
The European Commission has appointed a senior British official to head a new Brussels task force to handle issues relating to the UK referendum, which will begin its work on 1 September.
Jonathan Faull, who has worked in the commission for more than 30 years, will report directly to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
The UK has opted out of a planned quota system to deal with with the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett said that if Mr Cameron wanted to gain support for his EU reforms, he needed to "win friends".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "To win friends he is going to have to cooperate in some way with the wider issue of immigration coming from outside the EU."
The ministry described the four-day drill as a "massive surprise inspection", to check combat readiness.
The tests began on the same day as Nato and some of its partners started an Arctic training exercise.
Russia's actions in Ukraine and incursions into Western airspace have led to rising tensions with the West.
According to reports on the Russian agencies Interfax and Tass, the inspection of the aviation group and air defence forces in the central military district involves almost 700 weapons and pieces of military hardware.
During the exercise, Russia's long-range aircraft are due to carry out cruise missile strikes on practice targets in the Komi republic.
The BBC's Caroline Wyatt, in Moscow, says the current drills are in preparation for a larger exercise known as Center-2015 in the next few months.
Asked about Russia's assertiveness in a TV interview, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin joked that "tanks don't need visas".
The outspoken politician is himself on EU and US blacklists as part of sanctions following Russia's annexation of Crimea last year, limiting his travel options.
Russia has been heavily criticised in recent months over increased air activity around the Nordic countries, including several reported airspace violations by military aircraft.
Nato's two-week training exercise in the region - which began on the same day as Russia's tests - will be based in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland. It will involve 115 fighter planes and 3,600 troops from nine countries.
The Arctic Challenge Exercise will also involve troops and planes from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands - all Nato members - as well as neutral Switzerland.
The exercise is the second of its kind, following similar tests in 2013.
The defence ministers of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, along with Iceland's foreign minister, signed a joint declaration in April in which they called Russia's military aggression "the biggest challenge to European security".
An estimated 83,000 Sikhs lost their lives in World War One and about 109,000 were seriously wounded.
During World War One Sikhs made up 20% of the British Indian Army in action, despite being less than 2% of the Indian population at the time.
The mayor and the city council have been asked to support plans for a memorial commemorating their sacrifice.
Calls were originally led by Labour councillor Ron Stone, who died in December. Labour councillor Steve Pearce and Bristol's Sikh community have taken on the campaign.
Mr Pearce said: "The service and sacrifice Sikh soldiers made during the two world wars and past conflicts should never be forgotten."
Dilawer Singh, from the city's Sikh community, said: "Tens of thousands of Sikh troops lost their lives fighting for Britain in World War One and it is important that we as a city commemorate them."
Up to 10,000 Sikhs are believed to live in Bristol.
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The work, on a wall of the Oxford pub in Totterdown is one of street artist Andy Council's trademark creations, that mix dinosaurs with architecture.
It was painted on the pub in November as part of an arts trail.
Mr Council said the dinosaur would "be making an appearance again" and he may paint the whole pub rather than just one wall.
"When I heard it had been painted over I thought it was funny because it was an accident and you do come to expect it," he said.
Landlord of the Oxford, Jon Evans, said regulars set up a crowd-funding campaign dubbed 'Get Me Another Dinosaur' to pay Mr Council to redo the mural.
Mr Council has also painted murals at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and has a model in the Bristol M Shed museum.
The deputy prime minister told journalists that UKIP wanted to "turn the clock back to the 1950s".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has predicted his party could hold the balance of power after May's general election.
Mr Clegg also called for an extra £1.5bn in NHS funding to be included in Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement next month.
The Lib Dems currently have 56 MPs to UKIP's two, but trail Mr Farage's party in the opinion polls and picked up just 349 votes in last week's Rochester and Strood by-election.
Asked about the result in his monthly press conference, Mr Clegg said there had been a "sharp drop in support for all three main Westminster parties", saying the Lib Dems' decline in vote share was similar to that of Labour and the Conservatives.
The parties that "espouse the politics of grievance and blame" had done well, he said.
Asked about potential coalitions after May's election, he said: "I will never sit around a Cabinet table with (UKIP leader) Nigel Farage, that's for sure, and I would think the feeling is pretty mutual."
UKIP espoused "a politics that I do not think the Liberal Democrats could ever compromise with", Mr Clegg argued.
Mr Clegg clashed with the UKIP leader in two TV debates before May's European elections, in which the Lib Dem leader argued for the benefits of staying within the EU while Mr Farage said the UK would be better off outside it.
Liberal Democrat Health Minister Norman Lamb recently called for an extra £1.5bn for the NHS in England to prevent a "crash" in services.
Mr Clegg said the cash injection was needed for next winter, and said his proposal was in line with the £8bn a year in extra resources called for by NHS chief executive Simon Stevens.
The Network Rail website (download the FAQs) says: "Cardiff to be electrified by May 2017, Swansea to be electrified by May 2018".
No-one in government is putting a date on it. Plaid Cymru's parliamentary leader, Jonathan Edwards, asked the prime minister on Wednesday to confirm it would be delivered by 2018.
Mr Edwards asked: Can you inform the house and the people of Wales whether it continues to be the policy of your government to complete to Swansea by 2018 and part-fund the Valley lines?"
The prime minister, reading from a brief, replied: "We're absolutely committed to electrifying the Great Western Main Line to Cardiff, through to Swansea. We're also contributing £125m to the cost of the wider Valley lines electrification. It's vital that this work goes ahead. We do need to make sure that Network Rail gets its costs under control and has strong leadership in place and we'll make sure those things happen."
No dates there. Mr Edwards tried again today with Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin. He got this response: "What I can say for the people of Swansea and for your constituents is that they do get the benefit straight away, I think it's 2018, I'll clarify exactly with you in a letter of the new IEP trains which will be able to run, and yes, electrification to Swansea - all the way - is part of a programme which I have said is a top priority."
No dates there either. The Wales Office issued a brief statement from its Minister Alun Cairns: "I'm pleased to hear the strong commitment to South Wales electrification through to Swansea from the Transport Secretary today. This project will transform the lives of people in South Wales by attracting investors, linking businesses to suppliers and connecting people to jobs."
No dates there. Will it be delivered by 2018? It was suggested I contact the Department for Transport, which is clearly furious with Network Rail's performance.
Mr McLoughlin told MPs:"On the 216 miles of the Great Western line alone, Network Rail needs to alter around 170 bridges, lower parts of the trackbed, and install 14,000 masts of overhead line equipment, electrifying parts of the railway constructed by Brunel in the 1830s so that the new British-built fast train can speed up services, provide more seats and services."
A Sunday Times report suggested on June 21 that the line may not be ready in time to take delivery of the new trains.
The good news - if you live in Swansea or want to get there - is that the Great Western line is now a top priority, at the expense of similar projects in England.
Any further significant delay could come with the silver lining that I may be able to use my senior railcard for the first journey.
It is unable to provide the "commitments required to continue into the next stage" because of its proposed acquisition by Hutchison, it says.
The government wants the network to be run by a commercial operator, but only EE is currently left in the bidding.
Experts have accused the government of rushing the radical shake-up.
In a statement O2 blamed uncertainty in the mobile market.
"The potential restructuring of the UK telecoms market as a result of current mergers-and-acquisitions activity affecting several players in the industry raises questions about spectrum (both current holdings and timings of access to future spectrum), network-sharing arrangements, and, specifically in our position, the proposed potential acquisition of O2 in the UK by Hutchison Whampoa," the company said..
"We are therefore unable at this time to provide the detail and commitments required to continue into the next stage of the bidding process put forward by government."
Mike Penning, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, said that the decision to withdraw from the bidding was "disappointing".
"However, the process to establish a more effective, flexible and affordable network for the UK's police, fire and ambulance services will continue," he said.
"Procurement remains extremely competitive and will deliver value for money to the taxpayer irrespective of O2 Telefonica's decision to withdraw.
"Seven other bidders remain in the running for the main contracts, and we look forward to receiving their best and final offers in June.
"We hope to sign contracts later this year."
These seven bidders - which include HP, Motorola and Lockheed Martin - are competing for contracts to support the implementation of the mobile network. But the contract to run the network itself now has just one bidder, EE
The new Emergency Services Network is expected to go live in 2017 and will provide mobile, voice and data communication to police, fire and ambulance services, among others.
The government wants to see it move from its current dedicated network to a commercial 4G one, which it believes will offer greater flexibility as well as cost savings.
The company that currently runs the network - Airwave - was not shortlisted for the latest stage of bidding.
Chief operating officer John Lewis told the BBC: "Our view is that 4G is the right technology but that currently it is not ready for mission-critical voice services.
"The standards are not yet ready, and this is a pretty commonly held view in the industry.
"We don't feel that the mobile networks will be ready to take on the very crucial role that emergency services play until at least 2020.
Currently, the networks don't have the coverage or the resilience to deal with the specific demands of our customer base."
He added that one customer - the UK's fire and rescue service - had decided to extend its contract with Airwave until 2020.
The police and ambulance service could also decide to renew contracts until the same date, he added.
Nigerian government spokesman Mike Omeri told the BBC that foreigners were just training troops in the use of new weapons.
Nigeria has recently bought helicopter gunships and tanks from South Africa and former Soviet Union countries.
But the South African government says the men may be involved in fighting.
Nigeria and its neighbours have recently recaptured several towns and villages from Boko Haram, which is allied to Islamic State (IS).
Thousands of people have been killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria, since it began its insurgency in 2009.
It is hard to explain why there had to be six years of carnage in north-east Nigeria before the necessary equipment was bought and aggressive, decisive action was taken against Boko Haram.
But now the Nigerian authorities are taking all the help they can get and have achieved some success against the jihadists. Whether we call them mercenaries or military trainers, as the Nigerian government would prefer, the hired men from South Africa and the former Soviet Union are deployed in the theatre of war and some are armed.
Some have been helping train the Nigerian troops on how to use the recently acquired military equipment including helicopter gunships, tanks and armoured vehicles. But the South African authorities suspect this is cover for illegal mercenary work.
For the Nigerian government, the issue of mercenaries is a sensitive one and adds to the already difficult job of explaining why it ever became necessary for the neighbouring armies of Chad, Niger and Cameroon to deploy inside Nigeria.
It is against the law for South Africans to fight overseas for private gain.
South Africa's Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told the BBC that anyone suspected of fighting in Nigeria would be investigated by South African police.
No serving members of South Africa's armed forces were in Nigeria, the minister added.
The presence of South African mercenaries was first reported by a South African newspaper in January, and speculation intensified after a photograph circulated on Twitter last week showing a white man in a khaki T-shirt and body armour, next to a heavy-calibre machine gun.
The location of the photo was later identified as Maiduguri in north-east Nigeria, close to the fighting with Boko Haram.
On Thursday, South African websites reported that a mercenary from the country had been killed in an incident of friendly-fire in Nigeria. Two anonymous sources speaking to the French news agency AFP confirmed the incident.
The South African government has acknowledged the death of one of its citizens in Nigeria, the New York Times reports.
"We are disturbed by the death of this one person," defence spokeswoman Joy Peters told the paper.
"Unfortunately, they went to Nigeria in their own personal capacity. We'd like to advise that this would serve as a warning to others who are considering engaging in such activities to really think twice and consider the repercussions."
Alongside South Africans, mercenaries from former Soviet Union countries are also reported to be taking part in the conflict.
In addition, regular soldiers from Chad, Niger and Cameroon have been working with the Nigerian military to recapture towns and villages in north-east Nigeria which have fallen under the control of the Islamist fighters.
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The event in Maidstone was organised by Mark Ward, a distant relative of pilot Sgt Harold Henry Allgood.
An act of remembrance was held at Albion Place, where the plane came down, at 15:55 BST - the exact moment of impact on 10 October 1940.
Relatives of the civilian victims of the tragedy were at the ceremony.
Those killed were from the Wooding and Woods families and were all related.
Sgt Allgood, who was 25, was also killed. He is buried in Cambridge, where he grew up.
The cause of the crash, which happened during the Battle of Britain, was never established.
McGregor, 23, has previously been in Gordon Strachan's squad and has scored four goals in his past five club games.
Strachan will name his selection on Monday and McGregor will be the seventh Celtic player in the squad if his six team-mates keep their places.
Scotland beat Slovenia 1-0 in March and are fourth in Group F.
Celtic's Craig Gordon, Kieran Tierney, Scott Brown, James Forrest, Stuart Armstrong and Leigh Griffiths all started that match at Hampden.
Scotland trail Slovenia by one point and are two points off Slovakia in the race for qualification for the 2018 tournament in Russia.
England lead the group on 13 points, with a four-point advantage over Slovakia. All six teams in the group, which also includes Lithuania and Malta, have five fixtures remaining.
And there were 17 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries - the most serious kind - which was again more than any of the previous Premier League seasons.
BBC Sport pundit and former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin says "knee problems appear to be at epidemic proportions in the game at the top level" and has called for further research.
A Radio 5 live Monday Night Club discussion will delve into the issue, and BBC Sport has looked at the available data and examined what the possible causes could be.
The knee joint has several ligaments. The medial (inside) and lateral (outside) collateral ligaments connect the upper and lower leg and help keep the outside of the knee joint stable.
The anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments are in the middle of the knee. The main role of these is to stabilise the knee when a player is turning, twisting, pivoting or pushing off.
As football is such a high-intensity sport for the lower limbs, if cruciate knee ligaments are ruptured, the earliest a player can hope to return to match fitness is nine months.
Various theories include players' changing physiologies, the amount of football played, footwear, and modern, harder pitches.
Dr Bilal Barkatali, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in sports knee injuries, suggests overplaying and fatigue is the key reason, particularly in high-level footballers.
"In the case of Zlatan Ibrahimovic - he's 35 and has kept himself in very good condition. Despite that, the weight of Zlatan coming down from jumping to head the ball and landing safely requires all his muscles to be firing at the correct time to support his joint.
"So if he is fatigued and is landing and one specific set of muscles haven't fired in time then all that force will be going through the middle of the knee joint, resulting in this rotation-type force around the knee causing an ACL rupture. So fatigue and overplaying is a really strong factor in how these injuries come about.
"In the past 15 years there has been an increase in knee ligament ruptures - that's throughout leagues and amateur competition."
Colin Martin, a footwear expert for a company that has worked with several sports clubs, says "softer, less supportive boots" are a factor, as is the pace of the game "increasing vastly".
"The two combined probably plays a big role in increased injury rates," adds Martin, who designs inserts that give "more stability to foot and ankle, which in turn means the player has a more solid foundation to work from".
In modern turf construction, long deep artificial grass blades are sewn throughout the pitch, which firms up the ground and prevents slipping.
Leicester City's grounds manager John Ledwidge said: "We know that those working within the game - namely managers, players, physios and sports scientists - perceive that there are links with pitches and injuries. But they need to establish why that is the case.
"I'm not a closed book and arguing that it's not a contributing factor because everything is a contributing factor when it comes to players.
"On any one weekend, with the ridiculous transfer fees that are flying around at the minute, we could have upwards of £300m-£400m worth of assets playing on our pitch.
"Certainly at Leicester City we work exceptionally to hard to make sure the pitches are kept within certain parameters of firmness, there's an adequate level of moisture, the grass coverage is there for pretty much most of the year, to ensure the players don't get injured and the players have the best possible playing facilities that they can have.
"Taking Ibrahimovic as an example - on that day, on that pitch, on that particular square inch that he landed on, the pitch could've been a contributing factor. But so could his boots, the way he warmed up and how tired he was. All these are contributing factors.'
Nevin said that when he was the chief executive of Scottish club Motherwell in the early 2000s, he was so concerned about the effect of modern pitches on his players that he looked into reverting to an "old-fashioned" turf pitch, but was told it "wasn't considered financially viable".
"We need further statistical work obviously but I have heard many complaints from Premier League managers that the modern ultra-hard pitches seem to be exacerbating the problem," said the former Scotland international.
"On top of this remember the players are training on precisely the same style of pitches every day as well. I know for a fact that some managers are concerned about this and have to accept it limits the time some players are able to train.
"Yes the game continues to get faster, but the lack of 'give' in the modern pitches certainly has an effect. I did my ACL while at Everton but that was an impact injury, due to a tackle. There appear to be more of these that are not player on player impact and that has to be researched.
"In the simplest terms, modern pitches look fantastic, they are beautifully flat and can cope with huge wear and tear. The groundsmen make them look beautiful for the TV, but when the changeover was happening did anyone ever ask the players, the managers or the medics what was needed?
"Having played on many types of pitch I see the problems of each, I just hope that 20 years down the line there aren't a group of players whose knees, ankles and hips have been irreparably damaged."
According to research from SportingIntelligence.com and insurance and risk specialists JLT, Premier League clubs paid a total of £177m in wages to injured players last season.
The estimate is calculated from fixed salaries paid to players and the length of time spent on the sidelines.
The research also showed:
JLT's head of sport Duncan Fraser said: "We seem to be seeing a case of injury-flation this year. Over the last six seasons there has been a steady increase in the cost of injuries as players become more and more expensive and the Premier League becomes more and more competitive.
"Injuries don't just make it harder to manage a team, there is also a direct cost associated with it, in the form of salaries paid to players who can't take part in matches."
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"Bradford are a shining light to all lower division teams," Perryman, a two-time FA Cup winner during a 17-year Tottenham career, told BBC Sport. "To beat three Premier League sides, whatever teams they picked, gives everyone hope."
Exeter's director of football was in charge of the Bees when they faced the might of Liverpool the last time they reached the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1989.
Brentford have reached the FA Cup quarter-finals four times, the last occasion being in the 1988-89 season when they were beaten 4-0 by reigning Division One champions Liverpool at Anfield.
Martin Allen guided the Bees to FA Cup fifth-round appearances in 2005 and 2006 where they lost to Premier League sides Southampton, after a replay, and Charlton Athletic.
This is the first season in six since that Brentford have got beyond the third round - and in all but one of the other seasons, they have not even got that far.
Chelsea and Brentford have only met once before in the FA Cup, with the Blues winning the tie in 1950 by a 1-0 scoreline.
The Bees beat a Premier League team on their last appearance in the fourth round, overcoming bottom of the table Sunderland 2-1 in 2006.
Charlton 3-1 Brentford
A Reds side with John Barnes, Peter Beardsley, Steve McMahon, Ronnie Whelan and Ray Houghton at the peak of their powers ultimately cruised to a 4-0 win at Anfield,
But Perryman's Bees, then, like now, a side in the third tier of English football, had their opportunities early on and he was proud of the way his team handled themselves and the occasion.
"I think Richard Cadette had two good chances," said Perryman, who skippered Spurs to their FA Cup wins over Manchester City and QPR in 1981 and 1982.
"Of course I am a bit biased, and maybe a quarter or a half-chance becomes three quarters of a chance - but we could easily have gone ahead.
"I always thought the first goal was so vital. Liverpool were a great side but I felt they could be vulnerable early on and could be slow starters.
"We had the first chance early on but didn't take it, and although we didn't live with them in the end, we didn't go there to defend and gave it a really good go."
Giving it a good go is exactly what Perryman feels Uwe Rosler's League One promotion hopefuls need to do against an under-pressure Chelsea side who have struggled for consistency since making a blistering start to the season.
And while, like that day at Anfield, the odds are stacked heavily in the top-flight side's favour for the first competitive west London derby between the two sides since 1950, Perryman says any FA Cup underdog must be full of belief.
"Don't tell me you can't get a slip in the box and a lucky break. It's possible," said the Spurs legend, who also won two Uefa Cups and the League Cup twice during his time at White Hart Lane.
"The longer the smaller team are level, the better their chance - and it only takes a defensive error or a great delivery from a set-piece.
"There will be a great atmosphere at Griffin Park and that probably lifts the smaller team more than the big team because Chelsea will be used to it.
"There are no mugs in the lower divisions now. They are all fit, they will have a spring in their step and they can cause an upset."
Perryman was Bees boss for three and-a-half years from 1987, and he believes that cup run - which involved seven games just to reach the quarter-finals - did wonders for their belief.
Brentford are not an up-and-under, blowing-the-bugle type team. But actually that will probably suit Chelsea more
A squad featuring Andy Sinton, Tony Parks, Neil Smillie, Keith Jones, Gary Blissett and Cadette had to win two replays and beat three higher-division clubs in Manchester City (who won promotion to the old Division One that season), Blackburn Rovers and Walsall to set up their dream tie at Anfield.
It did come at a cost though.
"Unfortunately, playing all those games hampered our league progress a bit that season," Perryman said. "We were in a good position for promotion and it didn't quite happen. You get involved in so many games there has to be a focus taken away.
"But I think it was the prelude to getting promoted under Phil Holder in 1992. That Cup run gave the team such confidence that we could be on the same pitch as the big boys. It was a wonderful experience.
"Sinton got sold on the back of that game [to QPR]. He was obviously a good player but showed he could handle it with the big boys."
Brentford are currently third in League One, where they have only lost four times all season. Their defeat by Tranmere Rovers last Saturday was their first at Griffin Park since August and up front they have Clayton Donaldson, who has scored 19 goals in all competitions so far this term.
But Chelsea legend Ron Harris, who played 795 games for the Blues before taking up a player-coach role with Brentford in 1980, cannot see an upset despite being impressed with the Bees when he saw them beat Southend to tee up the Chelsea tie.
Chelsea were beaten 4-0 by Barnsley in the FA Cup third round in the 1988-89 season but went on to win the old Division Two title.
The Blues reached their first FA Cup final in 24 years in 1994 but were brushed aside 4-0 at Wembley by a Manchester United side who clinched the double with that emphatic victory.
Chelsea won the 1997 FA Cup final, their first major trophy in 27 years and their second FA Cup success.
Since then they have won the competition five further times, in 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
They have won the FA Cup in four of the last six seasons, and have appeared in six of the 13 finals this century.
Chelsea v Manchester United 1994 FA Cup final
"They looked a half-decent side," Harris told BBC Sport. "Rosler has got them playing some decent football.
"Brentford are not an up-and-under, blowing-the-bugle type team and they played it around pretty well. But actually that will probably suit Chelsea more.
"It's a fantastic tie for Brentford. You get upsets every year but I just cannot see it in this game.
"Brentford would have to play out of their skin to beat Chelsea and Chelsea would have to play very poorly."
Notts County coach Colin Lee, a former Chelsea and Bees player, has been impressed with League One rivals Brentford this season, but cannot see an upset despite the turmoil at Stamford Bridge and the supporters' anger at Rafael Benitez's appointment as manager.
"Chelsea will put out a very strong team. Brentford deserve that but I think Chelsea will have too much for them," he said.
Lee joined Brentford from the Blues in 1987 and combined playing duties with a first foray into management as a youth team coach.
And although he was not involved in the game at Anfield, he was still on the playing staff and fondly recalls his spell with the Bees and the excitement that Cup run created.
Ron Harris, Micky Droy, Keith Jones, Tommy Baldwin, Colin Lee, Steve Sidwell, Joe Allon, Graham Wilkins, Peter Borota and Stewart Houston.
"It's a great club," Lee said. "I had a fantastic couple of years there. They were good times and good people and some of those people are still involved.
"The fans will remember this game for a long time. The Liverpool game created a real buzz and the local element will add that extra buzz this time.
"It will be fantastic for the whole area. There is nothing better than playing a local FA Cup derby against the European champions. What more can you want?"
Listen to live commentary of Sunday's FA Cup tie between Brentford v Chelsea from BBC London 94.9 (UK only).
The country's human rights commission said opponents of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party had been told they would never get any food aid.
The government has not yet commented.
Mr Mugabe declared a state of disaster in February, with the government estimating that four million people would need food aid by January 2017.
"Ruling party members were the major perpetrators in violations linked to distribution of food," Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) chairman Elasto Mugwadi told media in the capital, Harare, detailing the findings of the investigation.
Mr Mugwadi said huge numbers of people had been affected by the alleged tactic, without giving exact figures.
The government says half the rural population faces starvation.
In recent months, there have unprecedented protest against the government of the 92-year-old leader, who has now been in power for 36 years.
Analysis: Brian Hungwe, BBC News, Harare
The scathing report on the allegations of the politicisation of food aid in rural areas by senior government officials and public servants lays bare accusations that have long been denied by President Robert Mugabe.
The ZHRC says its findings were a result of extensive investigations across the country.
It will be difficult for Mr Mugabe to simply dismiss the allegations.
The powers of the rights body are enshrined in the constitution, giving it a legal mandate to carry out investigations into human rights violations and to make recommendations to parliament.
The political implications of the report are grave, especially with general elections due in 2018, although similar allegations have been made in the past.
With growing popular calls for electoral reform, there will be many who fear that this investigation betrays the extreme tactics which may be employed to ensure election victory.
Alleged attempts to exert pressure on rural folk by withholding food will be seized on by Mr Mugabe's critics as evidence that his government has reached a new low, especially given the food crisis the country is facing.
Zimbabwe has endured two years of failed rains, with this year's problems linked to the El Nino weather pattern.
Elections are due to take place in 2018.
The government had been looking at either closing the Tornado bases of RAF Lossiemouth in Moray or RAF Marham in Norfolk.
Tornado operations were to be relocated to the base remaining open.
But the government has decided to keep both operational.
But RAF Leuchars will close and become an army base, with its Typhoons leaving for Lossiemouth in 2013 and the army starting to move in later.
Concern over RAF Marham's future prompted a major campaign to save the base by councils, MPs and business leaders in Norfolk.
South West Norfolk MP Elizabeth Truss, a campaigner to save RAF Marham, said: "I am absolutely delighted.
"The campaign was not just based on a simple fondness for the RAF, it was founded on sound economic and strategic principles and I believe that resulted in the decisive decision to make it Marham."
In the House of Commons, Defence Secretary Liam Fox praised the work of Ms Truss in the fight to save RAF Marham.
Broadland MP Keith Simpson said: "This is excellent news for the RAF and defence of the country and a relief for people of Marham and Norfolk."
Mohammad and Talat Aslam had been on a pilgrimage at the time of the crash and are to be buried in the city of Medina.
Four members of a family from Manchester were also killed in the accident, on the motorway between Mecca and Medina.
The Aslams have five adult children. Some of them have travelled to Medina for the funeral.
Family friend Salma Raja said Mrs Aslam had been a lively, exuberant person.
Speaking ahead of the funeral, she said: "She used to solve everyone's problems. Anyone who came to her, she never said no.
"She was such a lovely person, I can't tell you, she was very, very good. She was never sad.
She added: "Mr Aslam was great as well. He was a serious kind of a person.
"Talat was more bubbly and outgoing. He was moren you could say intellectual, very, very intelligent.
"And he was a very good businessman as well."
They were expected to take the train to King's Lynn en route to the Norfolk estate to join other royals.
The royal couple are currently at Buckingham Palace.
A palace spokesman said: "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have heavy colds, and so have decided not to travel to Sandringham today."
BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the Queen and Prince Philip normally took the train around 11:00 GMT from London, but the delay was "no cause for concern".
He added: "I would imagine they will wish to travel as soon as they feel able to.
"They certainly won't want to miss the family Christmas at Sandringham, so I am sure they will return to their plan for Christmas in a day or so."
On Tuesday, the Queen, 90, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 95, hosted a festive lunch for the Royal family - a tradition they carry out before travelling to their private estate each year.
Prince William was seen arriving with the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and three-year-old Prince George.
The palace announced on Tuesday that the Queen would be stepping down as the patron of 25 national organisations.
Her patronages will be passed on to other royals, although she will still be patron of hundreds of other organisations.
The victims - textile factory workers - were shot dead when an IRA gang ambushed their mini-bus in 1976 near the County Armagh village of Kingsmills.
After checking their religion, the gang ordered one Catholic colleague to leave.
Only one man survived the shootings.
Alan Black, a 32-year-old father of three at the time, was seriously wounded and spent months recovering in hospital.
"It was brutal what was inflicted on us," he said.
"Ten completely innocent men taken out and brutally murdered.
"This time of year, I go into countdown mode - I look at the calendar and at the clock and think to myself: 'The boys have only five days or five hours or five minutes to live,' right up to the time of the ambush.
"On a nice summer's day, it is like it happened to someone else in a different life, but when the winter sets in and the dark nights come round it feels like it just happened yesterday.
"But I want to see a bit of truth and justice.
"For the boys, but mostly for the families who are still searching for the truth."
All of the victims came from Bessbrook, County Armagh.
Robert Chambers was 19-years-old when he was killed. His brother, Cecil, said his desire for justice has never dimmed.
"We're just looking, 40 years on, for justice we should have had long ago.
"They killed three of my family, not one, because my mother and father never left his graveside. My mother would forget and put dinner out for him."
Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kennedy, who also comes from Bessbrook, spoke of his memories of the massacre.
"I can see the uncontrollable grief of families whose loved ones had been so cruelly taken - sons, husbands, fathers. Decent, hard-working men."
A number of statements were read out on behalf of those now too elderly or infirm to attend Tuesday's service.
An inquest into the murders announced in 2013 has yet to begin, having been adjourned eight times.
The 10 men who killed were John Bryans, Robert Chambers, Reginald Chapman, Walter Chapman, Robert Freeburn, Joseph Lemmon, John McConville, James McWhirter, Robert Samuel Walker and Kenneth Worton.
The families of the victims gathered at the spot where they died for a religious service on Tuesday morning.
Southend United supporter Andrew Urry, who lives in Brisbane, travelled to Bradford on Saturday but the match was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
"We were told as the coach pulled up outside the stadium," Mr Urry said.
"I got off the coach to have a couple of pictures taken outside the away turnstile, and then we were straight back on the road again."
Former Southend resident Mr Urry manages to keep up with some matches via the internet, but a trip to watch the Shrimpers play live was to be a highlight of a trip to Europe.
"I wanted a trip on a coach as a nostalgia trip, as I used to in the old days," he said.
On the coach, Mr Urry used social media to keep him updated with the chances of Saturday's match at Valley Parade going ahead, and said he had a "pretty good idea it was going to be called off".
However, it was not until they arrived at the stadium that the postponement was confirmed by a steward.
Mr Urry hopes to catch Southend's next three home matches, as well as the Boxing Day local derby at Colchester.
The club also made an effort to soften the blow of his wasted journey on Saturday, asking on Twitter: "Would a signed Southend United ball help at all?"
The attack happened on the Cullingtree Road at about 06:00 GMT on Sunday morning.
The man was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast where he underwent surgery.
Sinn Féin councillor Mary McConville said there was a need to address knife crime in the city.
"The young man has suffered knife wounds leaving him in a serious condition and his family traumatised," she said.
"More needs to be done to deal with the growing knife crime in our society and I am calling on young people not to be drawn into carrying knives."
SDLP MLA Alex Attwood described the attack as "shocking and appalling".
"There is growing concern about the rise in knife crime attacks in Belfast," he added.
"Any level of knife crime is unacceptable, and more needs to be done to deal with knife crime in our society."
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the incident to contact them.
Tulip Siddiq said she "cannot reconcile myself to the front bench position".
Jeremy Corbyn has imposed a three-line whip on his MPs telling them to back the newly-published bill.
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill has been produced after the Supreme Court ruled legislation would be necessary.
In her resignation letter to Mr Corbyn, Ms Siddiq, who had been an early years minister, said: "Leaving the European Union presents enormous uncertainty for my constituents, with most believing that the disadvantages of leaving outweigh any potential benefits."
Despite reports he might rebel, Shadow Business Secretary Clive Lewis said on Thursday he would back the bill.
But he added: "Labour will seek to amend the Bill to prevent the government using Brexit to trash our rights, public services, jobs and living standards while cutting taxes for the wealthiest."
Labour MPs expected to vote against the bill at second reading include former leadership challenger Owen Smith, former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw and Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner.
Mr Corbyn said Labour MPs would face a three-line whip to vote in favour of the bill.
He said he understood the "pressures and issues" members faced, but called on them to "unite" around "important issues" and "not to block Article 50 but to make sure it goes through next week".
Frontbench members of parties are generally expected to resign from their post if they decided to defy a three-line whip.
Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to begin the formal process of quitting the European Union, under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, by the end of March.
The government was forced to draw up the legislation after losing an appeal at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, when judges ruled that Parliament must give permission to start the Brexit process.
The bill is due to be initially debated by MPs on Tuesday - in a sitting that may last until midnight - and clear the Commons on 8 February, after which it will move to the House of Lords.
As well as the bill, on Wednesday Prime Minister Theresa May announced the government would set out more details of its Brexit plans in a formal policy document.
In the House of Commons, MPs urged Mr Davis to commit to publishing the document, known as a White Paper, before the Article 50 bill legislation had passed through Parliament.
Mr Davis said the question involved "slightly separate issues".
The Article 50 bill, he said, was "about carrying out the will of the British people", adding that the White Paper would be published "as expeditiously as possible".
The Liberal Democrats have vowed to oppose Article 50 unless there is a guarantee of another referendum on the final Brexit deal that is agreed with Brussels, while the SNP has vowed to table 50 amendments to the legislation.
Taking questions from MPs, Mr Davis also said he disagreed with EU Commission chief negotiator Michel Barnier's view that trade talks would have to be handled separately from the Article 50 negotiations.
Such a "sequential approach" would be "not practical", he said, adding that he wanted all negotiations to be completed inside two years.
The UK-based Syria Observatory for Human Rights said that 27 IS fighters were killed, with the rest being from other anti-government groups.
Marea lies in an area that Turkey and the US have reportedly wanted to turn into an IS-free "safe zone".
Last month it was alleged IS had used chemical weapons in an attack on Marea.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that on 21 August it had treated four members of a family who suffered from breathing difficulties and developed blisters after a mortar hit their home in Marea.
The Syrian American Medical Society has also reported receiving 50 patients showing symptoms of chemical exposure.
Local rebels say the shells were fired from an IS-held village to the east.
Last month the US said it suspected IS of having used chemical agents in another attack on Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Reports of a sulphur mustard attack on Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq are also being investigated.
Also on Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed concern to his Russian counterpart over reports of "an imminent enhanced Russian military build-up" in Syria.
On Friday the New York Times reported that US officials believed Russia had sent a military advance team to Syria and was "taking other steps the United States fears may signal that President... Putin is planning to vastly expand his military support for [Syrian] President Bashar al-Assad".
Mr Kerry "made clear that if such reports were accurate, these actions could further escalate the conflict, lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows and risk confrontation with the anti-ISIL coalition operating in Syria," the state department said.
The 28-year-old DR Congo international was released by the Baggies at the end of the season.
Mulumbu made 211 appearances in six years with Albion, having joined them from Paris St-Germain in 2009, initially on loan.
Fellow midfielder Graham Dorrans also made the move from The Hawthorns to the Premier League newcomers this summer.
Norwich are yet to officially comment on the reports of Mulumbu's move.
Rates were first cut to 0.5% in March 2009 as the Bank sought to lift economic growth amid the credit crunch.
Recent growth in the economy has prompted speculation that rates will start to rise again in the near future.
However, continuing low inflation, now at 0.3%, gives policymakers little reason to raise the cost of borrowing.
The Bank also kept the size of its quantitative easing (QE) programme unchanged at £375bn.
Inflation is expected to remain low, and could even turn negative briefly, thanks largely to a near-halving in the price of oil since last summer.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has even talked about lowering interest rates further to a new record low, should prices remain near flat for longer than expected.
However, Mr Carney has said prices are likely to rebound around the turn of the year.
Most developed economies are used to prices rising. The fear is that if prices do start to fall, consumers will put off buying goods in the hope of further price falls.
With the economy around 70% dependent on consumer spending, any slow down could have a harsh impact on overall economic growth.
Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said the next rate rise could be almost a year away.
"While the risks of an earlier rate rise have probably increased lately, we still think it most likely that the Bank will wait until February 2016, by which time inflation will be back above 1% and heading towards the 2% target."
Fund manager Investec, however, thinks there is a case for rates to rise in November this year.
David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) called for the Bank to reveal its plans: "The strengthening pound against the euro is already posing challenges for many UK exporters and higher interest rates would only make matters worse.
"Given this background, business confidence will be strengthened if the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) clearly states that interest rates are likely to stay on hold until at least early 2016."
Minutes of last month's MPC meeting showed members voted unanimously for no change to rates.
However, there was a debate revealing a three-way split between the nine members as to their future direction, with two arguing there could be a case to raise rates later this year, while one member said the next change in rates was "likely to be a loosening as a tightening".
Low interest rates are a boon to borrowers and have kept mortgage payments at record lows.
However, savers and pensioners have suffered.
Financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown estimates savers have collectively lost £130bn during the six years of record low rates, compared with more normal rates - £5,000 for every household.
The 25-year-old is accused of assaulting a 26-year-old woman and inflicting actual bodily harm on her on Sunday.
She had to be treated for facial injuries after an assault in Drayton Road.
The accused, who was arrested on Wednesday, will appear before magistrates in Norwich later.
Pranav Dhanawade, son of an auto-rickshaw driver, had just scored more than 1,000 runs in a single innings to set a new world record in school cricket.
An army of reporters had descended to find out more about the young cricketer, who The Guardian called "the first cricketer to navigate the nervous 990s".
The teenager was crisp and brief while facing the excited media after his enervating innings.
"I wanted to score big runs. I remember my coach telling me that no one will take me in the Mumbai team if I score these hundreds and two-hundreds," he told The Indian Express newspaper.
Dhanawade's life has changed overnight after he smashed a mind-boggling 1,009 not out for his Smt KC Gandhi School in an inter-school game for the HT Bhandari Cup, an under-16 tournament.
An aggressive batsman by nature, he made merry at the crease for over six and a half hours. He faced 327 deliveries, hit 129 fours and 59 sixes, and ended up with an awe-inspiring strike rate of 308.56.
It surely helped that the opposition Arya Gurukul School weren't fielding their first team for this two-day game.
Their senior players were away preparing for an exam. Some of their bowlers were as young as 11. They batted first and were shot out for an inglorious 31 runs in 20 overs.
Dhanawade opened the batting for Smt KC Gandhi. At lunch, he had scored 45 runs. By the end of Monday he was unbeaten at 652 runs. The ground was small and the boundaries came fast and furious.
"When I go to bat, I only keep in mind that I had to play a big innings and after playing on and on I scored 100 runs, 200, 300, 400 runs," he told the BBC.
The family's phones kept ringing on Monday night. Friends and relatives were delirious: Dhanawade had already broken Arthur Collins' 1899 record of 628 not out, and the Indian school cricket record of 546 runs by Prithvi Shaw.
Tuesday brought with it an avalanche of expectations.
Dhanawade's voracious appetite for runs had not waned: by lunch, he had scored an astounding 921 runs. Spectators and reporters had begun invading the ground during the breaks in play. A few well-wishers cordoned him as he scampered to the dressing room at tea break.
After lunch, he crossed 1,000 runs. KC Gandhi declared with their score on 1,465 of three, and Dhanawade had scored nearly 70% of his team's total. He had his share of luck - a few catches dropped and a couple of stumpings missed by the opponents.
The one-sided contest ended with Arya Gurukul being bowled out for a paltry 56 in the second innings, giving Dhanawade's team an emphatic 1,382-run innings win.
The match umpire says he was impressed with Dhanawade's mindset and fitness.
"I would say he was 101% fit [temperamentally], and even after scoring so much he was not tired," Sunimal Sen told ESPNcricinfo.
"Many times we see that batsmen, after scoring a hundred, say 'Sir we want water', but he did not create this type of disturbance. He was very fit."
Life hasn't been easy for young Dhanawade and his family. His father Prashant, an auto-rickshaw driver, has done everything he could to support his son's cricketing dream.
Dhanawade had taken a two-year-break from cricket due to "some issues". There was a time when his mother Mohini would reprimand him for not focusing on studies.
His father had worked overtime to ensure his son got a cricket kit. On Monday, they stood beside him, beaming with pride, with tears of joy, accepting the accolades. They also learnt that the Maharashtra government had decided to fund their son's studies and sports.
Dhanawade's innings propelled him to the top of the trends on Twitter in India, where reactions to his innings ranged from praise to shock and disbelief. Sachin Tendulkar congratulated him - "You need to scale new peaks!," he tweeted.
But the biggest - and measured - accolade possibly came from Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni.
"To score like that anywhere in the world, in those conditions, is very difficult. Not to forget the age of the individual," Dhoni told reporters..
"We need to nurture him, guide him, because all of a sudden the limelight will be on him. He will be compared with a lot of individuals who have been very successful. It is important for the individuals who are close to him - his coach, his parents - to guide him to move in the right direction."
For the moment, Dhanawade is still soaking in his new-found celebrity and trying to make sense of it.
"I want to become a big cricketer. I want to play for India," he says.
Nishad Pai Vaidya is a Mumbai-based journalist
The night tsar will work with Mr Khan, the Night Time Commission, businesses, councils, Met Police and Transport For London to make London a "24-hour city".
The one-year post comes less than a week after the launch of the Night Tube, which is expected to add £77m to the city's economy each year by 2029.
The successful candidate will work two-and-half days a week for £35,000.
An advert on the mayor's website states the night tsar needs to demonstrate "proven leadership ability, public profile and convening power, plus a thorough understanding of the night time economy and the ability to work in a political environment".
The deadline for applications is on the midnight of 12 September and interviews will take place the following week.
Night Tube services began on the Victoria and Central lines on Friday, with more than 100,000 people riding the Tube in the early hours on the first weekend.
The service will be rolled out to the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines this autumn.
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The 22-year-old Ivorian has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with the reigning champions, after passing a medical on Monday.
The club says Coulibaly will start training with the squad on Wednesday.
The striker also received an offer from Al Ahly's rivals Zamalek, after both clubs agreed fees with Kilmarnock.
"Souleymane has always been fully committed to Kilmarnock, but once they agreed a fee, he was given permission to talk to the two clubs," said Coulibaly's agent, Lee Payne.
"It was too good an offer for Kilmarnock to turn down, and Souleymane is extremely grateful to Kilmarnock for his time at the club and the opportunity.
"Al Ahly are one of the biggest clubs in this part of the world and are top of the Egyptian league. This is a club that match Souleymane's ambitions."
The former Tottenham trainee signed a three-year deal at Kilmarnock last summer after arriving as a free agent following a season at Peterborough.
He has scored 11 goals in 26 appearances for Lee Clark's side this season, including several spectacular strikes.
Darren Cunningham, 39, who has waived his right to anonymity, said he was "happy" Tony and Julie Wadsworth were found guilty.
The couple presented on both BBC WM in Birmingham and BBC Radio Leicester.
They were each jailed for five years for sex offences against under-age boys between 1992 and 1996.
Julie Wadsworth, 60, and her husband Tony, 69, of Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, were convicted of encouraging six boys to take part in sexual activity and outraging public decency by having sex in woodland.
Mr Cunningham who was 14 when he was groomed by the pair, said he came forward to help others.
He said: "If [I'd] told the police, perhaps this wouldn't have happened to anyone else.
"I've got six children, three stepchildren and three children of my own, and just the thought of somebody doing that to them, it just made me feel sick and I thought I've got to tell."
Mr Cunningham said it was "daunting" at court and "while you're giving your evidence, they were just sat opposite me... and Julie just stared at me the whole time".
Mr Cunningham added: "I wanted them to get sentenced so it didn't happen to anyone else. It wouldn't matter if they they got two years or got 20.
"They are at an age now where five years is a big chunk of their life, 60 and 70 years old. So they will feel the punishment and I'm sure people in prison will know who they are."
Julie Wadsworth was convicted of nine indecent assaults against boys and five counts of outraging public decency.
Her spouse, who acted as a "look-out", was found guilty of the same charges.
Prosecutors said the abuse took place at a number of locations, including the couple's former home in Atherstone, Warwickshire, as well as on a nearby golf course and surrounding woodland.
A BBC spokesman has previously said the Wadsworths were last on air in December 2015 and no longer work for the corporation.
The Ulster Unionist served as culture minister between 1999 and 2002, then health minister from 2007 until 2011.
He said he regards his time in charge of the health department as one of the highlights of his career.
However, he is concerned about how the health service will be funded in the future.
That is one of the key findings of an Audit Office (NIAO) report.
It also found only one in five SEN statements were completed within the recommended 26 weeks in 2015-16.
The NIAO concluded that neither the department nor the Education Authority (EA) could ensure they were achieving "best outcomes" for children with SEN.
The report also said that, although it cost £55m to provide classroom assistants for children with statements of SEN - documents that set out the specific help they require in school - their support may not be effective.
"The provision of a classroom assistant is often considered as a key form of support given to children with a statement of SEN yet their impact, or that of any other support provided, has not been evaluated at a strategic level," the report said.
The term "special educational needs" is defined as a "learning difficulty which calls for special provision to be made".
There were 76,300 children with SEN in Northern Ireland's schools in 2016/17, 22% of the entire school population.
It costs more than £250m annually to provide help for them, most of which comes from the EA budget.
The vast majority are educated in mainstream schools, and it was their situation the NIAO report concentrated on.
About 17,000 children with the most significant needs have a statement of SEN.
The EA is required to complete an assessment and statement in 26 weeks, but the NIAO found there were delays at all stages of the assessment process.
As a result, almost 80% of new statements issued in 2015-16 took longer than the statutory 26-week time limit.
According to the EA, the majority of delays were because of difficulty in getting information from health trusts on time.
It cost £80m to provide specific help for pupils with statements in 2015-16 - a 45% rise in costs since 2011-12.
The NIAO said some schools were very good at providing help for pupils with SEN, and cited a number of examples of good practice.
These included the High School, Ballynahinch and St Paul's High School in Bessbrook as well as Lagan College and Aquinas Grammar in Belfast.
However, it said there was not a consistent approach across all schools.
The report did acknowledge that a greater proportion of children with SEN were leaving school with GCSEs or A-Levels and fewer were leaving school with no qualifications.
In conclusion, the comptroller and auditor general Kieran Donnelly said neither the DE nor EA could ensure they were achieving the best outcomes for children with SEN.
"Neither the department nor the Education Authority can currently demonstrate value for money in terms of economy, efficiency or effectiveness, in the support to children with special education needs in mainstream schools," he said.
"It is therefore crucial that the department and the EA assess the quality of support provided by formally evaluating it in terms of the progress made by children.
"This will allow resources to be focused on the types of support which maximise progress and improve outcomes."
Plymouth's Theatre Royal has raised £1m but it needs to double that if it is to receive £5m from the Arts Council.
Adrian Vinken, the theatre's chief executive, has warned if they do not get all the money they will have to cut back on their plans.
The redevelopment will see the re-cladding of the building to cut energy costs as well as a new box office.
The conditions for the Arts Council grant were that the theatre itself raised £2m and agreed to extend the venue's lease for an additional 15 years.
Theatre managers secured a further £2m from Plymouth City Council which owns the building.
Other proposals include an extension to the front of the building allowing level access, an outdoor terrace and a new studio space in the basement to provide space for young people and community groups.
Mr Vinken said: "There are other elements like the landscaping around the building, like some of the cladding and fit out internally that we would have to compromise on if we can't raise the full sum."
The planned works would begin in April 2013 if the theatre is successful in raising the additional funds.
The theatre would reopen in September 2013 with the launch of the first UK tour of the National Theatre's production of War Horse.
Phil Gibby, the Arts Council England's director for the South West, said: "This project will provide a boost to the Theatre Royal, creating more space and making the building more useable, more attractive and more energy efficient.
"This will benefit audiences, those who participate in educational activities at the theatre and contribute to Plymouth's culture and regeneration."
During the refurbishment work the Theatre Royal is looking at proposals to run an alternative theatre at TR2, the Theatre Royal's other site in Cattedown in the city.
Flash floods were reported, with a freight train derailed after the rail tracks were washed away.
Patricia was the strongest storm ever recorded in the Americas but quickly lost power as it passed over mountainous Mexican terrain.
There, the damage done was less than feared with no reported deaths.
Authorities have expressed relief, but some homes were flooded and water and power were out along parts of the thinly populated Costa Alegre. A clean-up is in progress.
Patricia quickly weakened but combined with a separate storm system to bring heavy rain to Texas and other areas on the Gulf of Mexico - with some areas getting more than a month's worth of rain.
In Houston, Mayor Annise Parker warned residents to stay away from roads after dark and beware of flash floods. Several motorists were reportedly stranded.
The US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas near Austin was also affected by the bad weather.
In San Antonio, a man was reported to have been swept into a drainage ditch and is now considered missing, authorities said.
Flood warnings were in place for eight south-eastern Texas counties.
The town of Powell, 60 miles (100km) south of Dallas, worst hit, Reuters news agency reported, with 20in (50cm) of rain falling over the weekend.
Flooding derailed a freight train on Saturday near Corsicana. The two crew swam to safety
Flights have been cancelled at Dallas Fort Worth international airport.
However, meteorologists predict that the bad weather should clear during Sunday, moving on to Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, which could also experience heavy rain.
Shrewsbury-born Phillips joined Aston Villa from his home town club in 1969 and signed for the Blues in 1971.
He made 149 appearances for the London club and won the first of his four Wales caps against England in 1973.
Phillips spent a loan spell at Crewe Alexandra before joining Brighton and Hove Albion in 1980 and also played for Charlton Athletic and Crystal Palace.
All of the windows on the shed - a finalist in the national Shed of the Year competition - have been smashed.
A bird was also found dead in an aviary following the raid at Stonebridge City Farm in Nottingham. Staff believe it could have died of fright.
It is the second time the farm has been targeted over the past few days.
Marie Rogers, the farm's manager, said the Star Wars shed was in the play area and used by children who "loved" it.
She said: "Everybody's devastated, we work a lot with adults with disabilities and others who work hard to maintain the farm.
"It's mindless vandalism instead of watching the Great British Bake Off."
She said cameras are installed but thinks the vandals evaded them.
"People are offering to come and sleep here with their dogs," she added.
The farm was initially broken into on Sunday evening, when vegetables were smashed up and every shed was broken into.
Staff then left the farm at about 17:30 BST on Wednesday and returned at 08:30 the following morning to find further chaos.
As well as the shed being smashed up, the chicken houses had been overturned, while the birds were sleeping inside, and chickens and turkeys had been let out of their cages.
Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
The three properties, off High Street in Ruabon, were left as empty "eyesores" with the developer now in liquidation.
They became magnets for anti-social behaviour but the Crown took ownership and will hand them to Wrexham council.
Wales and West Housing Association will demolish them and build social housing.
The Welsh Government provided financial support to help community councillors and campaigners resolve the situation over the properties, built in 2000.
Clwyd South AM Ken Skates said: "Irresponsible developers left this community with an eyesore which many thought they'd be stuck with forever."
With election day in touching distance, late last month FBI director James Comey said the bureau was investigating new emails potentially connected to its investigation into Mrs Clinton's private email server.
He has since faced a backlash from leading Democrats, with President Obama saying investigations should not operate on "innuendo" and the party's leader in the US Senate, Harry Reid, even suggesting Mr Comey may have broken the law.
There was little sign that US voters would see a conclusion before the final vote.
But now, in another letter, Mr Comey has effectively concluded they have found nothing new. And Mr Trump has made his displeasure clear.
"You can't review 650,000 emails in eight days," Mr Trump told a rally in Michigan.
"Hillary Clinton is guilty, she knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know it and now it's up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on 8 November."
Several computing experts, though, say otherwise.
"That's taking a rather naive view of it," the University of Surrey's Adam Woodward said of Mr Trump's claim. "The investigators don't go through each email manually."
The emails themselves were found on a device belonging to Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Mr Weiner, a former congressman, is subject to a separate FBI investigation.
Details about the fresh FBI inquiry remain scant. Several reports say that the emails discovered were simply duplicates of ones already examined.
In the latest letter, Mr Comey said investigators had "reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State", leaving open the possibility they were still looking into some of the emails.
For Steven Murdoch, a research fellow at the University of London, the key word is "review".
"It doesn't mean they have been read," he said, adding that privacy considerations and the sheer volume of data would have been prohibitive.
Despite the seemingly intimidating size of the email cache, there are several ways they could have been narrowed down, experts say, such as using the to and from field to determine which messages came from Mrs Clinton, filtering out duplicate emails, or using search parameters.
Dr Murdoch compared the process to how officials might root through vast amounts of court documents.
Using these techniques, it is unlikely there would have been many emails investigators would have to read with their own eyes.
"Very quickly you would find that the haystack becomes the needle," said Dr Woodward.
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden offered a few more tips to the authorities on how they might go about their search.
Mr Snowden suggested they may have used hashing, which would involve coding the two sets of emails into a shorter expression of that data for quick comparison - something the authorities presumably had a head start on given the months of investigation into Mrs Clinton's email use.
Speaking anonymously, one former FBI expert told Wired he had processed much larger sets faster.
"We'd routinely collect terabytes of data in a search," he said. "I'd know what was important before I left the guy's house."
For the Errata Security blog, "the question isn't whether the FBI could review all those emails in eight days, but why the FBI couldn't have reviewed them all in one or two days. Or even why they couldn't have reviewed them before Comey made that horrendous announcement that they were reviewing the emails."
Stephen Lawrie and another man stole more than £900 from a Tesco Express in Airdrie on 14 September 2014.
He also admitted jabbing an air pistol into the stomach of a 76-year-old man and hitting a worker over the head.
Lawrie, 40, was caught after his DNA was found on a broken part of the weapon. He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at a later date.
He pleaded guilty to assault and robbery as well as possessing an imitation firearm.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that Lawrie and another man, who was armed with a knife, were both masked when they carried out the raid.
Lawrie demanded that 76-year-old shopper Hugh Goldie get on the ground before pushing what appeared to be a handgun into his stomach, causing him to fall.
Staff were then told to fill a bag with cash.
Lawrie then yelled that no-one was to call for help before hitting worker John Turnbull on the head with the weapon.
The pair escaped but Lawrie was caught after his DNA was found on a broken part of the weapon that was recovered by police.
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The 27-year-old victim had just got out of his car in Firpark Close, Glasgow, at about 16:30 on Monday when he was approached by three men.
They demanded his keys before repeatedly striking him on the legs with the weapons. They then dove off in his red three-door Vauxhall Corsa.
The victim did not require hospital treatment.
The first man was white, in his mid 20s, 5ft 8in, of stocky build, with short, black hair and stubble. He was wearing a black jacket with blue jeans.
The second man was white, in his early to mid 20s, 6ft, with dark blond hair and a scruffy beard. He was wearing a black jacket, blue jeans with distinctive stitching down both legs.
The third man was white, in his mid 20s, 5ft 10in, and was wearing a black jacket and blue jeans.
All three men spoke with Scottish accents.
Det Insp Alasdair Barlow, from Police Scotland, said: "An innocent man has been randomly targeted and it is absolutely vital that we trace this group of despicable individuals as soon as possible.
"I would ask anyone who was in the surrounding area yesterday afternoon, who may have seen a group of men matching the above descriptions, or a red Vauxhall Corsa in the new style, to please get in touch.
"It is also understood that the car may have been in the area of Tillycairn Road in Easterhouse and I would ask anyone who may have seen it in the area, or anything else suspicious, to contact police."
Alun Cairns met UK mobile phone providers on Wednesday to try to address patchy mobile phone reception.
The UK government announced new powers to allow construction of taller phone masts without planning permission in England in the Budget.
Around 4% of users in Wales could not get voice coverage, Mr Cairns said.
He wants the Welsh Government to introduce similar powers, which would allow masts up to 25m in height to be erected in areas with low coverage, without planning permission. The current limit is 15m.
He said: "While I appreciate the success of progress so far and scale of challenge around improving mobile connections in Wales, there remain areas in rural parts of Wales that have no network coverage.
"The UK government used the Budget to announce greater freedoms and flexibilities for the deployment of mobile infrastructure - I'd like to see the Welsh Government consider something similar."
The Welsh Government has been asked to comment.
The Scot's defeat of Ohori, the only seed left in the women's singles, followed up her victory over Korean Jang Mi Lee in the first round.
Gilmour took just 34 minutes to see off her Japanese opponent.
She has now reached the last four without dropping a game ahead of a clash with Korean Joo I Jeon.
Stafford Hospital, which was renamed County Hospital, was at the centre of a £6m public inquiry into care failings, with overnight closures beginning in 2011.
Campaigners and rival politicians said a Conservative pledge to restore services was a "bribe".
But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt denied the claim.
Mr Hunt said on Saturday that if the Conservatives won the election, overnight services would be restored as soon as soon as it was "clinically safe" to do so.
Campaigners have previously protested about the loss of services with marches through the town and a camp which was set up in the hospital grounds.
One of them, Karen Howell, is now standing for the National Health Action party in the Stafford constituency.
She said she thought the Conservative pledge was "an absolute outrage".
She said: "It's an election pledge bribe.
"Why have they spent £19.5m on the administration process to downgrade and get rid of these services, only to talk about bringing them back? It just seems ludicrous and such a waste of money."
But Mr Hunt denied it was a bribe, saying: "This hospital has been through a very, very difficult period.
"Really what I want to do is give a little bit of hope to the people who work in the hospital."
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which ran the hospital, went into administration in April 2013. The hospital is now run by a new trust.
A full list of candidates for the Stafford constituency can be found here.
A video appeared to show Jill Stein preparing to spray-paint a bulldozer.
She was protesting over the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is opposed by environmental and Native American groups who fear its impact.
"I approve this message," she is accused of writing on the blade of an earth-moving machine.
In a statement following the news of criminal charges, Mrs Stein said she hopes "the North Dakota authorities press charges against the real vandalism taking place at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation: the bulldozing of sacred burial sites and the unleashing of vicious attack dogs".
A judge has issued a warrant for her arrest but it is not known whether she intends to turn herself in.
She and her Green Party running mate Ajamu Baraka are charged with misdemeanour counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
Since April over 3,000 people have been protesting about the pipeline. In recent days, private security forces have been using attack dogs to clear protesters.
Mrs Stein was also arrested during her 2012 campaign. She was protesting outside a debate to which she was not invited.
The 1,100 mile (1,770 km) crude oil pipeline passes close to Native American burial groups and is opposed by over 200 tribes.
A judge has temporarily forced the Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners to halt construction, and is due to decide on Friday whether to withdraw the company's building permits.
But a day after its high-profile launch - backed by some celebrities - the petition was withdrawn following a swirl of controversy.
On Tuesday the open letter, organised by a Sydney man, called on Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to commit A$6m (£4m; $4.5m) to funding a new anti-bullying programme.
With a focus on LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] issues in schools and domestic violence, the programme would target "all forms of bullying, including that which is based on religion, race, gender, faith, sexuality, disability, skin conditions, social standing or political persuasions", the letter said.
It followed an intensely debated similar scheme, Safe Schools, which was launched in 2014 but was significantly curtailed and then dumped in one state after criticism from conservative politicians, lobby groups and sections of the media. The critics said it raised sexual issues that were inappropriate for teenagers and young children.
Tuesday's proposal was intended to "de-politicise" and remove "controversy" surrounding LGBT education in schools. Celebrities including actor Guy Pearce and singers Troye Sivan and Missy Higgins attached their names to the petition.
It even attracted qualified support from an unlikely source. The Australian Christian Lobby - a conservative group critical of Safe Schools - said it "cautiously welcomed" the new proposal.
But it attracted immediate criticism for urging "tolerance" - rather than "acceptance".
"Make no mistake of our request: we do not seek a program that seeks approval of the way certain members of our society live. We seek only mutual respect and tolerance," the petition said.
Critics of the wording included LGBT advocates and, quickly, goodwill that might have flowed from passionate supporters of Safe Schools descended into anger.
"It sounds to me like I'm supposed to beg people to be tolerant of my child's existence," Leanne Donnelly, identified as a Sydney mother of a transgender teenager, told the Special Broadcasting Service.
"Equality and acceptance is the starting point, not downgrading to tolerance."
Some celebrities attached to the letter said they had not seen the wording before it was published.
Petition organiser Ben Grubb, a PR adviser, wrote a lengthy apology to the LGBT community following the backlash.
"Acceptance was removed during the drafting after confidentially consulting a Canberra decision-maker on what they believed the government would potentially back to fund such a program," he wrote, adding his involvement in the campaign was personal not professional.
"This is a decision I deeply regret and I am truly sorry for. I am sorry to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community, many of whom have told me that by doing this represented the letter pandering to conservative views."
He said he would arrange for the petition to be taken down. It and an accompanying publicity video are no longer visible online.
Scott Fletcher was last seen near to the Jet garage on the A181 at Wheatley Hill in Durham on the evening of 11 May, 2011.
Seven people remain on bail after being arrested on suspicion of his murder.
Cleveland Police said: "Scott's family are still struggling to come to terms with what's happened."
Det Supt Jon Green added: ""We want to be able to end this nightmare for them and provide some answers.
"I believe we are making progress and would again ask anyone with information which could help to contact Cleveland Police."
The men were attacked while sitting in a parked Renault Megane at 19:30 BST on Sunday.
Officers found the car driver with stab wounds after reports of a disturbance in Braintree Road, Dagenham.
The man, who has not yet been formally identified, was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.
The CCTV footage shows the first vehicle smashing into the back of the car before a second vehicle pulls up alongside to block any possible escape.
The attackers can be seen wielding what look like baseball bats.
A Met spokesperson said no arrests had been made and officers were in the process of informing the next of kin.
One resident told BBC London he heard a commotion and saw a group of five people running off in the opposite direction from the scene of the attack.
They claim that while he agreed to be exhibited during his life, he "almost certainly" did not want his remains to be displayed after he died.
The Queen Mary University of London intends to keep his skeleton at its medical school.
It claims that Joseph Merrick "expected to be preserved after his death".
A university spokesman said as custodians of Mr Merrick's remains, the university regularly consulted with his descendants over their care.
He said the remains were kept in a private room and could only be viewed by medical professionals and students with the permission of the curator.
"Those viewing the skeleton are expected to consider Merrick's feelings and gain experience of the considerable challenges of living with his condition. These ethical and humanitarian considerations are an invaluable part of the learning experience for health workers during their training," the spokesman added.
Valerie Howkins, the granddaughter of Tom Norman, one of Mr Merrick's former managers, said the reburial of Richard III in Leicester had made her "doubly anxious" for Mr Merrick to be buried with dignity.
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"There was just no question when he died that he would go back to Leicester to be buried," she said.
"It's just so sad that he had his flesh stripped from his bones and has been mounted in a glass cabinet for 120 years against his will.
"He was Christian and would have expected a Christian burial."
Jeanette Sitton, who founded the Friends of Joseph Carey Merrick, also wants him to be buried in Leicester.
"As Joseph Merrick was a devout Christian we know for a fact he would have wanted to be laid to rest," she said.
"It's an almost certainty. We know he was a devout Christian and we know he did have a strong faith."
The friends group discovered the unmarked grave of Mr Merrick's mother and siblings in Leicester's Welford Road Cemetery a few years ago and put a plaque there.
However, Ms Sitton said this would not be an appropriate place for Mr Merrick to be buried due to the lack of security.
Ms Howkins said his "warm and loving" relationship with his mother made it even more appropriate for him to return to Leicester.
"He was born in Leicester and he had a wonderful relationship with his mother until he was nearly 11 years old and she died," she said.
"It's not right that his bones should be stuck in a box in a store room."
Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has previously backed calls for a memorial to Mr Merrick in Leicester but the council said it is not its decision where or if his remains should be buried.
A spokeswoman said: "We have a memorial stone to Joseph Merrick in Welford Road cemetery, as well as a plaque commemorating his life at Moat Community College, on the site of the former workhouse where he lived.
"We are proud to acknowledge Merrick's connections to Leicester in this way, but the question of where his bones should be buried is a matter for the relevant parties."
Amnesty International said it had 24 accounts of ill treatment, including beatings and electric shocks.
Italy's government rejected the report's findings as "totally false". There was also scepticism from the European Commission.
Police chief Franco Gabrielli denied that "violent methods are used in identifying or repatriating migrants".
Under EU rules, migrants must stay in the first country they reach, which is determined by where they give their fingerprints.
Many irregular migrants are therefore reluctant to be fingerprinted, fearing they will not be able to leave Italy.
Amnesty said the behaviour of most Italian police officers involved was professional but it called for an independent review of the allegations.
"The European Union's pressure on Italy to 'get tough' on refugees and migrants has led to unlawful expulsions and ill treatment which in some cases may amount to torture," the organisation said.
A 25-year-old woman from Eritrea said she had been slapped repeatedly in the face by a policeman until she agreed to be fingerprinted, and a 16-year-old boy and a 27-year-old man said police had applied pain to their genitals.
The older man said: "I was on a chair made of aluminium, with an opening on the seat. They held my shoulders and legs, took my testicles with the pliers, and pulled twice. I can't say how painful it was."
Amnesty also highlighted the dangers faced by migrants who are returned to their country of origin.
The report quoted a 27-year-old man from Darfur in Sudan who said he had been put on a flight back from Italy. He said the security forces had been awaiting his arrival in Khartoum.
"They took us to a special area in the airport," he said. "I saw one man beaten…We were interrogated one by one."
The head of Italy's immigration department, Mario Morcone, said the report was bewildering and that lies had been told. He also pointed out that UN staff were based at the "hot spots" where migrants arrived in Italy.
Matteo de Bellis, Amnesty's Researcher on Italy, told the BBC that migrants had been subjected to "appalling abuse".
"I have gathered consistent testimonies of people who told me how they were beaten, slapped, but even electrocuted by means of stun batons, people who have been threatened, people who have been arbitrarily detained just to force them to give their fingerprints," he said.
Amnesty criticised the EU's so-called "hotspot" approach - designed to identify and fingerprint new arrivals to front-line EU countries such as Italy - saying it had led to violations of migrants' rights.
"The hotspot approach, designed in Brussels and executed in Italy, has increased, not decreased, the pressure on front-line states," said Mr de Bellis. "It is resulting in appalling violations of the rights of desperately vulnerable people,"
European Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said the EU's executive had no knowledge of migrants' rights being violated at the hotspots, either from European agencies or non-government bodies.
More than 150,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean and taken to Italy so far this year and more than 470,000 have reached the country by boat over the past three years.
Many thousands have died making the crossing, including at least 3,750 this year alone.
The 64-year-old motorcyclist was in collision with a Volvo C30 on the A3124 heading towards Torrington in Devon at 15:11 BST on Saturday.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 13-year-old girl was airlifted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Her injuries are understood to be non life-threatening.
The driver of the car and another 13-year-old girl were taken to North Devon District Hospital with minor injuries.
Police said the man was from the Tedburn St Mary area.
More than 20,000 new products are expected to be shown off to 152,000 tech trade attendees at 2014's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Exhibitors will spend millions on outlandish press conferences; there will be giant-sized TVs you'll never be able to afford in resolutions your eyes would struggle to appreciate; a swarm of celebrities ranging from rapper 50 Cent to rockers Fleetwood Mac; and a seemingly endless smorgasbord of sensor-laden, cloud-powered, app-enhanced inventions.
Even if the flops-of-tomorrow are likely to outnumber the success stories, there's always the prospect of a first glimpse of the next big thing.
"CES is a hands-on experience," says Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association, which organises the event.
"Anyone with an idea can introduce a product and see how people react to it immediately. Whether people want to invest, whether they want to buy it, whether they want to write about it."
Televisions are always one of CES's biggest categories, right back to its first show in 1967.
The two biggest manufacturers - Samsung and LG - will square off once again at this year's event with similar sounding products.
Both have already announced 105in (267cm) sized 4K Ultra HD screens in the extra-wide 21:9 aspect ratio.
The two firms may also show off prototypes that allow users to adjust how curved their OLED (organic light-emitting diode) flexible screens are via a remote control, according to a report in the South Korea Times.
Viewers could, for example, adjust the displays to be more more bent while sat up close playing a video game but more flat when watching sport with others.
The Wall Street Journal also suggests LG will unveil its first TV powered by webOS - the operating system previously used by Palm phones and an HP tablet. A leaked image published by the blogger @evleaks appears to confirm the card-based interface's imminent rebirth.
Japan's Sony, Sharp, Toshiba and Panasonic will also have new Ultra HD models on show, as will China's HiSense and TCL Corp. But the firms are expected to pursue different strategies.
"The Chinese manufacturers are pushing 4K as a common technology in a lot of their models, while the Japanese and Korean brands are still looking for it to be more of a premium feature," explains Edward Border from the consultancy IHS Technology.
"So, for some brands you will mainly see 4K at the higher-end, but for others it could appear in high 30in and low 40in sets."
Polaroid's decision to sell a 50in Ultra HD set for less than $1,000 could also be disruptive.
Watch out too for third-party add-ons that transform older sets into "smart TVs".
For example Bob is an Android-powered stick that plugs into an HDMI port to offer YouTube and video games.
And Tarsier will demo special glasses called Move-Eye that monitor the wearer's hand movements, allowing them to switch channels using gesture controls.
With Google Glass still awaiting a sensible-priced release, smaller firms will be showing off their own tech-enhanced eyewear.
GlassUp will show off a pair that superimposes smartphone alerts, directions and other app information over the user's right eye.
Epson is expected to unveil a new version of its Moverio glasses - the first generation allowed owners to watch 3D movies.
And XoEye will show off glasses with two in-built five megapixel cameras designed to stream stabilised video feeds over wi-fi.
Much of the other wearable tech will be focused on fitness.
Lebanese start-up Butterfleye is at CES with Instabeat, a waterproof heads-up monitor that attaches to swimming goggles to show the wearer's heart rate.
Veristride will promote a shoe insole sensor that provides feedback about the owner's movements.
And Singapore's Smartmissimo is promising to show off the world's first wearable "smart electrical muscle stimulator" for athletes.
The big name brands are also pushing for a slice of the action.
Another scoop from @evleaks indicates LG will have a new fitness tracking wristband. The firm unveiled an earlier model at CES in 2013, but never put it on sale.
"LG is [also] rumoured to be developing a smartwatch that incorporates the same curved display technology found on its newest TV sets and G Flex handset," @evleaks told the BBC.
"For the thin-wristed individual, such a form-fitting piece of kit would be most welcome."
Sony's chief executive Kazuo Hirai could also use his Keynote Address to spell out his vision for wearable tech after mixed reviews for his company's smartwatches.
And Archos is seeking to shake up the category with a watch costing less than £50.
Many smartphone and tablet-makers are holding back announcements until February's Mobile World Congress or their own standalone shows.
But three Asian firms have confirmed they will have new products on show:
Intel will want to highlight the release of new Windows laptops that double up as tablets after championing the two-in-one format at previous CES shows.
In addition, Time Magazine has reported that PC Plus will launch at the event - a class of devices powered by Windows 8.1 that can run some Android apps through software emulation.
There will also be more PCs powered by Google's Chrome OS.
New ways to link household objects to the net has been a hardy perennial of recent CES shows.
A Twitter-equipped fridge from Samsung was one of last year's more extreme examples.
This time Kolibree's connected toothbrush - which provides feedback on cleaning habits via an app - may prove one of the most unusual launches. The firm says it will tell users if they brush long enough and whether they clean the hardest-to-reach parts of their teeth and gums.
Okidokeys will be the latest firm to offer a way to unlock your front door with a mobile phone, with the added twist that you can revoke someone else's access privileges remotely.
And to avoid the frustration of missed deliveries, DoorBot will show off a "video doorbell" that lets you see and speak to someone waiting on your doorstep via an app, letting you tell them where to leave the parcel when you're out.
Not tasty enough?
Then try the Smart Diet Scale - a Bluetooth-enabled kitchen gadget that weighs your food before you cook it, and sends the information to an app that calculates the calories, carbs and fat involved.
In 2012 there were two 3D printer-makers at CES.
This year the tech warrants its own zone and about 30 firms are showing off their wares.
New entrants include Singapore-based Pirate3DP and its Buccaneer printer, following a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that raised over $1.4m (£870,000). The firm suggests its machine is less likely to jam than others when building up plastic objects layer by layer.
California's AIO Roboticsh will also show off an all-in-one machine that scans and then either prints or "faxes" copies of an object.
The industry's granddaddy, 3D Systems, says it will respond to these upstarts with three new model categories: edibles, ceramics and full-colour plastics.
Also watch out for Makerbot's Bre Pettis who is hosting a Press Day event on Monday ahead of the scrum of Tuesday's show floor openings.
"3D printing has been around for about 30 years, but a lot of the early developments were patent protected," says Duncan Wood, publisher of TCT Magazine who will be running sessions on the tech at CES.
"But over last three to four years those patents have started to expire and entrepreneurs are now able to build their own variations, helping cause a downward pressure on prices."
The major carmakers will be out in force despite the fact Detroit's high-profile motor show begins the following week.
To distinguish the two events, the auto firms are likely to focus on connected technologies rather than new models at CES.
Audi's chairman Rupert Stadler is giving one of the Keynote Addresses and will reveal a tie-up with Google, according to the Wall Street Journal. It says the two firms are developing an in-car entertainment and information system that runs on Android.
The German company's rivals General Motors and Honda may have more to say about their efforts to integrate Apple's rival iOS software.
Meanwhile BMW, Ford and Mercedes-Benz will offer demonstrations of their self-driving vehicles, while parts-maker Delphi will show off a Tesla model fitted with its autonomous car tech.
Yahoo is likely to be one of the other firms attracting attention this year.
Chief executive Marissa Mayer is delivering one of the Tech Titans presentations nearly one-and-a-half years after jumping ship from Google.
"I would be really interested to hear her innovation story," says Sef Tuma, managing director at consultancy Accenture's digital services division.
"The other players - Google, Amazon, Facebook - are playing in the cloud, in social, with mobile operating systems and devices. They are basically expanding the realms of their existing platforms.
"I'd really love to know what's Yahoo's goal. Are they trying to play in that arms race or will they start looking at a different strategy to be seen as relevant."
Video games firm Valve will also be closely watched. It has told IGN it intends to reveal who will be making Steam Machine consoles and what their specifications will be - potentially a make or break moment for its forthcoming Linux-based platform.
Boss Gabe Newell, however, is expected to be more vague about the prospects of Half Life 3 being a launch title.
Netflix's chief executive Reed Hastings is also in town. He is likely to be pressed on the rollout of 4K content.
Whatever happens at CES, the BBC will bring you news and insights from the event at bbc.co.uk/ces2014.
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Defender Thomas O'Ware headed in his 10th goal of the campaign to put Ton ahead but James Craigen equalised with a superb strike from distance.
After the break Aaron Muirhead's penalty gave the Bairns an advantage but Ross Forbes slotted his 11th of the season under Danny Rogers.
Both sides also had a goal ruled out in an action-packed contest.
The one Morton had chalked off was converted by Lawrence Shankland from close range but referee Greg Aitken spotted a handball in the build-up.
Nathan Austin's tap-in was disallowed for the same reason in a result that follows two 1-1 draws between the teams in the league this season.
Falkirk remain ahead of Morton on goal difference in the play-off spots, but the Greenock side have a game in hand.
The value of O'Ware and Forbes to their cause was evident here. The latter supplied the cross for O'Ware to head in at the far post, taking the centre-back's impressive goal tally to 10.
Forbes' goal to bring them level at 2-2 was all about composure after a neat through ball by substitute Luke Donnelly.
Goal of the game award went to Craigen though - his 22-yard rocket into the top corner, via the underside of the crossbar, was an important equaliser when the Bairns were trailing.
Muirhead's penalty to put Falkirk 2-1 up arrived when Mark Russell felled Lee Miller, a foul the hosts did not dispute.
Morton manager Jim Duffy: "You want to be a bit greedy and go for the three points but I thought it was an outstanding game.
"Four goals, a couple of magnificent saves from either goalkeeper, misses and contentious decisions from the referee - I think that's what Scottish football's about.
"It's incredible for Thomas O'Ware and Ross Forbes - a defender and a midfielder - to be so instrumental in our season with goals.
"The disallowed goal was a ricochet that landed to Shankland who put it in the back of the net and the referee said it was a handball leading up it, but I believe it was very harsh."
Falkirk manager Peter Houston: "A draw was probably a fair result. I could turn to the two chances we had when we were 2-1 up and the goal that we had disallowed.
"I've seen the video again and I don't know - I think the far-side assistant said it was because of a handball, but the video shows that ball didn't go near his hand.
"James Craigen has got that kind of goal in his locker. He connected with it sweetly and it got us a goal in a first half that we hadn't been at it.
"We're 10 points ahead of Queen of the South [in fifth place] and I'd much rather be 10 points ahead than having to chase."
Match ends, Morton 2, Falkirk 2.
Second Half ends, Morton 2, Falkirk 2.
Attempt saved. Kudus Oyenuga (Morton) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Tom Taiwo (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Lawrence Shankland (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter Grant (Falkirk).
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Danny Rogers.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Danny Rogers.
Attempt saved. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Michael Tidser (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Taiwo (Falkirk).
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Mark Kerr.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kudus Oyenuga (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. Fraser Aird replaces James Craigen.
Substitution, Morton. Kudus Oyenuga replaces Aidan Nesbitt.
Attempt blocked. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Ross Forbes (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Sibbald (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. Mark Kerr replaces Myles Hippolyte.
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces Lee Miller.
Attempt saved. Lawrence Shankland (Morton) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Lee Miller (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Luke Donnelly (Morton).
Tom Taiwo (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Thomas O'Ware (Morton) because of an injury.
Ricki Lamie (Morton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Mark Russell (Morton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Goal! Morton 2, Falkirk 2. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Luke Donnelly.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Paul Watson.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Peter Grant.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Peter Grant.
Attempt blocked. Michael Tidser (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead.
Michael Tidser (Morton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
After Keith Barker's breakthrough at 76-2, Ireland and England international Rankin then took three wickets in 24 balls to leave Notts on 125-6.
The whole of the evening session was lost when the rain arrived at tea.
Notts' only bright spot was opener Jake Libby, who lasted over three hours for a determinedly gritty 59.
Both teams made one change from their last Championship match, in the pace bowling department. The Bears brought in Mark Adair for only his second Championship game in place of Oliver Hannon-Dalby, while Nottinghamshire's Luke Fletcher replaced Harry Gurney (bruised heel).
After choosing to bat, Notts moved slowly in the morning session as the ball swung in humid conditions, and reached 71-2 at lunch from 32 overs.
The impressively economical Rikki Clarke broke through in the ninth over when he hit Steve Mullaney's off-stump before Michael Lumb, having made just 10 in 62 minutes, misread spinner Jeetan Patel's arm-ball to be trapped lbw.
After facing 117 balls to bat through the session for 37, Libby speeded up a little after lunch. But, after Brendan Taylor lofted a catch to long leg, Riki Wessels edged a brute of a ball from Rankin to wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose.
Then, after seeing Samit Patel also get caught behind, Libby, who started this season on loan with Northamptonshire, became the third player to be caught by Ambrose off the bowling of Rankin. It earned the Irishman impressive figures of 3-25 from his 14 overs.
Warwickshire fast bowler Boyd Rankin told BBC WM:
"I'm pleased with how I bowled. I've been feeling pretty good in the last few weeks. I bowled pretty well against Lancashire but just didn't get wickets.
"We kept them to two runs per over pretty much all the whole time. All the guys bowled well but it was just my day to take a few wickets.
"The pitch is quite slow and it's not really doing much off the deck. It is a little bit tacky but hopefully it will flatten out a bit for when we come to bat."
Notts head coach Mick Newell told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I thought there'd be a bit more pace in the pitch. It was quite difficult to score off the medium quick bowlers, then Boyd Rankin stepped it up a little bit.
"He was quicker than everybody else. He bowled a very good spell in the middle of the afternoon which put under some serious pressure.
"Jake Libby batted very well. He started very well for Northants. Now this is a step up coming into Division One and facing a high-quality attack like Warwickshire. It's a big challenge for him. He's made some 20s and 30s and will be pleased to have made a fifty. Now he'll be looking to kick on again."
Carl Sargeant was updating the assembly on action being taken in Wales since the Grenfell Tower fire in west London.
He said the UK government's expert group may alternatively recommend that "full system" tests are done first.
Mr Sargeant said the decisions are "not political" and he would follow the advice of the UK government's experts.
He told AMs that he visited Swansea on Monday to meet tenants living in blocks which had failed fire safety tests.
Three blocks in Clyne Court, Sketty, and one block in Jeffreys Court, Penlan, became the first in Wales to fail tests on cladding which contains Aluminium Composite Material (ACM), carried out by the British Research Establishment (BRE).
Tests are underway on three high-rise blocks in Newport which also use ACM. No other high-rise social housing in Wales is thought to use that material.
Mr Sargeant said he was taking advice from the independent advisory group set up by the UK Government's Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
"These are professionals and I don't think this is a political decision," he said.
"This should be based on evidence and advice.
"If they suggest the removal of cladding is the best option then we will seek to remove that cladding and we'll talk about the implications on finances after that."
Mr Sargeant added that if the group recommends "full system" testing of the buildings, he would support that too.
That would involve testing a building's overall fire safety, rather than just the combustibility of its cladding.
"I think that gives actually a more true result on the effects of fire safety on a building when you have a whole system test," he said.
"But if they don't recommend that, they recommend something else, that route I will take also.
"I will not be making a decision other than what the recommendations are from DCLG and the advisory group."
Meanwhile the deputy leader of Swansea council said a decision on what to do about tower blocks which have failed fire safety tests needs to be made "quickly".
"We are still confident that we meet current building regs standards and our blocks are safe but if there does need to be further testing it should be a full system test as we have stated all along," Clive Lloyd said.
Plymouth Crown Court heard the victims, from the Czech Republic, slept in garages while the defendants pocketed their wages and benefits.
The victims were described as "malnourished and unkempt".
Five defendants deny conspiracy to traffic for the purpose of exploitation.
The defendants are:
Malcolm Galloway, prosecuting, said "at least three of the alleged victims were living in a garage" and Petr Tancos had "encouraged his children to throw stones at them", the court heard.
The court was also told that when Ruzena Tancosova was arrested last September after a police raid, she asked how long she would be in prison.
Intelligence officer Det Con Neil Albrechtsen told the court he stumbled across information in 2012 which led him to Josef Bukovinsky, the first immigrant interviewed by police.
He said while checking records he realised Bukovinsky and Josef Stepan, also Czech, had applied to the United Kingdom Border Agency for repatriation.
The trial continues.
Women's Super League side Bristol face the three-time European champions at Ashton Gate on Saturday in the first leg of the tie.
The Vixens then travel to Germany for the return leg on Sunday, 29 March.
"Without a doubt it is the biggest game we have ever had," defender McCatty, 25, told BBC Sport.
Bristol overcame Barcelona 2-1 on aggregate in the last round and are the only English club remaining in the competition.
"I remember the days when we were bottom of the league and now we are competing at the highest level," McCatty added.
"It's amazing to do that and for the club that I love makes it an even more massive game.
"The fact that I will lead the club out as captain will make it more special."
Glasgow City are also through to the quarter-finals and face Paris St-Germain at Aidrie's Excelsior stadium on Sunday.
"It's brilliant for the whole club to be at this stage," said City head coach Eddie Wolecki Black.
"We're going to have to play very well, no doubt about that. We're going to have to be well organised, our game plan will have to be bang on.
Meanwhile Bristol endured a difficult WSL campaign last season, finishing seventh with five wins from 14 games.
Although they prospered in Europe, boss Dave Edmondson has had to rebuild his squad following the departure of several senior players - including former club captain Corinne Yorston and Spain internationals Laura del Rio and Natalia Pablos Sanchon.
But McCatty says the Vixens will be ready to compete with Frankfurt, who have won the women's Bundesliga seven times.
"We are definitely confident, with the work we have put in, that we will be the best prepared we could be for this game," she added.
"We are looking to take something from the home leg - at least a draw - so that sets us up when we go to Frankfurt."
The EU that Croatia will join is not the same as the one it was at the beginning of the process. But Croatia, too, is a very different place from the one it was before.
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"We used the process to build our own institutions and stabilise our state," says Ms Pusic.
Ms Pusic is right, but for many Croats her words seem rather abstract.
Croatia's economy is in recession effectively for the fifth year. Unemployment is rising: it was 13.4% in 2008 and this year is expected to hit 20.4%. Its population is ageing and shrinking.
In 1991 Croatia's population was 4.7 million. Now it is less than 4.3 million, and that is not just because so many of Croatia's Serbs left in the 1990s.
Croats are angry. They distrust their leaders and see a small number of people who made fortunes over the last two decades while life has become increasingly tough for ordinary people.
And yet Croatia is a country which has undergone huge transformations since independence in 1991. The fact is, says Gerald Knaus, the head of the European Stability Initiative think-tank, that today, Croatia is dealing with the same, regular problems as its Central European neighbours - such as an ageing population and economic problems "and that in itself is a success".
In 1995, parts of Croatia remained devastated in the wake of the Croatian war, which had pitted it against the Yugoslav army, and against Croatian Serbs who, as Croatia left Yugoslavia, attempted to secede from Croatia.
Croatia under President Franjo Tudjman, who had led it to independence, also attempted to divide neighbouring Bosnia-Hercegovina and dreamed of creating a Greater Croatia.
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Tudjman was not just a nationalist but an authoritarian leader. By the time of his death in 1999 the country was internationally isolated. With the exception of the leaders of a few neighbouring countries, the president of Turkey was the only foreign statesman to show up to his funeral.
The army and the intelligence services were not under full civilian control and operated more or less as a state within a state. Corruption at the top was rampant. Now, says Gerald Knaus, Croatia's transformation looks "inevitable" - but it was not always so.
It was a leadership with vision that changed Croatia.
The most profound changes began when Ivo Sanader became prime minister in 2003. He had won the leadership of Tudjman's party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), but he was to radically change its orientation.
Under Mr Sanader, the son of a plumber, Croatia joined Nato and began serious work on EU accession. The security services were also brought under control. Moves, already begun under the previous government, to cut off support for Bosnian Croat organisations, were consolidated. These measures made it clear to them that their state was Bosnia, not Croatia.
Under Mr Sanader the country began co-operating fully with the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague and, much to the fury of nationalists, provided the intelligence that led to the arrest of the fugitive General Ante Gotovina - who was subsequently, recently, acquitted.
Mr Sanader also brought Serbs with political credibility and clout into his government, something unimaginable in the Tudjman years.
Administrative obstructions, which had prevented Croatian Serbs from returning to areas they had fled during the Croatian army's retaking of Serb-held areas in 1995, were largely lifted.
Many others contributed to the transformation of Croatia into a more normal country. President Ivo Josipovic, for example, made several important gestures of reconciliation towards both Serbs and Muslim Bosniaks.
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One of the great ironies of the Sanader years is that the changes that he helped oversee and which were part of the EU accession process, were to lead to his downfall and imprisonment.
Corruption flourished anew at the top under Mr Sanader but in 2010 he was arrested and last year convicted for corruption. He is still on trial facing further charges.
Putting such a powerful man in prison would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Many other top people have gone to prison too.
Ines Sabalic, a Croatian correspondent in Brussels who has followed every step of her country's EU accession process, likes to joke that for Croats "anti-corruption campaigns became the new nationalism."
At the turn of the millennium Croatia was still a post-war country. Today that is no longer the case.
Over the past decade all manner of ties have been restored with fellow ex-Yugoslav states. Bosnia, for example, is the second biggest market for Croatian exports after Italy. Many Croatian companies have invested in Serbia.
The biggest single challenge of the next few years is creating jobs and the conditions for economic growth.
Croatia has much neglected agricultural potential. Its biggest single asset is its stunning coastline and last year the country had its best tourist season ever.
It almost certainly received a boost however from turmoil in the Arab world with some deciding that it was a safer bet than Tunisia or a visit to the pyramids.
With 17.4% of Croatia's population over the age of 64, Croatia's ageing population and the impact that has on everything from pensions to creativity is a huge problem for the future.
The Croatian economy, although not part of the eurozone, is completely integrated into it, which means that not everything is in Croatian hands. Its largest market is Italy, which has been hit badly by the crisis. Overall, more than 60% of Croatia's exports go to the EU.
In the short run, Croats will see few changes on the day they join the EU. But the process of joining has already transformed the country. Now a new chapter will begin which will demand fresh thinking to tackle the economic morass.
Twenty years ago the issue was securing a nascent Croatian state. Now the issues are more mundane and can be summed up in the famous 1992 Clinton-era dictum: "It's the economy stupid."
The attack happened in the Pilrig Street area of Edinburgh at about 02:00 on 24 April.
A 31-year-old man was left with a fractured jaw after being struck in the face.
The man police want to speak to is white, in his 20s, 5ft 8in tall, of slim build with short, blond or ginger hair. He had an Edinburgh accent.
He was wearing dark clothing.
Det Con Iain Wallace, of Police Scotland, said: "The victim was subjected to a violent and unprovoked assault while walking back from a night out with his friend.
"The man pictured is believed to be of significance to our investigation, and I'd urge anyone who may recognise him to come forward."
Chris Erskine netted from close range for Thistle's first and third goals.
In between, Steven Lawless hit hard and low from just outside the box for the hosts' second.
Lawless had a hand in the Jags' fourth goal, lifting the ball in for captain Abdul Osman to volley past Ewen MacDonald.
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Formartine had beaten League Two Annan Athletic in the last round but their hopes of causing another upset were dealt a blow when Erskine rolled the ball home from David Amoo's cut-back.
Erskine missed another chance shortly after but Lawless drilled past MacDonald after a neat exchange with Kris Doolan.
A fine solo run and finish by Erskine following another Doolan pass effectively ended the tie as a contest.
It was almost a hat-trick for Erskine when his ferocious shot went wide before Osman completed the scoring.
The visitors' Scott Barbour flashed a shot wide and Amoo and Mustapha Dumbuya came close for the hosts late on.
Match ends, Partick Thistle 4, Formartine United 0.
Second Half ends, Partick Thistle 4, Formartine United 0.
Foul by Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle).
Jonathan Crawford (Formartine United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Mustapha Dumbuya (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Conor Gethins (Formartine United) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Jamie Masson (Formartine United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Andrew McCarthy (Partick Thistle).
Scott Ferries (Formartine United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jamie Masson (Formartine United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Danny Devine (Partick Thistle).
Neil Gauld (Formartine United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Formartine United. Neil Gauld replaces Graeme Rodger.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Garry Wood.
Andrew McCarthy (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stuart Smith (Formartine United).
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Andrew McCarthy replaces Sean Welsh.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Jonathan Crawford.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Jamie Masson.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Stuart Smith.
Substitution, Formartine United. Conor Gethins replaces Stuart Anderson.
Foul by Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle).
Stuart Smith (Formartine United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Stuart Smith.
Goal! Partick Thistle 4, Formartine United 0. Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Steven Lawless.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Graeme Rodger.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Adebayo Azeez replaces David Amoo.
Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stuart Anderson (Formartine United).
Foul by Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle).
Graeme Rodger (Formartine United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Stuart Anderson.
Attempt missed. Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Kris Doolan (Partick Thistle) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Chris Erskine (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stuart Anderson (Formartine United).
Second Half begins Partick Thistle 3, Formartine United 0.
James Gilbey, 25, from Bramley, died after he was hit by a Volkswagen Golf while crossing Stanningley Bypass on Monday night.
Five suspects aged between 22 and 29 are being questioned by police on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
A further man, 23, has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Mr Gilbey was hit by the Golf as it travelled towards Pudsey.
The vehicle was discovered just after midnight in Fagley Crescent, Bradford, following a call from the public.
Officers have also recovered a second car in Bingley, a white Audi A5, which they believe was travelling in convoy with the Golf at the time of the collision.
Det Ch Insp Elizabeth Belton, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "James' family are completely devastated about his death and we are doing everything we can to provide the answers they need about exactly what happened."
It was an email from an automated system telling him that a recording of a New Forest cicada's song might have been detected.
The species, Cicadetta montana, hadn't had a confirmed sighting in Britain for 15 years. It's a fascinating creature - the only cicada native to Britain and one which is considered endangered across much of Europe.
When Dr Rogers looked at the sonogram he realised this could indeed be the insect he, his colleagues, and thousands of citizen scientist volunteers had spent the last two years searching for.
He grabbed some professional recording equipment and jumped in his car. In a few hours he was on site at the GPS location attached to the original recording. In no time at all he picked up the singing of an insect - but it wasn't the fabled cicada.
"It turned out to be a Roesel's bush-cricket," he remembers, a little forlornly. "And I think I found the cricket that had triggered the original observation."
Since the spring of 2013, over 3,000 members of the public have downloaded the Hunt for the New Forest Cicada app for their smartphones.
Because the cicada sings relatively quietly at 14 kHz, just above the range of hearing for many adults, it is generally difficult for people to hear outdoors. Surveying with some technological assistance is required.
When a user of the app reaches a place in the forest where they would like to carry out a survey, they point their phone in the direction of some cicada-friendly foliage, press a button on the screen and wait for 30 seconds.
An on-board algorithm then instantly analyses the recording to see if something like a cicada's call has been found.
If it has, the app transmits a report directly to Dr Rogers and his Oxford colleague Davide Zilli, both of whom originally started the project at the University of Southampton.
A total of 10,000 surveys have been carried out, mostly within the New Forest, but also in countries like Slovenia where the same species of cicada is more prevalent.
Positive identifications of the insect there by app users have provided a useful control for the experiment, suggesting that if the cicada does remain in the New Forest, the app would have a chance of finding it.
But the challenge of detecting one in Britain is significant, according to Paul Brock, an entomologist and scientific associate at the Natural History Museum in London.
"They're pretty elusive creatures to find," he says. "It's a major challenge, basically."
Brock adds though that he is personally convinced the cicada is still hiding somewhere in the New Forest.
"I think the species is still hanging on somewhere. It's probably in a remote location, as it has been before," he comments.
"The habitat is still there, you've got to question why would they vanish?"
There have been some changes in how land is used in the New Forest in recent years - a reduction in grazing in some areas for example - and there have also been some alterations in Britain's climate.
But Brock, who has witnessed the rediscovery of more than one rare British insect years after it was thought long gone, still holds a vigil for the cicada. After all, it may simply have moved to new locations in the forest rather than disappeared completely.
The fact that the insect is likely located in remote parts of the New Forest rarely visited by people - if it is there at all - does throw a spanner in the works of the citizen science project, however. The surveys might have mostly been carried out in the wrong places.
But Dr Rogers and Dr Zilli have a plan. Next May, they will deploy 100 unmanned, stationary computer chips throughout the forest. These include a microphone, microprocessor, battery and data card and will be set to make intermittent recordings during those parts of the day when Cicadetta montana is most active.
"Every five seconds, [the device] wakes up, listens, does some analysis on the sound and makes a decision, 'OK does that sound like it could be a cicada?', and if it does it can then make a recording onto an SD card," explains Dr Rogers.
The recordings won't be transmitted automatically this time, but rather collected from the SD cards every couple of months by a group of volunteers.
Once the data is analysed more closely, the team hopes to identify recordings of calls that could only have come from the cicada.
The idea is part of a new wave of audio-related citizen science wildlife projects.
This summer, for example, the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology launched its iRecord Grasshopper app, which helps users identify a variety of insects and upload recordings of their calls. The idea is to better inform scientists about the singing patterns and distribution of the creatures in the UK.
There's also The Bat Detective, an initiative which asks internet users to listen to recordings and identify bat calls within them. Kate Jones, a biodiversity expert at University College London, is overseeing the scheme.
She says recordings correctly labelled by human listeners will be used to develop algorithms which can then identify bats from audio files automatically - a bit like the cicada app. Around 50,000 classifications have been done by members of the public already.
"We're getting people to listen to bat calls so they can tell us where they are," she says. "It trains [the computer] just like a voice recognition system."
And Dr Zilli has also thought of another application for similar technology - detecting malaria-carrying mosquitos. He's now working on a system to analyse the sound of mosquito wing-beats.
"If we can specifically identify those species that are vectors of human malaria then we can alert people and start collecting some data around the world on the presence of these mosquitos," he comments.
Meanwhile, the hunt for the New Forest cicada continues.
"It's an iconic insect," says Dr Brock as he explains that there would be huge interest from the scientific and conservation communities if it were ever found in Britain again.
And Dr Zilli adds that thanks to the interest of citizen scientists, there are now thousands of people connected to the hunt who would feel a real sense of accomplishment if the search were ever successful.
"Certainly for the person who finds it but also for all the other contributors around the forest, it would be an absolutely fantastic discovery," he comments.
If the cicada is out there, this group of intrepid scientists and volunteers might just be about to find it.
At stake is a dense 29-page summary detailing the effects of climate change on the planet over the next 100 years.
Several hundred members of the UN's climate panel have been deep in deliberations since Tuesday, with many sessions running very late.
The report is the first such assessment since 2007.
The tired attendees left the conference centre at eight thirty in the evening as the lights were dimmed to commemorate Earth Hour.
But 60 minutes later they trooped back in to continue their word-by-word analysis of the contents.
The report is the second of three analyses developed by international teams of researchers. The first, published last September detailed the mechanics of climate change, explaining that warming was "unequivocal" and humans were behind it.
This new document being prepared here in Japan will detail the impacts and vulnerabilities to rising temperatures that the world faces over the coming century.
It will also highlight how much we can reduce the scale of these effects by adaptation.
Several versions of the report, called the Summary for Policymakers, have already been leaked but the final version won't be released until everyone - scientists and governments - are agreed on its contents.
There are likely to be a number of significant changes since the previous assessment came out in 2007.
There are now far more observations, more scientific studies on the effects of rising temperatures on humans and the species with which we share the planet. Running to 30 chapters in all, many delegates felt that it was the scale of the data that was causing delays.
There are two new chapters detailing impacts on the oceans. There are chapters on human health, on food security and conflict, but also four chapters on how we can adapt to the effects.
"We have a lot more information," said Dr Chris Field, who is the co-chair of the working group that is behind the report.
"The way I see it, we have a much sharper take on aspects of the issue that are serious but we also have a much sharper focus on the things that can be done to reduce the risks."
The summary is likely to say that the observed impacts of climate change are "widespread and consequential".
Whether it is increased melting of glaciers, or tree mortality, or impacts on rainfall patterns, the report says that the very real effects of warming are happening in the here and now.
Over the next 20 to 30 years, the report highlights some important impacts that we have little chance of avoiding, given the level of warming the world is already committed to, say the scientists.
These include threats to some "unique and threatened systems" even at 1C.
Risks from extreme weather events, including heat waves and flooding are also high at 1C.
At 2C, there are "very high risks" for Arctic sea ice and coral reefs.
The report is, according to authors, likely to be more doubtful of the benefits of warming on agriculture than its predecessor.
It is expected to say that yield losses of up to 2% per decade will occur for the rest of this century, at a time when population is set to rise sharply.
"There is a lot more literature on the response of agriculture to a changing climate and we are able to make a more comprehensive assessment than before, based on observations and model calculations," said Dr Field.
"The science on crop yields and especially on food security is getting to be a lot more actionable and usable."
Flood risks for people living in Asia are highlighted as a particular vulnerability.
The report talks about impacts on human health, how mortality increases with greater heating and how species the world over are likely to respond by moving towards the poles.
Fish will move, some stocks will be significantly impacted and people who depend on them for food will have to find other sources of protein.
The threat of the oceans becoming more acidic is spelled out as are threats to human security and migration.
The report spells out the likely impacts at different levels of warming in different parts of the world.
"We've projected climate change impacts at different levels of temperature rise, at levels of 2C and 4C and now beyond," said Dr Rachel Warren from the University of East Anglia, UK.
"We've also looked at how people and biodiversity can adapt to climate change. This notion of vulnerability is embedded in the concept of the report."
Adaptation is a key element of the report, with clear tables showing that what are currently classed as high-risk impacts could be reduced to low risks, if steps are taken.
Overall there is a greater attempt to set climate change as one of a number of threats facing people now and in the future.
"Once we think of the challenge as one of managing risk, rather than of, oh once we know for sure what's going to happen then we can do something, it becomes much more tractable," said Dr Field.
"It becomes much more a question of figuring out what are the smart and effective things to do."
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The Brazilian was described as "morally and ethically reproachable" for taking kickbacks from a World Cup rights marketing agency.
The report by Fifa's ethics chairman Hans-Joachim Eckert also claimed Nicolas Leoz had received bribes.
Leoz, 84, resigned from the governing body's executive committee last week, citing health and personal reasons.
The Paraguayan was accused in the report of being "not fully candid" in his explanations over the affair.
However, while the report says that payments made in the 1990s to Havelange, who was Fifa president from 1974 to 1988, Leoz and former Fifa executive Ricardo Teixeira, Havelange's son-in-law, qualified as bribes, they were not crimes at the time.
Fifa granted International Sport and Leisure (ISL) exclusive rights to market World Cup tournaments to some of the world's biggest brands. ISL also received millions more from negotiating television broadcast rights.
The company collapsed with huge debts in 2001 and its arrangement with Fifa was subsequently investigated by Swiss authorities.
Fifa was eventually forced by the Swiss supreme court to release documents relating to the case after it repeatedly attempted to block the release of the confidential papers.
It followed a report by the BBC's Panorama programme in 2010 that alleged three senior Fifa officials took bribes from Swiss-based ISL in the 1990s.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced in July 2012 that Fifa's new ethics committee would be looking at the bribery allegations. That investigation resulted in the release of Tuesday's report.
It said: "It is certain that not inconsiderable amounts were channelled to former Fifa president Havelange and to his son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira as well as to Dr Nicolas Leoz, whereby there is no indication that any form of service was given in return by them.
"These payments were apparently made via front companies in order to cover up the true recipient and are to be qualified as 'commissions', known today as 'bribes'."
Damian Collins, an MP who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and who has led a campaign for Fifa reform, has said Blatter should resign over the findings of the report.
Collins told the Press Association: "Sepp Blatter should himself resign for his failure to expose the wrongdoing sooner, and to take action earlier against those who had done wrong.
"In the light of this report, it is even more incredible that the Fifa executive committee continue to resist calls, from its own advisors, for greater independent scrutiny of its decisions, and the financial interests of its members.
"The impression created by this report is one of an attempted cover-up by Fifa of this massive corruption scandal motivated by the desire to protect some of its leading officials."
The report states that Havelange and Teixeira were "morally and ethically reproachable" for accepting the money.
Leoz told investigators he donated the money he received to a school project - but only in January 2008.
The report states payments were made between 1992 and May 2000.
Questions over Blatter's conduct have also been raised in the past, but the report says there is no evidence he received money from the now-defunct ISL.
But it does raise questions about whether Blatter should have known about the bribes to other executives and labels his behaviour in dealing with aspects of the affair as "clumsy".
I have no doubt that Fifa, thanks to the governance reform process that I proposed, now has the mechanisms and means to ensure that such an issue, which has caused untold damage to the reputation of our institution, does not happen again
The report added: "There are also no indications whatsoever that President Blatter was responsible for a cash flow to Havelange, Teixeira or Leoz, or that that he himself received any payments from the ISL Group, even in the form of hidden kickback payments.
"It must be questioned, however, whether President Blatter knew or should have known over the years before the bankruptcy of ISL that ISL had made payments to other Fifa officials."
Eckert is also critical about the controls that Fifa had in place to prevent such corruption from occurring.
In response to the publication of the report, Blatter said: "I note in particular that, in his conclusions, chairman Eckert states that 'the ISL case is concluded for the Ethics Committee' and that 'no further proceedings related to the ISL matter are warranted against any other football official'.
"I also note with satisfaction that this report confirms that 'President Blatter's conduct could not be classified in any way as misconduct with regard to any ethics rules'.
"I have no doubt that Fifa, thanks to the governance reform process that I proposed, now has the mechanisms and means to ensure that such an issue, which has caused untold damage to the reputation of our institution, does not happen again."
Fifa's ethics committee also took action on Tuesday against a leading Asian member of its executive committee.
Vernon Manilal Fernando, 63, of Sri Lanka was banned from all football activities for eight years after he was found guilty of violating the governing body's code of ethics following a two-day hearing.
The close ally of disgraced former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam, was now prohibited "from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level," Fifa said.
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Home Secretary Amber Rudd told MPs a review into clashes between police and pickets during the 1984 miners' strike was not in the public interest.
The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) told a press conference earlier "the gloves are off".
Secretary Barbara Jackson said it may start crowdfunding to pay for a review.
"This has been four years of hard work, it's taken over our lives," she said at the Barnsley branch of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
"The campaign has no intention of collapsing or folding. The gloves are now off on our side."
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A Home Office spokesman said at no point did Ms Rudd "ever commit" to establishing any form of inquiry.
Asking an urgent question in the House of Commons earlier, Andy Burnham said Prime Minister Theresa May "invited Orgreave campaigners to submit a bid for an inquiry".
The MP for Leigh said: "She entered Downing Street talking about fighting burning injustices. The House will understand why today so many people feel bitterly betrayed.
"Given there is evidence of unlawful conduct by police in relation to it, isn't it simply staggering that the home secretary has brushed away an inquiry as not necessary?"
Mr Burnham asked Home Office minister Brandon Lewis whether Ms Rudd reviewed police files, cabinet papers and new testimony from police officers.
"If she didn't do each and every one of these crucial things, won't many people conclude that her decision-making process was incomplete and therefore unsound?" he said.
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Mr Lewis said Ms Rudd, who was not present to face the questions, had taken "a wide range of factors" into account.
Louise Haigh, MP for Sheffield Heeley, told Mr Lewis: "I feel sorry for you because the home secretary bottled it yesterday and she's bottled it today."
In a letter to campaigners, Ms Rudd said policing had changed sufficiently in the years since Orgreave to mean an inquiry was not merited.
She added "ultimately there were no deaths or wrongful convictions" resulting from the conduct of South Yorkshire Police at the time.
Labour and Rotherham MP Sarah Champion, told the Commons: "[The government] now seems to be saying that the reason not to have the inquiry is because nobody died, is this the new bar that this government is levying on justice?"
Dennis Skinner, MP for Bolsover, added: "Why is it that 31 years is too long for an inquiry, yet 31 years is not too long for this government to hide the Cabinet papers on the [miners] strike and refuse to release them?
"We now know that the Thatcher government was to close 75 pits and not 20.
"The truth is, this nasty party has now become the nasty government - more concerned about preserving the Thatcher government than it is fighting for truth and justice."
Meanwhile, Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley was jeered and heckled as he backed the decision not to hold an inquiry.
"Unlike most of those people opposite bleating I lived in South Yorkshire in a mining community at the time of the Miners' Strike and I saw first hand the brutality and intimidation that went on," he said.
"These people were trying to bring down the democratically elected government of the time and they lost and they need to get over it. Anyone only has to look at the TV pictures to see the violence."
Lawyer Michael Mansfield, who represented miners caught up in the violence at Orgreave, said campaigners calling for an inquiry into police tactics at the coking plant near Rotherham had been "sloughed off".
He told the BBC's Today programme Ms Rudd had overlooked an orchestrated campaign by South Yorkshire Police of "uncontrolled, unlawful violence" against miners.
"There has been no disciplinary proceedings and no prosecution [of South Yorkshire Police] at all over the years," Mr Mansfield said.
"This does not reinforce public faith in the system and what is needed here is the restoration of confidence.
"It's not about what happened, it's really much more fundamental than that. How was this allowed to happen and why did it happen?"
The "Battle of Orgreave" was the most violent day of the year-long 1984-85 miners' strike.
Huge lines of police clashed with striking miners as they tried to stop lorries carrying coke to fuel the Scunthorpe steel furnaces.
Violence erupted on both sides and at one stage police horses were sent to charge the crowd up the field as officers followed to make arrests.
Miner Chris Skidmore was at Orgreave and told BBC Radio Sheffield it was a "frightening experience".
"It was chaos. The horses were chasing people, it was like a battle scene.
"There was no resemblance of any order or regimented formation. [The police] were everywhere, all over the field and road just hitting people."
Dr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, said he had fully supported a public inquiry and was "absolutely devastated" and "in shock".
"I think we've been led to believe there would be an inquiry, it was just a question of what form it would take," he said.
"I think the Home Office and government have led us up to the top of the hill and down again and I really can't understand that, they could have taken the decision two years ago."
He said a public inquiry would have meant South Yorkshire Police could demonstrate it had moved on from the force's "legacy issues", including the Hillsborough and Rotherham child sex abuse scandals.
"We don't fully know what happened at Orgreave, why it took this military-scale of activity, if it was somehow government-directed.
"It's the point, I think, where the police come closest to being the instrument of the state and that's a very dangerous place to be.
"We need to understand how that happened so we never get anywhere near that again."
Chris Kitchen, national secretary of the NUM, accused Ms Rudd of trying to protect the Conservative Party in denying a public inquiry.
He said: "All [yesterday's decision] has done is reinforce a long-held belief we've all had - that they have something to hide, and now we know it for sure," he said.
Joe Rollin, chair of the OTJC, said: "That dismay and flabbergasted feeling is now turning into anger and we're not going anywhere."
A Home Office spokesman said: "The home secretary met the campaign and their supporters on 13 September to hear their concerns in person.
"She has told the OTJC that she considered a range of options in reaching her decision, but at no point did she ever commit to establishing any form of inquiry."
The 23-year-old seamer, who was booed on his return for Pakistan in January after serving a five-year ban for spot-fixing, finished with figures of 3-27.
Amir removed Dwayne Bravo, Zohaib Khan and Kevon Cooper in the second game of the inaugural Twenty20 tournament.
Karachi chased 126 to win by seven wickets with 4.1 overs to spare after Chris Gayle made six in Lahore's 125-8.
Amir was released from prison in 2012 after serving half of a six-month sentence for his part in a spot-fixing scam also involving Pakistan team-mates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif against England at Lord's in 2010.
Harriett Baldwin visited Edinburgh to warn industry leaders against "a dangerous leap into the dark".
However, Dr Gerard Lyons of Economists for Brexit said these were "misplaced fears" and insisted Edinburgh could remain a "strong financial centre".
Elsewhere in the referendum, Scottish Labour launched its pro-EU campaign.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Ms Baldwin said being part of the EU gave Scotland access to a "financial services passport".
She said: "This means that if you're in the EU and you are a financial services firm, you can sell your services right across 28 countries, an area of 500m customers, and that's really important and really valuable.
"And it's not something that under any other kind of trade arrangement anyone has been able to achieve."
Asked if this was an example of the so-called "project fear" of negative campaigning, Ms Baldwin said it simply underlined the importance both of the sector and of EU membership.
She said: "I think we should celebrate the fact that our financial services sector is one of the great strengths of the UK economy.
"It employs directly a million people. 85,000 of them here in Scotland, and of course there are related financial and economic services which employ another million people. I think that's a really important component of our economy - it's something like 7% of the Scottish economy.
"We shouldn't underestimate the value of that passport we have into the European market."
Dr Lyons told the same programme that there was a "positive, longer-term case" for leaving the EU, with a more global approach to business.
He said: "In the last decade we've had globalisation, technical change and innovation - but the EU has gone in the opposite direction, controlling, regulating and centralising. There is uncertainty if we remain in the European Union as well as if we leave.
"When it comes to the financial sector, we have heard these fears before. We heard these fears about Edinburgh and London prior to the debate on the Euro, then it was said that if the UK didn't join the Euro we would lose out to the likes of Frankfurt, Amsterdam, even Paris, as financial centres.
"But the reality is that when one looks globally, there are very few countries that have big, strong financial centres. The UK is thankfully one of them, Now our competition is with the likes of America, with New York, with Singapore, with Hong Kong.
"So in terms of the UK we don't really have any major competitive financial centre against us in the rest of Western Europe
"So there's no doubt in my mind that despite the misplaced fears and the uncertainty that people keep talking about, Edinburgh as well as London will remain strong financial centres if we are to embrace Brexit."
Meanwhile, the Labour In for Scotland campaign was launched by Kezia Dugdale and Alan Johnson in Edinburgh.
Addressing Scottish voters, Mr Johnson said "you can keep your national identity and be part of something bigger", promoting the idea of being both Scottish and European.
Questioned about the idea that Scotland is more pro-EU than the UK as a whole, Ms Dugdale added that "if we believe we are more pro-European than our neighbours, then there may be a greater responsibility on us to make a positive case for Europe".
Responding, the Scottish Vote Leave campaign said there was "no left wing case" for remaining in the EU, describing it as "an organisation based on austerity which harms the poor".
Cook, 50, had a year left on his deal at Pompey, after promotion in his second full season at Fratton Park.
Portsmouth had offered a lucrative new contract to Cook, but the former Wigan player opted for the relegated Championship club instead.
He replaces interim boss Graham Barrow, who left the Latics on Monday.
"It was only a minute ago at Portsmouth we were winning the league and we really did think our future was going to be there. But the way things have transpired with new ownership coming in that isn't the case," Cook told the Wigan club website.
"The challenge at Wigan is exciting. It's been such a quick transition, it will take a little bit of time to sink in but like every manager I want to get to work right away, get to know the squad, the staff and everything about the club as quickly as we can which will hopefully see us start the season strong."
Pompey have also lost assistant Leam Richardson, after he moved to the DW Stadium with Cook, having worked with him at Accrington Stanley, Chesterfield and Portsmouth.
Wigan's head of medical Mick Rathbone, interim first team coach John Doolan and first-team fitness coach Jimmy Barrow have left the club.
Cook's track record of taking clubs forward, as he did with both Chesterfield and Portsmouth, bodes well for Wigan as they seek an immediate second-tier return.
He inherits a squad that came back down to League One just 12 months after promotion, on the back of two managerial departures within the same season.
Gary Caldwell, whose appointment brought the League One title to Wigan after relegation in 2014-15, left in the October and his successor Warren Joyce lasted a further four months with just six wins from 24.
Portsmouth's first steps towards returning to the heights of their Premier League days were realised under Cook's stewardship.
With his departure confirmed, BBC Radio Solent understand former Wolves and Millwall manager Kenny Jackett tops Pompey's shortlist of managers to replace Cook.
But whoever comes in could become part of a new era after the Pompey Supporters Trust voted in favour of a takeover by former Disney chief executive Michael Eisner.
Like-for-like sales of general merchandising - which is largely clothing - fell 0.4% in the 13 weeks to 27 June, a period that M&S described as "challenging".
That compares with growth of 0.7% in the previous quarter, which had been M&S's best performance for nearly four years.
Like-for-like sales of food rose 0.3%.
Chief executive Marc Bolland said: "We continue to make progress against our key priorities. Our food business did very well in a difficult market."
Sales through M&S's website grew 38.7% from a year earlier, after a sharp slump in online sales at the beginning of last year immediately after the site was re-launched.
The drop in general merchandise sales was better than the 1% slide forecast by analysts, but has dashed hopes that last quarter's growth - which marked the division's first expansion after 14 consecutive quarters of decline - would continue.
Since Mr Bolland took over the helm in 2010, he has invested millions in trying to turn around its clothing division, hiring well known models such as Rosie Huntington Whiteley and David Gandy.
And last year, it took on Hong Kong-based brothers Neal and Mark Lindsey - who helped rival Next improve the way it buys clothing - to help improve its supply chain.
Analysts said the latest figures were disappointing and put pressure on Mr Bolland to speed up the division's transformation.
"Pressure is mounting for Bolland to come good on his promises and focus more on increasing margins through supply-chain savings and shift away from heavy discounting," said Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor.
Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said general merchandise was "the elephant in the changing room".
"Whether M&S can ever return to former glories by enticing clothes shoppers back to its stores is arguably its largest challenge, even though the more recent experience implies at least a stabilisation of previously dropping numbers," he added.
M&S shares, which have risen 25% over the past year, rose 0.6% to 550p after the trading update.
She set out plans for better childcare facilities, new furniture, better internet access in barracks and more flexible working hours for some.
The five-year plan will also see extra computers and an easing of the practice of moving service people around.
She said the Bundeswehr (army) needed to compete with civilian employers.
"We want the best," Mrs von der Leyen was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying. "People who are young and qualified have a multitude of offers today... and they choose the employer who, among other things, makes the most interesting offers."
Germany abandoned conscription three years ago and is aiming to recruit about 60,000 young applicants a year, she said.
Critics accuse the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) minister, who is seen as a potential successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, of neglecting more important areas of investment, such as armour development.
Retired General Harald Kujat, once Germany's top military officer and chairman of the Nato Military Committee, said last month that the plans appeared to have been "drawn up by people who don't know the Bundeswehr".
"Rather than kindergartens, it would much more helpful to a soldier's family if they knew that everything is being done for his safety in deployment," he told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
Dawson was one of four players drafted into the Lions' squad this week for the T20 tour in the United Arab Emirates.
The 25-year-old was already part of the England Performance Programme in Dubai, before he was added to the 16-man squad to face both UAE and Pakistan A.
"It's a brilliant environment to work in," he told BBC Radio Solent.
Dawson's Hampshire team-mate James Vince leads the squad, which plays a warm-up match against the UAE on Friday before five T20 matches against Pakistan A.
Vettori, who retired from international cricket after this year's World Cup, has been working with the squad since Sunday.
"It's great to have coaches like him with so much experience to offer," slow left-armer Dawson said.
"It's exciting to speak to him, as well as Andy Flower and Graham Thorpe, who have played so much cricket in these conditions, and pick their brains.
"Speaking to Daniel about how you set up your four overs in a T20 match has been great to listen to."
Dawson, who returned to Hampshire's team last season after a loan spell at Essex, is hoping to play in the majority of the series.
"I've been hitting the ball well having scored 44 in a practice match last week," he said.
"This environment has been great in helping to bridge the gap between county cricket and international cricket and it's exciting learning new things."
Adama Bictogo says he has not done anything wrong.
The case relates to a 2006 incident in which thousands became ill after toxic waste was dumped in Abidjan.
Multinational Trafigura, which shipped it, denied any wrongdoing but made a series of payments in relation to the case without admitting liability.
The company denies the waste could have caused the reported illnesses and said it was not directly involved in the dumping of the waste, saying it paid a local company to properly and legally dispose of the waste.
Last year London-based rights group Amnesty International urged the new government of President Alassane Ouattara to investigate why victims of the pollution had not yet received their compensation.
The BBC's John James in Abidjan says an investigation was then opened and found that about $8m (£5m) from the compensation fund had indeed disappeared.
An Ivorian police report handed over in February to judicial authorities recommended the opening of a case for fraud and misuse of funds - and named three men:
According to the police report, which was leaked to the Ivorian media this week, Mr Bictogo received $1.2m for these mediation efforts from the fund.
The minister, who held the African regional integration portfolio in Mr Ouattara's government and has been the lead negotiator in regional efforts to resolve the crises caused by recent coups in Guinea-Bissau and Mali, denies any wrongdoing and says he can explain his role.
In 2007, Trafigura paid an estimated $160m to the Ivorian government in compensation.
Two years later it also agreed to pay $45m to individual claimants in an out-of-court settlement before the case came to trial in London - after a group of British lawyers, Leigh Day and Co, organised a class action involving 30,000 Ivorians.
This money paid out by Trafigura was transferred to an Ivorian bank account.
Just before it was due to be handed over to the claimants by the British lawyers,
the Ivorian courts ruled in favour of Mr Gohourou
, who said his group for victims should be given control of the money.
But some 6,000 people who claimed to have been made ill by the dumping of chemical waste have yet to receive any payments.
Mr Bictogo is the first minister to be sacked by President Ouattara since he took over power from Laurent Gbagbo in April 2011 after a five-month-long crisis following disputed presidential elections.
In July 2010, a Dutch court found Trafigura guilty of illegally exporting toxic waste from Amsterdam and concealing the nature of the cargo.
The oil trading company was fined 1m euros (£880,000) after its ship, the Probo Koala, transited Amsterdam with its cargo - which then went on to be unloaded in Ivory Coast.
The exact risk to humans from the waste has been heavily disputed.
Dan Clement, 102, performed the honour for his friend Sandy Little when he married Susan Davey.
The couple travelled from Cornwall for the ceremony near Mr Clement's home in Bridge of Dee, near Castle Douglas.
The current record-holder is Ronald Hornby, who was 96 when he served as best man in 2014.
Mr Little, 73, said he had known Mr Clement for most of his life, and he was first choice for the vital role.
"I didn't even consider his age, I would have asked him anyway," he said.
"Whatever age he'd been, if he'd been 120 I would have asked him.
"He's always been an awful good support to me and an inspiration, I'd say."
Mr Clement, a retired farmer, said he did not have to think for long when he was asked to take up the role.
"I said I'd be delighted to be his best man," he said.
The wedding was held at the Mission Hall in Bridge of Dee on Wednesday, just 20 yards from Mr Clement's home.
During the ceremony, he successfully handed over the bride and groom's rings and signed the register as a witness.
Afterwards, he said: "I thoroughly enjoyed it."
Asked if he made any mistakes, he said: "No mistakes. None that I know of."
A spokesman for Guinness World Records said the current record had stood since 2 January 2014, when Mr Hornby was best man at the wedding of Isobel Coote and James Beattie in Clogher, Northern Ireland.
He added: "We would need to receive a record application from Dan Clement or his family so we can look into his claim and validate this as a record."
Pakistan said that it could not accept India's "preconditions" for the talks, after India refused to allow Pakistan's ambassador to meet separatist leaders from Kashmir.
India had also said it was only willing to discuss "terrorism-related issues" at the talks and nothing else.
Pakistan argued that talks purely on this basis would be futile.
As the two countries continued to blame each other for the collapse of talks, a number of prominent newspapers from both countries argued that both sides should have shown more flexibility.
"The cancellation of talks between the National Security Advisers of India and Pakistan after a prolonged game of chicken to see who blinks first is unfortunate," said The Times of India.
The Indian Express said the two countries had "succeeded in making the worst of all possible choices".
In Pakistan, The Nation newspaper says the war of words between Delhi and Islamabad "has caused peace and better bilateral relations to suffer".
Echoing similar sentiments, The Dawn newspaper also criticised the two countries for not being flexible.
"Rarely, even by the tortured standards of the Pakistan-India relationship, has there been as much farce and confusion surrounding the now cancelled talks between the national security advisers of Pakistan and India," it said.
But other newspapers in the two countries echoed the officials stances taken by both India and Pakistan.
In India, some dailies said Pakistan had reneged on the agenda of the talks by insisting that Kashmir should also be discussed along with terrorism.
Kashmir, claimed by both countries in its entirety, has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years. A ceasefire agreed in 2003 remains in place, but the neighbours often accuse each other of violating it.
The Asian Age newspaper said "India was acting in good faith, and intended to move into a composite or comprehensive dialogue process - that would necessarily mean talks on Kashmir - after the immediate menace of terrorism and cross-border firings and shelling had been disposed of by security officials".
But Delhi "quite simply failed to gauge that Pakistan was playing to its own well-crafted script", it added.
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper meanwhile, cast doubt over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intention of holding peace talks.
"He [Mr Modi] does not really want dialogue with Pakistan, but does not want to be seen rejecting talks outright in front of the international community," it said.
At the heart of the problem seems to be Pakistani officials' insistence on holding a meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders in Delhi.
Mr Modi's administration said it could not allow such meetings because the scheduled talks were due to focus only on terrorism related issues.
"The problems of terrorism and the cross-border skirmishes can be solved only through dialogue. It is difficult to understand precisely what India intends to do about them if it is not willing to talk to its neighbour," Pakistan's The News said.
Despite the ongoing blame game, some papers in the two countries have also laid some blame at the feet of their own governments.
In India, the Deccan Herald said Delhi mishandled and messed up the talks plan with unreasonable demands.
"It was unwise to insist that there should be no meeting between the Pakistani side and the Hurriyat [Kashmiri separatist] leaders, or that only should terror should be discussed during the talks," it said.
In Pakistan, the Dawn said PM Nawaz Sharif "made an error" by making terrorism the main agenda of the talks "without any mention of the broader Kashmir issue".
"At very least, the government should have expected the domestic backlash and prepared for it. Instead, the government seemed to have been caught unawares and quickly found itself under intolerable pressure," it says.
The Indian Express said Delhi "needs to ask if it has handled the confrontation in a manner that most serves India's best interests".
India's The Hindu argues that India's "tough stand" may have the "unintended effect of making the outfit [Hurriyat] larger-than-life - which is an avoidable prospect".
And finally, some papers have urged the two countries to find ways to resume dialogue despite the disappointment.
The Hindu adds that "there is simply no alternative to talks".
"It is best at this point to open a discreet back channel that ensures better bilateral deliverables than has been the case over the last year and a half," it adds.
Agreeing with the thought, Pakistan's The News says the attempts to revive peace talks must continue given that "there is really no other choice for the two nations and their people".
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Charlie Webster, 33, who has worked for Sky and ITV, became unwell after watching the Olympic opening ceremony.
She was taken to hospital where she was diagnosed with a rare strain of the disease.
Webster, from Sheffield, is in a stable but serious condition at St James's Hospital in Leeds.
In a statement she thanked the public for their support and said doctors in Brazil had saved her life.
She added: "The last few weeks have been hell and I'm just so thankful to be here."
The presenter was admitted to hospital after becoming unwell while watching the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on 6 August.
Doctors initially believed she was dehydrated after completing a 3,000-mile charity cycle ride to the Brazilian city.
But her condition deteriorated and she fell unconscious before being placed in a coma.
Specialists are now trying to find out where she may have caught the disease.
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The 4 All Games aims to introduce tournaments featuring fencing, archery, visually impaired football and goalball to PE lessons and sports clubs.
Danielle Brown, two-time Paralympic archery gold winner, said the format creates a "level playing field".
The scheme will initially focus on schools in South and West Yorkshire.
Those behind the 4 All Games want to find coaches to help the tournaments spread across the country.
Competitions will be held at local, regional and national level for primary and secondary schools, with a variant of the games for colleges and universities.
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Ms Brown, from Lothersdale in North Yorkshire, said: "Disability sport is something that's very close to my heart, I was very lucky as an athlete to compete on the able-bodied team too so I know the barriers that are there for people with disabilities.
"We're hoping to deliver through schools and community groups to start with and we're wanting it to grow organically."
Organisers said the four sports were selected because of their "mentally challenging nature" and are easily adapted for all skill levels and abilities.
The plans for the Grade II-listed Hippodrome theatre, which has been empty for 10 years, would see the theatre turned into a £35m eight-screen Vue cinema and four restaurants.
English Heritage said the cinema proposals were likely to represent a "final chance to save the Hippodrome".
Brighton and Hove City Council will now refer the plans to the government.
The Victorian Society had objected to the plans. Kathy Clark from the society said: "The division of the magnificent auditorium would be too harmful to this grade II* listed building."
A spokesman said the council was "minded to grant" listed buildings consent for the changes to the Hippodrome.
"Because of objections from the Victorian Society, the council will refer the issue to the government to see if it wishes to decide the listed buildings consent application itself," he said.
The now derelict building began life as an ice rink in 1897 before becoming a circus, which closed in 1902. It reopened as a theatre the following year.
During the 1960s it hosted The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and in 1967 it was transformed into a bingo hall, which it served as until 2006.
Works would include fully restoring all ornate plasterwork created by famous theatre designer Frank Matcham.
A new mezzanine floor would be installed across the main auditorium, with three cinema screens below and a restaurant above.
A new extension would be built to the north of the building and Another to the rear would house five more screens.
The dead man, who is due to be formally identified later, was discovered at a property in Tudor Road, Nuneaton at about 22:20 GMT on Friday.
A 28-year-old man from Nuneaton arrested on suspicion of assault was further arrested for manslaughter, police said.
He has been bailed until 24 April.
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
The fish spilled off the lorry at the Ravenhill Road on Saturday night.
Some people were photographed filling bags with the mackerel, relishing the thought of free take-away fish suppers.
But Belfast City Council experts said this was unsafe.
"We would strong advise against the consumption of food where you are not clear as to its source or if it is safe to eat," a council spokesperson said.
"In any event, there is a possibility of the fish being contaminated through direct contact with the road, rendering it unfit for human consumption."
The spokesperson said the council's environmental health team had removed up to 600 fish from the area around the Ravenhill and My Lady's Road.
The 35-year-old has made 40 appearances for the club since joining from Nottingham in 2013.
"I'm very disappointed to have to call time on my playing career," Rouse said. "London Irish is a club that is very close to my heart."
Injury has meant Rouse has been unable to make a Premiership appearance for the Exiles this season.
"I'm now looking forward to the future challenges post rugby," he added.
Gutierrez, 25, failed to score a point in 2016 and was replaced by Kevin Magnussen as Romain Grosjean's partner.
Any hopes he had of staying in F1 for next season were dealt a blow by Manor entering administration last week.
The former Ferrari reserve has not revealed which team he will represent in the electric race on 1 April.
The Scot, 28, led Britain to their first Davis Cup triumph for 79 years in 2015, and their title defence continues with a trip to Belgrade in July.
However, the tie will be played on clay just five days after the Wimbledon final.
"The plan is to play but it is going to be difficult," Murray said.
"I need to play it a little bit by ear, as well, because I just don't know how the body is going to respond."
The Davis Cup quarter-final could pit Murray against Novak Djokovic, but it is not yet clear whether the world number one will play in the tie.
Murray's schedule will see him playing on clay in the build-up to next month's French Open before switching to grass at Queen's Club and Wimbledon.
The Briton is also focused on defending his Olympic gold medal in Brazil in August, with that tournament to be played on hard courts.
"These next couple of months are going to be extremely difficult," he told BBC Sport as he launched his own charity tennis event, which will take place in Glasgow in September.
"Changing surfaces - almost on a weekly basis - does increase the chance of injury significantly: not many players would go from playing a grass court tournament one week straight onto the clay the following week with only a couple of days preparation time.
"So I need to make sure my body is good and healthy through the summer because it's going to be a long summer with the Olympics, many long flights, change of surfaces, different continents and different conditions - so I just now need to respect how my body feels as well."
Champions Leicester City lost at promoted Hull City and last season's runners-up Arsenal were also beaten, by Liverpool in a seven-goal thriller.
Manchester United began their league campaign under new manager Jose Mourinho with a comprehensive win at Bournemouth and another newcomer, Pep Guardiola, saw his Manchester City side edge past Sunderland.
Here are my first selections for the 2016-17 season:
The Dutchman, who spent last season on loan at Southampton, is a class act and finds himself back in the Premier League after leaving Fulham, where he had a difficult spell.
Stekelenburg looks back to his best after a superb performance against a rejuvenated Tottenham, who seem to have recovered from a shameful display against relegated Newcastle in the last game of the previous season.
The 33-year-old looked more than capable of taking over the gloves from Tim Howard and produced great saves from Vincent Janssen and Erik Lamela - the only reason Everton left Goodison with a point.
It's not often I select both full-backs from the same side in my team of the week, but Shaw's return to first-team football after a horrendous broken leg last season deserves recognition.
Against Bournemouth on Sunday, he played his way into the game brilliantly without trying to prove any points. It's clear manager Jose Mourinho rates him very highly, which is just as well because the expectations at United are now massive.
What a Premier League debut. There was power and pace from a centre-back who can pass a ball. I can't remember the last time I saw a defender not give the ball away throughout the entire 90 minutes.
This performance by Bailly bodes well for United and Mourinho, but this was against a Bournemouth side who seemed reluctant to take the risks required to really test defenders like him. There is always a mistake in any defender. The question is: can the striker find it?
So, you start the season against the Premier League champions having parted company with your manager and not signed anyone of note on your return to the big time.
You are down to 13 fit senior pros and in such disarray that all the predictions suggest you are favourites to go down. Meanwhile, your fans arrive so frustrated with matters they stage a protest insisting the owner vacates his position.
Enter Davies at the back for Hull City. Their captain was sensational throughout Saturday's encounter with Leicester City and showed the sort of leadership qualities that seem to be so desperately lacking in their boardroom.
He and his team-mates did not give Jamie Vardy a kick - and by the end, Davies left Hull fans singing 'Can't Help Falling In Love'. Football just doesn't get better than that.
Valencia was always Manchester United's outlet against Bournemouth in a frightfully tight first half, when space was at a premium. But you can always depend on him to retain the ball under pressure and he did it at a time when United needed it most.
The Ecuador international has been playing the game a long time and has served United well over the years. However, I suspect that for all of Mourinho's multi-million pound signings, it is Valencia - bought by Sir Alex Ferguson seven years ago - who might well prove to be one of his most important players.
Manchester City's game against Sunderland on Saturday started like a scene from 'The Big Sleep' and almost turned into a nightmare!
What happened to the exhilarating football we saw at Barcelona and Bayern Munich under the patron saint of football purists, Pep Guardiola? It was like reliving one of those torturous 'keep ball' performances under Louis van Gaal at Old Trafford last season.
City's only flash of inspiration came from Sterling, who is running himself into the ground these days in a desperate attempt to recapture the form that persuaded City to pay Liverpool a record fee for an English player in the first place.
It's early days, but those pundits who have tipped City to win the title this season must be having second thoughts based on that performance.
When you have just scored the winning goal in the opening game of the season against the Premier League champions, you're entitled to get into my team of the week.
However, Snodgrass deserved the selection regardless of his superbly taken goal. From start to finish, he rattled Leicester and caused problems for keeper Kasper Schmeichel.
Let's hope owner Assem Allam gains inspiration from his team's performance and provides the financial backing their efforts deserve. He might also want to consider giving caretaker-boss Mike Phelan a shot at management. He seems to have done miracles with the players at his disposal.
I must be honest, I never saw Liverpool beating Arsenal away from home on the opening day of the season.
Having said that, I have seen Coutinho carve teams open before. The last time was against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium last season to be precise. However, his performance against Arsenal was of such high quality it left me breathless.
His free-kick that brought Liverpool's equaliser just before half-time was so technically proficient it would have beaten a wall with 10 players in it.
I don't expect Liverpool to finish in the top four, but if they do, it is likely to be down the genius of Coutinho.
Mane was outstanding last season at Southampton, but it was clear his ambitions were set elsewhere. When he finally got the move he thought his talents deserved, I was staggered by the £34m fee Liverpool were prepared to pay for him.
However, his performance against Arsenal - not to mention the best individual goal I've seen in years - has forced me to rethink my position.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is not averse to spending money if the talent is available. Having spent it wisely on Mane, he should seriously think about selling striker Christian Benteke - as he is surplus to requirements - and buying a decent left-back. If he keeps Alberto Moreno in the team, he can forget the top four - he'll get relegated.
I always felt Redmond never got the credit his football deserved at Norwich.
While it seems that it's taken another foreign manager to bring the best out of an English player, Claude Puel's decision to play Redmond as a striker for Southampton, as opposed to in his perceived best position on the flanks, was pure genius.
With his right foot, Redmond forced Watford keeper Heurelho Gomes to produce a first-class save. With his left, he scored a fabulous volley, having had a glance to see if he had enough time to make the strike.
His movement away from the ball was sensational and reminded me of Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe at his best. If Redmond can cope with the physical demands that come with the new role, then Southampton may have unearthed a gem.
For years, I wondered what the fuss was all about with Ibrahimovic. Then I saw him smash four goals past England in an international friendly in 2012.
The Swedish superstar has left his mark everywhere he's been. However, to arrive at Old Trafford expecting to lead the line at the age of 34 is a stretch even for him.
Nevertheless, the way he took to the task in the Community Shield, and again against Bournemouth in the opening game of the season, has been immense. There have been no histrionics on or off the field. He has just quietly got on with the job - and United fans have another cult hero to worship.
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The International Cycling Union (UCI) has accepted the findings of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (Usada) investigation into systematic doping.
UCI president Pat McQuaid said: "Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. He deserves to be forgotten."
McQuaid added that Armstrong had been stripped of all results since 1 August, 1998 and banned for life.
Armstrong, 41, received a life ban from Usada for what the organisation called "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen".
The American overcame cancer to return to professional cycling, before winning the Tour de France for a record seven times in successive years from 1999 to 2005.
He has always denied taking performance-enhancing drugs but chose not to fight Usada's charges against him.
for failing to do more to prevent doping. However, McQuaid, who took over from Hein Verbruggen in 2005, said he had "no intention" of resigning.
"This is a crisis, the biggest crisis cycling has ever faced," said Irishman McQuaid. "I like to look at this crisis as an opportunity for our sport and everyone involved in it to realise it is in danger and to work together to go forward.
"Cycling has a future. This is not the first time cycling has reached a crossroads or that it has had to begin anew.
"When I took over in 2005 I made the fight against doping my priority. I acknowledged cycling had a culture of doping. Cycling has come a long way. This is a landmark day.
"I'm sorry that we couldn't catch every damn one of them red-handed and throw them out of the sport at the time."
Usada released a 1,000-page report this month which included sworn testimony from 26 people, including 15 riders with knowledge of the US Postal Service Team and the doping activities of its members.
Usada praised the "courage" shown by the riders in coming forward and breaking the sport's "code of silence".
Armstrong, who retired in 2005 but returned in 2009 before retiring again two years later, has not commented on the details of Usada's report. His lawyer, Tim Herman, described it as a "one-sided hatchet job".
McQuaid said he was "sickened" by what he read in the Usada report, singling out the testimony of Armstrong's former team-mate David Zabriskie.
"The story he told of how he was coerced and to some extent forced into doping is just mind-boggling," he said. "It is very difficult to accept and understand that that went on."
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Referring to the fact that Armstrong was tested for doping more than 200 times and never caught, he said: "The cheats were better than the scientists and we can't be blamed for that; we're a sporting organisation.
"But cycling has changed a lot since then. What was available to the UCI then was much more limited compared to what is available now. If we had then what we have now, this sort of thing would not have gone on."
Usada chief executive Travis Tygart welcomed the UCI's decision, but called for a new body to be set up to probe further into cycling's murky past.
"It is essential that an independent and meaningful Truth and Reconciliation Commission be established so that the sport can fully unshackle itself from the past," he said.
"There are many more details of doping that are hidden, many more doping doctors, and corrupt team directors and the omerta [code of silence] has not yet been fully broken."
McQuaid was quizzed over a $100,000 (£62,300) donation made by Armstrong to the UCI in 2002, a year after he had a suspicious test for banned substance eythropoietin (EPO) at the 2001 Tour of Switzerland.
Asked by BBC sports editor David Bond how he could justify the payment, McQuaid said: "We used the money against doping; it was done openly and put to good use."
The former Bradford centre-forward opened his account for the Blades after Billy Sharp had earlier netted his 19th goal of the campaign.
John Fleck and substitute Caolan Lavery piled on the misery for Neal Ardley's side with strikes after the interval.
When Sharp opened the scoring after three minutes, AFC Wimbledon must have feared the worst. But even though Hanson extended United's lead during the closing stages of the first half, the visitors remained a threat.
Although Dons keeper James Shea will have been disappointed with his handling for Sharp's opener, parrying Fleck's cross straight into the United captain's path, he was powerless to prevent Hanson netting in the 38th minute.
On that occasion, Kieron Freeman was the provider before Sharp missed a flurry of chances early in the second period.
United need not have worried though, as Fleck made it 3-0 with a delightful piece of skill with 10 minutes remaining.
Lavery then completed the rout deep into stoppage time as the Blades moved two points clear of Scunthorpe, who lost at Southend.
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Match ends, Sheffield United 4, AFC Wimbledon 0.
Second Half ends, Sheffield United 4, AFC Wimbledon 0.
Attempt blocked. Tom Soares (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Sheffield United 4, AFC Wimbledon 0. Caolan Lavery (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Samir Carruthers.
Attempt saved. Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Caolan Lavery (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon).
Substitution, Sheffield United. Samir Carruthers replaces Mark Duffy.
Goal! Sheffield United 3, AFC Wimbledon 0. John Fleck (Sheffield United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Hanson.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Caolan Lavery replaces Billy Sharp.
Attempt missed. John Fleck (Sheffield United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Foul by Paul Coutts (Sheffield United).
Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
John Fleck (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Francomb (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt missed. Mark Duffy (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Kieron Freeman (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Chris Basham (Sheffield United) header from a difficult angle on the right is blocked.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by James Shea.
Attempt saved. Mark Duffy (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by James Hanson (Sheffield United).
Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Mark Duffy (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Mark Duffy (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Robinson (AFC Wimbledon).
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. George Francomb replaces Dannie Bulman.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Dominic Poleon replaces Andy Barcham.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Darius Charles.
Attempt blocked. Paul Coutts (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dannie Bulman (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt missed. Daniel Lafferty (Sheffield United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Jack O'Connell.
Attempt missed. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Paul Coutts (Sheffield United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon).
Foul by James Hanson (Sheffield United).
The victims are thought to have been brought from Bulgaria to the Costa del Sol, where they were made to work on the streets of Puerto Banus.
Police also arrested 34 suspected gang members across Europe.
In a statement, police said the Bulgarian gang had sought "total control" of the upmarket resort.
They had brought women from poor areas of Bulgaria and forced them to work as prostitutes, threatening them and their families with violence if they refused.
The women were also made to steal from their clients, some of whom may have been drugged, police said.
The arrests came almost three years after police were made aware of the prostitution ring by a woman who escaped the gang's clutches.
It was then, they said, they had discovered "an enormous international network that operated mainly in Spain and Bulgaria".
Spanish police - who worked with their Bulgarian counterparts and the European Union police agency Europol - said most of the arrests were made in Spain, with eight in Bulgaria.
They also carried out searches at properties in both countries.
Conservative Jim Gifford was elected council leader by 38 votes to 25 against the SNP's Richard Thomson.
Lib Dem councillor Peter Argyle was appointed deputy leader at Thursday morning's meeting.
Fellow Lib Dem Bill Howatson was elected Provost, with Conservative Ron McKail taking on the deputy provost role.
In the local elections in Aberdeenshire, the Conservatives had 23 seats, up from 14, while the SNP fell eight to 21.
The Lib Dems gained two to 14, independents fell from 12 to 10, and Labour dropped from two to one.
In Shetland, independent Cecil Smith - who has served on the council since 2007 - is the council's new leader.
Shetland Islands Councils remained in the control of independents.
It happened as police responded to a report of a domestic incident in Donaghadee shortly after 23:00 GMT on Friday.
They spotted a car believed to have been involved travelling on the Movilla Road into Newtownards but it failed to stop when signalled to do so. It hit the police car a number of times before driving off.
It was discovered a short time later in Drumhirk Avenue in the town.
A 26-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of a number of offences. They were later released on police bail pending further inquiries.
Police said the two officers suffered non-life threatening injuries during the incident.
His answer to a question in the chamber - the old one up the hill, that is, not the new one - was slowly approximating to a conclusion.
You could see Mr McConnell concluding that he had troubled the chamber long enough on the particular topic, whose details I forget. He told MSPs: "I'm haverin' so I'll sit down." And he did.
As a statement, it struck me as perfect. Innately truthful, notably concise - and eminently inclusive, in that he cleared the floor for others to intervene.
If only, I thought at the time, more politicians would follow this admirable example. It would seem that I am not alone in sharing that view, as witness sundry noises off during the latest round of questions to the First Minister at Holyrood.
Incidentally, I say "as I recall" re the event chronicled earlier. Despite years of admittedly sporadic research, I have been unable to find those fine and noble sentiments listed in the Official Report of Parliament.
It could be, I suspect, that the Official Reporters - themselves fine and noble - regarded the former FM's comment at the time as an obiter dictum, heard in court but not legally binding nor setting a precedent.
Bear in mind that their version of proceedings, while an extremely accurate report, is not absolutely a word for word record. Many a politician, past and present, has been decidedly grateful for that fact.
Lord McConnell, to be fair, was not much given to havering; less so indeed than contemporaries. So it was particularly gallant of him to fess up.
Still, back to today. The front bench exchanges were about education. Perhaps the topic infested the discourse - but the verbiage back and forwards did seem rather longer than is regularly the case, like a weary lecturer diluting a pint of material to fill a quart pot.
Certainly, James Kelly, Labour's Parliamentary Business Manager, thought so. On a point of order at the close, he complained that exchanges involving the four party leaders had occupied twenty five minutes of the half hour allotted for questioning the FM.
What, he declared, of back benchers? At this point, you could see one or two indications of agreement from across the chamber. Mr Kelly was sounding inclusive.
But it all went agley - as such schemes, the poet tells us, often do - when Mr Kelly tried to blame the First Minister in particular for offering "speeches rather than answers". That generated a partisan rumble of discontent from the SNP ranks.
Speaking up for back benchers was one thing. Dissing Nicola was another. Up with this they would not put.
In emollient mood, the Presiding Officer Tricia Marwick said she would review the day's proceedings. (May I commend BBC Democracy Live to you, PO?) If necessary, she would speak to Business Managers, including Kelly, J.
But earlier the PO had herself displayed eminent economy of language. Faced with an unruly chamber, she shouted: "Wheesht!" A Scots term urging silence which I regularly deploy when herding politicians in broadcast debates.
Perhaps Ms Marwick might consider its wider use. Instead of simply demanding order, might she use a haver meter - and intervene when a front bench contribution is trying the patience even more than usual? I know, I know, inconceivable.
As to the education exchanges today, they resembled somewhat a university tutorial. Both the questions and the answers meandered more or less purposefully through extant knowledge, with much reference to established sources. There was less in the way of innovative thinking.
The task of opening the seminar fell, as it does, to Labour's Kezia Dugdale - currently a senior thane but, who knows, destined for the crown hereafter.
She tried to trap the FM with a multiple choice question on attainment, bursaries and student debt. The answers she wanted were "rubbish, down and up", in that order. Unaccountably, Nicola Sturgeon declined to follow the guide, preferring her own analysis: that things were improving but had a way to go.
There were comparable exchanges with Willie Rennie of the Lib Dems and Ruth Davidson of the Tories. In response to Ms Davidson, the FM suggested she was looking at some means of assessing progress by primary school pupils that would provide a more consistent picture across Scotland. Details, she said, to follow.
And there's more! Those talented individuals who toil producing the Official Report at Holyrood are plainly assiduous readers of this site. They remember Jack McConnell's comments - but reckon I got the word wrong.
They say that, rather than havering, he waffled. And they have found the report in question. It notes the former FM as saying: "My apologies, Presiding Officer, I started waffling there. I will drop it at that."
So different choice of language. But identical sentiment and impact.
Excellent. Genuinely excellent. Don't you love the by-ways of politics?
The 23-year-old Egypt international joined the Swiss club in 2013 and has won the league title in each of his three seasons there.
The fee would reportedly be in the region of £5m and Elneny would require a work permit.
He is eligible to play in the Champions League after Basel failed to qualify for this year's group stage.
Elneny featured in Basel's home victory over Chelsea in the 2013-14 competition.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is keen to strengthen in central midfield after Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla suffered serious knee injuries, while Aaron Ramsey and Mikel Arteta have also had spells on the sidelines and Jack Wilshere is still absent.
However, Elneny is seen by Wenger as a long-term part of the squad and not merely a stop-gap, were he to join the north Londoners.
The Gunners boss has admitted he is unsure when Wilshere will return to action, but it will not be before February at the earliest.
The England midfielder was expected to be out for three months when he had surgery in September on a hairline fracture of his left leg, but that estimate has now been extended.
"I said February but honestly I don't know," Wenger said when pushed on the timescale, as his side aim to respond positively to their 4-0 Premier League defeat at Southampton when they host Bournemouth on Monday.
"I let him do his recovery. It's going slowly. Once he goes again, goes outside to train, once he is back again into sharp, hard work physically, you count five or six weeks, so at the moment he is not there yet.
"It's not Jack's fault we lost at Southampton and anyway he cannot play against Bournemouth. We have short-term worries and we want to respond."
The Dow Jones rose 27.09 points to 17,902.51, while the S&P 500 gained 5.57 points to finish at 2,081.90.
The tech-based Nasdaq added 40.59 points to close at 4,950.82.
Oil stocks were hit after a report showed a surprise increase in US oil supplies.
A report by the American Petroleum Institute showed US crude oil supplies increased by 12.2 million barrels last week, compared to an analyst estimate of 3.4 million barrels.
That sent the price of Brent crude lower by 3% to $56.02 per barrel and the price of US oil - known as West Texas Intermediate Crude - down by 2.8% to $50.89.
Shares in oil firms Exxon and Chevron fell by nearly 2%, and were further threatened by Shell's move to buy BG Group in a £47bn deal.
Metal giant Alcoa kicked off the start of US earnings season when it reported a first-quarter profit of $195m.
The German, 24, was forced off after 25 minutes at Emirates Stadium.
"It's a bad one. The minimum is 21 days," said Gunners boss Arsene Wenger of Mustafi's expected absence.
Arsenal have three games in that period, facing Everton away on Tuesday, Manchester City away on 18 December, and hosting West Brom on 26 December.
Mustafi joined Arsenal from Valencia in August for a fee in excess of £32m.
The victory over Stoke took Wenger's men top of the Premier League on goals scored over Chelsea, who face West Brom on Sunday at 12:00 GMT.
Charlie Adam's penalty gave the visitors the lead before Theo Walcott, Mesut Ozil and substitute Alex Iwobi made it 12 goals in three games for Arsenal.
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Xiao Gang was replaced by Liu Shiyu as the chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), state media report.
Mr Xiao was in charge when China's markets crashed in mid-2015.
At one point, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges lost as much as 40% of their value.
Mr Xiao, 57, who became the CSRC chair in March 2013, has been criticised for mishandling the crisis.
Under his watch, China's new "circuit-breaker" mechanism, designed to limit any market sell-off, was deployed twice in January in response to the stock market fall, but then was scrapped altogether after it caused even more panic.
"Somebody needed to bear responsibility after the suspension of the circuit-breaker system," Zheng Chunming, a Shanghai-based analyst at Capital Securities Corp, told Bloomberg News.
Mr Liu, 54, was previously the vice-governor of China's central bank - the People's Bank of China - before becoming chairman of the Agricultural Bank of China, the country's third largest lender, in 2012.
On Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo on Saturday, commentators played on Mr Liu's name to speculate whether his tenure would bring about a "bull market" or leave behind a "dead fish".
The announcement of the new CSRC chair comes ahead of two high-profile events for China - next week's meeting of G20 financial leaders in Shanghai, and the annual gathering of China's legislature in March.
The car was travelling along the A49 in Church Stretton at about 09:30 GMT when the tree toppled onto the bonnet of the car and the rest of the road.
An 80-year-old man, a front seat passenger, was taken to hospital with a cut to his neck and chest pains. His wife, sat in the back, was unhurt.
The 75-year-old driver was also taken to hospital with neck and chest pains.
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The storm is causing major travel disruption around the UK, with severe weather warnings in place for some of northern England, East Anglia, north Wales and the Midlands,
More than 4,000 homes are currently without power in Shropshire and the high winds have also grounded the Midlands Air Ambulance.
His fourth album has climbed 40 places to number 13 in this week's official albums chart.
Skepta beat David Bowie and Radiohead to win the £25,000 prize, which is awarded annually to what critics judge the best British album of the year.
Konnichiwa covers topics including police harassment and his anger at British politics.
Bastille held the number one album spot for a second week with Wild World.
The highest new entry was Led Zeppelin's The Complete BBC Sessions, a collection of the group's five live sessions recorded in 1969, which debuted at number three.
Usher scored his sixth UK top 10 album with Hard II Love, which landed at number seven, while Seth Lakeman's Ballads of the Broken Few, debuted at number 18.
On the singles chart, The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey remained at number one for the fourth consecutive week with Closer, which notched up 82,000 combined sales.
They held off competition from former X Factor winner James Arthur, whose latest single Say You Won't Let Go climbed from number 25 to two with 60,000 sales.
The singer has re-signed with Simon Cowell's Syco record label, which originally dropped him two years ago.
DJ Snake and Major Lazer, both of whom have current singles featuring Justin Bieber, each dropped a place to numbers three and four respectively.
Calvin Harris rounded off the top five with My Way.
New entries included Emeli Sande's comeback single Hurts, which debuted at number 22, and US actress Hailee Steinfeld's debut single Starving, which landed at number 40.
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About 30,000 people have reached the final stage of the challenge - roughly 5% of those who entered - but so far no one has successfully completed it.
GCHQ director Robert Hannigan, who set the string of teasers, offered a clue: "It's not as abstract as you think."
The deadline for entries is 31 January. Answers will be revealed in February.
The first puzzle, which was printed inside the agency's card of a traditional nativity scene and on its website, is a "nonogram" - a complex grid-shading puzzle.
When completed correctly, it creates a Quick Response, or QR, code which can be scanned to reveal a website link to the next challenge.
Nearly 600,000 people have successfully completed the nonogram stage of the puzzle so far.
Those who enjoyed the challenge are asked to make a donation to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
Robert Hannigan, director of GCHQ, said he was delighted so many people had tried the puzzle and made a donation.
But he said: "With a few days to go no-one has cracked it all yet, so my one and only clue is: it's not as abstract as you think.
"What I hope the stages of the puzzle show is that to deliver our mission and keep Britain safe, we need people from all backgrounds, with all skills, who look at problems from every angle."
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The 24-year-old former Poland Under-21 international joined Town from Polish side Korona Kielce on a two-year contract in the summer.
But he has been restricted to just six appearances and moves to a team currently ninth in League One.
Meanwhile, Ipswich have extended midfielder Ben Pringle's loan from Fulham until the end of the season.
The 26-year-old has made seven appearances for Mick McCarthy's side since joining in February, scoring in 1-0 wins over Huddersfield and Nottingham Forest.
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It said profits this year would be at the low end of expectations, while next year it would face £650m of "headwinds" - more than previously forecast.
Rolls-Royce is carrying out a review of its business, which it said was likely to involve job losses among its 2,000 senior managers.
It has previously announced 3,600 job cuts across the group.
Rolls-Royce also said it would review of its shareholder payments policy, signalling the possibility that dividend payments could be cut.
At the end of trading, shares in Rolls-Royce were down 130.5p at 536.5p. The company's shares have now nearly halved since April.
In July, the company warned lower deliveries of its Trent 700 engine would affect profits in 2016 and 2017.
It also said at the time that profits in 2015 would be between £1.325bn and £1.475bn.
Warren East, who was appointed chief executive of Rolls-Royce in April, said: "The speed and magnitude of change in some of our markets, which have historically performed well, has been significant and shows how sensitive parts of our business are to market conditions in the short-term."
Rolls-Royce said there were three areas where it had seen demand weaken - corporate jets powered by Rolls-Royce engines, servicing of the firm's wide-bodied engines, and offshore marine markets.
Rolls-Royce has been badly affected by a decline in its main aircraft engine business. It says that although demand for new engines for large passenger aircraft remains unchanged, many airlines have been sidelining their older planes in favour of modern, more fuel efficient models.
As a result, profits from supplying spare parts and servicing have fallen significantly. In addition, sales of engines for corporate jets have declined sharply.
Meanwhile the low price of oil has taken a heavy toll on Rolls-Royce marine engine business, largely because of falling demand from offshore energy companies.
Mr East, who is carrying out a structural review of the business, added Rolls-Royce carried "too much fixed cost" and was "inflexible in managing this in response to changes in market conditions".
He is looking for annual cost savings of between £150 and £200m, of which £115m cost savings are expected to come from the company's aerospace and marine division in 2016.
More details on the structural review of the company will be announced later in November, Rolls said.
Keith Bowman, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers, said yet another profit warning from Rolls had "shocked investors", adding that the review of its shareholder payments policy was "a major negative".
He said: "The company's prior push to reduce earnings volatility and surprises looks to have been completely unwound, with investors today suffering another major setback.
"Rebuilding confidence in the company's outlook is now paramount for the relatively new chief executive."
Northampton Town Football Club has yet to repay the borough council loan, and work on Sixfields was not completed.
Council chief executive David Kennedy apologised "unreservedly" for failings identified in an audit report.
He told a council meeting on Monday night the report made "difficult reading".
The council lent the club the money in 2013 and 2014, and the initial plan was to refurbish parts of Sixfields and land next to the ground.
None of the work was completed and a criminal inquiry is under way into "alleged financial irregularities" surrounding the loan.
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An audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers found the borough council lacked full information on the risks when it approved the transaction.
Speaking at the meeting, Mr Kennedy said: "As chief executive, I accept my part in that, and I apologise unreservedly to you and to anyone else I need to for that.
"We seek to set high standards for ourselves, and for the other officers, and it is with deep regret, that I see the extent in this report to which we did not meet our own standards in this case.
"The report makes very difficult reading for all of us, but particularly those of us who were involved in 2013, and in what has subsequently occurred".
The local authority has adopted a "far-reaching plan" to change the way it makes financial decisions, Mr Kennedy said.
1st Land Ltd, a company which was set up to redevelop the site, was given £7.25m of the money and is now in liquidation.
Northampton South Conservative MP David Mackintosh was also criticised in the report, which covered the time when he was council leader.
Mr Mackintosh said he had "never asked or pressured officers to cut corners".
The drug was discovered in an internal wall of the animal carrier at Harwich International Port last week, the Border Force said.
A 32-year-old Hungarian man and two women from Germany, aged 42 and 50, have been arrested and bailed pending further inquiries.
The Border Force said two horses were being cared for by a local charity.
The drugs were discovered after a scan revealed an "anomaly" in one of the walls in the horsebox.
Phillip Holliday, Border Force regional director, said: "Although this was an unusual and well-hidden concealment, the vigilance and expertise of Border Force officers has foiled an attempt to smuggle a large amount of class A drugs, with an estimated street value in excess of £3m, into the country."
The Democratic candidate said she had wanted to "curl up with a good book and never leave the house again".
But in a speech at a children's charity she urged the audience to fight for American values and "never give up."
Mrs Clinton won the popular vote but was beaten to the presidency in the all-important US electoral college.
"Now I will admit coming here tonight wasn't the easiest thing for me," she said as she was honoured by the Children's Defense Fund.
She continued: "I know many of you are deeply disappointed about the results of the election. I am, too, more than I can ever express.
"I know this isn't easy. I know that over the past week a lot of people have asked themselves whether America is the country we thought it was.
There was little ceremony and no sign of security for the former presidential candidate who is known simply as "Hillary" in this circle of friends.
The audience were on their feet and chanting her name as she took to the podium. When she talked about her disappointment, murmurs of agreement spread through the room in waves.
That murmur grew louder as she urged those listening not to lose heart - this was an emotional plea for action.
The event was entitled Beat the Odds, which offers hope for some of America's most underprivileged children and celebrates their achievements.
But I spoke to one man who told me that he could offer little hope to the young African Americans he mentors in the wake of this election.
Hillary Clinton used her voice tonight to try to help change that and dissuade others from feeling despondent.
The candidate may be gone, and right now "Hillary" looks like she might run home and curl back up on the sofa, but there is still a spark left in the first woman who got this far in trying to reach the White House.
"The divisions laid bare by this election run deep, but please listen to me when I say this.
"America is worth it. Our children are worth it. Believe in our country, fight for our values and never, ever give up."
In her concession speech after her shock defeat last week, Mrs Clinton said rival Donald Trump must be given the chance to lead.
Since then she has kept a low profile, although she was spotted while out walking.
In a phone call leaked to US media she also blamed her loss on FBI director James Comey, who announced a new inquiry into her use of a private email server in the run up to the vote.
Reker Ahmed was beaten and kicked by a gang while waiting at a bus stop in Croydon on Friday night.
A family friend said the 17 year old had been left "black and blue" and "mentally not well" after the assault.
Thirteen people, aged between 15 and 24, have been charged with violent disorder in relation to the attack.
A total of 16 people have been arrested. Three of those will face no further action.
Det Supt Jane Corrigan said "somewhere in the region of 20-30 people who were in the vicinity of the attack... may have had some involvement in the incident".
She said "CCTV enquiries" had identified five people police want to contact "but there is a possibility that this may rise".
Mr Ahmed suffered a bleed on his brain, a fractured eye socket and fractured spine in the attack.
He was visited by his brother Hadi Ahmed on Tuesday who said Reker had not recognised him.
Family friend Abdullah Abdullah, who also saw him in hospital, said the the 17-year-old "was very bad, his face had been smashed very badly".
"He couldn't recognise me as well. Mentally he is not well," he said.
A demonstration by Kurds was held in Croydon earlier.
Rebaz Mohammed, a Kurdish community leader, said the attack "will be with Reker for the rest of his life".
"There's not enough support for asylum seekers who come over... they need help to integrate," he said.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid, who also attended, said the teenager "came to this country seeking refuge and safety but... he got the exact opposite".
"When something like this does happen we must do everything we can possibly do to apprehend those that were responsible," he said.
William Burns, 56, and Alexander Porter, 48, deny assaulting Russell Findlay to the danger of his life at his Glasgow home on 23 December 2015 by throwing sulphuric acid in his face.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Mr Burns told jurors: "Mr Findlay is incapable of telling the truth about anything."
In evidence, he said: "I went there, but I never threw acid in anyone's face."
Mr Burns told jurors that he had gone to Mr Findlay's home, posing as a postman, to "beat him up".
Burns denied going armed with a knife and a glass jar filled with sulphuric acid.
He said: "I've never used a knife. I've boxed all my life. I use my hands to fight."
At the time Mr Findlay was an investigations editor with the Scottish Sun.
Mr Burns said he had been angry after receiving a phone call from Mr Findlay the night before, during which he had threatened to show Mr Burn's wife a photo of him with another woman.
Mr Burns said: "He wanted to talk to me about Darryl Fitch who lived next door to me 25 years ago.
"The boy had been murdered and found in the River Gryffe in Bridge of Weir."
He told his defence counsel Thomas Ross that he refused to help and that was when Mr Findlay had mentioned a photograph.
Mr Ross asked: "Before this phone call had you any intention of visiting Mr Findlay" and Mr Burns replied: "No, no intention whatsoever."
Mr Burns said he knew what Mr Findlay looked like, had seen him driving in the West End of Glasgow and had memorised his registration number.
He said he had done this because he was annoyed about an article the journalist had written about him.
Mr Burns said he went to the West End to look for Mr Findlay's car and found it in the fourth street he walked along.
Mr Burns claimed he was attacked by the journalist and a mystery man in the hallway shortly after he knocked on the door and barged in.
He told the jurors he was knocked unconscious by the mystery man, and that he was also stabbed under the chin by Mr Findlay and needed four stitches.
Mr Findlay earlier claimed in evidence that Mr Burns told him: "Wee Jamie sends his regards" when asked who had sent him.
When asked about this, Mr Burns said: "I came from Ferguslie Park that's not words I would use."
Mr Burns added: "The worst mistake I ever made was telling that man I was coming to his door.
"I think they were waiting for me."
Mr Burns suggested that Mr Findlay may have put a corrosive substance on his face himself.
He denied that Porter was his getaway driver.
Earlier, both Mr Burns and Mr Porter were cleared of attempting to murder Ross Sherlock, 35, by shooting him outside St Helen's Primary School, Bishopbriggs, on 24 September 2015.
The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.
The official Sana news agency said the attack took place in a residential area in Palmyra, a town about 220km (140 miles) north-east of Damascus.
One activist group said a military intelligence building had been targeted and that at least 19 members of the security forces had died.
Meanwhile, heavy fighting has been reported in the east of the capital.
The local authorities closed Abbasid Square, a major roundabout, and Fares al-Khouri Street after rebel fighters attacked army roadblocks with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, activists and witnesses said.
"The areas of Jobar, Zamalka, Zablatani and parts of Qaboun and the ring-road have become a battleground," activist Fida Mohammad told the Reuters news agency.
Other activists reported that a tank stationed at the al-Kabbas roadblock had been destroyed, that chants of "God is Greatest" had been broadcast from mosque speakers in Jobar, and that tanks stationed on the edge of the central district of Medan had shelled southern areas.
Sana said the army was "continuing its operations against the terrorists in Arbeen, Zamalka, Harasta and Sabina, destroying the criminal liars".
The violence is some of the worst to hit Damascus in several weeks.
The attack in Palmyra, which is known locally as Tadmor, occurred at about 06:00 local time (08:00 GMT), according to local activists.
The first bomber reportedly blew up his explosives-laden car next to back a wall of the military intelligence compound in the town. The second assailant is then said to have driven through the hole, detonating the bomb inside his vehicle and destroying parts of the facility.
Video footage purportedly showed a cloud of smoke rising from the town.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based activist group, said at least 19 members of the security services had been killed and many others injured.
Abu al-Hassan, one of the local activists, told Reuters that tanks stationed inside the intelligence compound had fired shells into an adjacent residential district following the attack, killing several civilians.
The SOHR said eight civilians had been injured, some severely, by heavy gunfire that followed the bombings.
Sana said several people had been killed and injured in the bombings, and that they had caused huge material damage.
There were protests in Palmyra at the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, but the army has since tightened control of the town, which is situated near a major oil pipeline junction.
Situated at an oasis in the Syrian desert, Palmyra is known across the world as the home of the monumental ruins of a great Roman-era city that was one of the most important cultural cities of the ancient world.
It is also the location of an infamous jail where thousands of people were allegedly detained, tortured and executed after an uprising against the late President Hafez al-Assad in the 1980s by the Muslim Brotherhood.
In a separate development, the head of the main opposition alliance said the government had to start releasing detainees by this Sunday if it wanted to take up his offer of talks with Vice-President Farouq al-Sharaa.
"I need all the women to be released. If any woman stays in prison I consider the regime not responding for our initiative," Moaz al-Khatib, leader of the National Coalition, told BBC Arabic.
Last week, Mr Khatib announced he was "ready for direct discussions" as long as two conditions were met - the release of the 160,000 people he said were being held in prisons and intelligence facilities, and the resumption of the issuing of new passports by Syrian embassies.
Damascus has not yet responded to the offer, but the pro-government al-Watan newspaper said it was two years too late.
York Regional Police, which serves the suburbs of Toronto, says they hope publicising drink-driving charges will help keep them off the road.
In the past, they did not release names for privacy reasons.
But after they laid nine charges in one weekend in January, York police say enough is enough.
The final straw, so to speak, occurred on Sunday morning at 1:40 am local time, when York police found a 56-year-old man slumped over his steering wheel in the middle of an intersection.
Paramedics and police had to honk their horns and flash their lights to wake him up, and police later laid over 80 charges related to impaired driving after he failed a breathalyser test.
We don't know his name because York police do not routinely release the names of those charged with drink driving.
But that may change. On Monday, the police department tweeted that "We've been discussing posting the names of all charged with impaired driving."
"It's not necessarily to shame, it's more to bring light to the issue of the number of people being charged with this offence," says police spokesperson Andy Pattenden.
A few regions in Ontario are already doing this, Mr Pattenden says, but York region has refrained from doing so up until now, citing "privacy reasons".
"When a person is charged, it doesn't really mean that they are convicted in court," he said. "[Naming them] can affect their job and their position in the community."
In Ontario, about 80% of people charged with impaired driving are convicted, according to Statistics Canada.
Mr Pattenden said the department is considering changing its policy because of the growing problem of drink-driving in the area.
Last year, local man Marko Muzzo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing three young children and their grandfather while driving under the influence. His SUV collided with their minivan.
He remains the only MP ever to be elected on a UKIP ticket, but he was never a soulmate of former party leader Nigel Farage.
The two had an increasingly bitter relationship, with some going as far as to suggest Mr Carswell was a "fifth columnist" who joined the party to try and undermine it.
Mr Farage told the BBC recently Mr Carswell "has tried to undermine everything we've stood for for a very long time".
There may be many reasons for their differences, but at heart they had different approaches to the EU referendum and whether or not immigration should be the key campaign issue.
Party donor Arron Banks and Mr Carswell have also publicly rowed.
Mr Banks has previously suggested he could stand against Mr Carswell at the next election, and responded with a smiley face emoji and a green tick to the news he was leaving UKIP.
In a statement on his website, Mr Carswell insisted he was leaving the party "amicably" and would be an independent MP.
He said his decision to leave followed UKIP achieving "what we were established to do" following the UK's vote to leave the EU in June.
In 2014 Mr Carswell defected as an MP from the Conservatives to UKIP, saying he wanted to see "fundamental change in British politics".
He then made history when he became UKIP's first elected MP, after winning the Clacton by-election he triggered by his defection.
He was one of two MPs to defect from the Conservatives, but became the party's only MP after he retained his seat on a reduced majority and Mark Reckless lost his in Rochester and Strood.
Mr Farage praised Mr Carswell's decision to join UKIP as "brave" and "honourable", but the pair's rivalry would prove to be an ongoing theme during his time in the party.
The politicians both backed rival Leave groups during the EU referendum and when Mr Farage resigned as leader in July Mr Carswell responded by tweeting a smiley face.
But Mr Carswell chose not to stand as leader himself, a position that went to Paul Nuttall.
Last month it was claimed that Mr Carswell had resisted attempts by senior UKIP figures to secure a knighthood for Mr Farage.
This prompted Mr Nuttall to ask party chairman Paul Oakden to meet Mr Carswell last month to "discuss the situation" amid growing questions about the MP's future in the party.
In a statement on his website, Mr Carswell said the party had not managed to win many seats in Parliament "but in a way we are the most successful political party in Britain ever".
Both before and during his time with UKIP, Mr Carswell has had a reputation for being a free thinker.
He has never hidden his disdain for the "job for life" culture among some MPs in safe seats and the "cosy cliques" that dominate decision-making in government.
Most newly-elected MPs put their head down and get on with the job of climbing the Westminster career ladder.
But Mr Carswell, who entered the Commons in 2005, refused to play the game from the start, speaking openly of his "revulsion" at the system and how, frankly, he was embarrassed to be an MP.
In his book, The Plan, co-authored with Tory MEP Daniel Hannan, he set out 28 steps to "renew our broken democracy" and "get our supine, spineless Parliament off its knees".
He had high hopes that David Cameron, whom he backed in the 2005 Tory leadership contest, would push through some of their proposed reforms - such as open primaries, where all voters in a constituency get to choose party candidates, and giving voters the power to recall their MP if they are doing a bad job.
But in February 2014, along with other maverick backbench Tories, he was bitterly disappointed to see plans for recall powers dropped by the coalition.
This - together with his belief that the Conservatives were not truly committed to changing Britain's relationship with the EU - undoubtedly fed into his decision to jump ship to UKIP.
Mr Carswell had long agitated for a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the EU - an institution he views as being profoundly undemocratic and lacking in accountability.
Born in 1971, Mr Carswell spent his early years living in Uganda, where his parents worked as doctors in a local hospital.
He was educated at the University of East Anglia and King's College, London, and worked in digital television, investment management and the Conservative Party policy unit - run by David Cameron - before becoming an MP.
He is married to Clementine and has a daughter. In his spare time, he has said he enjoys swimming, running and gardening as well as making quince jelly.
Mr Carswell's father was the inspiration for James McAvoy's character in the Last King Of Scotland, the British doctor who went to work in Uganda and found himself working for Idi Amin.
Mr Carswell first stood for Parliament in 2001, taking on Tony Blair as the Tory candidate for Sedgefield.
Despite apologising for coming second, he still managed to cut Mr Blair's majority by more than 7,500 votes.
In 2005 he was elected as MP for Harwich, defeating Labour's candidate by just 920 votes. By 2010 he defeated the same opponent by 12,000 votes - although boundary changes had seen the seat renamed Clacton.
During that contest UKIP did not field a candidate, supporting what they saw as the re-election of a kindred spirit.
Mr Carswell went on to gain a reputation as an outspoken Tory moderniser, influencing initiatives such as David Cameron's Big Society and campaigning for the reform of parliamentary expenses following the 2009 scandal.
He once told the BBC he was attracted to politics because "our democracy is being undermined, with remote and unaccountable elites making the key decisions that affect our lives".
Less than three years ago Mr Carswell said only UKIP could provide "fundamental change in British politics".
Now the result of the EU referendum has ensured that change will be permanent.
Among those trading without entitlement to their latest dividend pay-out were Hammerson and London Stock Exchange, down 2.7% and 1.8% respectively.
Overall, the FTSE 100 index was 24.94 points or 0.36% lower at 6,810.84.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.13% against the dollar to $1.3216 and was 0.17% lower against the euro at €1.1727.
PAOK fans threw flares and clashed with riot police after their team was denied a penalty with Olympiakos leading 2-1.
Greece's deputy minister for sport Stavros Kontonis recommended the suspension of all competitive football.
But the Super League and other professional leagues will continue.
Wilde, 21, can play at loose forward and second row and has made 18 appearances for Warrington, including the 2016 Super League Grand Final.
Johnson, 20, has played 11 games and can play at full-back and wing.
Widnes head coach Denis Betts told the club website: "We are pleased to have secured Sam and Jack at a time when we are facing injury challenges."
The Garden Bridge Trust said it had failed to raise private funds since losing the support of the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan in April.
It comes after a review of the project recommended it be scrapped.
At least £37.4m of public funds has already been spent on the project and a further £9m is at risk.
In total, an estimated £46.4m of taxpayers' money - calculated as direct grants of about £26m from the Department of Transport (DfT), around £11m in services in kind from Transport for London (TfL) and the remainder in cancellation costs - has been spent, according to the review by Dame Margaret Hodge.
Mr Khan said it was his "duty to ensure taxpayers' money was spent responsibly".
"I have been clear since before I became mayor that no more London taxpayers' money should be spent on this project and when I took office I gave the Garden Bridge Trust time to try and address the multiple serious issues with it," he said.
"Londoners will, like me, be very angry that London taxpayers have now lost tens of millions of pounds - committed by the previous mayor on a project that has amounted to nothing."
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The mayor also refused to provide a financial guarantee to cover ongoing maintenance of the bridge, estimated to cost about £3m a year, which the trust said would be covered by closing the bridge to the general public for 12 days a year so it could be rented to corporate clients .
Foreign Secretary and former London mayor Boris Johnson accused Mr Khan of killing the Garden Bridge out of spite.
"Labour has no vision for London and no ambition," he said. "The Garden Bridge was a beautiful project and could have been easily financed."
The trust blamed losing the mayor's support for its inability to raise the necessary private funds to complete the project.
It said all potential benefactors and trustees decided the project could not happen without the support of the mayor.
But as early as January, the trust filed accounts for 2016 at Companies House in which its chairman Lord Davies admitted the project was not currently a "going concern" and that it had failed to raise any private funds since August 2016.
The same accounts showed the trust had yet to secure the land on the South Bank of the Thames for the bridge's southern landing. By April, when the project lost Mr Khan's support, the trust had still not secured the land on the South Bank.
In a letter to Mr Khan, Lord Davies said: "We are incredibly sad that we have not been able to make the dream of the Garden Bridge a reality and that the mayor does not feel able to continue with the support he initially gave us."
He said the trust had raised £70m of private money towards the project and had satisfied most of the planning permission conditions.
"The Garden Bridge would have been a unique place; a beautiful new green space in the heart of London, free to use and open to all, showcasing the best of British talent and innovation," Lord Davies said.
"It is all the more disappointing because the trust was set up at the request of TfL, the organisation headed up by the mayor, to deliver the project. It is a sad day for London because it is sending out a message to the world that we can no longer deliver such exciting projects."
This shambles is an embarrassing mess for the capital and it has already descended into finger pointing and a blame game over who is culpable for wasting £46.4m of public money.
The trust blames the current mayor Sadiq Khan for not giving guarantees over maintenance. He blames the previous mayor Boris Johnson for backing a scheme financially that was not value for money, while Mr Johnson says it was up to the current mayor to make work.
Ultimately this project was not absolutely vital - it was more a tourist attraction - and was born in a different age when London's transport budget was not as constrained.
And I think it got off to a dreadful start back in 2013 - when I started covering this - by crucially not asking locals if they wanted it.
Infrastructure needs political consensus, as projects span many parties and leaders, and the Garden Bridge never enjoyed that.
Monday's London Evening Standard, edited by former Conservative chancellor George Osborne, also blamed Mr Khan for the collapse of the Garden Bridge project.
In October the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed former prime minister David Cameron had personally intervened to approve extra taxpayer funding for the controversial project, against the advice of his own civil servants.
A ministerial direction - which a senior civil servant may ask a minister for to show he or she is ignoring the advice offered - was issued after cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood wrote to the Department for Transport expressing the "frustration" of both Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne at perceived hold-ups to the funding during 2015 and 2016.
The NAO added an initial commitment to provide £30m of taxpayers' money was made by Mr Osborne to Mr Khan's predecessor, Boris Johnson, without any DfT involvement.
A review of whether the Garden Bridge offered taxpayers value for money was launched at about the same time the NAO report was released.
Conducted by Dame Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee and MP for Barking, the review recommended in April that the project should be scrapped.
Andrew Boff, Conservative London Assembly member, said Mr Khan had wasted £9m in taxpayers' money as he could have scrapped the project as early as May of last year.
Thomas Heatherwick, who designed the bridge, said: "Our cities need optimistic, amazing people (who supported the project) like this. And London needs new bridges and unexpected new public places.
"The Garden Bridge has not found its right moment, but I hope one day it will and that London continues to be open to ideas that make life here better."
The left foot found by dog-walkers on top of bramble bushes in Weston Park East on 19 February prompted much speculation about its origins.
Police said they were now satisfied no crime had been committed, but they are keen to find out how it got there.
They said they would follow up any new information they receive.
Initial tests proved the foot was human, but subsequent forensic examination found very little DNA.
A Home Office pathologist told BBC News the item's genetic material appeared to have been "killed by something" which made further identification very difficult.
Avon and Somerset Police have spent three months consulting a number of scientific experts.
One of them, Dr Heather Bonney, a forensic anthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, told BBC News she believed the foot had probably been "fixed" or preserved with chemicals, which could explain the lack of DNA.
Dr Bonney explained that the appearance of the foot was "very unusual" because it did not look like it had recently been severed from a body.
She said the state of the bones suggested the foot came from an adult, but there was no way of knowing the sex, age or ancestry.
She added there was no evidence of any injury or disease and the item was "entirely consistent with being either a medical, anatomical or museum specimen."
Other experts agreed, including Dr John Troyer who runs the Centre for Death and Society at Bath University.
He said the foot may have come from a private collection and the owner may not have known how to dispose of it properly.
Det Insp Paul Catton from Avon and Somerset Police said he accepted the consensus of scientific opinion and was now "satisfied" that no crime had been committed.
He said the foot was no longer thought to be linked to any recent missing persons cases, but he still wanted to hear from any "training establishments" in the Bath area which may have stored anatomical specimens in the past.
"The public really want answers and I want answers," he said.
"I want to hear from any colleges or buildings that were previously schools and may have owned items like this.
"I'll be asking them if they've cleared out any cellars recently, that kind of thing."
He added that, despite recent findings, he would keep "an open mind" and his team would follow up any additional information they receive.
The German, 29, has been chosen to lead Renault's team as they build up to competitiveness following their return to F1 as a factory entry this year.
Hulkenberg said he was "very happy" to be joining the team, adding that it had "always been a dream" to work for a manufacturer team.
The deal, for at least two years, is said to involve a $20m (£17m) salary.
Hulkenberg added: "Renault has always been a big player in the motorsport world that brings up incredible memories.
"In his stint with Renault, [seven-time world champion] Michael Schumacher not only helped make Germany an F1 nation, he also sparked my enthusiasm and fire for racing."
"As a part of the Renault family, I want to develop the car and write new success stories."
Jerome Stoll, Renault Sport Racing chairman, said the team had recruited "an experienced driver who is still hungry for podiums".
The second seat at Renault remains open, with current drivers Kevin Magnussen and Jolyon Palmer in the frame, along with Manor's Esteban Ocon and Pascal Wehrlein.
Renault are also interested in Williams driver Valtteri Bottas, who is in salary negotiations with his current team.
Force India, for whom Hulkenberg has driven for five years across two spells, said they respect his desire to "explore fresh opportunities" with team boss Vijay Mallya adding: "It would be wrong to stand in his way."
The team also now have a seat to fill alongside Mexican Sergio Perez, with Palmer, Ocon and Wehrlein all contenders.
Hulkenberg - who made his debut for Williams in 2010 and drove for Sauber in 2013 - has taken a gamble because he believes in Renault's ability to become a major force in the next few years.
The French team are struggling this year, following the manufacturer's late takeover of the Lotus team at the end of 2015.
In contrast, Force India are on course for a fourth-place finish in the constructors' championship this season, their best since 1999 in their former guise of Jordan.
Renault have set a target of contending for the world title within the next five years, something a small, independent team such as Force India cannot realistically manage.
Hulkenberg himself effectively signposted his move to Renault earlier on Friday when he posted a picture of the front page of German newspaper Bild, which led on the story, on social media.
Business output and new orders have just had their weakest growth since the recovery began in mid-2013.
"Northern Ireland's slowdown is also more marked than the rest of the UK," said the bank's chief economist, Richard Ramsey.
The monthly survey of firms is known as the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI).
It suggested the drop-off was "particularly marked" in manufacturing and construction.
"Overall it is encouraging that Northern Ireland's recovery continues," Mr Ramsey said.
"However, as we enter 2015 there is perhaps not as much momentum as we would like, particularly given the challenging public expenditure environment that lies ahead."
The PMI tracks indicators such as new orders, employment and exports.
The rest of the UK, unlike Northern Ireland, reported better progress.
The gap between the local and national private sector growth rates is now at its widest since the recovery began.
Mr Ramsey said: "Clearly the ongoing economic difficulties in the Eurozone are having an impact on the order books of local firms.
"Last month saw Northern Ireland's private sector firms report their first decline in export orders in 17 months."
Details including names, addresses and phone numbers have been emailed to other customers.
The information has come from the retailer's "contact us" form, which has then been sent on to others.
Angry customers have complained on social media. WHSmith said that no payment details had been compromised.
"We have been alerted to a systems processing bug by I-subscribe, who manage our magazine subscriptions. It is a bug not a data breach," the retailer said.
"We believe that this has impacted fewer than 22 customers who left a message on the 'contact us' page where this bug was identified, that has resulted in some customers receiving emails that have been misdirected in error."
WHSmith has not revealed how many people received the details of those customers, but it is understood to be thousands.
The BBC has seen some emails which show people using the contact form to complain about the initial problem, in an apparent vicious circle.
WHSmith added that the problematic form had been taken down and those affected were being contacted with an apology.
"We can confirm that this issue has not impacted or compromised any customer passwords or payment details," it said.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which polices data security, said: "We are aware of an incident regarding WHSmith and are making enquiries."
Rangers said up to 1,000 of the birds had been causing environmental problems on Windermere and said other control measures had failed.
About 2,600 people signed a petition urging The Windermere Geese Management Group (WGMG) to reconsider.
However, it has announced it is to go ahead with the cull as planned.
Neil Ryding, who organised the petition, said he believed wildlife was a large draw for visitors to the Lake District and said the group should see that "going to shoot these birds is just wrong".
The group said the geese have a "serious negative impact" on the economy and the environment, adding to pollution within Windermere and the surrounding land.
A WGMG statement said: "The group understands the emotive nature of the proposals and the strong beliefs held by some people.
"But the group remains committed to its original course of action to carry out a managed cull of Canada geese on Windermere.
"We will carry out the cull professionally, quickly and humanely in partnership with the landowners."
TV presenter Bill Oddie and Queen guitarist Brian May also criticised the move.
May said the cull was not justified and humans should not "reach for the gun" each time there was a complaint about "inconvenience or a loss in income" relating to wildlife.
There are estimated to be about 1,200 Canada geese on Windermere at certain times of the year.
Senior figures at Northampton Borough Council were not prepared to proceed with an initial development proposal four years earlier, without safeguards.
But weeks after the chief finance officer left in June 2013, a loan to Northampton Town FC was approved.
The disappearance of the money is now subject to a police investigation.
In the summer of 2009, the Cobblers, under then chairman David Cardoza, proposed the authority hand over the freehold of Sixfields stadium and parts of the surrounding land.
The club would then use the site as security for a loan to attract investors while the council would share any development proceeds.
But the Liberal Democrat councillor in charge of the finance portfolio at the time, David Perkins, says conditions were added after the council's chief finance officer Isabell Procter expressed concern over the club's £7m debt.
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Mr Perkins told the BBC: "Our investigations of the football club's finances ensured that we adopted a very cautious approach towards any proposal from them.
"Consequently we rejected the proposal put forward by the football club and offered our own proposal, which imposed financial and legal safeguards to protect the assets of the council."
A loan from the council itself was not on the table at this time.
Mrs Procter declined to comment, but it is understood at the time of her departure she had not been told of any plans to lend Northampton Town millions of pounds.
Mr Perkins, who worked with Mrs Procter for a number of years, said she would have blocked any loan to the club.
In July 2013, Northampton Borough Council's cabinet approved the £10.25m loan to the Cobblers, delegating authority to the then Conservative leader David Mackintosh and chief executive David Kennedy.
The money was intended to rebuild parts of Sixfields stadium and build a hotel on adjacent land.
According to claims made in court documents, payment dates were then agreed between the council and employees of County Group, owned by Howard Grossman, the developer in charge of the project.
The first £1.5m of the loan was paid to the football club in September 2013, and was then almost immediately paid to a company owned by Mr Grossman called County (Oundle) Ltd.
Subsequent payments were then made to another of Mr Grossman's companies, 1st Land Ltd.
Mr Grossman has previously described claims made in court papers that he had misappropriated the money as "outrageous and deeply offensive".
Mr Cardoza, who is currently on police bail, could not be reached for comment.
But he had previously said: "It is our intention to have the debt repaid."
Mr Mackintosh, now the Conservative MP for Northampton South, has previously told the BBC that he welcomed the police investigation into the missing money.
Northampton Borough Council said: "In August 2009, a proposal went to the Borough Council's Cabinet to support entering into a development agreement with Northampton Town Football Club, the Homes and Communities Agency and a development partner to facilitate the development of the land at Sixfields. This proposal was agreed.
"The cabinet agreed to support in principle the transfer of part of its freehold interest in the Sixfields Stadium prior to physical development taking place on that land.
"The 2009 proposal also did not suggest that the Borough Council lend money to the club.
"No development between those four parties was taken forward in the way the cabinet report had proposed at that time."
"Following the 2010 election, the administration of Northampton Borough Council changed and an agreement was reached with NTFC to make a loan to support the development of the stadium and surrounding land."
The former Liverpool and Swansea City boss has taken over from Ronny Deila.
"We can't wait to get in and see how he wants the team set up and how he wants us to play," Gordon told BBC Scotland.
"That's the most exciting part of it - going into pre-season. Normally, you dread going back in, thinking it is going to be hard work."
Celtic's close season is a short one as their new campaign starts with the second qualifying round of the Champions League on 12 or 13 July.
And, after chatting to staff at Celtic Park on Monday as fans queued to buy season tickets, Gordon came away with the impression that the choice of Rodgers has enthused others around the club.
"It is a massive appointment and a huge name with a great track record coming in," he said of Rodgers, who was greeted by 13,000 fans when he was presented as the manager.
"For me personally, it is very exciting and I think the rest of the players are of the same mindset.
"We are looking forward to getting down to the hard work and seeing what we can do this season."
Gordon was not surprised that Celtic - who have won five Scottish titles in a row - have been able to attract such a high-profile manager because of "the potential it has in Europe and the worldwide appeal that Celtic has".
"I can totally understand why Celtic went for a big name and why someone would want to come to Celtic as well - if somebody is willing to put footballing reasons above everything else," said the 33-year-old Scotland international.
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City rivals Rangers return to the top flight after winning promotion and they, along with Hearts and Celtic, are reporting healthy season ticket sales.
"It looks like it's going to be a good league with some big teams who are capable of beating each other at the top end of the league, which is perhaps something we've not had in recent seasons," added Gordon.
"Obviously, with Hearts coming back up there and doing pretty well and capable of taking points off the other teams in the top six, there's potential there for teams to drop points.
"That's what makes it exciting for everybody to watch and also to play in as well."
Primarily picked for his left-arm spin, he made the highest score by an England number eight making their debut.
"I've never experienced this type of pressure before but I think I'm dealing with it pretty well," said Dawson, 26.
"It was a complete surprise to get the call-up, but I was happy to get it and I'm happy to do well."
Dawson, who has also played one one-day international and one Twenty20 for England, was added to the squad after the third Test because of an injury to fellow spinner Zafar Ansari.
He bats in the middle order for Hampshire and has scored eight first-class hundreds.
Indeed, with a first-class bowling average of 37.47 - higher than his batting mark of 34.17, the finger spinner said he will be looking to learn from India left-armer Ravindra Jadeja.
"The way Jadeja bowls is a learning curve for me," added Dawson, who bowled one over late on day two in Chennai. "I'll be looking to follow his type of speed and line.
"Becoming a genuine all-rounder is my goal. Batting is my priority but I was hoping I'd get at least an over to bowl this evening so that was great."
Dawson was struck on the head by India pace bowler Umesh Yadav from the second ball he faced and offered a leading edge past the grasp of Ravichandran Ashwin.
But he went on to share a partnership of 108 with Adil Rashid, the highest eighth-wicket partnership by an England pair in India.
"The first 20 balls were probably the most nervous I've ever been, but thankfully I came through it," he said.
"Whether you're playing in 50-over or Test cricket, it's still cricket. There are times when you have to adapt when playing domestic cricket in England, and you have to adapt to playing out here."
The Guardian newspaper claims Whisper has an in-house tool which can track the locations of all its users.
This includes some who have specifically opted out of sharing location details, the report claims.
Whisper editor Neetzan Zimmerman tweeted that the article was "riddled with outright lies and made-up quotes".
The Guardian also claimed the app was tracking "newsworthy" posters and was sharing data with the US Department of Defense in instances where secrets were uploaded from military bases.
"We are not sharing specific user data with any organisation," wrote Mr Zimmerman in response.
"We noticed how frequently suicide is mentioned among those living on US military bases or compounds and reached out to organisations to see how we could work together to address this important issue."
However, he added that "violent or child-endangering threats" were reported to law enforcement agents "to protect our users and the public".
"We comply with the legal process in all instances," he wrote.
"We respond to both subpoenas and preservation requests from law enforcement. Whisper is not a place for illegal activity."
Two journalists from the newspaper had visited Whisper's offices in the US to explore a working relationship, which the Guardian says it will no longer pursue due to concerns over user privacy.
The Guardian has been contacted by the BBC for comment.
News and community site Buzzfeed has also announced it is "taking a break" from its partnership with the platform following the report.
"We're taking a break from our partnership until Whisper clarifies to us and its users the policy on user location and privacy," it said in a statement.
Millions of "secrets" - a short sentence written over a picture - have been shared via the social media platform since its launch two years ago.
"You look at all of these services like Facebook and Instagram, and they're all about, 'Let me show you the best version of me,'" Whisper co-founder Michael Heyward told the BBC earlier this year.
"Whisper is about showing people the behind-the-scenes stuff that we're not always comfortable posting on Facebook."
In his response to the Guardian's report, Neetzan Zimmerman added that the firm did not store geographical data or any other information which might identify a user.
"There is nothing in our geolocation data that can be tied to an individual user and a user's anonymity is never compromised," he wrote.
"Even for users who opt into geolocation services, the location information that we do store is obscured to within 500m of their smartphone device's actual location.
"Whisper does not follow or track users. Whisper does not request or store any personally identifiable information from users, therefore there is never a breach of anonymity."
Mr Johannsson, 53, is agriculture and fisheries minister and deputy leader of the Progressive Party (PP).
The move comes after PM and PP chairman Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson stepped down in the wake of the leaked Panama Papers.
The leaks, from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, showed Mr Gunnlaugsson owned an offshore firm with his wife.
It was not declared when he became an MP. Mr Gunnlaugsson says he sold his shares to his wife and denies any wrongdoing. But he is accused of concealing millions of dollars' worth of family assets.
With protesters keeping up a steady drumbeat of pots and pans outside parliament, for the third day in a row, members of Iceland's political parties held lengthy discussions inside.
The demonstrators sensed a deal was in the offing, and hurled eggs and fruit at the building as a mark of disgust. For many of them, nothing less than the resignation of the entire government would do.
But eventually came word that the two coalition parties, the Progressives and Independents, had reached agreement.
Opposition parties don't like the deal and some are vowing to go ahead with a vote of no confidence. The government has a comfortable majority and it seems the crisis may be over, for now.
But polls suggest the Progressive Party has lost much of its support and that the tiny Pirate Party, founded just over three years ago, stands to make significant gains. Unless this government's fortunes change, it could be out of power in a few months' time.
Mr Gunnlaugsson is one of dozens of high-profile global figures mentioned in the 11.5 million leaked financial and legal records, which were first published on Sunday.
Pressure on Mr Gunnlaugsson to step down had been building since then, with thousands of people protesting outside the parliament building in the capital Reykjavik on Monday and opposition parties tabling a confidence motion.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Gunnlaugsson had asked President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson to dissolve parliament and call an early election, although the president said he would need to talk to parties.
But later on Wednesday, Mr Johansson said: "We expect to have elections this autumn," adding that in the meantime the government had work to do.
"We will continue to lead a good government and keep up the good work we have worked on for the last three years and get finished with all those good works we have started on," he said.
Pirate Party leader Birgitta Jonsdottir also told reporters in parliament that early elections would be held in the autumn.
Mr Gunnlaugsson has put out a statement insisting he has not in fact resigned and that Mr Johannsson will take over the post "for an unspecified amount of time".
The documents leaked from Mossack Fonseca show that Mr Gunnlaugsson and his wife bought the company Wintris in 2007.
He did not declare an interest in the company when entering parliament in 2009. He sold his 50% of Wintris to his wife, Anna Sigurlaug Palsdottir, for $1 (£0.70) eight months later.
Mr Gunnlaugsson maintains no rules were broken and his wife did not benefit financially.
In his statement, Mr Gunnlaugsson said he had no wish to stand in the way of further government work, such as reform of the financial system.
Despite also playing seven Tests this summer, Cook, 31, played seven Championship matches for Essex in 2016.
He scored 643 runs at an average of 91.86 to help the county win promotion.
"I love coming back to the club when I can and contributing to a title-winning season meant a great deal," Cook said.
Cook, who has been capped 133 times and scored 10,599 runs at Test level with England, remains centrally contracted by the national side.
He made his first-class debut for Essex in 2003 after coming through the county's academy.
England are touring Bangladesh and India this winter, before home Test series against South Africa and West Indies next summer, but Essex head coach Chris Silverwood is optimistic Cook will score runs for the county next term.
"Hopefully, at the start of next summer, he can be about a bit more and contribute to stabilising our position in County Championship Division One," Silverwood said.
Mahmuda Aktar was shot in the head in Chittagong in front of her six-year-old son.
Her husband, Supt Babul Aktar, is investigating the banned Islamist Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh group.
Police say Mrs Aktar may have been killed because of her husband's work.
Police spokesman Iqbal Bahar said that three men stabbed and then shot her.
"She came out of her apartment to put her son on the school bus [when] suddenly three people on a bike came close to her.
"First they stabbed her and later they shot her. She died immediately.
"As Babul Aktar was involved in working against the militants we will investigate whether the militants carried out this operation."
Among those attacked over the last year are university professors, secular bloggers, gay rights activists, foreigners and members of religious minorities including Shia, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and Hindus.
Some of these attacks have been blamed on the JMB, which, like other militant groups in the country, dislikes anyone not prepared to embrace their hardline Islamist ideology.
Supt Aktar has led several raids on militant hideouts and investigated numerous terror-related cases in his role as the additional deputy commissioner with the Detective Branch in Chittagong, BD News 24 reported.
Supt Aktar was at the forefront of a police operation in October to arrest JMB chief Mohammed Javed.
Mr Javed was killed in a grenade explosion the day after his arrest while leading police to a JMB hideout.
Home Minister Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said after Sunday's attack that the government was now considering providing better security for families of police officers.
"Militants have adopted this strategy to take on soft targets like families of police officers because they have been cornered," he said.
In a separate development, unidentified men hacked to death a Christian grocer in the country's north-west. Police said the motive for the killing in Natore district was unclear.
The group known as Islamic State (IS) said it had carried out the attack.
The government however has repeatedly insisted that IS does not have a presence in the country.
It has blamed more than 20 murders by suspected Islamists over the past three years on opposition parties and local militant groups.
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Registering online should take about five minutes. People may need their National Insurance number, or passport number if a UK citizen living abroad.
In Northern Ireland, people have to download and return a form to register.
The Electoral Commission said it was the "last chance" for people to take part in the 23 June referendum.
In other developments with 16 days to go before the UK decides the UK's future in Europe:
Those eligible to cast a vote on 23 June - which include British or Irish citizens living in the UK who are 18 or over and Citizens of Commonwealth countries who are 18 or over and who have leave to remain in the UK - have to be on the electoral register to actually do so.
Anyone living in the UK who registered to vote ahead of last year's general election or last month's elections in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland does not need to re-register if they are still living at the same address. If they have since moved, they must re-register.
Those who are unsure whether they are registered should contact their local electoral registration office. Those wanting to vote by post must download the application form and return it to their local office by 17:00 BST on Wednesday 8 June in order to qualify. They must return their postal ballots by 22:00 BST on 23 June - when polling stations close.
Who is eligible to vote in the EU referendum
To apply to vote by proxy, people need to complete a separate application form, to be returned by 17.00 BST on 15 June.
About 1.3 million people have applied to register to vote online in the past three weeks, more than half of them under the age of 34.
However, concerns have been expressed that some people, particularly young voters, are being deterred by having to supply their National Insurance number.
More than 185,000 people applied to register online last Friday.
But this figure is expected to be comfortably exceeded on Tuesday because of the publicity surrounding the deadline, with leading politicians from the Remain and Leave campaigns set to make an 11th hour appeal to people to make their voices count on 23 June.
While more than 485,000 people applied to register to vote on deadline day ahead of last year's general election, the Electoral Commission said tens of thousands of others also missed out and warned time was now running out ahead of the EU vote.
"This really is your last chance," said its chair Jenny Watson. "If you aren't already registered to vote, you need to do it by the 7 June deadline or you won't be able to take part in this historic referendum."
Twitter users are being encouraged to remind their followers to sign up using the hashtag #EURefReady in a tie-up between the social media giant and the elections watchdog. Twitter has launched a new emoji to accompany the publicity campaign.
"The #EURef is one of the biggest decisions UK voters have been asked to make in decades so we are keen to ensure people make the most of the live, global conversation unfolding on Twitter to inform their decision," said Twitter UK's Rob Owers.
Meanwhile, some 270 veterans from the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force have issued a last-ditch plea for comrades to register to vote to back Brexit, urging them to continue "to serve their country" in an article for the Sun newspaper.
Levels of turnout - the number of people who actually vote - is likely to be crucial to the outcome of the referendum, with both sides trying to mobilise their supporters and to warn people of the consequences of staying at home on the big day.
The Electoral Commission said levels of awareness about the referendum had increased considerably in recent weeks.
But the Electoral Reform Society said its research suggested only one in four voters felt "well" or "very well" informed about the impending vote while 22% of people canvassed in late May had had no contact from anyone about the referendum.
It called on both sides to focus on the "real issues at stake rather than personality politics, party spats, and name-calling".
The British PM and US president-elect discussed the need for more countries to commit to spending 2% of national income on defence, Number 10 said.
They also agreed their national security advisers would meet in the US before the end of the year.
And they said they would meet in person "at the earliest possible opportunity".
During his election campaign, Mr Trump was critical of Nato, describing the Western military alliance as obsolete.
He suggested that the US would think twice about coming to the aid of any Nato ally under attack if it had not paid its "fair share".
The UK, which meets the commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence, has also been urging other countries to increase their contribution.
Downing Street said the call by Mrs May to Mr Trump would be part of "establishing a regular dialogue between both of them".
The UK government has rebuffed suggestions from ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage - who has already been invited to meet Mr Trump - that he could help to establish relations between the two governments.
The US president-elect also suggested Mr Farage be made the UK ambassador to the United States - a suggestion that was rejected by Downing Street.
The 19-year-old, who joined Spurs last February from MK Dons, has impressed in his first full season and has scored six goals in 30 appearances so far.
"When I signed I knew wanted to play for Spurs," he told the club website.
"I've played a few games and showed people what I can do. I'm 19, have a lot to learn and can't think of a better place to do that."
Alli played at youth levels for England before receiving his first senior call-up for the Euro 2016 qualifiers against Estonia and Lithuania last October.
He made his debut as a substitute against Estonia and a month later scored his first international goal, a long-range effort against France.
Sean Sullivan, 20, had only passed his test the day before the crash which killed Timothy Malone near Cefn Bryn Common, Gower, on 31 July 2016.
Swansea Crown Court heard Sullivan had ignored pleas from his passengers to slow down.
He pleaded guilty to one count of death by dangerous driving and one of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Sullivan also admitted two other charges of dangerous driving involving two other drivers.
Prosecuting, Ian Wright said airbag data from Sullivan's car showed four seconds before impact, it was travelling at 98mph and the throttle was at 100% at 5,000 revs.
"Essentially, his foot was touching the floorboard," he said.
The court heard Mr Malone, who was was staying in a nearby caravan with his wife, Yvonne Howard, was unable to take evasive action or avoid the head on collision on the country road.
Addressing Sullivan in court, Mrs Howard said: "I am haunted by the images of the terrible events of that night - the last time I saw him.
"I cannot heal my tattered heart and soul. I go to sleep in sadness and wake up to sadness. My face is wet with tears every day."
Judge Peter Heywood sentenced Sullivan to five years in a young offenders' institution. He will also be banned from driving for four years following his release.
Speaking after the case, Inspector Steve Davies of South Wales Police, said: "Our thoughts, as ever, are with the family and friends of Timothy Malone who lost his life in such devastating circumstances at Cefn Bryn in Gower, last summer.
"This tragic loss of the life has once again highlighted the consequences of a young and inexperienced driver, driving at excessive speed, which puts drivers, passengers and innocent road users at risk of serious injury or death."
Reggie Cabututan, 30, was honoured by the city of Baguio and offered a chance to study and work in Australia.
"All I did was go back and return [the] belongings when I realised [they had been] left," he told local media.
His actions have won online plaudits all over the world.
Australian businessman Trent Shields in a Facebook post said that Mr Cabututan returned his laptop, passport and headphones worth thousands of dollars when he left them in the cab after he got out feeling unwell on Saturday.
"Reggie did not know the value of the contents, the suitcase was padlocked, and it wouldn't have mattered if there [was] a million dollars or it was empty.
"The real story should be focussed on his integrity," Mr Shields wrote.
"My friend and business partner Ace Estrada put together a small Facebook post to say thank you which blew up over night and became a symbol of pride in the region.
"Reggie embodies many of the values shared by the people of Baguio, and I was lucky enough to experience [them] on my trip."
In a separate Facebook post Mr Estrada said that as a result of his actions the taxi driver and his family would be going to Australia where he can complete a six-month software development course - run by one of Mr Shields' companies - in June.
"When he completes the course, he is guaranteed an internship with an Australian company, leading to a job that will pay him a good starting salary," he wrote.
"Just as we were leaving for the police station to file a report, Trent's taxi pulled in. Never was a sight more welcome than the smiling face of this driver. What an awesome win for humanity!"
Mr Cabututan was also presented with an award by the Baguio city government during a flag ceremony on Monday, the Philippines news website Rappler reported.
The 36-year-old left the Premier League champions at the end of the season after making 717 appearances and winning 13 major trophies in 22 years.
However, the centre-back only featured 14 times for Chelsea in 2016-17.
"We've made him a good offer and we have done the best we can," Redknapp told TalkSport.
"It's up to John now, but we would love him at Birmingham."
Terry is Chelsea's third-highest all-time appearance maker, behind Ron Harris and Peter Bonetti, and holds the club record for appearances as captain.
But he only started two Premier League games after September last campaign as manager Antonio Conte preferred Gary Cahill, Cesar Azpilicueta and David Luiz as his three centre-backs.
Redknapp recently linked up with Terry for Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick's testimonial match, with Terry captaining Redknapp's All-Stars.
He could become Redknapp's second signing as Blues boss, following the arrival of goalkeeper David Stockdale on a free transfer from Brighton on Tuesday.
Workers wearing harnesses are abseiling down Britain's biggest aqueduct to carry out maintenance which includes removing vegetation from the structure.
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The aqueduct and canal were made a world heritage site in 2009.
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Sweeep Kuusakoski is recycling glass from more than 4,000 cathode ray TVs each day, and recovering up to 1kg (2.2lb) of lead from each set.
The leaded glass tubes were previously re-used in the production of new TV sets by firms in Malaysia.
But, after global demand for cathode ray TVs dried up, the firms re-using them closed leaving the glass unusable.
Sweeep Kuusakoski, in Sittingbourne, worked with a British inventor, Simon Greer, to build what it claims is the first furnace capable of extracting lead from the glass tubes to produce pure lead ingots and inert glass.
A Sweeep spokeswoman said: "It is the only solution available as we stand today. In five years no one else has come up with anything else.
"All over Europe, and the US glass stocks are piling up."
The furnace heats up the glass to over 1,000C.
Mr Greer said: "At that temperature we can chemically separate the lead from the glass and get the lead to fall from the bottom of the furnace and let the glass to continue on its journey.
"The glass is now good for turning into aggregates for road use. You wouldn't want to make drinking glasses out of it, but it's not hazardous any more."
Much of the recycled lead is used for car batteries.
Justin Greenaway, of Sweeep Kuusakoski, said: "Out of every waste TV we get 1 kg of lead. It's a valuable rare-earth commodity which would otherwise have had to have been dug up."
About 2 tonnes of lead are extracted each day by the Sittingbourne plant, fetching £1,300 per tonne.
The company employs about 200 people, including 18 from Thamesteel on Sheppey which went into administration in January with the loss of 350 jobs.
The company has now begun negotiations to build a furnace in the United States.
Witnesses told the state-run al-Ahram newspaper that he was dragged from his vehicle after running over one of the protesters at the rally on Monday in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura.
A preliminary medical report said he died from a deep cut to the neck. A photo of his body was posted online.
The interior ministry said that police had arrested 10 suspects.
The protester who the taxi driver is said to have run over was in a critical condition in a hospital in Mansoura, al-Ahram quoted a Facebook page called "Al-Azhar University in Mansoura" as saying.
The protesters were reportedly supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Security has deteriorated in Egypt in the nearly three years since the uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign. There were a number of lynchings during Mr Morsi's one-year rule.
In June, four Shia Muslims were lynched by a mob apparently led by ultraconservative Salafist clerics in a village outside the capital, Cairo.
Three months earlier, vigilantes hanged two suspected thieves in a rural Nile Delta village as a crowd of thousands watched.
Could show creator Lin-Manuel Miranda be persuaded to play the role when the show opens in London in November?
The 37-year-old is in London shooting Mary Poppins Returns and is understood to have sat in on auditions.
According to the Daily Mail, however, he will not be available "until some time in 2018".
A press spokesperson for the show acknowledged there had been speculation but did not comment any further.
The hip-hop musical about one of America's founding fathers dominated last year's Tonys, walking away with 11 prizes.
Yet none of its award-winning stars will be reprising their roles in the show's initial run at London's Victoria Palace theatre.
The role of Aaron Burr will be played by Giles Terera, who was seen at the National Theatre last year in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
The actor, who has also appeared in Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, will play Hamilton's political rival, a role that saw Leslie Odom Jr win the Tony for best actor in a musical.
Miranda himself described Terera as "CRAZY good" on Twitter.
Hamilton's wife Eliza will be played by Rachelle Ann Go, the Filipino actress who played Gigi in Sir Cameron Mackintosh's 2014 revival of Miss Saigon.
Go will be reprising that role on Broadway this March, after which she will travel to London to begin Hamilton rehearsals.
Fellow Filipino Christine Allado will play the dual role of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds, while Rachel John will play Angelica, the oldest of the show's three "Schuyler Sisters".
Actress Lea Salonga, Miss Saigon's original star, welcomed the casting of "two Pinay Schuyler Sisters" in the West End production in a congratulatory tweet.
Jason Pennycooke will play the dual role of the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, while Cleve September will double up as John Laurens and Hamilton's son Philip.
George Washington, America's first president, will be played Obioma Ugoala, currently to be found playing Smokey Robinson in Motown the Musical.
Newcomer Tarinn Callender, meanwhile, will make his professional stage debut in the dual role of Hercules Mulligan and James Madison.
There is no news yet on who will play the role of King George III, the British monarch who was on the throne at the time of the American Revolution.
Set during the American War of Independence and its aftermath, Hamilton uses hip-hop, rap and R&B to chart the life of the new nation's first treasury secretary.
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All routes between Cardiff and Newport and Arriva Trains Wales services between west Wales and the Valleys are subject to alteration.
No trains will run between Cardiff Central and Cardiff Queen Street.
Passengers had faced cancellations and delays before new year as a result of re-signalling work in Cardiff Central.
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The surge of water is also reported to have swept away 11 homes in the village of Nuugaatsiaq.
Police chief Bjørn Tegner Bay said he was unable to confirm whether there had been fatalities, according to KNR, Greenland's broadcasting corporation.
The authorities believe a magnitude four earthquake caused the tsunami.
According to the police chief, it struck off Uummannaq, a small island well above the Arctic Circle.
Meteorologist Trine Dahl Jensen told Danish news agency Ritzau that for such an earthquake to hit Greenland was "not normal", as she warned of the risk of aftershocks.
Emergency services were initially called at 22:15 local time (00:15 GMT) to reports of major flooding in the village, the Greenland Police's Facebook page said.
There were also reports of waves striking two other villages.
A helicopter flying over the area reported "big waves" spotted about 24 miles off the coast.
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Gordon Strachan's side were utterly dominant and rewarded the loyalty of a large travelling support with an emphatic if meaningless win.
A Chris Martin header and Shaun Maloney's curling shot had Scotland two up at half-time.
Steven Fletcher's second-half hat-trick and Steven Naismith's late finish gave the Tartan Army more to cheer.
The resounding nature of the victory does little to assuage the disappointment at failing to qualify for next year's tournament in France.
The fourth-place finish has already resulted in much soul-searching, not least by the manager who has yet to indicate whether he will still be in charge when qualifying for the 2018 World Cup commences in Malta next September.
The travelling supporters made their thoughts on the matter clear, with renditions of 'Only one Gordon Strachan'. Whether the manager is minded to give them the answer they desire should become clearer in the coming days.
Whether Strachan learned anything over the course of these 90 minutes that would help him in future preparations - should he stay - is arguable.
The match resembled a training exercise, often a shooting practice, against a team that, for all their endeavour, still looks out of place on the international stage.
That said, Scotland played some nice football and, with a bit of fortune and care, might even have scored double their final tally. Maloney went close on three occasions before his goal, Fletcher hit a post, Matt Ritchie had a header cleared off the line and Johnny Russell was denied by Jamie Robba from close range.
An assured performance by Andy Robertson - surely the first-choice left back for the next campaign - was another positive element, as was a marauding display on the right by Alan Hutton, free of defensive concerns.
So too the endless willingness and quick-thinking of Maloney, though for him and one or two others in the team another attritional campaign may have limited appeal.
Fletcher made a strong case for his continuing inclusion up front with his second hat-trick of the campaign against Gibraltar.
Buoyed by his stunning strike against Poland, the striker looked lively throughout and, though frustrated in front of goal in the first period, he headed in Hutton's cross early in the second half.
That was quickly followed by his second - a clever slotted effort in off a post.
But he saved the best till last - a curling shot reminiscent of Thursday's goal, which came off the underside of the bar before nestling in the net.
Mr Fillon's campaign has been dogged by claims, which he denies, that his wife and two of his children were paid for non-existent parliamentary work.
While an initial investigation is already under way, a decision on a more formal probe has yet to be made.
"I am the candidate and I will continue until victory," he said.
"The closer we get to the date of the election, the more scandalous it would be to deny the Right and the Centre of a candidate," he told Le Figaro, adding that he had hoped a decision would have been taken sooner.
The first round of the election will be held on 23 April, with the second round run-off between two candidates two weeks later.
On 26 January, he had told the TF1 channel that "the only thing that would prevent me from being a candidate is if my honour was tainted, if I was placed under examination".
While France's financial prosecutor decided to keep an initial investigation open on Thursday, the decision to launch a more formal probe would need to be taken by a magistrate. It could take months or years to reach that point.
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Media reports say Mr Fillon's Welsh-born wife Penelope earned €831,400 (£710,000; $880,000) as her husband's parliamentary assistant between 1998 and 2012, and questioned how much work she had done.
It subsequently emerged that Mr Fillon had hired two of his children to act as lawyers, paying them €84,000 between 2005 and 2007 - when they were students.
In early February, he said that although what he had done was legal, French people no longer accepted the practice and that he had made a "mistake".
The controversy has hit Mr Fillon in the polls, with one new survey by Ifop for three French media outlets on Friday suggesting he is neck-and-neck with centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron.
But the poll places both behind the far-right's Marine Le Pen.
"Despite the prominence of 'PenelopeGate' in conversations in France, and the storm around his campaign, Francois Fillon has this week managed to stop the electoral haemorrhage, and even to progress a little," Ifop's analysis said.
Polls indicate Mr Fillon or Mr Macron would easily beat Ms Le Pen in the second round of the election in May.
Darren Moorhouse, 49, died after being attacked at Athol Close, Halifax, on Wednesday, West Yorkshire Police said.
A post-mortem examination found that Mr Moorhouse died as a result of a stab wound to the chest. 　
Christopher Churchill, aged 33, of Athol Close, Halifax, and Dale Dwyer, aged 25, of Alma Street, Buxton, Derbyshire, were charged on Saturday.
They are due to appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court.
A 31-year-old woman arrested on Wednesday evening has been released without charge.
Mr Assange denies sexually assaulting two women in Sweden. He was remanded in custody pending a hearing next week.
A judge at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court refused bail because of the risk of the 39-year-old fleeing.
A Wikileaks spokesman said the arrest was an attack on media freedom and pledged to continue publishing.
After the court appearance Mr Assange's lawyer Mark Stephens said he would be applying again for bail.
He claimed the accusations were "politically motivated" and said the judge was keen to see the evidence against Mr Assange, an Australian citizen.
Mr Stephens said Wikileaks would continue to publish material and added: "We are on cable 301 and there are 250,000 secret cables."
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Assange's arrest was "a matter for the police" and there had been no ministerial involvement.
The Pentagon welcomed the arrest, with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates saying on a visit to Afghanistan that it was "good news".
Prosecutors in Sweden have insisted the extradition request is a matter of criminal law and they "have not been put under any kind of pressure, political or otherwise".
Five people, including journalist John Pilger, film director Ken Loach and Jemima Khan, the sister of Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, offered to put up sureties.
But district judge Howard Riddle refused bail for Mr Assange and he was remanded in custody until 14 December.
Judge Riddle said he believed Mr Assange might flee and he also feared he "may be at risk from unstable persons".
Gemma Lindfield, for the Swedish authorities, gave details of the allegations against Mr Assange.
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One of the allegations is that he had unprotected sex with a woman, identified only as Miss A, when she insisted he use a condom.
Another is that he had unprotected sex with another woman, Miss W, while she was asleep.
Mr Assange, who was accompanied by Australian consular officials, initially refused to say where he lived but eventually gave an address in Australia.
Afterwards Ms Khan explained why she was willing to put up a surety: "I offered my support as I believe that this is about the universal right of freedom of information and our right to be told the truth."
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At a full hearing, which is not likely to take place for some weeks, Mr Assange will be able to raise his arguments against extradition.
The "fast-track" European arrest warrant system is based on the concept that all the participating countries have legal systems which meet similar standards, and fully respect human rights.
If Julian Assange is to avoid extradition he would need to show the warrant is politically motivated. This has been argued successfully in the past by Russian oligarchs, though Sweden has a better judicial record than Russia.
Or he would need to use technical arguments - arguing the warrant does not show specifically what law has been broken. But most technical mistakes could be resolved eventually and the warrant reissued.
Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said it would not stop the release of more secret files and told Reuters on Tuesday: "Wikileaks is operational. We are continuing on the same track as laid out before.
"Any development with regards to Julian Assange will not change the plans we have with regards to the releases today and in the coming days."
He said Wikileaks was being operated by a group in London and other secret locations.
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US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said it was possible the US would make an extradition request for Mr Assange but he said it was premature as the criminal investigation into Wikileaks was still ongoing.
Mr Assange was arrested by appointment at a London police station at 0930 GMT.
Wikileaks' struggle to stay online
Police contacted Mr Stephens on Monday night after receiving a European arrest warrant from the Swedish authorities.
An earlier warrant, issued last month, had not been filled in correctly.
Mr Assange has come in for criticism in the past week for the revelations made on Wikileaks.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has criticised the website for publishing details of sensitive sites, including some in the UK, saying they could be targeted by terrorists.
But, in an article for The Australian newspaper, Mr Assange denied he had put lives at risk and said Wikileaks deserved to be protected.
Mr Crowley said: "The (US) constitution enshrines the freedom of the press and we respect that, even if we have concerns about how that is exercised".
Gerard Batten, a UKIP MEP, said the Assange case highlighted the dangers of the European arrest warrant.
He said: "I don't know of the quality of the evidence in Mr Assange's case but it does seem that he is involved in political turmoil and intrigue and there are a lot of people keen to shut him up and there is nothing a court in the UK can do to look at the evidence before they extradite him."
Mr Assange's supporters have written an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, asking her to protect him.
Mr Pilger, who appeared in court to support Mr Assange, said Ms Gillard's threat to remove his passport smacked of "totalitarianism".
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They said 727,947 people had signed their petition to have a vote - more than required by Ecuadorian law.
President Rafael Correa has promised that any oil earnings from the park would be used for poverty alleviation.
But critics say one of the world's most biodiverse areas would be damaged.
The signatures were gathered by Yasunidos, an organisation of environmentalist and indigenous groups.
"With these signatures we are certain that the popular consultation vote will go ahead," Carla Espin of Yasunidos told reporters in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito.
The signatures, which came from as far away as Australia, Mexico and Europe, still need to be validated by the Ecuadorian electoral authorities.
It would then be up to the Constitutional Court to authorise a referendum on the issue.
Limited oil exploitation has been taking place in parts of Yasuni, which covers nearly 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles), since the 1970s.
But last year President Rafael Correa abandoned a conservation plan that would have seen rich nations pay Ecuador not to drill in previously untouched parts of the park.
Mr Correa said the initiative had attracted only a fraction of the $3.6bn (£2.1bn) it had aimed to raise, leaving Ecuador with no choice but go ahead with drilling. Oil is the country's main export.
There were protests in Quito against his decision.
The park supports a huge variety of wildlife, including unique species of birds, monkeys and amphibians.
It is also home to the Huaorani and other indigenous people who had virtually no contact with the outside world until recent decades.
Yasuni oilfields hold an estimated 846 million barrels of crude, 20 percent of Ecuador's reserves.
Last year, MPs approved new guidance for judges making clear a criminal's right to a family life had limits.
But in the Mail on Sunday, Mrs May said she now wanted to introduce a law to require most foreigners guilty of serious crimes to be deported.
Some judges were choosing to "ignore parliament's wishes," she argued.
Last year's guidance was designed to put an end to circumstances in which the right to a family life as set out in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights was used to justify granting foreign criminals the right to remain in the UK, rather than being deported.
Last year, Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke obtained Home Office figures suggesting that 177 foreign criminals avoided deportation in the year 2011 to 2012 after convincing judges of their right to a family life in Britain.
At the time, Labour questioned whether the guidance would be sufficient to override the precedent set by earlier cases and said it would support primary legislation.
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The home secretary, in her newspaper article, blamed judges who had "got it into their heads that the ECHR Article Eight 'right to family life' could not be curbed".
"Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented," she wrote.
She noted that one judge had justified his decision on the basis that the new guidance had been subject only to "a weak form of Parliamentary scrutiny".
Mrs May went on: "It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.
"Yet some judges seem to believe that they can ignore Parliament's wishes if they think that the procedures for parliamentary scrutiny have been 'weak'. That appears actually to mean that they can ignore Parliament when they think it came to the wrong conclusion."
The home secretary said she was determined to bring forward a new law making it clear the deportation should be the norm in everything but "extraordinary circumstances".
However, she warned the delay in getting that onto the statute book would inevitably mean "more victims of violent crimes committed by foreigners in this country".
The home secretary stressed there was not a dispute about respect for human rights, which she said she agreed was "an essential part of any decent legal system".
"It is about how to balance rights against each other: in particular, the individual's right to family life, the right of the individual to be free from violent crime, and the right of society to protect itself against foreign criminals," she said.
Despite her criticisms of what she said was a minority among the judiciary, Mrs May insisted that she was "a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain".
And she accepted the need for the power of government ministers to be "reviewed and restrained" by the judiciary.
However, she stressed that UK laws are "made by the elected representatives of the people in Parliament", adding: "Our democracy is subverted when judges decide to take on that role for themselves".
Human rights lawyer and Labour peer Baroness Kennedy described Mrs May's position as a "populist bit of politicking".
On the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, she said the number of cases that would be affected by the new law was "minuscule".
"This depresses me," Baroness Kennedy said. "It's a common story with home secretaries that this is what they end up doing.
"We've got to remember that this is about the independence of the judiciary and why that's so important.
"It's absolutely imperative that judges are not under the thumb of home secretaries, and it can be frustrating for home secretaries of course, but it is not good to see this kind of vocal attack on the judges, and I am sad that she has done this."
It was the job of the criminal courts to decide how best to protect the community from offenders by imposing custodial sentences, and subsequent judgements on whether to deport a foreign criminal on their release from prison could be "very difficult, subtle decisions", she said.
Then she compromised - tabling an amendment designed to sidestep a row.
And then almost 50 rebels ignored her instructions.
Were she Labour's permanent leader, her authority would be in tatters.
But it's not about her; she'll be gone by the autumn.
The real question is: could any of her would-be successors persuade the party that welfare must be reformed now?
Would they want, or dare, to try?
One of them, Andy Burnham, says he's "firing the starting gun on Labour's opposition" to the welfare bill, but he didn't vote against it.
How come? Labour's compromise amendment said the party "declines to give a Second Reading" to the Bill.
So Labour MPs who did what they were told last night - Burnham among them - voted for a Labour amendment that said they wouldn't give the bill a second reading, then abstained 15 minutes later when they got a chance to vote for real on whether to give the bill second reading.
Confused? That's political compromise for you.
Burnham can fairly hint he fell out with Harriet Harman over the idea of accepting cuts and pushed her to change her position - and say he would do things differently if he got elected leader. But the comments below his Facebook posting explaining all this suggest some potential supporters are unimpressed.
One reads: "I am so sorry Andy, but tonight you lost my vote for leadership."
Posts on the net are no certain judge of sentiment, but it's fair to say if George Osborne hoped to create splits, confusion and rancour in Labour's ranks, he succeeded.
There have been bigger tussles between left and right in Labour's history, and bigger and more memorable rebellions.
But this drama is staged in plain sight, with fresh, young MPs playing leading roles, at the moment the party chooses a leader who may - perhaps - be in place at the general election.
In influencing what positions the leadership candidates take, it could help define the sort of party that fights the 2020 campaign.
And it could reveal how much space in the centre ground of British politics is left for the chancellor to try to claim for his own.
Southern Fail: The Musical includes songs such as "Imagine There's No Southern" and "Haywards Heath" to the tune of 1970s hit Echo Beach.
Director Mark Brailsford and writer Simon Levenson joined forces to create a musical that would "force the rail operator to reflect on its conduct".
It premieres in Brighton this weekend, with more dates in the pipeline.
The musical uses snippets of The Treason Show, a comedy sketch series running in Brighton for 17 years, plus new material.
Mr Brailsford, 51, said: "I like the Peter Cook quote about the Berlin cabarets which helped 'stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War'.
"Satire doesn't really change the world, but it can add its little 10 pence. It channels people's anger and shines a mirror up to the issue.
"It's insulting that Southern Rail refers to us as customers, implying we have the choice to use another rail service."
The musical centres around two commuters, who become friends and stand up to the firm.
It features songs including Imagine There's No Southern.
Another tune includes the lyrics: "Grayling's failing, Once again I'm late for tea. Grayling's failing, he's not bothered, and he blames the RMT."
The year-long dispute between Southern Rail and the RMT union and train drivers' union Aslef, centres around Driver Only Operated trains.
All deal negotiations so far have failed, and more strikes are expected, after the latest action was called off after the Manchester attack.
Regardless of whether a deal is made, Mr Brailsford said they would never be short of Southern material, as "it was never a good service".
This year, the company was ranked lowest in a UK-wide customer satisfaction survey.
A Southern spokeswoman said the musical was written when industrial action meant the firm was having to cancel trains, but now they were in the process of "transforming and future-proofing" the service with "extensive infrastructure rebuilding and upgrades, new trains and technologies".
"We are still in transition but we are starting to see performance improvements and this will continue."
The show premieres at the Brighton Fringe Festival on Friday 2 June and Saturday 3 June, with shows scheduled for 10 June at Shoreham Ropetackle and 24 June at Brighton's Sallis Benney Theatre.
A crowdfunding page has been set up to try and take the show to other venues along the rail line into London.
After sweeping across the Great Lakes, the storm dumped 5ft (1.5m) of snow in the Buffalo area, with more forecast.
The storm caused seven deaths there - one in a car crash, one trapped in a car and five from heart attacks.
Freezing temperatures were recorded across the country, and there were more deaths elsewhere in the country.
"We have tried to get out of our house, and we are lucky to be able to shovel so we can open the door," said Linda Oakley, a resident of Buffalo.
"We're just thinking that in case of an emergency we can at least get out the door," she added. "We can't go any further."
Residents were reported trapped in their homes and cars, and strong winds and icy roads caused motorway accidents and forced school closures in parts of the US.
More than 100 vehicles were reported trapped along a New York state roadway on Wednesday.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo deployed more than 100 National Guard members to assist in clearing roads and removing abandoned vehicles.
"This is an historic event," he said. "When all is said and done, this snowstorm will break all sorts of records, and that's saying something in Buffalo."
The National Weather Service said some places could top the record for a single-day of snowfall, which is 6ft 4ins (1.93m).
Elsewhere:
Train service in parts of New York state was suspended on Wednesday, while long stretches of highway near Buffalo were shuttered.
As well as the fatalities in New York, there were two other weather-related deaths reported in New Hampshire and Michigan.
About 20 people have died across the US since Saturday.
Three firefighters in Indiana were also injured when a trailer struck a fire truck on a snow-covered roadway.
Amid the weather, the State University of New York Buffalo announced it planned to go ahead with a nationally televised football game on Wednesday evening, although all pre-game activities were cancelled.
Malusi Gigaba added that more than 60 employees of retail chain Spar "without documentation" had been arrested.
Mr Gigaba warned that firms would be "penalised" if they breached the law, and said they should not fuel tensions by "playing locals against foreigners".
His comments come amid concern that xenophobia is rising in South Africa.
Many unemployed South Africans accuse foreigners of taking their jobs.
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In the past week, Nigerian nationals have been attacked in the capital Pretoria; on Monday, 34 foreign-owned shops were looted in parts of Pretoria, and a local group has called for a march for Friday to protest at immigrants it says are taking their jobs.
The attacks triggered condemnation by the Nigerian government and a call by MPs for Nigeria's ambassador to South Africa to be recalled.
But South Africa's foreign affairs department dismissed claims that Nigerian nationals were targets of xenophobic violence.
Spokesperson Clayson Monyela said the attacks were nothing more than sporadic criminal incidents. The government also said inflammatory social media statements by South Africans and foreign nationals against each other were unnecessary.
However, Thursday saw protesters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, target the head office of South African telecoms company MTN in apparent retaliation for violence against Nigerians in South Africa.
Mr Gigaba, whose comments have been published on the government's Twitter account, said South Africans should not be portrayed as "mere xenophobes".
He added that 33,339 people had been deported in 2015-16.
South Africa's Home Affairs Department is getting tough on business - but will it work? The sense in some circles is it'll be all talk and no action - purely because they aren't enough people to carry out the job. The country is among the top 10 picks in the world for migrants looking for safety or a fresh start, according to the office of the president.
In the spirit of "Ubuntu"- humanity - South Africa has been hard-pressed to turn away its neighbours when they came knocking in their millions over the years. So what's the problem? Businesses have been accused of taking advantage of the situation by hiring illegal immigrants as cheap labour to avoid complying with government policy of fair pay.
This is partly where the "foreigners are taking our jobs sentiment" touted at the moment comes from. But the government can't afford to not act - those frustrated with the challenges presented by the country's porous borders are taking to violence to get their voices heard and making like difficult for foreigners living in their communities.
Still, the current trend of migration is placing additional pressure on the already struggling economy and something has got to give. While some are calling for stricter laws altogether, a more immediate response could be a more careful vetting of who is in the country and why. Are they actual asylum seekers or economic migrants - with the latter more likely to get caught in the eye of the storm.
In his budget speech on Wednesday, South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said that 35% of the labour force was unemployed or had given up looking for work.
South Africa experienced its worst outbreak of violence against foreigners in 2008, when more than 60 people died.
Two years ago, similar unrest in the cities of Johannesburg and Durban claimed seven lives as African immigrants were hunted down and attacked by gangs.
There are 20 MPs and peers from different parties who act as trade representatives abroad.
Mr Duncan Smith said it was "absurd" that this list should include "people who are viscerally opposed to Brexit".
Trade envoys have responded that Brexit is irrelevant to their work.
The former work and pensions secretary was commenting on the fact that some of the current trade envoys voted against the government during the passage of the bill which enabled the triggering of Article 50.
He told the website BrexitCentral: "It is quite unacceptable and high time we appointed new people who believe that what we are doing is positive and full of new opportunity."
But one of the envoys in question - Lib Dem Baroness Northover, who represents the UK in Angola, told the BBC: "He seems to have misunderstood the role of the UK's trade envoys."
She added: "We worked to increase trade before the referendum, and we continue to do so now... Where we stand on the referendum is irrelevant."
The envoy to Oman, Conservative former defence minister Lord Astor of Hever, said he and his colleagues were "doing a huge amount of work around the world, but we'd be doing this whether or not we are in the EU".
He specified that Brexit "hasn't been mentioned" in his interaction with Oman.
He stressed that, like Iain Duncan Smith, he wants to "follow the will of the people in leaving the EU".
A government spokesman said: "The trade envoy programme is a cross-party network of parliamentarians from both Houses whose role is promoting trade and investment between the UK and overseas markets.
"The voluntary roles are appointed by the prime minister and all envoys bring a wealth of experience to help support British businesses in growing and succeeding internationally."
The programme was set up in 2012 under David Cameron to help the UK build links with markets where there is less ministerial engagement, usually developing countries.
The BBC understands all the envoys recently received a letter from the international trade secretary, Liam Fox, confirming they would continue in their roles and the government sees their work as "crucial".
That is a notion raised by Daniel Finkelstein in The Times today. This idea - which has fans in Westminster and Whitehall - strikes me as a misreading of the situation in Europe.
This idea has arisen because Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, is a game theorist, a type of economist who studies interactions in simplified versions of reality.
These stylised scenarios are known, in the jargon, as "games". Famous ones you might have heard of include "the Stag Hunt", "The Ultimatum Game" and - most famously - "the Prisoner's Dilemma".
One famous game is called "Chicken". Imagine two cars racing towards one another. If neither swerves, both drivers lose. If either swerves, however, that person is deemed to lose.
This is a bit like the Greek negotiation. Neither side wants to give in first, but neither side wants to end with no deal.
This is a hard game to be good at - unless you can send a worrying signal to the driver of the other car.
You could try to convince the other driver that you have no control of the car, so they will be forced to move.
Rip off the steering wheel and wave it out of the window, perhaps? Or you could behave like you enjoy crashes - or are indifferent to the pain they cause. That, Lord Finkelstein has suggested, was part of the Greek negotiating strategy.
Lord Finkelstein wrote: "Varoufakis believed that if his negotiating partners - the Germans, the IMF, the Commission - concluded he was a bit bonkers, a bit reckless, they would appreciate that he might crash the Greek economy and bring down the whole edifice of the euro on top of him. Persuading your adversary that you are mad is a classic game theory gambit."
I think you can understand the Greek position much more simply: they predicated their negotiating position on notions that turned out to be untrue.
Here is another simple idea from game theory: a classic negotiation between two parties is best understood by looking at ideas called the "outside option" and the "inside option".
The outside option is the outcome for each individual if the negotiation fails. The inside option is what you get if the negotiation is completed. Negotiation is usually the process of changing the value of the inside option.
If you are trying to buy a car from a salesperson, then the outside option is walking away - keep your cash, take no car and retain the option of starting a negotiation with other salespeople.
For the seller, the outside option means keeping the car, having less cash and retaining the option of selling that car to someone else.
Fair and free negotiations will usually fail unless the inside option is better than the outside option.
If it is better not to agree for any party, they won't. My assumption (largely based on Duncan's great reporting) is that Mr Varoufakis, a few months ago, thought that the outside option for Europe was gruesome.
So he could demand a lot, and they would still agree because it would be better for them.
For example, we know that he estimated that a messy Greek default would lead to financial contagion: for the sake of not saving little Greece, Europe could make investors worry about lending to Portugal, Spain or Italy.
He wrote in 2012 "the notion that Europe is ready for a Grexit is absurd."
Measures then under way by the ECB could not limit "the damage on Spain, then Italy etc."
In short, if Europe did not cut a deal, Greece would rip Europe in two. That would make the outside option for Europe a catastrophe.
And Mr Varoufakis also assumed that the outside option for Greece was not all that bad. That means his hand, in a negotiation, would be very strong.
That is because, quite recently, Greece was running a so-called "primary surplus" earlier this year.
That means if it got cut off from financial markets because it failed to pay its debtors, it could still keep its public services running.
I would presume he also thought the banks would be kept afloat by the European Central Bank: in previous chapters of the crisis, it actually rewrote its own rules to keep the banks open and liquid in Greece.
In that situation, Mr Varoufakis thought the damage of a failure to agree would be much worse to Europe than it would be to Greece.
And, in that situation, the best strategy for Greece is to wait. This isn't a "madman" strategy. It's a quite rational calculation about the outside option.
So he wanted to wait for investors to start fretting and fussing, for bond yields to rise, for bank shares to start shedding value and for a credit squeeze to start moving through Europe.
If contagion ever made it look like Spain or - heaven forbid - the vast Italian debt could not be serviced, the Eurogroup would race to offer a deal to Greece on good terms.
There was a catch, though. All of his assumptions were wrong.
First, investors have been very unconcerned by Greek default. They see the politics and arithmetic of Greece as different to the rest of the continent and do not see parallels between them.
So the market panics never came. The Eurogroup could afford to wait.
Second, Greece nosedived into recession. It is surely not now running a primary surplus.
That means that Greece needs help just to run the existing level of public services. That means pain to Greece for not being able to access new financing. It cannot wait.
Third, the ECB did not keep Greece's banks going, which means the economy is being suffocated.
Every day that this runs on makes the situation worse, businesses being shut down and individuals suffering. This whole scenario is dismal for the Greeks - and worsens every day.
In short, the outside option turns out, in the past few weeks, to have been much worse for Greece and a lot less damaging to the rest of Europe than they thought.
So the inside option they thought they might be able to extract from the rest of Europe turns out to be much worse than they once imagined.
That all strikes me as a simpler explanation of the Syriza strategy than a "madman at the wheel" gambit.
Indeed, put this argument another way: if you were to pursue that strategy, would you do it like this?
If I were pursuing that approach, I would start openly preparing for a messy default and exit from the Eurozone.
This is not to say that I think Syriza solely misjudged the economics.
Natural allies in Rome and Paris were alienated. Syriza misunderstood what role the US State Department would play.
They made it politically difficult for German and Dutch politicians to help them.
They also behaved, at times, as though the governments who lend them money do not have their own democratic mandates.
But I think a misreading the outside option for the rest of Europe is a major part of what went wrong - not a failed plea of insanity.
Yasmin Seweid, 18, said three men had called her a "terrorist".
She has been charged with filing a false report and obstructing governmental administration.
She reportedly later admitted to police she had been out drinking and had made up the story as an excuse.
The student originally told police the men had told her to "get out of this country" and to "get the f****** hijab off your head!", NBC reports.
She said they had tried to tear off her headscarf and that no bystanders had intervened during the alleged incident on 1 December. She also said that one of the men had grabbed her bag, breaking the strap.
"It breaks my heart that so many individuals chose to be bystanders while watching me get harassed verbally and physically by these disgusting pigs," she said on Facebook one day later, according to NBC.
But officials reportedly got suspicious when they could not find witnesses or any significant video.
Then, last Friday, the woman was reported missing, in a case that was widely reported on US media. She was found one day later.
She was arrested on Wednesday and admitted fabricating the story to avoid getting into trouble with her parents.
Ms Seweid was arraigned at Manhattan Criminal Court, where she appeared without a veil and with her hair shaved. Unnamed sources told the NY Daily News her parents had forced her to cut her hair over the incident.
Released on Thursday, she faces up to a year in jail for each charge.
In the days after the election of Mr Trump in November, hundreds of alleged cases of intimidation and abuse were reported in the US. Many of the cases were linked to Trump supporters, a monitoring group said.
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The regulator, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), said there had been public complaints that they prompted curiosity in "innocent children".
Pakistan is a socially conservative country and such commercials were already rare.
Last year a specific advert for Josh condoms was banned as "immoral".
Pakistan, the world's sixth most populous nation, has a lower rate of access to birth control than the average for the region, according to the World Health Organization.
In a video message posted on Twitter, Kathy Griffin "begged" for forgiveness and said she had "crossed a line".
She said she was asking celebrity photographer Tyler Shields to remove the photo from the internet.
The gruesome image brought a storm of online criticism, including from Mr Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr.
"Disgusting but not surprising," he tweeted. "This is the left today. They consider this acceptable."
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Mr Trump's 2016 election rival Hillary, also condemned the image, calling it "vile and wrong".
"It is never funny to joke about killing a president," she tweeted.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney also waded in, tweeting: "Our politics have become too base, too low, & too vulgar, but Kathy Griffin's post descends into an even more repugnant & vile territory."
The 56-year-old Emmy award-winning actress and comedian has been a staunch critic of President Trump.
In her video apology, she said: "I'm just now seeing the reaction of these images. I'm a comic, I crossed the line. I moved the line and then I crossed it. I went way too far.
"The image is too disturbing. I understand how it affects people. It wasn't funny, I get it. I beg for your forgiveness."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti pictured his "muse and lover" Jane Morris in many of his Pre-Raphaelite works.
Thirty paintings, sketches and photos of her feature in the Rossetti's Obsession exhibition at Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, until 21 September.
Galleries director Sandra Penketh said the exhibition marks 100 years since Mrs Morris' death.
Ms Penketh said: "Jane Morris as a model, muse, wife, lover and artist in her own right was at the heart of this explosive group which challenged the art establishment of the time."
Rossetti had a long affair with model Mrs Morris shortly after she married William in 1859.
Ms Penketh said Rossetti, who died in 1882, depicted Mrs Morris as the "ultimate femme-fatale".
"Her striking features, tumbling long hair and haunting stare appear in so many of Rossetti's finest works that they have become indelibly associated with the movement," Ms Penketh added.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded 150 years ago by Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais who wanted to revolutionise the Victorian art world.
Under the plan, production at the plant in Peterlee, County Durham would be moved to other sites in the UK, owner PepsiCo said.
It said the decision had been taken in an effort to find "crucial savings" and to ensure the long-term growth of the business.
Manufacturing managing director at the Peterlee site, Tracey Foster, said union consultations had begun.
In a statement, she said: "In order to improve the efficiency of our UK snacks manufacturing operations, we are proposing the closure of our factory at Peterlee.
"Crisps currently produced at the site would be manufactured at our other facilities in the UK.
"Peterlee has been an important site for our business but the changes we are proposing present significant productivity and efficiency savings crucial for ensuring the long-term sustainable growth of our business in the UK.
"We appreciate this is upsetting news for everyone at the Peterlee site.
"No decisions will be made without first consulting employees and their representatives. We would also like to reassure colleagues that we will be providing on-going support and assistance from this point onwards."
Labour MP Grahame Morris, whose Easington constituency includes the Peterlee factory, described the announcement as a "bitter blow" for East Durham.
Sheena Ramsey is to take voluntary redundancy at the end of the month.
A management restructure will also result in the loss of "several senior manager posts" to "realise more savings", the authority said.
The council said the review had only just started and that it could not say how many senior roles would be axed.
In a statement, Knowsley Council said: "One of the ways in which we plan to achieve savings is by further reducing our senior management costs.
"In view of this, Sheena Ramsey has decided to step down from her role as chief executive and take voluntary redundancy.
"We will also be looking to restructure our senior management arrangements resulting in a loss of several senior manager posts to realise more savings, as well as reducing our workforce by 200 jobs."
Ms Ramsey, who earns a salary of between £175,000 and £192,000, has worked at the authority for nine years.
The 19-year-old, who made 19 appearances for the Scottish Premiership side last season, has agreed a two-year deal at the Amex.
Centre-back Hall, who is a Northern Ireland Under-19 international, will initially join Albion's under-21 squad.
"Ben is an excellent young prospect," Seagulls boss Chris Hughton told the club website.
"His challenge is not only to progress but to be ready to make that step up into the first-team squad."
Motherwell say Hall, who joined Well from Dungannon Swifts in 2013, was offered several new contracts to stay at Fir Park.
"We have been in discussions with Ben for the best part of five months," manager Mark McGhee told his club website.
"However, we have always been conscious that this may happen and, as such, have been working on a replacement, which we hope to announce soon."
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Matt Baggott said an "over zealous" approach could have inflamed the situation.
He was speaking to the NI Affairs Committee at Westminster.
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Created in 1922, the bronze casting of Degas' original wax figure fetched a record sum for one of his sculptures.
The Sotheby's auction also saw the first work to be sold from Cornelius Gurlitt's trove of Nazi-looted art.
Max Liebermann's Two Riders on a Beach, which was among more than 1,200 works found in Gurlitt's Munich apartment three years ago, went for £1.87m.
The 1901 oil painting made more than three times the pre-sale upper estimate of £550,000.
"My family and I are very pleased with Sotheby's sale of my great-uncle's painting," said David Toren, the only living heir to have seen Liebermann's artwork hanging in situ before it was seized by the Nazis.
"Recounting the circumstances of this painting's journey and revisiting of my family's history has been very poignant."
The auction also included a Gustav Klimt portrait lost to Jewish owners during the Nazi regime, which came to sale after the resolution of a dispute between descendants of the artist and the subject.
Portrait of Gertrud Loew sold for £24.8m, exceeding the pre-sale estimate of £18m and fetching the second-highest price for a portrait by the artist at auction.
Helena Newman, Sotheby's co-head of impressionist and modern art, described it as "one of his finest portraits to appear at auction in over 20 years".
The Degas sculpture took the French Impressionist three years to finish and was the only sculpture he ever exhibited in his lifetime.
The 28 bronze repetitions that appear in museums and galleries around the world today were cast after his death in 1917.
One of them was previously offered for auction at Christie's in New York in 2011 but failed to sell after the bids stopped at $18.5m (£11.8m).
Other highlights Wednesday's the sale included the first version of Edouard Manet's famous Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere (1881), which fetched £16.9m.
The same work sold for £4.4m when it last appeared at Sotheby's in London in June 1994.
The amusement park announced in March 2016 that it was no longer breeding orcas and would stop making whales do tricks at its amusement parks.
It's all come about after SeaWorld faced lots of criticism from people who say keeping the whales in captivity is cruel and unnecessary.
The chain had another big setback when One Direction's Harry Styles urged his fans not to visit their parks. In October 2015, Californian authorities banned SeaWorld from breeding animals in captivity.
SeaWorld say many of the criticisms aren't fair and that they carry out vital research with the mammals. In announcing the closing of the shows, SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby said , "We are proud of our part in contributing to the human understanding of these animals. As society's understanding of orcas continues to change, SeaWorld is changing with it."
SeaWorld also has big water parks in Texas and Florida which will also be stopping trick shows soon.
They say a new show "Orca Encounter", will open in San Diego from summer 2017 which won't be a theatrical show, but will focus on the animals themselves, their exercise and their overall health.
In the meantime, SeaWorld San Diego say they will still have an temporary orca presentation in an underwater viewing pool.
The government called the move the "largest resettlement programme for children in the world".
It is in addition to UK prime minister David Cameron's pledge to take 20,000 refugees by 2020.
But critics said it would do nothing to help the thousands of lone Syrian children who had made it to Europe, but were at risk of trafficking and abuse.
The government scheme will target unaccompanied children in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as those considered at risk of abuse and exploitation, such as children threatened with child labour and child marriage. It will resettle children and their families "where the UNHCR deems resettlement is in the best interests of the child."
Several hundred people are expected to be resettled in the UK by April 2017 "with a view to resettling up to 3,000 over the lifetime of this Parliament", the government said.
The five-year Syrian civil war has created more than 4.5 million refugees across the region - half of them children in need of food, education and a home. The UN has warned that a whole generation of Syrian children is at risk.
Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said: "We have always been clear that the vast majority of vulnerable children are better off remaining in host countries in the region so they can be reunited with surviving family members. However, there are exceptional circumstances in which it is in a child's best interests to be resettled in the UK.
"We have engaged with a number of NGOs, including the UNHCR on the best way to provide protection to refugee children and ensure their welfare and safety remain at the heart of every decision made."
The scheme will be reviewed after two years.
The announcement was welcomed by Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield, who said the children would get the "vital protection and support they need" in the UK.
But Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of Labour's Refugee Taskforce, said the announcement included "nothing new to help the thousands of child refugees alone in Europe who are at risk of trafficking, sexual exploitation and abuse".
"Children are risking their lives every day making dangerous journeys, and Europol estimate at least 10,000 children have disappeared in the crisis, many trafficked into prostitution and modern slavery. Many children are sleeping rough or in makeshift camps because children's homes are full, and many have been sexually abused and exploited too."
And Lib Dem leader Tim Farron suggested that the move was a "cynical" ploy - a bid to "buy off" Conservative backbenchers ahead of a Commons vote on the issue of unaccompanied children in the camps next week.
He told the BBC the announcement would not help the 30,000 unaccompanied children who have made it to Europe already but are at risks in camps: "Of those 30,000, 10,000 have gone missing. David Cameron has the ability, should he wish to do so, to step in and prevent these children who are go missing into the hands of child sexual exploiters, human traffickers... And yet once again he's failed to take the opportunity."
The government has already committed to resettle another 20,000 Syrian refugees under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme, 1,000 of whom have already arrived, including more than 500 children.
Campaigners have been fighting the measures since they were announced in the Budget in 2015 but they only came into effect on 6 April.
A number of high-profile opposition politicians have rounded on the UK government over the policy and rallies have been held calling for the clause to be scrapped.
The child tax credit is a benefit to help with the cost of raising a child. Parents and carers might be able to get them if their children are under 16 or, if they are in eligible training, up to the age of 20.
The amount they are given depends on their income, how many children are living with them and their childcare costs.
It can be worth up to £2,780 per year for each child.
Child Tax Credit is one of the six benefits that are being phased out and replaced by Universal Credit.
The two-child policy will also apply to the new "Child Element" of Universal Credit.
The move was announced two years ago by the then Chancellor George Osborne.
The UK government said it wanted to limit child tax credit to the first two children because it wanted "people on benefits to make the same choices as those supporting themselves solely through work".
Exemptions to the changes were announced for those;
There was also an exception for a child born as a result of "non-consensual conception". This is the so-called 'rape clause'.
It states that a woman can claim for a third or subsequent child if it was conceived "as a result of a sexual act which you didn't or couldn't consent to" or "at a time when you were in an abusive relationship, under ongoing control or coercion by the other parent of the child".
A woman cannot claim this exemption if she lives with the other parent of the child.
However, it states she can qualify whether or not there has been a court case or conviction of a criminal offence.
The advice from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is that women affected should get support from women's aid, Victim Support or Rape Crisis.
The DWP said it would operate a "third-party model" so that women did not have to describe the details to a member of its staff.
Instead, women would talk to healthcare professionals, a social worker or an approved rape charity.
The UK government has been accused of forcing victims of rape to endure further trauma, making women "prove" they have been raped to receive child benefits.
A campaign group - Scrap The Rape Clause - was set up by SNP MP Alison Thewliss and a petition calling on the government to abandon the plans was signed by 10,000 people.
Ms Thewliss wrote: "I believe that women having to prove that they had been raped to DWP employees in order to receive social security payments is morally wrong and would cause needless additional trauma, as well as being completely unworkable in practice."
The UK Tory government insists its system will ensure women who had a child through rape are not denied tax credits.
That includes allowing an "approved person" to give evidence to HM Revenue and Customs to spare victims the trauma of reliving their ordeal.
Its guidance says: "In developing this requirement, the government has sought to strike a balance between the need to treat such cases with sensitivity and the need to ensure that child tax credit is paid only to persons who are genuinely entitled to it."
A DWP spokeswoman: "We have always been clear this will be delivered in the most effective, compassionate way, with the right exceptions and safeguards in place."
The spokeswoman said that, in cases where victims have accessed support from third parties or charities, the DWP will be notified by these organisations and it will not be investigated.
The spokeswoman was unable to explain how claims would be verified when made by a woman who had never accessed support or told anyone about being raped.
The government added that the policy was debated and voted on in parliament and the exceptions were consulted on widely.
The government requires a form to be filled in which is a declaration by the claimant and by the third-party professional that the terms of the exemption have been met.
The HMRC website states: "You'll need to complete the non-consensual conception form with the help of an approved third-party professional". It says: "You don't have speak to, or give details about the circumstances of the conception to HMRC staff."
The interpretation of this requirement has caused dispute, with Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson hitting out at the "misinformation" about the changes, saying women would not have to fill out a form saying they had been raped.
She said: "They don't have to speak to the DWP, they don't have to declare that they have gone to the police, they don't have to have a medical intervention.
"All they have to do is write their name and someone who is either a healthcare worker or a social worker does everything else for them."
However, Scottish Health Secretary Shona Robison said she had "grave concerns that there was no suitable infrastructure or training to support the implementation of the policy".
She said there was "little advice" on how to conduct the exercise in an appropriate way or provide specialist support to women who have experienced sexual violence.
Ms Robison said: "There should not be an expectation that healthcare professionals act as gatekeepers to the benefits system unless formally contracted."
The Royal College of Nursing Scotland said they "do not believe it is appropriate for a nurse or a midwife to arbitrate if a woman's claim is consistent with rape".
The health secretary said she would not "disseminate" the UK government's guidance to NHS Scotland.
The DWP could not say how many people it thought would qualify under the rape clause.
During her interview at the Women in the World summit in New York, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the 'rape clause' was a "disgusting and disgraceful policy".
In her newspaper column, Ms Sturgeon condemned the Scottish Conservatives' "complicity" in the "utterly immoral policies" of the UK government.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said she supported the exemptions placed on restrictions to child tax credits and wanted to see them implemented in the "most compassionate" way possible."
Ms Davidson added that Holyrood had the power to create new benefits and could provide funding for families with more than two children if it wanted.
She said: "Of course this would have to be paid for, but if the SNP government believes this to be of such importance, then it can act."
The first minister responded by saying: "Let's be clear, the answer to Tory cuts cannot simply be for the Scottish government to get out the sticking plasters and patch up the Tories' mess - using money intended for public services, while the UK government pocket the savings from their cuts.
"The solution is for the Tories to scrap the rape clause and the two-child policy - not just in Scotland but across the whole of the UK."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale wrote a newspaper column urging Ms Davidson to confront Prime Minister Theresa May about the "barbaric" changes.
She has also written to Ms Davidson asking her to "join with us and condemn this appalling act", saying the clause "should shame every single Tory MSP".
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital said it will cease providing paediatric surgery by 1 January 2018.
It said the decision followed advice from experts after reviews recommended improvements to paediatric care.
Bosses say the decision has been made "to ensure children received the best possible services".
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The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said the decision was made after reviews last year by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath (RCPCH), in which a series of recommendations were made around continuing to improve paediatric care in line with national guidelines.
The trust said it had undertaken a "significant amount of work and investment to meet these recommendations".
It added: "However, recent external reviews over the last few weeks have reiterated that paediatric inpatient surgery would be better delivered in a hospital setting with access to extensive centralised care facilities at all times."
Bosses are now working on a plan to move the services to another hospital - or hospitals - which are better placed to provide the specialist care.
Organisations are working on a Birmingham-based solution, the trust said.
The hospital, in Northfield, provides a range of paediatric services from general orthopaedic services to complex spinal surgery.
It carried out 1,506 paediatric day cases and inpatient stays in 2016/17.
The government's target is 95%, however, figures from September showed only 45% were being seen.
Children's mental health in Kent is handled by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. In Sussex the trust has met the government target.
Clinical Director Dr Saqib Latif said services in Kent were "stretched".
Children are treated for a range of mental health problems including depression, anxiety, ADHD and autism.
Dr Latif said: "We are able to achieve the targets in Sussex, which shows it is achievable... but we are currently stretched beyond our capacity in Kent.
"The number of referrals we're receiving in Kent is much higher than expected by about 25%.
"And the number of emergency referrals in one month is equivalent to what we were expecting to receive in the whole year."
He said extra funding had been agreed to help reduce waiting times.
The Sussex trust took over from Kent and Medway Partnership Trust in 2012, because some patients in West Kent had waited 18 months for an initial assessment.
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45% of children are seen in Kent within six weeks
Lucy Russell, from the charity Young Minds, said services were underfunded, adding that half of mental health problems start before a person is 16 years old.
"They are under incredible pressure and there's been a number of funding cuts and young people being referred to theses services is increasing," she said.
"Having targets like that is a good thing but it doesn't look good when those targets aren't reached."
JCB Transmissions announced three weeks ago 290 jobs were at risk, blaming a global downturn in the market.
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Kasem became a household name in the US after launching the nationally-syndicated show in 1970.
He also voiced cartoon character Shaggy in Scooby-Doo.
He had suffered from Lewy body disease, a form of dementia, and had recently been at the centre of a bitter family court battle over his care.
His death comes days after a judge allowed the star's daughter Kerri to withhold food, liquid and medication from her father against the wishes of his wife of 34 years, Jean.
A message posted on Twitter by Kerri Kasem said: "Early this Father's Day morning, our dad Casey Kasem passed away surrounded by family and friends.
"Even though we know he is in a better place and no longer suffering, we are heartbroken.
"Thank you for all your love, support and prayers. The world will miss Casey Kasem, an incredible talent and humanitarian; we will miss our Dad."
Kasem began his career in the 1950s and found fame with the chart programme.
He famously ended his broadcasts with his signature sign-off: "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."
After spells hosting countdown shows under other titles, he returned to American Top 40 in the 1990s and retired from the airwaves in 2009.
Around the world, his radio rundown was broadcast in 50 countries and he was known for the spin-off TV show America's Top 10.
In Scooby-Doo, Kasem voiced the scruffy, food-loving but sometimes cowardly Shaggy from the first series in 1969 until 1995, and again from 2002 until 2009.
He had numerous other roles in TV shows, animations and commercials over the years.
The veteran presenter received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1981 and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2003, he was honoured with the Radio Icon award at The Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Among those paying tribute were Ryan Seacrest, who took over from Kasem as host of American Top 40 in 2004.
In a statement, Seacrest recalled how he would listen to Kasem every week "and dream about someday becoming a radio DJ".
"Casey had a distinctive friendly on-air voice, and he was just as affable and nice if you had the privilege to be in his company. He'll be greatly missed by all of us," he said.
Rock star Bryan Adams described him as "one of the greats of American radio".
Last month, Jean Kasem moved her husband from a California nursing home to friends in Washington state, after courts in California awarded Kerri temporary conservatorship over her father's care.
Court documents showed that Kasem's daughters Kerri and Julie had accused Jean of "elder abuse" by isolating their father from his children. Kasem and Jean also had a daughter together called Liberty.
When he was about 18 months old, he was diagnosed with toddler diarrhoea, put on a low-fibre diet and his mum Caroline was told he would grow out of the problem.
But the diarrhoea continued and so did the accidents.
"He would go to nursery with a bag of spare clothes because he had two or three accidents a day," Caroline says.
"As he got older he started to realise that wasn't normal."
With no sign of any improvement after almost two years, Caroline sought a second opinion and Jack was diagnosed with chronic constipation. The diarrhoea had just been a symptom of a more serious underlying problem.
Finally, with advice from children's continence charity ERIC, Jack was put on a course of medication which helped to clear the contents of his bowel and then a dose which would help to keep his system moving in the future.
Within two or three months, his mum says, he was "all clear", just in time for starting primary school in Wiltshire, but they had been dealing with a misdiagnosis for nearly two years.
One particular incident brought it home to Caroline just how awful Jack's problem had become and how traumatic it felt for him.
"He'd locked himself in the toilet with one of his baby brother's nappies and was trying to put it on..."
Constipation in children is not unusual - children's continence charity ERIC says between 5% and 30% of children suffer from it, yet parents complain that the condition often goes unrecognised.
It says GPs are failing to diagnose the problem properly and not referring to a specialist when they should - and sometimes the advice they give is wrong.
Rhia Weston, from ERIC, says children should be encouraged to drink more water, prescribed a laxative to clear them out and then put on a 'maintenance dose'.
Changing their diets and adding more fibre may work, but it is not going to solve everything.
"More often it's to do with dehydration because the child is not drinking enough at school and is possibly holding on and not going to the toilet at school," she says.
"Or it may be caused by a fever or medication. They can experience one painful poo and then it becomes a vicious cycle of not wanting to go."
Although constipation can be caused by physical problems too, she said it was important to make sure children got a decent amount of exercise and had a toilet routine in place - for example, sitting on the toilet 20 minutes after each meal.
Dr Anton Emmanuel, consultant neuro-gastroenterologist at University College London, agrees that traditionally the emphasis has been on increasing fibre intake.
"But that doesn't work for everyone. If people have tried that and it doesn't work, they need to try something else," he says.
One new therapy - called biofeedback - focuses on re-training the body's functions to work normally, rather than relying on the laxative effect of drugs.
Biofeedback uses special sensors connected to computers to measure bodily functions, even ones we are not aware of, and this information helps patients find out how their bodies are actually working.
By retraining the pelvic floor and sphincter to work the right way, the idea is that normal bowel control can be re-learnt and restored.
Dr Emmanuel explains: "Therapies have failed because the pelvic floor is tightly shut. People avoid loos, they hold on, and so the pelvic floor doesn't relax."
He says that, over three or four biofeedback sessions, people can see improvements by doing pelvic floor exercises, among others.
Tammie Cherry, from Kent, has experienced the positive effects of biofeedback after nearly 30 years of suffering with chronic constipation, which often led to painful stomach cramps and terrible episodes of diarrhoea.
She first noticed the problems around the age of 10 but was told she would grow out of it if she ate more fibre in her diet - but that didn't work.
She was eventually referred to St Mark's Hospital in Harrow and treated at the Biofeedback Unit. After two months of a tailored diet while following specific stomach exercises, she had normal bowel movements and some control over her life again.
"I can go shopping now, sit down on a bus and go out of the house without being caught short - and I've got no chronic pain. It's fantastic."
Constipation is the second or third most common reason among potty-trained children for going to see the GP, but Dr Emmanuel says it's important to look more deeply.
"Constipation is just a symptom. It can mean different things in different people. We must understand the mechanism of the individual because it's not the same for everyone."
Caroline describes how they had to help Jack retrain his body how to poo which led to a battle of wills and many, many tears.
Now that he is five years old, in Reception class, and in a good toilet routine, he is a very different boy, his mum explains.
"Physically he is much more content and, because his body is working better, he is happier."
Looking back, Caroline knows that with a correct, early diagnosis and some proper support Jack's early years should have been very different.
The social network is tweaking the algorithm that picks posts for feeds to do a better job of spotting "low quality" web pages.
Instead, the algorithm will seek out more informative posts.
It said the change was part of broader work it was doing to make Facebook less profitable for spammers.
The change was aimed at sites that contained "little substantive content" and were set up only to profit from users' attention, it said.
Facebook said it had already worked on ways to stop spammers from advertising on the network and now it wanted to do more to take on "organic posts" that turned up in news feeds.
Users had told it they were "disappointed" when they clicked on links that seemed to point to a news site but instead put them on a page built largely around adverts, Facebook said.
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Facebook said its analysis of hundreds of thousands of web pages helped it to identify those run by spammers.
And this "fingerprint" of a spam site was now being used to spot whether posts for feeds had similar characteristics.
Facebook said the updated algorithm would be rolled out across its many territories over the next few months.
"The change could help Facebook fight fake news, as fakers are often financially motivated and blanket their false information articles in ads," wrote Josh Constine on news site TechCrunch.
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Shajul Islam is accused of imprisoning John Cantlie and Dutch journalist Jeroen Oerlemans against their will.
He was arrested at Heathrow airport on 9 October and appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
Mr Cantlie, who had worked for the Sunday Times, was taken hostage by Islamist militants in Syria in July.
Earlier, a 26-year-old woman who had been arrested at Heathrow alongside Mr Islam on suspicion of terrorism was released without charge.
Speaking at the time of their arrest, Scotland Yard said the pair had flown to the UK from Egypt and confirmed both were British.
Two addresses in east London were searched under the Terrorism Act in connection with police inquiries, the Met added.
Wednesday's court hearing was told by prosecutor Piers Arnold that Mr Islam - a trainee doctor who studied at St Bart's and University London Hospital - had joined a jihadist group in Syria and worked as a medic for them.
There could be 15 British nationals in the jihad camp in Syria, he said.
The court also heard that the accused had been arrested on a flight back from Egypt with his wife and one-year-old daughter.
Mr Islam was remanded in custody. The next hearing will take place on 2 November at the Old Bailey.
England forward Rooney, 30, played 52 minutes before going off to a standing ovation from the 58,597 crowd.
Former Paris St-Germain striker Ibrahimovic, who joined in July, was replaced in the 65th minute.
Defender Eric Bailly, a £30m signing from Villarreal, also made his home debut on an emotional night for Rooney.
"Tonight is a night myself and my family will always remember," he said after the game.
Former Manchester United managers Sir Alex Ferguson, who signed Rooney from Everton on 31 August 2004, and David Moyes - who managed the England captain at both clubs - were present.
In addition, new England boss Sam Allardyce was also at Old Trafford to see Rooney, who has scored 53 goals in 115 appearances for his country.
Rooney was given a guard of honour as he emerged from the tunnel with his children Kai, aged six, Klay, three, and seven-month-old Kit to a red mosaic with the word 'Rooney' spelt out in the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand.
The former Everton player has scored 245 goals in 520 United appearances and is the club's second-highest goalscorer.
Rooney has won five Premier League titles during his time at Old Trafford, as well as the Champions League, one FA Cup, two League Cups and the Fifa Club World Cup.
He will be trying to win the Community Shield for the fourth time with United when Jose Mourinho's side face Premier League champions Leicester City at Wembley on Sunday.
Rooney has announced that all proceeds from his testimonial will go to disadvantaged children and young people across the United Kingdom.
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De Gea, 24, has one year left on his deal and the Spain international has been linked with a move to Real Madrid.
United boss Louis van Gaal has picked Romero, 28, ahead of De Gea for the first three games of this season, saying the latter is lacking "focus".
"I hope De Gea stays here. He's a good team-mate who always works hard," said the Argentina international.
"It surely is a difficult situation for him but when one is a great professional like he is, and one has a good head like his, you keep training to get better day by day because he could play on a weekend.
"It happened to me last year in Sampdoria. I was not playing but I was working as if I was going to play."
Romero joined United this summer on a free transfer after leaving the Italian club.
He has conceded only one goal in his three games so far - in the 3-1 Champions League play-off first-leg win over Club Brugge - and says he enjoys training alongside De Gea and another "fantastic" Spanish goalkeeper, 33-year-old Victor Valdes.
"One has won everything and the other has his career ahead of him to continue to win things," Romero added.
"For me it's a privilege and it makes me happy to work with those two."
Things started badly for the Minstermen when Simon Heslop fouled Craig Eastmond in the box. Defender Jamie Collins stepped up to send Scott Flinders the wrong way.
Daniel Nti however responded quickly for York, dinking a beautiful shot over Ross Worner from a tight angle.
Substitute Danny Galbraith put Gary Mills' men in front from 25 yards, courtesy of a deflection over Worner.
Sutton's Dean Beckwith was sent off for receiving two yellow cards in the latter stages, but his side salvaged a draw when Eastmond was fouled in the box for the second time, and again Collins placed in calmly.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, York City 2, Sutton United 2.
Second Half ends, York City 2, Sutton United 2.
Goal! York City 2, Sutton United 2. Jamie Collins (Sutton United) converts the penalty with a.
Shaun Rooney (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gomis (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Sean Newton (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second yellow card to Dean Beckwith (Sutton United) for a bad foul.
Substitution, Sutton United. Brandon Haunstrup replaces George McLennan.
Substitution, Sutton United. Gomis replaces Adam May.
Dean Beckwith (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, York City. Kaine Felix replaces Richard Brodie.
Goal! York City 2, Sutton United 1. Daniel Galbraith (York City).
Clovis Kamdjo (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Sutton United. Maxime Biamou replaces Roarie Deacon.
Substitution, York City. Daniel Galbraith replaces Jack Higgins.
Second Half begins York City 1, Sutton United 1.
First Half ends, York City 1, Sutton United 1.
Goal! York City 1, Sutton United 1. Daniel Nti (York City).
Goal! York City 0, Sutton United 1. Jamie Collins (Sutton United) converts the penalty with a.
Jack Higgins (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Chief executive Andrew Kerr is leading the search for someone to chair the inquiry and determine its remit.
He hopes to appoint an industry figure with experience of Private Finance building contracts by the summer.
The council said all schools are due to open in time for the new term in August when the inquiry will begin.
The schools were closed last month over safety fears when a wall collapsed at Oxgangs Primary School and others were found to be missing vital wall ties.
Children at all 17 schools are now back in classrooms but finding alternative accommodation was a major logistical operation and some youngsters face lengthy journeys to temporary sites.
Andrew Burns, City of Edinburgh council's leader, said: "I'm pleased to be able to say that the progress is been quite rapid in recent days and we are still on schedule to have three of the schools reopening this month in May, five schools next month in June and the remaining nine schools by the middle of August for the start of the new term."
Melanie Main, Edinburgh's Green education spokeswoman, said: "This update report is woefully inadequate in the detail it provides.
"What is required is a full, in depth inquiry with a agreement on what the inquiry will cover.
"It is neither clear who will make these decisions nor what will be included in scope, but, if it turns out that the Labour/SNP administration intend to make these decisions behind closed doors, that would be unacceptable.
"If the confidence of the public and school communities is to be restored this fiasco must be carefully examined so that the facts can be laid out honestly and publicly and the right steps be taken to ensure the council can provide safe, fit for purpose schools for our children well into the future."
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You watched some of it in disbelief and some of it in anger and confusion. Where did this weakness come from? Who stole Scotland's serenity?
Ireland forward Jon Walters brushing past the bag of nerves that was Craig Forsyth. The aimless deliveries from one player and then another. More angst from left-back Forsyth. Further mishaps in possession. From everybody. This was an ailment that spread from back to front, left to right.
In those moments - and they must have been interminable for the massed ranks in the visiting support - you wondered if this was the day that the smiley-happy vibe that has surrounded this Scotland team was going to change to something altogether more serious.
Scotland were being bullied and then Scotland were being beaten. The goal when it came told you much about their plight. A corner and a free header for Daryl Murphy. Then a save from David Marshall and a tap-in for Walters.
Where were the Scots? Where was the desire to clear that ball? Lack of hunger is not a charge that is easily levelled at this team, but when Robbie Brady swung in that corner the Scots were passive when the Irish were alert and forceful.
It was painfully easy and it was coming. The Republic are a very average side but even average sides can make it pay when the opposition has a death-wish.
The defending for Walters' goal was wretched. So was the decision to allow it, for the striker was offside when he poked it past Marshall.
If it was a lucky break for Ireland, then they probably warranted it. They set the tempo, inflicted the panic and forced the errors. At the break, Scotland were in disarray. It wasn't meant to be like this.
In the dressing room they woke from their 45-minute nightmare and roused themselves. The decision to play Matt Ritchie ahead of Ikechi Anya was a strange one even before kick-off and with every passing minute of the first half it became stranger still.
Ritchie has had a terrific, and historic, season with Bournemouth, but nothing about his Scotland performances suggested he was a better option than Anya. He has something, no doubt about it. He couldn't have scored 15 goals for his club in the rough-house that is the Championship unless he had quality, but whatever it is he has, it hasn't been visible for Scotland. Not yet.
Selecting him ahead of Anya was a Strachan gamble and a Strachan fail - and it was one he rectified at the break.
Anya played a part in the equaliser. It was almost as if his effervescent personality galvanised Scotland into bettering themselves. It was another moment in the Shaun Maloney playbook and, for Ireland, a flashback to the November meeting between these sides at Celtic Park when the same player with a similar finish sparked familiar feelings of despair in Martin O'Neill's team.
Maloney, like so many around him, toiled at the Aviva. Little went right for him. He tried to play, tried to influence things, but was undone by inaccuracy - his own and those around him. He was a bystander for much of it, but his cameo was special.
From Chicago, came some much-needed fire. His interchange with Anya followed by his curling finish - the shot deflecting off John O'Shea en route - happened almost in slow motion right in front of the Tartan Army. Shay Given lost the flight of it.
The twin sights of the ball in his net and the Scotland fans celebrating in front of his nose was a double whammy of misery for the legendary Irish goalkeeper.
The temptation was to blink in disbelief. Nobody could see where a Scottish goal was coming from, but then, nobody in the stadium has the kind of self-belief that Maloney possesses.
The goal was a tad fortunate but for the Scots it was like an oasis of beauty.
When the purists bang on about football being the beautiful game somebody ought to sit them in front of a television and put on the DVD of this attritional, thud-and-blunder occasion.
It was agricultural stuff. Passionate, no question. Intense. But brutal. Oh so brutal, right from the moment James McCarthy stuck the elbow into Russell Martin's face and drew blood.
It would be wrong to say that it was all second-rate. Some of what we saw at the Aviva was world class - the stadium architecture, the passion of the Irish anthem, the ear-splitting noise of the magnificent fans, home and away.
And the emotion. That was pretty hot, too.
This was a match that Ireland really needed to win in order to avoid a potentially fatal blow to their qualifying hopes. Their players knew it and played like it. They were aggressive and psyched, as if assistant manager Roy Keane himself had locked them in a room for an hour beforehand and laid it on the line as only he can.
They weren't good enough, that was the bottom line. They allowed Scotland back into it even though Scotland will hardly - you would hope - play as poorly as this again.
You wouldn't quite say that Ireland's chances are now shot; they are severely damaged. They don't look like a team that can haul themselves back into contention in the run-in.
Scotland fight on - and dream on. In the player interviews in the aftermath there was an inescapable sense of relief that they'd managed to dig out a result on a day when they were so far off their best. An error-strewn performance but a sweet point. Maybe a critical one.
According to official statistics, 700 fewer people were on the register in March.
The total number of jobless is about 57,000.
However, the unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.7%, which is above the UK average of 6.9%.
Other data published on Wednesday revealed that the Northern Ireland economy continued to grow in the final months of 2013.
There have now been three consecutive quarterly increases.
Stormont economy minister Arlene Foster said: "This is good news in relation to economic performance."
"The various business confidence surveys also continue to give us reasons to be to be positive about the prospects for further improvements in business and economic conditions," she added.
Mrs Foster said the continuing decrease in unemployment benefit claimants was "the most sustained fall since June 1995".
"The rate of unemployment in Northern Ireland (7.7%) is above that of the UK (6.9%) but compares favourably to the rates in the European Union (10.8%) and the Republic of Ireland (11.9%)," she said.
The driver has been arrested but police have released no further details.
Part of the city has been sealed off and emergency services have launched a major operation.
Graz is Austria's second largest city and the square was hosting an event related to the nearby Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix.
The area's governor confirmed that three people had died and 34 were injured, some seriously.
Governor Hermann Schuetzenhoefe told reporters that the suspect arrested was a 26-year-old man. The motive for the attack is not clear.
Emergency forces sent 60 ambulances to the scene and four helicopters to take victims to hospital.
The Austrian Grand Prix takes place this weekend in Spielberg, and it is thought that many of the city's emergency services had been deployed there. Crowds had gathered in the square to take part in a Formula 1 event.
There are unconfirmed reports that after crashing the man exited the vehicle and attacked people with a knife.
Photographs from the scene show a heavily damaged SUV and blood on the pavement.
Eyewitness Helmut Reinisch told the BBC he saw bodies lying on the ground "covered in blood," including a young boy.
An eye-witness also told the agency that the car was travelling at 100km/h (62mph) when it entered the square.
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Now aged nine, he is able to remain remarkably calm when describing how such a tragic event unfolded.
"[Potts] bought two litres of petrol and poured it all over the house, everywhere," he explains to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. "Then my mum and eldest brother went to try and stop him, but he lit the fuel just in time."
Potts, Zach's mother, Tracy, and his 15-year-old half-brother, Shaun, were killed in the blaze in Manchester, in September 2011.
Zach survived, along with his 18-year-old half-sister, Cailin. He spent the next two months at a children's hospital.
His father, Ric - who Zach now lives with - says it was "heartbreaking" to see the condition his son was left in.
"He had wires and tubes and things coming out from him all over the place. They put him into an induced coma, to help his body deal with the shock and the burns as best as [it could]. He was about 20% burns, mainly up to his arms."
According to Dr Jane Monckton-Smith, a criminologist currently leading one of the biggest studies of domestic homicide in the UK, such family killings are on the increase.
She says that in 95% of cases the killer will be a man, and usually the head of the household.
The perpetrators of such crimes often share certain traits, such as a need to control those around them, she adds.
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme's full film on domestic homicide here.
Ric believes Potts showed this same behaviour towards Zach's mother, Tracy.
"From what I could gather he used to check the phone to see who she'd been talking to and texting," he says. "He was allowed out [to socialise], but she wasn't."
Zach and his father both agree that what happened that day has brought them closer together. But Zach still remembers the moment he found out his mother had died.
"I was crying, and when I think about it, it makes me emotional," he says.
His burns act as a reminder of what happened that night. Children at school sometimes ask him about them, leaving him to decide whether to ignore or explain them.
Denise Williams met her ex-husband, Steven Wilson, when she was 16.
Six months into their marriage he had started to show his "true colours", she says.
"He knew I had nowhere to go, no-one to run to. He'd call me all the different names under the Sun, he'd verbally abuse me, mentally abuse me, physically abuse me, punch me, kick me, whatever he had to do."
Denise had cut ties with Wilson on several occasions, only to go back to him.
She left him for the final time in February 2002, but - planning to go back for them later - did not take her two sons, Bret, eight, and, Bradley, seven, with her.
When the couple met at a restaurant a few days later, the children were in the back of Wilson's car. He assaulted Denise, and drove off with them.
About 20 minutes later, Denise received a call from Wilson. In it, she says, Wilson told her: "I've just killed the kids, and I'm going to kill myself."
Denise remembers trying to listen out for the boys in the background, but couldn't hear them.
Wilson had murdered his two sons by stabbing them.
Denise vividly recalls the moment the police sergeant knelt on the floor and told her: "Denise, they're dead."
She still suffers from regular nightmares in which she relives their deaths.
"I'm on a field, and I can see the car, and I can hear them calling, 'Mummy, Mummy, please help us Mummy.' And all I can see is a knife - a knife going up and down in a car as he's killing the boys."
Wilson was given two life sentences for the murders, but hanged himself in prison.
Denise says she felt "cheated", and "very, very angry at the fact that he hasn't got to live with this".
"I'm the one left behind having to cope, trying to live with all this."
Wilson killed himself on Mother's Day - which Denise believes was one final act of revenge.
According to Dr Monckton-Smith, perpetrators of domestic homicide will try to take their own lives "in a lot of these cases" - and often show "a lack of remorse, which could be because they have a personality disorder".
She also believes the killers nearly always plan the murders.
Denise believes her boys were killed by Wilson as an act of revenge towards her.
"He lost power, he lost the control he had over me. Because I left him, he'd lost everything," she says.
"[The murders] were just purely to hurt me, because he knew how close me and the boys were.
"I think he knew that he'd lost the boys - that they'd come back to me - and so, if he couldn't have them, he made sure I couldn't have them [either]."
But despite the trauma she has suffered, Denise says she is glad of the eight years she had with her boys.
"The children may have died, but their memory is never going to die - it's always there."
The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
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The hosts, 47 places above their opponents in the football pyramid, had only two shots on target throughout.
Substitute Memphis Depay curled just wide in the second half, but it looked like the visitors would earn a replay.
However, after Memphis was fouled inside the area, Rooney stepped up to score and send the hosts through.
Read about how the game unfolded
Reaction to Saturday's FA Cup third-round games
Just two weeks ago Louis van Gaal's future as Manchester United manager appeared to be in huge doubt.
The Red Devils had failed to win in seven games but, after surviving a 2-0 defeat at Stoke on Boxing Day, Van Gaal has overseen an improvement in both results and, in patches, performances.
After a combined 31 shots on goal in their last two games against Chelsea and Swansea, Manchester United seemed a livelier prospect, despite their plentiful possession still having no end product.
And, at Old Trafford on Saturday, Memphis fizzed an effort just wide in the second half, only for the home fans to burst into ironic cheers, rather than roar encouragement.
A drab draw against a League One side would likely have seen Van Gaal come under criticism once again, but Rooney's strike could give him some breathing space.
Back in 1990, Mark Robins scored a goal in the FA Cup for Manchester United that is said to have saved Sir Alex Ferguson from the sack.
Van Gaal may have just had his 'Robins moment'.
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Sheffield United looked to have secured a lucrative replay at Bramall Lane but, as the game entered the 90th minute, Memphis broke into the area and fell as he was challenged by midfielder Dean Hammond.
His acrobatic reaction suggested the hosts may have got lucky when referee Jon Moss pointed to the spot, but replays showed there was limited contact.
"I thought it was a penalty but it was an absolute shocking performance from Manchester United," BBC Radio 5 live pundit Robbie Savage said.
"For me, Van Gaal, I'd get rid of him."
Two years ago Sheffield United reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup and had forged a reputation as seasoned giant killers.
In recent years, they have beaten Aston Villa, West Ham and Southampton in cup competitions and, given the sense of unrest at Old Trafford, they will have fancied their chances of claiming a higher division scalp.
They had the game's first shot on target, which came in the 67th minute after Chris Basham fired straight at David De Gea, but retreated into their own half as they looked to keep Manchester United out and take the tie back to South Yorkshire.
That perhaps proved their undoing as the hosts pressed in the closing stages, leading to the moment when Memphis was brought down inside the box.
A little more conviction, and the result could have been different.
"There just seems to be an acceptance of bad performances," former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes told BT Sport.
"Every time you come to Old Trafford you see negative football."
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal: "You have to see also how the opponent is playing. Everybody shall give applause to Sheffield United. They were very organised but it is much more difficult to attack than to defend.
"Again a clean sheet is also the benefit of our organisation. I'm very disappointed that we are not creating too many chances, that we have to improve."
Sheffield United boss Nigel Adkins on BT Sport: "The players have worked extremely hard against superior opposition.
"The grit, desire and character gave the supporters something to cheer about. The supporters have got right behind the players and there is a togetherness at the football club."
Manchester United travel to Newcastle in the Premier League on Tuesday, while Sheffield United are back in League One action as they face 2013 FA Cup winners Wigan.
The draw for the FA Cup fourth round takes place on Monday and is live on The One Show on BBC One from 19:00 GMT.
Match ends, Manchester United 1, Sheffield United 0.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 1, Sheffield United 0.
Foul by Jesse Lingard (Manchester United).
Martyn Woolford (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Memphis Depay (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Basham (Sheffield United).
Attempt blocked. Ryan Flynn (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Louis Reed.
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Neill Collins (Sheffield United).
Goal! Manchester United 1, Sheffield United 0. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Manchester United. Memphis Depay draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Dean Hammond (Sheffield United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Matt Done replaces Conor Sammon because of an injury.
Delay in match Conor Sammon (Sheffield United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Basham (Sheffield United).
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dean Hammond (Sheffield United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Conor Sammon (Sheffield United).
Foul by Memphis Depay (Manchester United).
Paul Coutts (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Louis Reed replaces Jay McEveley because of an injury.
Substitution, Manchester United. Andreas Pereira replaces Marouane Fellaini.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jay McEveley (Sheffield United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Marouane Fellaini.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Martyn Woolford.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Dean Hammond.
Attempt saved. Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dean Hammond (Sheffield United).
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daley Blind with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Paul Coutts.
Philip Hammond was speaking ahead of a meeting with Scotland's first minister.
But the Scottish government later insisted Mr Hammond had promised to "fully consider" any proposals to protect Scotland's place in Europe.
The Scottish government is currently examining ways of keeping Scotland in the European single market even if the UK as a whole leaves.
It is due to publish its proposals by the end of the year.
A spokesman for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Hammond had indicated during the meeting that he "looked forward to hearing our proposals on Scotland's place in Europe".
The spokesman also said Mr Hammond had given a commitment that the proposals would be "considered fully by the UK Government - in line with the specific undertaking given to the first minister by the prime minister when they met in Edinburgh in July".
This appeared to be at odds with comments made by Mr Hammond ahead of the meeting, when he told journalists it was "clear that we can't have a different deal or different outcomes for different parts of the UK".
He said it would be a "disadvantage" for Scotland to be outside whatever new relationship the UK negotiates with the EU.
Speaking as he made his first visit to Scotland since last week's Autumn Statement, Mr Hammond said the EU itself had been "very clear" that it would only negotiate a deal with the UK, which is the member state.
He added: "I know Scotland, like the rest of the United Kingdom, has important trading relationships with the rest of the European Union, but Scotland's most important trading relationship is with the rest of the United Kingdom.
"That is four times more important to Scotland than its trading relationship with the rest of the European Union and it is not at all clear how being outside of the UK's arrangements with the EU could in any way advantage Scotland.
"I would suggest it would be a disadvantage overall to Scotland. I don't hear that said often enough in the debate with Scottish colleagues over the European Union."
Mr Hammond reiterated that he wanted to work closely with the Scottish government and the other devolved administrations in order to "secure the best possible deal" for all parts of the UK.
And he added: "I look forward to us moving on from this slightly backward looking, clutching at straws, trying to resist the will of the people to embracing it, recognising it's going to happen and committing to work together to make sure it's done in a way that is most supportive of the UK economy and the Scottish economy."
In a separate interview, Mr Hammond called for "sensible discussions" over what new powers are devolved to Holyrood after the UK leaves the EU.
Control over areas such as farming, fishing and the environment will return to the UK after Brexit.
But Mr Hammond said talks with the Scottish government would be needed to decide how those powers were allocated.
The chancellor has said that measures outlined in the Autumn Statement would add £800m to Scotland's capital budget over the period until 2020-21, which would allow Scottish government to "invest significantly in infrastructure".
But analysis by the IPPR Scotland think tank said the Autumn Statement would create a "very significant and unprecedented spending squeeze" for many public services in Scotland.
New powers over income tax were formally devolved to the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday, with Scottish ministers able to makes changes to rates and bands from April of next year.
And Mr Hammond said Scotland now had the "fiscal autonomy that it has long been asking for", with the Scottish government able to raise more money if it wants to spend more.
Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs on Thursday morning that she would "say very clearly to Philip Hammond this afternoon" that it was "not acceptable that the Scottish government budget will be reduced by £2.9bn, 9% in real terms, by the end of this decade compared to when the Conservatives took office."
She also said: "Increasingly it is very difficult to distinguish between the Conservatives and UKIP and anybody in any doubt about that need only look this morning at what are reported to have been (Prime Minister) Theresa May's views on denying education to children living here from certain other countries in certain circumstances.
"On the question of the single market, I am absolutely consistent in this, I think the UK should stay in the single market. I don't believe there is any mandate or any economic, social or cultural justification for taking the UK out of the single market.
"I will make that point to Philip Hammond this afternoon as I have made that point to the prime minister and to others in the UK government."
So convinced was he of the quality of his cheese that he made the decision to try to sell it in Paris.
Mr Burns wanted to go straight into the lion's den of the cheese world.
And instead of putting a few rounds in the post, he vowed to drive to the French capital.
Despite having never left Ireland before, the County Cork farmer filled his van with cheeses, and drove to Paris' Rungis food market via the UK and two ferries.
"I don't think he had a word of French even," says Irish food writer and TV personality Darina Allen. "How he got there is hard to say."
But Mr Burns did manage to find the Rungis market, and the cheese of the determined Irishman was a hit with French wholesalers.
"He absolutely knocked it out," says Ms Allen.
So much so that Mr Burns returned to the Republic of Ireland with an order for a ton a week.
Which didn't initially go down well with his wife, as he daughter Liz Burns, 42, explains: "My mother said 'a ton, are you mad!'."
However, they were able to fulfil the orders, and the cheese, called Ardrahan, has never looked back. Still available in France, it is today also sold across Ireland, in the UK, and even in the US.
Like many Irish diary farmers, Mr Burns decided to start making cheese almost out of necessity, due to the introduction of European Union milk quotas in 1984.
Brought in to bolster milk prices, these put strict limits on how much milk could be produced, meaning that farmers had to reduce the size of their herds, or even throw milk away.
Ms Burns, who took over the running of the family farm and production of Ardrahan follower her father's passing in 2000, says her dad was simply not prepared to see good milk go to waste.
"We had our milk, our milk was really, really good," she says. "We weren't going to throw it down the drain."
And there was good reason why the late Mr Burns decided to go to Paris - back in the early 1980s demand for French-style cheese was rather limited in an Ireland attached to its Cheddar-type cheeses, so he knew he had to find export markets.
Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers is another family-run Irish cheese business that was set up on a farm as a response to the introduction of EU milk quotas (which were finally revoked earlier this year).
Established in 1984 in County Tipperary, is is now run by couple Sarah and Sergio Furno, both 41, and produces 300 tons of cheese per year. Mrs Furno is the daugher of founders Louis and Jane Grubb.
In recent years, Cashel has increasingly focused on the vast US market, despite the challenges it presents.
"The US is a market complete with layers that don't exist elsewhere," says Mrs Furno. "Such as brokers who act between distributors and retailers."
This means a much longer supply chain, and so cheeses need to have a good shelf life.
Mrs Furno adds: "In the US I would not call us successful as distinct from being persistent.
"We simply have worked to keep our cheese available, despite intense competition from other European blue cheeses, and very good American farmstead blues."
Led by the likes of Cashel, a whole host of Irish cheeses are now available in the US.
While data specifically for cheese is unavailable, Irish government figures show that dairy exports overall to the US rose by 35% to €10m ($10.7m; £7.1m) in the first half of 2014, compared with a year earlier.
Karen Coyle, North America director of Bord Bia, Ireland's food board, says that Irish food exports benefit from the US's very positive view of the country.
She says that in the US, Ireland is seen as a "luscious, green-grassed island" of passionate farmhouse producers.
At Ardrahan, in 2006 it created a new creamy and milder cheese especially for the US market, called Duhallow.
The cheese have proved a hit in the US, and even featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Ireland's artisan cheese-makers have also worked hard over the years to boost domestic sales, helped by the country getting increasingly more cosmopolitan in its tastes.
Mrs Furno says she works hard to increase knowledge and awareness of Cashel's products, "spending a lot of time in dialogue with people" who want more information about the cheeses.
Producers have also worked hard, and in collaboration, to shorten their supply chains, which has helped them to reduce their prices.
John Hempenstall, owner of Wicklow Farmhouse Cheese, which produces 120 tons a year, says this has helped him cut its prices by as much as 30%.
"As a result our cheese has started to sell in areas that aren't particularly affluent," he says, pointing to less well of neighbourhoods of the capital Dublin.
"We are a bit of a treat people say they'll give themselves."
The latest figures show sales are now above what they were in 2007, before the financial crisis that triggered the recession.
Department for Communities and Local Government statistics revealed 12,304 sales under right to buy in 2014-15, compared with 5,944 in 2012-13.
Housing charity Shelter said the homes were not being replaced by councils.
Birmingham City Council sold 517 homes, the most in the last financial year.
Although back to pre-recession levels, the numbers of sales by councils to their tenants under the right to buy were still less than a fifth of those for 2003-4, the year with the largest number of transfers this century.
Council tenants have had the right to buy the homes they live in at a discount since the early 1980s.
The government plans to extend the right to buy homes at discounted rates to 1.3 million housing association tenants. Critics say it will make the housing crisis worse.
Shelter said one in three homes sold under right to buy have not been replaced by councils since 2012.
And Councillor Peter Box, housing spokesman for the Local Government Association, said: "These figures make it more important than ever for councils to be given the funding and powers to replace any homes sold under Right to Buy quickly and on a one-for-one basis.
"The current scheme only allows councils to replace half or fewer of the homes they have sold. Councils need to be able to retain 100% of receipts from sales while Right to Buy discounts should be set locally so they reflect the cost of houses in the area."
As the largest local authority in Europe, Birmingham City Council topped the list for sales of council homes under right to buy with 517 homes sold. Neighbouring West Midlands council Sandwell was also in the top 10 with 256 homes sold.
The London borough of Southwark sold 304 homes. Property prices have been rising steadily and a site containing a pre-fabricated shed in Peckham recently sold for just under £1m at auction.
Communities Secretary Greg Clark said the sales came alongside a 25% increase in house building in the past year.
He said: "We are going further and will do everything we can to help families buy a place of their own."
Chief Constable Dave Thompson, of West Midlands Police, said the "strain is showing" after multiple terror attacks.
"We'd have real challenges in dealing with something like the 2011 riots again," he wrote on the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) blog on Friday.
The home secretary has admitted that police resources are "very tight".
Amber Rudd told MPs on Thursday that the police response to attacks in Manchester and London required "additional work" in law enforcement.
She said: "I recognise the fact that we cannot carry on at that emergency level indefinitely."
Mr Thompson, finance lead at the NPCC, which represents police leaders, called on the government to "stabilise" police funding so it can tackle not only terrorism but other threats, such as cyber-crime.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "policing is not raising a white flag, saying we can't cope".
"But the last few weeks, and our general resilience, is starting to show some red lights.
"Of course, policing will pull out all the stops to protect the public.
"But that strain on the system now is reaching a stage where we need a serious debate, as we go forward into the Budget in November, as to what the resources are for policing."
He wrote that the police face handling "a modern terror threat with 6,600 officers - a number that has already fallen by close to 2,000 and is set to fall further".
And he also said more investment was needed "with a growing cyber threat", adding: "Counter-terrorism policing is stretched and is in no place to deliver efficiency savings."
He said mainstream police resources were being diverted to fight terrorism, echoing warnings by Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley that ordinary law enforcement faced "significant" funding risks after four terror attacks in as many months.
The violence that spread around England began at a peaceful protest demanding justice for a man shot by police in London.
Mark Duggan was killed in Tottenham on Thursday 4 August after police stopped the car he was a passenger in.
A protest march two days later sparked unrest and resulted in cars and shops in Tottenham being set alight, and looting taking place.
By the afternoon of Monday 8 August this began to spread to other areas in London, then to other major cities such as Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, Leicester, and several areas in Manchester and Liverpool.
More than 1,000 people were eventually jailed for the disturbances.
Maps and timeline of England riots
Mr Thompson said: "The firearms commanders, casualty bureau, custody staff, body recovery teams and uniformed officers patrolling crowded spaces that are so central to preventing and responding to a terror attack are paid for by core police funding."
He said that two-thirds of the policing effort after the Westminster Bridge attack was met by core police funding and not counter-terrorism.
He said: "If we are to sustain the protection citizens want and need, police leaders need to continue to reform, look hard at what needs to be done differently, and be bold and innovative in rising to the challenge.
"We need to have a conversation and a partnership with government that enables us to look forward to deal with the threats we face, and there are choices in there for government that we will give them."
This was not simply "asking for a blank cheque", he said.
Mr Thompson's comments were backed by West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Dee Collins.
"Our resources will only stretch so far and my concern is just how sustainable this in the long term, without an uplift in funding and resources," she said.
The Home Office has said it is in "detailed engagement" with police over planned funding changes.
A spokesman said: "The government is undertaking a period of detailed engagement with policing partners and independent experts on the police funding formula.
"New proposals will not be implemented without a public consultation."
Gu Kailai did not contest charges at her one-day trial that she poisoned Mr Heywood in November 2011.
Suspended death sentences are usually commuted to life imprisonment in China.
Mr Bo, the former party chief in Chongqing, was once seen as a contender for a national leadership position in a top-level reshuffle later this year.
But he has not been seen in public since the investigation into Gu was announced.
Gu's aide, Zhang Xiaojun, was jailed for nine years for his part in the murder.
The verdict in China's most high-profile trial for years came early on Monday, inside a court ringed by security personnel.
By Damian GrammaticasBBC News, Hefei
The outcome of the case is a neat one for the Communist Party. It pins the blame for Neil Heywood's death on Gu Kailai, but she escapes the full death penalty.
Her suspended sentence is sign of leniency. Murderers in China often face the firing squad.
Gu Kailai admitted premeditated murder. She confessed she lured Neil Heywood to Chongqing, procured cyanide, got him drunk, then poured the poison into his mouth. But she claimed she'd had a mental breakdown. The court said it accepted she was not in full control of her actions.
Many will believe it is her political connections that have won her this reprieve. And the trial has conveniently avoided the most sensitive questions.
Did her husband, the once powerful Bo Xilai, have any link to the crime or the cover-up by police under his control in Chongqing? How did the family become so rich? Were the business deals that led to Neil Heywood's murder corrupt?
They're uncomfortable questions for the Communist Party to face.
Chinese state media reported that during the 9 August trial - which was not open to all - Gu admitted she poisoned Neil Heywood in a hotel room in Chongqing, helped by her aide.
She said she had suffered a mental breakdown and that Mr Heywood had threatened her son amid a row over a property deal, state media said.
Images shown on Chinese state television showed Gu responding to the verdict. "This verdict is just. It shows special respect for the law, reality and life," she said.
Speaking after the sentence was announced, court spokesman Tang Yigan said the court believed Mr Heywood had threatened Gu's son but not acted on the threats. It also found Gu had been suffering from "psychological impairment", he said.
A spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK had made it clear to Beijing that the case must be properly investigated, but that the outcome was "a matter for the Chinese authorities".
A lawyer for the Heywood family said they respected the court's decision.
The sentence of death with a two-year suspension means that if Gu commits no crimes while in prison, her sentence will be commuted after two years to life imprisonment and could be further reduced for good behaviour, Chinese legal expert Professor Donald Clarke writes in his blog.
Chinese internet users reacted immediately to the verdict on Twitter-like microblogging platforms.
With key names connected to the case still apparently censored, most used the phrase "suspended death sentence". Within two hours, there were at least two million posts.
Many users expressed dissatisfaction, saying most murderers in China would be executed. Some attributed it to Gu's background, others suggested she could eventually be freed under medical parole.
At a separate trial on 10 August, four senior police officers from Chongqing admitted charges of covering up evidence linking Gu to the murder. A court official said they had been given terms of between five and 11 years in prison, AFP reported.
Netizens criticise Gu's sentence
Bo Xilai scandal: Timeline
Mr Heywood's death was initially recorded as a heart attack.
The case came to light when Bo Xilai's deputy, police chief Wang Lijun, fled to the US consulate in February, reportedly with information connected to the case.
He has not been seen in public since then and state media say he is being investigated.
It is not yet known how the Communist Party plans to deal with Mr Bo, once seen as a powerful and ambitious high-flier.
Many analysts expected him to be promoted to the nine-strong politburo Standing Committee later in the year.
Seven committee members are due to retire, with a new generation of leaders to take their place at a party congress expected later this year.
But Mr Bo has been stripped of his official posts and is being investigated for "discipline violations", state media reports say.
A lengthy Xinhua news agency write-up of Gu's trial, however, made no mention of Mr Bo.
The match, organised by the Liverpool FC Foundation, will feature sides led by club captain Steven Gerrard and retired vice-captain Jamie Carragher.
Suarez, who left Anfield to join Barcelona for £75m last July, is among those who have agreed to play.
Fellow former Liverpool players Fernando Torres, Pepe Reina, Dirk Kuyt and Xabi Alonso will be involved too.
Chelsea captain John Terry, his team-mate Didier Drogba and former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry have also confirmed they will be involved.
The teams will be completed with Liverpool players not on international duty and academy prospects. The two managers have yet to be announced.
Suarez won all three English domestic player of the year awards last season, scoring 31 Premier League goals as Liverpool finished runners-up to Manchester City.
He left shortly after receiving a four-month suspension for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini while playing for Uruguay in a World Cup match in Brazil in June.
Money raised will go towards a number of causes, including the club's foundation, which funds community programmes across the city.
Proceeds will also go towards Alder Hey's new children's Hospital in the Park project, the Wirral-based Claire's House children's hospice, youth charities Positive Futures and Cash for Kids, and Centre 56, which supports women and children who have suffered or are at risk of domestic abuse.
MPs on the Science and Technology Committee have called for careful scrutiny of the probable ethical, legal and societal impact.
They want the government to establish a commission to look at the issues.
That will include new skills for humans as artificial intelligence takes jobs.
Others, such as Tesla boss Elon Musk, have gone further - declaring AI to be the biggest threat to the survival of the human race.
Acting Science and Technology Committee chairwoman Dr Tania Mathias said: "Artificial intelligence has some way to go before we see systems and robots as portrayed in films like Star Wars.
"At present, 'AI machines' have narrow and specific roles, such as in voice-recognition or playing the board game Go.
"But science fiction is slowly becoming science fact, and robotics and AI look destined to play an increasing role in our lives over the coming decades.
"It is too soon to set down sector-wide regulations for this nascent field, but it is vital that careful scrutiny of the ethical, legal and societal ramifications of artificially intelligent systems begins now."
British company DeepMind, which is owned by Google, has more than 250 research scientists working on AI at its London headquarters.
It has created a machine capable of beating one of the world's greatest Go players and is currently working on developing an artificial hippocampus - the part of the brain believed to be responsible for memory and creativity.
In its submission to the committee it said: "The impact of AI will reflect the values of those who build it. AI is a tool that we humans will design, control and direct and it is up to us all to direct that tool towards the common good."
DeepMind recently, along with Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft, set up the Partnership on AI, a group aiming to address concerns about where the technology is heading.
But Dr Mathias said: "This does not absolve the government of its responsibilities."
So far, the government had failed to show "leadership" on the issues, she said.
Dr Mathias wants the commission, which MPs said should be set up at the Alan Turing Institute, "to identify principles for governing the development and application of AI, and to foster public debate".
"It is conceivable that we will see AI technology creating new jobs over the coming decades while at the same time displacing others," she said.
"Since we cannot yet foresee exactly how these changes will play out, we must respond with a readiness to re-skill and up-skill.
"This requires a commitment by the government to ensure that our education and training systems are flexible, so that they can adapt as opportunities and demands on the workforce change."
TechUK, the body that represents UK technology companies, welcomed the report.
"Like all new powerful technologies, robotics and AI will bring great changes, and it is essential that they are used in a way that enhances the lives of ordinary people and strengthens the society that we live in," said Sue Daley, head of big data and analytics at TechUK.
"Business, academia, citizens and government all have a role to play in ensuring we have an informed and balanced debate about the potential impact of these new technologies and how we can ensure we all benefit from their development and use."
A first-half Gavin Whyte goal and two second-half strikes by Paul Heatley ensured a Crues victory at Solitude.
Andrew Waterworth and substitute Aaron Burns found the net twice as Linfield trounced Glentoran 4-0 at the Oval.
Glenavon defeated Coleraine 3-0 to move above Cliftonville into third place.
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Crusaders secured back-to-back Premiership successes by continuing their impressive run of form against the Reds, which has now seen them win six and draw one of the last seven meetings between the sides.
The champions took control from the outset and Whyte smashed the ball past Peter Burke in the 10th minute after a poor clearance by the home goalkeeper.
Before half-time, Burke tipped over a Jordan Forsythe piledriver, Jordan Owens flashed a right-foot effort wide and Heatley had a shot palmed away.
After the break, Owens saw an effort cleared off the line, before Heatley extended the lead by firing home right-footed on 56 minutes after the ball took a couple of deflections inside the area.
Heatley struck again two minutes later, then Burke denied the winger and Declan Caddell had an attempt cleared off the line by Levi Ives.
George McMullan grabbed a consolation goal by drilling in with four minutes remaining but it was the Crues who sealed a sixth league championship triumph.
Stephen Baxter's side have lost just three of the 36 league games they have played to date this season, including an opening day defeat to Portadown, their only home reverse of the campaign.
Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter: "These are good players and good players win leagues. They have worked hard and fully deserve this success.
"It's been difficult as everyone wants to beat you when you are champions so we had to dig out a few tough results and chip in with some late goals.
"We looked dead and buried at times and we had a lot of hard, tough games in the second half of the season. We ground it out and came back stronger and stronger."
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Linfield proved too strong for the Glens but lie eight points behind the Seaview outfit with just two sets of fixtures remaining.
Waterworth opened the scoring with a cool low shot past Elliott Morris into the bottom corner in the third minute and added another just after the half hour with a stunning right-foot strike into the top right-hand corner.
Burns tapped in from a Mark Haughey assist on 82 and the midfielder netted again four minutes later to complete a convincing win.
The result means the Windsor Park side have won three and drawn one of their four encounters against their cross-city rivals, while the Glens' run of five games unbeaten comes to an end.
Coleraine's dismal run of form continued as a Neil McCafferty own goal after 20 minutes, a Simon Kelly header from an Andy Hall free-kick on 29 and a late Kevin Braniff free-kick into the top corner from the edge of the area moved them two points above Cliftonville in the battle for a Europa League place.
The Bannsiders, who had Lyndon Kane sent-off with two minutes left, are now without a win in six games, while the Lurgan Blues have won all four meetings against Oran Kearney's side this season, without conceding a single goal.
Coleraine have found the net just once in their last six league outings.
The jewels were initially thought to have been loaned to stars at the annual film festival on the French Riviera.
They were taken from the hotel room of an employee of exclusive Swiss jewellers Chopard in the early hours of Friday morning.
Police say the thieves ripped the safe containing the jewels from a wall of the room at the Novotel hotel.
But a company spokeswoman, Raffaella Rossiello, insisted the value of the pieces had been exaggerated and "the jewellery stolen is not part of the collection... worn by actresses during the Cannes Film Festival".
And festival officials said the event's top award, the Palme d'Or, was not among the stolen items.
The trophy is also made by Chopard, an official sponsor of the festival.
Celebrities choosing the Swiss firm's gems for their red carpet appearances at this year's festival include Julianne Moore, Lana Del Rey and Cindy Crawford.
The theft happened a few hours after the festival was shown The Bling Ring, a new film by director Sofia Coppola.
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Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar had a corrosive substance thrown through their car window in Beckton, east London, on 21 June.
Police said "new information" had come to light about the "horrendous act of violence" which meant they were now treating it as a hate crime.
A man is being hunted for by police over the attack.
The Met have urged John Tomlin, 24, to hand himself in for questioning and warned members of the public not to approach him.
Acting Det Supt Neil Matthews said the investigation "continues to move at great pace and my team continues to act on a number of leads to find Tomlin".
Ms Khan had been celebrating her 21st birthday with Mr Muhktar in east London.
They had stopped in their car at traffic lights when a man approached and threw the toxic substance at them.
"Within seconds, my cousin started screaming. Her eyes were blistered, her face started melting. My face started melting", Mr Muhktar, said.
The 37 year old had to be placed in an induced coma to treat his injuries.
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"Letting this man or the events of the past fill you up with hate will only darken the soul," she wrote.
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Peter Righton gave "considerable assistance" as an expert in child care to a government report in 1970.
He had earlier left a teaching job over complaints of child abuse. He later became a member of a pro-paedophile campaign group. Righton died in 2007.
The Home Office said it was "absolutely committed" to stamping out child abuse.
In July, Home Secretary Theresa May announced an overarching inquiry into how public institutions had handled historical claims of child sexual abuse.
This followed a campaign by MPs whose concerns included evidence of a wide paedophile network in documents seized from Righton's home in 1992 after his arrest over child abuse images.
The report to which Righton contributed led to major reforms of 1970s children's homes.
It was authored by a Home Office advisory committee and set out how hundreds of new homes should be brought under local authority control.
So-called community homes replaced approved schools - residential centres for "delinquent" youngsters - and involved the employment of hundreds of social care staff.
The report credited Righton, who at the time was an academic specialising in social work, for "considerable" help in a chapter on the training of residential workers.
A former care professional familiar with the events has told the BBC that Righton travelled extensively carrying out research work during the period he contributed to the project and had been to children's homes "all over the country" including Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Rochdale and Preston.
"He [used to] go and interview, in approved schools, individual boys and he certainly went to speak to the heads of homes," the former care worker said.
The retired worker - who asked not to be identified - said that Righton "networked" at children's homes, adding: "He was a very dangerous man because he was put in a position where he could abuse trust."
Righton visited the Bryn Estyn approved school in Wrexham where he met staff and children, according to the care worker's account.
The former worker said that Righton had claimed that he "took boys out" and had also said he used "sexual" language with them.
The source added that the words Righton had exchanged with the boys were "not something that you would have in a healthy conversation with a child".
Bryn Estyn was later at the centre of an abuse scandal in which 140 former residents made allegations that they were abused between 1974 and 1984.
An official report described "appalling" abuse at the home and former housemaster Peter Howarth was jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing boys as young as 12. He died in prison.
The Waterhouse report into abuse at north Wales homes described how local councils were "in a state of turmoil" in the early 1970s owing to the new responsibilities imposed on them by the legislative changes of the time.
Howarth had earlier taught at the same special school in Kent where Peter Righton had faced complaints of child abuse.
By the mid-1970s, Righton had become a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which advocated sexual relationships between adults and children.
At the same time he became increasingly influential in the field of residential child care, according to Ian Pace, a lecturer at City University who has researched historical abuse at music schools and the influence of PIE.
He said Righton was "deeply involved with the cult of the classical world that was very important to... the paedophile movement", focusing on stories of "Greek love" between men and young boys.
Mr Pace said "some of Righton's interests" were reflected in the Home Office advisory report.
The section of the report which credited Righton called for residential child care workers to be trained in "the growth of civilisation" and "aesthetic values".
The Home Office declined to comment on the revelations about Peter Righton.
A spokesman referred the BBC to the home secretary's comments to the House of Commons in July when she said the government would address two concerns: "First, that in the 1980s the Home Office failed to act on allegations of child sex abuse.
"Secondly, that public bodies and other important institutions have failed to take seriously their duty of care towards children.
"As I informed the House on 7 July, the whole government take the allegations very seriously. That is why I announced two inquiries last week."
In 1992 Peter Righton was fined £900 for possessing images of child abuse and was cautioned over an earlier assault.
It happened in Curransport, Gortahork between 01.30 and 11.30 local time on Monday.
The man was the sole occupant of the car and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gardaí (Irish Police) said the body has been removed for post mortem and the scene has been preserved for forensic collision investigators.
They say the unusual approach is an attempt to provide "revolutionary protection" against mosquito-borne diseases such as Zika and chikungunya.
The mosquitoes are infected with a bug called Wolbachia which reduces their ability to spread viruses to people.
The $18m dollar project is funded by an international team of donors, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The scheme - which aims to start in early 2017 - is also financed by local governments in Latin America, the US and the UK.
Wolbachia is a naturally occurring bacterium that infects 60% of insect species worldwide, but scientists say it does not harm humans.
The bug does not usually infect the Aedes aegypti mosquito - the species mostly responsible for spreading a host of diseases such as Zika, dengue fever and cikungunya.
But over the last decade researchers working for the Eliminate Dengue Program have found a way to inject the bug into Aedes mosquitoes.
And researchers say small-scale observational trials in Brazil, Colombia, Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam have shown that once released, the modified mosquitoes can cut the spread of dengue to humans.
It has been shown to do the same for Zika and chikungunya in laboratory-based tests.
Dr Trevor Mundel, of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said: "Wolbachia could be a revolutionary protection against mosquito-borne disease.
"It's affordable, sustainable, and appears to provide protection against Zika, dengue and a host of other viruses.
"We are eager to study its impact and how it can help countries."
Researchers now plan to expand the trials to large urban areas in Bello in Colombia, other parts of Antioquia, and the greater Rio de Janeiro area in partnership with local governments.
Scientists say once released, the infected mosquitoes breed with uninfected ones, passing on the bug to future generations.
They will monitor the programme closely for the next three years, checking to see if cases of dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya fall.
Prof Scott O'Neill, of the Eliminate Dengue Program, told the BBC: "In the communities we have already worked with there have initially been two concerns.
"One was that the mosquitoes might harm them in some way or that there might be some unintended consequences.
"It is testament to our community engagement teams working really closely with communities to answer questions that all the communities we work with are fully supportive.
"We explained Wolbachia bugs are present in so many insects worldwide that millions of humans come into contact with them everyday with no problems.
"And in the six years we have been doing these trials there have been no problems."
Researchers say it is likely that the Wolbachia approach works in two ways.
According to Prof O'Neill, Wolbachia appears to boost the immune system of mosquitoes, making them resistant to viruses like dengue.
And Wolbachia may compete with dengue and Zika for resources essential to replication. The viruses lose out and do not replicate as successfully, making it harder for them to be passed on when a mosquito bites a human.
It's a fair bet that clothing or jewellery popped into your head, but how about posh apartments? In fact, the Italian fashion designer is now creating swanky homes around the globe from China to India and the UK.
Similarly surprising examples abound from car firm Bugatti opening clothing stores to fashion designer Vivienne Westwood opening a restaurant in Hong Kong.
And there are countless examples of luxury firms which have lent their name to anything from baby bottles to furniture.
It's a natural move for a company which is successful in one area to try to extend its reach into new ones, and the attractions are obvious.
It can seem "irresistibly profitable, for doing practically nothing," says management consultant and author Peter York, who has been an adviser to many large luxury businesses.
Yet if it isn't done well, branching out from their core business risks harming a luxury firm's reputation.
Mr York cites fashion firm Pierre Cardin as "a cautionary tale".
The Italian-born France-based designer was one of the pioneers of brand licensing and his name is now carried on hundreds of products, from shirts and bottled water to tins of sardines.
While the approach made Mr Cardin - dubbed "the licensing king" - wealthy, with him estimating his private empire was worth €1bn ($1.5bn; £897m) in 2011, some say it has meant the brand is worth less as a result.
Mr Cardin himself however was unapologetic, telling The New York Times: "I've done it all. If someone asked me to do toilet paper, I'd do it. Why not?"
But Mr York says Pierre Cardin is a classic example of stretching a brand too far. "In the end, if you overdo it, your brand is devalued. I think the brands which are most careful have the longest future."
Yet determining when a brand has gone too far is not necessarily clear cut.
A Harvard Business Review study of 150 luxury brand extensions says that the number of new areas a company extends into isn't a problem by itself, but says their success depends on whether they are "adjacent" products: things which have some kind of logical link to the company's main offering.
It's an approach which Italian jewellery and luxury goods firm Bulgari has tried to take.
The firm, which was founded over 130 years ago by a silversmith and started off making jewellery and accessories, became familiar to a wider audience in the fifties and sixties as Rome's large film studio Cinecitta took off.
Roman Holiday, Ben Hur, War and Peace and La Dolce Vita were all shot in the famous studios, and a parade of film stars and producers discovered the Italian brand whilst there, helping to win the brand global recognition.
Elizabeth Taylor, it was reported, knew just one word in Italian: Bulgari.
Bulgari chief executive Jean-Christophe Babin said it was this international reputation that drove it to expand beyond Europe, opening its first flagship store in New York in the 1970s.
Gradually it also moved beyond jewellery into watches, fragrances and eventually bags - all of which Mr Babin said fitted in with the firm's "mission of making the lady more unique, more special".
Yet, more recently, it has made what seems like a rather surprising leap, venturing into the hotel business.
It opened its first hotel in Milan in 2004, and in the 12 years since has opened just two more, although a further three are planned.
Mr Babin says a hotel stay is the "ultimate luxury experience" and suggests that it's similar to the way that its jewellery, often bought to mark a marriage or a birthday, becomes part of an experience.
"The hotel is not something that stays with you forever, but it can create a unique emotion and memory you will keep with you forever," he says.
He believes that if Bulgari's foray into the sector has succeeded it is in part because they've kept the hotels small "as if they were a private house", and limited their number, enabling them to retain tight control over their quality.
"When you move from a core business to a new business, the temptation is often to take it less seriously. We've approached the new businesses in a very authentic way and are treating them as top priorities," he says.
The fact hotels are not the firm's core business has also removed the pressure for a quick return on their investment, he says.
But the real trick, he says is to say no. "For the three [hotels] we're going to open, we've reviewed 50 to 100 projects and we have said no in 97% of cases."
For Silvio Ursini, creative director of the hotels and resorts division, it's even simpler.
"Don't venture into a business just because it's there or you want to grow. Do something only if you have something to say," he says.
This feature is based on interviews by Life of Luxury series producer Neil Koenig.
Toronto, who play in England's League 1, entered at the third round and have beaten Siddal and London Broncos.
Elsewhere, Leigh Centurions host Hull Kingston Rovers - the side Leigh replaced in the Super League this year.
Meanwhile, Super League sides Huddersfield and Leeds will host Swinton and Doncaster respectively.
The fifth-round games will be played on 22 and 23 April.
The remaining eight Super League teams - who finished in the top eight positions in last season's table - will join the competition at the last 16 stage - round six.
Challenge Cup fifth round draw:
Leigh Centurions v Hull Kingston Rovers
Featherstone Rovers v Oldham
Leeds Rhinos v Doncaster
Salford Red Devils v Toronto Wolfpack
Whitehaven/Oxford v Halifax
Dewsbury Rams v Batley Bulldogs
Huddersfield Giants v Swinton Lions
York City Knights v Barrow Raiders
Stranger still, only the driver of the lorry in front has his hands on his steering wheel. The other drivers appear to be driving "hands free".
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This may sound like a scene from a sci-fi film, but is actually "platooning" - a technology being tested to make long-distance lorry driving more fuel-efficient and less polluting.
Using wireless technology, the lead truck, operated by a trained driver, controls the convoy behind it. When he brakes, the other lorries brake automatically; when he steers, they steer, too.
Radar-based "adaptive cruise control" ensures all trucks are travelling at a consistently safe distance from each other.
As the vehicles shelter behind each other in the "road train", aerodynamic drag resistance is reduced leading to 15% fuel savings, advocates of the technology say.
"Platooning is definitely something we will be seeing on our roads in future," says Carl Johan Almqvist, traffic and product safety director for Volvo Trucks, a firm that has successfully tested the technology.
"There may be challenges in terms of public acceptance and legislation, but these will be conquered as the potential in fuel savings is very interesting."
Platooning is just one of many technologies being used to tackle freight transport emissions, which contribute a large and growing proportion of all transport pollution, whether by land, air or sea.
Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) alone accounted for 19% of UK transport emissions in 1999-2010, and vans a further 12%, according to the Department for Transport.
And transport generally accounts for about 35% to 40% of global total energy end use.
US logistics giant UPS has 3,000 alternative fuel vehicles globally, but is also piloting electrically assisted cycles for package delivery.
It also uses package routing technology to minimise kilometres driven, and telematics - the onboard monitoring of driver behaviour - to tackle fuel inefficient idling and stop-start driving.
Telematics and other technologies helped reduce idling time by 254 million minutes in 2013, UPS claims, equivalent to 17,000 metric tonnes of CO2.
Similarly, British competitor TNT is rolling out in-cab camera systems that film the road ahead, capturing bad driving "events".
"[These are] tracked against GPS data, overlaid on a Google map and reviewed by depot management on a one-to-one basis with the driver," a TNT spokesman told the BBC. "Any improvement actions are then agreed."
Some prefer a more flamboyant approach to lowering emissions.
Robert Sliwa, of Connecticut's AirFlow Truck Company, has created the Bullet Truck, which was inspired by the design of Japanese high-speed bullet trains.
The truck has a highly contoured, cone-shaped cab, and panels that stretch the length of its trailer, all of which reduce drag. Electrically powered air conditioning and power steering take a load off the diesel engine, too.
In 2012, it managed to cross the US with a full load averaging 13.4 miles per gallon (mpg) - more than twice the 6mpg ordinary trucks average.
Mr Sliwa, a former trucker and drag car racer, says he's now designing an even more streamlined "concept vehicle" for 2015, which will shield much of the truck's trailer and its rear wheels from the wind.
"People have been thinking I am crazy for many, many years," he says of the original bullet design. "And yes, everyone figured I would never get it finished and it would not work."
Shipping is another important, yet polluting, component of freight transportation, accounting for 3% of the world's greenhouse gases, according to the European Commission.
That's around a billion tonnes of emissions a year, twice the carbon footprint of aviation.
Maersk Line, the largest container shipping company in the world, has recently launched its Triple E ship as an answer to the sustainability challenge.
It claims the vessel is 50% more energy efficient than the average container ship plying the waters between Asia and Europe.
Ironically, the Triple E carries 16% more cargo than the firm's next most fuel-efficient ship, but its engines are 20% smaller, meaning a slower, but more fuel-efficient journey.
A waste-heat recovery system transforms hot exhaust gas from the engine into extra energy for propulsion, too.
While some firms, like B9 Shipping and Cargill, have been experimenting with sails attached to the decks of cargo ships to make the most of following winds, Jacob Sterling, head of sustainability at Maersk, says these "won't be a solution for container shipping in the foreseeable future - among other things because we need the deck space to stack containers."
However, Norwegian designer Terje Lade reckons he may have found a way around that problem.
His Vindskip vessel, which is being developed by his firm Lade AS, could be 60% more fuel efficient than traditional ships, thanks to a radical design quirk - a hull shaped like a "symmetrical air foil".
The ship would be part-propelled by wind, backed up by liquefied natural gas-powered engines. On-board computers would calculate the ship's optimal route based on weather data, too.
"By developing navigation algorithms which can give you the optimum wind angle for maximum effect of the design, you can find the best route across the ocean, either most economically or by estimated time of arrival," he says.
The firm believes the ship could be ready for launch by 2018.
While environmentalists may welcome visionary new designs, some are sceptical about the prohibitive cost of such state-of-the-art technologies.
Dr Andrew Traill of Green Freight Europe, a non-governmental organisation, warns that "one or two ships might be built perhaps, but very often these innovative designs seldom get adopted on any large scale".
But he accepts that the biggest incentive for any logistics firm to take up energy-saving technology is commercial - customers want cheaper deliveries.
For Maersk Line, fuel makes up about 20% of the firm's total costs, so the logic behind investment in green technology is compelling.
"Green technologies come with an upfront investment, but very often also with a very strong payback," says Mr Sterling.
"Last year, we saved $764m through energy efficiency improvements, roughly half our 2013 profit of $1.5bn," he said.
That level of saving should persuade any transport business to go green.
Philip Hammond will say at a Plymouth dockyard that defence firm Babcock will upgrade HMS Vengeance.
The Ministry of Defence said work on the Vanguard class vessel will secure 1,000 jobs at Babcock, 300 at other firms in Plymouth, and 700 elsewhere.
Workers in Plymouth had criticised defence chiefs for "delaying" the deal.
Mr Hammond is expected to announce: "As well as securing 2,000 UK jobs, this contract will ensure the nuclear deterrent submarine fleet can continue to operate safely and effectively to maintain a continuous at-sea deterrent.
"As we stabilise the defence budget we are increasingly able to commit to equipment projects to safeguard the UK's national security.
"Devonport Dockyard is at the heart of maintaining and supporting the Royal Navy and I am pleased that such a large number of jobs will be protected."
Work on the 15,000-tonne vessel will include a complete overhaul of equipment, improved missile launch capabilities and upgraded computer systems.
A new reactor core will also be fitted that will last the submarine until she is decommissioned.
"This contract marks the final phase of what has proved to be a very successful programme of refuelling our fleet of nuclear submarines," Rear Adm Simon Lister will say.
"The highly sophisticated nature of the work involved in the deep maintenance of these magnificent vessels is testament to the experience and skills of the workforce here in Devonport and those in the supply chain across the UK."
Alison Seabeck, Labour MP for Plymouth Moor View, said she welcomed the news but she questioned why the contract had failed to materialise before now despite the submarine docking at Devonport Dockyard on 2 March.
"There was no obvious reason why, given refits are planned years in advance, there should be a delay. I am given to understand there was further negotiation going on between Babcock and the MoD," she said.
"I don't think it is a good way to do business and I will be interested to hear what the Secretary of State has to say when he is at Babcock."
HMS Vengeance is the newest of the four Trident-carrying strategic missile submarines that make up the UK's nuclear deterrent force.
Plymouth's Devonport Dockyard has a £5bn deal to refit the Vanguard class vessels.
They are berthed in a specially-converted dock because they are too big for the yard's other docks at 150m (492ft) long.
In comparison, Devonport Naval Base's Trafalgar class submarines are 85m (279ft) long.
The footage, filmed by a defector from the jihadist group, shows the boy being beaten while he hangs by his wrists.
The UN has accused IS and other armed groups in Syria and Iraq of torturing and killing children.
Children have also been recruited, trained and used on the battlefield.
Another teenager told the BBC how he fought and killed for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front at the age of just 15, and that when he switched to IS he found 13-year-olds being indoctrinated.
The mobile phone footage shows Ahmed hanging a foot or so off the ground.
He is blindfolded, and two masked men, dressed head to toe in black, pace the ground in front of him. One has a knife and a pistol; the other strides around the room with an AK-47.
They hung Ahmed from the ceiling by his arms and then the beating started.
He was just 14 when IS captured and tortured him.
From the safety of neighbouring Turkey, he relived the nightmare.
"I thought about my parents. I thought about my mum," he said.
"I thought I was going to die and leave my parents, my siblings, my friends, my relatives all behind. I thought I was going to die."
"They started lashing me, electrocuting me in order to confess. I told them everything".
In the IS-controlled northern Syrian city of Raqqa, Ahmed had sold bread to make a living.
Two men he knew asked him to put a bag near an IS meeting place. Ahmed had been duped into planting a bomb.
His age was unimportant to his torturers. The abuse lasted two days.
"When they electrocuted me, I used to scream calling for my mother," he said. "But as soon as I did, [one of the torturers] used to up the voltage even more. 'Don't bring your mother in it,' he used to say."
"They pretend they're religious, but they're infidels. They used to smoke. They pretend to be enforcing the rules of Muslims, but they're not. They hit and kill people".
From prison, Ahmed was sentenced to death. But his executioner took pity on him, and allowed him to escape.
"It's rare that I'm able to sleep," he explained. "When I first came to Turkey, I used to have nightmares all the time. I got some treatment. But I couldn't sleep - I used to dream about it all the time.
"Whenever I closed my eyes, I used to have nightmares then stay up all night."
I met the man who filmed Ahmed's beating. He has since defected from IS and says he is full of remorse.
The film was made for propaganda purposes, he said.
The fate of the two other men filmed being tortured at the same time as Ahmed is not known.
"I am regretting every moment," the man said. "When I joined IS, I wasn't convinced of it but I had to."
"Although I wasn't particularly heavy-handed with people, I hope that the people I hurt will forgive me."
Inside its self-declared caliphate, Islamic State has ended secular education and instead created military-style schools which indoctrinate children and train them to kill.
An IS propaganda video shows children, some barely teenagers, undergoing drills and learning to shoot.
Children are shown in beheading videos, and also taking part in killings.
Khaled - not his real name - is now 17, but just two years ago he fought and killed for al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, al-Nusra front.
Later, he was forced to join IS. He has since defected, but for him entering battle was a rite of passage to manhood. He said that children were being specifically targeted to fight.
"Adult fighters of the Islamic State are a minority. My graduation class was full of 15 and 16 year olds," he said. "There were even many as young as 13 or 14. Those are more eager to fight and wage jihad for the sake of God."
Khaled bristles when the young recruits are referred to as children.
"May God forgive you, don't say children," he told me. "Those carrying a rifle, seven magazines and six grenades are men. They are Muslim men. There's a difference between being a male and a man."
"Many people are just male and not men. Those taking up arms and fighting for the sake of God and defending Muslim women's honour are men."
The Islamic State has up-ended life in Syria and Iraq, but its effects are more than just immediate.
This is the corruption of a generation. The children of the IS will grow into young men trained to kill and hate and they will trouble Syria and Iraq for years to come.
Lee Bo, a British citizen, was widely believed to have been abducted and taken to mainland China late last year along with four of his colleagues.
China was accused of violating Hong Kong's judicial independence.
The men worked for a publisher Mighty Current which sold gossipy books critical of China's leaders.
They all went missing late last year.
Mr Lee denied being kidnapped during an interview on state Chinese television.
However, his supporters believe the TV interview was done under duress.
Mr Lee's colleagues, Cheung Jiping, Lui Bo, Gui Minhai and Lam Wingkei, appeared on Chinese state TV in February, saying they had been detained for "illegal book trading".
Mr Lee returned to Hong Kong on Thursday, where he asked police to drop the missing persons case on him.
On Friday morning, smiling nervously, he told journalists he would not publish books anymore, and asked them not to bother him or his family.
He said he could travel freely between Hong Kong and the mainland, before being escorted into a car that drove him to mainland China, local media reported.
When asked if he had been taken to China by security agents, Mr Lee said "it's not convenient for me to say".
China expert Willy Lam, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told AFP news agency: "The fact of the matter is that he has not really been fully released... he needs to report back to China."
Mr Cheung and Mr Lui returned briefly to Hong Kong earlier this month, but were also reportedly returned to the mainland as part of their bail conditions.
Mr Lee's disappearance from Hong Kong in December sparked an international outcry. Under Hong Kong law, Chinese police do not have jurisdiction in the territory.
Many suspected he had been abducted because he had not taken his travel document, which is necessarily for cross-border travel, with him, and the Hong Kong authorities said they had no record of his having crossed into the mainland.
The UK has said Mr Bo was probably "involuntarily removed" to China, calling it a "serious breach" of the handover treaty that undermined the principle of "One Country, Two Systems".
1. Lui Bo, general manager, goes missing in Shenzhen, 15 October
2. Cheung Jiping, business manager, 32, goes missing in Dongguan, 15 October
3. Gui Minhai, co-owner, 51, goes missing in Thailand, 17 October
4. Lam Wingkei, manager, 60, last seen in Hong Kong, 23 October
5. Lee Bo, shareholder, 65, goes missing in Hong Kong, 30 December
The US musician, who died in Las Vegas on 14 May, had expressed his wish to be buried in the state where he grew up.
The service began with friends and family filing past King's open coffin, the lid of which had an image of his guitar Lucille embroidered inside.
The Rev Herron Wilson, who delivered the eulogy, said King's life history proved it was possible to triumph over difficult circumstances.
"Hands that once picked cotton would someday pick guitar strings on a national and international stage," he told a congregation of around 500 people.
More than 200 others who could not get inside the Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church watched a live broadcast of the funeral in its fellowship hall.
In a letter read aloud at Saturday's service, President Barack Obama said the blues had "lost its king" and that America had "lost a legend".
"No one worked harder than BB," his letter continued. "No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.
"BB may be gone but that thrill will be with us forever. And there's going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight."
In another tribute read out at the service, singer Stevie Wonder said King would "forever be the king of the blues".
Afterwards the musician was buried at the BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Centre, which opened in 2008 to tell his life's story.
The money would enable the local authority to go ahead with plans to upgrade the grounds and access to Inverness Castle.
A second project to create a free public access wi-fi scheme for the city is also expected to be funded.
The money will come from the UK government.
He was just 15 when he joined the party and has also served as a member of the Scottish Youth Parliament.
He also contested the East Dunbartonshire constituency in last May's general election.
He gained his new role as an MSP after being top of the Green list for the West of Scotland region.
In a post on the Scottish Young Greens website, he said: "I had always been an environmentalist since a young age.
"As my interest in politics grew, I began to realise that only the Scottish Green Party offered the practical solutions that I wanted, combining social justice and equality with sustainability and practical solutions to tackling climate change."
Mr Greer studied politics and psychology for a time at Strathclyde University but left in December 2012 to become Yes Scotland's communities co-ordinator for the independence referendum.
After the referendum the former Bearsden Academy student worked for the Scottish Greens on strategy development, and is the party's spokesman on Europe and external affairs.
We knew that Labour was going to use the proceeds of its planned mansion tax for the NHS but it has now given us some details of how Wales would be affected.
It claims it will generate £120m extra a year for the training of 1,000 front-line medical staff.
The shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith says it will be one of five central policies in the run up to the general election.
The other ones we know of so far are the cost of living, the deficit and immigration. Another specific one for Wales will be released soon.
At his monthly news conference, First Minister Carwyn Jones claimed the extra 1,000 training places would lead to "a good many" students remaining in the Welsh system but there is no guarantee that they will remain in Wales.
So instead of paying for training, why doesn't the Welsh government try to deal with the problem directly by simply recruiting more doctors and nurses?
The first minister says the problem is that those potential staff don't exist in reality and, in a thinly veiled swipe at Plaid Cymru, he described the Labour pledge as deliverable.
The direct recruitment of 1,000 staff is a central policy of Plaid and it was set out in a news conference in Aberystwyth.
The party plans to pay for this using a sugary drinks levy, or pop tax.
Plaid says the Welsh government has slashed its recruitment budget and that little effort has been made by health boards to recruit from overseas.
The party's other central proposal on health is to reintegrate health and social care, something which Health Minister Mark Drakeford rejected this morning.
Plaid MP Hywel Williams, the party's public services spokesman, said: "Our plans will increase capacity, bring down waiting times, and improve patients flow through hospital and beyond."
All of this coincides with a week of coverage from BBC Wales about the state of the NHS.
There have been interesting findings from a poll of 1,000 people.
Among them is that 57% of those questioned thought that treatment should be stopped or limited to those who refuse to alter their lifestyles.
The Health Minister Mark Drakeford is big on personal responsibility and has shown himself more than willing to launch into this ethical debate.
On Good Morning Wales, he said he was against denying treatment but added that if you were a heavy smoker then certain treatments were already not being offered to you because they wouldn't be effective.
He said: "The consequences of lifestyle and the relationship between lifestyle and what you get on the NHS is already a live one and is going to be more of a live one as we go into the future."
I asked the first minister about potentially withdrawing treatment.
He said: "I think people are far less tolerant now of people who do not alter their lifestyles when it's known those lifestyles will worsen their condition.
"We would seek to encourage people to change their lifestyles, and I'm sure the medics will want to do the same as well, but I do not think we are in a position of saying to people at the moment 'sorry but if you do not change you will not have any treatment whatsoever'. That is a particularly draconian move."
People like me end up talking a lot about the specific targets in the NHS but these comments suggest the broader campaigns on public health will become just as important in the future as well.
He says the state will not "tolerate" that citizens take the law "in their own hands".
The journalism student was brutally killed by fellow students on campus. Eight have now been charged with murder and terrorism, officials say.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan.
Critics say blasphemy laws, which allow the death penalty in some cases, are often misused to oppress minorities.
The murdered student has been identified as Mashal Khan, who was accused of posting blasphemous messages on social media.
Local media report he was stripped and beaten in the hostel at Abdul Wali Khan University in the northern city of Mardan.
Graphic video posted online showed dozens of men outside the building kicking and throwing objects, including planks, at a half-naked body sprawled on the ground.
Mr Sharif, who has supported a wide-ranging crackdown on blasphemous content on social media, condemned the attack, in his first statement on Thursday's killing.
"The nation should stand united to condemn this crime and to promote tolerance and rule of law in society," he said.
"Let it be known to the perpetrators of this act that the state shall not tolerate citizens taking the law in their own hands."
The police have denied allegations that officers did not act to save Mr Khan's life, saying that the student was already dead when they arrived at the scene.
They have arrested 12 people over the incident and are hunting for more suspects.
Human rights activists held small protests in several Pakistani cities on Saturday condemning the murder, and the UN in Pakistan urged authorities "to take firm action and bring the perpetrators to speedy justice".
Witnesses told media that Mr Khan was disliked by other students for his liberal and secular views, and had been in a heated debate during a class the day he was killed.
The imam at the local mosque refused to lead the prayer at Mr Khan's funeral on Friday.
But the student's father said the accusations of blasphemy were unfounded. "First they killed my son and now they are adding salt to our wounds," Iqbal Shaer told Reuters news agency.
At least 65 people have been murdered in Pakistan after being accused of blasphemy since 1990, a recent think tank report said.
The new owner of the Ayrshire resort spoke about his plans as he arrived by private jet in Aberdeen - en route to his other Scottish course at Menie.
The American businessman said he would not be making any changes to Turnberry without the approval of golf's governing body, The Royal And Ancient.
Mr Trump purchased Turnberry from Dubai-based Leisurecorp last month.
The course will continue to be managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
He said he had paid "a lot of money" for the complex but would not disclose the amount.
Mr Trump told the BBC he had "no plans" to buy any more golf courses in Scotland.
He described his Menie course, on the Aberdeenshire coast, as "his baby" and said he would never give up the fight to halt an offshore windfarm being built in sight of it.
The collision happened at about 17:45 on the A836 at Bridge of Forss near Thurso.
Emergency services, including police, fire and ambulance, all attended at the scene.
Police Scotland said the road remained closed and local diversions had been put in place.
The Business, Innovation and Skills and International Development Committees' joint report has evidence of breaches of international humanitarian law.
However, there is division between MPs on the issue.
The Foreign Affairs Committee's report says weapons exports should stop only if UK courts rule the sales unlawful.
The committee's Conservative chairman Crispin Blunt is understood to have drawn up the rival document after objecting to proposals to issue the call for immediate suspension through the House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC).
Reports suggested he walked out of a CAEC private meeting to prevent a vote being taken on the draft report, because he felt it was one-sided.
The move came amid claims that UK-made arms are being used in indiscriminate bombing raids on civilian targets by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shia rebels in neighbouring Yemen.
One of the attacks resulted in the deaths of 47 civilians, including 21 women and 15 children, and injuries to 58 who were killed when a wedding party at a house was struck by missiles from military aircraft.
CAEC inquiry chair Chris White said the UK had led the way in setting up international humanitarian law to govern arms sales.
But, the conflict in Yemen raised serious concerns that the country was not determined to make sure they were respected.
"During this inquiry we have heard evidence from respected sources that weapons made in the UK have been used in contravention of international humanitarian law," he said.
"The Government can no longer wait and see and must now take urgent action, halting the sale of arms to the Saudi-led coalition until we can be sure that there is no risk of violation."
He called for an independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding incidents in Yemen such as allegations of the use of cluster bombs.
And he said the current system for overseeing the sale of arms must be improved.
The government has faced sustained pressure to suspend the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia.
In August, aid agency Oxfam accused the British government of "denial and disarray" over the trade.
But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has defended it, insisting the export of weapons to the country would continue.
The CAEC is made up of four parliamentary committees - Business, Innovation and Skills; Defence; Foreign Affairs; and International Development.
The Defence Committee has not said whether it intends to publish its own report.
The 76-year-old Labour politician has represented the Cynon Valley since winning a by-election in 1984.
She revealed her decision at the monthly meeting of the Cynon Valley Labour Party on Friday, after informing party leader Ed Miliband.
But Ms Clwyd said she would still campaign and called it "not her swansong", but a "pause for breath".
In a statement, she said by the next general election she would have been an elected politician for 36 years.
"It is a long time but I feel very privileged to have had a job I enjoyed so much," she said.
Most recently the MP led a government-commissioned inquiry on how NHS hospitals handle complaints.
The review, published last October, said the culture of delay and denial over NHS complaints in England must come to an end.
Ms Clwyd was asked to lead it after she broke down in a BBC interview in December 2012 while describing the poor care her late husband had received.
She said her husband Owen Roberts died "like a battery hen" at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in October 2012.
She had previously tackled David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons about how he would respond to complaints about nurses who failed to show care and compassion to patients.
In her statement she said: "I still have a lot of energy left to fight for a better health service for the people of Wales over the next year and to ensure that the system improves throughout the UK.
"The letters and emails keep coming so I will still be shouting long and hard on their behalf.
"I hope my late husband Owen Roberts can hear me - I know he would be backing me all the way, as he always did."
A former journalist, she was a lone Welsh female MP for a long time in a career which began when she was elected MEP for Mid and West Wales in 1979.
In 1994 she went underground to stage a sit-in protest against the closure of Tower Colliery at Hirwaun.
Ms Clwyd said: "I am particularly proud to have been elected in the constituency of Keir Hardie, and the first woman to be elected in an industrial seat in Wales.
"The miners who always gave me their backing I hope would not be disappointed."
A long-time campaigner for Kurds in Iraq, she served as special envoy to the Middle Eastern country under former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"I will continue to speak out on domestic and international affairs, especially on human rights," she said.
This figure has risen by 2.5m from the 6.8m total the UN gave in September.
The Syria crisis "continues to deteriorate rapidly and inexorably", Ms Amos told the UN Security Council.
Meanwhile, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is due to hold talks with US and Russian diplomats aimed at paving the way for a Syria peace conference.
In Geneva, Mr Brahimi will also meet representatives from the rest of the UN Security Council and Syria's neighbours ahead of the conference planned for later this month.
The Syrian government and opposition groups disagree over how the formal negotiations should be structured: the opposition demands that President Bashar al-Assad should resign, while Damascus says there should be no pre-conditions.
In a separate development, Damascus announced a nationwide vaccination campaign to immunise every Syrian child against polio, measles, mumps and rubella, even in rebel-held territories.
This comes weeks after cases of polio were confirmed in the country for the first time in 14 years.
Baroness Amos said the UN Security Council "should put its full political weight with both the regime and opposition parties" to ensure access for humanitarian workers.
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The baroness "continues to press the council for their help and influence over those parties who can ensure the protection of civilians and civilian facilities; the safe passage of medical personnel and supplies; the safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance," her spokeswoman Amanda Pitt said.
More than half of those in need are people living in Syria displaced by conflict, a total of 6.5m, up from 4.25m internally displaced people in June.
Last month, the UN Security Council expressed alarm at the "rapid deterioration" of the humanitarian situation in Syria and demanded immediate access for aid.
It followed a resolution on eliminating Syria's chemical weapons.
The UN says the number of those needing help has risen by more than 30% from 6.8 million in September. Syria has a population of 23 million.
There are more than 2.5 million people in isolated or besieged areas of Syria, many of whom are living without adequate food or electricity or access to medical supplies.
Source: UNHCR/AFAD - Oct-Nov 2013
Aid agencies complain that the Syrian government has hindered access to visas and tried to limit the number of foreign groups operating in the country.
Neighbouring countries such as Jordan are warning that they cannot cope with the influx of refugees crossing from Syria.
The UN estimates that more than 2m people have fled Syria since the unrest began in March 2011 resulting in a humanitarian crisis.
Most have sought refuge in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.
More than 100,000 people are estimated to have been killed since the conflict began.
John Grant, 47, lost control of the aircraft and it crashed with its load of drugs and mobile phones in a garden.
It contained footage on its camera of Grant adjusting settings on the drone and with GPS co-ordinates of his home.
Grant admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin between 5-18 November 2016.
He also admitted two breaches of Scottish prison legislation by attempting to fly the Class A drug and mobile phones into Saughton jail in Edinburgh on 5 November.
He also pleaded guilty to culpably and recklessly piloting "an unmanned aircraft system" at night with its aviation lights taped, making it invisible to other aircraft to the danger of the public and other aircraft.
He was jailed for five years and four months.
Grant was on bail at the time of the offences.
The drone, which was found by a woman in Redhall, had a sock attached containing three mobile phones, two chargers and a haul of heroin and diazepam.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard the heroin was worth £11,000. Its value inside the jail would have been £48,000.
Grant was identified from the drone's film and a search of his home found a further half kilo of heroin worth £48,000.
Advocate depute Jim Keegan said the total amount of heroin recovered was valued at £59,000 but more money could have been made out of it because of the premium payable in jail and its high purity.
Grant, a former mechanic, was previously jailed for 44 months for a drug trafficking offence.
A thin flexible telescope, called an endobronchial ultrasound, is inserted through the patient's mouth and provides camera pictures and ultrasound images.
Samples can also be taken which can lead to faster diagnosis.
Dr Terence McManus uses the device in the South West Acute Hospital.
The 30-minute procedure is carried out under local anaesthetic and patients can normally return home the same day.
Dr McManus, a respiratory consultant, said: "It's a new technique that allows us to biopsy and diagnose conditions at an earlier stage.
"It can, in some cases, avoid the need for more invasive surgery techniques.
"Using this technique we can diagnose conditions such as cancer, inflammatory conditions, and sometimes infections as well."
He said it allowed doctors to "establish a diagnosis and then determine what is the most appropriate treatment for a patient as quickly as possible".
Approximately 900 people in Northern Ireland are diagnosed with lung cancer each year.
It is the second most common cancer among men and the third most common among women.
Stephen Hogan from Florencecourt, County Fermanagh, has lung disease and has undergone the procedure.
He described it as very simple and added it had no unpleasant side effects.
"The big difference for me is knowing where I'm at with the diagnosis and the referral on to the oncologist and then I know what my treatment options are. So, it actually gives you a sense of relief and it saves a lot of time.
"I'm dependent on some degree of oxygen so travelling between A and B is a bit of an issue and we're very lucky to have this brand new facility, so it's brilliant."
The South West Acute Hospital, which opened its doors six months ago, is the first in Northern Ireland to offer this service.
Joe Lusby, deputy chief executive of the Western Health Trust, said it demonstrated how the latest technology is benefiting patients in the new state-of-the-art hospital.
"Anything that provides a faster and more accurate diagnosis of lung disease is bound to be good for the patient," he said.
"This hospital is built for the next 60 years at least so what we were doing is not just transferring services across from the former Erne Hospital.
"We were determined to add services that were appropriate to provide locally so that people don't have to travel great distances to access these services."
About 90% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking cigarettes and Dr McManus has also seen patients getting the disease at a younger age.
He said: "It can affect any age. Smoking is certainly the biggest risk factor so we would always emphasise the importance of stopping smoking as soon as possible, it's never too late to stop smoking."
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou has announced he is stepping down as KMT party chairman in response to the defeat, which was widely seen on the island as a rejection of his party's push for closer ties with Beijing.
An article in the official party paper, the People's Daily, warns the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to "discard fantasies" about achieving formal independence.
"As China's might and influence expand internationally, it will have more say in the cross-strait ties," Taiwan analyst Ni Yongjie tells the paper.
"It will be difficult for any political forces in Taiwan to resist the peaceful development of the relationship."
China Daily lays the blame for Mr Ma's defeat squarely on his domestic policies, denying any link to his pro-Beijing stance.
But it acknowledges that with fewer than two years left of Mr Ma's term in office, the KMT's loss will add "uncertainty" to ties with Beijing, and could create "major difficulties in producing more ground-breaking achievements".
The Haiwai Net website also warns the opposition camp against pushing its luck, saying Taiwan has benefited economically from a closer relationship with the mainland.
It also warns the KMT not to try to restore its electoral fortunes by disavowing the "1992 Consensus" - a meeting at which, in Beijing's view, all of Taiwan's main political forces pledged to respect the "one-China-principle". The DPP denies any such agreement exists.
In an interview with the international paper Global Times, researcher Sun Xiaobo is relaxed about the impact of the apparent political change in Taiwan, saying the "peaceful development of relations has become mainstream".
Meanwhile, Beijing papers are not impressed by the decision by the founders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy Central movement to turn themselves in to police.
Several state-controlled media outlets - including the Youth.cn website - accuse Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming of "putting on a show".
The overseas edition of the People's Daily dismisses student activists' promise to go on hunger strike during the trio's detention as "meaningless", saying that Beijing will not respond to "illegal and extreme measures".
"After messing up Hong Kong for more than 60 days, the protest has come to halt," the paper states. "Now it is time for the law to deal with the organisers and participants."
Labelling the protesters a "bunch of kids", the Global Times tells them that they have not the "slightest chance of making a real difference", despite support from "their Western allies".
"By relying on the West to oppose the entire country with its 1.3-billion population and inciting some radical teenagers to damage Hong Kong's long-term prosperity and stability, the extreme opposition in Hong Kong will find their dream as distant as ever," it warns.
And finally, China's authorities have released a draft regulation making it a punishable offence for citizens to falsely register as a member of one of the country's ethnic minorities in order to gain favourable treatment.
According to the official news agency Xinhua, the ethnic affairs department will revoke fake identities and scrap any privileges granted as a result of a fraudulent claim.
Xiong Kunxin, an ethnic affairs analyst at Minzu University, China, tells the Global Times that students often pretend to be from an ethnic minority to gain extra points in the national college entrance examinations, while some officials do it to get promoted.
He adds that the new rules will be difficult to implement.
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The vigil was later disturbed when a man carrying weapons was arrested nearby.
Before that crowds gathered outside the council house, where a civic dinner after the election of the city's new mayor Anne Underwood, was due to be held.
Candles were placed in jars and a minute's silence was held as well as speeches from leaders of several faiths. People gathered around the council house entrance and numbers were swelled as more people, many making their way home from work, stopped to listen. Some sat in the sunshine near the flowers planted in the square's 'Floozie in the Jacuzzi' statue.
The Bishop of Birmingham, David Urquhart, said it was "appalling" for the victims and their families to find "this murderous suicide in them middle of a wonderful evening".
Barbara Anderson, 66, from Kings Heath, said she was there with her daughter Carol Cockerill and granddaughter Lauren.
"I was gutted when I heard the news - we have family in Manchester and I needed to make sure they were safe," Ms Anderson said.
"They were, thankfully. I don't go to big concerts but Carol's sister, does... You just have to hope they will be safe.
"This made me angry- I have spent the day watching the news and went to the gym - good way of working off the anger.
Ms Cockerill added: "We attend major events and something like this will not stop us going or think twice.
The message from all speakers at the event was "we are one", BBC News reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn said.
The crowd was encouraged to chant those words together at one point.
Andy Street, West Midlands mayor, told BBC News that he was very proud to be at the vigil to show "we are utterly united in defiance of what has happened".
Zeshaan Ali from Hodge Hill, a volunteer co-ordinator for Islamic Relief, went with his nine-year-old son Musa and daughter, Juwayriyah, 11.
"I have two kids myself- no family should have to go through what happened yesterday," the 33-year-old said.
"Also, I'm from the Muslim faith. I want to show terrorism does not exist within a religion.
"We go for days out, to the Bullring or the park on a sunny day - the same thing as going to a big concert. We like to think it is safe wherever you go with your family.
"I heard the news when I woke up - it was sickening to hear it... Our prayers go out to those who have lost loved ones."
Jessica Foster, 47, a vicar from Kings Heath, 47, said it was important to stand together and show "we will not be divided by those who want to maim and murder".
"In Birmingham we connect no matter what your faith, ethnicity or wealth. We want to show our solidarity with Manchester," she said.
Saraya Hussain, 40, from Balsall Heath added: "It resonates with you as a parent. So how can we contribute and share in their grief? We came here to say we will not allow it to divide us."
As the vigil drew to a close at about 07:10, shouts from around the side of the council house building could be heard.
Police declared a security alert and cleared the square, but there was no panic. People simply drifted away.
Police later said the man, already known to them and thought to have mental health issues, had been charged with possession of a sharp or pointed article in a public place, resisting or obstructing a constable in execution of his duty and possession of an offensive weapon.
Some of the pics have never been published before, some taken on the surface of the Moon during the early days of space exploration.
A portrait of Buzz Aldrin from the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon shows the photographer, Neil Armstrong, and the Lunar Module reflected in his gold-plated visor.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the Moon, in 1969.
This is the first photograph ever taken from space, on 24 October 1946 from a camera on a V2 rocket.
Clyde Holliday, who worked on the project, wrote at the time in National Geographic magazine that it showed for the first time how the Earth would look to alien visitors!
For almost 20 years after the Apollo 11 Moon landings, the only pictures known of Neil Armstrong on the Moon were a few grainy images from the TV camera and the 16mm film footage. That was until this picture was found in their archives in Houston, Texas, USA.
This is a picture of the first spacewalk by an American, back in 1965. It shows astronaut Ed White and is from his personal photo album.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin took the first space 'selfie' during the Gemini 12 mission in November 1966.
Buzz Aldrin also took this picture of a boot print on the Moon's surface, in July 1969.
The auction, From the Earth to the Moon will be held at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions' saleroom in London on 26 February 2015.
Juan Manuel Santos just happened to be walking by that night. But he then made a point of following Northern Ireland's troubled history of making war, and peace.
"When I saw the picture of the Queen shaking hands with one of the IRA leaders I said, 'My God, this is possible,'" President Santos told me on the eve of signing a historic peace accord with one of his oldest enemies.
In a world dominated by horrific forever wars, Colombia's agreement with the Farc guerrilla movement stands out as an extraordinary moment for this country, and a rare affirmation of the power of peace talks.
"For us it is the most important moment of our generation," said a visibly emotional Colombian negotiator, Sergio Jaramillo Caro, when we meet just before the signing ceremony on the edge of the charming walled city of Cartagena.
Like all guests invited to this occasion, he was wearing white to mark the end of a dark chapter that left more than a quarter of a million dead and tens of thousands kidnapped or who just disappeared.
"What we have seen in Colombia is an example that if you work hard at it, with a lot of international support, you can get something worthwhile," he said, while a Colombian choir rehearsed Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the edge of the picturesque harbour.
And Colombia's own negotiations drew on lessons from places like Northern Ireland and South Africa, whose processes succeeded, and others that failed.
Every conflict is different, but every peace process throws up similar challenges and controversies.
"There's a pattern," says Jonathan Powell, who was chief negotiator on the IRA deal for the British government and became an adviser to President Santos.
"You usually get to an agreement when there is a mutually hurting stalemate, so both sides realise they can't win militarily."
President Santos, a former defence minister, made it clear that his long fight against the Farc - as well as the secret channel he established two decades ago - gave him the gravitas to sit down with his enemy.
"No other Colombian has hit them so hard, so I had the moral authority to negotiate the peace with them," he told me in our interview, a white dove of peace pinned to the lapel of his suit jacket.
One of the toughest challenges is the balance between peace and justice. It bedevils every peace process.
Colombia broke new ground on how to reconcile both.
It is the first peace accord in Latin America that has not ended in an amnesty.
It also brought in to negotiations the victims, who number an astounding eight million, as well as civil society groups.
Colombia's answer to transitional justice includes special tribunals to try Farc members, as well as soldiers and police in Colombian security forces, for alleged war crimes.
There is also a process, inspired by South Africa's Peace and Reconciliation Commission, that allows fighters to admit to their actions, and serve punishments ranging from community service to restrictions on their movements.
I asked President Santos whether he would have wanted a tougher deal.
"I would have liked to see longer jail terms for commanders of the guerrillas," he said.
But he insisted there was no impunity.
"My instruction to negotiators was to go and seek the maximum justice that will allow us peace, and I think we struck a good deal," he said.
A 52-year war means a generation of pain and distrust.
Some are ready to forgive, even if they cannot forget. But others are not.
In a popular coffee shop in Cartagena, I met former Farc hostage Sigifredo Lopez.
His wife, Patricia, wore a large white badge to show she was voting Yes to support the peace deal in a national plebiscite on 2 October.
"We don't want any more victims, any more violence," Mr Lopez told me emphatically.
His soft eyes still seemed full of sadness.
He was held hostage from 2002 to 2009 with 11 others, and was the only one to come out alive.
"We went to Havana and met our Farc kidnappers," Patricia said.
"They cried when they heard the stories of children whose fathers they massacred, and they accepted their responsibility."
The next morning, at a large loud rally to support the No campaign, I heard the angry voices of those who accuse President Santos of letting the Farc get away with it.
"We want peace, but this accord will not bring peace," said senator Luis Araujo, whose father was kidnapped by the Farc for six years.
"They need to spend more time in jail."
"You have to strike a balance," says Mr Powell.
"In Northern Ireland, we let IRA terrorists out of jail after just two years.
"It was a very difficult thing to do.
"But if you go to a terrorist leader and say, 'I want you to sign this agreement to make peace and go to jail for 35 years,' they won't be ready to sign."
If the history of peace deals have any lessons, it is that most fall apart.
Implementation will be tough in a country marred by so much violence.
The Farc, rooted in a Marxist-Leninist peasant revolt, must now move away from its vast network of criminal activities, including the lucrative cocaine trade, in exchange for entering the political process and becoming part of Colombian society.
All the negotiators I spoke to admitted a hard road still lay ahead, but they believed the Farc had changed.
"Any dialogue between human beings changes them," says Norwegian special envoy Dag Nylander, whose country, along with Cuba, served as guarantors of this process.
"What was possible today was not possible four years ago."
"We thought this process was impossible," President Santos said, when I asked him if Colombia offers any hope for other intractable conflicts.
But he also offered a word of caution.
"It would be a deal that will not satisfy everybody but will bring peace - and that's a better deal than continuing the war," he said.
New Zealand international Luke Ronchi's spectacular 19-ball half-century helped the Foxes reach 183-6 as they won with two balls to spare.
Ronchi made 57, backed up by Colin Ackermann's unbeaten 58, off 47 balls.
In the South Group, Kent maintained their own quarter-final hopes with a six-wicket win against Somerset.
Leicestershire earned their first home win in this season's competition to claim a second North Group victory inside 24 hours.
Their previous five wins had come away from Leicester - but going into their final two games, the three-times T20 winners are now one of four clubs on 13 points.
They include third-placed Yorkshire, who were powered by half-centuries by Tom Kohler-Cadmore (75 from 40 balls - his best T20 score since arriving from Worcestershire) and Australian Shaun Marsh (60).
But the Tykes, lifted by beating rivals Lancashire at Headingley the previous evening, have just one group game left, at home to second-placed Northants on Thursday, and they must win to stand any chance of qualifying.
Derbyshire and the Birmingham Bears are the other three sides on 13 points, two behind group leaders Notts Outlaws, who are a point ahead of Northants.
Kent's New Zealand paceman Adam Milne claimed a county-best 5-11 as the bottom-of-the-table Spitfires caused an upset in the South Group, beating Somerset by six wickets at Taunton.
Milne sent down 15 dot balls from 23 deliveries as the hosts were dismissed for 149 in 18.5 overs.
England one-day international Sam Billings then battered an unbeaten 56 from 36 balls as the visitors reached their target with nine deliveries to spare, to inflict Somerset's first home defeat in this year's competition.
"We have a really good record here at Taunton," Billings told BBC Radio Bristol. "The guys love playing on this square. That's eight wins on the trot for us here.
"The dismissal of James Hildreth was a key moment and Adam Milne weighed into the tail after that. He was outstanding."
Somerset captain Jim Allenby, whose side face Glamorgan at Taunton on Sunday, said: "We had a poor day at the office with the bat. But we are still fourth in the table, having played poorly in a few games, so it's not all doom and gloom."
Kent are now up to sixth on 11 points, four points behind group leaders Hampshire, who are ahead of second-placed Glamorgan by a point, followed by three sides on 12 points - Sussex, Somerset and Gloucestershire.
The Harrogate crew was wrongly sent two and half miles from where it should have been by call operators working in Cornwall.
North Yorkshire and Cornwall fire and rescue services share control room operations at peak periods.
The North Yorkshire service confirmed an investigation is under way.
It said crews attending the business park fire at Killinghall, near Harrogate, were delayed 10 minutes as a result of the mix-up, but the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said fire engines were 17 minutes late.
Simon Wall, chairman of North Yorkshire FBU, said: "The delay could have been catastrophic if it had been a house fire."
Wednesday's call was handled by the Critical Control Centre in Tolvaddon, Cornwall,.
Mr Wall said "collaborating with Cornwall means there is a massive lack of local knowledge".
He added: "The collaboration between control centres is what the government wants and we accept that, but an incident like this is unacceptable.
"Something has gone desperately wrong."
Owen Hayward, North Yorkshire Assistant Chief Fire Officer, confirmed an investigation is under way with Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service.
He said: "We are not yet sure if someone gave us the wrong postcode or something went wrong in the control room."
No-one was available for comment from Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service.
The 38-year-old journalist became well-known during the 2010 election as the BBC's chief political correspondent.
She then had a spell at ITV before returning to the BBC in 2014 on the Newsnight team.
Nick Robinson will join BBC Radio Four's Today programme in the autumn. He has taken time off recently to have chemotherapy to treat lung cancer.
Kuenssberg said: "I'm completely delighted and I recognise the responsibility on my shoulders.
"It's an honour for me to follow Nick Robinson who has been such an outstanding political editor."
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BBC director-general Tony Hall said: "Laura's an exceptional journalist - I saw that for myself in our studio on election night.
"Her knowledge of Westminster politics is second to none, but she also has a real flair for asking the questions the audience want answering."
BBC director of news James Harding said there was no role quite like political editor at the BBC.
"It is one of the toughest and most influential jobs in journalism. I am delighted Laura will be our next voice from Westminster."
Kuenssberg was born in Italy, spent her childhood in Glasgow and gained a first class honours degree from Edinburgh University in modern history.
She joined the BBC in 2000 as a trainee journalist in Newcastle and became a political correspondent in 2003, working on the Daily Politics and the Today programme, Breakfast and the News at Ten.
In 2009, she was appointed the BBC's chief political correspondent, but moved to ITV News two years later to be business editor.
She returned to the BBC last year in the role of Newsnight presenter.
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Harris told BBC Sport the Australian was "a disgrace" following England's 38-12 Four Nations win over Scotland.
The England coach offered short responses to questions after Saturday's game as well as before the opening defeat to New Zealand last week.
"It was a disgrace last week pre-game and that's just shocking," he said.
"He is the Alex Ferguson of management with his charisma and what he has done in the NRL.
"He has come over here to promote the game of rugby league, to promote it internationally and take it on to another level with his stature. He has got a responsibility to do those types of interviews."
Former Super League winger Jon Wells added: "It's a difficult job to take, it's a difficult time to take the job, but Wayne must know, he understands the lay of the land, England are at a crossroads in terms of what we do with our international game.
"I think that was nothing short of a disgrace. Now he might not be happy with the result, but you have got to front up as a head coach.
"You are an ambassador for a sport in this country and we are trying to get more people watching and listening to this sport."
Former Great Britain player and coach Brian Noble said he was "not surprised" by the interview Bennett gave.
"Wayne Bennett has got to raise the bar," he told BBC Sport. "They were below the Test match standard that is needed to beat Australia.
"He was brought in to raise expectations and it is just not good enough to get over the line with a win. I don't think they dished that up for him.
"We have seen Scotland get into the competition by right. If they add another couple of players to their squad, they can be a force for sure."
Asked in his interview whether anyone had played themselves out of contention in Saturday's Four Nations victory, Bennett said: "A couple of them probably have, yeah.
"They've got a bit of thinking to do. They need to look at themselves."
England recovered from a slow start to win their first meeting with Scotland and keep their hopes of reaching the Four Nations final alive.
But they must beat Australia to have a chance of making the final at Anfield.
The 66-year-old Australian added: "Just pleased with the win - that is all you can say about it.
"We were bad, we weren't good in the first 20 [minutes]. We got closer to what I expect in the second half. I want them to play to their ability and they were a way off that."
England lost 17-16 to New Zealand in their tournament opener last Saturday, while Australia beat Scotland 54-12 last Friday.
What do England need to do to improve? "You name it, I'll agree with you," said Bennett. "We weren't good. From how we played last week to this week, there's no comparison.
"There wasn't much to enjoy about that performance. There was no particular reason for the slow start. They might have been reading the papers, thinking they just had to turn up and win."
Scotland coach Steve McCormack said he was "really proud" of his side's efforts.
"We are playing against the best three teams in the world," he added. "We competed for long periods, much better than on Friday, and we expect to be better next week.
"We could have tested England more. The penalty count killed us - that was a big factor. We started the game better and played some good stuff.
"England were good in the second half and showed they can play with the ball but we need to look at the penalty count." | England coach Wayne Bennett is not fulfilling his responsibility to help grow the game, says former Great Britain international Iestyn Harris. | 37,886,383 | 815 | 27 | false |
Leigh Robbins, from Sleaford, died aged 53 in March 2016 almost three months after the operation at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.
An inquest found he died from complications of an infection he developed because of the procedure.
Mr Robbins's widow Rebecca said lessons had to be learned from the mistake.
Dr Tony Berendt, medical director of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, apologised for the circumstances leading up to her husband's death.
He added: "Since then we have looked very carefully at our processes and we have made several significant changes to our procedures."
Assistant Coroner for Oxfordshire Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp recorded a narrative verdict at the end of the three-day inquest at Oxford Coroner's Court.
She said Mr Robbins died after contracting cytomegalovirus (CMV), an infection present in the pancreas he received that was not detected because two blood samples were mixed up.
Consultant microbiologist Professor Robert Masterton said if the infection had been detected the transplant could have gone ahead with anti-viral drugs and Mr Robbins would have survived.
Mrs Robbins, 37, said: "It is devastating to know that, if things had been done differently, Leigh's death could have potentially been prevented.
"Whilst nothing will ever be able to change what has happened, our only hope as a family now is that lessons can be learned to ensure that no one else faces the failings that led to Leigh's death.
"We put huge faith and trust into the health service to ensure that Leigh got the quality, safe care he deserved and we are devastated by what happened. It simply cannot be allowed to happen again." | An NHS trust has apologised to the family of a man who died after a blood sample mix-up led to him receiving an infected pancreas in a transplant. | 40,135,039 | 382 | 43 | false |
They showed 193 people - all but four of them men - were charged in the year to the end of March.
That number was down from 206 in 2013/14 and 267 the previous year.
The figures showed that the accused had an affiliation with Rangers in 30% of the charges, Aberdeen in 16%, Celtic in 10% and Hibernian in 8%.
Some 16% of all charges were connected to the Dundee United versus Aberdeen match in December last year.
A further 7% were connected to Hamilton v Motherwell in September and 7% to the Scotland v England match in November.
Court proceedings have begun in relation to 168 of the 193 charges.
The report on the figures said the average age of the accused had risen from 23 to 27.
Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 criminalises hateful, threatening and otherwise offensive behaviour that is likely to incite public disorder in relation to football.
Last year people were accused of offences that were "threatening" in 61% of the charges and "hateful" in 30% of charges.
Behaviour was described as "otherwise offensive" - for example including a reference to celebration of loss of life or support of terrorist organisations - in 13% of charges.
Of the 58 charges relating to "hateful" behaviour, 50 charges involved incidents of religious hatred, down on previous years, while 4% involved racial hatred, and no charges involved sexual orientation.
As in the previous two years, derogatory behaviour towards Roman Catholicism (84%) accounted for the largest proportion of religious abuse.
Six charges (12%) included behaviour that was derogatory towards Protestantism.
One charge included derogatory behaviour towards Judaism, and one charge included derogatory behaviour towards Islam.
Fewer charges occurred in football stadiums than in previous years, with the majority relating to incidents outside grounds or in town or city centres on match days.
An academic evaluation of the act, published by the Scottish government, said football fans said they had not noticed any significant decrease in the amount of problematic behaviour since the new laws had come into force.
The report also said police and stewards in football grounds appeared to be concentrating on groups of young fans - terming them risk groups - and losing focus on more serious offenders, perhaps away from stadiums.
There has also been some criticism of the act from within the legal profession, with some sheriffs "emphatically critical" of it. Successful prosecutions have fallen from 73% to 52%.
Minister for Community Safety Paul Wheelhouse said: "We have seen a raft of encouraging statistics and evidence published today showing that hate crimes in Scotland are on the decrease, both on the streets of Scotland and in our football grounds and this is to be welcomed.
"Religious crimes are down, race crimes are down, crimes in relation to sexuality are down and we've seen a decrease in crimes of offensive behaviour at regulated football matches in Scotland. Whilst the legislation we brought in two years ago has had its critics, the latest statistics show a steady decline in offences at stadiums and a YouGov poll shows 80% of Scots support the Offensive Behaviour Act."
"We will not be complacent and will continue to monitor how the act is working very closely going forward. However, I believe the legislation is working. The evaluations, backed by the latest statistics out today, demonstrate that the act has had a positive impact and our approach has delivered real improvements in behaviour at football and online." | The number of people charged under the controversial football hate crime legislation has fallen slightly, according to Crown Office figures. | 33,106,460 | 774 | 23 | false |
Golding will remain at Headingley until the end of the 2021 season.
The 20-year-old has played 31 games for the Rhinos since his debut in 2014, including 13 appearances in 2017.
Golding, who supported Leeds as a child, told the club website: "I think there is something special here at this club. It means a lot to me to play for this great club and pull my shirt on." | Leeds Rhinos full-back Ashton Golding has signed a new five-year deal with the Super League club. | 40,015,583 | 92 | 28 | false |
The Bluebirds are believed to have fought off competition from Brighton, Birmingham and Borussia Dortmund for Malone.
Former England Under-19 international has signed a deal until June 2017.
"I'm very happy to be here and eager to get started," Malone told the club website.
"With my contract soon to expire at Millwall, I was looking for a new challenge; a few clubs were interested, but when I heard Cardiff City was one of them it was an easy decision to make.
"The manager didn't need to persuade me at all into making this decision, I wanted to come and be part of his plans."
Malone could make his home debut against Fulham on Saturday, 10 January, subject to international clearance.
The 23-year-old emerged from Wolves' academy to turn professional in 2009.
Former Burton and Southend defender Malone, who can also play on the left wing, is Cardiff manager Russell Slade's first signing of the January transfer window.
Malone joined Bournemouth from Wolves in 2011, moving for £150,000 following an initial loan spell, and then joined Millwall in May 2012.
Malone scored in the Lions' 2-1 win over Blackpool in August and has made 20 Championship appearances this season.
Striker Revell, 31, was signed by Slade in 2010 when the Bluebirds boss was manager of Leyton Orient.
The 6ft 3in forward, who has also played for Wycombe Wanderers and Swindon, has scored four goals in 26 appearances this season.
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The dispute has been going on for some time and previous strikes have caused disruption for thousands of passengers.
Thursday's cancelled strike would have inconvenienced thousands more who are expected to travel into the city to celebrate the national holiday.
Broadcaster RTÉ said staff from three out of four grades accepted pay offers.
Luas workers will be balloted on the latest proposals next week, but sufficient agreement was reached to avoid the 17 March strike.
The breakthrough followed lengthy, overnight talks between Transdev - the private company that operates the Luas - and workers' representatives from the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (Siptu).
It was reported last month that some workers were seeking pay rises of up to 53%, which Transdev described as unsustainable.
Speaking to RTÉ after the talks on Wednesday, Transdev managing director Gerry Madden said the dispute has been disastrous for the Luas brand.
A deal would have merged the maker of the famous Hershey's chocolate bar with Mondelez's Oreo and Cadbury brands.
And it would have combined Hershey's strong US business with Mondelez's global distribution footprint.
Hershey's controlling shareholder, the Hershey Trust, is a $12bn charity created by the firm's founder in 1894.
Hershey said in a statement: "The board of directors of the company unanimously rejected the indication of interest and determined that it provided no basis for further discussion between Mondelez and the company."
According to the Reuters news agency, a source said Mondelez had sought to provide assurances to Hershey that it would keep its name and preserve jobs.
Mondelez sees little antitrust risk given the limited geographic overlap of the two companies' businesses, Reuters says.
Mondelez is the second-largest confectionary company globally while Hershey ranks number five.
Their merger would have put them in the top place, with 18% of the market, according to research firm Euromonitor International.
A merged company would have leapfrogged Mars, which has 13.3% of the global market.
There will be speculation that Mondelez could return with a higher offer, but RBC Capital Markets analyst David Palmer said he did not think a deal would ultimately happen. The Hershey Trust's mission statement is that it keeps control of the business.
The portfolio is being sold by UK Asset Resolution (UKAR) to US investment firm Cerberus. The deal is thought to be the largest financial asset sale to date by a European government.
UKAR was the "bad bank" set up in 2010 to run down loans made by Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley.
The mortgages are being sold for £280m above their book value.
The government has now sold more than 85% of the assets of Northern Rock, the Newcastle-based lender that collapsed in 2007 and marked the start of the financial crisis.
Chancellor George Osborne said: "We are now clear that taxpayers will get back more money from Northern Rock than they were forced to put in during the financial crisis."
Mr Osborne added: "The highly competitive process, unprecedented scale, and the fact that these mortgages have been sold for almost £300m more than their book value demonstrates the confidence investors have in the UK."
Meanwhile, TSB Bank will buy £3.3bn of the former Northern Rock mortgages and loans from Cerberus.
That deal means it will become the mortgage lender to another 34,000 UK homeowners.
Customers with former Northern Rock mortgages or loans do not need to take any action and there will be no changes to terms and conditions.
BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed said it was very difficult to judge whether this was a good deal for taxpayers, because calculating the overall cost of the banking bailout was extremely complex.
"What people probably want to get to is a more normal situation with banks operating normally, serving their customers in the private sector. This at least is a step in that direction," he told the Today programme on Radio 4.
The vast majority of former Northern Rock mortgage holders have been unable to switch to a better deal because lenders have not been keen to take them on.
Many have been paying a relatively high standard variable rate of 4.79%.
Now thousands will be moved to TSB with unchanged terms and rates.
However, existing TSB customers get a better deal - paying a variable rate of 3.99% if they took out a mortgage after June 2010, or 2.5% if they had one before then.
"[New] customers will of course be able to speak to TSB about the options available to them, as they can do today," a TSB spokesman said.
But there is no automatic switch to a cheaper variable rate.
Antoinette McKeown was suspended from her role earlier this year.
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.
Asked later by the BBC why she was there, she said: "I am still accounting officer for Sport NI and it was vitally important for me, having heard the evidence given by Sport NI previously to the CAL committee, that I came here today as accounting officer to ensure that Sport NI is giving a true and fair account of events in relation to Casement Park."
She said she did not want to talk about her suspension from Sport NI.
Asked about Casement Park, and whether she passed on concerns from within Sport NI about emergency exiting to sports minister Carál Ní Chuilín, she said: "That's a matter between me and the [Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL)] inquiry that I'm fully co-operating with.
"I'm not commenting on that because I find myself currently in a process, and despite persistent media attention I have retained the integrity of that process and I want to continue doing that today.
"However, as accounting officer for Sport NI, it is important that I was here today."
Pressed again to answer the question, she said: "I will answer that question to the inquiry, but on the basis of the evidence that I have heard Sport NI give today, I also believe that I have evidence which the CAL committee may wish to hear."
Ms McKeown was suspended in March this year.
Last month, her union representative told the BBC she had been suspended due to "leadership issues".
Kevin McAdam of Unite said: "Antoinette McKeown believes she acted in good faith, in the proper manner with the structures that are in Sport NI.
"Had she been allowed to manage as expected, then the organisation would be in a healthier, better place now.
"She is currently under suspension pending investigation into leadership issues, not necessarily related to her, but to the organisation in general."
According to documents given to MLAs in April, Sport NI official Paul Scott - a stadium safety expert - won an internal grievance case against Ms McKeown.
The sports minister has begun an investigation into the Casement Park project after claims it had been mishandled.
The investigation is continuing.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams said that trying the officers as a group would not be "in the interest of justice".
Freddie Gray, 25, died after sustaining a severe spinal cord injury while riding in a police van in April.
His death sparked nights of unrest and weeks of protests in the city.
Defence lawyers initially sought to have the charges dropped, but Judge Williams denied that request.
Judge Williams also rejected a motion to have the prosecutor removed from the case at a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday.
Defence lawyers argued misconduct by state prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, and wanted an independent prosecutor to handle the case.
They say Ms Mosby violated her obligation to a fair trial by announcing the charges at a public news conference as protests over Freddie Gray's death were already in motion.
Judge Williams called Mosby's public comments about the case "troubling" but said they were not likely to prejudice a jury.
Dates for the trials have not yet been set.
Gray's death, which was ruled a homicide, is one of several involving black Americans and police officers which has sparked unrest and national debate over police and race relations.
The officers pleaded not guilty to the charges, which range from false imprisonment to involuntary manslaughter.
Gray was arrested on 12 April after a police chase on foot in West Baltimore. He sustained a severe spinal injury while being transported in a police van.
Police later admitted he had not been secured by a seatbelt and his request for medical attention at the time was denied. He fell into a coma and died a week later.
His death sparked protests over police brutality, with the city of Baltimore erupting in rioting, looting and arson on the day of his funeral.
Questions over whether the trial should be moved from Baltimore will be raised at a second pre-trial hearing in September.
Peterloo tells the story of a mass rally by pro-democracy campaigners who gathered on St Peter's Fields to demand the right to elect their own MPs.
Hundreds were injured and 15 killed when armed cavalry tried to arrest a speaker at the event.
Filming for the feature is taking place close to Lincoln Castle.
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As part of the preparations, signs were replaced and stalls set up.
An exhibition of the Lincoln Knights was also moved.
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It's the biggest mechanical puppet ever made in the UK, weighing in at 40 tonnes, and will travel 130 miles in two weeks.
It's operated by a team of volunteer puppeteers, who use ropes to control the giant model.
It's all to celebrate the culture of mining in Cornwall and West Devon, which were added to the list of World Heritage Sites by a charity called UNESCO 10 year ago.
The series starts in Brisbane on 22 October with the first of three one-day internationals.
The day-night Test match at the North Sydney Oval starts on 9 November and will be followed by three Twenty20 internationals.
Australia regained the Women's Ashes - a multi-format, points-based contest - in 2015.
The first men's day-night Test was held in December 2015 and the 2017-18 Ashes series includes a day-night Test for the first time.
"We are proud to see our sport continue to develop and break new ground," said England Cricket Board director of women's cricket Clare Connor.
"We will ensure that the England women's team is fully prepared for the unparalleled challenge of an Ashes series down under, with the sole intention of bringing the trophy back home."
Teams earn four points for a win in the Test, with two points for a win in all limited-overs games.
22 Oct 1st ODI, AB Field Brisbane
26 Oct 2nd ODI, Coffs Harbour International Stadium
29 Oct 3rd ODI, Coffs Harbour International Stadium
9-12 Nov Day-night Test, North Sydney Oval
17 Nov 1st T20, North Sydney Oval
19 Nov 2nd T20, Manuka Oval, Canberra
21 Nov 3rd T20, Manuka Oval
The 18-year-old is yet to make his first-team debut for Boro, but was a regular in the under-19s' UEFA Youth League campaign.
The Hartlepool-born player is available for the weekend's game against Crewe.
"I'm delighted to have Harry join us, he is an exceptional talent," Barnsley's acting head coach Paul Heckingbottom told the club website.
Brunt, 24, has not played a competitive game since damaging cruciate knee ligaments in March 2016.
He has yet to play 90 minutes for the League Two Grecians, but scored in a friendly against Taunton Town.
"We are confident that we will get him back to full fitness and he will be an important member of our squad," said Exeter boss Paul Tisdale.
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State media say 192 criminal cases have been filed. Improperly stored or transported vaccines were allegedly sent to 59 health institutions.
The government has said it will tighten procedures around vaccine-handling.
Anger over the scandal is widespread in China, where the alleged illegal vaccine ring had reportedly been in operation since 2011.
In April 2015 two women were arrested for selling some $88m (£61m) worth of vaccines.
Details were only made public last month, when the authorities issued a call demanding that suppliers come forward to help them trace potential victims.
China's State Council said 357 officials faced demotion or losing their jobs and that 202 had been detained so far.
Health authorities have also urged people to continue coming forward for vaccinations.
The China office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said vaccines needed to be handled properly or else they could become less effective.
But it stressed that improperly kept vaccines did not in themselves present much danger.
Beijing's decision to punish officials has been welcomed by the Chinese media, with one paper saying the credibility of the authorities is at stake. "There have been reports that concerned parents have held back their children from being vaccinated, showing that any misstep would cost the government its credibility and further undermine confidence in the public health system," the English-language China Daily says.
Local paper The Beijing News says the decision to file criminal cases has "broken the illusion" that punishment can be dodged. "Lives are at risk," it says. "For the State Council to first announce punishment for 357 people - this is aimed at breaking the wishful thinking among certain officials that they can hide behind other wrongdoers."
State mouthpiece People's Daily shared the news on popular microblog Sina Weibo which received hundreds of comments. But the censors appear to have deleted many of them, leaving only comments from users expressing support for the government. News of the scandal has been heavily filtered on the platform in recent weeks.
He had been found guilty by Kowloon City Court last week of pouring an unknown liquid on to police officers from an embankment.
Later this week, seven policemen will go on trial accused of attacking Tsang after arresting him.
Footage of Tsang being beaten was widely shared on social media.
During conviction last week, magistrate Peter Law told the Kowloon City court that Tsang "clearly knew there were many officers below" when he poured the liquid, and that his act showed "hostility."
But Tsang's lawyer, Robert Pang, said the assault his client suffered on the night of 15 October 2014 was much more serious than the one he was accused of.
Tsang was freed on bail and has said he will appeal against his sentence.
Courts in Hong Kong are beginning to hear the cases of more than 1,000 people arrested during protests which closed parts of the city for more than two months.
Protesters were calling for direct elections for the territory's next leader, which has been rejected by Beijing.
The body of Trevor Davis, 36, was discovered after emergency services were called to Soy Avenue in Portsoy at about 23:00 on Sunday.
Police said "unknown substances" were also found at the address but they were of no risk to the public.
Investigations were said to be ongoing but there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.
A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
Not much more than a decade after it regained its independence during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, Lithuania was welcomed as a Nato member in late March 2004.
The move came just weeks before a second historic shift for the country in establishing its place in the Western family of nations as it joined the EU in May 2004. These developments would have been extremely hard to imagine in not-so-distant Soviet times.
Russia, anxious about the implications of the eastward advance of the EU and Nato to include the three Baltic republics, has a particular eye on Lithuania which has an important border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Population 3.3 million
Area 65,300 sq km (25,212 sq miles)
Languages Lithuanian (official), Russian, Polish, Belarusian
Major religions Christianity
Life expectancy 67 years (men), 78 years (women)
Currency euro
President: Dalia Grybauskaite
Dalia Grybauskaite was voted in as Lithuania's first woman president with an emphatic election victory in May 2009.
She was re-elected in May 2014, in a presidential runoff held amid widespread apprehension over a resurgent Russia.
Ms Grybauskaite is sometimes dubbed the "Iron Lady", the nickname of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a steely free-marketeer she describes as one of her political models.
Prime Minister: Saulius Skvernelis
Former national police chief Saulius Skvernelis became prime minister after voter anger at the established political parties propelled his centrist Peasant and Green Union (LVZS) to a surprise victory in parliamentary elections in 2016.
Mr Skvernelis formed a coalition with the Social Democrats of outgoing Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius, which came third, and promised to curb social inequality, boost sluggish growth, limit emigration to Western Europe and boost defence spending in the face of a resurgent Russia.
Previously a minor agrarian party led by farming tycoon Ramunas Karbauskis, the LVZS campaigned on Mr Skvernelis's reputation as a corruption fighter, as well as on promises for a more interventionist economic policy.
Lithuania's private TV and radio stations compete with public networks run by Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT).
The media are free and operate independently of the state. There are no government-owned newspapers.
Some key dates in Lithuania's modern history:
1915 - Lithuania occupied by German troops during World War I.
1918 - Lithuania declares independence.
1920 - Soviet Russia recognises Lithuania's independence under Treaty of Moscow.
1939 - The Soviet Union compels Lithuania to accept Soviet military bases.
1940 - Soviet army invades. Smetona flees. Lithuania incorporated into USSR.
1941 - Thousands of Lithuanians deported to Siberia. Nazis invade USSR and occupy Lithuania.
1944 - Soviet army returns, presaging further deportations and repression of resistance.
1989 - Parliament approves declaration of Lithuanian sovereignty, stating that Lithuanian laws take precedence over Soviet ones.
1991 - Following failed coup in Moscow the previous month, USSR recognises Lithuania's independence. Lithuania joins OSCE and UN.
1992 - New constitution introduces presidency. The former Communist Party, renamed Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party, wins more seats than Sajudis in general election. Coalition government formed.
1993 - Lithuania joins Council of Europe. New national currency, the litas, introduced. Soviet troops complete withdrawal.
2004 - Lithuania is one of 10 new states to join the EU. Lithuania also joins Nato.
The attack happened in West Pilton Place at about 18:55 on Sunday while the taxi was stationary.
One of the gang jumped onto the taxi's bonnet and smashed the windscreen.
A three-figure sum of cash was stolen from the taxi. The attackers were male and female aged between 14 and 20.
The man who jumped on the taxi is white, tall, of slim build and was wearing a red top.
The same youths had earlier stepped out in front of his taxi at the junction with Crewe Road Gardens and West Pilton Place, forcing him to stop and stealing an item from his boot.
Barbara Beaufoy, secretary of Tenants and Residents in Muirhouse (TRIM) and Friends of West Pilton (FOWP), said: "Trim and Friends of West Pilton were appalled to hear of the assault and robbery of a taxi driver.
"We believe that everyone, going about their normal daily lives, has the right to do so in safety and not fall victim to anti-social or criminal behaviour."
Det Con Euan Hair, of Police Scotland, said: "We are treating this assault and robbery as racially-motivated and are determined to track down these suspects as quickly as possible.
"This man was simply going about his legitimate business and he has a right to do so without being assaulted.
"There is no place for racism in our communities and we will use all resources available to deal with those responsible swiftly."
Kajsa Tylen, 38, from Nottingham, is intending to ride about 36,000 miles (58,000km).
Her mother, Tina Tylen, 65, will travel as back-up with a caravan during the challenge across Europe.
Mustafa Sarkar, a sports psychologist, said having her mother alongside could be a key factor in breaking the 77-year-old record.
Ms Tylen, who is originally from Sweden, felt inspired after reading about Billie Fleming who pedalled for 29,603 miles (47,641km) in 1938, to encourage others to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Tina Tylen retired from her job at Specsavers and has since been planning her role in the journey.
The two have not always been so close.
"I moved out of home when I was 16 and we have both lived a fair distance apart since then," said Kajsa Tylen.
"We both worked abroad for a while too and didn't really talk much then either."
Tina Tylen later moved in with her daughter in Nottingham, which Kajsa said was "tough" to begin with.
"Once we got to know one another again, it worked out well. She [now] knows to feed me if I start getting tetchy."
Dr Sarkar said: "Having her mum by her side will definitely help.
"A crucial part of motivation is about relatedness, the feeling of support.
"Messages from her mum will have to be positive but she will also have to allow [Kajsa] to persevere herself. Knowing she's by her side will be important."
The cyclist said she had been boosted by "incredible" support for the challenge which begins on New Year's Day at Leisure Lakes Bikes in Breaston.
This has included promises of places to stay, offers of food and bike maintenance, as well as ferry tickets when she reaches Denmark, and messages from people on social media.
"Sense of purpose is important" - Dr Mustafa Sarkar, Nottingham Trent University
"One of the key aspects will be motivation. Her reason of wanting to motivate other people to exercise and this sense of purpose will be really important.
"Some people do [big challenges] for the wrong reasons. [Her own motivation] will really help drive her.
"The notion of self-talk, what she is going to say to herself throughout the challenge, will be important. There will be critical points especially during difficult moments where self-talk will be key.
"This personal link of wanting to motivate other people to exercise will give her a sense of purpose and might help drive her on especially during difficult moments of the challenge."
The discovery was made on Sunday in a wooded area near Cemetery Road in Fauldhouse by police officers searching for Allan Shepherd.
The 56-year-old was last seen in Willow Park in the town on the evening of 26 January.
Formal identification is yet to take place but Mr Shepherd's next of kin have been informed.
The first big question will be whether North Korea's nuclear test had a higher yield, or explosive power, this time.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un claimed that the last test, in January, was of a hydrogen bomb, which employs nuclear fusion. That weapon yield came in at about 6-8 kilotonnes of TNT equivalent.
The key point to note is that this test was probably smaller than the one before that, the third test, which had a yield of 8-10 kilotonnes and was not an H-bomb.
That the fourth test was buried twice as deep as the third, suggests that Mr Kim had hoped for a yield of about 50 kilotonnes, which you would expect from an H-bomb.
So did this fifth test produce a much larger yield? Early indications suggest that it was 20 kilotonnes or so, although Seoul officials put the figure at 10 kilotonnes. Either way, it is larger than the fourth test.
This year, North Korea has already performed its fourth nuclear weapon test and a satellite launch, widely believed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test.
It has also launched more than 30 ballistic missiles of 200km (125 miles) range or greater - more than the number of ballistic missile tests in its previous history.
The international sanctions imposed in the wake of these violations are a threat to the North Korean economy.
Kim Jong-un also claims that the United States and South Korea are preparing to invade North Korea, even though it is Mr Kim who has been escalating the situation on the peninsula.
This fifth test is yet another escalation, especially since North Korea's previous nuclear tests were three years or so apart.
But the North Korean leader has a very weak state and appears to be a weak leader, using brutality to try to control both the masses and his elites.
So he is using missile launches and nuclear tests and threats to divert attention from his other failures, and also in an attempt to secure North Korean military support and to deter outside action against him. Each provocation suggests that he is feeling more and more internal pressure - which he must divert.
Might he be preparing to carry out more limited attacks, as his father and he did in 2010? That was when the North unleashed an artillery bombardment on South Korea's Yeonpyeong island, an attack widely believed to have been orchestrated by the younger Kim.
Kim Jong-un has been clear since last December that his scientists have developed an H-bomb - a more powerful nuclear weapon that should be able to fit on a ballistic missile.
But the 6 January nuclear test was not very convincing and probably largely a failure.
He has probably waited until his scientists thought that they had solved their technical problems.
So the weapon yield will be really important to assess their nuclear ambitions - especially if those scientists want to survive.
Several months ago, the US and South Korea announced that they would deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system in South Korea to protect against North Korean nuclear threats.
There has been a fair amount of opposition to THAAD in South Korea and especially from China.
China has failed to act like a so-called "great power" and it has not stopped its ally North Korea's provocations.
China now has to decide whether it really wants to take up a position of responsibility and restrain North Korea or whether it is really only concerned about its own security and diverting attention from its violations of international law in the South China Sea.
The United States has been following a policy of "strategic patience" toward North Korea, allowing the North to continue its provocations and nuclear developments with little response or deterrence.
The United States needs a different approach as North Korea is proving it is determined to make some serious advances. The North Korean threat is changing in ways that both the United States and its regional allies need to respond to.
Meanwhile, the people of South Korea need to decide whether they want the United States to be prepared to protect the South against North Korean missile threats.
Many do want that but there are those who assume that North Korea is just a friendly neighbour. This nuclear test may change a few minds, but the country must be mindful of those it makes little difference to.
The A591 is closed to general traffic between Dunmail Raise, north of Grasmere, and Thirlmere.
However, youngsters are now being transported by shuttle bus before being escorted along a new path and onto a second vehicle for school.
Simon Jackson, headteacher of Keswick School, said it was "an important step".
He added: "The closure has caused a great deal of disruption. This has been a really difficult time.
"The community has been rallying round and trying to get back to normality as quickly as possible.
The A591 is the only major route through the central Lake District.
The service has been enabled by upgrading a forest road which is wide enough for a small bus but not general traffic.
Heavy rainfall caused landslips from Helvellyn while flood waters undercut the A591.
Cumbria County Council leader Stewart Young said: "Large sections have virtually disappeared. All in all, the road is in pretty poor shape."
Nick Raymond, of the council's highways department, said the full reopening of the road was a "priority" for the authority.
However, he warned: "We're coming into the wettest, coldest part of the year. It's continuing to deteriorate and erode, and landslips are providing continuous danger."
Monmouth Conservative MP David Davies said he was "very pleased" with the news, which he received in a letter from Transport Minister Jesse Norman.
Mr Davies said it proved the pledge was "not some wild manifesto promise".
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns has described the tolls as a "psychological barrier" to doing business in Wales.
Prime Minister Theresa May announced in May that the tolls would be scrapped if the Conservatives won the general election in June, with the target date of the end of 2018 confirmed in July.
The first Severn Bridge, which opened in 1966 under public ownership, was transferred to Severn River Crossings plc as part of the agreement under which the company built and financed the second crossing, which opened in 1996.
Both bridges would be returned to public ownership once construction and maintenance costs had been recovered from the collection of tolls.
Mr Davies had written to the Department for Transport on behalf of a constituent, seeking confirmation of the date of transfer.
Mr Norman replied saying: "I am pleased to confirm that the bridges will revert to public ownership on 8 January 2018 and that all tolls will end at the Severn Crossings by the 31 December 2018."
The Monmouth MP said: "I'm very pleased with it - it's the confirmation everyone had been expecting and not some wild manifesto promise.
"It's going to be carried out in the timescale promised."
Mr Davies said he understood there were some unexpected additional maintenance costs to be covered which meant that the tolls would not be lifted immediately.
When asked to comment, the Department for Transport referred to the announcement in July, when Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said abolishing the tolls would "drive economic growth for businesses in Wales and the South West [of England] and further strengthen the bond between our two great countries".
The Welsh Government has also been asked for a response.
Infant school pupils are already entitled to a free meal under a policy championed by leader Nick Clegg and introduced in September last year.
But Mr Clegg wants seven to 11-year-olds to also benefit from 2017/18.
The Lib Dem pledge came as the Tories promised not to raise taxes and Labour said it would ensure tax credits rise.
Mr Clegg and his wife Miriam, who runs a food blog, donned aprons and made an apple and blackberry crumble for pupils at a Wiltshire school to promote the measure, which they claim will benefit 1.9 million youngsters and save parents £400 per child on lunches.
Mr Clegg said his policy would also ensure all primary school children enjoyed a nutritious meal rather than a "slice of white bread with chocolate paste on it".
Kitchen improvements
The introduction of free school meals for Key Stage 1 pupils faced criticism over the way it was funded, with some councils raiding maintenance budgets to meet the obligation.
Under the expanded Lib Dem plan, an estimated £100m would be earmarked for improvements to school kitchens and dining facilities in primary schools.
The extension of free school meals to cover children aged seven to 11 would cost £610m a year, including a share destined for the education budgets of areas where power has been devolved.
This election issue includes funding for schools, university tuition fees and early years education.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
"Sometimes we talk as if every packed lunch has a pot of hummus and some carrot sticks and muesli," said Mr Clegg, adding that this wasn't the case.
"I'm not pointing an accusatory finger at parents, but a lot of kids are going to schools with packed lunches which simply aren't nutritious.
"I've seen some schools where kids turn up with a fizzy drink and a slice of white bread with chocolate paste on it.
"If you give that to a four or five-year-old, don't be surprised if they can't concentrate very well by the end of the school day."
Mr Clegg said the move would save parents £400 for every child they have in primary school.
His party said the scheme would be introduced once the deficit had been eliminated, paid for "as resources allow" in line with projected public spending increases in line with economic growth.
The Lib Dems said pilot schemes showed a 23% increase in the number of children eating vegetables at lunchtime and an 18% drop in those eating crisps.
The relegated Premier League club officially announced his appointment on Friday, confirming the news that BBC Sport first broke on Thursday.
Di Matteo succeeds Frenchman Remi Garde, who was sacked in March.
The 46-year-old Italian, who won the Champions League and FA Cup with Chelsea in 2012, has also managed West Brom, Schalke and MK Dons.
"I'm looking forward to the challenge of taking Aston Villa back to its rightful place," said Di Matteo.
Villa's statement did not mention former Reading and West Brom boss Steve Clarke, who is expected to be Di Matteo's assistant.
The pair have never worked together in management but were Chelsea team-mates for two years in the 1990s.
Di Matteo has not managed at Championship level since 2009-10, when he guided West Brom to the top flight.
Villa were also linked with ex-Manchester United boss David Moyes and new Derby County manager Nigel Pearson, but Di Matteo was always first choice.
Dr Tony Xia, the Chinese businessman whose takeover of Villa is awaiting Football League and Premier League approval, has already promised extensive funds for player recruitment this summer.
The mother-of-three from Luton drew wide admiration for her dedication and is remembered as fondly in her Nigerian hometown as in the council offices of Hounslow, west London.
On 7 July 2005, she caught a train to King's Cross station, and took her usual route to work on the Piccadilly Line.
But in the explosion that followed, the 56-year-old lost her arms and legs and was declared dead by paramedics at the scene.
Mrs Ikeagwu was born and raised in Nigeria.
Her high school education was interrupted by the three-year Biafran war. In 1969, just before war was over, she married Dr Okorafor Ikeagwu and they went on to have three children.
The young family moved to England in 1976, settling in Luton, and Mrs Ikeagwu was keen to further her education.
Over the next two decades, she studied social work, returned to Nigeria for a spell and opened her own hair salon which she ran for nine years.
By 2000, she had achieved a masters degree in social work from Kingston University.
The following year she joined Hounslow social services and was based in the community, working with adults with learning difficulties at the Berkeley Centre in Heston.
At the inquest into her death, her husband said in a statement that Ojara had brought up their three children virtually single-handedly, as he often worked in hospitals outside Luton and was out of the country for six years.
Her efforts were rewarded by the academic progress of their children - now a pharmacist, a lawyer and a paediatrician, he said.
After her death, her university department at Kingston set up the Ojara Ikeagwu memorial prize, awarded annually to the best social work student.
Hounslow Council set out a garden in honour of services to the borough.
And her good work was also remembered further afield.
In 2003, she made education free for 500 pupils at her village school in Nigeria, giving them all free books, pens, pencils, rulers and school uniforms.
The school programme continues to be funded by her husband.
A week before her death, Mrs Ikeagwu started providing twice-monthly protein meals for the school pupils.
In return for her commitment to her home town, the village posthumously made her a chief and named the primary school after her.
In his statement, Dr Ikeagwu said: "Ojara was an extrovert and she got on well with everyone she came across.
"Her death dealt a big blow to her family that has been difficult to recover from. She now has two grandchildren that she will never see.
"The people she was helping and the people she could have helped are all suffering since her death."
Shortly after her death, Judy Smart, head of care management at the Berkeley Centre, said: "Ojara had her own inimitable style of work with service users, parents and carers, and was highly committed to the learning disability service."
Another 58 parks and green spaces were given the award by Keep Wales Tidy.
They include Bryngarw Country Park, Bridgend, Swansea Canal, Acton Park in Wrexham, Parc Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd and Aberystwyth University's Llanbadarn campus.
Coordinator Lucy Prisk said it was down to "staff and volunteers who work tirelessly to maintain the standards demanded by the Green Flag award".
There is now a total of 161 parks and green spaces with the Green Flag award.
It is judged by experts who assess sites against criteria including horticultural standards, cleanliness and sustainability.
The Public Accounts Committee said the government did not release funds quickly enough to deal with the crisis.
It also said the decision to suspend flights to areas affected by the disease had been "political".
The government said its actions in Sierra Leone had saved rather than cost lives.
Chris Whitty, chief scientific adviser to the Department for International Development, said the "British-led response" to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone had brought down the number of cases reported each week from 537 in November to 70 last week.
But the department, which has overseen the UK's involvement in the crisis in West Africa, was described by the MPs as not having the "experience and capability" to cope with the outbreak.
The committee said there had also been an "unfortunate time lag between the department's recognition that it had to act and its allocation of funding to deal with the outbreak".
It said: "In early August 2014, it had announced £5m of support; by September, this had risen to £100m and by the time of our hearing, it had reached £230m.
"Had the department acted sooner, both lives and money would have been saved."
The committee praised the "bravery" of British volunteers and members of the armed forces working in Sierra Leone, but it said the government had not paid enough attention to organisations on the ground, such as Medecins Sans Frontieres, who were warning of the seriousness of the outbreak.
It also described the decision to suspend flights to areas affected by Ebola as one with "no scientific justification".
"The revocation of licences to carriers to fly direct to the region was a political decision with no basis in science and was inconsistent with World Health Organization (WHO) advice," the committee said.
"In our judgement, it will inevitably have led to an increase in the costs of dealing with the outbreak and, potentially, to further loss of life."
The MPs recommended that:
The initial response of the international community to the Ebola outbreak was also criticised as "totally inadequate".
The committee said the World Health Organization had "rightly been criticised for failing to act adequately to prevent the spread of disease between December 2013 and July 2014".
But a delay in responding to the crisis was partly caused by an absence of organisations "willing and capable" of building, among other things, Ebola treatment facilities in affected countries.
The lack of health infrastructure also "inhibited" a quicker response to the crisis, it said.
The committee said there were "promising signs" the government's intervention was having a "tangible" impact, but it said there was still uncertainty over the trajectory of the outbreak.
International Development Secretary Justine Greening said: "Britain's decision to shoulder responsibility for tackling the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has saved lives, not cost lives.
"The UK cannot disease-proof every developing country in the world from potential unprecedented outbreaks but we can offer our full support when they strike, as we did in Sierra Leone before any other country and at considerable risk to British lives.
"Everyone agrees that the World Health Organization should have reacted faster, and the global system must reform to improve collective detection and reaction."
A rise risks adding to the growing economic and political threats to US growth, the IMF said in a health check on the world's largest economy.
Many economists had forecast a rise in September, although recent economic and jobs data had dampened expectations.
The Washington-based IMF also warned that US share prices were hitting unsustainable levels.
A rate rise would trigger more gains in the value of the dollar, something that the IMF has said previously this year could stall growth and impact across emerging markets.
The dollar has risen about 20% against a basket of currencies during the past 12 months.
On Tuesday, the IMF said "growth could be significantly debilitated" by another rise in the dollar. Barring a major change in circumstances, the organisation urged keeping rates at the current 0.25% "into the first half of 2016 with a gradual rise in the federal funds rate thereafter".
Weaker global growth, including in China, would sap US exports and investment in certain sectors, the report said, adding: "Finally, risks from Russia/Ukraine, Greece or the Middle East represent an unpredictable wild card with negative, but difficult to quantify, effects for the US."
The chairwoman of the Fed, Janet Yellen, has said that any rate rises would be gradual, but hinted last month that the first increase would come this year.
Meanwhile, the Fund's report also warned of the risks of rising US stock markets. Although the major indexes have recently eased from record highs, share prices "are approaching levels that may be hard to sustain given profit forecasts", it said.
The IMF highlighted the risk of nervous investors panic selling and of mutual funds being forced to sell in a collapsing market.
The Commons Treasury Committee said no final decision should be taken on how to proceed until it had investigated the options.
"Large construction projects often go wrong," the committee said, and MPs would "bear the brunt" of criticism.
Proposals have been put forward to move MPs and peers out of the building while urgent repairs take place.
The recommendation, which has been costed at £4bn, was made in September by the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster.
It would involve MPs moving into the Richmond House building on Whitehall currently occupied by the Department of Health.
The Treasury committee said it would also examine an alternative option, opposed by the joint committee, of a "partial decant" where the Commons and Lords took turns to move out while repairs were taking place.
It also said it would scrutinise the assessment by consultant Deloitte that this option would cost more and take longer.
The Palace of Westminster, a World Heritage Site, has asbestos, leaks, old electrics and is said to be at high risk of "catastrophic failure".
In a preliminary report, the committee said: "Restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster is a major undertaking which will last many years and cost billions of pounds."
The project will have a major impact on public perception of the work of the Commons and Lords, it said.
The committee added: "Given the enormous sums involved, it would be vital even in normal times that the case for the spending and its cost-effectiveness were thoroughly scrutinised and that the plans were rigorously challenged.
"It is even more important at a time of austerity, when restoration of the Palace will be competing for funds with many hard-pressed parts of the public sector."
The committee concluded that until its report had been published, it would be "imprudent" for MPs to make a final decision.
Last week Parliament's spending watchdog, the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said vacating the Palace of Westminster was the most economic and efficient option, and that further delays would add millions to the cost.
The multi-faceted civil war has lasted over four years, killed more than a quarter of a million people and dislodged upwards of 10 million, in what is being seen as the worst refugee crisis for half a century.
Some of the meetings have been rare or unprecedented:
There is no sense yet that any of this is heading for a breakthrough. But for top diplomats focused on the Syrian crisis it seems there has been no time for a summer holiday.
So what is driving this flurry of activity?
In the first place, the recent nuclear deal with Iran struck by global powers has created new diplomatic momentum and led to all sorts of jockeying for position.
Now that Iran is coming in from the cold, it is impatient to assert itself as the leading Shia country in the Middle East and the key interlocutor in any Syrian peace deal.
This has alarmed its main Sunni rival. The Saudi Kingdom is wary of Iran's new prominence and its closer relations with Washington.
So the Saudis are reaching out to Russia as a counterweight, in part to show the Americans that they can no longer take Saudi loyalty for granted, in part to challenge Iran's claim to regional primacy.
The Russians are also worried about a new US-Iranian axis.
President Putin is always on the lookout for ways to teach the Americans that they are not the only game in town.
So reaching out to the Saudis, while also fostering links with Iran and trying to cajole Syria's fragmented opposition into talking to Damascus, is part of Moscow's attempt to take on the mantle of the key international mediator when it comes to Syria.
Meanwhile, the Americans want to see whether the Iran nuclear deal can both unlock the Syria conundrum and strengthen other relationships - with both Tehran and with Moscow.
Western diplomats say that despite bitter differences over Ukraine, the Russians remained largely helpful when it came to the Iran nuclear talks.
So could common concerns over Syria help the West to mend fences with Russia?
Which brings us to the second reason why diplomacy is back in the air: the rise of so-called Islamic State (IS) jihadists in both Syria and Iraq.
The urgent need to counter the rise of IS is something which all these big powers can agree upon.
Iran is desperate to see the IS threat removed or contained. It disrupts the conduit route to its Hezbollah Shia allies in Lebanon.
It challenges Iranian interests in Iraq, where IS may hold sway over as much as a third of the territory. It is an existential threat to the weakening power of Iran's ally in Syria, President Assad.
As the so-called IS caliphate has spread its tentacles across the Middle East and beyond, staging terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, in Turkey and Western Europe, it has gone from being a regional to a global threat.
The Kremlin, too, is seriously worried. Already IS jihadists are enlisting recruits in Russia: what if they reactivate a bombing campaign to threaten the safety of Russian citizens?
On the ground in Syria too, all these countries have reason to be alarmed.
Iran and Russia have watched as the influence and reach of their client, President Assad, has been steadily eroded.
He still controls the capital Damascus and towns in the Western part of the country.
But he has suffered a series of military setbacks at the hands of IS and other insurgent forces.
Just in the last few days he announced his troops in north-west Syria were pulling back to a new defensive line around his Alawite homeland.
Meanwhile, the US and its Gulf allies must be debating whether their strategy against IS in Syria and Iraq is working.
An international coalition led by the US (and now enjoying new support from Turkey) continues to pound IS targets from the air.
But the damage which air strikes can do is limited. And proxy ground forces, opposed to both Assad and IS and in tune with Western interests, are too weak to make much difference.
So although the US and its partners might welcome the weakening of the Assad regime, the erosion of its power is also a concern.
If the Assad government were to collapse altogether then a frightening prospect of general chaos looms. That might allow IS jihadists to extend their grip over the whole country.
That is a nightmare scenario which in theory should unite the US, the Saudis, Iran and Russia.
It is almost certainly what is fuelling their latest fevered diplomatic consultations.
The problem is, when it comes to a political solution to Syria, old rifts over what to do about President Assad remain wide open.
Iran and Russia argue that he should be a legitimate partner in the fight against IS extremists.
But the West and Saudi Arabia insist that he's part of the problem, not the solution.
Possibly there are hints that the two opposing sides are inching towards each other. Russia continues to insist that its support is not for President Assad himself, but for Syria's legitimate government.
The US and other Western partners no longer declaim that "Assad must go" before there is a political settlement.
But any viable "grand bargain" looks to be a long way off. And meanwhile those fighting to seize territory on the ground are not party to any of this diplomacy.
So the big question is: can slow diplomacy move fast enough to prevent Syria from imploding into total anarchy - over which the outside world would have no influence?
The crash, involving a male pedestrian, happened on the A40 Fishguard to Letterston road, near the Trecwn turnoff, just after 18:15 GMT on Wednesday.
The driver and the pedestrian were both taken to hospital and the road was closed temporarily.
Stephen Mann, 39, from Saltcoats, admitted attacking Annette Campbell in the North Ayrshire town's Dockhead Street on 14 July this year.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that after being detained Mann told police: "I hope I got her and killed her."
The victim suffered non-life-threatening back injuries.
The court heard that before the stabbing, Mann saw Ms Campbell in the town's Albion Bar and told her she was "getting it", adding: "You're dead."
Minutes later as she stood outside the bar chatting, he walked up and stabbed her in the back.
Mann later claimed that he carried out the attack because he believed Ms Campbell was responsible for slashing his nice.
He told police: "Nobody slashes my niece and gets away with it."
The court heard that Mann's niece was slashed at a party on 14 April 2014, but Ms Campbell denies any responsibility for this.
The doctor who treated Ms Campbell described her injury as non-life-threatening, but was of the opinion that if the stab wound had penetrated deeper her heart could have been pierced.
Mann also pleaded guilty to having a knife in a public place.
Official figures showed inflation rose to 1.6%, a level that may usher in higher interest rates.
That boosted sterling and Mrs May's speech spurred on that rally.
Its best move was against the dollar, against which it closed in London trade up almost 3% at $1.2392.
Dealers said that rise, which was the best for the pound since October 2008, had been helped by a weakening dollar.
Nevertheless the pound gained strongly against all major tradeable currencies, including notching up a 1.8% rise against the euro to reach 1.157 euros.
According to Thomson Reuters data, the pound had its best day's gain against a basket of major currencies since 1998.
The pound has been hammered by dealers since the Brexit vote in June last year and remains 16% below its level of $1.47 the day before the referendum.
Also on Tuesday, the benchmark FTSE 100 share index, which was already in negative territory for the day, fell further to stand 1.46% lower at 7220.38.
In her speech, Mrs May said the UK would leave the EU's single market, but stressed that it would seek new international trade opportunities and be open to global trade.
The pound had already made gains in early trading on Tuesday, but surged as a result of the prime minister's speech.
"News that the Brexit deal will be put to a Parliamentary vote has seen sterling rocket, as have assurances from [Mrs] May of Britain's global intentions," said Dennis de Jong, managing director at online foreign exchange broker UFX.com.
"While the announcement that Britain will leave the single market isn't what traders wanted to hear, it doesn't come as a shock.
"With markets bracing themselves for a worst-case scenario, the better-than-expected news in [Mrs] May's speech should help to buoy the beleaguered currency - at least for the time being."
Laith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the last time the pound was up so sharply against the dollar, it was also a "turbulent" time for the currency.
"If you look at both periods - October 2008 during the financial crisis, and today - there's a lot of volatility in the currency markets," he said.
The pound rose more sharply against the dollar than it did against the euro because the US currency had been weakened by remarks made by President-elect Donald Trump in the Wall Street Journal.
The dollar fell 1% against the euro and was down against most major currencies after Mr Trump said US firms could not compete with China "because our currency is too strong. And it's killing us".
The Polish top seed had won all four of her previous matches between the pair.
British number one Johanna Konta's match against Misaki Doi was delayed until Thursday by wet weather.
Naomi Broady and Tara Moore - the British numbers three and four - lost their matches against Daria Gavrilova and Tamira Paszek respectively.
Former Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard's poor form continued as she lost to Latvian world number 82 Anastasija Sevastova in Mallorca.
The 22-year-old Canadian, who lost to Petra Kvitova in the 2014 final at the All England Club, has only been beyond the third round in two of the 13 tournaments she has played this year.
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The quadcopter carrying 3kg (6.6lb) of methamphetamine was found in pieces in a supermarket car park near San Ysidro.
Mexican police said the drone had probably crashed because the drugs onboard had been too heavy for it.
They added that drones were increasingly being used to ferry illicit items across the border with the US.
In a statement, the Tijuana police said the drugs had been divided into six packets crudely taped to the body of the drone.
After receiving an anonymous call about the crashed craft, Tijuana police recovered the drone and are now examining it to see if they can trace who set it flying and where it began its journey.
The statement said the drone was a prototype that could be given GPS co-ordinates and would then travel to that location autonomously. No pilot was needed to guide it.
The Tijuana police said drones were just one of the many innovative ways drug-smugglers were using to ferry illicit substances across the border. Other methods included catapults, tunnels and ultra-light aircraft.
Last year, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) said drones were becoming so popular as a method of drug transport that some gangs were manufacturing their own.
Engineers were hired to make the devices for the drug cartels so they could carry more weight than those that were commercially available, it said.
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The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) says items such as skinny jeans, high heels and handbags can "wreak havoc" on our bodies.
However, the research has been rejected by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and other back experts.
They say we shouldn't be afraid of our clothes.
Here are the top five items which the BCA says may cause us harm.
The BCA claims skinny jeans reduce mobility "even if it's just walking that you're doing".
"Restrictive clothing can lead to a loss of 'bounce' in your stride and the natural shock-absorbing qualities in your walk, causing pressure in your joints."
The BCA claims heavy handbags are a particularly common cause of back pain in women. They advise we should avoid bags that must be carried in the crook of the arm "as the weight of these held away from your body pulls one shoulder lower than the other".
The BCA claims "large hoods can mean you strain your neck in order to see".
The BCA claims high heels force us to hold our bodies "in a manner which promotes tension in your spine".
The BCA claims mules have no support at the back of the foot which will increase strain on the legs and lower back.
They also warn that new trends such as as asymmetric hemlines, oversized sleeves and hoods and heavy jewellery can also create problems for the wearer.
The BCA's poll of 1,062 people found 73% had suffered back pain and 33% were not aware that clothing could affect their back, neck or posture. They warn that any item of clothing that restricts movement, or that leads people to stand or walk unnaturally, can have a negative impact on the posture, back or neck.
"Our advice is to consider your back and neck health when making clothing choices - moderation of outfits that limit your movement is recommended. You should choose clothing to suit the activity you are doing and try investing in a backpack for days when you have a lot to carry around."
But Dr Mary O'Keeffe, who is a back pain expert at the University of Limerick, says their research is "complete scaremongering and there is no scientific evidence to support any of it".
"Simply put, skinny jeans, parka jackets, necklaces and any other clothing items do not cause back pain.
"There is no scientific evidence of an association. This may seem counterintuitive, as women with back pain might report back pain when wearing or carrying certain items. However, to assume that the back pain was caused by these is definitely putting the horse before the cart."
Steve Tolan, head of practice at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, says "reading scare stories about skinny jeans is probably more harmful than actually wearing them.
"People should wear whatever is comfortable and they feel good in - skinny jeans and hoodies included. They certainly shouldn't fear that their clothes are going to do them harm as there is no evidence for that.
"What is probably more relevant is whether a woman thinks that they are wearing something that is damaging their back, says Dr O'Keeffe.
"The beliefs about the jeans and bags may not only be incorrect, but detrimental if they cause worry about the spine being fragile and discourage women from moving normally and wearing what they want.
"Misconceptions regarding the causes and treatments of low back pain are widespread. This story about skinny jeans and heavy bags is just another myth in the long list of myths about back pain.
"It fits with the misconception that load and movement are bad and that the spine is a vulnerable structure that is easily damaged. Strong evidence shows that this is not true."
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Several European internet service providers (ISPs) have highlighted the problem, which can strike regardless of the type of router box or the particular ISP in use.
Virgin Media has issued detailed advice to customers on how to reconnect.
Microsoft has also offered guidance to those experiencing difficulties.
"Some customers using Windows 10 have reported difficulties connecting to the internet," said a spokeswoman for Microsoft.
"As a first step, we recommend customers restart their PCs.
"If this does not resolve the problem, visit our website for further support."
Computers running Microsoft's latest updates are losing network connectivity essentially because the PCs cannot automatically pick up the addressing systems from their broadband routers, which then cannot connect them to the internet.
"We're aware that some customers using Windows PCs are having issues getting online following a Microsoft Windows 10 update," said a spokesman for Virgin Media.
"We're in contact with Microsoft about this issue.
"In the meantime, we have published advice for our customers online.
"This issue affects anyone who wants to access the internet from a computer with the downloaded Windows 10 software update, regardless of the ISP."
This is not the first time a Windows 10 update has created trouble.
In September, another patch stopped many popular webcams from working.
Click start, power and restart (not shut down).
Try the internet connection once it's booted up again.
If this doesn't work, you need to reset your IP address. To do this, you need to open up the command prompt by following these instructions:
If this hasn't done the trick, you can also try clearing the DNS settings.
Update 14 December 2016:
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Police found the woman walking the bird in Parliament Street in York on 28 June. The injured bird had to be put down.
The 44-year-old, of no fixed address, has been charged with taking a wild bird and injuring a wild bird.
She is also charged with using abusive and threatening behaviour and is due to appear before magistrates on 14 July.
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Ibrahim Halawa, the son of the most senior Muslim cleric in the Republic of Ireland, was arrested during a siege on the Al-Fath mosque in Cairo in 2013.
The 20-year-old could face the death penalty if he is convicted.
The mass trial of Mr Halawa and more than 400 others began in March 2015, after being postponed five times since his arrest.
Mr Halawa was on a holiday to his parents' homeland with three of his sisters when they were arrested by Egyptian security forces in Cairo.
Mr Halawa's sister were allowed to return to Ireland.
The Republic's outgoing Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan, said he was deeply concerned over the latest delay.
"The constant adjournments in the case are, understandably, a source of concern and frustration for Mr Halawa and his family, and I share their deep disappointment," he said.
"I want to reassure Ibrahim's family of my own and the government's continued commitment to achieving our two objectives: to secure his return to Ireland as soon as possible and to ensure his welfare during his detention."
Gavin Booth, from Kevin R Winters solicitors in Belfast, represents Mr Halawa's family.
He said Mr Halawa remains on a form of hunger strike, taking water and some fruit.
"The European Parliament has taken a stronger stance on Ibrahim Halawa's case than the outgoing Irish government.
"Ibrahim's health is quickly deteriorating on hunger strike. This matter has been ongoing for two and a half years now.
"We need an urgent and unified approach from the Irish government," he said.
Mr Halawa's trial is now due to begin on June 26.
Omeruo, 20, made 14 appearances on loan at Boro last season before playing four games for Nigeria at the World Cup.
"He's someone I love to have because he's a player who came from Chelsea and his mood was always perfect," said Boro boss Aitor Karanka.
Meanwhile, Clayton has reportedly agreed terms on a permanent move.
The 25-year-old midfielder, who is also said to have undergone a medical, scored 12 goals in 94 appearances for Huddersfield following a move from Yorkshire rivals Leeds in July 2012.
Clayton began his career at Manchester City but failed to make a first-team appearance before his departure to Leeds.
Two successful loan spells at Carlisle United attracted the attention of the Elland Road club, who eventually signed the Manchester-born player.
Mohammed Rehman, 25, discussed targeting the London Underground and Westfield shopping centre on social media under the name "Silent Bomber".
Chemicals for bomb making were found at his Reading home, the Old Bailey heard.
He and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan were convicted of preparing terrorist acts. They will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Rehman, who was also convicted of possessing an article for terrorist purposes, used Twitter in May to ask for suggestions on which target in London to choose.
With money supplied by his 24-year-old wife, he stockpiled the chemicals needed to make a huge bomb at his family home in Reading and even filmed himself setting off a small explosion in his back garden.
During his trial, jurors heard a tweet sent from Rehman's account said: "I've rigged my house to blow at the push of a button by my bedside if the popo [police] try to raid man. Nobody gets in the way of my jihad."
An undercover investigator discovered Rehman had asked on social media whether he should target "Westfield shopping centre or London Underground".
Rehman told the investigator he was planning a martyr operation, jurors heard.
His trial was told that Rehman was prolific on Twitter, posting extremist rhetoric alongside images of homemade devices and instructional material.
In one tweet, on 12 May 2015, he wrote: "Westfield shopping centre or London underground? Any advice would be appreciated greatly."
Text messages between the couple were uncovered showing discussions about buying chemicals, while emails revealed Rehman had also sent Islamic State-related video clips to Khan.
Speaking after their conviction, Assistant Chief Constable Laura Nicholson, head of the South East Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "These were dangerous individuals who represented a genuine threat, but through counter-terrorism policing we were able to intercept them before they could carry out their plans.
"It is clear that Rehman and Khan shared a radical and violent extremist ideology. They actively accessed extremist material on the internet and used social media to develop and share their views as they prepared acts of terrorism."
Rehman's parents told the BBC's Duncan Kennedy they had seen no sign of any connections with radical Islam, although they said their son did become isolated and was smoking and drinking in the months before his arrest.
His mother said she would "never forgive" her son for planning the attack.
His father, who moved to the UK in 1980, said he had "no idea" his son was carrying out test bomb blasts.
The Lynx UK Trust wants to introduce six lynx to Kielder Forest on a five-year trial period to be monitored by satellite collars.
The plan is opposed by some residents and sheep farmers who fear the animals would attack livestock.
Natural England will now decide on the plan.
Dr Paul O'Donoghue, the project's chief scientific adviser, said the scheme "marks a significant milestone in the history of UK conservation; potentially the first return of an extinct predator, which could prove to be a really keystone species for our ecosystem".
He said: "We've now reached a point where we feel every piece of research has been done, every concern that can be raised has been raised, and the only way to move truly forward is with an intensively monitored trial reintroduction of a small number of cats."
Phil Stocker, chief executive of the National Sheep Association, previously told the BBC said there were several hundred sheep farmers around Kielder, any one of whom could be affected by the lynx.
He said the area was not suitable for lynx and one sheep being attacked could cause major stress and possible damage to the rest of the flock.
Woodland worked with university classmate Bernard Silver to create the now ubiquitous thick-and-thin-line system in the 1940s.
The system was patented in the US in 1952, a patent that was later sold for just $15,000 (£9,300).
The modern-day barcode is estimated to be scanned more than five billion times every day.
Atlantic City-born Woodland died on Sunday, his daughter told the New York Times.
Woodland's efforts were years ahead of their time. It took 22 years for the invention to make its first appearance in a US shop - due to the fact the laser technology required to read the lines did not exist.
The first item scanned was a packet of chewing gum in an Ohio supermarket in 1974.
Woodland is said to have conceived the barcode while sitting on a chair surrounded by sand.
With Morse code in mind, Woodland began to draw with his fingers.
Speaking of that moment, he told Smithsonian magazine in 1999: "I poked my four fingers into the sand and for whatever reason — I didn't know — I pulled my hand toward me and drew four lines.
"I said: 'Golly! Now I have four lines, and they could be wide lines and narrow lines instead of dots and dashes.'"
The patent was sold to battery storage company Philco - but expired in the 1960s, allowing IBM - where Woodland was working - to finalise and tweak the design into something we recognise today.
In 2011 both Woodland and Silver were inducted into the US's National Inventors Hall of Fame.
No injuries have been reported, and some migrants have now been allowed to return to the camp.
Police still investigate whether the fire was deliberate, but an aid worker says it started after a food dispute.
There are some 5,600 refugees currently in Lesbos, according to the UN, but the island only has capacity for 3,600.
The fire destroyed 30% of the camp, according to Aris Vlashopoulos, an aid worker with the Swiss charity SAO.
"People are returning to the camp now as I can see. But the biggest number of the refugees are already on the streets, sleeping outside," he added.
According to Greek state news agency ANA, a brawl started on Monday after a rumour that refugees would be deported to Turkey en masse.
Many on the island are afraid of being returned to Turkey or their home countries, correspondents say.
The situation on Lesbos is exacerbated as many refugees land there and are held on the island until their asylum claim is fully processed.
Those granted asylum are permitted to journey to the Greek mainland, while others are turned back.
The procedure is part of the EU-Turkey deal brokered in March, in which the EU pledged to work towards visa-free travel for Turkish citizens to Europe's Schengen zone in exchange for Ankara's assistance in curbing migrants crossing to the Greek islands.
Deliveries to 13 properties in Queen's Crescent, Chippenham, were suspended after the postman received "nasty and painful bites on his arms and legs".
Residents have now been told they will have to collect their post from Royal Mail's delivery office in Bumpers Way.
A Royal Mail spokeswoman apologised to customers affected but said the "health and safety of our people is paramount".
The properties affected by the ban include private homes and bungalows owned by GreenSquare Housing Association.
But Val Bodden, a Royal Mail spokeswoman, said it was in the "surrounding grass and pathway" that the postman used to access the properties where he experienced the flea infestation.
"We are keen to resume deliveries as soon as possible and have already contacted the local environmental health department," she said.
"They have visited the area and have been treating the affected site."
Terri Yewkins, from GreenSquare, said treatment had been carried out on a property and a second would be carried out if required.
"It is unusual for us to become involved in cases like this as our tenancy agreements state that tenants are responsible for dealing with pest infestations," he said.
"However, in this instance, we have been dealing with the issue and working to eradicate the problem."
"Everyone locks their doors, they're scared," said Maria, who came to America illegally from Mexico 23 years ago. "We close blinds. It looks like a wasteland."
Maria is one of an estimated 11 million "undocumented immigrants", many of whom have lived in the US for decades, and have American-born children.
The lives of many undocumented residents of Texas' Rio Grande valley have changed dramatically since President Trump took office with his pledge to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Maria's 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie, is sitting slumped in her chair in the garden moaning quietly. Stephanie, a US citizen, has cerebral palsy and is also plagued by high fevers the local doctors can't explain.
Her doctor says it's imperative that she sees a specialist doctor in Corpus Christi, 160 miles away.
But that would involve driving through a Border Patrol immigration checkpoint.
Maria does not dare risk the drive.
"We're scared that her condition is going to deteriorate", said Maria. "But what I'm scared of is that I'll cross a check point and then who's going to take care of my children?"
Maria is also afraid to walk her son Joseph, nine, to the school bus in the mornings.
Many of the mothers along her street peer through curtains as their children walk to the bus, texting each other updates on each child's progress as they walk down the street on their own.
This takes a toll on Joseph, also a US citizen, who is now afraid to go to school at all.
"I tell him: 'It's OK love, you go to that bus,'" said Maria. "But he's told me I'm scared I'm going to come back and you're not going to be in the house."
Compounding the fear of undocumented Hispanics in Texas is a new state law, Senate Bill 4 or "SB4".
Traditionally in the US, the police don't enforce immigration law. They leave that to the immigration authorities.
But the SB4 bans police departments throughout the state from adopting a policy of non co-operation with America's immigration authorities.
The law is widely expected to lead to police officers throughout Texas asking those they suspect of being illegal for their immigration papers during routine police stops.
The new law in Texas does not come into effect until September, and is currently being challenged. But that has done little to dampen the widespread alarm amongst Texas' 10 million Hispanics.
During the election campaign, President Trump promised to oust millions of undocumented people, at one point controversially casting most of them as criminals. Later, he pledged to deport the criminals first.
The crackdown actually predates the new president and has been going on for years. President Barack Obama deported around three million, more than any recent president.
But shortly after taking office, President Trump scrapped his predecessor's priority list for deportations, which had put criminals at the top.
President Trump then issued his own executive orders making criminals and non-criminals an equal priority for deportation.
In his first 100 days in office, 41,000 known or suspected illegal immigrants were deported, most of them criminals.
But the number of those deported who had no criminal record more than doubled compared to the same period in 2016, to over 10,000.
President Trump also recently scrapped the protections President Obama's administration offered to undocumented parents who were law-abiding.
"Nobody wants families split and the way to ensure that if you're a family is to not come to this country illegally" said Jim Brulte, the Chairman of the Republican Party in California.
"Sometimes the sins of the father are visited upon the sons" he said.
Almost 2,000 miles from Maria's house in a neighbourhood in San Diego, California, the Duarte family have felt the impact of this policy change.
The Duarte children were getting ready for school one Tuesday morning in May, when Border Patrol agents arrested both of their parents and took them to an immigrant detention centre.
"We just sat down and cried," said Yarely Duarte, 12.
The first night, Yarely and her twin sister Aracely moved their beds into the same room as their two teenage brothers, for comfort.
The oldest brother Francisco, 19, took charge - cooking, buying the food and helping get his younger sisters off to school.
Border Patrol initially accused parents Rosenda and Francisco Duarte Snr of involvement in international human trafficking, but later dropped the accusation. Neither parent has a criminal record.
Rosenda Duarte was released from detention on bail in late June while her case is reassessed. But she and her husband, who is still in detention, still face possible deportation.
Mark Lane, who gives legal advice to other scared immigrants in the community, said he gets 10 to 15 calls a day.
He said: "We had one family that we're dealing with over the last two months. They've taken three separate members of the family. It's happening all over."
Back in Brownsville, Texas, Maria is now preparing to sign custody of her children over to her sister in case she is deported.
She doesn't want to risk her children, Stephanie and Joseph, being left alone, or being put into foster care.
Hundreds of other undocumented parents across America are making alternative custody arrangements for their children, as President Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants gets under way.
For decades, neither political party in America has been able to solve the problem of the 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Many Democrats want to offer the majority who are non-criminals a chance to become US citizens.
Republicans generally oppose this, and many want to see the existing law, which requires the removal of all illegal immigrants, enforced.
"There's not much of a choice when it comes to enforcing the law," said Timothy Robbins, acting chief of staff of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"At times, there are going to be families that are separated. It's very, very difficult especially for the children but the reality is our officers are going to enforce the law."
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The France international rejoined United for a world record fee of £89m and is set to make his debut against Southampton on Friday.
"He is one of the best midfielders, maybe I could say the best midfield player in the world," said Mourinho.
But he suggested a lack of goals will count against Pogba winning awards.
The Ballon d'Or, which recognises the world's best player, has been won by either Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi every year since 2008.
Messi has scored 374 career goals and Ronaldo 364. Pogba scored 34 goals in four seasons for Juventus, after leaving United in 2012.
"First of all, when you speak about the best players in the world you go immediately to the ones that score a lot of goals," said Mourinho.
"You don't give a gold ball to a goalkeeper. They gave a gold ball to defender Fabio Cannavaro once in 2006 but because in that season he was captain of Italy, they were world champions, and there were not too many top players.
"Paolo Maldini never got a gold ball, Javier Zanetti never got a gold ball, top goalkeepers over history don't get a gold ball.
"Can Paul score Ronaldo and Messi goals? Not even 25%. I believe in a season he cannot score 20 goals. If to be the best player in the world means to score a lot of goals, that's not the point."
Pogba, 23, missed the 3-1 victory at Bournemouth on Sunday because of suspension, but Mourinho confirmed the midfielder could make his first Old Trafford appearance since 2012 against Saints on Friday.
Mourinho says "the relationship between the team and the fans" is key to reviving a fear factor at Old Trafford.
Since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, United have averaged 2.02 points per Premier League home game, compared to 2.63 in the previous three seasons.
"If at Old Trafford, a couple of thousand away fans can be more noisy than 70,000, we are in trouble," said Mourinho.
"It means there is no connection."
Mourinho also revealed 34-year-old Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has an option for a second year on the one-year deal he signed as a free agent in July.
"His motivation is really high," said the Portuguese. "No doubts he will be here for the next two years."
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The Briton, who was knocked out in the first round at Queen's last week, was due to play France's Lucas Pouille at the Aspall Tennis Classic.
Murray is still expected to play on Friday before he begins the defence of his Wimbledon title on 3 July.
The 30-year-old last played at Hurlingham in 2014 after he lost in the last 16 at Queen's.
Elsewhere, world number two Novak Djokovic managed just nine minutes of play against Canadian Vasek Pospisil at Eastbourne before rain led to play being cancelled for the day.
The Serb, appearing in his first pre-Wimbledon tournament for seven years, was forced to save two break points in his opening service game.
Elsewhere, Britons Katie Swan and Tara Moore were knocked out of Wimbledon qualifying.
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This is an "ultra-cautious" decision according to Murray's team, and it's expected he will play his other scheduled match at the Hurlingham Club on Friday.
Murray has been practising at Wimbledon in recent days - with young Canadian Denis Shapovalov amongst others - but the disruption is far from ideal given his first-round exit at Queen's Club last week.
It means Murray will have a maximum of two matches on grass before he begins the defence of his Wimbledon title.
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Joel Jones, now 24, is accused after the death of Jack McKenzie, 18, who was involved in a crash near Peterchurch, Herefordshire, on 3 September 2010.
Mr Jones, of Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, struck a hay baler's wheel because he was driving too far to the right of the road, Hereford Crown Court heard.
The prosecution said he was driving at "more speed" than was appropriate but was not exceeding the speed limit.
His speed was estimated at being between 40mph and 50mph when the crash happened at 23:30 BST, the court heard.
It was told the two students at Hereford Sixth Form College were in a Vauxhall Corsa when the car was involved in a collision with a seven-tonne hay baler being pulled by a tractor.
A "competent driver" would slow down or pull over while going past the tractor, the prosecution said.
The court was told following the crash, a Fiat Punto was also involved in a collision with the Corsa, which had been on the opposite side of the road to the tractor.
Mr McKenzie, who was originally from Hereford, died.
Mr Jones was also injured, the court heard.
The trial continues.
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) is about to increase its involvement in the side, which has looked for new investors.
A 47-17 defeat by Glasgow Warriors in Scotland followed a 54-22 defeat at home to Leinster on 24 February.
"We need more depth, we need more investment, but have to be a lot better with the group we have," Jones said.
The Scottish side fielded 11 internationals in their starting 15, despite missing ten of Scotland's first-choice starting side, who were resting between Six Nations games.
When asked about the possibility of change in the boardroom, Jones said: "I've been waiting for positive news with regards to the Dragons going forward for a long time.
"But [chief executive] Stuart Davies is dealing with that, he keeps us informed as much as he can.
"The big picture for Newport Gwent Dragons is that we get more depth, more experience and not only in the playing staff.
"These are not excuses but going forward, I'd love to have more depth in the coaching. We've got two young coaches in Shaun [Connor] and Ceri [Jones] but we need additions everywhere."
The WRU has owned 50 percent of the team since just after its creation in 2003, but has not played an active role in its management.
For the second week running Jones watched his team's defence fall apart, conceding 47 points without reply at Scotstoun between the 30th and 78th minutes.
"It's been a poor ten days for the Dragons," admitted former Wales flanker Jones.
"Two weeks on the trot we've conceded a lot of points, there's issues around the defence but ultimately I think it's a mental one."
They are relatives of an alleged criminal gang which officials say was behind the killing. All the gang's members died in a shoot-out.
But Italian officials have questioned this claim amid suspicion that security forces had involvement in the case.
Mr Regeni's body was found with signs of torture, dumped beside a road.
Italian authorities have long complained about a lack of transparency from Cairo in the investigation.
The 28-year-old Italian, who was a student at Cambridge, had been researching trade unions, a politically sensitive subject in Egypt. His body was found on 3 February, a week after his disappearance in Cairo.
The murder of Giulio Regeni
Two of the suspects detained are the wife and sister of the alleged gang leader. They had been arrested in the sister's apartment, where an official said police found a bag with Mr Regeni's passport and wallet.
The other two are the brother-in-law and brother of the head of the gang.
All four are accused of concealing a criminal and hiding stolen goods, officials said.
On Thursday, Egypt's interior ministry said police had found a bag belonging to the student during a raid on a flat linked to the gang. All its four members were said to had been killed in a shoot-out.
The group specialised in abducting foreigners while posing as policemen, it added.
But the claim has been criticised by Italian officials and the Regeni family, who rejected it as an "outrageous set-up".
Human rights groups and opposition figures have speculated that Mr Regeni was killed by members of the Egyptian security forces, claims Egyptian officials have strongly denied.
"[We are] wounded and embittered by the umpteenth attempt at a cover-up on the part of the Egyptian authorities," the family told Italian news agency Ansa.
"[We are] certain of the firmness with which our government will react to this outrageous set-up".
On Twitter, Italy's Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said: "Italy insists: we want the truth."
Rome's chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone said on Friday that the investigation into the murder would continue.
Mr Regeni was a PhD student at the department of politics and international studies at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo (AUC)
His donation is part of a $750m fund to help post-graduate students.
Called the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, each year it will fund 100 new students in masters, doctoral or professional degree programs.
It was modelled on Oxford University's Rhodes Scholarship. Stanford describes it as the world's biggest fully endowed university scholarship program.
Fully endowed means the scholarships can be paid for by returns from the $750 investment pot, so Stanford will not have to raise funds for the programme each year.
John Hennessy, who will step down as Stanford's president later this year, will become the programme's director.
Mr Knight said the scholarships would create a new generation of "skilled problem-solvers".
"John and I dream of a future 20, 30 or 50 years from now, when thousands of graduates - who can think outside the box as skilled problem-solvers - will be working together for a more peaceful, habitable world," said Mr Knight.
Mr Knight received his MBA from Stanford in 1962 before he started Nike.
Since then he has regularly donated to the university.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was determined Scotland's vote to remain in the European Union would be respected.
Ruth Davidson, of the Scottish Conservatives, said 2016 felt as if the world had "shifted a little on its axis"
Labour's Kezia Dugdale said Scotland remaining part of the UK was more important than being part of the EU.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said it was time to put the "politics of division" behind us.
NICOLA STURGEON, FIRST MINISTER
As she reflected on the past year and looked ahead to 2017 in her new year message, Nicola Sturgeon said she was determined Scotland's vote to remain within the European Union would be respected.
The first minister said: "We are working to safeguard the opportunities that so many people in Scotland now take for granted.
"We are determined that Scotland's vote to remain in the European Union will be respected - and that people in Scotland retain as many of the benefits of EU membership as possible, including the freedom to work, travel and study in other member states.
"New year is inevitably a time when we look to the future. I'm determined to ensure that we give our children and young people - Scotland's future - the support and care they need to live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.
"I'm confident that in 2017, we will make further progress towards that goal. That's something which is well worth looking forward to.
"So, wherever you are - whether you're here in Scotland or further afield; whether you're at work, spending time on your own or with your friends or family - I hope you have a wonderful Hogmanay and a great new year. I wish all of you all the best for 2017."
RUTH DAVIDSON, SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVE LEADER
The Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson described 2016 as a time when the "world felt that it shifted a little on its axis", adding that she hoped 2017 would bring "more stability and moderation".
She said: "People don't expect governments to do everything for them. But they do expect them to make life a little easier.
"Here in Scotland, that means we need to focus not on creating further division and instability; but on improving services and supporting business to get our economy moving again - to help families who are struggling to get by."
"My commitment for this coming year is to do everything I can to make sure that happens.
"To all of you here at home, and to Scots right across the world celebrating this evening - all the very best for the coming year."
KEZIA DUGDALE, SCOTTISH LABOUR LEADER
Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the new year was a time for reflection but also for hope and optimism.
"In 2017 we can lay the foundations of Scotland's future economic success," she said.
"Being part of the UK is even more important to Scotland than staying in the EU and Labour will campaign with everything we have to protect that relationship across our isles.
"Remaining in the UK is good for jobs, it's good for our economy and it's good for our public services. Labour will never support the SNP's attempt to force another referendum on the people of Scotland."
WILLIE RENNIE, SCOTTISH LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LEADER
Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said his party was emerging from recent electoral struggles and were starting to win again and were determined to see a referendum on any future Brexit deal.
He added: "My colleagues and I will make the powerful case for a Brexit Deal Referendum on the terms of the deal.
"It would only be right for voters to have the final say rather than just signing a blank cheque for the prime minister to agree any deal she likes no matter what the consequences.
"Liberal Democrats will also oppose Scottish independence. Scotland's place is with our partners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We need to put the politics of division behind us and focus on making Scotland a better country to live in."
The children, from Hertfordshire, were reported lost near Abercraf at about 13:00 on Wednesday.
After a major rescue operation all were brought to safety.
St Albans School head Jonathan Gillespie thanked rescuers but said the alarm was raised when two of the party began to feel unwell.
Three mountain rescue teams, police, a coastguard helicopter and the ambulance service were involved in the search for the school children reportedly lost in low cloud around Llyn y Fan Fach, near Abercraf.
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Forty-seven pupils aged 15 and 16, were divided into groups on the second day of a three-day silver Duke of Edinburgh award expedition when two of them began to feel unwell, Mr Gillespie said.
They were part of a small group of seven who correctly followed their training procedures and called for help, he said.
School staff were able to give rescuers a grid location for the group, who were found and led down the mountain.
Three other groups were later located and rescuers confirmed all 26 children were safe. They were taken to a hospital to be checked as a precaution.
The pupils' attempts to make their own way down the mountain had been hampered by heavy rain, strong winds and a negligible mobile phone signal, emergency services said.
Mr Gillespie said: "I'm very proud of my staff and pupils and how they responded to it, and grateful to the emergency services."
He added: "At no stage have any of them been unaccounted for or missing."
The picture appeared on the wall of a Poundland store on Whymark Avenue in Wood Green, north London.
A professor specialising in Bansky believes it is the Bristol-born artist's work.
A Poundland spokesman said the retailer enjoyed Banksy's art and said suppliers met ethical guidelines.
Curious passers-by have been scrutinising the stencilled image, which was adorned with real bunting.
One man travelled from Heathrow Airport having just arrived in the UK from Spain.
Jason Cobham, 44, from Wood Green, said: "I definitely think it's a Banksy. It keeps you thinking about the plight of child labourers."
He added: "I'd pay more than a pound for it. If I could get it off the wall I'd pay a lot of money for it. Haringey should celebrate it."
Ernesta Zazdokaite, 19, from Haringey, said: "It's nice but what's it all about?"
Professor Paul Gough, from University of the West of England, an academic who studies the artist, suggests the image has all the hallmarks of a genuine Banksy.
He said: "The stencil is very well cut, the quality of the spraying and that unique feathered edge that he is able to achieve when painting white on to black is reminiscent of several other pieces in the capital.
"The bunting is a brilliant touch, short-lived but with lasting impact in the memory given this royal anniversary year."
Tim McDonnell, retail director of Poundland, said: "We are fans of Banksy and we are proud supporters of the Queen's Jubilee.
"Poundland has a clear defined code of conduct for all our suppliers and a strong ethical stance on all labour issues."
A spokeswoman for Haringey Council said she believed the wall was private property and the council had no right to remove the painting.
She said in cases where graffiti is found to be offensive, the council can help the property owner remove it.
She added: "This is different. They may well like this."
The last image in Haringey believed to have been painted by Banksy appeared in September 2009 in Tottenham High Road.
It showed children playing with a No Ball Games sign and has since been covered with Perspex.
Nurse practitioner, Elaine Lowery, 50, from Whitehaven, cared for a woman suffering from paranoia but instead stole £6,242 to spend on holidays.
In October 2015, Lowery helped withdraw £16,000 from the woman's account for her new home and funeral plan.
At Carlisle Crown Court, Lowery, of Gable Road, admitted two theft charges and was jailed for a year.
Lowery did not have the means to make any repayment and the rest of the money was spent legitimately, the court heard.
Recorder Abigail Hudson said: "It is a tragedy in the circumstances that the victim is unlikely to ever see that money again."
It argued that mining for gold and oil in the fragile ecosystem could cause irreversible damage.
The court overturned a previous ruling that allowed mining companies which already held licenses to continue operating in the moorlands until their licenses ran out.
Officials said the court's decision would void about 350 mining licenses.
The "paramos" are mainly found between an altitude of 3,000m (9,850ft) and 5,000m.
Covered by grass and shrubs, they act like vast sponges, storing water in the rainy season and releasing it in the dry season.
Their conservation is considered key to guaranteeing the water supply for Colombian cities such as the capital, Bogota.
Environmental activists welcomed the ruling.
Congressman Alirio Uribe Munoz, who was among a group of politicians who brought the case before the constitutional court, said it meant "life first, business later".
The court said that under no circumstance should mining or oil exploration be allowed in these areas.
The firm announced 750 job cuts there on Monday, among 1,050 across the UK.
A further 1,200 jobs could be lost as its suppliers shed workers in response, a think tank has said.
Martin Waters from the Community union added: "It's very emotional. There are people in there with high mortgages."
The meeting began at 17:00 GMT and was attended by more than 50 people.
Earlier, First Minister Carwyn Jones said Port Talbot should be designated as an enterprise zone by the chancellor to help safeguard Tata Steel's future in the town.
He told AMs that enterprise zones offered tax relief on capital spending and help with business rates.
During First Minister's Questions, Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies called on the Welsh government to cut business rates to help Tata.
Mr Jones said business rates were under review but claimed it would not be enough by itself to solve the steel industry crisis.
Problems such as a glut of steel on the world market, a strong pound and high energy costs were all outside the Welsh government's control, the first minister added.
He said Economy Minister Edwina Hart had written to Chancellor George Osborne asking him to approve the idea of an enterprise zone to give firms in Port Talbot business rate relief and tax breaks.
Meanwhile the chancellor defended the UK government in a Commons spat with his Labour shadow John McDonnell, who accused him of being quick to defend bankers' bonuses, but taking "four months to save steelworkers jobs".
Mr Osborne said steel was in an "incredibly difficult situation" and the industry was losing jobs in every country in the world.
UK ministers were taking action to defend steel, he said, including measures to reduce energy costs and "deal with the dumping of Chinese steel".
On Wednesday, Mrs Hart is due to chair a task force set up in response to the job losses at Tata, and other firms who depend on steel workers' wages for their survival.
As politicians defended their actions and ability to help the steel industry, business owners in Port Talbot spoke of their fears for the future.
Michael Cosker, president of Port Talbot's Chamber of Trade and owner of cafe Rolls Choice, said: "It's been a hell of a knock. It's a massive blow for the town.
"Sometimes you feel like the town has a death sentence - especially with [the future of] junction 41 still up in the air, we have so much thrown at us.
"We're all gutted."
Ziaur Rahman, owner of Indian restaurant Cinnamon Kitchen on Aberavon seafront, said: "Three years ago we invested a lot of money to do the building up and took a huge risk to invest in the town.
"Our trade is going to fall big time... and hold back any investment we had planned.
"It is very sad news. It has shaken us."
Rebecca Morris, team leader at hotel and pub The Twelve Knights near the plant, said the announcement would hit business hard.
She said: "We take a lot of hotel bookings through the works.
"About 90% of our regulars are steel workers. People will either take to drink or not come at all."
Owner of recently-opened restaurant Mavericks Bar & Grill Lee Davies said the announcement would have a "massive impact" on his business.
"Steelworkers are our main clientele," he said.
"I've spoken to a few customers who have lost their jobs and they're devastated."
Actor Michael Sheen, who grew up in Port Talbot, told BBC Two's Newsnight it was a "very frightening time for the town".
"That has a knock-on effect for the whole region, the support work that's going on, other people, jobs that are dependent on what's going on in the steelworks," he said.
Tata Steel Europe, which employs 17,000 in the UK, is in the throes of a wide-scale reorganisation of its business.
Announcing the job cuts on Monday, the company said "tough actions are critical in the face of extremely difficult market conditions".
I went to some great locations and spent time with some amazing people and had a blast, doing a lot of sport and keeping myself busy in beautiful surroundings.
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I spent a few days at my house in Colorado, went to the Caribbean, where I feel very much at home and really enjoyed the Barbados carnival, and then spent a few days in New York before coming back to Europe for the second half of the season.
There were some pictures of me at the carnival in the papers, but I couldn't care less about that. I was on holiday, doing what I wanted to do, having fun, enjoying the whole event.
I was too busy dancing and just engulfed in the energy and atmosphere to even notice the cameras.
It was an amazing experience. I've been to the Notting Hill carnival and the one in Grenada, where my family originally come from, but Barbados was way better. Trinidad is supposed to have the best one of all the islands, so I'll have to try to get to that as well next year.
I'll be going back to Barbados, for sure, though. The weather, beaches, food are all great and the people are super-friendly.
I feel like I'm at home there in many ways, because it is similar to Grenada in many respects.
Don't think the fact we are on a summer break means it is one long party, though. Yes, I had a great time, but F1 is never far from your mind.
You switch off from racing, but I really got on to my fitness and diet regime.
On my first morning in my house in Colorado I treated myself to some pancakes, but after that I was on a healthy diet trying to lose weight because I was a little bit heavier than I wanted to be by the end of the first half of the season.
I was weighing myself every morning and spending the days doing gym workouts and running from the bottom of the hill to the top, in the same place I go skiing in the winter. That is a killer.
The first time I chilled out and had fun was in Barbados, but even there I was on my diet, although I did train less there than in the first week.
But then I was back on the training when we went to New York, running along the river and doing some hard gym workouts.
It was all about making sure I came back in the best shape I could because there is a long way to go until the end of the season and you need to be as strong and sharp as possible.
The last race before the break, in Hungary, did not go that well for me and I spent some time thinking about that for at least half the first week I was away.
You never plan to have bad days, obviously. It was like: "Oh. That's happened." Inevitably, it affected me - I am an emotional sportsman and I want to win. I started from pole, had a couple of incidents and finished sixth, so of course I was not happy after the race.
But there is nothing you can do about it except learn from it. I wanted to consider how it had come to be that way and I think I've worked out how to rectify that moving forward and make sure that sort of thing does not happen again.
Hungary was a bit of a blip but what is more important is that this has been a really strong season so far.
The way I look at it, I'm 21 points ahead of my Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg after 10 races, and I remember that at this point last year I was more than that behind - and I crashed out in this race. But I still went on to win the title.
Of course, there are always things you want to be better, but I am grateful for what I have and am looking forward to ensuring the second half of the season goes at least as well as the first.
If I drive like I have been so far this year, I should be strong.
From this race, there is a change to the rules governing starts. The teams can help the drivers less in terms of preparing the clutch to be in the best possible position for a good start. More will be in the drivers' hands.
No-one knows how that will play out, but after reflecting on it I think it is going to make F1 more exciting. I feel there are lots of positives in the change.
There is the potential for better starts but also more potential for worse starts. But everyone is in the same boat so I don't feel anything negative about it.
Everyone likes the Spa-Francorchamps track, where the race is held this weekend. It's definitely one of the best circuits in the world, but this is not a grand prix I have particularly loved in the past. It has rarely gone that well for me.
The record books say I have only won here once - in 2010 - but I always think of it as twice, as I "won" in 2008 as well, only to be demoted to third after the race when the stewards decided I had broken the rules concerning gaining an advantage by leaving the track.
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I have had lots of ups and downs at Spa and it is a really hard race to win. Just look at Fernando Alonso - he has never won here. And he's a great driver who has been racing even longer than me.
I know I can be quick here. But I also know it often seems to be a lottery, not least because the weather is so unpredictable here in the Ardennes mountains.
Hopefully I can have a good weekend and finally notch up another win to get the second half of the season off to the best possible start.
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Lewis Hamilton was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson
The male cyclist, who is in his 40s, was struck by a vehicle near the Folly Roundabout, Redon Way, Andover, at about 00:45 GMT.
He suffered life-threatening injuries.
A 28-year-old man from Andover has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and bailed until 28 June.
Sgt Adrienne Jerram said: "The victim has been left in an extremely critical condition in hospital and his family are with him at his bedside."
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday's strike on an IS camp in eastern Syria had also wounded about 20 fighters.
French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday six jets had destroyed the camp in the province of Deir al-Zour.
France had previously limited its strikes on IS to Iraqi airspace.
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the raid had struck "an extremely sensitive site for [IS]", describing it as a "strategic hub" for militants travelling between Iraq and Syria.
He said the raid was carried out in self-defence, saying that France had evidence that foreign fighters were being trained in the camps to carry out attacks in Europe and in France specifically.
A teenaged former fighter told the BBC in June that he had been trained to fight for IS alongside mostly "15 and 16 year olds".
"There were even many as young as 13 or 14. Those are more eager to fight and wage jihad for the sake of God," he said.
The UN has documented the use of children in combat and support roles by both pro- and anti-government forces in Syria, as well as by Islamic State.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday evening French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said French prosecutors were opening an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The investigation will focus on a report published last year by three former war crimes prosecutors which accused the Syrian government of systematically torturing and executing about 11,000 detainees since the start of the uprising against Mr Assad's rule in March 2011.
That report was based on the evidence of a defected military police photographer, referred to only as Caesar, who along with others reportedly smuggled about 55,000 graphic digital images of dead detainees out of Syria.
"Faced with these crimes which offend the human conscience, this bureaucracy of horror... it is our responsibility to act against the impunity of these killers," Mr Fabius said.
The Chancellor Philip Hammond gave a round of interviews on Sunday morning adopting a cautious tone on the economic outlook.
He spoke of slowing business investment, higher inflation, and "eye-watering" levels of government debt.
It came ahead of his first major economic announcement - Wednesday's Autumn Statement.
Mr Hammond reflected on some apparent ill-winds from the continent by saying that Brexit negotiations will bring "an unprecedented level of uncertainty".
Commentators were predicting a slowing of economic growth, he said.
All this provided the economic context - as he saw it - to the next in a series of crucial political events before the government pushes the EU exit button by April next year.
The Autumn Statement will give us the first clues as to how ministers intend to steer the economy and the public finances into the start of the EU negotiation period.
And it will come alongside an economic outlook from the government's tax and spending watchdog - the Office for Budget Responsibility - which will cover the period beyond Britain's planned exit from the EU.
Besides the financial assessments, Mr Hammond has a political path to navigate strewn with trip hazards.
First, he must decide how far he needs to mitigate any "uncertainty" ahead. During the summer the Treasury made it clear it was abandoning the tough spending rules imposed by George Osborne - which said that the government's books must be balanced by 2020.
The Brexit vote had changed the circumstances, said Mr Hammond, so new fiscal rules were required to deal with the "turbulence" that might arrive.
Some commentators speculated that a government spending splurge may be in the offing.
But appearing to show too much "stimulus" may anger cabinet colleagues who argued hardest for Brexit - and who believe too much emphasis on risk and uncertainty can be self-fulfilling.
Mr Hammond watched the events of the summer - when Brexiteers criticised the Bank of England for reacting too soon by cutting interest rates to record lows, when in their view the economic circumstances did not merit it.
The mood music from the chancellor is certainly not at that pitch.
He has spoken instead of the need for credibility in managing the public finances - code for keeping spending down.
He dropped a hint that he is likely to stick to George Osborne's savings to Universal Credit and other welfare spending - a move that has been much criticised by Labour.
But a retreat too far towards the tough fiscal rules adopted by his predecessor would leave him open to criticism from opposition parties.
They would say the government had abandoned those it pledged to help who are 'just managing' to get by.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests the fall in the value of the pound is likely to push up prices by around 2.5%, with food, fuel and clothing among the items worst affected.
The chancellor knows the line he has to tread: Not overplaying the uncertainty yet showing support for voters likely to feel the squeeze; being seen to support investment and job creation but staying credible in managing the public finances.
Meanwhile, the forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility on Wednesday is likely to be pored over for any hints as to direction of travel on Brexit.
The watchdog bases its five year outlook on stated government policy - but there has been very little detail of that around when it comes to the UK's potential negotiating stance.
The signs so far are that the Treasury is attempting to shift the focus with press releases on funding tech and infrastructure, being a "global leader" for free trade and investment - making Britain "match fit" for life after Brexit.
Labour is trying to carve out its point of difference by accusing Mr Hammond of being "weak" in refusing to abandon austerity completely.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell calls all this "gimmicks and giveaways" and says the Treasury should be spending significantly more on infrastructure and job creation.
The party says it would put £500bn into such projects over 10 years, funded through borrowing, while balancing the books on "day to day" spending and taxation.
The government calls this "fantasy economics".
So expect a relatively low-key Autumn Statement - but one in whose finer details we may be able to glean more about the government's stance on Brexit, whatever the weather.
The flock was found by a landowner in the Hambleton area. Officers said stolen animals were often hidden in plain view.
Police believe the animals were destined for the illegal meat trade.
A 54-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on suspicion of theft and possession of cannabis. He was later released on bail.
Insp Jon Grainge, of North Yorkshire Police, said sheep were being stolen in a covert operation "often in ones and twos, sometimes in trailer-loads".
He said there had been a rise in the number of reports of stolen sheep.
"Some will be destined almost immediately for the illegal meat trade, while others are hidden in open view in fields and barns across a wide geographic area.
"The difficulty with the nature of this crime is that it is not necessarily immediately obvious to farmers, who may only be able to identify their shortfall at the time of bringing sheep in to scan or to worm, which often gives a very wide timeframe for us to work with."
Insp Grainge appealed for anyone who had seen "suspicious movements of animals, or animals appearing in fields unexpectedly" to contact the force.
Hollie Gazzard was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Asher Maslin in February.
The King Teddy pub, where Miss Gazzard worked part-time, will have a Harry Potter-themed night among other events to raise money for abuse victims.
Candles will be lit in memory of Miss Gazzard at 20:00 BST to mark her birthday.
Earlier this month Maslin admitted repeatedly stabbing her to death just days after Miss Gazzard ended their relationship. He now serving life in jail for her murder.
The events will run over the weekend, which will start off with live music, and an auction later.
Pub manager Aaron Abbott said: "There will be a lot of fun, a lot of laughter remembering Hollie and what would have been her 21st birthday."
He told the Commons that six regional airports could be added to the Heathrow hub network, bringing the total to 14.
The new airports are thought to be Belfast, Liverpool, Newquay, Prestwick Humberside, and Durham Tees Valley.
His comments came as he launched a public consultation on a new runway, unlikely to be operational until 2025.
Last October, after years of delay, the government said that building a third runway at Heathrow was its preferred option for expanding airport capacity.
Mr Grayling told the Commons that a third runway would generate tens of thousands of jobs, and be a major boost to the economy as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.
"By backing the north-west runway at Heathrow airport and publishing our proposals, we are sending a clear signal that when we leave the EU, we are open for business," Mr Grayling said.
With the government about to set out its strategy for withdrawal from the EU in a White Paper, Mr Grayling said that a third runway at Heathrow would enhance the UK's global links.
"Leaving the EU is a new chapter for Britain and provides us with a great opportunity to forge a new role in the world. We are determined to seize that opportunity and having the right infrastructure in place will allow us to build a more global Britain," he told MPs.
Alongside his announcement of a "draft policy statement" on Heathrow expansion, Mr Grayling also issued a consultation document on improving Britain's air space infrastructure and investing in new technology.
He said it made sense to carry out the two consultations together, which will run until 25 May, with the final decisions going before Parliament late this year or early 2018.
The consultations on Heathrow and air traffic facilities will involve events across the country "because the whole country will benefit," Mr Grayling said. He is due in Glasgow later to expand on how travellers and freight users outside the south east England will benefit.
The cost of a third runway is estimated to be £22bn, and is forecast to generate about 70,000 jobs. An additional 260,000 take-offs or landings would be permitted each year from the expanded airport, on top of the current cap of 480,000.
The consultation will consider such things as pollution, additional rail and road infrastructure such a roads, and the impact on surrounding towns and villages.
But there is expected to be continued significant opposition to the third runway proposal.
Earlier, Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston, Sarah Olney, accused the government of being "so desperate" to reassure businesses about its Brexit plans that it is "willing to steamroller over those communities opposed to Heathrow expansion".
And John Stewart, chairman of anti-Heathrow expansion group Hacan, said it was important that the government assessed the consultation "in an even-handed way" and rejected the plan if the expected impact on issues such as noise was found to be "too great".
The biggest long-term environmental challenge for aviation is climate change.
The government says a rise in aviation carbon emissions alone is no reason to reject expansion - unless that increase is so great it risks breaching the government's overall carbon targets.
But the government's official advisers, the Committee on Climate Change, previously warned that's exactly what's likely to happen.
They say growth in aviation emissions will mean ministers have to squeeze even deeper emissions cuts from other sectors of the economy.
They are already struggling to meet carbon targets in heating and transport and the committee says it has "very limited confidence" that sectors like steel-making and heavy industry can cut emissions even more to accommodate people flying.
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Network Rail has announced 31 projects in the city over the next five years including the electrification of the line between Bristol and London.
Doubling the track has been described as "fundamental" to the expansion of services in and around Bristol.
It will also allow for extra high speed trains between Bristol and London.
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"Reinstating the four lines between Temple Meads and Parkway is the arterial route around which the rest of the Bristol growing railway is going to be hung," said Mike Gallop, Network Rail's Route Asset Director.
The new tracks will be built on Filton Bank, making it possible for local passenger services to use the line.
"It's a very significant first step but it is a first step," said Rob Dixon from the campaign group Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways.
"Without this investment there can be no improvements in local services - things like the reopening of the line to Portishead, the Henbury Loop, improvements on the Severn Beach line and from Weston to Yate - which all need extra capacity and without that they just couldn't run. So these changes are a first step to what we want and need to see."
Charlotte Leslie, Conservative MP for Bristol North West, has campaigned for the reopening of the Henbury Loop.
"The four-tracking of Filton Bank is the basic infrastructure which makes other things possible," said Ms Leslie.
"But what I'd like to see is more ambition in getting Henbury station and Henbury Loop and our network of rail around the city open faster because Bristol is growing and our transport infrastructure isn't keeping up."
The package also includes building new platforms at Bristol Parkway and upgrading Bristol Temple Meads station.
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The new Civil Sheriff Appeal Court will hear appeals on civil cases from local courts which are typically less serious than those escalated to the Court of Session.
The move is part of a series of Scottish government reforms to ensure cases are heard in the right courts.
A similar appeal court for criminal cases was opened in September 2015.
The Criminal Sheriff Appeal Court ran into trouble after some solicitors vowed to boycott it over levels of legal aid fees.
A Sheriff Personal Injury Court and a Scottish Sentencing Council have also been set up in a bid to speed up the Scottish justice system.
Community safety and legal affairs minister Paul Wheelhouse said the changes would help "reduce unnecessary delays".
He said: "We want to create a modern justice system that is fair, accessible and efficient and meets the needs of the people of Scotland. These reforms are a key part of our aims.
"The new Civil Sheriff Appeal Court will ensure that civil appeals are heard swiftly and efficiently at the appropriate level, reducing the number of such cases that require to be dealt with in the Court of Session."
Routine appeals from small claims and summary cases will be heard by a single sheriff at local courts, while more serious appeals requiring a bench of three appeal sheriffs will sit in Edinburgh.
The announcement was made on the same day Lord Carloway was officially installed as Lord President of the Court of Session, Scotland's most senior judge.
They include former parliament speaker and foreign minister Ricardo Alarcon, a close ally of ex-leader Fidel Castro.
Mr Castro said those leaving had not made any mistakes or committed any crimes. He said the changes marked a normal course of events.
Mr Alarcon, 76, one of Cuba's most visible politicians, had been a member of the committee since 1992.
He stepped down as speaker in February.
Among the four others removed were Jose Miguel Miyar Barruecos, 81, who was secretary of the Council of State for three decades, and Misael Enamorado, 60, the party chief in Santiago de Cuba.
Mr Castro played down the significance of the move in comments broadcast on state television.
"There's a door you come in through; there's a door you go out, without it meaning anything negative," he said.
Raul Castro became Cuba's leader when his elder brother stepped down in 2008. In February he was elected to a second five-year term, which he said would be his last.
The 22-year-old, from Wrexham, denied wounding with intent, but was convicted by a jury at Mold Crown Court on Wednesday.
Judge David Hale said he accepted it was "a one-off" by a man of good character.
"On this night you snapped," the judge said.
The baby suffered two fractures to the ribs, one each side. One arm had two fractures and the other had one fracture.
Judge Hale acknowledged the defendant had looked after his son, and a daughter, previously without problem.
But on the night of the incident in July 2014, the baby would not settle and would not finish his bottle.
The judge said: "He was crying and you were very tired. You had hardly slept the day before. You snapped.
"You cannot snap with a baby. You can't do it - and you did."
"You caused fractures to this little child. Fortunately, there were no injuries to his brain and he has made a full recovery."
Judge Hale said the medical opinion was that he must have held the baby and shaken it - causing twisting injuries - but he did not shake the baby hard enough to cause brain injuries.
The defendant, who was separated from the child's mother, told his ex-partner he had fallen while holding the boy but had not injured him.
But it was only later when the mother was changing her son she noticed his arms were floppy and he began screaming in pain.
Duncan Bould, defending, said after the verdict: "There has to be an element of incompetence and inexperience here."
The defendant admitted a charge of child neglect for not reporting the injuries immediately.
A report, by the Nursing and Midwifery Council published in October, found patients were afraid to complain about services.
One woman, who did not want to be named, said her time on Loveridge Ward in 2007 left her too scared to have a second child.
The Health and Social Services Department have launched a review.
The mother, who did not want to be named, said she felt bullied by midwives over breast feeding and was left alone in pain for long periods.
"After my experience having my first child at Loveridge Ward I would have been terrified to go back to that.
"Myself and my husband both wanted to have another child in the future and my child is desperate to have someone to play with, but my experience left me too scared to go back to Loveridge Ward again."
A spokesman for the department said: "Women's views and experiences of maternity services are at the very heart of the independent review.
"The terms of reference of the review have been specifically drafted to ensure the review team gives heavy weight to the views and experiences of maternity patients.
"Women who have used the island's maternity services are 'experts by experience' and learning from that expertise is vital in ensuring that we provide the maternity services that women and their families expect and deserve."
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Championship side Wolves went in front through Joe Mason, who turned in a rebound after Jed Wallace hit the post.
But Enzio Boldewijn, who had earlier seen an effort blocked on the line by Conor Coady, headed the equaliser for visitors Crawley from a corner.
Coady touched in Jon Dadi Bodvarsson's knock-down to secure victory, while Crawley's Mark Connolly was sent off for a second bookable offence late on.
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Crawley Town 1.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Crawley Town 1.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Second yellow card to Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) for a bad foul.
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mark Connolly (Crawley Town).
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Yusuf Mersin.
Joe Mason (Wolverhampton Wanderers) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by David Edwards.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. David Edwards replaces João Teixeira.
Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Substitution, Crawley Town. Matt Harrold replaces Jason Banton.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Mark Connolly.
Attempt blocked. João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Crawley Town 1. Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kortney Hause with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Mark Connolly.
Attempt blocked. Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Jack Price with a cross.
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town).
Foul by Kortney Hause (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Lewis Young (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Bobson Bawling replaces Adi Yussuf because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Adi Yussuf (Crawley Town) because of an injury.
Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adi Yussuf (Crawley Town).
Attempt blocked. Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Price.
Attempt missed. James Collins (Crawley Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adi Yussuf.
Foul by Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by João Teixeira with a cross.
Attempt missed. Kortney Hause (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Jack Price with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Lewis Young.
Attempt blocked. João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Mason.
Attempt missed. Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adi Yussuf with a headed pass.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Kortney Hause.
Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adi Yussuf (Crawley Town).
Manar moved to Britain just three weeks ago, when her family was relocated to Bradford in West Yorkshire, from a camp in Lebanon.
Her mum, Mariam, decided that Manar and her four sisters had no choice but to leave Syria after their neighbour's house was destroyed by a falling plane as war and fighting in the country got worse and worse.
But it's taken three years for them to begin their new life in the UK.
Speaking to Newsround reporter Ricky, Manar has been explaining how the war turned the country she loved upside down.
Manar grew up in city of Idlib in north-western Syria.
She said: "Before the war, it was really lovely. We used to come and go safely, we felt very comfortable."
But Idlib is a region that has seen heavy fighting since 2011.
Manar added: "We were really scared from hearing all the missiles and the shooting. We could hear gunfire and see the airplanes in the sky. Once it shelled near us, so we were terribly scared. We used to tell our mother just to get us out."
The British Prime Minister David Cameron recently visited camps in countries close to Syria, such as Lebanon and Jordan, after announcing that the UK would take in an extra 20,000 refugees.
And it was in similar camps where Manar ended up after leaving her home. She says it's an experience she does not want to repeat.
She said: "It wasn't nice at all because we were being insulted and humiliated. No one respected us."
Manar and her family are among 200 people who've moved to Bradford as part of a special scheme.
She says being able to walk around freely is something amazing and she dreams of one day becoming a doctor.
Watch her full story above and you can find out more about what's happening in Syria by clicking here.
The Irish government, which owns 25% of the airline, has accepted IAG's €1.36bn (£961m) bid, after receiving promises over jobs and key traffic routes.
However, Ryanair, which owns 29.8% of Aer Lingus, has yet to reveal whether it will accept the offer.
IAG boss Willie Walsh said he was "hopeful" Ryanair would accept.
Although Aer Lingus' shares rose 2.6% on Wednesday, at €2.44 they are below the €2.55 a share offer value. Shares in IAG, which owns British Airways and Iberia, were up 1.4%.
However, IAG boss Willie Walsh said that offer "was the limit".
Mr Walsh said: "We're hopeful that Ryanair will see this as an attractive offer for their stake in Aer Lingus and we will wait to see what Ryanair and the Ryanair board says in response to this."
Mr Walsh said there was a "compelling offer" on the table for its shareholders: "I believe Ryanair will see the merit of the case we have made, the value we are offering in terms of this takeover and will want to see the deal go through."
He added he had not talked to Ryanair in recent weeks.
Last year, Aer Lingus rejected two takeover offers from IAG, saying they undervalued the business.
Ryanair has attempted to buy Aer Lingus three times. Its takeover quest began in 2006, just after Aer Lingus was floated on the stock market by the Irish government.
Ryanair's initial bid illustrates the wild swings in Aer Lingus's value since then. Its first offer was €2.80 a share. The second, two years later, was half that and its most recent offer in 2012 was €1.30 a share.
It was prevented from a full takeover on the grounds it would give it dominance over travel to and from the Republic.
IAG's offer was opposed initially by Irish MPs, who were concerned that services between Irish airports and London's Heathrow might be cut. In February, politicians asked IAG to meet certain guarantees.
Under Tuesday's deal, IAG has now agreed to a legally binding commitment to maintain current services between Heathrow and Dublin, Cork and Shannon for at least seven years.
It has also promised to add two new transatlantic routes next year and 2.4 million more passengers by 2020.
Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe said Aer Lingus did not foresee any compulsory redundancies, adding that the airline could see more than 600 new jobs by 2020.
In a statement, Aer Lingus chairman Colm Barrington said: "This is a compelling transaction for Aer Lingus, its shareholders, its employees, its customers and for Ireland.
"The company will reap the commercial and strategic benefits of being part of the much larger and globally diverse IAG Group."
But Aer Lingus' main trade union, Impact, repeated its view that the deal was bad for workers. A second major union, Siptu, said it wanted further commitments on compulsory redundancies and outsourcing.
Under the deal, Aer Lingus will continue to operate its international passenger services under the Aer Lingus brand.
The company will also keep Aer Lingus as its registered name and its head office will remain in the Republic of Ireland.
Willie Walsh, who before becoming boss at IAG was chief executive of Aer Lingus, said that "Aer Lingus would maintain control of its brand and operation while gaining strength as part of a profitable and sustainable airline group in an industry that's consolidating".
"Ireland's vital air links to Europe and North America would be enhanced, creating new jobs, with cast-iron guarantees on ownership of Aer Lingus' Heathrow slots."
James Taylor, 26, revealed last week he had been diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and could no longer play.
Professor David Kelsell said Taylor's news and cheaper genetic testing would make others want to get checked out.
Footballer Fabrice Muamba suffers from a similar heart condition.
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Professor Kelsell, who carries out research funded by the British Heart Foundation, said: "After what's happened to James, people will want to know if they are at risk.
"Genetics is changing dramatically and we now have this ability to analyse everyone's genome quite cheaply.
"It could be that everyone's genome is analysed when they are young and it could be used to highlight conditions like ARVC.
"But, of course, even if someone tests positive it doesn't necessarily mean that the person will definitely develop the dangerous cardiac condition."
More than 60,000 people in the UK could be carrying the faulty gene which forced Taylor to retire, researchers have said.
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Professor of clinical cardiology, Sanjay Sharma is also the consultant cardiologist for the Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) sports cardiology clinic.
He explained the condition to BBC Radio 5 live:
The British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) also thinks the Taylor case will help to publicise the dangers of heart conditions among people who are fit and healthy.
Professor Clifford Garratt, vice president of the BCS, said: "There have been previous cases that have been well publicised, but not of this condition.
"Young athletes can have heart conditions, different from the more common coronary artery disease.
"They are just as serious, and in fact more serious."
Taylor, the son of former professional jockey Steve, made his first-class debut for Leicestershire against Worcestershire in April 2008 and joined Nottinghamshire before the 2012 season.
The batsman played the first of his seven Test matches for England against South Africa at Headingley in 2012. He averaged 26 and his top Test score was 76 against Pakistan in November 2015.
Taylor's one-day international debut came in 2011 against Ireland. He averaged 42.23 in 27 ODIs, scoring seven 50s and one century - 101 against Australia in September 2015.
At the time of his retirement, Taylor had the fourth-highest limited-overs average - including international and domestic matches - in history.
The fare system allows bus passengers to make an extra journey within an hour of touching in when using an Oyster card or contactless payment.
Previously, customers were obliged to pay £1.50 each time they boarded a bus.
The hopper-fare will "help ensure everyone will be able to afford to travel around the city," Mr Khan said.
It is scheduled to be introduced in September.
Mr Khan said: "My dad drove the number 44 bus and transport in London has always been a big part of my life.
"The cost of a fare in London has risen for eight years in a row and now that I'm mayor I am determined to prevent the cost of travel from becoming a barrier to work."
Transport for London said it did not have the technology to allow passengers to enjoy unlimited bus transfers within one hour but it was hoping to upgrade its ticketing technology in 2017 and possibly introduce unlimited timed fares by the end of 2018.
A single journey costs £1.50. London buses stopped accepting cash payments for fares in 2014 and it is only possible to buy a single ticket - or use a travelcard which covers multiple journeys in the same day.
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bus journeys made in the capital
600m
were pay as you go fares
86m people estimated to have made more than one trip per hour
Fare rises increased eight years in a row under Boris Johnson
by Tom Edwards, BBC London Transport correspondent
"It's Mayor Sadiq Khan's first big transport policy announcement and perhaps there is little surprise - that from the son of a bus driver - it involves buses.
From September, bus passengers who use Oyster and contactless will be able to change buses within one hour and only pay one fare.
Bus passengers - unlike tube passengers - at the moment have to pay every time they use a bus. With tube passengers the fare is decided by the zones. Many have said that is unfair.
The idea of a one hour "hopper" has been around for some time, it was part of the Liberal Democrats Mayoral manifesto in 2012 and Transport for London (Tfl) previously said a one-hour bus ticket will cost £50m a year.
There is also a statement of intent here from Tfl who have a new boss to impress and that is - it will deliver whatever the mayor wants. "
Kirsty Shepherd, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, said the Arriva driver told her she could not get on, even though there was enough room.
It came five days after the Supreme Court said bus drivers must be more accommodating to wheelchair users.
Arriva Buses said it was investigating "as a matter of urgency".
Ms Shepherd said the woman with the pushchair on the Rothwell to Wakefield bus was happy to move, but the driver still would not let her on.
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In the case that went to the Supreme Court, wheelchair user Doug Paulley took action against First Bus after he was refused entry to a bus in 2012 when a mother with a pushchair would not move.
The bus had a sign saying: "Please give up this space if needed for a wheelchair user."
The court found the company should do more to persuade non-wheelchair users to move from wheelchair spaces, but did not have the legal power to remove them.
Ms Shepherd said the Arriva driver told the passengers to get off, saying it was her fault the journey could not go on.
"He leant forward and said 'I can't let you on love, I've got a pushchair on'," she said.
"I said 'well please ask her to move'. He said 'I can't do that'.
The woman with the pushchair moved of her own accord but the driver still would not let Ms Shepherd on.
"The people on the bus started shouting saying 'just get the next bus, we've got homes to get to'," she said.
Ms Shepherd added that she spoke to the bus driver's manager, but he was still not willing to let her on board.
The service was then terminated at a bus stop and everyone got off, before the bus was put back into service some time later.
"He let the passengers get off and have a go at me... it was just not fair."
Arriva said: "Our customer service team have had extensive conversations with Ms Shepherd about the incident and we are investigating this as a matter of urgency.
"We are in the process of downloading the CCTV footage and speaking to those involved.
"We have promised to conclude this investigation swiftly."
Commenting on the case, Mr Paulley said he could not see why Ms Shepherd had been denied a bus journey.
He said: "On her bus there was a buggy space, so there were two separate spaces. When that lady [with the pushchair] moved into the buggy space that space was free and available, so I don't know why the driver didn't let her on."
He said he thought the Supreme Court ruling had gone far enough to help wheelchair users.
"I think some people would have liked it if it was more concrete," he said. "But there are always exceptional circumstances, so there has got to be some flexibility.
"I think also the Supreme Court justices went quite a long way to reach the decision that they did, and it has really raised awareness."
Figures from the DVLA also show more than 4.5 million of the 39 million people holding valid driving licences are aged over 70.
Older drivers are required to fill in a self-assessment every three years declaring they are medically fit to continue driving.
Research suggests the view that older drivers pose a danger is unfounded.
A Swansea University study in 2016 revealed drivers aged 70 are involved in three to four times fewer accidents than men aged between 17-21.
Professor Charles Musselwhite, from the Centre for Innovative Ageing, who undertook the study, said: "We've looked at those statistics in depth and we don't think that as a cohort older drivers are any more dangerous than other road users."
Ninety-four-year-old Myfanwy, from Leeds, said driving gave her independence.
"It's a wonderful benefit and you know I live at the bottom of two hills so I really have got to have transport.
"You need plenty of confidence to stay alert and your eyesight has got to be good."
The report of the independent Older Drivers' Taskforce, published in July 2016, said police records showed the risk of a driver aged over 70 killing a pedestrian was less than that of middle-age drivers, and half that of drivers aged up to age 25.
It did find, however, that older drivers have a reduced ability to judge speed and their vision, reaction times and skills declined with age.
That prompted 87-year-old Bob Barrett, from North Yorkshire, to take several driving refresher courses offered by his county council.
"I am getting older, my reactions are perhaps getting slower and I thought it was time," he said.
"I want to feel happier with my driving and that other people are happy with it too.
"Driving helps to keep my independence and I'd like to keep that as long as I can, so long as I can do it safely."
Officers have been given more time to quiz six women - aged 43, 21, 20, 19 and two aged 18 - on suspicion of terror offences.
This includes a woman who was shot in the raid in Willesden on 27 April.
Meanwhile, the police watchdog has revealed officers were not wearing body cameras when they shot the 21-year-old.
She was arrested on Sunday after she was discharged from hospital.
Ten people in total were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorist acts following the intelligence-led operation in Harlesden Road - six in north London, three in east London and one in Kent.
A 28-year-old woman who was arrested in the north London raid was released with no further action on Tuesday, Metropolitan Police said.
It is the second time this year armed officers in an operation that resulted in a shooting have not worn cameras.
No officers are under investigation, the police watchdog said.
Sarah Green, deputy chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said "Our investigators have been working hard over the last few days to secure evidence to help us understand the circumstances surrounding this incident.
"As well as gathering physical evidence and accounts from those officers involved, we are also looking to establish details around the planning of the operation and in particular the briefing provided to the officers prior to their deployment to the address."
In January, the Independent Police Complaints Commission disclosed that no officers had worn cameras during the operation which led to the fatal shooting of Yassar Yaqub, 28, on a slip-road off the M62 in west Yorkshire.
Last month, Simon Chesterman, the lead on armed policing for the National Police Chiefs' Council, said by the end of this year all uniformed firearms officers in England and Wales would have body-worn cameras.
He said they had already proved to be "invaluable" in cases where they had been used and armed officers "can't wait to get hold of them".
"They're falling over themselves to get hold of these cameras," he told a media briefing, adding that they would be fitted on an officer's cap or helmet.
But Mr Chesterman, deputy chief constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, said equipping covert firearms officers with body-worn cameras was a "major challenge" because of the undercover nature of their role.
"We're desperately keen to solve this - we've got nothing to hide," said Mr Chesterman.
EDF Energy wants to build Sizewell C next to an existing plant near Leiston.
It would take nine years, with most workers housed on a new local 'campus'. EDF also wants to create two park and ride sites, intended for construction staff, near the A12.
A public consultation is being held ahead of any formal planning application.
It said the principle of building a third nuclear plant on the Suffolk coast, immediately to the north of Sizewell B, had been accepted by government.
EDF said about 25,000 'employment opportunities' would be created, with 5,600 workers on site at the peak of construction.
Up to 3,000 construction workers would be housed either on a site off the B1122 near Eastbridge or next to the Sizewell Sports and Social Club.
Angela Piearce, EDF's head of Sizewell C development, said the impact on traffic was "a big concern locally".
A park and ride site for workers approaching from the north would be at either Yoxford, Darsham or the A144 junction, while a southern site would be at Wickham Market, Woodbridge or Bredfield.
Suffolk County Council and local parish councils have called for a bypass around four villages on the A12, but EDF said that is not part of its proposals going into the consultation.
Ms Piearce added: "We are offering to build a bypass or widen the A12 at Farnham, but our initial studies show a new road around the other villages (Little Glemham, Marlesford and Stratford St Andrew) wouldn't be justified by the development."
Rail links would be improved with either a new terminal on the existing line at King George's Avenue, Leiston or a new extension to the line heading through main construction area.
A lorry park would be built on the A14 near Ipswich at either the Seven Hills junction or next to the existing Orwell Crossing Lorry Park.
EDF said it was "key" for local people to take part in the consultation and give their preferred options.
The IHS Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index for the sector rose to 55.2, up from 54.5 the previous month and the highest figure since January.
A figure above 50 indicates that the sector is expanding.
IHS Markit said the service sector remained on a "firm growth path", with the UK economy "resiliently robust", despite uncertainty over Brexit.
The service sector accounts for about 80% of the UK economy. Combined with previous surveys of the manufacturing and construction sector, IHS Markit forecasts that the economy as a whole will grow by 0.5% in the last three months of 2016, the same rate as in the third quarter.
The survey found employment growth in the service sector hit the fastest pace since April.
However, business expectations for the next 12 months weakened, which IHS Markit said was due to "ongoing political uncertainty and inflationary pressures".
The fall in the value of the pound since the UK's vote to leave the EU has pushed up the price of imported goods.
IHS Markit said price inflation for goods bought by service sector firms eased last month but remained "sharp".
It said companies blamed inflationary pressures on "the weak sterling exchange rate driving up import costs such as food, higher fuel prices, international travel (again linked to exchange rates) and rising labour costs".
Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said: "Rising prices - often linked to the weaker pound - are a big concern, however, and suggest that inflation is set to lift higher.
"The past two months have seen the steepest rise in businesses' costs for over five-and-a-half years. These higher costs will inevitably feed through to consumers in the form of higher prices."
The spent rounds, discovered by a prisoner sorting through clothing at Littlehey Prison, near Huntingdon earlier this month, were handed to a guard by the inmate.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "They were quickly removed and there was no risk to the security of the prison."
An internal investigation is taking place.
Littlehey Prison, in the village of Perry, houses up to 1,206 adult male sex offenders and is a category C jail.
The ammunition cases were found in the pocket of a jacket in a supervised recycling workshop.
A Prison Service spokesman confirmed "two empty ammunition cases were discovered in a supervised sorting area at HMP Littlehey earlier this month".
He said the cases, which did not contain gunpowder or firing pins, were handed to workshop instructors.
All prisoners are "thoroughly searched" when they leave the shop, he added.
Textile recycling company LMB collects clothes from various locations, including supermarkets. Some are sent to prisons to be sorted by inmates.
Last July, an imitation hand gun was found at an LMB recycling workshop at Highpoint Prison near Haverhill, Suffolk.
A BB gun and a live bullet were found in a bed sheet at the same workshop in September.
Recycling was halted at both Highpoint and Littlehey prisons following the discoveries but is now running again, with items being checked before being handed to inmates.
The John Muir Trust and Borders Forest Trust want to purchase the Talla and Gameshope estate in the Borders.
It has been put on the open market with an asking price of £1.1m.
The two trusts said it was a "rare opportunity" but need to have money committed to the bid before making an offer in early March.
The estate covers 5,300 acres (2,150 hectares) and includes the summits of Great Hill, Molls Cleuch Dod, Carlavin Hill and Firthhope Rig.
It lies at the heart of the historic Ettrick Forest, which for centuries provided "a sanctuary for the dispossessed and a refuge for rogues and rebels".
Its earliest known history was as a royal hunting forest in the 12th century.
It also provided a stronghold for William Wallace and a battle ground for the Border Reivers.
Today, the trusts said it remained a relatively remote area but its formerly wild and natural qualities had been "largely tamed due to overgrazing".
John Hutchison, chairman of the John Muir Trust, said: "This is the finest area of wild land in the Scottish Borders.
"The scale of the hills and crags is breathtaking and yet it's highly accessible from central Scotland and the north of England.
"There are 12 magnificent hills over 600 metres in height as well as the magnificent valley of the Gameshope burn running from a high mountain plateau down to the Talla reservoir."
He said the area could be turned into a "flourishing mosaic of young woodlands and open hill tops" but it would need public support.
His counterpart with the Borders Forest Trust, John Hunt, said: "After centuries of overgrazing the land is seriously degraded in biological terms and there is huge potential for ecological restoration to bring back natural, more diverse vegetation and greatly enhanced wildlife.
"Talla and Gameshope lies at the heart of the historic Ettrick Forest and borders Carrifran Wildwood.
"Linking these properties would bring a large connected area under conservation management."
If the bid is successful the two organisations would work together to manage the property with the help of volunteers.
They believe the restoration could benefit "key wildlife" like the golden eagle, black grouse and rare mountain plants.
However, they must first secure major financial support if that vision is to become a reality and are seeking pledges of support towards the purchase.
Ipswich Hospital will stop the free service for patients attending clinical appointments from the end of the month, unless they meet assessment criteria.
A spokesperson said the hospital was following national guidelines.
Kevin McGrath, who attends three appointments a week, said: "This really is a matter of life and death."
He lives about a mile away from the hospital but is too weak to walk to his sessions, which last about four hours each.
Mr McGrath will be one of about 30 of the 100 or so renal dialysis patients which the hospital says will no longer receive free transport.
About 30 patients will continue to qualify through benefits and another 40 for medical reasons, such as being wheelchair bound, the hospital said.
Mr McGrath said he was concerned about other patients who have further to travel.
"We've got patients from Washbrook to Aldeburgh," he said. "If they're expected to fund their own taxis, people can't do it. They just can't afford it."
He has signed a petition calling for the hospital to reconsider the withdrawal of funding.
Catherine Morgan, associate director of nursing at Ipswich Hospital, said the hospital was following national Department of Health guidelines.
She said the hospital had to treat all patients equally.
"For renal patients, it's understandably a distressing and difficult situation," she said.
"However, there are a number of other groups, for example patients in the oncology department, who haven't had this service before and have to adhere to the national guidance.
"We're working really closely with patients, so if they feel they are unable to fund their own transport and they don't meet the clinical criteria for transport, we are helping them make appropriate claims.
"Patient safety is our biggest concern and we wouldn't knowingly put anyone's life at risk."
Michael Watson, director of information and advice at the Patients Association, said he was "deeply concerned" by the changes and called on the hospital to reconsider.
"I think they reflect a widespread problem within the NHS," he said.
"They're being asked to do more with less funding and less resources, and are struggling to even keep the services they offer at present."
Shortly after 21:00 GMT on Thursday, three masked men entered the premises close to the junction of Falls Road and Thames Street.
They shot the man twice in the right leg, at the back of the building.
He was taken to hospital where he is in a stable condition.
The three men were said to have been dressed in black and were wearing balaclavas. They escaped on foot along Thames Street.
Four events will be held inside the grounds of Windsor Castle between May 12 and 15, with members of the Royal Family due to attend each night.
The Queen will herself attend the last event, a theatrical show that will be broadcast live on TV.
The birthday events will feature more than 1,200 participants and 550 horses.
Performers will include singers - including Katherine Jenkins - musicians and dancers as well as actors, actresses and artists.
The event is also expected to celebrate her "dedication to the Commonwealth", with international performers due to come from New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, Oman, South Africa and Chile.
Event producer Simon Brooks-Ward, who was responsible for the Diamond Jubilee Pageant in Windsor, said there would be "a very happy and celebratory feel" to the event.
"We have been delighted with the level of response from funders and participants. It should be a very special and memorable occasion," he added.
Any proceeds from the event will be donated to a number of the Queen's charities, which will be selected by an advisory committee.
Zakariya Ashiq, 20, from Coventry, left the UK in November, but was forced to return after failing to cross the border from Jordan into Syria, the Old Bailey was told.
He was arrested at Heathrow airport on his way home on 20 November.
Mr Ashiq denies preparing acts of terrorism.
He has also pleaded not guilty to assisting other people to take part in terrorist acts.
The prosecution said exchanges found on his mobile phone revealed he appealed to two friends for help in crossing the border.
Sarah Whitehouse QC said the friends, also from Coventry, were believed to have previously travelled to Syria.
The court heard that in one conversation recorded on the WhatsApp messaging service Mr Ashiq said to them: "Oh, seriously man, just get me there, man... I don't know how you gonna get me, but you have to get me across."
In other messages he wrote "there's no life, no life without Jihad" and pledged to do "Ishtishadi (martyrdom) against... all these people", the jury was told.
The trial heard Mr Ashiq declared his admiration online for Islamic State, as well as searching for phrases such as "IS beheading journalist" and "44 ways to support Jihad".
Ms Whitehouse said it was not the first time the defendant had attempted to reach Syria.
In March 2014, he was stopped along with his father at Birmingham Airport, but said he was planning to visit Turkey and some refugee camps on the border.
After the two fell out the defendant returned home on 20 May, the trial heard.
Two months later he missed a flight because he was talking to police. He told officers he was intending to go to Corfu.
When he was arrested in November, Mr Ashiq, of Station Road, told officers that any messages which suggested he supported IS were simply to "wind people up".
The trial continues.
Brian Reader, 76, who admits being involved in the burglary, used the Freedom Pass to make his way into central London on the night of 2 April.
Valuables worth up to £14m were taken in the Easter weekend raid.
Three men deny conspiracy to commit burglary. A fourth denies conspiracy to conceal or transfer criminal property.
Woolwich Crown Court heard Freedom Pass records show Reader boarded the 96 bus from near his home in Dartford, before exiting Waterloo East station at about 18:30 BST.
Det Con Matthew Hollands told court the travelcard was found in Reader's wallet after his arrest.
Asked if the card was in Reader's name, the detective replied: "It is not, no. It is in the name of Mr T McCarthy. It does not have Brian Reader's photo on it."
Reader decided to withdraw from England's "largest burglary" when the men struggled to get into the vault on the first night, the court previously heard.
The court also heard evidence from Det Con Jamie Day, the first Flying Squad officer to arrive on the scene, who said one of those involved, a mystery red-haired burglar identified only as Basil, seemed to have got into the building using a key.
The only working CCTV camera in the building caught footage of a white van, driven by Collins, arriving in the area at about 20:30 BST before two men wearing high-visibility vests got out.
A second clip showed "Basil" allowing access to the building via a fire escape from the inside.
Shortly afterwards other men could be seen entering the building carrying tools, wheelie bins and other equipment.
During the hearing an "exact" polystyrene replica of the 25cm by 45cm (10x18 ins) hole the raiders drilled through the vault wall was presented to the jurors.
Prosecutor Philip Evans told the court: "I must point out it says it's for visual purposes only, do not attempt to climb inside."
The trial continues.
Defendants and charges
Previously John Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington; Daniel Jones, 58, of Park Avenue, Enfield; Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield and Reader, of Dartford Road, Dartford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
They will be sentenced at a later date.
The complex - which hosts shops, restaurants and a cinema - opened in October 2009 at a cost of £275m.
A proposal of application notice has been submitted to Aberdeen City Council.
The plans are for a new retail and leisure space, as well as additional parking and a hotel.
The existing shopping centre would also be expanded.
General Manager Ryan Manson said: "Since opening its doors in 2009, Union Square has firmly established itself not only as a central part of Aberdeen city centre, but also a leading name in Scottish retail.
"We have consistently brought new and exciting brands to customers in the north east and the proposed expansion plans will allow us to continue to do so in future."
The crash happened at the junction of Camberwell Road and Albany Road in Camberwell just after midday.
The cyclist, who has not been named but is believed to be in his 60s, died at the scene.
His death is the sixth cycling fatality on London's roads in two weeks and the 14th death so far in 2013. HGVs were involved in nine of the fatal crashes.
In a separate incident, a cyclist was injured in a collision with a lorry in Camden High Street, close to Camden Town Tube station, just after 16:00 GMT, a spokesman for London Ambulance Service (LAS) said.
"Our staff treated one patient, an adult male, for a minor head injury. He is being taken to St Mary's Hospital by ambulance," LAS said.
The five other cyclists who died between Tuesday 5 November and 13 November are Brian Holt, 62; Francis Golding, 69; Roger William De Klerk, 43; Venera Minakhmetova, 24, and a 21-year-old man from St John's Wood whose name has not been released by police.
The number of cyclists killed so far in crashes in London this year is the same as the figure for the whole of 2012.
The fatality came as Metropolitan Police traffic officers gave road safety advice to cyclists and more than 70 lorry drivers at Vauxhall Bridge Road, Whitechapel High Street and Albert Embankment.
More than 100 cyclists were stopped at Vauxhall Bridge Road over "concerns about their behaviour" such as cutting corners or wearing headphones while riding.
Cyclists are also being encouraged to wear a helmet and a high-visibility jacket.
Assistant Commissioner Simon Byrne said all 2,500 officers from Traffic and Safer Transport Commands were now being deployed to speak to all road users.
"Our activity will be targeted at all road users, during morning and evening rush hours, who are using our roads dangerously, without consideration or care, to reinforce the point that we all have a duty to be safe on our roads," he said.
"Each and every death is a needless tragedy, the human cost of which should never be forgotten."
The latest death took place in the Southwark Council area where its leader, Peter John, has previously called for HGVs to be banned during rush hour to protect cyclists.
2010: 10 deaths, four involving HGVs
2011: 16 deaths, 12 involving HGVs
2012: 14 deaths, five involving HGVs
2013 so far: 14 deaths, nine involving HGVs
Source: TfL
On Monday Mr John said that while a ban on HGVs in rush hour "would not have prevented this tragic death", the incident, he said, would make him more determined to "to work with politicians across London to make our roads safer for cyclists".
The driver of the lorry involved in the latest crash stopped at the scene, police said.
Following the latest fatality, chief executive of the London Cycling Campaign, Ashok Sinha, told BBC London that Mayor Boris Johnson needed to address the issue of safety of cyclists "as a matter of urgency".
"We are in a situation where we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths in such a short period of time."
The campaign group has been calling for the adoption of continental or Dutch-style cycling provisions in the capital, but Mr Sinha said transport bosses have said that would slow down the traffic flow.
"In dangerous junctions in London safety has to be prioritised even if it means adding a few seconds to the journey times.
"Junctions are the greatest danger points in London."
Danny Williams, a cycling blogger who also sits on the Mayor's Roads Task Force, said: "People have moved from being sort of starting to get angry to getting incredibly angry and now they are scared."
Green Party London Assembly Member Jenny Jones tweeted: "6 cyclists dead in 14 days - stop blaming victims & fix the big problems. Get HGVs off roads at rush hour."
Leon Daniels, managing director for surface transport at Transport for London, said: "Our deepest sympathies go out to the family and friends of the male cyclist who tragically died after a collision with an HGV which was turning left at the Camberwell Road junction with Albany Street.
"Cycling in London is growing, with almost double the number of cycle journeys on main roads in the capital than 10 years ago.
"We are investing heavily in our cycling programme and our aim is to make cycling as safe as possible, with measures such as improved cycle routes and junctions across London."
Rad Wagon organised the knitting of 2,000 miniature jerseys which were hung in the streets for Monday's race.
"We've had requests for them from as far away as the USA so we've asked people to donate to charities. It'll be another great Tour legacy," he said.
Funds will go to Jimmy's, You Can Bike Too and Marie Curie.
Cycling instructor and non-knitter Mr Wagon was inspired to create the knitted bunting after seeing a similar project in Yorkshire.
More than 400 people took up their needles to knit over 2,000 miniature jerseys in Tour de France colours.
In addition, primary school pupils helped decorate some of the 40 wool-covered bicycle wheels hung along the route in Cambridge.
The bunting was taken down on Wednesday, and Mr Wagon and friends have been busy dealing with requests from individuals and organisations keen to have some.
"Almost everyone used their own materials, lots of wool was donated and everyone gave their time for free so of course we said they could have their jerseys back," Mr Wagon said.
"Then we started getting requests from people who had seen the bunting on television and the internet and wanted some as souvenirs because it looked so great.
"We picked our charities and have asked people if they would like to donate something. We're not selling it as such, just asking people if they'd like to help these causes."
Since publicising that on his CamBunting website, Mr Wagon said many of those who knitted the bunting had pledged donations as well.
"I'm humbled by the enthusiasm and fun exuded by everyone," he added.
News agencies, including Reuters and Bloomberg, reported that Delta Air Lines was the interested party according to unnamed sources.
Billionaire Richard Branson holds a controlling 51% of Virgin.
A partnership with Virgin would allow US-based Delta to access the lucrative transatlantic business travellers market between the US and London.
Singapore Air bought its 49% stake in Virgin in 2000 for about £551m ($884m). Since then Singapore Air has injected further capital into Virgin and now values its total investment at £600.25m.
Singapore Air said in a brief statement that it was "in discussions with interested parties" to possibly divest its shareholding, but did not name the potential buyers.
It added that the talks may or may not lead to a transaction.
Delta, the second-biggest US airline, has been looking to buy into Virgin for more than two years, as it looks to increase its access to London's Heathrow airport.
Virgin is the second-biggest airline at Heathrow airport, where landing slots are hard to acquire.
Virgin has also been looking for investors, hiring Deutsche Bank in 2010 to look into its options.
No relation to Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, the name is given to the August full moon.
It is believed to originate from early Native American tribes who named it because sturgeon fish are readily caught in North America's Great Lakes during this month.
This year's Sturgeon Moon was at its peak in the UK at 19:10 on Monday.
Other tribal names for the August full moon are the Green Corn Moon and the Grain Moon.
The September full moon is commonly known as the Harvest Moon
Traditional names for other full moons include the Strawberry Moon in June, Wolf Moon in January and Worm Moon in March.
As former chief of the KGB intelligence agency's Directorate S, which managed the illegals programme, Drozdov knew more than most about what it took to prepare someone for the task.
He had to train Soviet agents to talk, think and act, even subconsciously, like the regular American, Brit, German or Frenchman they would become from the moment they touched down on foreign soil.
KGB agents in the US and elsewhere would wander around cemeteries in search of children who had died that would have been a similar age as recruits being trained. It was a useful way to steal a real identity in a pre-internet age.
A detailed "legend", or biography, would be devised, and a birth certificate printed. Churches would be paid off to erase the death record.
It was expensive, painstaking work. Some would-be illegals were trained for years, but ultimately judged unsafe to deploy.
Speaking Russian in one's sleep was grounds for a promising recruit to be dismissed.
Drozdov died on 21 June at 91 years of age. It was the end of the life of a man who spent decades in the upper echelons of the KGB and carved out a legendary reputation from his time heading one of the most secretive and infamous programmes in Soviet intelligence.
Unlike "legal" spies, who were posted abroad under diplomatic or other official cover, illegals were on their own - working normal jobs, living in suburbs and operating without the diplomatic immunity enjoyed by other agents should they be caught.
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In a 2010 interview, Drozdov described a pair of illegals - a man and a woman - deployed to the US via West Germany and posing as a couple.
"When I worked in New York, I would sometimes come around their house. I would drive past, look up at their windows," he told the Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper.
But he didn't go inside - the risks being too great for such face-to-face meetings. There should be "no contact with illegals", he said. "None."
Information gathered by these "deep cover" agents was funnelled back to handlers through clandestine means - including dead-drops, by radio, or covert meetings abroad.
Announcing Drozdov's death, the cause of which was not specified, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, described him as "a true Russian officer, a decent man, a wise commander".
But much remains unknown about his life and operations he was part of, the details hidden in Russian security archives.
Drozdov was "a legend" in the KGB First Chief Directorate, and still is considered as such in the SVR, says Mark Galeotti, a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague and an expert on Russian security affairs.
His father was in the Bolshevik worker militias known as the Red Guards and he served in the Second World War as an artilleryman.
Graduating from the Military Institute for Languages, a key finishing school for Soviet spies, Drozdov joined the KGB in 1956.
Rudolf Abel, the most famous illegal, was arrested in New York in 1957 and later famously exchanged with the USSR in return for the captured US pilot Gary Powers on a Berlin bridge in 1962.
Yuri Drozdov, then a young KGB agent based in East Germany, helped organise the swap, the subject of Steven Spielberg's 2016 thriller Bridge of Spies.
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Later, in 1975, after a stint in China, he became the "rezident" - or chief KGB officer - at the Soviet Union's UN office in New York, before taking up his position as head of Directorate S in Moscow four years later. After retiring in 1991, he ran a consulting firm.
The Bridge of Spies episode was not the first time Drozdov would be on the ground for a key moment in Cold War history.
In December 1979, he led KGB forces that stormed the Afghan presidential palace toppling President Hafizullah Amin, paving the way for the Soviet invasion.
"This was a guy who spanned the ultra-cerebral world of the spymaster and the action man world of Spetsnaz [special forces]," Mr Galeotti says.
He would later, in 1981, instigate the creation of a new KGB special forces unit called Vympel.
Drozdov's penchant for "hands-on" work is clear. "I would not give top marks to Nato's Special Forces, nor to the American system of training," he said in a 2011 interview. "What they do is try to carry out their special operations without 'getting their hands dirty', and that, to my mind, is a rather dubious business."
He also described caches of equipment hidden in "a number of countries" for sleeper agents to use behind enemy lines in the event of a crisis.
"Whether they are still there [or not], let that be a headache for foreign intelligence services," he said.
Much remains secret about the illegals programme, including the number of people involved. It is estimated that hundreds may have been planted in total by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Vadim Alekseevich Kirpichenko, Yuri Drozdov's predecessor at the top of Directorate S, described them as agents "artificially created by us", who return to Russia after years of covert service abroad and often speak their native language with an accent.
What recruiters looked for in an illegal was "bravery, focus, a strong will, the ability to quickly forecast various situations, hardiness to stress, excellent abilities for mastering foreign languages, good adaptation to completely new conditions of life, and knowledge of one or several professions that provide an opportunity to make a living," he told the journalist Konstantin Kapitonov, according to the online Espionage History Archive.
But other traits, "ones that are elusive and hard to transmit into words, a special artistry", are also required to be able to forget one's identity and become someone else.
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While the deployment of deep-cover agents to try and obtain information and get close to powerful people makes much less sense in today's digital world, the demise of the Soviet Union did not signal the end of the illegals programme - and Drozdov's legacy lives on to some extent.
In 2010 a group of 10 Russian "sleeper agents" were arrested in New York. Some lived as couples and had grown-up children.
The story inspired hit US TV show The Americans, which portrays the life of a Russian spy couple working as travel agents in American suburbia by day and setting honey traps and assassinating people by night.
The group caught in real-life have been mocked for their ineptitude, however, and were reported not to have actually obtained any secrets.
They were later swapped with Russia for four Russian nationals said to have worked for Western intelligence.
But other alleged modern-day illegals have popped up elsewhere, including in Spain.
"It's certainly a diminishing aspect [of Russian spycraft]," says Mr Galeotti, "but obviously where you have people already in place, unless you have a reason to do so, you leave them there just in case."
Reid joined Wolves from Wrexham for an undisclosed fee in September 2013 but has yet to make a first team appearance for the Championship club.
The 20-year-old was on loan at Wrexham at the end of the 2013-14 season and spent a month at Telford last season.
Wrexham have also extended the loan of striker Gerry McDonagh until January.
The 18-year-old Nottingham Forest player joined on a initial one-month loan earlier in August.
Fellow striker Michael Bakare suffered a hamstring injury in Saturday's 0-0 draw at home to Eastleigh while Jordan White remains sidelined with a blood disorder.
Meanwhile coach Mark Creighton has left the club with immediate effect.
The former defender returned to the Racecourse in the summer but has left "to pursue other opportunities."
"I've loved working with both Gary Mills and Darren Caskey, they're great guys who are desperate to do well for Wrexham and see the club back into the Football League," Creighton said.
"It's been a great experience working with them and the players, and I hope I have contributed, even though my most recent spell at the Racecourse has been brief.
Schools where over 40% of pupils are eligible for free meals will lose most, say National Union of Teachers and Child Poverty Action Group researchers.
Ministers should rethink the national funding formula, which is due to begin in 2018-19, they say.
The government says the proposals will end a "postcode lottery" in funding.
The plans, announced late last year, will change the way that per pupil funding for schools is allocated and will mean a cash boost for more than half of schools, according to the government.
The aim is to stop inequalities that see schools in different parts of England, with similar intakes, receive different levels of per-pupil budget, say ministers.
But the overall budget will not increase, and education unions have already complained the proposals mean most schools will lose out, against a background of flat-lining budgets not keeping pace with costs.
Calculations, published in January by an alliance of six unions representing school staff, suggested that 98% of schools faced "a real terms funding cut for every pupil".
The six unions - the National Union of Teachers, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the National Association of Head Teachers, Unison, Unite and the GMB, said this would mean an average annual loss of £339 for every primary pupil and £477 for every secondary pupil.
The new analysis compares the predicted funding changes for schools generally with those for 997 schools with more than 40% of pupils on free school meals.
The figures suggest that funding for these schools would fall:
Child Poverty Action Group chief executive Alison Garnham called the figures "shocking".
"If the country - and our education system - is to work for everyone, not just the privileged few, ministers must reconsider the school funding formula," she said.
"Poverty at home is the strongest statistical predictor of how well a child will do at school, [but] schools and teachers can help to weaken that link if they have sufficient resources."
Ms Garnham said funding cuts in the poorest areas would set children up to fail.
"In the context of the prime minister's social justice agenda, that outcome looks perverse," she added.
NUT general secretary Kevin Courtney said it was disturbing that children in most need were in the worst affected schools.
By failing to fund the poorest children's schools properly, the government would be "seriously threatening their life chances", he said.
"Justine Greening must listen to the many voices that are saying her funding proposals are unfair in the extreme and in need of a complete rethink," said Mr Courtney.
But a Department for Education spokeswoman called the analysis "fundamentally misleading".
"Our proposed new funding formula recognises educational disadvantage in its widest sense, including pupils who do not necessarily benefit from the pupil premium but whose families may be only just about managing," she said.
"It also increases the total funding directed specifically to deprived pupils to £3bn.
"The union's figures ignore the fact that school funding is driven by pupil numbers, and as pupil numbers rise, the amount of money schools receive will also increase."
His previous victory was rejected by the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, sparking a civil war which killed 3,000 people.
Mr Ouattara's closest challenger, Pascal Affi N'Guessan, got 9%. He is an ally of Mr Gbagbo who faces trial at the International Criminal Court.
Several candidates withdrew from the poll, saying it was not free and fair.
However, on Monday US election observers said the election was credible.
Mr Ouattara required more than 50% of the vote to avoid a run-off.
The 55% turnout was sharply down compared to 80% in 2010.
The last elections sparked five months of violence when Mr Gbagbo refused to step down.
He is now in The Hague, where his trial on war crimes charges, which he denies, has been put back to 28 January 2016.
After two civil wars, most of the country will simply be happy these elections passed by peacefully.
Relatively low voter turnout may concern the president but he clearly has support from all corners of the country as he won in 30 out of 31 regions.
His strongest support lies in the north, where he won close to 100% of the vote in some areas.
The scale of that victory may raise some eyebrows.
But those opposed to Mr Ouattara may simply have decided not to vote after three candidates dropped out of the race.
They cited a lack of transparency, a claim that was not backed up by a heavy presence of election observers who declared the elections free and fair.
While President Ouattara has been praised for transforming the economy and returning Ivory Coast to the economic success story it was in the 1970s, he has also been criticised for not doing enough for reconciliation and justice.
When I interviewed Mr Ouattara before the elections, he said these issues would be his priorities if wins a second term.
Daniel Entwistle was last seen on CCTV at a shop in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 3 May 2003.
His bike was found near Trinity Quay, sparking a harbour and river search.
Daniel's father David was found dead at his home at Lowestoft in Suffolk on Wednesday. Police said his death was not suspicious.
The coroner has been informed and a post-mortem examination will be carried out to ascertain what caused Mr Entwistle's death.
He and his estranged wife Paula had been involved in several campaigns to find Daniel.
The much-travelled 42-year-old will be assisted by Matt Bishop.
Bishop, formerly number two to Dean Holdsworth at Aldershot, currently works for the Football Association as a coach educator.
"I'm very proud to have been appointed as manager of Hereford FC and cannot wait to get started," said Beadle.
"It will come as no surprise to people when I say that Edgar Street has a special place in my heart
"Matt and I are hugely excited by the journey that lies ahead and, although we are under no illusions about the challenges we will face in our new roles, we have no doubt that we are the right people to take this club forward.
"We have a lot of work to do between now and the start of the league season in August because we are going to be putting a squad together from scratch. However, with our contacts, we believe we can put a squad together that Hereford FC supporters deserve."
Beadle's appointment came only after a five-week selection process that went to a round of second interviews.
Hereford FC football director Martin Watson added: "This is an extremely important decision for the club and one that we have taken a lot of time over.
"However, we felt that the way Peter Beadle and Matt Bishop intend to work together as a team offered us the best possible chance of achieving the targets we are setting in terms of climbing up the leagues."
The club have already been granted a lease to play their future home games at Edgar Street, but it has not yet been ratified in which league they will play next season.
The two sites combined are more than double the size of the energy giant's operations in the UK.
The two farms will be off the coast of Massachusetts and North Carolina, and are expected to start generating power by 2022 and 2025 respectively.
The company refused to say how much it had paid to win the bids for two sites.
Thousands of jobs are expected to come from the development of the wind farms.
Keith Anderson, Scottish Power's chief corporate officer, said the firm's success was evidence of the UK industry's export potential.
"We as a country are seen to be the leaders in this type of technology. It's great to be creating opportunities and developing skills in the UK, but also to see these being exported.
Mr Anderson said the "huge amount of land" in the US had made "colossal wind farms possible onshore".
"The cost differential between onshore and offshore was so large that a lot of people never thought that America would be interested. But now we're staring to see the process pick up speed as the cost of offshore wind comes down," he added.
Suarez was booked twice in Tuesday's 1-1 semi-final second-leg draw against Atletico Madrid.
His second yellow, for catching Koke in the head late on, is the one they will appeal against.
The club are also contesting Sergio Busquets' yellow card for kicking the ball off the pitch when there were two footballs on the field.
However, the midfielder is free to play in the final regardless of the appeal result.
Barca ended the game with nine men, with Sergi Roberto earlier sent off for two bookings.
Of his own red card, Suarez told Gol TV: "I'm laughing at that second yellow card, it's not even a foul.
"I did absolutely nothing. It was what he [Koke] wanted."
Meanwhile, defender Javier Mascherano suffered a left thigh injury in the same game, with the club saying they did not know how long he might be out for.
During weekly questions at Westminster Mr Cameron said "no one is keener on agreement" than he was.
But in a letter to Nicola Sturgeon, the PM said he was disappointed, adding that the Scottish government "need to be prepared to move towards us".
Finance Secretary John Swinney said he would not sign up to a "damaging" deal.
The Holyrood and Westminster governments are locked in talks over a financial deal to underpin new devolved powers.
Mr Cameron told MPs he was keen to complete the "very important piece of devolution" in a fair way for Scotland and the rest of the UK, after SNP group leader Angus Robertson warned that "time is running out" for a deal.
Talks over the fiscal framework have been going on for several months, and are yet to be resolved. The Scottish government is set to submit a further proposal.
Holyrood's devolution committee wants a quick conclusion to the matter so any deal can be discussed in the Scottish Parliament before it is dissolved on 23 March ahead of elections in May.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote to the prime minister earlier in the week outlining parts of the Scottish government's case over the "no detriment" principle.
The Smith Commission on further powers said any deal should not impact adversely on Scotland or the rest of the UK, but Ms Sturgeon said the Treasury seemed instead to be trying to decide "what level of detriment that Scotland should bear".
At prime minister's questions, Mr Robertson claimed the plans as they stand could cost Scotland £3bn, and said time was running out to deliver a fair deal.
Mr Cameron responded that the deal struck needed to be fair for taxpayers across the UK as well as north of the border.
In his reply to Ms Sturgeon, Mr Cameron underlined his commitment to "securing an agreement between our governments", but warned that the Scottish government would need to be ready to compromise.
He said: "We have consistently listened to your concerns, put a number of alternatives on the table and moved substantially towards you; you will need also to be prepared to move towards us.
"In the interest of reaching an agreement, we tabled a significant new proposal that would see the Scottish government retain all growth in Scottish taxes plus a share of the growth in corresponding taxes from the rest of the UK."
Addressing the matters raised by Ms Sturgeon in her letter, Mr Cameron said: "We will not accept any proposals that would diverge systematically from the taxpayer fairness element of the Smith Agreement principle of 'no detriment'.
"It would be very difficult for me to explain to taxpayers in the rest of the UK that Scotland will stop paying income tax into the central pot yet somehow still receive a share of it."
During prime minister's questions earlier in the day, Mr Cameron said he wanted to "successfully complete this very important piece of devolution in a fair way".
He said: "There's an ongoing negotiation to reach a fair settlement, and I would say to the Scottish first minister and the Scottish finance minister they have to recognise there has to be fairness across the rest of the UK too.
"With goodwill, I can tell you that no-one is keener on agreement than me.
"I want the SNP, here and in Holyrood, to have to start making decisions. Which taxes are you going to raise, what are you going to do with benefits?
"I want to get rid of this grievance agenda and let you get on with a governing agenda, so we can see what you're made of."
Scottish Secretary David Mundell told MPs that the Scottish and UK governments are "within touching distance" of a fiscal framework deal.
Labour's Ian Murray had claimed that tennis star Andy Murray's newborn daughter could win Wimbledon before a deal is done.
However, Mr Mundell welcomed Ms Sturgeon's letter to Mr Cameron as good progress on the matter, saying: "We are within touching distance of striking a deal and I remain optimistic that we will do so."
During portfolio questions at Holyrood, Scottish finance secretary John Swinney said he remained "committed" to the discussions.
He said: "I don't think anyone could question the amount of time and energy and commitment I have put in to trying to resolve these questions.
"What I want to make clear is that we have a very difficult discussion to have to resolves the differences of opinion we have on the 'no detriment' principle.
"I am committed to continuing these discussions to come to an outcome which is fair to the people of Scotland, and fair to the people of the rest of the UK - which the no detriment principle is.
"What the Scottish government will not sign up to is a mechanism which is damaging to the people of Scotland."
A spokesman for Mr Swinney said Mr Cameron's letter was "deeply disappointing", saying it "completely fails to engage with the central point" of Ms Sturgeon's letter.
He said: "We will put a further proposal to the UK government this week that will meet in full the principles of the Smith Commission and which no government seeking to secure a deal based on the principles of Smith could reject.
"If the UK government is not able to reach an agreement which respects that core principle of no detriment, it would be crystal clear that they have no intention of honouring the Vow or the Smith Commission. We sincerely hope that's not the case."
Thousands of children are thought to have been taken since the 1930s.
The announcement came after meetings between Spanish authorities and a group from the European Parliament.
Ruth Appleby, who thinks her daughter may have been stolen, described the announcement as a "turning point".
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The fact-finding mission, led by MEP Jude Kirton-Darling from the European Parliament's Petitions Committee, was triggered by 53-year-old Ms Appleby, from Catterick Garrison.
She was told her daughter died after she gave birth while living in La Coruna in 1992 but later learnt thousands of Spanish babies were taken and given up for adoption.
When she had her daughter's remains exhumed in order to bring them back to the UK in 2010 she said the skeleton she saw in the coffin appeared to be that of a much older infant.
Her case was referred to the Spanish authorities after she reported it to police, but she was unhappy with their handling of it and petitioned the European Parliament.
She said: "This meeting in Madrid feels like a bit of a turning point, it feels like there's real progress being made for the first time."
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Ms Kirton-Darling said: "The commitment that we have had is that the Catholic Church is willing to work with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice to pool all of their archives so families will be able to search for documents they could not previously find.
"In the case of Ruth I think this is a real leap forward.
"[By raising her case] we can already see it is feeding back in terms of the legal process and I'm very hopeful that she will be able to take her case forward having thought previously that all legal avenues were closed."
A number of homes in Enagh were evacuated following the discovery of the device.
It was found in the Westlake housing development at about 07:00 BST on Tuesday morning.
Army bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion and have removed the device for examination. Police said they were keeping an open mind as to the motive for the attack.
Chief Inspector John Burrows said: "Clearly the family are in shock, they're traumatised. The rest of the community, including some very vulnerable people who were disrupted this morning, are traumatised and fearful.
"The device was viable, the Army technical officer confirmed it could have functioned and any explosive device like that is capable of causing serious injury."
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Cavell Hutson, of Islington, north London, was eventually arrested but his accomplice evaded capture.
Huston rode a moped while his partner took phones out of their owner's hands from the pillion passenger seat.
The 21 year old pleaded guilty to several offences and was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court to more than three years in prison on 3 October.
Hutson, of Highbury New Park, was charged with theft, driving without a licence or insurance, breaching a Criminal Behaviour order.
The pair were tracked by police as they drove through five London boroughs taking mobile phones from unsuspecting pedestrians.
CCTV footage captured the moment the pair grabbed a woman's phone from her hand as they rode past.
Helicopter footage later shows the pair riding through Kingsland Market in Hackney as people dive out of the way.
The accomplice jumps off the moped and runs off through the market stalls before Hutson abandons the moped and tries to escape on foot before being arrested.
The owners of all 21 of the phones were identified had their property returned.
One, Adam Scholes, 31, told the Islington Gazette he was amazed at the speed with which his phone was stolen.
"I was under a cafe canopy checking the way back to the Tube," he told the newspaper.
"I had my back to them and it was the slickest most professional thing. It was just 'bang' and they were gone. They mounted the kerb but hardly even slowed down.
"It was totally surreal. The speed at which they took the phone was incredible. Even if I reacted they were far too quick."
For fairly obvious reasons, neither MI5 or their detective counterparts give the public a daily briefing on what they are up to - but their work surfaces every time there is an arrest.
The latest quarterly statistics from the government show how much the picture has changed in little over four years since Syria began its slide into chaos.
In the year to the end of March, 299 people were arrested for terrorism-related offences - up a third on the previous year and, crucially, the highest number since the government began formally collecting data since 2001.
Provisional police figures for arrests in the year to 1 July indicate that formal record has already been surpassed by reaching 372.
Arrests initially began to rise after 9/11 as the security services began to shift resources from Northern Ireland (as its peace process moved slowly forwards) towards identifying al-Qaeda-inspired extremists.
Within a few years there were a series of arrest spikes as major bomb plots were foiled - and then a substantial jump in the wake of the 7/7 London attacks. That year had been the highest on record, with 284 arrests, until today.
The trend then began to fall as the threat from al-Qaeda-inspired extremism appeared to decline. Its leadership was on the back foot - many of them detained, dead or in hiding - and increasingly struggling to maintain contact with would-be recruits in the West.
Back here in the UK, we were still witnessing one or two very serious court cases a year involving substantial allegations of plots to bomb and kill.
The two most serious cases led to the only terrorism murders the UK has suffered since 7/7 - Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich and Muslim grandfather Mohammed Saleem, killed in the street by a neo-Nazi who then tried to bomb three mosques.
Syria has changed everything.
When the jihadists began moving into Syria - and their would-be recruits began arriving from the West - the arrests began to rise.
Just over 18 months ago, the Crown Prosecution Service made clear that anyone joining Syria's conflict risked prosecution because the UK's definition of terrorism includes acts of violence committed overseas. And the figures have shown how that policy has since been pursued.
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Not everyone who is arrested in a terrorism-related investigation is held under the special laws that allow detention without charge for 14 days. In 2006, almost all terrorism arrests were under this power which, at the time, allowed detention for 28 days. Today, four-fifths of arrests are under standard police powers which typically require charge or release within 24 hours.
However, that is not the whole story. While the number of people held under Terrorism Act arrest powers has fallen, the time they are being held has crept up again. In 2013/15 just one person was held for more than seven days, In the last year, 21 people were held for more than a week. Fifteen of them were subsequently charged. That's the highest proportion of people detained for more than seven days since 2001.
Typically, about four out of every 10 arrests lead to a charge - although last year the rate moved up to 55%. The Home Office expects the arrest/charge ratio to rise in the coming months.
This lag between arrest and charge is down to the nature of many of today's investigations. Many are specifically related to travel to Syria or radicalisation or incitement of others and charging decisions in these cases often involve complex and lengthy analysis of social media trails.
So it's not uncommon for someone to be arrested, see their phone data copied, and then to be bailed while police investigate without the added pressure of a custody clock ticking away on the desk.
The outcomes of those prosecutions can be quite complex to break down because, in some cases, a trial can take a year to go before a jury.
But of the 35 people tried in the year to March, 33 of them were convicted - and 31 of those were specifically for offences under terrorism legislation.
This prosecution data will change very rapidly in the coming weeks because there are at least a dozen major prosecutions due to come before juries before the new Year. Almost all of these cases involve allegations of links one way or another to Syria.
Two final thoughts about the data that has come out today that says something about the long-term trend.
The BBC's unique public database which tracks the Britons who have gone to Syria specifically to join jihadist fighting is a sea of very young faces - and quite a few women too - and the arrest data back home backs that up.
The proportion of those being arrested in the UK who are women has been slowly rising since 9/11. In the decade after figures began to be collected, around 7% of all those held were female - a figure that has now notched up to 12%. The 35 women held in the last year is the highest figure on record and a great deal of that is down to allegations of travel to Syria - or assisting others.
On age, while there has been an increase in arrests across all age groups, except those in their late 20s, the average age has been falling. The number of 18 to 20-year-olds arrested has more than doubled from 20 to 43.
This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who has been following how the internet is changing how we understand and react to global events.
The original revolutionary jihadist creed of 20 years ago, and its transmission, greatly relied on personal contacts and experience, kinship and study circles.
Friendship will also have a fundamental role in radicalisation - but the ideological message that underpins today arrives, unmediated, in the smartphones of the young.
Bangladesh lost Imrul Kayes in the third over, before Tamim Iqbal made his third century against England and put on 170 with Mominul Haque (66).
But Moeen Ali took 5-57 and Ben Stokes an influential 2-13 as the hosts lost their final nine wickets in 22 overs.
England, 1-0 up in the two-Test series, lost three quick wickets to spin and were 50-3 when rain ended play early.
Bangladesh got within 23 runs of their 286 target in the magnificent first Test in Chittagong, but their afternoon batting display equals the second-worst collapse by a team who had already scored in excess of 170 for the loss of only one wicket.
Having taken 20 balls to get off the mark, the normally aggressive Tamim needed only 40 more to reach fifty, before bringing up three figures in 139 deliveries for his eighth Test century.
The 27-year-old left-hander was quick to seize upon anything short and carved some loose deliveries from Chris Woakes to hit three boundaries in an over.
His footwork was also extremely nimble and he advanced down the wicket to strike two more fours in the next, the first in Test cricket by debutant slow left-armer Zafar Ansari.
Such was England's desperation to dismiss him they wasted an lbw review with a Moeen delivery that appeared to be clearly bouncing over.
When the umpire's finger was finally raised, to a leg-side catch behind that even bowler Stokes was unimpressed with, the opener's immediate review showed the ball had brushed his shirt.
Having played such a variety of attacking shots it was a surprise when he padded up to Moeen - a dismissal which precipitated Bangladesh's collapse.
The bowlers had appeared bereft of ideas when Tamim and Mominul were in full flow during Bangladesh's highest second-wicket partnership against England.
Spin was once again unable to control the batsmen, and in 14 overs in the morning session, the three slow bowlers could not produce a maiden, conceding eight boundaries in the process.
Ansari's first six overs cost 36 and contained four full tosses, prompting some unkind comparisons with Lancashire's Simon Kerrigan, who conceded 28 in the first two overs of his debut in the 2013 Ashes series.
But as at Chittagong, Stokes inspired a resurgence with a spell of 2-7 in six overs.
He bowled with accuracy, caused doubt in the minds of the batsmen with movement outside the off-stump and struck Mushfiqur with a hostile bouncer that clearly unsettled the skipper.
Just one ball after that incident, a still shaken Mushfiqur tickled a tame catch to Alastair Cook at leg slip.
Moeen had bowled six modest overs for 23 without a hint of success before lunch, but with Stokes tying up the batsmen from the other end, the off-spinner produced a spell of 4-20 in 10 overs.
England lost their first three wickets for less than 30 in both innings of a Test for the first time against an Asian team in the last match, and yielded scarcely more this time.
The hosts, having selected only one seamer, opened with spin from both ends in the form of 18-year off-spinner Mehedi, who took seven wickets on his debut in Chittagong, and slow left-armer Shakib Al Hasan.
Ben Duckett took an aggressive approach to his third Test innings, launching Shakib over long-on for six in the second over, but was caught down the leg-side three balls later.
Captain Alastair Cook became Mehedi's second wicket, having originally been given not out.
Bangladesh's review confirmed the ball hit him in line on the back foot and umpire Kumar Dharmasena had to overturn his third decision of the day.
Gary Ballance departed to his third successive single figure score, bringing Moeen back out to the middle to join the reliable Joe Root.
On a pitch offering plenty of assistance to the bowlers, England are once again left to rely on their all-rounders in the middle order.
England all-rounder Moeen Ali, who took 5-57, told BBC Sport: "Stokesy bowled fantastically well. I think with the reversing ball he's becoming one of the best all-rounders in the world. He was bowling tight, I was bowling tight.
"For me, I was just trying to bowl maidens to stay on. I feel like I'm an attacking bowler anyway, but I said to Cooky, 'if I bowl a maiden, keep me on'. If the wickets come, they come, but I always feel I bowl my best if I bowl maidens.
"Zafar was a bit nervous, bowling against somebody who was set, but hopefully in the second innings he can get into his rhythm and take wickets.
"We always feel against Bangladesh that if you get them three or more down you've always got a chance to roll them.
"It is going to be difficult but if we can get close to them and go past them, the pressure will be right on them. They can't afford to have another collapse, but we are going to have to bat well in both innings."
The cases include several involving pregnant women, the CDC said.
The public health body made the revelation as it published new guidance on sexual transmission of the virus.
The guidance has been issued in response to confirmation of the first case of Zika in a non-traveller in the continental United States.
That case was linked to sexual contact with an infected partner.
The CDC is advising all men who have travelled to an area active with the Zika virus to use condoms or abstain from sex for the length of the pregnancy.
There is no evidence yet that women can transmit Zika virus to their sex partners, but more research is needed to understand this issue, the health body said.
Scientists last week said a study involving pregnant women in Brazil "strengthened" the theory that Zika is linked to the microcephaly birth defects in babies.
The defect can cause babies to be born with abnormally small heads and affect their cognitive development.
The research confirmed the presence of Zika virus in the amniotic fluid of two women who had had Zika-like symptoms during their pregnancies.
Brazilian experts say this suggests the virus can infect the foetus.
The primary method of infection of the virus remains mosquito bites. Experts say women who are pregnant should try to avoid the insects.
On Tuesday, Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organization, said the world faced "a long journey" to defeat Zika.
Speaking in Brazil, where most cases have been recorded, she said it was a "very tricky, very tenacious, very difficult" virus.
"Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs," he told reporters.
He said the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists were "repugnant" to everything Americans held dear.
Mr Trump was criticised for not specifically denouncing extremists in his initial comments on the violence.
Heather Heyer, 32, died and 19 others were hurt when a car rammed into people protesting against a far-right march.
James Alex Fields, 20, was formally charged on Monday with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit and run. He was also denied bail during his appearance in court via video from jail.
He is said to have harboured Nazi sympathies.
The justice department is opening a civil rights investigation into the incident.
On Monday, Mr Trump arrived back at the White House from his golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, to issue a comprehensive condemnation.
"We condemn this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence," he said. "It has no place in America."
"Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America,"
He paid tribute to Ms Heyer as well as two police officers killed in a helicopter crash after helping to tackle the unrest.
Ms Heyer's mother, Susan Bro, thanked the president for his "words of comfort and for denouncing those who promote violence and hatred".
She told NBC News in a statement she also sent her condolences for the families of the two state troopers who were injured.
But some felt Mr Trump's comments came too late.
Civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton criticised Mr Trump for waiting 48 hours before issuing a full condemnation.
"We had the head of state of Germany speak before we had the president of this country," he told MSNBC.
"His silence spoke volumes to people. It was too little, too late."
Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
On Monday afternoon Donald Trump tried to put out yet another fire of his own making. The president prefaced his explicit condemnation of the KKK, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists with the words "as I said on Saturday" - but the problem was he had said nothing of the sort.
In the hours after the violence in Charlottesville, Mr Trump had offered a broad condemnation of "many sides" - and caught hell for it from liberals and members of his own party, who felt compelled to break ranks with their leader.
Two days later, the president was in front of cameras again, with words that should have been easy - and obvious to most in a nation that expects its presidents to be comfortable condemning racist extremism.
Even on Monday, however, the president's strong words were undermined somewhat by his off-topic introductory boasts of the nation's economic strength and the fact that his obviously carefully crafted statement was read off teleprompters - a practice for which candidate Trump regularly mocked Barack Obama.
After finishing his remarks, the president quickly exited the room, as reporters asked why he had not spoken sooner. The president did not answer, but such questions will follow him in the days ahead.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said earlier that the deadly violence in Charlottesville met "the definition of domestic terrorism" - a phrase which Mr Trump declined to use to describe the events.
Mr Sessions announced on Saturday the Justice Department had opened a federal civil rights investigation into the deadly incident.
Hundreds of white nationalists had convened in Charlottesville to protest against the removal of a statue of a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.
They were challenged by anti-fascist and counter-protesters and the rally erupted into violent clashes. Shortly after, Ms Heyer and several others who were leaving the area were struck by the car.
Protests and vigils in solidarity with the victims were held in many US cities on Sunday. In Seattle, police used pepper spray to stop protesters approaching a pro-Trump rally.
Among those to criticise Mr Trump was Ken Frazier, CEO of drugs giant Merck, who announced on Monday he would resign from the president's American Manufacturing Council.
Mr Frazier, who is African American, tweeted that he had "a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism".
John Kerry, who was US secretary of state under Barack Obama, said that Mr Trump's initial reaction to the death in Virginia had been more telling.
"No matter what @potus says now-first instincts always revealing; his was to look into the camera and say 'many sides' - that cant be erased," he wrote in a tweet.
End of Twitter post by @JohnKerry
Zander Clark has been in fine form, but the keeper looked at fault as Richard Tait's cross ended up in the net.
Well just about deserved the lead, but Saints came close to an equaliser just before the break when Steven MacLean was denied by a Craig Samson save.
That came when Kane's first attempt was blocked by Samson but rebounded off the striker into the net.
The draw ended a sequence of three 2-1 wins for St Johnstone over Motherwell.
But it also ended Well's run of six defeats at McDiarmid Park since November 2012.
St Johnstone started positively and had three decent chances in the opening five minutes.
Michael Coulson's corner picked out Brian Easton on the run and his left foot strike was deflected wide by a visiting defender.
From the following corner, Murray Davidson looped a header over the bar then Kane connected with an Easton cross to flick it wide of the target.
But for all that positivity, an unexpected negative for Saints appeared at the other end in the shape of goalkeeper Clark.
After two successive clean sheets, he produced a howler of a mistake to give Motherwell the early lead.
As the keeper went to cut out Tait's low cross from the right on his six yard line, he somehow managed to turn the ball behind him into the corner of his own net with an extraordinary fumble.
As Tait took the acclaim of his teammates, Clark, who has been impressive since breaking into Saints first-team, could only look on in embarrassment.
Tam Scobbie, who replaced Steven Anderson at the heart of the home defence, showed his threat in the opposition box as Saints looked for an equaliser.
His downward header from another corner kick was cleared off the line by Craig Clay.
Motherwell's three-man defence of Ben Heneghan, Stephen McManus and David Ferguson showed they weren't standing on ceremony when the ball entered their area.
Their no-nonsense defending was effective and they were helped out by goalkeeper Craig Samson in thwarting Steven MacLean in the final minute of the first half when he dived to his left to turn the striker's header from a Chris Millar cross round the post.
Samson produced another fine save early in the second half to keep out a Davidson header at his right-hand post.
However, just after the hour mark, good fortune favoured the home side as they pulled level.
MacLean was found by substitute Blair Alston inside the box and it was headed into the path of Kane six yards out.
The striker's initial effort was blocked by Samson, but Kane got lucky as the ball rebounded back off his body and bounced into the net for his fourth goal of the season.
Alston came close to putting Saints ahead, but his shot was well saved by Samson.
St Johnstone Tommy Wright: "We had the lion's share of possession and we used that well with some quality football played getting into the last third and getting in some great crosses.
"Samson's made two or three great saves and we've probably been guilty of not being clinical enough.
"But I always think in this league, when you go one goal down, it's difficult to get back in games, so I was pleased with the character of the team to get back in the game.
"On another day, we could have got another goal and won the game, but the performance excellent and we recovered well from that early setback.
"To be fair, Motherwell might have had a shout for penalty, but we went up the field and equalised and I think it was nothing more than we deserved because we've dominated the game."
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee: "The first half I was quite content with our approach, our application, everything was good and we got the goal.
"But the second half was excruciating. We never really got out, we never really got a hold of the ball, so it was really hard work.
"A point here is a great point regardless of the circumstances because we've lost here regularly and St Johnstone put you under pressure and work every so hard.
"They have a good way about them and Steven MacLean leads the line brilliantly for them.
"Craig Samson made a few good saves for us. He's had a great season and he continues to make a great contribution."
Match ends, St. Johnstone 1, Motherwell 1.
Second Half ends, St. Johnstone 1, Motherwell 1.
Attempt missed. David Wotherspoon (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Richard Foster (St. Johnstone) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Richard Foster (St. Johnstone).
Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone).
Craig Clay (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Richard Tait.
Attempt missed. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is too high from a direct free kick.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Graham Cummins replaces Christopher Kane.
Foul by Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone).
Stephen McManus (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Motherwell. Ryan Bowman replaces Jack McMillan because of an injury.
Louis Moult (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joe Shaughnessy (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Louis Moult (Motherwell).
Substitution, Motherwell. Lionel Ainsworth replaces Keith Lasley.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Stephen McManus.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Paul Paton replaces Chris Millar.
Foul by Chris Millar (St. Johnstone).
Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Ben Heneghan.
Goal! St. Johnstone 1, Motherwell 1. Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone) with an attempt from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Chris Cadden (Motherwell) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left.
Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen McManus (Motherwell).
Substitution, Motherwell. Lee Lucas replaces David Ferguson.
Foul by Steven MacLean (St. Johnstone).
Stephen McManus (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Tam Scobbie (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Jack McMillan.
Attempt saved. Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Keith Lasley.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by David Ferguson.
Second Half begins St. Johnstone 0, Motherwell 1.
First Half ends, St. Johnstone 0, Motherwell 1.
Attempt saved. Steven MacLean (St. Johnstone) header from long range on the right is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Craig Samson.
The rescue on Monday afternoon involved a challenging winch down to the casualty by a coastguard helicopter's paramedic.
The Inverness Airport-based helicopter could not be brought too close in case its downdraft blew the man and his fellow walkers off the ridge.
The walker was taken to hospital for treatment.
The alarm was raised at 14:25 on Monday after the man became unwell on Carn Mor Dearg.
He was airlifted to Torlundy and from there was taken to hospital by ambulance.
Scott Sharman, paramedic winchman, said: "It was an extremely steep ridge and we needed to make sure we kept at a safe distance because the downdraft could very easily have blown them over the ridge."
Clara Amfo is taking over her mid-morning show, as well as the Live Lounge.
Ben Cooper, controller of BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, has spoken to Newsbeat about the changes to the schedule.
"Well I'm delighted for her and Jesse. As any parent knows, it's that difficult time where you desperately want to tell people and you can't.
"All of us at Radio 1 are delighted for them and wish them all the best for the future. It's fantastic news."
"I can't stop people having sex.
"We've got fantastic news for two of our great friends at the station and we wish them both very well in different ways.
"But the great thing about Radio 1 and as the listeners will know, is that we've got an amazing family of DJs. So we've got great news this month for Annie Mac and we've got great news for Clara [Amfo]."
"Her warmth, her enthusiasm, her friendliness on air. She's really slick as presenter.
"You've heard that on the Official Chart Show already, she hit that running.
"She's going to bring all of that and some great new ideas and still keep the Live Lounge going 10 to 12.45.
"It's a bit like being a football manager, being the person in charge of a radio station.
"There are always going to be decisions that you have to make about players and which positions they play and whether you play them upfront or midfield.
"It's exactly the same with the schedule. You try to choose the right players for the right position and Clara is going to be brilliant on that show."
"I'm sure they, like us, wish her all the very best. It's fantastic news for her and her family.
"We wish them all very well over the next few months and we've got an exciting brand new show."
"Fearne has taken the Live Lounge and run with it and taken it to real great heights.
"You just look at Ed Sheeran - his Live Lounge performance reached over two million people within 24 hours on our YouTube channel. That's fantastic.
"So that energy, that excitement, that calibre of artist is still going to be in Clara's show."
"Radio 1 throughout its history has had huge stars presenting on its airwaves. And those stars, at some point in their career, have moved on.
"Radio 1 is still here. Radio 1 is still as fun and exciting. And it's still promoting and pushing great new British music and that will always continue."
"Clara will come off her 1Xtra weekend breakfast shows and Ace, who will be familiar to a lot of listeners, is going to take on that so I'm really pleased for him to get back on the schedule.
"Clara will be continuing to do the Official Chart Show and her weekday [Radio 1] show."
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An investigation into The Rising Moon on New Road, Porthcawl, was launched by Bridgend county council after a zero hygiene rating sticker was not displayed.
Owner Na Shi pleaded guilty at Bridgend Magistrates Court to 12 food hygiene offences, from March 2015.
The court was told the hygiene rating has since risen to two out of a possible five.
Officers visited after Mr Shi failed to display a zero rating sticker that showed urgent improvements were required.
Problems included cooked pork defrosting in dirty warm water that was heavily contaminated with food debris and grease, while staff were using dirty scourers.
Cooked rice was also being kept in dirty food containers, with "a multitude" of food hygiene failings which posed a "serious risk of food poisoning".
Mr Shi was fined £1,800, with costs and fees taking the total to £4,724.
Councillor Charles Smith said: "What makes this case particularly concerning is the fact that officers visited twice within 48 hours yet the owner failed to act on the advice given to improve the hygiene of his premises."
Thomas Mair watched the 41-second film of an American man shooting the .22 calibre gun on 7 June - nine days before Mrs Cox's murder, jurors heard.
The jury was also told that Nazi-related material was found when police raided Mr Mair's home.
The 53-year-old denies murdering Mrs Cox, 41, in Birstall, near Leeds.
Mr Mair, from Birstall, also denies grievous bodily harm with intent, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon - a dagger.
Earlier in the trial, the jury was shown an image of a sawn-off .22 Weihrauch bolt-action rifle, alleged to have been recovered when Mr Mair was arrested. They were told Mrs Cox's blood was on the barrel.
The court heard on Monday that when police raided the defendant's home after his arrest they found an SS officer's book on race theory and mate selection, along with other white supremacist texts.
Officers also found a book entitled March of the Titans: The Complete History of the White Race and a book on the "politics of the Holocaust", among other texts.
A press cutting in relation to Anders Brevik, who murdered 77 people in twin attacks in Norway in July 2011, was also found, the court heard.
The material featured in a series of photographs shown to jurors by prosecutor Richard Whittam.
Jurors were also shown images of head and hand injuries sustained by Mr Mair during his arrest.
Mr Mair had also allegedly collected a dossier on Mrs Cox in his home, including stories about her in newspapers.
And he had a printout of Mrs Cox, who was MP for Batley and Spen and a mother of two, from her website, jurors were told.
In the months before Mrs Cox's death, Mr Mair used computers at Birstall and Batley libraries to visit neo-Nazi websites such as the Daily Stormer, the court heard.
The jurors were told Mr Mair also searched for Dylann Roof, who is accused of killing nine black Americans in South Carolina in 2015, and accessed the Wikipedia pages for politicians William Hague and Jo Cox, as well as the Wikipedia page for Ian Gow - an MP who who died when the IRA detonated a bomb under his car.
Mr Mair's neighbour of 13 years, Katie Green, also gave evidence via video-link and said she saw the defendant on 16 June as she got off a bus in Birstall market place.
She told jurors Mr Mair was "very quiet, very shy but did not see any visitors", and he always kept his garden very tidy and spent a lot of time in it.
Mr Mair was "at the front of the queue looking like he was just waiting to get on to the bus", she said.
"He had a pair of dark trousers and a dark green khaki jacket and dark cream baseball cap.
"He always carried bags. He had three or four bags. I saw him walk off."
Ms Green said that she then heard about a gun incident minutes afterwards and decided to abandon her shopping trip.
The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday morning.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it was "considering the procedural implications" following the former Labour peer and MP's death aged 87.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said this was unlikely to mean the first trial of a dead defendant.
The hearing will be take place in the High Court on or after 11 January.
Lord Janner had been accused of 22 counts of historical sex offences against boys dating back to the 1960s - allegations his family denied.
He had been suffering from dementia and died peacefully at his home on Saturday, his family said.
Lord Janner's death was confirmed to peers at the start of business in the House of Lords on Monday.
Lord Speaker Baroness D'Souza said: "On behalf of the House I extend our condolences to the noble Lord's family and friends."
Earlier this year, the director of public prosecutions decided not to bring charges because of Lord Janner's health - but the decision was overturned after an appeal by the alleged victims.
A judge later ruled Lord Janner was unfit to face proceedings and a "trial of the facts" in the case was set for next April. A jury was to be asked to decide if he committed the abuse, without reaching a finding of guilt or conviction.
There is simply no precedent for the trial of a dead person, whether that be by way of a conventional Crown Court trial or a "trial of the facts".
Today's statement by the Crown Prosecution Service may appear to open a possibility of the first ever trial of a dead defendant, but the guidance on its website, on Termination of Proceedings: Death of a Defendant, clearly states "formal evidence of death should be given… Prosecutors should inform the court of a defendant death and produce a certified copy of his death certificate. The court should be invited to mark the indictment accordingly".
This process ends criminal proceedings, not just usually, but in all cases where a defendant dies before the completion of a trial.
In a statement, the Crown Prosecution Service said: "Greville Janner faced criminal proceedings for child sex offences, with a trial of the facts scheduled to take place in April 2016.
"When a defendant dies during criminal proceedings, it is usual that the case no longer goes ahead following formal confirmation of the defendant's death at a hearing before the court.
"However, we are considering the procedural implications of this specific case. As the High Court will close today until January 11 2016, there can be no hearing before that date.
"It is right that this matter is considered properly in open court, and we will therefore not be commenting further ahead of a court hearing."
The former MP for Leicester North West and later Leicester West was charged with sexual offences against nine alleged victims.
There are 15 counts of indecent assault and seven counts of a separate sexual offence, with most of the charges relating to children aged 16 or under at the time.
One alleged victim told the BBC he felt "numb" and was "left in limbo" after the peer's death, adding "there is nowhere left to go to prove our stories".
Sir Clive Loader, Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner, told the BBC he was "disappointed" the alleged victims would not "see justice being done".
"I have to say as well that we could have been in a different place had the director of public prosecutions made the right decision quickly and initially," he added.
"We'd have been through this now and the court case would have happened."
Sewell was the art critic at the London Evening Standard newspaper for more than 30 years, and was known for his outspoken, often controversial views.
His agent, Francine Fletcher, said Sewell, who had cancer, died at his London home on Saturday.
In a statement, the Evening Standard said Sewell was "irreplaceable" and that while his wit was "always rapier sharp" his kindness "knew no limits".
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The newspaper described him as a "legend in the world of journalism and the arts" who was "irreplaceable" and thought of "more as family than a friend".
"Simply, Brian was the nation's best art critic, best columnist and the most brilliant and sharpest writer in recent times," the statement said.
Sewell, who was born on 15 July 1931, said it was his mother who imbued his four year old self with a love of art, taking him to the National Gallery.
Brought up in London, he later studied for a degree in art history from the Courtauld Institute, where he was tutored by the art historian Anthony Blunt.
In 1979, Blunt was exposed as "the Fourth Man" in the Burgess-Maclean spy scandal.
Sewell began his career at Christie's auction house in the 1950s and had many artist friends, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Salvador Dali.
"It was after the Blunt affair - Anthony Blunt - and I had achieved a certain unwanted notoriety and Tina Brown, who was just reviving Tatler, wanted an art critic and thought I might be it," he said.
Although Sewell always denied that he and Blunt were intimate, it was Sewell who helped his mentor flee the press and, in the process, found himself in the media spotlight.
He told the BBC in 2012 that he had become a critic "by accident", but said art was something "that brings people like me to life".
When asked in the same interview how he would describe himself, he replied: "A failure".
"I wanted to write the great book on Michelangelo and I never got anywhere near it and now it is too late," he said.
Art critic Estelle Lovatt told the BBC that Sewell was a "unique character" who preferred "to keep himself to himself".
"But he was brilliant because he brought art to the masses," she said.
Anne McElvoy, a senior editor for The Economist and an Evening Standard columnist, tweeted: "Sorry to hear of Brian Sewell's death, as one of the Standard execs over decades who had the task of editing his brilliant rudenesses."
Royal editor at the Evening Standard, Robert Jobson, tweeted: "So sad to hear of the death of Brian Sewell. A wonderful writer, art critic & @standardnews colleague. RIP."
The paper's chairman, Evgeny Lebedev, added: "Very sad to hear of Brian Sewell's death. Remarkable critic and man whose erudite, magisterial work for the Standard will never be forgotten."
Fellow critic Charles Darwent described him as "a great friend and a great critic".
BBC arts correspondent Nick Higham said Sewell's work was "unmistakeable", saying he was "passionate, opinionated and controversial".
"His sharp wit could be cruel, but he was a television natural, a hugely readable television columnist, and an insightful - if sometimes harsh - critic," our correspondent added.
Samrah Sehar and her daughter were in a park off Mill Road when the men called her a "rag-head" and asked if she would join terror group ISIS.
Mrs Sehar said she was "shocked" at the abuse from the six "well dressed men".
Rally organisers Cambridge Unite Against Fascism, said they were "appalled at the incident".
"A group of white males started laughing and then started shouting and saying phrases like 'Rag-head' and 'Are you going to join the ISIS?'... then they started to attack my daughter verbally," said Mrs Sehar.
"I was frightened and surprised as generally the community in Cambridge is very friendly - it came as a shock to me that this could happen here."
Mrs Sehar said she would have retaliated when the incident happened in March, but "didn't as my one-year-old was with me and I was scared they might become violent".
"I was so shocked, I've never had a negative experience in the three years I've been here," she added.
Richard Rose, who helped organised the gathering, said: "We wanted to make a firm statement and for the victims of these attacks realise they are not on their own.
"I think today's gathering has shown that a vast number of people in Cambridge do want to stand up against racism and be counted."
Mrs Sehar and her husband said they decided not to report the incident to police.
She appeared with Lula on the balcony of his apartment and waved to hundreds of people who had gathered below.
Lula has said his brief arrest on Friday is part of a campaign to sully his image and that of Ms Rousseff.
Police are looking into payments and donations made to Lula's institute.
Some of Brazil's wealthiest people as well as dozens of politicians from both the governing coalition and the opposition are also being investigated for involvement in the alleged Petrobras corruption scheme.
Lula, a left-wing icon, left office in 2011. His Workers' Party has been hit hard by the long-running scandal.
After his interrogation on Friday, he told reporters he was the victim of a "prejudice as a working-class man".
Ms Rousseff turned up at his home on Saturday, along with hundreds of people showing support for the former president.
Saturday's rally was peaceful in contrast to angry scenes on Friday when protesters clashed with police outside the building.
"She is going to meet with Lula as a gesture of solidarity and support," a press officer at the presidential palace told the Associated Press news agency.
She later could be seen on the balcony with Lula and his wife Marisa.
The Workers' Party has held the Brazilian presidency since 2003, both under Lula and Ms Rousseff.
In the latest operations, police enforced 33 search and 11 detention warrants in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Bahia, officials said.
Lula, 70, is suspected of receiving about 30m reais ($8m; £5.6m) in speaking fees and donations to his charity.
His home was among the premises targeted, as was the headquarters of the institute in Sao Paulo.
The city attorney wants access to four years' worth of data about driver practices and the areas they serve.
Dennis Herrera said he wanted to ensure they were complying with local laws on safety, accessibility and not creating "a public nuisance".
Uber and Lyft have 15 days to comply or face charges of contempt and other court-imposed penalties.
Mr Herrera has also made a public records request to the state regulator, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), for the same information.
Both companies are obliged to file annual reports with the CPUC, but they have argued successfully for that data to be kept confidential for competitive reasons.
"No-one disputes the convenience of the ride-hailing industry," Mr Herrera said.
"But that convenience evaporates when you're stuck in traffic behind a double-parked Uber or Lyft, or when you can't get a ride because the vehicle isn't accessible."
The algorithms used by the ride-hailing software also favoured some parts of the city over others, he added.
"In San Francisco, nearly 30% of rides take place in underserved neighbourhoods and 20% of Lyft rides begin or end at a public transit station," Lyft spokeswoman Chelsea Harrison said in a statement.
Uber spokeswoman Eva Behrend said that the company was "more than happy to work with the city to address congestion" but "a comprehensive solution" was needed.
Uber is already involved in a legal battle with San Francisco officials, over demands that the ride-hailing company shares its drivers' names and addresses.
Having shared them under protest in the past, Uber now maintains that doing so is an invasion of driver privacy.
They said they were "gobsmacked" when liver buds, the earliest stage of the organ's development, formed spontaneously.
The team, reporting their findings in Nature, hope that transplanting thousands of liver buds could reverse liver failure.
Experts welcomed the findings, describing them as "exciting".
Scientists around the world are trying to grow organs in the lab to overcome a shortage of organ donors.
Some patients already have bladders made from their own cells, but dense solid organs such as the liver and kidneys are much harder to produce.
The team at the Yokohama City University were reproducing the earliest stages of liver development - similar to that in an embryo.
They had mixed three types of cells - two types of stem cells and material taken from the umbilical cord.
Unexpectedly, the cells began to organise themselves and appeared to curl up to form a liver bud.
These buds were transplanted into mice, where they hooked themselves up with the blood supply and began to function as little livers.
The transplants increased the lifespan of mice with liver failure.
Prof Takanori Takebe said: "We just simply mixed three cell types and found that they unexpectedly self-organise to form a three-dimensional liver bud - this is a rudimentary liver.
"And finally we proved that liver bud transplantation could offer therapeutic potential against liver failure."
He told the BBC that he was "completely gobsmacked" and "absolutely surprised" when he first witnessed the buds forming.
This is a significant advance for the field of regenerative medicine.
It might seem like science fiction but there are already people walking around today with organs made from stem cells.
A major breakthrough came in 2006 when bladders made from patients' own cells were implanted. Grown windpipes have also been transplanted.
In regenerative medicine there are four levels of complexity: flat structures such as skin; tubes such as blood vessels; hollow organs such as the bladder; and solid organs such as the kidney, heart and liver.
The last group is the most difficult as they are complex organs containing many types of tissue.
This is a new approach to growing solid organs and is yet another window on what could be the future of organ transplants.
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It is thought that other organs such as the pancreas, kidneys and even the lungs could be developed in the same way. However, turning this into a treatment is still a distant prospect.
The buds are 4-5mm in length but the researchers say they would need to develop buds that are much smaller and could be injected into the blood.
The buds would not grow to be a whole new liver, but would embed themselves in the failing one and restore it.
Dr Varuna Aluvihare, a liver transplant physician at King's College Hospital in London, told BBC News: "This a great piece of work and as a proof of concept, very interesting.
"The real highlight is that such simple mixtures of cells can differentiate and organise themselves into highly complex tissue structures that function well in an animal model."
He said the liver was very damaged in chronic liver disease so there were still questions about where the buds were transplanted and how they would function.
The risk of a tumour developing after the transplant would also need to be assessed.
Dr Dusko Ilic, a stem cell scientist at King's College London, said: "The strategy is very promising, and represents a huge step forward.
"Although the promise of an off-the-shelf-liver seems much closer than one could hope even a year ago, the paper is only a proof of concept. There is much unknown and it will take years before it could be applied in regenerative medicine."
Prof Chris Mason, the chair of regenerative medicine at University College London, said there might be more immediate benefits for drug testing.
New medicines can be toxic to the human liver in a way which does not show up in animal tests. He said using liver buds might be a better way to test for toxicity.
The claim: Low and middle earners are bearing the burden of the tax take.
Reality Check verdict: The government is very reliant on richer people for its funding. More than a quarter of income tax is paid by the 1% of taxpayers with the highest incomes.
"The burden in terms of the tax take is falling on middle and low earners," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
In fact, the tax base is very reliant on rich people, with income tax becoming increasingly reliant on them.
The Resolution Foundation, which does a great deal of work on inequality, says that the income tax system is relying too much on the richest 10%, which is a problem because their earnings are volatile.
It also pointed out that the combined effect of tax and benefit changes was hitting the poorest people the hardest, but Mr McDonnell was not talking about benefits.
This chart from the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that about 90% of income tax is paid by the 50% of taxpayers with the highest incomes, while more than a quarter is paid by the richest 1%.
Indirect taxes such as VAT and fuel duty are not progressive though - people with lower incomes do not pay lower rates - so we need to consider all taxes.
The Treasury published analysis at the time of the Budget predicting what proportion of incomes people would be spending on all taxes by 2019-20.
The result is in the darker green bars below the line in this chart, with the poorest households on the left and the richest on the right.
The proportion of income spent on taxes does appear to be increasing as income increases throughout the distribution. The exception is for the poorest 10%, who seem to be spending slightly more than the next 10%, although the IFS says that is probably due to people misreporting their incomes in the survey from which this analysis is taken.
There is more on the impact of taxes on income in this ONS report, which calculates it in a different way, flattening the increase in the proportion of income spent on taxes as households get richer.
Later in the interview, John McDonnell also said: "Middle and low earners are being hit very, very hard by... income tax rises."
The basic rate of income tax has been 20% since 2008 and the higher rate has been 40% for longer than that. There have been additional rates introduced but they do not affect middle and low earners.
In 2010, the income tax personal allowance, which is the amount you are allowed to earn before paying any income tax, was £6,475. This year it is £11,500. That has clearly risen considerably faster than inflation, so for people paying the basic rate of income tax there has been a tax cut, while a higher proportion of low earners are not paying income tax at all.
The level of income at which people start paying the higher rate of income tax has not been rising as fast as the personal allowance, in fact it has fallen in some years since 2010, but only about 15% of income taxpayers pay higher rate, so they probably do not count as being low or middle earners.
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Polonia FC competes in the second division of the Inverness and District Amateur League.
The club is the brainchild of priest Father Piotr Rytel from the city's St Mary's Church.
A friend of former Celtic goalkeeper Lukasz Zaluska, Fr Piotr is the new team's secretary, first aid man - and right-back.
Fr Piotr, the Highland's only Polish priest, said: "I pray and I play. That is all I do."
He added: "It is good to socialise but also to have some competition with the other teams."
Polonia FC has become so popular among the Highlands' Polish community that coach Jacob Olubik has had to turn potential players away.
He said: "God is with us you could say.
"Father Piotr has helped us promote our team, communicate with the other clubs and helped in finding new players."
Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue is being sought on money-laundering charges.
Mr Obiang, the son of President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mbasogo, denies any wrongdoing.
The judge, Roger Le Loire, issued the warrant after Mr Obiang refused to be interviewed by magistrates on charges of corruption, legal sources say.
Mr Obiang's lawyer told the AFP news agency that he had not been informed that any mandate for his client's arrest had been issued.
He added that any such warrant would be a "non-event" due to Mr Obiang's status.
"Mr Obiang has judicial immunity as he is the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and therefore could not attend the summons," Emmanuel Marsigny told AFP.
According to French newspaper Le Monde, the warrant for Mr Obiang - known as Teodorin in his country - was issued on Thursday.
French judges are investigating allegations that several African leaders have bought assets in France with embezzled state funds.
They are looking at President Obiang as well as Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou Nguesso, and Omar Bongo, the late president of Gabon.
Correspondents say Teodorin Obiang, who also serves as agriculture minister, is known for his lavish lifestyle.
He recently hit the headlines when he honoured his promise to pay his national football team $1m (£641,000) for winning the opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations which Equatorial Guinea co-hosted earlier this year.
The original legal complaint was brought by Transparency International, an anti-corruption campaign group that accuses several African leaders of acquiring property, cars and luxury items in France using misappropriated public money.
In October 2011, the US government said it would seek to recover assets worth more $70m (£44m) from Teodorin Obiang. A month earlier, French police seized several luxury cars from him.
Equatorial Guinea is one of Africa's largest oil exporters, but most of its 720,000-strong population lives in poverty.
President Obiang seized power from his uncle in 1979 and was re-elected in 2009 with 95% of the vote.
The authority had been under no overall control, with Labour the biggest party by four councillors.
Nationally, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) suffered huge losses, but they did manage to gain the Padiham and Burnley West ward on Lancashire County Council from Labour.
Alan Hosker beat Marcus Johnstone with a majority of 228 as, elsewhere, the Greens held Lancaster Central ward.
With a 45% share of the vote, the Tories won 46 of the council's 84 seats.
Among them were incredibly narrow victories in Mid-Rossendale (won by only eight votes) and Clitheroe (five).
Pendle Central was a Conservative gain for Joe Cooney from the Liberal Democrats, while the Tories also picked up Rossendale South, Chorley Rural West, and Moss Side & Farington.
Labour lost nine wards compared to 2013, winning 30 seats on a 35% share of the vote. Hasina Khan gained Chorley North in a rare bit of good news for the party.
Jennifer Mein, the previous council leader, easily retained her Preston South East seat but was left in tears by Labour's loss of the county hall.
The Liberal Democrats took four seats - losing two - while two seats were held by independents (Liz Oades in Fylde East and Paul Hayhurst in Fylde West)
Compared with 2013, overall turnout rose 5% to 42%.
The county council provides local government services across the region including education, health, social care and transport.
The Conservatives have done it... they have overall control of Lancashire County Council.
Labour haven't done as poorly as some might have predicted but they'll still be bitterly disappointed with this result.
The Lib Dem surge that some had predicted hasn't arrived and they've ended up with only half the seats they've had for the past four years.
As well as that Conservative majority, the big shock here today is the fact UKIP have won a seat. Alan Hosker is so far the UK's only victor.
I'm told the Tories are having a meeting on Saturday to finalise arrangements but, as things stand, Councillor Geoff Driver will be the next leader of Lancashire County Council.
Labour leader Jenny Mein told me: "I just want to go home and cry".
Politics can be an unforgiving beast.
Currently, such tests apply only to overseas non-European applicants.
Language checks for doctors from Europe have already been introduced.
Health Minister Dan Poulter said the measures were aimed at protecting patient safety.
The risk of a healthcare professional not being fluent in English was highlighted by a lethal mistake made by Dr Daniel Ubani, a German doctor doing an out-of-hours shift who gave a lethal dose of a painkiller to patient David Gray in 2008.
At the time, as a German citizen, he was able to register to work in the UK without passing a language test.
The changes would mean the relevant regulatory bodies of each profession would be able to undertake language checks on all new applicants, as well as fitness-to-practise action if there were concerns about employees already working.
Dr Poulter said: "We greatly value the contributions that healthcare professionals from all over the world have contributed, and continue to contribute, to our NHS but it is essential that they have a sufficient knowledge of the English language in order to provide safe patient care.
"Ministers from the four UK health departments are firmly committed to improving public protection by preventing healthcare professionals who do not have sufficient knowledge of English from working in the UK."
The consultation will close on 15 December 2014.
The push will include smartcards that monitor attendance and offer incentives for families to send their daughters to school.
It will also deploy satellite broadband to improve connectivity in rural areas.
Putting girls through school is increasingly seen as one of the best long-term ways to end poverty.
International Development Minister Nick Hurd said: "It is only through making use of the latest technological innovations that we will reach every girl.
"Already in Kenya, thanks to UK-funded attendance monitoring software, satellite broadband connectivity and interactive learning platforms, we have seen attendance increase by 15% in schools we work with."
The iMlango programme is currently working in more than 200 schools in Kenya and includes:
The money will be mainly spent in sub-Saharan Africa in countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, Malawi and Rwanda but will also fund work in Afghanistan, Myanmar, also known as Burma, and Nepal.
The investment was announced at the first Girls' Education Forum in London.
Julia Gillard, chair of the charity Global Partnership for Education, said: "Investing in girls and women isn't just morally right, it is essential for the development of families, communities and countries.
"When we educate girls, we see reduced child deaths, healthier children and mothers, fewer child marriages and faster economic growth."
It is estimated that 63 million girls around the world are out of school, with over half of these in sub-Saharan Africa.
The 30 to 40 volunteers behind the Kos Solidarity Project were using their own funds to buy supplies and relying on donations from hotel unions.
But with little support from local officials, the project's volunteers served their final meals on Sunday.
They now hope the Greek authorities will step in to help feed the migrants.
"We had to decide to stop giving out food," George Chertofilis, the project's organiser, told the BBC. "We just can't afford it anymore."
Mr Chertofilis, a local physics teacher, has spent the past two months leading a varying number of volunteers who cooked in their homes and spent hours distributing meals at makeshift camps and in the deserted Captain Elias Hotel.
"We had to prepare the food and that takes many hours and a lot of money," he said. "We don't have much money, we are not officials, we are just a group of friends."
But without any immediate action from local authorities on Monday, there were no meals to give out to the thousands of migrants who have come to depend on the volunteers.
No one from the mayor's office was available to comment on whether officials would step in to fill the gap, and Mr Chertofilis said he had had no response to his own inquiries.
Because of its proximity to Turkey, Kos has seen more than 12,000 migrants land on its shores so far in 2015, swelling the small population of 30,000 by more than a third.
"To begin with it was just 300 to 400 meals a day," said Mr Chertofilis. "Then during July the number of people increased so much, there were about 1,000 people.
"The volunteers are all employed, everyone has his job to go to. We have to find the time to do this around our jobs. I'm a teacher so during summer I don't have to go to work but many do."
Kontessa Ikonoidi, a local florist, was another volunteer with the group. "Some hotels donate meals and we try and find those with meat in to give to the children," she said.
"We add fruit and cans of milk that we have bought ourselves. It is very difficult but someone must feed them".
Georgia Kasioti, another volunteer who works in local government, said: "I work very long hours so it is tiring to help here too. Sometimes I can only come at weekends.
"The churches and other voluntary organisations have many Greek people to look after because of the economic situation. We need help from the EU with this."
The people of Kos are subject to the same capital controls as the rest of Greece, restricting them to cash withdrawals of just $60 (£42; $65) per day.
A local restaurant owner, who did not want to be named, told the BBC he was worried that if the migrants were not cared for, trouble could flare up.
"If they stop feeding them there could be trouble," he said. "There's no trouble now but when people are hungry there could be trouble."
Mr Chertofilis said he did not want to stop the project but had no choice. He is still waiting for a commitment from the government to provide food for the thousands of migrants on the island.
"We have said to the mayor and the government that we want to continue but we don't have any more money to give, we don't have any more time.
"We are very anxious and worried about what will happen to these people today and in the coming days. All these people with no food, we don't know what they are going to do and it's not their fault."
But now the Labour party has turned to Saatchi and Saatchi's iconic image of the dole queue from the 1979 election to promote its policies on the NHS.
So how much power have posters had in swaying votes? Professor Steven Fielding, director of the centre for British politics at the University of Nottingham has had a look back through the archives at some of the adverts that caused a stir.
Amanda Telfer, 43, died when three frames fell on her as she walked past a building site in London in August 2012.
The frames had been left unprotected and unrestrained against a wall in Hanover Square, Mayfair.
Site supervisor Kelvin Adsett, who was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter, was jailed for a year.
Members of the public rushed to help Ms Telfer but she died at the scene.
An Old Bailey jury previously found Adsett, a supervisor at IS Europe Limited, guilty of manslaughter and breaching health and safety regulations.
Judge Peter Rook QC told him: "Your actions contributed to the wholly needless and untimely death of Amanda Telfer."
He added Adsett, of Slough, Berkshire, had shown "reckless disregard" for what was a life-threatening situation.
In his defence, the 64-year-old's barrister said his life was "destroyed" as the result of "an aberration of carelessness".
Westgreen Construction Limited site manager Damian Lakin-Hall, 50, of Cobham, Surrey, was also sentenced to six months, suspended for two years, for failing to take reasonable care of safety while at work.
Outside court, Ms Telfer's parents Barry and Ann said they hoped the case would have an effect on the construction industry's "casual approach" to health and safety.
In a victim impact statement, Mr Telfer said he was still coming to terms with the death of his daughter.
He said he and his wife last saw their daughter on the morning of her death, adding: "She was cheerful, making plans and looking forward.
"An hour later she was dead."
Ms Telfer was working as a freelance intellectual property and media lawyer for publishers including Random House at the time of her death.
Her father said: "Every parent who has lost a child through violent and sudden death will know the overwhelming shock and disbelief that is impossible to describe."
The court heard how the three frames, which weighed 1,444lb (655kg), had been left leaning against a wall after being delivered the previous day.
The prosecution said it was obvious they carried a "clear and serious risk of death" to anyone walking past.
Another member of the public had almost been hit in a "near-miss" just days before the fatal accident, the court heard.
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said there were straightforward steps which could have been taken to avoid the risk.
Adsett's firm IS Europe Limited was found guilty at the Old Bailey of two health and safety breaches.
The court heard the Slough-based company was now "dormant" and had just £250 in the bank.
The judge said: "There would have been a fine of £100,000.
"However, given ISE's limited assets, the only fine I can order is £250."
Graham Partridge, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "If Kelvin Adsett, Damian Lakin-Hall and IS Europe had complied with their legal responsibilities, Amanda Telfer would not have died."
The attack happened in August 2012 in the village of Maghaberry.
Cody a three-year-old collie had to be put to sleep a week after being doused in accelerant and set alight.
The accused are Jamie Downey, 23, from Chestnut Hall Avenue in Moira and Richard Stewart, 23, from Wellington Park in Moira..
They are both charged with causing unnecessary suffering to the border collie. They deny the charges.
The prosecution said the two accused told "lie after lie'" about where they were on the Sunday morning the dog was attacked.
They added Mr Stewart and Mr Downey did a "circuit of Maghaberry village either to work off the effects of the party they were at the night before or to finish the drink they had with them".
The jury was also told by the prosecution that "for some reason they poured flammable liquid over the dog and set it alight".
The prosecution said witnesses placed two men near the house and were seen walking along a railway track towards the direction of a quarry with a black and white dog after 09:00 BST.
The hearing heard how not long after the dog's owners noticed Cody was missing the dog arrived back at the family home around 10:30 BST in a distressed state after being set alight.
The charity Missing People wants to raise awareness of the disappearances of Megan Roberts, from Wetherby, West Yorkshire, and Ed Machin, from York.
Miss Roberts, 20, went missing in York on 23 January. Police say it is likely she fell into the River Ouse.
Mr Machin, 39, was last seen on the same day in Bempton, East Yorkshire. Their disappearances are not connected.
Fans at the League Two match between York City and Cheltenham Town were also reminded of the search for York chef Claudia Lawrence.
Miss Lawrence was last seen on 18 March 2009, when she was aged 35. Detectives believe she was murdered.
Martin Crosby, from Missing People, said: "When someone you love goes missing you want the whole world to stop and join the search.
"Sharing these appeals is one of the key ways fans and the public can support the search for Megan, Claudia and Edward, whose family and friends are pleased to work on this with York City FC, as a club at the centre of the community."
Miss Roberts, who is studying at York St John University, was last seen near to Lendal Bridge which crosses the River Ouse.
North Yorkshire Police have said the "strongest and most probable line of inquiry being pursued by police is that Megan, affected by alcohol, has entered the river".
Mr Machin was last seen in Bempton, near Bridlington, after he was dropped off by a taxi outside the White Horse Inn.
Miss Lawrence's father Peter was expected to attend the event.
He said: "It is distressing to have both Edward and Megan missing in York along with Claudia and my thoughts are with their families and friends.
"I would encourage as many people as possible to help the charity by volunteering, sharing the appeals and by signing up to receive alerts at the game on Saturday." | Two mobile phone thieves grabbed 21 devices during an hour long snatching spree through London, the Met said.
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Amid headlines about terrorism and Syria, how easy it is to measure what's really going on?
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England took nine wickets for just 49 runs to bowl out Bangladesh for 220 on day one of a fluctuating second Test.
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The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of the Zika virus.
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US President Donald Trump has spoken out against racist violence after the killing of a protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.
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Chris Kane's fortunate equaliser for St Johnstone denied Motherwell a rare win at McDiarmid Park.
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A walker had to be rescued from a 1,000m (3,500ft) ridge near Ben Nevis after he became ill.
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Fearne Cotton is leaving BBC Radio 1 to start a "new chapter" - also announcing she's pregnant.
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A takeaway owner whose food posed a poisoning risk must pay £5,000.
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The man accused of killing Labour MP Jo Cox watched a YouTube video of someone loading and firing a sawn-off rifle, the Old Bailey has heard.
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A court hearing is to be held following the death of Lord Janner, who was ruled unfit to stand trial on child sexual abuse charges, prosecutors have said.
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Art critic Brian Sewell has died aged 84, his agent has confirmed.
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A rally has been held in Cambridge in support of a Muslim mother who says she and her one-year-old daughter were subjected to racist abuse.
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has visited her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a day after he was questioned over corruption allegations at the state oil company, Petrobras.
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Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft have been ordered to hand over details about their San Francisco operations.
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Tiny functioning human livers have been grown from stem cells in the laboratory by scientists in Japan.
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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell kicked off his election campaign on Wednesday by talking about increasing taxes on the rich and on corporations.
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The influx of Poles to Inverness has led to the setting up of the city's first Polish football team.
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A French judge has issued an international arrest warrant for the son of the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, reports say.
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The Conservatives have gained control of Lancashire County Council.
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Nurses, pharmacists, dentists and midwives coming to Britain from the EU could face language skills checks to make sure they are fluent in English under plans being put out to consultation.
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The UK's Department for International Development has announced £100m of funding to help 175,000 of the world's poorest girls get an education.
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A volunteer group on the Greek island of Kos that was feeding nearly 1,000 migrants a day says it is closing after running out of time and money.
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In an era of social media marketing and viral online videos it seemed the traditional election poster was becoming more of a campaigning tool of the past.
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A construction boss has been jailed over the "wholly needless" death of a lawyer who was crushed by falling windows.
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The trial of two men accused of setting fire to a family's pet dog in County Antrim has started at Belfast Crown Court.
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But Glenn says a final decision on the appointment will not be rushed.
Southgate, 46, ended his four-match interim reign unbeaten with a 2-2 draw against Spain on Tuesday.
"Clearly, his candidacy has become much stronger," said Glenn. "We just need to weigh up the facts and take time to make the right decision."
Southgate suggested after the Spain draw that he is keen on the position full-time, saying that he believes he has shown he can cope with the intensity of leading England in high-pressure matches.
Southgate stepped up from his role as England Under-21s manager in September when Sam Allardyce left after just one game and 67 days in charge.
The former England defender oversaw a comfortable World Cup qualifying win against minnows Malta, before his team laboured to a goalless draw in Slovenia.
He took a significant step towards being appointed full-time manager with a 3-0 win against old rivals Scotland last week, before his team squandered a 2-0 lead in the friendly against Spain at Wembley.
Prior to becoming part of the international set-up, Southgate's only managerial experience was a three-year spell at Middlesbrough, who were relegated under him in 2009.
However, Glenn has been impressed with how Southgate has developed since he has been involved with the England international sides.
"His candidacy is not just based on one or two matches, but because of what we've seen over the last couple of years," he added.
"He's got renewed confidence and is a different manager to what he was two years ago. So it is not all about assessing him on a few games, you have got to see it more in the round."
Glenn, along with FA chairman Greg Clarke and technical director Dan Ashworth, form the selection panel that will decide the next appointment.
League Managers' Association chairman Howard Wilkinson and former Three Lions defender Graeme Le Saux will be asked for their views as part of the consultation processes.
"There is quite a long gap between now and the next England game in March, so we've got time," added Glenn.
"We will ask Gareth to review in detail the last four games and give him a bit of time to do that because that is part of the process."
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Brown joined Celtic in 2007 and is set to reach the landmark in Wednesday's home league game against St Johnstone.
"He sets an incredible example," Rodgers said of the midfielder, 31.
Avoiding defeat on Wednesday would mean Celtic have gone 26 domestic games unbeaten, equalling a club record that has stood since the 1966-67 season.
Only 26 players will have made more appearances for the Scottish champions than Brown and Rodgers praised the Scotland international's inspirational qualities.
"It's a remarkable achievement by a top-class professional," said the Northern Irishman, who took charge at Celtic Park last summer.
"My first impressions of him were very positive and he's a remarkable leader.
"To play the number of games at a club this size, your professionalism, your enthusiasm, your energy for the game and your commitment to being a top professional has to be there.
"The players take a great lead from him. He's at the very front from the first steps we take onto the training field, the warm-up, right from the very start.
"He's been at the top of his game this season. Four hundred would be great for him, but there's quite a few more to come as well."
A win or a draw for the runaway Scottish Premiership leaders against fifth-placed St Johnstone would equal the record set by the famous Lisbon Lions team, who became the first British club to win the European Cup in 1967.
"To be talked in the same breath as those guys - who really created the legend of this club - would be a huge privilege," Rodgers added.
"I haven't really thought about it, to be honest, just really tried to look to win our games no matter the consequences of it.
"We have a lot of hard work to do - St Johnstone will be a tough test for us, particularly away from home they've done very well."
Celtic's only January signing so far, Kouassi Eboue, is training with the squad, having been granted his work visa - though
However, the 19-year-old Ivorian midfielder is still a few weeks away from being considered for selection, according to Rodgers, who hopes to add one more player this month.
"I didn't want to bring in too many - but we have an option we would hope we could get over the line," he said.
"It's about slowly building the squad to help the players who are already here.
"There might be one or two players who go out on loan. I suspect there will be some change in the squad before the end of the window." | Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has described Scott Brown as a "remarkable leader" as the captain prepares to make his 400th appearance for the club. | 38,721,153 | 580 | 36 | false |
It was only the very brave, riding modified Indian brands like the Royal Enfields and Rajdoots, who dared to take on India's highways on just two wheels.
But in recent years, international motorcycle brands have entered India and made their presence felt.
With clever marketing that feeds off India's admiration for American pop culture, brands like Harley Davidson are taking the Indian market seriously.
Photographer Rahul Dhankani, along with Madhumita Nandi, chronicles India's latest wave of motorcyclists. | Until recently, biking in India was only for the hardcore enthusiast. | 35,250,041 | 120 | 16 | false |
Veteran photographer Elsa Garrison is part of Getty Images's team of 40 specialist sport photographers who will be at this year's Olympic Games in Rio which begin on 5 August. Here Garrison has picked out some of her favourite images from past Olympics.
What grabs my attention in this picture is the sheer joy in Timea Nagy's face after retaining the gold medal for women's fencing. I am drawn to reaction pictures as they really show the human aspect of the sport. It doesn't matter if it is a winning moment or a moment of defeat, these types of pictures tell the best story.
Taken at the 1948 Olympic Games, this picture illustrates a moment that photographers strive to capture at every Olympic Games. Technology and demands for imagery have changed significantly since then, but the moments we look to capture have not.
What is great about this picture is that unlike today, this image then was a lot harder to get. It was shot on film - which had exposure limitations. The camera had no motor drive so you had one chance to get it right. And you had to manually focus on runners coming towards you.
Today, you still need a lot of skill to capture such a moment, but there are a lot more demands to get more out of each one. We are shooting multiple remote cameras at the same time as we are using our camera in our hands to get as many views of that one moment as possible.
The opening ceremony for the Olympic Games is always a show of pageantry. This image from the Sydney Olympics is a nice artistic view of the scene inside the stadium. The clever use of colour and light draw you into the frame. The composition reminds me of a blooming flower.
This picture has a nice clean background so the celebration of Usain Bolt jumps out at you. You feel as if you are right there with him.
What I like about this picture is you have happiness and sadness all in the same frame. This was from the quarter-finals at London's Earl's Court in 2012.
In my opinion, emotion pictures tell more of a story than action pictures in sport photography.
This is the moment I remember from the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Gymnast, Kerri Strug completed a vault while injured to secure the gold medal.
This is one of my favourite all-time Olympic images by one of my favourite photographers, Doug Pensinger. Doug and I worked on many assignments together and I have always looked up to him and his work. He had a knack for getting the moment of the event better than anyone around him. He was a solid action photographer but he also had a very artistic eye and could make sport look like art.
Every time the opening ceremony is more elaborate and action-packed than the previous Olympics. Larger fireworks shows, fly-overs and choreographed dance routines all add to the ceremony's spectacle. It is always tough to find another vantage point from which to cover the opening ceremony.
What draws me to images like this one is that they are outside the stadium and so give you a sense of place. The dark clouds pictured here during the fly-over at the 2012 Games in London make the coloured smoke from the planes stand out even more.
Bob Beamon's long jump from 1968 maintained the Olympic and world record until the latter was broken in 1991 by Mike Powell.
This picture signals a change in the way people began to cover sporting events. Records and historic moments became more of a priority to capture. Peak action shots with telephoto lenses came into fashion because of this picture and many images like it from that time.
I like the heart shape of the water as the diver heads to the surface and this lends a beautiful graphic element to the picture.
This was taken with a remote camera placed in the pool set up several hours beforehand. Underwater camera shots are hard to get and at this year's Rio Olympics, Getty Images are using underwater rigs to capture more of this imagery which shows a fresh and unique perspective.
When covering doubles tennis it is important to have both players in the frame - otherwise it would look like singles.
Patience is the key but once both players magically come together you have to be ready to capture it as it doesn't happen often. This was a nice moment where Laura Robson and Andy Murray both went for the ball and were mirror images of each other.
The tax investigation it is facing in Luxembourg and the general worldwide crackdown on the movement of profits between different tax jurisdictions to minimise payments are likely to have been two.
A third is the fact that McDonald's already has a significant business in the UK.
But, taking a step back from the specific decision that is dissected by my colleague Simon Jack, there is also a broader trend starting to take shape.
The McDonald's announcement - which may not actually mean much in job terms - is part of a wider bet on the shape of the UK economy after the departure from the EU.
Yes, many businesses are concerned about the effect on the economy if any trade deal with the EU is replete with damaging tariffs.
And the City is braced for thousands of jobs to move to the continent as London loses at least some of its attractions as an entry point into the EU.
However, Google, Facebook, Apple, Boeing and Nissan have all now committed to the UK since the vote to leave the EU.
That suggests a belief the tax and investment approach of the UK government will be at least as "business friendly" as that available in the EU - and, quite possibly, more so.
Of course, the impact of businesses that have not invested here or have delayed decisions because of the vote is harder to define.
And economists from the Bank of England to the Office for Budget Responsibility predict a slowdown in growth next year because of uncertainties about the UK's relationship with the EU.
The Prime Minister has said she wants an economy that works for all, and that she wants to lead a relentlessly pro-business government.
That is not necessarily a contradiction.
But, low business taxes, flexible labour markets and borders open to immigration (all high on the list of many businesses' needs) are likely to be controversial for many voters.
Theresa May is treading a difficult path.
Many people would like to see more intervention by the state to "control" business and redistribute wealth.
The commitment of many global businesses to the UK is likely to be for very different reasons.
The 16-year-old was tipped to become a pro and in May fought his way to become the 58kg 2014 champion in the North West Amateur Boxing Association.
The teenager had trained with Gorton Amateur Boxing Club and his head coach Kevin Williams revealed he was "very entertaining and charismatic to watch".
He said: "Macauley was good enough and he had the style to be professional."
Kevin Williams told Newsbeat that he was a brilliant boxer who drew in the crowds but he was also "intelligent and he had a big heart".
Many professional boxers have been expressing their shock at hearing the news of the teenager's death.
WBO Inter-Continental lightweight champion Antony Crolla tweeted: "Woke up to some horrible news. Very sad to hear about Macauley Moran, God bless him #rip"
Pro boxer Frankie Gavin posted a picture with Macauley, tweeting: "Gutted to hear the sad news my lil mate @cauleybox has passed away. Rip mate x"
Macauley had suffered with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and his dad Mario Conway told Newsbeat he had been feeling depressed in the last couple of weeks.
The teenager started boxing at the age of 10 to help him deal with his ADHD.
Mario Conway said: "He used to get into trouble. He needed to think all the time. Boxing helped him."
Macauley hoped to turn pro at 18 and earlier this year he was in the top eight in the country for his age.
Mario revealed his son "could have been world class, he would have been world class".
In a statement, Greater Manchester Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death and they had referred his case to the coroner.
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Lee Roberts told Mold Crown Court Anthony Munkley shot Sion Davies after a row over £7,000 drugs money.
Mr Davies, 25, died after falling off a balcony at Mr Munkley's Caia Park estate flat in Wrexham last October.
Mr Roberts, 33, and Mr Munkley, 53, both deny murder. His wife, Gwenythe Munkley, 55, denies helping her husband evade arrest.
Mr Roberts said he was at Mr Munkley's flat because he believed cannabis was due to be delivered.
He told the court Mr Davies arrived and Mr Munkley said he would get the money and went to his bedroom.
But he returned with a crossbow and shot Mr Davies, he claimed.
Mr Roberts said he had nothing to do with the killing himself.
The prosecution say Mr Davies was stabbed and slashed with knives, shot with a crossbow, and was pushed or fell three storeys from the flat.
Mr Munkley has claimed Mr Roberts was not there and previously told the court the attack was carried out by a Geordie man he did not know. He has denied owing Mr Davies money.
Mr Roberts told the jury he used cannabis daily but was not a minder for Mr Munkley and was not involved in his cannabis business.
He said: "They [Mr Munkley and Mr Davies] were arguing about money, Munkley was going mad and was saying money he had given him to pay for drugs had gone missing."
Mr Roberts said he broke up fighting between them, but Mr Munkley then shot Mr Davies twice with a crossbow.
He said Mr Davies ran onto the balcony, jumped over the railings and began to slide down.
"I grabbed his arm and tried to pull him back up, but I couldn't," he said.
Mr Roberts said he had identified himself on mobile phone footage, previously shown to the jury, which showed him holding a knife in his hand at the scene.
He said he picked the knife up for his own protection and did not see Mr Davies injured with a knife or knives.
The trial continues.
The Streets Ahead scheme has seen more than 3,000 trees replaced since 2012.
Campaigners claim they were not properly consulted about it and successfully applied for a temporary injunction to stop felling, but this was later overturned.
The council said the scheme is to remove dead, diseased or dangerous trees from roadsides in the city.
The Labour-run authority said the programme, being carried out by contractor Amey, was essential if Sheffield's 36,000 street trees are to be managed for future generations.
David Dillner, who lives in the city, took legal action and claimed the council failed to assess the environmental impact of the felling.
Delivering his ruling, Mr Justice Gilbart said Mr Dillner's claim was "in truth devoid of merit".
He said his job had been to determine the legal merits of Mr Dillner's High Court action and added: "Nothing in this judgment is to be read as criticising the residents of Sheffield for seeking to protect the trees in their streets and roads whose presence many of them appreciate so much."
Mr Gilbart said the council was required to maintain roads and streets and it was "unfortunate in the extreme" that the objectors "failed to address both sides of the argument".
The judge said Mr Dillner must pay £5,000 of the legal costs run up by the council, as well as footing his own lawyers' bills.
Mr Dillner said he was "extremely disappointed with the court's decision".
"My legal team does not accept the strident criticism in the judgement and will be appealing the decision to the Court of Appeal before the end of this week," he said.
"I will be seeking the council's immediate assurance that it will not recommence felling until the Court of Appeal has considered whether to grant permission for my appeal to be heard."
Simon Green, of Sheffield City Council, said: "The decision demonstrates that we have been right to say we are following best practice guidance and working hard in the best interests of the city."
They began the day at an event for young entrepreneurs in Mumbai, then laid a wreath in New Delhi at the India Gate memorial to 70,000 Indian soldiers who died in World War One.
The royal couple then paid tribute to independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
They also attended a party at the British High Commissioner's residence.
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The party celebrated the birthday of the Queen, who turns 90 on 21 April.
Prince William described himself as the "Queen's representative" and said his grandmother was "still very much the boss", as he read out a message from her and Prince Philip.
"I have fond memories of our previous visits to India and this event is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the enduring friendship between our two countries, our shared culture and the business opportunities we can create together," the message said.
"It is with great pleasure that I entrust another generation of my family to strengthen and renew our bonds."
Having delivered the message, he said he could "report back to granny that I have done my duty".
The duke also paid tribute to his grandmother, describing her as "remarkably energetic" and a "dedicated guiding force for her family".
"I am so glad that children have the chance to get to know the Queen," he added.
"George and Charlotte too will discover how lucky they are to have such a wonderful great-grandmother, a role model for the rest of their lives."
By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent
One Mumbai newspaper headline has declared "Royal couple charms crowds".
Images of a future king and queen demonstrating their sporting, competitive edge have proved irresistible to many British newspapers and broadcasters.
But such coverage doesn't mean that royal fever has descended on India.
Security concerns in the modern world mean that presidents and princes travel in a bubble, and only meet those who are invited and checked out in advance.
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At the Gandhi museum in Old Birla House, the duke and duchess paid their respects at the memorial marking the location where the statesman was assassinated in 1948.
On Tuesday the couple, who are visiting India for the first time, will meet the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi before travelling to Kaziranga National Park in Assam to learn about the conservation work being done there.
On Sunday night, Prince William spoke of his admiration for India, during a speech at a charity gala in Mumbai attended by Bollywood film stars.
He praised "an India whose traditions, culture and civilisation go back thousands of years, and yet co-exist with an India that is young, creative, entrepreneurial".
Earlier, at the same venue - the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel - the couple spoke to survivors of the 2008 terror attacks in the city.
The seven-day tour will also see them travel to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
Chantelle Fitzgerald, 18, of Canvey Island in Essex, lost her mother in August and thought the state would cover the cost.
However, the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) said it would not pay and the funeral directors have issued their bill to her.
A family friend called it "disgusting" and has launched a fundraising appeal.
Vicki Fitzgerald died aged 47 from a liver disease, while the children's father died when they were a lot younger.
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When Mrs Fitzgerald died, Chantelle applied to become her brother Shane's legal guardian to prevent him being taken into care and, with his help - and that of her boyfriend's mother Michelle Gray - organised the funeral.
Chantelle signed the forms with the funeral director.
"I think mum hid it [her illness] from us in many ways," she said. "If I had known, I would have prepared everything a lot better.
"I've an older brother and they [DWP] said it was down to him to pay as next-of-kin, but I hadn't seen him in years and we don't have contact, although he did come to the funeral."
Ms Gray, 47, who also lives on Canvey, said "it's disgusting".
"I blame the government department - Chantelle's been left to sort out a funeral and now they're both frightened of getting into trouble with the courts and they're only kids."
A spokesman for the funeral directors E Sargeant & Son said: "They agreed to this fee and it is our normal business practice to follow this up if payment is not forthcoming.
"We are in ongoing dialogue with the family and have invited them to discuss the matter further."
A DWP spokesman said: "Funeral payments provide a safety net for those in need during a difficult time and last year we supported over 32,000 claims.
"If a claim is unsuccessful, claimants can request a mandatory reconsideration and then a right of appeal."
The family and Michelle Gray said they had already been through the appeal process and it had failed.
Adrian Gard was charged in February of making a false statement to police after the listening device was found during a check of the hotel room.
A court in Sydney dismissed the charge on Friday.
Gard was found guilty of another charge of operating without a proper licence.
He will be sentenced for that charge in September.
All Blacks captain Kieran Read told the court that Gard, who had worked for the team for a long time, was a "pretty good man" and had been "pretty honest and loyal in what he does".
Read's side begin their Rugby Championship defence against Australia on Saturday - the first of three games in the annual Bledisloe Cup.
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Lewis-Francis, 33, who won Olympic gold as part of the 4x100m relay team at the 2004 Athens Games, missed Beijing 2008 and London 2012 through injury.
The GB Bobsleigh team finished fifth at both the 2014 Sochi Games and at last season's World Championships.
"I can be a great track athlete and a great bobsleigher," he told BBC Sport.
"My problem has always been my start and hopefully bobsleigh can help me improve that because I'd love to make the Rio 2016 team."
Lewis-Francis insists though that bobsleigh will be his major focus as he is determined to add to his Olympic medal collection.
"Some of my greatest moments have come in team events, like the 4x100m relay [in Athens], so bobsleigh plays to my strengths," he said.
The 2010 Commonwealth relay gold medallist has also been impressed by the talent he has seen in the British team.
"I watched the last Winter Olympics on the TV and was very intrigued, but I've found it's not as easy as it looks and I have so much respect for the guys here," he said.
"They [GB] already have a good team and I'm a big lad, I'm strong, I still have a little bit of fast-twitch fibre left too so perhaps with a bit of MLF speed in there we can finish a bit better than fifth."
Lewis-Francis' former GB team-mates Simeon Williamson and Joel Fearon are already part of the British bobsleigh setup, whilst fellow 2004 Olympic gold medallist Jason Gardener competed in the 2008 GB Bobsleigh championships.
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Other ex-sprinters who have previously made the switch include Marcus Adam, Allyn Condon, former world champion GB bobsleigher Nicola Minichiello and Beijing Olympian Craig Pickering.
"I was quite surprised when I came here and saw a lot of people that I used to line up against and race," he said.
"There's a lot of young sprinters here as well so you can see the making of the switch from athletics to bobsleigh and I think it's good for the sport."
USA sprinter Lauryn Williams won Olympic relay gold at London 2012, before partnering Elena Meyers-Taylor to a second-place finish at the Sochi Winter Olympics last year.
GB Bobsleigh performance director Gary Anderson hopes Lewis-Francis can make a similar difference for the British team.
"To win an Olympic medal in 2018 we need to have one of the quickest start times in the world, we were near that in Sochi but just need that little bit more," he told BBC Sport."
On Lewis-Francis, Anderson said: "He is an Olympic champion and has taken to the bobsleigh training really well - it's an exciting time for the team."
The Commonwealth 100m silver medallist's eldest child, Romeo, was less than a year old when the men's 4x100m relay team secured victory over the USA in Athens.
"Most of my kids are too young to remember 2004," he reflected, and added that a medal "would be amazing and a dream come true.
"To have another moment where they can actually watch it and see their daddy actually doing something amazing - that would be great for me."
Lewis-Francis has made impressive progress since joining the team for pre-season training in Bath in August and has been selected for the team push start trials in Switzerland later in September.
He is expected to make his debut on ice next month with the bobsleigh American Cup series a possible target in late October.
Since July 2015, at least four journalists have been arrested, two others left the state and many more continue to face harassment daily.
"The large number of journalists who have quit their profession in the past six months is probably unprecedented and that shows how grave the fear is," said Kamal Shukla, president of Patrakaar Suraksha Kanoon Sanyukt Sangarsh Samiti, a group fighting to bring a law to protect journalists in the state.
The Chhattisgarh government on 20 May announced the formation of a high-level committee, consisting of journalists and civil servants, to investigate the arrests.
Even though this move seems like a successful culmination of their protest, journalists say they will wait to see the working of this committee before rejoicing.
The mineral-rich state of Chhattisgarh has witnessed an armed conflict for more than three decades. While the government encourages mineral extraction industries in the area, an armed left-wing rebel guerrilla group, called the Maoists, opposes it.
The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous tribespeople and the rural poor who, they say, have been neglected by governments for decades.
The southern Bastar region of the state is the epicentre of the violence. The conflict intensified after the state government signed agreements in mid-2015 to set up mega steel plants in the region.
Activists say that to implement these agreements, the government had to weaken the rebels. Pledging to "eradicate Maoists from the region" by the end of 2016, the police launched an all-out attack against everyone they felt were Maoist sympathisers.
"Under the garb of attacking those supportive of the Maoist cause, the state began to indiscriminately target innocent tribal groups, so they could be coaxed into leaving their lands and migrate," said Bastar-based Aam Aadmi Party leader and human rights activist Soni Sori.
"In order for the state to win its bloody war against the tribal groups, any witnesses to their exploitation needed to be removed," she added.
Journalists in Chhattisgarh are often the only credible source of information from far-flung areas.
The northern and southern parts of the state have many remote villages, which are often unconnected by roads. In these forest-covered villages, people speak tribal languages, making local journalists, who work as freelancers for national newspapers, significant news gatherers.
When tribal journalist Somaru Nag was arrested and charged with "anti-state activities" in July 2015, it largely went unnoticed. His family was informed about the arrest after three days.
But activists started seeing a pattern after more journalists were subsequently arrested. Santosh Yadav, a freelancer for a Hindi newspaper, was arrested last September on more severe charges than Mr Nag.
"There was a lot of pressure on him to become a police informer and report on Maoist movements in his area," said Isha Khandelwal, Mr Yadav's lawyer.
"He had made the administration uncomfortable by reporting on state excesses," she told the BBC.
However, Amit Kataria, the district collector of Bastar, insisted that Mr Yadav was a Maoist.
Mr Yadav's arrest was enough to make other journalists anxious.
On 10 October, about 300 journalists from all over the state protested in the capital city of Raipur. They sought the release of their arrested colleagues and demanded a legislation to protect journalists. The government did not respond.
The protest was repeated in December in Bastar's largest commercial city, Jagdalpur. The state gave meek assurances, but nothing significant was announced.
In January, a group of men belonging to a civil vigilante group began harassing Malini Subramanium, a contributor for news website Scroll.in. She was later forced to leave Bastar.
BBC Hindi's Alok Putul got into trouble for his reports over the threats to Ms Subramanium.
He was also investigating an alleged extrajudicial killing in Darbha Valley in Bastar when he was forewarned of a threat. A month later, Mr Putul was forced to move to Raipur to ensure his safety.
In March, within a span of a week, two journalists - Prabhat Singh and Deepak Jaiswal - were arrested on different charges.
The four arrested journalists continue to be in jail.
In a report released in late March, the Editors' Guild of India said they could not find "a single journalist who could claim with confidence that he/she was working without fear or pressure".
"The state government wants the media to see its fight with the Maoists as a fight for the nation and expects the media to treat it as a national security issue, and not raise any questions about it," the guild said in its report.
The fall of journalism in Bastar
In a press conference in Raipur in February, the Inspector General of Police of Bastar region, SRP Kalluri, said he expected journalists to aid his fight against the Maoists.
"We don't care about the national media. You have a different way of looking at things. We work with the media in Bastar, that sits with us, eats with us, and comes in helicopters with us," he said.
With several Hindi newspapers in circulation in Bastar, there is no dearth of information. However, what kind of information reaches the ordinary man in the region needs inspection.
With hotels in Jagdalpur denying rooms to journalists and their phones being tapped indiscriminately, gathering news has become a challenge.
"Those who live in Bastar cannot report fearlessly," said Bappi Rai, president of South Bastar Reporters' Association.
"Now, it is getting tougher for those from Delhi and other places to come to tell our stories," he added.
Care is preferred to Ben Youngs, while Marler gets in ahead of Mako Vunipola.
Back rower Jack Clifford, prop Paul Hill and centre Ollie Devoto are set to make their international debuts off the bench at Murrayfield.
Lock Courtney Lawes is included among the replacements after passing a fitness test on his hamstring injury.
"There were some tight calls on selection, but we have picked a match-day squad with a blend of experience and youth," said England head coach Eddie Jones, who succeeded Stuart Lancaster.
England: Mike Brown; Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Owen Farrell, Jack Nowell; George Ford, Danny Care; Joe Marler, Dylan Hartley (captain), Dan Cole, Joe Launchbury, George Kruis, Chris Robshaw, James Haskell, Billy Vunipola.
Replacements: Jamie George, Mako Vunipola, Paul Hill, Courtney Lawes, Jack Clifford, Ben Youngs, Alex Goode, Ollie Devoto.
Northampton hooker Dylan Hartley skippers an England side attempting to retain the Calcutta Cup, which they have held since 2009.
Owen Farrell, Billy Vunipola and Mike Brown have been appointed vice-captains. The starting XV boasts 512 caps, but no debutants.
Former captain Chris Robshaw is moved across the back row to blind-side flanker, with James Haskell taking over at open-side.
George Ford plays at fly-half with Farrell at inside centre in their second Test start together.
"The boys have worked hard since coming into camp to understand how I want the team to play going forward," added Australian Jones.
"We are confident we can go to Edinburgh and win, but we're in no doubt it will be a huge challenge.
"Playing at Murrayfield in front of a passionate Scottish crowd will be a real test for this team but one I know we can rise to."
BBC Sport's chief sports writer Tom Fordyce:
New head coach Eddie Jones has gone for experience over promise after selecting a battle-hardened England XV to open their Six Nations campaign against Scotland.
It means nine of the men who started England's last match - the meaningless World Cup win over Uruguay - will get the chance to kick-start the new regime.
When Stuart Lancaster's own spell began with the same fixture four years ago, his first XV featured three new caps and only six survivors of a team that had lost to France in the quarter-finals of the preceding World Cup.
Yet Jones has been far more conservative with Scotland chasing a first win over England in eight years.
It is five years now since England last won the Six Nations Championship and 13 since their last Grand Slam, but they have won on their past two visits to Murrayfield, keeping Scotland scoreless two winters ago.
However, with their hosts coming off a more successful World Cup - only a controversial late penalty decision denying them a place in the semi-finals - Saturday afternoon is likely to prove a testing baptism.
Speaking to reporters following Thursday's team announcement, Jones looked to be handling the scrutiny in his stride.
"If Eddie Jones feels under any pressure ahead of his first match in charge of England, he's not showing it so far," said Fordyce.
"He was all relaxation and smiles, combative when pushed on the lack of new faces but clearly excited.
"He admits to nerves but only positive ones: 'I don't sit there biting my nails or scratching my head.'
"With his years of international coaching experience, the former Australia and Japan coach has seen bigger occasions than this - and, in a frenetic Six Nations build-up, his calmness is so far shining through."
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The Northampton woman, who was the only female rider at the meeting, crashed at a chicane near the start/finish area.
"I'm totally gutted to tell you that due to a little broken bone from my off on Thursday, I won't be competing in the NW 200," Costello said on Facebook.
The 40-year-old was competing at the event for a 10th year.
Costello also missed Thursday night's opening races because of her injury.
She walked away from the incident and the practice session was resumed after a short delay to clear the track.
They said their process is fast, clean and cheap. It can store energy from the sun and wind.
Writing in the journal Science, the Glasgow researchers said their process is thirty times faster than the current method.
Without using any more energy, it is claimed to store the hydrogen in a carbon-free liquid.
Prof Lee Cronin, of the university's School of Chemistry. said: "The process uses a liquid that allows the hydrogen to be locked up in a liquid-based inorganic fuel.
"By using a liquid sponge known as a redox mediator that can soak up electrons and acid we've been able to create a system where hydrogen can be produced in a separate chamber without any additional energy input after the electrolysis of water takes place.
"The link between the rate of water oxidation and hydrogen production has been overcome, allowing hydrogen to be released from the water 30 times faster than the leading PEME process on a per-milligram-of-catalyst basis."
These were just some of the strands to the colourful and exuberant opening ceremony at Celtic Park for the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Was Glasgow kissed by Caledonian Cool or did it deliver Tartan cringe amidst a haze of Scotch myth?
Here's what others thought...
Australia
Writing in The Australian, Wayne Smith said: "Name a Scottish icon, it got an airing, be it Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, Susan Boyle, tossed cabers or Rod Stewart, pumping out his signature "The Rhythm of My Heart".
Not that the Scots were showing their dour side, not on this night, even parodying their own weather in a cute takeoff of Men at Work's "Land Down Under".
India
The Times of India online edition said: "Scotland rolled out a spectacular opening ceremony on Wednesday with dazzling and colourful display of their unique culture and heritage on a breathtaking night, which also had some Indian flavour to set the stage for the 20th Commonwealth Games."
Canada
Writing in the Toronto Star, Rob Harris said: "The Loch Ness Monster, tartan-clad bagpipers and giant pieces of shortbread took the place of footballers on the Celtic Park pitch as the Commonwealth Games began with a celebration of Scottish mythology and traditions on Wednesday.
"Scotland is hosting the 20th edition of the games for former British colonies as its own future as part of Britain could be coming to an end.
"With an independence referendum coming on September 18, the issue of Scotland's national identity is in sharp focus, and organizers made light of perceptions of the country with a self-deprecating start to the ceremony attended by Queen Elizabeth II."
New Zealand
Writing in The New Zealand Herald, APNZ senior reporter Rebecca Quilliam said: "The 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has opened today in Scottish style.
"Bagpipers, dancers and kilt-clad singers welcomed a packed stadium and millions of television viewers to Scotland...
"Hundreds of performers packed the stadium in a colourful display depicting Scottish life and the country's history."
United Kingdom
Writing in The Telegraph, Jim White said: "On a beautiful, balmy evening, in weather apparently borrowed wholesale from the World Cup host Brazil for the occasion, Glasgow produced a vibrant, joyous opening to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
"Taking the lead from Danny Boyle's magnificent ceremonial launch of the London Olympics this was an event rich in humour, jollity and self-deprecation.
"Plus the magnificent Londoner Rod Stewart, warbling gleefully in the football stadium he cites as his spiritual home."
The Guardian's Lyn Gardner took a different view: "London 2012 got Danny Boyle; Glasgow 2014 got a clearly nervous Susan Boyle singing Mull of Kintyre and forgetting the words, and John Barrowman in an eye-watering haze of purple tartan.
"Those hoping against hope that Sean Connery and the Queen would parachute into Celtic Park in a cheeky Scottish nod to the James Bond sequence of the London Olympics Opening Ceremony were always going to be disappointed.
"The budget was never going to run to that kind of grandstanding, but there were times during David Zolkwer's oddly lacklustre and unfocused production when you wondered whether someone - maybe all those people who should have been sitting in the glaringly empty seats in the stands - had scarpered down the pub with the entire budget.
"Or maybe they were just hiding under the seats in mild embarrassment that this was how this great, gritty, glorious city was being portrayed to the rest of the world."
The Independent's Jonathan Brown said the opening ceremony gave an "exhilarating start" to the Games.
He said: "From the moment the giant kilt lifted to reveal pantomime star John Barrowman, it was clear that the wit as well as the famous wisdom of the Scots was being showcased. So too the irrepressible spirit of the people of Glasgow.
"Where else would the disfigurement of a national symbol (albeit an Anglo-Irishman) - the traffic cone which has repeatedly and drunkenly been used to adorn the head of the Duke of Wellington in Royal Exchange Square for the past 30 years - be celebrated as part of a national story before a billion-strong television audience?"
Referring to the ongoing Scottish referendum campaign, The Daily Mail's Robert Hardman said: "After the fractious introspection and months of angry debate about what it means to be Scottish, the people of Scotland enjoyed a well-deserved break from it all last night - as they welcomed the world.
"And by the end of an exuberant, good-humoured, periodically chaotic evening - starring everyone (and everything) from a giant haggis, cabers, golf clubs, a gay wedding, 41 Scottish terriers, Rod Stewart, rousing cheers for the Queen and lashings of self-deprecation - Scotland seemed to have answered her own question.
"All of the above, we can safely say, encompass what it means to be Scottish. Quite what last night's opening of the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow means for that referendum campaign, on the other hand, is anyone's guess."
They've won more than 100 big awards over the last 20 years for their shows and their presenting.
But what's the story of their success?
It all began when Ant and Dec met on the set of CBBC show, Byker Grove, when they were just 13 years old.
Their characters, PJ and Duncan, were mates in the show and Ant and Dec soon became friends in real life.
From acting to singing - in 1993 the series led to the guys signing a record contract and over the course of four years they had 14 top 20 hits.
And from singing to presenting - in 1996 they got a taste of Bafta glory when the Ant and Dec Show, which used to be on the BBC, won an award.
In 1998 they launched SM:TV Live and CD:UK, mixing music, comedy and cartoons. The show was co-hosted with Cat Deeley - a British presenter who now hosts So You Think You Can Dance in America.
The pair have hosted lots of other programmes and game shows over the years and among the many awards they've won, they've picked up 14 at the National Television Awards in the category of most popular entertainment presenter. They won it for the first time in 2001 and have kept winning every year since!
Among the well-known shows they present are I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, which they've hosted since it started in 2002, and Britain's Got Talent, which launched in 2007.
The miner, which will be erected on a plinth in the heart of Laxey, is currently being constructed in Bali by an artist called Ongky Wijana.
The Great Laxey Mine employed more than 600 miners between 1825 and 1929.
Co-ordinator Ivor Hankinson said: "The miners were so brave, and this statue will mean they are remembered forever."
He added: "In addition we will have a plaque on the wall showing the names of 32 people who died in the mine. I think that is important because they did so much for the Isle of Man and worked so hard at a very difficult job."
Once erected on its plinth, the stone miner statue will stand at about 13ft high.
It will replace a wooden carving of a miner which was removed in 2008 after it disintegrated with age.
Funding for the statue was provided by a benefactor, a Laxey resident who left money for the project in her will.
"This lady died in 2012 at the age of 97, but she would have been so pleased that one of her final wishes is coming to fruition," said Mr Hankinson.
"She was saddened when the wooden miner had to be taken down so this would have meant a lot to her - as it will for everybody in the village."
Stone Carver Ongky Wijana said: "I was honoured to be asked to do the Laxey piece. It's a big public piece of work so I'm very proud that people from all over will be able to see it and it will represent Laxey, which is such a beautiful town."
The Laxey mines were among the riches sources of zinc, lead and silver anywhere in the British Isles in the latter half of the 19th Century.
Declan Aaron McCallion, from Elaghmore Park in the Galliagh area of Londonderry, is the husband of Sinn Mayor Elisha McCallion.
He has been charged with physically assaulting a man.
He is also charged with assaulting the man's wife by placing her in fear of immediate violence.
He was released on bail and ordered not to be intoxicated in public.
Mr McCallion has been further charged with disorderly behaviour and with resisting a police officer in the due execution of his duty.
The four offences are alleged to have happened before midnight on 19 May at Academy Road.
A police officer told district judge Barney McElholm that he could connect the defendant to each of the four charges.
A defence solicitor said he had no questions for the officer and added that the case should not trouble the court.
The solicitor applied for the case to be adjourned until 17 June to allow him to receive information on other matters.
His application was granted by the district judge.
As part of his bail conditions Mr McCallion must submit to a preliminary breath test if he is ever asked to do so by the police.
The judge also ordered the defendant not to have any direct or indirect contact with the injured parties or with any prosecution witnesses in the case.
The Washington Hotel on East Parade, Llandudno, was most recently a nightclub until it closed in 2012.
Dylan's restaurant chain, which has two other premises in north Wales, hopes to reopen it in 2017 after renovation work, creating 40 jobs.
The building first opened in 1885 but was rebuilt in 1925 after being destroyed in a fire.
Research by the charity showed the numbers getting help had fallen from just over one million three years ago to 850,000 last year.
Age UK said the cuts were one of the major causes behind the growing pressures on A&E units.
But councils said they had been left with little choice because they were "chronically underfunded".
The overall cut in numbers getting help from councils represents a drop of one-fifth.
But the research - based on an analysis of official figures - also provided a detailed breakdown of which individual services had been cut.
It found between 2010-11 and 2013-14:
Age UK director Caroline Abrahams said: "Our state-funded social care system is in calamitous, quite rapid decline.
"The more preventive services like meals on wheels and day care are being especially hard hit, leaving the system increasingly the preserve of older people in the most acute need, storing up big problems for the future.
"Hundreds of thousands of older people who need social care are being left high and dry. The lucky ones have sufficient funds to buy in some support, or can rely on the goodwill of family, neighbours and friends. But there are many who are being left to struggle on entirely alone."
Previous research by the charity has shown there are nearly 900,000 people who do not get any help for their care needs.
"Until recently the impact of the decline in social care has been relatively hidden, but social care is a crucial pressure valve for the NHS and the evidence of what happens when it is too weak to fulfil that function is clear for us all to see," Ms Abrahams added.
Over the past three months waiting times in A&E units have reached their worst level for a decade with hospitals reporting they are experiencing particular problems trying to discharge old and frail patients because of the lack of support available in the community.
Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, said the system was "chronically underfunded".
"Councils have protected our most vulnerable people as far as possible, often at the expense of other services, and we will continue to prioritise those most in need.
"However, the combined pressures of insufficient funding, growing demand, escalating costs and a 40% cut to local government budgets across this parliament mean that despite councils' best efforts they are having to make tough decisions about the care services they can provide."
But a Department of Health spokeswoman said the April launch of the Better Care Fund - a £5.3bn pot predominantly funded from the NHS to encourage greater integration between health and care - would help.
"We know we need to work differently to respond to our growing ageing population."
She added the fund would "focus resources on helping people to live independently, which will save money and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions".
The loss of Will Gidman and James Taylor during the final morning left the home side 134-5, only 121 ahead.
But Patel hit 11 fours in his 76 before being caught behind off Will Rhodes.
Read (83 not out) and and Vernon Philander (38) then shared an unbroken stand of 109 before a declaration on 354-7 ended the game as a draw.
Yorkshire's five seamers put in plenty of effort on a pitch offering them little assistance, but the absence of spinner Adil Rashid, who is with the England tour squad in the Caribbean, was keenly felt.
Part-timers Jack Leaning and Alex Lees provided the only spin options at skipper Andrew Gale's disposal.
And although Leaning had Riki Wessels (43) caught behind after putting on 79 for the sixth wicket with Patel, he proved expensive, conceding 82 from his 14 overs.
Read was let off on 14 when Gale failed to hold a low chance at cover off Jack Brooks and he struck a six and 10 fours after tea.
Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell:
"It ebbed and flowed throughout.
"There were periods today when we lost wickets at crucial times and we had to fight and battle hard, but over the four days there was a lot of good cricket played by both teams.
"When we went out on Sunday morning in the gloom and doom, with the floodlights on, and the ball nipping around I thought a score of about 275 would be par but Alex Hales played an outstanding innings.
"The wicket got flatter over the second and third days, I'll reserve judgement on how well we bowled on it, but Yorkshire played very well."
Yorkshire head coach Jason Gillespie:
"I thought it was a great effort by our lads but full credit to Chris (Read) and Vernon (Philander), in particular, because we couldn't break that partnership.
"We were a bit disappointed because we felt we were in with a chance of winning the game, but once they got together it proved difficult indeed.
"Having said that, with the view that we are without so many players on Test duty in the West Indies and also with Ryan Sidebottom out injured, the opening games have proved to be a decent return for us.
"We would have been quite happy to chase something like eight runs an over in the final session if we had been able to manufacture it."
BBC Radio Leeds' Dave Callaghan:
"Yorkshire had a scent of victory on the final day, but it was soon stifled as Patel hit 76, and towards the end there were runs for skipper Read.
"The champions can take heart from the draw as they were without a number of key players, who are with England in the West Indies.
"Notts will be pleased that in both innings, they registered big scores - so, something for both teams to take away from the stalemate."
Lawyers for the charity wrote to Aboyne-based Hilltrek Outdoor Clothing demanding they stop selling their popular Glencoe jacket.
They said the NTS owned Glencoe and held the trademark for the name.
But business owner Dave Shand has vowed to continue selling the jacket the firm has manufactured for 30 years.
He said the lawyers' letter was "bullying and threatening" and after he shared it on social media, the NTS conceded that it may have been "too harsh in tone".
A charity spokesman said they would be happy to speak to the business to find a "mutually agreeable solution".
The letter demanded the business stop selling goods with the name Glencoe from their website, and refrain from using the word in future products or packaging.
It threatened legal action if the firm did not comply with their demands within a week.
"I was shocked that they could trademark the name of a place and shocked at their attitude," Mr Shand told BBC Scotland online.
"A polite letter should have been their first step I think, explaining the situation and asking for a dialogue," he added.
"They irking thing is I am a NTS supporter- I was a member until about two years ago," he said.
Mr Shand, a keen outdoor enthusiast, said he took over the clothing business from its previous owners in 2003.
From their workshop in Aboyne, four employees manufacture and supply outdoor clothing to more than 25 countries.
It has long been the firm's policy to name their jackets after some of their favourite places in Scotland.
Now he is worried that the row could affect the future of products like their Cuillin jacket, their Braemar smock, or their Kintail shirt.
He said he plans to consult a lawyer over the issue on Monday and has had crowdfunding offers to help pay their fees.
A spokesman for The National Trust for Scotland said the charity has registered trademarks for some of its properties "as a defensive measure". It wanted to prevent third parties legally registering trademarks for properties owned by the NTS.
He said the charity has made sure that established and new businesses trading locally to their properties can continue trading "without interruption or cost".
But they have contacted a number of companies using trademarked names which are not local, including some businesses based in France and England.
He said: "Our only desire is to protect the properties in our care and stop them being exploited in ways which do not accord with our charitable purposes."
He added: "In retrospect, although the letter sent to Hilltreck was a standard one, it may have been in the circumstances of this particular company too harsh in tone.
"Our letter to Hilltreck was intended to open up negotiation to establish if the company had legal prior trading rights and clearly the wording and tone did not convey this. We would be happy to enter into a dialogue with them with the aim of finding a mutually agreeable solution."
The man's next of kin have been informed by the prison service but no other details have been released.
The PSNI, coroner and Prisoner Ombudsman have begun investigations into the death.
Head of the Prison Service Ronnie Armour said: "I would like to extend my sympathy and that of the Prison Service to the family of the man who has died.
"My thoughts are with them at this difficult time."
The fledgling BBC began daily radio broadcasts in 1922 and quickly came to play a pivotal role in national life. The Empire Service - the forerunner of the BBC World Service - established a reputation worldwide. The BBC is funded by a licence fee, which all households with a TV set must pay.
Commercial TV began in 1955 with the launch of ITV. Commercial radio arrived in the 1970s, although ship-based stations flourished in the 1960s before being outlawed. Hundreds of privately-owned radio and TV stations now compete with the BBC for listeners and viewers.
Home-grown soaps top the TV ratings, and many British viewers follow the ups and downs of life in East London's Albert Square, the setting for the BBC's EastEnders, and Coronation Street - ITV's soap about northern English working-class life. Programmes which catapult ordinary people into the public eye - known as reality TV - attract large audiences.
Once-dominant terrestrial TV networks face strong competition from digital satellite and cable, which offer hundreds of channels, and digital terrestrial TV (DTT), which carries a smaller number of mainly free-to-air channels. Terrestrial digital radio (DAB) has had a slower start. In a rapidly-changing digital world, British media providers are reaching out to online audiences.
The media are free and able to report on all aspects of British life. The variety of publications reflects the full spectrum of political opinion. In recent years, printed newspaper circulations have been sliding while online readership has surged.
News Corp, owner of The Times through its News UK subsidiary, has spearheaded attempts to make money from online content by charging readers for access.
In 2012, a judge-led inquiry recommended a new system of self-regulation for the press, backed by legislation. The inquiry followed a phone-hacking scandal at a News Corp title.
Politicians agreed to set up a new watchdog with powers to impose heavy fines and force newspapers to publish corrections. In 2013, the new system was backed by a Royal Charter, rather than by law.
But the industry objected and said the Royal Charter plan would give politicians too much power. Most publishers have stayed outside the new system.
There were more than 60 million internet users in the UK by 2016, nearly 93% of the population (Internetlivestats).
The internet accounts for 12.4% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP), the Boston Consulting Group reported in 2016.
Around 72% of adult internet users have a social media account (Ofcom, 2015). Facebook is the leading platform.
The BBC is Britain's most popular online news destination.
The US president sent congratulations to both laureates, adding: "Music brings people together in an increasingly interconnected world.
"It helps bridge differences, lift hearts and challenge assumptions."
Dame Evelyn said she "never imagined" she would win the award, considered to be music's version of the Nobel prize.
The musician - who has been deaf since the age of 12 - was accompanied to the ceremony in Stockholm by her mother and her childhood percussion teacher, whom she had not seen in 25 years.
Accepting her honour from King Carl XVI of Sweden, she described the Polar Prize as "important and symbolic".
"It's an institution that brings together people of all kinds, whatever their culture, age or beliefs, in a celebration of music's power and diversity. I want to thank tonight's superb organisers, the Swedish people for their hospitality and of course the prize committee for awarding me this prize."
Harris, from Birmingham, Alabama, has recorded more than 25 albums over four decades and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
She has collaborated with artists from Bob Dylan and Gram Parsons to Willie Nelson and Beck, and is the subject of the 2012 song Emmylou by Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit.
The duo read Harris's citation at the ceremony, and played their song at an after-party.
"We never thought we'd get to sing this song in front of you," sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg, said to Harris.
Bruce Springsteen also sent a message of congratulations to the country star, saying: "Thank you for gracing our songs with your voice over the years."
Harris had earlier given an emotional acceptance speech, which moved some members of the audience to tears.
"I have only one regret on this magical evening, that my beloved parents, Walter and Eugenia, did not live to share this with me," she said.
"It didn't matter to them if I was successful or not, they only cared for my happiness. Their unconditional love carried me through good times and bad and will abide with me whatever the future holds, 'til my journey ends."
Since the Polar Music Prize was founded by Abba manager and lyricist Stig Anderson in 1992, it has honoured musical achievements and boundary breaking.
Each year it recognises one laureate from the contemporary music world and one from the more classical realm.
Previous winners of the Polar Music Prize include Sir Paul McCartney, Chuck Berry, Patti Smith and Youssou N'Dour.
As well as their trophy, Harris and Dame Evelyn were each awarded one million Swedish krona (£78,560).
Organisers called 2015's laureates "richly deserving" winners with "exceptional music careers".
"Both represent the spirit of the award that my father envisaged when he founded the prize," said managing director Marie Ledin.
The Nobel committee described both laureates as "champions of peace".
Ms Yousafzai said she was there to stand up for the rights of forgotten and frightened children, and raise their voice rather than pity them.
Mr Satyarthi said receiving the prize was "a great opportunity" to further his work against child slavery.
Ms Yousafzai and Mr Satyarthi received their awards from the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, in the presence of King Harald V of Norway.
They delivered their Nobel lectures during the award ceremony.
In her speech, Ms Yousafzai said the award was not just for her: "It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want change.
"I am here to stand up for their rights, raise their voice. It is not time to pity them. It is time to take action so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education."
It was a day when Indian saris and Pakistani shalwar kameez blended with finely cut Western suits.
It was a moment when the best of musical traditions from East and West filled the elegant Oslo Town Hall - a stirring Raga for Peace, South Asian Qawwali, a haunting rendition of Oh Holy Night.
But the voices which resonated most loudly were those of the Nobel Laureates.
Kailash Satyarthi ended his Nobel lecture with "Let us March!" and Malala Yousafzai declared 'Let us begin today!" Both see one of the world's most distinguished honours as a weapon in their fight for every child's right to be educated, and not to work in childhood.
Nobel organisers say there have never been such standing ovations or so many accredited journalists. But will this prize do even more to achieve the goals it has honoured - to champion children's rights?
Ms Yousafzai, 17, was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in October 2012 for campaigning for girls' education and now lives in the UK.
She is the youngest-ever recipient of a Nobel prize.
She said she had brought other girls with her to Oslo with similar stories, among them two classmates shot alongside her by the Taliban.
Ms Yousafzai said she was dedicating the prize money to the Malala Fund, "to help give girls everywhere a quality education and call on leaders to help girls like me..."
"I will continue this fight until I see every child in school," she added.
"I feel much stronger after the attack that I endured, because I know, no-one can stop me, or stop us, because now we are millions, standing up together."
In his speech earlier, Mr Satyarthi said he was "representing the sound of silence" and the "millions of those children who are left behind".
He said he had kept an empty chair at the ceremony as a reminder of the children without a voice.
"There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children," he said.
"I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom," he added, to applause.
Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland stressed the importance of education, saying: "The road to democracy and freedom is paved with knowledge."
Mr Jagland praised Mr Satyarthi's work campaigning against child labour, often at great risk to himself.
He also lauded Ms Yousafzai's efforts to promote education despite threats from the Taliban, saying: "Her courage is almost indescribable".
Indian and Pakistani leaders congratulated the laureates.
Pakistani radio quoted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as saying: "The dream of Malala regarding girls' education shall be realised."
His Indian counterpart Narendra Modi tweeted: "The entire nation watches the ceremony in Oslo with great joy & immense pride. Congratulations @k_satyarthi!
"I also congratulate the young Malala Yousafzai for the momentous achievement."
Through the efforts of Mr Satyarthi, 60, tens of thousands of children have been rescued from hazardous industries.
He has endured death threats for his work, and two of his colleagues were killed.
Ms Yousafzai and Mr Satyarthi were jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".
They have split the $1.4m (£860,000) prize money.
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Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded 1901-2014
16 women have been awarded the prize, including Malala Yousafzai
17 Malala's age, making her the youngest ever laureate
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3 laureates were under arrest at the time of the award: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi & Liu Xiaobo
Brigid Jones, cabinet member for education and social services, said she was told a procedure did not exist for someone in her role.
Ms Jones, a councillor since 2011, branded the situation "ridiculous".
Birmingham City Council said it was looking at introducing a policy.
Ms Jones, who was 26 years old when appointed to the council's cabinet in 2013, said she was thinking about starting a family and had enquired about her rights.
The Labour councillor said she was told there was no provision for maternity arrangements attached to her £41,696.75 a year job.
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"I was told there isn't a policy and I'd most likely have to step down from my position if I were to have a child," she said.
"Obviously I thought this was ridiculous. I talked to the chief executive [Mark Rogers] and he thought it was ridiculous. He's now working on a policy."
Ms Jones, a councillor for the Selly Oak Ward, said she also felt that "the job of a councillor is from the dark ages."
Some of the constitutions for other major city authorities do not always have a clear policy on maternity rules for cabinet members.
Yet some, like the London Borough of Hackney, have included the policy in their constitution and the cabinet member's position will be filled on a temporary basis, as it would in any job.
But this approach is not put into writing everywhere.
Of course, this may have not been so much of a prevalent issue in the past. But with the number of women under 40 becoming councillors on the rise, it looks like it now has to be looked at by many councils.
And with Birmingham's history on gender equality - it was hit with a huge legal action over equal pay for female workers - the council will be keen to make sure it doesn't get this wrong.
She said the role had not moved with the times and was not representative of the main population.
"We haven't had a pregnant cabinet member in a very long time in Birmingham, so it actually hasn't been an issue before," she said.
"That's how unrepresentative things have been, but I have had assurances that things will change which I do believe."
Sam Smethers, from the Fawcett Society, the UK's largest membership charity for women's rights, said the political system regards councillors as effectively self-employed, so they did not have the same rights as someone who was employed and called for reform.
"We've got these big cabinet roles which effectively are full-time jobs in themselves and yet the policies around them, the procedures around them really haven't caught up with that," she said.
He said a third of all councillors were women, with only 15% of council leaders being female.
Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan will return as detective superintendent Stella Gibson and serial killer Paul Spector.
The drama was created, written and directed by Allan Cubitt.
The popular psychological thriller gained an average of 3.3m viewers making it one of BBC Two's highest performing dramas of 2014.
Writer and director, Allan Cubitt, said: "The cliff-hanger ending of season two was conceived in the hope of further exploring the characters and the themes that are at the heart of The Fall. We're grateful to be given this opportunity by the BBC."
Ben Stephenson, controller, BBC Drama, said: "The story is far from over. Allan has known the end game from the beginning - the cat and mouse game between Gillian and Jamie has one last act to play out. Who will win?"
The BBC said the third series would return to Belfast as the complex relationship between Det Supt Stella Gibson and Paul Spector intensifies and the story of the investigation into the murders becomes more "complex and intricate".
The findings by Citizens Advice show 84% of people surveyed said they might feel uneasy telling anyone about their concerns.
The lack of confidence is despite the fact almost one in three (31%) of the 2,063 British adults questioned by the researchers knew a victim.
The government has announced a review of services currently available.
Reasons people cited for not reporting domestic abuse included fears they could make the situation worse, reluctance to speak up because they were not "absolutely sure" or having a lack of knowledge about the implications for the victim.
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: "When someone manipulates their partner's emotions, controls their finances and even physically assaults them, victims may feel too afraid or defeated to reach out themselves.
"Friends and family are often the only ones who might suspect someone is suffering behind closed doors."
The charity has now called for a green cross code style of guidance to be issued to set out steps for people to help victims.
Last month, the government announced in the Budget that it would review the services that are currently available for domestic abuse and bring in a new law to prosecute offenders.
Karen Bradley, minister for preventing abuse and exploitation, said: "I am grateful to Citizens Advice for raising awareness of the challenges in supporting a friend or family member who is being abused.
"Domestic abuse is not just about physical violence. That is why we are introducing a new offence to capture coercive and controlling behaviour, which is harder to recognise but has an equally devastating impact on victims.
"[The law change] will drive a culture change and send a clear message to perpetrators, victims and society as a whole that all domestic abuse is unacceptable."
MPs will debate the Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill - which would allow doctors to help terminally ill patients to die in some circumstances - on Friday.
But Justin Welby said the bill would mean suicide was "actively supported" instead of being viewed as a tragedy.
He and other faith leaders have issued a joint letter urging MPs to reject it.
Writing in the Observer, the archbishop said he and the heads of other Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh groups believed the bill went beyond "merely legitimising suicide to actively supporting it".
He said asking doctors to aid suicide would be "a change of monumental proportions both in the law and in the role of doctors".
"This respect for the lives of others goes to the heart of both our criminal and human rights laws and ought not to be abandoned," the archbishop said.
"I agree that the law should take a considered and compassionate approach to caring relatives who are asked by those closest to them to help bring their lives to an end.
"To change the law, however, to give individuals access to medically prescribed lethal drugs risks replacing the type of personal compassion that is forged in a life-time relationship for a 'process' marked by clinical and judicial detachment."
The archbishop said a change in the law would place thousands of vulnerable people at risk.
The private members' bill set to be debated on Friday was put forward by Rob Marris, the Labour MP for Wolverhampton South West.
It is almost identical to a bill presented by former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, which passed its initial legislative stages in the House of Lords last year before running out of parliamentary time.
The archbishop argued against the previous bill, calling it "mistaken and dangerous" and he pressed for an inquiry into assisted suicide.
The official position is that the Church of England is opposed to assisted dying but Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, has argued in favour of a change in the law.
According to the campaign group Dignity in Dying, at least 35 people from the UK went to the Dignitas organisation in Switzerland to end their lives last year.
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, chair of inter-faith leaders for Dignity in Dying, said: "We hold that life is precious and to be valued, but when it becomes unbearable, there is no reason for someone already dying who wishes to relinquish it to be forced to carry on against their will.
"Assisted dying for the terminally ill who are mentally competent and request it of their own free is not a mortal sin but a religious option."
The Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill, if passed, would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal drug dose to terminally ill patients in England and Wales who are deemed to have less than six months to live.
A High Court judge and two independent doctors would all be required to agree that the patient had made an informed decision to die.
The bill does not allow for assisted suicide when the patient is not terminally ill, nor for voluntary euthanasia, where a doctor administers the lethal medication.
In Scotland MSPs rejected the Assisted Suicide Scotland Bill by 82 votes to 36 following a debate in May.
An infrastructure spokesman said the work - already under way in Laxey - is due to take about two weeks.
Repairs due to begin in Castletown in December will take about three weeks.
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British sprinter Mark Lewis-Francis has joined the GB Bobsleigh set-up in a bid to reach both the Rio 2016 summer and Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.
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About 50 journalists from the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh recently gathered in Delhi to demand an end to intimidation at the hands of the authorities, and urged the government to provide a conducive environment for independent reportage.
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England have selected Danny Care at scrum-half and Joe Marler at loose-head prop for Saturday's Six Nations match against Scotland.
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Pipers, tartan, Scotty dogs, dancing teacakes, a gay kiss, self deprecating humour, a history of Scotland in song and a successful appeal to raise cash for children around the Commonwealth.
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Samit Patel and Chris Read led a resolute Nottinghamshire batting display which snuffed out any threat of defeat by Yorkshire at Trent Bridge.
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Herbert Henry Asquith was born at Croft House in Morley, Leeds in 1852, the son of a cloth merchant.
The Grade II-listed house is on the market for £435,000.
The house's front door, which replicates 10 Downing Street's entrance, can only be opened from the inside.
Asquith became Liberal Prime Minister in 1908, until December 1916 when he resigned amid political unrest and was succeeded by his war secretary David Lloyd George.
Paul Cooke of estate agents Manning Stainton said the current owner is selling the building on on Church Street because she is downsizing but is "passionate about the house's political history." | The birthplace of the British Prime Minister who took the country to war in 1914 has gone on sale in West Yorkshire. | 39,194,545 | 151 | 25 | false |
Euan Murray almost opened the scoring in spectacular fashion for the visitors after 11 minutes, but his overhead kick hit a post after beating Ben McNamara.
Southport continued to play well, but it was the hosts who got the breakthrough when Come found the back of the net through a crowd of bodies four minutes before the interval.
He added a second just before the hour mark, blasting past Craig King after being put through by Michael Cheek, and that was enough to condemn Southport to a fourth straight defeat.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Braintree Town 2, Southport 0.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 2, Southport 0.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Lee Barnard replaces Michael Cheek.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Alex Henshall replaces Reece Hall-Johnson.
Substitution, Southport. Andrai Jones replaces Euan Murray.
Substitution, Southport. John Cofie replaces Ashley Grimes.
Goal! Braintree Town 2, Southport 0. Sam Corne (Braintree Town).
Second Half begins Braintree Town 1, Southport 0.
First Half ends, Braintree Town 1, Southport 0.
Goal! Braintree Town 1, Southport 0. Sam Corne (Braintree Town).
First Half begins.
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Mr Kerry and his delegation stayed at the Lake Garden hotel in Naypyidaw on Saturday night while attending the Asean Regional Summit.
The hotel is owned by U Zaw Zaw, who is blacklisted for having close ties to the country's former military junta.
But hotels are not included in these sanctions, a US official has said.
However, the slight whiff of hypocrisy is a reminder of the difficulties foreign companies face trying to find Burmese business partners who are not somehow connected to the old regime, says the BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher.
Many of the sanctions imposed on Myanmar during its military rule have been lifted.
But the US government has continued to keep a blacklist of those closely connected to the former government.
UK Anti-Doping ensures sports bodies comply with international anti-doping regulations.
It now offers accreditation to sports played in schools and universities.
The head of sport at Millfield, the first school to join the scheme, said it would support the "right choices".
A spokeswoman for the anti-doping agency said there was not a problem with doping in school sport, but it was important to get the message across to young athletes.
The independent school has joined the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Accreditation Scheme, which will lead to the school gaining "clean sport accredited status".
The accreditation process will involve training for staff and students to promote a "clean" approach to competition and discourage the use of banned substances.
It will cover areas such as nutrition, physiotherapy and strength and conditioning.
Junior athletes taking part in competitions are covered by anti-doping regulations and can face doping tests.
UKAD is the national body that ensures sports, including Olympic and professional, follow the World Anti-Doping Code.
Chief executive Nicole Sapstead said signing up schools would help young athletes to "make the right choices and compete clean".
She said engaging with schools was a way to ensure athletes received the right advice at the earliest stage of their sporting careers.
David Faulkner, Millfield's director of sport, said schools had a duty to teach young people about such aspects of sport.
"As educators, we must all take responsibility to give young athletes the tools to make the right choices for their sporting development both now, and as adults," he said.
The RFU has opened negotiations over a match in the autumn, which would be outside the international window.
It is understood the Premiership clubs would have to give permission for the release of their players.
The match is not a formal part of the £225m agreement with the RFU.
Premiership Rugby said on Wednesday they had yet to be consulted regarding the fixture.
"We haven't been asked for our support," said a spokesman. "We will need to understand the detail of the proposal before responding."
The RFU confirmed on Wednesday that it was looking into arranging an "out-of-window" match this year - the top two sides in the world are not due to meet until the autumn of 2018.
However, the RFU is understood to be interested in a fixture this November, despite the fact the schedule has already been finalised with England playing Argentina, Australia and Samoa in the Autumn Tests.
The match could take place if various obstacles, such as the distribution of match-day revenues, can be overcome, while the New Zealand Rugby Union will also demand a significant financial share before committing to the fixture.
Meanwhile the All Blacks are pencilled in to face the Barbarians on 4 November.
"We are playing New Zealand in 2018," said an RFU spokesperson.
"If there is an opportunity for us to play NZ before then - ie this year - then we will pursue that opportunity."
Eddie Jones' England will surpass New Zealand's record record of 18 consecutive victories if they beat Ireland in the Six Nations on Sunday.
Imam Maulana Habib Ur Rehman of Glasgow Central Mosque used WhatsApp to show his support for Mumtaz Qadri.
Qadri was hanged in February after murdering a local politician who opposed strict blasphemy laws.
Police Scotland said it had reviewed the messages but said "no criminality has been established".
The imam said the series of messages about Qadri, in which he reportedly called the killer a "true Muslim", had been "taken out of context" and were about his opposition to Qadri's hanging and the Pakistani justice system.
Speaking at a conference in Glasgow on Thursday representing differing strands of Muslim faith, imam Habib Ur Rehman repeated that his comments were "misconstrued" and said the situation had added to his "sense of tragedy" following recent terror attacks.
He said: "I condemn extrajudicial killing and anarchy. The spirit of Islam is a spirit of peace."
Police Scotland Superintendent Jim Baird said: "Officers have reviewed all comments as reported to Police Scotland and, whilst it is appreciated that individuals raise issues that concern them, on this occasion no criminality has been established.
"Police Scotland thank the members of the public who raised this issue with us.
"Each person who reported their concerns to the police, and who were not anonymous, was responded to individually. This assisted us in directly answering the specific points they raised."
A Bronx Tale, adapted from the film of the same name, is set against the backdrop of organised crime and racial tension in 1960s New York.
The world premiere will take place at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey on 4 February.
It will be co-directed by Jerry Zaks, the man behind Broadway hits such as Guys and Dolls, with music by multiple Oscar-winner Alan Menken.
A Bronx Tale began life as a one-man stage play, starring Chazz Palminteri as an Italian-American teenager who must choose between his father and a mob-boss father figure.
An aspiring actor, he had become frustrated with his inability to win a leading role and decided, "If they're not gonna give me a great part, I'll write one myself."
Palminteri played eighteen parts, winning widespread acclaim in Los Angeles. Shortly before the play transferred to New York, De Niro bought the film rights.
He cast Francis Capra in the lead role, with Palminteri as the mafia figure. De Niro, who played the teenager's father, also directed.
Plans to turn the show into a musical with the help of Billy Joel never came to fruition, and Palminteri - who had gone on to appear in The Usual Suspects and Bullets over Broadway - revived his one-man show on Broadway in 2007.
That led to renewed interest in the musical version, with Alan Menken eventually signed up to write the score.
The composer previously wrote songs for Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas.
Paper Mill's new season will launch with big band musical Bandstand in October.
A Christmas Story, based on the 1983 movie of the same name, will run throughout the holiday period at the end of the year.
The season will also feature Pump Boys and Dinettes and West Side Story.
"We are proud to have created an irresistible line-up of stories you will love, glorious music that will warm your heart and many memorable moments of theatre magic," said Paper Mill's producing artistic director Mark S Hoebee in a statement.
The accepted wisdom has been that the consequences of a catastrophic nuclear accident may be large, but that the frequency is low.
The industry and nuclear regulators calculate this on the basis of the likelihood of an accident for any one operating year. In the case of the design of the first four reactors at Fukushima, the Japanese Nuclear Energy Safety Organization estimated in 2002: "The frequency of occurrence of a core damage accident is 1/100,000 or less per one year for one reactor and the frequency of occurrence of an accident leading to containment damage is 1/1,000,000 or less per one year for one reactor."
Given that only a few decades, rather than millennia separate the accidents at Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island (which were also thought to be at minimal risk of core damage) it is clear that nuclear operators and/or regulators are significantly underestimating the inherent risks associated with nuclear technology.
The Cancun Summit in December 2010 agreed: "Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time and that all Parties share a vision for long-term co-operative action."
To meet UN targets, emissions must be cut by about 80% by 2050, which will require decarbonising the energy sector.
At the same time, traditional energy forecasts anticipate rapid increases in energy demand, driven primarily by the need to fuel the growing economies in Asia, particularly China and India. The International Energy Agency (IEA) assumes that global energy demand will increase by 47% by 2035.
Supporters of nuclear power believe that it should play an increasingly important role in this new, highly efficient, zero-emissions energy sector.
However, nuclear power is not currently a global technology, being employed by only 30 countries with just six - USA, France, Japan, Germany, Russia and South-Korea - producing almost three-quarters of the nuclear electricity in the world.
The total contribution to global commercial energy production is around 6%, compared to 25% for coal 23% for natural gas.
For nuclear power to play a significant role in meeting future energy demand a significant scaling up of its use will therefore be required, amplifying many-fold the existing problems of nuclear safety, siting and waste management, as well as causing new worries about the proliferation of nuclear materials.
Given the scale and urgency of the problem, it is essential that low-cost technologies with a proven track record of coming in on time and budget, and with global appeal, are prioritised.
The number one priority must therefore be energy efficiency, which not only addresses climate change and energy security problems simultaneously, but also brings demonstrable and rapid economic benefits.
The second area is renewable energy, which, to the surprise of many, has entered the mainstream in the last few years. For example in the EU, renewables installations provided the majority of new capacity in 2008 and 2009, while in Germany they are now bigger contributors to electricity than nuclear power.
This deployment at scale has demonstrated not only the technical capabilities and environmental advantages of wide-spread use of renewables, but also the economic benefits, with reduced dependencies on fluctuating fossil fuel prices.
Nuclear power on the other hand has, at best, had a chequered history of delivery. The most recent example in Europe is the infamous Olkiluoto reactor in Finland, whose original start-up date was May 2009 but which is now at least three-and-a-half years late, and more than 50% over budget.
So whereas nuclear costs have tended to go up, renewables have gone down, and in many conditions are now the cheaper option.
As a result of Fukushima, most commentators believe that the engineering and financial costs associated with nuclear power will increase further.
In particular it is expected that there will be a greater emphasis on protecting plants from broader environmental threats such as flooding, storms and droughts (which are expected to become more frequent as a result of climate change).
It is also likely that the cascade of problems at Fukushima, from one reactor to another, and from reactors to fuel storage pools, will also affect the design, layout and ultimately the cost of future nuclear plants.
Numerous studies have shown that renewables along with energy efficiency can deliver all or virtually all of our global energy needs, and that therefore nuclear power does not have to be part of the future (see Related Internet Links at the bottom of this page).
Meanwhile, the ongoing disaster at Fukushima has highlighted the environmental, societal and economic impact that nuclear power can have in extreme conditions.
As Japan addresses the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, too much worry, time and effort are having to be spent trying to secure and make safe one facility that provided just 3% of the country's electricity.
Antony Froggatt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resource Governance programme at Chatham House, in London.
His viewpoint follows an earlier argument in favour of nuclear power made Oxford University's Wade Allison -Viewpoint: A new way to look at radiation
Buoyed by increased manufacturing output, India's economy grew by 7.4% in the third quarter of 2015, the fastest growth of any major country in the world.
But there is a dark side to India's success, says one of the country's most eminent economists.
Kaushik Basu, the chief economist of the World Bank and former chief economic adviser to the Indian government, says the nation's tradition of petty corruption helped India avoid the worst of the banking crisis that has crippled most other large economies in the last few years.
It is an extraordinary claim for such an influential figure to make but, as he says in his new book, An Economist in the Real World, "economics is not a moral subject".
His argument is that the pervasive use of "black money" - illegal cash, hidden from the tax authorities - created a bulwark against a crisis in the banking sector.
Let me explain.
Back in the last years of the noughties India's economy was looking just as frothy as the rest of the world.
It had been growing at an astounding 9% a year for the three years to 2008.
What's more, India's growth had been fuelled, at least in part, by a dramatic housing boom.
Between 2002 and 2006 average property prices increased by 16% a year, way ahead of average incomes, and faster even than in the US.
The difference in India is that all this "irrational exuberance" did not end in disaster.
There was no subprime loans crisis to precipitate a wider crisis throughout the banking sector.
So the big question is why not.
There were some shrewd precautionary moves by India's central bank, concedes Mr Basu, but he says one important answer is all that dirty money.
In most of the world the price you pay for a property is pretty much the price listed in the window of the local realtor or estate agent.
Not in India.
Here a significant part of almost all house purchases are made in cash.
And because the highest denomination note in India is 1,000 rupees, ($15; £10) it isn't unusual for a buyer to turn up with - literally - a suitcase full of used notes.
This is how it works.
Let's say you like the look of a house that is for sale. You judge it is worth - for argument's sake - 100 rupees.
The chances are the seller will tell you he will only take, say, 50 rupees as a formal payment and demand the rest in cash.
That cash payment is what Indians refer to as "black money".
It means the seller can avoid a hefty capital gains tax bill. Buyers benefit too because the lower the declared value of the property, the lower the property tax they will be obliged to pay.
What it also means is that Indians tend to have much smaller mortgages compared to the real value of their properties than elsewhere in the world.
At the peak of the property boom in the US and the UK it was common for lenders to offer mortgages worth 100% of the value of the property.
Some would even offer 110% mortgages, allowing buyers to roll in the cost of finance and furnishing their new home.
That's why when the crash came, the balance sheets of the big banks collapsed along with property prices.
In India, by contrast, mortgage loans can only be raised on the formal house price. So, says Mr Basu, a house worth 100 rupees would typically be bought with a mortgage of 50 rupees or less.
So when prices fell in India - and they did fall in 2008 and 2009 - most bank loans were still comfortably within the value of the property.
That's why India managed to avoid the subprime crisis that did so much damage elsewhere.
India did experience a slowdown, but it was collateral damage from the global recession rather than the result of any national problem. Indeed, within a year India had begun to pull out of the crisis, returning to growth of almost 8% a year between 2009 and 2011.
That is not to say that Mr Basu approves of petty corruption.
He compares it to the effect of an unpleasant disease: it may have some positive side effects - encouraging your hair to grow, for example - but you would still prefer not to have the illness.
Indeed, Mr Basu is famous for having devised a particularly clever and characteristically radical way of rooting out corruption - legalising bribery.
A few years ago, he proposed that instead of both bribe-givers and bribe-takers being held criminally responsible for their actions, only the bribe-taker should face sanctions.
It is a simple change, but radically alters the relationship between the two parties.
It means people who give bribes no longer have a shared interest in keeping their nefarious activity secret.
Freed from the risk of prosecution, bribe-givers would have a powerful incentive to reveal corruption.
Unfortunately, says Mr Basu, his innovation has still not found its way into mainstream Indian law.
The Gallan Head Trust plans to build a space observatory and a marine research centre at Aird Uig.
The radio and radar station was set up at Aird Uig 60 years ago and was part of Nato's early warning system against Soviet submarines and aircraft.
More than £250,000 of funding has been secured from various organisations for the trust's project.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Scottish Land Fund and Western Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - have awarded grants.
Kenya Film Classification Board banned the Oscar-nominated film in January for its "extreme scenes of nudity, sex, debauchery, hedonism and cursing".
But many Kenyans have already watched it on pirated copies sold in small DVD shops for about $0.57 (£0.35).
Those arrested could face a fine of up to $1,160 or several years in jail.
The new Martin Scorsese film is about the stockbroker Jordan Belfort and his real-life rise and fall in the financial world of 1980s-90s New York.
Eva Mbuni, corporate communications officer at the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), told the BBC that at least 30 traders had been arrested in less than a month as part of an ongoing crackdown on the distribution of restricted and unclassified films.
"We are doing this for the sake of our children and our women," Ms Mbuni said.
"What we are seeing is more and more films being produced portraying our women and children badly.
"Are we [only] showing them for sexual gratification?"
BBC Africa's Emmanuel Igunza says the back street sale of pirated DVDs is a thriving and lucrative business in major cities across Kenya.
Most of the traders due to be arraigned in court are from the capital, Nairobi, and Mombasa, Nakuru and Eldoret. They could be fined or be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison.
Film distributors and major cinema halls in Kenya have appealed against the decision to ban the Wolf of Wall Street, which has been nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards. Its lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio is up for the best actor award.
"The movie could have been allowed, if the distributors had edited out some of the parts we were uncomfortable with," said Ms Mbuni.
"But they refused our advisory to them and we had no choice."
KFCB is a government body charged with classifying films for public viewing and has powers to regulate the distribution of those it deems unfit.
World Hurdle runner-up Alpha Des Obeaux was the evens favourite - but another British raider spoiled the party.
One Track Mind (10-1) was never too far off the pace and Sheehan set sail for home before the final bend.
Admirable mare Jennies Jewel was second while Shaneshill fell at the final flight under Ruby Walsh.
One Track Mind galloped all the way to the line to take the prize by two and a quarter lengths.
Alpha Des Obeaux was ultimately well beaten in third.
Successful trainer Greatrex said: "This race was the plan for most of the season.
"He is a brilliant jumper and will go chasing next season I would have thought.
"When he went to challenge a fair way out, I knew we were in business."
Douvan finished his excellent season in style with victory in the Ryanair Novice Chase.
The six-year-old, under Ruby Walsh, went off the 2-9 favourite, led from the first fence and never looked troubled.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
"What an outstanding future prospect Douvan looks for the two-mile championship division, in which Sprinter Sacre has excelled over the past few months since his return from the wilderness.
"The winner was completely imperious here as he led from start to finish, and if anyone says he put a foot wrong, well they're being pretty picky.
"When asked what they thought of the challenge Douvan would provide next season, a member of the 'Sprinter' entourage simply grimaced and walked away.
"This is a very special horse - and he's only six."
Two miners who worked at Thoresby colliery, Nottinghamshire, have been diagnosed with pneumoconiosis after CT scans paid for by the UDM. Both had the all-clear after X-rays at work.
The union and a group of MPs have called on the government to fund CT scans for all ex-miners.
UK Coal is yet to respond to the BBC.
The Union of Democratic Mineworkers paid for five former miners to have CT scans, which show the lungs in much greater detail, and two found they had pneumoconiosis.
Union president Jeff Wood accused UK Coal of failing its workers by not offering the scans.
"They said the cost was too much and they didn't think it was necessary because, on the advice from their medical advisers, the plain view X-rays were sufficient," he said.
When Ray Nunn and Crawford Hunter worked at the Thoresby pit, they, like all other workers, were offered chest X-rays every three to four years, which they said always came back "satisfactory".
The last X-ray they had at Thoresby was in 2013, whereas their CT scans were performed late last year.
The pair, both 51, who were made redundant when the colliery closed last summer, said they felt "let down".
Mr Hunter, who started at the pit in 1989, said "When I got the message, I was doing Christmas shopping in Nottingham.
"It gutted me really because I wasn't expecting it. It was a very sombre day - I was just devastated."
Mr Nunn, who was a miner for 35 years, said he had suspicions the X-ray tests were not good enough.
Mr Wood said he had suspected for many years that plain view X-rays were not of good enough quality to pick up the early signs of the disease.
"Of the small number we've tested, 40% have pneumoconiosis," he said.
"Of the 120,000 former miner workers alive today - how many of them have got pneumoconiosis?"
Nottinghamshire MPs Alan Meale and Mark Spencer have sent a letter signed by 25 cross-party MPs calling on the government to pay for CT scans for all living ex-miners.
The government and UK Coal have yet to respond to the BBC's requests for comments.
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The hosts beat India by nine runs at Lord's in front of a sell-out 26,500 crowd, the second biggest in Women's World Cup history.
More than 50 million people worldwide watched the group stages.
"What a tournament it has been - the support, the cricket and everything about it," said Knight.
Anya Shrubsole took 6-46 - the best figures in a World Cup final - as India collapsed from 191-3 to 219 all out in pursuit of England's 228-7.
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"Women's cricket has gone through the roof since 2009," she told BBC Sport.
"This is a watershed moment, to be playing at Lord's in front of a sell-out crowd in a World Cup final.
"You just don't think those things are going to happen. It's unbelievable."
England coach Mark Robinson said: "It has captured the imagination of everybody as the tournament has gone on.
"Hopefully, the women's game will go from strength to strength. It is getting the recognition, getting its proper place. People take it seriously and give it respect."
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The superb Shrubsole took five wickets in 19 balls to hasten India's collapse, sealing England's fourth World Cup title by bowling number 11 Rajeshwari Gayakwad with eight balls to spare.
"Anya Shrubsole, what a hero. I thought about taking her off and I'm really glad I kept her on," said Knight.
"It's been an extraordinary game. To win with some of my best mates, I'm absolutely delighted."
India needed only 38 runs from 43 balls before Shrubsole dismissed Punam Raut for 86 to spark a collapse of seven wickets for 28 runs.
"One of the great things about this team is we never give up," said Shrubsole. "It is a fitting final of what was a brilliant World Cup.
"There was a huge amount of pressure. It's without doubt the most significant spell I've ever bowled."
Shrubsole and team-mate Tammy Beaumont said they had never experienced such a passionate crowd.
"I've never played in a game where you can't hear the person who's 15 metres away from you," said Shrubsole.
"Trying to get Heather's attention, I was having to scream at her because the crowd made that much noise - pretty much from start to end."
Beaumont, who was named player of the tournament after topping the batting charts with 410 runs, said: "I have lost my voice. I was trying to scream over the crowd.
"It almost felt like half England on one side and India on the other. I don't think that atmosphere will be replicated in a number of years."
Knight added: "At times I had to pinch myself and concentrate on the game.
"The noise when we got the last wicket was a really special moment. It was incredible to be part of."
India skipper Mithali Raj said her side "panicked" as they lost seven wickets for 28 runs in the space of seven overs to miss out on a first major trophy.
"There was a time when the match was in the balance. It wasn't easy for England but credit to them - they kept their nerve," she said.
"I would like to tell the girls I am very proud of them. They didn't make any match look easy for the opposition."
Wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor was one of five England players - along with Knight, Shrubsole, Jenny Gunn and Laura Marsh - who were part of England's World Cup-winning squad in 2009.
She returned to the team at this World Cup after taking a break from the game last year to deal with anxiety problems.
"It has been a rollercoaster. To be part of this team is incredible," Taylor said.
"It was a case of getting healthy. It was pot luck to be back for this World Cup. This is amazing."
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Niall Quinn drilled in the opener and then crossed for Kirk Millar to head the second before half-time.
Joe Gormley marked his return to Cliftonville by scoring twice as Barry Gray celebrated his first match as boss with a 6-3 victory over Ards.
Coleraine had Steven Douglas sent-off but still won 3-1 at Dungannon while Glentoran beat Ballinamallard 2-1.
On Friday night, last season's runners-up Crusaders beat Ballymena United 4-1.
Linfield's victory was never in doubt once Quinn drilled a low left-foot shot beyond Carrick keeper Harry Doherty in the 16th minute at Windsor Park.
David Healy's double winners, unbeaten in domestic competition since early January, went 2-0 up though Millar and could have made it three after the break but Jordan Stewart's tame penalty was saved by Doherty.
Cliftonville, boosted by the return to the club of record scorer Gormley after a spell at Peterborough, had an early scare at home to Ards when Jonny Frazer gave the visitors an early lead.
But Gormley's double, two more from Jay Donnelly, a Chris Curran strike and a Scott Davidson own goal saw new boss Gray get off to a winning start at Solitude.
Former Warrenpoint manager Gray was appointed in May after Gerard Lyttle left to take charge of Sligo Rovers.
Coleraine, third last season, were drawing 0-0 at Dungannon when their defender Douglas was sent-off for a second yellow card offence.
But Oran Kearney's team went 2-0 up through Ciaron Harkin and Stephen O'Donnell before Ryan Mayse pulled a goal back for the Swifts.
Dungannon keeper Andy Coleman was sent-off for bringing down Brad Lyons late on and stand-in Jarlath O'Rourke had no chance as Ian Parkhill fired in a spectacular third for the Bannsiders.
Two goals by top striker Curtis Allen gave Glentoran their 2-1 win away to Ballinamallard United.
But Ballinamallard furiously protested that Allen had netted the 87th-minute winner with his hand.
The hosts had taken the lead through a Ryan Curran penalty but Allen levelled before the break.
Marc Griffin scored twice on his debut to help Glenavon edge Warrenpoint Town 3-2 at Milltown.
Griffin fired twice early on to give the Lurgan Blues a two-goal lead before Point rallied back through Darren Murray.
The former Cliftonville striker headed past Jonathan Tuffey before firing a second from the penalty spot, having been fouled by Simon Kelly.
Bobby Burns smashed a great strike in from the edge of the box to give Gary Hamilton's side the points.
The move comes after Ms Jolie asked for full physical custody of all the children, who are aged eight to 15.
Ms Jolie cited "irreconcilable differences" when she filed to end the marriage on 19 September.
Reports suggest that Mr Pitt is being investigated over an incident with his eldest son Maddox on a plane.
A child welfare agency in Los Angeles is examining what happened during the incident on a private flight in mid-September, US media say.
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The actors have reached a temporary agreement so the Fight Club star can visit his children while the welfare investigation continues.
California divorce courts generally favour joint custody, but the outcome of the plane row could affect the judge's decision. The actors may also hammer out a deal privately to avoid the matter being aired in public.
Mr Pitt's custody request was included in his response to Ms Jolie's divorce petition. He revealed that the pair separated on 15 September, one day after the alleged plane altercation.
Mr Pitt and Ms Jolie have been together since 2004 but only wed in August 2014, at their children's urging. They grew close while filming the 2005 film Mr & Mrs Smith, in which they played a couple in a stagnant relationship.
Their union was Mr Pitt's second marriage, after a divorce from Friends star Jennifer Aniston, and Ms Jolie's third after Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.
The couple have six children together - Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, who are adopted, and biological children Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.
Mr Pitt, 52, and Ms Jolie, 41, married privately at their French estate in Provence. Their children served as ring bearers and helped illustrate Ms Jolie's white Versace dress with their drawings.
Both actors are known for their philanthropic work away from the screen.
Academy Award winner Ms Jolie became a special envoy for the United Nations in 2012, and is a passionate advocate for refugees. She has also raised awareness of breast and ovarian cancers after going public with her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.
Meanwhile, Mr Pitt built homes in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and has made sizeable aid donations to Haiti through the estranged couple's charity, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
The report - by a taskforce set up by NHS England - said around three-quarters of people with mental health problems received no help at all.
Ministers agreed more needs to be done, committing £1bn extra a year by 2020.
The government says this will help treat a million more people a year.
The funds are to come out of the £8.4bn the government has promised to the health service during this Parliament and comes on top of extra money already announced for children's services.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We should be frank. We have not done enough to end the stigma of mental health.
"We have focused a lot on physical health and we haven't as a country focused enough on mental health."
1 in 4
people experience problems each year
75%
receive no help
£105bn cost to economy
£9.2bn spent by NHS a year
15-20 years shorter life expectancy for those with severe problems
Mental health care is sometimes called the Cinderella service of the NHS. Over the years it has been neglected, marginalised and under-funded. The taskforce's report acknowledges this.
So will the recommendations have the necessary impact? Ministers and NHS bosses have all said they're fully committed to it.
But similar things were said in 2011 when the coalition launched its mental health strategy. And, as the BBC reported on Sunday, that didn't stop investment being cut.
With money so tight in the NHS, the nagging fear is that despite the promises being made history could still repeat itself.
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Currently £9.2bn a year is spent on the condition - less than a tenth of the NHS budget - despite one in four people experiencing a mental health problem each year.
The result is that an estimated three-quarters of people go without any help, with the taskforce's report acknowledging that services were so bad that lives have been "put on hold or ruined" and "thousands of tragic and unnecessary deaths" have been caused.
The review also said more attention needs to be paid to rising suicide rates.
NHS England believes the strategy will help to ensure that another one million people receive support - whereas at the moment fewer than two million people do so.
It said the investment promised will help pay for:
It said that together these measures would help reduce the demand on specialist inpatient wards in hospitals and therefore help tackle the much-criticised practice of sending people long distances for treatment.
Paul Farmer, the chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, who led the taskforce, said the strategy should act as a "landmark moment" for mental health care, which was currently "very patchy".
"We are saying to the NHS, to government, to industry, to local leaders and to the public that mental health must be a priority for everyone," he said.
While the extra funding was crucial, he added that some stigma around mental illness "still prevails, right the way inside the health service, as it does in society", and this needed to change.
NHS England boss Simon Stevens said he was "fully committed" to implementing the recommendations.
But Royal College of Psychiatrists president Prof Sir Simon Wessely warned it would take "sustained work" to end the "decades of inequality".
And Prof Sheila Hollins, of the British Medical Association, pointed out such promises had been made before.
"Those suffering from mental illness need to see these pledges fulfilled."
Meanwhile the Welsh government said spending on mental health had been ring-fenced since 2008, with investment topping £600m this year.
The current annual allocation to mental health in Northern Ireland is £247m.
The Scottish government said it had made a commitment to invest an additional £150 million over a five year period in improving access to mental health services.
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Armstrong, 19, scored 20 goals in 40 games during a loan spell at League One side Coventry City last season.
Jackson, 22, failed to make a senior appearance for the Premier League side.
The former England Under-19 international played in 35 games for League Two side Hartlepool last season, and joins for an undisclosed fee.
Of Armstrong, Tykes boss Paul Heckingbottom told the club website: "His talent and goal-scoring abilities are clear to see as he was excellent in League One last season scoring a tonne of goals.
"We've started the season in great form, scoring a lot of goals and I have no doubts that Adam will make an instant impact and excite the fans."
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A "technical baccalaureate" is to be introduced showing young people's abilities in maths, literacy and a high level vocational qualification.
This will be a performance measure for schools and evidence of credible skills for students to show employers.
Skills minister Matthew Hancock said the technical baccalaureate would be a "mark of achievement".
But Labour's education spokesman Stephen Twigg said: "Seven months after Labour announced plans for a technical baccalaureate, the government is today trying to catch up."
The "Tech Bacc", launched on Monday by Mr Hancock and Education Secretary Michael Gove, is intended to reinforce the value of technical and vocational training and qualifications taken by 16 to 19-year-olds.
It is aimed at teenagers who might want qualifications for jobs in areas such as information technology, construction, retail, hospitality and digital media.
It will not be another separate qualification, but will be evidence that a young person has a particular set of employer-friendly skills.
The Tech Bacc will require students to have three elements - qualifications in maths and literacy and a "high quality" vocational qualification.
These vocational qualifications could be in anything from engineering to hairdressing, but will be taught at a level of difficulty which is meant to show that pupils are able to carry out "complex and non-routine" skills, on a par with A-levels.
These so-called Level 3 vocational qualifications were taken by about 185,000 students last year.
There is a consultation taking place to decide which vocational qualifications should be retained - after complaints that there were too many insubstantial qualifications, which carried little weight with employers.
For schools and colleges, the Tech Bacc will become a league table performance measure from 2017, in the way that schools are measured by the percentage of pupils who have achieved academic English Baccalaureate subjects.
A proposal for a Tech Bacc has previously been put forward by Labour's education spokesman, Stephen Twigg.
Responding to the government announcement, he said that Labour's version would have been a "gold standard" available to all pupils.
"David Cameron and Michael Gove have spent the last three years undermining technical education - damaging the quality of apprenticeships, downgrading the engineering diploma and narrowing the curriculum so skills are side-lined.
"The government should be judged on their actions so far, not on their words today."
The idea of a Tech Bacc has also been supported by former education ministers Labour's Lord Adonis and the Conservatives' Lord Baker.
Neil Carberry, the CBI's director for employment and skills said this was a "big step in the right direction".
"Including the Tech Bacc in existing league tables will help put vocational subjects on a par with academic A-levels.
"Business prefers this approach, rather than creating another new qualification which would struggle for recognition - like the Diploma did. We hope this will prove to be a staging point towards our ultimate goal of rigorous vocational A-levels."
Christine Blower, head of the National Union of Teachers, said that "vocational qualifications should be part of a wider 14-19 integrated system of education where the emphasis is on the opportunity to study general education, specialist areas and vocational learning. This constant tinkering with 14-19 education perpetuates unnecessary divisions."
Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said: "We want an education system in which everyone can reach their potential.
"Our reforms to post-16 qualifications, including the introduction of the new Tech Bacc will do that. They will incentivise the development of high-quality courses and incentivise schools and colleges to offer the courses that get young people on in life.
"We expect all bright students who want to go into technically-skilled jobs or apprenticeships to aim for the Tech Bacc."
Kaymer, 31, has not won since his US Open triumph at Pinehurst two years ago which followed his Players Championship victory a month earlier.
The German's best Irish Open finish is a share of 10th at Adare Manor in 2008.
Tournament host Rory McIlroy will also be joined in the field from 19-22 May by recent Masters winner Danny Willett.
Soren Kjeldsen will attempt to successfully defend the Irish Open title after winning at Royal County Down last year while other Ryder Cup hopefuls in the field include Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello, English trio Matt Fitzpatrick, Andy Sullivan, Chris Wood plus Austrian Bernd Wiesberger.
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Cabrera Bello, Kjeldsen, Fitzpatrick and Sullivan all currently occupy automatic qualifying places in the European points list for the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine in late September.
Kaymer played played at the K Club in the 2007 European Open.
"Although it maybe wasn't my best week on the course, I can remember being really impressed by it," added the former world number one, who clinched his first major win at the US PGA Championship in 2010.
"The Irish people love their golf and really get behind the players, so it should make for a great atmosphere, especially with such a strong field there."
McIlroy will be joined at the event by other Irish major winners Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington and Graeme McDowell while other big names in the field include Shane Lowry and Lee Westwood.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) rejected the claim, saying missile deployment as part of security measures for the Games was legitimate and proportionate.
Residents of Fred Wigg Tower in Leytonstone, east London, have applied for permission for a judicial review at the High Court.
A judgement is expected on Tuesday.
The residents' barrister, Marc Willers, said their block could become the "focus of a terrorist attack" to make an "evil statement".
Mr Willers told Mr Justice Haddon-Cave: "It is the unprecedented siting of a military base or missile site in peace time on English soil that brings us to this court."
Of the residents, he said: "They have a fully justified fear that installation or deployment of the missile system on the roof of the Fred Wigg Tower gives rise to the additional risk that the tower itself may become the focus of a terrorist attack.
"That fear is not just genuine and legitimate but justified given the nature of the forthcoming occasion - the Olympic Games - and given the nature of the deployment and the current threat level, which is said to be substantial."
Mr Willers filed documents to the court calling for the residents to be moved out of their homes and compensated during the Olympics if the missiles are set up.
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He suggested building a tower or gantry on Wanstead Flats to house the missiles.
Mr Willers also warned that part of the missile falls away when fired, claiming it could drop on to a passer-by or set a building on fire.
The MoD plans to deploy either Rapier or High Velocity missiles at six sites as part of security measures for the London Games.
David Forsdick, appearing on behalf of the MoD, said the decision over where to position the missiles was taken at the "highest levels after rigorous scrutiny".
He said it was signed off by the prime minister, deputy prime minister, home secretary and defence secretary in "defence of the realm".
He rejected the allegation that the block could become a focus of terrorism.
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He told the court: "The MoD, intelligence agencies and the Metropolitan Police do not consider there is any credible threat to the Fred Wigg Tower from terrorism."
He said that view was supported by a witness statement from Dr Campbell McCafferty, head of UK counter-terrorism at the MoD.
The judge hearing the application said the case was "urgent" and hopes to give a judgment on Tuesday.
Mr Willers said it was now probably too late for a full consultation process to be ordered.
The residents want an injunction preventing the siting of the missiles until their legal challenge is heard.
The defence secretary is accused by the local residents' association of breaching Article 8 and Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
These protect an individual's right to a private life and peaceful enjoyment of their home.
But Mr Forsdick said the missile deployment was "legitimate and proportionate", and the MoD was not legally obliged to relocate residents or offer them compensation.
The missiles, including Rapier and High Velocity systems, will be in place from mid-July, the MoD confirmed last week.
The sites and types of systems set to be deployed are:
Plans also include the use of the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, which will be moored on the River Thames.
RAF Typhoon jets will be stationed at RAF Northolt, and Puma helicopters at a Territorial Army centre in Ilford, east London. The aircraft, which arrived back at the base on Monday, could be scrambled at short notice.
The Glasgow club must pay €7,000 (£6,250) following the incident during the first-round match on 29 June.
Rangers won the game 1-0 in Glasgow but were beaten 2-0 in the return leg in Luxembourg.
The home leg marked the Scottish Premiership club's return to European competition after a six-year absence.
In his heart of hearts Barclay thought it was over for him at Test level. He thought he was done. The mood music coming from Vern Cotter and his management team more or less confirmed it, but Barclay couldn't bring himself to make an announcement and throw in the towel.
He hung on more in hope than expectation and now he has his reward.
Consider the journey. Cotter brought five back-row forwards to the World Cup and Barclay wasn't one of them. Cotter parachuted in a sixth during the tournament and Barclay was overlooked again.
On Saturday, against England, he will play blind-side. Only a few short months ago he was, at best, fifth choice in that position. Ryan Wilson was ahead of him. So were Josh Strauss, Alasdair Strokosch and Blair Cowan. The vibe was that Cotter would sooner have moved heaven and earth than move Barclay into contention, but here he is.
Strokosch's retirement has helped, so has Wilson's indifferent form and Strauss' lack of game-time. Barclay warranted a start even if all those guys were around, though. He's been playing number eight for his club, Scarlets, and he's been playing well. Not just in the weeks before this selection, but for months and years.
The prodigal has returned and not before time. He's in and Scotland now go to war in the back row with two open-side flankers - Barclay and John Hardie - as against England's two blind-side bruisers - Chris Robshaw and James Haskell.
The breakdown was a recurring theme when Cotter spoke on Thursday at Murrayfield, not just the personnel he is deploying but the coach he has brought in to add "ideas and detail" to that critical phase of play - the ever-impressive Richie Gray, previously of Gala and South Africa and now of Scotland. The return of another prodigal, if you will.
Apart from Barclay's omission at the expense of Cowan - who started against Australia at the World Cup - there were no surprises in Scotland's team, no nasty shock as regards the excellent Mark Bennett, who mercifully for the home attack, is fit to play.
Everything else is as you would expect and everything on the day is as obvious as hell. This England team will bring grunt on a grand scale to Murrayfield. Eddie Jones has not picked an imaginative team, but a big team, a team to establish physical dominance and to batter Scotland into submission.
Cotter knows it and spoke of "combining energy forces" to try to combat it. "Physicality is something we've been working on over the last year or so," he said. "We have to have total clarity in what we're doing. They (England) will want to dominate us but I don't see why we shouldn't take them on at their strong points."
The days before a Six Nations opener are always blue-sky days in Scotland. Hope has survived through the years despite the kickings. It's an extraordinary thing, this optimism in the face of such failure. It begs the question of what this rugby nation would be like if it ever had real momentum to bite on.
There's newfound hope despite a whitewash last time round. Despite all sorts of things, to be honest.
Bennett, Finn Russell and Jonny Gray have never won a Six Nations match. Tommy Seymour has never won a Six Nations match at Murrayfield. Greig Laidlaw has three wins from 20 in the championship, Richie Gray five from 22, Ross Ford eight from 45. Scotland have not scored a try against England at Murrayfield since 2004. They have only scored two tries against England at Murrayfield in Six Nations history.
That hope, though. It's not unfounded, far from it. Scotland possess an attack that can do damage if it has the platform. They have better men in place this year to establish that platform than they've had for some years.
WP Nel is a big addition to the front row, Hardie a key influence in the back row. Gray, the coach, has been microscopic in his analysis of Scotland's defensive breakdown. Gray's arrival has allowed Matt Taylor more freedom to focus on fixing the weaknesses in defence.
Centre Matt Scott said that the attention to detail has never been as high. "When we came into camp we identified defence as an area we needed to improve. We saw that Ireland only conceded two tries in last year's Six Nations (it was actually three). By contrast, we conceded into double figures (11). We can't be conceding 25-30 points in games and expect to win."
That's the big puzzler for Scotland. Can their defence hold out? They shipped 40 points against Ireland at the end of last year's Six Nations and 30-plus to South Africa, Samoa and Australia at the World Cup. In the biggest games they're making life so difficult for themselves.
Scott said something else that resonated. He spoke of learning lessons, not just in defence, but in terms of handling emotion. He went back to the last Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield, a 20-0 drubbing in 2014.
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"The boys were so geed-up before that game," he recalled. "We were tear-ing up in the changing room before the game and I remember thinking I was going to go out and have an amazing game. I thought I was invincible. It was a surreal feeling of being helpless on the pitch. That's when the emotion can over-ride things and affect your play.
"We were way off the mark. We couldn't get our attack structure going. It just felt like we were 15 individuals on the pitch. It was an awful experience.
"I think we've learned from that, learned to say, 'Yes, it's a Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield and there's going to be fire and brimstone but we have to take a step back and put our cool heads on."
Barclay is one of those cool heads - an experienced leader in a team that still doesn't know enough about winning. They get another chance on Saturday. Despite everything, hope springs.
Officers found the bag, full of ??10 and ??20 notes, in Lower Sundon, Bedfordshire, in the early hours of Friday.
Officers tweeted: "Did you lose a bag of money and drugs? Please come to police HQ where we'd love to chat."
A number of people commented, with one replying: "Wait, if I come and collect it, you won't arrest me, right?"
The tweet, posted by officers from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit, was described as the "best ever" by some of their social media followers.
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The officers' post included a photograph of the dark-coloured bag containing the cash and plastic bags of drugs.
Another tweet said: "Can you leave it where you found it please. I'll come and collect it later this evening."
Kenton Cool, 42, last week became one of the first foreigners to reach the mountain's summit in two years.
Avalanches that followed an earthquake in Nepal made conditions treacherous, claiming the lives of at least 18 climbers last year.
"She's a beautiful mountain," Mr Cool said.
Mr Cool made it to the top with fellow adventurers Robert Richard Lucas, Mexican David Liano and three Nepalese guides.
It was his 12th successful climb of the world's highest peak, and 36-year-old Liano's sixth.
Speaking after his return, Mr Cool, who lives in Quenington, Gloucestershire, said: "My wife Jazz says that Everest is my mistress and I go back to her every year.
"I do adore the place. She's a beautiful mountain and I will keep climbing [her] until I fall out of love."
Growing up in Uxbridge, west London, he told how his family lived in a bungalow with no hot water or flushing toilet.
"My father was unemployed for most of my childhood," he said.
He started mountaineering while studying at Leeds University, despite being told he would never climb again after falling from a rock face in North Wales and shattering both heel bones.
"Adventure and climbing have really defined who I am and what I stand for," he said.
"If you truly believe in your dreams then very little can get in the way."
Mr Cool said the latest ascent - which he completed on 12 May - was the best of all his climbs.
"Every time you go to Everest, it's slightly different," he said.
"This time the ascent was amazing, with a cloudless sky. You couldn't ask for better conditions.
"Every time you go to the mountain you've got to approach it in the same manner. You've got to be very respectful, you have to be fully prepared."
The explorer now hopes to climb Everest, along with the the world's second and third highest peaks - K2 and Kangchenjunge - on a single trip, travelling overland between them by Land Rover.
"Nobody's ever linked them together.
"A lot of my colleagues are saying it can't be done."
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"As a consequence of Mr Warner's resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained," said a Fifa statement.
Warner was suspended pending an investigation into bribery allegations.
He and fellow Fifa member Mohamed Bin Hammam are alleged to have paid bribes of £600,000 to Caribbean associations.
Chuck Blazer, general secretary of the Concacaf federation Warner had been president of, alleged that violations of Fifa's code of ethics occurred during a meeting organised by Bin Hammam and Warner in May.
In a statement, Warner said: "I am convinced, and I am advised by counsel, that since my actions did not extend beyond facilitating the meeting that gave Mr Bin Hammam an opportunity to pursue his aborted bid for the Fifa presidency, I would be fully exonerated by any objective arbiter.
"I have, nonetheless, arrived at the decision to withdraw from Fifa affairs in order to spare Fifa, Concacaf and, in particular, CFU and its membership, from further acrimony and divisiveness arising from this and related issues."
The Fifa executive committee, the Fifa president and the Fifa management thank Mr Warner and wish him well for the future
Warner also told Bloomberg press agency he felt he had been "hung out to dry" and insisted the giving of gifts has been part of Fifa culture during his 30 years in the organisation.
"It's not unusual for such things to happen and gifts have been around throughout the history of Fifa," he said. "What's happening now for me is hypocrisy."
He added: "I have lost my enthusiasm to continue. The general secretary that I had employed, who worked with me for 21 years, with the assistance of elements of Fifa has sought to undermine me in ways that are unimaginable.
"This is giving the impression that Fifa is sanitising itself. I've been hung out to dry continually and I'm not prepared to take that."
Blazer's allegations were preceded by claims made in parliament by the former head of England's failed 2018 World Cup bid, Lord Triesman, about irregularities in the bidding process for the 2018 World Cup.
Triesman, who was also former chairman of the Football Association, accused Warner and three other Fifa Executive Committee members of improper conduct during England's 2018 World Cup bid.
According to Triesman, in exchange for voting for England to host the World Cup, Warner had asked for cash to build an education centre in Trinidad and to buy World Cup television rights for Haiti.
The 68-year-old had been the longest-serving member of Fifa's executive committee, and a Fifa statement continued: "Fifa regrets the turn of events that have led to Mr Warner's decision.
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"His resignation has been accepted by world football's governing body, and his contribution to international football and to Caribbean football in particular and the Concacaf confederation are appreciated and acknowledged."
In May, Fifa opened "ethics proceedings" against Warner and Bin Hammam but Warner insisted he was not guilty of a "single iota of wrongdoing".
Football's governing body then suspended Warner and former Fifa presidential candidate Bin Hammam on 29 May, pending an investigation into claims they had offered bribes to members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).
Despite claims by Bin Hammam that Fifa president Sepp Blatter was aware of payments made to the CFU, and that he too should be investigated, Fifa's ethics committee stated that "no investigation is warranted" of Blatter.
Following Bin Hammam's suspension, Blatter went on to run unopposed in the Fifa presidential election, despite efforts by the FA to have the election suspended amid the corruption allegations that had engulfed the sport's world governing body.
Blatter was re-elected for a fourth term after receiving 186 of the 203 votes, after 17 member associations supported the FA's request for a delay.
With my withdrawal from service in international football, I shall, henceforth, be concentrating exclusively on my lifelong commitment to the service of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, currently as chairman of the major party in our governing coalition and as a cabinet minister in the government of our republic
Despite the controversy that has surrounded Fifa and Warner since May, the governing body's statement concluded: "Mr Warner is leaving Fifa by his own volition after nearly 30 years of service.
"The Fifa executive committee, the Fifa president and the Fifa management thank Mr Warner for his services to Caribbean, Concacaf and international football over his many years devoted to football at both regional and international level, and wish him well for the future."
Warner thanked Fifa in his statement and added that he would now commit himself to serving the people of his native Trinidad and Tobago.
"I am gratified that Fifa has acknowledged my service to international and regional football over several decades," he said.
"It is also a special source of satisfaction to me that during my tenure, capacities and facilities in the Caribbean were upgraded to levels that enabled the region to host several Fifa World Cup finals.
"I sincerely hope that the Caribbean Football Union will continue to fight above its weight in Fifa and Concacaf affairs.
"With my withdrawal from service in international football, I shall, henceforth, be concentrating exclusively on my lifelong commitment to the service of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, currently as chairman of the major party in our governing coalition and as a cabinet minister in the government of our republic.
"I shall continue to encourage the youth of the Caribbean and the world to deepen their involvement in football, which has lifted so many young people out of hopelessness and risk to personal achievement, while bringing glory to their respective countries."
That means winning their four-team group and progressing to the Super 10 stage - anything less is failure.
Achieving their goal is no easy feat, because Bangladesh are firm favourites to top Group A while Oman and the Netherlands provide tricky opposition.
If they do reach the Super 10 then high-profile encounters against hosts India, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan will follow.
And the Irish love nothing more than taking a big scalp in major tournaments.
Ireland possess two new weapons for the group games in Dharamsala - and both are in the bowling department.
The return of paceman Boyd Rankin to Irish colours after his 2012 switch to England provides a potent spearhead to their attack.
And Sri Lanka great Chaminda Vaas, who claimed 400 one-day wickets in a stellar career, has been drafted into the Irish set-up for the tournament.
Ireland skipper William Porterfield is delighted to have Rankin and Vaas on board for their Super 10 bid.
"It's great to have Boyd in the squad again and he has found it easy to fit back in - it's like he was never away," said the opener.
"Any team would like a 6ft 8in plus bowler performing the way he has been and Boyd's experience and professionalism is so beneficial to our younger bowlers.
"Chaminda's stats speak for themselves and the big advantage is his vast experience of playing in sub-continent conditions.
"He's also played here at Dharamsala in the IPL and his bowling is a similar pace to many of our own players.
"His advice is invaluable and we're delighted to have him in the camp going into Wednesday's opener against Oman."
Porterfield is a man in form, with an unbeaten 75 in Thursday's victory over Hong Kong followed by 31 against Zimbabwe in the final warm-up game on Saturday.
However, a six-wicket defeat against the Zimbabweans highlighted the challenge facing Porterfield and new coach John Bracewell.
Ireland are attempting to make the second phase of the World T20 for the first time since 2009 and Porterfield is clear on what is required.
"We need to win all three games, it's as simple as that," added the Warwickshire batsman.
"Oman are first up - they are no pushovers and it's a form of the game they really enjoy.
"Bangladesh are favourites but they lost to Hong Kong in the last World T20 while we were defeated by the Netherlands, so anyone can beat anyone.
"Getting to the Super 10 stage in Bangalore and Calcutta is all we're talking about, it's our sole focus and we are determined to get there."
The MRI machine reveals the fibres which carry all the brain's thought processes.
It's been done in Cardiff, Nottingham, Cambridge and Stockport, as well as London England and London Ontario.
Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range of neurological disorders and could be used instead of invasive biopsies.
I volunteered for the project - not the first time my brain has been scanned.
In 2006, it was a particular honour to be scanned by the late Sir Peter Mansfield, who shared a Nobel prize for his work on developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging, one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine.
He scanned me using Nottingham University's powerful new 7 Tesla scanner. When we looked at the crisp, high resolution images, he told me: "I'm a physicist, so don't ask me to tell you to whether there's anything amiss with your brain - you'd need a neurologist for that."
I was the first UK Biobank volunteer to have their brain and other organs imaged as part of the world's biggest scanning project.
More recently, I had my brain scanned while playing computer games, as part of research into the effects of sleep deprivation on cognition.
So my visit to the Cardiff University's Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) held no particular concerns.
The scan took around 45 minutes and seemed unremarkable.
A neurologist was on hand to reassure me my brain looked normal.
My family quipped that they were happy that a brain had been found inside my thick skull.
But nothing could have prepared me for the spectacular images produced by the team at Cardiff, along with engineers from Siemens in Germany and the United States.
The scan shows fibres in my white matter called axons. These are the brain's wiring, which carry billions of electrical signals.
Not only does the scan show the direction of the messaging, but also the density of the brain's wiring.
Another volunteer to be scanned was Sian Rowlands who has multiple sclerosis.
Like me, she is used to seeing images of her brain, but found the new scan "amazing".
Conventional scans clearly show lesions - areas of damage - in the brain of MS patients.
But this advanced scan, showing axonal density, can help explain how the lesions affect motor and cognitive pathways - which can trigger Sian's movement problems and extreme fatigue.
Prof Derek Jones, CUBRIC's director, said it was like getting hold of the Hubble telescope when you've been using binoculars.
"The promise for researchers is that we can start to look at structure and function together for the first time," he said.
The extraordinary images produced in Cardiff are the result of a special MRI scanner - one of only three in the world.
The scanner itself is not especially powerful, but its ability to vary its magnetic field rapidly with position means the scientists can map the wires - the axons - so thinly it would take 50 of them to match the thickness of a human hair.
The scanner is being used for research into many neurological conditions including MS, schizophrenia, dementia and epilepsy.
My thanks to Sian, Derek and all the team at CUBRIC.
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