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The 29-year-old Colombia striker has signed a four-year deal and will join winter training in Dubai on 9 February following a physical examination.
He scored only three goals in 22 appearances for Atletico following his £24.8m move from Porto last summer.
Martinez is the latest high-profile player to move to China this year.
Former Chelsea midfielder Ramires and ex-Serie A duo Gervinho and Fredy Guarin are among the other big Chinese signings in 2016.
The transfer of Ramires to Jiangsu Suning last week - for what was believed to be around £25m - set the previous Asian record.
Martinez's manager at Guangzhou is former Chelsea and Brazil boss Luiz Felipe Scolari, while former Tottenham midfielder Paulinho and compatriot Robinho will be his new team-mates.
According to Germany's Transfer Market statistics, Super League teams spent £81m (108 euros) on players and coaches in the 2014-15 season, making it second only to the Premier League.
An initial grant of £660,000 has been provided by Glasgow City Council for feasibility, design and procurement.
The bridge is a key connection between the SEC, Finnieston, Pacific Quay and the Exhibition Centre rail station.
The council said that while the bridge was structurally sound, the canopy was nearing the end of its life cycle.
The whole area is to benefit from £114m in City Deal funding to help connect "economic drivers" in the area including the University of Glasgow, the SEC, the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, and the digital media quarter at Pacific Quay.
Council leader Frank McAveety said: "The redevelopment of this bridge highlights our commitment to further develop the West End and Waterfront.
"The sky is the limit for these areas and I am delighted that the Glasgow City Region City Deal is contributing to them achieving their full potential."
The bridge is currently under a long-term lease to the SEC.
SEC chief executive Peter Duthie said: "First impressions are very important and with a new brand, a world class arena and countless incredible events coming on site it is important that our campus facilities are up to scratch.
"In many cases the covered walkway or 'Smartie tube' is the first thing visitors experience when coming to the Scottish Event Campus and so we are delighted with the news that it is to be upgraded."
The UK and Scottish governments are to give Glasgow and the seven neighbouring authorities £500m for the City Deal, and the councils are to borrow a further £130m for capital investment.
But all the key decisions in this country are taken by one man: Vladimir Putin. He sits on top of the "vertical of power" which he has constructed. Right now he decides which path Russia takes.
And that is why analysing Russia, working out what Moscow is thinking and planning can be difficult. You have to put yourself inside President Putin's mind.
So what is Vladimir Putin thinking right now about Ukraine? What motivates his foreign policy moves? What is his objective?
One thing that makes Vladimir Putin mad is the feeling that he is being deceived. We saw that with Libya in 2011. Moscow was persuaded not to block a UN Security Council resolution on a no-fly zone to protect civilians. But Nato's military action led to regime change and the death of Col Muammar Gaddafi - far beyond what Russia had expected. It helps explain why Russia has been quick to veto resolutions on Syria.
On Ukraine, too, President Putin feels the West has tricked him. Last month he sent his envoy to Kiev to take part in negotiations on a compromise agreement between President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition. That deal, brokered by foreign ministers from Germany, France and Poland, envisaged early elections, constitutional reform and a national unity government.
The Kremlin's representative did not sign the deal, but Russia appeared to accept it as the best solution in a bad situation. It remained words only. Less than 24 hours later, Mr Yanukovych was on the run, the parliament removed him from power and appointed a new acting president from the opposition. The pace of events took Moscow completely by surprise.
The world according to Vladimir Putin is one in which Western powers are plotting night and day to destabilise Russia (and him, personally).
He remembers the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003, the Orange Revolution in Kiev the following year; Russia suspected the West of planning both.
More recently the Kremlin accused the West of funding and fuelling anti-government street protests in Moscow.
For months, Russia has been accusing the US and EU of meddling in Ukraine for geopolitical gains. On Tuesday President Putin said Viktor Yanukovych's refusal to sign an association agreement with the EU last autumn "was simply used as an excuse to back opposition forces in their battle for power... it's not the first time our Western partners have done this in Ukraine".
Then there is the question of Nato. In an interview with the newspaper Kommersant in 2010, Vladimir Putin recalled how the alliance had promised the USSR it would not expand beyond its current boundaries. "They deceived us in the rudest way," Putin concluded. Could the establishment in Kiev of a pro-Western government mean future Nato membership for Ukraine? Moscow would perceive that as a direct threat to its national security.
In the West, Moscow's intervention in Crimea has been denounced as "brutal aggression". In Vladimir Putin's mind, that is hypocrisy. He never loses an opportunity to remind the world about US intervention in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.
In his speech to the Munich Security Conference in 2007, Mr Putin denounced what he saw as a "unipolar world" - a world where the United States was the single master. He has been determined to defend what he sees as Russia's legitimate interests around the world - be they in Syria, or closer to home in Ukraine.
What is more, with much of Europe relying on Russian energy imports and benefiting from trade with Moscow, the Kremlin calculates that its opponents in the West will not have the stomach for a serious falling-out over Russian muscle-flexing.
President Putin maintains he does not want to go to war with the Ukrainian people. He claims Russia's intervention is "humanitarian" to protect people there from "chaos".
But Russia's national interests will be paramount for him: ensuring the new government in Kiev cannot eject the Black Sea Fleet from Crimea and that Ukraine's new leaders think twice before embracing the West and rejecting Russia.
He will be the voice of Ryan on a Thomas and Friends DVD titled Sodor's Legend Of The Lost Treasure.
The star said he "jumped at the opportunity" to be part of the recording, having grown up with Thomas.
The announcement comes days after he picked up the Oscar for best actor for his role as Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
He said: "I grew up loving to watch Thomas and his pals getting caught up in unexpected and mischievous adventures.
"I jumped at the opportunity to get involved and what fun it was. I have never voiced an animated character before, and I had a complete blast."
The film will also feature the voices of John Hurt and Jamie Campbell Bower.
Club director Easdale met last week with Rizvi, who is wanted by Interpol, and Malaysian Datuk Faizoull Bin Ahmad.
Bin Ahmad has since been quoted by a Malaysian news agency denying any relationship with Rizvi.
That prompted a Rangers fans group to repeat its call for the other directors to remove Easdale from the football club board.
The Union of Fans, a coalition of Rangers supporters groups, has stated its opposition to Rizvi having any involvement at Ibrox. He has previously been associated with the former chief executive Charles Green and the former commercial director Imran Ahmad.
Rizvi attended the meeting in Glasgow last week with Easdale, Bin Ahmad and two of the Malaysian businessmen's associates. A Malaysian news agency has since quoted Bin Ahmad as denying that Rizvi was part of his entourage.
Rizvi's role in proceedings raised controversy as he is wanted in Indonesia over a conviction in absentia for banking crimes, leading Rangers to issue a statement that said he was an advisor to Ahmad.
Ahmad was also quoted as saying that his associate, understood to be Azman bin Ismail, was interested in buying the club. Ahmad and Bin Ismail were pictured in Glasgow last week, having had lunch with Easdale and Rizvi.
The source added that Easdale remains hopeful of attracting external investment to Ibrox.
Bin Ahmad is chairman of Malaysian Super League side Felda United and an Ibrox spokesman insisted that the purpose of his visit was to investigate a potential youth and community tie-up with the Scottish Championship club.
The Malaysian news agency report quotes Bin Ahmad as saying: "I have no idea who Rafat Rizvi is."
Easdale claimed in an interview last year that he had not had any business dealings with Rizvi.
The Union of Fans have called for the Rangers International Football Club directors to act against Sandy Easdale, who is a shareholder and chairman of the football club board but is not a member of the plc board, of which his brother, James, is a non-executive director.
"The Union of Fans has already called for the Rangers PLC board to remove Sandy Easdale due to his involvement with convicted fraudster, Rafat Rizvi," said UoF in a statement.
"But the board issued a statement denying prior knowledge of any involvement from Rizvi. Now, Mr Bin Ahmad of the Malaysian delegation, who the board claimed Rizvi was part of, has also denied all knowledge of him. This further fuels the feeling that the PLC directors are not in fact directing the affairs of the company.
"We repeat our call for the PLC board to disassociate itself from Rizvi by removing Sandy Easdale immediately from his position as a club director.
"Does Norman Crighton, who is also non-executive Chairman of Weiss Korea Opportunity Fund, welcome Rizvi's involvement? Does David Somers, who also sits on the board of Ace Europe Life PLC and is a trustee at Fujitsu Technologies, condone the involvement of a fraudster wanted by Interpol in a company of which he is chairman?
"If the board refuse to remove Mr Easdale then fans and shareholders will be within their rights to assume that they condone the involvement of Mr Rizvi.
"The board may be able to do little about the block of shareholders who Mr Easdale represents, and who are linked to Charles Green, Imran Ahmad and Rizvi. However, they can stop Mr Easdale from controlling the affairs of the club, on behalf of those shareholders, through his directorship.
"Mr Easdale has claimed that he wishes to leave his past behind him and show that he has been rehabilitated. he said, 'To cast up 17 years ago seems silly when everybody else has moved on. Let's look at what is happening now'.
"Well, we are looking at what is happening now and we find it extremely difficult to ignore his past when he consorts with a convicted fraudster on the Interpol wanted list."
Rangers declined to comment.
The U's went ahead when Phil Edwards swept in from close range and Marvin Johnson's deflected cross-shot doubled their lead after the break.
Isaac Vassell pulled one back straight away with a shot on the turn and ex-Oxford striker Danny Hylton nodded in to level with eight minutes remaining.
But Johnson's fine strike from the edge of the box won the match for Oxford.
Oxford, who lost 3-2 to Barnsley in the final of last season's competition, will play the Sky Blues at Wembley Stadium on 2 April.
The match at Kenilworth Road was an entertaining encounter, with 35 efforts on goal.
Vassell had hit the crossbar for the hosts in the early stages before Luton fell behind, and Johnson cleared a header from the Hatters forward off the line with the score at 1-0.
Luton looked to have secured at least a penalty shootout after Hylton, who left Oxford for the Hatters in the summer, netted his 20th goal of the season but Johnson's goal from a quickly taken short corner proved the difference.
Even after that, U's keeper Simon Eastwood had to be alert to keep out an angled drive from Jack Marriott in the final minute of stoppage time.
Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, said "significant progress" had been made in talks with the operator.
CalMac's £900m Scottish government contract to run Clyde and Hebridies ferry services for the next eight years starts on Saturday.
The company welcomed the pay decision.
Graeme Shinnie finished Jonny Hayes' cut-back, but Scott McDonald levelled for Motherwell with an overhead kick.
Adam Rooney and Louis Moult both saw penalties saved, but Rooney was able to score the rebound from his to put the Dons back in front.
Moult and Aberdeen's Andrew Considine both headed onto the bar before Niall McGinn sealed the points late on.
The good news for the hardy fans who braved the elements was the plethora of chances they got to enjoy. This was due to a mix of lively forward play and - at times - less than impressive defending.
First up, Craig Samson and Ben Heneghan got into bother in their own final third, allowing Aberdeen to seize possession. Hayes drove into the box before setting up Shinnie, who calmly finished into the bottom corner to give the visitors a dream start.
But Motherwell looked dangerous throughout - especially from set-pieces - while the Aberdeen defence at times looked ill at ease.
There is an incisiveness and inventive quality to the forward play of Moult and McDonald and it would be a moment of magic from the latter that conjured the equaliser.
The former Australia international had his back to goal but somehow hooked a volley over his shoulder and in off the underside of the bar to make it 1-1.
At the other end, Ash Taylor failed to finish two headers within a minute of each other.
Rooney has never been a player you would accuse of diving - but did he 'anticipate contact' to earn his side a penalty?
Samson spilled a long shot and as he scrambled for the ball he dived at the feet of Rooney, who went down, and referee Bobby Madden pointed to the spot.
Rooney took it himself, Samson saved and spilled again, but the forward was there to fire the rebound into the roof of the net.
Keith Lasley then went down under challenge from Mark Reynolds - another penalty, and this one looked more convincing.
Up stepped Moult but Joe Lewis pulled off a superb save. There then followed a melee in the box with ricochets aplenty. At one point the ball even hit the post, but eventually the Aberdeen defenders were able to clear the danger.
With the lead at the interval, Aberdeen came out in the second half looking much the better side.
On numerous occasions they got into the Motherwell box, Shinnie in particular with a couple of chances which fell to his less favoured right foot.
Hayes also looked in the mood, cutting like a laser at times through the Motherwell defence.
At the other end Moult crashed a header off the bar as Motherwell rallied, before Considine rattled the crossbar for Aberdeen with another header from a corner as the entertainment level continued to hit the heights.
Hayes again then cut into the box but his goal bound effort was touched around the post by Samson.
Hayes proved to be the difference as Aberdeen made it 3-1. His searing pace on the break left the Motherwell defenders in his wake. He cut the ball back for McGinn who produced a finish of real class, finding the far corner of the net as the Dons left Fir Park with all three points.
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Motherwell manager Mark McGhee: "The two goals we conceded in the first half were ludicrous. It was a joke really, a total joke and it's cost us the game in the end.
"We weren't out-played, we weren't out-fought, we weren't out-run. We just made ridiculous mistakes in the first half that put us in a difficult position that we couldn't get back.
"I'm hugely disappointed with the result, I'm hugely disappointed with those two goals but I'm not at all disappointed with the performance."
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes: "The performance was very mature, a very experienced performance littered with lots of good play.
"We controlled the second half but while it's only 2-1 you never think you're there, especially at Motherwell.
"Brilliant finish from wee Niall to get the third goal and seal the three points. A strong performance from us."
Match ends, Motherwell 1, Aberdeen 3.
Second Half ends, Motherwell 1, Aberdeen 3.
Attempt missed. Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Anthony O'Connor replaces Jonny Hayes.
Foul by Dom Thomas (Motherwell).
Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Motherwell 1, Aberdeen 3. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Jonny Hayes.
Substitution, Motherwell. Ryan Bowman replaces Stephen McManus.
Craig Clay (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenny McLean (Aberdeen).
Stephen McManus (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam Rooney (Aberdeen).
Attempt missed. Stephen McManus (Motherwell) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Ash Taylor.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Ryan Jack.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Craig Samson.
Attempt saved. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Motherwell. Lionel Ainsworth replaces Chris Cadden.
Attempt missed. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Scott McDonald (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from long range on the left is just a bit too high.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Scott McDonald (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ryan Jack (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ryan Jack (Aberdeen).
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Mark Reynolds.
Chris Cadden (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mark Reynolds (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mark Reynolds (Aberdeen).
Andrew Considine (Aberdeen) hits the bar with a header from the left side of the six yard box.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Richard Tait.
Scott McDonald (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen).
Louis Moult (Motherwell) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box.
Yarmolenko kicked Stepanenko after the Shakhtar Donetsk player kissed his badge and celebrated in front of Dynamo Kiev fans during his side's 3-0 win.
Both players were sent off - as were two of Stepanenko's team-mates.
"I'd like the whole country to know my friendship with Yarmolenko has ended," Stepanenko, 26, told the club website.
Yarmolenko, also 26, is likely to be given a lengthy ban.
Ukraine have been drawn in Group C with Germany, Poland and Northern Ireland for this summer's European Championship in France, which begins next month.
Coach Mykhaylo Fomenko said: "We have to sort this out so it does not affect our mission."
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts your football team and more.
The Wanted singer Jay McGuiness won this year's competition with his partner, Aliona Vilani.
The highest peak from both shows was 11.9 million as Kellie Bright and Kevin Clifton danced.
The results show peak was 11.7 million as Jay McGuiness picked up the glitterball trophy.
But as a share of the total TV audience, Saturday night's first show had an impressive 50.1% while the results show got 48.4%.
But the programmes highest ever figures came in the 2010 when 13 million watched and 2013 when 12.6 million watched the final.
Kellie Bright and Kevin Clifton, and Georgia may Foote and Giovanni Pernice were joint runners up this year.
Asked if he thought he should have won, Jay said: "I think it's down to whoever watches whether they think I deserved to win or not. I think everyone in the final deserved to be there.
"Like anything in life, you can work as hard as you can - but you need an element of luck," he added.
William "Bill" Lincoln, 60, denies being part of the conspiracy to burgle the safety desposit, in central London.
Jewels and precious metals estimated at £14m were taken in the raid over Easter, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Mr Lincoln was arrested in his car on 19 May after leaving the address written on the note, it is alleged.
The prosecution has told the court that as he was arrested Mr Lincoln, of Winkley Street, Bethnal Green, was driving away from the Old Wheatsheaf pub in Enfield, where stolen goods from the jewel raid were transferred from co-defendant Jon Harbinson's car to raid ringleader John Collins' car.
Previously, Mr Collins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary, however Mr Harbinson denies this charge and also denies conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property.
Mr Lincoln was stopped by plain clothes officers and pulled out of the driver's seat as he was leaning over the centre console, close to where the pieces of a handwritten note was found in the passenger side footwell.
The note gave the address of the pub, the court heard. Mr Lincoln told the detective who arrested him that he was experiencing pain following a double-hip replacement as well as suffering incontinence.
While in police custody at Wood Green police station, Mr Lincoln repeatedly asked to use the toilet, but soiled himself when he was denied the request.
Det Con Matthew Benedict told the court: "They said he could not go the toilet at the moment. And by the time I came back he had already wet himself."
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 Brian Reader, 76, of Dartford Road, Dartford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
They will be sentenced at a later date.
The trial continues.
Portaferry woman Mageean, 25, clocked 2:02.20 as she finished behind Britain's Adelle Tracey (2:01.53) and New Zealander Angela Petty (2:01.82).
"I put myself there on the final lap and felt good but I'm more geared up to 1500m now and the legs tied up in the home straight," said the Down athlete.
Brian Gregan improved his 400m personal best to 45.28 seconds as he triumphed.
The Dubliner's new PB cut 0.20 seconds off his recent time set in Geneva as he continued his return to form this season.
As he prepares for the World Championships in London, Gregan will hold out realistic hopes that the 45-second barrier could be in reach over the remainder of the summer.
Gregan was in a class of his own as his powerful performance left him more than a second ahead of Brazil's Anderson Henriques (46.51).
In the women's 200m, Amy Foster clocked 23.96 to take third place behind Britain's Margaret Adeoye who overhauled the fast-starting Phil Healy and the Northern Irishwoman in the closing 50 metres.
Letterkenny man Danny Mooney was an agonising 0.12 seconds outside the four-minute barrier in a thrilling men's mile.
The first 12 finishers all ducked under four minutes with last Friday's Letterkenny International winner American Robert Domanic taking another victory in 3:55.71.
Domanic held off fast-finishing Australian Morgan McDonald (3:55.79) while Ireland's Sean Tobin, a team-mate of Domanic's at the University of Mississippi, broke the four-minute barrier for the first time as he clocked 3:58.70 to finish 11th.
Another outstanding performance was produced by Australian Stewart McSweyn in the men's 5,000m as he bettered Eamonn Coghlan's meeting record set in the early 1980s.
With legendary Coghlan in attendance, McSweyn clocked 13:19.99 to achieve the World Championship qualifying standard and put himself in line to compete in London next month.
Ironically, Coghlan's son John was the pacemaker in Wednesday's race as he took the athletes through the opening mile in a perfect four minutes and 20 seconds.
Another performance of note was produced in the women's 800m B race as Sonia O'Sullivan's daughter, Sophie, took victory in 2:11.13 with Ireland's first lady of running watching on.
In the men's 400m B race, the Paul McKee-trained Ben Maze ran well to clock 47.71 which left him behind English winner Jamal Rhoden-Stevens (47.36).
Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2011 it produced a special supplement of original science fiction stories written by top writers from the genre.
The Review says its normal mission is to identify important new technologies, and decipher the practical impact they will have on our lives.
The sci-fi edition - with contributors such as Cory Doctorow and Elizabeth Bear - was an attempt to do that in an unusual way. The magazine called this "hard" sci-fi.
There's a great tradition at work here. When the MIT graduate John Campbell took over the editorship of Astounding Stories Magazine in 1937, he changed the name to Astounding Science Fiction, and insisted that the fiction contained convincing science and characters.
This ushered in what people say was the golden age of sci-fi writing, producing a hugely influential magazine.
One Astounding story told how to make the atomic bomb one year before Hiroshima.
But trying to predict the future is hard, and often wrong; that does not (however) mean it's a futile exercise. If, that is, prediction is what sci-fi is about.
There are different critical views about this. Some people argue that far from being far-seeing, most science fiction simply projects current concerns into a fantasy future unhindered by contemporary reality. But futurology it really isn't.
The other month at the St Gallen Symposium debates in Switzerland, I had a chat about some of this with the Toronto-based sci-fi author Robert Sawyer.
He has written more than 20 acclaimed books, such as Flash Forward, The Terminal Experiment, Hominids, and Mindscan.
In 2003 Mr Sawyer won the top sci-fi honour, the Hugo award. His work is not about aliens and rocket ships. Instead he says it is more about social interactions with the future.
He thinks the job of sci-fi writers as a whole is to produce "a smorgasbord of plausible futures", not to predict which of them will actually happen.
Mr Sawyer points out how popular sci-fi has been in totalitarian societies such as the Soviet Union, as a way of writing about things that cannot openly be talked about.
He is the most popular foreign sci-fi writer in China, he says. Fictionalised into the near future, he can write about attempts to control the internet, for example, circumventing conventional here-and-now censorship.
We talked about Sir Arthur C Clarke, inventor of the communications satellite. In 1947, 10 years before the first space satellite was launched, Clarke worked out that a satellite 23,000 miles above the equator would stay stationary in the sky.
From this idea - published as a working paper in Wireless World - came what is now the global satellite network.
And then there is the chilly epic 2001 A Space Odyssey, jointly developed by Clarke and the director Stanley Kubrick.
The movie's famous computer Hal 9,000 was a wonderful forerunner of artificial intelligence: Hal could understand speech, beat humans at chess, recognise faces, and attempt moral reasoning.
"This is the continuing agenda of the computer revolution," says Mr Sawyer.
Robert Sawyer says his books are optimistic. Today is better that 50 years ago, in 50 years' time things will be better still.
They know this in China, he says, at least from the material experience of the past 30 years. But in the West, how many can say they are better off than a few years ago? We are stalled in the old paradigms, unable to see what is happening to the world.
Is Robert Sawyer not guilty of techno optimism, I asked him: a sort of over confidence about what science can and will bring about, whatever it is?
No he says, it's humano-optimism. In the face of widespread resistance to the idea, you can change human nature, and it's happening, he says.
Mr Sawyer gives the example of the way men are now involved with bringing up children in the West in a way undreamed of 60 years ago. And the creation of the European Union after centuries of European strife.
"Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology," he says.
Robert Sawyer is also enormously optimistic about something that worries many people: the future of energy. With his sci-fi writer's approach, he foresees a vast expansion of sustainable energy, bringing down the cost of energy to approaching zero.
Meanwhile, some futurologists - notably the American Ray Kurzweil - are busy predicting that moment out in the 2050s when artificial intelligence might - they argue - at last outstrip its human counterpart, and then go on getting better.
It follows the computer power expansion laid down in 40 years ago in Moore's Law: a doubling of the power on a silicon chip every two years.
"When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent as we are," says Mr Sawyer, "there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic."
He adds that the single biggest flaw with people being fearful of future clever computers or robots "is the idea that a superfast, super powerful intelligence that is not human will share human rapaciousness".
Ideas such as this are explored in Robert Sawyer's sci-fi trilogy WWW - Wake, Watch and Wonder. They describe the world wide web gaining consciousness.
Fact or fiction? For the moment, I will leave you to decide.
Erol Incedal plotted to attack a "significant individual" or killings similar to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which left 174 dead, prosecutors said.
He also had a phone containing material supporting Islamic State, they added.
Mr Incedal, 26, from London, denies preparing for acts of terrorism. He is being tried partly in secret.
The jury heard Mr Incedal had no settled plan of attack. But the prosecution suggested the possession of the Blairs' address was significant.
Prosecutor Richard Whittam QC said the prosecution believed Mr Incedal was planning an attack on "a number of individuals, an individual of significance or an... indiscriminate attack such as that in Mumbai in 2008."
He added: "Count 1 does not suggest that Erol Incedal had settled on a specific target or a particular methodology but in the context of the case as a whole and the evidence that I am going to come to, you may think that this address does have some significance."
The court was later told of email messages between Mr Incedal and an unknown correspondent.
An alleged coded word referred to "k 11 22 aaa shhh", which prosecutors say may have referred to Kalashnikov rifles.
Another, which mentioned "mo88m 55bayy style", could be interpreted as Mumbai-style attack, the jury heard.
Earlier, the jury heard that Mr Incedal was initially stopped by police on 30 September 2013 and that investigators used that opportunity to place a bug in his Mercedes. He and another man, Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, were arrested weeks later in October when policed stopped their car in East London.
Mr Whittam told the jury that each man was carrying an iPhone which was held in a protective case. Between the phone and the case was a memory card which allegedly contained a document relating to bomb-making.
Last week Rarmoul-Bouhadjar pleaded guilty to possessing material useful for terrorism, the jury were told.
The court also heard an iPhone recovered during the investigation included photographs of a synagogue and material supporting Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq.
Jurors were told on Monday that parts of the trial would never become public.
Proceedings on Tuesday afternoon are being heard behind closed doors - jurors are banned from ever disclosing what they hear.
Ten journalists will be locked in the room with them to observe proceedings. They will also never be allowed to reveal what is said during the sessions.
Mr Justice Nicol said: "This trial has some unusual features. The usual way that justice is administered is in public. Some of this trial will be conducted in that way.
"However, there will be other sessions of this trial that will be conducted in private. The public will not be able to attend these."
He added that there would be a third part of the trial where even those accredited journalists would be excluded from hearing the evidence.
"This is another reason why you must not talk about the private proceedings with anyone else outside of your number," said the judge.
The business in China delivers more than half of overall profit, but has suffered hurdles, including food safety worries.
This month, the US firm cut its profit outlook, citing a slower-than-expected comeback in China.
The move means any setbacks in China will have less impact on the US stock.
Yum had come under mounting pressure from investors to split the units.
The announcement came just days after the firm had named activist investor Keith Meister to its board.
Mr Meister is the founder and managing partner of hedge fund Corvex Management which has a stake in Yum and had suggested the plans to split off the China unit.
The firm said the spin-off will be complete by 2016.
Yum Brands has suffered repeated setback in its China business. The firm blamed a stronger US currency against the yuan for its poor results. But it is also still recovering from a food scandal last year.
Revenue at the KFC restaurants in China suffered in July last year after a television report linked the brand to supplier Shanghai Husi Food, which was accused of selling meat that was out of date.
Since then, the firm has been trying to win back customers. In the latest quarter, Yum Brands reported that sales in China rose just 2%.
But the company is also suffering from the slowing overall economic growth in the country, as well as growing competition from local food companies.
Yet the company on Tuesday said it believes the China unit could grow from its current 6,900 restaurants to more than 20,000 restaurants in the future.
The China business, which will be headquartered in Shanghai, had brought in $6.9bn (£4.8bn) in revenue last year.
At its 1987 debut near Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Yum's KFC was a novelty with a menu that included porridge and other local favourites.
The company said that the remaining Yum Brands business outside of China will concentrate on becoming more of a franchisor, with the goal of having at least 95% of its restaurants owned and operated by franchisees by the end of 2017.
Yum China will be Yum Brands' biggest franchisee and will operate under a franchise agreement.
Yum Brands currently has more than 41,000 restaurants worldwide.
He is a veteran politician who cut his teeth as an activist in the anti-apartheid movement.
His involvement in the fight against white-minority rule landed him on Robben Island, where he was a political prisoner alongside Nelson Mandela and many others.
After being imprisoned on terrorism charges and conspiracy to overthrow the government in 1976, Mr Sexwale spent 13 years behind bars.
He has certainly thrown a unique CV into the ring for the presidency of football's world governing body, which is looking for fresh leadership amid the biggest crisis in its history.
But the former political prisoner, whose father once owned a small football club in Soweto, does have a track record of getting things done in the footballing world.
He was a key member of the bidding team which brought the World Cup to Africa for the first time, going on to become one of the chief organisers for South Africa's widely praised hosting of the tournament in 2010.
His close involvement with the tournament bidding process was heavily scrutinised in June, when US prosecutors accused the South African government of paying a $10m (£7m) bribe to secure the right to host the tournament.
The government insists it was a legitimate payment to promote Caribbean football.
Mr Sexwale, who was not named in the US indictment and has not been accused of any wrongdoing over the bid, told the BBC that the payment was "worrisome".
"Where are the documents, where are the invoices, where are the budgets, where are the projects on the ground?" he said in a BBC interview in June, wondering aloud what exactly the millions had been spent on.
Through his foundation, he is also one of the leaders of a high-profile global campaign initiative, calling for an end to racial discrimination in sport.
"With this initiative we are giving a red card to racism in sport. Not just in football. We are saying don't throw bananas at players and do not make derogatory comments about the Williams sisters," he told me following the campaign's launch in 2014.
The same elections which brought Mr Mandela to power in 1994 saw Mr Sexwale elected as premier of Gauteng, leading a province which contained the country's capital Pretoria and its biggest city, Johannesburg.
Despite presidential ambitions, the highest political office he reached was as minister of human settlements, appointed by President Jacob Zuma in 2009, serving for four years.
Away from politics, the 62-year-old is one of the country's wealthiest businessmen.
Mr Sexwale's fortune, mainly made through the mining sector, was reported at $200m (£130m) in 2014, which would have made him the third richest black man in the country at the time.
He has also used his high profile to turn himself into a media personality.
In the South African version of TV reality show The Apprentice, it was not Donald Trump or Alan Sugar telling hapless contestants: "You're fired!"
Instead, it was Mr Sexwale, who put his own spin on the show's catchphrase, using the less brash: "You're dismissed."
But he was widely criticised for being "indecisive" because on the final live broadcast of the show in 2005 he ended up hiring both finalists.
Over the weekend, the South African Football Association (Safa) said that it fully supported his bid, for elections due to be held on 26 February next year.
Safa President Danny Jordaan said that Mr Sexwale had all the right qualifications for the job, but cautioned that there was a long campaign ahead.
"I think he has the credentials, and of course he's been on Fifa committees for many years," he said.
But despite the show of support, there are some who believe Mr Jordaan would have been a stronger candidate to become Sepp Blatter's successor, instead of the veteran freedom fighter and politician.
Following the July Budget, banks will have to pay an 8% tax charge on profits of more than £25m, starting next year.
At the same time, the bank levy, which affects the larger banks, will be gradually reduced.
But the small banks argue that the new tax will harm their ability to lend money, and they want it reformed.
"The only way to address the too-big-to-fail problem is to foster the development of smaller banks," said Paul Lynam, the chief executive of Secure Trust Bank, one of the smaller banks involved.
Speaking on Radio 4, he argued that the bigger banks have other unfair advantages.
"The amount of capital that the smaller banks are required to hold, relative to the larger banks, is disproportionately punitive," he said.
However Chancellor George Osborne has previously argued that the new 8% surcharge is fair, and will increase competition.
The bank levy, which is calculated according to the size of bank's balance sheets, will be reduced in January from 0.21% to 0.18%.
It will subsequently be cut further.
Large banks like HSBC and Standard Chartered had complained that they were penalised, because the levy applies to operations abroad, as well as in the UK.
Because of that, HSBC had threatened to move its headquarters outside the UK.
In July the chancellor announced that in six years' time the levy would only apply to a bank's UK operations.
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"Judo is a mix of skill, strategy and strength. Technique can and does often overcome power, meaning the sport is exciting and unpredictable. The moment to look out for is the ippon throw, which often comes from nowhere. Euan Burton is Team GB's top seeded competitor at -81Kg and is a former European and world championship bronze medallist. Karina Bryant in the +78kg is Great Britain's most consistent heavyweight of all time. She has won six world championship medals, but has never won an Olympic medal. Watch out for Frenchman Teddy Riner in the +100kg. He is one of the best heavyweights of all time and is winning everything at the moment."
Skill, technique and timing, rather than brute strength, are the essential ingredients for success in judo.
Let's not kid ourselves too much though, judo is only the 'gentle way' to an extent. A look at the official list of 66 throwing and 29 grappling techniques reveals that 'shime-waza' or 'strangulation' is an option.
Judo made its Olympic debut at the 1964 Tokyo Games and Japan is the dominant force, winning three times as many gold medals as any other nation. Great Britain, by contrast, has won just one Olympic judo medal since 1992 (Kate Howey's silver in 2000) and has never won a gold.
More than 180 nations are members of the International Judo Federation. In Beijing, Mongolia celebrated its first ever Olympic gold medal when Tuvshinbayar Naidan won the men's -100kg event.
Judo burns approximately 340 calories per session and helps improve fitness levels, balance, coordination and flexibility.
For those not wanting to take part in combat, the moves involved in the sport can still be done as conditioning and strength-building exercises.
The throws and holds involved in judo provide an effective form of self-defence training. It also lowers peoples risk of sustaining serious injury in other sports as judo teaches people how to fall in a safe manner.
Although it is an individual sport, judo is an excellent way to develop communication skills and learn to work effectively with other people as you train in groups.
Clubs also offer a variety of social events beyond simply playing the sport.
Judo is good for the mind as well as the body. Specific rules ensure you will build self-confidence, self-discipline and respect for yourself and others, with many of the moves involving a great deal of mutual trust.
Judo is a fun and challenging activity, suitable for peoples of all ages and abilities. All clubs that are registered with the British Judo Association offer free starter sessions, and have 'judo gi' (uniforms) that you can borrow while you take part.
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Every new skill and technique you learn contributes to your grading. As you progress, you will be given a new coloured belt to denote the standard you have reached.
Judo clubs provide the perfect base for people to learn the various techniques involved in the sport in a safe and controlled environment. Clubs can be found in sports centres, gyms, schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK.
Use the British Judo Association's club finder to discover where your nearest club is located. A list of upcoming competitions and judo training events for coaches and athletes can also be found on the Association's website.
As judo is a tough combat sport, a licence that provides insurance is required to take part in competitions and advanced training sessions. Information about where you can obtain the licence and its cost can be found on the British Judo Association,NI Judo,Judo Scotland and Welsh Judo websites.
It is vital that judo sessions are overseen by a qualified trainer. The British Judo Association's ClubMark scheme accredits club that are committed to providing a safe and effective environment to learn the sport.
More on the British Judo Association website
'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers.
More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved.
As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out.
Find an event near you.
More on the London 2012 website
There are 66 throwing techniques and 29 grappling techniques officially acknowledged in judo, which basically involves throwing opponents to the floor and holding them in submission.
Judo contests are fought on a mat ('tatami') which measures 14m x 14m, with a smaller contest area of 10m x 10m marked inside it.
At the start of each contest the athletes stand 4m apart until the referee shouts 'hajime' to begin the action.
As well as the referee, two line judges sit outside the contest area to help confirm any decisions.
Ulla Werbrouck's gold in the -78kg event at the 1996 Games came with just two seconds of the final remaining. Werbrouck had left the 1992 Olympics with a broken knee and her leg in plaster. Four years on she became the first Belgian woman to win gold at a summer Games.
Contests last up to five minutes, with scores awarded for different throws and holds. However, a contest ends immediately if a competitor is awarded the highly-prized 'ippon' - the maximum score.
An ippon can be scored by a clean, forceful throw; by holding the opponent mainly on his or her back for 30 seconds (under control); or by submission to a strangle, a choke or a lock applied against the elbow.
Ippon sometimes occurs just seconds into a match but a contest going the full distance lasts five minutes for men and four minutes for women. If the scores are tied, a sudden death 'golden score' period comes into play.
This system, designed to take the decision out of the referee's hands, first appeared at an Olympics in 2004. The first athlete ('judoka') to score any point is declared the winner, providing drama akin to a penalty shoot-out in football.
If the scores are tied after five minutes, the contest enters a golden-score period, when the first score of any sort wins.
In a sport which promotes politeness, courage, sincerity, self-control, honour, modesty, friendship and respect, penalties ('shido') are given to players who infringe the rules.
The first penalty only earns a warning, but the second and third result in points being awarded to the opponent, with the fourth equating to an ippon and therefore ends the contest.
A judoka can be disqualified ('hansukomake') for deliberately hurting their opponent.
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A terrible showing at last year's world championships led to GB's elite coaching staff being replaced. Now under the guidance of 1999 world champion Daniel Lascau, confidence has returned and Euan Burton has since won world and European medals at half-heavyweight (under 81kg).
Women's heavyweight Karina Bryant won world silver in 2009.
Teddy Riner of France is as strong a favourite as you will find in any sport. The 22-year-old 6ft 8in heavyweight has already won five world titles and enjoys superstar status in his home country.
Others to watch are South Korea's Wang Ki-Chun, who won lightweight silver in Beijing despite a fractured rib, and Kayla Harrison (women's half-heavyweight), who could win USA's first judo gold.
Judo is a traditional Japanese wrestling sport, and the word ju-do means "the way of suppleness".
Founded in 1882 by Dr Jigoro Kano, judo is a refinement of the ancient martial art of Jujitsu.
Men: -60kg, -66kg, -73kg, -81kg, -90kg, -100kg, +100kg
Women: -48kg, -52kg, -57kg, -63kg, -70kg, -78kg, +78kg
Dr Kano studied what he considered to be the best of Jujitsu's techniques and developed a sport which involves no kicking or punching, rather relying on fluid movements and throws to put an opponent on his or her back.
The sport first appeared at the Olympic Games in 1964 in Tokyo, was left out in 1968, but returned in 1972 and has remained ever since. Women's judo was added to the Games in 1992 in Barcelona.
Judo is now the most popular martial art in the world, with 13 million participants in 111 countries.
Since its Olympic debut at the 1964 Tokyo Games, Japan has won three times as many gold medals as any other nation.
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The Guardian newspaper has published footage in which the foreign secretary talks of politicians "twisting and abusing religion" for political gain.
He said Saudi Arabia and Iran were "puppeteering" because of a lack of strong leadership in the region.
PM Theresa May's spokeswoman said his comments about "proxy wars" were not the position of the government.
The spokeswoman said that Mrs May wanted to strengthen the relationship with Saudi Arabia, saying, "we are supporting the Saudi-led coalition in support of the legitimate government in Yemen against houthi rebels".
She said: "Those are the prime minister's views - the foreign secretary's views are not the government's position on, for example, Saudi Arabia and its role in the region."
She said Mr Johnson would be in the region this weekend and it would be an opportunity for him to set out the government's position on relations with Saudi Arabia and others in the region.
Asked whether the prime minister had full confidence in Mr Johnson as foreign secretary, the spokeswoman said "yes".
In the footage from last week, Mr Johnson said: "There are politicians who are twisting and abusing religion and different strains of the same religion in order to further their own political objectives.
"That's one of the biggest political problems in the whole region. And the tragedy for me - and that's why you have these proxy wars being fought the whole time in that area - is that there is not strong enough leadership in the countries themselves."
The foreign secretary told the Med 2 conference in Rome: "There are not enough big characters, big people, men or women, who are willing to reach out beyond their Sunni or Shia or whatever group to the other side and bring people together and to develop a national story again.
"That is what's lacking. And that's the tragedy," he said, adding that "visionary leadership" was needed in the region.
He went on: "That's why you've got the Saudis, Iran, everybody, moving in and puppeteering and playing proxy wars."
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale said the emergence of the comments would be "awkward if not embarrassing for the foreign secretary".
"Once again Mr Johnson's use of language is causing headlines that his diplomats will need to explain," our correspondent said.
The video has emerged as Prime Minister Theresa May returns from a visit to the Gulf where she had dinner with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.
The Guardian said the remarks flouted a long-standing Foreign Office convention of not criticising their allies in public.
Robert Lacey, a historian and author of the Kingdom and the House of Saud, said that while he agreed with Mr Johnson's comments, he questioned whether he should be saying them about an ally.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he believed it was a gaffe and that Mr Johnson was acting more like a journalist.
It was quite clear Mr Johnson had departed from the Foreign Office brief, he added.
The album shifted more copies than the next 86 albums in the chart combined, and has become the first album to sell more than 100,000 downloads in a week.
In fact, 252,423 of the album's 800,307 sales were digital with the rest on CD.
Official Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot said: "The statistics surrounding the album are staggering."
He added: "No album has ever sold 800,000 copies to reach number one in the history of British music."
The previous record was held by Oasis's Be Here Now, which reached number one with sales of 696,000 in 1997. However that album only went on sale three days before the end of the chart week.
Martin Talbot said: "What the future holds for 25 will unfold over the coming weeks and months, of course - but we can all be absolutely sure that more records will be toppled as Adele fever grips the nation in the run-up to Christmas."
Adele's third album has also "has done the seemingly impossible", according to Billboard magazine, and sold more than three million in one week in the US.
That is the highest one-week US sales since data tracking began in 1991, overtaking the previous record of 2.4 million set by N'Sync's No Strings Attached in 2000.
The singer has also just announced her first tour since 2011, playing in arenas across Europe from next February.
Adele's song Hello is at number three in the UK singles chart, while Justin Bieber has three tracks in the top five for the second week in a row.
Ms Heard came under fire for failing to declare Pistol and Boo, the couple's Yorkshire terriers, to authorities on their arrival in Brisbane in April.
This week she was charged with two counts of illegally importing the dogs into Australia and one count of producing a false document.
Penalties range from a hefty fine to more than 10 years in prison.
Ms Heard, the star of Friday Night Lights and Magic Mike XXL, has been issued with a summons to appear in a Queensland court on 7 September, the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions said on Thursday.
Under importation charges, the actress could face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of 102,000 Australian dollars (£48,000).
The false document charge, which relates to information given on an incoming passenger card, carries a penalty of up to one year in prison and a fine of AU$10,200 (£4,800).
The prosecutor's office would not answer questions about why Mr Depp was not charged, citing the ongoing nature of the case.
Australia has strict animal quarantine laws to prevent importing infections such as Rabies.
Boo and Pistol are understood to have arrived in the country on board Mr Depp's private jet in April this year. The star had been filming the fifth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise on Australia's Gold Coast.
Though undeclared on arrival, the dogs came to public attention when they became "film stars on Facebook", after they were photographed attending a dog grooming salon.
At the time, a minister said the dogs would be put down if they stayed.
"It's time Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States," agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce said.
Mr Joyce said he didn't care if Mr Depp had been voted the "sexiest man alive", he still had to adhere to quarantine rules.
The dogs left the country unharmed a few days later.
A Department of Agriculture officer escorted the pair from the couple's mansion on Queensland's Gold Coast to the airport, where the dogs boarded a flight to the US hours before the deadline.
Asked about the charges during an interview with Sky News, Mr Joyce suggested Ms Heard would not be getting any special treatment.
"You, I, everybody - we're equal before the law,'" he said.
Ms Heard previously criticised the way the case had been handled, and suggested she would not return to the country.
"I have a feeling we're going to avoid the land Down Under from now on, just as much as we can, thanks to certain politicians there," she told Australia's Channel7 News.
"I guess everyone tries to go for their 15 minutes, including some government officials."
It not known whether Ms Heard will appear to answer the charges in person. Representatives for Mr Depp and his wife have yet to comment.
IS deployed suicide bombers in different parts of the northern city but the affected areas were brought under control, Iraqi officials say.
The Iraqi offensive to remove IS from the city is in its final phase.
The military has announced it has captured Faruq district on the north-western side of the Old City.
Iraqi TV said the national flag had been raised in the district, which is opposite the al-Nuri mosque and famed crooked minaret destroyed by IS.
Great Mosque of al-Nuri destroyed
The operation to retake Mosul, seized by IS in 2014, began last October.
The government announced the liberation of the eastern half in January 2017, but the west of the city, with its narrow streets, has proved more difficult.
Nevertheless, IS is now confined to 2.5 sq km (a square mile) of territory.
Iraqi forces were just 600 metres away from accomplishing their mission, police commander Lt General Raed Jawdat said.
At least two IS counter-attacks were reported on Sunday night. The Baghdad-based Kurdish Shafaq news agency reported three attacks by the group in western Mosul - in Tanak, Rajm Hadid and Yarmouk districts.
Residents' houses were set on fire, the agency said.
Officials quoted by AFP said IS fighters had hidden among civilians returning to their homes in -Tanak and Yarmuk. They said there had been casualties, including up to 20 jihadist fighters killed.
What is clear is that these are the dying days of so-called Islamic State in Mosul. We have witnessed a clear change in the tempo of military operations since IS blew up the famed al-Nuri mosque last Wednesday.
The push against the militants has gained momentum - with increased ground operations and air strikes.
We counted about 20 air strikes through the day on Sunday, with helicopter gunships pounding IS targets and a great deal of mortar fire.
IS fighters are pinned down in a corner of the Old City, where the narrow streets favour the insurgents. The Iraqis believe the numbers are relatively small - about 300 to 450 - but these are battle hardened jihadists, most of them foreign. IS still has the capacity to resist.
Iraq's Emergency Response forces told us they had recently faced 80 suicide bombers in a four-day period. Counter-attacks by IS involving suicide bombers last night were dealt with swiftly, but the militants are fighting to the finish.
Tens of thousands of civilians are believed to remain trapped in the Old City.
As for the number of IS fighters still there, estimates from the Iraqi military and analysts suggest several hundred.
The increasing pressure on IS comes less than a week after the group blew up the al-Nuri mosque.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the destruction of the mosque, which was more than 800 years old, was "an official declaration of defeat" by IS.
The mosque was the scene of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's only public appearance, when he demanded allegiance to his "caliphate" in July 2014.
The offensive against IS in Mosul, the group's biggest urban stronghold in Iraq, was launched on 17 October 2016.
Thousands of Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen, assisted by US-led coalition warplanes and military advisers, have been deployed.
We were just a couple of streets away from one of the IS counter-attacks.
We had about 20 bodies (Iraqi soldiers) here yesterday and many more injured. In fact the trauma stabilisation point (TSP) is full of soldiers right now. An officer arrived with a bullet in his neck yesterday afternoon and it was shortly after that everything went a bit crazy.
There were cars set alight and roads were closed.
According to sources here, about 20 jihadists escaped from the Old City and popped up a couple of blocks from our TSP. In addition to this, the jihadist snipers have night vision goggles which meant the Iraqi army could only move very slowly.
It's definitely calmed down a bit now, although between about five and seven this morning it was pretty full on.
Sally Becker works for Road to Peace, an NGO helping children get access to medical treatment in war zones. She is currently working alongside Iraqi army medics to help treat the injured.
The 17-year-old is currently with Start in his homeland and had a trial with the reigning Scottish Premiership champions in January.
He returned to Glasgow for signing talks on Tuesday.
Ajer has made more than 40 senior appearances at club level, scoring 13 goals, and has played and scored for Norway Under-17s.
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The teenager is the youngest player to captain a team in the Tippeligaen, which is presently in its close season.
He flew to Scotland from Alicante, where he had been at a pre-season training camp in La Manga.
And speaking after arriving at Glasgow Airport on Tuesday, Ajer said: "I'm really happy. I enjoyed it last time."
Celtic bolstered their first-team squad during the winter transfer window by signing Denmark defender Erik Sviatchenko and Turkey forward Colin Kazim-Richards and also brought in Manchester City's English winger Patrick Roberts.
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It shows the pair being punched, and having their bags taken and emptied by another girl in Northfield, Birmingham.
The mobile phone footage has been widely circulated and viewed more than six million times, police said.
At one point the victims are ordered to their knees by the older girl and made to say "sorry" to another female.
Detectives have already spoken to two of the group involved, including a male youth who filmed the incident, and plans are in place to arrest the two female offenders, the spokesman said.
Inspector John Askew, from West Midlands Police, said: "The response from members of the public, clearly disgusted by what they've seen online, has been overwhelming and we've had lots of people getting in touch to provide names of those responsible.
"We have identified the two main suspects and plans are in place for one of the girls, a 16-year-old, to attend a police station for questioning later today.
"We understand the other main suspect is out of the country on holiday but we will speak to her upon her return."
The "unprovoked attack" was reported to police on Saturday night.
The force said it happened on Hilary Grove, although in the video a bag can be seen being thrown on to a dual carriageway road.
Det Con Dean Gordon said the violence shown against the girls was "completely unacceptable".
Rates are the property taxes paid by households and businesses.
Currently, charity shops are exempt but an official consultation has questioned whether that exemption should continue.
Robin Osterley, chief executive of the Charity Retail Association, said the imposition of full rates would cost the charity sector up to £5.5m.
He said this would mean that money "would no longer be available to charities to fund their vital life-saving and life-changing work".
Elsewhere in the UK, charities have their rates reduced by 80% leading the consultation to ask if Northern Ireland charities should "pay some rates".
The consultation has now closed and no decisions are expected until after the Northern Ireland Assembly election in May.
Passengers are waiting about an hour to clear border security at Calais and a further four hours at the terminal, Eurotunnel said.
An earlier broken-down train, which had added to delays, has now been fixed. Eurotunnel is now working on clearing the backlog of trains.
It also warned of queues at Calais due to "reinforced border checks".
Earlier, Eurostar was forced to reschedule trains from Paris and Brussels heading to London St Pancras because only one line remained open in the tunnel.
European Athletics has proposed rewriting world records set before 2005 in a bid to restore the sport's credibility following doping scandals.
Scot McColgan, 52, says the move is "very, very unfair", and fears current anti-doping measures are insufficient.
"Before they scrap records, they need to think of how to guarantee the next few years will be clean," she said.
"In our day there was blatant drug use and we had to compete against it. We lost medals to a lot of drug cheats. It's not just happening the last 10-15 years, it's been happening long before that.
"How they can just say from 2005, a certain date, it's not right. If they're going to clean the slate, it should be completely from the start.
"But also, how are they going to guarantee that in the future it's going to be clean, because they're not bringing in blood testing, and until they have more stringent testing in place, and all countries following that testing, then what's the guarantee the next five years are going to be clean?
"I personally don't think it's going to be clean, the next five years."
McColgan won the 10,000m World Championships title in Tokyo in 1991. She also won 10,000m Commonwealth gold in Edinburgh in 1986, and in Auckland four years later. Between those titles, she claimed a silver medal in the same event at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.
The former runner, whose daughter Eilish reached the final of the 5,000m at last year's Rio Games, also claimed a world title in the half marathon during 1992.
"When we ran we knew there was drug use out there but we could do nothing about it, and had to get on with the job in hand," McColgan told BBC Scotland.
"A few of us did go on to win medals and set records, it wasn't the drug cheats that won all the time, but it's very difficult to say it's this record or that record that's going to go, I think that's very, very unfair.
"And I also think to make it a sport for our future, we have to be more stringent in what we're doing.
"It's not an easy option just saying, well let's make the slate clean and we move forward - there's a lot more thinking that has to go into how we move forward with it."
McColgan's appraisal of the plans to rewrite records was shared by fellow ex-world champion Zola Budd.
Budd, 50, who represented both South Africa, the nation of her birth, and Great Britain, set a world record for the 5,000m at the age of 17 and became a household name for running barefoot.
"I think it would only be fair if they want to rewrite the records, they should find a date, like today, or tomorrow, and rewrite all the records," Budd said.
"There shouldn't be a cut-off date like 2005 or whenever, because that will be unfair to everybody.
"If they want to rewrite the records, it should be a clean slate and a start from scratch for everybody, and include all athletes, not just from the 80s or 90s, but everybody."
Both former athletes are in Scotland to take part in Sunday's first Stirling Marathon.
"I've run loads of times round Stirling, Dundee, Perth and I think it's about time we had calibre races back in Scotland," McColgan said.
"It's just fantastic we've got races here on Scottish soil. I hope all the Scots get really inspired again, because we were an endurance running nation that were really, really good.
"We've got youngsters coming through like Andy Butchart, Laura Muir, Eilish, my daughter, and Lynsey Sharp. We just need everybody else now to get off their couches, get out, run, and make running really popular in Scotland again.
"Even just at our age to get out and be active, to show people our age can still get out there and do it. That's what we're here for - hopefully we finish in one piece."
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Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said more than 500 dead fish were found in the River Afon, a tributary of the Vyrnwy near Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain.
NRW officers said the likely source was drainage of a wildlife pond and wetland by a landowner.
It is thought nutrients in this water reduced oxygen levels in the river.
Rob Ireson, senior environment officer at NRW, said: "Draining water from a pond to a stream may seem quite harmless - but it is what probably wiped out most of the fish on this stretch of the Cain.
"The water may look and smell normal - but it can be lethal for fish."
NRW said it was likely the fish suffocated when the drained water - which they believe contained low levels of dissolved oxygen and carried nutrients that could reduce oxygen levels even more when they break down - mixed with the river water.
But he fancied his video game skills and entered Nissan's GT Academy competition while on a gap year.
After beating 90,000 other gamers at racing simulation game Gran Turismo, Jann was offered the chance to train as a professional driver.
He's now joining Arden Motorsport to compete in the 2014 GP3 series, which is just two rungs below Formula 1.
The 22-year-old from Cardiff has also been taken on by Infiniti Red Bull's driver development programme.
Jann says winning GT Academy was a huge shock: "I thought I was pretty good because I could beat my friends on my street, but it was the first time trial I ever entered.
"I just wanted to see how I stacked up against people across Europe but I didn't expect to win. No way I thought that!"
Since 2011 he has competed in British GT, Formula 3's European Championship, and a series in New Zealand, but describes the latest step up as "big boy time".
GP3 launched in 2010 and follows the entire European leg of the Formula 1 season.
That means Jann will be racing at Silverstone on the same weekend as the British Grand Prix.
"There's a lot more power, more downforce, and it's going to be more difficult to shine.
"But it's in the shop window on the same weekend as Formula 1, on the same tracks, and in front of all the right people."
Three of the four GP3 championship winners have graduated to Formula 1.
Jann says that's the dream, but still just a dream for now.
"It's the top of motorsport and it's what I want to achieve. That would be amazing if it happened but I'm not trying to plan things out.
"I just want to live in the moment and go as hard as I can - see what happens after that."
And is he still gaming?
"I still play Gran Turismo, play a few shooting games," says Jann.
"It's not quite the same, but you can't always be in a racing car!
"But even for new tracks I still use it as a bit of testing, to learn the tracks.
"You don't want to be go into Stowe and miss your breaking point - so you can take a few risks on the game that you wouldn't take in real life."
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Switzerland has for centuries been a neutral state, which means that it cannot take part in armed conflict unless it is attacked. Its forces can only be used for self-defence and internal security.
It joined the United Nations only in 2002. Surrounded by the European Union, it has vacillated between seeking closer engagement with its powerful neighbour and other international organisations, and preferring a more isolationist course.
The people are given a direct say in their own affairs under Switzerland's system of direct democracy, which has no parallel in any other country.
They are invited to the polls several times a year to vote in national or regional referendums and people's initiatives.
Population 7.7 million
Area 41,284 sq km (15,940 sq miles)
Major languages German, French, Italian, Romansch
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 80 years (men), 85 years (women)
Currency Swiss Franc
Federal President (rotating): Doris Leuthard
Switzerland is unusual in having a collective head of state, the seven-member Federal Council, which doubles up as the country's cabinet.
The council was set up by the constitution of 1848, which is still in force today.
Members are elected for four-year terms by a joint session of both houses of parliament, although in practice changes in membership are rare, making the Federal Council one of the world's most stable governments.
The election of a new female minister to the Federal Council in September 2010 gave the cabinet a majority of women for the first time in the country's history.
Each year, by tradition, a different member of the council fills the largely ceremonial post of federal president on a rotating basis. The office does not confer the status of head of state, which is held jointly by all the councillors.
Doris Leuthard - the president for 2017 - has been energy and transport minister since 2010, during which year she held the post of president. Trained as a lawyer, she is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (PDC/CVP).
Broadcasting is dominated by the public Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG/SSR). Most of its funding comes from licence fee revenues; a smaller proportion comes from TV advertising.
About 87% of the population was online by the end of 2015.
Some key dates in the history of Switzerland:
1291 - Origin of the Swiss confederation when three cantons form an alliance to resist outside control.
1815 - In the wake of the Napoleonic wars, the borders of Switzerland - and the territory's neutrality - are established at the Congress of Vienna.
1939-45 - Switzerland declares neutrality at start of Second World War.
1971 - Women granted right to vote in federal elections.
1998 - Swiss banks agree $1.25bn compensation deal with Holocaust survivors and families.
2002 - Switzerland becomes a member of the UN.
2009 - Switzerland says it will relax its rules on banking secrecy to allow financial institutions to co-operate with international investigations into tax evasion.
The Qatari support for Islamists throughout the Middle East as a strategy to establish itself as a regional powerbroker now looks increasingly threadbare.
In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad is slowly but surely gaining the upper hand on rebel forces that have had substantial backing from Qatar but it is Egypt where the young Emir may be left holding onto a policy that has cost the Qataris billions while backing the Morsi government.
The strategy of support for Mr Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood looked a shrewd one just a year ago. Egypt had emerged from its Arab spring revolution to hold its first fair and open presidential election. Mr Morsi won a slight majority.
Key to his election victory was the promise to revitalise Egypt's moribund economy. The Qataris positioned themselves to prime the pump with massive transfers of cash, some $10 billion (£6.5bn) since Mr Morsi came to power.
But this was not a charitable giveaway. It was in the nature of an investment. A Qatari economist told the BBC: "We couldn't stand by and let Egypt collapse", but the billions came with an expectation - "I'll give you the money, show me the outcome," he said.
The Qataris had already secured a lucrative deal to sell their gas to the Egyptians and they were proposing to heavily invest in the redevelopment of the Suez Canal.
The thinking was that with a functioning economy and a grateful nation, Qatar would be in pole position to capitalise on a resurgent Egypt.
But as Mr Morsi stumbled from one failure to another, the promised economic recovery never got off the ground.
On Wednesday that cost Mr Morsi his job and left the Qataris busy attempting damage control. Al Jazeera, based in the Qatari capital, Doha, and funded heavily by the royal family, carried a statement from what it called a foreign ministry source that said in part "Qatar will remain a supporter of brotherly Egypt".
And the new Emir Tamim sent best wishes to the interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour.
Michael Stephens, a Gulf analyst with Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) Doha agrees that damage limitation is the order of the day for Qatar.
"The Qataris got into bed with one side and now that side is out," he said.
Mr Stephens said that a senior Qatari businessman had told him "it's like we've dumped our girlfriend", but Mr Stephens said it is not quite as simple as that.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is out for now but in a fair and free election they could be voted back in."
Even so, Sheikh Tamim and his advisors will be scrambling to establish a new position on Egypt, one that for the time being at least extricates them from their close relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood while striving to protect the billions they have already invested.
And his task is made all the more difficult with the departure of the long-serving Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim al Thani.
He was seen as the architect of an assertive Middle East foreign policy that saw Qatar backing Islamist rebels in Libya and securing American agreement to arm Syrian rebels, Islamist and non-Islamist alike (though the suspicion was that the Qataris were directing weapons to hardcore Islamist factions like the al-Nusra front rather than to secular rebels).
And of course the unwavering support - until the events of Wednesday - for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
The prime minister left his twin posts at the same time that Sheikh Tamim took over. HBJ as he is known has been replaced as foreign minister by Khalid al-Atiyya.
Mr Atiyya will need all of his reputedly formidable intellect in assisting the new Emir to devise a foreign policy shorn of an Islamist agenda.
It was the aggressive pursuit of that agenda that annoyed Qatar's Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) allies, neighbouring Saudi Arabia being the most important of those, but certainly the United Arab Emirates, which is in the midst of a harsh crackdown on a Muslim Brotherhood associated religious society al-Islah, may be forgiven for a bit of a gloat at the expense of the Qataris.
And both those countries will be looking to advance their position in Egypt at Qatar's expense.
The hosts declared on their overnight total of 264-4, but rain forced an early lunch with the Kiwis 48-1.
Opener Martin Guptill resisted for 133 balls for his 23, while Kane Williamson added 59 to his first-innings 140 but fell just before tea.
The rain returned to wash out the final session with the Black Caps on 142-3.
With only 53 overs possible on day four, the fifth and final day will start half-an-hour earlier at 23:30 GMT.
When play does resume, much will depend on the two experienced men at the crease - New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum (four not out) and his predecessor Ross Taylor (20 not out) - if the tourists are to save the Test, although the weather may again play a part.
Guptill was dropped at short leg in the second over but Tom Latham was the first wicket to fall when he was trapped lbw by an inswinging yorker from left-arm paceman Mitchell Starc.
But it was off-spinner Nathan Lyon who took the other two wickets, finally inducing an edge to slip from the obdurate Guptill.
Williamson was adjudged lbw but he narrowly failed to overturn the decision on review, the ball-tracker suggesting the ball may have just clipped the top of the bails with an "umpire's call" verdict from the third umpire upholding the on-field decision.
Listen to ball-by-ball commentary of every day of the Test series on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra from 23:30 GMT.
Gordon McRorie's penalty and a DTH van der Merwe try put Canada 8-0 in front at half-time.
The lead became 15-0 as Jeff Hassler bounced his way out of some tame tackling to touch down.
But number eight Mihai Macovei went over for two late tries and Florin Vlaicu's penalty won it for Romania.
It is the first time Canada have lost all four of their group matches at a World Cup, while Romania can still finish third in Pool D - securing automatic qualification for the 2019 World Cup - if they beat Italy on Sunday.
A Canada victory seemed on the cards after a one-sided first half. Van der Merwe became the first player from a tier-two nation to score a try in four successive World Cup matches, after scores against Ireland, France and Italy.
The 29-year-old showed the one moment of clinical finishing in an opening period that saw numerous promising situations.
Van der Merwe is set to join Scarlets from Glasgow at the end of this tournament and the Welsh side will no doubt have been impressed by his powerful running and ability.
When Hassler took full advantage of some weak defending to touch down for a converted try after the interval, Canada were in full control at 15-0 up.
Romania's predictable battering-ram approach up front was making little impact against a resolute wall of red.
Countless times the Canadians saw off several phases of play and the lack of progress and defensive pressure resulted in an inevitable Romania handling error as they tried to play the ball out wide in slippery conditions.
Finally Romania seemed to twig, keeping the ball within yards of their huge pack and driving forward from close quarters, with their captain Macovei the inspiration.
He went over to set Canada nerves jangling and, after Jebb Sinclair was sin-binned for bringing down a rolling maul, Macovei's second close-range score made it 15-12.
Vlaicu added the extras and slotted a nerveless late penalty in a game that saw both sides miss several kicks at goal.
Romania coach Lynn Howells: "They've earned the right for a beer but it won't be to a great extent.
"It'll be in the team room and we'll have control over them."
Canada captain Jamie Cudmore: "What do you think it feels like? It's horrible. The guys are extremely disappointed after working so hard."
Canada manager Gareth Rees: "To echo Jamie's comments, it is totally unacceptable to finish a campaign with that performance, for 30 minutes, and to finish a game like that.
"I would like to apologise on behalf of the players that we let those people down."
Canada: Jones, Hassler, Hearn, Blevins, van der Merwe, Hirayama, McRorie, Buydens, Barkwill, Wooldridge, Beukeboom, Cudmore, Sinclair, Moonlight, Carpenter.
Replacements: Pritchard for Jones (74), Trainor for Blevins (49), Mack for McRorie (49), Sears-Duru for Buydens (45), Ilnicki for Wooldridge (67), Dala for Moonlight (63).
Not Used: Piffero, Gilmour.
Sin Bin: Sinclair (73).
Romania: Fercu, Lemnaru, Kinikinilau, Vlaicu, Botezatu, Wiringi, Surugiu, Lazar, Turashvili, Ion, Popirlan, van Heerden, V. Ursache, Lucaci, Macovei.
Replacements: Gal for Wiringi (51), Calafeteanu for Surugiu (22), Tarus for Lazar (74), Radoi for Turashvili (65), A. Ursache for Ion (45), Carpo for Lucaci (77).
Not Used: Burcea, Apostol.
Sin Bin: Fercu (20).
Att: 27,153
Ref: Wayne Barnes (RFU).
A 12th defeat in 20 league games leaves the Buddies seven points adrift at the foot of the Scottish Championship.
At full-time, Ross entered the lower reaches of the main stand to exchange words with a supporter.
"It was done in a calm and controlled manner and I would do it again," he told BBC Scotland.
"I felt it was appropriate at the time.
"There are some aspects of the game in Scotland that I've become hugely frustrated with and one of them is this myth that people can say what they want. I don't agree with that and I know other managers feel the same way.
"Fans have every right to express an opinion and every right to be passionate.
"However, sometimes people draw a line and that's not in any way saying I am not able to accept criticism.
"The point was to speak to the gentleman in question and say 'I'll happily have a conversation with a supporter at any time and hear his thoughts'.
"These supporters have been there long before me and they'll be there long after I'm gone. But they must understand my passion for the role as well.
"I know it has probably created a debate but, for me, there was not an awful lot in it."
Ross, a former St Mirren player, took over from Alex Rae in early October and concedes the club are in "a very difficult place" but remains optimistic about avoiding relegation.
"Our performance level in the main has been good over the last two or three months and there is a solid argument to say we should have picked up more points," he said.
"However, there have been one or two games in that period where we've looked like a team in the position we are for a reason. Yesterday, was one of those days.
"Of course the situation is serious but we still have a significant number of games left in the season.
"The points difference between us and Ayr didn't change, so when we go back to work on Monday the challenge remains the same, albeit with one game less to go.
"There's a fragility about the players that comes with the way the season has panned out. As the manager it's my responsibility to try to create a different mentality within the group."
Aberdeen midfielder Craig Storie joins the Buddies on loan from Monday and Ross is hopeful of bringing in one or two more new recruits.
"I understood completely the situation I was coming into and where we were budget-wise," he explained. "I knew there would not be any extra funds.
"With [loan players] Tom Walsh and Ryan Hardie leaving, that frees up some money.
"Whether I can bring in any more is subject to me being able to have more turnover of players, that's the stark reality.
"I still have complete faith in getting more out of the players and then you are looking at bringing in the correct ones who can contribute.
"There are good foundations in place at this club and if we can drag ourselves out of this position the potential is huge."
Loye, 43, left his role as high performance head coach of the Bangladesh Cricket Board in October 2015 amid security "worries".
In July an attack targeted at foreigners killed 20 people in a cafe in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital.
"ECB security has done a good job in the past," said Loye.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) carried out a security review in the country following a series of deadly attacks and consulted players and officials on 25 August, before deciding to go ahead with the tour.
Last autumn, Australia postponed a tour to Bangladesh for security reasons, after an Italian aid worker was killed in the country, in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State.
Loye, who played in seven one-day internationals, also represented Northamptonshire and Lancashire in the County Championship, before taking up a coaching role with Bangladesh in May 2015.
"There is always doubt. I'm not saying anything would happen - because anything can happen in Paris, London, Manchester, wherever.
"I would go," added Loye. "England - I feel - should get past the security issue and embrace the challenge with what happens on the field."
4 October - Tour match, Mirpur
7 October - First ODI (day/night), Mirpur
9 October - Second ODI (d/n), Mirpur
12 October - Third ODI (d/n), Chittagong
14-15 October - Tour match, Chittagong
16-17 October - Tour match, Chittagong
20-24 October - First Test, Chittagong
28 October-1 November - Second Test, Mirpur
The incident happened near Central Park football ground in Cowdenbeath.
Members of a visiting circus discovered the leak as they were dismantling their equipment at about 20:40 on Sunday.
They were sent to bed and breakfast accommodation for the night, along with residents of Chapel Street and Rowan Street.
A police spokesman said the residents were out of their homes for about seven hours.
It said the training would help police address changes in crime-fighting.
Prospective officers can either complete a three-year "degree apprenticeship", a postgraduate conversion course or a degree.
The National Police Chiefs' Council said the changes would "help modernise the service".
Recruitment requirements currently vary from force to force, with some insisting that applicants have A-levels or a certificate in policing and others demanding experience in a policing role.
The College of Policing, which is responsible for setting standards of ethics and training for the police service, said about a third (38%) of those currently going into policing have a degree or post-graduate qualification.
But the college's Chief Constable Alex Marshall said the current workforce was not getting the same investment in training and development as people in other professions, such as medicine or the military.
"It is very lopsided and we don't do a lot of professional development training," he said.
"The nature of police work is getting quite complex and it is quite contentious, and the public expectation is that you'll be patrolling in my street and, by the way, you'll be patrolling online."
"We don't think the investment has been made in policing in terms of professional development and this is one of the ways that we start to address that."
The money for the apprenticeships, due to be introduced next year, is expected to come from a new 0.5% apprenticeship levy on all employers with a wage bill of more than £3m.
Under the apprenticeship, due to be introduced next year, new recruits will undertake a three-year course, spending 80% of their time on the frontline, and the rest completing their degree while receiving a salary.
A six-month postgraduate conversion course would also be funded by the police.
In contrast, the policing degree would be self-funded and the student would need to apply for a police job once qualified.
The syllabus is likely to cover the law, safeguarding the vulnerable, understanding how an officer behaves on the street and how an officer builds trust by interacting well with communities, Chief Constable Marshall said.
The College of Policing is in talks with 12 universities about running the courses.
The announcement follows a two-month public consultation which received more than 3,000 responses.
Almost 80% of the responses were from police officers, with the majority keen to gain accreditation for their existing skills, Mr Marshall said.
Other changes to be introduced include:
Andy Fittes, general secretary of the Police Federation of England and Wales, welcomed the move to accredit qualifications to serving officers, and supported the idea of a framework that might standardise courses.
He added that the federation was glad to see a move away from requiring minimum education requirements for those joining the service.
"There is a balance to be struck around encouraging people to have a certain level of education before joining the force, and marginalising and excluding good quality candidates from all communities by limiting the pool of potential candidates if they are unable to afford it," he said.
Chief Constable Giles York, the National Police Chiefs Council lead for workforce, said police need the right skills and knowledge to keep people safe in the 21st century.
He said: "It is also fair and right that police officers, as professionals, receive the recognition and accreditation they deserve, meaning the public will continue to get the high quality service they need."
They could be moderate Muslim clerics, human rights activists or local elders, but their task is probably far more difficult because of the media glare on Nigeria - a point ex-US Navy Seal Dan O'Shea makes.
"Hostage releases were done in Iraq. They were done in secrecy. They were done in back-door channels," Mr O'Shea told BBC Newsday.
"This case has brought such worldwide attention that it takes that option off the table for the Nigerian government."
Boko Haram has a propaganda arm, known as the "public enlightenment department".
It is not as sophisticated as that of militant groups such as Somalia's al-Shabab which runs a radio station and has propagandists with a good command of English. It also had several Twitter accounts until recently.
Instead, Boko Haram hand delivers videos to journalists in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the group's former headquarters, containing messages from its leader, Abubakar Shekau, in the local Hausa language and Arabic.
The videos are given to local newspapers and one foreign news agency - French-owned AFP, which obtained the video showing 136 of the abducted girls on 12 May.
"The media focus makes it more challenging," says Mr O'Shea, pointing out that it gives Boko Haram the opportunity to gain maximum publicity and "leverage" over the Nigerian government.
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Some analysts believe the intervention of countries such as the US, UK and Israel - which have sent experts to Nigeria to help deal with crisis - will also complicate efforts to gain the freedom of the girls.
Boko Haram has a deep-seated hatred for these countries, and it is bound to toughen its position in the hope of humiliating the Western powers to enhance its status in the eyes of the global jihadi movement.
The abduction of the girls has, after all, put Boko Haram in the big league of African jihadi movements - alongside al-Shabab, which was responsible for the siege of the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya in September 2013, and Mokhtar Belmokhtar's Signed in Blood Battalion, which seized control of a gas plant in Algeria in January 2013, with about 800 workers in it.
Both these sieges ended in a bloodbath - in Kenya, at least 67 people died while in Algeria, where the security forces stormed the gas plant after refusing to accept foreign help, about 80 people were killed in the ensuing shoot-out.
In Nigeria, more than 200 children are being held in the vast Sambisa forest - the main hide-out of Boko Haram, along the border with Cameroon.
Grant Fredericks, a forensic video analyst who teaches video science at the FBI's national academy, says experts will study the the video carefully.
"The investigators will look at the kind of vegetation in the area that will narrow to a degree some of the potential locations. They will also look at shadows and try to determine, if they can, where and when it was recorded," Mr Fredericks told the BBC's Today programme.
He says the US once did this effectively with the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, using an "iconic" video of his to establish his location while he was on the run after the overthrow of the Taleban in Afghanistan in 2001.
In Nigeria, locals already have clues to the whereabouts of the children and their captors.
Hunters - with expert knowledge of the area - tried to enter the forest soon after the 14 April abductions to track down the girls, but turned back after villagers warned them that the Boko Haram base was well-protected and they risked death.
Mr O'Shea says there are bound to be casualties if the security forces launch a rescue mission.
"Many of the young girls could be caught up in the crossfire. There are very few options for everyone involved - the Nigerian government [and] the Western governments that are sending law enforcement, military and intelligence capabilities to help with the search for these girls," he told the BBC.
Boko Haram and the government have quietly negotiated prisoner swaps in the past - including that of Mr Shekau's wife in exchange for the release of the wives and children of government soldiers.
And last year, Reuters news agency reported that the Nigerian government paid a ransom of more than $3m (£2m) for the release of a French family of seven, including four children, abducted by Boko Haram in neighbouring Cameroon.
So if intermediaries are involved in efforts to free the girls, money is bound to change hands - and that would help strengthen Boko Haram's war chest.
"How this ends no-one knows but there just isn't a lot of good endings to this story," says Mr O'Shea.
"No matter what path you go down - be it negotiations or the attempt to launch a hostage rescue mission that will be fraught with danger."
The American, 22, won the Masters and US Open, missed out by one shot on a play-off at The Open and finished second in the US PGA Championship.
Spieth has won twice in 2016 but blew a five-shot lead at the Masters in April.
"Most of the questions are comparing to last year and that's unfair because that's happened less than a dozen times to anybody in golf," he said.
"I would appreciate if people would look at the positives over comparing to maybe what would hopefully happen to me a few times in my career, a year like last year.
"So it seems a bit unfair, at 22, to be expecting something like that all the time."
Spieth made four birdies in the first seven holes at The Open on Saturday but dropped five strokes in seven holes as he finished five over for the tournament after three rounds.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was "concerned" the 13 February release could lead to a "spike" in people being stuck or trapped in handcuffs or rings.
Since April it has attended 393 such incidents.
LFB said people should use "common sense" but always call 999 in a genuine emergency.
The film, based on the novel by EL James, has been described as a "mummy-porn romance" and follows an affair between student Anastasia Steele and billionaire Christian Grey.
Dave Brown from LFB said: "The Fifty Shades effect seems to spike handcuff incidents so we hope film-goers will use common sense and avoid leaving themselves red-faced.
"I'd like to remind everyone that 999 is an emergency number and should only be used as such."
The brigade said on average it was called to more than one embarrassing incident every day at a cost of about £295 to the taxpayer each time.
In November, firefighters were called by doctors at King's College Hospital to cut two steel rings from a man's genitals, which he had been unable to remove for three days.
On another occasion, the brigade was called by a woman whose husband had become locked in a chastity belt.
A spokesman added that while there could sometimes be a "funny side" to some of these predicaments, they could be painful and "end up wasting emergency service time".
He added: "Our advice is to try and avoid getting in that position in the first place."
The data, collected by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, showed 88% of A&E patients were treated or admitted within four hours - below the 95% target.
The figures are based on evidence submitted by more than 40 trusts - one in five of the total in the UK.
Hospitals also reported significant problems discharging patients.
In some places, a fifth of hospital beds are occupied by patients who are ready to leave hospital but cannot be discharged because of a lack of community services available to care for them.
The problems have developed despite three-quarters of hospitals increasing their stock of beds to try to relieve the pressure, and a growing number of routine operations being cancelled.
College president Dr Cliff Mann predicted the "worst is yet to come".
"The majority of hospitals have endeavoured to increase the number of beds available to cope.
"Despite this, elective operations have had to be cancelled and postponed as bed capacity is insufficient to cope."
He also said the problems with delayed discharges - which have caused a number of hospitals to declare major incidents - showed no signs of diminishing.
The college has been collecting the data for the past seven weeks to monitor the pressures on hospitals during winter.
It shows a gradual worsening in performance since hospitals started submitting the data at the start of October.
Then, just over 92% of patients were seen in four hours, compared with 88% in the week ending 13 November.
If that performance is replicated across the NHS - and the college says the data should reflect the national picture - it means hospitals are in the worst shape heading into winter for a generation.
Weekly data on the four-hour target in England has been provided by NHS England and the government in recent years, but they have now stopped that.
Instead, it is published monthly, but with a six-week time lag.
That means the latest official data is from September. It showed the four-hour target was being missed along with other targets covering ambulance response times, cancer care and diagnostics tests.
Scotland, which has tended to have the best performance on the four-hour target recently, is the only part of the UK that now publishes on a weekly basis.
Data up to mid-November showed that 94.4% of patients were seen in four hours.
A spokeswoman for NHS England, which oversees more than three-quarters of the hospitals in the UK, said the key to dealing with the strain on the system was to create more joined-up care between the NHS and council-run social care - something that has been made a priority across the UK.
"It's important patients who are well enough to leave hospital can do so at the earliest opportunity and are helped to recover with dignity and compassion," the spokeswoman added.
The Peak District National Park Authority has raised £60,000 by selling 7.54 hectares (18.6 acres) of woodland in separate plots
The new owners, who include a family and a woodland fancier, face restrictions on the use of the plots.
Another six plots of woodland will be marketed in the next few months by an estate agent.
The first woodland plots sold were in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire and were former rubbish sites, quarries or plantations.
Sarah McKay, from the authority, said: "We feel we have done what we can with the woodland.
"We've established or improved them and we feel it is time to return them to the community, at a time where we are also reducing our liabilities in terms of the budget reductions we have to make."
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"The sales will allow us to focus on the protection, improvement and maintenance of our remaining woodlands.''
The Woodland Trust said it would monitor the situation, adding the new owners were subject to the same planning regulations as national parks.
The parkland plots were located near Chapel-en-le-Frith, Hathersage, Newhaven and Baslow in Derbyshire, Wildboarclough in Cheshire and Wetton in North Staffordshire.
All national parks have been facing large cuts in grants - the Peak District authority has lost £3.5m in funding since 2010 - a reduction of 36.5%.
Cornelius Van Der Wetering, 54, was last seen in the Tomich area, about 30 miles from Inverness, on Wednesday 28 December.
He had been staying at a guest house in Inverness.
It is thought he had planned a walk to Kyle of Lochalsh through Glen Affric, a distance of more than 70 miles.
Officers are appealing to any walkers, guest house owners, bus or taxi companies in the area to contact police if they have seen him.
Mr Van Der Wetering is described as tall, slim and with short grey hair. He was wearing outdoor clothing and carrying a large rucksack when last seen.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Mr Van Der Wetering was last seen in the Tomich area on 28 December, having previously stayed in guest house accommodation in Inverness.
"It is understood he planned to walk from Tomich towards Kyle of Lochalsh via Glen Affric.
"Officers are appealing to anyone who may have seen a man of his description walking in the Tomich/Glen Affric or Lochalsh areas since December 28 to make contact via 101."
Introduced in 2013, it was hoped they would help improve matters after the 2010 rankings saw Welsh pupils falling behind.
But what effect have the tests had in the classroom, and will they work?
We asked three generations of a family from Newport.
THE GRANDPARENT
John Healy was head teacher at two primary schools in Monmouthshire before helping to improve school performance across south east Wales.
He says the "testing culture" in Wales is affecting some pupils' wellbeing.
"I would define the action that was put in place as almost punitive," he said.
He feels the "richness" of the curriculum has been "put on hold" to improve Pisa performance and says measuring how far individual pupils have improved would be more beneficial.
"Some children come into school and they're not fully toilet trained with significant speech and language difficulties," he said.
"They can make enormous progress in schools with the good work that teachers do, but that's not necessarily measured because they might not meet the 'age norm' expectation."
After several decades in the education system, does he think the current, regular testing system will improve our Pisa performance?
"Yes" he says, with a wry smile, but there might be a catch.
"You could argue that we may well improve our test performance... but does that give us better all-round individuals?
"Creative children, children who are going to be good digitally, entrepreneurial children who are going to develop our businesses in future?
"Or are we going to have a generation of disaffected pupils who have become disengaged, disillusioned and demoralised by the effect of continual testing year after year?
"That's the educational diet they've been brought up on, and we need to ask ourselves are we producing well rounded individuals who will be life-long learners."
THE PUPIL
Sixteen-year-old Callum is in Year 11 in school and like other pupils across Wales he is now tested at the end of each year on numeracy and literacy.
He said: "When I was in Year 8, the teachers were told they had to integrate numeracy into all their lessons... it wasn't really beneficial, it was kind of forced upon us and the teachers.
"Then, in Year 9, quite of lot of emphasis was put on [the annual tests] by the teachers.
"In the weeks leading up to the national tests, our normal curriculum was dropped and we focussed solely on doing Pisa-style questions.
"Our teachers were worried that we were going to be selected, so we went through a fair bit of how the Pisa test worked and what they were.
"I'd say there are a fair few people who do get worried and anxious about these tests, some who did work harder and paid attention due to the test, but there were also people who didn't really bother.
"I think it [testing] is useful in high school, comprehensive school, it helps us prepare for GCSEs, but I don't really see the point in tests being used in primary school."
THE PARENT
Callum's mother, Kath Hall, says her son has always achieved the grades expected of him, but feels there are more tests than in her day, and more data for parents to consider.
"There seems to be a lot more tests, not just in the summer... there always seems to be one coming up," she said.
"It does seem very confusing as a parent to understand what all these levels mean really... I do go to each parents' evening and ask what do these numbers mean, what level should he be at?
"It's just kind of overwhelming as a parent."
Asked if she takes any reassurance from such detailed information about her sons's education, she said: "Not a huge amount. I find it very confusing. What is the data being used for?
"If it's being used to say Wales is underperforming in comparison to England, are we comparing like with like?
"We've got a very different curriculum in Wales - we've got the Foundation Phase, we've got Welsh language schools, it's not a direct comparison to me."
Colin Ingram led the home effort with a gritty unbeaten 72, sharing stands of 62 with Aneurin Donald (36) and 78 with David Lloyd (37).
Notts claimed three scalps in the first 20 overs but had to labour hard for wickets.
The visitors still have a full day to record a fourth Championship win.
Ingram reined in his attacking instincts to bat for five hours as Glamorgan dug in stubbornly for much of the day, despite Steven Mullaney's inventive efforts in the field as acting captain.
Lloyd supported Ingram for 42 overs before Luke Fletcher had him caught at slip with the second new ball for his second wicket.
Stuart Broad got through 23 wicket-less overs conceding just 37 runs.
Glamorgan batsman Colin Ingram told BBC Wales Sport:
"We let ourselves down (in the first innings) with the way we played, it's not where we want to be as a team and I wanted to make sure I kept it nice and simple and prepared to grind it out.
"Sometimes you've got to take those options, that's what red-ball cricket teaches you. I like to hit the white ball out of the ground but this was a good lesson for me to stick to a simple plan and grind it out, to see where I can go.
"It was nice to see everyone committed to a stronger performance today and nice to see the way the young guys (Donald and Lloyd) played as well.
"We'll just keep it simple, their bowlers have bowled a lot of overs and the pitch isn't doing too much so if we can keep gutsing it out, you never know where we can go."
Debutant Notts batsman, India's Cheteshwar Pujara, told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I'm used to fielding for two days, especially in Indian conditions where you expect any team to bat for at least 90 overs. We expected better results today but they batted well, we're still nearly 50 runs ahead and we hope to get five more wickets,
"I'm getting used to the conditions, I had jet-lag initially but I'm over it, I'm getting used to the weather and conditions and hitting a few balls every day so hopefully I don't have to bat in the second innings, but if I do I'll be prepared.
"I knew Samit Patel because he played in 2012 when England toured India, apart from (Patel and Broad) I didn't know many players but they are really friendly and I'm enjoying the dressing-room atmosphere."
Sam Jones opened the scoring following a clever one-two with Danny Johnson, placing past Elliot Justham.
Mitch Brundle curled in a free-kick to double the lead just after the break, as goalkeeper Justham was left disappointed with his positioning.
It became comical in the Dagenham defence as the excellent double act of Manny Smith and Jones combined, the latter scoring from his team-mate's tidy flick on.
After a Johnson penalty made it four, Smith added further gloss when given far too much space in the box to head home with 26 minutes left.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 5.
Second Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 5.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Tyrique Hyde replaces Jordan Maguire-Drew.
Substitution, Gateshead. Wes York replaces Danny Johnson.
Substitution, Gateshead. Luke Hannant replaces Russell Penn.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Paul Benson replaces Oliver Hawkins.
Substitution, Gateshead. George Smith replaces James Bolton.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 5. Manny Smith (Gateshead).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 4. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 3. Sam Jones (Gateshead).
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 2. Mitch Brundle (Gateshead).
Second Half begins Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 1.
First Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 1.
Russell Penn (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Scott Heard replaces Sam Ling.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Gateshead 1. Sam Jones (Gateshead).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
You asked us where the phrase "Yam Yam" to describe someone from the Black Country came from.
You wanted to know why the cooling towers at Ironbridge's power station are set to be demolished?
Another question was who has spray painted owls on walls in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent and why?
And are there secret tunnels under Hereford?
The Urban Dictionary website said it derived from the Black Country dialect for "you are" - "yam".
Terry Price, a historian born in Great Bridge in West Bromwich, said the pronunciation in dialect was nearer to "y'owm" or "yo am" instead of "you are".
"I'd never heard of that expression in my youth," said 78-year-old Mr Price. "I think it's a relatively recent thing."
Birmingham historian Carl Chinn said he believed the phrase may have been introduced in the 1970s or 1980s but could not say so with certainty.
The editor of the Black Country Society's magazine, The Blackcountryman, Michael Pearson, said when he worked in the police in the 1980s they used the phrase to distinguish Black Country folk from Brummies, who they called Lardi's (as in la-di-dah).
He said it came from a take on the Black Country accent in phrases like "y'am alright".
The bridge isn't the only landmark in Ironbridge Gorge. The nearby power station's cooling towers have stood since 1969 but they are scheduled for demolition. Here's why.
The subject has generated a lot of debate on the BBC Shropshire Facebook page.
Tom Rochester is in favour of knocking them down, writing: "People are strange aren't they. Build anything like these now and people complain. Demolish them now and people complain. People just don't like change I suppose."
Sharon Jones said she wanted to keep them: "We can't let them be demolished. It's my all time high when I see them. It's a big part of Ironbridge."
Some readers described them as a "blot on the landscape" or an "eyesore", but others suggested they would look good if they were illuminated.
Hidden in plain sight the owls of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent stare back - but who created them and what inspired the pictures? Here is the answer.
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There are certainly urban rumours about a secret tunnel running from an archway under the old bridge across the Wye to the cathedral.
But a spokesman for Hereford Cathedral said: "If there is a secret tunnel then it's very secret, because we don't know about it."
Alfred Watkins, the Hereford-born author and photography pioneer, also investigated the legend that there was a tunnel connecting the Priory of St Guthlac with its vineyard on the banks of the River Wye.
He'd found traces of it on a map dating from 1865. Watkins was also an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist and he and a friend conducted a dig on the "tunnel".
He was disappointed to find it was "some kind of natural fault or crevice [and] not man made".
There are, however, plenty of plenty of interesting tunnels across this area, some secret, other not - here's a slideshow of some of them.
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Until 1932 Thailand had been ruled by an absolute monarchy, with the king exercising power over the judiciary, the appointment of government officials and over state policy.
The idea of kingship had been developed over centuries from the Buddhist concept of a dhammaraja, a just king acting in accordance with the 10 dhamma virtues like integrity and self-restraint, and the Hindu concept of an all-powerful god-king.
But the pressures of the modern, globalised world intruded in 1932 when a group of soldiers and intellectuals overthrew the absolute monarchy and imposed a constitution limiting the powers of King Prajadhipok, on the throne at the time.
Unable to accept these limitations he abdicated in 1935 and lived the rest of his life in exile.
Bhumibol's elder brother, Ananda Mahidol, was next in line, but their mother insisted they stay away from the volatile political climate in Thailand and they were brought up in Switzerland.
As a result there was no sitting king until the family returned after World War Two in 1945 and it was not clear then what kind of monarchy might be re-established.
Following the still unexplained shooting to death of King Ananda on 9 June 1946, that task fell to the 18 year-old Bhumibol.
Thailand was divided then between progressive politicians and ambitious military men who preferred a weaker monarchy, or perhaps no monarchy at all, and members of the royal aristocracy who were determined to rebuild a political system with the monarchy at its heart.
The royalists relied on the young Bhumibol for this plan, and over the next 40 years it succeeded.
Until the mid 1950s the king's position was still too insecure for him to challenge the then-military strongman Phibul Songkram, who had also ruled during the war. He was not even allowed to travel freely outside Bangkok.
But the other royal princes helped build up his public profile by emphasising his role as the protector of the Buddhist faith, restoring royal rituals like the replacement of sacred cloths at the most important temples, or presiding over the annual ploughing ceremony in the main royal square in Bangkok.
Thai society is still a deeply religious and spiritual one, and those royal roles have been central to upholding King Bhumibol's image as a man who embodies dhamma virtues.
The king proved skilled at behaving in a manner which reinforced that image. Today the sacred aspect of the monarchy is an important source of its popularity.
From the mid-1950s on, the king travelled widely, and took an active interest in rural development projects.
How effective his interventions really were is difficult to gauge, given the swirl of royalist propaganda, but they certainly established him as a caring ruler who was working hard for his people.
His visits to rural areas, where he would often chat to the farmers prostrated in front of him, contrasted with the apparently uncaring attitude of corrupt local government officials.
Today the monarch is expected to be involved in the country's development, and substantial resources have been devoted to promoting King Bhumibol's philosophy of a "sufficiency economy" - a focus on balanced development that stresses environmental and social responsibilities as much as conventional measures of economic progress.
From the mid 1960s, when central government authority was challenged in the countryside by a communist rebellion, the king's visits helped rebuff the influence of the insurgents.
King Bhumibol became an essential figure in the fight by the Thai military and its US-backers against communism, although his role became more controversial in the savage anti-leftist coup of 1976, in which dozens of students were brutally killed by the security forces and royal-backed militias, and thousands forced to flee to seek sanctuary with the Communist Party.
But the legacy of this anti-communist role is a monarchy which is still seen as central to upholding the authority of the state throughout the country.
Throughout his reign King Bhumibol worked with a series of military-dominated administrations, prompting accusations that he was more comfortable with authoritarian than democratically-elected regimes.
Certainly he established close relationships with three long-standing military rulers, Sarit Thanarat 1957-63, Thanom Kittikachorn 1963-73 and Prem Tinsulanonda 1980-89, giving them the legitimacy of royal backing in return for the armed forces' unwavering support for the monarchy. The king also enjoyed handling and using military weapons, and often wore his own military uniform.
Royalists explain this, and the king's inevitable endorsement of every coup d'etat, as him accepting his limited constitutional powers - that he could not play an overt political role, and had to go along with whichever regime prevailed in Thailand.
Critics, though, believe he shared the disdain for elected politicians held by many of Thailand's traditional elite, as money-grubbing, classless opportunists.
In interviews the king referred to politics as something unseemly with which he did not want to be associated.
But the deep polarisation of Thai society at the end of his reign, and the widespread belief that the palace had taken sides against the successful electoral machine of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, gave rise to a perception of the monarchy as hostile to untrammelled democracy.
One other side of Bhumibol's role was often talked about during his reign, as a mediator at times of crisis. Officially he could not intervene. But on two occasions, in 1973 and 1992, when bloody clashes between troops and protestors had taken place on the streets of Bangkok, he is credited with defusing the situation and allowing a compromise to be settled.
In 1973 he decided to allow protesting students to shelter inside his palace, undermining then dictator Thanom and forcing him into exile.
This allowed the formation of Thailand's first democratic government since the 1940s, although this brief period ended tragically in the violence and repression of 1976.
In 1992 the king mediated again, summoning a military-backed prime minister and the leader of the protest movement, and allowing video of them prostrating themselves before him to be broadcast. Following this, Thailand had enjoyed its longest period of democracy, up to the coup of 2006.
There is debate about how decisive the king's role was in these crises, but the incidents allowed him to be portrayed as the ultimate arbiter of disputes.
Another "intervention" in April 2006 saw the king ordering the country's top courts to rule on whether an election won by Thaksin Shinawatra should be annulled.
Ostensibly he was rebutting calls from anti-Thaksin protesters to appoint a prime minister himself, something he said was beyond his power. But the judges took the hint, and annulled the election on the grounds of fairly minor irregularities, which then led to the September coup of that year.
Royalists in Thailand often compare the powers of the monarch to those described by the historian Walter Bagehot for British kings and queens: the right to be consulted, the right to encourage and the right to warn.
But King Bhumibol, viewed as semi-divine by much of the population, clearly had more than that; what former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun has described as his "reserve power or moral authority", something that can be hugely influential, but only if used sparingly.
The strictures of the lèse-majesté law make any open discussion of King Bhumibol's role and legacy impossible inside Thailand.
Thailand's lese majeste laws explained
No true measure of his popularity or influence is possible in this environment. But outside the country arguments have been made that challenge the official view of a wise, benevolent and adored king who held his country together at times of crises.
Some of these argue that the king was a central player in undermining democracy, others that he was more of a pawn used by conservative forces.
One point on which critics and supporters do agree is that the project started in 1946 to restore the status of the monarchy in Thailand succeeded largely because it was centred on the young king.
Whatever the truth behind the gushing praise for his personality and achievements, he played all the various roles ascribed to him, of the caring but restrained king, the renaissance king keen on arts, music and handicrafts, the religious king steeped in Buddhist ritual, extremely well.
Thailand's modern monarchy is one built almost entirely around one man. And that will make it difficult to sustain after his death.
All-night weekend services are set to begin on 12 September on sections of the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines.
However, the union Aslef has already announced its members will strike for 24 hours on 8 July from 21:30 BST over pay and conditions for the service.
District organiser Finn Brennan said drivers would have to work unlimited night shifts for no extra pay.
'It's easy enough to produce a map, but if London Underground management want to have an all-night service in September, then they need to sit down and negotiate a fair deal for the staff they expect to provide it," he said.
2015 Night Tube services
"Aslef aren't opposed to all-night services but they have to be introduced in a way that is fair and protects the work-life balance of the hard working staff."
The RMT and TSSA unions are also balloting their members for industrial action over the same issue.
Gareth Powell, from London Underground, said: "As well as making life easier for people, the night Tube will also boost London's night-time economy - supporting thousands of jobs and stimulating hundreds of millions of pounds in economic growth."
The hope is that all-night services will be extended to the London Overground in 2017 as well as the Metropolitan, Circle, District and Hammersmith and City lines.
A round-the-clock service is planned for the Docklands Light Railway by 2021.
The party claimed the public had been given no say over Labour plans to cut the number of authorities from 22 to eight or nine.
Voluntary mergers would be allowed, the Conservatives said, but only if people backed them in a referendum.
Local government spokesperson Janet Finch-Saunders said only the Tories were promising residents the final say.
"Labour are totally committed to forcing through local government reorganisation and, unlike the Welsh Conservatives, they are refusing to give local communities the final say in a referendum," she said.
"That could mean curtains for historic Welsh areas with distinct local identities.
"Whilst we all accept that the cost of politics has to be reduced, Labour's plans identify a genuine problem - but take the views of local communities completely out of the equation.
"Worse still, their plans put the cart before the horse and they have made no effort to consider what services the new council structure would be asked to provide.
"It's a huge missed opportunity, and an abuse of the democratic process."
In March, Labour's Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews said consultation on the bill to cut the current 22 councils to eight or nine was supportive, but he said more work was needed to ensure councils stayed connected to their communities.
Plaid Cymru said it would keep the current councils, but use them as "building blocks" to create up to six regional combined authorities.
Led by elected mayors, these would give a "strategic overview" of local services to be delivered by the existing councils.
"This means that we will get economies of scale through working together, but keep the advantages of local scrutiny and accountability," a Plaid spokesman said.
Welsh Liberal Democrat Peter Black said his party felt there were too many councils, many of which were "too small" and "underperforming".
But he said larger councils should have a fairer voting system, and that "the lines on the map shouldn't be drawn by politicians".
"It should be up to the independent Boundary Commission to establish a fresh map, which should be based on natural communities," he added.
UKIP spokesman Mark Reckless said his party saw the case for fewer councils, but added: "We believe mergers should be 'bottom up' in response to community views, and not 'top down' imposed."
Taloa Foster, 33, was charged with child endangerment.
Witnesses said the toddler grabbed the wheel and steered the truck across lanes of traffic after his mother fell from the vehicle on Wednesday.
The boy's twin brother was also in the truck at the time.
The vehicle eventually crashed into an embankment along the road near Ada, about 80 miles (130km) southeast of Oklahoma City.
The boys were unhurt, police said.
Police said Ms Foster told them that the boy had unbuckled his seat belt and she was trying to secure him when she fell out of the vehicle.
It was the second night of violence in and around Souda camp. About 4,000 migrants and refugees are on Chios.
Several tents, including one housing 50 people, were damaged in the violence, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says.
On Wednesday four migrants were arrested after fireworks were thrown.
Greek police said the four were three Algerian teenagers and an Iranian man. The fireworks were allegedly stolen from a shop.
More than 16,000 asylum seekers are still living in camps on Greek islands.
A UNHCR spokesman in Greece, Roland Schoenbauer, said that on Friday someone on the wall above Souda camp had thrown a stone, hitting a Syrian refugee on the head and seriously injuring him. He is now in hospital.
On Thursday night, "Molotov cocktails were thrown from the wall, which destroyed several tents", Mr Schoenbauer told the BBC. "People are scared - it's hard to convince them to go back [to Souda camp]."
The government-run camp is overcrowded.
The situation is still tense at Souda and the UNHCR has not managed to replace all the damaged or ruined tents.
"Volunteers helped with small tents outside the site," Mr Schoenbauer said, urging the Greek police to step up patrols in the area.
"Not all the migrants will have a dry place to spend the night because of the current insecurity there."
About 60% of the Souda refugees and migrants are Syrians, 20% Iraqis, 10% North Africans and 10% other nationalities.
Two local aid workers were also assaulted by a crowd of about 30 people and needed hospital treatment in Thursday's violence.
According to some reports, Greek far-right militants were involved in the violence.
"Some 100 people lost a dry place to sleep in the first two incidents, so they'll get new tents," Mr Schoenbauer said. New blankets, sleeping bags and other items are also being provided.
The UNHCR has offered to help the Chios authorities to find new accommodation for migrants, whether in hotels, apartments or public buildings.
To ease the pressure, Mr Schoenbauer said, the UNHCR is also helping to identify asylum seekers for transfer to the Greek mainland, and arranging ferry tickets for them.
Some migrants have already been transferred, after being processed and receiving an asylum card.
According to the UNHCR, migrant arrivals on Chios are down to a daily average of six, compared with 21 in October. In April the daily average was 38.
Last month, violence also erupted at an overcrowded migrant camp on the neighbouring Greek island of Lesbos.
There has been a dramatic fall in the numbers of migrants making hazardous boat journeys across the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek islands since March, when the EU signed a deal with Turkey to curb the influx.
But the processing of asylum claims is very slow and tensions have risen between migrants and local residents. In many cases, migrants are sheltering in squalid conditions in Greece.
The Greek islands have been returning some irregular migrants to Turkey, after rejecting their asylum claims.
The UNHCR is not involved in those returns, Mr Schoenbauer said, but does not object, provided the correct safeguards are followed and the country of origin is safe.
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.
The latest Office for National Statistics figures show 4.6% of people were out of work in Wales in the quarter to May.
It is the third successive set of figures where Wales has outstripped the rest of the UK.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the Welsh Government had been "working hard" to create and safeguard jobs.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said it was the sign of a "buoyant economy" with businesses confident to take on staff.
More than 1.4m people in Wales are now in work - up 4,000 over the quarter - and just below record levels.
The unemployment rate in Wales has fallen faster than any other UK region over the year - and compares to a 4.9% for the UK as a whole.
It is the lowest since 2005.
There were 70,000 unemployed people in Wales in the latest figures, the lowest since early 2008.
Mr Jones said: "We are ahead of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland with the fastest growing rate of employment over the last 12 months. Economic inactivity in Wales has also declined over the past year and quarter.
"As a pro-business government, we have been working hard to create the right economic conditions to help create and safeguard jobs right across Wales and our policies are continuing to reap the rewards."
Mr Cairns said: "Brexit will mean significant challenges but entrepreneurs thrive on change.
"Business leaders are telling me they are optimistic about the future and excited about export opportunities further afield.
"We are making the UK trade and industry team available to help Welsh businesses explore new markets and demonstrate that Wales is open for business."
Damjan Marjanovic, 20, and 21-year-old Zoran Baljak were killed in a road crash, the Slovenian club said.
A Maribor statement said the news has "shattered us deeply".
"A cruel fate has intervened in its severest form and taken away two young members of our Violet family."
Marjanovic and Baljak were both in the B team at Maribor.
Aberdeen, who visit Slovenia following a 1-1 draw at Pittodrie, said they were "deeply saddened" by the news.
Chief executive Duncan Fraser said: "I spoke with my counterpart Bojan Bon this afternoon and have passed on our condolences from all of the Aberdeen family.
"This puts everything into perspective. The clubs have developed an excellent relationship in the build-up to the games and we will co-operate fully with any wishes that NK Maribor may have to mark this tragedy."
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Concerns have been raised about the scheme to build a new medieval-themed park in Sherwood Forest.
But Discovery Attractions, the company behind the venture, said the attraction will open in 2015, as planned.
On Thursday, a bid to create a Robin Hood attraction at Nottingham Castle was rejected for lottery funding.
Rob Gray, marketing director for Discovery Attractions, said the park, named Discover Robin Hood, was the company's first such project.
It will include a medieval-style village fair, a wildlife dome, an open-air theatre, a torture chamber, a 4D show and an adventure play area.
The current Sherwood Forest visitor centre, which dates from the 1970s, will be demolished. The development will take place on a site on Swinecote Road.
The Cambridge-based company initially aimed to submit a planning application by the end of 2012, with construction due to begin in autumn 2013.
However Nottinghamshire County Council, which is helping to manage the project, said negotiations had taken longer than expected because the new site is an area of Special Scientific Importance (SSI).
Mr Gray said the company now planned to submit an application in the summer and start work on the visitor centre in spring 2014.
He said the Discover Robin Hood attraction will then open in spring 2015, as planned.
The scheme is being funded privately by a consortium of investors.
"Discover Robin Hood will be the first in a number of attractions based around English heritage we are opening across the country," said Mr Gray.
"We have a very strong team working on this. There have been some delays but we will open as planned."
Previous plans to bring a Robin Hood attraction to Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have stalled.
Mr Gray said: "It's going to be a resounding success and the curse that seems to have plagued other Robin Hood attractions will be broken."
The Countryfile presenter said it was "disappointing" to see the pay disparity when the corporation revealed its highest paid stars last month.
Rani told the Press Association: "It's difficult for everybody but, for me, as much as it's about gender I think it's about race and it's about class."
The presenter added "there is a lot to be sorted out".
"I think this is the beginning of a big shift and a change, which is a good thing," she said.
Asked if the revelations were as she expected, she said: "Knowing something intellectually and seeing it on paper are always two very different things, it was disappointing."
The BBC published a list of stars who are paid more than £150,000 in July, as part of its annual report.
Two thirds of the stars were male, with the highest paid names including Chris Evans, Gary Lineker, Jeremy Vine and Graham Norton. Claudia Winkleman was the highest paid female star.
The highest-paid stars from an ethnic minority background were George Alagiah, Jason Mohammed and Trevor Nelson - with Mishal Husain the top-earning female.
Matt Baker was the only Countryfile presenter to appear on the list, due to his other presenting roles on The One Show and the BBC's Olympics coverage.
After the publication, Sky News calculated that 45% of the BBC's best-paid stars were privately educated, compared with 6.5% of the UK population (according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency's most recent stats).
Rani herself attended a private school - last year she told The Guardian she attended Bradford Girls Grammar, which was a fee-paying school until 2013.
Earlier this year, a study carried out by the Social Mobility Commission found 66% of journalists are from professional and managerial backgrounds, with fewer than 12% from working-class backgrounds.
The BBC's most recent figures - from the corporation's Equality Information Report - suggests 75% of staff at the BBC are from a white background, while 57.8% are state educated (25.2% went to selective state schools i.e. grammar or faith and 17% were privately educated).
Holby City's Hugh Quarshie said this week that he should be paid a similar salary to Casualty's Derek Thompson, who earns between £350,000-£399,000 per year.
Quarshie has played Ric Griffin in Holby City for 15 years.
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This is the government's main welfare reform, bringing together six working age benefits into a single monthly payment.
But it is a programme that has been beset by problems that was further delayed on Wednesday, costing money.
The latest figures show there were 141,000 people claiming Universal Credit in October 2015.
In November 2011, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said a million people would be on the benefit by April 2014 and all 7.7 million households would be on it by 2017.
The latest schedule sees Universal Credit fully rolled out by the end of 2020/21.
Despite George Osborne's confidence that Universal Credit will help deliver his savings, on Wednesday the Treasury itself said: "Universal Credit has been substantively delayed on at least three separate occasions in the past three years. The rollout schedule is now around three years later than expected.
"In 2016/17 we now expect 330,000 claimants on universal credit rather than the 6.1 million expected in our forecast three years ago."
The Office for Budget Responsibility revealed on Wednesday that the DWP had built further delays into the roll-out.
The department had expected no new claims to the benefits Universal Credit replaces by December 2017; that's now become June, 2018.
These delays aren't merely administrative - they increase costs. The government has to keep paying the legacy benefits and it doesn't realise the savings that Universal Credit is meant to provide in a timely manner.
Much of the delay relates to the groundbreaking and complex IT system that's had to be built to make Universal Credit work.
The new benefit relies on the real-time sharing of information between 2 major government departments - DWP and HM Revenue and Customs.
In theory, someone whose employment circumstances change should see their benefits adjusted within days.
But problems in getting the system to work have led to hundreds of millions of pounds being written-off and several senior managers resigning.
Universal Credit is currently being rolled out to most job centres - but it is only accepting claims from newly unemployed single people in the vast majority of areas.
Some areas of the North West of England are processing families but it's being done through face-to-face meetings.
A pilot of the digital service - where claimants apply online - is underway in certain postcode areas of south London, in the boroughs of Sutton and Croydon.
Given the history of Universal Credit, it is reasonable to ask whether it will be rolled out as currently expected and whether the chancellor will therefore cut welfare spending by as much as he promised.
The 16 year old was waiting for a taxi with two friends in Faifley Road in the early hours of Saturday morning when a man approached them.
Police said he began talking to them, then slashed the victim and walked off.
The boy was treated at the Western Infirmary, then transferred to the Southern General hospital where he needed a number of stitches.
The suspect is described as white, aged about 30, of stocky build and approximately 6ft tall.
He was wearing a dark-coloured Stone Island hooded jacket and had a Rangers scarf around his face.
Det Con Clare Moran, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a horrific attack on a young boy which has left him with permanent facial scarring.
"From what we believe, it was completely unprovoked, neither the victim nor his friends knew the assailant. I am appalled that someone would do this then casually walk off.
"It is important that we trace this individual and I would appeal to anyone who was in the area or recognises the distinct description to come forward."
The attack took place at about 04:05 outside 174 - 190 Faifley Road.
Two hours later, in a separate incident, another teenager was also assaulted in Clydebank.
The 19-year-old was attacked at about 06:10 outside St Stevens Chapel in Park Road.
A witness saw the man lying on the ground being attacked by two males with weapons.
The attackers then got into a silver or light grey coloured small car, thought to be driven by a third person.
It was driven off in the direction of Stevenson Street and Duntocher Road.
The victim was admitted to the Western Infirmary with injuries to his head, face and hand.
The suspects were described as white males, in their late teens to early 20s. One was approximately 5ft 9in - 5ft 10in tall, of lean build, wearing dark clothing.
The other one was appromately 5ft 7in - 5ft 8in, of stocky build, wearing a white or grey coloured tee shirt.
Det Con Chris Norton said: "We have not yet been able to get a full statement from the victim to establish if he knew the motive for this senseless attack.
"Although it was relatively early in the morning, I would urge anyone who heard the disturbance or witnessed this crime to come forward.
"I would also ask anyone who saw the silver or grey coloured car in the area or has any information which may lead to identifying those involved to speak to police."
Anyone with information about either attack is asked to phone the CID at Clydebank on the non-emergency number 101.
But US officials have said one of the two attackers, Tashfeen Malik, pledged allegiance to Islamic State on social media on the day of the shooting.
The other perpetrator, Syed Rizwan Farook, helped his wife Malik launch a deadly assault at a workplace event, killing 14 people
The discovery of pipe bombs at the scene and more bomb equipment as well as weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition at their home suggests a degree of planning, investigators said.
So who were the attackers and what evidence is there that they may have been extremists?
Farook's wife, 29-year-old Tashfeen Malik, pledged allegiance to IS on social media, the day of the shooting, US officials have said.
But much of her life in the US remains a mystery, the Washington Post reported. Days after the shootings, no-one has emerged as a friend - or even her acquaintance - in San Bernardino.
What is known about her is that she came from a prosperous Pakistani family that practised Sufism - a more liberal interpretation of Islam that is viewed with scorn by more radical followers of the faith.
Malik grew up in Saudi Arabia but in 2007 she returned to her ancestral homeland near Multan - in the Pakistani province of Punjab - to pursue a pharmacy degree at Bahauddin Zakariya University.
She was a hardworking student, according to friends - and never showed any signs of religious extremism.
"She was one of the top five students," Talal Shaheer, who studied studied pharmacy with Malik, told the BBC.
"She was social, she would talk to boys, she would participate in class activities... she was not a religious activist," he said.
Asked if she had spoken against the US, he said: "Never. Politics was not the topic of her choice. Her favourite topic was studies."
Another of her friends, Abida Rani, told the Washington Post that Malik changed around 2009, suddenly becoming more interested in Islamic studies than pharmacy.
Ms Rani told the paper that Malik would daily travel across Multan to a madrassa that was believed to be espousing the ultra-conservative Wahhabi branch of Islam - often cited as the ideology of Islamic extremists around the world.
The young student was reported to have declined being photographed at the end of her college life - believing it to be contrary to her new religious beliefs - and to have spoken Arabic much more frequently.
She is believed to have met Farook in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj pilgrimage of 2013, a source told the Associated Press news agency.
The FBI says Tashfeen Malik came to the US in July 2014 on a Pakistani passport with a fiance visa that required she get married within 90 days or leave the country.
The US government did not pick up on extremist messages posted online when Farook and his wife began chatting.
Farook and Malik talked about martyrdom and jihad as early as 2013, but they did not get on authorities' radars.
To get the visa, she had to submit to an in-person interview and biometric and background checks to ensure she was not a threat to public safety or national security, AP reported.
The couple were married in Riverside County in 2014 and celebrated the union at the Islamic Center in Riverside with a party for up to 300 people, Reuters reported.
David Chesley, a lawyer for the Farook family, on Friday said family members described Malik as "soft-spoken" and "like a typical housewife".
She did not drive, wore a burka and did not interact with male family members, Mr Chesley said.
Malik applied for permanent residency in September 2014 and received a permanent resident green card in July 2015 following further background checks by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
Syed Rizwan Farook was "living the American dream" and had "everything to be happy", people who knew him said.
The Chicago-born 28-year-old had a good salary, earning $71,230 (£47,500) in 2013 as an environmental health specialist for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health and had just become a father.
He was a religious man, loved cars and also enjoyed shooting guns, according to a dating website profile believed to have belonged to him.
"Enjoy working on vintage and modern cars, read religios books, enjoy eating out sometimes travel and just hang out in back yard doing target pratice with younger sister and friends," the badly-spelled profile under the username "farooksyed49" said, according to the Guardian.
The profile on the Indian dating website Imilap.com - reportedly written about six years ago - is now shown as being "under review".
His co-workers at the health agency appeared to like him, AP reports, holding a baby shower before his daughter was born in which they collected cash for him and his bride.
Investigators are now examining the possibility he may have been radicalised.
His two sisters, Saira Khan and Eba Farook, told the New York Times they had no idea that Farook and his wife were preparing for the assault and that the pair seemed happy with their six-month-old baby.
A lawyer for the Farook family, Mohammad Abuershaid, said it was "in complete shock".
Mr Abuershaid said the family had little indication that Farook was unhappy at work.
But Mr Abuershaid said Farook had recently told family members that co-workers had mocked his beard.
The lawyer said the family knew that Farook owned two handguns and two rifles that were kept locked up.
However, the family said were unaware of the massive arsenal that the couple had amassed.
He had been in touch with people in the Los Angeles area who had expressed extremist views and had also been in contact with people overseas who were "of interest" to the US authorities, NBC reported, quoting intelligence sources.
Farook travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2013 during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and returned to the country in July 2014, the LA Times reported, quoting a security source. There was no record of Farook having travelled to Pakistan - where his parents were born.
These trips did not attract the attention of the security services because they were short in duration and he did not travel to places where he could have spent a period of time in a jihadist training camp, a law enforcement official told the LA Times.
However, the newspaper reported that investigators were examining the possibility that pipe bombs attached to a remote-controlled device found at the scene of the shooting were based on a design found in Inspire magazine, an online publication run by Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Farook prayed every day at the Islamic Center of Riverside - but stopped abruptly three weeks ago.
The centre's director, Mustafa Kuko, said he had never shown any sign of holding extremist views.
"He's a very committed person and he looked like a decent guy, looked very nice, cool-headed person, never gets into arguments with anyone, never gets into any disputes. He speaks with a soft and gentle voice. He is somewhat up to himself a little bit, not that social person," he told the BBC.
Mr Kuko insisted the Islamic centre emphasised "issues of moderation, a balanced life, issues away from fanaticism" in its sermons.
There were also some indications that Farook may have had an unstable family background.
Court filings in 2006 and 2008 showed that Farook's mother Rafia filed restraining orders against his father, also called Syed, describing him as a mentally ill alcoholic who was taking medication and "threatens to kill himself on a daily basis", the Guardian reported.
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Sushil Koirala said the government was doing all it could but was overwhelmed.
The UN has estimated that eight million people have been affected - more than a quarter of the population. Foreign aid is arriving but being hampered by congestion at Kathmandu's sole airport.
The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude quake is now 4,356, but Mr Koirala said it could reach 10,000.
"The government is doing all it can for rescue and relief on a war footing" in a "difficult hour" for Nepal, Mr Koirala told Reuters news agency.
He has also admitted that lack of equipment and expert personnel meant the "appeals for rescues coming in from everywhere" in many cases could not be met.
Almost 8,000 people are known to have been injured when the quake hit and in numerous powerful aftershocks which have sent people fleeing from their homes to camp on open ground.
Water, food and electricity are in short supply and there are fears of outbreaks of disease.
"According to initial estimations and based on the latest earthquake intensity mapping, eight million people in 39 districts have been affected, of which over two million people live in the 11 severely affected districts," said the most recent report from the UN Office of the Resident Co-ordinator.
Landslips and periodic bad weather in the remote mountainous region around the epicentre are adding to the challenge.
Rebecca McAteer, an American doctor who was one of the first to arrive in the district of Gorkha close to the epicentre, told Associated Press that 90% of houses there were "just flattened".
She said most residents were older men and women and children, as the younger men had left to find work elsewhere.
Many have also lost livestock and have little food.
However, a spokesman for Nepal's home ministry told the BBC that helicopters were air-dropping tents, dry food and medicine - though they were yet to reach many isolated communities.
This camp had been set up on a playground and even now there are quite a few children playing. But it no longer resembles a safe place. There's rubbish everywhere, paper plates, wrappers and plastic glasses are strewn all over.
"It's getting quite bad," says one man who is here with his wife and four daughters. "We've been here for three days and we've been living on instant noodles. There's nothing else to eat."
His house is not badly damaged, but he is adamant that he will not go home despite the challenging conditions in the camp.
"We've heard all these rumours about more earthquakes and aftershocks. We will not leave this place, not for a while."
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The Nepal government has pleaded for overseas aid - everything from blankets and helicopters to doctors and drivers.
"We urge foreign countries to give us special relief materials and medical teams. We are really desperate for more foreign expertise to pull through this crisis," said Chief Secretary Leela Mani Paudel.
Many countries have sent aid including India, China, the UK and US.
But there is a logjam at Kathmandu airport, with individuals trying to fly out of the country while flights of aid and rescue teams wait to land.
On Monday, four Indian air force aircraft had to return to Delhi international airport after encountering "congestion" at Kathmandu, tweeted a spokesman for India's defence ministry.
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Almost the entire Nepali army and police have joined the search and rescue operations, officials say.
People are still being pulled from the rubble more than 50 hours after the tragedy.
Hospitals are unable to cope with the huge numbers of people in need of medical attention and some Nepalis have complained of aid being slow to reach them.
The country's most deadly earthquake in 81 years triggered avalanches that have killed 18 people on Mount Everest - the worst disaster in history on the world's highest peak.
More than 200 people had been trapped on the mountain but all the injured have now been evacuated, along with the dead.
Expedition leader Chris Harling described experiencing the quake on the north side of Everest, telling the BBC the camp "started to vibrate underneath us which increased in intensity up to the point where the ground was literally shaking backwards and forwards like a giant jelly.
"It was absolutely incredible."
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Edjenguele, 29, joins from Veria in Greece while Van der Struijk, 31, was at Willem II in his homeland last term.
"We had to be patient with both these signings," manager Ray McKinnon told Dundee United's website.
"We worked on these deals for a good few weeks and I am delighted to get them on board."
United have taken five points from their four Scottish Championship matches this season, are through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup and host Peterhead in the Challenge Cup on Saturday.
Van der Struijk has spent his club career so far in the Netherlands while Edjenguele has played in England, France and Switzerland. Both have made over 200 senior appearances.
"They will add experience and quality to our squad in an area I have been looking to strengthen. Both will play a part in Saturday's game versus Peterhead," added McKinnon.
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Un-Nooh had been set for the cash prize in the sixth frame of his third-round tie with 2013 champion Neil Robertson at the UK Championship in York.
But the 30-year-old world number 36 said: "£44,000? I wish you'd told me before the black.
"There was too much pressure," said Un-Nooh, who was knocked out 6-2.
"I am so disappointed. I have never done a 147 in a big tournament like this before."
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Australian world number three Robertson said he was "absolutely gutted" for his opponent.
"Poor Thepchaiya," he said. "That prize would have meant a lot to him.
"But I am delighted to win. I was 3-1 up and should have been 3-1 down. I am feeling really good.
"My game is definitely there and now I need to put it together at the business end of the tournament."
Scarlets face Connacht in Galway on 30 January, with Wales' trip to follow on Sunday, 7 February
Williams sustained a foot injury during the Rugby World Cup in October and has not played since.
"He trained during the week with us and trained very well," said Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac.
"He's passed all the tests so far, so it's all looking good for him to get some game time next week."
Williams is expected to spend two days in the Wales training camp early this week before returning to Scarlets ahead of the Pro12 trip to Galway.
Pivac does not expect to have any other Wales squad players available to him as his team bids to stay top of the table.
The west Wales region finished without a win in the European Champions Cup for the third time after their 22-10 home defeat by Northampton.
Wales and former Scarlets wing George North scored the Saints' bonus point try.
But Pivac says they switched focus after the first couple of rounds.
"You could see early on in that competition that our focus was the Pro12, it was just unfortunate with what happened in the Rugby World Cup [injuries to Liam and Scott Williams] and then injuries we picked up ourselves.
"When you get to Europe, the depths of the squads vary and we don't quite have the depth that some of these sides have.
"The results speak for themselves really."
The Scarlets had 14 senior players on the injury list for the Northampton defeat, with every position apart from half-back affected.
They will now lose scrum-halves Gareth and Aled Davies, as well as front-rowers Ken Owens and Samson Lee, to Wales training duties.
Flanker John Barclay will also be absent on Scotland duty when the Six Nations kicks off.
On Friday night, Donald Trump was asked about his national security advisor's pre-inauguration contact with a Russian ambassador and said he'd "look into" it.
"I don't know about that," he said. "I haven't seen it."
On Monday senior Trump advise Kellyanne Conway assured reporters that Mr Flynn had the president's "full confidence"
Hours later, Flynn was gone and Conway was left explaining how the situation had become "unsustainable".
Although this may be the end of Mr Flynn's tenure in the White House, it's just the beginning of the story. There are a number of questions that aren't going away just because Mr Flynn has.
According to the Washington Post, acting Attorney General Sally Yates had informed Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn shortly after inauguration day that surveillance of Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak revealed he and Mr Flynn had discussed US sanctions imposed by the Obama administration during their 30 December phone call.
This ran directly counter not only to Mr Flynn's public denials, but those of other Trump administration officials, including press secretary Sean Spicer and Vice-President Mike Pence.
So, if the Trump White House knew that Mr Flynn had lied - or, as he put it in his resignation letter, had "inadvertently briefed the vice-president-elect and others with incomplete information" - why did it take weeks, and multiple embarrassing media reports, for the national security adviser to be shown the door?
During his press conference on Tuesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Mr Trump had been informed that Mr Flynn had discussed sanctions with Mr Kislyak on 26 January and had instructed the White House counsel's office to investigate whether any laws had been violated. The conclusion was that that it was legal. Over the course of the ensuing weeks, however, Mr Trump's trust in Mr Flynn "eroded" to the point where he could no longer be effective as national security advisor. It was then that he was sacked.
Those were weeks during which Mr Flynn was putting Iran "on notice", conferring tableside at Mar-a-Lago as the president and Japanese Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe dealt with a North Korean missile launch and sitting front and centre in the East Room of the White House during Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mr Trump's joint press conference on Monday.
Democrats in Congress smell blood in the water and are already calling for a sweeping investigation into the circumstances behind Mr Flynn's resignation.
"The American people deserve to know the full extent of Russia's financial, personal and political grip on President Trump and what that means for our national security," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a press release.
Although Democrats would prefer a new congressional special committee be created to investigate the matter, that seems unlikely at this point. There are already planned investigations into the larger question of whether Russia interfered with the 2016 US presidential election, to be conducted by the House and Senate intelligence committees.
"I think we should look into it exhaustively," said Senate intelligence committee member Roy Blunt of Missouri, "so that at the end of this process, nobody wonders whether there was a stone left unturned and shouldn't reach conclusions before you have the information that you need to have to make those conclusions."
The House investigation will look into Russian intelligence activities and "links between Russian and individuals associated with political campaigns", according to a letter signed by the Republican chair and ranking Democrat on the committee.
John McCain and Lindsey Graham, two senators on the armed services committee, are also launching their own inquiry.
"General Flynn's resignation also raises further questions about the Trump administration's intentions toward Vladimir Putin's Russia, including statements by the president suggesting moral equivalence between the US and Russia," Mr McCain said in a press release.
Other Republicans in Congress seem less interested in the matter. Jason Chaffetz, the chair of the House Oversight Committee who made recent headlines with his pledge to continue investigating Democrat Hillary Clinton's email server, has so far declined from launching an inquiry into Mr Flynn's resignation.
"It's taking care of itself," he said.
Of perhaps greater concern for the White House is the status of a reported FBI investigation into Trump campaign ties to the Russian government. According to the Post, FBI Director James Comey was reluctant to inform the Trump White House about evidence contradicting Mr Flynn's accounts because "it could complicate the bureau's ongoing investigation".
Although the BBC has reported that there is a multi-agency probe into Russia and the 2016 election, there's never been an on-the-record confirmation of this by government officials.
Could the inquiry include a look at whether Mr Flynn violated the Logan Act, a 1799 federal law that prohibits "unauthorised citizens" from negotiating with foreign governments? Given that the law has never been used in an actual prosecution, that seems unlikely.
The more the FBI asks questions, however, the greater the temptation for Trump administration officials to mislead or misstate in order to avoid further political fallout from the matter.
That could open the door for obstruction of justice charges. It wouldn't be the first time a cover-up of a political scandal turned into a criminal case. Or the second. Or the third.
As this story unfolds, Mr Flynn and the rest of the Trump team may want to look back and see whether this whole mess was preventable.
Forget, for now, the puzzler that Mr Flynn, who once served as director of the Defence Intelligence Agency, was seemingly unaware or unconcerned that phone conversations by the Russian ambassador to the US might be under government surveillance. Could he have just come out and admitted that he did, in fact, talk with Mr Kislyak about sanctions as part of a wide-ranging discussion of US policy priorities under soon-to-be-President Trump?
Perhaps. There certainly would have been political fallout. Democrats would have cried bloody murder, given their sensitivity to the outcome of the Clinton-Trump campaign. They would have accused Mr Flynn of undermining Mr Obama's efforts to punish Russia for its alleged meddling and, in all likelihood, questioned whether the move constituted a violation of the Logan Act.
In addition, there would have been further calls for a full investigation into Mr Trump's relations with Russia's Vladimir Putin and allegations of pre-election communications between the Republican's senior campaign officials and the Russian government.
What seemingly undid Mr Flynn, however, was that Mr Pence and other Republicans had framed their defence of the general based on his insistence that sanctions definitely were not discussed. Mr Flynn embarrassed the vice-president, who wields enormous influence in the administration.
A united White House may have been able to ride out this storm. As soon as it fractured, Mr Flynn was finished.
Mr Flynn was one of the Mr Trump's most trusted advisers on national security, since the early days of the presidential campaign, and he will be difficult to replace.
The president has alienated much of the conservative foreign policy establishment and appears unwilling, at least so far, to consider enlisting the aid of experienced hands who actively worked against him during the campaign.
Following Mr Flynn's resignation, the White House announced that Keith Kellogg, who was serving as chief of staff of the National Security Council, would take over as acting national security advisor.
Since retiring as a general from the Army in 2003, Mr Kellogg had worked for a variety of defence contractors and advised Mr Trump on foreign policy matters during the presidential campaign.
Although Mr Kellogg will have the advantage of incumbency while the formal search is conducted, another high-profile name has already been floated for the job - former CIA Director David Petraeus.
Once considered a rising star in the Republican Party after his success organising the 2007 US military troop "surge" in Iraq, he was forced to resign from the CIA in disgrace and charged with sharing top secret documents with a civilian reporter with whom he was having an extra-marital affair. He eventually pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information
That, it seems, has not been a career-killing event, however - even though Mr Petraeus would have to get approval from his parole officer before taking a job in Washington.
Robert Harward, a former deputy commander of US Central Command, is reportedly also under consideration.
Whomever Mr Trump selects for national security adviser will be thrust into a key role in the administration's foreign policy team under less than ideal circumstances. The job requires the ability to co-ordinate multiple intelligence and security agencies with competing interests and priorities. The NSA has to be a diplomat and a facilitator, making sure the president is kept abreast of all relevant national security developments and his policy directives are effectively implemented.
It's not a job for the faint of heart even in the best of times.
In late January Ms Yates, an Obama administration holdover who was serving as acting attorney general, advised the Trump administration of problems surrounding Mr Flynn's role as national security adviser.
On 30 January Ms Yates announced that she would not enforce Mr Trump's executive order barring entry to the US for individuals from seven predominantly Muslim nations, warning that she considered the action of questionable legality.
She was fired by Mr Trump later that day.
Now the president's immigration order has been indefinitely suspended by multiple courts, which have said it may violate constitutional rights. And Mr Flynn is gone.
We already know the answer to this particular question, actually. Ms Yates probably feels pretty vindicated.
Anglo said it would cut 6,000 posts from office and other roles not directly related to production.
The company, which has some 150,000 workers worldwide, said employee numbers would fall by 35% after the cuts, which will be accompanied by asset sales.
Anglo posted a pre-tax loss of $1.9bn (£1.2bn) for the six months to 30 June.
The miner has been hit by multibillion-dollar write downs on the values of its assets following commodity price falls.
Iron ore was down 41%, platinum has fallen 19%, and copper is 18% lower.
Chief executive Mark Cutifani told analysts: "Quite frankly we didn't expect the commodity price rout to be so dramatic and in all likelihood the next six months are going to be even tougher. We have pulled costs out of the business but we need to do more because prices continue to deteriorate."
Most of Anglo's workforce is in South America and South Africa, with just 2,000 in Europe.
Profits from its De Beers diamond mining business fell by $189m to $576m.
Shares closed up 0.2% at 808.1p, valuing the company at £11.3bn. The stock is half the value of a year ago.
Meanwhile, Lonmin said it would cut 6,000 jobs as the fall in the platinum price forced it to scale back operations in South Africa.
In a quarterly production statement the miner warned it was heading for an annual loss at current platinum prices.
The price of platinum has fallen by 14.4% from $1,126 an ounce in March to $964 on Wednesday.
Shares plunged 17.4% to 62.3p, valuing the company at £366m. The stock traded at more than £10 a decade ago.
Lonmin said it would mothball several platinum mines to cut costs, which would create a "smaller more sustainable and agile business".
The miner added it expected normal platinum production over the next two financial years to fall by 100,000 ounces.
"Our objective is to save the majority of the positions in the company and create a sustainable business by taking urgent action and maximising liquidity to protect the business.
"All costs, not just labour costs, have to be reduced and productivity improved if the business is to be sustainable," Lonmin added.
The miner added it was reviewing the capital structure for the company given the "new pricing environment" and was considering the whether to refinance its debt.
Platinum sales for the quarter were 231,778 ounces. That was in line with refined production expectations and compared with sales of 206,039 ounces for the same period a year earlier.
But Lonmin said despite the increase in production the weaker price of the precious metal and the weakness of the South African rand had continued to hurt profits.
The platinum US dollar price decreased by 23.2% the same period a year earlier.
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Friday it was shocked by the decision to cut so many jobs.
"As the NUM, we are going to fight against any job losses. It is very painful to see that these mining companies take the decisions of cutting jobs easy," the union said.
The mine closures come three years after 34 people were killed after police opened fire on striking Lonmin miners in what has become known in the country as the "Marikana massacre".
The Lonmin-owned platinum mine became the centre of a violent clashes between police and strikers following a pay dispute with Lonmin that was exacerbated by tensions between two rival trade unions.
Richard Alston, 70, of Vinery Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, worked at Cavendish School in Ealing, west London, between 1975 and 1980.
He was the partner of the founder of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Alston was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court for gross indecency with a child under 14 and indecent assault.
The court heard Alston and his partner Peter Righton forced an 11-year-old boy at the school to watch pornography and then perform sex acts on him at their home in Greenford, west London.
Righton, who died in 2007, was a founding member of the group set up in the 1970s that campaigned to lower the age of consent.
Righton was 19 years older than Alston, who was 16 when they met. They spent 40 years together, the court heard.
It was the investigation into Righton - convicted of importing images of child abuse in 1992 - that led to MP Tom Watson using Parliamentary privilege in 2012 to allege there was "clear intelligence" of a VIP child sex abuse ring.
The victim, whose anonymity is protected, came forward to police in 2013.
The abuse happened between February 1978 and February 1980 when the boy was at the school described at the time as being for "maladjusted boys".
Judge Alistair McCreath told Alston: "I acknowledge that at the time you committed these offences you were in a very close relationship with an older man who had very particular and aggressive views about the propriety of sexual behaviour with minors."
He said while he had the "intelligence, maturity and ability to say no" to "some extent at least" his behaviour was influenced by Righton.
The court heard Righton and Alston's friend Charles Napier - now a convicted paedophile - would also be present on some occasions.
Napier, a former teacher from Sherborne in Dorset, was at one time treasurer of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Alston was found not guilty of four counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency with a child.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on one count each of the same offences and they will lie on file.
Cy Cooper, 44, was pulled from the blaze at the property on Bluebell Close at about 00:25 BST on Wednesday, but was pronounced dead at the scene.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died from multiple injuries, none of which was related to the fire.
Paul Anthony Noel Cain, 23, of no fixed abode, is to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court later.
Three men and a woman, who were all initially arrested on suspicion of murder, have been released without charge.
Detectives said the fire was being treated as arson and a joint investigation with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue was under way to confirm the cause.
Police received a number of calls after a big, bright flash or 'fireball' was seen - with people reporting seeing a blue, white or green light at about 6.45pm on Monday evening. Others said they had heard a rumbling sound.
Professor Keith Horne, from St Andrews University, said the meteor was probably about 10cm across, with the rumbling sound caused by a sonic boom.
The Met Office said the event was "not weather-related" as there were no thunder storms recorded on Monday night.
Professor Horne said the flash would have been caused by a meteor, the size of a tennis ball, travelling at about 30 kilometres per second.
"What you've seen is a piece of rock from outer space that has crashed into the earth," he said.
"When it hits the atmosphere it starts to burn up... It releases all this energy into the atmosphere which will cause a bright flash and sometimes bits of this explode."
One eyewitness who caught the flash on camera, Jenni Morrison, said "it was pitch black and then all of a sudden it was like a light switch went on. It became daylight - the whole sky lit up.
"I looked at my son, he looked at me and then it just went black again. It really didn't last long at all - literally seconds.
"We didn't realise what it was at the time until we looked back on my dashcam. We saw the ball of light over the trees on the left side coming down at some speed and then a massive flash.
"It was scary and amazing at the same time."
The costume, a full-body suit with brown skin, traditional tattoos, grass skirt and bone necklace, represents the character Maui, considered a demi-god and ancestor by many Polynesians.
Activists said it was "brownface", or mocking of the culture by creating stereotypes.
Disney said it regretted any offence.
"The team behind Moana has taken great care to respect the cultures of the Pacific Islands that inspired the film, and we regret that the Maui costume has offended some," it said in a statement.
"We sincerely apologise and are pulling the costume from our website and stores."
The film, due for release in November, tells the story of Moana, a young girl who teams up with the demi-god Maui to make an ocean voyage and save her people.
The character of Moana has been widely welcomed because she is feisty, independent and with a more realistic body shape than most Disney female leads.
She also has no love interest in the story, which was written by New Zealand Maori film-maker Taika Waititi.
But when the trailer for Moana was released in June, many people were offended by the depiction of Maui, saying he was an "obese" caricature of Polynesian men.
Among the merchandise promoting the film was the Maui costume, on sale for about $44 (£34).
It was advertised as helping children "set off on adventures", with his "signature tattoos" and clothing.
Among the angry responses were people saying "our skin is not a costume", and pointing out that white-skin outfits are never sold for white characters.
I understand the reasoning behind the grass skirt and the necklace, but the brown skin is too far, and the tattoos are culturally misappropriated.
Tattoos are deeply meaningful to Pacific people. Like a fingerprint, a tattoo is unique to each person.
Our markings tell a personal story that we carry with us on our skin, everywhere we go - constantly reminding us of our values, our people, and our identity.
It is considered taboo and extremely disrespectful in many Pacific cultures to wear the markings of a people or place that you are not spiritually or physically connected to.
After the release of Moana, Maui may be a Disney character to some, but to many Pacific people, he is very real - a hero, ancestor, demi-God and a spiritual guide.
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Police are investigating the breach and Sage is probing the "unauthorised access" of data by someone using an "internal" company computer login.
The information was accessed at some point over the past few weeks.
It is unclear whether it was stolen from the FTSE-listed firm, or merely viewed.
The company, which provides business software for accounting and payroll services to firms across 23 countries, says it is taking the breach extremely seriously.
The police are investigating and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), responsible for the enforcement of the Data Protection Act 1998, has been informed.
Sage has notified those businesses whose data may have been accessed and has advised them to look out for any unusual activity.
A Sage spokesperson said: "We are investigating unauthorised access to customer information using an internal login.
"We cannot comment further whilst we work with the authorities to investigate - but our customers remain our first priority and we are speaking directly with those affected."
Sage was founded in 1981 and now has more than 13,000 employees around the world.
The group has an annual turnover of £1.3bn, and is the only remaining technology stock on the FTSE 100.
If the ICO decides that Sage has been negligent there are a number of actions it could take, including criminal prosecution, non-criminal enforcement, or undertaking an audit at the firm.
How the system works
The report from the Care Quality Commission that a quarter of home care services are not meeting all the quality and safety standards makes depressing reading.
Evidence of rushed appointments, botched assessment and revolving door of carers suggests the system is on its knees.
The temptation is to think that will all change with the introduction of the cap on costs that the government announced on Monday.
But sadly that is not the case.
The complex nature of the system means the reforms should help reduce the need for people to sell their homes to pay for care.
But they do little - perhaps nothing - to improve the quality of services on offer.
The last decade has seen services squeezed until the pips squeak.
In fact, they have got so bad that just over a year ago the Equality and Human Rights Commission said some services were "breaching human rights".
Much of the system - both care homes and home care - is provided by private firms or voluntary sector organisations.
They look after a mix of self-funders - about 500,000 - and those who get state help from councils - just over one million.
Talk to them and they will describe how local authorities have been wanting more for less.
Research by the UK Homecare Association, which represents the firms providing carers to help the elderly with basic tasks such as washing, eating and dressing, shows that councils have been putting pressure on them to reduce the length of visits.
Three quarters are now less than 30 minutes in duration, including 10% which are less than 15 minutes.
Those paying for their own care are not immune - agencies have pared back on their visits to cover costs.
Councils understandably point out that they are doing the best they can.
They have been ploughing more and more into the system as a proportion of their resources at the expense of other areas such as leisure centres and libraries.
Social care, including services for younger disabled adults, now accounts for nearly half of their spending.
But the total pot for care is still shrinking as the huge cuts in government funding for councils - it is falling by over a quarter this parliament - means local authorities have been unable to protect the sector entirely.
The budget for social care stands at just over £14bn - a £1bn cut in real terms. If that happened in the NHS there would be outrage.
Councils have responded by rationing access to care so only the most needy can get it.
It means despite the ageing population the numbers getting help has actually fallen in the past five years, leaving an estimated one million without any help.
In years gone by these people would have been looked after by younger relatives. But with families more dispersed and the children of the elderly often pensioners themselves this is not always possible.
Stephen Burke, director of the United for All Ages charity and author of the Good Care Guide, is scathing.
He believes the government has pulled a "con of the worst sorts" by giving the impression it has solved the problem of old age care.
Other are more generous.
Councillor David Rogers, from the Local Government Association, has welcomed the cap as an important step forward, but says more needs to be done to tackle the quality issue.
"Without an urgent injection of money to meet rising demand in the short term things will continue to get worse."
With the over 65 population expected to rise by 50% over the next 25 years, expect to hear much more about the care crisis.
The case sparked a huge political row about freedom of speech. Last week the Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, sacked chief prosecutor Harald Range.
Public rallies had backed Netzpolitik.
The chief prosecutor's office said it now accepted the justice ministry's assessment that Netzpolitik did not leak state secrets.
But German media said investigations against unnamed state officials bound to secrecy were continuing in connection with a suspected breach of confidentiality.
In February, Netzpolitik alleged that Germany's domestic intelligence agency wanted additional funds to increase its online surveillance programme.
A later article in April investigated the spy agency's plans to set up a special unit to monitor social networking websites.
In the high-profile case, Netzpolitik founder Markus Beckedahl and blogger Andre Meister were accused of treason.
The decision to drop the investigation had been "long overdue", Beckedahl said on Monday, but added that "this doesn't go far enough for us".
"We want to know concretely whether, as part of the almost three-month-long investigation, we were victims of surveillance. And we want clarity about who knew what, and when, in the German government," German media quoted him as saying.
He called the investigation into his website "a judicial misjudgement".
"We hope that the intimidation attempt against us and all other journalists who cover surveillance activities... has collapsed big-time," he said.
Many Germans were outraged by the scale of US National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is now a fugitive in Moscow.
Data protection is always a hot topic in Germany, because of the abuses inflicted by the Nazi dictatorship and the former communist regime in East Germany.
Creative Director Xanthe Hamilton said they would stage a smaller gala screening in November when plans for the fifth Branchage would be unveiled.
Miss Hamiliton said they plan to make next year's festival bigger and better.
She said there would be more community involvement and other arts events including comedy, theatre and poetry.
Branchage is a mixed media festival with screenings and performances at venues across the island from castles and barns to theatres and cinemas.
Miss Hamilton said: "Whilst I understand that many local filmmakers and film enthusiasts may be disappointed that Branchage won't be taking place in all its glory this year, I'm confident that the 'interim' events we have planned for November are going to be really special and unmissable for Jersey's film fans.
"When people see what we have planned for 2013, they'll hopefully agree with us that it'll be worth the wait."
He will replace the current SDLP MLA Pat Ramsey who announced he is stepping down for health reasons.
Mr Diver will be formally endorsed at a selection convention on 22 December.
He is currently the party leader on Derry City and Strabane District Council and has been a councillor for 14 years.
"Pat Ramsey is a political legend locally," said Mr Diver.
"I am honoured to have been put forward and I look forward to the many challenges. I'm looking forward to being in Stormont.
"Foyle faces a number of challenges like economic disadvantages, infrastructure issues and the growth of the university."
Mr Diver has been working in the community and voluntary sector for 20 years.
"I want to focus on job creation and investment in the north west," he said.
"Derry and the Foyle constituency has never really got what it deserved.
"I'm going to bring my expertise to the table but it's not for Gerard Diver to make changes alone.
"I imagine I will be co-opted into the assembly early in January. I'm excited and look forward to the months ahead."
He has what has only been described as a "persistent infection" which his foundation says is unrelated to the prostate cancer he has had for 15 years.
Archbishop Tutu retired from public life in 2011 but continues to travel.
The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate cancelled a planned trip to Rome in December following another infection.
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Sope Peters drowned in October 2013, Luke Pearce died in May 2014 and Euan Coulthard was found dead in January. All had been out drinking.
Measures, including the provision of late-night taxis and student wardens have since been introduced.
Now fire chiefs are targeting 16 to 30-year-olds in a week-long campaign.
The events, run by County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service from Monday, will highlight the dangers of low water temperatures, underwater hazards like shopping trolleys and riptides and eddies.
Andy Bruce, assistant community protection and prevention manager, said: "As we know only too well in this region, water safety is of the highest importance.
"We hope that by highlighting the fatal five dangers during Drowning Prevention and Water Safety Week, we will stress the importance of taking care near inland waterways.
"The events the service has planned also aim to remind young people, in particular, to look out for themselves and their friends to prevent any more lives being cut short in such tragic accidents."
Since the deaths, up to 50 Durham University students have taken up roles as volunteer wardens.
They have received basic life-saving and alcohol awareness training and are equipped with radios, first aid kits, water and blankets.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report on Friday that showed overdose deaths jumped 7% from just one year earlier.
The spike in deaths has coincided with a rapid rise in the abuse of opioid-based prescription painkillers such as oxycontin and hydrocodone.
The CDC said 61% of the deaths involved some type of opioid, including heroin.
Many abusers of painkillers shift to using heroin as it becomes harder to obtain the prescription medications.
"The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths," the CDC's report reads.
The report found significant increases in overdoses in 14 states across the country. All regions of the US - including the Northeast and the South - were affected.
Overdose deaths are up in both men and women, in non-Hispanic whites and blacks, and in adults of nearly all ages, the report said.
Rural West Virginia had one of the worse overdose rates in the US. The state rate was 35.5 per 100,000 people; the national rate was about 15 per 100,000.
In addition to drug treatment, the CDC urged increased use of naloxone, an overdose antidote.
Many police departments across the country have begun equipping officers with the fast-acting remedy in an effort to save lives.
The health agency has also provided guidelines for general practitioners that urge them to be more cautious about the medications they prescribe for chronic pain.
The Euro 2016 hosts eased to their win in Metz, with Olivier Giroud scoring twice before Laurent Koscielny's third.
"We have chosen to play some of the best teams in the world in the last four games to find out what we can do," Scotland manager Strachan said.
"Sometimes you have to take a hard lesson, which we have."
After wins against the Czech Republic and Denmark in friendlies in March, the Scots failed to shine against Italy in a 1-0 defeat in Malta last week before they were dismissed by Didier Deschamps's side.
With Scotland having failed to qualify for Euros this summer, Strachan will now prepare for their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier against Malta in September, a match which he believes will be all the better after his side's French experience.
"We have had four friendly games, we had to experiment, we have experimented and we take a lot of information from that, which is great, and we will debrief and see what is the best way to go forward," he said.
"I do believe after the performances in the qualifiers, we do know that we are better than some teams in it and definitely as good as some teams that are in it.
"We know from the last Euro qualifiers that we can play football and score goals and play attractive football.
"We will now try and improve with the information we have got."
Strachan praised the French side, saying: "If there is a better team than them then we are in for a fantastic Euros."
The former Scotland midfielder noted how well his players did, adding: "I'm not as tired as the players, that's for sure.
"Those guys kept plugging away, it would have been easy to fold.
"It is easier for us to sit and think we could have done this, we could have done that, but when you are out there playing against a world-class side, it is harder for them than it is for us to watch it.
"For us to get anything and make any sort of progress in the game we have to be at our best and at times that didn't happen."
The baton made its first stop in Glasgow, which hosted the last Commonwealth Games in 2014.
It is making a 142,915-mile (230,000km) journey over 388 days ahead of the Gold Coast 2018 event.
The baton's tour will take it through Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
It left Buckingham Palace in March carrying a message from the Queen and will arrive in Australia in December and travel through the country, finishing its journey at the Opening Ceremony on 4 April.
In Glasgow, the 42nd stop of its global tour, the baton visited a range of youth and community projects with a strong focus on the legacy of the previous games.
Michael Jamieson, Olympic and Commonwealth silver medallist in swimming, was the first baton bearer as the relay arrived at Glasgow School of Sport.
He was accompanied by Louise Martin, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, and Jon Doig, chief executive of Commonwealth Games Scotland.
Accepting the baton on behalf of Scotland, Mr Doig said: "The Queen's Baton Relay is the iconic symbol of the Commonwealth Games and we are delighted to welcome the Gold Coast 2018 Baton to Scotland today.
"We have had tremendous enthusiasm and support from local authorities, schools and community groups across the country, helping to organise an exciting programme of events, using the QBR to connect their communities with the Games and embrace the values of the Commonwealth movement as a whole.
"The public support Team Scotland enjoyed for Glasgow 2014 was phenomenal and I look forward to seeing that passion sparked once again, as the baton journeys through Scotland this week."
The relay team was greeted by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Lord Provost of Glasgow Eva Bolander, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, and Angela Porter, director of the Glasgow School of Sport.
Ms Sturgeon said: "I am delighted to be able to welcome the Queen's Baton Relay to Scotland during its journey around the Commonwealth ahead of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
"Scotland hosted the most successful Commonwealth Games ever in Glasgow 2014 and we are looking to achieve our best away Games ever in Australia next year."
She added: "We will continue to invest for the future by creating world-class facilities and providing funding for coaching and training so that, from grassroots to elite, Scotland can be proud of its sporting achievements."
While in Glasgow, the baton is also visiting the former Commonwealth Games Village in Dalmarnock and the Cuningar Loop woodland park, a 2014 legacy project.
It is stopping at the Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and The Legacy Hub in Dalmarnock, finishing the day in George Square.
Ms Bolander said: "It only seems like yesterday that we were welcoming our own Queen's Baton Relay to the city ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The people of Glasgow were so excited and enthusiastic, and it really was wonderful to see."
She added: "If the excitement today is any indicator, everyone in the country will be behind the Scottish athletes next April, cheering Team Scotland on as it aims for its best ever overseas medal haul!"
The baton will spend five days in Scotland.
Designed for each games by the host nation, the 2018 Queen's Baton has a distinctive loop design and has been made using macadamia wood and reclaimed plastic, sourced from Gold Coast waterways.
Mr Yang, who is also known by his pen-name Guo Feixiang, is accused of disturbing public order last year.
He has claimed that the trial, being conducted in the southern city of Guangzhou, is illegal and improper.
Chinese authorities have mounted a widespread crackdown on dissenters and critics in recent years.
Mr Yang, 48, and another activist Sun Desheng, 32, had organised a small protest calling for media freedom outside the offices of major newspaper Southern Weekend. Its journalists had complained about government censorship.
Mr Yang released a statement from prison on the eve of the trial saying there had been numerous violations of legal procedure.
He claimed his lawyers had not been allowed copies of evidence against him and he was unable to mount a proper defence.
"I express my strongest protest and condemnation of... this flagrant violation of the rule of law," he said in a statement posted on the website of activist network New Citizens' Movement, which he is a member of.
One of Mr Yang's lawyers told Reuters that the four lawyers representing both Mr Yang and Mr Sun were boycotting the trial because they were not granted at least three days advance notice to prepare.
Mr Yang is known for helping residents of a southern Chinese village organise themselves in 2006 against a local Communist Party official who they accused of illegally selling their land to enrich themselves, according to AFP.
He was later sentenced to five years in prison for "running an illegal business".
The BBC's Damian Grammaticas says Mr Yang's prosecution is being watched closely as it comes amid the broadest crackdown carried out by China's ruling Communist Party in recent years.
Dozens of activists and government critics have been targeted, many detained, and some prosecuted on broad public order charges, says our correspondent.
Earlier this year, the founder of the New Citizens' Movement, Xu Zhiyong, was jailed for four years earlier for disrupting public order.
Last month, well-known Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng was released having allegedly suffering physical and psychological abuse in jail.
He said the authority could have power on funding decisions for English and Welsh output but would be "ultimately accountable to the BBC Trust".
He made the comments at the third annual Patrick Hannan Lecture broadcast on BBC Radio Wales on Tuesday night.
Most of S4C's funding is from the BBC licence fee but it remains independent.
An agreement between the UK government, S4C and the BBC Trust in 2010 led to the Welsh language broadcaster receiving around 90% of its funding from the licence fee.
It had previously been almost entirely funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
During the speech, Hewlett said that there was a "huge opportunity" following the last BBC funding settlement which put in place arrangements for S4C and the S4C Authority to run independently but be accountable to the BBC Trust.
"Could the S4C licence fee deal be the blueprint for a federal BBC?" he asked.
He said the S4C principle of having licence fee funding and independence under the BBC Trust could be applied across the "whole Welsh operation" with one authority overseeing services in both languages, having funding decisions and promoting on air plurality.
Hewlett called on both broadcasters to work more closely together and said a "huge and historic opportunity" might be missed if a "mutual distrust" between the two broadcasters was allowed to continue.
Focusing on the relationship between the two broadcasters, Mr Hewlett said they could either "stand together to become partners in what could be the vital beating cultural heart of the nation," or "hang separately".
In his lecture, the presenter of Radio 4's Media Show, also discussed the challenge of newspapers' falling circulations, and the impact the internet was having on TV viewing habits.
The outcome of the Scottish referendum on independence was also an opportunity for broadcasting in the UK, he argued, regardless of its outcome.
"If Scotland leaves the union then the opportunity will open up for Wales to become more independent within," he added.
"If Scotland votes to stay and so-called 'devo max' kicks in, then I reckon the same thing will happen. Either way, opportunity will knock for Wales."
Mr Hewlett also said the phone hacking scandal would lead to a more independent press regulator, but newspapers were also facing the "digital dissolution" of their historic business models as readers turn to the internet and their circulations and advertising revenues fall.
But he argued the internet was having a more positive effect on TV viewing habits, with the ability to discuss programmes on social media prompting more people to watch television live, rather than catch up later and miss out on the online conversation.
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Carroll, who will be 40 in September, is coming to the end of his first season with the Belfast club.
The veteran keeper's form has been important in Linfield's attempt to land the league and cup double.
Linfield are one point behind leaders Crusaders with four games left and have qualified for the Irish Cup final.
"Roy is an inspirational leader who sets the right example to all around him," said Linfield manager David Healy, who played with Carroll for Northern Ireland.
"His performances in goal for us have been exceptional, none more so than the crucial late match-winning saves in recent games against Dungannon Swifts and Crusaders."
Carroll's former clubs also include Wigan Athletic, Derby County, Danish side Odense and Olympiakos of Greece.
Harry Harper died in hospital after emergency crews were called to what is believed to be his grandparents' house in Ketley, Telford, on Tuesday morning.
The dog which bit Harry, a Jack Russell, has been destroyed.
West Mercia Police said its investigation was likely to continue for some time.
Supt Nav Malik said the death was being investigated as a "tragic accident" involving the family's pet dog.
He said: "Further detailed tests are still to be carried out and therefore at the present time no further information can be released."
The Telford and Wrekin coroner's office said an inquest into Harry's death would be opened on Monday.
A statement from his family, issued the day after his death, said there were "no words to describe the loss we have suffered".
They said they were "absolutely devastated" and asked to be "left in peace to grieve and deal with our loss".
Richard Bernard was found outside his flat in Trocadero Court, in Derby, on Tuesday night.
Det Ch Insp Dave Cox, of Derbyshire Police, said police believe the 51-year-old was attacked in his home before he collapsed and died outside.
A man and woman arrested in connection with his death have been bailed.
Police declined to say what offences they had been arrested on suspicion of.
Mr Bernard's mother Nita, sister Claire and brother Andrew said in a statement: "We are devastated to hear the tragic news about Richard."
A post mortem examination revealed Mr Bernard died from stab wounds.
Witnesses or anyone with information is asked to contact Derbyshire Police.
More than 20 firefighters helped tackle the blaze of polystyrene blocks at an industrial yard at 17:45 on Thursday.
The damage ran to a "low four-figure sum".
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The 12th of July parades mark the 326th anniversary of King William III's victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
A total of 18 demonstrations were held in towns and cities.
Northern Ireland's first and deputy minister and justice minister appealed for calm ahead of the parades.
In north Belfast, two nationalist residents' groups held separate protests against a feeder parade past the Ardoyne shops.
The stretch of Crumlin Road has been the scene of violence in recent years.
It was hoped a solution had been brokered to the long-running dispute last month, but the deal fell apart at the last minute.
On Tuesday morning, the feeder parade and the protests passed off without trouble.
However, protesters at the Ardoyne shops heckled PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton, shouting that he was not welcome in the area
This year, as has been the case since 2013, the feeder parade was not allowed to return by the same route on Tuesday evening.
The return feeder parade passed off without incident.
A total of three lodges were due to march on the return leg but only one lodge turned up at the police barrier on the Woodvale Road.
The Orange Order said the other two north Belfast lodges dispersed before the Woodvale Road barrier as they were outside the 20:30 BST deadline which had been set by the Parades Commission.
In east Belfast, around 30 bands took part in the return leg of the parade along the Lower Newtownards Road.
Several bands breached the Parades Commission ruling which stated that hymns could only be played between the junction at Short Strand to St Matthew's Church at Bryson Street.
There were security cordons and more than 20 landrovers but this part of the parade passed off without incident before heading onto Templemore Avenue.
The main Belfast march, which is traditionally the longest every year, left Carlisle Circus at 10:00 BST and made its way to the city hall.
The parade passed St Patrick's Catholic Church on Donegall Street without major incident.
Bands were told to only play a single drumbeat near the church, and most abided by the Parades Commission ruling.
However, one band played a hymn in the no-music zone and a small group of Orangemen sang a football song outside the church before they were stopped by fellow lodge members.
Sinn Féin's Carál Ní Chuilín said she was disappointed by the minor breaches of the Parades Commission ruling but was pleased with how the parade went as a whole.
When the parade reached Belfast City Hall, a wreath-laying ceremony was held at the cenotaph for servicemen and women who died during both World Wars and throughout the Troubles.
This year the service marked the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and the soldiers who served with the 36th Ulster Division were commemorated.
The Orange Order also paid tribute to soldiers from all over the island of Ireland who died during the World War One battle.
After the ceremony, the parade made its way south through the city centre to the demonstration field at Barnett Demesne.
About 60 bands walked the six-mile route.
The parade left the field for the return leg at 16:15 BST.
Flagship parades were staged in Portadown, County Armagh and Kilkeel, County Down.
About 5,000 Orangemen and women took part in the Portadown event, with thousands of supporters lining the streets to watch the parade.
Portadown also marked the Battle of the Somme centenary with a carpet of poppies at the town's Cenotaph and a new Somme memorial gate at the demonstration field.
In Kilkeel, more than 1,000 Orange Order members marched through the town.
Mourne District Loyal Orange Lodge (LOL) Number 6 had 15 lodges on parade, according to historian, Dr Gavin Hughes, who took part in the BBC's live coverage of the event.
Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, Edward Stevenson, attended County Londonderry's largest parade in Limavady.
Approximately 3,000 Orangemen and women, representing 60 lodges, were accompanied by more than 50 bands.
The main procession began at 12:00 BST from Church Street.
County Fermanagh's main Twelfth commemoration was held in the village of Maguiresbridge for the first time in 10 years.
A total of 15 Fermanagh district lodges were accompanied by a variety of marching bands.
First Minister Arlene Foster attended the demonstration in Maguiresbridge and watched her children parade.
"This really is about celebration, it's about doing things in a way that we've done so for generations," she said.
"I always think of the Twelfth when I used to get two sandwiches in a plastic bag and a bun and that is still going on today but it is good fun and we really enjoy ourselves every year."
The Fermanagh Twelfth also hosted visiting lodges from the Republic of Ireland - including members from Donegal, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan.
The Orange Order said it hoped the event would attract many tourists to the lakeland venue.
North Antrim's Twelfth demonstration was staged in the coastal town of Ballycastle, where the guest of honour was one of the UK's most senior Orangemen - Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of England, Ron Bather.
About a dozen protesters held small demonstrations along the parade route, which had been lined with Irish tricolours, éirígí flags and Palestinian flags.
Police spoke to one protester following a small scuffle during the march.
From 25 April much of the country had its power cut off for four hours a day.
The measure was put in place after a drought caused the Guri dam, which produces almost two-thirds of the country's electricity, to reach critically low levels.
The power cuts came amidst an economic crisis and severe food shortages.
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Mr Maduro said that when he ordered the power cuts in April, Venezuela had been "six days away from a collapse, we were facing having to turn off almost the entire country".
"Today we can say that Guri [hydroelectric dam] has recovered and we're in a position where we can resume normal service," he announced in a speech to supporters in Caracas.
The cuts caused widespread anger among Venezuelans already struggling with food shortages.
The government said the power shortage was down to a severe drought caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon which caused the level of the Guri dam to drop to a record low.
But critics blamed the authorities, saying they had failed to invest in Venezuela's electricity system and to make it less reliant on hydroelectric power.
As part of its efforts to conserve energy, the government ordered civil servants to work only two days a week.
President Maduro also asked women to refrain from using hair dryers and otherwise "wasting" energy.
The power cuts caused problems especially in hot regions of Venezuela where residents struggled to keep their food cool as fridges were turned off.
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Vern Cotter's team thundered into a 17-3 lead with clinical early tries from John Barclay and John Hardie.
Italy responded with scores from Leonardo Ghiraldini and Marco Fuser, while Scotland lost Finn Russell and WP Nel to the sin-bin in the last quarter.
But Greig Laidlaw's nerveless goal-kicking and Tommy Seymour's late try saw them over the winning line at last.
Key to Scotland's win was their scrum. It was exceptional, winning penalty after penalty, lifting several sieges and affording the outstanding Laidlaw the opportunity to bang over three-pointers, which he did like a metronome.
Kelly Haimona opened the scoring with an early penalty for Italy, but that was just a precursor to that explosive passage from the Scots.
Barclay's 10th-minute try had its origins in fast ruck ball. When Scotland attacked space, Tim Visser drew two Italian defenders and found Stuart Hogg, who took the contact, hit the floor and offloaded to the on-rushing Barclay.
It was a clinical score and it was followed by another seven minutes later.
Russell made the initial incision, slipping through a gap and putting the Italians on the back foot. The fly-half had an arriving army of forwards to support him, among them Ryan Wilson, who had come into the starting line-up as a late replacement for the injured David Denton.
Wilson was outstanding in those early moments and it was his pass that put Hardie over in the left corner.
When Laidlaw added a penalty just before the half-hour, Scotland led 17-3 - alien territory for a team that had forgotten how to win these games.
The visitors became strangely passive after they built their lead and Italy roused themselves at last.
The hosts got their hands on the ball, showed patience and power and, when Gonzalo Garcia blasted over Laidlaw, veteran hooker Ghiraldini crashed over.
Haimona added the conversion to make it 17-10, before Laidlaw missed his only shot at goal with the last kick of the half.
He and Haimona traded penalties early in the second half before the Scotland captain boomed over another kick close to the hour to give his team a 13-point cushion.
That feel-good factor was seriously threatened when Russell saw yellow for hands in a ruck and then Fuser went over for a converted try.
Credit Laidlaw, though. When Scotland needed their captain, he delivered. He kicked everything after the interval - four penalties and a third conversion, for a 21-point personal haul.
The penalty that made it 29-20 in the 66th minute was massive. It was from distance, but he nailed it and kept his team calm in the process.
Moments of concern did follow, though. Scotland struggled desperately at re-starts and put themselves under pressure, but they stood up. Russell returned but Nel exited - for a deliberate knock-on - and still Scotland held firm.
The last significant act was that try from Seymour. It began right down the other end of the pitch, where Italy were attacking. When the Azzurri spilled it, Russell hacked a kick downfield and when the space opened up, Hogg threw a gorgeous pass out the side door to Seymour, whose 13th Test try was greeted rapturously by his team-mates.
The relief in the voices of the Scotland players was palpable. Next up for Scotland: the brutish French at Murrayfield in a fortnight.
For the first time in two years they will go into a Six Nations game on the back of a victory. The challenge now is to kick-on and win two Six Nations games in the same season for just the second time in a decade.
TEAM LINE-UPS:
Italy: David Odiete, Leonardo Sarto, Michele Campagnaro, Gonzalo Garcia, Mattia Bellini, Kelly Haimona, Edoardo Gori; Andrea Lovotti, Leonardo Ghiraldini, Lorenzo Citttadini, Marco Fuser, Joshua Furno, Francesco Minto, Alessandro Zanni, Sergio Parisse.
Replacements: Davide Giazzon (for Ghiraldini, 58), Matteo Zanusso (for Lovotti, 58), Martin Castrogiovanni (for Citttadini, 58), Valerio Bernabo (for Furno, 37), Andries Van Schalkwyk (for Minto, 68), Guglielmo Palazzani (for Gori, 79), Edoardo Padovani (for Haimona, 72), Andrea Pratichetti (for Garcia, 75).
Scotland: Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Mark Bennett, Duncan Taylor, Tim Visser, Finn Russell, Greig Laidlaw; Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford, Willem Nel, Richie Gray, Jonny Gray; John Barclay, John Hardie, Ryan Wilson.
Replacements: Stuart McInally (for Ford, 64), Moray Low (for Barclay, 79), Tim Swinson (for R Gray, 79), Josh Strauss (for Wilson, 68), Peter Horne (for Bennett, 64), Sean Lamont (for Visser, 73).
Not used: Rory Sutherland, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne.
Referee: Jaco Peyper (RSA)
Touch judges: Pascal Gauzere (FRA) & Nick Briant (NZL)
TMO: Graham Hughes (ENG)
The Aberdeen-based firm said it had laid off the staff after seeing sales revenue halve in the second half of last year.
Plexus, which rents specialised wellhead equipment, reported revenues fell year-on-year from £13.5m to £6.8m.
It also reported a loss of £3.5m for the six months to 31 December.
That compared with a pre-tax profit of about £2.2m for the same period in 2014.
Plexus said the impact of falling oil prices had particularly affected UK North Sea operations, as companies reduced their investment levels.
It has undertaken a series of cost-cutting measures in response to the downturn, including laying off 50 of its 130 staff since the beginning of March.
The company is also focusing on sales opportunities beyond its traditional North Sea territory.
Last year, it either supported or started wellhead operations for several international oil and gas operators including Cardon IV in Venezuela, Masirah Oil in Oman and Brunei Shell Petroleum.
Plexus chief Executive Ben van Bilderbeek said: "Faced with the current climate of lower orders and lower revenues, we like many other companies are of course not simply waiting for a pick-up in exploration activity to return to positive cash flow.
"We have embarked on a series of major headcount and cost reduction measures designed to ensure we come through this cycle much leaner but still in a strong position to capitalise on the opportunities that I believe will present themselves as deferred and new drilling projects come back on stream."
The US bank employs about 2,000 people in the city working across technology, operations, legal & compliance.
James Bardrick told the BBC: "There is no fundamental reason why Belfast's attractions to us should change as a result of Brexit.
"I don't see that standing in the way of either what we've got in Belfast or our plans to continue developing."
When the UK leaves the single market, some financial services jobs will have to relocate to the EU for regulatory reasons.
Earlier this year, HSBC said it was preparing to move 1,000 staff from London to Paris.
The Swiss bank UBS also said "about 1,000" of its 5,000 London jobs could be hit by Brexit.
The jobs being moved are likely to mainly involve "front office" workers selling products into the EU and some support staff.
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Andrea Brown from Moira, County Down, suffered not once, but twice, as a result of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Her father, who was a policeman, was shot dead when she was a teenager.
Five years later, she was caught up in an IRA bomb as she shopped for a wedding dress in Lisburn, County Antrim.
The 1998 bomb, which targeted a fun run, killed six soldiers and left Ms Brown badly injured.
Just over a week ago, she met Prince Charles at the National Police Memorial Day in Belfast and told him about her difficulty in getting an electronic wheelchair.
After her story appeared on the news, a family she had never met called at her house in Moira and gave her a chair worth £4,000.
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson reports.
But she proposed Europe could return to a parallel Ecu-like common unit in a bid to soften the economic impact.
Meanwhile, a rival for the left-wing nomination, Arnaud Montebourg, said he would impose a super-tax on banks to raise €5bn (£4.3bn; $5.2bn) if elected.
French voters will elect their new president in April and May.
Polls at present suggest that conservative candidate Francois Fillon, who decisively won the centre-right nomination in November's primary vote, will face National Front (FN) leader Ms Le Pen in the second round of voting.
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Ms Le Pen has vowed to pull France out of the euro for years, but in remarks to Reuters news agency she broadened her vision, suggesting that Europe could return to a basket of recognised national currencies, linked through a common currency system like the Ecu, used before the introduction of the single currency in 1999.
Under this model, France could reintroduce a currency such as the franc, while maintaining economic relationships with the eurozone.
Marine Le Pen's vision is designed to expand the party's appeal and reassure those voters who are nervy about the National Front's hard-line policies towards the EU. Asked in an interview earlier this week whether she would pull France out of the Brussels bloc, Ms Le Pen said: "No, I think we need to renegotiate with the EU to bring back sovereignty to France, backed by a referendum."
Support for the populist National Front (FN) is split between those who want a more protectionist economy and those who want a more conservative society. The party has presented control of France's borders as key to both.
The FN has never won more than 30% of the vote in previous elections. Ms Le Pen's challenge now, analysts say, is to attract more voters from mainstream parties whilst holding on to her anti-establishment image, and her core support.
In an earlier New Year's address to the media, Ms Le Pen praised Ford Motors' decision to cancel investment in a Mexico plant as a triumph for protectionist policies and President-elect Donald Trump.
Ironically, the move was also cheered by Mr Montebourg, who joked at a news conference on Wednesday: "I see that Donald Trump used the Montebourg method!"
The former industry minister is one of seven candidates vying for the Socialist nomination in a primary at the end of January.
On Tuesday, fellow contender and former Prime Minister Valls appealed to the traditional left, pledging to "reject the vast purge that Francois Fillon is preparing for us, a drastic reduction in the number of public sector workers, and so fewer public services".
Mr Fillon says he will scrap 500,000 public sector jobs in a bid to give France an economic boost.
Governor Mary Fallin told reporters the execution of another inmate, due to take place the same evening, will be delayed until after the review.
Clayton Lockett's execution was stopped after 20 minutes on Tuesday evening after witnesses saw him writhing.
A ruptured vein was discovered and he died of a heart attack soon afterwards.
Ms Fallin said on Wednesday she believed in the death penalty for those who commit "heinous crimes".
"However, I also believe the state needs to be certain of its protocols and its procedures for executions and that they work."
The state's department of public safety would lead the review, she said.
By Victoria GillScience reporter, BBC News
Since it was first used in Texas in 1982, "the triple-drug cocktail" has become the standard execution method in US states that have the death penalty. It was designed by anaesthesiologist Stanley Deutsch as an "extremely humane" way to end life.
The first drug, a barbiturate, "shuts down" the central nervous system, rendering the prisoner unconscious. The second paralyses the muscles and stops the person breathing. The third, potassium chloride, stops the heart.
But critics suggest that the method may well be painful. One suggestion is that people could be too sedated by the first drug to cry out, or that they might be in pain but paralysed by the second drug.
Another complication, as appears to have been the case with Clayton Lockett, is that intravenous drug use is common among death row inmates, meaning many prisoners have damaged veins that are difficult to inject.
Problems sourcing some of the drugs in the official protocol have also led to claims that states are using untested drugs in their executions.
On Wednesday, a White House spokesman said the execution "fell short" of humane standards.
"[President Barack Obama] believes there are some crimes that are so heinous that the death penalty is merited," Jay Carney said.
"But it's also the case that we have a fundamental standard in this country that even when the death penalty is justified, it must be carried out humanely. And I think everyone would recognise that this case fell short of that standard."
Lockett was sentenced to death for shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in 1999.
Ms Neiman and a friend had interrupted the men as they robbed a home.
At his execution, he was declared unconscious and injected with the second and third drugs but three minutes later, he began breathing heavily and writhing.
Courtney Francisco, a local journalist present at the execution, told the BBC Lockett was moving his arms and legs and straining his head, mumbling "as if he was trying to talk".
Oklahoma's top prison official ordered a halt to the execution and he subsequently died.
"We believe that a vein was blown and the drugs weren't working as they were designed to." Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said.
The problems surrounding Lockett's execution come amid a wider debate over the legality of the three-drug method and whether its use violates guarantees in the US constitution "against cruel and unusual punishment".
On Wednesday, the Oklahoma governor reiterated she had issued a 14-day stay of execution for fellow inmate Charles Warner, 46, who was scheduled to be put to death in the same room two hours later in a rare double execution.
But Ms Fallin said she had not given the public safety commissioner a deadline to complete his review and would continue to stay Warner's execution until it was complete.
"His fellow Oklahomans have sentenced him to death, and we expect that sentence to be carried out as required by law," she said.???
He was convicted of the 1997 murder and rape of an 11-month-old girl.
His lawyer, Madeline Cohen, who witnessed Lockett's execution, said Lockett had been "tortured to death".
US states have encountered increasing problems in obtaining the drugs for lethal injections, amid an embargo by European pharmaceutical firms.
Some have turned to untried combinations of drugs or have sought to obtain the drugs custom-made from compounding pharmacies. Several US states that still have the death penalty have since switched to a single-drug method.
Warner and Lockett had unsuccessfully challenged an Oklahoma state law that blocks officials from revealing - even in court - the identities of the companies supplying the drugs.
The state maintains the law is necessary to protect the suppliers from legal action and harassment.
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Last week's 61-21 defeat of Scotland, combined with Ireland's loss to Wales, ensured England are chasing history rather than trophies in Dublin, with the tournament already won.
They can also set a new top-tier record with their 19th successive Test win.
But former coach Sir Clive Woodward has warned England to expect an "ambush".
England's Grand Slam bid is the headline act on Saturday but there is plenty of intrigue elsewhere, with Scotland hoping to send departing coach Vern Cotter off in grand style with a big win over Italy, while Wales will be targeting a potentially significant win over France in Paris.
But it is undoubtedly to Dublin where most eyes will be turned and Woodward, who led England to 2003 World Cup glory, knows what a dangerous place it can be after seeing his team beaten at the old Lansdowne Road as they attempted to complete a clean sweep in 2001.
England did clinch the 2003 Grand Slam in Dublin, but fell short in the city again in 2011.
"The Irish will have an ambush planned, they have 80 minutes to resurrect their season and I can guarantee you Eddie Jones will not consider this a successful season unless they get the job done in Dublin," Woodward told the Mail on Sunday.
Jones, who has steered England to second from eighth in the world rankings since taking charge in January 2016, has warned his side to expect an aerial bombardment.
"We know what Ireland will bring - a strong, physical challenge at the breakdown, pressure on our half-backs and high balls," the Australian said.
"It will be raining high balls. It will be 'kick and clap' and the fans at the Aviva Stadium love it."
Ireland fly-half Johnny Sexton shrugged off Jones' prediction, saying he was instead focused on carrying out coach Joe Schmidt's instructions.
Former Ireland centre Gordon D'Arcy, meanwhile, says the pressure of going one better than New Zealand's mark of 18 straight victories "brings this great unknown".
There is a family connection that links the two camps, however, with England centre Owen Farrell's father Andy now installed as Ireland defence coach.
A combination of wins for England and Wales and a bonus-point victory of their own over Italy at Murrayfield could see Scotland in second, their highest finish in the Six Nations era.
In addition to that landmark, the Scots will attempt to exorcise the memories of their 40-point defeat at Twickenham last weekend.
That afternoon began with the players harbouring real hope of ending a 34-year wait for a win at the auld enemy's headquarters, but ended with questions over their British and Irish Lions credentials before the summer tour of New Zealand.
It will also be New Zealander Cotter's final match in charge of the team before he is replaced by Glasgow boss Gregor Townsend.
"Vern won't want us focusing on him but it will definitely be something in the background," scrum-half Henry Pyrgos said.
"We are conscious that we want to finish his reign in the right way."
Wales interim boss Rob Howley has overseen an underwhelming campaign, partly redeemed by a hard-fought victory over Ireland last weekend.
They will have one eye on besting the Irish once again as the tournament comes to a climax.
Victory over an improved France team, combined with England sealing their Grand Slam in Dublin, would elevate Wales above Ireland and into a top-tier seeding for May's 2019 Rugby World Cup draw, and ensure they avoid being drawn alongside New Zealand, England or Australia in the group stages.
Howley - who has not included any of the seven uncapped squad players in his Six Nations squad in a match-day 23 - has once again been consistent in his team selection, resisting calls to give Ospreys' Sam Davies a chance at fly-half ahead of Dan Bigger.
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UK Open champion Wright holds a one-point lead over world number one Michael van Gerwen.
Home favourite Van Gerwen came from 3-0 down to beat Phil Taylor and maintain his unbeaten start.
Meanwhile, fellow Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld fired in five maximums in a 7-2 thumping of Scotland's Gary Anderson.
The evening's other matches in front of a 10,000 capacity crowd in Holland saw bottom two Jelle Klaasen and Kim Huybrechts beaten by James Wade and Adrian Lewis respectively.
Reigning Premier League champion Van Gerwen will play twice next week in Manchester because of the round he missed due to a back injury earlier this month.
Jelle Klaasen (Ned) 3-7 James Wade (Eng)
Peter Wright (Sco) 7-4 Dave Chisnall (Eng)
Gary Anderson (Sco) 2-7 Raymond van Barneveld (Ned)
Kim Huybrechts (Bel) 3-7 Adrian Lewis (Eng)
Phil Taylor (Eng) 4-7 Michael van Gerwen (Ned)
"What is happening in front of our eyes in Italy is an unfolding tragedy," Filippo Grandi said.
"This cannot be an Italian problem alone," he added.
Italy has threatened to stop vessels of other countries from bringing migrants to its ports, as it warned the EU the situation was unsustainable.
On Thursday, the European Union's migration commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, promised more financial support for Italy, and urged member states to demonstrate greater solidarity.
The interior ministers of France, Germany and Italy are due to discuss the issue at a meeting in Paris on Sunday.
Mr Grandi, who is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said 12,600 migrants and refugees had arrived in Italy last weekend alone.
In total, he said, 83,650 people have reached Italy by sea since the beginning of the year - a 20% increase on the same period in 2016.
An estimated 2,030 have lost their lives in the Mediterranean this year.
The vast majority of migrants making their way to Italy across the Mediterranean set off from Libya.
Libya is a gateway to Europe for migrants from across sub-Saharan Africa and also from the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, Syria and Bangladesh. Many are fleeing war, poverty or persecution.
The UNHCR said that among the arrivals in Italy there was an alarmingly high rate of unaccompanied children or victims of sexual or gender-based violence.
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.
The tax cut was agreed as part of the Fresh Start deal and is due to take effect in 2018.
It means companies in Northern Ireland will have profits taxed at 12.5% compared to 19% in the rest of the UK.
The NI Executive hopes to use that as its major tool for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
The US is the largest investor in Northern Ireland with 175 companies employing more than 24,000 people.
Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness are pitching the new tax powers to potential investors in New York, Washington and Silicon Valley.
They began their visit on Monday with a business breakfast hosted by KPMG in New York.
On Sunday, Mrs Foster said she hoped US firms would invest in Northern Ireland, despite calls from both frontrunners in the US presidential race to put America first for jobs.
However, the events are expected to be low-key as the issue of corporate taxes has become an election issue in the US.
There has been widespread criticism of firms like Tyco and Pfizer, which have used "inversion" deals to relocate their headquarters to the Republic of Ireland for tax purposes.
Those sorts of deals are highly unlikely in Northern Ireland, but the ministers are aware of the sensitivities around tax.
They are expected to describe the reduced tax as just one element of what is on offer in Northern Ireland as an investment location.
Meanwhile, Mrs Foster and Mr McGuinness may also face questions about the UK's referendum on EU membership.
Mr McGuinness's party, Sinn Féin, supports EU membership and he said it would be "foolish" not to recognise that a potential "Brexit" will probably be an issue for potential investors.
Mrs Foster's party, the DUP, is in favour of leaving the EU, but she said her differences with Mr McGuinness would not make the trip difficult.
She later said US President Barack Obama was "entitled to his opinion" on whether the UK should remain in the EU but that it was ultimately "a matter for the people of the UK".
She was speaking following reports that the US president will use an upcoming visit to the UK to argue for continued EU membership.
Mrs Foster said it was open to question whether an intervention by Mr Obama would have a huge impact.
Meanwhile, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers is also travelling to Washington to represent the UK at St Patrick's Day events.
She will also be promoting Northern Ireland as a "great place for investment".
"I am also delighted that it was this government that passed legislation to enable the devolution of corporation tax which could have such a transformative effect on the Northern Ireland economy," she said.
"The Fresh Start and Stormont House agreements have placed devolved government on a more stable and sustainable footing.
"There are some issues still to be resolved but I am confident that we can find an agreed way forward to address the legacy of Northern Ireland's past and build a brighter, more secure future for everyone ."
"They honour President Obama," he told a rally in Florida on Wednesday. "He is the founder of Isis [Islamic State].
Mr Trump also attacked his Democratic rival for the White House, Hillary Clinton, calling her a "co-founder".
She responded by accusing him of "trash-talking" the US and echoing the talking points of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr Trump stood by his remarks on Thursday, using a sports phrase to say Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were the Islamic State's "most valuable players".
The Republican presidential nominee has endured 10 days of negative headlines after a string of controversial comments.
Most recently, he appeared to urge his supporters to take up arms against Mrs Clinton to stop her from appointing liberal judges to the US Supreme Court if she wins the election.
The hotel developer-turned-politician denied he was inciting violence, but the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, who was shot in 1981, condemned his "verbal violence".
Patti Davis wrote on Facebook: "It was heard by the person sitting alone in a room, locked in his own dark fantasies, who sees unbridled violence as a way to make his mark in the world, and is just looking for ideas.
"Yes, Mr. Trump, words matter. But then you know that, which makes this all even more horrifying."
Mr Trump's latest controversy, that the US president and his former secretary of state are responsible for creating Islamic State, is a reference to US foreign policy under Mr Obama.
He has often accused the president of allowing the militants to flourish and has regularly suggested he is actually a sympathiser of the group.
IS can trace its roots back to the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who formed al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) after the US-led invasion in 2003. It became a major force in the insurgency, carrying out dozens of attacks a month.
After Zarqawi's death in 2006, AQI created a militant umbrella organisation, Islamic State in Iraq (ISI). Over the next four years, it was steadily weakened by a US troop surge and Sunni Arab tribal fighters who rejected its brutality.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became leader in 2010 and began rebuilding ISI. The following year, ISI joined the rebellion in Syria, which offered it a safe haven and easy access to weapons, some of them supplied by US allies opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.
The group also exploited withdrawal of US troops from Iraq at the end of 2011 and widespread Sunni anger at the sectarian policies of the country's Shia-led government.
ISI changed its name to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis or Isil) in 2013 and began seizing territory in Syria. In 2014, Isis overran large swathes of northern and western Iraq, proclaimed the creation of a "caliphate", and became Islamic State.
The White House has not commented on the "IS founder" claim but a spokesman for Mrs Clinton said: "This is another example of Donald Trump trash-talking the United States.
"What's remarkable about Trump's comments is that once again, he's echoing the talking points of Putin and our adversaries to attack American leaders and American interests, while failing to offer any serious plans to confront terrorism or make this country more secure."
In recent weeks, several leading Republicans have deserted Mr Trump over his outspoken attacks.
Most recently, Senator Susan Collins said she would not be voting for him, pointing to a time he seemed to mock a disabled journalist.
Time Magazine on Thursday reported that the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, had threatened to withdraw funding from the Trump campaign, and instead direct it to Congressional campaigns.
Mr Trump denies that this conversation ever took place.
Polls suggest support for the embattled candidate has been falling in key battleground states in recent weeks.
Conwy and Denbighshire councils issued fixed penalty notices totalling £176,925 and £106,395 respectively for the period of April 2013 to March 2014.
Welsh government statistics reveal an increase in the number of fines issued by local authorities for environmental crimes across Wales.
The total amount received by all local authorities was £656,129.
Littering continues to be the offence receiving the most amount of fines, followed by smoking related litter and then dog fouling.
The maximum fine offenders can receive is £75.
Minister for Natural Resources, Carl Sargeant, called the offences a "blight on the communities across Wales".
He said: "Littering, dog fouling, graffiti, fly posting and noise offences are completely unacceptable.
"Fixed penalties are one way of tackling these problems, and it's very encouraging to see local authorities are now more proactive in issuing them."
Francis Matthew, editor-at-large of Gulf News, was arrested after his wife Jane Matthew, 62, died on 4 July.
The Government of Dubai's media office said preliminary investigations showed she died from a blow to the head with a solid object.
The Foreign Office said support is being provided to Mrs Matthew's family.
"We are also providing support to a British national detained in Dubai," a spokesman added.
The media office said on Twitter that Mr Matthew had told police he assaulted his wife and threw a hammer at her, without intending to kill her.
Abdul Hamid Ahmad, editor-in-chief of Gulf News, said in a statement: "We are shocked and saddened at this tragedy.
"Francis was editor of the paper from 1995-2005.
"He is a well-respected journalist, known for his keen insight into the Middle East. He was holding the position of editor-at-large at the time of the incident.
"Both Francis and Jane have played a very active role in the British expatriate community over the past 30 years."
Investigations by Dubai police are continuing.
Children should eat less than a teaspoon of salt a day, but 70% of the 340 children in the study published in Hypertension ate more than this.
Breads and cereals accounted for more than one-third of the salt in children's diets. A fifth came from meat and one-tenth from dairy products.
This was despite a UK-wide drive to cut salt levels in food.
The Department of Health said its voluntary salt reduction code with manufacturers was working, but agreed that more progress is still needed.
Manufacturers say they are reducing salt in many products, including bread.
The study authors say efforts must be redoubled because salt increases the risk of high blood pressure from a very young age, and high blood pressure can lead to heart disease and stroke.
For the research, they asked the parents of the 340 children to keep a detailed food diary and take photos of all foods and beverages their child consumed, as well as any leftovers. At the same time, the investigators analysed urine samples from the children to get an objective measure of salt intake.
On average, five and six-year-old children in the study consumed 3.75g of salt a day - more than the recommended 3g maximum.
Eight and nine-year olds consumed 4.72g a day - within their 5g limit.
Thirteen to 17-year-olds consumed 7.55g a day - more than the 6g limit.
Boys tended to have higher salt intake than girls, particularly in the older and younger groups - about 1g higher per day in 5 to 6-year-olds, and 2.5g per day higher in 13 to 17-year-olds.
Much of the salt consumed was from processed foods rather than added at the table.
The daily recommended maximum amount of salt children should eat depends on age:
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Lead researcher Prof Graham MacGregor, who is chairman of both the charity Blood Pressure UK and the lobby group Consensus Action on Salt & Health (CASH), said: "It is very difficult for parents to reduce children's salt intake unless they avoid packaged and restaurant foods and prepare each meal from scratch using fresh, natural ingredients."
He said manufacturers needed to do more to cut out salt.
Each 1g reduction in salt consumption would save thousands of lives from heart disease and strokes, he said.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "On average, we are eating approximately 2g of salt more each day than the recommended amount and it is vital that we address this. This is why we are working with industry through the Responsibility Deal to reduce the amount of salt in foods. We have just finalised new salt targets for 76 categories of food and call on industry to sign up."
Aim for foods that have a low or medium salt content:
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Salt levels in many of our foods have reduced significantly, some by 40%-50% or more, and since 2007 more than 11 million kg of salt have been removed from the foods covered by the salt reduction targets. However, average salt consumption remains high at around 8.1g per day, so there is still a long way to go to meet the 6g per day population intake goal.
Manufacturers insist they are reducing salt in many products, including bread.
Terry Jones of the Food and Drink Federation said: "Although salt intakes in the UK have reduced significantly in recent years, we recognise that more work must be done to help and encourage people to stay within recommended limits. This is why food manufacturers have a long history of reducing salt in products and providing clear on-pack labelling to help people know what a product contains."
Luciana Berger MP, Labour's shadow public health minister, said the government had lost its way on public health.
She said: "We are consulting parents and experts about what's in children's food and whether they would find it helpful to have maximum levels of sugar, fat and salt."
Mr Trump has threatened to withhold £700m of investment if he is prevented from travelling to the UK.
A petition started by Suzanne Kelly calling for the US presidential hopeful to be refused entry has been signed by more than 570,000 people.
Ms Kelly said Mr Trump had "thrown a temper tantrum" over the issue.
She started the petition, which is to be debated by MPs in the House of Commons later this month, in the wake of Mr Trump calling for a temporary ban on Muslims travelling to the US.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Trump Organisation said any move to restrict the US presidential hopeful's travel would immediately bring an end to all future investments it is contemplating in the UK.
It said this would include £200m plans to develop its Trump Turnberry golf course and a further £500m investment earmarked for its Trump International Golf Links at Menie in Aberdeenshire.
But Ms Kelly, from Aberdeen, questioned the value of Mr Trump's investments in Scotland and the number of "permanent, desirable jobs" they had created.
She said: "Donald Trump is a man that knows the cost of everything - well, a hugely inflated cost of everything - and the value of nothing.
"He's threatening Scotland once again, as he did over the offshore wind farms, that if he is barred from entering the UK, he'll pull out of his Scottish golf courses.
"The irony of a man who wants to ban Muslims from entering the US throwing a temper tantrum over being similarly banned himself is apparent to everyone except the tycoon himself."
Mr Trump has previously threatened to pull investment from his Aberdeenshire golf resort if a planned wind farm off the coast gets the go-ahead, with the US billionaire taking legal action in a bid to halt it.
Ms Kelly said Mr Trump "had promised millions flowing into our economy every year" from the Menie resort.
But she claimed the reality was "a man who's stopped our experimental offshore wind farm programme thereby costing thousands of jobs and who has cost untold sums in fighting his court appeals, which finally failed".
She added: "If our electors value money more than the rights of Muslims - and everyone else he has denigrated - then we may need new electors.
"Some might consider this to be blackmail on his part - and as such there's more than a little deja vu about it."
Although MPs are to debate Ms Kelly's petition on 18 January, there will be no vote.
It will remain a decision for Home Secretary Theresa May whether or not Mr Trump should be prevented from travelling to the UK.
A rival petition urging the UK government not to ban Mr Trump has received 41,000 signatures and will also be debated on 18 January.
Prime Minister David Cameron has previously condemned Mr Trump's remarks about Muslims as "divisive, stupid and wrong", but has also made clear he did not support banning him.
But Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last month joined the calls for Mr Trump to be considered for exclusion from the UK.
In its statement on Wednesday, the Trump Organisation said the UK would "create a dangerous precedent and send a terrible message to the world that the United Kingdom opposes free speech and has no interest in attracting inward investment" if Mr Trump was barred from the country.
And it said any action to restrict his travel "would force the Trump Organisation to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom."
Dean Haverley, 48, was assaulted in The George Inn in Burnham, near Slough, on Saturday morning and died in hospital.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place and police are appealing for witnesses to contact them.
Mr Haverley's friend, Colin Munt, said he was shocked by his death and described him as a "happy-go-lucky top bloke, and good friend".
Ross Dunn, 28, from Edinburgh, carried out the attack when he was left in charge of the infant.
The child's mother told the High Court in Edinburgh the girl had been left with "severe, lifelong disabilities".
Sentence was deferred for background reports to be prepared.
The court heard Dunn shook the little girl and struck her off a surface after he was left looking after the baby and her older sister when her mother went out.
Dunn, of Wester Drylaw Place, had denied attempting to murder the child at a flat in Edinburgh on 17 November 2013 but was found guilty after a trial.
The mother of the child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told the court: "She is not mobile. She is very floppy like a small baby. She will likely never stand, walk, even sit by herself."
Dunn had claimed that he had a "really heavy fall" while holding the child.
Prosecutors maintained that the pattern of multiple injuries found on the child was not consistent with an accident.
The advocate depute said that injuries found on the baby were consistent with shaking.
Bruce Erroch said the consequences were "the most appalling combination of disability for a baby to live with for the rest of her life".
The prosecutor said that Dunn was "a man who by his own admission has problems with his temper".
He told jurors: "He lost control. He lost his temper."
Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith tabled a proposal which would have excluded Parliament's standards committee from any role in determining whether errant MPs should face re-election.
But MPs rejected the idea by 340 to 166 following a free vote in the Commons.
Introducing recall powers was a key part of the 2010 coalition agreement.
The government-sponsored Recall of MPs bill is being scrutinised in Parliament, after it passed its second reading last week.
The bill proposes that an MP would face a by-election if 10% of constituents sign a petition after the MP is found guilty of "serious wrongdoing".
The bill has been referred to the Committee of the whole House, meaning its individual clauses can be examined by any MP in the House of Commons chamber, rather than the usual committee of between 16 and 50 MPs.
Under the government-backed plans there would be a by-election if 10% of constituents sign a petition after the sitting MP is either sentenced to more than 12 months in jail, or banned from the Commons for more than 21 days.
Mr Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston, has created a rival plan in which MPs are to face a recall referendum if 5% of voters in a constituency sign a "notice of intent to recall" and 20% then sign a "recall petition".
Only if all three stages are passed would there be a by-election called.
Mr Goldsmith said his amendment would give more power to the public to force a vote but it was overwhelmingly defeated in a Commons vote on Monday.
Speaking during the four-hour debate, Mr Goldsmith urged MPs to put aside concerns about the technicalities and cost of recall elections and focus of the principles involved.
"What is at stake now is a matter of principle - do we trust our voters to hold us to account or not?
"The public today is better informed, better educated, less deferential than at any time in our history. Recall is not radical - it is a mere nod towards those changes."
Constitution Minister Sam Gyimah pledged instead to look at a new Liberal Democrat proposal to create an election court process as an additional "trigger" process outside of Parliament but alongside the internal process.
"If we are going to have a recall system, we should have a recall system the public can trust, that the public understand, and that the public know when they engage in it, it will actually end in a MP being booted out of this House if need be," he said.
The body which hands down bans to MPs is known as the Commons Standards Committee, and is itself mostly made up of MPs. There is some concern that the current bill leaves too much power in the hands of parliamentarians rather than the public.
Although Labour back the bill, shadow minister Stephen Twigg said his party would seek to strengthen it.
He said: "We need a system that improves accountability and one that gives more power to the public to hold their representatives to account between elections. That, I think, is a matter of fairness."
Mr Goldsmith will have the opportunity to propose more amendments to the Bill at the next stage of the legislative process, report stage.
A huge explosion was heard across the city about 01:25 local time on Monday (20:55 GMT Sunday).
Kabul police chief Abdel Rahman Rahimi told the BBC a lorry bomb went off at the gate of the North Gate compound and then two gunmen went inside.
In a gun battle one police officer and both attackers were killed, and the attack is now over, police say.
Three police officers were injured during the gun battle that lasted for several hours, Mr Rahimi told the BBC's Mahfouz Zubaide in Kabul.
No one staying at the compound was injured.
North Gate is mainly used by foreigners. It is a heavily guarded compound, which was attacked by militants three years ago.
Power in parts of Kabul was briefly cut off shortly after the explosion.
"I was about to go to sleep when the explosion happened. The power went off," said local resident Inamullah Khan. "It was a very big explosion. It was very big."
"I've spent eight years in Afghanistan and it was the loudest and the most heavy blast I have ever experienced," said Andreas Wilmers, chief operating officer of Afghanistan Broadcast System.
He said security around Kabul was more relaxed at night.
"The control of the Afghan police, its so-called ring of steel... those checkpoints are basically operational during the day, but in the night they are not really manned," he added.
Last week, two suicide bombers linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) killed 80 people and wounded 230 more in Kabul.
That attack, followed closely by this one on a heavily guarded compound, will once again raise questions about Afghan intelligence gathering, BBC Afghanistan bureau editor Inayatulhaq Yasini says.
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The 33-year-old Ivorian was a shock selection at Selhurst Park for his first Premier League game this season.
But Toure said: "I was prepared mentally and I knew that one day my manager would need me.
"I was delighted to play and I am very happy to be playing football."
Toure, a two-time Premier League title winner with City, had been out in the cold at the club since the end of August.
City manager Pep Guardiola had said he he would not be picked until his agent, Dimitri Seluk, apologised for comments he made when Toure was left out of City's Champions League squad.
Toure said sorry on Seluk's behalf at the start of November but there had been no indication from Guardiola that his situation had changed, and few people even knew he was in the City squad that travelled to south London.
He was given a noisy reception by the travelling City fans, who chanted his name throughout the game, and his efforts were also appreciated by his team-mates, who clapped him back into the dressing room at the final whistle.
"My team-mates are very important to me," added Toure. "They have always been brilliant with me, always supportive.
"I always want to be there to help them. I am professional, I always want to improve my game."
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Guardiola had picked Toure in only one of City's previous 19 games this season - a Champions League qualifying play-off second leg against Steaua Bucharest in August that was a virtual dead rubber after City had won the first game 6-0.
But the City boss says he has been impressed by the player's application while he was out of favour and feels he has a part to play in his side's title challenge.
"The last month and a half, Yaya was amazing in training," Guardiola explained. "His behaviour is absolutely everything.
"His team-mates love him. He is going to help us to rotate the team, we need that.
"I am so happy for Yaya, he is a really nice guy. His weight is perfect now, and there are no doubts about his quality.
"At the beginning we did not count on him, he would not be here, but he can play many positions and we have one more man to help us achieve our targets."
"It has been a long stand-off between Yaya and Pep, with his agent in the middle of it. It's gone on for three months but he was determined to make up for it.
"Toure almost won the title for City here a few years ago and on Saturday he was at it again."
The club has been in talks with Liverpool City Council to collaborate on a new stadium since last June.
Robert Elstone said Everton were not ruling out any sites, but had given "more attention" to one, which the BBC understands to be in Walton Hall Park.
The park lies around a mile from the club's Goodison Park ground.
Speaking to the club's annual general meeting, Mr Elstone said a new 50,000 capacity stadium "remains a big priority".
"We're not ruling out any of the sites that we've identified and that the council has presented to us, but there is one site which is getting more attention and has been getting more attention for a number of months.
"It has been worked on very carefully, diligently and in some detail by not only Everton, but by the council and by advisors, planners, architects, designers, cost consultants, regeneration experts and solicitors.
"So there's a lot of work going into something that we're very excited about."
He said the project relied on "a council being supportive financially and supportive entrepreneurially as well" and that "at the moment, there are signs that they are being that".
"We hope it comes to fruition and, if it does, I think it's something that the city and our fans will be very proud of."
He said the club "wouldn't be investing what we're doing without thinking it had a chance of success", adding that there was "a degree of optimism - perhaps some cautious optimism - but a degree of optimism".
A Liverpool City Council spokesman said the authority was happy to "reaffirm our commitment to working with Everton in relation to their new stadium proposals".
However, he said "no firm options have been developed in terms of how or where this will take shape" and it was important to "stress that the city council is clearly not in a position to fund the costs of a new stadium".
"Any investment the council makes would be in a wider regeneration scheme, subject to a sound financial and economic rationale for doing so."
The 41,000-capacity Goodison Park is one of the oldest football stadiums and has been the home of Everton since it opened in 1892.
Some of you might be starting at a new school for the first time.
One thing that many parents might do - especially if you're starting at a new school - is snap a picture of you in your uniform to post on their social media.
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I don't mind my parents taking photos of me in my school uniform because I can see what I looked like when I was younger to now and make memories.
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My mum takes a picture takes a picture of me every year and my siblings and I hate it so much and she sends it to all of my Aunts and uncles.
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I would as it's dangerous as strangers will able to get you when they know what school u go to.
Lara, England
I think that it is ok, if your parents account is on private as it showing they are prideful and proud of you!
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My mum took loads of photos when I started year seven but she never shared any of them online. We kept them to ourselves and only shared them with people we speak to everyday that we know and trust.
Alice, Kent
Comment: I don't really mind. my mum put it on social media but only our family and friends could see the photo which meant that nobody we didn't know was seeing it.
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BBC Radio Manchester understands wages have been late for the past three months, but the club says that players will be paid in full on Wednesday.
Oldham are 21st in League One after 20 games, having won just one of their last six.
"There is nothing to say other than players will be paid tomorrow," Latics chairman Simon Corney said.
The first minister was speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme ahead of the 8 June election.
The Scottish government wants Scotland to remain in the EU - and in particular the single market.
But the UK government insisted that Scotland would leave alongside the rest of the United Kingdom.
At the referendum last June voters in Scotland backed the UK remaining in the EU by 62% to 38%, but in the UK as a whole voters supported leaving by 52% to 48%.
Ms Sturgeon, who is spearheading a campaign to retain the 56 Westminster seats won by the SNP in 2015, told BBC Scotland's Gary Robertson that Prime Minister Theresa May had "dismissed out of hand" her proposals for Scotland to remain in the European single market.
She said: "What I am saying in this election is that we have an opportunity, by how we vote, to give those proposals democratic legitimacy.
"And, by voting for the SNP, to give me the ability to strengthen Scotland's hands in those [Brexit] negotiations, get a seat at the negotiating table and argue for Scotland's place in the single market."
Scotland's first minister went on to reiterate that if Scotland became independent then she would want the country to be a member of the EU.
However, Ms Sturgeon accepted that it was "possible, not necessarily desirable" that for "a period" an independent Scotland would be in the European Free Trade Association (Efta) and European Economic Area (EEA).
She explained: "Because we as the Scottish government, the SNP, are not in charge of the Brexit process right now we don't know exactly what that is going to be like, how that is going to unfold.
"So I was simply saying that there may be the prospect of a phased return for Scotland to the EU where we would be in Efta, the EEA, on an interim basis."
Ms Sturgeon went on to say that the Common Fisheries Policy was "no longer fit for purpose".
She said: "We have argued and continue to argue either for it to be scrapped or for fundamental reform of the Common Fisheries Policy."
The politician said her party had been advocates for regionalising fishing policy and for taking a fresh look at the EU's "open to all" approach to fishing waters.
Ms Sturgeon added that it was vital Scotland's fishing industry could continue to have access to an international export market.
By BBC Scotland political correspondent Glenn Campbell
Nicola Sturgeon has sought to redefine the mandate that she is seeking in this UK general election.
It is, she said, "to demand a place for Scotland at the Brexit negotiating table and the inclusion of the case for our place in the single market in the negotiating remit".
That is a "more immediate priority" than indyref2, Ms Sturgeon said.
The first minister demanded the power to hold another independence vote after Theresa May rejected her "compromise" proposals for a special deal to keep Scotland in the single market.
Now, she is arguing that the general election result could make the prime minister think again on that and, if so, presumably the demand for a Brexit-related independence vote would be withdrawn.
In the event that there is a second referendum, Ms Sturgeon has also said that the SNP may seek a "phased approach" to securing EU membership.
It is her clearest indication yet that if Scotland is already out of the EU, the SNP would initially seek Norway-style membership of the single market through EFTA and the EEA.
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Ms Sturgeon was also questioned on her plans for the currency of an independent Scotland.
She said the "starting point" was the pound and not the Euro.
Ms Sturgeon added: "When we come to an independence referendum - if we come to an independence referendum - these issues will be subject to the greatest scrutiny.
"There is no rule that forces any member of the European Union to join the Euro, so that is simply a statement of fact that no country can be forced to join the Euro, but we are in a Westminster election campaign right now, not an independence referendum.
"The question for Scotland is do we send MPs to Westminster that are going to stand up for Scotland - and we face the prospect because of what is happening in England of a Tory government with a bigger majority.
"It is vital that we've got MPs that stand up for Scotland, fight Scotland's corner and make Scotland's voice heard. We have an opportunity in this election to strengthen, not Theresa May's hand, but strengthen Scotland's hand."
In a series of interviews on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, each main party leader made their campaign pitch ahead of the 8 June election.
Kezia Dugdale - Scottish Labour
The leader of Scottish Labour, Kezia Dugdale, has insisted that she thinks her party can win next month's general election. She said people across Scotland were tired of politics in Scotland being dominated by the constitution. She told the BBC: "What I am saying clearly is that with Labour you get a clear promise of opposition to independence and an independence referendum."
Willie Rennie - Scottish Liberal Democrats
There is no inconsistency in supporting a second referendum on Brexit but not on independence, the Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie has said. The Liberal Democrat manifesto says UK voters should be offered a vote on the final deal to leave the EU. But the party is firmly opposed to another referendum on whether Scotland should be independent. Mr Rennie told the BBC: "I think the British people, not just Theresa May, not just the MPs, not just the Conservatives, should decide on whether that deal is good enough or not."
Ruth Davidson - Scottish Conservative
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said there were issues around why Scotland appeared to be "uniquely unattractive" to immigrants. She told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that being the "highest taxed part" of the UK disadvantaged the country. She added: "I have my own theories about this in terms of the fact that we are the highest taxed part of the UK, the fact that we have an economy that is shrinking not growing when the rest of the UK economy is growing."
Sentencing the ex-Sunderland player, Judge Jonathan Rose told him he had abused a position of trust and caused his victim "severe psychological harm".
The judge told Johnson, 28, he had engaged in sexual activity with her knowing she was under 16.
It can now be reported police found extreme pornography involving animals on Johnson's laptop.
The matter is not being taken any further, Bradford Crown Court heard.
The sexual activity with the girl happened in the footballer's Range Rover in January 2015 after he had groomed her using social media apps.
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Judge Rose told the footballer, who played 12 times for England, there had been "an abuse of trust - you are trusted by young fans to behave properly".
He said: "She had only just turned 15 when you began grooming her, because, as you were to admit, you found her sexually attractive."
The judge told Johnson the offences happened "at a time when you were engaged in frequent sexual intercourse with multiple partners".
At the start of his trial last month, Johnson had admitted grooming the girl and one charge of sexual activity, relating to kissing her. He was found guilty of sexual touching and cleared of one charge relating to another sexual act.
Judge Rose said Johnson had had "every opportunity" to enter guilty pleas to the charges he finally admitted. He ordered the footballer to pay £50,000 of the prosecution's £67,132 costs.
During the three-week trial the jury heard the former winger met the girl after agreeing to sign football shirts for her.
How apps helped to convict Adam Johnson
He admitted kissing the teenager but told the jury an encounter in his Range Rover "went no further".
The girl told the court he had "put his hands down her pants" and she performed a sex act on him.
The jury cleared Johnson over the sex act claim but convicted him by a 10-2 majority on the sexual touching charge.
Restrictions have now been lifted that prevented it being reported that, when Johnson was arrested, police found medicines in a safe indicating he may have been suffering from sexually transmitted infections.
In a victim impact statement read to court, the girl said she had been forced to endure thousands of malicious and slanderous remarks on social media and had been approached by a stranger asking about her relationship with the footballer.
She felt at risk going out and her schoolwork had suffered "massively", the court was told.
"I have entered many dark places over this 12-month period," she said.
"Ultimately, it was like I was being taunted as if to say he could do what he wants and get away with it."
In another statement to the court, her mother said there "had been no winners" and defended the decision to report the matter to police in order to "protect other vulnerable children".
She stressed the family had never sought financial gain.
Why Johnson's chances of playing again are "very remote"
Earlier, Dr Philip Hopley, a consultant psychiatrist giving evidence for the defence, told the court: "This is a man who, at the age of 28, is socially and psychologically immature."
The doctor said he found no evidence in Johnson of an attraction to pre-pubescent children or "sexual perversion".
Speaking after Johnson was sentenced, Det Insp Aelfwynn Sampson, of Durham Police, said: "Fame, celebrity and a position of power does not give you the right to break the law in pursuit of whatever you desire.
"This girl should have been safe but she was used by the public figure she looked up to most."
Jon Brown, from children's charity the NSPCC, questioned whether the Football Association's "really comprehensive high quality rules and regulations and policies" for child protection were followed throughout the game's hierarchy.
"We are concerned about the extent to which they're actually being embedded and implemented at club level," he said.
"We're concerned that may not be the case right across the country."
Outside the court, Gerry Wareham from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Adam Johnson exploited a young star-struck fan, actively grooming her over a number of months in single-minded pursuit of his own sexual gratification."
Earlier, the court was told the player had lodged an appeal against his conviction for sexual activity with the girl.
Johnson began his career at Middlesbrough before moving to Manchester City and then on to Sunderland in 2012.
The 22-year-old former Wales Under-21 player left the Swans this summer after one senior appearance in an FA Cup defeat by Oxford United in 2016.
However, he also had three separate loan spells at Yeovil, playing a total of 72 times for the Glovers.
Shephard, who plays mainly at right-back, is Posh's seventh summer signing.
Posh manager Grant McCann told the club website: "Liam is a good lad and a good character, he has bought into everything in the last few weeks and that was extremely important.
"He can operate in a couple of different positions and I am really happy that we have been able to get it done."
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Shelling around the city of Donetsk on Sunday followed an intense overnight artillery bombardment, shaking an already fragile ceasefire.
Monitors and journalists reported unmarked convoys of heavy weapons, tanks and fighters close to the city.
Russia denies claims that it is supplying the separatist rebels.
The EU's head of foreign policy, Federica Mogherini, said the latest reports were "worrying".
"The most recent reports by the OSCE [Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe] Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine about convoys in separatist held areas with substantial amounts of heavy weapons, tanks and troops without insignia moving westwards represent a very worrying development," she said.
The White House warned that any efforts by pro-Russian rebels to seize more territory would be a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire agreement signed in Minsk in September.
"We are very concerned by intensified fighting in eastern Ukraine, as well as numerous reports... that Russian backed and supplied separatists are moving large convoys of heavy weapons and tanks to the front lines of the conflict," said US National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan.
"We continue to call on all sides to strictly adhere to the ceasefire. Any attempt by separatist forces to seize additional territory in eastern Ukraine would be a blatant violation of the Minsk agreements."
More than 4,000 people have died since fighting erupted in April after pro-Russian separatists seized control in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Renewed shelling around Donetsk started four days ago, just after elections in rebel areas, but the barrage that took place overnight into Sunday was said to be very heavy.
A lull in the fighting followed but shelling later resumed. No casualties have been reported so far.
The OSCE said its observers had seen a column of vehicles and heavy guns in rebel-held areas around Donetsk.
"More than 40 trucks and tankers" were seen on a road east of Makiivka, the monitors said, adding that 19 were large vehicles towing howitzer artillery systems and "containing personnel with dark green uniforms without insignia".
Nine tanks were also seen south-west of the centre of Donetsk.
Later, OSCE chairperson and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter said he was "very concerned" about the resurgence of violence.
Fears of a return to full-scale conflict were raised after the separatists held elections a week ago in defiance of Ukraine's government and Western countries.
Russia has recognised the vote which led to separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko, 38, being sworn in as head of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic.
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In the first full month since the UK's vote to leave the EU, there were 6,638 applications for Irish passports from people living in the region.
That is 2,568 more than July last year.
Applications for Irish passports from people living in Great Britain also increased year on year in July, with a 73% rise.
Post Offices in Belfast and elsewhere noted a sharp rise in applications in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.
But there is some evidence that this has slowed down in more recent weeks.
Some unionists who had never previously considered an Irish passport started to apply in the wake of Brexit, but it is impossible to calculate how many.
The statistics released on Friday by the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin include:
Full details can be found at the Department of Foreign Affairs website.
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The number of people in Northern Ireland applying for Irish passports rose by more than 60% in July, compared with the same period last year.
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Following back-to-back league postponements, January signings Antonio German and Aidan Nesbitt are still waiting to make their debuts.
St Johnstone defender Brian Easton misses out again with a gashed foot but will resume training later this week.
New signing Plamen Krachunov could feature if international clearance arrives in time.
The Bulgarian provides cover for skipper Dave Mackay, who has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a hip problem.
Saints' planned visit to Firhill on Boxing Day was postponed after torrential rain and Thistle have been idle over the last two weekends after call-offs.
Those cancellations leave the hosts with four games in hand on their nearest rivals in the bottom half of the table.
"The players are desperate for a game," said manager Alan Archibald.
"There's a bit of pressure on us, we've got to take something from our games in hand.
"St Johnstone are a difficult proposition but we're the home side and we need to make sure we play at a good tempo."
Saturday's 2-1 win over Motherwell at McDiarmid Park was Saints' first three points since 5 December and lifted them up to fifth in the Premiership.
"It was nice to get the win," said manager Tommy Wright.
"It got us back into the top six and now this is one of the games in hand that we have got so we have to try to make the most of it and pick up more points.
"We are not taking anything for granted, it is one win and we have to try to build on it."
Thistle were 2-1 winners in Perth in October, while they triumphed 3-0 on St Johnstone's last visit to Firhill in March.
He would have to stand there staring at his reflection thinking about what he'd said.
His parents' intention was to try to make him realise that being nasty or negative about other people was unkind and reflected badly on him.
It was an effective lesson. "Looking at myself in the mirror for five minutes wasn't much fun so I stopped ever criticising people," he says.
Even once he grew up to become the founder of Virgin Group - which has gone from a mail order record company to having businesses in telecoms, travel and financial services - it's a practice he's stuck to.
Sir Richard is adamant that to this day it's some of the most important advice he's ever received.
"If I ever hear people gossiping about people I'll walk away. As a leader you've just got to get out there and look for the best in people and that's really really important.
"Let them get on with it, not criticise them when they make mistakes and praise them when they do good things," he says.
It seems surprising that someone could become one of the UK's best-known and wealthiest entrepreneurs, creating a multi-million pound business, without criticising their staff.
Yet while the stereotypical image of an all powerful, dominant, alpha-male type character running a company persists, in many cases it's an outdated image.
The financial crisis in particular has forced a widespread rethinking of how to run a business and the days of the all powerful, domineering chief executive may be coming to an end.
Not criticising is just one element of a less hierarchical approach to being the boss.
CEO coach Steve Tappin says the pressure of having the top job means that it's easy for chief executives to "fall into the trap" of trying to be a superhero, pretending to know it all and unwilling to admit any failings.
"The best chief executives are not like that. They know that great leaders are great learners," he says.
Andrew Penn, chief executive of Australian telecommunications giant Telstra, has been the boss of the firm for less than a year, and despite having previously been at the helm of another large firm he says that it's impossible to have all the answers.
"The days of the rock star CEO are long gone. The CEO is just a member of a team and it's about bringing together a capable team," he says.
Nonetheless, he says, as the person officially in charge, it's important to have enough self confidence to lead the firm according to your own convictions.
Of course, it won't always go to plan. In fact, Mr Penn says he's made so many mistakes that it's impossible to list them all, but says it's all part of building up valuable experience and that crucially he learned a lot from them.
In the end what people remember is less what the boss did and more how he behaved, he says:
"When you're going through tough situations it's as important how you conduct yourself through the process as it is in terms of the actual decisions that you make in the process.
"Ultimately what people will remember more than anything, is how you behaved and how you conducted yourself and how you acted as a leader as much as whether or not you actually made the right or the wrong decision."
As far as Dominic Barton, global head of management consultancy firm McKinsey, is concerned, a boss new to the role should avoid making any major decisions at all initially and recognise that it will take time to learn how to do the job effectively.
Despite having been at the firm for over two decades before he took the helm, Mr Barton says heading up an organisation is very different. In his case, he says it took him two years just to get to grips with the different dynamics of being in charge.
Working out what the main issues to tackle are, and who can be relied upon to help drive the changes takes time and means it's important not to rush into anything, he says.
"It takes a while to establish legitimacy.
"Even if you've been appointed or elected, people, are saying how is this person going to work," he says.
Filipa Neto, co-founder of Chic by Choice, an online marketplace start-up which rents out designer dresses, enabling people to hire rather than buy them, has experienced exactly this problem, but with people outside the business.
As a 25-year-old boss of the start-up she says it has been hard to persuade more well-known designers and established brands to join her database of suppliers.
But she's not been discouraged. To prepare herself for the company's growth and being in charge of a larger firm she spends her spare time reading up on business books to find out how other chief executives succeeded.
"I learn a lot from all these people and I never forget. If somebody else has already done it in a clever way, why should I try to reinvent the wheel?
"I don't want to make the mistakes they've already made," she says.
This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.
Samuel Karanja Kamau denied the charges at Nairobi's High Court and is due to appear at a bail hearing on Wednesday.
A total of 52 people died when the six-storey building came down in heavy rain in the city's poor Huruma district.
The government said 100 rooms had been rented out, even though the building had been declared unfit to live in.
Mr Kamau has not yet commented on the allegation.
Three officials from Nairobi City County and the National Construction Authority (NCA) were taken into police custody after the collapse.
However, it is unclear whether they have been charged.
The six-storey building collapsed on 29 April, at the height of Kenya's rainy season.
A local MP said it was built less than 5m (15 feet) from a river, when it should have been at least 30m away.
The NCA said it had marked the building as unfit for habitation, but that the local government had failed to follow up.
Many of Nairobi's four million people live in low-income areas or slums.
Housing is in high demand, and unscrupulous developers often bypass regulations.
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Natalie Berry, who is originally from Bearsden and now lives in Edinburgh, ascended Dalriada on The Cobbler in the Arrochar Alps.
It is graded as E7 6b, meaning its overall difficulty is classed as "extremely severe" and its hardest part requires a high degree of skill.
The film, Transition, will be premiered at the Kendal Mountain Festival.
Scottish production company, Hot Aches, followed Ms Berry over the course of a year as she moved from competitive indoor to traditional climbing.
Lochaber-based professional climber Dave Macleod acted as her mentor.
She attempted Dalriada last month while under the pressures of the film-makers' fast approaching deadline and expected arrival of winter weather.
Ms Berry, one of the UK's leading female climbers, had also sliced two of her fingers while preparing dinner and the injuries threatened her chances of completing the route.
Johnson was appointed Robins boss earlier on Saturday afternoon but watched on from the directors' box.
The visitors won it thanks to Lee Tomlin's 21st-minute penalty after the Bournemouth loanee had been pushed by Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
The Addicks created openings but never came close to levelling.
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This defeat, coupled with Bolton's win over Rotherham, means Jose Riga's men have dropped to the foot of the table.
Meanwhile, Bristol City have gone up to 20th in the Championship and are now three points clear of the relegation zone.
It could have been more comfortable for the visitors but Addicks keeper Stephen Henderson, who perhaps should have kept out Tomlin's spot-kick, made fine saves from two Luke Freeman efforts.
Charlton's clearest chance fell to striker Zakarya Bergdich but he shot tamely at keeper Richard O'Donnell.
Charlton boss Jorge Riga:
"The main reason we avoided going down last time was my positivity. But I'm also realistic, I'm not a dreamer.
"There are lots of games still left to play."
Bristol City joint stand-in manager Wade Elliott:
"We defended well, limited them to few opportunities and we looked lively on the counter.
"It's credit to the players, they are a really good bunch.
"The manager coming in has inherited a good group of players, there are some great characters and he has come into a good place."
A succession of union leaders and a council chief executive said there would be no rolling over or waiving of the white flag when it came to the Welsh steel industry in the wake of the recent losses.
Unfortunately for the steelworkers, it's not the decision for the task force to make.
The question is how this rhetoric relates to the brutal reality facing Tata.
I can't recall the boss of a major manufacturing plant speaking so bluntly as Stuart Wilkie, the man who runs Port Talbot and Llanwern.
He told me that while much of the focus will be on the 750 losing their jobs from Port Talbot and Llanwern, the remaining 3,500 are in a fight for their survival.
When I asked him how long his bosses in India would continue to support a loss-making business, his answer was only that it required swift action from the EU to put the industry on a level playing field.
How long is swift? That's the key question. In other words, how long have they got to turn things around?
A figure of 18 months has been mentioned by some, but there's no definitive answer.
The news conference after the meeting became fractious at times. At one point the economy minister Edwina Hart reverted to one of her favourite tactics by accusing the media of being too negative.
For the record, Tata has had no problems with the media coverage of the past few days.
If the boss of Britain's biggest steel plant says it is in a fight for survival, like he did on Monday, then that set the tone for the week.
Business leaders are concerned about the situation, as are the politicians.
Welsh MPs have had their chance to have a say on the challenges in a debate at Westminster, including the fundamental problem of cheap Chinese steel driving the price down.
At this stage, it's difficult to see where the game-changing moment will come from for the industry.
The EU is due to take action against cheap Chinese imports but the time-frame is key.
What many are clinging onto is the scale of recent investment by Tata at Port Talbot and Llanwern.
No firm is going to want to walk away after spending big money on a blast furnace with a 15 to 20 year lifespan.
Another interesting feature of this story is the extraordinarily tight bond between the unions and the management.
I can't recall an example where union leaders have responded to the loss of a thousand jobs in any industry by saying they have no difference of opinion with the company that's done the cutting.
Instead, the accusations are all pointed firmly in the direction of the Conservative UK government for not doing enough to protect the industry, and not the company executives making the actual decisions.
While the task force now cracks on with the job of trying to help those who are about to lose their jobs, the long term future of those who are left will be decided by events elsewhere.
In the capital, Bogota, families of victims were given white flowers by well-wishers to symbolise peace.
The agreement, reached after years of negotiation, was rejected by a slim majority in a national referendum earlier this month.
Campaigners for the "No" vote have demanded a series of changes.
Farc leader Timoleon Rodriguez, better known as Timochenko, said on Wednesday he was confident the deal could be revived although he said he would be reluctant to re-negotiate some elements of the accord.
In a show of support for the agreement, thousands of students, farmers and indigenous leaders congregated in front of congress in Bogota.
"All Colombians must work on building peace," said Carmenza Pinto, 64, who was displaced by the war.
"We must strive for a better future and forgiveness is the best example we can give."
Speaking earlier, Timochenko said he had held several meetings with government negotiators in the Cuban capital, Havana, to try to find a way around the impasse.
He said he was confident the deal could be resuscitated.
"This is a conflict that has gone on for many years and opened deep wounds," he told Caracol Radio.
"We must join forces and together apply healing balm to the wounds. We will have good news soon."
However, he said he would be reluctant to re-negotiate one of the most contentious clauses which includes a provision for reduced jail terms for rebels who confess to human rights abuses.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for reaching the peace agreement.
He has said he will donate the prize money to help the victims of the conflict.
1964: Set up as armed wing of Communist Party
2002: At its height, it had an army of 20,000 fighters controlling up to a third of the country. Senator Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped and held for six years along with 14 other hostages
2008: The Farc suffers a series of defeats in its worst year
2012: Start of peace talks in Havana
2016: Bilateral ceasefire
Instead, it has a frugal three-cylinder 1.0 litre petrol engine that can still deliver 0-62mph (0-100km/h) in 10.7 seconds, nearly 60 miles to the gallon, and CO2 emissions of 115g/km.
A few years ago, this kind of performance would've been considered outstanding.
Thanks to turbo tech, these traditionally-fuelled internal combustion engines are now offering better fuel economy and lower emissions, without comparable loss of performance.
And in light of the recent Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal - and tighter emissions regulations worldwide - company car fleet directors are taking note.
"Diesel has emerged as the dominant fuel type for company cars, as a result of great fuel efficiency, performance and low cost of ownership under the government's CO2 emissions based tax regime," says Gerry Keaney, chief executive of the British Vehicle Rentals and Leasing Association, whose members own or fleet manage more than three million cars in the UK.
"But the diesel proportion of new registrations has been falling gradually for some time, as modern petrol powered cars have become better at delivering similar benefits, and we expect this trend to gather pace."
In the UK, even company car buyers now see downsized petrol engines, many emitting around 100g/km CO2, as a viable, efficient alternative to diesel.
This is not just down to "anti-diesel sentiment", says Al Bedwell, director, global powertrains at LMC Automotive. "It has more to do with petrol getting better and staging a fight-back, especially in small cars in Western Europe."
Manufacturers such as Ford, Opel/Vauxhall, Hyundai and Volkswagen are all offering similarly downsized petrol engines these days, many emitting around 100g/km of CO2.
In Europe, diesel's share of the market is set to drop from 53.3% of the market in 2014 to 51.5% in 2015, says Mr Bedwell, then continue sliding to 35% by 2020.
Turbo chargers are traditionally associated with diesel engines, which needed a boost to give them more oomph. They weren't "much fun to drive" without them, says Guillaume Devauchelle, head of innovation and science at automotive technology company, Valeo.
And the relative cost of adding turbo to an expensive diesel engine was lower, he explains.
But turbos are now increasingly infiltrating petrol engines because they deliver dramatic emissions reductions and improvements in fuel economy, without sacrificing performance, says Craig Balis, chief technology officer of Honeywell Transportation Systems, the world's largest turbo maker.
A two-litre turbo-charged four cylinder petrol engine can match the output of a three-litre naturally aspirated V6 petrol engine, he says, so "the technology we have is really a no-compromise solution".
Turbos work by using the engine's exhaust gas to drive a turbine, which in turn drives a compressor, which compresses air. This air is then forced into the combustion chamber where it mixes with fuel to create additional power.
This means the engine won't have to burn so much fuel to deliver the same output.
"Our turbos for passenger vehicles have turbines that spin at 200,000-300,000 revolutions per minute (rpm), generating temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees Celsius, so the metal is literally glowing red," Mr Balis says.
By comparison petrol engines operate at just 6,000-7,000 rpm and diesel at 5,000-6,000rpm.
To cope with such extreme speed, pressure and heat, turbos need to be incredibly robust, so Honeywell is using ball bearings and other technologies that have been developed for military aircraft by the company's aerospace division.
The turbos are also coupled with intercoolers that cool the airflow and increases its density as it is supplied to the engine, and with oil cooling systems that prevent overheating.
Turbos are often combined with direct or indirect fuel injectors and variable valve lift or timing systems to make the process even more efficient.
Electrified superchargers, which compress air for just a few hundred milliseconds to add brief low-end torque until the turbo charger kicks in, will also hit the market in the next few months.
Over the next five years, we'll go from about a third to around half the cars sold having turbo chargers, and the growth will continue. We call this the 'golden age of turbo'
E-chargers, or e-turbos, will transform the driving experience, believes Mr Devauchelle, as they eliminate what's called turbo lag - that slight delay in power boost you experience after pressing the accelerator.
"The turbo increases the engine's maximum power. The e-charger gets you there even quicker," he explains.
As such, e-turbos may rival established twin-turbo technology, where a small turbo takes care of the early stages of acceleration before the second turbo takes over.
The e-turbos' batteries can be recharged in different ways, for instance by capturing energy during braking, explains Mr Hahn.
With enough electric power, e-chargers could take over more and more of the work done by the turbo.
Eventually carmakers will redesign vehicle architecture, moving from standard 12-volt batteries to higher voltage systems.
Forty-eight volt architecture is emerging in luxury cars with many electric components, but e-chargers can also run on 12-volt batteries if they are only required to deliver brief boosts, explains Mr Devauchelle.
"Petrol power is moving from naturally aspirated engines to turbo charged engines at a faster rate than ever before," says Terrence Hahn, president and chief executive of Honeywell Transportation Systems.
"Over the next five years, we'll go from about a third to around half the cars sold having turbo chargers, and the growth will continue," he predicts.
"We call this 'the golden age of turbo'."
But there is no silver bullet as carmakers continue to grapple with ever-stricter emissions regulation, coupled with huge penalties for non-compliance.
Any number of combinations of e-chargers, turbo chargers, multi-stage boosting, fuel injection, variable valve systems, and combustion-electric hybrid technologies are being explored.
"During 30 years in the industry, I have never before seen so much diversity," says Mr Devauchelle.
"Nobody can afford the penalties."
The fire is continuing to spread in the mountain town of Lake Isabella and officials say at least 1,500 more buildings are at risk.
An elderly couple trying to flee the flames were overcome by smoke outside their house and killed, police said.
The blaze is one of several fires sparked by recent hot weather across the western United States.
Thousands of firefighters have been involved in attempts to control blazes across California, where soaring temperatures and 20mph winds combined with five years of drought have helped fires to spread.
The Lake Isabella fire started about 40 miles (65km) north-east of Bakersfield in central California at about 16:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Thursday.
It spread 11 miles in 13 hours, engulfing 8,000 acres (3,240 hectares) of parched grass, officials say.
The couple who died were found outside their house near Lake Isabella on Friday, fire department officials said.
"It's a firefight of epic proportions," said Kern County Fire Department's Brian Marshall said at a news conference. "There's not enough firefighters and fire trucks to put in front of every structure."
Roads have been closed, power has been knocked out and evacuations ordered in several communities, according to fire information website InciWeb, which says evacuees are being sheltered at a school.
Investigators are working to establish the cause of the fire, which remains unknown.
TV footage showed firefighting helicopters hovering amid billowing clouds of smoke as flames consumed homes and roared through the Kern County foothills.
Fire officials said some residents had ignored evacuation orders. Three firefighters are being treated at hospital for smoke inhalation.
California's largest wildfire in recent years was in San Diego county in 2003. That burned 2,820 buildings and led to 15 deaths.
The state's deadliest fire on record killed 29 people in Los Angeles county in 1933.
Frauke Petry, head of the eurosceptic Alternativ fuer Deutschland (AfD) party, told a regional newspaper: "I don't want this either. But the use of armed force is there as a last resort."
Her comments were condemned by leftwing parties and by the German police union.
More than 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany last year.
Also on Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said most migrants from Syria and Iraq would go home once the wars in their countries had ended.
She told a conference of her centre-right CDU party that tougher measures adopted last week should reduce the influx of migrants, but a European solution was still needed.
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Police must stop migrants crossing illegally from Austria, Ms Petry told the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper (in German), and "if necessary" use firearms.
"That is what the law says," she added.
A prominent member of the centre-left Social Democrats, Thomas Oppermann, said: "The last German politician under whom refugees were shot at was Erich Honecker" - the leader of Communist East Germany.
Germany's police union, the Gewerkschaft der Polizei, said (in German) officers would never shoot at migrants.
It said Ms Petry's comments revealed a radical and inhumane mentality.
The number of attacks on refugee accommodation in Germany rose to 1,005 last year - five times more than in 2014.
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.
Dyfed-Powys Police attended the incident on the B4358 between Newbridge on Wye and Beulah at about 15:15 BST on Sunday.
The motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital and is in a serious but stable condition.
Police said the driver of the van was travelling towards Beulah.
Scientists tested people's ability to remember details of films showing fake crime scenes.
They hope the studies will help witnesses recall details more accurately when questioned by police.
They say establishing a rapport with the person asking the questions can also help boost memory.
Writing in the journal Legal and Criminological Psychology, scientists tested 178 participants in two separate experiments.
In the first, they asked volunteers to watch a film showing an electrician entering a property, carrying out work and then stealing a number of items.
Volunteers were then questioned in one of four groups. People were either asked questions with their eyes open or closed, and after a sense of rapport had been built with the interviewer or no attempt had been made to create a friendly introduction.
People who had some rapport with their interviewer and had their eyes shut throughout questioning answered three-quarters of the 17 questions correctly.
But those who did not have a friendly introduction with the interviewer and had their eyes open answered 41% correctly.
The analysis showed that eye closing had the strongest impact on remembering details correctly ,but that feeling comfortable during the interview also helped.
In the second experiment, people were asked to remember details of what they had heard during a mock crime scene.
Again closing their eyes and having a sense of rapport with the interviewer helped people recall more details than participants in all other groups.
Lead researcher Dr Robert Nash, said: "Our data and other data before us points towards eye closure helping because it removes distraction.
"Closing your eyes might also help people visualise the details of the event they are trying to remember, but our second experiment suggests keeping your eyes shut can help focus on audio information too.
"The mechanisms we identified ought to apply to other contexts, for example trying to remember details of a lecture."
Prof Tim Hollins, of Plymouth University, provided an independent comment: "This adds to the growing body of research that eye closure might be a useful technique that police may want to use.
"The other nice thing about this piece of work is that they have looked at rapport building too.
"This data shows the benefit of eye closure and rapport building added together rather than cancelled each other out as some people previously feared."
It said the observers were monitoring a ceasefire between Syria and Israel.
A video posted earlier on the internet showed men claiming to be Syrian rebels standing next to vehicles with the letters "UN" written on them.
The Martyrs of Yarmouk group told the BBC they had taken the observers to stop Syrian troops from shelling them.
The UN mission in the Golan Heights is sending a team to assess the situation and negotiate the observers' release.
UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (Undof) were on "a regular supply mission" when they were stopped near an observation post by the armed men.
He said the post had sustained damage and was evacuated over the past weekend following "heavy combat in close proximity".
The spokesman did not provide any further details.
Some reports suggest the UN observers were from the Philippines.
In the video published on the internet, the gunmen identified themselves as the "Martyrs of Yarmouk".
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They are heard saying that the UN personnel would not be released until forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad withdrew from the village of Jamla in the area.
The rebels later admitted taking the monitors to try to stop the Syrian army from firing on them and civilians in the areas.
The rebels added that the UN team were their guests.
The video was circulated by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The SOHR is one of the most prominent organisations documenting and reporting incidents and casualties in the Syrian conflict. The group says its reports are impartial, though its information cannot be independently verified.
Meanwhile, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) - the main rebel fighting force - condemned the seizure of the UN observers.
FSA leader Gen Salim Idriss told the BBC's Newshour programme he would "do everything what I can to liberate them".
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council also condemned the detention of the observers and demanded their immediate release.
In a separate development, the New York-based pressure group Human Rights Watch said it was investigating whether the same rebels were involved in the executions of seized Syrian government soldiers earlier this month.
The UN has had its monitors in the area since the 1974 ceasefire between Israel and Syria.
Israel has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967 and later annexed the territory - in a move that is not internationally recognised.
Recently there has been fighting in the eastern foothills of the Golan Heights between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels.
Israel has said its policy is not to get involved in the Syrian conflict. However, in recent months it has retaliated when there has been Syrian fire into Israeli-controlled areas.
Israel has also reinforced a fence that runs along the armistice line, and officials say Syrian refugees will not be allowed into Israel en masse.
Earlier on Wednesday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the number of Syrian refugees who had fled the conflict reached a million.
It said half of the refugees were children - most of them under 11 and often traumatised by their experiences.
The largest numbers of refugees were seeking shelter in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.
And in a separate development, Britain said it would provide armoured vehicles and body armour to opposition forces in Syria "to help save lives".
Foreign Secretary William Hague said London would offer millions of pounds in "non-lethal" equipment, including search and rescue, communications, and disease-prevention materials.
Up to 70,000 people have been killed and a million refugees have fled since the crisis in Syria began two years ago.
The film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about a frontiersman fighting for survival after being attacked by a bear, is up for 12 Oscars.
But The Force Awakens is now the UK's most successful film of all time, having made £114m at the box office since its release.
That was almost £4m more than the previous record-holder, Titanic.
Titanic had been at the top spot in the inflation-adjusted box office chart, with Skyfall in second place.
Rocky spin-off movie Creed is third place in this week's chart in its first week of release behind Star Wars.
The film, which has brought a best supporting actor nomination for Sylvester Stallone, made £2.2m.
While Room, also nominated for best film at the Oscars and best actress for Brie Larson, entered at number seven.
Daddy's Home, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg is in fourth place in its fourth week of release.
Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight is at number five in its second week out.
The only other new entry in the top ten UK box office is a live performance of Les Pecheurs De Perles by the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
The screening on 16 January in selected cinemas took £354,738 in ticket sales, putting it in 10th place.
Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has written to 40 national bodies urging them to assess whether any historical claims of abuse need investigating.
Some 250 people have now contacted police after ex-footballers spoke out about abuse they suffered as children.
Chelsea FC has begun an investigation into allegations of historical sexual abuse by a club employee in the 1970s.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the club said the allegations concerned a former employee who is now dead.
Eight police forces in England and Police Scotland are also looking into claims of historic abuse in the sport.
In the letter - which was sent to 40 domestic governing bodies, including those for cricket, tennis, rugby union and rugby league - Ms Crouch urged officials to assess "whether there are any historic allegations of abuse that would merit investigation or reinvestigation".
The organisations were told consider whether they have processes in place for managing and investigating allegations.
They were also told to make sure processes for safeguarding children and young people "are as robust as possible".
Ms Crouch wrote: "I am sure you share my view that the sport sector needs to do everything it can to ensure that if proven allegations are found there is justice for the survivors of past abuse, and that sport today is as safe as it possibly can be."
The letter was sent to all sports that receive funding from Sport England.
Earlier, Culture Secretary Karen Bradley told MPs the national child abuse inquiry headed by Professor Alexis Jay was considering whether to investigate abuse in football as part of its overarching probe.
Meanwhile, Baroness Chisholm told the House of Lords that 250 people have now contacted police in England and Wales.
Football Association chairman Greg Clarke said the scandal was one of the biggest crises in the history of the organisation.
Kirpal Singh had been in a Lahore jail for 20 years after being accused of involvement in a bomb attack on the Faisalabad railway station.
His family says he accidentally crossed the border into Pakistan under the influence of alcohol.
Pakistan officials said Singh had collapsed after complaining of chest pains and died in hospital soon after.
Singh's sister-in-law Kanta Devi, who lives in India's Punjab state, told BBC Hindi's Robin Singh that the family wanted to perform his last rites.
The family claimed that repeated requests to the Indian government to help free Singh had been ignored.
Singh was lodged in the same jail as Pakistan's "most famous" Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died in 2013 after being attacked with bricks by other inmates.
Two of four reaction wheels are now faulty. At least three are needed to orient the telescope correctly.
"I wouldn't call Kepler down and out just yet," said Nasa administrator John Grunsfeld, saying scientists were working on the problem.
Kepler was launched in 2009 and last month identified two distant planets that Nasa said could be habitable.
So far, the $600m (£395m) mission has identified 132 "exoplanets" outside our solar system, and another 2,700 possible candidates.
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But last July one of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels broke down, leaving scientists aware that a further failure was likely and would prevent the telescope operating as it should.
In a statement, Nasa said the problem had been detected on Tuesday, when the telescope went into a pre-programmed "safe mode" which kicks in "if the observatory has trouble knowing where it should point", Mr Grunsfeld told AFP news agency.
The team's priority now is to put the craft into "Point Rest State" - reducing fuel consumption so the craft has enough left to last months or years, giving scientists the time to decide how to proceed.
Kepler completed its primary three-and-a-half year mission last November, Nasa says, and is now in an extended mission phase.
The US space agency says the telescope has generated a wealth of data which could generate new discoveries for years to come.
Last month, scientists announced that Kepler had discovered two of the most intriguing candidates yet in the search for Earth-like exoplanets.
They orbit the Kepler-62 star in the Constellation Lyra - 1,200 light-years from Earth.
Meshack Yebei's decomposed body was discovered in western Kenya after he was reportedly abducted on 28 December.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said he was offered protection in a safe location but returned home.
Mr Ruto denies charges of crimes against humanity over violence which erupted after the 2007 election.
He is the most senior government official to be tried by The Hague-based court since its formation more than a decade ago.
The ICC dropped similar charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta last month, alleging that prosecution witnesses had been intimidated and had changed their testimony.
Mr Kenyatta maintained he was innocent, saying the prosecution had no case against him.
Kenya's Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko has ordered police to carry out a "speedy and thorough investigation" into Mr Yebei's murder.
His family said over the weekend that he was killed to prevent him from appearing at The Hague, but there was no official confirmation at the time of his involvement in the deputy president's trial.
Mr Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan has now written a letter to the head of Kenya's Criminal Investigation Department, saying Mr Yebei had been a "critical witness" who had been referred to the ICC's Victims and Witness Unit for protection.
"It's our strongly held view that an attack on any witness constitutes an interference with the proper administration of justice and indeed an attack against William Ruto," Mr Khan said.
"The news of his abduction and murder is both shocking to us and a matter of grave concern."
The ICC's registrar, Herman von Hebel, said Mr Yebei had been offered safe residency in a new place, but he returned to Eldoret - a town in western Kenya which had been badly hit by the violence which following the disputed 2007 election.
"We express our profound condolences to the family," he said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that he was not a prosecution witness.
Mr Yebei's body was found on Saturday near a bridge on the road between Eldoret and Kisumu town.
The post-mortem showed that he had been hit on the head with a blunt object, Kenya's privately owned Standard newspaper reports.
Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta were on opposite sides of the 2007 election, but formed an alliance for the 2013 election which propelled them into power.
Some 1,200 people died and 600,000 fled homes in the conflict - the worst in Kenya since independence.
Both acts received the same number of votes from the 144 DJs and pundits who create the list, which highlights the most exciting new acts in music.
"It's scary and exciting," said Mura Masa - whose Asian-themed electronica has been championed by Huw Stephens and Jo Whiley, "but it's an honour".
The full top five will be revealed on BBC Radio 1 throughout the week.
Pop trio Years and Years topped the poll last year, with previous winners including Adele, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith and Haim.
WSTRN have already scored a UK top 10 hit with their debut single In2, a feel-good seduction song that's attracted celebrity support from the likes of Wretch 32, Lily Allen and Rita Ora.
Released in the same week as Adele's Hello, it was at one point outselling its rival before eventually charting at number four.
Their name is a play on the word Western - referencing their upbringing in Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith, West London.
After the success of urban acts from the capital's east (Wiley, Rudimental) and south (Tinie Tempah, Stormzy) "we're saying it's the West's turn," Louis Rei told the BBC.
The singer said it was "humbling" to be included on the Sound of 2016 list.
"When I heard we were on the list, I slept like a baby," added Akelle.
Mura Masa is the stage name of 19-year-old Alex Crossan, who describes his sound as "lo-fi oriental-influenced beat music".
He grew up on the island of Guernsey, where "being removed from any particular music scene" helped inform his genre-defying style.
DJ Annie Mac, who voted for Mura Masa, called him "intimidatingly talented for someone of his age".
The Sound Of... list launched in 2003, and has a track record in championing new and innovative acts, many of whom have gone on to achieve global success.
According to the rules, the acts should not already be well known to the UK general public - through featuring in the final stages of a TV talent show, for example, or having already been a member of a successful band.
They must also not have been the lead artist on a UK top 20 single or album before 30 October 2015 - although guest vocalists are eligible.
Find out more and watch videos on the Sound Of 2016 site
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The company said the loss was related to "contracts procured during the depths of the economic downturn."
Turnover was up by 24% from £158m to £196m, with a further increase projected in 2015.
The directors said they are "encouraged" by the current order book.
They added that they are predicting "strong growth" in the medium term.
McLaughlin and Harvey remained profitable throughout the worst of the construction downturn.
The 2014 results appear to reflect contracts agreed at that time which have ultimately been unprofitable.
The firm said that while market conditions remain "highly competitive", it is investing in the business and growing its skills base.
Employment at the firm rose from 382 to 427 over the year.
The firm's current contracts include the first phase of the new Ulster University campus in Belfast city centre.
However, like all of Northern Ireland's largest building firms, it now does the majority of its work elsewhere.
It is currently building a helipad for King's College Hospital in London and has also won work on the redevelopment of Camden Lock.
The majority of the buildings are in the Western Isles, but there are examples all over Scotland, including on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Thatch used to be a common roofing material in rural Scotland, but has now largely disappeared.
The 632-page survey was compiled by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and funded by Historic Environment Scotland (HES).
It includes photographs of every building, information on the type of thatch and its condition, as well as stories from those living in them.
HES said thatch was the first roofing material used in Scotland, and a very wide range of thatching techniques can be found in the country.
Rye, heather, reed and marram grass were all used to thatch buildings.
Colin Tennant, from HES, said: "Thatched buildings are an iconic part of our heritage and Scotland's wider historic environment, particularly in our rural areas. They form a unique part of our diverse built heritage and culture, providing a real insight into the craft skills and traditional practices of our past.
"These new findings allow us to identify Scotland's surviving thatched building stock and will also inform discussions with our partners in the sector on how we can help conserve these buildings for future generations, whether that be through skills training, technical advice or different funding approaches."
In some parts of Scotland, thatching continued until the start of the 20th Century.
The practice declined because of a loss of skills and when other roofing materials like corrugated iron and slate became widely available.
According to the survey, the Western Isles have 67 buildings with thatch remaining and the Highlands 44. Perth and Kinross has 21 and there are 13 in Argyll and Bute.
Matthew Slocombe, director of SPAB, said: "These buildings are quintessentially Scottish and their historic value is immense.
"Yet perhaps because they are humble working structures or perhaps because of the very way they were built - lying low to protect and shield their former occupants - we have allowed them to slowly vanish from the radar.
"This survey will pay an important part in helping to safeguard and understand these valuable and iconic buildings."
Police said the victim left her address in Ashington at around 01:30 BST and was attacked a short time later in Langwell Crescent, Ashington.
A spokeswoman for the Northumbria force said officers were looking for a man in connection with the attack who has a large build and was wearing a black hooded top.
Anyone who saw anything suspicious is being urged to contact police.
Red paint was discovered on Bristol Rovers' memorial gates - which remember rugby players who lost their lives - on Thursday morning.
The message - "Merry Xmas from CS.F" - is a reference to a group of hardcore Bristol City fans, although it is not known who left the graffiti.
Both clubs have condemned the actions of a "mindless minority".
Bristol Rovers spokesman Keith Brookman said: "We don't feel that real City fans would have done this. Hopefully they will help us name and shame the people who did this."
In a statement Bristol City executive director Doug Harman said: "Bristol City Football Club are appalled to hear a minority of so-called City supporters have desecrated the Memorial Gates.
"Anyone found guilty of carrying out this mindless act of vandalism will face a lifetime ban from Ashton Gate.
"In the spirit of Christmas, we are working with Rovers to ensure that the graffiti is removed as soon as possible."
Other football supporters have also tweeted their disgust at the vandalism.
It is the second time the gates have been vandalised.
In 2010 City fans raised funds for a clean-up after tags associated with the club were sprayed on the memorial.
Bristol Rovers have said the vandalism has been reported to the police and urged "anyone who knows any of the people involved in this disgraceful incident, we respectfully ask you to report the matter to them as soon as possible".
Susan Draper, 43, who worked at Perry Locks Care Home, Birmingham, was covertly filmed saying the body spray smelt " better than poo".
Draper of Cranehouse Road, Kingstanding, is the second care worker convicted of ill-treating Betty Boylan after her family fitted a camera.
Draper had denied the charge but was found guilty by Birmingham magistrates.
She was granted unconditional bail until sentencing on 24 July.
Draper told the court she had wanted Mrs Boylan to smell nice and "would not hurt any resident".
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Magistrates were told Draper was dismissed from the Bupa-run home.
In the footage shown in court, Mrs Boylan, who has dementia, can be heard saying "stop it" when the spray is used after she was placed in a chair. The prosecution alleged she could be seen "to gurgle".
The day-long trial on Monday heard she had been "dehumanised" by Draper. The carer told investigators she had made a "stupid mistake" and lost her job at the home where she worked for 17 years.
Prosecutor Sean Williams said the retired nurse's family had placed the camera in her room amid concerns about her treatment and apparent bruising.
Magistrates convicted Draper of ill-treating a dependent person in her care on the basis she had been reckless and had used the spray and a hoist inappropriately.
After the hearing, Mrs Boylan's grand-daughter Lisa Thompson said: "The majority or people that are in care now have fought all their lives for us and then they get treated the way they are being treated - it's disgusting."
In February, Bina Begum, 49, of Perry Barr, was given a 12-month community order after admitting ill-treating and neglecting Mrs Boylan.
More than 100 Australian babies were hospitalised with parechovirus in 2013 and 2014.
One year later, doctors found that many of these babies had developmental problems, according to a study by the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID).
No specific treatment or vaccine is currently available.
Babies infected with the virus suffered from symptoms such as seizures, irritability and muscle twitches, according to ASID.
"This is a new virus and we know very little about it. This study is helping improve our understanding of some of the long-term consequences of infection in children and the results are concerning," said ASID president Prof Cheryl Jones in a statement.
According to ASID, arechovirus was identified in Europe just over a decade ago.
However, Australia recently recorded one of the world's largest outbreaks, starting in Sydney in late 2013.
ASID said over 100 babies were hospitalised in Sydney alone during this outbreak, with 70% of these children suffering from neurological infection.
The new study successfully followed up on 46 out of 79 of the infants, with half of them showing some developmental issues at 12 months.
Nearly 20% of the children had developed significant neurological problems.
"This clearly illustrates just how vitally important it is that we follow up young infants with brain infections from this virus and remain on alert for emerging infectious diseases," Prof Jones said.
"It also highlights our need to develop an adequate response.
"There is currently no vaccination and no treatment for this virus. And whilst we are not anticipating a global epidemic we can certainly be confident that we will have further outbreaks in Australia," she said.
The virus is spread by contact with bodily fluids such as airborne droplets of saliva, in the same way as the common cold.
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But just how bad were England's players as they suffered a 2-1 loss in the last 16 in Nice?
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty rates the players who contributed towards one of England's most embarrassing results.
Dreadful tournament summed up by his error for Iceland's winner. Overheated again in the tunnel before kick-off. Made a couple of decent saves but damage done.
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His worst night of what had been a good tournament. Recalled but was caught out for first goal and wasted any attacking positions.
No shortage of effort but still looks short of international class.
Uncertain under physical pressure from Iceland's attackers. Never looked totally settled.
Same as Smalling and the rest of England's team. Nervous, unsettled, poor.
Had a good tournament and one of just four players to start all four games, but was way off the pace on Monday. Taken off at half-time but will come again.
Struggled to make any sort of impact on this game - and indeed Euro 2016.
Another who had played well but this might just have been his worst England performance. Never seen so many passes go astray in the second half.
Surprisingly recalled despite doubts about his confidence. Won a penalty but his confidence looks shot. Substituted.
Complete nightmare. Missed a good headed chance in the second half and took a collection of the worst free-kicks and set-pieces seen at this level.
Busy early on playing on the right of the front three but completely wasted out there. Faded along with everyone else.
Nowhere near fit enough to be taken to this tournament and could not put his imprint on the game.
Plenty of pace and energy but by then the game's pattern was set.
Almost a contender for England's man of the match with his running and endeavour…in his four minutes.
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The primate travelled in a Pishgam rocket, which reached an altitude of some 120km (75 miles) for a sub-orbital flight before "returning its shipment intact", the defence ministry said.
Iranian state TV showed images of the monkey, which was strapped into a harness, being taken to the rocket.
Western nations have expressed concern that Iran's space programme is being used to develop long-range missiles.
Such missiles could potentially be used to carry nuclear warheads.
Iran denies it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons and insists its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes.
Satellite technology expert Pat Norris told the BBC that Iran's claim to have sent a monkey into space was not a major advance on what its space programme had already achieved.
The achievement was similar to launching a missile at 4,828km/h (3,000mph) and having its warhead survive the flight - something Iran had done in several tests in recent years, he noted.
However, the survival of the monkey, without incurring any injuries, would demonstrate that the acceleration and deceleration of the rocket were not too severe, Mr Norris added.
In 2010, Iran successfully sent a rat, turtle and worms into space. But an attempt to send a monkey up in a rocket failed in 2011.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in 2010 that the country planned to send a man into space by 2019.
A domestically-made satellite was sent into orbit for the first time in 2009.
Left-back Kieran Tierney and striker Leigh Griffiths are the only members of Celtic's squad to receive enough votes from their fellow professionals.
Right-back Shay Logan and midfielders Graeme Shinnie, Kenny McLean and Jonny Hayes are from the second-top Dons.
Goalkeeper Scott Bain and strikers Kane Hemmings and Greg Stewart are from a Dundee side outside of the top six.
The remaining players, in a 4-3-3 formation, are central defenders Alim Ozturk, of Hearts, and Andrew Davies, of Ross County.
Griffiths, Hayes, Hemmings and Stewart make up the shortlist for PFA Scotland Player of the Year.
Having won the Championship title, Rangers dominate their division's team of the year with five representatives.
Second-top Falkirk and third-placed Hibernian have three each.
Dunfermline Athletic have four players in the League One team of the season, while East Fife have the same number in the League Two list, with both having won their respective titles.
The Fifers' player-manager, Gary Naysmith, the 37-year-old former Scotland left-back, makes the League Two XI.
Scott Bain (Dundee)
Shay Logan (Aberdeen)
Alim Ozturk (Heart of Midlothian)
Andrew Davies (Ross County)
Kieran Tierney (Celtic)
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen)
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen)
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen)
Kane Hemmings (Dundee)
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic)
Greg Stewart (Dundee)
Danny Rogers (Falkirk)
James Tavernier (Rangers)
Darren McGregor (Hibernian)
Peter Grant (Falkirk)
Lee Wallace (Rangers)
Jason Holt (Rangers)
John McGinn (Hibernian)
Barrie McKay (Rangers)
John Baird (Falkirk)
Martyn Waghorn (Rangers)
Jason Cummings (Hibernian)
Graeme Smith (Peterhead)
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United)
Michael Dunlop (Albion Rovers)
Ben Richards-Everton (Dunfermline Athletic)
Paddy Boyle (Ayr United)
Liam Watt (Airdrieonians)
Andy Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic)
Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic)
Greig Spence (Cowdenbeath)
Rory McAllister (Peterhead)
Faissal el Bakhtaoui (Dunfermline Athletic)
Chris Smith (Stirling Albion)
Ricky Little (Arbroath)
Jonathan Page (East Fife)
Gary Naysmith (East Fife)
Scott Linton (Clyde)
Matty Flynn (Annan Athletic)
Kyle Wilkie (East Fife)
Bobby Linn (Arbroath)
Peter Weatherson (Annan Athletic)
Nathan Austin (East Fife)
Craig Gunn (Elgin City)
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The Scot, 23, is "really happy" she "went for gold" in Rio despite slipping from third to seventh in the last 200m.
"Had I run the last part of the race a bit more conservatively, I think I could definitely have come through for bronze or possibly silver," she said.
"But I would always be thinking, 'Could I have got the gold?'"
Muir travelled to Brazil with high hopes of a medal after breaking Kelly Holmes' British 1500m record in London a few weeks before the Games.
But after taking up the pace and leading after two laps, she saw Kenya's Faith Kipyegon and six other athletes surge past her on the home straight.
The Scot swiftly put the setback behind her, however, knocking another two seconds off her British record in winning in Paris on 27 August with a world-leading time this year.
She then became the first Scot, and only the third British woman, to win a Diamond League series of races. She earned £30,000 after clinching the title with a second place finish in Zurich on 1 September.
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"The Diamond League is the elite of the elite," she told BBC Scotland. "A lot of people that win them are Olympic or world medallists so to win the overall title is so surreal. I can't believe it.
"We didn't target the Diamond League as such. We just did the races to fit my training schedules and for peaking in Rio. I didn't run a few of them, so to come away with the title, I am so shocked really."
Muir wrapped up her season by winning the mile race at the Great North City Games last Saturday.
And with the World Championships coming to London next summer, she has another major target to aim for.
But as well as winter training, she will spend the next few months focusing on her studies, having passed her fourth year of veterinary school earlier this summer.
"I think I can carry it on," she added. "I am very lucky that I have a very supportive school. The University of Glasgow Veterinary School have been great in allowing me to juggle things and I just hope when I graduate, I would like to continue doing both.
"I never dreamed of being a full-time athlete. I know at any point it could finish.
"You hope it doesn't happen but you never know when you might knacker your knee, and that is you [finished]. I think it's very important to have that career and something other than athletics."
A labour court said the bank, Societe Generale, had dismissed him not because of his actions, which it must have known of, but for their consequences.
The court ordered the bank to pay him €450,000 (£350,000) in damages.
A lawyer for the bank said it would be appealing a "scandalous" decision that ran counter to the law.
Mr Kerviel, 39, served a three-year jail term after being convicted of breach of trust and fraud in October 2010.
He was charged with gambling €50bn (£39bn) of Societe Generale's money on trades without the bank's knowledge, which nearly brought down the business.
Although he had originally generated more than €1.4bn (£1.09bn) in profits in 2007, within months that had turned into enormous losses.
Mr Kerviel had argued at his trial that Societe Generale had known what he was doing but turned a blind eye.
One of the judges at the tribunal said that the bank could not pretend it was unaware of Mr Kerviel's fake operations and said he was fired "without genuine or serious cause".
His lawyer, David Koubbi, told Reuters news agency on Tuesday that the court's decision "tore apart the story which Societe Generale has presented from the beginning".
Mr Kerviel had appealed against his conviction but it was upheld in March 2014. He spent two months walking from Rome to France before going to jail. He was later let out on condition he wear an electronic tag.
Mr Kerviel has requested a retrial of the original criminal case. He is contesting an order to repay his losses to the bank.
The Glasgow club announced a two-game closure of a 900-capacity section of the safe-standing area at Celtic Park.
That followed "serious incidents of unsafe behaviour" at previous games.
"The club is continuing to investigate events from the matches against Hearts and Linfield and a number of fans remain suspended," said Celtic.
"Celtic will continue to liaise with these supporters as well as the relevant stadium safety authorities.
"Our objective is to work towards re-opening the section in full, something which can only be achieved by ensuring a safe environment which meets the requirements of the safety advisory group.
"Celtic is responsible for the safety of every supporter entering Celtic Park. We can never and will never compromise on safety."
Fans in the area housing the Green Brigade ultras-style group held a pyrotechnic display in the final home game of last season and Celtic were fined around £20,000 by Uefa for "blocked stairways" and "illicit banner" charges relating to the European game against Linfield.
The Green Brigade section was closed for last week's Champions League qualifier against Rosenborg.
It will also be closed for Saturday's opening Scottish Premiership game of the season, against Hearts, but re-open thereafter.
"The club is now in the process of writing to those supporters to inform them of this decision and to confirm the control measures which are in place to allow the area to be reopened and operated safely by the club," Celtic added.
"We fully understand that this has been a difficult period for those affected."
Highlights included an effortless 800m and 1500m double for Steve Cram and Tessa Sanderson's javelin battle with Fatima Whitbread.
Steve Redgrave won three rowing golds, Steve Ovett breezed his way to 5000m victory, Lennox Lewis was crowned heavyweight champion in the boxing ring and the bristly Daley Thompson performed Herculean feats in the decathlon.
On the final day, a Scots heroine emerged when Liz Lynch - McColgan as she later became - won the first-ever women's Commonwealth 10,000m, one of three gold medals for the host nation.
But it was an event marred by politics.
Months earlier, the Games were threatened with outright cancellation when a succession of nations - mostly from the African continent - refused to attend due to UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher's intransigence regarding economic sanctions against South Africa's apartheid regime.
One by one, the dominoes toppled and 32 of the 59 eligible nations eventually boycotted, crippling the advertising revenue and minimising the significance of the event as a sporting contest.
Finances were looking so bleak in the weeks leading up to the opening ceremony that organisers desperately turned to Robert Maxwell, the flamboyant and controversial owner of the Daily Record and Daily Mirror newspapers, who promptly installed himself as chairman of the organising committee without ever putting his hand in his pocket.
It was a shambles. Maxwell held court with the media on a daily basis, blurting out malapropisms and recruiting a suspected war criminal to help him as the event teetered on the brink of total collapse.
Somehow the Games limped on and Edinburgh City Council spent decades paying for them.
There were feeble attempts from the Commonwealth Games Association to lure back boycotting nations.
South African-born duo Zola Budd and Annette Cowley were banned from competing for England on residency grounds.
Cowley, who was then the British 100m freestyle champion, was dramatically expelled from the Games on the eve of her race following a court battle to retain her place.
"It was a pretty unique situation and watching my race was very hard," Cowley told BBC Scotland in 2014.
"Especially because I knew I could have won and the time that I did at the trials was actually faster than the girl who won the race from Canada.
"There were cameramen tripping over each other because everyone wanted the front-page pic and the story - and I just remember thinking 'all I want to do is swim a race, you know?'
"It really was very, very tough and very disappointing."
Cowley's loss would be South Africa's gain; the boycott helped focus international attention on the country's regime and, by the time of the next games in Auckland, Nelson Mandela was a free man.
Edinburgh delivered many great sporting highlights but will be best remembered as a Games that helped changed the fate of a nation.
'Boycotts and Broken Dreams: The Story of The 1986 Commonwealth Games' will be shown on BBC TWO Scotland at 2240 BST on Sunday 31 July and will be available on iPlayer for 30 days afterwards.
Matt Green headed home Hurst's cross to give Mansfield the lead but Jack Compton's free-kick brought County level.
Danny Rose restored Mansfield's lead but Joss Labadie equalised with a tap in from Mark Randall's free-kick.
But Hurst's curling 20-yard effort, his first goal since September 2014, secured victory.
County, whose starting line-up included 10 summer signings, had gone into the opening game without a league win in 11 matches.
Newport County manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales: "I'm gutted for them. We've lost the game but I think there's more than enough in that changing room and they showed it today.
"We showed great character to get back into the game.
"I thought for the majority of the game, bar the 20-25 minutes in the second half, we were the better side."
Match ends, Newport County 2, Mansfield Town 3.
Second Half ends, Newport County 2, Mansfield Town 3.
Goal! Newport County 2, Mansfield Town 3. Kevan Hurst (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Ashley Hemmings.
Attempt missed. Joss Labadie (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Mark Randall (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Foul by Mark Randall (Newport County).
Chris Clements (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Sean Rigg (Newport County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Sean Rigg (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mitch Rose (Mansfield Town).
Foul by Marlon Jackson (Newport County).
Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marlon Jackson (Newport County).
Lee Collins (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Pat Hoban replaces Matt Green.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Malvind Benning (Mansfield Town).
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Malvind Benning.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Ashley Hemmings replaces Danny Rose.
Goal! Newport County 2, Mansfield Town 2. Joss Labadie (Newport County) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mark Randall with a cross following a set piece situation.
Dan Butler (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town).
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Joe Day.
Attempt saved. Matt Green (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Jamie Turley (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Green (Mansfield Town).
Foul by Marlon Jackson (Newport County).
Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Newport County. Ben Tozer replaces Jennison Myrie-Williams.
Mark Randall (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danny Rose (Mansfield Town).
Joss Labadie (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Clements (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joss Labadie (Newport County).
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Kyle Howkins replaces Adam Chapman.
Goal! Newport County 1, Mansfield Town 2. Danny Rose (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lee Collins.
Foul by Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County).
Matt Green (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Attempt missed. Jack Compton (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
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Akbar Badshah, from Bradford, drove "for an hour" to celebrate his wife's birthday at Fazenda's in Manchester but was told he needed different footwear.
He turned to nearby rough sleeper John, who said he would be "happy" to help and lend him his boots.
Mr Badshah now intends to thank John with a meal at the restaurant.
Mr Badshah, who also wanted to break his Ramadan fast, told BBC Radio 5 live: "The [staff] said, 'unfortunately we have to turn you away - do you have any spare shoes?'
"I said, 'I don't, I've driven an hour to get here, I'm starving, I've not eaten all day.'"
He and his wife Rozmin - who had previously suggested her husband should wear shoes - left the restaurant and later struck up a conversation with John, who had recently received a new pair of boots from an outreach shelter.
"We had a little chat and I just asked John, 'What shoe size are you?'," Mr Badshah said.
"He said, 'I'm a 14,' and I said, 'I'm a size 9, I'm in a bit of predicament... can I borrow your shoes?'
"He goes, 'Yes certainly, I'll be happy to lend you my shoes.'"
The couple went on to enjoy their meal as planned, then returned the boots to John, who told Mr Badshah he had just wanted "to help another human being out".
Mr Badshah said John only accepted a £10 note in thanks "on the third attempt".
Another man, who overheard the conversation between the pair, then gave John a £50 note, which Mr Badshah said was "good karma".
Mr Badshah said he now hopes to return to the restaurant with John for a meal.
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Riverside councillor Phil Hawkins had hoped to oust her as Labour group leader in a secret ballot of Labour's 46 councillors on Monday evening.
Deputy council leader Ralph Cook was challenged by Ramesh Patel but no outcome was reached after presentations by both men and two rounds of voting.
The Labour group are to meet again next week for more voting on the issue.
The balloting took place at the Cardiff Labour group's annual general meeting at County Hall.
Under party rules, council Labour groups are required to either re-elect or replace their leader every year.
Ms Joyce, who represents the Llanrumney ward, has led Cardiff council since Labour took over its running from the previous Liberal Democrat-Plaid Cymru coalition administration after the local elections a year ago.
In a statement, she said: "I am extremely pleased to have been returned as leader again.
"Our first year in office after a disastrous Plaid/LibDem administration has been one of delivery.
"I am hugely looking forward to working with all members of the Labour group to deliver on our manifesto commitments for the people of Cardiff."
Sue Lent was re-elected party chief whip. She had been challenged for the post by Gretta Marshall.
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Cardiff council leader Heather Joyce has survived a leadership challenge from within her party.
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The satirical TV show said the former education secretary had pulled out of Friday's show owing to "unforeseen circumstances".
She angered Downing Street by querying why the PM had spent £995 on a pair of leather trousers.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson joked that they were actually "lederhosen".
The so-called "trousergate" row dominated several newspaper front pages, with a number of Conservative MPs having their say on the matter.
Mrs Morgan had been booked in September to appear on this week's Have I Got News For You, due to be hosted by Match of Day presenter Gary Lineker.
But Hat Trick Productions, which makes the long-running satirical show for BBC One, said she would no longer be taking part. No reason has been given.
Mrs Morgan, who was education secretary under Mrs May's predecessor, David Cameron, appears to have annoyed Downing Street in recent days.
After Mrs May was photographed for the Sunday Times in a pair of flared "bitter chocolate" leather trousers, Mrs Morgan said: "I don't think I've ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress."
The Mail on Sunday then showed a tense series of text message exchanges between Ms Morgan and the prime minister's joint chief of staff, Fiona Hill.
In a speech on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who has been the subject of jokes by the prime minister, made light of the situation.
He joked of Mrs May - who went on a walking holiday in the Swiss Alps this summer: "Our wonderful PM actually wears lederhosen."
Lederhosen are actually leather shorts, rather than long trousers, connected to the chest and shoulders via straps, and are traditionally worn in parts of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They were sported by the Von Trapp boys in the 1960s musical film The Sound of Music.
The cheapest pair of lederhosen shown on bavaria-lederhosen.com sells for just under 65 euros (£54.50).
Meanwhile, Sir Bernard Ingham, press secretary to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has warned that Downing Street must "learn how better to handle" Mr Johnson, whom he dubbed "the blond bombshell".
He said: "Mrs May - and certainly her apparatchiks - are acquiring an early reputation for slapping down wayward ministers when there are gentler ways of coping with their deviation from the straight and narrow.
"Perhaps Johnson has for too long led a relatively carefree existence as a journalist, backbencher and Mayor of London - not to mention campaigning for the Tory leadership - to hold himself in check in central government.
"If so, he had better soon accept he is now only a cog - though a big one - in a wider machine. Otherwise, things could get awkward."
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Tory MP Nicky Morgan has pulled out of a planned appearance on Have I Got News for You, after a row over her criticism of Theresa May's wardrobe.
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In 1965 Ted Heath made two speeches and stayed at the conference throughout, which represented a break with tradition. Before then, the leader descended on the conference at the end to deliver their oration. He said in his memoirs he "wanted to show that members of the shadow cabinet and I were interested in all the views expressed on different resolutions at the conferences".
On the economy: "Did you notice that [secretary of state for economic affairs] George Brown in one of his happier moods said, 'This has been a great year for Britain.' A great year for Britain? Do we really read it aright?
"Where has he been living all this time? Has it been a great year for industry? The longest period of 7% bank rate since 1921. The toughest credit squeeze since the twenties. Investment and modernisation programmes curtailed. Costs rising and production static."
On Rhodesia: "A unilateral declaration of independence would be invalid. Its impact would have the gravest consequences."
Best gag: "Poor Mr Jay [president of the Board of Trade] - reduced to carrying George Brown's bags to international conferences. When there is good news, that is; when there is bad news he has to open the bag and read it himself."
How it went down: The Times reported that the party faithful saw their leader in a "new light", writing: "Gone was the dry atonic dullness of the Brussels negotiator; gone were the strident polemics of the opposition front bench. The Mr Heath who presented himself to the faithful today was calm and unemphatic, but he had also acquired a new light and shade in delivery which held his audience even through the dull patches."
Margaret Thatcher addressed her party conference as leader for the first time in 1975, and paid tribute to her predecessor Ted Heath. She did not dwell on her own story and the only policy she outlined was scrapping hospital pay beds, but she set about her critique of Labour and her alternative vision in a way which was to make a lasting impression on her party.
On the economy: "It is the Labour government that brought the level of production below that of the three-day week in 1974. We have really got a three-day week now, only it takes five days to do it. It is the Labour government that has brought us record peace-time taxation.
"They have the usual socialist disease: they have run out of other people's money. It is the Labour government that has pushed public spending to record levels. How have they done it? By borrowing and borrowing. Never in the field of human credit has so much been owed."
On communist regimes: "Whenever I visit communist countries their politicians never hesitate to boast about their achievements. They know them all by heart; they reel off the facts and figures, claiming this is the rich harvest of the communist system. Yet they are not prosperous as we in the West are prosperous, and they are not free as we in the West are free."
Best gag: "I sometimes think the Labour Party is like a pub where the mild is running out. If someone does not do something soon all that is left will be bitter, and all that is bitter will be Left."
How it went down: Mrs Thatcher was received with "rolling breakers of cheers, shouts, and foot-stamping" in a scene which was "for all the world like an American convention", according to The Times. That paper's political editor saw that those who had helped her to the leadership are "only now beginning to fully realise her formidable strength and skills".
John Major took over from Margaret Thatcher in November 1990, so he did not address conference until the following year when he opened on a rather more personal note than his predecessor. He told conference it was a "long road from Coldharbour Lane (in Brixton) to Downing Street".
On choice: "I want to give individuals greater control over their own lives. Every mother, every father, a say over their child's education. Every schoolchild, a choice of routes to the world of work. Every patient, the confidence that their doctors can secure the best treatment for them."
On Europe: "I believe strongly in partnership in Europe. Britain, as a great European power, has gained from our membership of the (European Economic) Community. That is the verdict of those people in our country who live by business, banking and trade, the very people on whom our prosperity and jobs depend. But it must be the right Europe."
Best gag: "A great deal has been written about my education. Never has so much been written about so little."
How it went down: The Times observed his speech "may not have sparked the frenzied flag-waving abandon of the Thatcher years", but he was judged to have "won the affection of constituency activists with his quotes from personal experience" and by "emphasising his image as a man of the people". He found a "nice holding line" on Europe, and was described as "the party's biggest electoral asset".
William Hague made his first conference speech as leader in 1997 - but of course it was not the first time he had addressed the party faithful. That came 20 years earlier, when he made a memorable speech in Blackpool aged 16. Mr Hague's leader's speech ended a conference that was seen by many as a bloodletting process at a time of deep divisions in the party.
On the party: "I have no illusion about the mammoth task ahead of us. But I pledge with every breath in my body to do everything in my power to rebuild this party."
On the Amsterdam Treaty: "Amsterdam was a bad treaty. Bad for Europe and bad for Britain. And Tony Blair signed up to it lock, stock and barrel."
Best gag: "Remember how Harold Wilson had his famous labrador? Now, for the second time in our lifetime, we have a Labour prime minister with a faithful pet called Paddy."
How it went down: It was perhaps lacking the laugh-out-loud lines which he is known for. The Times called it "an unshowy and old-fashioned speech delivered with relaxed good humour, the new leader steadied nerves a little. He was received with something better than acquiescence and something less than rapture."
Iain Duncan Smith's most memorable conference moment was surely his speech in 2003 when he attempted to silence critics of his leadership style, saying: "The quiet man is turning up the volume." But his first speech as leader in 2001 came four weeks after 9/11 and had a heavy focus on terrorism and security.
On 9/11: "This war against terrorism is our war. The cold, callous and merciless attacks in America were the work of terrorists who knew no moral limits. They have struck before, they will strike again - we are right to strike at them.
"We cannot secure peace by standing aside from war. We cannot end danger by putting safety before our friends. We cannot conquer fear, by fearing to act ourselves."
On his background: "I was brought up in a family where public service wasn't just a shorthand for the public sector: it was a way of life. Life in the Forces left an indelible imprint on my childhood, so much so that I too became a soldier. I don't want to idealise Army life. But it was a life where loyalty, duty and honour counted."
He didn't go in for gags, unsurprisingly, in what was a rather sombre speech, but there was some playful understatement in his acknowledgement that life as an MP "had frankly had its ups and downs".
How it went down: The Times said Mr Duncan Smith "had been suffering from a cold and occasionally appeared to struggle with his delivery" and "some senior Tories expressed surprise" he didn't mention the 2001 general election defeat, or his predecessor William Hague. Peter Riddell's verdict was that on this occasion "obscurity and harmony have gone hand in hand".
Michael Howard's first speech as leader focused more on policy and timetables than any attempt to revamp the party's underlying philosophy. "I'll give it to you straight," he told conference.
On his message: "So when people ask you on the doorstep, 'I can't stand Tony Blair, but why should I vote for you lot?' Here are 10 words to remember. School discipline. More police. Cleaner hospitals. Lower taxes. Controlled immigration."
On Europe: "Power has gone from Britain to Brussels. And that's not what the British people voted for. Let's face facts. What has happened on tax and on Europe has damaged people's faith in politics. So it's hardly surprising that people don't trust politicians today."
On his background: "My grandmother was one of those killed in the concentration camps. If it hadn't been for Winston Churchill, and if it hadn't been for Britain, I would have been one of them too. That's why when I say I owe everything I am to this country, I really do mean it. I owe my life to it."
Best gag: "I was born and grew up in South Wales. As you may have heard, we've just been left off the new EU map. I know people in Brussels feel strongly about Neil Kinnock, but I really do think that is going too far."
How it went down: The Times found that Mr Howard "stamped his personality and authority on the Conservative Party" with a "hardline message on crime, immigration, tax and discipline". His speech was described as "softly spoken" and "there was no synchronised flag-waving - it was all very grown up."
David Cameron gave his first speech as leader in 2006 - and it was seen as relatively restrained compared with his outing the previous year when he gave a memorable speech without notes on accepting the leadership and urging the party to embrace "modern, compassionate" Conservatism.
On success: "Our party's history tells us the ground on which political success is built. It is the centre ground. Not the bog of political compromise. Not the ideological wilderness, out on the fringes of debate. But the solid ground where people are.
"The centre ground is where you find the concerns, the hopes and the dreams of most people and families in this country."
On Europe: "Instead of talking about the things that most people care about, we talked about what we cared about most. While parents worried about childcare, getting the kids to school, balancing work and family life - we were banging on about Europe."
On the future: "Let optimism beat pessimism. Let sunshine win the day. And let everyone know that the Conservative Party is ready. Ready to serve. Ready to fight. Ready to win."
Best gag: "Tony Blair says it's all style and no substance. In fact he wrote me a letter about it. Dear Kettle… You're black. Signed, Pot."
How it went down: The BBC's analysis called it "a low-key performance at the end of a low-key conference" which was "designed to send out some core signals to his party and voters".
He was seen to have "put the NHS and the family centre of his agenda, to go green even if it hurt and - once again stealing Tony Blair's discarded clothes - to be tough on the causes of crime". But "there were a couple of sentences which sent distinct shudders through some of the delegates" such as references to the NHS being one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century and support for same-sex marriage .
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As Theresa May gives her first speech to party conference as leader, what did her predecessors say and how were they received?
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Zayn Malik has carved a niche in pervy electropop; Harry Styles is prog rock's new hope; Liam Payne's plumped for aspirational R&B and lovely Niall Horan is doing lovely pop ballads.
So where does that leave Louis Tomlinson?
He was always the underappreciated one - a quiet, benign presence in the world's biggest band.
Speaking to The Observer last month, the 25-year-old acknowledged he was seen by some as "forgettable, to a certain degree".
What he contributed, though, was songwriting - receiving credits on more One Direction songs than any of his bandmates.
Appropriately for a former singer in a Green Day tribute act, he was the one who pushed the idea that a pop band could have guitar riffs.
He might not have been directly responsible for sampling The Who's Baba O'Reilly in Best Song Ever, but it certainly fitted his vision for the band.
"Little things like that were really important to me," he tells the BBC. "It was amazing that we were able to combine the two - absolute pop with guitar music."
When One Direction went on hiatus in 2015, Tomlinson admits he went a bit wild - making up for the teenage party years he lost to fame.
"It wasn't really me but I embraced it at the time," he says, looking back.
The star dipped his toes back into the pop world last December, appearing as a guest vocalist on Steve Aoki's single, Just Hold On.
But just as it was released, Tomlinson's mother died. Johannah Deakin, who had been diagnosed with leukaemia at the start of 2016, was only 43 years old.
They had been unusually close - she was the first person he told when he lost his virginity - and her death hit him particularly hard.
Nonetheless, Tomlinson went ahead with a planned X Factor performance of Just Hold On that week (partly at her request), finding solace in people's reaction.
"I don't like to talk about it much, but I will say I've never had anything like it in my life," he says.
"It felt like the support went deeper than the fans - like people across the nation had my back. That was really nice. My mum would have loved that, definitely."
Since that performance, Tomlinson has been hard at work in the studio and, on Friday, releases his first solo single Back To You.
A duet with US pop singer Bebe Rexha, it's a brooding pop concoction about returning to a relationship that "stresses me out".
The 25-year-old told the BBC how the song came about, what it felt like to leave One Direction, and how the Arctic Monkeys' lyrics influenced his debut album.
We're speaking 12 hours before your single comes out. How do you feel?
I'm nervous - but less than I was three weeks ago. I've got a lot of good feedback from people at the record label and radio stations - but all that does really is ramp up the pressure because you're hoping what they say is true.
And now you'll find out whether they were lying all along.
I will finally know. Exactly!
I was curious to find out why your first solo single starts with Bebe Rexha, singing the entire first verse.
We recorded a version where I sang first - but you've got to do what's best by the song.
With the emotion she gives it, and the way she opens up the song, it always had to be her, really.
The lyrics are pretty gritty. Do you think that might surprise people?
My whole mission with this album is to not write these Hollywood-esque songs that talk about some unfathomable crazy love story. I'm so bored of that.
Because I'm from up north, I grew up loving the likes of the Arctic Monkeys and Oasis. And the way they tell stories is such an effortless thing. It's real, it's honest and it's to the point, you know?
Now, any of the Arctic Monkeys would be devastated to hear me talking like this, but there is a way of incorporating that conversational honesty into pop.
So what have you been writing about on the album?
There's one song I'm really attached to called Just Like You, which is all about this view of celebrities that we're impenetrable and almost not human, but fundamentally we all have the same problems.
Heartbreak feels the same, loss feels the same, all these feelings are the same for all of us. Mine just look a load different to, maybe, Tom who works in the chippy from nine to five.
I noticed that all the artwork was shot in Doncaster.
Well, we did the video for Back To You in Doncaster, which was amazing. I mean, I'm just the biggest advocate of Doncaster in the world, I'd say.
OK then, sell Doncaster to me in two lines…
If you're not from there it's difficult to explain - but if you wanted to completely embrace a fully fun working class night out, then you go to Doncaster.
What did Bebe Rexha make of the city?
She was great. She thought it was cool. I did hear her team ask for sushi at lunch, which struck me as naive in Doncaster.
Did you not take her for a curry chip?
I didn't but I really should have! There's a great chippy round the corner from where we filmed, as well.
Your last performance with One Direction was on the X Factor in 2015. Did you wake up the next morning thinking: "I'm free!"?
Oh no - it was a very emotional time. It was a really weird feeling, because [the break] is by no means definitive, so it leaves you in a place where you're like, "OK, what comes next?"
What did you get offered? Film work, modelling contracts, presenting?
I'm not very good at fashion but there were a few TV opportunities. But unless you are someone like Harry - who is immensely talented in so many different areas - I think it's really important to stay in your lane and do what you do well.
Having said that, the idea of acting sounds quite exciting to me. The idea of playing the ultimate rough chavvy - it's like me being everyone I always wanted to be in Doncaster!
But I'd rather get the music 100% right, rather than 90% right while trying to dip my toe in something else.
What are your plans for the album?
Ideally it's coming at the end of this year, but I don't want to put myself under too many time constraints and end up in a position where I have to put two fillers on it.
How many songs have you written altogether?
I'd say about 50. It's a lot of work.
Have you got them all on a phone somewhere?
Yeah! There's a couple of songs that me and my girlfriend [fashion blogger Eleanor Calder] really like that'll never be used for anything, so they're kind of just for us. That's really nice.
Are they ones you've written for her?
A lot of the album's about her, really. I wanted to make the album feel chronological, because that's how I wrote it.
You can hear my journey as an individual over these three years - leaving the band, then going out on to the really crazy party scene, and then I've kind of ended up full circle back with Eleanor, who I love dearly.
Not many people put that much thought into an album these days. It's usually just a collection of potential singles.
Then a lot of people are missing a point.
Like I said to my best mate, Olly, I want there to be songs on the album that I could play to your mum, and she could listen to it and take something away from it. Maybe she doesn't love the song, but lyrically she'll understand something about me.
This is something that - for me, anyway - it doesn't feel like we have enough of. A lot of artists use words because they sound nice, or because it works for the science of the song.
Again, that's why bands like Arctic Monkeys are so great. They don't work on any script or any maths or science. They just say what they feel. If it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't matter. If it sounds awkward, it doesn't matter.
I think, especially with being lucky enough to have a big fanbase, I want to say to them, "Look, lyrics actually matter, and I want to show you why".
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The image of the Greek goddess Niobe, weeping for her dead offspring, was painted on a door from the ruins of Rabie Darduna's house in Gaza City.
It can be seen in a video released by the secretive artist after his surprise visit to the Palestinian territory a month ago and is on his website.
A local buyer gave Mr Darduna just 700 shekels ($175; £118) for the picture.
However, original Banksy artworks have recently sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Darduna family property was one of some 18,000 in Gaza that were destroyed during last year's 50-day war with Israel, displacing 110,000 people, according to the United Nations.
"It was a two-storey building but only the door was left standing," says Mr Darduna. "Then a young, foreign man came and painted on it."
The father-of-six says that after the picture began to get media attention he was approached by a group of men.
They convinced him they were acting on behalf of the artist and wanted to buy the door, as it was part of a series of works.
"They said they wanted to put it in a museum in Gaza where everyone could see it," Mr Darduna explains.
"One man told me: 'We're from the group that did it.' They made me sign a paper. It said I agreed on 700 shekels. They pressured me and I accepted because I need the money."
Since losing their house, 20 members of the Darduna family have moved into a cramped, rented apartment, sharing just two bedrooms.
When the BBC contacted the buyer of the Niobe picture he insisted the purchase was legal and refused to comment further.
On Wednesday rumours began to circulate that it had been returned to the family, following media coverage. But the buyer later posted on his Facebook page that the door was still in his possession.
"Really we feel depressed and very upset," Mr Darduna. "This door is rightfully ours. They cheated us. It's a matter of fraud. And we're asking for the door to be returned."
As well as the painting of the goddess, Banksy left murals of a pink-ribboned cat playing with a ball of mangled metal and children swinging from an Israeli watchtower.
On a wall he wrote: "If we wash our hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless we side with the powerful - we don't remain neutral."
In a two-minute satirical video, suggesting Gaza as a tourist destination, the artist - whose true identity is not known - sought to highlight the plight of its residents.
Many who have been displaced have begun to lose hope.
They have returned to their damaged homes, patching them up or camping outdoors, while they wait for promised financial support and construction materials so they can rebuild.
More than $5bn (£3.4bn) was pledged in international aid. However the authorities in Gaza say little has arrived.
Banksy has previously visited the occupied West Bank at least twice.
His street artworks in Bethlehem - including some on Israel's separation barrier - are now a tourist attraction.
A Banksy shop sells magnets, T-shirts and other customized souvenirs.
However here too, his murals have stirred up tensions. Those showing a donkey and a rat were initially thought to be insulting and were painted over.
Others were cut down and sold for much less than their true market value. Art dealers shipped at least two overseas.
"At first nobody knew who Banksy was, not even me and I was involved in his exhibition," says artist, Ayed Arafah from Bethlehem's Dheisha refugee camp.
"Artists could see his work had a special character but other people just thought he was like any other international [figure] who came to make graffiti on the wall and support the Palestinian cause."
"But then it became clear how many foreigners came to see the work and slowly people realised what it was worth."
"Now I think that even if [Banksy] drew something very small - even a dot - people might cut down their walls and try to sell it."
Goals from Anthony Wordsworth, Tyrone Barnett and David Mooney gave the play-off hopefuls a 3-1 win at Roots Hall.
"They're top of the league for a reason and that's because their basics are very, very good, and that's what we've got to learn," said Brown.
"I thought we outdid the best basic team in the division with the basics and consequently we've won the game."
He continued to BBC Essex: "I think we'll have a video session in the week to show them what I mean by the basics: the regaining of possession, being in the right place at the right time - it's not a fluke, it's good judgement from good players."
The victory moved Southend up to seventh, two points behind the play-off places.
But they had gone in at half-time level after controversy surrounding Stuart Beavon's 44th-minute equaliser for Burton, who have now lost three of their past six matches.
"At 1-1 at half-time, you're bemoaning your luck because of the way they got the equalising goal," said Brown
"A lot of people say the ball was out of play, but two three of our players stopped at that moment and consequently Beavon stuck the ball in the back of the net.
"Now the half-time team talk changes but I thought we were good for going in 1-0 up.
"It was a tight game, a little bit of quality in front of goal eventually won it, but you're never off the hook with this Burton team and you've got to beat them, and we did."
The new name for the 74,500-seat capacity stadium, the home of Welsh rugby, will be used from January 2016.
It was built at a cost of £121m to replace the National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park, for the 1999 World Cup.
The structure, owned by the Welsh Rugby Union, is famous for having the only fully-retractable roof on a UK stadium.
Its construction was funded to the tune of £46m by the Millennium Commission, which resulted in its original name.
As well as hosting the FA Cup finals from 2001-06, the stadium has staged rugby and football internationals, major concerts by artists like U2 and the Rolling Stones and has been selected to host the 2017 Uefa Champions League final.
The first match to be played under the new name at the stadium will be Wales' Six Nations game with Scotland on Saturday, 13 February.
WRU chairman Gareth Davies said: "Both parties are comfortable with the arrangement. I think a 10-year deal is significant in terms of naming rights for a stadium."
In its last financial accounts in 2014, the WRU's debt stood at £15m. That figure was once £75m as a result of the stadium's construction costs.
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For Lombroso, a sloping forehead, large ears, very long arms and any one of a host of other physical characteristics pointed toward their owner's in-born propensity for a life lived on the wrong side of the law.
If only it were that easy to spot the bad guys. Now, it takes a great deal more effort to spot both the crime and the criminal.
But big data is helping in a big way.
Publicly shared information combined with data from local authorities, social services and intelligence gathered by beat officers is helping police forces around the world spot trouble before it starts.
It's not quite the "pre-crime" scenario featured in the 2002 science fiction film Minority Report, but it's getting close.
Former policeman Shaun Hipgrave, now a security consultant at IBM, said: "It's about using big data and analytics in a smarter way. You are just giving them access to information that they never used to have before."
It helps the police be much less reactive, he said, and slowly starts to reveal the real trouble spots and troublemakers in a neighbourhood, estate or street.
When information like that becomes clear, the police can do something about it long before anyone dials 999. And that counts for people as much as it does for pubs or clubs.
The data analytics software links up with government initiatives on so-called "troubled families" that can be the nexus of a lot of problems in some towns and cities.
Spotting people who are orbiting those groups can help head off any future problems.
"When you use big data you can see the relationships between one family and another troubled family and you see the absences from school," he said. "It creates a fuller, holistic picture."
"This is ultimately about crime prevention," said Mr Hipgrave, "and part of that is knowing more about a community and seeing ways to change the architecture of it."
Big data analytics is also increasingly important in the fight against cross-border crime.
When police were investigating the shooting of Jill Dando in 1999, much time and effort went in to tracing the history of the bullet that killed her, said Babak Akhgar, professor of informatics at Sheffield Hallam University.
At that time, detectives had to call police forces in other countries individually to find information about the bullet and the type of gun that might have fired it.
It was a huge task and one that would only have got more difficult as gun crime evolved, said Prof Akhgar.
"This type of crime now has a very specific multinational element to it," he said. "Our research found that criminals are using guns and bullets as a form of currency."
As a result, he said, weapons and their ammunition regularly cross borders and pass through the hands of many dedicated and serious criminals.
Analytics and a database called Odyssey mean information about when which weapon was used, and what was fired, is now much easier to come by.
Big data was essential to that project because of the wide variety of data types police forces in different European nations use to classify weapons, ammunition, the type of crime, as well as the criminals themselves.
The inherently multinational nature of another serious crime, the sexual abuse of children, is also being tackled with the help of analytical tools that have to deal with a vast dataset made up of still images, video, HTML and text.
The problem here, said Johann Hoffman of image forensics firm NetClean, is the sheer amount of data involved.
Typically, police forces are confronted with gigabytes and sometimes terabytes of data when they arrest a paedophile or raid someone who runs a service that trades in images of child sex abuse.
"The amount of data is constantly growing," said Mr Hoffman. "The problem is, how as a police officer do you go through that huge amount of data? When you are dealing with terabytes there's no way a human could ever go through it all."
The situation is complicated by the fact that images and videos of abuse are widely traded. Without big data analytics police officers could spend a lot of time literally retracing the steps of other forces that have already worked out who was behind one set of images or who they depict.
A cross-European project is helping police forces spot the novel material more quickly, said Mr Hoffman, adding that the analysis has led to a series of successes against abusers.
"The numbers are not lying," he said. "They are rescuing more people and solving more cases."
Data analytics is also being used to spot anomalous patterns of behaviour to combat financial fraud.
Durham police shut down a "cash for crash" scam which involved an organised crime group defrauding insurance companies by claiming several times for the same accident. Many of the accidents were thought to be staged just to generate a claim.
There were so many accidents that insurance premiums in and around the area were forced far above the national average.
The analytics was put to work on about 1,800 incidents and quickly identified the core group of dodgy claims. The operation resulted in the arrest of 70 people who received sentences of up to four years in jail.
In another example, Nationwide Building Society managed to reduce fraud losses by 75% using SAS software, says David Parsons, head of fraud analytics.
"We now have huge amounts of data and can look at any number of parameters to help us spot anomalous behaviour," he says. "And the speed with which we can do this is phenomenal."
But Hitesh Patel, forensic investigations partner at KPMG, warns: "With the volume of data doubling every two years, financial fraud is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
"We're just running to stand still at the moment."
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The 20-year-old left-back will join the Gunners on a deal worth £40,000.
Liam McDonald signed Bramall for the Northern Premier League side and believes he could follow the path of Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, who also started out in non-league.
"He's a natural athlete and he's got a great opportunity to develop that now," McDonald told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He'll take it in his stride. I'm very positive he'll have a similar impact to Jamie Vardy."
Bramall follows the road taken by Everton and Wales defender Ashley Williams, who started his career at the Staffordshire club.
Crystal Palace and Sheffield Wednesday had both reportedly watched Bramall, but only Arsenal agreed terms.
He travelled to Arsenal's London Colney training ground on Thursday with his agent Dan Chapman, following an initial period on trial.
Bramall, from the South Cheshire area, worked full-time in the Bentley car factory in Crewe until being made redundant, before working in a clothes shop.
He spent a short spell at nearby Nantwich Town before joining the Pitmen.
"It's fantastic to see players go through like this," Nantwich director of football Jon Gold told BBC Radio Stoke.
"He was obviously a great talent when he first came to us but the manager at the time was going with older players. That happens. Jamie Vardy was turned down by many clubs, don't forget, including even Crewe.
"Cohen's a lovely lad. I'm not sure he was taking his football that seriously and he went around the area a bit before moving on to Hednesford, but sometimes it can take time.
"He played against us earlier in the season and he was man of the match. We're proud to have played even a little part in his development."
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The defendants, who appeared to be from the region's Muslim Uighur community, were presented at a venue holding about 7,000 spectators.
Three of the defendants were sentenced to death.
Chinese officials have blamed militant Uighur groups for a growing number of violent attacks across the country.
Photos from the open-air mass sentencing showed police trucks parked near a running track.
Prisoners wearing orange vests stood in the back of the vehicles, surrounded by armed guards, their heads bowed.
The sentencing happened in Yili, near China's border with Kazakhstan.
Local officials and residents watched the proceedings.
Those sentenced to death had used weapons to murder a family last year "using extremely cruel methods", according to reports.
Celia Hatton, BBC News, Beijing
This kind of mass sentencing is reminiscent of China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, when large groups of people would gather to denounce those who crossed the Communist Party leadership. In the 1980s and 1990s, public trials were also used during the government's widespread attempts to crack down on crime.
Startled by an increasing number of bloody attacks on civilians linked to militants within Xinjiang's ethnic Uighur community, the Chinese government is returning to this type of political theatre.
Beijing is attempting to calm the wider Chinese public, by showing a blatant display of force, while also issuing a warning to Uighurs hoping to challenge the dominance of the minority Han Chinese moving into Xinjiang.
No further details about the defendants' cases were immediately available.
The public rally seems to have been a show of force by the Chinese government, which has just launched a national anti-terrorism operation focusing on Xinjiang.
Officials last week announced a one-year campaign against militant violence in Xinjiang, banning people from conducting or supporting extremist activity.
Why is there tension between China and the Uighurs?
The announcement came after 39 people were killed last week when five suicide bombers attacked a street market in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.
Beijing has blamed this - and other recent mass-casualty attacks - on Uighur separatists.
These include an attack in Beijing, where a car ploughed into pedestrians in Tiananmen Square, killing five people, and attacks at railway stations in Urumqi and Kunming.
China says it is pouring money into the Xinjiang region, but some Uighurs say their traditions and freedoms are being crushed.
Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while visiting North Korea in January.
He later appeared on state TV apparently confessing and saying a church group had asked him to bring back a "trophy" from his trip.
North Korea sometimes uses the detention of foreigners as a means of exerting pressure on its adversaries.
The BBC's Stephen Evans in South Korea says the 15-year sentence is high compared to those given to foreigners in the past.
This could be due to the particularly high tensions at the moment between North Korea and the US, he says.
North Korean state news agency KCNA said Warmbier was convicted under an article of the criminal code relating to subversion. The verdict was handed down by the Supreme Court.
Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia, was arrested on 2 January as he was trying to leave North Korea. He was accused of committing "hostile acts".
KCNA said at the time he had gone to North Korea "to destroy the country's unity" and that he had been "manipulated" by the US government.
At the end of February, at a tearful press conference in Pyongyang, he said he had "committed the crime of taking down a political slogan from the staff holding area of the Yanggakdo International Hotel".
"The aim of my task was to harm the motivation and work ethic of the Korean people. This was a very foolish aim," he was quoted as saying.
He said it was the "worst mistake" of his life.
North Korea detainees often recant their confessions once out of the country.
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The sentencing comes a day after veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson met North Korean officials at the UN in New York to try to push for Warmbier's release.
Mr Richardson has previously been involved in negotiations to secure the release of Americans from North Korea detention.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the sentence: "North Korea's sentencing of Otto Warmbier to 15 years hard labour for a college-style prank is outrageous and shocking" said Phil Robertson, deputy director of HRW's Asia division, in a statement.
North Korean state media took a less lenient view: "The accused confessed to the serious offense he had committed against the DPRK, pursuant to the US government's hostile policy toward it, in a bid to impair the unity of its people, after entering as a tourist," reported the KCNA news agency.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is North Korea's formal name.
North Korea has ramped up its hostile rhetoric in recent weeks, after the UN imposed some of its toughest ever sanctions.
The sanctions were a response to the North conducting its fourth nuclear test and launching a satellite into space, which was seen as a covert test of banned missile technology.
Pyongyang has also been angered by the US and South Korea carrying out their annual military drills, which this year involve some 315,000 personnel.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has threatened "indiscriminate" nuclear attacks against the US and the South, and has said his country will soon test a nuclear warhead.
However analysts still doubt whether the North has the capacity to carry out a nuclear attack.
The brief will be folded into an expanded Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under Greg Clark.
Ed Miliband, the former energy and climate secretary under Labour, called the move "plain stupid".
It comes at a time when campaigners are urging the government to ratify the Paris climate change deal.
In his statement, Mr Clark appeared keen to calm concerns about the priority given to tackling global warming.
He said: "I am thrilled to have been appointed to lead this new department charged with delivering a comprehensive industrial strategy, leading Government's relationship with business, furthering our world-class science base, delivering affordable, clean energy and tackling climate change."
Meanwhile, Andrea Leadsom, who ran against Theresa May for the Conservative leadership, is the new Environment Secretary.
Ms Leadsom succeeds Liz Truss, who is taking over as Secretary of State for Justice after a two-year tenure at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
One of the most pressing items on the environment agenda is the ratification of the Paris climate deal, which was inked last year.
The climate "sceptic" group Global Warming Policy Forum has long demanded the demise of Decc, so alarm bells are ringing loudly for some green groups.
But in truth, the decision to subsume Decc into an expanded business department could be read as either a positive move for climate policy, or a negative one.
The Green Party and Friends of the Earth, for instance, see the move as potentially a major downgrade for climate as a government priority.
Decc has made the UK a world leader in climate policy, and scrapping the department removes the words "climate change" from the title of any department. Out of sight, out of mind, in the basement, perhaps.
But here's an opposite scenario: the UK is already bound by its Climate Change Act to step-by-step cuts in greenhouse gases through to 2050.
The new Defra Secretary Andrea Leadsom has re-iterated that there will be no deviation from long-term carbon targets.
Greg Clark, the man in charge of the expanded department, was a Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate and has written papers on achieving a Low Carbon Economy.
If you really intend climate change to drive an industrial transformation, why not embrace it within a powerful department that's developing the sort of industrial strategy needed to forge a genuine Low Carbon economy?
Mr Clark's opening remarks suggest this may be the case. But the department faces formidable problems getting the UK on track with its long-term carbon-cutting ambitions.
Decisions on Hinkley Point nuclear station and the government's Low Carbon strategy due later this year will offer genuine pointers to the significance of the death of Decc.
Labour's former leader and one-time climate secretary Ed Miliband has been among those urging the government the agreement as soon as possible.
Although the UK has signed up, it needs to formally join the agreement with a communication to the UN.
Mr Miliband had been concerned that "climate sceptics" might try to derail the deal if they gain positions of power in the new administration.
On the changes at DECC, he tweeted: "Abolition just plain stupid. Climate not even mentioned in new dept. title. Matters because depts shape priorities shape outcomes."
Friends of the Earth chief executive Craig Bennett described the news as "shocking".
"Less than a day into the job and it appears that the new Prime Minister has already downgraded action to tackle climate change, one of the biggest threats we face," he said.
"If Theresa May supports strong action on climate change, as she's previously said, it's essential that this is made a top priority for the new business and energy department and across government."
However, David Nussbaum, chief executive of WWF-UK, commented: "The new Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy can be a real powerhouse for change, joining up Whitehall teams to progress the resilient, sustainable, and low carbon infrastructure that we urgently need."
Dr Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), said: "Moving energy policy to the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy should give ministers a fresh impetus to ensure that the costs for consumers and businesses are driven down, not pushed further up."
One pressing item in Mr Clark's in-tray is the possible effect leaving the EU could have on the £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear power station project.
French energy giant EDF is a key investor in the project and there are concerns that the uncertainty over Brexit could undermine its commitment.
Speaking earlier, Angus Brendan MacNeil, chair of the Commons energy and climate select committee, has pointed out that pre-referendum, "EDF was investing in another EU member state". Now, he added, "that is no longer the case". However, EDF officials have said they remain committed to the project.
There will also be big changes to the way farming operates - something for Ms Leadsom's in-tray at Defra. The impact on food prices and the effects of losing direct subsidies are among the questions the department will need to address.
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Wright, 20, had been with former club Chelsea since the age of 10, and signed a professional deal in 2013.
Injuries hampered his first-team progress at Stamford Bridge, although the full-back did play youth team, reserve and under-21 games.
"It's very exciting for me, it's been a long journey since I left Chelsea," Wright told BBC Radio Cumbria.
"I'm excited and in love with the fans and the club already."
The Waltham Forest-born player has been on trial at Carlisle for some time, and is joined at Brunton Park by the returning Alexander McQueen, who has also agreed a short-term contract.
Wright admits his Chelsea departure was tough to take, having been so close to the club since childhood.
"It was quite upsetting because it was a big part of my life for so long,"
"That said, I was also ready to take the next step and start pushing for first-team football because that's my end goal."
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Jim Stevenson opened the scoring for the visitors when he headed home Rhys Browne's cross just moments into the second half.
And Browne made certain of all three points late on with a powerful drive from outside the box.
Halifax came close to grabbing a consolation, but Shaquille McDonald's effort was saved by keeper Dan Thomas.
The Shaymen are only two points clear of the relegation zone, while Aldershot climbed one place to 14th.
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Aldershot manager Barry Smith told BBC Surrey: "We knew Halifax were on a good run of form and we knew they would come out all guns blazing.
"I felt if we weathered the storm we would always get chances. We've played better but it's not a great pitch and we scored two good goals."
A majority of grammars will be left worse off by proposed funding changes, according to analysis by the Grammar School Heads' Association.
A number of Conservative MPs are urging the government to change its plans.
But the Department for Education said it was ending a postcode lottery in school funding.
The new system is designed to support deprived areas by reallocating existing funding.
But the Grammar School Heads' Association has said that while 60 grammar schools will gain, 103 are set to lose money, 62 of which will receive cuts as deep as any in England.
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The head of Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Tim Gartside, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he and his governors were considering asking for voluntary contributions of £30 or £40 a month from parents if the cuts took place.
Mr Gartside, who also speaks for the Grammar School Heads' Association, said "many other" grammars were considering a similar move.
"What we're looking at here is funding which is fundamentally going to change the nature of grammar schools," he said.
Some grammars already use parental contributions to help cover spending.
Southend High School has folded parental contributions into its main accounts for two years and is increasingly using it to contribute to spending on salaries and library books.
Latymer School in north London has asked parents for contributions to help cover a funding shortfall, and expects more schools to do likewise.
Schools are not allowed to charge for education in school hours, but no law prevents them from asking for voluntary contributions for the benefit of the school or any school activities.
The existing funding system for grammar schools was criticised for being arbitrary and tending to give more money to city schools than those in suburbs and shire counties.
The co-chair of the F40 campaign for fairer funding, Conservative MP Alex Chalk, said there was concern about the risk of replacing one geographical injustice with another.
The campaign spent years pushing for funding reform.
He welcomed the fact the funding rules were being rewritten, but said: "The bottom line is that it's created some distorted outcomes which we think require some significant remodelling."
Ministers face pressure from other Conservative MPs concerned about proposed cuts affecting schools of all kinds in their constituencies.
Some of them privately expect the government to change its plans.
A number of Tories are backing heads' demands for a minimum per pupil funding guarantee that teachers and MPs proposed to the schools minister Nick Gibb in a meeting at the start of the year.
One head who attended the meeting - Sarah Burns of the Sandbach Boys School free school, Cheshire - said she would have to consider running her school on a four-day week, scrapping the sixth form or cutting arts subjects from the syllabus.
She said: "They are absolutely realistic possibilities given the level of cuts and the fact that we've already cut to the bone.
"Given those levels of cuts we will have to take some really hard decisions like those."
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "We are going to end the historic postcode lottery in school funding.
"Under the proposed national schools funding formula, more than half of England's schools will receive a cash boost in 2018-19."
A consultation on the proposed new funding formula is to run until March.
Police said no other vehicles were involved in the accident, which happened near Anstruther on the Ovenstone to Carnbee road.
The 53-year-old man was declared dead at the scene following the incident between 20:25 and 20:40 on Wednesday.
Police have appealed for drivers who were on the road at the time and may have information about the crash to come forward.
The man was inside the CASE tractor when it overturned, resulting in him suffering serious injuries, said police.
Sgt Alastair Purvis added: "Sadly this incident has resulted in the death of the tractor driver and while we are satisfied no other vehicles were involved, we are keen to hear from anyone who witnessed what happened.
"Motorists or other members of the public who were on the Ovenstone to Carnbee road on Wednesday evening and who have information that can assist with our ongoing investigation should contact police immediately."
This is the full statement to the inquests from his mother, Sandra Stringer:
Paul William Carlile was born on 8 August 1969. Paul came into this world weighing just 4lbs. He fought hard to survive but grew to become a handsome, loving, respectful young man.
He was the first boy born to Sandra after his sisters Donna and Michelle. Paul's younger brother, Darren, was born 10 years later.
Paul was brought up to be a law-abiding citizen. He was not a hooligan and he was not a drunkard.
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Paul had a close relationship with his cousins and enjoyed family holidays to Butlins. It wouldn't be just our house, though, it would be nan, granddad, aunts, uncles and all our cousins.
We would book the whole row of chalets and Paul loved the fact that all his family were together. These were good days, happy days.
Paul's nan wanted him to become a priest, so, to please her, he became an altar boy for a few years, together with his cousin Gary, at St Peter and Paul's church.
His nan was Liverpool mad and Paul developed the same passion. He couldn't believe his luck when his dad, Jimmy, took him to Rome to see the team play.
His mum and nan were the most important people in his life. When his grandfather died in 1985, he could not bear to think of his nan on her own.
He was torn between the two women he adored. He wanted to be with them both so he shared his time between the two houses. This was just fine for Paul because he would be spoilt rotten in both homes.
After finishing his time at St Kevin's High School, Paul began a plastering apprenticeship. He loved his work and was proud of his achievements.
Paul loved treating his mum. Every Friday, he would come home with her favourite sweets and pay for her to go to the hairdressers.
He used to tell her: "One day, everyone will know my name. I will be famous, and I'll buy you a big white house".
His mum was meticulous about cleaning, but Paul would pay no heed.
After work each day, he would come home, straight into the kitchen, wrap his arms around mum, kissing her head and swung her around like a rag doll. There would be plaster and dust flying off him and we would be laughing so hard we could hardly breathe.
That was typical of Paul. He would brighten up a room just by walking in.
Paul was always a joker. He had such a crazy laugh. He would pretend to be a horse and his nieces, Tori and Katie, would take turns getting rides.
Tori had an imaginary dog and Paul would often pretend to be taking the dog out for a walk. Tori would be fuming, shouting at him to leave her dog alone and Paul thought this was hysterical. He was a terrible torment. The kids adored him.
Paul was very protective of his sisters Donna and Michelle. He would even walk into the classrooms and say he was checking his sisters were OK.
When his mum became pregnant with Darren, he used to put his head on her tummy and he always said, "It's a boy and we are calling him Darren".
Paul enjoyed fishing, he enjoyed darts and snooker, but his passion was football. He loved Liverpool.
On Friday, 14 April, Paul finished his apprenticeship. It was a proud day for him. He was to start his new job on Monday, a day that never came.
On 15 April, our world fell apart. He came home on his sister Michelle's 21st birthday. She no longer celebrates that day.
The night before his funeral, all his friends slept on the living room floor to be near him one more night.
We had a double funeral with his friend, Carl Lewis. People say the streets were lined and they couldn't get into the church.
The street he lived in with nan was renamed Carlile Way at the request of the neighbours. He was a loved and respected part of his community and they wanted to make sure he was never forgotten.
The loss of Paul has devastated his family. His mum, dad, sisters and brother.
Before he was taken from us, he had a chance to meet his nieces Tori and Katie, and his nephew Ritchie was seven-months-old. Paul now has a nephew, Adam Paul, and nieces Emma, Olivia, Lydia and Faye and our new baby, Mason Paul.
We talk about him every day. We miss his laugh, his handsome face and his enthusiasm for life. Paul was the blue eye in our family, our number one. He still is.
He had a simple life: he loved his family, his friends and his football.
We don't know what Paul's dreams were. I guess he thought he had a lifetime to fulfil them. He was 19.
His life was only just beginning. He didn't get the chance to fall in love or hold his own child in his arms.
People say time heals. It doesn't. You simply learn to live with your grief. We haven't been allowed to heal. We just want some answers that may give us some peace.
He did nothing wrong that day. He went to watch the team he loved and came home to me in a coffin.
Our pain will go when we are with Paul again and hold him in our arms.
Massimiliano Allegri's side, going for a sixth consecutive title, went ahead when Lukasz Skorupski bundled into his own net after Mario Mandzukic's header struck the bar shortly after half-time.
Juve had spurned several first-half chances, but Alex Sandro's tight finish into the corner settled the points.
Roma can narrow Juve's lead on Sunday.
Second-placed Roma play at fifth-placed Inter Milan in a 19:45 GMT kick-off.
Leonardo Bonucci was restored to the Juve line-up after being left out of Wednesday's Champions League victory at Porto because of a touchline spat with Allegri in the previous Friday's league game.
Bonucci watched the last-16 first leg in Portugal from an executive box, but the Italy centre-back started in Turin in one of six changes, perhaps made with Tuesday's Coppa Italia semi-final first leg with Napoli in mind.
Juve, who are on track to win a third consecutive league and cup double, last dropped points at home in the league in a 1-1 draw with Frosinone in September 2015.
They were last beaten at home in the league on the opening day of the 2015-16 season, by Udinese, and this 30th straight home win adds to the Serie A record they already hold.
Earlier on Saturday, Atalanta beat Napoli 2-0 to move up to fourth, despite having midfielder Frank Kessie sent off for picking up two yellow cards in three minutes with over half an hour still to play.
Atalanta's Bergamo-born 22-year-old defender Mattia Caldara scored both goals, the first bundled in at the far post from a corner, the second on the counter attack after Kessie's red card.
The defeat leaves Napoli in third, 12 points behind Juve, and now three points above Atalanta, who finished 13th last season.
Match ends, Juventus 2, Empoli 0.
Second Half ends, Juventus 2, Empoli 0.
Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Frederic Veseli (Empoli).
Attempt saved. Dani Alves (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paulo Dybala.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Omar El Kaddouri (Empoli) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Dani Alves.
Attempt missed. Marcel Büchel (Empoli) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rade Krunic.
Foul by Tomás Rincón (Juventus).
Rade Krunic (Empoli) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Juventus. Marko Pjaca replaces Juan Cuadrado.
Foul by Paulo Dybala (Juventus).
Assane Diousse (Empoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Sandro with a cross.
Giuseppe Bellusci (Empoli) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Giuseppe Bellusci (Empoli).
Attempt missed. Dani Alves (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paulo Dybala with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Andrea Costa.
Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Assane Diousse (Empoli).
Substitution, Juventus. Tomás Rincón replaces Claudio Marchisio.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Dani Alves with a cross.
Substitution, Empoli. Marcel Büchel replaces José Mauri.
Hand ball by Mame Thiam (Empoli).
Offside, Juventus. Miralem Pjanic tries a through ball, but Gonzalo Higuaín is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Juventus. Paulo Dybala replaces Stefano Sturaro.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dani Alves (Juventus) because of an injury.
Substitution, Empoli. Mame Thiam replaces Guido Marilungo.
Substitution, Empoli. Frederic Veseli replaces Vincent Laurini.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Alex Sandro.
Foul by Mario Mandzukic (Juventus).
Rade Krunic (Empoli) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Juventus 2, Empoli 0. Alex Sandro (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dani Alves with a cross.
Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus).
Guido Marilungo (Empoli) wins a free kick on the right wing.
The England player, 34, joined Sunderland in January 2015, scoring 15 goals for the Black Cats who have been relegated to the Championship.
A teenage Defoe spent the 2000-01 season on loan at Bournemouth from West Ham, scoring in 10 successive matches.
The transfer is understood to be "moving quickly" although no formal announcement is expected on Tuesday.
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The 41-man squad arrived in Auckland on Wednesday, and were greeted at the airport by a traditional Maori welcoming ceremony.
Gatland's side begin their 10-match in New Zealand tour on Saturday against a Provincial Union XV in Whangerei.
"You can't dwell on it," Gatland said. "We know what a daunting challenge we face. Everyone is really up for it."
New Zealand coach Steve Hansen has been the latest to comment on the Lions' brutal itinerary, which includes five matches against Super Rugby sides and three Tests against the world champions.
Former All Blacks boss Graham Henry has described the schedule as "suicidal".
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"I've mentioned how difficult the schedule was for 12 months," Gatland said. "So it's a bit ironic people are talking about it now.
"You can't change it, so if you let those sorts of things worry you it is going to influence the team.
"But those tough games will give us nice preparation in terms of getting us ready for the Test series."
The Lions will spend Wednesday and Thursday recovering from their journey, then hold a final training session on Friday before the tour opener.
Hooker Ken Owens will not feature this weekend as he continues to recover from an ankle injury, but says he will be in contention for the matches next week against the Blues and Crusaders.
The Welshman led the Lions in a rendition of Calon Lan on arrival at Auckland airport.
"We have four choirmasters - one from each nation - and we decided it was the Welsh turn to sing today," Owens said.
"The boys weren't too bad - a work in progress, but a good effort so far.
"It's always a great welcome when we come to New Zealand. It's great to experience some of their culture and give some of ours back."
The Hearts head coach felt the dismissal cost his side the chance to win the game, which ended 0-0.
"I didn't speak to [Rossi] at half-time, it's about focusing on the 10 who are still out there," Neilson, whose team hit the woodwork three times, told BBC Scotland.
"That will be dealt with midweek."
Hamilton were also reduced to 10 men late on, after Jesus Garcia Tena's heavy challenge on Arnaud Djoum.
"The players gave everything, that's all you can ask," continued Neilson. "One silly mistake cost us getting three points but the players stuck together.
"Eleven v 11 we played really well. Even at 10 men we kept our shape well and still had good opportunities. Towards the end we probably should have won it, the chances we had.
"Hamilton at home are a hard team to play against. The players have to adapt quickly and I was pleased with how they did in the first 30 minutes, until we got a man sent off.
"So it's a decent point. We're disappointed not to get three, but we have to take the positives from it."
Hearts are still hopeful of overtaking Aberdeen to finish second in the Premiership. For Hamilton, the focus is on staying in the top-flight and manager Martin Canning was pleased with the way his players responded to losing 8-1 at Celtic Park in midweek.
Hearts had the clearer opportunities in the game, with Rossi, Blazej Augustyn and Dario Zanatta all hitting the woodwork, but the home side did create two chances in the second half that were almost converted.
"It's a point gained, albeit we're playing against 10 men for 45 minutes," Canning said.
"It would have been nice to win the game, but when you play against an experienced team that keeps its shape, it's never easy to break 10 men down.
"I thought we controlled the ball a lot and created a couple of opportunities.
"I haven't seen [the red card challenges] back yet. Initially, the first one looked a red, the second one, you never know, it was quick, coming from behind.
"One thing I've never questioned, is the boys' attitude and work-rate. We'll have ups and downs, but the best way to respond is fighting harder the next week. That's what they did."
He told Australia's Sunday Telegraph newspaper: "I have had a few scrapes in my life and this is another one."
Greig, 66, will have surgery this week to take a sample from his lung to determine the extent of the cancer.
The South Africa-born former Sussex all-rounder played 58 Tests between 1972 and 1977, including 14 as captain, before becoming a commentator.
Greig, who became aware he had a problem while commentating on Australia's limited-overs series against Pakistan in August and September, added: "[My wife] Vivian and I are going to put the boxing gloves on and fight this like we've never fought anything before."
At 6ft 6ins, Greig was one of the tallest players to have represented England when he made his Test debut against Australia at Old Trafford in 1972, seven years after his first Sussex appearance.
A right-handed middle-order batsman and medium-fast seamer who occasionally bowled off-spin, his all-round skills brought him 3,599 Test runs, including eight centuries, and 141 wickets. He was elevated to the captaincy in place of Mike Denness in the summer of 1975.
His controversial statement before the 1976 series against West Indies - that he intended to make the tourists "grovel" - passed into cricketing legend, but his biggest success as captain came when he led England to a 3-1 series win in India.
Greig lost the England captaincy in 1977 after it was revealed he had helped recruit players for Australian tycoon Kerry Packer's "rebel" World Series Cricket.
It was the start of a long association with Packer as, on his retirement from cricket, he settled in Australia and worked as a commentator for Packer's Channel Nine network. He has remained there ever since, becoming as well known for his media work as for his playing career.
Current Australia coach Mickey Arthur was one of the first people to send a message of support for Greig, tweeting: "Get well soon Tony Greig - thoughts are with you."
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A study by the UCL Institute of Education compared attitudes of people considering applying to university in England in 2002 and 2015.
During this time tuition fees increased from about £1,100 per year to £9,000.
Researchers found that young people in general had become accustomed to higher fees - but worries about debt levels had risen among low-income families.
Tuition fees have become a battleground in the general election.
Labour has promised to scrap tuition fees in England - while the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats would continue with a system of fees and loans.
Researchers from the Centre for Research on Learning and Life Chances, based at the institute in London, examined the results of two surveys of potential university applicants either side of significant increases in fees.
This election issue includes funding for schools, grammar schools, university tuition fees and childcare.
Young people in the 2015 survey had become more ready to accept student debt, seeing it as a necessary part of getting a degree.
Women, in particular, were ready to believe that borrowing to go to university was a good investment.
But the study says there were different attitudes among low-income families, who were more resistant to debt in 2002 than their wealthier counterparts.
And the study says that these levels of debt aversion among poorer families were even greater in 2015.
Youngsters from the "squeezed" middle class also appeared more concerned about debt, says the study.
Despite the increase in cost, university applications continued to rise across these years - and there are higher numbers of students from all backgrounds, including from poorer families, now getting places.
But one of the researchers, Prof Claire Callender, said there were still significant differences in application levels depending on young people's backgrounds.
Much of the difference has been attributed to exam results in school, with wealthier students more likely to have got the results needed for university entry.
Prof Callender says that this "disguises a more complex picture".
"Working-class young people are far more likely than students from other social classes to avoid applying to university because of debt fears," she said.
She said that even when poorer youngsters had the same exam results, they were less likely to apply to university than wealthier ones.
"Student funding and fear of debt play a role. University enrolments may be increasing overall but policymakers must focus on ways to level the playing field for poorer students," said Prof Callender.
But Universities UK, representing university leaders, defended the value of the fee system and said "those from disadvantaged backgrounds were more likely to enter university than ever before".
"It is important to remember that it is high-earning graduates who benefit the most from a policy of no fees - under tuition fees they would repay their entire student loans.
"Removing fees benefits those who go on to earn the most, while having little or no impact on lower earners," said a Universities UK spokeswoman.
Jan Adamec, 40, drove into Shaun Whiter and Joey Abbs as they changed a flat tyre in Newmarket, Suffolk, on 1 July.
Mr Whiter's legs were amputated and Mr Abbs sustained a serious leg injury.
Adamec, of Shetland Road, Haverhill, admitted two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, in a hearing at Cambridge Crown Court. He will be sentenced in September.
Mr Whiter, 27, worked as an estate agent in Stansted, Essex, and was due to begin training with Newmarket Town FC.
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His legs were crushed by Adamec's vehicle as he tried to help his friend fix his car on Dullingham Road in the Suffolk town at 22:55 BST.
Mr Abbs, who played football with Cambridgeshire team Soham Town Rangers, was trapped between his and Mr Whiter's vehicles.
Adamec did not stop after the accident.
Mr Whiter underwent emergency surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. He lost both his legs below the knee.
Despite his injuries, he told his family he was determined to walk his fiancée down the aisle when they marry next summer.
The keen sportsman also said he would like to take part in the Paralympics in four years.
He was discharged from hospital on 29 July, while Mr Abbs was discharged after six days.
A spokesman for the Whiter family said: "We are relieved that with the guilty plea there will be no need for a trial and the added stress that would cause."
The funding council has published an analysis of changing patterns of young people going to university.
It shows a widening regional gap, with Londoners taking an increasingly disproportionate number of places.
The gender gap has widened too, with women more likely to go to university.
The study from the funding council examines trends in young people entering higher education in England, between 1998-99 and 2011-12.
The overall underlying trend is that more young people are going to university, with the proportion of 18-year-olds getting places rising from 30% to 38%.
But this is not an even spread.
The increase has been much greater among young women, with a current gender gap of 12%, compared with 3% in the late 1990s.
This gender gap was even more extreme in the poorest areas, with women 35% more likely to go to university.
The gap in university entry between rich and poor remains as wide in this decade as it was in the 1990s, although both groups have increased their numbers.
"Young people in the most disadvantaged areas would need to treble their participation rate in order to match the rate of those from the most advantaged areas," says the study, observing that the difference remained "broadly stable".
But there had been significant regional shifts.
London had the highest levels of participation in 1988-99 and this was even more pronounced by 2011-12. The proportion going to university has risen from 35% to 48%.
Schools in the capital have become among the highest performing in the country and a much higher proportion of youngsters go on to university than anywhere else.
What makes this particularly striking is that in 1998-99, youngsters in London in poorer "low participation" areas were the least likely in the country to go to university. But by 2011-12 they had gone from the bottom to the top of the regional league table.
There are 23% of youngsters in London living in poorer areas now entering university. The lowest level of entry among the most deprived is now in the south-east, previously amongst the highest.
The study says that more than half of all the extra disadvantaged entrants brought into higher education across England were from London.
The highest level of participation by constituency, Wimbledon, has four times the level of university entry for the lowest, Nottingham North.
This more local breakdown showed the highest levels of university entry in south-west and north-west London, with the highest rates of increase clustered around north-east and south-east London.
The report highlights the places with the lowest levels of university entry, coastal towns, former industrial towns in the midlands and north, rural areas of the south-west, the east midlands and east of England.
Along with Nottingham North, the other lowest individual constituency was Bristol South.
In terms of the increase in the young people going to university, the biggest increases in the country were in Barking, Lewisham Deptford, Croydon North, Bermondsey and Greenwich.
In contrast, North West Norfolk, Bognor Regis and Copeland in Cumbria saw numbers going into reverse.
The lowest regional level of increase over these years was the south-west.
Prof Les Ebdon, head of the Office for Fair Access, welcomed the "sustained progress" in increasing participation in higher education.
But he said that narrowing the gap between the most and least advantaged would mean early intervention.
"This means encouraging children from an early age to think about higher education as an option, supporting teenagers as they make key decisions, and working with employers to reach out to potential mature students."
He also warned that the fall in part-time student numbers would have a disproportionate impact on poorer families.
Rachel Wenstone, vice-president of the National Union of Students, said: "It's fantastic to see that young people still recognise the value of higher education, but it remains a national embarrassment that where you're from remains such a key factor in whether or not you go on to university."
Prof Michael Gunn, chair of Million+, representing new universities, said: "The increase in the number of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds entering higher education is one of the great British success stories of the last 15 years.
"This is the result of governments being willing to fund an expansion in university places and widening participation initiatives and modern universities rising to the challenge. Without this commitment and increased investment in schools it is unlikely that any of this would have happened."
Scarlets recovered from a 13-point deficit to beat Newport Gwent Dragons in the Pro12 on Saturday in what Pivac described as a "lucky win".
Scarlets and Sale each lie seventh in their domestic competitions.
"We've probably got the best draw in the group having a home game first up and that's pretty important," he said.
Reigning champions Saracens are at 2013, 2014 and 2015 title holders Toulon in Pool 3's opening encounter earlier in the day.
Scarlets wing Steff Evans scored a memorable opener in the Welsh derby, but his side trailed 20-14 at the break.
"We put ourselves under a lot of pressure in that first half in particular," said New Zealander Pivac.
"I think we started, really, really well, got the quick try and that's what we're after.
"We started to be put under pressure and make mistakes and they took their opportunities and scored some good tries.
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"Certainly we had a bit of a chat at half time and refocused the boys and I thought they were a lot better in the second half.
"We talked about not under-estimating the Dragons because they've got a lot of talented young players and we knew they'd come here and it's a derby and they'd throw everything at it.
"In the end we were probably lucky to get away with a win."
Pivac says his side must learn "not to get ahead of ourselves".
He added: "We've had three wins in a row, but against sides that haven't been performing that well so we've just got to be realistic as to where we're at at this stage of the season and keep building."
Gajendra Singh, from the western state of Rajasthan, was taken to hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had staged the rally in Delhi to protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's controversial land acquisition bill.
Opponents of the bill say it will hurt the interests of farmers.
However, the government says it will boost the economy.
The bill was passed in the lower house of parliament last month but has not yet been approved by the upper house, where Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is in the minority.
Since 1995, more than 300,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves because of debts or poor harvests. However, correspondents say this is the most high-profile incident of its kind, taking place before thousands of people at a rally in the capital.
Witnesses say the farmer only attracted the crowd's attention when he climbed to the top of the tree and tied a scarf around his neck.
AAP volunteers reportedly tried to stop Mr Singh from hanging himself but they could not reach him in time. Spectators at political rallies in India often climb trees and other tall structures to get the best view.
A suicide note, written in Hindi, was recovered, in which Mr Singh said he had three children.
"I was driven out of my home after my crops were destroyed [by bad weather]. Please tell me how I go home," he wrote.
A local journalist who visited the farmer's home in his village in Rajasthan's Dausa district told BBC Hindi that his family appeared unaware of the news.
However, others in the village had learnt of the suicide from the television news.
Mr Kejriwal addressed the rally shortly after the man was taken to hospital. He said he had been telling the police to save the farmer but they were "not in our control".
The chief minister visited the hospital after his speech. He also said the country's farmers had lost faith in Mr Modi's government.
Mr Modi tweeted that he was shocked by the death.
"At no point must the hardworking farmer think he is alone. We are all together in creating a better tomorrow for the farmers of India," he said.
India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted that he was "deeply pained" by the news and ordered the Delhi police commissioner to hold an inquiry.
Senior Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi also visited the hospital after news of the suicide and urged the country's farmers not to panic.
Unseasonal rainfall and hailstorms in many parts of India in recent weeks have destroyed standing crops, putting further strain on impoverished farmers.
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18:23 Georges-Kevin Nkoudou [Marseille - Tottenham] £9m
17:02 Eliaquim Mangala [Manchester City - Valencia] Loan
16:54 Marcos Alonso [Fiorentina - Chelsea] Reported £23m
16:01 Jeff Hendrick [Derby - Burnley] £10.5m
15:36 Didier Ndong [Lorient - Sunderland] £13.6m
14:14 Samir Nasri [Manchester City - Sevilla] Loan
13:00 Wilfried Bony [Manchester City - Stoke] Loan
12:01 Joe Hart [Manchester City - Torino] Loan
Other signings
00:14 Ntumba Massanka [Burnley - Morecambe] Loan
00:04 Markus Henriksen [AZ Alkmaar - Hull] Loan
23:45 Tom Thorpe [Rotherham - Bolton] Loan
23:29 Matt Miazga [Chelsea - Vitesse Arnhem] Loan
23:16 Hal Robson-Kanu [Reading - West Brom] Free
22:56 Enner Valencia [West Ham - Everton] Loan
22:55 Rickie Lambert [West Brom - Cardiff] Undisclosed
22:55 Chris Martin [Derby - Fulham] Loan
22:55 Chris Weale [Yeovil - Derby] Free
22:55 Andre Wright [West Brom - Coventry] Loan
22:50 Saidy Janko [Celtic - Barnsley] Loan
22:50 Ikechi Anya [Watford - Derby] Undisclosed
22:45 James Jennings [Cheltenham - Morecambe] Loan
22:45 Jonny Margetts [Lincoln - Scunthorpe] Undisclosed
22:45 Dieumerci Mbokani [Dynamo Kiev - Hull] Loan
22:45 Gezim Shalaj [Unattached - Port Vale]
22:40 Marvin Emnes [Swansea - Blackburn] Loan
22:36 Lars Veldwijk [Nottingham Forest - KV Kortrijk] Undisclosed
22:30 Christian Atsu [Chelsea - Newcastle] Loan
22:30 Jack Grimmer [Fulham - Shrewsbury] Loan
22:30 Sylvan Ebanks-Blake [Chesterfield - Shrewsbury] Loan
22:30 Kaiyne Woolery [Bolton - Wigan] Undisclosed
22:30 Miguel Santos [Unattached - Port Vale]
22:30 Harry McKirdy [Aston Villa - Stevenage] Loan
22:26 Cameron Dummigan [Burnley - Oldham] Undisclosed
22:10 Jack Hendry [Wigan - MK Dons] Loan
22:00 James Henry [Wolves - Bolton] Loan
22:00 Sammy Ameobi [Newcastle - Bolton] Loan
22:00 Keshi Anderson [Crystal Palace - Bolton] Loan
22:00 Ben Alnwick [Peterborough - Bolton] Free
22:00 Lucas Piazon [Chelsea - Fulham] Loan
22:00 Jason Denayer [Manchester City - Sunderland] Loan
21:50 Dom Hyam [Reading - Portsmouth] Loan
21:45 Marvin Johnson [Motherwell - Oxford] Undisclosed
21:45 Fredrik Ulvestad [Burnley - Charlton] Loan
21:34 Aiden McGeady [Everton - Preston] Loan
21:30 Dael Fry [Middlesbrough - Rotherham] Loan
21:25 Scott Boyd [Ross County - Kilmarnock] Loan
21:15 Tony Andreu [Norwich - Dundee United] Loan
21:15 Tom Walker [Bolton - Bury] Loan
21:10 Conor Wilkinson [Bolton - Chesterfield] Loan
21:00 Baily Cargill [Bournemouth - Gillingham] Loan
21:00 Aliu Djalo [PS Kemi - Crawley] Free
21:00 Rhys Healey [Cardiff - Newport] Loan
21:00 James Maddison [Norwich - Aberdeen] Loan
21:00 Ulrich N'Nomo [Chateauroux - Leyton Orient] Undisclosed
21:00 Adam Reach [Middlesbrough - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
21:00 James Weir [Manchester United - Hull] Undisclosed
20:45 Larnell Cole [Fulham - Inverness] Loan
20:30 Glen Kamara [Arsenal - Colchester] Loan
20:30 Alex Iacovitti [Nottingham Forest - Mansfield] Loan
20:30 Aaron Collins [Wolves - Notts County] Loan
20:30 Daniel Lafferty [Burnley - Sheffield United] Loan
20:15 Allan Nyom [Watford - West Brom] Undisclosed
20:07 Adam Barton [Portsmouth - Partick Thistle] Undisclosed
20:05 Nicolai Brock-Madsen [Birmingham - PEC Zwolle] Loan
20:00 Alex Baptiste [Middlesbrough - Preston] Loan
20:00 Marnick Vermijl [Sheffield Wednesday - Preston] Undisclosed
20:00 Jamie Ward [Nottingham Forest - Burton] Loan
19:56 Haris Vuckic [Newcastle - Bradford] Loan
19:45 Ryan Inniss [Crystal Palace - Southend] Loan
19:45 Alex Jakubiak [Watford - Fleetwood] Loan
19:35 Charlie Raglan [Chesterfield - Oxford] Loan
19:30 Pau Lopez [Espanyol - Tottenham] Loan
19:29 Paul Anderson [Bradford - Northampton] Free
19:15 Eunan O'Kane [Bournemouth - Leeds] Undisclosed
19:15 Jack Senior [Huddersfield - Luton] Undisclosed
19:00 Nathan Oduwa [Tottenham - Peterborough] Loan
19:00 Luke McGee [Tottenham - Peterborough] Loan
19:00 Jake Clarke-Salter [Chelsea - Bristol Rovers] Loan
19:00 Charlie Colkett [Chelsea - Bristol Rovers] Loan
18:47 Dimitar Evtimov [Nottingham Forest - Olhanense] Loan
18:45 Tarique Fosu [Reading - Colchester] Loan
18:30 Kean Bryan [Manchester City - Bury] Loan
18:30 Richie Smallwood [Rotherham - Scunthorpe] Loan
18:30 Nathan Byrne [Wolves - Wigan] Undisclosed
18:23 Clinton Njie [Tottenham - Marseille] Loan
18:17 Ricardo Kip [Fleetwood - Cambuur] Loan
18:15 Kgosi Ntlhe [Peterborough - Stevenage] Undisclosed
18:15 Brandon Comley [QPR - Grimsby] Loan
18:15 Ethan Ebanks-Landell [Wolves - Sheffield United] Loan
18:00 Sam Morsy [Wigan - Barnsley] Loan
18:00 Andre Wisdom [Liverpool - Red Bull Salzburg] Loan
17:49 Sean Murray [Watford - Swindon] Free
17:46 Juan Cuadrado [Chelsea - Juventus] Loan
17:45 Dominic Gape [Southampton - Wycombe] Loan
17:30 George Moncur [Barnsley - Peterborough] Loan
17:22 Cameron McJannett [Luton - Stoke] Undisclosed
17:20 Pawel Wszolek [Hellas Verona - QPR] Loan
17:15 Kieran Wallace [Sheffield United - Fleetwood] Loan
17:15 Scott Kashket [Leyton Orient - Wycombe] Free
17:15 Charlie Mulgrew [Celtic - Blackburn] Free
17:15 Dean Henderson [Manchester United - Grimsby] Loan
17:05 Philipp Wollscheid [Stoke - Wolfsburg] Loan
17:03 Sullay Kaikai [Crystal Palace - Brentford] Loan
17:00 Hiram Boateng [Crystal Palace - Bristol Rovers] Loan
17:00 Lica [FC Porto - Nottingham Forest] Undisclosed
16:45 Scott Laird [Scunthorpe - Walsall] Loan
16:35 Luis Alberto [Liverpool - Lazio] £4.3m
16:33 Rico Henry [Walsall - Brentford] £1.5m
16:31 Ryan Colclough [Wigan - MK Dons] Loan
16:20 Albert Adomah [Middlesbrough - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
16:03 Adama Traore [Aston Villa - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
16:02 Adam Le Fondre [Cardiff - Wigan] Loan
16:00 Shay Facey [Manchester City - Heerenveen] Loan
15:45 Ivan Cavaleiro [Monaco - Wolves] Undisclosed
15:45 Jonny Williams [Crystal Palace - Ipswich] Loan
15:31 Gustav Engvall [IFK Gothenburg - Bristol City] Undisclosed
15:01 Tom Anderson [Burnley - Chesterfield] Loan
14:59 Tyler Walker [Nottingham Forest - Stevenage] Loan
14:56 Emmanuel Ledesma [Brentford - Panetolikos] Free
14:47 Serge Gnabry [Arsenal - Werder Bremen] Undisclosed
14:37 Islam Feruz [Chelsea - Mouscron-Peruwelz] Loan
14:30 Jack Stacey [Reading - Exeter] Loan
14:15 Zak Vyner [Bristol City - Accrington] Loan
13:59 Reece Grego-Cox [QPR - Newport] Loan
13:35 Cristian Cuevas [Chelsea - Sint-Truidense] Loan
13:34 Keith Keane [Cambridge - Rochdale] Loan
13:30 Dean Lyness [Burton - Blackpool] Free
13:30 Rhoys Wiggins [Bournemouth - Birmingham] Loan
13:28 Joe Gormley [Peterborough - St Johnstone] Loan
13:00 Mustapha Carayol [Middlesbrough - Nottingham Forest] Free
13:00 Nicolao Dumitru [Napoli - Nottingham Forest] Loan
12:45 Lukas Jutkiewicz [Burnley - Birmingham] Loan
12:30 Cole Kpekawa [QPR - Barnsley] Undisclosed
12:30 Harry Toffolo [Norwich - Scunthorpe] Loan
12:21 Nicky Clark [Bury - Dunfermline] Free
11:18 Paul-Arnold Garita [Bristol City - Plymouth] Loan
11:16 Lee Grant [Derby - Stoke] Loan
11:02 Shaun Tuton [Barnsley - Grimsby] Loan
11:00 Alex Gilliead [Newcastle - Luton] Loan
11:00 Richard Stearman [Fulham - Wolves] Loan
10:59 Luke Croll [Crystal Palace - Exeter] Loan
10:53 Kenneth Omeruo [Chelsea - Alanyaspor] Loan
10:29 Kyle Cameron [Newcastle - Newport] Loan
10:29 Marc McNulty [Sheffield United - Bradford] Loan
10:22 Brad McKay [St Johnstone - Inverness] Free
09:22 Emmanuel Riviere [Newcastle - Osasuna] Loan
09:00 Jamie Sterry [Newcastle - Coventry] Loan
08:30 Shani Tarashaj [Everton - Eintracht Frankfurt] Loan
Premier League
Patrick Bamford [Chelsea - Burnley] Loan
Calum Chambers [Arsenal - Middlesbrough] Loan
Will Keane [Manchester United - Hull] Undisclosed
Kenedy [Chelsea - Watford] Loan
Adrian Mariappa [Crystal Palace - Watford] Free
Ryan Mason [Tottenham - Hull] Undisclosed
Alfie Mawson [Barnsley - Swansea] Undisclosed
David Marshall [Cardiff - Hull] Undisclosed
Shkodran Mustafi [Valencia - Arsenal] Around £35m
Lucas Perez [Deportivo La Coruna - Arsenal] £17.1m
Loic Remy [Chelsea - Crystal Palace] Loan
English Football League
Adam Armstrong [Newcastle - Barnsley] Loan
Leon Best [Rotherham - Ipswich] Free
Reece Burke [West Ham - Wigan] Loan
Adam Chicksen [Brighton - Charlton] Free
Bradley Fewster [Middlesbrough - Hartlepool] Loan
Brad Halliday [Middlesbrough - Cambridge] Undisclosed
Tom Heardman [Newcastle - Hartlepool] Loan
Adam Jackson [Middlesbrough - Barnsley] Undisclosed
Jack King [Scunthorpe - Stevenage] Loan
Jonathan Kodjia [Bristol City - Aston Villa] £11m
Caolan Lavery [Sheffield Wednesday - Sheffield United] Undisclosed
Tom Lawrence [Leicester - Ipswich] Loan
Freddie Ladapo [Crystal Palace - Oldham] Loan
Rory McKeown [Raith - Accrington] Free
Nelson Oliveira [Benfica - Norwich] Undisclosed
Sebastien Pocognoli [West Brom - Brighton] Loan
Frazer Richardson [Rotherham - Doncaster] Free
Romain Saiss [Angers - Wolves] Undisclosed
Idrissa Sylla [Anderlecht - QPR] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Cristian Gamboa [West Brom - Celtic] Undisclosed
European
Paco Alcacer [Valencia - Barcelona] £25.5m
Gabriel Barbosa [Santos - Inter Milan] Undisclosed
Jeremain Lens [Sunderland - Fenerbahce] Loan
Munir El Haddadi [Barcelona - Valencia] Loan
Tomas Rosicky [Arsenal - Sparta Prague] Free
Premier League
Sofiane Boufal [Lille - Southampton] £16m
Nacer Chadli [Tottenham - West Brom] Reported £13m
Stefano Okaka [Anderlecht - Watford] Undisclosed
English Football League
Kyle Dempsey [Huddersfield - Fleetwood] Loan
Teddy Mezague [Royal Excel Mouscron - Leyton Orient] Free
European
Joleon Lescott [Aston Villa - AEK Athens] Undisclosed
English Football League
Achraf Lazaar [Palermo - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Daryl Murphy [Ipswich - Newcastle] Undisclosed
European
Oliver Burke [Nottingham Forest - Red Bull Leipzig] £13m
English Football League
Joe Bennett [Aston Villa - Cardiff] Undisclosed
Anton Ferdinand [Reading - Southend] Free
Jamie Paterson [Nottingham Forest - Bristol City] Undisclosed
Matej Vydra [Watford - Derby] £8m
European
Mario Pasalic [Chelsea - AC Milan] Loan
Premier League
Stuart Taylor [Unattached - Southampton]
English Football League
Ben Amos [Bolton - Cardiff] Loan
Shaun Barker [Unattached - Burton] Free
Gael Bigirimana [Newcastle - Coventry] Undisclosed
Jonathan Bond [Reading - Gillingham] Loan
Shane Duffy [Blackburn - Brighton] Undisclosed
Paul Gladon [Heracles - Wolves] Undisclosed
Tommie Hoban [Watford - Blackburn] Loan
Stefan Johansen [Celtic - Fulham] Undisclosed
Neeskens Kebano [Genk - Fulham] Undisclosed
Will Miller [Tottenham - Burton] Loan
Martin Paterson [Blackpool - Port Vale] Free
Kevin Toner [Aston Villa - Walsall] Loan
Derrick Williams [Bristol City - Blackburn] Undisclosed
Premier League
Claudio Bravo [Barcelona - Manchester City] £15.4m
Eduardo [Dinamo Zagreb - Chelsea] Undisclosed
Javier Manquillo [Atletico Madrid - Sunderland] Loan
English Football League
Calum Butcher [Burton - Millwall] Free
Tom Cowans [Aston Villa - Stevenage] Loan
Rob Dickie [Reading - Cheltenham] Loan
Sam Hart [Liverpool - Port Vale] Loan
Ryan Ledson [Everton - Oxford] Undisclosed
Izale McLeod [Notts County - Yeovil] Free
Taylor Moore [Lens - Bristol City] Undisclosed
Jack Payne [Peterborough - Blackpool] Free
Connor Roberts [Swansea - Bristol Rovers] Loan
Martin Samuelsen [West Ham - Blackburn] Loan
Ben Whitfield [Bournemouth - Yeovil] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Tim Chow [Wigan - Ross County] Undisclosed
Lonsana Doumbouya [Cercle Brugge - Inverness] Free
European
Nabil Bentaleb [Tottenham - Schalke] Loan
Jasper Cillessen [Ajax - Barcelona] £11.1m
Tim Krul [Newcastle - Ajax] Loan
Premier League
Daryl Janmaat [Newcastle - Watford] Undisclosed
English Football League
Kyle Copp [Swansea - Yeovil] Free
Tareiq Holmes-Dennis [Charlton - Huddersfield] Undisclosed
Uche Ikpeazu [Watford - Cambridge] Free
Kelle Roos [Derby - Bristol Rovers] Loan
Vladimir Stojkovic [Maccabi Haifa - Nottingham Forest] Undisclosed
James Vaughan [Birmingham - Bury] Free
DeAndre Yedlin [Tottenham - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Dan Seaborne [Unattached - Hamilton] Free
European
Simon Church [MK Dons - Roda JC] Undisclosed
Henri Saivet [Newcastle - St Etienne] Loan
Jordan Veretout [Aston Villa - St Etienne] Loan
English Football League
Ritchie De Laet [Leicester - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Ragnar Sigurdsson [FC Krasnodar - Fulham] Undisclosed
European
Kevin Mbabu [Newcastle - Young Boys] Loan
Premier League
Brendan Galloway [Everton - West Brom] Loan
English Football League
Tyler Blackett [Manchester United - Reading] Undisclosed
Cameron Borthwick-Jackson [Manchester United - Wolves] Loan
JJ Hooper [Port Vale - Northampton] Loan
Ola John [Benfica - Wolves] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Rakish Bingham [Hartlepool - Hamilton] Free
European
Siem de Jong [Newcastle - PSV Eindhoven] Loan
Premier League
Christian Benteke [Liverpool - Crystal Palace] £27m
English Football League
John Brayford [Sheffield United - Burton] Loan
Liam Donnelly [Fulham - Hartlepool] Free
Liam Moore [Leicester - Reading] Undisclosed
James Wilson [Manchester United - Derby] Loan
Martyn Woolford [Sheffield United - Fleetwood] Free
Scottish Premiership
Joe Garner [Preston - Rangers] Undisclosed
Premier League
Younes Kaboul [Sunderland - Watford] Undisclosed
Roberto Pereyra [Juventus - Watford] Undisclosed
Steven Pienaar [Everton - Sunderland] Free
English Football League
Koby Arthur [Birmingham - Cheltenham] Loan
Phil Edwards [Burton - Oxford] Loan
Armand Gnanduillet [Leyton Orient - Blackpool] Undisclosed
Danny Hollands [Portsmouth - Crewe] Free
Jack McBean [LA Galaxy - Coventry] Loan
Simon Moore [Cardiff - Sheffield United] Undisclosed
Vincent Sasso [Braga - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Jonny Smith [Bristol City - Cheltenham] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Charlee Adams [Birmingham - Kilmarnock] Loan
Richard Foster [Ross County - St Johnstone] Free
Kevin Gomis [Nice - Dundee] Undisclosed
Luke Hendrie [Burnley - Kilmarnock] Loan
Dapo Kayode [Unattached - Kilmarnock]
English Football League
Tom Adeyemi [Cardiff - Rotherham] Loan
Dan Agyei [Burnley - Coventry] Loan
Nathan Delfouneso [Blackburn - Swindon] Free
Jake Gosling [Bristol Rovers - Cambridge] Loan
Pontus Jansson [Torino - Leeds] Loan
Craig Tanner [Reading - Plymouth] Loan
Sandro Wieser [FC Thun - Reading] Free
European
Jason Davidson [Huddersfield - FC Groningen] Loan
English Football League
Steven Davies [Bradford - Rochdale] Free
Jordi Gomez [Sunderland - Wigan] Free
Mile Jedinak [Crystal Palace - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Premier League
Jonathan Calleri [Deportivo Maldonado - West Ham] Loan
Steven Defour [Anderlecht - Burnley] Reported £7.35m
English Football League
Liam Bridcutt [Sunderland - Leeds] Undisclosed
Luke Garbutt [Everton - Wigan] Loan
David Jones [Burnley - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Vincent Rabieg [RB Leipzig - Bradford] Free
Premier League
Yannick Bolasie [Crystal Palace - Everton] £25m
Marc Wilson [Stoke - Bournemouth] Reported £2m
English Football League
Jamal Blackman [Chelsea - Wycombe] Loan
Izzy Brown [Chelsea - Rotherham] Loan
Moha El Ouriachi [Stoke - Shrewsbury] Loan
Connor Hunte [Wolves - Stevenage] Loan
Louis Laing [Motherwell - Notts County] Loan
Prince Oniangue [Reims - Wolves] Undisclosed
Jordan Turnbull [Southampton - Coventry] Undisclosed
George Waring [Stoke - Shrewsbury] Loan
English Football League
Shaun MacDonald [Bournemouth - Wigan] Undisclosed
George Glendon [Manchester City - Fleetwood] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Dorus de Vries [Nottingham Forest - Celtic] Undisclosed
Premier League
Fabio [Cardiff - Middlesbrough] Reported £2m
Adnan Januzaj [Manchester United - Sunderland] Loan
English Football League
Dominic Ball [Tottenham - Rotherham] Undisclosed
Harry Chapman [Middlesbrough - Sheffield United] Loan
Charles Dunne [Blackpool - Oldham] Free
Darnell Furlong [QPR - Swindon] Loan
Emyr Huws [Wigan - Cardiff] Undisclosed
Calaum Jahraldo-Martin [Hull - Oldham] Free
Alex Jones [Birmingham - Port Vale] Loan
Jozabed [Rayo Vallecano - Fulham] Undisclosed
Chris Long [Burnley - Fleetwood] Loan
Jamie O'Hara [Fulham - Gillingham] Free
Emmanuel Sonupe [Tottenham - Northampton] Free
Greg Stewart [Dundee - Birmingham] Reported £500,000
Luke Varney [Unattached - Ipswich]
Scottish Premiership
George Green [Burnley - Kilmarnock] Loan
European
Bertrand Traore [Chelsea - Ajax] Loan
Premier League
Borja Baston [Atletico Madrid - Swansea] £15m
Jonathan Calleri [Deportivo Maldonado - West Ham] Loan
Donald Love [Manchester United - Sunderland] Combined £5.5m
Paddy McNair [Manchester United - Sunderland] Combined £5.5m
English Football League
Kieran Agard [Bristol City - MK Dons] Undisclosed
Luke Ayling [Bristol City - Leeds] Undisclosed
Jordan Botaka [Leeds - Charlton] Loan
Sessi D'Almeida [Paris St-Germain - Barnsley] Free
Alex Davey [Chelsea - Crawley] Loan
Sam Gallagher [Southampton - Blackburn] Loan
Scott Harrison [Unattached - Hartlepool]
Josh Magennis [Kilmarnock - Charlton] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Sean McKirdy [Hearts - Hamilton] Free
Premier League
Ashley Williams [Swansea - Everton] Reported £12m
English Football League
Darnell Fisher [Celtic - Rotherham] Undisclosed
Conrad Logan [Hibernian - Rochdale] Free
Andrew Taylor [Wigan - Bolton] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Craig Clay [Grimsby - Motherwell] Free
European
Carlos Sanchez [Aston Villa - Fiorentina] Loan
Premier League
Paul Pogba [Juventus - Manchester United] £89m
John Stones [Everton - Manchester City] £47.5m
English Football League
Cameron Dawson [Sheffield Wednesday - Wycombe] Loan
Emmanuel Ledesma [Unattached - Brentford]
Lewis Page [West Ham - Coventry] Loan
Danny Pappoe [Unattached - Crawley]
Harry Smith [Folkestone Invicta - Millwall] Undisclosed
Premier League
Andre Ayew [Swansea - West Ham] £20.5m
Arthur Masuaku [Olympiakos - West Ham] Reported £6m
English Football League
Che Adams [Sheffield United - Birmingham] Undisclosed
Josh Cullen [West Ham - Bradford] Loan
Jordan Green [Bournemouth - Newport] Loan
Ryan McLaughlin [Liverpool - Oldham] Free
Lewin Nyatanga [Barnsley - Northampton] Loan
John O'Sullivan [Blackburn - Accrington] Loan
Josh Pask [West Ham - Gillingham] Loan
Josh Sheehan [Swansea - Newport] Loan
Ivan Toney [Newcastle - Shrewsbury] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Krystian Nowak [Pdobeskidzie Bielsko-Biala - Hearts] Free
European
Jese [Real Madrid - Paris St-Germain] Undisclosed
Thomas Vermaelen [Barcelona - Roma] Loan
English Football League
Joe Thompson [Carlisle - Rochdale] Free
Scottish Premiership
Scott Sinclair [Aston Villa - Celtic] Undisclosed
Premier League
Marlos Moreno [Atletico Nacional - Manchester City] £4.75m
English Football League
Hamza Choudhury [Leicester - Burton] Loan
Jordan Houghton [Chelsea - Doncaster] Loan
Lloyd Jones [Liverpool - Swindon] Loan
Niall Mason [Aston Villa - Doncaster] Loan
Yeni Ngbakoto [Metz - QPR] Undisclosed
Luke Norris [Gillingham - Swindon] Undisclosed
Paul Rachubka [Bolton - Bury] Free
Premier League
Papy Djilobodji [Chelsea - Sunderland] £8m
Jon Flanagan [Liverpool - Burnley] Loan
Fernando Llorente [Sevilla - Swansea] Undisclosed
Ryan Sweeney [AFC Wimbledon - Stoke] Undisclosed
English Football League
Tammy Abraham [Chelsea - Bristol City] Loan
Chris Brown [Blackburn - Bury] Free
Will Buckley [Sunderland - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
Matt Butcher [Bournemouth - Yeovil] Loan
Lewis Buxton [Rotherham - Bolton] Free
Michael Cain [Leicester - Blackpool] Loan
Tahvon Campbell [West Brom - Yeovil] Loan
Janoi Donacien [Aston Villa - Accrington] Free
Michael Doughty [QPR - Swindon] Loan
Chris Eagles [Bury - Accrington] Free
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas [QPR - Gillingham] Loan
Kevin Foley [Ipswich - Charlton] Free
Russell Griffiths [Everton - Cheltenham] Loan
Callum Harriott [Charlton - Reading] Undisclosed
Adam King [Swansea - Southend] Loan
Bevis Mugabi [Southampton - Yeovil] Free
English Football League
Scott Allan [Celtic - Rotherham] Loan
Adam Buxton [Accrington - Portsmouth] Free
Jamal Campbell-Ryce [Sheffield United - Barnet] Free
Max Crocombe [Oxford - Carlisle] Free
Conor Grant [Everton - Ipswich] Loan
Noel Hunt [Unattached - Portsmouth]
Paul Jones [Portsmouth - Norwich] Free
Ross McCormack [Fulham - Aston Villa] £12m
Jason Pearce [Wigan - Charlton] Undisclosed
Alex Pritchard [Tottenham - Norwich] Undisclosed
Easah Suliman [Aston Villa - Cheltenham] Loan
European
Wojciech Szczesny [Arsenal - Roma] Loan
Scottish Football League
Scott Allan [Celtic - Rotherham] Loan
Premier League
Gabriel Jesus [Palmeiras - Manchester City] £27m
Bartosz Kapustka [Cracovia - Leicester City] £7.5m
English Football League
Tyrone Barnett [Shrewsbury - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Ciaran Clark [Aston Villa - Newcastle] Reported £5m
Mohamed Diame [Hull - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Ousmane Fane [Kidderminster - Oldham] £50,000
Darius Hendersen [Coventry - Mansfield] Free
Pajtim Kasami [Olympiacos - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Lee Nicholls [Wigan - MK Dons] Undisclosed
Oliver Norwood [Reading - Brighton] Undisclosed
Nile Ranger [Unattached - Southend]
Jon Taylor [Peterborough - Rotherham] Reported £500,000
European
Federico Fazio [Tottenham - Roma] Loan
Paolo Hurtado [Reading - Vitoria de Guimaraes] Loan
Mohamed Salah [Chelsea - Roma] Undisclosed
Premier League
Idrissa Gueye [Aston Villa - Everton] Undisclosed
Leroy Sane [Schalke - Manchester City] £37m
English Football League
Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro [Shrewsbury - Barnet] Free
Chuks Aneke [Zulte Waregem - MK Dons] Free
Jermone Binnom-Williams [Crystal Palace - Peterborough] Undisclosed
Jon Dadi Bodvarsson [Kaiserslautern - Wolves] Undisclosed
Jordan Clark [Shrewsbury - Accrington] Free
Gordon Greer [Brighton - Blackburn] Free
Angus MacDonald [Torquay - Barnsley] Undisclosed
Chris McCann [Atlanta United - Coventry] Loan
Eddie Nolan [Unattached - Blackpool]
Vadaine Oliver [York - Notts County] Loan
Declan Rudd [Norwich - Charlton] Loan
Joao Teixeira [Benfica - Wolves] Loan
Kelvin Wilson [Nottingham Forest - Rotherham] Free
Adi Yussuf [Mansfield - Crawley] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Faissal El Bakhtaoui [Dunfermline - Dundee]
Premier League
Alex McCarthy [Crystal Palace - Southampton] Undisclosed
Jeremy Pied [Nice - Southampton] Free
English Football League
Arron Davies [Exeter - Accrington] Free
Jake Gray [Crystal Palace - Luton] Free
Pablo Hernandez [Al-Arabi - Leeds] Loan
Sean Kelly [St Mirren - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Matt Kilgallon [Blackburn - Bradford] Free
Andreas Makris [Anorthosis Famagusta - Walsall] Undisclosed
Marc McCallum [Livingston - Plymouth] Free
Max Muller [Unattached - Wycombe]
Michael Rose [Rochdale - Morecambe] Free
Matt Taylor [Burnley - Northampton] Free
Grant Ward [Tottenham - Ipswich] Undisclosed
European
Steven Berghuis [Watford - Feyenoord] Loan
Alex Song [Barcelona - Rubin Kazan] Free
International
Steven Taylor [Newcastle - Portland Timbers] Free
The page covers signings by Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership clubs, along with selected deals from overseas and the Scottish Championship.
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The owner of the Arcadia group, which includes Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins, and Burton, has been working with the star on a new athletic street-wear brand.
It had been reported that the global venture would launch this year.
Details came as Sir Philip's group reported operating profits up 5.5% to £251.6m despite "challenging times".
Sales for the year to 29 August were almost flat at £2.06bn, according to results published by Taveta Investments, Arcadia's family-controlled parent company.
The fashion industry was abuzz with speculation earlier this year when the retail entrepreneur and singer announced they were creating an all-new global company, Parkwood Topshop. Deals between retailers and celebrities have traditionally been branding links.
In an update on Wednesday, Taveta said: "We are developing our distribution globally for the launch of this exciting new brand in spring 2016."
The new company will produce clothing, footwear and accessories. So-called street-wear is a "rapidly growing area of the market", the company said in a statement.
Taveta's profit figures, for the year ending 29 August, do not include High Street chain BHS, which was sold in March to Retail Acquisitions for just £1.
Sir Philip said Arcadia delivered "a robust performance in challenging times". In the first 10 weeks of the current financial year, like-for-like sales were down 2.3% on the same period last year, he said.
Boyle said on Twitter
that he had paid £2.7m in tax since 2007, which amounted to just under 40% of his income.
He said he was certain he paid more tax than most people in showbusiness and the cabinet.
The Daily Mail said
the tax could have been saved when he put his production company into voluntary liquidation.
It comes after fellow comic Jimmy Carr was criticised for using a complex scheme to reduce his tax payments.
The newspaper said Boyle, who mocked Carr after he hit the headlines, might also have been the beneficiary of sharp but legal accountancy methods to save tax on the millions of pounds he has earned through TV shows, tours, DVDs and book sales.
By closing Traskor Productions Limited, of which he was sole director and shareholder, the paper said he might have been able to pay a tax rate of 10%, rather than 50% if he had taken money out as dividends or income.
This is because he could have been entitled to "entrepreneur" tax relief, saving him £880,762, it said.
On Twitter Boyle wrote: "From 2007 I have paid £2.7m in tax and this equates to just under 40% of my income.
"There's a lot of things people do to avoid paying tax and I don't do any of them.
"I wound my company up for legal reasons separate from tax and my accountant applied for tax relief on this. This tax relief is approximately half of the tax saving the Mail quoted in its article today.
"I am certain I pay more tax than most people in show business and the cabinet."
Prime Minister David Cameron called Carr's use of the K2 tax scheme, which can lower the amount of tax paid as "morally wrong".
It is legal and Mr Carr made clear in his statement it was fully disclosed to HMRC.
He said he had "made a terrible error of judgement".
More than 1,000 people, including Carr, are thought to be using the Jersey-based K2 scheme, which is said to be sheltering £168m a year from the Treasury.
Gunmen entered and killed 89 people, critically injuring more than 100.
Mr Wino says that before the attack, the theatre was full of smiles that should not be forgotten.
As a result, he decided to share pictures of the Eagles of Death Metal on his Facebook page.
Wino was among seven or eight photographers taking pictures of the concert.
In an interview with France's Les Inrocks (in French) magazine, Wino said he had come down from the first floor to the theatre bar to join friends, adjacent to the emergency exit.
He said he had heard screams, followed by a stampede of people running for the exits.
"People were screaming for us to leave, to run away," he said. "Then I heard the shots. Twenty, thirty, fifty - I do not know."
He said he thought it was a shooting, but not a terrorist act. "I thought it was the act of a madman," he told the magazine.
Wino said he had made a quick escape, without seeing the attackers.
Eagles of Death Metal band members were unhurt, but Nick Alexander (not pictured), a Briton selling merchandise at the gig, was among those killed.
With a camera memory card full of pictures, Mr Wino said that initially he had wanted nothing more to do with it.
But slowly the shock wore off and after talking with friends, he said he felt it would be important to remember the positive aspects of that night.
"I wanted to remember the smiles and the rock and roll, and that we were all there to party," he said.
He decided to publish the photographs on his Facebook account, for all to see and use. The photos are of a happy crowd, arms in the air, smiles on their faces.
Mr Wino said he had received hundreds of messages within hours.
"People thanked me because they had seen someone close to them on the photos, looking like they were having fun."
11 November 2015 Last updated at 01:45 GMT
A Unicef Youth Ambassador, she is an inspiration for the children who flock to the Ayise Bangwe Youth Centre.
She tells the BBC about how her tough childhood made her determined to get an education.
Women of Africa is a BBC season recognising inspiring women across the continent. The first series, Africa's Unsung Heroes, introduces eight women who are making a difference in their country - and beyond.
Read more here
24 January 2014 Last updated at 09:20 GMT
Three teams play on a hexagon-shaped pitch, instead of two teams on a rectangular pitch.
The rules are similar to normal football but with one main difference - it's the team that lets in the fewest goals that wins.
That means lots of tactical play - a team that's your friend one minute could be your enemy the next.
Sometimes two teams will join up to make a scramble towards one goal!
Watch the clip to find out more.
"Prohibition is not effective", Jean-Marie Le Guen told France's BFMTV.
Other lawmakers - including fellow Socialists - dismissed the call, and a government spokesman said there were no plans for decriminalisation.
A recent WHO report found more French 15-year-olds smoked cannabis than in 41 other developed nations.
The study cautioned that "cannabis is a dangerous and harmful substance, especially for children and young people who use it regularly... Cannabis use is a risk factor for mental disorders and may trigger psychosis".
Mr Le Guen, who is secretary of state for relations with parliament as well as a medical doctor by training, said he opposed cannabis use and was a public health advocate who had always "fought against consumption of cannabis among the young".
But he said that approach had failed. Young people needed to be reached out to and taught that cannabis was dangerous, he said: "It is a health-based approach that I propose, not a moral or legal one."
Mr Le Guen cautioned that he was not speaking on behalf of government but suggested that the subject should be debated by the country's next president.
There have been repeated calls by leading government figures for the debate over cannabis to be reopened in France since President Francois Hollande came to power in 2012, but they have often been decried by fellow Socialists and opposition members and ignored by the administration.
That pattern appeared to be repeated on Tuesday, as Socialist Senator Samia Ghali told Europe1 that decriminalisation would only exacerbate drug trafficking.
"And what will we do tomorrow? Will we legalise cocaine and weapons because we cannot stem the flow of weapons? That's not serious!"
Laurent Wauquiez, of the centre-right Republican party, said "it seems like we are seeing the return of all the outdated ideas of the left. Do they really believe these are the questions being asked by French youths?"
Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said the Socialist party was free to debate decriminalisation.
But he added firmly that the government was not re-evaluating the topic - "neither in work nor thought".
The 19-year-old, who has agreed a three-and-a-half year deal, will return to the League One side on loan for the remainder of the season.
Canaries manager Alex Neil said: "We're delighted to sign James as he is a fantastic prospect."
Maddison made his debut for Coventry in 2014 and has gone on to make another 30 appearances for the club.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The Metropolitan Police has not given details about the locations or types of properties, or how many of the men are linked to the area.
The men are being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
There have also been searches in London as part of the operation - thought to be linked to Syria-related terrorism.
Two men, aged 33 and 43, were held as they tried to leave the UK at Dover port on Sunday while two other men, aged 24 and 40, were arrested in east London early on Monday.
A 28-year-old man was held in Dover later that same day.
Police have been given more time to question the men who are are being held in custody.
The terror threat level in the UK was raised from substantial to severe in August.
Fears of a terrorist attack on the UK have been heightened in the wake of the rise of Islamic State (IS), the extremist group that has taken over large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Paper tests are being replaced with personalised online assessments which adapt to pupils' skills, providing an appropriate level of challenge.
Liberal Democrat education secretary Kirsty Williams said it will benefit pupils, parents and teachers.
Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives both warned of "potential pitfalls".
UKIP has been asked to comment.
Since 2013, all pupils in Wales in years 2-9 sit an annual reading and numeracy test, which ministers say help teachers monitor progress and identify where help is needed.
According to the Welsh Government, the advantages of testing online are:
The tests have been specifically designed for use in Wales and will be phased in over three years, starting from the 2018-19 academic year.
Education Secretary Ms Williams, who sits in the Labour-led cabinet, said: "These tests are about raising standards by showing the next steps that children need to take in their learning.
"Pupils will be taking assessments that will adapt to their needs and skills. They will have the benefits of automatic marking and schools will have feedback faster than before, giving them a better picture of how they can help all their learners to move on."
Plaid Cymru shadow education secretary, Llyr Gruffydd, said teacher assessments "provide a much more-meaningful overview of pupil achievement than crude testing".
"It's teachers who are best placed to understand the progress and needs of individual pupils," he said.
"If the Welsh Government is to persist with testing, however, anything that reduces bureaucracy should be welcomed in principle but assurances need to be given that online assessments will not weaken the focus on the individual."
Mr Gruffydd added there were also "potential pitfalls" in dealing with poor broadband access in certain parts of the country.
Welsh Conservative AM Darren Millar said the tests represented a "welcome opportunity" to measure pupil progress and allow performance comparisons between and within schools.
But he said it "conveniently ignores the unacceptable fact that hundreds of children across Wales are still at an educational disadvantage because of inadequate broadband connectivity both at home and in school".
He said the Welsh Government "must take urgent steps to redress this if they are to successfully roll-out the new testing regime".
UKIP education spokeswoman Michelle Brown said: "Over the years, the government have failed to attract people to come and teach in Wales, so they are now having to move towards 'robotic' classrooms, where computers are taking the place of teaching staff.
"Education standards have continually worsened under Labour, and if I were the education minister I would concentrate more on getting the teaching side right in the first place, before trying to automate the way children are tested."
Incumbent Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, 70, is being challenged by the Jamaica Labour Party under Andrew Holness, 43, which is promising tax cuts and new jobs.
Austerity measures introduced by Ms Simpson Miller have led to growth.
Inflation fell to a 48-year low during her time in office.
Last year GDP grew by 1.3%, according to World Bank figures.
But with youth unemployment at 38%, Mr Holness' plan to increase spending to boost jobs has attracted voters.
Mr Holness says he wants to turn Jamaica into "the Silicon Valley of the Caribbean".
In 2013, the country agreed to a four-year International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan package in exchange for swapping its debt.
Ms Simpson Miller's party, the People's National Party (PNP), prides itself on "bringing back the country from the verge of economic collapse" but the package expires next year.
The final days of campaigning were marred by violent incidents.
Two people were shot dead and several more injured during a campaign event on 7 February as Mr Holness was addressing supporters.
On Tuesday, shots were also fired during a PNP rally triggering a stampede in which dozens of people were hurt.
However, the numbers of those hurt or killed have been much lower than in previous election campaigns.
Sixty-three parliamentary seats are up for election.
The party that wins a majority of those seats will form the government for a five-year term.
There are 1.8 million registered voters.
Members of the police and military as well as election workers cast their votes earlier, on Monday.
A High Court judge said an education watchdog's conclusions relating to The London Oratory School were "flawed".
Mr Justice Cobb said findings the school was socially selective and discriminatory must be quashed.
The school challenged a number of conclusions by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA).
Head teacher David McFadden said: "It is profoundly regrettable that the school - and other schools - have to expend precious resources, year after year, in standing up to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator."
The OSA investigation was triggered by a complaint from the British Humanist Association about the faith-based criteria used to select pupils at the heavily oversubscribed Catholic academy.
The school went to the High Court to challenge a number of OSA findings that its admissions code had been breached in 2014 and 2015.
Following a hearing in March, Mr Justice Cobb announced his decision to quash some of the decisions but upheld others.
The judge rejected the school's challenge that it was a breach of the code to include "service in a Catholic parish or in the wider Catholic Church" as one of its selection criteria.
This could include reading, singing in the choir, flower arranging or carrying out voluntary work.
He ruled an issue relating to the "extent to which the school had regard to the diocesan guidance" when considering its faith-based admissions criteria should be investigated by a different adjudicator.
The British Humanist Association's campaigns manager Richy Thompson said: "It is amongst the ten most socio-economically selective state secondary schools in the country, taking just 6% of pupils eligible for school meals compared to 36% locally."
Pupils at the boys' school have included the sons of senior politicians like former prime minister Tony Blair, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman.
More than 800 11-year-olds apply annually for 160 places at the school, which was founded in 1863.
Its junior house and co-educational sixth form are also oversubscribed.
Severn Trent shares rose 1.7% after it said underlying pre-tax profits rose 4.3% to £525m, helped by fewer leaks following an investment programme.
Severn was one of the biggest risers on the FTSE 100, with the index up 4.36 points at 7,500.70 in early trade.
EasyJet was the biggest riser in the FTSE 100 following a broker upgrade.
Shares in the airline climbed 1.9% after RBC Capital Markets raised its rating on the company to "sector perform", arguing it was "increasingly probable EasyJet has reached its profit nadir".
After a strong performance on Monday, Marks and Spencer fell back, dropping 1.7%. The High Street retail giant is due to report its full-year results on Wednesday.
On the currency markets, the pound slipped 0.1% against the dollar to $1.2987, and was down 0.2% against the euro to 1.1540 euros.
A car hit two bikes in Mauldeth Road West, in Withington, Manchester, at about 22:15 GMT on Sunday.
A 24-year-old cyclist was taken to hospital where he later died and the other bike rider, a man aged 21, was treated for minor injuries.
The 61-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. He remains in police custody.
Lifted by the insurer Direct Line, the FTSE 100 closed up 11.49 points at 6,829.2.
On the FTSE 250, Domino's Pizza rose 3.2% after it said it planned to open an extra 400 stores in the UK.
The pizza delivery firm has pushed up its long-term target for the number of UK stores to 1,600 from 1,200.
"Our continued strong e-commerce performance and our collaboration with our dedicated franchisees, enable us to increase our UK presence significantly," said chief executive David Wild.
However, fellow FTSE 250 company Countrywide saw its shares dive 12% after it warned that its full-year profits were set to be at the low end of expectations.
The UK's largest estate agency said the number of transactions in the market was "significantly below" last year, with activity hit since the EU referendum and changes to stamp duty.
It added that transaction numbers in 2017 were "likely" to be lower than this year.
On the currency markets, the pound rose was flat against the dollar at $1.2449, and against the euro it was little changed at €1.1785.
The duo from Plymouth, are in China preparing for the championships.
"It'd be amazing to score a great score, get a personal best and win a medal," Couch told BBC Sport.
"We're training really well so Sarah and I are going to go there confident and see where that ends."
Couch and Barrow have been in good form recently, winning before coming the following week.
Couch also won in the Beijing leg of the World Series in March.
"It's going to be very tough beating the Chinese in their own pool, I don't think it's done very often," Couch added.
"But we don't focus on what other people do, we focus on ourselves."
The competition will see a number of nations who did not compete in the World series take to the boards in the biggest global diving event of the year.
"They've had a year to practise while we've been doing competitions," Barrow said.
"People like South Korea came into the World Series once and medalled, while Australia will be back in.
"It will be a tough event like always, it's a world competition, but we have been in the top six for the past few years now and that'll be our aim at least," she added.
The nine-year-old was handed 11st 10lb for the world-famous steeplechase, but Elliott says the Cheltenham Gold Cup contender will not run on 8 April.
Elliott boasts the most entries at 14, with Irish Gold Cup runner-up Empire Of Dirt and Don Poli also among the top four weights for the race.
Henry de Bromhead's Champagne West is second at 11st 9lb.
The British Horseracing Authority said the result of the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday had a "big effect on the top of the handicap".
"It was the crucial race, two days before the weights," said Phil Smith, who has handicapped the Grand National every year since 1999.
"When I get the entries, I have a train of thought and then something happens which means I have to change that."
Lord Scoundrel (11st), Clarcam (10st 12lb) and Roi Des Francs (10st 12lb) are other possible representatives for Elliott, who won the Grand National with Silver Birch in 2007, and Gigginstown House Stud.
Gigginstown produced its first National winner last April with Rule The World and has 16 contenders this time around.
The Last Samuri was runner-up to Rule The World in 2016 carrying 10st 8lb, but Kim Bailey's nine-year-old is set for 11st 5lb this time around.
December's Becher Chase winner Vieux Lion Rouge is currently the last horse guaranteed entry in the 40-strong line-up at 10st 7lb.
"The top of the handicap is dominated by Irish-trained horses, which is a symbol of the respective strength of Irish and UK jump racing," added Smith.
So who is the man asking the questions - and what does he have in store?
Lester Holt's CV includes major network shows such as Dateline NBC, Today, and his current role as anchor of NBC Nightly News, which attracts millions of viewers every night.
That makes him a national celebrity, and well used to high-stakes TV.
He has already been accused of political bias, when Mr Trump labelled him a Democrat and complained about the "unfair system".
But journalists checked voter records, and it turns out Holt is actually a registered Republican.
However, with more interest in presidential politics than ever, Monday night's debate is poised to be a major national event.
Some are predicting it could attract 80 or even 100 million viewers - well over 10 times Holt's usual audience.
Holt also finds himself at the centre of a row about just what a moderator should - and should not - do.
Earlier this month, a fellow NBC journalist, Matt Lauer, failed to challenge Mr Trump's false statement that he opposed the war in Iraq - which led to a huge backlash, and a debate on how much fact-checking a moderator should do.
Then, over the weekend, multiple news organisations published variations on a story, fact-checking hundreds of statements from both candidates.
The New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times all accused both candidates of false statements - but each concluded that Mr Trump exaggerated or told untruths more frequently. Politico said Mr Trump's mishandling of facts "so greatly exceed [Mrs] Clinton's as to make the comparison almost ludicrous".
Mrs Clinton's campaign is calling for more fact-checking. Mr Trump wants the moderator to let the candidates fight it out themselves.
The truth - or lack of it - is a major issue in the campaign heading into the first debate, and Lester Holt will have to decide to what extent he challenges candidates on their statements.
Frank Fahrenkopf, the chair of the commission which organises the presidential debates, told the BBC that it is not the primary responsibility of the moderator to challenge perceived inaccuracies in what is essentially a debate rather than an interview.
"The candidates must work against each other," he said.
"If Donald Trump says something that's not right it's up to Mrs Clinton to correct it and vice versa."
"But if something is said that's blatantly wrong and goes uncorrected by the other party then the moderator has a difficult route to go.
"But they're not to be the judge, they're not to be the decider - that's what the debate is about - both parties are supposed to go at each other and the public will decide which one they are going to support."
Mr Fahrenkopf said that one thing is almost certain at the end of the debate - whoever loses is likely to blame the moderator.
Only three topics have been announced for the 90-minute debate: America's direction," "achieving prosperity" and "securing America".
None of that tells us very much - but the remaining questions will be based on current events. And in his role as news anchor, Mr Holt has already interviewed both candidates and put tough questions to each.
"Secretary Clinton, you famously handed Russia's foreign minister a reset button in 2009," Holt asked Hilary Clinton earlier this year.
"Since then, Russia has annexed Crimea, fomented a war in Ukraine, provided weapons that downed an airliner and launched operations, as we just did discuss, to support Assad in Syria. As president, would you hand Vladimir Putin a reset button?"
And Mr Trump hasn't had an easy time of it with Mr Holt either. "You made some very bold claims ... that didn't stand up," he said after Mr Trump claimed Hillary Clinton was asleep during an attack on an American compound in Benghazi.
Then, he proceeded to ask for evidence of Mr Trump's claim that Mrs Clinton's email server had been hacked - which Mr Trump could not provide.
As the debate has drawn closer, Lester Holt has found himself on the receiving end of analysis from fellow journalists.
Broadly, he has received the backing of his peers - but some doubt he will escape unscathed.
"I don't envy Lester Holt. No matter what he does in the first presidential debate, he'll be denounced," a columnist wrote in the Washington Post.
At NPR, David Folkenflik wrote: "surely an anchor such as Lester Holt does not abdicate his duties as a truth-seeker and a journalist by serving as a debate moderator."
And writing for CNN, Dylan Byers said "he is one of the most focused and hardworking personalities in television news, with 35 years' experience and, in all that time, not a controversy to speak of."
But with the heated rhetoric on both sides of the campaign, Holt could find himself in the centre of a controversy no matter what he does.
It looks and smells like it hasn't been cleaned for a while.
Mothers, aunts and grandmothers are taking turns pumping oxygen manually into tubes stuck to babies' noses because there are no ventilators in the ward.
There are at least two babies to each cot because there is nowhere else to put them. Some mothers have used waiting benches as makeshift hospital beds.
This is where critical cardiac cases come and wait for urgent treatment or surgery.
Pakistan has one of the highest rates of children with congenital heart disease in the world: each year, between 40-50,000 children are born with heart defects.
Professor Masood Sadiq, a leading heart surgeon, says it's mainly due to lack of maternal healthcare.
"Diabetes is rampant in mothers so that increases the risk," he says.
"We're still not vaccinating the mothers, so something like congenital rubella predisposes those children to congenital heart disease."
Pakistan's public health system is overwhelmed with cases and severely underfunded.
"We live in a country where only 0.9% of the budget is spent on the public health sector and 3% if you add the private sector," Prof Sadiq says. "In a country with that kind of budget spent on health, where would paediatric cardiology fall?"
He adds that it's not just the faltering infrastructure that makes it difficult to care for these children, but also the lack of investment in human resources.
"Doctors need to be paid," he says. "I work two shifts. I work in this institution and then I have a private practice that's how I look after my family.
"If, at this level, I have to do this, what would a junior doctor do?"
Many trained surgeons prefer to leave for parts of the Middle East, like the oil-rich Gulf, where there's a better pay and quality of life for doctors and their families.
This leaves Pakistan short of much-needed skilled doctors.
In a country of nearly 200m people, there are only eight paediatric heart surgeons and 21 paediatric cardiologists.
In this Lahore government hospital alone, doctors say 8,000 children are waiting for surgery.
"Some of these children will die waiting," says Salman Shah, one of the senior paediatric heart surgeons.
"Of the children born with congenital heart disease, about 25,000 need surgery every year.
"Only 3-4,000 get it. That leaves a huge backlog of children added to a pool of already existing patients," he adds.
"It becomes very frustrating when you know a kid needs an operation, you know you can do it but there's no infrastructure or you're held back because they just can't pay for it," Dr Shah says.
A charity called the Pakistan Children's Heart Foundation is trying to help children from poor families by funding surgeries through donations.
They've teamed up with a number of private and public heart centres across the country to provide funds, space and adequate medical care for the children.
The charity's founder, Farhan Ahmed, started the charity for personal reasons.
"My daughter was born with congenital heart defect and we went through a terrible time," he says. "It was very difficult for us to find the right doctor.
"It took us three weeks to find out she had a congenital heart defect."
Farhan's daughter did have the surgery but she died after that of other complications.
Mr Ahmed said it was his daughter's memory that gave him the incentive to start the initiative.
One of the children the charity is helping is 16-month-old Muskan Wali.
She was born with a hole in her heart and suffers obstruction of blood flow to the lungs.
Muskan and her family are from North Waziristan and were displaced after the military operation against the Taliban started there.
"It was already a very difficult life," her father Saud Wali says. "After we were displaced, Muskan's condition worsened.
"Her nails would go blue and so would her eyelids. She would scream and then faint.
"I'm jobless now and we couldn't afford an operation anyway. Then we found out about this charity in Lahore. We came here with little hope. But they have offered to help us."
After waiting for a year, Muskan is now one of the few children who'll undergo heart surgery and get adequate health care at a private facility.
An operation in a private hospital costs between $3-4,000, which is a hefty sum for most families.
The other option is to rely on government hospitals and keep waiting.
Prof Sadiq says one of the most difficult aspects of his job is deciding which child to help on any given day, knowing that many children may never get the help they need.
"The prioritisation of patients is what hurts the most," he says.
"It's mental torture - you fight with your conscience every day."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels fired hundreds of rockets and shells into at least seven government-held areas late on Thursday.
By Friday morning, they had made small advances, the monitoring group added.
But the Syrian state news agency Sana said the assault had been repelled and more than 100 "terrorists" killed.
Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided roughly in half between government-held areas in the west and rebel-controlled eastern quarters for almost three years.
Fighting on the ground and government air strikes have left thousands dead, and destroyed more than 60% of the Old City, a Unesco World Heritage site.
But in recent months, the rebels have driven government forces out of several areas in the countryside to the north, as well as almost all of the neighbouring province of Idlib.
More than 230,000 people are believed to have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. Some 11.5 million others - more than half of the country's population - have fled their homes.
Rebels have made numerous attempts to seize key installations held by the government, but with little effect.
On Thursday, 13 Islamist fighting groups and al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, came together to launch a co-ordinated assault on several fronts.
A statement said the aim of the new coalition, called Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law), was "the liberation of Aleppo and its countryside", after which they would work with other groups to govern the city according to Islamic law.
Western-backed groups also said they were taking part in the offensive, organised through a joint operations room called Fatah Halab (Conquest of Aleppo), the New York Times reported.
The rebels launched simultaneous attacks on western districts of the city controlled by government forces, firing hundreds of rockets and shells, the Syrian Observatory reported.
The offensive unleashed on government-held western Aleppo by Ansar al-Sharia seems to be the most serious since the battle for Aleppo began.
An early test of its prospects will be one of the first apparent objectives - the loathed and feared Air Force Intelligence headquarters in Zahra, on the western edge of the city. Rebels have tried many times to capture it, and failed.
The offensive has been building up for some time, following the capture of Idlib by a newly-coalesced rebel alliance, Jaish al-Fatah (Victory Army), in March.
What's making the difference is that rebel groups, and their outside backers like Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which were competing in the past, now seem to be pulling together - bad news for the regime.
The success of the new campaign may depend on whether Damascus is seriously determined to hang on to Aleppo. If it is, rebel progress will be slow and hard.
The UK-based group said the fighting continued into the early hours of Friday and was focused on the frontline in Zahra, a heavily-defended area that houses several major security compounds.
At least nine people were killed and dozens wounded by the rebel barrage, it added.
The military responded with a heavy aerial and artillery bombardment of rebel positions in the city, and the fighting continued for several hours.
On Friday morning, military sources told Sana and Reuters news agency that the assault had been repelled and that heavy casualties had been inflicted on the rebels.
The Syrian Observatory said the rebels had managed to seize some buildings in the north-western outskirts of Aleppo, but that the gains were not of strategic importance.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says that if the rebels do manage to capture all Aleppo, it would be a huge blow to the government.
There have been persistent reports in recent weeks that it is preparing to give up both the northern city, and Deraa in the south, the better to defend the core areas of western Syria with the limited manpower at its disposal, he adds.
But state media reported that the prime minister has just been in Aleppo, visiting front-line units and dispensing large amounts of cash to the city authorities for reconstruction and administrative expenses.
Fraizer Campbell put Palace ahead with a low finish just after the break.
Gayle then netted a penalty after Campbell was fouled by Alou Diarra, before Naby Sarr pulled one back.
Diarra was sent off after another foul in the box, with Gayle scoring again from the spot before completing his hat-trick with a header after a corner.
How Wednesday's League Cup drama unfolded
Palace had exited the League Cup to teams from the second or third tier in four of the past five seasons, but this was a potent performance from Alan Pardew's side against the team he managed between 2006 and 2008.
Gayle has not started a Premier League match all season, but this display underlined his value to Palace, who had not scored in either of their previous two games.
Charlton manager Guy Luzon rested key players Ahmed Kashi, Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Tony Watt as his side suffered a third consecutive defeat in all competitions.
The Addicks have not reached the fourth round of the League Cup since the 2006-07 season.
Manchester City v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v Bournemouth
Manchester United v Middlesbrough
Everton v Norwich City
Southampton v Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday v Arsenal
Hull City v Leicester City
Stoke City v Chelsea
(Ties to be played on 27 and 28 October)
Crystal Palace assistant manager Keith Millen: "It's nice to have your forwards scoring. Dwight and Fraizer looked sharp all night.
"They both looked dangerous so that will give everyone a confidence boost and it's nice to have some competition for the weekend.
"It was a performance that we wanted from the whole team, we had players who needed game time. We want to go as far as we can, we are in the last 16 and it's been a while since we had a cup run."
Charlton manager Guy Luzon: "We organised well in the first half, especially with a young team.
"But the first penalty was harsh and then after the second, at 3-1 with 10 players, it's finished. I don't know about the sending-off, I was too far away from the situation.
"We have a lot of injuries and in our situation we had to use some young players. I wanted to pick my strongest team but I didn't have any choice."
Match ends, Crystal Palace 4, Charlton Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Crystal Palace 4, Charlton Athletic 1.
Attempt blocked. Lee Chung-yong (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by El-Hadji Ba (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt saved. Dwight Gayle (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Lee Chung-yong.
Goal! Crystal Palace 4, Charlton Athletic 1. Dwight Gayle (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lee Chung-yong with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Morgan Fox.
Attempt saved. Patrick Bamford (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dwight Gayle.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Adrian Mariappa.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Morgan Fox.
Adrian Mariappa (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Patrick Bamford (Crystal Palace).
Zakarya Bergdich (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Tony Watt replaces Conor McAleny.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Yohan Cabaye replaces James McArthur.
Goal! Crystal Palace 3, Charlton Athletic 1. Dwight Gayle (Crystal Palace) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Second yellow card to Alou Diarra (Charlton Athletic) for a bad foul.
Penalty Crystal Palace. Dwight Gayle draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Alou Diarra (Charlton Athletic) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Karlan Ahearne-Grant (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Conor McAleny with a cross.
Zakarya Bergdich (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Zakarya Bergdich (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt saved. Alou Diarra (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Ahmed Kashi with a cross.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Martin Kelly.
Goal! Crystal Palace 2, Charlton Athletic 1. Naby Sarr (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Morgan Fox with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Ahmed Kashi replaces Jordan Cousins.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Adrian Mariappa.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Cousins (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
Attempt missed. Patrick Bamford (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Dwight Gayle.
Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by El-Hadji Ba (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Patrick Bamford replaces Fraizer Campbell.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Johann Berg Gudmundsson replaces Mikhail Kennedy.
Goal! Crystal Palace 2, Charlton Athletic 0. Dwight Gayle (Crystal Palace) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
North Korea returned Otto Warmbier, 22, to the US last week, saying he had been in a coma for a year and that it was acting on humanitarian grounds.
His parents said he had been subjected to "awful torturous mistreatment".
Mr Warmbier, who was jailed for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel, did not regain consciousness.
Mr Trump said that a "lot of bad things happened" to Mr Warmbier, but added: "At least we got him home to be with his parents, where they were so happy to see him, even though he was in very tough condition."
President Trump said Mr Warmbier's death had deepened his administration's resolve "to prevent such tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not respect the rule of law or basic human decency".
"The United States once again condemns the brutality of the North Korean regime as we mourn its latest victim."
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in told CBS News on Tuesday it was "quite clear" that North Korea had "a heavy responsibility in the process that led to Mr Warmbier's death".
Mr Warmbier's parents, Fred and Cindy, said in a statement that their son had died at 14:20 local time (18:20 GMT) on Monday at the Cincinnati hospital where he had been receiving treatment.
They said he had "completed his journey home".
They wrote: "When Otto returned to Cincinnati late on June 13, he was unable to speak, unable to see and unable to react to verbal commands.
"He looked very uncomfortable - almost anguished. Although we would never hear his voice again, within a day, the countenance of his face changed - he was at peace. He was home, and we believe he could sense that."
They also said: "The awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today."
The company Mr Warmbier travelled with, China-based company Young Pioneer Tours, has announced it will no longer take visitors from the US to the country.
North Korea said Mr Warmbier had contracted botulism, a rare illness that causes paralysis, soon after his trial in March 2016. He was given a sleeping pill and had been in a coma ever since.
But a team of doctors assessing him in Cincinnati said they had found "no sign of botulism".
Mr Warmbier had suffered a "severe neurological injury" of unknown cause, the US doctors said, leading to an extensive loss of brain tissue.
Mr Warmbier could open his eyes but showed no sign of response to communication.
They said the most likely cause, given Mr Warmbier's young age, was cardiopulmonary arrest that had cut the blood supply to the brain.
The BBC's Steve Evans in Seoul says the North Korean account clearly cannot be taken at face value.
He says it is not known when Mr Warmbier had fallen into his coma and that there must be a suspicion it was quite recently, as the US was only told at the beginning of this month about his health situation.
The North Koreans may have realised there was the possibility of an American citizen dying on their hands, our correspondent says.
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who has helped free other Americans in North Korea, said he had met North Korean envoys 20 times during Mr Warmbier's incarceration and on no occasion was his health mentioned.
He called for the release of the three US citizens still held in North Korea:
There are also six South Korean citizens being held.
Mr Trump was criticised in May when he said he would be "honoured" to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the "appropriate" time.
Even on the day that George Osborne wants to sound tough, demanding that the rest of the EU rejects closer and closer political union - and gives legal guarantees to the UK that our businesses will never suffer because they are not in the eurozone, it is almost impossible, observing the chancellor here, to imagine that one day he might stand on a platform and call for the UK to leave.
He is positive about the chances of a deal, and doesn't want to countenance the idea that the negotiations might not achieve very much.
There have been nerves in government that the Eurosceptic side of this argument is gaining momentum.
Ministers' official position, indeed a bargaining chip in the negotiations, is that hypothetically, if other countries don't sign up to our demands, they are ready to campaign to go.
But, observing Mr Osborne in Berlin, continental Europe's most powerful capital, cracking jokes about British and German sausages, clearly delighting in his political friendship with the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, it is Mr Osborne, the self-professed optimist, who is not just an advocate of the UK"s emerging negotiating strategy but of the benefits of our membership itself.
He is visibly confident, but this will be difficult.
He confirmed the changes the government wants to make will require a new EU Treaty.
There is zero chance of that happening before the British vote, and ministers can't answer how or when it might happen.
And for the Chancellor's demands on legal protections for business and the City of London today, it's not clear why other countries will sign up to give equal consideration to Britain's interests, as well as their own - two new challenges on the list, in addition to restricting benefits' migrants, changing the principle of freedom of movement, and getting some powers back for our Parliament.
For Mr Osborne, who twice today refused to rule out becoming the next Conservative leader, his political future depends on steering the government through this vote, which must happen by the end of 2017.
He may well be an optimist, but on this, he needs to be right.
Ashley Mote, 79, is on trial at Southwark Crown Court for allegedly using fraudulent claims to pay people he says were "whistleblowers".
He sat as an independent MEP from 2004-2009 after being expelled from UKIP.
Mr Mote, from Hampshire, denies 11 charges including false accounting, fraud and acquiring criminal property.
Mr Mote, who was an MEP for South East England, said in court the claims he made were to pay whistleblowers in cash through third parties.
He said he would not give further details because he did not want to put those he paid at risk.
When asked by prosecutor Jonathan Davies if there was any evidence of the payments Mr Mote replied: "Well I hope not, I went out of my way to ensure that there wasn't.
"I gave my word to the many individuals involved, some of them took great risks."
When it was suggested he had been using the sums for his "own personal purposes", he said: "I was targeted for being an anti-EU MEP."
Mr Mote claimed he spent years investigating the misuse of public expenses on behalf of the people of south east England.
He denies four counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, three of false accounting, two of fraud, and one each of acquiring criminal property and concealing criminal property.
The offences allegedly took place between November 2004 and July 2010.
While an MEP Mr Mote claimed £750,000 in Parliamentary Assistance Allowance.
Mr Mote was elected as a UKIP MEP in 2004 but was expelled from the party before he took up his seat as he was being prosecuted by the Department for Work and Pensions for benefit fraud.
He continued as an independent MEP until 2009.
The trial continues.
25 October 2016 Last updated at 15:50 BST
An American team of robots has beaten a team from Australia in the final of the RoboCup Challenge in Beijing, China.
The Australian team struggled with technical difficulties as some of their robots didn't work.
Their opponents ended up winning the grand final 7-3.
The robots are shaped like humans and are just over half a metre tall.
When they play football, they are not being controlled by humans. They are actually communicating with each other all by themselves.
One of their biggest problems is managing to stay standing up!
Each team can have up to five robots on the pitch at any one time. However, they will be substituted from time to time as they may malfunction or overheat.
The song is one of several numbers Cath Gamester, 84, hears on a constant loop throughout the day.
The grandmother from Liverpool has musical ear syndrome, where the sufferer has auditory hallucinations.
Since it started in 2010, she said she had heard songs including God Save The Queen, Abide with me, You'll Never Walk Alone and Silent Night.
She said: "it just goes on and on and on, one song after another.
Source: British Tinnitus Association
How does the ear work?
"It's a tenor, a man's voice and it's a nice voice, very strong, loud and there's like a background of music."
The rare condition affects about one in 10,000 people over 65 in the UK.
Often, the person is also suffering from tinnitus.
Mrs Gamester believes the songs were triggered by a course of anti-depressants she was prescribed after the death of her sister.
"I went to bed and when I woke up I heard music. I thought to myself it must be next door - he must be playing a record because it was going on and on.
"I went out the back door, I went out the front door, I went out to see if there was any music being played everywhere, I was thinking where is it coming from?"
Mrs Gamester said she sometimes vacuumed or told it to "shut up" in a bid to drown the noise out.
Dr Nick Warner, a psychiatrist who specialises in the elderly, said he usually dealt with "a couple of cases a year" connected to musical ear syndrome.
"When you get a musical hallucination it feels as if it's real, it feels as if there's a record player playing it or the artist is in the room or in the next-door room.
"As far as you're concerned probably everyone else ought to be able to hear it as well so it's very, very real."
Dr Warner said in the majority of cases he had encountered, people heard hymns and Christmas carols.
"On speculative terms, it could be that without knowing it, that person needs to hear something which is in some way reassuring to them."
Despite no current cure to for the condition, Dr Warner said there are ways of helping people live with it.
"Some people have found that putting on other music enables them to take control over from the musical hallucinations.
"I think talking about it to other people probably helps, distracting yourself, doing as much as you possibly can."
Mrs Gamester said she had found her own way of accepting the hallucinations.
"I've worked out the fact that I should be glad it's not a serious illness.
"I would say to these poor people out there who are like me - don't let it worry you too much, get on with life and enjoy yourself as much as you can."
Inside Out North West is broadcast on BBC One on Monday, 17 December at 19:30 GMT and nationwide on the iPlayer for seven days afterwards.
The crustaceans will be on their way to British astronaut Maj Tim Peake following a launch scheduled from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 21:43 BST.
Maj Peake will see how they reproduce in space and whether they can survive.
Six youngsters from Rhondda Cynon Taff came up with the idea to win Mission Discovery 2013.
This is a project which allows secondary school students to carry out biomedical research with NASA astronauts and rocket scientists.
Astronaut Mike Foale - the first Briton to perform a space walk - worked on the project with Liam Collins-Jones, Rhiannydd Thomas, Sion Phillips and Trystan Gruffydd from Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg in Church Village, Georgia Bailey from Tonyrefail School and Ieuan Williams from Aberdare High School.
The water fleas, or Daphnia, have been taken from a pond at the University of Birmingham and experts helped with the more technical aspects of the challenge.
The idea is if they can survive in space, their complex genetic systems will open the doors to research there.
Chris Barber, director of the International Space School Educational Trust, said: "Mission Discovery gives ordinary young people the chance to do something extraordinary.
"We are incredibly pleased to be enabling such amazing opportunities for school students in south Wales."
Two experiments have already been sent to the ISS and the water fleas are among five on board the rocket being launched.
The water fleas were originally due to be sent in June last year, but ISSET said the explosion of three separate US rockets delayed the human space programme.
Source: Microscopic-uk.org.uk
The ban is now on hold until Wednesday.
It was passed by the city council last week and came into effect on Monday amid an outcry by animal welfare groups and threats to boycott the city over the law.
The delay is a short-term win for the Montreal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which is challenging the city in court over the new animal control by-law.
The SPCA is seeking a longer-term suspension from the Quebec Superior Court during which they plan to challenge the legality of the new by-law.
Alanna Devine, director of animal advocacy at the organisation, called the rules "draconian".
'We're simply not going to participate in a by-law we feel is not legal in terms of violating people's fundamental rights and basic principles of administrative law," she said.
She argued that among its issues, the ban defines pitbull breeds too broadly and will be too expensive for some dog owners who want to comply with the new rules.
The Quebec Order of Veterinarians and other animal welfare groups are supporting the SPCA's opposition. Opponents of the ban have also received support from US-based pitbull advocates and celebrities like actress and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson and singer Cyndi Lauper.
Pitbull ban supporters say the breed is uniquely dangerous and point to studies suggesting attacks by pitbulls and their closest relatives outnumber those of other breeds, as well as more likely to severely injure or kill the victim.
Montreal's push for a city-wide ban came in the wake of a fatal dog mauling last June in Pointe-aux-Trembles, a suburban community in Montreal's east-end, and the subsequent pressure from the victim's family to crackdown on aggressive dogs. Quebec is also considering a province-wide ban.
In the attack, 55-year-old Christiane Vadnais was mauled to death in her backyard by a neighbour's dog.
Farid Benzenati, who witnessed some of the mauling, told the Montreal Gazette he first thought the dog was playing with a toy.
"As I got closer I saw, I distinguished a body, the body of a woman, because I saw her hair," he said. "It was horrible."
Police had to shoot and kill the dog before paramedics could approach Ms Vadnais' body. She was declared dead on the scene.
Under the new by-law, new ownership of pitbulls is banned. Existing pitbulls have to be licensed by the end of the year.
By 31 March 2017, the dogs must be sterilised, micro-chipped and vaccinated. They must also be kept on a short leash and muzzled in public. Pitbull owners must undergo a criminal background check.
Montreal is not the first jurisdiction in Canada to implement a breed-specific ban.
The city of Winnipeg implemented a similar ban in 1990, and Ontario in 2005. A number of other smaller jurisdictions across the country also have so-called breed-specific legislation (BSL).
According to statistics compiled by DogsBite.org, a US charity that supports such bans, 36 US states and 41 countries worldwide have some form of BSL on the books, from mandatory sterilisation to outright bans on pitbulls and some other breeds.
Still, the laws are fiercely opposed by animal advocates in North America. Animal Alliance of Canada's Liz White argues it makes no sense to ban an entire breed over a few aggressive dogs.
"It's like taking a sledgehammer to a pea," she said.
In Toronto, where her organisation is based, Ms White said the ban has simply served to drive pitbull owners underground. Only about 30% of dogs in Toronto are licensed, according to Toronto Animal Services.
"We know they (pitbulls) are in Toronto because they end up in shelters," Ms White said.
And results of the decade-old ban are not conclusive. Data provided by the city show dog bites increased by 24% between 2014 and 2015.
Javier Schwersensky, chief executive of the Winnipeg Humane Society, admitted it was difficult to measure the impact of the city's 25-year-old pitbull ban on reducing the dangers caused by aggressive dogs.
"There will never be an agreement about the benefit or not of breed specific legislation. You will never get to the point of 100% conclusive evidence," he said.
"It's really about public sentiment, at the end of the day, how the public feels."
Meanwhile, the dog that killed Ms Vadnais might not in fact have been a pitbull.
Montreal police are still waiting for the results of a DNA test to confirm its breed.
Prince Charles last visited Muchelney in February to meet people directly affected by the winter floods.
He returned earlier to acknowledge the perseverance of the community and to see how the village is striving to get back to normal.
The Prince's Countryside Fund has donated £50,000 to help the area.
The visit was part of a series of engagements in the county, which includes an effort to help promote tourism in the region hit by the effect of the floods.
He attended a reception of 100 guests at Almonry Barn, where owner of the previously flooded venue - Louise Wilson-Ward - spoke positively about the future.
"The message today is to not keep harping on about the floods, otherwise our economy is really going to suffer," she said.
"If you put the word 'Somerset' in Google, what comes up is pictures of the floods and people are avoiding the whole area but we are open for business again."
Farmer Jane Pine, 59, who lost 200-acres but still managed to milk her 400 cows three times each day, said Prince Charles had achieved more in his February visit than in 10 years of local campaigning.
"I told Prince Charles and he said 'Well I had to do something, it's runs in the family, it's in my blood.' And he is, he is just like his dad - he says it like it is.
"He said 'At least I have done some good.' He really does know what he is talking about, he is a farmer himself and he knows what is going on at this time of year.
"He pushed all the politicians into doing something. We have all been pushing for years and they have done nothing."
After visiting Muchelney, Prince Charles was driven to Castle Cary railway station and he also attended a reception held in Glastonbury with festival founder Michael Eavis.
Lindsay, 21, has been with Alan Archibald's Jags since 2012 and has had loan spells at Alloa and Airdrieonians.
He has made 44 appearances for the Scottish Premiership side, scoring five times.
Manager Archibald had been linked with a move to English League One side Shrewsbury Town.
However, the 38-year-old, whose team have 10 points from 10 league games this season and lie in ninth place, said he wished to stay in Glasgow.
But the PM declined to back a 2015 Tory pledge that also ruled out rises in income tax and National Insurance.
Mrs May said she would not be making "specific proposals" on taxes unless she is "absolutely sure" they can be delivered.
Labour promised "low taxes for low and medium earners", claiming the Tories favoured "low taxes for high earners".
Asked whether she would be repeating ex-PM David Cameron's "five-year tax lock", covering income tax, National Insurance and VAT until 2020, Mrs May told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "We have absolutely no plans to increase the level of tax.
"But I'm also very clear that I do not want to make specific proposals on taxes unless I am absolutely sure that I can deliver on those."
Speaking later on the Peston on Sunday show, she added: "We have no plans to raise the level of tax.
"In relation to specific taxes, we won't be increasing VAT."
Labour has also ruled out a VAT rise.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "We are the party that wants low taxes for low and medium earners. The Conservative Party are the party that wants low taxes for high earners. We look at things the other way round.
"So yes, there will be changes, but they will be very very much at the top end."
Labour is also unveiling a "20-point plan" to tackle what it calls the "rigged economy", including increasing the minimum wage, banning zero hours contracts and ending the public sector pay freeze.
Talk of tax rises during an election campaign is a risky strategy - and up until now Theresa May has been careful to avoid getting into specifics.
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond had hinted he wanted to ditch the so-called "tax-lock" - to give him more flexibility to manage the economy.
Now the prime minister has suggested she's prepared to revise the previous Tory manifesto commitment, though she insists the Conservatives are the party of lower taxation and she wants to reduce taxes for "working families".
For Labour, it's about where the tax burden falls - Jeremy Corbyn claims the rich and businesses must pay more, while he's promising to protect low and middle income earners from any increases.
But extra funding is needed for schools, hospitals and social care - so whoever wins the election, the money will need to be found from somewhere.
On the Marr show, Mrs May suggested the "triple lock" protecting the state pension could be changed, saying state pensions would continue to rise, with details of how this will be calculated to be revealed in the Tories' manifesto.
The triple lock ensures the state pension increases in line with wages, inflation or by 2.5% - whichever is highest.
She was asked about reports NHS nurses have been forced to use food banks, saying there were "many complex reasons" why people used the facilities and that a strong economy will lead to "secure jobs".
And she rejected claims she was "in a different galaxy" to the rest of the EU on Brexit negotiations, repeating her view that no deal would be better than a bad one.
After the 27 EU leaders agreed their Brexit negotiations, the PM said there was "good will" on both sides about settling the issue of EU nationals living in the UK, and Britons elsewhere in Europe.
She said recent comments by EU figures showed that talks could be hard, and stressed her determination to reach agreement on a trade deal at the same time as settling the terms of the UK's exit.
The EU wants to tackle the issue of any "divorce bill" for the UK at an early stage of the process.
Mrs May said EU leaders were keen to "start discussions about money", but added: "I'm very clear that at the end of the negotiations we need to be clear not just about the Brexit arrangement, the exit, how we withdraw, but also what our future relationship is going to be."
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron told the Marr show the UK "desperately needs a strong opposition", saying that Lib Dem success was the only way to prevent the "calamity of hard Brexit".
A Conservative majority was "not in question" and Mrs May was heading for a "colossal coronation", he predicted.
He said the decision to call the general election had been motivated by a "cold, calculated desire to do what's best for the Conservative Party".
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood told the Sunday Politics show any Brexit plan that threatened Welsh jobs would be "extreme" and "unacceptable".
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond said his party would provide "real opposition" to the Tories on public spending cuts.
Mr Gray, along with a Scottish Labour MP, will represent the party on the commission being chaired by Lord Smith.
The Greens put forward their co-leaders, Patrick Harvie and Maggie Chapman, to the commission at the weekend.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced details of the body after Scotland voted against independence.
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney and SNP MSP Linda Fabiani are representing their party on the commission, alongside former Scottish Conservative leader, Baroness Goldie and Prof Adam Tomkins, for the Tories.
Glenn Campbell, BBC Scotland political correspondent
It is a high-powered line up.
It includes a serving Scottish cabinet minister (John Swinney) and a former UK cabinet minister (Michael Moore).
A further three former Scottish Executive/Government ministers (Iain Gray, Tavish Scott and Linda Fabiani).
And no fewer than six former or current Scottish party leaders (Goldie, Harvie, Chapman, Gray, Scott and Swinney).
They are among the ten people nominated by the five Holyrood parties to serve on Lord Smith's commission on further devolution.
He will have a wealth of talent and experience at the table when he convenes the commission's first full meeting in mid-October.
But the three pro-union parties have contrasting blueprints for the extra powers Holyrood should have.
And the SNP and the Greens want to maximise further devolution having advocated a 'Yes' vote in the independence referendum.
Getting all sides to find an agreed way forward by St Andrews Day will not be easy, as Lord Smith himself has acknowledged.
The Liberal Democrats are being represented by former Scottish Secretary Michael Moore and Tavish Scott, the party's previous Scottish leader.
The Smith Commission aims to get agreement between the Holyrood parties by 30 November.
A "command paper", setting out the issues, is also due to be published by 31 October, with draft legislation on new powers for Scotland due to be unveiled by 25 January.
Lincolnshire County Council and South Holland District Council have decided not to fund Spalding Flower Parade beyond next year's event.
The parade, which has been run since 1959, attracted crowds of more than 100,000 people in its heyday.
But councillors said attendances had dropped to a level where it was difficult to justify supporting it.
The parade, which features tulip-covered floats and marching bands, costs £200,000 a year to stage.
Each council contributes £40,000 towards the event but have said they will not be able to provide any funding after 2013.
Lincolnshire County Council's Eddy Poll said: "Back in the day when we were getting 100,000 visitors plus, it was worth the investment but I would imagine there was less than 40,000 there this year.
"I know the weather played a part but visitor numbers have been falling off over the past few years and it's now at a level that I don't think we can really sustain."
"I've personally been involved with the parade for 25 years so it's not been an easy decision for me but I think it's come to a point where we can't afford to underwrite it any more."
Mr Poll said the council welcomed suggestions on how the parade could continue beyond 2013 in a different form.
Baraka Elias, who is 7ft 4in (2.20m), said he needed hip replacement surgery after hurting himself in a fall.
However, doctors at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, told him that his height meant he would not fit properly in a hospital bed, Mr Elias said.
They also told him their X-ray equipment was unsuitable for someone of his height, he added.
Local media quote doctors at the specialist Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, confirming Mr Elias' story.
Tanzania has poor health services, compared with countries in the west.
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Mr Elias said many people were amazed by his height, but he regarded it as "normal".
His parents told him it was hereditary, he added.
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A Tanzanian man has told the BBC that a hospital has been unable to treat him because he is too tall.
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Minor scorch damage was caused to the rear bathroom window of the property in Golf Terrace at about 19:30 GMT on Saturday.
The male occupant had only recently moved into the house.
The police have said they are still working to establish a motive and have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Sinn Féin's John O'Dowd said it was a worrying development following a series of attacks in Banbridge.
"There is growing concern in the community that there is a level of coordination behind these attacks," he said.
"Those behind them don't care that they seriously injure or kill the intended target or someone in the vicinity."
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A man has escaped injury in a petrol bomb attack on a house in Banbridge, County Down.
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A five-year plan for the NHS - unveiled by six national bodies - once again highlighted an annual £30bn shortfall would open up in the next Parliament.
It said changes, such as GP practices offering hospital services, would help to plug a large chunk of the gap.
But health chiefs said the NHS would still need above-inflation rises of 1.5% over the coming years.
That works out at an extra £8bn a year above inflation by 2020.
The current budget stands at £100bn a year, but all the political parties have already started talking about what they would do in the next Parliament.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said difficult decisions needed to be taken, but added the Conservatives were committed to "protecting and increasing" funding in real terms.
"A strong NHS needs a strong economy, then it is possible to increase spending this report calls for."
£100bn
NHS England budget for 2014-15
£30bn
Shortfall predicted by 2020
That could fund 100 hospitals
New ways of working could save £22bn
But NHS still needs an extra £8bn
Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said some of the proposals were ideas Labour had already suggested.
"We've have found an extra £2.5bn for the NHS, we've said that the NHS will be our priority in the next Parliament, and alongside that, we're saying that the time has come to bring social care into the NHS."
The Liberal Democrats have said they will make sure the budget rises above inflation.
The five-year plan - called the NHS Forward View - also said the future of the health service depended on it becoming more efficient.
To achieve this, it called for a rethink about the way services were delivered.
It put forward a range of models - although it stressed it was up to each local area to decide which ones to adopt.
These include:
Many of these measures are designed to curb the rise in hospital admissions and the impact of the ageing population - the source of most pressure in the health service.
Nurses and doctors from Airedale Hospital in West Yorkshire have set up video link-ups with local care homes.
It allows consultations to take place with residents on everything from cuts and bumps to diabetes management.
Emergency admissions from these homes have reduced by 35% and A&E attendances by 53%.
But the report - produced by NHS England, Public Health England, the regulator Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority, Care Quality Commission and Health Education England - also said more needed to be done to reduce obesity, smoking and drinking rates.
It suggested employers should be encouraged to incentivise their staff to become healthier by taking steps such as offering them shopping vouchers for healthy behaviour.
Meanwhile, councils could play their part by using their powers in areas such as planning and licensing to limit the opening of junk food outlets and the sale of cheap high-strength alcohol.
Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, the lead body for Forward View, said the NHS was at a "crossroads".
"It is perfectly possible to improve and sustain the NHS over the next five years in a way that the public and patients want. But the NHS needs to change substantially."
He said if the health service did not improve, the "consequences for patients will be severe" in terms of what could be done to ensure patients received the best care in areas such as cancer and heart disease.
But he added there was no reason why a tax-funded NHS would not continue if the plans outlined were followed.
Health minister Norman Lamb welcomed the report, saying it was "really imaginative thinking".
"I think this combined case of more investment but also change... is absolutely the right message."
The Liberal Democrat minister said his party wanted to "reopen" spending plans for 2015/16, saying "the NHS needs more money next year". He said it would be "our top priority" for the Autumn Statement.
Whitstable Medical Practice, in Kent, is one of the new super-practices that are being developed. It offers the traditional GP services alongside a host of services more associated with hospitals.
It operates out of three sites and employs nearly 150 staff, providing care for 34,000 people.
It runs maternity services, a minor injury unit with X-ray facilities and dedicated diabetes, heart disease and asthma clinics as well as diagnostics and minor surgery.
Nigel Edwards, the chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said: "This report makes crystal clear that the NHS cannot continue with 'business as usual' if it is to meet the needs of a diverse and ageing population."
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Peter Carter called the report "rigorous and realistic".
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The Nigerian government say the release comes after negotiations with the extremist group.
276 schoolgirls aged 16-18 were taken from a school in Chibok in Nigeria in April 2014. Some managed to escape but 219 were still missing.
Boko Haram took the girls because they are against children - especially girls - getting an education, like they do in the UK.
At the time they were taken people all over the world who were shocked by the story and they started a campaign called "bring back our girls".
Up until now, only one girl had been found: 19-year-old Amina Ali Nkeki was rescued in May.
The 21 schoolgirls have been taken to an army base by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Officers from Humberside Police were called at 18:07 BST to attend the crash, at the side of the runway at Breighton Aerodrome, near Selby.
All five people hurt in the incident have been taken to hospital - two by air ambulance. Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
The Air Accident Investigation Branch has launched an investigation.
The casualties were all male and suffered various head, back, chest and leg injuries, officials said.
North Yorkshire Fire Service said all of the men were out of the helicopter when rescuers arrived.
Breighton Aerodrome is a former World War Two heavy bomber base and cold-war nuclear missile launch site. It is also the home to a classic aircraft collection.
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Five people have been seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Breighton, East Yorkshire, police have said.
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The war crimes tribunal accused Delawar Hossain Sayedee of mass murder and torture among other crimes. He denies all the allegations.
Mr Sayedee, a leader in Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party, was arrested last year.
The tribunal was set up in 2010 to try those accused of crimes during the war.
Bangladesh was called East Pakistan until 1971 when a nine-month war of secession broke out leaving up to three million people dead.
"The court has framed charges on 20 counts including crimes against humanity and genocide against Mr Sayedee," Mohammad Shahinur Islam, registrar of the International Crimes Tribunal, told the BBC.
"He pleaded not guilty. He claimed all those allegations were false.
"With the framing of charges the trial has started. As a citizen, I should say this is a historic day for Bangladesh," Mr Islam said.
The case will be next heard on 30 October when the prosecution will make an opening statement.
Official figures estimate that thousands of women were raped when West Pakistan sent in its army to try and stop East Pakistan becoming an independent Bangladesh.
Last year, the Bangladeshi government set up the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka to try those Bangladeshis accused of collaborating with Pakistani forces and committing atrocities during months of violence.
Mr Sayedee is among seven people, including two from the main opposition Bangladeshi Nationalist Party, facing trial. All of them deny the accusations and accuse the government of carrying out a vendetta.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch says the tribunal needs to change some of its procedures to ensure a fair trial which meets international standards.
The trial is likely to go on for months.
In particular, they've stressed the importance of border controls, intelligence sharing, and the role of European courts in Britain's security. The BBC's Reality Check team has taken a closer look at the facts behind the claims.
The biggest issue for many campaigners is how much difference the EU's rules on freedom of movement make to Britain's ability to police its borders.
At the very start of the referendum campaign, Iain Duncan Smith claimed Britain's "open border does not allow us to check and control people that may come", and that made attacks like the ones in Paris in November 2015 more likely in the UK.
On the other side of the argument, Sir David Omand, former director of GCHQ, said: "We are part of an established information sharing network with our partners whilst still retaining control of our border."
So what are the facts? EU freedom of movement allows citizens of all the other 27 EU countries to travel freely to the UK, to visit, study or work.
There is a UK border, and everyone, including citizens of EU-member states, has to produce a passport to cross it. In practice, holders of EU passports are not routinely subjected to detailed checks.
The UK is not a member of the Schengen area of borderless travel. Most EU countries are, as well as some non-EU countries like Switzerland and Norway.
Lack of internal border checks within Schengen has enabled terrorists - and their weapons - to move freely across continental EU, to execute attacks and to escape.
Being outside Schengen and being an island makes travel to the UK harder for potential attackers. But, as noted above, they are not likely to be subject to detailed checks when they try to cross into the UK if they hold an EU passport.
In the wake of the Paris November 2015 attacks, the EU renewed efforts to improve sharing of passenger name record data for flights and there were also calls for the establishment of an EU-wide intelligence service.
One of the most important counter-terrorism measures is sharing information between different security services.
There is no EU-wide intelligence-sharing arrangement, and nor is there likely to be any time soon.
Security and intelligence services are intrinsically secret organisations which share their information only with those they trust to keep their secrets too. That does not apply uniformly across the 28 member states of the EU.
The UK's biggest intelligence relationships lie outside the EU. It shares intelligence with the US and with three other English-speaking countries: Canada, Australia and New Zealand, forming the "five eyes" alliance.
There are direct agreements between certain member states. These are not dependent on membership of the EU - so would they change in the event of Brexit?
Not likely, according to Sir Richard Dearlove, former director of MI6.
In an interview for Prospect magazine, he said: "Britain is Europe's leader in intelligence and security matters and gives much more than it gets in return.
"It is difficult to imagine any of the other EU members ending the relationships they already enjoy with the UK."
While there is no EU-wide intelligence agency, there is an EU-wide enforcement agency - Europol.
It helps fight crime and terrorism across the EU by providing expertise, building criminal databases and supporting investigations on issues ranging from trafficking of people and drugs to money laundering and cyber-crime.
Europol's director, Rob Wainwright, says: "I have seen huge progress in the EU in building up a far stronger capability to fight terrorism and serious crime."
One such advance is the Prüm Convention, an agreement on sharing of DNA, fingerprint and vehicle information, to identify foreign criminals and solve serious crimes. Fourteen EU countries have signed it (the UK voted to join the agreement in December 2015) and it is open to all EU members.
There is also the Schengen Information Service, which is highly valued by UK officials for alerting them to suspects crossing borders.
Then there's the European Arrest Warrant, an EU-wide agreement, that speeds up and simplifies extradition procedures between EU countries.
Last year, the mechanism was used to extradite two British Islamist extremists, Trevor Brooks and Simon Keeler, from Hungary to the UK. In 2005, Hussain Osman, London underground bomber was extradited from Italy to the UK.
Analysis by Mark Urban, diplomatic and defence editor, Newsnight
While I have found many British military and intelligence experts who agree with Sir Richard that Nato defence arrangements and bilateral intelligence exchanges would probably continue unaltered by Brexit, the majority I've spoken to still express opposition to Britain leaving the EU.
They point to emerging security ties at the European level. Missing out on this, they argue, counts for more than the increased ability to control the movement of EU nationals that "outers" such as Iain Duncan Smith argue would make Britain more secure.
Read more of Mark's analysis here.
When campaigners talk about European courts threatening British security, they're usually referring to the role the courts play in deporting - or, more correctly, blocking the deportation of - criminals and terror suspects.
Most of the examples they're talking about, like the 12-year-long case of Abu Qatada, have been rulings emanating from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) or rulings of British courts under the Human Rights Act (HRA).
Crucially, the ECHR is not an EU body. Its job is to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights which was drawn up after the Second World War, partly thanks to Winston Churchill. The Human Rights Act incorporates the convention into UK law.
So leaving the EU wouldn't be enough to get around the convention. The UK would also have to withdraw from the ECHR and abolish the Human Rights Act.
These are things David Cameron has said in the past he's prepared to do, so could the UK just leave the ECHR and remain in the EU? Tricky - legal opinion is divided on whether adherence to the ECHR is a condition of EU membership (as this House of Commons Library research paper makes clear).
Campaigners sometimes refer to another court: the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Its role is to uphold EU law including the right of free movement, and so it can rule on deportations.
Under EU rules, citizens of other EU countries can only be deported or denied entry on the grounds of public policy, public security or public health.
Holding a criminal conviction isn't enough. The person must pose a threat to the interests of society. And the threshold goes up after five and ten years of residence in the UK.
EU law also gives additional rights of entry and residence to the family members of EU citizens even if they're from elsewhere.
That means it's more difficult for Britain to deport or bar entry to criminals who are from the EU or related to EU citizens.
The ECJ is very definitely an EU institution, and so if the UK left the EU it would cease to be bound by its rulings. Instead the government could introduce new rules which made it easier to block people or throw them out, subject to other international agreements
READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
Darrell Richards, 47, used a metal bar to batter Thomas Downey, 51, who was known locally as "Manchester Tommy" because of where he came from.
His body was found on Christmas Eve under a railway arch in Lower Bristol Road, where it had lain undiscovered for a week, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Richards, who was also homeless, was sentenced to 10 years and nine months after admitting manslaughter.
Speaking after sentencing, Det Ch Insp Julie Mackay said: "Thomas Downey died as the result of a callous and brutal assault.
"He'd been bludgeoned to death, the blows causing multiple fractures to his skull."
She said: "The attack by Darrell Richards, a fellow member of the homeless community, was vicious and appears to have resulted from what was effectively a very minor disagreement."
The detective said police accepted the manslaughter plea because they believe "it reflects what took place in that archway on that evening".
Det Ch Insp Mackay added: "We hope today's sentencing will bring some closure for Tommy's family."
Stephen Gannon, 36, was attacked by two men on Broomfield Lane, near St Monance Street, in the city's Springburn area, at about 17:20 on 14 August.
He died at the scene.
Police said the arrested man was being held in custody and a report was being prepared for the procurator fiscal.
The 24-year-old Senegal international has moved to Upton Park after agreeing a four-year contract.
His 43 goals over the last two seasons helped Metz win back-to-back promotions into France's Ligue 1.
Sakho is the third striker to join the Hammers this summer, following the arrivals of Argentine Mauro Zarate and Ecuador international Enner Valencia.
Sakho told the club's West Ham TV: "I really love English football and I've dreamed of coming to play for one of the big English clubs. Today, West Ham have given me that opportunity and I didn't hesitate to grab it.
"I've come here to continue as I was at Metz. I'm going to give it my all, going flat out on the pitch and I think the fans will appreciate that."
Manager Sam Allardyce, meanwhile, has backed a club statement that the team's approach needs to be more entertaining.
Former Millwall, Tottenham, Manchester United, West Ham and England striker Teddy Sheringham has been brought in as an attacking coach.
The song has sold 1.54 million copies since it was released last May, despite criticisms of its explicit lyrics.
About 20 university student unions banned the track, saying it promoted "date rape culture", an accusation Thicke consistently denied.
Its sales tally was revealed in a countdown of the UK's Top 100 downloads on BBC Radio 1.
Compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), the chart marked 10 years of legal downloads in the UK.
Thicke's song overtook the previous best-seller, Adele's Someone Like You, to take the top spot.
Adele's ballad has racked up 1.53 million sales to date.
Moves Like Jagger by Maroon Five was at number three, followed by Australian one-hit wonder Gotye, with 2012's Somebody That I Used To Know at four.
The Black Eyed Peas completed the top five with the party anthem I Gotta Feeling.
According to the Official Charts Company, more than 99% of singles are now purchased as digital downloads.
Fans have bought more than 1.17 billion tracks in the past 10 years, with 27 songs passing the one million download mark.
The latest to achieve the feat is Pharrell Williams' Happy, which has surpassed 1.3 million sales since its release last summer.
Happy took ninth place in the all-time download chart, giving Williams three entries in the top 10.
The others came from his guest appearances on Blurred Lines and Daft Punk's Get Lucky.
The Top 100 was unveiled as part of a UK music industry initiative called A Decade Of Digital.
It celebrates 10 years since sites like iTunes and Napster launched in the UK, helping legitimise the download market.
Blurred Lines was released 11 months ago and continues to sell, having sold 70,000 copies since January.
Official Charts Company boss Martin Talbot said: "To become one of only two tracks to have been downloaded 1.5m times - and climb to the top of the poll as the biggest download of all time - is an incredible achievement."
However, the song's lyrics - which find the 37-year-old in a club talking to a woman who may, or may not, want to go home with him - have proved problematic.
"I know you want it, but you're a good girl," Thicke sings. A video featuring three topless women fuelled allegations the song was misogynistic.
Last September, contributors to Project Unbreakable, a photographic project dedicated to survivors of sexual assault, held up placards comparing words spoken by their attackers to lines from the song.
But Thicke has told the BBC his critics didn't "get" the song.
"I don't want to be sleazy, I'm a gentleman, I've been in love with the same woman since I've been a teenager. I don't want to do anything inappropriate."
Upon hearing it had become the most-downloaded song in UK history, Thicke said: "I'm so honoured, the success of Blurred Lines is a dream come true."
The Slovenia-born 25-year-old beat France's Maxime Chazal 6-3 6-2 in the first round of qualifying for the clay-court Casablanca Open in Morocco.
Bedene, who moved to the UK seven years ago, attended a citizenship ceremony last Tuesday.
He is ranked 83rd in the world, ahead of James Ward in 111th place.
On seeing 'GBR' next to his name in the Casablanca schedule, he wrote on Twitter: "It's taken a while to get to this but it's awesome to see."
After the victory over Chazal, he added: "Happy to get the first match out of the way. Was solid to be fair and more to come which is always good. Looking forward to the next one.
"Thanks for all the support and love guys, I feel really lucky."
Bedene reached his first ATP final in India at the start of the year, beating top-20 players Roberto Bautista Agut and Feliciano Lopez along the way.
He hopes to play for the Great Britain Davis Cup team, although he has already represented Slovenia and current rules prohibit a player appearing for two nations.
"He's a good player with a very good serve," Murray said in Miami last week.
"He's a legitimate top-100 player. When he plays challengers he's there or thereabouts; when he plays on the main tour he wins matches. It's not like he turns up and always loses in the first round.
"I would imagine he's going to be comfortably in the top 70 or 80 in the world for a while."
Bedene is the top seed in Casablanca qualifying and will play Austria's Michael Linzer or Frenchman Maxime Texeira in the second round.
The 52-year-old joined the club in 2007 as commercial director and was added to the club's board of directors in 2009.
In 2011 he became managing director and was made chief executive in 2013.
"We asked him on several occasions to take some time to reconsider his decision, but have been unable to convince him to remain as CEO beyond May 2017," a Liverpool statement said.
The Fenway Sports Group, which took over the club in October 2010, said of Ayre: "Under his leadership we have seen Liverpool transform from a club that was on the brink of bankruptcy to one which today enjoys strong financial and operational health."
Data showedthat more cases are now being diagnosed. While women are living longer after a diagnosis, the total number of deaths has also increased.
It has been argued that rising levels of obesity were behind the rise.
Cancer Research UK said the finding was "hugely troubling".
Cancer of the womb is the fourth most common cancer in women and tends to occur after the menopause.
From the 1970s to 1996 the incidence of womb cancer stayed roughly the same at about 13.7 cases for every 100,000 women in the UK. It now stands at 19.6 per 100,000, a 43% increase.
Survival rates have improved with 77% of women now living at least five years after treatment. However, deaths have gone up.
In the past decade the mortality rate has gone from 3.1 to 3.7 deaths from uterine cancer for every 100,000 women. In 2010, 1,937 women died from the cancer.
Prof Jonathan Ledermann, a gynaecological cancer expert at the charity, said: "It's hugely troubling that more women are dying from womb cancer, but we shouldn't let this cloud the fact that the chances of surviving the disease are still better than ever.
"This is due to better organisation of care for women's cancers and more widespread use of one-stop clinics for post-menopausal bleeding, as well as advances in the use of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy through clinical trials."
Rachael Gormley, from the World Cancer Research Fund, said: "Womb cancer is one of several types of cancer where there is strong evidence that obesity increases risk. Others include breast, bowel, oesophageal, pancreatic and kidney.
"As levels of obesity rise, we can expect the number of cancer cases to also increase.
"Taking steps to avoid becoming obese, such as eating a healthy diet and being active each day, is one of the most important things we can do to reduce our risk of cancer."
Dumfries and Galloway Council is looking at the possibility of acquiring the collection for permanent display.
It would be part of the proposed development of a new art gallery of national significance in the town.
However, the council said raising the funds for the treasure was beyond its means and would need public backing.
The hoard, which was uncovered by a metal detectorist in south west Scotland last September, is said to be one of the most significant finds of Viking treasure ever made in Scotland.
It includes gold and silver artefacts such as armbands, a cross and brooches.
The collection has yet to be valued but is thought to be worth between £500,000 and £1m.
All accredited museums in the UK can apply to the Treasure Trove Unit to bid for ownership.
Dumfries and Galloway Council is working to try to find £100,000 to kick start a public funding appeal.
The authority wants the hoard to be a focal point for ambitious plans - which are seeking Heritage Lottery Fund support - to transform Kirkcudbright town hall into an art gallery.
It is claimed the Viking artefacts would be a considerable draw for visitors and provide a significant boost for the local economy.
However, the local authority is set to face competition for ownership of the hoard with the National Museum of Scotland having indicated that it also intends to bid for the collection.
It has indicated a willingness to loan out the treasure assuming proper security could be put in place.
Dr Richard Wright said the Southern Health Trust only had a third of the emergency consultant cover required.
He said even an enhanced salary had failed to attract senior staff to the County Down hospital's A&E.
The trust has warned that overnight closures of the department may be unavoidable due to staff shortages.
Earlier this month, the trust confirmed it was making preparations to expand emergency capacity at Craigavon Area Hospital in County Armagh, in case Daisy Hill's services have to be suspended at night.
People living in parts of the Mournes, south Down and south Armagh say the increased travel time to Craigavon would put lives at risk and more than 800 people attended a protest meeting on Monday.
Dr Wright told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme that no-one from the trust was available to attend because of the short notice.
He also spoke about recruitment problems at the Newry hospital and how the trust had "gone around the world" to try to find the specialists.
"We've been out 10 times over the last two years, we have had very few applicants and we have been able to appoint only one consultant during that time," he said.
"We have also secured special permission [from the Department of Health] to advertise an enhanced package to make it more attractive than any other job financially in Northern Ireland and we have had no applicants for that post."
But he said recruitment was an issue for emergency departments around Northern Ireland and further afield.
"We have, within the Southern Trust, 10 consultant emergency department doctors, we probably need about 30 to properly staff both our departments and to cover also the smaller department in south Tyrone."
He also addressed concerns that the doctors would prefer to work in Craigavon than Daisy Hill.
"We have a third of the total consultants we need, if we forcibly rotate any more of them to Daisy Hill we would destabilise the situation in Craigavon and we would end up with two departments that were destabilised.
"The issue is not a lack of willingness to assist because they have been doing that. The issue is there are not enough consultants within the Southern Trust to cover two departments."
Seana Grant, who is part of the campaign to keep the emergency department at Daisy Hill, claimed some services at the hospital were being reduced.
"Consultants are being asked to stand over an emergency department that doesn't have the capabilities to deal with what they are being asked to deal with and as such, they are not prepared to work there any more," she said.
"They see the writing is on the wall and they are not prepared to take a long-term post in a hospital that they can see is being continually downgraded."
City were eliminated from the Champions League last 16 by Monaco in midweek and trail leaders Chelsea by 10 points in the Premier League with 11 games left.
Guardiola reaffirmed his commitment to City ahead of Sunday's home game with Liverpool (16:30 GMT).
"I have more power than ever to shape the squad," he said.
Guardiola said he had received a text message from City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak in the wake of the club's 3-1 defeat to Monaco on Wednesday.
"I was really impressed by his reaction, I respect him a lot," added Guardiola, whose only hope of ending his debut season with a trophy is by winning the FA Cup.
City face Arsenal at Wembley in the semi-final on 23 April (15:00 BST).
Guardiola added: "In the next month and a half I expect a huge step forward. The club is getting better and better. Next season will be better."
The Spaniard denied reports he was planning a mass clearout at the end of the season.
"I have heard people have written that I will change 12 or 13 players. That's impossible," said the former Barcelona boss
"We will try and improve the team."
Liverpool are unbeaten against the Premier League's top six this season but Reds boss Jurgen Klopp believes that record is under serious threat this weekend.
Third-placed City start the weekend one point and one place above the Reds in the table, who have played one more game.
"We've felt good in these games [against the top six] so far but for me City is the most difficult team to play," said Klopp on Friday.
"It's real football, difficult to defend."
Klopp is a big admirer of Guardiola, the two having managed in the Bundesliga at the same time, for Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich respectively.
"I am not in doubt about his quality," added Klopp.
"Maybe a few people are but I am not. I respect him a lot. I've played against him a lot and I can say it is quite difficult to play his teams."
Analysis from BBC Sport's Simon Stone, who was at Guardiola's news conference
Pep Guardiola might have pinned the blame for Manchester City's Champions League exit on his strikers on Friday and he might have rejected the idea he will make wholesale changes to his squad this summer.
But there is no doubt his defence will look very different in 2017-18 to how it is now.
Of his four full-backs, only Aleksandar Kolarov has a contract beyond the end of this season.
It is not beyond the realms of possibility all three will go but Gael Clichy and, maybe, Pablo Zabaleta, are likely to make it at least two.
And what of skipper Vincent Kompany, who has featured for 127 minutes since 26 October? He is now fully fit and could not even get a place on the bench for the recent games at Middlesbrough and in Monaco.
The midfielder, who spent last season on loan at Werder Bremen, has started just five matches since joining Chelsea from Genk in 2012.
The 22-year-old has signed a five-year deal with Wolfsburg, who are fifth in the Bundesliga.
Kevin de Bruyne's mother was born in Ealing, west London, making him eligible to play for England. However, he opted for the country of his birth, making his debut for Belgium in August 2010 while still a teenager.
"Chelsea thanks Kevin for his service and wishes him well at his new club," said a Blues statement.
De Bruyne scored 10 goals in 34 appearances for Bremen in the Bundesliga last season.
Reports in Germany claim Wolfsburg are paying around £16.7m, although neither club has confirmed the fee.
His sale follows the Stamford Bridge club re-signing midfielder Nemanja Matic, 25, from Benfica for £21m.
Blues boss Jose Mourinho walked out of a news conference earlier this season after being irritated by questions about De Bruyne.
"It was clear from the start that Wolfsburg would be the first team I talk to if Chelsea gave me permission," De Bruyne told the Wolfsburgh website.
"That's why I'm very happy that this transfer has been completed.
"I want to play my part, make sure we continue to be successful, and return to the international stage."
CWU general secretary Dave Ward hailed him as "a leader for the millions, not the millionaires".
Thanking the union for its support, Mr Corbyn said it was "time to end rip-off Britain."
The announcement came as two former advisers declared their support for his rival, Owen Smith.
Academics David Blanchflower and Simon Wren-Lewis, who have both served on Labour's economic advisory committee, expressed doubts about Mr Corbyn's ability to lead.
Mr Blanchflower told The Guardian Mr Smith had been better at consulting businesses and economists in three weeks than the current Labour leader had been over the last nine months, and Mr Wren-Lewis wrote on his blog that "a Corbyn-led party cannot win in 2020".
Endorsing Mr Corbyn, the CWU general secretary said: "We need a fundamental change in Labour politics and Jeremy Corbyn recognises this.
"He is the candidate to drive through the change that ordinary people are crying out for - opposing damaging austerity measures and tackling the housing crisis which is causing misery for so many."
The CWU represents 190,000 people working in the Royal Mail group, mobile companies and in BT Open Reach.
Mr Corbyn has already received the backing of train drivers' union Aslef and construction workers' union Ucatt.
Meanwhile, Labour has announced the dates of five leadership hustings over the next month to be held in Cardiff (4 August), Nottinghamshire (17 August), Birmingham (18 August), Glasgow (25 August) and London (1 September).
Jordan Ward died after his father, Stephen, called an ambulance because his son had stopped breathing at his home in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Bristol Crown Court heard that medical tests concluded that Jordan's injuries were not the result of an accident.
Mr Ward denies the manslaughter of his son in 2014.
The jury heard that Mr Ward, who now lives in Nailsworth, had a history of losing his temper when Jordan cried.
The baby's mother, Paula Watts, told the court that she had concerns that Mr Ward had been hurting their son after she once heard him slap Jordan when he was crying.
Mr Ward told her he had just "tapped" Jordan.
Ms Watts said she confronted him about Jordan's injuries after the baby had been admitted to hospital.
She said "I asked him to look me in the eyes and swear on my life that he hadn't done anything. He said he hadn't."
The trial continues.
Suddenly, she heard an unusual sound: planes flying over the Japanese-run internment camp where she had been held for nearly three years.
"I jumped and looked out of the window and saw a plane flying low over the treetops and then parachutes started dropping. It was an instant cure for my diarrhoea," she said.
"People were crying, weeping, screaming, dancing, jumping up and down and waving at the sky. They were hysterical," said Mary, describing the scene at the camp when people realised what was happening.
The planes had brought US soldiers, who soon afterwards liberated Weihsien, an internment camp for 1,500 prisoners in China's Shandong Province.
It was the beginning of the end of a long ordeal that had seen Mary, then just 12 years old, separated from her parents for more than five years.
Before the war, Mary had been living in China with her parents, Christian missionaries who ran a bible school in the city of Kaifeng in Henan province.
Her mother and father worked for the China Inland Mission, one of the largest missionary organisations then operating in the country.
It had been founded by Mary's great-grandfather, James Hudson Taylor, a preacher from Barnsley, once an important coal mining town in the north of England.
The China Inland Mission, now renamed OMF International, recently held an event in Barnsley to celebrate the organisation's 150th anniversary.
When Japan first invaded China, its troops mostly left the Westerners there alone, so Mary's parents decided to stay on in Kaifeng.
"They had actually bought tickets to return to the United States, but my dad said, 'God didn't just call me to be a missionary here in good times, he called us to be here in good times and bad'," said Mary.
But as a precaution, the couple sent their four children - Kathleen, James, Mary and John - to a school for foreigners in Chefoo on China's eastern coast in Shandong.
The couple thought they would be safer there and, for a while, they were.
But that changed when Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour drew America into the war. At a stroke, Mary and her family, and many other Westerners in China, became enemy aliens.
The day after Pearl Harbour, Japanese troops marched into the Chefoo school and declared themselves in charge.
"They brought a Shinto priest to the ball field who conducted a ceremony. They came bringing pieces of paper with Japanese writing on them and glued them to tables and chairs, pianos, desks; all of it belonged to the great emperor of Japan," said Mary.
She remembers how the schoolchildren would watch the Japanese at bayonet practice. They called it "Ya" practice because that was the sound made by the soldiers as they charged towards each other.
The school had become a prison and Mary - then just nine - was a prisoner.
The young girl and her siblings were also cut off from their parents, who remained in unoccupied areas of China throughout the war.
The children stayed at Chefoo for a year, until the Japanese decided to turn it into a military base. The pupils and their teachers were transferred to a larger camp at Weihsien, set up to hold civilians from Allied countries who had been living in China.
Mary, who was then called Taylor, said she would never forget the day they were all marched out of the school.
"That was the end of Western domination of China," she said. "They had crowds of Chinese along the roadside as these white people were carrying whatever they could in their hands - no servants were helping them now - marching off to concentration camp."
Life in the new camp was more difficult than in Chefoo. The Japanese guards were strict, although they would occasionally show kindness.
Mary praised Chefoo School's teachers who turned problems into games.
If there were too many rats, the teachers would set the children the task of catching them. It was the same for flies and bedbugs. There were small prizes for the winners.
Mary describes the teachers' actions as "beautiful triumphs".
"Our teachers set up a comforting, predicable set of rituals and traditions. Do you know how safe that makes children feel?"
But the children could not be shielded from all the horrors of an internment camp.
There was little medicine and some people died, including the British prisoner and former Olympic athlete Eric Liddell, or "Jesus in running shoes," as Mary describes him.
And then towards the end food became scarce.
The doctors among the prisoners asked anyone trading in black market eggs to save the shells, which were baked, crushed and then fed to the calcium-deficient children.
"It was vile. It tasted like you were eating sand," remembers Mary, who is now 82.
The prisoners knew little of the war going on outside the camp so when it ended it came suddenly and without warning.
When the US soldiers arrived at the gates of the camp, they were carried inside on the inmates' bony shoulders. They were treated as heroes.
A few weeks later Mary and her siblings were flown to Xi'an in central China and had a tearful reunion with their parents.
The family decided to return to the United States and Mary worked in education before being elected to the New Jersey state assembly for the Democrats.
Later in life, in the 1990s, she decided to try to find each of the six US soldiers who had liberated Weihsien camp.
She criss-crossed the country visiting each one, or their families in the cases where the soldiers had died. "I wanted to see them face-to-face to say 'thank you'," said Mary, who spent two years tracking them down.
The only person Mary was not able to contact was a seventh soldier on that mission, the Chinese translator who had accompanied the US paratroopers.
Then a few months ago a Chinese student studying in the US saw an article about Mary and realised that the missing translator, Eddie Wang, was his grandfather.
He got in touch with Mary, who was then finally able to have an emotional telephone call with the 90-year-old Mr Wang in China.
Weihsien was liberated 70 years ago, and Mary was just 12 at the time, but the friends she made there and the experiences she endured have stayed with her for a lifetime.
The crash happened when the rider was cycling in Rhyd Ddu, near Beddgelert, on Sunday. The Etape Eryri bike event was being held in the area at the time.
Two air ambulances and two ambulances were sent to the scene on the B4418.
The man has been moved to the Royal Stoke University Hospital. His injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
Net income fell 13% to $2.7bn (£1.9bn) at Bank of America, while Wells Fargo said net income dropped to $5.5bn in the first three months of the year.
Bank of America said provisions for loan losses had risen 30% to $997m.
Similarly, Wells Fargo set aside $1.1bn to cover potential loan losses, almost double its $608m provision a year ago.
The sharp rise in funds put aside to cover potential loan losses shows how the plunging oil price - which has dropped by two-thirds since June 2014 - is hitting big banks.
About a third of publicly traded oil and gas-related companies, with more than $150bn in debt, are at high risk of bankruptcy this year, according to a report by accountancy firm Deloitte.
Bank of America, one of the biggest lenders to the oil sector, said it had some $21.8bn worth of exposure to the sector at the end of March.
But Bank of America's chief financial officer said he was not concerned about its exposure.
"The bank feels very good about its energy reserves," Paul Donofrio said, speaking after the results.
US shale oil companies have come under increasing pressure in the past year as the price of oil has plummeted.
That has forced banks to raise the money they set aside to cover the possible failure of energy firms.
On Wednesday, JP Morgan Chase reported a 6.7% drop in quarterly profits as it set aside more funds to cover potential losses at oil and gas companies.
Other factors are also hurting the banking industry, including the low interest rate environment and a slowdown in global growth, particularly in emerging markets.
Bank of America, whose shares have fallen almost 20% so far this year, is under pressure to demonstrate it can generate consistent improvements in earnings and revenue.
Chief executive Brian Moynihan said the bank would continue to focus on "loan and deposit growth and managing expenses".
"Despite volatile markets, our global markets business produced solid earnings," he added.
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Few have access to them or have even heard of them. Instead, Kaymu, whose website declares it the "number one marketplace in emerging countries", is rapidly cornering the market.
It is the brainchild of e-commerce group, Africa Internet Holding, backed by Rocket Internet, the incubator founded by the German Samwer brothers famous for making millions by cloning digital businesses.
Launched just two years ago Kaymu now has operations in 25 countries and 15 of them are in Africa.
While there are other e-commerce sites in Ivory Coast - such as Jumia, Africa's answer to Amazon, as well as Wasiri and Sigata - Kaymu is the first person-to-person marketplace open to individuals rather than just shops.
Its Ivory Coast operation launched at the start of this year, and many locals are beginning to cotton on to the potential benefits.
When I meet Fatoumata Guindo she is carefully unwrapping a package containing three ceramic cake moulds. She turns them over in her hands, inspecting them, and then moves on to a second package; more cake moulds in different shapes.
"This is the first time I've ordered anything online," she tells me. "I'm not too into the internet, you see."
Madame Guindo, in her 60s and the wife of the local imam, has just received her first order from Kaymu.
A little sceptical of buying anything at first, she now thinks e-commerce could be the future. "Yes, it's possible. This can happen," she says.
In Abidjan, Ivory Coast's economic capital, Kaymu's country manager Mehdi Ben Abroug takes me to Adjame, the country's biggest market.
From fruit and veg, to jewellery, to washing machines, the tightly packed stalls sell absolutely everything. The smells, colours and sounds are so intense, a few hours of browsing leaves you exhausted.
It is where Kaymu first began to recruit its "sellers".
"These guys in this market have very low margins because they are wholesalers," explains Mr Abroug.
"They go to Dubai, to China and bring back containers and they sell as wholesalers so the margin on the product is really low."
But on Kaymu, he says, they can sell directly to the customer and get a higher margin.
More than 200 market sellers in Adjame now have a presence on the e-commerce marketplace.
It works in the same way as eBay in that anyone can use the site to sell anything, so-called customer-to-customer.
Kaymu helps sellers post pictures of their products on the website, arranges collection and delivery of the goods, and takes 10-20% commission of every item sold.
Take-up of the new site has been faster in Ivory Coast than any other country on the continent.
Africa chief executive Elias Schulze explains that the country's "tradition of private sector vibrancy" and "strong mobile and internet backbone" has been a huge part of the company's success here.
He adds that "the emerging middle class who are largely tech-savvy and hungry for real price and product discovery" are ready to buy online.
Demba Barradji, 26, the manager of Barradji & Fils, a jewellery shop in Adjame, stands behind his counter as the Kaymu rep asks him to sign the forms for today's collection.
"I chose Kaymu for my business to grow," he says. "[Profits] have already increased by around 20-25%. It's a good business for Africa and for Ivory Coast - a business that has a future."
He pours the gold chains and glittery watches he bought in Thailand into the Kaymu pouches ready for delivery.
"To start with I didn't have much confidence in Kaymu because of cyber-criminality," he says. "But now there hasn't been any problems or scams. It's OK."
And would he close up shop and transfer everything online?
"Yes. Why not close my shop, as I will make more money," he says.
Up the road from Mr Barradji's shop, 27-year-old Abdul Affiz Jewar manages his family's cosmetics store, well-known in Adjame for its cheap beauty products.
He also joined Kaymu a few months ago but has not seen the same types of increase in profits. He puts this down to the fact that it is "cheaper for my customers to buy things in the shop".
Delivery costs of about $3 to $4 per item, make it hard for him to be competitive online.
"I can't imagine closing my shop and selling only online because I have lots of clients who I would lose," he concludes.
However, cyber crime is one of the major challenges facing e-commerce in Ivory Coast. The country has one of the worst reputations for cyber criminality on the continent, leaving many people wary of buying online.
"For the moment people are afraid," says Mr Barradji. "But in the long run, in the future… it could be better."
Cyber crime also poses problems for online payment, which is why everything is done cash-in-hand, for now at least.
The drivers call the customers in advance to arrange delivery and then collect payments when they deliver the goods.
But this will not be the case for long, insists Mr Abroug.
"We have huge expectations for mobile money," he says. Kaymu plans to pay vendors via mobile then expand this service to the customers buying online.
For now though, with no upfront payment, it is not unusual for delivery drivers to make wasted trips.
Often customers are not at home when they said they would be, don't have enough money, or have simply changed their minds.
Fewer than 50% of orders placed online end up in a payment.
So until better technology comes to the rescue, e-commerce in Ivory Coast can mean a day scooting around the city on the delivery bike in the tropical West African rains. All for nothing.
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I said at the time that I have never seen a training session as bad as that one on the day before a Test. They were dropping catches, letting the ball through their legs and they had no energy or sharpness.
A poor practice the day before a match doesn't necessarily mean anything, but, sure enough, the visitors were hammered by 211 runs.
Their performance with the bat in the second innings, bowled out for 119, was so bad that, if it had been England, my Test Match Special colleague Geoffrey Boycott would have combusted.
This takes nothing away from England, but they had to put in little more than a mixed display to give Joe Root a win in his first match as captain.
Had it not been for Root's knock in the first innings - 190 with the assistance of a couple of drops and a stumping off a no-ball - Moeen Ali's lovely 87 and an important late-order half-century from Stuart Broad, England might have been well short of a decent total.
After that, Broad and Anderson bowled nicely in the South Africa first innings, but the man who will take all the bowling plaudits is off-spinner Moeen, who picked up his first 10-wicket haul in Tests.
Not since he ran through India three years ago in Southampton has Moeen taken England to victory with the ball in the final innings of a match. He struggled on the subcontinent during the winter, so this should be a boost to his confidence.
Perhaps he took something from the innings he played into his bowling, as all-rounders can often find that success in one discipline benefits the other.
I really do take great pleasure in watching Moeen bat, much like I did from my old team-mate David Gower. Not only that, but he should rightfully be classed as England's go-to spinner, despite the selection of Liam Dawson. Moeen has earned it.
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This Test provided a number of new beginnings for members of this England side.
On Gary Ballance, recalled to bat at number three, not a great deal has been learned. The 34 he made in the second innings was admirable because batting was very difficult when he arrived on the third evening.
However, his mode of dismissal in the first innings, had a familiar, retro feel. After taking that huge stride back as a trigger movement, Ballance was desperately trying to get forward and was pinned lbw by Morne Morkel.
Bowlers know how Ballance likes to play and that backwards trigger gives them so much more room to pitch the ball up. He will have to examine that technique and decide if it will allow him to succeed at this level.
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For most of his second innings Ballance was in the company of Alastair Cook, a man who looks like has he gulped in a huge breath of fresh air by giving up the captaincy.
I interviewed him on the fourth morning and was able to draw a comparison between the Cook of now and the Cook I spoke to after the fifth Test against India in Chennai last year. It was like a different man.
Cook will not be a grumpy old pro, chuntering in the corner as the team move on. He will enjoy his cricket and bat the way he does. The 69 he made in the second innings was classic Cook - playing nicely without taking the attack apart.
With his schedule - no one-day internationals - he could play Tests for a long time to come.
The biggest change was for Root, who finally got to lead England five months after being appointed as Cook's successor.
It's very easy to evaluate captaincy from the commentary box, to nitpick every decision, but Root did OK.
He might have used Moeen earlier on the third day, but he showed good energy in the field and came up with some imaginative plans.
Big decisions, like what to do at the toss or when to declare, were not a factor, so in some ways it was a straightforward introduction to the job.
The biggest plus for Root is that he made a big score, because no-one can say, for a little while at least, that the captaincy has affected is batting.
However, even though he wasn't necessarily challenged by the tactical demands of the game, and he had the luxury of England winning handsomely, Root seemed tired when I spoke to him at the end of the match. Once or twice he lost his train of thought.
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Captaincy is hard work, especially for those who haven't done much of it before. Root is learning that he has to be sharp all the time, making decisions, formulating plans. His mind will be racing, even when he tries to sleep at night. It is something he will have to learn to deal with.
Root, though, has fewer problems than Faf du Plessis, the South Africa skipper who has arrived back in England following the birth of his child and will take charge for the second Test at Trent Bridge starting on Friday.
He has to instil some character and fight into his team. If we see the same practice drill in Nottingham as we did at Lord's, the writing is on the wall.
The way South Africa capitulated was embarrassing and they need to show they are better than that.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Stephan Shemilt.
Hayne played in Australia's National Rugby League from 2006-14 before joining the San Francisco 49ers.
"The Olympics has been something I have admired since I was a little boy, and it is an opportunity I feel similar to me joining the NFL," said Hayne, 28.
"The Fiji sevens team reached out to me. I could not pass that chance up."
Australian Hayne, whose father is Fijian, signed for the 49ers as a running back in March 2015.
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He played eight games for the 49ers, managing 52 yards on 17 rushes and also catching six passes for 27 yards.
"Jarryd is a tremendous example of what can happen when you commit to a goal and do everything in your power to make it a reality," 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement.
"He earned the right to wear a 49ers uniform and compete alongside the best in the game. We fully support Jarryd's decision to pursue another dream."
Before joining the NFL, Payne was one of Australian rugby league's highest earners and was voted the best player in the NRL in 2014.
He also represented Australia 12 times, scoring 11 tries.
Hayne will travel to London to join up with Fiji before the Sevens World Series finale at Twickenham next weekend.
On Monday, Allergan rejected the offer, but Valeant said it will announce a new offer on 28 May.
The firm said it will hold a webcast for Allergan shareholders, thereby bypassing Allergan's board.
Valeant is trying to become the fifth-biggest drugmaker by 2016.
Last year, the firm bought Bausch & Lomb, one of the biggest makers of eye health products.
In a letter to shareholders, Valeant wrote: "As you are all aware, yesterday we received Allergan's letter rejecting Valeant's offer. We note that our offer was rejected without Allergan having had any discussions with Valeant."
"We will not stop our pursuit of this combination until we hear directly from Allergan shareholders that you prefer Allergan's 'stay the course plan' to a combination with Valeant," said Valeant chief executive Michael Pearson in statement.
Allerga rejected the offer because it said it had questions about Valeant's long-term growth as well as its business model.
"The Board has determined that Valeant's proposal creates significant risks and uncertainties for Allergan's stockholders and believes that the Valeant business model is not sustainable," said Allergan board chair and chief executive David E.I. Pyott in a statement.
However, Allergan's largest shareholder - the hedge fund Pershing Square, which is run by activist investor Bill Ackman - had previously said it supported the bid
Joanna Felvus, 25, from Newmains, North Lanarkshire, was warned twice about her behaviour as she argued with a male companion on the Jet2 plane on 9 July.
Both were separated and Felvus later told police she had too much to drink.
Paisley Sheriff Court heard Felvus and the man were banned from Jet2 aircraft and used another airline to return home at "significant cost".
Imposing a £300 fine, Sheriff Robert Fife told Felvus: "Behaviour such as this is completely and utterly unacceptable.
"You are right to feel deeply embarrassed - no wonder you do."
The 28-year-old, who has won three caps for Wales, suffered a knee injury during Scarlets' defeat to Cardiff Blues on 1 January.
Phillips has featured in all but one of Scarlets' 15 games this season.
Scarlets are also set to be without back-row forward Jack Condy for up to 14 weeks after he had reconstructive shoulder surgery.
"Emyr underwent surgery to his knee on Wednesday and will miss the remainder of the current season," said Scarlets' head of medical department Andrew Walker.
"His rehab will begin immediately and we would expect to see him back to full fitness during the pre-season."
Condy, 21, also sustained his injury during Scarlets' defeat to Cardiff Blues on New Year's Day.
Having signed his first professional contract in the summer of 2015, Condy has made nine appearances for the Scarlets.
Robert Stevenson, 65, from Portsoy, is believed to have last been seen at about 16:00 on Thursday, driving south on the A947 between Banff and Macduff south of the Deveron Bridge.
His blue Dacia Duster's registration is R10AAT and has AA Taxis signage.
Mr Stevenson is described as white, 5ft 4in tall, of slim build, with short grey hair and a moustache.
He is believed to be wearing a white, pink and blue checked shirt.
Insp Megan Heathershaw said: "We would appeal to anyone who has seen the vehicle described to get in touch with police as soon as possible.
"It is out of character for Robert to go missing and as time goes by we are increasingly concerned for him and want to trace him to ensure he is safe and well.
"I would urge anyone who is out in the area, whether that is hiking or dog walking, to please be vigilant to the appeal to trace Robert and if they see him or his vehicle contact police on 101."
Full-back Bolton, 22, leaves the Shaymen less than a week after winning the FA Trophy at Wembley, and is reunited with former boss Neil Aspin.
The England C international call-up, who can play right or centre-back, spent two full seasons at the Shay.
"I think he is good enough to play in the Football League," Aspin said.
"Hopefully we can make that happen at Gateshead. He has all the right attributes. He is tall, he is mobile and he has room to develop further. And I feel he will do that."
Hope & Glory Festival, headlined by James at Liverpool's St Georges Quarter, was pulled on Sunday.
There were reports of overcrowding, long delays for artists and acts axed at the last minute on Saturday.
Organisers said it was pulled over safety concerns. The city council said there would be an "urgent inquiry".
Anselm Grant, from Blackburn, Lancashire, tweeted he had tried a number of times to get a response from Eventbrite and festival organisers but had had no reply.
He said it had "cost me £600 for tickets and with hotel and travel".
Lynne Carruthers tweeted organisers that she had travelled from Glasgow to the event.
"You've skinned us. Please tell us how to get our money back," she wrote.
Festival organisers told the BBC: "We cancelled the event because we felt parties employed to deliver the festival had not done so to ensure Sunday would be a safe event."
In a statement, they said they "accepted ultimate responsibility" and "profusely apologised" to the public.
They added people who bought tickets for the event should contact the relevant ticketing company for refunds.
A spokesman added: "If tickets were purchased from the festival's official website, the majority were bought through Eventbrite."
Eventbrite said it goes to "great lengths" to ensure all customers are treated fairly when an event is cancelled and will work with organisers "to clarify whether impacted attendees can be refunded".
Police had to help open up another entrance on the first day of the festival - which was attended by 12,500 people - amid long waits and poor access to toilets and food and drink facilities.
James did manage to get on stage but lead singer Tim Booth tweeted afterwards: "Sorry everyone was messed around so badly.
"Hope you managed to find some pleasure amongst the chaos."
Charlotte Church, who was pulled from the line-up on Saturday due to the delays, ended up playing a set at Liquidation Liverpool after making a plea for a venue on social media.
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Likewise, the Lightning Seeds also asked on Twitter for a suitable venue to do a gig on Sunday night.
They played a set along with Clean Cut Kid at Liverpool's Zanzibar.
Other bands on the bill included The Fratellis, Razorlight and Ocean Colour Scene.
Labour-run Liverpool City Council said the weekend festival was a private event which was licensed by the authority to run for three years.
The mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson tweeted: "There will be an urgent inquiry into what went disastrously wrong here."
Councillor Richard Kemp, leader of Liverpool's Liberal Democrats, has asked the city council for a "full report" to be made public on the problems.
The city council said the organisers had 25 years' experience in the live music industry and plans were "robust and independently assessed and approved".
It added: "All efforts will now be made to understand what lessons can be learnt."
It said the perishable items left at the site were taken to the Whitechapel Centre, a Liverpool-based charity for the homeless.
Fergus Wilson, who planned to stand as an independent, was told it was invalid as his papers were not hand delivered to the returning officer, but posted.
Several voters nominating him had also not included their electoral numbers.
Mr Wilson, of Boughton Monchelsea, said he would apply to the High Court for an injunction, and seek to be reinstated.
A statement from the police area returning officer for Kent said he would respond in the event of any legal challenge.
A total of six candidates are standing for the post of police and crime commissioner in Kent:
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Kiss moved into the Ulster position on Monday after his seven-year stint as Ireland assistant coach ended following the recent World Cup.
The Australian, 50, will lead the coaching team, although Neil Doak's job title remains head coach.
"I'll have my hands over everything," Kiss told BBC Sport NI on Tuesday.
Ulster's last rugby director David Humphreys was not involved in the coaching of the team but Kiss has made clear that he will have a very "hands on" role with the squad.
"I'll be over everything eventually once I get to know everything inside out. Hopefully I can make a contribution," said former Australian Rugby League international Kiss.
"We've got good coaches here in Neil Doak, Allen Clarke and Joe Barakat and I've had my first meetings with them over the last couple of days.
"They have an idea where I'm going to be injecting myself and that will evolve as I get to know the rugby programme here.
"And they know that I'll be putting myself on the pitch in particular."
After Mark Anscombe's departure from the head coach position in the summer of 2014, Kiss was appointed as Ulster's interim director of rugby for the opening weeks of the 2014-15 season.
Then in October of last year, as he returned to his Ireland post, it was announced that he would take up the Ulster director role full-time following this year's World Cup.
During his playing career, Kiss won four caps for the Australian Rugby League team before coaching stints with rugby league clubs the London Broncos and North Sydney.
He switched to rugby union in 2001 to work as defence coach for the Springboks before a six-year stint as assistant coach at the New South Wales Waratahs was followed by his appointment to Declan Kidney's Ireland set-up in 2009.
Voting has ended across the region's 10 borough council areas of Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
The results are expected on Friday afternoon.
The mayor will lead the region's combined authority, working alongside existing council leaders.
A sign reading "No visitors" at the entrance to the open plan office suggests it is sensitive work.
Clocks on the wall show the time in various cities as reports come in from Facebook users around the world.
The promise is simple: "Everything gets looked at, absolutely everything gets looked at."
"Whether someone goes to our help centre to flag that their account has been hacked or whether they want to report a page or photo because they think it's inappropriate, it'll come to this team in Dublin," explains Safety Policy Manager Julie de Balliencourt.
Despite claims that Facebook relies on algorithms, image-recognition software and automated systems, the company insists human beings make the decisions.
A lot of reports are trivial. Football fans reporting rival supporters or friends who've fallen out and want to make a point.
But at times, lives are at risk.
"We prioritise based on how serious something could potentially be," Julie said.
"So if we feel that someone is being bullied or there's a risk of real-world harm we are going to prioritise those reports ahead of the rest and they'll be reviewed in a matter of hours."
Facebook has faced criticism in the past for being inconsistent in the way it handles sensitive content.
Controversy over pictures of women breastfeeding and beheading videos are examples of the company's policies proving unpopular.
But the social network insists there are hard and fast rules about what users can or can't post.
"There is a line and there is content that we won't allow, we have a whole set of rules that are available on our site," said Julie.
Jess Lathan, 26, is one of many people who posted a comment on the Newsbeat Facebook page expressing frustration at how the reporting process works.
"I've tried to report several different indecent images on Facebook, really graphic or pornographic images.
"I'm not sure how bad it has to get before something violates Facebook's terms and is actually removed," she said.
Facebook Content Policy Manager Ciara Lyden described the process of responding to rules as "a balancing act".
"It comes from the starting point of how do you keep people safe, but Facebook is also a place for sharing and we want to connect the world and allow people to be open."
But the company admits it doesn't always get it right.
"Because we have teams of people, sometimes we make mistakes.
"We're human and we're very sorry when we do make a mistake," said Julie de Balliencourt.
Facebook won't say exactly how many people work in their Community Operations team.
Newsbeat understands some of its work is outsourced to companies in various countries around the world.
While Facebook promises that every report is looked at by a human being, automated systems are also used.
"We have things in place relating to spam," Julie explains.
"Facebook is highly attractive to spammers and phishers. We have automation in place to flag fake accounts and remove them."
However, decisions to remove content reported for being violent, explicit or offensive are open to interpretation.
"Where it can become tricky, you need to take into account who is making the report, maybe the relationship they have with the person they are reporting.
"The language they speak, the country they come from - maybe if it's a photo that is posted on a page we will want to look at the whole page not just the photo in isolation."
A common complaint from users is a lack of feedback on why content is or isn't removed.
Facebook admits there is room for improvement, promising changes to the reporting system.
"In the next few months we want to be more explicit and explain in much more detail why something was ignored or why something was actioned," Julie said.
But still, users should expect to be challenged by some of the content they see, suggests Julie.
"The same thing will apply if you choose to watch the news, you're going to see different types of content that are thought provoking.
"Those are real things happening in today's world that would maybe raise really good questions.
"The fact is that you see great things and sometimes you see things that shouldn't be there."
With 1.3 billion users, Facebook will never keep everyone happy.
It is clearly trying to strike a balance, but as the number of users continues to grow, that challenge may only become harder.
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"Someone had hacked into the systems of the company and planted a small virus," explains co-founder Lars Jensen. "They would then monitor all emails to and from people in the finance department."
Whenever one of the firm's fuel suppliers would send an email asking for payment, the virus simply changed the text of the message before it was read, adding a different bank account number.
"Several million dollars," says Mr Jensen, were transferred to the hackers before the company cottoned on.
After the NotPetya cyber-attack in June, major firms including shipping giant Maersk were badly affected.
In fact, Maersk revealed this week that the incident could cost it as much as $300 million (£155 million) in profits.
But Mr Jensen has long believed that that the shipping industry needs to protect itself better against hackers - the fraud case dealt with by CyberKeel was just another example.
The firm was launched more than three years ago after Mr Jensen teamed up with business partner Morten Schenk, a former lieutenant in the Danish military who Jensen describes as "one of those guys who could hack almost anything".
They wanted to offer penetration testing - investigative tests of security - to shipping companies. The initial response they got, however, was far from rosy.
"I got pretty consistent feedback from people I spoke to and that was, 'Don't waste your time, we're pretty safe, there's no need'," he recalls.
Today, that sentiment is becoming rarer.
The consequences of suffering from the NotPetya cyber-attack for Maersk included the shutting down of some port terminals managed by its subsidiary APM.
The industry is now painfully aware that physical shipping operations are vulnerable to digital disruption.
Breaking into a shipping firm's computer systems can allow attackers to access sensitive information. One of the most serious cases that has been made public concerns a global shipping conglomerate that was hacked by pirates.
They wanted to find out which vessels were transporting the particular cargo they planned to seize.
A report on the case by the cyber-security team at telecoms company Verizon describes the precision of the operation.
"They'd board a vessel, locate by barcode specific sought-after crates containing valuables, steal the contents of that crate - and that crate only - and then depart the vessel without further incident," it states.
But ships themselves, increasingly computerised, are vulnerable too. And for many, that's the greatest worry.
Malware, including NotPetya and many other strains, is often designed to spread from computer to computer on a network. That means that connected devices on board ships are also potentially vulnerable.
"We know a cargo container, for example, where the switchboard shut down after ransomware found its way on the vessel," says Patrick Rossi at consultancy DNV GL.
He explains that the switchboard manages power supply to the propeller and other machinery on board. The ship in question, moored at a port in Asia, was rendered inoperable for some time, adds Mr Rossi.
Crucial navigation systems such as the Electronic Chart Display (Ecdis) have also been hit. One such incident is recalled by Brendan Saunders, maritime technical lead at cyber-security firm NCC Group.
This also concerned a ship at an Asian port, but this time it was a large tanker weighing 80,000 tonnes.
One of the crew had brought a USB stick on board with some paperwork that needed to be printed. That was how the malware got into the ship's computers in the first instance. But it was when a second crew member went to update the ship's charts before sailing, also via USB, that the navigation systems were infected.
Departure was consequently delayed and an investigation launched.
"Ecdis systems pretty much never have anti-virus," says Mr Saunders, pointing out the vulnerability. "I don't think I've ever encountered a merchant ship Ecdis unit that had anti-virus on it."
These incidents are hugely disruptive to maritime businesses, but truly catastrophic scenarios might involve a hacker attempting to sabotage or even destroy a ship itself, through targeted manipulation of its systems.
Could that happen? Could, for example, a determined and well-resourced attacker alter a vessel's systems to provoke a collision?
"It's perfectly feasible," says Mr Saunders. "We've demonstrated proof-of-concept that that could happen."
And the experts are finding new ways into ships' systems remotely. One independent cyber-security researcher, who goes by the pseudonym of x0rz, recently used an app called Ship Tracker to find open satellite communication systems, VSat, on board vessels.
In x0rz's case, the VSat on an actual ship in South American waters had default credentials - the username "admin" and password "1234" - and so was easy to access.
It would be possible, x0rz believes, to change the software on the VSat to manipulate it.
A targeted attack could even alter the co-ordinates broadcast by the system, potentially allowing someone to spoof the position of the ship - although shipping industry experts have pointed out in the past that a spoofed location would likely be quickly spotted by maritime observers.
The manufacturer behind the VSat unit in question has blamed the customer in this case for not updating the default security credentials. The unit has since been secured.
It's obvious that the shipping industry, like many others, has a lot of work to do on such issues. But awareness is growing.
The Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) have both recently launched guidelines designed to help ship owners protect themselves from hackers.
Patrick Rossi points out that crew with a poor understanding of the risks they take with USB sticks or personal devices should be made aware of how malware can spread between computers.
This is all the more important because the personnel on board vessels can change frequently, as members go on leave or are reassigned.
But there are more than 51,000 commercial ships in the world. Together, they carry the vast majority - 90% - of the world's trade. Maersk has already experienced significant disruption thanks to a piece of particularly virulent malware.
The question many will be asking in the wake of this and other cases now being made public is: What might happen next?
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The 21-year-old scored 523.85 points to finish behind China's Cao Yuan, who ended on 547.60, with Germany's Patrick Hausding taking bronze (498.90).
Laugher's silver was GB's 50th medal at Rio 2016 and third in the diving pool.
He and Chris Mears won the 3m synchro, while Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow took bronze in the 10m synchro.
Ireland's Oliver Dingley, who, like Laugher, is from Harrogate in North Yorkshire, finished eighth with 442.90.
"I always knew I could medal at these Olympic Games," said Laugher. "I have been rising each year but obviously doing it is a completely different story."
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Laugher, who won bronze at last year's World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, only qualified from his semi-final by 2.10 points, in the 12th and final qualifying position.
"There are so many nerves, pressure and weather conditions around these Olympics, it is really hard to get on the board and do it and I showed that in the semi-final in the morning," he added.
"I had luck on my side and I was in that final - and that was when I could really let loose, there was no pressure, no nerves."
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"It was a monumental effort by Laugher. He was all over the place in the preliminary round and semi-final.
"But it doesn't matter, he has come out this evening and delivered."
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How do I manage to go to sleep at night without knowing my bed is monitoring my heart rate? Why don't my home speakers levitate? How did I survive childbirth - twice - without an app to time my contractions?
My alarm clock is not smart enough to remind me to pack the kids' PE kits on a Tuesday, and my shower doesn't light up if I'm using too much water.
The show hasn't even started yet and already I feel in need of therapy.
I have just returned from CES Unveiled - a bustling curtain raiser before the enormous trade fair itself begins.
I spent three hours roaming the stands, watching demonstrations of endless gadgets far smarter than me, avoiding a dance with a robot that was quite obviously a person in a costume, and trying to work out when this became my actual life.
Fortunately, smart wine dispenser D-vine, by French company 10-vins, was on hand to pour me the perfect glass of wine, at the perfect temperature, to match the food type I selected on the app as my imaginary dinner.
A kind of virtual sommelier approach, rather than the let's-just-grab-that-bottle-standing-next-to-the-cooker approach favoured by many humans I know.
The wine it selected sounded amazing.
And it even even came in a precisely measured glass-sized test tube - although I was sad not to be treated to an extra slurp. AI doesn't understand extra slurps. Yet.
There was a whole area dedicated to smart homes - from doorbells to light bulbs, security devices to voice-activated digital assistants.
They are not the most exciting of objects in themselves but the sector is thriving, says Steve Koenig, senior director of market research at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which organises the event.
"Connectivity will be the major focus of CES 2017," he tells me.
"Our research has shown that once consumers adopt one of these [smart home] products - like a connected thermostat or a smart lock - they are very much more likely to adopt the second, third or even fourth product, because they see the convenience."
At a table full of brightly coloured robots I met Robin Raskin, founder of a company called Living in Digital Times.
"Everything you ever imagined is talking to the internet," she says.
Robin is right about that. Smart hairbrushes, dog collars, pet feeders, beds, even the tea bags. Everything in that room felt like it wanted to communicate, to connect, to monitor what you're doing and then use that data to improve your life - whether it's your relationship with your pet or your ability to make a decent cuppa.
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Crowdfunder Jagger and Lewis was demoing a fitness tracker for dogs, endearingly modelled by an ever-patient hound called Piper The Wonder Dog.
With the help of inbuilt sensors including an accelerometer and a compass, it can supposedly tell you when your dog is hungry, thirsty or why it is behaving in a certain way, according to communications manager Justine Jungelson - although she wasn't really able to explain how.
The device will eventually retail for $200 (£165) and should ship in April, she tells me. I don't have a dog but I thought that sounded quite expensive.
"When you love your dogs you spend a lot of money," she replies.
And that is probably how we've ended up with a Fitbit for dogs.
It's not just our pets that are being urged to enjoy the benefits of sensors - a lady called Meghan wearing a pair of purple pyjamas introduced me to Dozer, a sleep tracker for children, disguised as a cuddly sheep.
"He plays music to help your child sleep, he detects movement, he can tell how well the child slept, he can correlate what music was playing while the child slept so over time he can curate playlists for how the child slept," she says.
It sounds like a great idea, but does it feel a bit intrusive to be tracking somebody else's sleep and manipulating it in that way - even if it is your own child?
It's not surprising that some experts are sceptical about whether the tech industry's current obsession with sensors is echoed by consumers.
"Just because you can monitor an activity doesn't mean you should," tech analyst Caroline Milanesi says.
"A lot of times we see products that are trying to solve a problem that just isn't there."
The vintage World War II-era P-51 Mustang crashed at about 1630 local time (2330 GMT) at the National Championship Air Races.
Organisers said a mechanical fault was probably to blame but were awaiting the results of an official investigation.
The National Transportation Safety Board is carrying out the inquiry.
Fifty-four people were taken to hospital, some in critical condition, said Mike Houghton, head of the Reno Air Racing Association and CEO of the event.
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Mr Houghton said the Mustang had not been flying too close to the ground prior to the crash.
He said that there appeared to be a "problem with the aircraft that caused it to go out of control".
"This is a very large incident, probably one of the largest this community has seen in decades," Stephanie Kruse, a spokeswoman for the Regional Emergency Medical Service Authority, told the Associated Press.
"The community is pulling together to try to deal with the scope of it. The hospitals have certainly geared up and staffed up to deal with it."
She said 15 of the injured were in a critical condition.
Kathy Carter, a spokeswoman for Renown Medical Center in Reno, said that two people had died, not including the pilot.
Earlier unconfirmed reports said up to 12 people might have been killed.
The Mustang, named The Galloping Ghost, was flown by well-known racing pilot Jimmy Leeward, 74.
Mr Houghton said that Mr Leeward, from Ocala, Florida, was a property developer who had been racing planes since the mid-1970s.
He said that Mr Leeward's medical records had been "in tip-top condition".
He added that most of Mr Leeward's family had been at Friday's event.
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval arrived at the scene and praised the emergency services for their "flawless reaction to what happened".
Mr Leeward's website says he had flown in more than 120 races and had been a movie stunt pilot.
Ronald Sargis, who was sitting in the box-seat area, said spectators could tell the plane was in trouble before it crashed.
"About six or seven boxes down from us, it impacted into the front row," Mr Sargis told KCRA-TV in Sacramento. He added: "It appeared to be just pulverized."
Jeff Martinez, a local weatherman who was just outside the air race grounds, said he saw the plane veer to the right and then crash into the ground.
The Reno Gazette-Journal website had posted a witness video of the crash from YouTube, but YouTube has now withdrawn it, saying it breached its terms.
Eyewitness Dr Gerald Lent, of Reno, told the newspaper: "It's just like a massacre. It's like a bomb went off. There are people lying all over the runway."
Maureen Higgins of Alabama, who has been coming to the show for 16 years, told the Associated Press that the pilot was on his third lap when he lost control.
National Guard members who were already on site helped with the response, air show spokesman Mike Draper told CNN.
Democratic Nevada Senator Harry Reid issued a statement saying he was "deeply saddened" about the tragedy.
"My thoughts are with the families of those who have lost their lives and with those who were wounded in this horrific tragedy," he said.
The National Championship Air Races are held every year in September in Reno.
There have been safety concerns in the past, with four pilots killed in 2007 and 2008.
However, organisers and aviation authorities say they spend months in preparation for the event.
Leanne Maguire's daughter Sophie was transferred from Altnagelvin Hospital to the London hospital after her birth, but died days after surgery in April 2013.
The chief coroner of England and Wales has ordered an investigation.
The hospital said they took all concerns around the care they provided extremely seriously.
The family received a letter from the chief coroner of England and Wales at the beginning of September informing them that an investigation into Sophie's death had been ordered.
Sophie's mother, Leanne, said no post mortem examination had been carried out and although the family did receive a death certificate, they claim there were many unanswered questions about the baby's death.
Sophie was transferred to Great Ormond Street after being born with blood flow problems in her brain at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry.
Her mother, Leanne, told BBC Radio Foyle how Sophie had been affected following the surgery at the London hospital.
"She started getting clots and her stats were going up and down. All of sudden she got sepsis and clots in her legs," she said.
"We left that night and the next morning we got a phone call to say she had taken a turn for the worst.
"Her abdomen was swollen and she had a large clot blocking the liver.
"We were told that there was no other way and we would have to turn off the machine on her. I was numb and my partner collapsed.
"The way she died in my arms I will never forget."
Although Sophie died in April, the family did not find out until some months later that the cause of her death was being investigated.
"I got a phone call in August from a member of staff at Great Ormond Hospital saying that Sophie's case is being reopened," Mrs Maguire said.
"I said to her 'why did you feel the need to open Sophie's case?' and she said to me 'Sophie should never have died'.
"How is a mother and father supposed to grieve for their baby if you don't know how they died? I won't stop until I get my answers."
A spokesperson for Great Ormond Street said: "Providing the best patient care in a safe environment is the trust's number one priority and we take all concerns around the care we provide extremely seriously.
"However, at this time, whilst we understand an investigation is taking place, we do not feel it appropriate to comment on this patient's care."
Police received a report at about 12:35 GMT that the teenager was attacked in Old Market Street, near to St Peter's CofE Church in Blackley.
The area has been cordoned off and officers are conducting an investigation of the scene. No arrests have yet been made.
A police spokesperson said: "The girl is receiving support from specially trained officers."
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Germany's world number 102 won 7-5 3-6 6-4 6-4 to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the third time.
It is only the second time this year that the 30-year-old has won back-to-back matches at the top level.
Nadal, 29, has now lost in the second, first, fourth and second rounds on his past four visits to Wimbledon.
On each occasion the 14-time Grand Slam champion was beaten by a player outside the world's top 100.
Brown, who changed nationality from Jamaican to German in 2010, now has a 2-0 record against Nadal having beaten the Spaniard on grass in Halle in 2014.
"You have to play your A game against him," Brown told BBC Sport.
"I am fortunate I played him twice on grass, which is my favourite surface. My game makes him not play his game. He doesn't get in a rhythm."
Nadal's last four Wimbledon campaigns have ended in defeat to underdogs ranked 100 in the world or lower at the time.
The 14-time Grand Slam champion conceded that after his latest upset he may not recapture the form that secured titles at the All England Club in 2008 and 2010.
Brown came through three rounds of qualifying last week, needed four sets to win in the first round on Tuesday and played five sets of doubles on Wednesday.
Thursday's victory guarantees him £77,000 in prize money, and Brown will take on 22nd seed Viktor Troicki in the last 32 on Saturday.
"It's great that people are appreciating me for my tennis. But on the other side, if I would worry too much about what people think, I wouldn't have the hair and probably wouldn't look the way I look," Brown said.
"When we watch my matches it's like, 'OK, that's a good shot, maybe that was stupid'.
"That is how I am. That's what makes me dangerous, especially on these surfaces."
His attacking game proved too much for 10th seed Nadal, with 13 aces, 58 winners and 89 trips to the net keeping the Spaniard on the back foot.
Twenty winners and two breaks of serve helped Brown to the first set, but Nadal appeared to be taking back control with two breaks in the second.
The German was not intimidated, pushing hard again in the third set and grabbing the crucial break with another sortie to the net.
Nadal's once fearsome forehand was misfiring badly and after he found the tram lines to fall behind at the start of the fourth, it appeared only a failure of nerve could stop Brown.
That almost came to pass when he missed a first match point by leaving a tantalising volley, only to see the ball drop inside the baseline, and Nadal then fired down an ace on the second.
It was left to Brown to serve out for the win of his life and he finished with an ace.
A five-point plan for constitutional reform is at the heart of the deal.
Mr Sanchez will now seek deputies' support to become prime minister in a vote on 2 March - though the two parties' seats combined still leave him far from a parliamentary majority.
Spain remains in political limbo following December's inconclusive poll.
Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's centre-right Popular Party, which took the greatest number of seats in the election, has already tried to form a coalition without success.
The Socialists (PSOE) had been negotiating with the radical left Podemos, but on Tuesday declared they had come to an agreement with Ciudadanos. The deal was signed on Wednesday to applause.
Between them, the Socialists and Ciudadanos command only 130 seats in the 350-seat lower house.
"What we agreed we cannot do alone," said Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera, urging other parties to come on board.
Their five-point pact would strip immunity from senior officials from being tried in lower courts; depoliticise the judiciary; make it easier for citizens to propose legislative initiatives; remove central government representation within regional administrations; and limit prime ministers to two terms in office.
In addition, reports El Diario (in Spanish), the deal envisages the imposition of a special tax on wealthy estates, an increase in the minimum wage, and corporate tax reform.
However, should their coalition go on to take power, constitutional reforms would depend on the unlikely support of the PP, which has an absolute majority in the Senate.
And despite the Ciudadanos deal, correspondents caution, the path to a new government remains far from clear.
Ciudadanos has talked to both the PP and Socialists (PSOE). The significance of the deal is that Ciudadanos has picked Mr Sanchez as the man who can deliver meaningful political reforms.
The problem is that this backing is largely symbolic, in that Ciudadanos' 40 seats cannot give a workable majority to either Mr Sanchez or Mr Rajoy.
Podemos, which could help Mr Sanchez become prime minister if Basque and Catalan parties gave their consent, has said it will not join any deal with Ciudadanos.
Ciudadanos has said it will vote against Mr Sanchez if he signs up to Podemos's plans to raise income tax and offer Catalans a referendum on independence.
Unless Podemos ditches its radical ideas, fresh elections still seem the most likely option. The Socialist leader will be able to say he tried, and blame Podemos for the impasse.
Mr Sanchez will now put himself forward for a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament on 2 March.
To succeed he would need an absolute majority, which would require a yes vote or abstentions by either the PP - which has vowed to oppose such a coalition - or by Podemos and several other parties.
Podemos, analysts say, has been a tough negotiator with the Socialists: its leader Pablo Iglesias insistent on an independence referendum in Catalonia, anathema to the Socialists, or perhaps confident his ascendant party could win even more seats in fresh elections next summer.
Podemos is also deeply suspicious of rival newcomer Ciudadanos.
Should Mr Sanchez fail to secure an absolute majority on 2 March, he could then aim for a simple majority in a second vote on 5 March.
If he fails, the PP may attempt once again to form a coalition - perhaps a "grand coalition" with the Socialists and Ciudadanos.
If that fails, a new election would have to be called, probably on 26 June.
Border Force officers at the port discovered about 12kg (26.4lb) of the class A drug in the bodywork of the British-registered vehicle.
The force said a 46-year-old man from Immingham, Lincolnshire, had been bailed while inquiries continue.
The driver's details have also been passed to the National Crime Agency, a spokeswoman said.
The vehicle was stopped during checks at the port in the early hours of Saturday.
The CanParent scheme which saw parents given £100 to spend on classes ended up costing £1,088 per parent, figures obtained by Labour suggest.
Shadow children and families minister Lucy Powell described the scheme which attracted just 2,000 out of a possible 55,200 as an "embarrassing failure".
The government said it would continue to work closely with CanParent.
The CanParent initiative offered classes for every parent and carer of children up to the age of five in three local authorities - Middlesbrough, Camden and High Peak between June 2012 and March 2014.
More than 50,000 parents in CanParent areas were able to access vouchers worth £100 to spend on classes through health visitors, midwives, doctor's surgeries and children's centres - and were available at branches of Boots.
But Ms Powell discovered from a Parliamentary Question that just 4% of parents took part in the scheme which cost £2m.
The scheme was launched in 2011 by the then children's minister Sarah Teather and ran between April 2012 and January 2014.
At the time, David Cameron said: "Parents want help. It is in our interest as a society to help people bring up their children."
The classes, provided by parenting experts, covered areas such as communication and listening skills, managing conflict and "strengthening positive relationships in the family", as well as the importance of parents working as a team.
Discipline was also to be stressed, with "firm, fair and consistent approaches" encouraged and the importance of "boundaries" being set out for children. And there was advice on appropriate play for children's age and development.
Ms Powell said: "Parenting classes are a valued early intervention service but parents struggling under a cost-of-living crisis to balance work and family life are finding it harder and harder to access the help they need."
The Department for Education said: "We are committed to helping parents access the vital help and advice they need in the early years of their child's life."
"CanParent offers a wide range of high quality, universal parenting classes and 99% of those who completed their course said they would recommend classes to others."
Spurs were Women's Premier League Southern Division champions this term, while Rovers won the Northern Division.
Bianca Baptiste's brace either side of the break and Wendy Martin's late lob gave Spurs victory and the WPL title.
With just one promotion spot available, Tottenham will now join the WSL subject to meeting certain licence criteria.
But BBC Sport understands meeting those criteria will be a formality for Spurs, a club who have bolstered significantly behind the scenes this season, adding a strength and conditioning coach and additional resources off the field.
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Then, as a WSL 2 club, Spurs could - in theory - join other WSL 2 outfits in applying to join WSL 1, if they were to submit an application before 30 May, after the FA invited second-tier sides to bid to replace defunct club Notts County in the top tier.
For the first winter season of the WSL - starting in September - there will be 10 teams in WSL 1 and 10 in WSL 2.
Meanwhile, Gemma Donnelly's Blackburn - who impressively went their entire regular league season unbeaten - are set for a further year in the third tier.
Police said the incidents, which all happened within an hour of each other, began with a crash at the Bungalow at about 07:30 GMT.
The second involved an overturned car and happened at the Verandah and the third at the Black Hut.
Police said nobody was injured in any of the crashes and the road was "in the process of reopening".
She won the Booker in 1984 for her novel Hotel du Lac, one of 24 novels she wrote after a distinguished career as an art historian.
She died on 10 March. A notice of her death in the Times said she had requested not to have a funeral.
Fellow novelist Jilly Cooper paid tribute to her "wonderful lucid prose", and said she was "an icon of my age".
London-born Brookner began writing fiction in her 50s.
She had already been the first woman to hold the Slade professorship of fine art at Cambridge University, and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Her first novel, A Start in Life, was published in 1981, and she went on to publish a book almost every year for the next three decades. Her most recent work, the novella At The Hairdresser's, was published in 2011.
Her publisher Juliet Annan described Brookner as "an exceptional writer in so many ways", who was also "a superb art historian" and "erudite critic".
"Her novels are beautifully written - her sentence structure is pure pleasure," she said. "But I think what people miss is that her novels are some of the most shocking of the 20th century, for underneath the veneer of novels plots about women failing to marry, failing to see the venal in those around them, failing to make successful lives. She wrote about the biggest fears we have: loneliness and death."
Annan said her novels were often funny however - as was Brookner, and added: "There are few people, let alone novelists, as intelligent, as intellectually rigorous as she. We will miss her."
Cooper told the Times she "never stopped watching and observing", and described her as a "serious, serious writer who was very spare in her prose.
"I used to watch her at parties and everybody else was getting legless while she was just observing everybody."
Born in 1928, Anita Brookner was the only child of Polish Jewish parents who opened their London home to refugees escaping persecution by the Nazis during World War Two.
As a young woman she spent three years studying in Paris as a postgraduate, and reportedly said she had "never been so happy".But she often spoke of how her family's roots made her feel like an outsider in the UK, once saying in an interview that she had "never learnt the custom of the country... we were aliens... tribal".
She never married or had children - and, in a rare interview with the Telegraph in 2009, said: "That's why I write. Because I have no children."
Made a CBE in 1990, she was best known for exploring themes of social isolation through her female protagonists.
Hotel du Lac tells the story of romantic novelist Edith Hope, who is banished by her friends after breaking off an engagement, and goes to stay in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva.
There she meets an assortment of people, and observing them helps her to understand what course she should take in life.
The book was seen by some critics as a surprise winner, but became one of the top ten bestselling books of the 1980s and was adapted for a BBC television drama in 1986.
Her other books included The Rules of Engagement and The Next Big Thing.
Readers and fellow-writers paid tribute to the author following the news of her death.
Orange Prize-winning novelist Linda Grant tweeted: "Oh, I admired her so much. An underrated master of incisive fiction and laser prose Anita Brookner."
She added: "Always felt an affinity with Anita Brookner, her nervous Jews in overheated overfurnished flats in St John's Wood."
Jonathan Coe said he was said to hear the sad news of the "magnificent" Brookner's death, adding: "A great writer. Hotel du Lac one of the best Booker winners ever in my opinion."
Author Lady Antonia Fraser said Hotel du Lac was wonderful. "In a strange way it was pathfinding. I much respected her."
Ron Charles, editor of Book World at the Washington Post, tweeted: "Very sorry to hear of Anita Brookner's passing. No one captured the rhythms of loneliness as brilliantly as she did."
And Chocolat author Joanne Harris simply wrote: "Oh, Anita Brookner. #RIP"
The 30-year-old will have scans to confirm if he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
Burgess, who won a Super League with Leeds, was part of South Sydney's 2014 NRL title-winning side with brothers Sam, Tom and George.
Dragons have also lost Jason Baitieri for up to 12 weeks with a broken wrist.
Loose forward Baitieri is to undergo surgery in the coming week.
Head coach Vern Cotter makes six changes following last weekend's 26-13 victory, with winger Sean Maitland and centre Peter Horne coming in.
Edinburgh prop Rory Sutherland makes his first start, while Moray Low joins him in the front row.
Josh Strauss takes over from John Hardie in the back row.
South Africa-based centre Huw Jones is set to win his first cap from the bench.
Gordon Reid is also among the replacements, having arrived this week to provide cover for the injured Al Dickinson, whose place goes to Sutherland.
Low makes his first international start in three years, stepping in for WP Nel, who has not trained fully this week and drops to the bench.
With Duncan Taylor also sidelined through injury, Horne will play inside centre with Matt Scott switching to outside centre, while Maitland replaces Damien Hoyland.
Strauss is drafted in at flanker, which means John Barclay moves from blind-side to open-side as Ryan Wilson keeps the number eight jersey.
David Denton, who replaced Wilson for the final 16 minutes of the first Test, misses out altogether.
Pyrgos has endured an injury-hit season and did not feature in this year's Six Nations campaign due to a wrist problem. The Glasgow scrum-half will also take over the kicking duties from Laidlaw.
Describing his third experience of the captaincy as "an honour and a privilege", the 26-year-old expressed relief at being back in the side having not played for Scotland since the World Cup win over USA in September 2015.
"Henry takes that responsibility on his shoulders pretty squarely," said Cotter. "He's been very patient and has always had that leadership behind Greig.
"We expect another tough game. Japan are a very tenacious side, very quick to the breakdown. They scramble hard and defend ferociously inside their 22.
"Since the World Cup they've probably put more pressure on at the breakdown and so we're going to have to get there quickly.
"We have to be accurate. They caught us a little bit last Saturday so credit to them. They're a good side and were going to have another hot game on the weekend."
Cotter has again left Ross Ford out of the 23, the Edinburgh hooker deemed not quite ready to play after missing last weekend through injury.
Ford, on 99 caps, is therefore going to have to wait a while longer to join the century club.
The head coach said the bench will be critical so Jones, 22, is as good as guaranteed a debut following his whirlwind arrival on the Scottish Test scene.
"He's got play-making skills and he moves well," said Cotter.
"He can cover centre, wing and probably full-back as well if you asked him. The bench will have a big role to play."
Japan have made two changes to their team, with Rikiya Matsuda coming in for the injured Kotaro Matsushima at full-back and Male Sa'u replacing Mifi Poseti Paea on the right wing.
It will be Matsuda's first start for Japan having won his previous two caps off the bench. He was sin-binned in the first Test last weekend.
Sa'u, one of the heroes of Japan's victory over South Africa, has recovered from injury and takes his place on the wing as opposed to centre, where he has won all of his previous 29 caps, including against the Springboks and Scotland during the World Cup.
Scotland: Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Matt Scott, Peter Horne, Sean Maitland, Ruaridh Jackson, Henry Pyrgos (capt), Rory Sutherland, Stuart McInally, Moray Low, Richie Gray, Jonny Gray, Josh Strauss, John Barclay, Ryan Wilson.
Replacements: Fraser Brown, Gordon Reid, Willem Nel, Tim Swinson, John Hardie, Greig Laidlaw, Huw Jones, Sean Lamont.
Japan: Matsuda, Sa'u, Bennetts, Tatekawa, Sasakura, Tamura, Shigeno, Inagaki, S. Horie, Hatakeyama, H. Ono, Kotaki, Tui, Kin, Mafi.
Wales will play three Tests against the world champion All Blacks in June.
Six Nations winners England provide the opposition at Twickenham on Sunday, and Webb is keen to avenge Wales' defeat there in March.
"Sunday is a must-win game for us. We need to build momentum going into the New Zealand tour," he said
"We weren't there mentally or physically in the first 40 minutes against England in the Six Nations.
"We know how competitive it will be down there [New Zealand], but it is all about us this weekend."
Wales have not beaten New Zealand since 1953, losing 26 successive Tests, while their record on All Blacks soil shows seven losses from seven games, conceding an average 40 points per game.
New Zealand will be favourites again this summer, even though Steve Hansen's men face a degree of rebuilding, given their post-World Cup team will not feature stellar players such as Dan Carter, Richie McCaw, Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith.
"I am raring to go. I have got that buzz about me, and I'm like a little kid. I feel fresh and ready to be part of a big tour to New Zealand," said Webb.
"There is no point going on a tour like this thinking you are going to lose three Tests. We are winners, we want to pick up trophies.
"We aren't going to look at the history of the games against New Zealand. It's only for the media to write about - we certainly won't let that get to us.
"I have only played against the All Blacks once before - in 2014 - and I have full respect for any team that can win two World Cups.
"They are a world-class team with world-class individuals. They all have a great skill set, from numbers one to 15, and the props can do things that the backs can do.
"When you go down, you have to be able to bounce up and make the next tackle. It really is about full concentration from start to finish."
Anthony Ferrie was being taken back to jail in a G4S vehicle following a visit to Livingston's St John's Hospital.
One officer was knocked unconscious and another suffered an arm injury during the escape at about 14:15.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Prison Service said: "We are aware that an individual has escaped from the custody of G4S while on a hospital escort."
She added: "We are assisting Police Scotland to apprehend them."
Willie Galloway, head of operations for G4S's custody transport in Scotland, said: "Two members of our crew were injured during the incident which left one unconscious and the other with an injury to their arm.
"While they both remain in hospital, their injuries do not at this stage appear to be life-threatening and we are supporting them and their families.
"We are assisting Police Scotland's inquiry to recapture this prisoner and are working with the Scottish Prison Service to understand the events leading up to this escape."
Ferrie, 33, was being held at Addiewell Prison in West Lothian.
He is described as white, 6ft tall and of slim build. He was wearing a blue sweater, jeans and trainers.
Ferrie, who police said should not be approached by members of the public, is believed to have links to Bellshill, Motherwell and Grangemouth.
West Ham played for 75 minutes with 10 men after Feghouli was shown a straight red card by referee Mike Dean.
Manchester United went on to win 2-0, their sixth straight league victory.
"It was not a red card. Feghouli's foot was not high in the air, it was not deliberate," said Bilic.
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Bilic said England international Jones had gone in "dangerously" on Feghouli, and said West Ham will appeal against the red card.
"It was the key decision and it killed us. It put the game in a different perspective and was totally unfair for us," he added.
"Phil made a meal of it, but you cannot blame him. Maybe he made a meal because he is the one who went dangerously and he is saving himself."
Match of the Day pundit Martin Keown said: "It is a massive mistake from Mike Dean. It is remarkable, so early in the game too.
"I don't know how he can be so certain of who is fouling who. Sofiane Feghouli is trying to make a tackle, it is more a foul from Phil Jones. The reaction from him gets the player sent off."
Fellow MOTD expert Kevin Kilbane agreed: "It's such a bad decision and the reaction from Phil Jones might have helped in getting Sofiane Feghouli sent off. Feghouli should be given a reprieve."
Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho said he did not feel sorry for West Ham after Feghouli's dismissal at London Stadium.
"If you talk about decisions, we are the champions of bad decisions," added Mourinho.
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The game was goalless when Feghouli became the fifth player to be sent off by Dean this season.
West Ham dug deep before substitute Juan Mata gave the visitors the lead, Zlatan Ibrahimovic doubling the advantage despite being one of three players offside.
"It was a big offside for the second goal," said Bilic. "When the players are sprinting it is hard for the referees, I am the first to say that.
"But the players were walking. They should spot this."
Manchester United are one point behind fourth-placed Arsenal having played one more game than the Gunners.
West Ham, meanwhile, drop from 12th to 13th in the Premier League table.
The study for comparison website Confused.com also indicated that the number of people convicted of drug-driving went down last year.
Seven per cent of the 2,000 motorists asked said they had driven under the influence of illegal drugs such as cannabis, cocaine or ecstasy.
Ministers are planning new laws next year to crack down on drug-drivers.
Twelve per cent of those surveyed said they had driven under the influence of drugs prescribed by their doctor.
These could include some painkillers or hay fever remedies that can make people drowsy.
More than half of those asked admitted that they did not always read the leaflet that comes with the medicine, which often gives advice on whether people should drive.
BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott said the survey was one of several over recent years that suggest drug-driving is a problem.
The government said it was getting tough on drug driving, promising that legislation planned for next year would save hundreds of lives and could land thousands of drivers caught under the influence of drugs with a large fine or even a prison sentence.
The plans to make it easier to prosecute people who drive under the influence of drugs in England and Wales were unveiled by the government last month.
The proposals would introduce a new offence of driving with a drug in the body, above a certain limit.
Ministers said the legislation would remove the difficulty of proving a driver was impaired by drugs, which is the case at the moment.
The government proposes including eight illegal drugs - cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, benzoylecgonine (primary metabolite of cocaine), methamphetamine, LSD and 6-monoacetylmorphine (heroin and diamorphine), for which allowable limits would be set very low.
And it is proposing higher limits for eight other controlled drugs that have medical uses.
These are clonazepam, diazepam, flunitrazepam, lorazepam, methadone, morphine, oxazepam and temazepam.
Police would be able to carry out up to three preliminary saliva tests and, if positive, require a blood sample to be taken.
The government is consulting on which drugs should be included and what the limits for each should be.
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Dave Ward, South East managing director for Network Rail, told BBC London's transport correspondent Tom Edwards: "We thought we would be presenting a new station and a new method of operation after several months of misery and that hasn't happened and I am deeply regretful for that."
Thousands of commuters have had their rush hour journeys disrupted unable to get through entrance gates and onto already delayed trains.
Goalkeeper Tomas Koubek, 24, said "women belong at the stove" after assistant referee Lucie Ratajova failed to flag an opponent offside during Sunday's 3-3 draw with Brno.
Midfielder Lukas Vacha, 27, tweeted a picture with a comment "to the stove".
Sparta chief executive Adam Kotalík called the remarks "unacceptable".
He added that the players "will see for themselves that women can be handy not only at the stove".
Women's team captain Iva Mocova said: "We are looking forward to the boys training with us."
Speaking after Sunday's game, Czech Republic international Koubek had added: "Women should not officiate men's football."
He later posted a picture of his wife and daughter on Facebook and said he wanted to "apologise to all women".
Fellow Czech international Vacha said his "comment was directed to a specific error which affected the outcome of the game, not for any other women".
Midfielder Alois Hycka appeared to be several metres offside before scoring the Brno's equaliser in stoppage time.
The Football Association of the Czech Republic's disciplinary committee is due to deal with Koubek's remarks on Thursday.
The official centenary commemorations took place at Easter last month, but the TV programme will be broadcast on the actual centenary - Sunday 24 April.
Exactly 100 years to the day that the rebellion began, the BBC film examines how events were viewed from Ulster.
It includes eyewitness accounts from both British soldiers and Irish rebels.
The Easter Rising was an ill-fated insurrection against British rule in Ireland which lasted less than a week - from 24 April to 29 April 1916.
However, the short-lived rebellion made a lasting impact on the course of Irish history and ultimately led to the partition of the island and the creation of the state of Northern Ireland.
"There wasn't a shot fired in the north, but there was still a very large northern contingent who fought on the side of the rebels," says series producer Paul McGuigan.
"Also, you have the irony that some people from the north were part of the British Army and they were all Irishmen at that stage because there was no partition.
"So, you had Irish fighting against Irish and some people from the north were part of the British Army stationed in Dublin at that stage and I don't think that has really been looked at in any of the proceeding documentaries."
The programme, entitled Voices 16 - "Rising", concentrates heavily on putting the rebellion in its wider historical context - as an unexpected challenge to British colonial power right in the heart of its empire, while its troops were suffering heavy losses in World War One.
It also examines the origins of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), and the parallel, arguably even greater, threat it posed to British authority in Ireland by resisting Home Rule.
The outbreak of World War One postponed the introduction of limited self-governance in Ireland - legislation that had set northern unionists in direct conflict with southern republicans.
"In 1913-14 Ireland was on a tipping point of civil war over this issue of Home Rule," National Museum of Ireland curator Lar Joye tells the programme.
Political historian Éamon Phoenix agrees, adding that unionist leader Edward Carson and his well-armed UVF militia had become a seditious force to be reckoned with.
"The Larne gun-running of the 22nd of April 1914 changes everything," Phoenix says.
"Thirty-five thousand German guns distributed around the province of Ulster - sophisticated weaponry including machine-guns.
"Now Carson's army has military dominance in Ireland. It's even a threat to the forces of the Crown."
The rebels also made their own, unsuccessful attempts to ship German guns to Ireland, notably led by County Antrim-raised Sir Roger Casement, who was later hanged for treason.
Phoenix says that it appeared to many that the government was using "kid gloves" on unionists and "lead bullets" on nationalists.
However, the government was not the only player to tread with caution around the UVF.
Using a witness statement from an Irish Volunteer, the programme recounts how rebel leader James Connolly angrily issued the order: "You will fire no shot in Ulster".
The Scottish-born socialist, who had moved his young family to Belfast, was wary of sectarian conflict, but later added: "If we win through, we will then deal with Ulster."
The documentary also hears testimony from the Belfast activist, Winifred Carney, who acted as Connolly's military secretary during the rising.
Carney had helped to set up an organisation called Cumann na mBan (League of Women), which was known as the women's IRA.
Stationed in the rebels' headquarters - Dublin's General Post Office (GPO) - she typed out orders from Connolly as the city centre building burned down around them.
The GPO was destroyed in the bombardment, but remarkably, both Winifred and the typewriter she used survived the heat of battle.
The programme team managed to track it down 100 years on, and seeing the actual typewriter used to despatch rebel orders was "pretty special", according to the producer.
"With that, came a cache of letters and telegrams from the likes of James Connolly," Mr McGuigan says.
"We also found her first-hand account [of the Easter Rising] the actual transcript of it and the document itself, and these haven't been seen in quite a while."
The documentary also recounts how a last-minute order issued by County Antrim man Eoin MacNéill - chief of staff of the Irish Volunteers - threw plans for the rebellion into confusion.
His notorious countermand, issued on the eve of the rising, meant the rebellion was confined to Dublin and ensured its military failure was even more emphatic than expected.
MacNéill was imprisoned while other rebel leaders were executed, on the orders of Sir John Maxwell, the British general brought into to restore the rule of law.
"As the executions grind on over those weeks in May, you can see things beginning to change," says National Archives of Ireland historian Catriona Crowe.
Contributors agree that Maxwell "misjudged" the mood of moderate Irish nationalism and that his merciless approach only engendered greater sympathy for the rebels' cause.
But Crowe reminds the programme that the same British general had never been inclined to tolerate dissent from any corner of Ireland.
"Interesting, Sir John Maxwell wrote to his wife during those weeks in May to say that 'If we -the British establishment - had taken a strong line against the Ulster Volunteer Force and nipped that particular rebellion in the bud, none of this would ever have happened'."
Voices 16 "Rising" will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Sunday 24 April at 20:00 BST.
In the last year, 19 pharmacists carried out 2,000 consultations with people needing help for minor ailments.
The Common Ailment Scheme (CAS) enables people to receive treatment from a pharmacist for things like head lice.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said it was the first in Wales to extend the CAS to all its pharmacies.
The roll-out begins on Monday and is due to be completed by March.
Last March, the Welsh government invested £750,000 in technology as part of its Choose Pharmacy project to improve integration between NHS providers.
It allows, for example, patients' hospital discharge information to be shared with a nominated pharmacy so a follow-up review can be completed by a pharmacist.
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The 30-year-old, who has played mainly as a forward, operated in a deeper role for much of the 1-0 win in Trnava.
Rooney revealed that Allardyce, who lost his job last week, admitted to him that his comments had been a mistake.
"I played exactly to instructions," said the Manchester United player.
"He knew he had made a mistake. He said that to me on the plane home.
"That's part of being involved at this level. He understood that quite early and unfortunately he doesn't have the chance to rectify that now."
Rooney, England's all-time leading scorer with 53 goals, also thought he had given "a decent performance" against Slovakia.
England won their opening World Cup 2018 qualifier 1-0 thanks to an injury-time winner from Liverpool's Adam Lallana.
"I actually thought I'd done quite well, especially in the second half," said Rooney. "It has all been blown up."
Allardyce left his post as England manager by mutual agreement with the Football Association last week after only one match and 67 days in charge.
It followed a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
"It's a shame," said Rooney. "Everyone could see how excited Sam was for the job and he came in and showed that enthusiasm to the players.
"It's a shame it's happened and I'm sure he deeply regrets it. For the FA, I'm sure it has been a tough couple of weeks."
Gareth Southgate will take charge of England for the next four games.
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Rooney thinks it's an opportunity for the England Under-21 boss to "show what he can do at senior level".
"We have to buy into his ways and take his ideas on board," said Rooney.
Rooney's place in the England side has been under scrutiny since the country's failure at Euro 2016, where he played in midfield.
Asked where he thought he would play for England under Southgate, Rooney said: "It is getting tiring, that question. I have answered it many times.
"It is the same answer. I will play where the manager wants me to play. I have never picked myself."
On Monday, Southgate confirmed that Rooney will remain as captain, describing the forward as "the outstanding leader in the group".
Rooney welcomed the backing of the interim boss, saying: "With Sam, there was a lot of talk over whether I would be captain. It was good Gareth put that to bed early and there was no unnecessary speculation."
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Gary Cahill is expected to start in the centre of defence against Malta.
The 30-year-old has made some high-profile mistakes for Chelsea in recent weeks, including against Swansea when he allowed Leroy Fer to rob him of possession and score the equaliser.
"Up to Swansea, my form was good, I was playing well and I was happy," Cahill told BBC Sport. "But since then I have made a few big errors, basic errors. As ridiculously bad as they were, they are easy to correct."
A final practice session with Lucas Pouille meant he had no choice but to end his US Open hopes.
The hip he injured in the French Open semi-final, and which so hindered him at Wimbledon, proved too sore to allow him to compete in the tournament.
And so the five most successful men of 2016 will be absent in New York.
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Novak Djokovic's season is over because of an elbow injury he attributes to "excessive playing".
Stan Wawrinka will also miss the rest of the year following surgery on his knee.
Kei Nishikori won't be seen before January, either, as he has torn a tendon in his right wrist.
And Milos Raonic's post-US Open plans are very uncertain: he has had a procedure to remove fragments of bone which were causing discomfort in one of his wrists.
As Murray flies home to contemplate whether he requires surgery, the ATP Tour points to statistics which show there have been fewer injuries this year than last.
But, given any sport relies heavily on its brightest stars, is now the time to make significant changes to schedules, surfaces and equipment?
The ATP has been studying and tracking injuries since 2012 and, according to its own data, there has been a 7% fall in injuries so far this year.
"Our players are doing a lot of preventative work which is also expanding the number of years they are on the Tour," said Todd Ellenbecker, a former physio who is now the ATP's vice-president of medical services.
"Right now between 40 and 43 players of our top 100 are over 30 years of age," he added.
There is no doubt careers are getting longer, but it also appears as if the burden of the four Grand Slams, the eight mandatory Masters 1000 events and at least four other tournaments the top 30 are routinely required to play is causing problems for that very select group which regularly contests semi-finals and finals.
Last year, Murray played 87 matches, Nishikori 79 and Djokovic 74, but by means of comparison John McEnroe (albeit in a less physically demanding era) played 85 when he recorded the best winning percentage in ATP history in 1984.
Ellenbecker added: "It's probably not the number of matches or tournaments somebody plays - but more the number of sets, the amount of time they are on court and how often they play matches back to back without rest and recovery weeks."
"If somebody has had a history of back problems, hip problems, shoulder problems, they have to do an amazing amount of maintenance work between tournaments just to keep those areas healthy."
But rest and recovery weeks are not always available for the maintenance work to take place.
The Masters events in Indian Wells and Miami are played back to back, and so too are the tournaments in Madrid and Rome in May, and in Canada and Cincinnati in August.
If you are among the top eight players of the year, this season will conclude with the ATP Finals in the third week of November. Next season will begin on New Year's Day.
This allows just six weeks - or five for players involved in the Davis Cup final - to rest, recover and fit in a two to three-week training block.
The ATP Tour calendar is under review, with any changes to take effect in 2019, but the season is very likely to remain the same length with the major events keeping their current place in the calendar.
Commercial factors weigh heavily, but it also tends to suit players who are away from home to move from, say, one American event to another without too much downtime in between.
There may possibly be a move towards more longer ATP events - in a similar vein to the 12-day tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami. This would allow players more rest days during events, but the schedule will remain long and crowded, which is of course very much in the interests of those majority Tour members who rarely progress past the first couple of rounds.
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Djokovic has played an average of 82 matches in each of the past 10 years, almost exactly the same as Roger Federer did at a comparable stage of his career. Given his extraordinary and sustained success, it is hard to argue he should have played less, even if there is now a price to pay.
Murray played 70 matches from May to November of last year, but look what he achieved in winning Wimbledon, the Olympics and becoming world number one. Two Davis Cup ties and the Olympic Games added to his workload yet he only just fulfilled his required commitment to the ATP Tour. He was arguably too successful for his own good.
From January, however, Murray will have total freedom in designing his own schedule.
By then, he will have played more than 600 matches, completed 12 years of service and celebrated the New Year as a 30-something for the first time: players who have fulfilled all three criteria have complete exemption from the Tour's player commitment rules.
A week off means no ranking points, which in turn might affect seeding for the major tournaments, but the ball will at least be in Murray's court.
Hard courts are the most taxing on the body, but they remain the sport's predominant surface and there is unlikely to be any reduction in the number of hard-court events staged.
If anything, given some promoters' preference for hard courts, the ATP has more of a battle to sustain the current number of clay-court tournaments.
Should anything be done about the regular switch in the make of balls? Rafael Nadal thinks so.
The Dunlop ball, for example, is used for the ATP's clay-court Masters events in the spring, and then a Babolat ball at the French Open. And while a Penn ball is used for the North American hard-court tournaments in August, a Wilson ball is then introduced at the US Open. Some balls are heavier than others.
"It is very bad decision to play Toronto and Cincinnati with one kind of ball and play here with a different kind of ball," Nadal said on the eve of this US Open.
"That's very bad for the wrist, for the elbow, for the shoulder. That's bad, seriously. There is contracts and I understand, but there is some ways that you can fix it, no?"
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The rules of engagement are likely to remain very similar, therefore, come 2019. The ATP Tour is doing very well commercially and many players are broadly happy - including 19-time Grand Slam champion Federer, who ascribes the current spate of injuries to the age of the elite.
"I believe it's mostly because they are 30-plus. Wear and tear just takes its toll. Maybe some players have just had enough of playing hurt and told themselves: 'When I come back I just want to be 100%.'
"I don't think there needs to be that much addressing, because players have the option not to play as much as sometimes they have to or want to. I don't think the tour is doing much wrong, to be quite honest."
But, in the absence of so many stars, this US Open could be a real test of the pulling power of the supporting cast. Federer and Nadal are in the same half of the draw, and so will play on the same day, leaving Alex Zverev and Marin Cilic as the only top-10 players who could feature on the other day.
There is very little stardust in that half of the draw, so it would be an ideal time for the next generation to strut their stuff.
Denis Shapovalov, Borna Coric, Karen Khachanov and Thanasi Kokkinakis are just four with the chance to shine.
Identified attacker Anis Amri, a Tunisian, was shot dead by Italian police on 23 December in the city of Milan after a Europe-wide manhunt.
So-called Islamic State (IS) has said one of its "soldiers" carried out the attack on Breitscheidplatz Christmas market, without offering evidence.
German police had initially detained a 23-year-old Pakistani man, who denied any involvement and was released after questioning.
After an inspection of the lorry, which was registered in Poland, authorities discovered legal identity papers belonging to Amri. Amri's fingerprints were also later discovered in the vehicle's cabin.
It was thought that Amri, 24, had been injured in a struggle with the Polish driver, who was found murdered in the cab.
Amri was shot dead after firing at Italian police officers who had stopped his car for a routine check, the Italian authorities say.
He reportedly pulled a gun from his backpack, shouted "God is greatest" in Arabic and opened fire, injuring an officer. A second policeman then returned fire, killing him.
Tunisian security forces arrested Amri's nephew and two other suspects on 24 December. Tunisia's interior ministry said the three, aged between 18 and 27, were members of a terrorist cell.
At 20:14 local time (19:14 GMT) the lorry, laden with steel beams, crashed into people gathered around wooden huts and stands selling mulled wine and sausages.
The market was packed with tourists and locals, at Breitscheidplatz, near Berlin's famous Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
The lorry drove 50-80 metres (160-260 ft) through the market.
Witnesses reckoned its speed to be about 64km/h (40mph), as it sent market stalls flying, leaving a trail of debris and casualties.
After the lorry stopped, the driver reportedly fled into the darkness of the Tiergarten park.
One witness set off in pursuit, then called the police. The Pakistani man was later arrested near the park's Victory Column monument.
The lorry's Polish driver, named as Lukasz Urban, 37, was found dead in the passenger seat. Police said he appeared to be the victim of a hijack.
A pistol apparently used to kill him was not found at the scene.
The German news website Focus says analysis of the lorry's GPS data shows that its engine was started several times on Monday afternoon, suggesting that someone was learning to drive it.
At 19:34, the lorry set off for Breitscheidplatz.
His full name was Anis Ben-Mustafa Ben-Outhman Amri.
He was known to authorities and was under surveillance in Berlin between March and September.
Amri was reportedly monitored on suspicion of planning a robbery in order to pay for guns, but surveillance was lifted for lack of evidence.
He was facing deportation as of June this year but remained in Germany because of a delay in receiving paperwork from Tunisia confirming his identity.
Before arriving in Germany in July 2015, Amri served four years in prison in Italy for arson.
Italian officials said he had arrived in Italy illegally by boat in 2011 after fleeing Tunisia during the Arab Spring revolutions.
So far, along with the driver, two other victims of the lorry attack have been officially named:
Two Germans - a 32-year-old man from Brandenburg an der Havel and a 53-year-old woman from Dahme-Spreewald - were also among the dead, the state's interior ministry said, without naming them.
A German woman from Neuss, near the west German city of Duesseldorf, is also believed to have died. Her son, aged 40, is among the injured.
In total, it is believed six Germans were killed in the attack, although five people remain unidentified, according to German website RP Online.
The lorry attack in the French city of Nice in July, carried out by a Tunisian-born man, was also claimed by IS.
The jihadist group - currently being attacked by Western and Russian warplanes in Iraq and Syria - has urged its supporters to use vehicles to attack Westerners.
In November 2015, gunmen and suicide bombers simultaneously targeted a concert hall, a stadium and restaurants in Paris, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds more wounded. The attacks were claimed by IS.
Earlier this year, Germany was shocked by four attacks, two of which - by asylum seekers - were also claimed by IS.
Alternative for Germany (AfD), an increasingly popular anti-immigrant party, warned that Chancellor Angela Merkel's "open-door" policy towards refugees in 2014-2015 had created a big security risk.
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Ms Hogg broke the Bank's code of conduct by failing to reveal the potential conflict of interest.
She had been the Bank's chief operating officer since 2013.
But news of her brother's job only emerged earlier this month, when she faced MPs on the Treasury Committee about her promotion to deputy governor.
She would have had responsibility for markets and banking. Her brother Quintin works in the strategy unit of Barclays' investment bank.
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A Treasury Committee report released on Tuesday said she "fell short of the very high standards" required and that MPs had "set aside" its approval of her appointment.
Minutes after the committee released its report, the Bank announced Ms Hogg's resignation.
She will not leave immediately and therefore will take part in this week's Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
It will be the first - and last - time Ms Hogg is involved with the MPC, which sets UK interest rates.
The Treasury Committee's action against Charlotte Hogg is certainly significant.
And its significance goes well beyond the future of Ms Hogg.
Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, backed her until one minute to midnight.
Which, after the evidence laid out by the committee today, is likely to be questioned by MPs when Mr Carney next appears before them.
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Bank governor Mark Carney said: "While I fully respect her decision, taken in accordance with her view of what was the best for this institution, I deeply regret that Charlotte Hogg has chosen to resign from the Bank of England.
"We will do everything we can to honour her work for the people of the United Kingdom by building on her contributions."
In her resignation letter, Ms Hogg said she was very sorry for failing to disclose her brother's role.
She also said she had offered to resign last week.
"It was an honest mistake: I have made no secret of my brother's job - indeed it was I who informed the Treasury Select Committee of it, before my hearing.
"But I fully accept it was a mistake, made worse by the fact that my involvement in drafting the policy made it incumbent on me to get all my own declarations absolutely right," Ms Hogg said.
"I also, in the course of a long hearing, unintentionally misled the committee as to whether I had filed my brother's job on the correct forms at the Bank.
"I would like to repeat my apologies for that, and to make clear that the responsibility for all those errors is mine alone."
The Bank is planning to tighten up its governance of the code of conduct.
Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury Committee, said: "This is a regrettable business with no winners. Ms Hogg has acted in the best interest of the institution for which she has been working. This is welcome.
"It is also welcome that the Bank has responded immediately by announcing an internal review.
"The Bank's governance is already in much better shape than it was a few years ago. It is something to which the Governor and Court has been committed for some time. But there is clearly more to do."
John Mann, an MP on the Treasury Committee, told BBC Radio 5 live it was "appropriate" she had resigned.
"She wrote the code of conduct for the Bank of England which says: 'Do you have a family member working in the banking industry, ie a brother or sister?'
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Speaking at Heathrow ahead of her first international conference since becoming prime minister, she insisted it was a "golden era" for UK-China relations.
The assurance comes as she faces a row with Beijing over a delayed decision on the Hinkley Point power station.
At the summit, Mrs May will meet one-to-one with US President Barack Obama.
She will also hold talks with other leaders of the world's 20 major economies and is expected to tell them that the UK is "open for business" following the referendum vote to leave the European Union.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will also meet with her but no announcement on the Hinkley Point project is expected.
Before boarding an RAF plane to eastern China, she told reporters: "The message for the G20 is that Britain is open for business, as a bold, confident, outward-looking country we will be playing a key role on the world stage.
"This is a golden era for UK-China relations and one of the things I will be doing at the G20 is obviously talking to President Xi about how we can develop the strategic partnership that we have between the UK and China.
"But I will also be talking to other world leaders about how we can develop free trade around the world and Britain wants to seize those opportunities.
"My ambition is that Britain will be a global leader in free trade."
In July it was announced that the government would postpone a decision on whether to build Hinkley Point - the first new UK nuclear plant in 20 years - until the early autumn.
The French energy giant EDF, with support from state-owned China General Nuclear, had expected to build the £18bn plant.
Mrs May's meeting with President Xi is expected to take place on Monday after the two-day G20 summit.
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said it "could prove the most important".
On Hinkley Point, he added: "Her Chinese hosts have invested billions in this and are pushing hard for a positive decision.
"It is a judgement call that will show how open and dependable Britain really is."
Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, former Conservative security minister told Radio 4's Today programme that day-to-day security issues needed to be ironed out regarding how Hinkley would be run.
"You need to know who is in charge, who you are talking to, where the seat of power is in relation to an investment of this kind so that you have direct communication and there is no fogginess about where the power lies in the relationship," she said.
Other topics due to be discussed by Mrs May at the summit in Hangzhou include curbing the financing of extremist groups and advancing free trade.
During the summit, the prime minister will also hold her first face-to-face talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
At her meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, the trading relationship between the two countries is expected to dominate the agenda.
Mrs May's talks with President Obama follow the US leader's warning that the UK would be at "the back of the queue" for a trade deal if it voted to leave the European Union.
Meanwhile, China has agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions with President Xi and President Obama announcing they are formally committing their countries to the climate change agreement reached in Paris at the end of last year.
China is the world's largest emitter of harmful CO2 emissions, which cause climate change.
In the landmark deal struck in December, countries agreed to cut emissions enough to keep the global average rise in temperatures below 2C.
It is the world's first comprehensive climate agreement and will only come into force legally when it is ratified by countries producing 55% of global carbon emissions.
China's decision to ratify the agreement will put pressure on other countries to follow suit
Michaela McAreavey was strangled in Mauritius 12 days after her wedding in County Tyrone.
No-one has been convicted of the 27-year-old's murder in January 2011.
Her husband had not been back at the hotel since her death, but details of his visit were revealed in a BBC Newsline programme on Tuesday night.
He had previously insisted he did not want to return, but he changed his mind on the last day of his recent five-day visit to the island.
He said: "Sometimes you just have to face the pain straight on, and do what you have to do."
The hotel in northern Mauritius used to be called the Legends Hotel, but changed its name to Lux after the murder.
The purpose of Mr McAreavey's visit to the hotel was to meet the management and seek their help in finding new information about Michaela's death.
Afterwards, he said the hotel told him they would do everything they could to help.
BBC Newsline cameras followed him behind-the-scenes throughout the visit to the island.
His sister, Claire, who is a lawyer, was also there, as well as Mark Harte, the eldest of Michaela's three brothers.
Together, they tried to raise the profile of the murder case.
They met the Mauritian police, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, Director of Public Prosecutions Satyajit Boolell and made a public appeal for more information about the killing.
They offered a reward of 2m Mauritian rupees (£44,000) - almost twice the average annual salary - for information which leads to a conviction in the case.
At times Mr McAreavey found the visit emotionally overwhelming but he said: "Ultimately I think I owe it to Michaela."
In 2012, two hotel workers went on trial accused of the murder.
Avinash Treebhoowoon and Sandip Moneea were cleared in a unanimous verdict by a jury at the Supreme Court.
Mauritian police launched a fresh investigation following the trial, but it came to nothing.
Mr McAreavey remarried in September last year.
His wife, Tara, is an accountant from County Kildare.
In the programme, he talked about her, saying: "She supports me so much in this.
"Anyone who loves you, and loves you the right way, will support you in anything that's important in your life."
It is now five weeks since the McAreavey and Harte families made their public appeal for witnesses to come forward.
Some new information has been received, but not enough for the Mauritian police to make any new arrests.
However, the police say the investigation is ongoing and the families have not given up hope.
In the programme, they say they are prepared to keep going back to Mauritius for the next 20 years, if necessary, until the killers are convicted.
Laurent Koscielny could miss out after suffering a recurrence of a calf problem, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain remains out with a hamstring injury.
Sunderland pair Jason Denayer and Victor Anichebe are doubts with respective thigh and hamstring problems.
George Honeyman is also struggling to shake off a back injury.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "Our chances depend on winning our games. We have 69 points, we can get to 75. That will be four points more than last year, so let's focus on finishing as well as we can.
"We have created a momentum again. We had a difficult period and we recovered from it. The only chance we have to be in the top four is to win our games."
Sunderland manager David Moyes on the performance against Swansea - which Alan Shearer described as "pathetic and disgraceful": "I'd have to say that I think in many ways, he was right. I was incredibly disappointed with the performance.
"I don't think any player ever goes out to try to perform like that. There were some reasons for it, but I'm actually privy to the stats, I can see the physical stats and on much of that, I couldn't disagree."
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Unesco says there are 58 million children without access to primary school and 100 million who do not complete a primary education.
Only a quarter of countries achieved the goal of halving adult illiteracy.
But Unesco boss Irina Bokova said there had still been "tremendous progress".
This marks the final milestone for six global pledges, signed by 164 countries in April 2000, that were intended to systematically improve education over 15 years.
Although none of them has been fully achieved by the 2015 deadline, Ms Bokova said: "Millions more children are in school than would have been had the trends of the 1990s persisted."
There is a $22bn (£14.7bn) funding gap if the headline target of getting children into primary school is to be achieved, Unesco says.
Those most likely to be missing out on school are girls from poor families, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
As well as lack of funding, barriers to the creation of primary places for all included conflict, poverty, discrimination, poor governance, corruption and rising population.
The UK is the most successful country in the world regarding the six Education for All targets, according to Unesco.
The six Education for All targets were:
There will now be another set of education goals set for 2030, which will be agreed next month at the World Education Forum in South Korea, before being approved at the United Nations in New York in the autumn.
These are expected to place a greater emphasis on the quality of education, rather than concentrating on the number of pupils in school.
Unesco has been monitoring the progress of the education goals - and despite the overall failure to complete the objectives, there have been substantial advances, which the UN agency describes as a "qualified success".
There were 204 million children and adolescents without access to school in 2000 and that has fallen to 121 million, with the overall global enrolment rate in primary school rising from 84% to 93%.
But there was far more rapid progress in much of Asia, with an increasing proportion of those missing out on school being concentrated in countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nigeria, Chad and Niger were all highlighted for their lack of progress. In Asia, Pakistan was seen as failing to make sufficient progress.
But Nepal, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone were among the countries making the biggest improvements in access to education.
The 40-year-old was bowling coach at Hove last year, after retiring at the end of 2014 following one season on the playing staff at Sussex.
"This will enable me to utilise all my experience," he said.
"I will be using my key strengths to help shape a winning side, whilst continuing to develop the current bowling group and future bowlers."
Lewis took 849 first-class wickets at an average of 26.26 over his 20-year career and played one Test match for England, which came against Sri Lanka in 2006.
Sussex begin the County Championship Division Two season at Northamptonshire on Sunday.
The minke was spotted on a beach west of Elie by a passer-by just before 16:00 on Friday.
A team from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) led the operation to refloat the mammal at high tide.
An initial attempt failed when the whale re-beached itself, but a second attempt appeared successful.
A BDMLR spokeswoman said: "The whale's body condition was fair and it was not injured so we decided to refloat it on the high tide.
"We had pontoons in place but when we refloated it, it swam in a circle and re-beached itself.
"They found it and got it onto the pontoon again. It was still fairly strong and in a state to swim off the pontoon.
"We think it might just have got disorientated with the tide, so this time the RNLI followed it out to sea.
"We've had volunteers walking up and down the beach, and so far there's no sign of it so hopefully it will be OK."
The overnight violence in Les Ulis followed earlier clashes between police and protesters at the weekend, in which several dozen people were detained.
In Les Ulis three police cars were damaged, French media report.
Tension has gripped some Paris suburbs since 2 February, when a man called Theo was allegedly beaten up and raped.
At the weekend there were clashes between youths and police in Bobigny and Aulnay-sous-Bois - north-eastern suburbs - and in Argenteuil, a north-western suburb.
French media say youths hurled paving stones and petrol bombs at police, who responded with tear gas. Several cars were set ablaze and some bus shelters were vandalised.
High unemployment and racial tension blight several struggling neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Paris - commonly called the "banlieues". Police have been accused of heavy-handed methods in areas with large immigrant populations.
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Theo, a youth worker, said that in Aulnay-sous-Bois he was sodomised by police with a truncheon, as well as racially abused, spat on and beaten around his genitals.
One officer has been charged with rape, and three more with assault since Theo was hospitalised. He underwent emergency surgery and President Francois Hollande visited him last week.
On Tuesday, Mr Hollande plans to visit Aubervilliers, one of the banlieues, the daily Le Monde reports.
There are fears of banlieue riots on the scale of 2005, when violence gripped several French cities. The violence coincides with political tensions as the French presidential election campaign gains momentum.
National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen, widely expected to reach the decisive second round of the election, accuses the political "establishment" of neglecting the banlieues and allowing extremism to fester there.
Train companies have said any officer with a valid force ID can get a return ticket from any station in Wales to London on 10 April for nothing.
PC Palmer's funeral is being held at Southwark Cathedral at 14:00 BST.
Five people, including PC Keith Palmer, were killed by Khalid Masood in the attack on 22 March.
Masood killed the unarmed officer who was guarding Parliament, minutes after driving a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge.
On Friday, Andreea Cristea became Masood's fifth victim when she died two weeks after falling into the River Thames during his rampage.
Ms Cristea, 31, was on holiday from Romania with her boyfriend Andrei Burnaz.
Masood drove into crowds on Westminster Bridge then stabbed PC Palmer to death before being shot dead himself.
People were evacuated from Prior Deram Park in Canley, Coventry, during the blaze on 17 July.
The boy, who is local to the area but cannot be named because of his age, is also charged with assault and two counts of burglary.
He is due before Coventry Youth Court on the 13 August.
Islam Karimov has dominated the leadership since 1989, when he rose to be Communist Party leader in then Soviet Uzbekistan. The following year he became president and continued in the post after independence.
A referendum held in 1995 extended his term until 2000, when he won presidential elections unopposed.
A further referendum in 2002 extended the presidential term from five to seven years, but the expiry of his term in January 2007 went largely unnoticed.
He gained another two terms following elections in December 2007 and March 2015, both of which opponents dismissed as a sham.
Mr Karimov takes a ruthlessly authoritarian approach to all forms of opposition, using the danger of Islamic militancy to justify the absence of civil rights.
In recent years the question of the succession to President Karimov has been aired abroad, with his elder daughter Gulnara often highlighted as his potential heir.
But an apparent power struggle in late 2013, coupled with several money-laundering investigations abroad, led to Ms Karimova being placed under house arrest.
In 2014, prosecutors charged Ms Karimova - hitherto one of Uzbekistan's most powerful political and business figures - with belonging to a crime ring that had stolen £40m ($65m) in assets.
Her fall from grace has been attributed to a falling out with her mother and sister, as well as a rivalry with the powerful head of the Uzbek security services, Rustem Inoyatov.
Parliamentary elections were last held in December 2014. Parliament carries little political weight and is seen by critics as a rubber-stamp for the president.
It meets only a few times a year to approve government policies. No genuine opposition operates in the country legally, and almost all opposition leaders are in exile.
Mark Duffy opened the scoring for the Blades in the 20th minute after he beat a defender and then the goalkeeper with a dummy before finding the net.
Captain Billy Sharp doubled his side's lead six minutes later with a well-placed header after a cross from Matt Done, but Dom Poleon pulled one back in the 37th minute with a low header from an Andy Barcham cross.
Duffy and Done both missed chances for the visitors before Done found the net from a clever John Fleck through-ball just before the hour mark.
Substitute Tom Elliott made a quick impact and gave the Dons renewed hope in the 73rd minute from Dean Parrett's free-kick, but United held on.
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Match ends, AFC Wimbledon 2, Sheffield United 3.
Second Half ends, AFC Wimbledon 2, Sheffield United 3.
Foul by Jonathan Meades (AFC Wimbledon).
John Fleck (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Andy Barcham (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stefan Scougall (Sheffield United).
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Ryan Clarke.
Attempt saved. Stefan Scougall (Sheffield United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kieron Freeman (Sheffield United).
Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mark Duffy (Sheffield United).
Substitution, Sheffield United. Stefan Scougall replaces Matt Done.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Chris Whelpdale replaces George Francomb.
Attempt missed. Daniel Lafferty (Sheffield United) left footed shot from more than 40 yards on the left wing is high and wide to the left.
Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Matt Done (Sheffield United).
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Jonathan Meades.
Barry Fuller (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leon Clarke (Sheffield United).
Attempt missed. Daniel Lafferty (Sheffield United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon) because of an injury.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Dean Parrett.
Goal! AFC Wimbledon 2, Sheffield United 3. Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dean Parrett following a set piece situation.
Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Coutts (Sheffield United).
Attempt saved. Barry Fuller (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Foul by Leon Clarke (Sheffield United).
Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Leon Clarke (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Paul Robinson (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Jake Wright (Sheffield United).
Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Tom Elliott replaces Tyrone Barnett.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Leon Clarke replaces Billy Sharp.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Lyle Taylor replaces Darius Charles.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Jake Wright.
Attempt blocked. Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Monty has returned annually to breed at Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust's site, near Machynlleth, since 2011.
He, long-term mate Glesni and two other ospreys have all been at the site at Cors Dyfi since Monday.
Emyr Evans, of the trust, said: "It's been a crazy week with more arrivals than Heathrow."
Male, Dai Dot, was the first to arrive at the Dyfi Osprey Project at 07:50 BST on Monday, followed by female, Blue 24, at about the same time on Tuesday.
Monty arrived on Wednesday afternoon, with Glesni returning for her third year of mating with him on Thursday.
The trust said seven of the eight ospreys which bred in Wales in 2014 are now back.
One of their leaders has been shot dead during a clash with government supporters in eastern Bangkok.
Advance voting has been cancelled in dozens of venues in the capital and several southern provinces.
Anti-government activists want PM Yingluck Shinawatra to step down and the political system to be reformed.
By Jonathan HeadBBC News, Bangkok
Thailand's protest movement has an image problem. It is commonly viewed outside Thailand as undemocratic. The movement's leader, Suthep Thaugsuban, even wrote a letter to US President Barack Obama this week pleading for more understanding of his goals.
But the scenes of his supporters forcefully blocking people from voting won't help that negative image.
Mr Suthep's promise, that the demonstrations would not obstruct the voters, was broken repeatedly. In some areas, election officials appeared almost eager to comply with the protesters, fuelling suspicion among the government's supporters that the purportedly independent Election Commission is taking sides.
The government says the main polling day next Sunday will go ahead as scheduled. The Election Commission says it should not. They will meet to discuss the timing on Tuesday.
Neither outcome will address the bitter polarisation of Thai society. Each side increasingly demonises and dehumanises the other - even more so after a well-known protest leader was killed in a confrontation that turned ugly outside a polling station.
Suthin Taratin was speaking on top of a truck, which was part of a rally at a polling station where advanced voting was supposed to take place, when he was struck by gunfire, reports the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
He died later in hospital.
Crowds of flag-waving demonstrators chained the doors of polling stations shut, despite promises by protest leaders not to obstruct the polls.
The protesters surrounded polling stations in Bangkok and southern Thailand in an attempt to stop people voting.
Voting was either blocked completely or halted at 49 out of 50 polling stations in Bangkok. Early voting was also disrupted in 10 of Thailand's 76 provinces, reports said.
The election commission has called for the general vote scheduled for 2 February to be postponed because of possible disruption and violence.
But the government has so far insisted that the election must go ahead on schedule.
The latest disturbances comes despite a pledge from protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, who said on Saturday that his supporters would not obstruct advance voting - although they would demonstrate outside polling stations.
Q&A: Thailand protests
The protest movement says it is not obstructing the poll, but that "supporters are simply protesting the advance polls held today by surrounding/standing in front of election units", in a statement on its Facebook page.
Advance voting is for those unable to take part in the February election.
A state of emergency is in place as the authorities struggle to cope with the unrest.
Protesters, who started their campaign in November, want to install an unelected "people's council" to run the country until the political system is changed.
They say Ms Yingluck's government is being influenced by her brother, exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
At least nine people have died since the wave of protests started last year.
The issue became a hot topic in the UK because in January 2014 the remaining labour market restrictions on citizens of Bulgaria and Romania were removed across the EU.
After EU enlargement in 2004 the UK experienced a far greater influx of East Europeans than had been anticipated.
No - there are conditions, depending on an individual's circumstances.
They can stay for three months, but to stay longer after that they have to be: in work; or actively seeking work with a genuine chance of being hired; or be able to show they have enough money not to be a burden on public services. Apart from that, evidence of benefit abuse or fraud is grounds to exclude or expel a person.
Not automatically - a migrant still has to pass a "habitual residence test" under EU law.
The test covers factors such as the duration of the migrant's stay; their activity, including their source of income if they are students; their family status; and their housing situation. The migrant has to demonstrate a sufficient degree of attachment to the host country. The amount of time already spent in the country is not sufficient qualification in itself.
If a jobseeker satisfies the test in the UK then that person can claim Jobseekers Allowance - up to £72.40 ($116) weekly for a single person, £113.70 for a couple.
An EU migrant who is in work in the UK, or self-employed, and who passes the test, can claim housing benefit and council tax benefit. The amounts vary, depending on the local authority.
The UK applies an additional "right to reside" test, going beyond the standard EU test. The European Commission says the UK test is unfair and has taken the UK to the European Court of Justice over it. The Commission argues that EU migrant workers, who have paid UK taxes, should not be subject to the extra test in order to claim certain benefits.
Yes, if they are workers or self-employed - and their family members are entitled too. However, access to certain benefits can depend on the amount of time a worker has been paying contributions. So a native of the host country may have more entitlements.
Jobless migrants are not entitled to the same range of benefits - mainly those which are funded from salary contributions. Workers pay social security contributions, to cover sickness, unemployment, maternity or paternity, invalidity or occupational injuries.
The graph above includes jobseekers. Per head of population Ireland had the biggest influx of East Europeans after EU enlargement in 2004, but the UK took in the biggest numbers. Net migration to the UK from EU states in Eastern Europe reached nearly 400,000 in 2004-2011.
The systems are very diverse, so comparisons are difficult.
In terms of total spending on social security per inhabitant, the UK does not rank highest. In the UK the figure for 2010 was nearly 8,000 euros (£6,660; $10,880), the EU statistics agency Eurostat reports. In France and Germany it was nearly 9,000 euros, while in Denmark and the Netherlands it was above 10,000. At the other end of the scale, spending in Bulgaria and Romania was below 2,000 euros.
The Open Europe think-tank, campaigning for radical reform of the EU, says some countries have more flexibility than the UK in the area of "social assistance" benefits. Such benefits - targeting people in need - are usually means-tested and come out of general taxation, rather than salary contributions. In the UK, income support and housing benefit fall into that category.
In the UK, a bigger portion of welfare is funded by the state than is the case in Poland, France, Germany or the Netherlands. In those countries, more is funded from individual and employer contributions. In other words, more benefits are linked to previous earnings.
On the other hand, in several countries, including the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and Denmark, the share of state funding is higher than in the UK.
In Germany, there is a two-tier welfare system - part based on contributions, part non-contributory. An EU migrant made jobless in Germany would get up to 70% of current salary in the first year of unemployment. After that, the unemployed go onto a non-contributory system called Hartz IV. Germany has objected to paying those benefits to EU migrants who have not made sufficient contributions through work. But that policy has been challenged in the courts.
In Spain, welfare payments depend to a large extent on where you live as payments are handled regionally, rather than centrally. In Madrid there is a two-year residency test for RMI, which is paid to unemployed jobseekers. The benefits system in the Basque Country is rather less restrictive.
In Bulgaria, the EU's poorest country, you do not qualify for unemployment benefit unless you have been working for at least nine of the last 15 months.
Under EU law, EU citizens visiting for short periods can receive basic and emergency care with a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
It is the host country's responsibility to get the treatment costs reimbursed by the health service in the patient's home state. The UK government says the National Health Service needs to do more to get such costs reimbursed.
The UK is not the only EU member state to have a free, "universalist" health service, funded by taxpayers. Scandinavian countries have similar models, but most EU countries fund healthcare through medical insurance systems.
At least 400,000 Britons live in Spain full-time, a quarter of them pensioners, and they have free access to Spanish local doctors. The Spanish health service recovers the cost of their hospital treatment from the NHS - unless they have permanent residence status, in which case Spain pays for it.
An image of a young boy - one of 12 Syrians who drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece - was captured in Bodrum, sparking an international outcry.
Retired police officer Wynn Dunn, 70, originally of Pwllheli, Gwynedd, lives in Turgutreis a few miles away.
He said such sights had become a "plain fact" in Bodrum.
Mr Dunn, who previously ran a security consultancy and has lived in Turkey for 20 years, said residents have become accustomed to seeing "body bags" near the beach.
"Because it's been going on here for so long, it's not so shocking. It's a plain fact," he added.
Mr Dunn said, despite recent media attention, bodies have been washing up for some time.
"People don't blink about it, it's a regular routine," he added.
The picture of the boy, released by a Turkish news agency, is trending worldwide on Twitter under the #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik ("humanity washed ashore") hashtag.
Mrs Hassan said the 2009 flight from her home in the Kurdish region of Syria - via Jordan and France - was "perilous".
"All of the time, you have the fear - especially because I fled with my children. It was very terrifying," she said.
"At every checkpoint, I had that fear - would I be arrested? Will they send me back to Syria?"
The smugglers moved her using cars and planes.
"They are very ruthless people. They are telling you: 'Don't ask any questions, just follow me'," she added.
Mrs Hassan, who has refugee status in the UK and is now studying journalism, said she wanted people to understand refugees have "no option" but to seek safety elsewhere.
Referring to the photograph of a young boy's body found on a Bodrum beach, she said: "It's breaking my heart watching this news and seeing these terrible images."
A Turkish news agency said the boy and the rest of the group were Syrians from the besieged town of Kobane, who had fled last year to escape advancing militants from the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
Thousands of migrants have died this year trying to reach Europe by sea.
On Wednesday, First Minister Carwyn Jones said the UK government should find some "backbone" and accept more refugees to solve an "unfolding humanitarian tragedy".
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood had accused the Welsh government of not being vocal enough over the crisis.
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb called on the country to "deal with this as a United Kingdom".
There were more than 2,355 people receiving asylum-seeker support in Wales as of April-June 2015, according to the latest Home Office figures.
Wales currently takes about 7.6% of the 30,457 asylum-seekers in the UK - an increase from 6.3% in 2012 and 5.3% when the numbers claiming asylum peaked in 2007.
A fairer economy, vibrant communities and free education for all are among the aims outlined in the party's manifesto.
The Greens promised to build 12,000 affordable homes a year, scrap tuition fees for students studying in Wales and establish a north-south rail link.
Wales leader Alice Hooker-Stroud said the Senedd needed a "shake up".
"The National Assembly for Wales is the last national political body in the UK that doesn't have elected Green voices," she said.
"Strong Green voices in the assembly will hold Welsh Government to account on the social and environmental issues that affect our communities, and create a better future for Wales."
The parties key policies include:
Some policy details had already emerged from the party, including its stance on tuition fees.
Deputy leader Amelia Womack told BBC Wales' Sunday Politics Wales programme Welsh students studying in Wales would not have to pay tuition fees if her party won power in the assembly election.
Printed in 1611 and known as the "Great She Bible", it is one of the earliest known copies of the King James Version (KJV) of the Christian holy book.
It will be displayed at St Mary's Parish Church in Gisburn on Saturday.
The Reverend Anderson Jeremiah and the Reverend Alexander Baker found the old book following their appointment at the church last August.
It is called a "She Bible" because Chapter 3, Verse 15 of the Book of Ruth mistakenly reads: "She went into the city".
Thought to be typographical mistake, this verse was changed from another KJV edition which said "He".
The Bible has been assessed and authenticated by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association.
Only a handful of the "She Bibles" still exist. Oxford and Cambridge Universities have one, as do Salisbury, Exeter and Durham cathedrals.
The historical significance of the Bible was not highlighted in the parish records so it was stored in a cupboard at the back of the church.
Mr Baker said: "It was a really exciting thing to discover - it looks just like something out of Harry Potter.
"One of the wonderful things about worshipping in a church as old as ours is the sense of history that oozes from its walls and discovering the treasures it has to offer.
"But we were stunned to discover a treasure as rare as this. We knew as soon as we saw the date of the New Testament it was a significant find."
Dr Jeremiah added: "It's amazing to think we are able to hold a book printed as the direct result of the command of King James 400 years ago."
"This English language version of the Bible was created to encourage ordinary people to discover the Good News of Jesus Christ for themselves and it is likely that it was the book that first took God's word into many people's homes in this part of Lancashire.
"Now we hope to encourage the people of Lancashire and elsewhere to visit our church and discover this Bible for themselves."
The League Two side's injury list now contains 14 players, also including defenders Tom Eastman and Frankie Kent.
Guthrie, 23, has 12 goals this term, but requires ankle surgery after going off against Hartlepool.
Slater, 22, has played 32 times, but has had an operation after playing with double hernia and groin problems.
Hibs trail Brondby 1-0 following Thursday's first leg at Easter Road, with the return leg in Denmark next Thursday.
Aberdeen, leading Latvians Ventspils 3-0, could face Maribor or Levski Sofia.
And Hearts, level at 0-0 with Birkirkara, will play Russian side Krasnodar if they progress.
Slovenians Maribor, who have knocked Hibs and Rangers out of the Europa League in recent years, recorded a goalless draw with Bulgarian outfit Levski Sofia on Thursday.
The first legs of the third qualifying round ties are provisionally scheduled for 28 July, with the second legs on 4 August.
The Europa League play-off round - the final knockout round before the group stage - follows the third qualifying round.
Champions Leicester travel to Chelsea to kick off the action on a Saturday on which leaders Manchester City face fifth-placed Everton and there is a London derby between Crystal Palace and West Ham.
The biggest game of this round of fixtures, however, comes on Monday as Liverpool take on Manchester United.
Here are some of the main talking points, as well as our guide of how to follow the action on the BBC.
After one win in four league matches for Antonio Conte's Chelsea, some bookmakers stopped taking bets on the Italian being the next Premier League manager to lose his job. He laughed that off in his news conference on the eve of Leicester's visit.
Saturday's game (at 12:30 BST) pits Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante against his former side - and the Foxes are missing the Frenchman, says captain Wes Morgan.
Morgan says what Kante did for the Foxes last season was "incredible" - he averaged 4.7 tackles and 4.2 interceptions per game, the highest in the Premier League in both categories.
His role at Chelsea has differed, however, with a greater emphasis on passing, playing 65 per game on average as opposed to 39 last season.
Next up for Leicester is a Champions League tie against FC Copenhagen - their previous two European matches have been preceded by 4-1 defeats in the Premier League.
Former England midfielder Jermaine Jenas told BBC Radio 5 live: "I think Conte will be happy with how things have started to develop but he is clearly not comfortable with what he is seeing in a back four. He's been going with three at the back and two midfield enforcers."
After a 35-year journey to the Premier League, which began at Ohio Bobcats, Bob Bradley has promised a "fresh start" at Swansea, who are 17th in the table.
Positivity in south Wales, then - something Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger craves.
The Frenchman this week reflected on the "negativity" sweeping Emirates Stadium after their home defeat by Swansea in March, adding: "It is a virus that travels very quickly and goes away very slowly."
The Gunners have not lost since the opening day, have kept four straight clean sheets and have Alexis Sanchez back in form with four goals in five games.
But the Chilean flew about 15,000 miles during the international break. Is he due a rest for Saturday's visit of the Swans (15:00 BST)?
Former England midfielder Leon Osman on BBC Radio 5 live: "Bradley was a surprise appointment for me. I thought he'd maybe come in at Championship level but I wasn't in the interview room. Swansea have found it difficult to get back to what they were. Are they still that passing team?"
Sergio Aguero has scored 28 goals in his past 28 Premier League appearances for Manchester City. But, after flying roughly the same distance as Sanchez, will he start a potentially tricky home match against Everton on Saturday (15:00 BST)?
Aguero played 163 minutes, nursed a calf complaint and missed a penalty as Argentina drew with Peru and lost to Paraguay during the international break.
City boss Pep Guardiola said the 28-year-old and fellow forwards Kevin de Bruyne and Raheem Sterling are "much, much better" after recent injuries.
But will they play as the Blues look to bounce back from a first defeat of the season at Tottenham, or will they be saved for a Champions League trip to Barcelona?
Everton are fifth but without a win in two league games, and manager Ronald Koeman said: "We know we can be better."
Osman: "No-one would be surprised if City were beaten at the Nou Camp, so if the Everton game doesn't go well they are on a bad four-game streak and people start asking questions - is there a mini-crisis? That type of thing starts to breed into the club."
Stoke and Sunderland face each other at the Bet365 Stadium on Saturday (15:00 BST) as the only winless sides in the Premier League.
But both have come close to notching that elusive victory in recent games.
Sunderland threw away a 2-0 lead to lose 3-2 at home to Crystal Palace on September 24, the same day Stoke conceded in injury time to draw 1-1 with West Brom.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes said the onus is on his side to be positive in a match "we need to win and feel we can win".
Sunderland counterpart David Moyes, meanwhile, said he will "find a way" to get three points.
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Both managers have called for calm among the fans at what could be the biggest game of the Premier League season so far.
But it could get heated on the pitch, too, in one of football's biggest rivalries, with plenty at stake as Liverpool host Manchester United on Monday (20:00 BST).
Jurgen Klopp's hosts are in red-hot form - having scored 12 goals in their past four games - while United have won only once in four league matches.
Jenas: "Liverpool are out-and-out favourites. I don't think Mourinho knows his best XI. You could pick Liverpool's team right now. You can't do that with United."
Saturday (15:00 BST unless stated)
Chelsea v Leicester (12:30 BST)
Arsenal v Swansea
Bournemouth v Hull
Manchester City v Everton
Stoke v Sunderland
West Brom v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v West Ham (17:30 BST)
Sunday
Middlesbrough v Watford (13:30 BST)
Southampton v Burnley (16:00 BST)
Monday
Liverpool v Manchester United (20:00 BST)
Saturday
09:00-16:00,Chelsea v Leicester build-up and live text, BBC Sport website and app
12:00-13:00, Football Focus, BBC One
13:00-19:00, Saturday's Premier League football live text, BBC Sport website and app
15:00-17:00, Manchester City v Everton, BBC Radio 5 live
15:00-17:00, Live texts for all five 15:00 kick-offs, BBC Sport website and app
16:30-17:20, Final Score, BBC One
17:30-19:20, Crystal Palace v West Ham, Premier League, BBC Radio 5 live
19:20-20:30, 606 - football phone-in, BBC Radio 5 live
22:25-23:50, Match of the Day, BBC One
Sunday
07:30-09:00, Match of the Day (repeat), BBC One
11:30-19:00, Sunday's Premier League football overarcher, BBC Sport website and app
12:15-13:00, MOTD2 Extra, BBC Two & BBC Radio 5 live
13:30-15:30, Middlesbrough v Watford, BBC Radio 5 live
16:00-18:06, Southampton v Burnley, BBC Radio 5 live
18:06-19:30, 606 - football phone-in, BBC Radio 5 live
Monday
18:30-22:00, Liverpool v Manchester United build-up and live text, BBC Radio 5 live
19:00-20:00, The Monday Night Club, BBC Radio 5 live
20:00-22:00, Liverpool v Manchester United, BBC Radio 5 live
22:00-22:30, 5 live Football Social, BBC Radio 5 live
22:45-23:45, Match of the Day 2, BBC One
The impossible job? Probably. Use our shortlist and pick who you think would make the greatest combined post-war Liverpool-Manchester United XI.
It was the 23-month-old's first balcony appearance, which traditionally follows Trooping the Colour.
It is also the first time the Queen has been seen at her birthday celebrations with her heir and heirs apparent.
More than 1,000 soldiers took part in the traditional display of of army drill, music and horsemanship.
Prince George waved as the Red Arrows took part in a flypast that was largely reduced because of poor weather.
BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said there was no doubt Prince George's first appearance on the balcony was the "headline image" of the day.
"He seemed really quite interested. He was pointing and waving. You wonder whether this isn't the moment when he starts to figure out that there's something a little bit unusual about his family," our correspondent added.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh earlier travelled by carriage from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade for the event.
The Duchess of Cambridge, meanwhile, made her first public appearance since she left hospital following the birth of Princess Charlotte last month.
There was no sign of Princess Charlotte but other guests at the event included Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha.
It is the 63rd time the Queen has attended a birthday parade, a record unmatched by any monarch.
Joined by other senior royals, the monarch inspected 1,100 soldiers of the Household Division at Horse Guards Parade.
Trooping the Colour has its origins in traditional preparations for battle.
Colours, or flags, were carried, or "trooped", down the rank so that they could be seen and recognised by the soldiers.
In the 18th Century, guards from the royal palaces assembled daily on Horse Guards to "troop the colours", and in 1748 it was announced that the parade would also mark the sovereign's official birthday.
The Queen's actual birthday was on 21 April, when she turned 89. The Duke of Edinburgh celebrated his 94th birthday on Wednesday.
Earlier, the Prince of Wales, who is Colonel of the Welsh Guards; the Princess Royal, Colonel of the Blues and Royals; and the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel of the Irish Guards, rode on horseback in the procession to Horse Guards.
Catherine, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry, meanwhile, travelled together to the ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage.
The Duke of York rode in a carriage with his daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, and the Duke of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were in the final coach.
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are away representing the Queen at the wedding of Prince Carl Philip of Sweden to former glamour model Sofia Hellqvist.
The procession was accompanied by a Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry, made up of Life Guards and Blues and Royals, in their silver and gold breastplates and plumed helmets.
The Colour paraded on Horse Guards this year was the flag of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.
The Prince of Wales Company, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, trooped the Queen's Colour presented to them by the monarch at Windsor Castle in April.
The battalion last Trooped the Colour in 2013, but they are doing so again to mark their centenary year.
Since the last Queen's Birthday Parade, elements of the battalion have been on training exercises at home and abroad in places including the Falklands, Canada, Kenya, Kazakhstan and Belize.
Four of the five Foot Guards regiments of the Household Division - the Welsh Guards, Grenadier Guards, Scots Guards and the Coldstream Guards - are marching in the parade wearing bearskin hats and red tunics.
The Household Division Bands and Corps of Drums also took part, as are the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery who, following the parade, will fire a 41-gun salute in Green Park to mark the Queen's official birthday.
St Peter's Seminary in Cardross was designed and built in the 1960s as a training college for priests but has not been used since the 1980s.
The A-listed building, near Helensburgh in Argyll, is now a ruin.
In March, it will host Hinterland - 10 sound and light shows to mark the start of the eight-month long festival.
For the last eight years, Glasgow-based arts organisation NVA has been raising money to make the remnants of St Peter's safe for music and theatre.
NVA creative director Angus Farquhar said the staging of the Hinterland programme would be a significant milestone.
He said: "Almost 50 years on from the day the seminary opened, we are witnessing the first positive steps towards a new purpose, one that accepts loss and ruination as part of the site's history creating an evolving arts programme for local people, all of Scotland and visitors attracted to this iconic site from around the world.
"Hinterland will offer everyone a chance to visit the St Peter's at a key moment in its evolution and it promises to be the must-see arts event of 2016 leading on to the delivery of an important new creative and heritage resource for progressive public art in Scotland and beyond."
St Peter's is one of Scotland's most remarkable ruins, hidden in thick woodland overlooking the Firth of Clyde.
Visitors first glimpse its weird shapes through the trees. It looks like an Inca temple abandoned to the rain forest.
Some 50 years ago, it was regarded as a modernist triumph, a sanctuary of glass and concrete.
The Roman Catholic seminary, which belonged to the Archdiocese of Glasgow, was completed and consecrated in 1966.
Its distinctive zig-zag design and concrete appearance soon brought architectural recognition.
However, when the number of trainee priests fell, the seminary at Cardross was no longer needed.
In was deconsecrated in 1980 and soon became a playground for vandals and graffiti artists.
Even as the interior was slowly degraded by fire and rain, students of architecture continued to come from around the world to view the vaulted ceilings and floating staircases of its creators, Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein.
Formal recognition followed and the seminary was Category A listed by Historic Scotland in 1992.
The World Monuments Fund, which works to preserve endangered cultural landmarks, added St Peter's College to its register in June 2007.
The Hinterland performances in March 2016 will launch Scotland's Festival of Architecture.
Run by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), the festival aims to be an international celebration of the country's design and creativity.
Neil Baxter, from RIAS, said the Hinterland programme would be an unforgettable experience.
"The architectural significance of the former St Peter's Seminary must be measured in European terms," he said.
"It is now on the brink of becoming a quite new type of visitor and a national cultural attraction.
"The impressive spaces and dramatic allure of its contrasting concrete geometries will be a remarkable setting for public art, music and theatre. Those who take up this offer and are among the first visitors to St Peter's new incarnation will have something to tell the grandkids."
Club Concorde, made up of former captains, charterers and aviation fans, says it has £120m in reserve for the "return to flight" plan.
The group also plans to put another of the supersonic aircraft on permanent display in central London.
Concorde, which can travel at twice the speed of sound, last flew in 2003.
Negotiations are now under way to try to purchase or lease the two aircraft. Club Concorde president Paul James said they were hoping to source both the display and flight jets from France but no agreements had yet been made.
"We have been overwhelmed by the amount of enthusiasm and people wanting to invest," Mr James said.
"The support shows how much people still admire Concorde and want to see it flying again.
"The plane we would like to get in the air is at Le Bourget in Paris. We had wanted to lease and restore a British Airways Concorde for display in London - next to the London Eye - but this has not been possible, so again we are looking to France and a Concorde near Orly airport."
After restoration the plane would be used at airshows, for special events and private charter, Mr James said.
Mr James said he was confident a plane would be secured and hoped flights would start by 2019 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Concorde's first flight.
Club Concorde's plan started after the group raised £40m to try to display a jet on London's South Bank close to the London Eye.
"It is a global icon," Mr James said. "All the authorities have been very keen on our idea to bring Concorde to the river as a tourist attraction and London Eye have agreed we could share their landing stage."
The group still also needs to secure planning permission but Mr James said they were aiming to have the attraction up and running by 2017 before looking to open a similar display in Paris.
A spokeswoman for BA said the company had "no plans to return Concorde to the sky".
She added: "While we would be willing to speak to Club Concorde about their plans, the fact remains that our fleet of Concordes are currently displayed at sites around the globe and we have no plans to change these contracts at this time."
History of Concorde
Well have lost four in a row, conceding 17 goals in that run, leading to fans protesting against McGhee on Saturday.
"We never got beat 5-1 by Dundee because they came up with some formation that we couldn't handle," Lasley told BBC Scotland
"It was because again we couldn't defend our box and never competed well enough - that's our responsibility."
The Fir Park outfit were recently beaten 7-2 at Aberdeen and were missing regular defenders Stephen McManus, Steven Hammell and Richard Tait against Dundee.
McGhee was keen to protect his players after the latest heavy defeat, insisting it is up to him to find a way to snap the losing run.
But Lasley said: "The players take responsibility and it's up to us to build that trust with the fans again.
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"I'm telling you it is the case - we are not in this run because Mark McGhee has got it tactically wrong.
"The manager can put us out in any sort of shape - at Aberdeen we could have been in any shape and wouldn't have won that game - it's the players, individually against your opponent and collectively, and that's what we're not doing at the moment. It's up to us top change that."
Lasley, 37, was on the bench for the Dundee defeat and had no complaints about the manager's selection.
"Any player that's not playing is frustrated but there's a bigger picture here and it's not about whether I was out there," he said. "I was involved in the 7-2 defeat at Aberdeen so don't worry about that, I'm as responsible as the next player."
And the midfielder retains belief that Well, who are now third-bottom of the Premiership, just two points above second-bottom Inverness Caledonian Thistle, can move back up the table.
"We know the league is still tight and we came out of the game thinking it's a relegation battle, which it is, but we still feel we are capable of going and winning a game of football on Saturday," Lasley said.
"What we have got, I think, is two of the best strikers in the league [Scott McDonald and Louis Moult], and if we give them enough service they will put the ball in the net."
Wiltshire Police were called by paramedics to the property in Charter Road just after 06:30 BST on Saturday.
Officers said Christopher Collier, 52, had been charged with murdering 55-year-old Julie Collier. Both lived on Charter Road.
Mr Collier is due to appear before Swindon Magistrates' Court on Monday.
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Michael Shenton and Jake Webster scored tries inside the first 11 minutes for Cas, before Ryan Morgan closed the gap.
St Helens were left stunned when Webster grabbed a second, while Paul McShane, Greg Minikin and Nathan Massey scored as Cas led 31-4 at half-time.
Greg Eden had a second-half hat-trick and Minikin ran 70 metres, while Luke Douglas scored St Helens' consolation.
Castleford, four-time winners of the Challenge Cup, scored six tries in 17 minutes either side of half-time to rip the heart out of St Helens.
After a tight opening, Cas, who have a one-point lead at the top of Super League, blew St Helens away with four tries in seven minutes to take a 27-point half-time lead.
Webster gathered a brilliantly lofted pass by Ben Roberts, and Eden's clever run was the catalyst for McShane to sneak over.
Roberts' run and perfectly judged kick-through was finished off by Minikin, while Massey dived over under the posts.
Castleford came out after the break in the same fashion and Eden scored a second-half hat-trick.
The Castleford-born full-back spectacularly jumped in one-handed in the left-hand corner, ran in unchallenged in the same corner and then took a Zak Hardaker pass to score his 18th try of the season.
Minikin burst through from 70 metres for his second, while Douglas powered in under the posts for a consolation for St Helens.
Castleford's victory was their first against St Helens in six matches, a run stretching back to June 2015 when their last victory was a narrow one-point success in the Super League.
It was also Castleford's first Challenge Cup victory between the two sides since they won the 1970 semi-final 6-3 on their way to the second of back-to-back Challenge Cup titles.
St Helens, who have won the last three cup meetings, never looked likely to reach the last eight and add to their 12 Challenge Cups.
Castleford's Luke Gale:
"I think we are a group of players who enjoy playing football together. We have fun at training and we bring it onto the pitch as well.
"This was an outstanding performance and that's what we have in the locker.
"Last season we were criticised for our defence and we knew pre-season we had to work on our defence and I think we have done that.
"We enjoy throwing that ball about and you can tell with our performance."
St Helens caretaker coach Jamahl Lolesi:
"Unfortunately we're in a bit of a hole at the moment. It's a little bit worrying. We've got some issues we need to sort out.
"We didn't compete hard for 60 minutes of last week's game and probably 80 minutes of today's game.
"We've a group of young men who will need to stand up and start doing better for the club."
Castleford: Hardaker, Minikin, Webster, Shenton, Eden, T. Holmes, Gale, Lynch, McShane, Millington, Sene-Lefao, McMeeken, Milner.
Replacements: Massey, Roberts, Moors, Cook.
St Helens: Makinson, Swift, Percival, Morgan, Grace, Fages, Smith, Walmsley, Roby, Douglas, Taia, Knowles, Thompson.
Replacements: Amor, Wilkin, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Richards.
Referee: Phil Bentham (RFL).
But the Wales captain, 27, says he would prefer to stay in Wales and perhaps win only one trophy during his career than seek success elsewhere.
"If it takes me another 10 years to win another trophy, then I'll do that - I'll stay here," said Warburton.
"I probably could have earned twice as much money going to France, but I wanted to stay in Cardiff."
Warburton was the first Welsh player to sign a national dual contract.
There are now 16 players on the deals which see the Welsh Rugby Union pay 60% of their wages.
The contracts also give the governing body greater control over the players, and can limit the number of games they play.
Warburton is one of only two Blues on the joint deals with utility back Gareth Anscombe the other.
Blues wing Alex Cuthbert turned down an offer of a contract during the 2014-15 campaign, according to Wales coach Warren Gatland, prompting speculation about his long-term future.
Fly-half Rhys Patchell is also being linked with a move away from Blues.
Warburton insists his heart is with the city of his upbringing and where he used to watch Wales and Cardiff predecessors Martyn Williams and Robin Sowden-Taylor play.
"I remember watching Dan Baugh playing when I was really young," said Warburton before Saturday's 35-30 Pro12 defeat by Glasgow.
"I didn't really know many players then and I remember seeing this guy with his collars tucked in and his socks down, just taking people's heads off and I was like 'I want to do that. I want to play for this team and do that'.
"I love Cardiff. That's why I've stayed here."
Warburton has helped Blues win one significant trophy, coming off the bench in 2010 when they beat Toulon in what was then the Amlin Challenge Cup final, Europe's second-tier tournament.
The 2013 British and Irish Lions captain and Six Nations Grand Slam winner believes "in time" Blues can go on to win more silverware under boss Danny Wilson, who is in his first season in charge.
Warburton returned from Wales World Cup duty as battling Blues lost to Pro12 title-holders Glasgow.
He says the Scottish team are an example of how his side can attain future success.
"If you've watched them over three or four years, they've slowly built nicely and that's hopefully what we're going to start doing."
The higher education legislation had been intended to make higher fees dependent on improved teaching.
But this will now not be implemented until 2020-21 - and until then universities can make inflation-linked increases without any link to quality.
Fees will increase to £9,250 this year.
Student loans to pay for the higher fees are already going to be subject to a sharp increase in interest rates - rising from 4.6% to 6.1% from the autumn.
The Higher Education and Research Bill had faced a large number of amendments in the House of Lords, but a series of compromises has seen the legislation passed by Parliament before shutting down for the election.
The legislation had been intended to allow universities to increase fees as long as they could show they were offering high quality teaching.
A framework for measuring teaching quality is to be introduced, but the link with fees will not come into force for another three years.
Until that time, any university that is part of the plans to measure teaching quality - which is almost all universities - will be able to put up fees each year in line with inflation.
An independent review of this "teaching excellence framework" will begin in 2018 - with the aim of annual increases becoming dependent on teaching quality from 2020-21.
Universities had campaigned for overseas students not to be included in migration targets.
Although this proposal has been rejected, universities believe that a longer-term deal could still be achieved, saying there is an agreement to look again at the data on overseas students and migration.
Dame Julia Goodfellow, president of Universities UK, said she was encouraged by proposals for a "refreshed international engagement strategy".
Universities anticipate that the status of overseas students could be reconsidered as part of wider reviews of migration during the Brexit negotiations.
The university sector also supported compromises which will set a higher bar for new institutions to gain powers to award degrees and to be given a university title.
Dame Julia said the legislation offered "stability during a time of uncertainty".
"We agreed there was a need for new legislation, but we had concerns about the original draft bill.
"Thanks to MPs and peers, and the willingness of ministers and officials to engage and listen, the final bill has been significantly improved."
The horses Bella and Biscuit were injured in the attack in the Broomfield area of Chelmsford on 12 January.
Both riders, Pc Frank Pallett and Pc Sarah Fiske, were thrown from the horses but were uninjured.
A woman, 34, of Chelmsford, has been charged with having a dog dangerously out of control in a public place.
The woman has been released on police bail to appear before magistrates in Chelmsford on 9 February.
The horses are "now recovering well", said Essex Police.
Liverpudlian Smith, 30, grew into the fight after a shaky start but was knocked down in the ninth round.
The three judges scored the bout 117-110 116-111 116-111 in favour of the undefeated Puerto Rican in Connecticut.
It was the second defeat for Smith in his 25-fight career.
WBO light-middleweight champion Liam was in the United States to support his brother, who had been hoping to become the 13th current British world champion.
City were reduced to 10 men in the 32nd minute of the match on 2 January when referee Lee Mason sent off Fernandinho.
The Football Association allege that the defender's post, which was later deleted, "questioned the integrity of the match official".
The Frenchman, 33, has until 18:00 GMT on Friday to respond to the charge.
Sagna has played 14 times for the club in all competitions this season.
Angela Burns said a BBC Wales investigation found concerns were raised a year before Dylan Seabridge, from Pembrokeshire, died in 2011.
Charges of neglect against his parents were dropped in 2014.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said any conclusion would be premature before the local safeguarding board's child practice review had been published.
The inquest into the death of Dylan, from Dolau in Eglwyswrw, heard that scurvy was an easily preventable and treatable disease.
His parents Glynn and Julie Seabridge told the hearing in January 2015 they did not believe Dylan had scurvy and thought he was suffering from growing pains.
They had been charged with neglect but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped those charges in 2014.
An unpublished draft serious case review, written in 2013 and leaked to BBC Wales, said Dylan was educated at home and "invisible" to the authorities, though his parents dispute that.
Pembrokeshire County Council has said a child practice review into the case will be published soon.
Ms Burns, the Conservative AM for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, told the Senedd on Tuesday: "For four years that little boy's name and his situation has not been in the eye of those who can make a difference."
She added: "It's more than just about Pembrokeshire County Council, if we really want to make a difference.
"I don't have absolute faith that those who are going to be doing this [child practice] review will be able to do it to the best of their ability."
Mr Drakeford insisted that child safeguarding boards were "independent by their nature" and included members not employed by social services.
"There has been a whole series of independent voices who have been present there in Pembrokeshire and have reported on the progress that that local authority has been able to make in the time since this death took place," he said.
"I'm sorry that the member doesn't have confidence in the safeguarding board.
"It seems premature to reach that conclusion before anyone of us has even had an opportunity to read the report that they will produce."
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the average in late September was 4,500 a day.
Fears of worsening weather may account for the surge, the IOM says.
The EU's migrant relocation scheme got under way on Friday when 20 Eritreans left Italy on a flight to Sweden. Some EU member states object to the scheme.
Meanwhile, Turkey has voiced concern about the potential for even more Syrian migrants arriving at its border because of Russian air strikes in Syria.
The warning was issued by Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic. Turkey already hosts about two million Syrian refugees, many of whom are desperate to leave the emergency camps and start a new life in Europe.
The IOM says that, despite the new surge, the congestion on the Greek island of Lesbos has eased significantly.
The improvement is partly due to the fact that 70% of migrants and refugees who arrived in Greece last week crossed into Macedonia without delay, according to the IOM.
"Syrians are now travelling faster from the islands to the border because they can afford it. They buy tickets for boats to Athens, buses straight to the border and sometimes even pay for taxis that can cost up to €700 (£518; $795) a family from Athens to the border.
"Afghans, on the other hand, often have to work to get enough money to buy tickets," the IOM statement said.
Syrians in Turkey: 'We just want a normal life'
Who does the EU send back?
Europe migrant crisis - in depth
Migrant crisis in graphics
The refugees flown out of Italy on Friday are only a tiny fraction of the number to be relocated.
On one day alone this week, almost 2,000 migrants arrived on Italy's shores from across the Mediterranean.
Under the EU's plan, 120,000 refugees will be redistributed from Italy and Greece to other European countries. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia object, urging the EU instead to reinforce the bloc's external borders.
The group of 19 young Eritreans left Rome's Ciampino airport on board a financial police plane, AFP reports.
They were waved off by the EU's Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano.
Mr Avramopoulos said earlier that the refugees had been "registered, fingerprinted, identified and screened for relocation".
EU countries generally grant asylum to Syrians, Iraqis and Eritreans, but not to the many economic migrants from Africa and Asia.
More than 550,000 migrants have reached the EU this year, many fleeing conflict. Germany is hosting the most.
Last year more than half a million non-EU migrants were found to be "illegally present" in the 28-nation bloc. Most were ordered to leave, but EU countries deported only about 40% of those listed for removal.
EU interior ministers agreed on Thursday to beef up Europe's border force Frontex in order to speed up deportations of failed asylum seekers.
They also called for more effective re-admission deals with countries of origin outside the EU.
The conclusions from their talks said EU states should detain migrants who may abscond before they are deported.
The EU is however bound by the "non-refoulement" rule, meaning that under international law it cannot send migrants back to life-threatening situations.
The EU is setting up so-called "hotspots" in Italy and Greece - migrant registration centres for new arrivals to be filtered and priority given to refugees in need of international protection.
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Midfielder Lewis Cook, forward Max Gradel and defender Brad Smith all missed Saturday's 6-1 win against Hull.
Cook rolled an ankle while playing for England Under-20s, Gradel damaged a hamstring on Ivory Coast duty while Australian Smith has a foot injury.
Howe also confirmed Cook, 19, will see a specialist as part of his recovery.
The former Burnley manager had not revealed which players had been injured playing for their countries before the weekend's Premier League game against the Tigers.
"Lewis Cook was caught in a nasty-looking tackle through no fault of the opposing player," Howe told BBC Radio Solent.
"Scans have revealed it's quite a nasty one, so we're not sure on time-frames just yet and he is seeing a specialist.
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In the item on 3 February hosts Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley looked at bondage equipment and sex toys with "sex expert" Annabelle Knight.
Ofcom said it received 120 complaints about the item, which was inspired by the film Fifty Shades of Grey.
Product demonstrations with scantily clad models featured in the piece.
A "Bondage for Beginners" segment examined products including an eye mask, a "feather spanker" and a crystal-encrusted vibrator.
ITV said it would be responding to Ofcom. "This Morning is a lifestyle programme that covers a diverse range of human interest topics," said a spokesperson for the show, which is broadcast at 10:30 on weekdays.
"The programme has dealt with advice on sexual matters many times in the past, and a suitable announcement was given at the start.
"Many of our items spark debate and we welcome feedback from our viewers about our content."
The regulator is also investigating a scene on ITV's Emmerdale involving a character being sexually assaulted, which drew 47 complaints following its broadcast on Thursday.
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Media watchdog Ofcom is investigating ITV's This Morning over complaints that a segment about bondage was unsuitable to be broadcast before the watershed.
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Anthea Hamilton is nominated for work focusing on fetishism including an enormous sculpture of a man's buttocks.
Josephine Pryde's work features a train, while Michael Dean uses salvaged metal.
Helen Marten, who works in collage and screen-printing, is also in the running for the prestigious £25,000 prize.
BBC News broadcast a tour of the exhibition on Facebook Live on Monday with arts editor Will Gompertz.
In a rare move, visitors will be able to take their own photos and video at the exhibition and share them via social media.
The aim of the prize is to "promote public debate around new developments in contemporary art".
Tate Britain in London is hosting the exhibition, which runs until January, with the winner to be named in December.
The prize is awarded to a British artist under the age of 50 who is considered to have put on the best exhibition of the last 12 months.
The winner will be announced in London on 5 December. Next year's prize will be given out in Hull when it is UK City of Culture.
Anthea Hamilton, who lives and works in London, is shortlisted for her Lichen! Libido! Chastity! exhibition at SculptureCenter, New York.
The Tate said her sculpture, installation, performance and video bring "a surrealist sensibility to popular culture" and "seduce the viewer with comic and unexpected combinations of images, materials and words".
Michael Dean, from Newcastle, is nominated for sculptures and installations made from "aesthetically-overlooked materials" like salvaged corrugated metal from a shop shutter.
The Tate said his work, seen at South London Gallery and de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, is "concerned with the physical presentation of language".
Helen Marten creates sculpture, screen printing and writing featuring the "collage-like accumulation" of "models and motifs taken from contemporary visual culture".
The Tate said she "creates poetic, pictorial puzzles" drawing on "gestures and imagery of our everyday lives".
From Macclesfield, Cheshire, she is nominated for her presentations at the 56th Venice Biennale and Greene Naftali in New York.
Josephine Pryde's work, meanwhile, focuses on the meeting point between art and photography.
Tate said it examined the idea of "art as commodity and of the seductive qualities of the wider art world", adding that she "calls into question the conventions of the gallery".
The artist, from Alnwick, Northumberland, is nominated for her solo exhibition Lapses in Thinking by the Person I am at CCA Wattis in San Francisco.
One of her pieces in that exhibition was Lapses in Thinking, a model of a Union Pacific freight locomotive pulling two box carriages which visitors could sit on and ride around the gallery.
The Tate exhibition includes New Media Express (Baby Wants to Ride), a different train artwork which is stationary.
The Turner Prize exhibition will be at Tate Britain from 27 September until 8 January 2017.
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He was cycling on the Brian's Well Road in west Belfast on Monday afternoon when he was knocked down.
The Belfast Health Trust confirmed that a boy, who is being treated at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital, was in a critical condition.
The Brian's Well Road and Pembrook Loop remain closed with diversions in place.
Tisdale's side were given a flying start by David Wheeler's fourth-minute goal and they wrapped up a 3-0 win before half-time with further strikes from Joel Grant and Lee Holmes.
The opener came when Alex Whitmore's poor clearance gave Holmes space and time to run on goal and the former Derby midfielder produced the perfect through ball for Wheeler to drill a low shot past Barry Roche from the edge of the area.
Lloyd James fired wide but the Grecians did not have to wait long for a second as, on 16 minutes, Reuben Reid did well to hold off his man on the edge of the area before teeing up Grant, who drilled a low left-foot shot in off the right post.
Jim Bentley's men hit back, with Tom Barkhuizen volleying Michael Rose's corner straight at Christy Pym and Cole Stockton heading weakly at goal from a second set-piece, before Exeter scored an all-too-simple third.
Holmes was allowed to run into the Morecambe area and without any challenge was able to stab a left-foot shot with the outside of his foot past the helpless Roche from 12 yards out.
Morecambe started the second half strongly, with Stockton firing over from close range, and they dominated from then on without being able to pull a goal back.
Substitute keeper Bobby Olejnik saved superbly from Lee Molyneux's sweetly-struck shot, Pierce Sweeney cleared Ryan Edwards's shot off the line and Whitmore also went close.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Morecambe 0, Exeter City 3.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 0, Exeter City 3.
Alex Whitmore (Morecambe) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Jake Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Aaron McGowan (Morecambe) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Jack Stacey.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Pierce Sweeney.
Attempt missed. Ryan Edwards (Morecambe) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Exeter City. Jack Stacey replaces Luke Croll.
Luke Croll (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card.
Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Croll (Exeter City).
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Aaron McGowan.
Substitution, Morecambe. Ntumba Massanka replaces Lee Molyneux.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Pierce Sweeney.
Peter Murphy (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke Croll (Exeter City).
Substitution, Exeter City. Robbie Simpson replaces Reuben Reid.
Attempt missed. Cole Stockton (Morecambe) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Jake Taylor.
Attempt missed. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Ryan Edwards.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Joel Grant (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Barry Roche.
James Jennings (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City).
Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Taylor (Exeter City).
Lloyd James (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jack Dunn (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lloyd James (Exeter City).
Attempt missed. Cole Stockton (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Woodman (Exeter City).
Substitution, Morecambe. Jack Dunn replaces Kevin Ellison.
Foul by James Jennings (Morecambe).
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lee Molyneux (Morecambe).
The 24-year-old went missing after leaving a nightclub in Glasgow on 11 April. Her body was found four days later at a farm near Milngavie.
Ms Buckley's father John said the family was "grateful" for the support shown during "this terrible time".
Alexander Pacteau, 21, from Glasgow, has been charged with her murder.
Ms Buckley's parents, John and Marian, travelled to Scotland from Cork after she disappeared and said they were touched by the support they had received.
In a statement issued through the Irish Examiner, Mr Buckley said: "We are very grateful for all the support and messages of sympathy we received from so many people from all over Scotland at this terrible time for our family.
"People have been extremely helpful to us right from the moment we discovered that Karen was missing.
"We would like to thank everybody in Scotland who helped us in any way.
Mr Buckley said: "People have been very good to us and it means a lot.
"The Scottish police were wonderful and very professional right through it all.
He said some police officers "took the trouble to travel to Ireland for Karen's funeral", and added: "It was a very kind and thoughtful thing to do."
A major police search was launched when Ms Buckley was reported missing by friends on Sunday 12 April when she failed to return after leaving a nightclub in Glasgow's west end the previous night.
The 24-year-old's body was found at High Craigton Farm, near Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, following a four-day search.
Following the discovery, about 300 people attended a vigil in Glasgow's George Square in April, including her parents.
Ms Buckley, a qualified nurse, moved to Scotland in February and was studying occupational therapy at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Mr Buckley said: "We will never forget the huge outpouring of support and sympathy we got when we were in Scotland, it was incredible.
"We want to thank everybody who took part in the search for Karen and the hundreds of people who turned out for the vigil in George Square.
"We are extremely upset that Karen will never have the chance to live out her life, travel more and pursue her career in occupational therapy.
"That maybe someday she could have a family of her own and enjoy a happy and eventful life, which is what she would have wanted.
"We are still in shock and disbelief and it sometimes feels like all of this isn't real."
Mr Pacteau is also accused of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
He made no plea or declaration when he made his second appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court in April and was remanded in custody.
The German, punched by Ukrainian Andriy Grivko on stage three, outsprinted Team Sky's Italian Elia Viviani, while Britain's Mark Cavendish was fourth.
Cavendish gesticulated with frustration after failing to come round Kittel, who he had been following in the sprint.
"I'm super proud. It's a nice start to the season," said Quick-Step Floors rider Kittel, who won three stages.
"The final sprint didn't go according to plan because the chain of my lead-out man fell off so I had to go on my own."
Kittel's defence was expected to come under most pressure on Friday's hilly stage four, but it was cancelled because of high winds.
He ended up 18 seconds clear of Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen in the overall standings with German John Degenkolb in third.
Team Dimension Data's Cavendish, who won the race in 2015, finished eighth overall, two places behind One Pro Cycling's Thomas Stewart, who was the highest-ranked Briton on general classification.
Stage 5 result:
1. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Quick-Step Floors) 2hrs 34mins 12secs
2. Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky) Same time
3. Riccardo Minali (Ita/Astana)
4. Mark Cavendish (GB/Team Dimension Data)
5. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek-Segafredo)
General classification:
1. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Quick-Step Floors) 15hrs 8mins 56secs
2. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/Lotto Jumbo) +18secs
3. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek-Segafredo) +24secs
4. Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux/BMC Racing) Same time
5. Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky)
Selected:
6. Thomas Stewart (GB/One Pro Cycling) +24secs
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Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust recently received a report of a dead otter on a road in Gedling, Nottingham.
It said that while it was an upsetting discovery it proved for the first time that otters have been in the city.
While otters are known to live downstream on the Trent, this is the first proof they are further upstream.
Erin McDaid, from the trust, said: "Whilst a sad report, the fact remains this is the first confirmed report we've received of otters in this immediate area.
"We have received reports of otters further downstream and closer to the Trent at Gunthorpe - but only anecdotal evidence of otters in this area so, all in all, this is an interesting record."
Otters only returned to the county in the late 1990s, and road deaths have often provided the best evidence they remain in Nottinghamshire.
Mr McDaid added: "I have only seen otters in a remote area of Scotland, so to think we have them living here in Nottinghamshire, so close to the city is amazing.
"It's sad when creatures such as otters are killed on our roads, but they fact that they have returned to our rivers and streams is a real conservation success story."
The International Tennis Federation's Board of Directors has unanimously endorsed a "package of comprehensive reforms" for both Davis Cup and Fed Cup at a meeting in Indian Wells.
The recommendations will have to be ratified by the ITF's AGM in Vietnam in August.
Changes were discussed following a review of current match formats.
Any reform will require a formal vote of approval.
Last September, the ITF announced plans to introduce fixed host cities for future Davis Cup and Fed Cup finals.
The ITF is trying to come up with a format which will encourage more top players to commit to the competitions.
Novak Djokovic was the only member of the world's top ten to feature in last month's Davis Cup World Group first round ties.
Carl Campbell, 33, was shot on High Street in West Bromwich on Tuesday.
Mohammed Humza, 19, and Vikesh Chauhan, 24, are also charged with attempted murder, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and possession of a prohibited object.
They appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court earlier and are due to appear again on 26 January.
Relatives have described Mr Campbell as a "much loved son, devoted father and beloved brother".
The family addressed reports he was jailed in 2009 for causing the death by dangerous driving of Clarence Elwin in Tipton.
His family said: "Carl was a young man at the time who had a full driving licence, tax and insurance. He just panicked and left the scene.
"He was not a killer, it was an accident and he panicked so please don't judge him on that incident alone."
Two men, aged 18 and 19, were found injured inside the house in Salisbury Road, Canterbury last Thursday, while a 21-year-old man was found nearby.
One of the victims remains in hospital, but his injuries are not life-threatening, police said.
The arrested man, a 19-year-old from London, was released on bail until 14 September pending further inquiries.
Police said news of the end-of-year party had spread on social media and it was well-attended as a result.
Six first-year students had shared the house and two organised the party.
Officers were called to the house at about 01:15 BST.
It is 10 years since the Christmas savings club, which allowed people to spread the cost of food and presents, went bust.
The UK government is considering a report from the Law Commission which recommends new protections are introduced for customers.
The SNP has described the lack of a change in the law as "disappointing".
The Law Commission can only make recommendations for England and Wales, but much of consumer law is reserved to Westminster, so any changes made would affect the whole of the UK.
About 116,000 people, including 30,000 Scots, lost money when the company went out of business in October 2006.
In 2012 liquidators announced customers could eventually receive back up to half of their savings.
The Law Commission has recommended that the most vulnerable consumers be given added protection.
Stephen Lewis, of the commission, said: "We think that there is a case for them to be advanced up the hierarchy of creditors, so that they rank alongside employees for example.
"They would stand a better chance of getting a more significant payout than at present."
The commission's report also called for Christmas savings schemes to be regulated in the same way as banks.
It added that pre-pay energy customers and those buying new-build homes off-plan were particularly vulnerable, and called for similar protection in those sectors.
Louise McDaid, chairwoman of the Farepak Victims Committee, lost £400 when the company went bankrupt, eventually receiving 32% of that back.
"We want the government to implement some of the recommendations particularly to do with the savings clubs because unfortunately, even after 10 years, this could happen again," she said.
"I find it shocking that consumers can be ripped off even 10 years after Farepak."
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) contributed to the Law Commission's report.
It told the commission that savings schemes were often used by the most vulnerable in society.
David Menzies, Director of Insolvency at ICAS, said: "They tend to be used by people on low incomes.
"They are doing the right thing around saving up for Christmas, trying to avoid the debt, and in those circumstances it's clearly right that they should have some form of protection."
But Mr Menzies said that customers should not be given an "ultra-preference beyond other unsecured creditors".
"We would much rather see that the protection is given before they go into insolvency," he added.
The SNP's Westminster business spokeswoman Hannah Bardell said she would put pressure on the UK government to change the law.
"Some of the legislation in terms of consumer protection is hundreds of years old which seems incredible given how high-profile things like Farepak were," she said.
"I think it's really disappointing that the law hasn't changed in the ten years since Farepak ruined Christmas for thousands of people."
Mr Lewis added: "Another Farepak could happen and we think that therefore government should be ready, should make regulations and should exercise their powers to protect the consumers."
A spokesman for the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation said: "Customers are last in line for refunds when companies go insolvent, so we asked the Law Commission to look at what more could be done to protect them when they pre-pay for goods, buy gift vouchers or contribute to savings schemes.
"The government will respond to the recommendations in due course."
The 1975 drama, featuring a young Alison Steadman, was written by then-school teacher Bleasdale in four days for a BBC Two new writers strand.
The Alan Bleasdale At The BBC collection also includes the rarely-shown The Muscle Market and his best known work Boys From The Blackstuff.
It is available from the BBC Store.
Early To Bed - which also starred Doctor Who and EastEnders actor David Warwick - tells the story of a married woman who starts an affair with her young neighbour.
The Muscle Market, which has not been broadcast since it was first shown in 1981, sees Pete Postlethwaite as a crooked business owner.
The 1980 play The Blackstuff, and its Boys From The Blackstuff spin-off, were critically-acclaimed portrayals of Margaret Thatcher's Britain and featured Bernard Hill as the troubled Yosser Hughes.
The series famously saw the unemployed Hughes develop the increasingly desperate catchphrase of "Gizza job" as he searched for work, asking everyone he met including his professional footballer lookalike, Graeme Souness.
The controversial 1986 drama The Monocled Mutineer, which starred Paul McGann and told the story of a World War One mutiny, is also included.
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The 14-year-old dived off the pier at Charlestown, near St Austell in Cornwall on Wednesday.
The emergency services were called at 21:00 BST and she was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske.
Coastguard teams, the Fowey lifeboat and the South Western Ambulance Service were involved in the response. The girl is believed to be from the local area.
Mr Tusk's message came in a letter to 27 other EU leaders - not the UK.
He will chair a summit of the 27 in Brussels on Saturday to try to adopt a joint negotiating position on Brexit.
The UK government has said it does not want to delay talks on future trade relations.
The EU issued draft guidelines on Brexit on 31 March.
Official talks will not begin until after the UK general election on 8 June.
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Mr Tusk's letter - calling for a "phased" approach to Brexit - echoed German Chancellor Angela Merkel's priorities, which she set out on Thursday.
"Before discussing our future, we must first sort out our past," he said, listing three priorities:
"We will not discuss our future relations with the UK until we have achieved sufficient progress on the main issues relating to the UK's withdrawal from the EU," he said.
Meanwhile, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the UK would not have advantages over 27 EU members once Brexit negotiations were concluded.
"There is no free lunch. Britons must know that," he told Germany's Funke Media Group.
EU officials estimate that the UK faces a bill of €60bn (£51bn; $65bn) because of EU budget rules. UK politicians have said the government will not pay a sum of that size.
Reports say Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny will also ask his EU partners to back the idea of Northern Ireland automatically joining the EU if the province's people vote to unite with the Republic.
The UK Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has said that in the event of such a vote, Northern Ireland could become "part of an existing EU member state".
The justices said that the Defense of Marriage Act, known as Doma, discriminated against same-sex couples.
In a second ruling, they left in place a lower court's striking down of Proposition 8, California's prohibition of gay marriage.
Opinion polls indicate that most Americans support same-sex marriage.
Wednesday's decisions do not affect the bans on gay unions enshrined in the constitutions of 29 US states.
But the California ruling means that 13 US states and the District of Columbia now recognise same-sex marriage.
The Doma opinion grants legally married gay men and women access to the same federal entitlements available to opposite-sex married couples. These include tax, health and pension benefits and family hospital visits.
By Paul AdamsWashington, United States
Narrow victories perhaps, but there was evident delight among the overwhelming majority of those gathered in the hot sun outside the Supreme Court. After today, public and legal opinion are more closely aligned. No consensus yet, but narrow majorities in favour of gay couples being allowed to marry and enjoy the same rights as their fellow, straight citizens.
The practical implications of today's rulings may be narrow (they only involve 13 states and the District of Columbia), but it was the symbolism of the moment that thrilled the crowd.
They know there will be lots of battles ahead. But for the first time, the Supreme Court has attempted to make sense of the rules around gay marriage. For most of those who gathered in the heat outside this great temple of law, today's results suggest the tide of history is with them.
The landmark 5-4 rulings prompted celebrations from about 1,000 gay rights advocates gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington DC and many more nationwide.
The legal challenge to Doma was brought by New York resident Edith Windsor, 84.
She was handed a tax bill of $363,000 (£236,000) when she inherited the estate of her spouse Thea Speyer - a levy she would not have had to pay if she had been married to a man.
"It's an accident of history that put me here," Ms Windsor said after the ruling was handed down.
"If I had to survive Thea, what a glorious way to do it. She would be so pleased."
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote: "Doma writes inequality into the entire United States Code.
"Under Doma, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways," the decision added.
"Doma's principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal."
Lower courts had also decided in Ms Windsor's favour.
After the ruling Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Pentagon would begin extending benefits to same-sex military spouses as soon as possible.
Defence officials added there were an estimated 18,000 gay couples in the armed forces, although it is not known how many were married.
US President Barack Obama, who is on a state visit to the West African country of Senegal, said: "When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free."
But opponents of same-sex marriage said they were disappointed with the ruling.
"As the American people are given time to experience the actual consequences of redefining marriage," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, "the public debate and opposition to the redefinition of natural marriage will undoubtedly intensify."
Proposition 8 is a ban on gay marriage passed by California voters in November 2008, just months after the state's supreme court decided such unions were legal.
Two same-sex couples launched a legal challenge against Proposition 8. As the state of California refused to defend the ban on gay marriage, the group that sponsored Proposition 8 stepped up to do so.
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court said a private party did not have the right, or "standing", to defend the constitutionality of a law, because it could not demonstrate it would suffer injury if the law were to be struck down and same-sex marriages allowed.
"We have no authority to decide this case on the merits," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the ruling, which was not split along ideological lines.
Their opinion leaves in place a ruling by a lower court, in San Francisco, that struck down Proposition 8.
California Governor Jerry Brown is ordering county officials across the state to comply. The San Francisco appeals court has said it will wait at least 25 days before allowing same-sex marriages to resume in California.
The four dissenting Supreme Court justices said they believed they should have addressed the constitutional question of same-sex marriage before them in the Proposition 8 case.
Further litigation could lie ahead for the California ban, analysts say.
President Obama called the plaintiffs to congratulate them from Air Force One, his official jet, en route to Africa.
About 18,000 same-sex couples were married in California in the less than five months same-sex marriages were permitted there.
Doma was signed into law in 1996 by former President Bill Clinton after it was approved in Congress with bipartisan support.
But it was subsequently struck down by several lower courts.
In 2011, President Obama said that while he would continue to enforce Doma, his administration would not defend it in court. So Republicans from the House of Representatives hired a lawyer to argue in favour of the measure.
House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, said he was disappointed with Wednesday's ruling.
"A robust national debate over marriage will continue in the public square, and it is my hope that states will define marriage as the union between one man and one woman," he said.
David Long, 75, secretly squirted almost 200 children, some of whom were under the age of 13, with the mixture.
He took photos of his victims before and after spraying their clothes, Nottingham Crown Court was told.
Long was jailed for six years and eight months after admitting 13 charges of sexual touching.
Long, formerly of Forest Road, Loughborough, targeted young girls in Nottingham city centre.
The court heard a police search of Long's home recovered journals and scrapbooks containing photos of victims taken between 2003 and 2016.
In the journals, Long detailed his sexual fantasies regarding what he had done, police said.
He was put on the sex offenders register and made subject to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.
Det Ch Insp Peter Quinn, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: "Long showed extraordinary levels of perversion and we're pleased he has been jailed for his sickening acts.　
"The investigation was unable to identify every person affected by Long's actions and there will be people out there who do not know that they have been a victim of his criminality.
"I wish to reassure the public however that every reasonable step has been taken to ensure that Long's actions have placed no-one's health at risk and I am satisfied that this is the case."
Long pleaded guilty to 13 charges of sexually touching three identified children and 10 unidentified children under and over 13 years of age.
He asked for a further 186 incidents of the same offence to be taken into account and admitted making hundreds of indecent and pseudo-indecent images of children.
Photos and video purporting to be from the conflict have been circulated widely.
Much of it is gruesome and inflammatory, and much of it is wrong.
Deep-seated mistrust and rivalry between Rohingya Muslims and the majority Buddhist population in Rakhine have led to deadly communal violence in the past.
The Rohingya have faced decades of persecution in Myanmar where they are denied citizenship.
WARNING: This article contains images some people may find upsetting.
Information is very sketchy and journalists have very limited access to this region.
Even those who have managed to reach the area have found that the volatile situation and intense hostility towards the Rohingyas makes it very difficult to gather information.
Here is what we know about what is happening in Rakhine:
On 29 August, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, Mehmet Simsek, tweeted four photographs, urging the international community to stop the ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas.
His post was retweeted more than 1,600 times, and liked by more than 1,200 readers.
But he was quickly criticised about the authenticity of the photographs.
Three days after his tweet, with many people challenging the images, Mr Simsek deleted it.
The first photograph, showing a number of bloated corpses, has been the hardest to track down.
A number of Burmese who have challenged Mr Simsek for the tweet have suggested they are victims of the devastating Cyclone Nargis in May 2008.
Others suggested they are victims of river boat accidents in Myanmar.
No similar photographs can be found related to those events.
But the image does appear on a several websites dated last year (we have not linked to these sites due to the graphic content).
This suggests the image is not from the recent violence in Rakhine state.
The BBC has ascertained that the second photograph, of a woman mourning a dead man tied to a tree, was taken in Aceh, Indonesia, in June 2003, by a photographer working for Reuters.
The third photograph, of two infants crying over the body of their mother, is from Rwanda in July 1994.
It was taken by Albert Facelly for Sipa, and was one of series of photos that won a World Press Award.
It has also been difficult to track down the fourth image, of people immersed in a canal, but it can be found on a website appealing for funds to help victims of recent flooding in Nepal.
There is now a frenzied social media war around the Rohingyas as the rival stories of each side battle for supremacy.
I have personally been bombarded with gruesome images, purporting to show victims of massacres, most of which are difficult to verify.
But some of the images are clearly wrong.
One image I was sent (below), supposedly showing Rohingya militants training with rifles, turned out to be a photograph of Bangladeshi volunteers fighting in the 1971 independence war.
Earlier this year, when a team from the United Nations Human Rights Commission carried out research into alleged human rights violations in Rakhine state, it refused to use any photographs or video it had not taken itself, because of the problem of authenticating such material.
Their report gives meticulous details of their methodology.
Yet its findings, of "devastating cruelty" towards the Rohingya community, and actions it said could amount to crimes against humanity, were rejected by the Myanmar government, which then refused to issue visas for a fact-finding mission to Rakhine state.
The information we are piecing together from different sources on the current situation in Rakhine state paints a clear picture of a serious conflict, with large-scale human casualties.
There appear to have been atrocities committed by both sides, but the situation for the Rohingya, now under sustained attack by the security forces and armed civilians, appears to be far worse.
Obtaining an accurate picture of what is happening, though, will take a long time, given how little access neutral observers have to the area.
But the social media disinformation campaigns will harden attitudes on both sides, and quite possibly make the conflict worse.
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Labour lost four seats, including three to the Tories, while UKIP lost all three seats it previously held.
The Green party doubled its number of seats to two after securing the Minchinhampton ward from Conservative cabinet member Dorcas Binns.
Previously, the Tories were short of a working majority with 23 seats.
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The MP for Gloucester, Richard Graham, tweeted: "Congrats all Conservative candidates in #Gloucestershire for winning control of the @GlosCC. Now to work hard for the people of Glos!"
Green candidate Rachel Smith, who claimed the Minchinhampton seat with 2,320 votes and a narrow margin of just 27, said her party had "fought really well".
She added: "I'm ecstatic. One of the challenges being a single Green is that you don't necessarily have someone to back your motions. So having two [councillors], really means we can work together and support each other to get even more good policies through."
Stroud District Council leader Steve Lydon was among the Labour candidates to lose his county seat to the Conservatives.
He said: "Obviously I'm disappointed for all the people that work for you, all my friends who came out.
"But we're stoical, we move on. David Drew, my good friend, is standing for parliament and we live to fight another day."
Following the last election in 2013 the Conservatives held 23 seats, the Liberal Democrats 14, Labour nine and the Green Party one. Independents and UKIP held three seats apiece.
The Conservatives now hold 31 seats, the Lib Dems 14 and Labour five. The Greens, with two, and one Independent complete the new council.
Shane O'Donoghue scored twice, with Chris Cargo, Johnny McKee, Daragh Walsh, Stuart Loughrey and Alan Sothern also on target for Craig Fulton's side.
Michael Korpers and Diego Arana found the net for the Austrians.
Ireland will complete their campaign against Olympic bronze medallists and world ranked three Germany on Sunday.
Cargo scored the opener from a rebound in the 10th minute, with McKee shooting home the second four minutes later.
Korpers pulled one back before the interval, but Walsh and O'Donoghue scored within a minute of each other after the resumption.
O'Donoghue grabbed his second with a penalty stroke, Loughrey netted with a super flick at the back post and Sothern marked his 150th appearance with his side's seventh.
The tournament forms part of the Irish build-up to the World Cup qualifier in Johannesburg next month.
Spain and Austria are in the other pool in the World League 3 series in South Africa, but Germany are in the same pool.
Rea retired with a technical problem after five laps, having run off the track while battling for the lead.
The Northern Irishman's Kawasaki team-mate, Yorkshireman Sykes, went on to take his fifth victory of the season.
Ducati pair Davide Giugliano and Chaz Davies completed the podium with less than a second covering the front three.
Race two was initially red-flagged after Pawel Szkopek crashed out but on the re-start Rea jumped from third to first, going up the inside of Sykes and Giugliano at the entry of the Corkscrew on lap four.
Looking to build his lead, Rea ran wide and on to the sandy run-off area, but was able to continue running down in 10th place.
Half a lap later the Isle of Man-based rider was forced to pull up to assess his Kawasaki ZX-10R, having picked up a suspected technical problem from his excursion.
The 29-year-old had taken his first win at the United States circuit in Saturday's opening race, holding off Sykes, with American Nicky Hayden in third.
Welsh rider Davies crashed out on lap six of race one in California while leading.
For Rea, that was his eighth win in this season's series and his third successive triumph following his double in the previous round at Misano, bringing his career tally of triumphs in the championship to 37.
Sykes' five wins include a double victory in the British round at Donington Park.
The series now takes an eight-week break, before the final run of rounds which takes in Germany, France and Spain, before concluding in Qatar on 29 and 30 October.
The British Snowsports Fund encourages customers to donate to British winter sports when they book holidays or buy recreational equipment.
Freestyle skiers and snowboarders are the only athletes funded by UK Sport.
Snowboarder Jenny Jones won Britain's first Olympic medal on snow with slopestyle bronze at Sochi 2014.
"British ski holidaymakers already inadvertently fund Austrian and French racers through tourist taxes or ski schools," BSS chief executive Dave Edwards told BBC Sport.
"Britons book 1.2 million ski weeks per year, so if they each contributed £1 that would be transformational."
BSS has reached an agreement with a number of companies in the ski travel industry to help establish the fund.
Chairman Rory Tapner said: "Our aim is for our snowsport Olympians to replicate the success of their summer compatriots."
BSS has also established the British Ski and Snowboard National Foundation, which awards grants to help young skiers and snowboarders.
"This could be a game-changer as it could mean being able to afford to take my coach to races with me or a ski technician to wax my skis," added skier Cara Brown, who is not UK Sport funded.
"All these little things are all marginal gains and when ski racing comes down to hundredths of a second, it really matters if we want to compete with the best alpine nations."
Britain surpassed their three-medal target in Sochi, finishing with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals.
Jones' Olympic success contributed to an increase in recreational snow sport participation.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said current legislation was "not fit" for tackling the growing numbers of deaths linked to the substances.
It wants the policy to be included in next week's Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament.
A Conservative spokesman declined to comment but said a blanket ban featured in the party's manifesto.
Legal highs, described officially as new psychoactive substances (NPS), have been linked to a number of deaths from misuse.
They are not controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act, although individual substances, such as mephedrone, have been outlawed.
The LGA, which represents more than 400 local authorities, called on the Home Office to follow legislation introduced in the Republic of Ireland which bans the sale of all psychoactive drugs.
The association's Ann Lucas said legal highs were "untested, unpredictable and a potential death sentence".
"Nobody can be sure of their contents or the effects that they could have.
"At the moment, as soon as one is outlawed, another one with a slightly different chemical composition appears.
"We can't allow this to continue."
Several deaths in the UK have been linked to legal highs.
Earlier this month, an inquest found that father-of-three Thaker Hafid, from Cardiff, died after taking a legal high bought online from China that was five times stronger than heroin.
Legal highs are commonly sold online and in the high street in "head shops", where drug-taking paraphernalia is sold alongside legal high powders, pills and liquids.
Asked whether it would be more dangerous to put these products in the hands of criminals, Councillor Peter Fleming, of the LGA, said people were dying and getting serious mental health problems from them
"These are not safe drugs and should not be sold on the high street," he told BBC Radio Four's Today programme.
The LGA said councils spend £830m a year on tackling drug and alcohol misuse, with legal highs seen as a growing problem.
What are legal highs?
Legal highs are psychoactive drugs which contain various chemical ingredients, some of which are illegal and others which are not.
They cannot be sold for human consumption, so are often marketed as incense, salts or plant food.
Normally sold as powders, pills, smoking mixtures, liquids, capsules, or perforated tabs, they are designed to mimic the effects of illegal drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy.
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In 2010, Ireland made it an offence to advertise, sell, supply, import or export a psychoactive substance, in an attempt to tackle a proliferation of "head shops".
Legal substances which affect the brain's chemistry, including caffeine, alcohol, tobacco and prescription medicines, had to be exempted.
Lincoln became the first local authority in England to ban people from taking legal highs in public within the city centre, a move recently followed by Taunton Deane, Somerset.
Both obtained public spaces protection orders under recent anti-social behaviour laws which allow councils to ban certain "undesirable" activities.
Other councils, such as Newcastle, have used licensing powers or trading standards regulations to restrict sales.
However, legalisation campaigners have previously argued further enforcement does not deter people from taking drugs.
A 2014 Home Office report found "no obvious link" between tougher laws and levels of drug use - although the prime minister said the research did not offer "specific conclusions".
In December 2010, 1,200 under-18s were waiting for their first outpatient appointment, rising to 2,500 in December 2014.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the service faced "ever-increasing demand".
It comes after a report by assembly members last year found mental health services for children and young people in Wales could not cope with demand.
NHS bosses, experts and social services staff from across Wales are meeting in Cardiff on Thursday for a conference to discuss the future of the service.
The Welsh government said it had ring-fenced mental health spending and increased the budget from £389m in 2009-10 to £587m in 2014-15.
But Mr Drakeford stressed that after examining the issue, it was found that "far too many referrals" to child and adolescent mental health services did not require that specialist service.
"With this goes a great deal of frustration for those children, young people and their families who learned that they have been sent down a route, which will not best meet their needs," he added.
A report by the Children, Young People and Education committee in November found the number of youngsters referred to the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) had doubled between 2010 and 2014.
The Welsh government said it was already tackling the issue, but members said they had "serious concerns" and asked if enough money was being provided for the service.
Clogher man Farmer finished behind Dubliner Jack Kennedy in Sunday's race after winning Saturday's sprint event.
Kennedy was clinching his second straight win after his runner-up spot at Snetterton was upgraded to a victory ahead of Andrew Irwin.
Irwin was ruled to have passed Kennedy late on in a yellow flag situation.
Luke Stapleford and Alastair Seeley were the first two riders across in the line in Sunday's race at Brands Hatch but neither can score points in the championships because of the make-up of their bikes.
Irwin was fifth across the line to take the points for third place as he was just 0.049 behind Farmer.
Kennedy's win puts him 33 points behind series leader Farmer with Eglinton rider David Allingham now fourth in the championship.
In Sunday's Superbike races, Irwin's brother Glenn clinched 16th and 14th places as Shane Byrne achieved a second successive race double.
Michael Laverty earned points with 13th and ninth places while Andy Reid finished 19th and 18th on his second Tyco BMW outing in the series.
The 20-year-old defender has signed a three-year contract after rejecting the overtures of several clubs, including Aberdeen, Motherwell and Scunthorpe.
Thrilled United manager Peter Houston said: "He is exactly the type of player we try to bring to Dundee United.
"He is young, athletic and hungry. He will do a good job for this club."
His switch coincided with Blackburn's announcement that they had signed Bruno Ribeiro, the 28-year-old Brazilian full-back who was a free agent after leaving Gremio Prudente.
Gunning came through the youth ranks at Ewood Park but has had loan spells with Tranmere Rovers, Rotherham United and Bury before moving to the Scottish Premier League in January.
The Republic of Ireland Under-21 international established himself as a regular starter with Motherwell, helping them to the Scottish Cup final.
Gavin was determined to join Dundee United. He knows he can get a platform to showcase his talent here
"He can play either left back or central defence and, having seen his performances last season, I know he can do a job in the SPL," said Houston.
"It was important that we moved to bring a central defender to the club and to get someone of Gavin's calibre is particularly exciting."
He was originally part of talks that eventually led to the £2.8m transfer of Scotland striker David Goodwillie to Ewood Park, with United also expressing an interested in Blackburn's Scotland defender, Grant Hanley.
Gunning instead headed for Scunthorpe on trial and the League One club's manager, Alan Knill, claimed that the defender did not want to return to Scottish football.
However, he has moved to Tannadice, with United insisting that the deal was completely separate to the Goodwillie transfer.
"What is also pleasing is that Gavin was determined to join Dundee United," added Houston.
"He knows he can get a platform to showcase his talent here and he will do a good job for this club."
Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid made the denial before he appeared in court along with Ms Shahid's first husband, Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel, who is accused of murder.
Mr Shahid is being held as an accessory to her murder.
Ms Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in July in northern Punjab.
The BBC has since learnt that Ms Shahid had not obtained a legal divorce before her second marriage.
A final report into her death was due to be presented in court, but the prosecution said it needed more time to examine it.
It is thought Ms Shahid had been visiting family in the village of Pandori after being told her father was ill.
Her relatives initially said she had suffered a heart attack but a post-mortem examination confirmed she died as a result of being strangled.
Mr Shakeel is accused of strangling Ms Shahid, while her father is accused of taking part in her murder.
But BBC Pakistan correspondent Shaimaa Khalil, reporting from Jehlum in the northern Punjab province, said Mr Shahid "flatly denied" police accusations his daughter had been strangled when responding to media questions as he was taken into court.
Ms Shahid's second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, believes she was the victim of a so-called "honour killing" as her family did not approve of their marriage.
A document purportedly from West Yorkshire Police, seen by the BBC, states Ms Shahid's divorce was not legally binding in the UK and therefore she should not have been married a second time.
According to the document, there was no suggestion her second husband was aware of that.
West Yorkshire Police confirmed a complaint of bigamy had been made, but said no further action had been taken.
Earlier this month, the officer in charge of the investigation said Ms Shahid had also been raped before her death.
A judge in Pakistan previously dismissed a bail application from Ms Shahid's father.
Samia Shahid's father flatly denied police accusations that she was strangled. He said they were all lies and that he loved his daughter very much.
He also denied accusations that Ms Shahid came to Pakistan because she thought he was ill.
He emphasised that she was only married once - he refused to acknowledge Samia's second marriage - and said all the documents were fake and even the wedding photos were fake.
According to him, Samia was only married once and that was to Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel, who would not speak to us.
I put to her father the allegations that she had been raped before she was killed. He said: 'How could her husband rape her?'
They said they felt let down by delays which looked 'shambolic' and suggested incompetence.
The inquiry, announced in December 2014, formally began its work on Thursday, although no panel members have been appointed.
It followed a series of disclosures of abuse in childcare institutions.
In May 2015, leading QC, Susan O'Brien was appointed to chair the inquiry, which will have statutory powers to compel witnesses to give evidence.
Although its work has officially started, no hearings are yet planned. Only a website has been launched.
Ms O'Brien QC said she would give full details of how the inquiry would operate once panel members had been appointed by the Scottish government.
She said: "Once the Scottish government has appointed the inquiry panel members, and I have had a chance to discuss the issues with them, we will set out in detail the ways in which we will run the Inquiry and take evidence from witnesses.
"Counsel to the inquiry will be in touch with survivors' representatives during October to make sure that their views are considered before that happens.
"It would be helpful if all other interested parties made themselves known to the inquiry now, so that their views can also be taken into account."
Jennifer Davidson, director of the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, based at the University of Strathclyde, welcomed the formal start of the inquiry.
She said: "This is a historic day for the people of Scotland, particularly survivors and their supporters who have campaigned for a long time to be heard. I hope that survivors can find a way to use their painful experiences and memories to get answers and to ensure this doesn't happen again."
But Alan Draper, parliamentary liaison officer for Incare Abuse Survivors (INCAS) said members were very disappointed at the lack of real progress in the 10 months since the inquiry was announced.
"The failure to appoint a panel, to assist Susan O'Brien, prior to the start date, suggests incompetence and will only result in yet further delays to the work of the inquiry, as we assume that anybody appointed will not be able to start work immediately," he said.
"The whole process is beginning to look shambolic.
"Survivors were feeling euphoric following the announcement of the inquiry, but are now left feeling that they are being let down, yet again, by those in authority."
He said so far the inquiry has no dedicated premises or phone line.
INCAS also criticised the government for failing to include a draft bill in its recent legislative programme, to set aside the time bar which has prevented survivors seeking civil damages many years after their abuse.
Education Secretary Angela Constance said in December 2014 the government would lift the three-year time legal limit on civil actions.
She said this would include compensation claims for damages in cases of historical abuse that took place after 1964.
Welcoming the formal start of the inquiry, Ms Constance said it represented an important landmark.
"I want to reiterate my gratitude to all survivors and their supporters who have helped us reach this point.
"Their willingness to recount such painful experiences was vitally important in helping us set a remit that would deliver the justice they rightly deserve," she said.
"Many of those who have championed this inquiry have been campaigning a long time and I want to reassure them that they will see it conclude within a reasonable timeframe.
Getting here has been a challenge and there is still a long way to go, but I am confident we have taken the time to allow the chair to lay the foundations of an inquiry that will allow us as a society to right historical wrongs."
The inquiry will examine any instance where a child was abused 'in care', at institutions including residential care provided by faith-based organisations; children's homes and secure care.
It will also include those placed in foster care.
During the start-up period, those who believe that they may have information to share are asked to make initial contact with the inquiry either by emailing [email protected] or by post at Historical Child Abuse Inquiry, PO Box 24085, Edinburgh, EH7 9EA.
They should only send in their names and addresses, with one sentence about how they can help.
Armed officers were called to a street in Waterlooville after the shooting in which the victim suffered a serious head injury.
A 37-year-old man and a woman aged 38 are being held on suspicion of attempted murder over the shooting in Athena Avenue, at 00:50 GMT.
A 31-year-old woman was later arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder.
Cordons have been set up around the scene of the shooting and the scene of the arrests.
But members of the Scottish Parliament's finance committee warned it was "too early to draw any definitive conclusions".
They have been scrutinising the introduction of the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT).
It replaced stamp duty north of the border in April 2015.
The committee now asked the Scottish Government to provide more detailed information on the impact of the new system.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay told the committee that nearly 9,700 homebuyers who would have had to pay stamp duty did not have to pay LBTT when buying a home, and that a further 41,700 paid less as a result of changes to the charges for properties costing between £145,000 and £325,000
Now MSPs want to know the impact the change has had on the first-time buyer market, as there are no fees on properties worth up to £145,000, and if this has contributed to increased house prices.
They also suggested that the government's review of the LBTT should consider if there is any behaviour response to the changes, particularly in relation to properties costing between £325,000 and £750,000, where the charges have increased.
Ministers have also been challenged to respond to claims from the Scottish Fiscal Commission that the housing market for more expensive homes, costing between £325,000 and £750,000 "remained subdued throughout the entire fiscal year excluding March 2016".
Finance Committee convener Bruce Crawford said: "It's reasonable to say year one of the LBTT went smoothly and was operationally successful.
"That said, a key challenge for us has been the lack of consistency in the presentation of data relating to LBTT. That made it difficult to compare forecast and outturn data and to fully assess the tax's impact on the property market in Scotland.
"There are also challenges in identifying 'causality' for the changes seen in the housing market - in short, it's difficult, based on the data, to separate out the impact of LBTT rates and bands from extraneous factors, such as the general economic situation.
"Our committee therefore recommends that the Scottish government's review of the first year of LBTT includes an analysis of the behavioural response to LBTT, particularly in relation to homes costing between £325,000 and £750,000.
"This should include an assessment of the likelihood of an on-going response and an analysis of the impact of extraneous factors."
Speaking on his 90th birthday, King Michael I called on politicians to strengthen democracy in Romania and restore the country's dignity.
He received a standing ovation from many MPs.
However, some government ministers, and President Traian Basescu, refused to attend the event.
Members of Europe's royal families were joining him for his birthday celebrations, attending a gala concert at the Romanian Opera before a private dinner.
But officials say there are no plans for Romania to revert to a monarchy.
"We want to honour and to celebrate an important person of our history and of contemporary history," Romania's Liberal Party leader Crin Antonescu - whose party invited the former monarch to speak - was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
King Michael defends war record
"It is a symbolic gesture that has no connection to the idea of changing Romania's status as a republic," Mr Antonescu added.
The king, who sat on a throne-like chair in parliament, said since the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in 1989: "The last 20 years have brought democracy, freedom and a beginning of prosperity."
"The time has come after 20 years to... break for good with the bad habits of the past", such as "demagogy, selfishness and attempts to cling to power".
"It is within our power to make this country prosperous and worthy of admiration", he added, prompting a standing ovation.
King Michael I reigned from 1927 to 1930, and again from 1940 to 1947.
In December 1947, Romania's new Communist leaders threatened to carry out mass executions if he refused to abdicate.
In an interview with the BBC's Nick Thorpe, the former monarch described how the authorities had blackmailed him: "If you don't sign this thing now, we're going to have to shoot or kill 1,000 people that are already in prison."
"What do you do in a case like that?"
The king was then banned from returning to Romania for nearly half a century.
The Romanian royal family settled near Geneva in Switzerland, and the former king had to find work.
He said one of his favourite jobs was as a test pilot on private aeroplanes in Europe and the United States.
He met his future wife, Anne of Bourbon-Parma, at the wedding of the future Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in London in 1947.
King Michael's Romanian citizenship was restored in 1997.
Called the Bay of Refuge, it features a transparency of an oil painting by J T Allerston set into a metal frame.
It was commissioned to show how the resort's unique geography helped shelter passing vessels in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The artwork at Garrison Square forms part of trail exploring the area's maritime history.
Steve Carvill, who created the artwork, said it had been placed at such a height to allow people to match up the horizon from the painting with the present day horizon.
He said: "It means that even on a hot summer's day, they will be able to see a storm at sea."
Craig Smith, 28, is also accused of two counts of child neglect after the young boy was found unresponsive at a house on Woodville Road, Birkenhead, on Wednesday.
A woman, Ashley Willet, 24, has been charged with causing or allowing a child to suffer physical harm and two counts of child neglect.
Both will appear at Wirral Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Mr Smith and Ms Willet are both of Woodville Road, Birkenhead.
Paramedics carried out CPR on the child but he was later pronounced dead at Arrowe Park Hospital.
Callum Wilson's bicycle kick opened the scoring for Bournemouth after Max Gradel's deflected header fell kindly.
The Cherries were forced to make three substitutions through injuries as goalkeeper Artur Boruc was a spectator for much of the game.
But Vardy levelled after being fouled in the box with four minutes to play.
The 28-year-old's hard running was the brightest feature Leicester's display and he tricked Bournemouth defender Steve Cook into scything him down with some neat footwork.
The result means Claudio Ranieri remains unbeaten in his first four matches in charge of the Foxes, while Eddie Howe's Bournemouth go into the international break with four points from their first four games in the top flight.
Reaction to this match and the rest of Saturday's action
Relive Bournemouth's draw with Leicester
Riyad Mahrez had been Leicester's stand-out performer of the season so far, scoring four goals in the first three games.
But against Bournemouth he was taken off at half-time after a poor display. The 24-year-old was clattered into by Max Gradel almost immediately from kick-off and Ranieri said after the game the Algerian winger had struggled to recover.
Instead it was Bournemouth who looked by far the more dangerous side in the opening 45, but in the second half they struggled to cope with the changes enforced on them by injury.
Boruc had a quiet first half but remained alert to save from Jeff Schlupp and Danny Drinkwater before Vardy levelled from the penalty spot - despite the Polish goalkeeper getting a hand on it.
With England playing San Marino and Switzerland in two European Championship qualifiers next Saturday and Tuesday, it will not have escaped manager Roy Hodgson's attention that it is an Englishman who jointly leads the Premier League scoring charts.
Wilson scored a brilliant hat-trick in last weekend's 4-3 win at West Ham and got his fourth goal of the campaign to level with Mahrez after showing brilliant predatory technique to turn home Bournemouth's first-ever top flight goal at home.
Charlie Daniels' cross from the left was met by Gradel, his header hit a Leicester back and Wilson swivelled sharply before smashing home beautifully with his back to goal.
The 23-year-old is not in contention for a place in Hodgson's squad but had his link-up play with summer signing Lee Tomlin been slightly more polished, he could have scored a few more.
Tomlin showed good promise in the playmaker role but Leicester's defence was solid. At times you might argue it was too solid, as first Bournemouth left-back Daniels, then his £8m replacement Tyrone Mings, who came on for his Premier League debut, and lastly winger Gradel were all forced off through injury.
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe, speaking to BBC Sport: "We were still dominant for long periods but I think the injuries were key in the game, particularly in our ability to change tactically, and it's not nice when you see your team-mates going of injured.
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"They all look nasty and at the moment they are in the treatment room being assessed, although we won't know how serious they are until they get scanned.
"I think we've had a decent enough start in terms of performances. I'm a bit disappointed not to have got more points. I thought we could have got three today, but sometimes you have to be a grateful for a point."
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri, speaking to BBC Sport: "We conceded the goal and until then we were playing well. After the goal we slowed down the tempo and had no great personality.
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"There were 10 minutes when Bournemouth played very well. In the second half we put them under pressure and made some good chances. I think at the end we deserved to draw.
"It's important to take one point from a difficult match. We have a week now where the players go to their national team and when they come back we must re-start with the same mentality."
Bournemouth will be hopeful of picking up more points from their next three games against Norwich, Sunderland and Stoke after the international break.
Leicester will look to keep their good run going through matches against Aston Villa and Stoke before welcoming Arsenal.
Match ends, Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 1.
Second Half ends, Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 1.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Tommy Elphick.
Corner, Bournemouth. Conceded by Yohan Benalouane.
Attempt blocked. Simon Francis (Bournemouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lee Tomlin.
Marc Pugh (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yohan Benalouane (Leicester City).
Foul by Callum Wilson (Bournemouth).
Wes Morgan (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card.
Matt Ritchie (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City).
Substitution, Leicester City. Yohan Benalouane replaces Ritchie de Laet.
Offside, Bournemouth. Simon Francis tries a through ball, but Callum Wilson is caught offside.
Goal! Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 1. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Penalty conceded by Steve Cook (Bournemouth) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Leicester City. Jamie Vardy draws a foul in the penalty area.
Adam Smith (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Shinji Okazaki.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Adam Smith.
Foul by Adam Smith (Bournemouth).
Joe Dodoo (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Eunan O'Kane (Bournemouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Eunan O'Kane (Bournemouth).
Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Adam Smith (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joe Dodoo (Leicester City).
Marc Pugh (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joe Dodoo (Leicester City).
Substitution, Leicester City. Joe Dodoo replaces Marc Albrighton.
Lee Tomlin (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Foul by Callum Wilson (Bournemouth).
Robert Huth (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.
Foul by Marc Pugh (Bournemouth).
Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bournemouth. Marc Pugh replaces Max Gradel because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
The 32-year-old was offered reduced terms by the Bluebirds, but has decided to end his 10-year stay at the club and drop down a division to League One.
The former Aston Villa trainee and England Under-21 international made 450 appearances for the Welsh side.
Whittingham is boss Tony Mowbray's first signing since Rovers' relegation.
"I've had ten-and-a-half awesome years at Cardiff City, reached several cup finals that I never thought I'd reach, won promotion and played a lot of games at this great club," Whittingham said in a statement on Cardiff's website.
"For me now, it is time for a new challenge. I'm not one of those footballers who can train all week and sit and watch a match. I want to play as many games as possible - and I think at this stage of my career this move will help me to do so."
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The 37-year-old was expected to appear at Glasgow's Justice of the Peace Court on Monday.
The warrant was granted by Justice of the Peace Alistair McLean after the player did not appear.
Mr McCulloch is alleged to have driven at 81mph in a 60mph zone on the M8 motorway on 8 July last year.
The party blamed an "administrative error" for failing to register the accommodation costs of activists involved in the Battlebus 2015 operation.
The admission follows a Channel 4 investigation.
A Conservative spokesman said the party had already brought the error to the attention of the Electoral Commission.
The Tories insisted the Battlebus operation was part of the national campaign organised by Conservative Campaign HQ and, as such, the expenditure did not form part of the spending by individual candidates.
But Channel 4 said its investigation suggested the operation was focused at a local level, so should have been declared as such.
An Electoral Commission spokeswoman said: "The commission is currently conducting an investigation into the Conservative Party's 2015 General Election spending return and will consider carefully any new allegations that are raised as part of the Channel 4 news programme.
"In line with the commission's enforcement policy, the commission does not comment on ongoing investigations, as to do so may hinder the conduct of the investigation."
The Conservative Party issued a statement saying its activists were campaigning "across the country for the return of a Conservative government" and, as such, their activities were regarded as national not local expenditure.
"As is apparent from our national return, the party declared expenditure related to our CCHQ-organised Battlebus," it said.
"However, due to administrative error it omitted to declare the accommodation costs of those using the vehicles. This is something we have already brought to the attention of the Electoral Commission in order to amend the return."
"The party always took the view that our national Battlebus, a highly-publicised campaign activity, was part of the national return - and we would have no reason not to declare it as such, given that the party was some millions below the national spending threshold. Other political parties ran similar vehicles which visited different parliamentary constituencies as part of their national campaigning."
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The Tigers, who host Leicester on 13 August, have been without a manager since Steve Bruce resigned after a fall out with vice-chairman Ehab Allam.
City are yet to make a summer signing.
"It's clear the desire to protest against the way the club is being run is stronger than ever before," said the Hull City Supporters' Trust (HCST).
Owner Assem Allam, who took charge of the Tigers in December 2010, put the club up for sale in 2014 after the Football Association turned down his request to change their name to Hull Tigers.
The East Yorkshire club opened talks with an interested party in May, but put takeover talks on hold until September to "ensure stability during the transfer window".
However, City have a threadbare squad after failing to sign any new players and a number of senior players were injured.
The club, who were promoted after winning the Championship play-off final in May, had an approach to speak to Wales boss Chris Coleman about replacing Bruce turned down by the Football Association of Wales (FAW) on Monday.
"No communication, no manager, no engagement, no signings, no identity, no concessions, no honesty. The list goes on," added the HCST statement.
"The owners are digging their heels in more than ever, discarding people at an alarming rate and pushing ahead with all of their ill-considered ideas with their usual arrogance and complete lack of interest in the damaging effects they will have.
"We will be organising and coordinating protests over the coming weeks."
A section of supporters held up red cards during April's home win against Brentford and the Trust said it would expand on that idea as part of the protest.
"Cards alone are not enough though, so we'll be organising additional protests, but we'd like to keep some of this as a surprise for maximum impact," it added.
Researchers found the genetic material in sediment samples collected from seven archaeological sites.
The remains of ancient humans are often scarce, so the new findings could help scientists learn the identity of inhabitants at sites where only artefacts have been found.
The results are described in Science.
Antonio Rosas, a scientist at Spain's Natural Science Museum in Madrid, said: "This work represents an enormous scientific breakthrough.
"We can now tell which species of hominid occupied a cave and on which particular stratigraphic level, even when no bone or skeletal remains are present."
"We know that several components of sediments can bind DNA," said lead researcher Matthias Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
"We therefore decided to investigate whether hominin DNA may survive in sediments at archaeological sites known to have been occupied by ancient hominins."
The team collaborated with researchers excavating at seven dig sites in Belgium, Croatia, France, Russia and Spain.
They collected sediment samples covering a time span from 14,000 to 550,000 years ago.
Back in the lab, they fished out tiny fragments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) - genetic material from the mitochondria, which act as the "powerhouses" of biological cells. Even sediment samples that had been stored at room temperature for years yielded DNA.
Dr Meyer and his team members were able to identify the DNA of various animals belonging to 12 mammalian families, including extinct species such as the woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, cave bear and cave hyena.
The scientists looked specifically for DNA from ancient humans in the samples.
"From the preliminary results, we suspected that in most of our samples, DNA from other mammals was too abundant to detect small traces of human DNA," said co-author Viviane Slon, from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.
"We then switched strategies and started targeting specifically DNA fragments of human origin."
The team members managed to retrieve DNA from Neanderthals in the cave sediments of four archaeological sites, including in layers where no human skeletal remains have been discovered.
In addition, they found new samples of Denisovan DNA in sediments from Denisova Cave in Russia.
"The technique could increase the sample size of the Neanderthal and Denisovan mitochondrial genomes, which until now were limited by the number of preserved remains," co-author Spanish National Research Council scientist Carles Lalueza-Fox told the AFP news agency.
"And it will probably be possible to even recover substantial parts of nuclear genomes."
Svante Pääbo, director of the Evolutionary Genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, commented: "By retrieving hominin DNA from sediments, we can detect the presence of hominin groups at sites and in areas where this cannot be achieved with other methods.
"This shows that DNA analyses of sediments are a very useful archaeological procedure, which may become routine in the future."
The £10m pot would be used to turn them into business premises and homes.
Cardiff Bay's former Bute Road railway station could become "live-work units" and retail space where a military museum is also earmarked.
There is also cash to help turn Milford Haven's old Victoria Filling Station and Grade II-listed Quay Stores into a cultural centre.
It is the third and final phase of the Vibrant and Town Centre Loans Fund, with Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant considering what might replace it.
Money towards other projects include:
Mr Sargeant said: "This funding will help local authorities regenerate their town centres by helping them find sustainable uses for empty sites and premises such as affordable town centre homes or tourist and leisure attractions.
"As well as making town centres more attractive places to live this loan scheme will help encourage investment into these areas as well as support the local economy."
Darren Lyons, 43, was arrested in 2014 after carers at his Kidsgrove home became worried about his behaviour.
Recording a narrative verdict, an inquest jury criticised checks on him and the service from healthcare staff, the police watchdog said.
Three officers with the Staffordshire force were disciplined for misconduct.
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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Mr Lyons had died from a combination of medical conditions, including heart disease.
He had a prolonged history of drug and alcohol misuse.
Mr Lyons was arrested by armed officers on 12 January after allegedly making threats to shoot or stab visitors to the property.
Later that day he was found unresponsive in his cell at the custody facility in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, and taken to hospital where he died three days later, the watchdog said.
The IPCC said it had looked at the police response to calls about Mr Lyons, his care in custody and police interaction with family members.
One custody sergeant failed to properly assess and manage the health risk to Mr Lyons and the second failed to conduct an appropriate risk assessment after accepting a handover without making his own checks, the IPCC said.
A third officer, working in custody detention, was disciplined for misconduct over their cell checks and accuracy of record-keeping.
Assistant Chief Constable Emma Barnett acknowledged there were procedural shortcomings and apologised to the family.
"His medical needs were complex and after several weeks of evidence, it is by no means clear from the expert medical evidence whether his tragic death could have been avoided," she said.
Improvements have been made since his death, she added.
Services between the two countries stopped when the US imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in 1960.
But Washington announced the restoration of diplomatic ties in December last year.
The US government has now lifted the ban and four ferry companies say they have been given licences.
"Today's action was a great step forward," Joseph Hinson, president of the Miami-based United Americas Shipping Services, told Agence France-Presse.
Havana Ferry Partners of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said it also had a licence.
"This is a historical event. Thanks to President Barack Obama, to whom we are very grateful, for his leadership," the firm wrote on its Facebook page.
BBC Cuba correspondent Will Grant says the latest announcement does not necessarily mean that boats will start launching for Cuban shores straight away, as there are bureaucratic hurdles to overcome in both countries.
However, it is another indication of Washington's desire to put the policies of isolating Cuba in the past and begin a new era of co-operation, he adds.
A new charter flight service from New York City, operated by JetBlue, had already been announced.
The service was agreed during a recent trade delegation of New York-based companies to Cuba, led by state governor Andrew Cuomo.
Despite the new flights and ferry services, a travel ban on Cuba is still in place for American citizens.
Only those who have the right paperwork in 12 different categories are permitted to visit the island.
Ferries will also be allowed to transport cargo to Cuba, which sits 150km (90 miles) from southern Florida.
Mr Stansby, 41, from Trimley St Mary died of wounds to the abdomen near Ancaster Road, earlier this month.
So far five people have been arrested in connection with the murder investigation.
Suffolk Police arrested the latest suspect, a 46-year-old man from Ipswich, on Thursday. He was bailed until May.
The others arrested and bailed included a 42-year-old man, a 39-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy, all from Ipswich.
A 31-year-old man of no fixed abode was also given bail until a later date.
RSPCA Cymru said the rabbits were discovered "running loose" at Dyffryn Gardens.
Ch Insp Gemma Black said she could not believe it at first, adding: "It seemed far too topical and I wondered at first if this could be an Easter prank."
The charity said the animals were doing well and could be rehomed if their owners cannot be traced.
The rabbits have all been given chocolate-related names - Fudge, Toffee, Caramel, Button, Truffle, Coco and Sugar.
The men were pulled unconscious from the water at Sea Palling, near Great Yarmouth, shortly before midday.
A 54-year-old man died while a 26-year-old man was airlifted to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
Members of the public pulled them out of the sea, the RNLI said.
The East of England Ambulance Service said paramedics treated two men, "both in cardiac arrest".
A spokesman said: "Sadly a man, believed to be in his 50s, died at the scene."
A coastguard spokeswoman said: "Quite a number of people went into the water to help. There were two people that needed medical attention."
Four men got into difficulties about 800m away from the lifeguarded area, the RNLI said.
Jack Hood, RNLI lifeguard supervisor, said: "It appears these four men got into distress in the water because of one of the notorious rips that can occur off this coast.
"One of our lifeguards immediately started CPR on the 54-year-old, assisted by a member of the public who declared he was a medic. Meanwhile, a member of the public who had experience of first aid was giving CPR to the 26-year-old, so our lifeguard moved her focus to take over his treatment.
"In the meantime, our other lifeguard had rushed to obtain oxygen and a defibrillator from the RNLI's beach lifeguard unit. Whilst the 26-year-old was breathing when she returned with the equipment, the 54-year-old was not."
Three land ambulances, two air ambulances, the Humber Coastguard rescue helicopter and three local coastguard teams were called to the beach along with two RNLI inshore lifeboats.
At 20:30, places such as Edinburgh Castle, the Forth Rail Bridge and the Kelpies were plunged into darkness.
As well as hundreds of Scottish landmarks, thousands of homes are thought to have participated in the event.
Earth Hour is a global annual event that aims to inspire collective action on climate change.
One hundred and seventy-two countries and territories and over 7,000 cities took part in the event. Earth Hour takes place across 24 time-zones, with the "switch-offs" starting in Samoa and finishing in Tahiti.
WWF said that Earth Hour 2015 was the biggest one to date.
Lang Banks, director of WWF Scotland said: "Every year I'm amazed and delighted at how the people of Scotland get behind Earth Hour. From schools and businesses to politicians, celebrities and iconic landmarks, we've received an amazing level of support and we've enjoyed hearing all the different ways people planned to celebrate the hour.
"Lights around the world went out for one hour this weekend, but the need to take action extends throughout the year.
"Earth Hour brings temporary darkness to many of our most recognisable landmarks and is a moment for us all to reflect on ways we can go beyond the hour to help tackle climate change and protect our brilliant planet."
Simon Hamilton resigned along with several other DUP ministers as a result of the political crisis at Stormont.
While the talks continue, the DUP has a policy of keeping its ministers in office for only a few hours each week.
Mr Hamilton has faced calls to resume his position as soon as possible to tackle growing waiting lists and address other pressing issues.
The chair of Stormont's health committee has said the department's permanent secretary will appear before it next week to discuss the crisis.
Sinn Féin's Maeve McLaughlin said she had asked Richard Pengelly to attend and explain what was being done to address the situation.
Earlier, a former Northern Ireland Office (NIO) minister said he was "astonished" that problems in the health service in Northern Ireland were the same as those 30 years ago.
Sir Richard Needham, who was at the NIO for 10 years from 1985, described waiting lists as "appalling".
His comments come after the Royal College of Nursing called for the health minister to return to office.
Sir Richard said he did not want to "over-exaggerate" the problems in the health service in Northern Ireland and although the current situation was "very serious", he said the system "still gives a remarkable degree of successful treatment to the vast majority of the population".
He did raise concerns that the same problems were reoccurring.
"What astonishes me is that the arguments that are going on are exactly the same arguments that I faced 30 years ago," he said.
He said he agreed with the Donaldson Review's recommendation of considering getting politicians "out of the way" and getting a solution to the management of the system.
"Then you can say to politicians to stop pandering to whoever the latest person is knocking on your door," he added.
On Friday, the trade union Unison and Cancer Focus Northern Ireland joined calls made by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) for Simon Hamilton to resume his position as health minister as soon as possible.
Patricia McKeown of Unison said the current situation was "totally unacceptable" and she said the DUP "should move away from the health portfolio".
"If you're not prepared to run the health service, which is way above politics - it is about the health, well-being and the lives of people. If you are not prepared to do that and take it seriously, then stand aside."
Ms McKeown's comments were echoed by Roisin Foster of Cancer Focus Northern Ireland who said there was a need for "strategic leaders".
"We've had plenty of reviews and experts looking at how we are structured and saying there are things that need fixed and we do need that leadership," Ms Brown said.
Speaking on the BBC's The View on Thursday, Simon Hamilton said he wanted to be back in office to address the problems in the health service.
Mr Hamilton refused to confirm whether he would be back in his post permanently before the publication of a security assessment on paramilitaries in mid-October.
It will be carried out by a panel which was set up by the government to help address the crisis at Stormont.
It was triggered following a police assessment that IRA members were involved in the murder of a former IRA man in Belfast in August.
On Thursday, a leading UK health expert said heads would roll in England if the waiting list crisis was on the same scale as in Northern Ireland.
The BBC revealed in July that some patients were waiting up to 18 months for hospital appointments.
In all, there have been 17 resignations involving DUP ministers since 10 September.
New episodes of The Grand Tour will become available on Amazon Prime Video every Friday for 12 weeks.
The trio moved from the BBC to Amazon after Clarkson was sacked for punching a Top Gear producer last year.
The Grand Tour's first episode will be 70 minutes long and will be partly filmed in California next month.
Studio scenes are being recorded in a giant tent that is travelling around the world. The tent has already visited Johannesburg but it will be seen in California in the launch episode. Further locations are still to be announced.
To tie in with the launch date announcement, Amazon has put a 30-second teaser on YouTube.
The Sun has reported that Hollywood stars Charlize Theron and Matt Damon will be among the guests during the first season.
Jay Marine, Vice President of Amazon Prime Video EU, said: "Customers have been desperate to find out when they can watch their favourite team back on screen, so we are very excited to announce the launch date of one of the most globally anticipated shows of 2016.
"The guys have been having a blast filming the show around the world."
Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival last month, The Grand Tour producer Andy Wilman said: "Like them or loathe them, they are still doing their thing."
He showed delegates clips showing May driving with a broken arm, Clarkson driving on the Game of Thrones set and Hammond waking up in a buggy to find it has been hoisted into the air.
The footage also showed the trio racing Maseratis, a Rolls Royce and a Porsche, as well as Clarkson on a jet ski.
The team have signed up to make 12 shows a year for three years.
Wilman said everything was being filmed in 4K [high resolution] but rubbished press reports that each episode had a £4.5m budget.
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The Welsh government has commissioned the study to improve the commercial performance of historical and culturally important places.
It is expected to report back to ministers by the end of March.
Baroness Jenny Randerson, who is leading the review, said Wales needed a more unified image of its heritage.
The Welsh Liberal Democrat peer added the fact that Wales is a small country had pros and cons in the promotion of its attractions.
"The disadvantage is that we don't have a vast number of tourist visitor sites, we don't have a vast number old houses, shall we say, in comparison with England," she said.
"But we do have huge quality and we have the advantage of being able to work closely together in a way in which it's difficult to do in a country as big as England."
She added it was "vital that our heritage organisations work closely together to maximise our cultural influence and the success of our tourist industry".
Baroness Randerson was appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Wales Office in 2012 and her portfolio includes culture and tourism.
She was minister for culture, sport and the Welsh language in the Welsh government from 2000 to 2003.
Is that fair?
There were particular challenges in making these forecasts, which we have discussed before, involving having to make forecasts for the economy post-Brexit without having any idea of the government's negotiating position.
As such, while some aspects of economic forecasting just involve sticking numbers into economic models, there are also some judgements to be made, so it's worth looking at the OBR's record so far to see if it has been gloomy.
The OBR has published 15 sets of Economic and Fiscal Outlooks since its first one in June 2010.
Let's start by looking at the forecasts for economic growth, measured by growth in GDP.
The number of times that the OBR has cut its GDP forecasts is equal to the number of times it raised them or left them unchanged, which does not suggest a bias either towards optimism or gloominess.
But there is a different picture if you compare the first or second forecasts that the OBR makes for a particular year with the final forecast it makes for that year.
As an example, the chart above shows all of the forecasts that the OBR made for growth for the whole of 2016.
It turns out that the OBR's first and second forecasts for GDP or borrowing have always been higher than its final one - every time it turns out that the initial forecasts are too optimistic.
There is one exception to that, which is the figures for 2010, but that's barely a forecast because by the time the OBR made its first forecast 2010 was almost half-way through.
Does that mean that the OBR is institutionally optimistic?
It's an important question, because the first estimates are the ones for which the OBR has the least data and is using the most judgement.
It may not be a question of optimism - forecasts more than a few years out will often predict a return to "normal" levels of growth or borrowing, but several of the years since 2010 have been far worse than normal, which you would expect to make the OBR look optimistic.
Part of this is because forecasts are often based on the idea of economic shocks being temporary - if that is not the case then the return to normal will be at least delayed.
One of the biggest factors in this is productivity - the OBR still cites productivity as the biggest risk to its forecasts and it could be argued that the persistent failure of UK productivity to return to "normal" levels is to blame for GDP being lower than the OBR expected early on.
The OBR itself does this sort of exercise - this is its graph showing the extent of the differences between its first set of forecasts from June 2010 and what actually happened from its latest forecast evaluation report.
It is clear, as the OBR said in its report, that economic growth has "repeatedly disappointed relative to forecast" in an economy that has been "stronger than expected in employment terms, but weaker in terms of earnings and productivity growth".
So the OBR certainly does not have a record of being too gloomy - if anything it is optimistic, although that may just be a result of the unusual sort of economy it has been asked to assess.
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The couple and their three young sons were taken into custody after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport last week.
They had Special Immigrant Visas, which were granted for life-risking work done for the US military.
Afghanistan is not among the countries in President Trump's travel ban list.
The family had travelled to LA for a connecting flight to Washington, where they planned to resettle.
The father, who has not been named, worked for the US government in Afghanistan.
He was taken to a maximum-security detention facility in Orange County, California, according to Becca Heller, the director of the International Refugee Assistance Project.
His wife and children, aged seven years, six years and eight months, were reportedly taken to a similar facility but later moved to a hotel.
A petition for the release of the Afghan family was filed by the International Refugee Assistance Project, which said they had been taken into custody "with absolutely no justification" and it was a violation of due process rights under the US constitution.
Over the weekend, a federal judge issued a temporary order blocking authorities from removing the family from California.
Talia Inlender, one of their lawyers, said immigration authorities had agreed to release them from custody on Monday.
Earlier, she said it was "extremely unusual if not entirely unique" for someone with a Special Immigrant Visa to be detained upon arrival.
The family will be allowed to remain in the US subject to an immigration review at a later date.
The news emerged on the same day as Donald Trump's re-worked travel ban was announced.
The president has signed a new executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations.
Iraq - which was included in the previous seven-nation order - has been removed from the new one after agreeing to additional visa vetting measures.
The directive, which includes a 120-day ban on all refugees, takes effect on 16 March.
The operation to drive so-called Islamic State (IS) from Iraq's second-largest city has been long promised and much delayed.
The latest indications are it could begin next month, more than two years after IS took Mosul and proclaimed its caliphate.
The northern city is now the last bastion of IS in Iraq. The authorities in Baghdad say the liberation of Mosul will spell the end of IS on Iraqi soil.
Some predict the likely power-struggle afterwards could spell the end for Iraq, in its current form.
For the Peshmerga (whose name means "Those who confront death") the push to Mosul cannot come soon enough.
The formidable fighting force of the autonomous Kurdish region has a 620-mile (1,000km) frontline with IS.
Peshmerga fighters, on the jagged peaks of Mount Bashiq, have spent two years staring across the parched plain of Nineveh towards Mosul, a tantalising seven miles (12km) away.
The nearest IS fighters are closer still.
"Between us and them there is just one kilometre," said Gen Nabi Ahmed Doulemeri - a squat figure with a neat moustache - pointing to the town of Bashiq at the foot of the mountain.
"They have tried to attack us 30 or 40 times but each time we have defeated them. And we will defeat them in Mosul, God willing."
Within minutes of our arrival, IS fired a mortar at his sandbagged frontline position, but it fell short. Commanders said the militants were registering our presence.
The Peshmerga are confident of victory, though they lack basic equipment.
"A lot of these guys have bought their own weapons, shoes and uniforms," said Alan Duncan, a British army veteran who has taken up arms with the Kurds.
He says the international community has provided only "token" support, though, in his view, the Peshmerga are defending the West.
"If Daesh [IS] got their caliphate here the next step for them would be Europe," he said. "Nice, Paris would be nothing to what we would see. The fact of the matter is that the Peshmerga held the line, and has started to push them back.
"This isn't a fight just for the Peshmerga, just for Kurdistan, this is a fight for the West, this is a fight for humanity."
The Scottish volunteer - a sniper - rode shotgun as we bumped along dirt tracks, touring the frontline in a Humvee.
He said he had no hesitation pulling the trigger on IS. "They are nothing," he said. "It's like putting your foot on an ant. They are savage, they are not humans."
In their push against IS, the Kurds are already redrawing the map of northern Iraq. They have expanded the area under their control by an estimated 50%.
Over glasses of hot, sweet tea, veteran Kurdish commander Gen Wasta Rasul said there would be no pulling back.
"Why should we withdraw? If we do, the enemy [IS] can come back in. We should have new negotiations with Baghdad, and these areas should be part of Kurdistan."
The general, who has 23,000 men under his command, insisted the Peshmerga would enter Mosul to help drive IS out, in co-ordination with the Shia-dominated Iraqi army.
Once the extremists are defeated (estimates range from weeks to months) he says both forces should withdraw from the city, where most of the population are Sunni Arabs.
After the Mosul offensive, he says the Kurds will be pressing ahead with a referendum on independence in their areas. "Iraq can't stay as one unit, " he says. "There should be three federations - Sunni, Shia and Kurds. For me there is no unified Iraq."
Whatever the future of Iraq - or lack of it - the immediate challenge is expelling the extremists from Mosul.
They have dug in for a long fight, according to an IS defector now in Kurdish hands. The 23-year-old turned himself in, complete with his IS-issued radio and assault rifle.
We have decided not to identify him as he has relatives living in areas under IS control.
"They have underground tunnels, all around Mosul, six metres [20ft] below ground," he said. "They have underground bunkers with bathrooms, and they have stockpiled enough food to last for five years.
"They have many cars full of C4 [explosives] and they are trying to modify 120mm canons to use mustard gas."
We cannot verify his account, but clearly the militants have had plenty of time for prepare for the long-promised assault.
As the Kurds close in on Mosul from the east, the Iraqi army is pushing forward from the south.
Both are being assisted by air strikes by the US-led coalition, which have left a trail of pancaked buildings in towns like Qayyarah.
Iraqi troops took the town late last month - their latest victory on the road to Mosul. During our visit it was blanketed by choking black smoke - courtesy of IS who set the oil wells alight.
Eissa Omar Hassan, an official in the health ministry, was one of the few locals we saw on the streets. He told us life under IS was unjust, harsh and exhausting.
"They are barbarians," he said. "They don't value human beings. Even themselves. They banned cigarettes. Women had to be covered, only their eyes could show. Even young kids in school were affected - they'd teach them that a bullet plus a bullet makes two, a mine plus a mine makes two."
Mr Hassan led us to an IS jail, where prisoners were kept in cells little bigger than a wardrobe and as airless as a tomb. Locals told us up to four men could be crammed into a single cell.
The names and arrival dates of the some of the prisoners were still taped to a door. We do not know their fate.
But freeing Mosul from horrors like this will come at a price.
Aid agencies are warning the assault on the city could spark a mass exodus and a humanitarian crisis. The United Nations is warning that as many as one million people could flee the city.
"It could be the largest manmade disaster in many years," said Bruno Geddo, of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
"We are already catering for 3.4 million displaced Iraqis, so on top of the care and maintenance activities you will have to prepare and to rush to prepare. So you have double stress to deal with."
If IS decides to flee to Syria and regroup the situation will be more manageable, he said. But he outlined another possible scenario - that IS decides to make a last stand in the city, because of its huge symbolic value.
"They may want Mosul to die with them," he told us. "In this case it would be apocalyptic."
Elton Simpson had been under surveillance since 2006 and was convicted in 2010 for lying about plans to go to Somalia, the files reveal.
He had shared a flat in Arizona with the person named by authorities as the other gunman, Nadir Soofi.
Both were shot after opening fire at a conference centre near Dallas.
Simpson's family has said that there was no sign he was planning to carry out such an attack.
"We are sure many people in this country are curious to know if we had any idea of Elton's plans. To that we say, without question, we did not," said a statement issued through lawyers in Phoenix.
The statement, made on behalf of unnamed family members, said his relatives were "heartbroken and in a state of deep shock".
A lot of people here have been upset because both the event organisers had come from outside of town, but so too had the attackers - they had come from Arizona. So they feel their community has been put under the spotlight, and it has caused a great deal of tension.
Local Muslims were very upset that the event was being held at all.
Alia Salem, local director of the Council on American-Islamic relations, told me: "My reaction was one of basically ignoring it and I encouraged the community to also ignore it, and we did. We have important things to focus on in our community, and to have this kind of event come in, and these types of criminals come in and commit these acts of terror just splits our community apart."
And it's not just local Muslims - a lot of people here are upset about all the attention that has been brought here because of what's happened. Even the mayor has suggested that it wasn't wise for the exhibition centre here to hold this event.
That's something that's made the event organisers bristle, saying freedom of speech is freedom of speech. But many others are upset and they say this wasn't really about freedom of speech - it was an anti-Islam event.
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On Monday, FBI agents searched Simpson and Soofi's home in Phoenix and a white van parked outside.
According to Arizona court documents published in the US media, Simpson was charged in 2010 with lying to FBI agents about planning to go to Somalia to engage in violent jihad, or holy war.
A judge found him guilty of making a false statement and he was sentenced to three years' probation and a $600 (£400) fine.
The judge ruled there was insufficient evidence that the false statement involved international terrorism.
The court document also showed that Simpson had been under investigation since 2006 because of his association with an individual the FBI believed was trying to set up a terrorist cell in Arizona.
Simpson had told an informant in 2009 that it was "time to go to Somalia", adding: "We gonna make it to the battlefield."
He later said he was planning to travel to South Africa and then on to Somalia.
The incident on Sunday unfolded when a car drove into the car park of the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, a city near Dallas, where a Muhammad Art Exhibit organised by the controversial American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) was being held.
The conference included a contest that offered a $10,000 (£6,600) prize for a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad are offensive to many Muslims.
The two men in the car opened fire with assault rifles on two security officers, Garland police said.
One of the officers, a traffic policeman, returned fire and killed both gunmen, police spokesman Joe Harn said.
The security officer who with him was shot in the lower leg. He was treated in hospital and released.
A bomb squad searched the suspects' vehicle and set off several controlled explosions. They found additional ammunition but no bombs, Mr Harn said.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott called the attack a "heinous crime" and said he was being briefed by state authorities.
The AFDI is run by controversial blogger and activist Pamela Geller who said she was standing up for free speech, adding: "This terrible incident reflects the need for such conferences."
One of the keynote speakers at Sunday's event was the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an outspoken critic of Islam in Western societies who is on an al-Qaeda hit list.
There were widespread protests in 2006 when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
In January this year, 12 people were murdered by two Islamist gunmen at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published similar cartoons.
And a gathering of free speech activists in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, was targeted by a gunman in February, killing a film director.
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Both FAs had been charged for wearing poppies in the match on Armistice Day.
Fifa rules forbid "political" statements on shirts.
The display of poppies on big screens, the minute's silence, playing the Last Post and handing poppy T-shirts to the crowd will also be assessed.
Fifa also cited "several cases of fan misconduct" and the display of flags by fans of both teams during England's 3-0 win.
England and Scotland players wore black armbands bearing a red poppy despite failing to get clearance from Fifa.
World football's governing body turned down a request by both teams to wear the traditional symbol marking Armistice Day.
Fifa said it did not ban the display of poppies and that any such claim was "a distortion of the facts".
The rules are laid out by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) and any breach is dealt with by Fifa's disciplinary committee - which Fifa says is an independent body.
A points deduction is the most serious sanction available but a fine is considered to be more likely.
The British FAs would then have an opportunity to challenge that fine via Fifa's appeals process and a further chance to appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport - a course of action that would probably cost more than the fine.
The organisation favours a tunnel, saying it offers the best economic benefits and journey time improvements.
But audience members at a BBC debate said its consultation made it hard to respond favouring the alternative plan.
Highways England said people could comment if they favoured other routes.
Highways England favours "Option C" - a tunnel between Gravesend and Tilbury - while the only remaining alternative is "Option A", a new crossing at Dartford.
The proposed road tunnel would run from the M2 to the M25 in Essex, running under the Thames east of Gravesend into Kent.
The consultation states that a Lower Thames Crossing is needed to reduce congestion at the existing Dartford Crossing and asks for views on Highways England's proposed route.
Critics said it was "a sales brochure for Option C" put out by Highways England.
"The way you have presented all this information makes it so hard for people to say that they want Option A that it is an invalid consultation," the Reverend Nigel Bourne, vicar of St Mary's Church in Chalk, told Highways England at the debate in Shorne Village Hall.
The church website directs users to a petition protesting at the proposal.
Option B, which would have connected the A2 at Swanscombe in Kent with the A1089 in Essex, was dropped in 2013.
The public consultation, which started on 26 January, runs until 24 March.
Consultation manager Martin Potts said the questionnaire asked open questions about other routes people might favour.
But he said: "It would be completely inappropriate for Highways England to present material that indicated all the routes and all the options we have assessed are equally viable."
The full Lower Thames Crossing Debate will be broadcast on BBC Radio Kent at 19:00 GMT on Friday and 11:00 GMT on Sunday.
State department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US had a commitment to "do everything" to bring troops home.
Sgt Bergdahl says his five years in captivity - after walking off base - were in "constant isolation" with all four limbs chained for long periods.
A hearing will determine whether he will face a court-martial.
He could then be sentenced to life in prison if found guilty.
The US Army announced on Wednesday Sgt Bergdahl had been charged with one count of desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and one count of misbehaviour before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place after an investigation into his disappearance.
Sgt Bergdahl was handed over to a team of US special forces last May.
In exchange for his release, five senior Taliban commanders held at Guantanamo Bay were transferred to the custody of the Gulf state of Qatar, which brokered the deal.
His release enraged Republicans and some Democrats, who said that the prisoner swap could ultimately put American lives at risk.
Top Congressional Republicans argued the deal violated US law and amounted to negotiating with terrorists - accusations denied by the Obama administration. They also objected to the fact Congress was not given notice of the deal.
Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Ms Psaki defended the swap.
"We have a commitment to our men and women serving in our military... that we are going to do everything to bring them home," she said.
Sgt Bergdahl could spend up to five years in prison if convicted on the desertion charge. A conviction on the misbehaviour charge carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
In a statement made through his lawyer, Sgt Bergdahl detailed the conditions of his captivity, saying he had been chained by all four limbs for months at a time, his captors only temporarily releasing one hand so he could sit up.
"Because of the constant heat and sweat my body where it was in contact with the bed would become sore and raw, burning from the sweat and pressure," he wrote.
Sgt Bergdahl said he was "kept in constant isolation during the entire five years, with little to no understanding of time", developed open wounds that would not heal from his shackles and was eventually kept in cage without chains.
The US soldier said he had attempted to escape 12 times over five years - and was beaten after being temporarily successful twice.
The EU says that any solution needs to "respect the integrity of the EU legal order."
That is understood to refer to how customs controls will be enforced between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The UK and Irish governments have repeatedly said they do not want a return to customs posts at the border.
The draft guidelines also state that the EU should "recognise existing bilateral agreements and arrangements" between the UK and Ireland which are compatible with EU law.
That is understood to refer to the Common Travel Area (CTA) which is a bilateral UK-Ireland arrangement. It has existed since 1922 and allows for free movement of UK and Irish citizens between Ireland, Northern Ireland the rest of the UK.
It also allows Irish and UK citizens to access various services and benefits in each country such as the right to work, to access public services and to vote in certain elections.
Brexit Secretary David Davis has described the continuation of the CTA as "non-negotiable" and the Irish government have it as one of its Brexit priorities.
The EU guidelines have been published by European Council President Donald Tusk.
They suggest that UK trade talks could begin once "sufficient progress" is made on a separation deal.
Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on Wednesday, starting a two-year countdown to the UK's exit from the EU.
She said there would be "no return to the borders of the past" and said the Conservative Party has a "preference that Northern Ireland should remain part of the UK".
Mrs May's Article 50 letter says the government wants to avoid a return to a hard border between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, to be able to maintain the Common Travel Area and to make sure that the UK's withdrawal from the EU does not harm the Republic of Ireland.
The Dundee University researchers have created a machine which uses ultrasound to lift and rotate a rubber disc floating in a cylinder of water.
It is said to be the first time ultrasound waves have been used to turn objects rather than simply push them.
The study could help make surgery using ultrasound techniques more precise, the physicists said.
Surgeons use ultrasound to treat a range of conditions without having to cut open a patient.
The ability to steer ultrasound waves to the precise spot where they are needed could make those treatments even more effective.
The ultrasound waves could also be used to guide a drug capsule through the body and activate it, for instance right inside a tumour.
Ultrasound waves could already be made to push objects and scientists believed they could also turn them - but the Dundee University team claims to have now proved it.
They used energy from an ultrasound array to form a beam that can both carry momentum to push away an object in its path and, by using a beam shaped like a helix or vortex, cause the object to rotate.
Dr Mike MacDonald, of the Institute for Medical Science and Technology (IMSAT) at Dundee, said: "This experiment not only confirms a fundamental physics theory but also demonstrates a new level of control over ultrasound beams which can also be applied to non-invasive ultrasound surgery, targeted drug delivery and ultrasonic manipulation of cells.
"The sonic screwdriver device is also part of the EU-funded nanoporation project where we are already starting to push the boundaries of what ultrasound can do in terms of targeted drug delivery and targeted cellular surgery.
"It is an area that has great potential for developing new surgical techniques, among other applications, something which Dundee is very much at the forefront of.
"Like Doctor Who's own device, our sonic screwdriver is capable of much more than just spinning things around."
The
results of the sonic screwdriver experiment
will be published in the American Physical Society's journal Physical Review Letters.
The research also forms part of a UK-wide Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council project known as Sonotweezers, which aims to bring dexterity and flexibility to ultrasonic manipulation, allowing applications in a wide range of topics including regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, developmental biology and physics.
In the popular BBC TV series, Doctor Who uses his sonic screwdriver to perform medical scans, remotely control other devices and pick locks.
Paul Croft, 19, from Eccles, Salford, was beaten to death with a baseball bat in an alleyway in Pendlebury in 2005.
No-one has been convicted over the killing, despite Greater Manchester Police (GMP) offering a £50,000 reward in 2010.
The force said a 27-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of murder.
He was previously arrested in March 2005 and February 2006, a police spokesman said.
The development came after a fresh investigation by GMP's cold case unit.
Mr Croft, the eldest of five children, had been drinking in the Newmarket pub in Swinton on the day he was attacked, on 24 March of that year.
Police received calls just after 20:00 GMT to say that a man was being attacked at Sandy Path, near the Lord Nelson pub in Pendlebury.
Mr Croft suffered severe head injuries and died a week later in hospital.
His girlfriend was seven months pregnant with his twins at the time.
The arrested man has been bailed until 15 September pending further inquires.
Originally arriving as a winger a year ago, Brown, 27, was converted to left-back at Town, before his season was ended in April by a knee injury.
Burton, 19, made his first-team debut in the final game of last term, a 3-0 defeat by Swindon Town.
The club have not revealed the length of the players' new deals.
Brown, who made 40 appearances before his injury, will compete for the left-back spot next season with Mat Sadler and new arrival Ryan McGivern - one of six new signings made by boss Micky Mellon so far this summer.
Shrewsbury finished one place, but four points, above the relegation zone in League One in 2015-16.
Earlier this week they scooped three prizes at the National Television Awards, including best TV presenter for the 16th year in a row.
But why do we love these cheeky chums so much? What's the secret behind the unstoppable rise of these side-splitting sidekicks?
Best friends
TV producer Conor McAnally witnessed the transformation of Ant and Dec from success-hungry teenagers to grown-up lovable comrades. He saw instant potential in the two when they took on their first proper presenting gig on The Ant & Dec Show in 1995 on CBBC.
"As a producer, you're looking for that spark in a new presenter," says McAnally. "Someone who can reach through the camera and grab an audience. Presenting skills, technical skills, hitting your marks, all that sort of stuff is less important in the initial stages because all that can be trained.
"But with Ant and Dec there was a symbiosis. They were each other's genuine best friend. They each thought the other was the funniest guy in the world. They wanted to hang out all the time, even off camera. You can't fake that.
"These guys could dance, they could sing, they could act, and they could talk to the camera like it was their best friend."
On screen camaraderie
It's Ant and Dec's uncanny knack for talking directly to their audience that lies behind their genius. To many, it feels like watching friends rather than frontmen.
Thick Geordie accents have helped to forge this bond with viewers - in a 2010 survey by call centre managers Sitel, Geordie was found to be the UK's friendliest dialect.
"They seem so natural and so off the cuff, but most people don't know that is because they work very, very hard," McAnally continues. "Their early training as actors meant they really studied their scripts.
"Beyond that, they really go down in to the essence of the show. What's it about? What's their role in it? What are they bringing to the audience? They're both great students of entertainment television."
Behind the seemingly effortless on screen camaraderie lies an unparalleled understanding of TV expertise, believes McAnally.
"They're both really canny business guys. They understand their value. They understand the business end of television and rights and royalties and the value of the shows they've done. They're sometimes very tough negotiators."
While Ant and Dec have mastered being front of the camera, they also perfected the art of being behind it.
Over the years the pals struck numerous lucrative TV rights deals through their production companies Gallowgate, which they sold in 2012, and Mitre, launched in 2013.
As rights holders for many of their productions, in 2015 they pocketed a reported £1m per episode to license Saturday Night Takeaway to US networks.
The series bombed across the pond - perhaps because its host Neil Patrick Harris couldn't recreate the Geordie duo's mischievous magic - but it didn't stop them netting a cool £15m by the time the series was axed, contributing to their total net worth of around £62m.
Leave 'em wanting more
It's this TV prowess which has prevented Ant and Dec from becoming over saturated, despite having touched almost every audience demographic.
Today, their three biggest shows - I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!, Saturday Night Takeaway and Britain's Got Talent - each run for short bursts at a time, with gaps in between long enough to leave audiences wanting more.
Perhaps Ant and Dec's biggest appeal is that they seem at home on screen. We've watched them grow up and adapt to the challenges of 21st Century television.
"As people they became more and more confident and comfortable with being Ant and Dec," says McAnally. "When I started working with them on The Ant & Dec Show, they had been PJ and Duncan.
"It was a transition period when they went from playing characters on television to playing themselves, but they tackled that head on. Each new show brought new challenges and new opportunities to expand what they could do on screen."
Not every challenge resulted in new opportunities of course, but the pair have taken each bump on the road to stardom with grace and humility.
Most notably, their 2008 attempt to bring gameshow Wanna Bet? to US audiences was branded "unintelligible" by critics. It was cancelled after six episodes due to issues with viewers being unable to understand the duo's Geordie accents as well as the dull format.
The future
After The Ant & Dec Show, McAnally went on to produce five more shows with the pair - Ant & Dec Unzipped, Slap Bang, Friends Like These, CD:UK and SMTV. But it wasn't always plain sailing.
"There were moments where I wondered whether they would stick together. It happens a lot with duos, because working together over extended periods of time inevitably leads to conflict.
"They both had slightly different ambitions, but they both understood that their friendship was bigger than anything, and that working on their own wasn't as fun. It was a case of one plus one makes four, not two."
In November, the Geordie duo signed a new deal with ITV rumoured to be worth £40m which will see them stay exclusively with the channel for another three years. So there's no chance of them slipping off our TV screens any time soon.
McAnally concludes: "There might be better presenters out there in a technical sense, but they absolutely deserve every single award they get, because no one else has ever gotten in to the hearts of the UK population like Ant and Dec."
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Crawford leaves the same position at Championship outfit Falkirk to become Robbie Neilson's number two.
Neilson told his club website he was "delighted" that the former Scotland striker would work alongside him at Tynecastle.
"He's got a great wealth of knowledge and the boys will learn from him, especially the attacking players," Neilson said.
I know that Stevie will be a big benefit to the club
Crawford, who was assistant at Falkirk since 2011, was previously player-manager at East Fife.
"I know him well as we've worked together at Falkirk, attended SFA coaching courses together and, of course, played against each other," Neilson added.
"He'll assist with developing the players and he's got a great track record of producing talented young players at Falkirk.
"He's an international striker who's had a great career in the game. In the last six or seven years he's been focusing more and more on the coaching side of things.
"I know that he'll be a big benefit to the club. I'm certain that he'll be a big benefit to the Football Academy as all the coaches, myself included, look to work closely together with all age groups."
Crawford, who enjoyed spells at Hibs and Dunfermline, earned 25 caps for Scotland.
Wasps prop Moore was taken off on a stretcher early on at the Ricoh Arena with a possible neck injury.
The hosts went into a 17-3 half-time lead thanks to a penalty try and one from Frank Halai.
Jimmy Gopperth then touched down twice late on against a side whose only points came from Mike Delany's boot.
The victory leaves Dai Young's side a point behind Premiership leaders Saracens - the only side to have beaten them in the league this campaign.
Newcastle have won once in their four league matches away from home this season, but this was a game that was defined by stop-start play and an injury to Moore that contributed to the first half lasting about an hour.
Both sides had tries disallowed by the television match official in the second period before Gopperth took advantage of some great play from Joe Launchbury for his side's first points of the half.
Danny Cipriani, on as a second-half replacement, then set up Gopperth for his second to give Wasps maximum points from a game in which they never looked at their best.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"It was a bit of a tired and flat performance and the scoreline flattered us. We didn't show much control today and were fortunate to get a bonus-point win.
"We've had a lot of big games lately and some of our players badly need next week off to recharge their batteries.
"He (Marty Moore) experienced neck pain and has gone to hospital. There are no symptoms in his arms and legs and one can't be too careful in these situations, but hopefully there is no real damage."
Newcastle head coach Dean Richards:
"It was another questionable TMO decision - I spoke to Simon at half-time and he said that he just went for the tackle, and therefore it's a little bit disappointing.
"The scoreline doesn't reflect the effort we put in as our defence was outstanding to make it a difficult game for them.
"We created as many chances as they did but we didn't take them, and a little bit more accuracy would have made a big difference."
Wasps: Miller; Wade, Daly, Eastmond, Halai; Gopperth, Simpson; Mullan, Johnson, Moore, Launchbury (capt), Myall, Rieder, Thompson, Hughes.
Replacements: Cruse, Bristow, Cooper-Woolley, Symons, Gaskell, Robson, Cipriani, Leiua.
Newcastle: Hammersley; Watson, Waldouck, Socino, Sinoti; Delany, Young; Lockwood, Sowrey, Welsh, Green, Olmstead, Wilson, Welch (capt), Chick.
Replacements: Lawson, Vickers, Wilson, Witty, Hogg, Takulua, Hodgson, Burdon.
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A post-mortem examination has revealed Katelyn Parker, 24, had been strangled with a ligature, police said.
She was found in a blue Nissan car on River Street, Heywood on Friday.
Police were tipped off that a body was in the boot of a Nissan car and officers followed one seen in Claybank Street.
They discovered it had been abandoned nearby.
Ms Parker's family said: "She saw the best in everybody and was happiest when spending time with her friends and family.
"Katelyn was a vibrant and sociable young woman with a big heart and an even bigger smile. She will leave a void in all our lives and her death under such tragic circumstances is something that we will never be able to come to terms with."
Lee Nolan, of Bamford Road, Heywood, has been charged with murder and is due at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday.
Anybody with information is asked to contact police or Crimestoppers.
Posner's dance track, I Took a Pill in Ibiza, secured the number one spot after a close race with Lukas Graham's 7 Years - beating it by a mere 261 combined chart sales.
The Official Charts Company said it was the closest chart race since 2007.
7 Years was still the most-streamed track of the week with more than four million listens.
The only time there has been a narrower margin between the top two singles was when Timbaland and Keri Hilson's The Way I Are beat Kate Nash's Foundations by just 16 copies.
I Took a Pill in Ibiza is the first UK number one for Posner, who reached number five with Cooler Than Me in 2010 and featured on Cher Lloyd's With Ur Love, which peaked at number four the following year.
Swedish singer Zara Larsson's Lush Life climbed one place to reach number three, its highest position to date, while Fifth Harmony's Work From Home went up seven places to reach number four.
Work, by Rihanna featuring Drake, dropped two places to number five.
Zayn Malik achieved his second top 40 single since leaving One Direction, with Like I Would entering the chart at number 30.
The highest new entry was Ariana Grande's Dangerous which entered the charts at number 17, while US pop star Selena Gomez saw her ballad, Hands to Myself, climb 11 places to number 21; and Joe Jonas and his band DNCE climbed 16 places to 26 with Cake By the Ocean.
There is little change on the Official Albums Chart, with only the second and third albums swapping places this week.
Adele's 25 remained at the top of the chart for a second week - its 11th week at number one in total - and outsold the number two album, Justin Bieber's Purpose, by more than 10,000 copies.
The Canadian singer is yet to achieve his second number one album, despite tracks from Purpose holding the number one, two and three spots in the singles chart at the same time - making Bieber the first artist to achieve this feat.
Jess Glynne's I Cry When I Laugh falls one place to number three, ahead David Bowie's Best of Bowie at four and Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams at number five.
US metalcore band Killswitch Engage achieved their first UK top 10 album with Incarnate, at number 10.
There was also a new entry at 16 for You and I, a posthumous compilation album of Jeff Buckley songs.
The highest climber in the album charts is Walking on Cars' debut Everything This Way, climbing 59 places to 39, while Californian church group Bethel Music achieved their second UK top 40 album with Have it All - Live at Bethel Church, at number 40.
With the Beijing Motor Show under way, the days when the country's domestic car firms was brushed off as mere copycats are well and truly over.
And a lot of this year's buzz is around driverless cars in particular.
In past years, innovation might have come from Silicon valley, but Chinese companies are pushing ahead.
"There is a lot more going on in China than many in the West have realised," car expert Prof David Bailey of the Aston Business School tells the BBC.
In addition to these main players there are many others vying for attention. Research in China takes place in car companies, tech firms and at universities.
Last week, entertainment company LeEco made a big splash presenting its concept car LeSee, which at least in the presentation impressed with wide-ranging capabilities.
The company is also investing in the US electric car start-up, Faraday Future, and and is cooperating with legendary British Aston Martin on an electric car project.
So when will it be normal to have a driverless car pull up next to you at the traffic light? "We are probably still one decade away from that," says Prof Bailey.
Yet Changan, Baidu and Geely are right in the midst of research and development, eager to get there ahead of Silicon Valley.
"Both in China as well as in the West this will be a technology that will creep up on us," he adds.
Just think of the many driver assistance technologies that we already have. Cars help you stay in lane, park themselves or detect when they should brake.
"Over time, we'll see a lot more of these features in cars and eventually that will lead to a driverless car," he says.
Given that it is a new technology, even definitions are still in the making. Authorities in the US have proposed a classification of levels 0 to 4.
Obviously a tough question to answer - but there's a lot to suggest that Chinese companies do not intend to come second.
The tests and trials that are being conducted are very extensive and the experimentation and learning process will be crucial to progress in the field.
But still, it is the US where the technology was pioneered and where a lot of the past innovation has come from.
"The heart and centre of the innovation lies in Silicon Valley," industry expert Prof Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer told the BBC from this year's Chinese-German Car Symposium conference in Beijing.
"Silicon Valley is where the automated car will come from."
Yet public attitudes to driverless vehicles are a lot more favourable in China than elsewhere.
And the fact that research into the new technology has the backing and support from the government in Beijing might also prove to be a decisive factor.
"So if we see this happen in China, it will probably happen on quite a big scale," says Prof David Bailey.
Motivated by the widespread pollution problems, Beijing has pushed for more electric vehicles and Chinese car makers have responded significantly.
It's quite possible that Google might just find itself trailing the rear lights of a Baidu, Geely or Changan car.
For 34 staff at a Japanese insurance firm, that vision just became a reality.
Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is laying off the employees and replacing them with an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can calculate insurance payouts.
The firm believes it will increase productivity by 30%.
It expects to save around 140m yen (£979,500 / $1.2m) a year in salaries after the 200m yen AI system is installed later this month.
Maintenance of the set-up is expected to cost about 15m yen annually.
Japan's Mainichi reports that the system is based on IBM Japan Ltd's Watson, which IBM calls a "cognitive technology that can think like a human".
IBM says it can "analyze and interpret all of your data, including unstructured text, images, audio and video".
Fukoku Mutual will use the AI to gather the information needed for policyholders' payouts - by reading medical certificates, and data on surgeries or hospital stays.
According to The Mainichi, three other Japanese insurance companies are considering adopting AI systems for work like finding the optimal cover plan for customers.
A study by the World Economic Forum predicted last year that the rise of robots and AI will result in a net loss of 5.1 million jobs over the next five years in 15 leading countries.
The 15 economies covered by the survey account for approximately 65% of the world's total workforce.
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Financial services, construction and utilities reported the biggest falls in confidence, according to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
The survey was conducted in the weeks after the referendum was held.
Although UK job prospects have held firm, Manpower said that "cracks in the ice are appearing".
The survey asked about 2,100 UK employers whether they plan to hire more workers, or cut jobs, in the last three months of this year.
Mark Cahill, ManpowerGroup UK managing director, said Britain was entering a new phase of prolonged economic uncertainty following the referendum on EU membership.
"Many finance operations in the City of London depend on the EU 'banking passport' and the fall in hiring intentions could reflect pessimism over the future of this agreement," he said.
"The future of freedom of movement across the EU is of particular concern. As UK businesses are reliant on European talent to help fill the skills gap, we urge the government to prioritise maintaining the free movement of people across the EU during its negotiations."
There had been an 800% rise in applications for finance jobs in Dublin since the Brexit vote, Manpower said.
Hiring confidence among employers in the public sector, which accounts for almost one in 10 UK jobs, has sunk to its weakest level in more than four years, according to the research.
Last month a survey by HR body the CIPD and Adecco found that the proportion of employers expecting to increase staff over the next three months fell from 40% before the Brexit vote to 36%.
There were signs that some employers, particularly in the private sector, were "preparing to batten down the hatches", said CIPD acting chief economist Ian Brinkley.
Another recent survey, the Report on Jobs from IHS Markit, found that the number of people in the UK securing a permanent job fell in July for the second consecutive month.
Despite the fall in sterling since the Brexit vote, Manpower found that hiring confidence among employers in the manufacturing sector dropped to its weakest level in three years.
However, the weaker pound has had a positive impact on the retail, wholesale and hospitality sector, which posted a 3% rise in hiring confidence.
That helped Manpower's seasonally adjusted Net Employment Outlook to remain steady at +5% for the final three months of the year, contrary to predictions that the Brexit vote would result in an immediate slide in recruitment plans.
A total of 8% of employers expect to increase staff numbers, 4% forecast a decrease and 87% anticipate no change.
However, Mr Cahill added: "People are still spending, meaning retail job prospects remain positive for UK workers, but this looks like a short-term feel good factor that may fall away after the busy summer period and ramp-up to Black Friday."
The Manpower survey is used as a bellwether by the Bank of England and the government.
The 24 year-old has signed a three-year deal after Somerset agreed to end his contract a year early.
South African-born Meschede spent 2015 on loan at Glamorgan.
"If I get a couple of hundreds on the board and take some wickets, I definitely think I can be in the line-up for England Lions or the England Performance Programme" he said.
Meschede played in all but one of the Welsh county's matches in 2015 across the three formats and scored 655 runs in first-class cricket, claiming 43 wickets.
He hit the headlines by claiming the wicket of England batsman Kevin Pietersen on the former England man's county comeback.
"My mind-set is definitely going to be a lot stronger - towards the end of last season I was quite tired," Meschede told BBC Wales Sport.
"This year I'll know what to expect and hopefully I can be a little more consistent across the second half of the season."
Meschede admits it was difficult to leave Somerset, after coming through their academy and going to school in Taunton.
"I was very comfortable there and had a good support system, but playing out of my comfort zone when I came to Glamorgan, a different environment - I really enjoyed it," he added.
"It was a good environment for me but ultimately it was the amount of cricket I was going to be playing which was the ultimate (reason for my) decision."
Kasar Jehangir, 24, and Adil Aftab, 22, reached speeds of 130mph (209kmph) as they were pursued on the M6 near Walsall.
"Clouds of brown dust" billowed from their Audi as it wove across lanes undertaking cars, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
They were each sentenced to three years for possession with intent to supply.
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The southbound carriageway of the M6 between junctions nine at Wednesbury and seven at Great Barr in the West Midlands was closed to recover the drug, Staffordshire Police said.
Officers estimate the pair threw about 1kg (2.2lbs) of the drug out of the car.
They recovered about 34.2 grams which when tested was of 58% purity.
Anthony McKenzie from the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) said the incident in the early hours of 18 July last year was "a significant and time consuming operation".
Jehangir pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court on the first day of his trial on 31 October.
His 36-month sentence will run concurrent to an 11-month sentence he is already serving for dangerous driving, a charge he admitted and was dealt with in January.
Aftab, from Seacroft Avenue in Yardley, Birmingham pleaded guilty to his charges in July.
Supt Elliot Sharrard-Williams, from Staffordshire Police said: "Our colleagues at CMPG pursued the vehicle and not only safely brought the occupants into custody, but enabled a significant amount of heroin to be recovered.
"These sentences should yet again send a strong message to anyone who thinks it is acceptable to peddle drugs within our county."
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The already-relegated club slumped to a 26th League One defeat of the season through goals from Jake Forster-Caskey and Ricky Holmes.
Reece Mitchell replied in stoppage time for bottom-placed Chesterfield before Forster-Caskey had a penalty saved.
Chesterfield needed a fine save by Thorsten Stuckmann in the 16th minute to keep out a Holmes free-kick from just outside the box.
Joe Rowley almost gave Chesterfield the lead in the 35th minute but two minutes later, Charlton scored when Forster-Caskey was given too much time to fire a 20-yard shot into the bottom-left corner.
Chesterfield should have equalised in the 47th minute when Kristian Dennis robbed Ezri Konsa but blazed over from 12 yards and Charlton took advantage when Holmes' free-kick was deflected past Stuckmann in the 57th minute.
Dennis rattled the bar in the 74th minute and Mitchell converted a rebound before Forster-Caskey's last-gasp penalty was saved after he was fouled by Jon Nolan.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Chesterfield 1, Charlton Athletic 2.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 1, Charlton Athletic 2.
Penalty saved! Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Charlton Athletic. Jake Forster-Caskey draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) after a foul in the penalty area.
Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Chesterfield 1, Charlton Athletic 2. Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Laurence Maguire (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Botaka (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Johnnie Jackson replaces Josh Magennis.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Jack Brownell replaces Dan Gardner.
Attempt blocked. Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jordan Botaka (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield).
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Ezri Konsa Ngoyo.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Jason Pearce.
Foul by Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield).
Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic).
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by David Faupala (Chesterfield).
Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Laurence Maguire (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
David Faupala (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic).
Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Joe Rowley (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic).
Paul McGinn (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Lee Novak replaces Joe Aribo.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Jordan Botaka replaces Karlan Ahearne-Grant because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Karlan Ahearne-Grant (Charlton Athletic) because of an injury.
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Chesterfield set an unwanted club record after being beaten at home by Charlton.
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Former Wales and Lions scrum-half Mike Phillips, 34, and Ireland's most capped number nine Peter Stringer, 39, would be playing inside of him, two of the most experienced scrum-halves ever.
Mugford, 25, joined Sale from Nottingham this summer having never played in the Premiership before.
"It was bizarre. The first couple of weeks I felt like I was a prize winner around the club," he told BBC Sport.
"Now I've settled in they're my team-mates, and my mates, and it is fantastic to call them that.
He joked: "For the first few weeks I didn't really want to talk to them [Phillips and Stringer], I was scared and thought about asking for their autographs instead really."
The former Exeter academy player, who has had stints at London Scottish and Plymouth, is one of two new fly-halves that have joined the Sharks this season along with USA international AJ MacGinty.
He came on as a replacement for MacGinty to make his first appearance in Sale's 19-17 season opening loss at Newcastle, where he set up a try with a superb grubber kick but then missed a last-minute penalty to win the game.
"Unfortunately for me I couldn't get that kick over at the end which would have been a dream story for me and a great start for the team," he added.
"Me and AJ get on very well and we like to bounce ideas off each other and the coaches. We're both just trying to push as hard as we can to get better as individuals and therefore helping the team."
The thriller was among the 10 winners from November's National Book Awards that went forward to a public vote to be named Specsavers Book of the Year.
Burton, who beat such authors as David Nicholls and Karen Joy Fowler, said she was "indebted forever to the voting public for this incredible honour".
The Miniaturist has also been named Waterstones Book of the Year.
Organisers said her critically acclaimed novel won by a "significant margin ahead of outstanding competition" including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, Us by David Nicholls and Nathan Filer's The Shock of the Fall.
Burton admitted "it is no exaggeration to say this has been a life-transforming year for me, and this award is a very big cherry on the cake".
She said: "There are always stories to write, and people who want to read them, and as the year closes, I find this very heartening news indeed.
"This wonderful acknowledgement will propel me into 2015, and I am deeply thankful to everyone who took the time to vote."
Previous winners of the top award include The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (2013), Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James (2012), Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman (2011) and One Day by David Nicholls (2010).
The Championship club is set to raise the price of adult tickets in the South Stand by £5, but a 'meal deal' voucher will be included in the price.
A spokesman told the Yorkshire Post the club was "looking at ways to encourage supporters to use the catering".
Leeds Supporters' Trust chairman Michael Green said it showed the club was "out of touch with its supporters".
"It may not be on the same scale as some of the bigger issues the club has had to deal with since [chairman] Massimo Cellino arrived, but it is one of those things we could have done without," he added.
Cellino was banned by the Football League in October, having been found guilty of an offence under Italian tax legislation, but his ban has been deferred pending the outcome of his appeal.
In early November the Italian had a change of heart after announcing he was willing to sell his majority stake in the club to supporters.
Leeds are 17th in English football's second tier, having taken 19 points from the first 18 games of the season.
Sarah Harrison said the complex make-up of the substances is leaving staff playing "catch-up" in the battle to develop effective treatments.
A BBC investigation has discovered some products did not contain the precise ingredients listed on their packaging.
Police incidents involving legal highs have more than doubled in two years.
Officers from 32 forces in England attended 3,807 incidents in 2014 - up from 1,431 the previous year, according to data compiled by the think tank the Centre for Social Justice.
Ms Harrison, an advanced paramedic for North West Ambulance Service, said health workers are also seeing a surge in the number of people falling ill after taking legal highs, officially classed as new psychoactive substances (NPS).
She said: "We have no drugs that counteract the effects of the substances that people are taking, and that's what's causing a lot of the problems.
"A lot of the time we are not aware what substance they have taken and what combination, or even what the substance is because they come with different names and different street names.
"So we are having to just deal with the medical effects and treat the patient at the time."
BBC Inside Out North West asked biochemists from Liverpool John Moores University to analyse five separate brands of legal high, marketed as Ching, Cherry Bomb, Pandora's Box Unleashed, Gogaine and Exodus Damnation.
In three of the products they discovered a mismatch between the ingredients listed on the packet, and what the substance actually contained.
While none of the products contained controlled drugs, in some cases they showed traces of additional legal chemicals not listed on the packaging.
And the Ching legal high actually had an illegal drug listed on the packet, whereas the drug inside was legal.
Prof Harry Sumnall said: "This has implications for the retailer because under current UK law, you can't pass something off as an illegal drug, even if what you are actually selling is legal.
"So in effect, the individual who was selling this product could be actually arrested and charged for the supply of an illegal drug."
He added: "I think this really shows the complexities around this - that many purchasers and many retailers as well don't really know what they are buying."
Only Gogaine and Cherry Bomb contained the precise ingredients advertised.
Prof Sumnall added that although none of the legal highs showed traces of illegal drugs, these had been detected in previous tests of other products.
The government is planning to bring in new legislation to make it an offence to produce, supply, import or export legal highs.
The Psychoactive Substances Bill is currently being debated in Parliament and is likely to come into force in spring 2016.
However, paramedic Ms Harrison said she does not think the use of legal highs will ever be adequately controlled.
"We are seeing the effects of people stopping breathing, dying, becoming unconscious, becoming extremely paranoid and then that's causing problems with the family as well - upsetting other family members, being violent and aggressive towards other members of the public," she said.
"Because [the ingredients in the drugs] are changing all the time, I don't think we can ever really get on top of it.
"I think the main message is to not take the substances in the first place."
The BBC's investigation into legal highs features on Inside Out North West, on BBC One at 19.30 GMT on Monday 26 October.
Of the 1,500 people it surveyed, 43% wrongly thought food could only be frozen on the day it was bought, suggesting confusion over food safety.
Some 38% incorrectly said food could become unsafe to eat in the freezer.
In fact, "the freezer is like a pause button", the FSA's Steve Wearne said.
Guidance published by the agency, which is responsible for food safety and food hygiene across the UK, says food can be safely frozen at any time up to its "use by" date.
Although the taste or texture of the food can deteriorate over time due to ice crystal damage, frozen food will keep indefinitely, it says.
Once defrosted, food will spoil in the same way as if it were fresh, it advises.
Source: Food Standards Agency advice
According to the FSA's research, 38% of people mistakenly thought it was dangerous to refreeze meat after it had been cooked.
Almost a quarter, 23%, said they would never freeze meat that was cooked after defrosting, with 73% of those citing worries about food poisoning.
More than two thirds, 68%, had thrown food away in the past month, mainly bread (36%), fruit (31%), vegetables (31%) and leftover meals (22%).
Households in the UK waste the equivalent of about six meals a week on average, the FSA said.
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Guidance provided to the food industry on date marking of food is being reviewed by officials from the FSA, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap).
They will also look at expanding guidelines to cover food storage and freezing advice for consumers.
"The freezer is like a pause button, so you can freeze foods right up to the 'use by' date," FSA policy director Mr Wearne said.
"While food is kept safe in the freezer, it's the quality that deteriorates over time, so we recommend eating it within three to six months and checking for any freezing instructions on the packaging."
"Once defrosted, the pause button is off, so defrost food as and when you need it and eat it within 24 hours of it being fully defrosted."
The latest allegations follow the sacking last week of the UN's CAR envoy amid multiple allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers.
The UN said that alleged rapes occurred on an unspecified date in Bambari city.
The 10,000-strong UN force was deployed in 2014 to restore order in the CAR.
A statement from the peacekeeping mission, issued in French on Wednesday, said that UN headquarters was "immediately informed" of the most recent allegations and that "all available evidence" was being collected.
"A new series of disturbing allegations of misconduct have recently come to light," UN spokeswoman Vannina Maestracci told reporters. "The events allegedly took place in recent weeks."
Ms Maestracci said that Bambari is where troops from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are deployed. There had been no comment from the DRC over the allegations.
The peacekeeping mission is also being probed over its handling of alleged child sexual abuse by French troops last year, in which children as young as nine said they had provided sex in exchange for food.
The UN mission in CAR took over from a smaller African Union force in September 2014.
Last week UN envoy to the CAR Babacar Gaye was sacked by UN chief Ban Ki-moon who said that he was "anguished, angered and ashamed by recurrent reports over the years of reports of sex abuse and exploitation by UN forces".
Violence in CAR escalated in March 2013 when mainly Muslim rebels seized power and the country descended into ethnic and religious violence, with tens of thousands of people fleeing their homes.
John Sullivan, 66, of Abergavenny, was pulled from the River Usk, near the town's Llanfoist Bridge, on Monday morning, but was pronounced dead at the scene.
Fire crews from Abergavenny and Blaenavon were involved in the search.
Inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding his death.
Second-placed Exeter, who are now three points behind Sarries, were 17-0 ahead inside 25 minutes, with Thomas Waldrom, James Short and Olly Woodburn crossing.
Tries from Cooper Vuna and Andy Symons then cut the deficit to five points.
But Ollie Atkins sealed the bonus point after the break and Waldrom and Woodburn both completed hat-tricks to end Worcester's four-match winning run.
Despite suffering their heaviest defeat of the season at Sandy Park, the Warriors' Premiership safety was still guaranteed following London Irish's home defeat by Sale Sharks.
Dean Ryan's side had won just two of their opening 13 matches but four successive victories prior to Saturday's loss secures their place in the 2016-17 top flight, having earned promotion from the Championship last season.
Exeter, meanwhile, need to win two of their remaining three games to secure a place in the play-offs for the first time, having missed out on the top four last year on points difference.
Exeter Chiefs assistant coach Ali Hepher:
"It was all about getting us back on track after a disappointing result last week. We had a review of our performance against Saracens and we weren't a million miles away.
"We had to get our attack back in order and we looked dangerous for large parts of the game.
"We were disappointed to give away a couple of soft tries just before the interval but we came out firing after half-time and it was important to get that try in the first minute of the second half."
Worcester Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan:
"We are running on empty and we showed we are not at their level.
"We were never thinking we were a top-of-the-league side but it was a stark reminder for us.
"They did a lot of damage to us in that opening quarter. It wasn't reflected on the scoreboard but their physicality and the pace that they played at made it very difficult for us, especially as we picked up yellow cards.
"The depth of our squad wasn't up to the challenge and we need to keep improving. We need a week's rest as we don't want our season to drift away."
Exeter Chiefs: Dollman; Nowell, Slade, Whitten, Woodburn; Steenson (capt), Chudley; Moon, Cowan-Dickie, Low, Atkins, Welch, Armand, Salvi, Waldrom.
Replacements: Yeandle, Hepburn, Williams, Lees, Horstmann, Lewis, Campagnaro, Short.
Worcester Warriors: Pennell; Heem, Olivier, Symons, Vuna; Heathcote, Hougaard; Rapava Ruskin, Annett, Johnston, O'Callaghan, Barry, Kirwan, Betty, Van Velze (capt).
Replacements: Bregvadze, Leleimalefaga, Milasinovich, Sanderson, Cox, Baldwin, Lamb, Grove.
Ms Harman, who was also the acting leader after the general election, said current leader Jeremy Corbyn came from a "strand" of left wing politics that was not motivated by gender equality.
Half of the posts in Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet went to women.
But the shadow home secretary, shadow chancellor and shadow foreign secretary are all men.
Speaking at a conference looking at the issues faced by women in the world of work, Ms Harman said: "It is very difficult to be a party arguing for women's advance when your top swathe is men.
"And I think that the strand of the left that Jeremy comes from has never been a gender-motivated part of the left.
"It comes from a time, in a way, when gender was a new insurgency that arrived later on and was seen as a bit of a distraction from the proper left-right struggle."
Ms Harman acknowledged "very important" posts like shadow health secretary and shadow education secretary were currently filled by women.
But the elected positions of leader, deputy leader, general secretary and London mayoral candidate were occupied by men, she said, "before you even get to the appointed jobs" chosen by Mr Corbyn.
"So Jeremy needs to think about how it has been perceived", she said, proposing the "very easy" solution of an additional, female, deputy leader.
Ms Harman was also asked about Mr Corbyn's electoral chances.
She said she was not in politics for "doctrinal purity" but to "make a difference", and to do "all the things you can't do if you're not in power".
The ultimate responsibility of a Labour leader, she said, is to "take us as a Labour Party nearer to power and that's what needs to happen".
Rather than "protest about what the Tories are doing" Labour has to understand why people voted David Cameron's party into government and to "address ourselves to the electorate", she added.
Also appearing at the conference, organised to mark the 50th anniversary of BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Carers UK and Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge, former Conservative Culture Secretary Maria Miller said her party still had a "huge way to go in terms of getting more women on board".
She also predicted plans to cut the number of MPs to 600 would present a "real challenge" to all the parties in their attempts to increase female representation in the Commons.
Cpl Robert V Witt was believed captured when his unit was attacked by Chinese forces in late November 1950, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports.
Fellow troops later repatriated to the US said he died from malnutrition in January 1951.
The US lists more than 8,000 soldiers as missing in the Korean War.
Mr Witt's remains were found, along with those of other soldiers, in a joint US-North Korea excavation in North Korea in 2000.
But it took many years since for them to be conclusively identified.
They have now been returned to his sister, 82-year-old Laverne Minnick.
She told the local newspaper: "I am so happy. He's going to be home, where he belongs, with his family."
Mr Witt, 20-years-old when he went missing, will be buried with full military honours in Rose Hills Memorial Park in Los Angeles on Friday.
The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, during which he went missing, was part of a Chinese offensive early in the Korean War that succeeded in driving US and other UN forces out of north eastern Korea.
The Korean War lasted from June 1950 until July 1953 and pitted the US and its allies against the USSR, North Korea and communist China.
At least two million Korean civilians, up to 1.5m communist forces, and around 30,000 US, 400,000 South Korean and 1,000 UK troops are believed to have died.
A peace treaty has never been signed and the two Koreas would remain technically at war.
The Conservatives pledged before the general election to replace the Human Rights Act, introduced by Labour in 1998, with a new Bill of Rights.
It follows concerns about rulings by the European Court of Human Rights and their application to the UK.
Opposition parties and a minority of Tories oppose scrapping the HRA.
Proposed legislation on a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities will not feature in the government's programme for the year ahead, announced by the Queen, either in full or draft form.
However, ministers have insisted they are committed to the plans and are consulting on the issues involved.
The Human Rights Act formally incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights, of which the UK was a founding signatory in 1950 and which came in force in 1953, into UK law.
Campaigners say the Act is a guarantor of fundamental freedoms, allowing people to challenge abuse, neglect or mistreatment, and that scrapping it would amount to "populist games with hard-won freedoms".
But critics have said that European courts have strayed into areas, such as prisoners voting rights, that should be the preserve of Parliament and should be left to the British courts.
The BBC's deputy political editor James Landale said that while the Conservatives had never said the measure would feature in its first Queen's Speech, it was now effectively being put "on the backburner".
The government faced a tough fight over other legislation, he said, and the prime minister wanted to "choose his battles" - adding that No 10's view was that "we still want to do it but not now".
Employment minister Priti Patel told the BBC that the government wanted to "bring sovereignty back to British courts" and the HRA had resulted in a "great deal of friction" between the British and European courts.
But she said it was right for the government to "take time" and "implement its manifesto in the right way". "It is important that we concentrate on doing these things properly," she said.
Labour said the government had "got the jitters" after calculating it could not get the measure through the Commons, while the SNP said the issue had been "kicked into the long grass".
The boy was outside Craigbank Primary School in Glengonnar Street, Larkhall, at about 20:45 on Sunday when he was approached by an older child.
The child threatened him with a weapon before taking his clothes.
Police said it was a "terrifying ordeal" for the eight-year-old boy and have appealed to witnesses to contact them.
Det Con David Timmons added: "Inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident.
"I would appeal to anyone who was in the surrounding area on Sunday evening, who may have witnessed what happened or may have captured the incident on their dashcam, to please get in touch."
They together bought Heinz in 2013, and now, Heinz will merge with Kraft Foods to create the third largest food and beverage company in the US and the fifth biggest in the world.
Heinz, controlled by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G, would own 51% of the new firm.
The Kraft Heinz Company, and shareholders in Kraft, will hold 49%. The new company will have revenues of around $28bn and the chief executive will be Heinz's current boss, Bernardo Hees.
It's a giant of a consumer goods company, with around a dozen brands that each generate revenues in excess of half a billion dollars, including Jell-O, Maxwell House, Oscar Mayer, Planters, and Velveeta.
3G also owns Burger King and has become a major player in the food and beverage industry, having invested as well in Wendy's.
Kraft's shares have soared on the news. After all, revenues last year were flat and net profit fell 62% as the company lost market share in its US businesses.
The new company is aiming for substantial cost savings of $1.5bn by the end of 2017.
But, it's still an "elephant" for Buffett. Known for choosing companies with strong product lines, Buffet has described the deal as bringing together "two iconic brands".
And both companies have plenty of those, but are facing pressures from changing consumer tastes.
When I interviewed executives from Nestle and Unilever earlier this year, there was an optimistic sense that consumer spending is coming back that will help their bottom lines.
They also faced pressures, though, from consumer tastes that are changing, including in their attitudes toward processed foods and what happens to all that packaging.
I wrote before, for instance, about Unilever aiming for zero non-hazardous waste in their factories.
Warren Buffett is aiming for his slice of the food industry that accounts for an estimated 10% of world GDP, so that's a sizeable $7 trillion per year.
And he's doing so again with a Brazilian investor. That may surprise some, since there aren't many that come from emerging markets.
But Brazil is a commodity exporter and it's no wonder that 3G is eyeing the recovery in consumer spending that can turn lower agricultural prices into a virtue for food retailers.
The trend in the global food and beverage industry is certainly creating giants.
Just 10 companies control nearly all of the packaged foods that we buy.
Nestle, Unilever, Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Danone, Mars, Mondelez International, Kellogg's, General Mills and Associated British Foods are among the companies that generate more than $1bn in sales each day around the world.
With this merger, Kraft Heinz will jump into the mix.
He was driven towards the border with Mali, the mayor of the town of Abalak, Ahmed Dilo, told Reuters news agency.
Gunmen arrived on a motorbike and then an all-terrain vehicle, first killing the guards and then taking the aid worker away in the car, he said.
Niger has been less prone to kidnappings than Mali where militant groups are more active.
A French-led military operation banished Islamist fighters from towns in northern Mali in 2013, but militant groups still roam the extensive desert region.
Niger is trying to prevent violence spreading from Mali on its western border as well as battling Boko Haram militants carrying out raids across Niger's southern frontier with Nigeria.
A Malian refugee camp in the region containing Abalak was attacked a week ago and 22 soldiers were killed.
Niger battles on all fronts
As yet it is unclear who seized the man in Niger.
He worked for the Christian organisation YWAM (Youth With A Mission), sources told Radio France Internationale, and had lived in the area since the 1990s and spoke the local Tamachek language.
One of the two guards killed is reported to be a member of Niger's armed forces.
Gabe McGeown, from the Glenavy Conservation and District Angling Club, said he received a report that slurry had been dumped in the river on Thursday.
He said the club had restocked the river with 900 fish in April.
The Northern Ireland Environmental Agency (NIEA) said it is "currently pursuing a definite lead" and samples have been taken.
The 80-year-old said he was "fuming and furious" about the error, which saw songs by the group Abhorrent Decimation printed on his CD.
The singer made an album of covers following the response to his audition on BBC One's The Voice.
He joked he should join the band "on the road", while their singer said they should "work together".
Clifton's track listing was mixed up with that of Abhorrent Decimation's album, Miasmic Mutation.
The comedian, who is famous for riding a yellow ostrich, said: "I'm fuming and furious... I got [the CDs] out the box and I looked on the back and here was the track listing of a death metal group.
"We could go on the road, me and the lads. We could do To Dream the Impossible Miasmic Mutation."
The band's singer Ashley Scott said he was alerted to the mistake after being shown an article about it on page three of The Sun newspaper.
"I thought he was going to show me some buxom blonde and take the mick out of me for being a bit overweight and bang, there's the band.
"I definitely want to talk to Bernie about working together on something... it would be amazing."
Mr Scott said he thinks the error occurred due to similar catalogue numbers.
Clifton, from Derbyshire, apologised to the people who pre-ordered his album and said copies would be with them shortly.
The 43-year-old was assaulted on Liff Road, near its junction with Buttars Loan, at about 16:45 on Monday.
Police Scotland said the victim sustained serious facial injuries and have appealed for witnesses, in particular a woman who was at the bus stop shortly before the incident.
Officers said the man responsible was wearing a dark hooded top.
Four 121m-high turbines have been built at Loughmore mountain, Monnaboy, near Eglinton, and will generate 12 megawatts of power.
Gaelectric, the Irish firm behind the facility, predicts it will power almost 7,500 homes a year.
It is the company's third wind energy project in Northern Ireland.
Patrick McClughan, Gaelectric's head of corporate affairs, said the construction phase created over 25 full and part-time jobs.
"We make a significant contribution to the local economy through supply contracts and that will continue through the operational lifetime of the facility," he said.
"We have four other wind farms under construction at the moment and that will make significant contributions to Northern Ireland's green energy targets."
In 2013, the renewable energy group opened a £20m wind farm in County Antrim.
A year later, it completed a £58m wind farm in Dunbeg, County Londonderry.
A number of wind farms in the north-west have been given approval in recent years, but some have met with objections.
Last year, locals planners rejected an application by the firm RES, which wanted to erect seven large turbines in the town land of Barr Cregg, near Claudy, County Londonderry.
It was one of Derry City and Strabane District Council's first major decisions after planning was devolved from Stormont.
The reason is that the European Court of Justice has decided that insurers will no longer be allowed to take the gender of their customers into account when setting their insurance premiums.
Up until now, insurers considered gender because - for example - there is a difference between the sexes in life expectancy and the likelihood of road accidents.
Insurers will no longer be able to charge different premiums to men and women because of their gender following a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The industry was given time to prepare for the change, but the changes have now come into effect.
The theory from the ECJ was that taking customers' gender into account contradicted laws on discrimination.
In practice, the requirement for unisex premiums is likely to affect the cost of some types of insurance, notably car insurance, life insurance, health insurance, and the cost of an annuity - a financial product that provides a regular pension income.
Lots of figures have been thrown around by groups interested, and at times angry, about this ruling.
The likelihood is that there will be some volatility in the prices of insurance for some months as various insurance companies look at how their competitors are changing their charging structures.
But many people are likely to notice a change the next time they renew, or shop around for better, insurance.
The most obvious shift is likely to be seen for young drivers.
There seems to be a general view that young men's premiums will fall a little, perhaps by up to 10%, but young women's will rise more, perhaps by up to 30%.
AA Insurance says an annual car insurance bill for a young woman will go up by £400 on average.
Women may benefit from higher payments when purchasing retirement income products as they have traditionally been offered lower benefits due to their higher average life expectancies.
On retirement, many people buy an annuity - a financial product that guarantees a pension income for the rest of their life.
Annuity expert Billy Burrows, of the Better Retirement Group, says a standard annuity bought with a pension pot of £100,000 by somebody aged 65 - male or female - will be £5,803, according to the latest figures.
He says the changes resulting from the ruling are age dependent with younger men seeing the biggest cuts and older women the biggest rises.
For a man aged 55 the cut in annuity income has been up to 5%, a man aged 60 has seen a cut of 3% and man aged 65 has seen a less than 1% cut.
"It is a complicated picture but overall not as bad we thought and there are signs that some companies are increasing rates," Mr Burrows says.
The build up to the change in rules created a self-fulfilling prophecy and rates did fall significantly, he says.
"This was not all down to unisex annuity rates, it was partly due to an excess of demand over supply so companies cut rates to reduce business flow and increase margins," he says.
On average women live longer and so currently pay less for life assurance than men.
Following the ruling, the ABI estimated that men could see a 10% fall in costs, while women's rates could rise by as much as 20%.
Again, the industry may only settle down a few weeks after the ruling.
Health insurance may also be affected by the changes.
Obviously, more than just gender is considered when setting an insurance premium, and this will remain the case.
Other so-called "risk factors" will still affect the thinking of, and pricing by, insurance companies.
For example, motor insurance will be higher for the driver whose car has a more powerful engine, and medical insurance could cost more for those with pre-existing conditions.
The age of the customer can also still be part of an insurance company's thinking. The rules do not prohibit discrimination on age as they do on gender.
In the short-term it has caused a lot more paperwork for the companies and their customers.
Insurers are changing their policy documents, are having to contact their customers, and are updating their computer systems.
They must also ensure brokers are giving out the correct price information and marketing is correct.
In the longer-term, they will have one less variable to consider when setting prices, but it remains to be seen if this will cut the industry's workload at all.
For customers, the advice is to shop around.
Most insurers across all EU member states used gender as a factor in their pricing.
So, they are having to change the way they calculate premiums in the same way as insurers in the UK.
The ex-Blue Peter presenter said her career suffered after she was issued with a PIN (Police Information Notice).
She was given the PIN, sometimes called a Harassment Warning Notice, in 2014 for allegedly harassing the partner of her daughter's estranged husband.
Her accuser received a suspended 18-month prison sentence on Thursday.
Kayla Thomas was sentenced for perverting the course of justice. A spokesman for Cambridge Crown Court said Ms Thomas had given a false witness statement and was also subject to a three-month curfew.
The case has drawn attention to the issuing of PINs, which some claim are issued too frequently and without sufficient investigation.
Jordan, who currently co-presents the BBC's Songs of Praise, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she felt "guilty until proven innocent", adding: "It is a horrible thing to be hanging over you for three years, for something you know you haven't done."
Speaking to BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire programme, she said: "I'm still reeling from it now. My integrity has been questioned and my sense of trust has flown out the window."
The presenter said she had signed the notice because she thought she had "no option", without realising it would go "on some sort of record".
She said the issuing of the notice and the media coverage it generated had had a "detrimental impact" on her charity work.
"Some of the charities I was working with I haven't heard from again," she told the BBC on Thursday.
Because signing a Police Information Notice does not mean admitting any wrongdoing, there is no right of appeal.
In 2015, a government report acknowledged that the lack of any procedure for appealing against a PIN "can feel very unfair to recipients".
"If somebody takes a dislike to you, they can make an allegation and you can be slapped with one of these notices," said Jordan.
"The notices last about a year, but I've since found out they can stay on your record for longer. The police are aware they are less than perfect."
Jordan presented Blue Peter from 1990 to 1996 and was its first black presenter.
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More than 85 are still missing after the accident early on Saturday morning in the Chindwin river, officials say. At least 150 have been rescued.
Passengers are thought to include families and a large group of university students and teachers.
It is unclear what caused the accident, although officials say the boat may have been overcrowded.
Reports say the ferry was carrying at least 250 people at the time of the accident, while its official capacity is about 120.
One survivor, Hnin Lei Yee, told AFP news agency that the sinking in Sagaing region "happened very fast".
"The window was open so I had a chance to get out of the boat... I cannot swim, so I had to hold on to a plastic float and finally the rescue boat came to save my life," said the 27-year-old teacher who lost her baby daughter in the accident.
A rescue official told Reuters that they had located the ferry on the river bed and were now trying to salvage it with cranes.
Marine accidents are common in Myanmar (also known as Burma), where many still rely on rickety and crowded boats for transport.
The AU mission (Amisom) says it repulsed the attack, killing 110 militants.
Residents in Halgan told the BBC they had heard a huge bang followed by a heavy exchange of gunfire.
Amisom supports the government as it fights to regain control of the country from al-Shabab.
In a series of tweets it has said its soldiers, alongside troops from the Somali army, "drove back the attackers who are now on the run with the joint forces in pursuit".
Ethiopia has denied that any of its soldiers were killed.
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It is not possible to verify the various claims about how many people were killed.
Somali Security Minister Abdirizak Mohamed Ahmed told state-owned Radio Muqdisho that officials had counted the bodies of 240 militants outside the base.
He said that nine Amisom soldiers had lost their lives.
He said that the attackers had driven a car bomb into the base.
Ethiopia is one of five countries contributing troops to the 22,000-strong mission and this is the first time an Ethiopian-run Amisom base has been attacked.
Halgan, 260km (161 miles) north of the capital, Mogadishu, is part of the area of Somalia patrolled by Ethiopian soldiers.
In January, al-Shabab targeted a Kenyan base in el-Ade, southern Somalia.
It said it had killed more than 100 soldiers but the Kenyan authorities have not confirmed the death toll.
Al-Shabab has also attacked Amisom bases run by troops from Burundi and Uganda.
This morning Greece confirmed that it was sending a letter to the head of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem. It was a formal request to extend the loan agreement by six months.
The Greeks were offering significant concessions. They said they would refrain from taking any unilateral action that would undermine fiscal targets. They agreed that officials from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - formerly called the troika - would supervise compliance with the deal.
This was a significant step. Although the Greek prime minister has announced the troika as dead, officials from those institutions would still very much be active.
Greece also pledged to meet its financial obligations to all creditors.
The Greeks clearly expected that this would form the basis of a settlement.
Shortly after they had sent the letter it was announced that eurozone finance ministers would meet in Brussels on Friday afternoon.
The financial markets responded positively. They saw the meeting as a positive sign. Officials in Athens were briefing that they expected a deal Friday.
Then, in Brussels, there was the usual midday briefing by the European Commission.
The spokesman Margaritis Schinas revealed that Jean-Claude Juncker, the Commission President, had been involved in intense talks with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
Mr Juncker, we were told, "sees in this letter a positive sign, which, in his assessment, could pave the way for a reasonable compromise in the interests of the financial stability in the euro area".
Brussels appeared to be giving its backing to the Greek letter.
Less than an hour later there was another briefing in Berlin at the finance ministry in Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin.
An official, speaking on behalf of the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, said the Greek letter was "not a substantial proposal for a solution".
He went on: "In truth it aims at bridge financing, without meeting the requirements of the programme."
For the Germans there is a point of principle here. They want Athens to stick to commitments made by the previous Greek government.
Secondly, they fear that Greece will gradually weaken some of the austerity conditions that were at the heart of the existing bailout deal. Berlin wants cast-iron assurances that Greece won't rehire public sector workers, for example.
So there is tension between Brussels and Berlin and mistrust between Berlin and Athens.
Some in Greece are already angry, believing they are being asked to capitulate and their election result ignored.
It may be difficult for the Tsipras government to concede more. All the time pressures are mounting.
If there is no deal, the current bailout agreement will expire at the end of the month and Greece could run out of money shortly afterwards.
Today the Italian Finance Minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, warned: "We have to send a signal that the euro is irreversible.
"If a country were to leave, it wouldn't just mean one less country in the union but the transformation of the euro into a mechanism that can be undone."
At least one faction of the group has urged supporters to plaster the streets with pro-Wikileaks propaganda on 18 December.
The group had earlier attacked websites of firms they accused of colluding with governments to censor Wikileaks.
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it is investigating the web incidents.
Now Operation Paperstorm, as it is known, aims to get volunteers to print pro-Wikileaks posters and plaster them across towns and cities.
It has asked supporters to distribute the material on Saturday - when many people will be in town centres finishing off their Christmas shopping.
Volunteers have been translating the posters in to different languages.
The campaign is another example of Anonymous going low-tech.
Earlier this week, people associated with the group began a campaign to flood the fax machines of PayPal, Mastercard and Amazon with copies of secret memos published by Wikileaks.
The firms were targeted after refusing Wikileaks' custom and had previously had their websites attacked.
Within Anonymous there has been a growing consensus to change tactics, Phill Midwinter, who describes himself as an active member of the collective, told BBC News.
"We don't want to annoy or make life difficult for internet users," he said.
Paperstorm was one of "about 10" initiatives that would enable Anonymous to publicise the leaked cables and the case of Bradley Manning, the US Army intelligence specialist being held in conjunction with the leaks, said Mr Midwinter.
"They're examples of how we can use crowd-sourcing to get our message across, without doing anything illegal," he added.
But while some connected with Anonymous seek less inflammatory options to express their opinion other than attacking websites, others may be about to launch new ones.
Several programmers have posted updated versions of the tool, LOIC, used to launch the initial denial-of-service attacks.
These bombard websites with page requests until the servers are unable to cope, effectively taking the page offline. The group has had mixed success with its efforts to take websites offline.
One of the new tools, Hive Mind LOIC, has been adapted so that it can be controlled from a central source, such as a Twitter feed.
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed that it was investigating a string of attacks, which Anonymous claimed to have carried out.
A Met spokesman confirmed that earlier this year it "received a number of allegations of 'denial-of-service' cyber attacks against several companies by a group calling themselves Anonymous".
Earlier this year a series of attacks hit the websites of organisations that targeted web pirates.
"The Metropolitan Police Service is monitoring the situation relating to recent and ongoing denial of service attacks and will investigate where appropriate," it said.
From April, workers aged over 25 will receive a minimum of £7.20 per hour.
The Regulatory Policy Committee, which advises government, estimates the change will cost companies £804.4m in extra wages and staff costs.
A further £234.3m of "spillover" costs from keeping pay differentials will take it over £1bn, the body said.
The amount is slightly higher when including the public sector, where more workers are already paid above the National Living Wage.
According to the Institute of Directors (IoD), the figures show George Osborne must now "come good" on his promise to cut taxes.
"IoD members supported the introduction of the Chancellor's living wage as part of a deal he made with business - lower taxes for higher wages," said IoD director Seamus Nevin.
He said companies would pay £12bn over the next five years for the government's new apprenticeship levy, as well as further costs from pensions auto-enrolment and extra reporting requirements.
Mr Nevin added: "It is imperative that the government now comes good on its promise of less red tape, fewer regulatory hurdles, and a lower rate of corporation tax to help employers absorb these additional costs and raise pay."
The National Living Wage is separate to the voluntary living wage, which is set at £8.25 per hour and £9.40 an hour in London.
More than 2,000 businesses, with almost 70,000 workers, are signed up to the latter scheme.
More than 800 people are reported to have been killed so far but Vijay Bahuguna said the exact number of deaths may never be known.
Hundreds of people are still trapped in the Badrinath area, reports say.
Some 100,000 people have already been evacuated from the flood-hit region.
This year's early monsoon rains in the Uttarakhand region are believed to be the heaviest in 80 years.
Swollen rivers have swept away entire villages in the state, where there were many travellers in what is peak tourist season.
"We will never know the exact number of the dead and the number of people buried or washed away," Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna told the Press Trust of India news agency.
"According to my information about 3,000 people are still missing. We will compensate their families. They have to give an affidavit saying that their relatives have not returned home for more than 30 days."
Officials say many bodies may have been washed away or remain buried under debris. Some of the bodies were recovered in rivers downstream from the flood zone.
Distraught relatives clutching photographs of missing family members have been waiting for days in the state capital, Dehradun, hoping for news.
The Indian military has been flying helicopters into the mountains to evacuate tens of thousands of people trapped by damaged roads and landslides.
Reports say some 900 Hindu pilgrims and tourists are still stranded in the Badrinath, one of the worst-affected areas. They are expected to be evacuated on Monday.
While most of the stranded people have been rescued, the extent of the damage to the local communities is still unclear.
Arthur Mason, 21, died at Hall Farm in Fincham, near Downham Market in Norfolk, in July 2014.
Mr Mason was wearing a safety lanyard designed to break his fall but instead it extended to twice its length, Norwich Crown Court heard.
Silo cleaning was behind schedule the firm Maurice Mason Ltd, which admitted health and safety law breaches, said.
The firm was also ordered to pay £22,000 in costs.
Mr Mason was working inside the grain-filled drum at the time of the accident, the court was told.
The court heard the grain acts like quicksand when a silo is emptied from below and once trapped it was impossible for Mr Mason to rescue himself.
Rescue attempts were made by another worker but the emergency services could not revive him.
His mother Kay Mason Billig urged farmers to "look hard at their safety procedures".
She said: "Farming accidents and accidents of this type involving enclosed spaces are alarmingly common."
Mark Ballysz, who represented the 21-year-old's father Hugh Mason in the case brought by the Health and Safety Executive, said no level of sentence could add to the punishment he has already suffered.
In five areas of the country, more than half the adult population has savings below that level.
Those areas are Northern Ireland, the West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, North East England and Wales.
The MAS said the findings were worrying and presented a particular challenge for low earners.
"These figures show the millions put at risk by the saving gaps in the UK," said Nick Hill, money expert at the service.
"For some on low incomes, saving is a real challenge as they may simply lack the income needed to save at all."
The research was carried out for MAS by the consumer data company CACI which has a database of 48m UK adults.
However, the research also showed that some people on low incomes do save money.
Roughly a quarter of adults with household incomes below £13,500 have more than £1,000 in savings.
And 40% of people in that income bracket manage to save something every month.
Martyn Alonzo is 53 and from the West Midlands. He earns £13,000 a year delivering stationery and installing furniture.
Six months ago he was not managing to save anything.
"I just seemed to be working to eat and survive," he says. "I couldn't get any money behind me."
But after getting involved with a Money Advice Service project to learn about saving, he has now managed to save £800.
He and his in-laws now pool their shopping bills by cooking for four people rather than two.
"I'll buy a packet of mince for £3, and make two meals out of it: lasagne and spaghetti bolognaise. I'm totally de-stressed with it all."
The MAS says saving small amounts on a regular basis is achievable for most people.
"Regular saving is key to building up that buffer against those life surprises," said Mr Hill.
"If you earn enough to set even a little aside each month that's great - a direct debit into a savings account might be an easy way to do this, even if you start small and increase the amount with time."
Since April, basic-rate taxpayers have been allowed to earn up to £1,000 a year in a savings account, and pay no income tax.
The Personal Savings Allowance, as it is known, is £500 a year for higher-rate taxpayers, while there is no allowance for those paying the top rate of tax.
She said the country's security and intelligence agencies were engaged in a struggle on many fronts and in many forms - and she was personally overseeing moves day after day to deal with suspects linked to the self-styled Islamic State and other groups.
For a decade, British security and intelligence agencies have tried to counter violent attacks from individuals inspired by al-Qaeda's ideology.
Broadly speaking, they have been largely successful - although sometimes that success is down to some sheer good fortune.
Two murders last year - Fusilier Lee Rigby by jihadists in Woolwich and Mohammed Saleem by a far-right killer in Birmingham - are obvious reminders that extremists will find ways to strike.
Today, the threat from some IS followers to the UK is probably the greatest of the politically-inspired extremist dangers.
And that's why Theresa May says the "time is right" to give the spooks and the cops more tools. But what would they achieve? And do they really need them?
This is the seventh major piece of counter-terrorism legislation since 2000.
Critics, such as Liberty and Muslim campaign group Cage say this bill is illiberal, disproportionate and dangerous.
In contrast, the Home Secretary says that is is measured package which is consistent with the long-term security strategy that both her and the previous Labour administration have pursued.
The legislation doesn't create a long list of new offences - they're not needed. Instead, it aims to "disrupt" and counter the activity of suspects by other means.
Now, the obvious question is, surely the government wants suspected terrorists in court? That, of course, is true.
But ministers and security chiefs argue that very often the police can't gather criminal evidence because their suspicions are built on secret intelligence - for example information from an informant whose safety is at risk if their work is revealed.
So since 9/11 the UK has progressively developed a suite of counter-terrorism and security powers that allow ministers to use this partial intelligence picture, rather than hard crystal-clear evidence, to restrict or monitor suspected extremists.
The new legislation continues that trend and it will inevitably mean ministers will have more executive power over suspected extremists that will be largely exercised behind closed doors.
The controversial Temporary Exclusion Orders is the most obvious example. This measure will allow the Home Secretary to stop a suspect who is overseas from coming home for up to two years at a time, unless they comply with some form of investigation or monitoring.
We haven't seen the detail yet, but the Home Secretary's decision-making on this will almost certainly occur in secret because case files will be based on MI5 assessments.
That is broadly the process that lies behind court-backed "T-Pim" monitoring arrangements and the separate but little-reported Treasury powers to freeze assets and bank accounts.
Such orders can be challenged in court - as can attempts to strip nationality or deport on national security grounds.
But critics say that if a suspect wants to return home after their passport has been cancelled, they will face an injustice of having to comply with the state's wishes before they have had a chance to put their own case.
Another of the measures may also prove to be equally problematic in Parliament and ultimately the courts.
The government wants to place a legal duty on public bodies to stop extremism.
This will compel universities, among others, to take steps to bar suspected extremist preachers.
If they don't, then ministers will be able to intervene and force the institution to act.
Here's the problem: Who defines who is an extremist speaker? How does one make that assessment? On what evidence and how could it be challenged?
Anyone can spot a violent jihadist or racist because they tend to overtly threaten the safety of the public. But what about someone who is just plain offensive? What if your interpretation of what they are saying bears no resemblance to theirs?
This may sound theoretical but it is so difficult for resolve that Conservative plans to create "extremism disruption orders" are currently a manifesto pledge and nothing more.
But there is something else far more important missing from the wish list.
Security chiefs are desperate to have full legal powers to access, intercept and analyse modern electronic communications data - the information about who is contacting who, rather than the separate issue of what is actually being said.
This is a row that goes back to 2008 - and it remains unresolved because of the allegation that is amounts to a "snoopers charter".
Even if Wednesday's legislation hurtles through Parliament with barely any debate, don't expect it to be long before a Home Secretary is back saying that more powers are needed to combat a complex and ever-changing threat.
Glorious in the afternoon sun, it is as remote a spot as you will find on Anglesey - itself one of the remotest parts of Wales.
Its isolation and distance from the political hubs in Westminster and Cardiff go some way to explaining how the people of this island tend to plough their own political furrow.
The ebb and flow of political party support on the mainland does not necessarily lap against Anglesey's shores - a candidate's personality can count for far more than the colour of their rosette.
As a result, the Ynys Mon seat, formerly known as Anglesey, has been won by four different parties since the World War Two, and this year's battle is tipped as one to watch.
On a wet, miserable Monday morning, I meet Albert Owen in a cafe in his home town of Holyhead.
He is the incumbent, having held the seat for Labour since 2001.
Although every sitting MP here who has sought re-election since 1955 has succeeded, the Everton football fan, far from facing an open goal on June 8, is defending a slender majority of 229 votes.
"I'm finding it a lot better than the 2015 election, if I'm absolutely honest with you," he tells me over a cup of tea.
"But I've been written off in 2005, '10, and '15 and now in 2017. I'm not in any way dismissing the fact that there is bad polling but I don't think that people want a Conservative landslide victory."
I ask Mr Owen whether people raise Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the party on the doorstep.
"Yes, they do. And it's plus and a minus. If you listen to some of the broadcasting, you'd think it's all negative. It's not," he says.
"There are some people who always say we've got the wrong Labour leader - I had it with Blair, I had it with Brown, I had it with Miliband, and I'm getting it with Corbyn."
From our window seat we see a ferry from Dublin arrive to dock in Holyhead port - a reminder of the particular issues facing the island as the UK prepares to negotiate Brexit.
"We are now a gateway to the European Union. Once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, we will be the gateway to the Republic of Ireland," Mr Owen says.
"I don't think the prime minister quite gets it. She's talking about the hard border between north and south Ireland, but I'm concerned about Welsh ports and no additional tariffs."
Of the five candidates standing for Ynys Mon in this election, only the UKIP contender backed Brexit, whereas Anglesey as a whole went for a leave vote by the smallest of margins - 50.9% for leave, 49.1% for remain.
A 40 minute drive to the opposite end of the island, I meet Albert Owen's predecessor in a chilli shop in Beaumaris.
After sampling the "bird's eye chilli" - never again - Ieuan Wyn Jones, a former Plaid Cymru MP (1987-2001) and AM (1999-2013) for Ynys Mon before his retirement from frontline politics in 2013, tells me Brexit is the reason for his attempt at a return.
"These are unique circumstances, quite exceptional really in relation to this general election," he says.
"I want to make sure that when we get into Parliament after the 8th of June there is somebody here with a strong local voice to fight on behalf of Anglesey."
Mr Jones's political opponents are trying to frame him as yesterday's man, but the former Plaid leader and Welsh Government deputy first minister says he has the required experience for the job.
"There would be circumstances where, perhaps, a new candidate would be appropriate," he says.
"In these circumstances it's crucial to have somebody with experience of various parts of both the government in the Assembly and, of course, in Westminster itself."
The future of nuclear power on Anglesey - a top Plaid Cymru target - has caused divisions within the party, with leader Leanne Wood having said it is a "difficult issue".
Plans for a new nuclear power station called Wylfa Newydd have been submitted and Ieuan Wyn Jones tells me he has been a supporter "for 10 years or more".
"My position when I go into Parliament is that I want to represent the people of Anglesey and I want to make sure that they have good quality jobs," he says.
The following day, I bump into Mr Jones once again at the Gaerwen cattle mart.
It is clearly a good place to canvass voters, as it is here I have arranged to meet the Conservative hopeful - former Wales Office special adviser and first-time candidate Tomos Dafydd Davies.
Currently living in London and selected with only a month to go until polling day, opponents accuse him of being parachuted in by the party.
"I don't accept that," Mr Davies says. "I'm a proud Welsh-speaking Welshman. The Welsh language is fundamental to my DNA.
"Rural Wales is very close to my heart - both my father's and mother's side are deeply involved with the farming community and, in my professional experience of working in the Wales Office in London, I have delivered for north Wales.
"My message in this election is that it requires a strong Tory voice within a strong Conservative government to get things delivered in this corner of north Wales. We want somebody inside the tent who has the prime minister's ear."
Mr Davies is an "unequivocal" supporter of Wylfa Newydd and recognises the challenges facing the island because of Brexit, "particularly the farming industry".
"I offer something different, something new. I'm a fresh face," he tells me in earshot of three Limousin cows.
"I think voters here are tired of the two main parties, of Labour and Plaid taking the voters of Ynys Mon for granted. I'm offering a fresh, dynamic vision, which I think will be enough to create some history on June the 8th."
A Conservative victory certainly would make history - prior to electing Keith Best in 1979 and 1983, Viscount Bulkeley last won the island for the Tories back in 1722.
Meanwhile, it is 1950 since the Liberal Democrats' Liberal predecessors won here with Megan Lloyd George, daughter of the former prime minister, David Lloyd George.
Sarah Jackson, born in Liverpool but having lived in north Wales for 14 years, is standing for the party for the first time.
Her opposition to a "hard" Brexit - leaving the EU's single market and customs union - drove her to "stand up and be counted".
The Liberal Democrats, she tells me, are "looking for a much softer option" when it comes to Brexit, while she is "on the fence" when it comes to Wylfa Newydd - "I think there are alternatives we could look at," she says.
Two years ago, UKIP came fourth on Ynys Mon with 5,121 votes.
Despite being offered a range of opportunities, their candidate this time, James Turner, was unable to provide me with an interview.
The island was at one time seen as something of a stronghold for the party but it seems their support is receding.
The big unknown in this election is what will happen to those previous UKIP supporters - will they turn to one of the other parties or stay away completely?
The answer to that question could be pivotal in determining the result on Ynys Mon.
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Cameroon, who qualify automatically as hosts, are in Group B alongside 1976 champions Morocco, Malawi and either Comoros or Mauritius.
Record seven-time winners Egypt will meet North African rivals Tunisia, who won in 2004, in Group J.
Meanwhile, two-time winners Nigeria will face 1996 Nations Cup winners South Africa in Group E.
Group G also features a clash between Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with both sides having previously lifted the trophy.
In addition to hosts Cameroon, the 12 group winners will qualify alongside the the three best runners-up.
Should the Indomitable Lions top their group, the second-placed side in Group B will contest the finals.
The group stage of qualifying starts in June and concludes in November 2018.
Draw in full:
A: Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, Sao Tome/Madagascar
B: Cameroon, Morocco, Malawi, Comoros/Mauritius
C: Mali, Gabon, Burundi, Djibouti/South Sudan
D: Algeria, Togo, Benin, The Gambia
E: Nigeria, South Africa, Libya, Seychelles
F: Ghana, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Kenya
G: DR Congo, Congo, Zimbabwe, Liberia
H: Ivory Coast, Guinea, Central African Republic, Rwanda
I: Burkina Faso, Angola, Botswana, Mauritania
J: Tunisia, Egypt, Niger, Swaziland
K: Zambia, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia
L: Cape Verde, Uganda, Tanzania, Lesotho
The arrests of at least 25 people on Tuesday also included organ buyers and middlemen, the country's Administrative Control Authority said.
Authorities also found "millions of dollars and gold bullion".
It is illegal to purchase organs in Egypt, but poverty drives some to sell their body parts.
The Administrative Control Authority, a powerful anti-corruption body, claimed the network targeted on Tuesday was "made up of Egyptians and Arabs taking advantage of some of the citizens' difficult economic conditions so that they buy their human organs and sell [them] for large sums of money".
The statement on the government website added that the group was "the largest international network for trading human organs".
It is said the investigation, which also involved the health ministry, focused on a group of private hospitals and health centres, both licensed and unlicensed, where transplants and organ-harvesting took place, according to the Reuters news agency.
Authorities have also seized computers and documents from the 10 centres.
The arrests follow years of concern over the illegal organ trade in Egypt.
In 2010, it was named as one of the top five countries for illegal organ trade by the World Health Organization's co-ordinator at the time, Luc Noel.
Egypt passed laws to try to curb the trade, but according to the United Nations, hundreds of poor Egyptians still sell kidneys and livers each year to be able to buy food or pay off debts.
There have also been concerns over the fate of migrants who come into contact with the traffickers.
In 2012, then UN refugee agency chief, Antonio Guterres, said some migrants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula were being "killed for the traffic of organs", while earlier this year a people smuggler told Italian prosecutors that those who could not pay their debt were sold to the organ traffickers.
The allegations have not been proven, however.
Ray Kirton was diagnosed with Alzheimer's seven years ago aged 52.
His daughter, Mariel, from Leeds, has posted regularly since January 2015 to show "you can lead a happy life with the disease".
Ms Kirton, 21, said she also wanted to "tackle the stigma surrounding the brain disease".
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Her Instagram account now has more than 1,100 followers.
Ms Kirton was 14 when her father was diagnosed with the disease, having been misdiagnosed with depression.
"At 52, with a mind that still worked almost perfectly, dad was told that slowly he would lose all his memories, abilities and sense," she said.
Alarm bells rang when her father, a usually meticulous and hard-working medical sales manager, was put through disciplinary procedures for carelessness at work. His wife knew it was out of character.
Now 58, he can no longer drive, hold a conversation or remember the names of people closest to him.
Ms Kirton says her father's personality still shines through and the posts capture his daily activities and humour, love of music, precious moments with relatives and interaction with TV personalities.
"We are so lucky that he is still, for the most part, the happy and loving person he always has been," Ms Kirton said.
"Unfortunately his temperament is changing, with a bit less patience and a bit more frustration, and we know this will only get worse."
Ms Kirton ran the Leeds Half Marathon in May for Alzheimer's Research UK.
Alzheimer's Research said a rare type of the disease affects people from their 40s, with only around 4% of sufferers under 65.
Tim Parry of the charity said: "Mariel's story is inspirational. Tackling the stigma surrounding dementia is a challenge we face every day."
"Her heart-warming Instagram posts not only raise awareness of the disease but also give a message of hope."
Ms Kirton said: "Although parts are going, they are still the person you once loved, so please make the effort to be there for people living with Alzheimer's and their superhero carers."
Slightly upgrading a previous forecast, the business lobby group said it expected growth of 1.6% for 2017 and 1.4% in 2018.
However, this equates to average quarterly growth of 0.3% - half the rate seen in 2013 to 2016.
The CBI described the outlook as "steady but subdued".
It said UK exports were likely to increase over the next few years due to the weak pound, which has fallen by about 15% against the dollar since the UK referendum over EU membership.
However, the CBI, which represents the interests of businesses in the UK, said rising inflation and low wage growth would hit domestic demand.
"People are already starting to feel the pinch," said Carolyn Fairbairn, the CBI's director-general. "Tighter purse strings mean slower household spending growth."
She said that after a "frantic period" in Westminster, the government needed to demonstrate that Britain was still a "great place to do business".
She also called on negotiators on both sides to remain "cool, calm and collected" as they forged a deal over Brexit.
"The less likely a Brexit deal starts to look, the harder it will be for firms to recruit and retain talent as well as push the button on big investment decisions. We must get Brexit right."
In May, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney also warned of a consumer spending squeeze this year as inflation rises and real wages fall.
The bank trimmed its economic growth forecasts for 2017 from 2% to 1.9%, and raised its forecast for inflation from 2.4% to 2.8%.
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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.
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Modric struck towards the end of the first half and his team created numerous chances to extend their lead as they dominated after the interval.
Darijo Srna and Ivan Perisic struck the woodwork while Turkey keeper Volkan Babacan made several good saves as Croatia won the first match of a tough group that includes Spain and the Czech Republic.
Turkey's best chance came in the opening half, when Ozan Tufan saw his header saved - but despite being roared on by their passionate fans inside the Parc des Princes, they were second best on Sunday.
They did produce one scare for the Croatian defence right at the end but there was a timely block from Vedran Corluka, who was wearing a white bandage that evoked shades of former England defender Terry Butcher after suffering a cut to his head from a stray elbow in the first half.
Just minutes before Modric broke the deadlock with his sensational volley, the Real Madrid playmaker had thrown his arms out in a gesture of frustration at a team-mate, indicating how he had wanted to receive the ball.
The match was turning out to be a contest more about balls into the box from wide areas than defence-splitting passes. That was despite an abundance of talented midfielders on display, including Modric, Barcelona pair Ivan Rakitic and Arda Turan, plus Besiktas' highly-rated but disappointing Oguzhan Ozyakup, who was withdrawn at the break.
Veteran right-back Srna had delivered several telling crosses into the Turkey area, as did Ivan Perisic from the left side, although Marcelo Brozovic in particular was guilty of failing to make the most of the openings.
That all changed shortly before the break when Modric showed superb technique to strike crisply from 25 yards after a clearance from Selcuk Inan had looped high into the cloudy Paris sky.
As the 30-year-old slid on his knees towards his team's fans - one of whom invaded the pitch to joint the celebrations - Turkey keeper Babacan might have wondered if he should have done better with the dipping shot.
Croatia coach Ante Cacic said before Euro 2016 started that he hoped his team could be one of the surprises of the tournament, while several prominent Croatians think this might just be their most talented group of players.
There was certainly much to admire as Sunday's match wore on, with Rakitic finally starting to punch holes in the Turkish defence and Croatia repeatedly threatening to score a decisive second.
The superb Srna skimmed the crossbar with a free-kick and Perisic headed against the woodwork as Cacic's side looked to score a decisive second.
Brozovic also went close with an acrobatic volley and a header that was tipped over as his side showed they have the ability to open up the opposition.
What they do lack is a mobile forward, with the battering ram that is Mario Manduzic not ideally suited to the style espoused by the playmakers behind him.
Turkey reached the semi-finals at Euro 2008 after beating Croatia on penalties, but will have to show a vast improvement if they are to make the last four here.
Fatih Terim is in his third spell in charge of Turkey and his side showed plenty of resilience to qualify for Euro 2016 after a terrible start to their qualifying campaign.
But they were second best against Croatia, with a defence that was opened up repeatedly after the break and an attack that offered little.
Barcelona midfielder Turan, Terim's captain and key player, was a peripheral presence and was withdrawn with 25 minutes remaining, while free-kick specialist Hakan Calhanoglu, who has been compared to Mesut Ozil, was also disappointing.
It was telling that the introduction of Emre Mor after 69 minutes was greeted by a huge roar from the Turkey fans.
Mor is regarded as a huge talent but the playmaker is just 18 and if Terim is turning to him to bail out his team, then they clearly have problems.
Croatia coach Ante Cacic: "Luka really deserves to be talked about, especially after this match. It was one of his best matches in Croatia's history. He played really well and he was our leader.
"He scored a magical goal and at the end it was the only goal. We need Luka in this form. All the team looks better and more aggressive when he plays like that."
Croatia face Czech Republic on Friday in St Etienne, with Turkey up against reigning champions Spain later the same evening in Nice.
Match ends, Turkey 0, Croatia 1.
Second Half ends, Turkey 0, Croatia 1.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Vedran Corluka (Croatia) because of an injury.
Substitution, Croatia. Marko Pjaca replaces Mario Mandzukic.
Hakan Balta (Turkey) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mario Mandzukic (Croatia).
Volkan Sen (Turkey) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Volkan Sen (Turkey).
Darijo Srna (Croatia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Emre Mor (Turkey) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Selcuk Inan.
Gökhan Gönül (Turkey) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andrej Kramaric (Croatia).
Substitution, Croatia. Gordon Schildenfeld replaces Ivan Rakitic.
Substitution, Croatia. Andrej Kramaric replaces Ivan Perisic.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ivan Perisic (Croatia) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Ivan Perisic (Croatia) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Caner Erkin (Turkey) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Ivan Strinic (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ivan Strinic (Croatia).
Volkan Sen (Turkey) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Milan Badelj (Croatia) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Croatia. Conceded by Volkan Babacan.
Attempt saved. Marcelo Brozovic (Croatia) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Ivan Strinic.
Domagoj Vida (Croatia) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Burak Yilmaz (Turkey).
Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Volkan Sen (Turkey).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Vedran Corluka (Croatia) because of an injury.
Ivan Perisic (Croatia) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by Mario Mandzukic with a cross.
Attempt missed. Hakan Calhanoglu (Turkey) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ozan Tufan.
Substitution, Turkey. Emre Mor replaces Cenk Tosun.
Attempt missed. Mario Mandzukic (Croatia) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Luka Modric with a cross.
Attempt missed. Marcelo Brozovic (Croatia) right footed shot from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross.
Offside, Turkey. Burak Yilmaz tries a through ball, but Cenk Tosun is caught offside.
Substitution, Turkey. Burak Yilmaz replaces Arda Turan.
Offside, Croatia. Ivan Rakitic tries a through ball, but Mario Mandzukic is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Marcelo Brozovic (Croatia) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
The Dungannon rider, who resumed road racing in 2014 after retiring in 2012, and Dan Cooper came off their bikes during the Supertwins race.
The Belfast Trust said Farquhar, 40, suffered chest and pelvic injuries.
Cooper was taken to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine with shoulder injuries but was later discharged.
The crash, which happened at the Black Hill section of the course near Portrush, led to racing being abandoned for the night.
Farquhar was airlifted by police helicopter from the track after the accident and was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
A statement from the North West 200 organisers on Friday morning said that Farquhar remained "seriously ill in intensive care following surgery".
Belfast Trust said on Saturday that Farquhar remains "seriously ill" .
A well-known figure in motorcycling, he has won five races at the North West.
He retired from the sport in 2012 following the death of his uncle Trevor Ferguson at that year's Manx Grand Prix in the Isle of Man.
However, Farquhar resumed his road racing career in 2014, saying that his family backed his decision to return.
Thursday's earlier practice session at the meeting saw an air ambulance being deployed after a rider was hurt.
Nico Mawhinney from Castledawson crashed at the Mill Road roundabout and was transported to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, where he is said to be in a stable condition.
There has been a campaign to get an air ambulance for Northern Ireland, and a fund to help achieve this is the official charity at this North West 200.
Alastair Seeley, who won the earlier opening Supersport race to become the most successful rider in North West 200 history, was not competing in the Supertwin class where Farquhar and Cooper crashed.
"I was in the pit lane when it happened and I heard the gasp from everybody as they were watching the monitors," said Seeley.
"Our thoughts are just with the riders. I hope they have a speedy recovery."
Seeley added that all the riders "know the risks" involved in the sport.
"I always try and ride within the limit," added the Carrickfergus man.
The army and other pro-government forces were reported to have entered deep into the city after IS pulled out.
It ends the second occupation of Palmyra by the jihadists.
The first time they controlled the area, the militants destroyed some of its most celebrated monuments.
IS fighters were driven out in March last year, but managed to retake the city, its world famous ruins and the surrounding area in December.
Syria's Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari confirmed the recapture on Thursday. He said the city had been "liberated from the hands of the terrorist organisation" and that President Bashar al-Assad had kept his promise to drive them out.
In Russia, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was reported by local media to have told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Palmyra had been fully retaken by the Syrian army with help from the Russian air force.
There were clashes and heavy shelling across the historic city as the offensive unfolded on Wednesday, UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
IS militants planted mines in several areas of the city before withdrawing, it said.
IS held the ruins and the nearby city, known locally as Tadmur, for 10 months after seizing it for the first time in May 2015. It blew up temples, burial towers and the Arch of Triumph, believing the shrines and statues to be idolatrous.
The jihadists also destroyed the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel, the great sanctuary of the Palmyrene gods.
The militants were then forced out by a Russian-backed government offensive in March 2016, but regained control while pro-government forces where focused on the battle for the city of Aleppo late last year.
In January, satellite images revealed that the group destroyed the tetrapylon - a group of four pillared structures which were mainly modern replicas - and part of the Roman Theatre.
The head of Unesco, Irinia Bokova, described the destruction as "a new war crime".
The Foreign Affairs Committee said the government gave the impression of prioritising trade and security with China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
This was despite a doubling in funding for the Foreign Office's dedicated human rights project.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said improving human rights was a "core function of the Foreign Office".
But the committee's chairman, Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, said: "The actions and words of ministers in the Foreign Office have undermined the excellent human rights work carried out by the department.
"This needs to be remedied."
Giving evidence to the committee in October, Sir Simon McDonald, the Foreign Office's most senior civil servant, said human rights was "not one of our top priorities".
This was strongly rejected by ministers, but the committee said written evidence it received suggested there was "plainly a perception that this has occurred".
The committee welcomed the doubling of funding for the department's human rights programme, called the Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy, to £10.6m.
But it said the decision to restrict the fund to registered organisations "acts against an intelligent deployment of resources".
The MPs criticised remarks by Middle East Minister Tobias Ellwood, who told the committee he could not remember whether he had raised human rights during a visit to Egypt with a business delegation.
"We are disappointed by the parliamentary under-secretary of state's choice of language on this occasion and others, which raises questions about how energetically the government is raising human rights issues," the MPs said.
And they said the Foreign Office had failed to send an "important message" by not including Egypt and Bahrain on a list of "Human Rights Priority Countries", saying this "contributes to the perception that the [Foreign Office] has become more hesitant in promoting and defending international human rights openly and robustly, notwithstanding the importance of private diplomacy".
The department should be "more mindful of the perceptions it creates at ministerial level" in its dealings with China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the report said, because "perceptions and symbols matter."
It also said the the department's failure to fly the rainbow flag - an international symbol of equality - for the London Pride event in 2015 "sent a message that contradicts much of the actual work and objectives" of the department.
And it suggested the Foreign Office's human rights work should be presented in a more "user-friendly fashion" so it can be evaluated more easily.
Mr Hammond said: "I do not recognise this characterisation of our human rights work."
The UK supports over 75 human rights projects in more than 40 countries, he said, adding that the doubling of funding for the projects was "a true measure of the importance we attach to this agenda".
He added: "By mainstreaming human rights within the Foreign Office, we have ensured it will always be a central part of our diplomacy, delivering tangible results."
Page has been interviewed by the FAW, but no contract has been signed yet.
The 42-year-old is first-team coach at Championship club Nottingham Forest after he was sacked as manager by League One side Northampton in January.
The former Cardiff City and Watford defender was capped 41 times by Wales in a 10-year international career.
If he takes over, Page will succeed Geraint Williams, whose contract was not renewed by the FAW when it expired last year.
The former Derby and Ipswich midfielder had been in charge since 2012.
The chancellor has made it clear to his allies he wants jobs and the economy to be the first consideration as Britain leaves the European Union.
His approach is described by some as a "soft" Brexit, meaning that the UK keeps closer ties to the single market and possibly stays within the customs union.
Even if that means making more financial contributions to the EU.
It is certainly different in tone from pre-election comments by the Prime Minister that "no deal is better than a bad deal".
At the Mansion House speech tonight, Philip Hammond will say that £48bn of funds from the European Union's investment bank will not be put at risk.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) provides funding for infrastructure projects across the EU, such as the building of the Crossrail train line in London, and tram networks in Nottingham and Manchester.
It lends at preferential rates to EU members and some thought the source of financing could be at risk as the UK approaches the departure date of March 2019.
But the government will now act as final guarantor for those funds if the EIB demands extra assurances on the financial viability of the projects.
The Treasury says it will use financing available from the British Business Bank to cover any shortfalls the UK faces.
Although the guarantee is likely to be welcomed by business - which has often felt locked out of the Brexit process - much more important is the tone Mr Hammond will strike in his speech tonight.
It will be the first significant intervention in the Brexit debate by a member of the Cabinet since the election and Theresa May's loss of authority.
Mr Hammond backs a discussion around membership of the EU's customs union even if that curtails Britain's ability to sign free trade deals with other nations.
Such a position could put him at odds with the International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, who wants Britain to be free to sign new trade deals with non-EU countries.
Yesterday Mr Hammond was discussing with aides how far he should travel down the "soft Brexit" route ahead of a meeting with Mrs May, which is planned for this morning, to finalise the speech, one of the most important in the economic calendar.
It is unlikely he will overtly distance himself from the government's pre-election position laid out by the Prime Minister in her Lancaster House speech last January, in which she said Britain would leave the single market and "full membership" of the customs union.
What "no full membership" means is still unclear, and Britain could now look at a position where it is still bound by some of the customs union's rules in exchange for tariff free access to the rest of the single market.
Although there have been significant tensions between the Treasury and Number 10 over the approach not just to Brexit but to the UK economy, Mr Hammond is aware that Mrs May is in a fragile position politically.
Any push to change the government's position on the EU is likely to be coded.
But his desire for closer ties with Britain's largest trading partner is likely to be clear in the language, I have been told.
Mr Hammond is close to Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German finance minister, who wants strong economic ties with the UK post-Brexit.
The chancellor, who campaigned to remain in the EU ahead of the referendum, believes there will be a deal, but the tone has to change towards the rest of the EU if Britain is to achieve it.
Ferrari impressed in Barcelona as they finished winter testing fastest.
Pre-season favourites Mercedes managed 1096 laps; Red Bull completed 684.
"There is a lot of sandbagging in testing. Nobody really knows what specification each other's cars are running in," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We've never won a testing world championship but we are confident we have had a good pre-season."
The first race of the 2017 campaign gets under way in Australia on 26 March.
Red Bull won two races last season as they finished second to a dominant Mercedes in the constructors' championship.
While Horner acknowledges Mercedes will once again be the team to beat, he is hopeful Red Bull can challenge them more often this year.
"Mercedes are still very much the favourite," he said.
"Ferrari had a positive pre-season, they look like they have a good car but we are reasonably confident that we have the basis of a good car.
"It will now be all about development throughout the season and we are hopeful we can close the gap to Mercedes."
Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen both won one race each last year, with the latter claiming his maiden F1 win at the Spanish Grand Prix.
It was a somewhat controversial outcome as Ricciardo had been leading the race for 31 laps but a bad strategy call ultimately cost the Australian while the correct one for Verstappen paved the way for the young Dutchman to take victory.
Horner insists no one driver will be favoured over the other this season, but stressed that that they must respect each other on the circuit.
"The rules we have are very clear," he added.
"Both drivers have the same opportunity but we expect them to respect each other on the circuit.
"They must give each other space and respect when they are racing which, to date, they have been very, very good at."
The £70m Normandie 3 will help meet the island's power needs for the "foreseeable future", said Jersey Electricity.
The island had been relying on power from diesel generators and a second cable after the first subsea link failed permanently in 2012.
The 32km (20 mile) cable links Jersey to a substation at Periers.
The symbolic switching on, by Jean-Louis Muscagorry of Réseau Transport d'Électricité (RTE), came three months after the cable started bringing power to Jersey.
It also brings power to neighbouring Guernsey via another cable from Jersey.
Jersey Electricity chief executive Chris Ambler said: "Islanders and businesses can be assured of even greater security of supply coupled with more affordable and stable pricing."
The work is being funded by the Channel Islands Electricity Grid, which was set up by Guernsey and Jersey Electricity to install and manage the undersea cables between France and the islands.
Trinity Gay, 15, died after being shot in the neck amid an exchange of gunfire between two parked vehicles at a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky.
Police do not believe Trinity was in either of the vehicles involved in the early Sunday morning shootout.
On Monday night, thousands of people held a candlelight vigil in her memory.
Chazerae Taylor, 38, and his 19-year-old son D'Markeo, face charges for wanton endangerment.
Bail was set at $5,000 (£4,000) for each of them.
Another man, Dvonta Middlebrooks, 21, was charged with wanton endangerment and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
His bail was set at $12,500.
All three men allegedly fired multiple shots during the incident.
On Monday night, Tyson Gay led thousands of mourners in a candlelight vigil for his daughter at her Kentucky high school.
Gay said he was numb from crying over Trinity's death as he stood on the track at Lexington's Lafayette High School, which he also attended as a boy.
"I want you guys to love each other, have peace and protect each other," said Gay.
"That's what Trinity would have wanted. Life is not a joke."
Trinity was following in her father's footsteps as a talented sprinter at the school.
She had placed in the top five for several events in the Kentucky state competitions.
Gay said he believed his daughter was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of the shootout that erupted in the early hours of Sunday between two vehicles.
Trinity was pronounced dead less than an hour later at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital.
"She was a beautiful person, very outgoing, athletic, always wanting to accomplish something," Debra Conley, Trinity's grandmother, told the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper.
USA Track and Field have also tweeted their condolences.
Tyson Gay is the joint second-fastest 100m runner of all time, behind Usain Bolt.
He participated in the last three summer Olympic games and was part of the US 100m relay team at the Rio Olympics.
He won a silver for the 4x100 meter relay in London 2012, but that medal was stripped when he tested positive in 2013 for a prohibited substance and was banned from competition for a year.
Now it's being eyed as a possible solution to bridging the digital divide, by two colourful entrepreneurs behind the start-up Keepod.
Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi aim to combat the lack of access to computers by providing what amounts to an operating-system-on-a-stick.
In six weeks, their idea managed to raise more than $40,000 (£23,750) on fundraising site Indiegogo, providing the cash to begin a campaign to offer low-cost computing to the two-thirds of the globe's population that currently has little or no access.
The test bed for the project is the slums of Nairobi in Kenya.
The typical income for the half a million people in the city's Mathare district is about $2 (£1.20) a day.
Very few people here use a computer or have access to the net.
But Mr Bahar and Mr Imbesi want to change that with their Keepod USB stick.
It will allow old, discarded and potentially non-functional PCs to be revived, while allowing each user to have ownership of their own "personal computer" experience - with their chosen desktop layout, programs and data - at a fraction of the cost of providing a unique laptop, tablet or other machine to each person.
In addition, the project avoids a problem experienced by some other recycled PC schemes that resulted in machines becoming "clogged up" and running at a snail's pace after multiple users had saved different things to a single hard drive.
The two men hope to get up to 150,000 people signed up to their idea in the country.
To do so, the pair have teamed up with LiveInSlums - a non-governmental organisation operating in Mathare - to introduce the flash drives to students and staff at WhyNot Academy.
Like other schools in East Africa, the school uses text books and chalk boards to teach.
Two years ago it was connected to the electricity supply.
During a visit to the school in March, Mr Bahar and Mr Imbesi decided to buy a router and a Sim card to hook the classrooms up to the internet.
Their solution involved hanging the router in a carrier bag nailed next to one of two plug sockets in the school.
It looked makeshift, but that didn't prevent the children cheering when it was announced the academy had gone online.
The pair also brought five old laptops with their hard disks removed to the school.
As they gave each child one of the Keepod USB sticks to keep, they explained the second-hand computers would boot up directly from the flash drives.
In fact, any computer with a screen, keyboard and basic processor should play a perfect host because each Keepod stick comes with a unique desktop version of Google's Android 4.4 operating system on board.
The effect is to make any laptop or PC as simple to use as a smartphone, with icons displayed for each task or saved website that the user may want to see.
Each Keepod remembers its owner's settings, passwords and websites visited.
It stores any files or programs downloaded on the other half of its 8GB storage capacity. The information can be encrypted and is protected by a password needed for operation when it's plugged in.
"It makes it possible for anyone with a Keepod to use any computer and get the same experience," says Mr Bahar.
"Each child will see their own files and apps appear in exactly the same way each time, without the need to remember lots of passwords."
The amazement and excitement at seeing these old laptops come to life was palpable inside the classroom.
And the children stayed long after classes had ended to explore and set up their new devices.
Head teacher, Dominic Otieno believes the technology will help change the children's mind sets.
"It will help Africans help themselves, it will help them to start to learn the skills of business," he says.
"They are going to learn to read the story of people who have made it from nothing, but through business, people who did not go through a lot of education but they made it."
Before they left the school, there was more good news for the Keepod founders.
A teacher from the US had spotted their campaign and called mid-visit to say he would pay for more USB drives to be distributed in Nairobi if the founders also provided copies for pupils at his school.
The idea, he explained, would be that the children on each continent could communicate together and share a common experience.
Keepod is never going to be a huge money-spinner, but the idea is that it will eventually support itself.
Mr Bahar and Mr Imbesi's plan is for locally employed workers to buy the flash drives on the open market, install the operating system and a few essential apps, and then sell them on for a small gain.
The final price would be $7 (£4.15), delivering about a $2 profit on each device that would help cover wages and the further expansion of the project.
They explain an added benefit of their scheme over alternative computer-donation efforts is that even if a Keepod owner has their device infected with malware, it should not be able to spread to the host computer - meaning one person's misfortune should not affect others.
The start-up also plans to provide a Keepod back-up facility, offering a way to protect owners from losing their files if the USB device is lost or becomes corrupted.
Rita Anyango is one of the five people Keepod has trained up to maintain the Mathare project.
She likes the unique way in which the scheme, unlike others she has worked on, offers ownership of the computing experience to each user.
But she but fears that some parents may be tempted to trade the devices to put more expensive food on the family table, like meat, if they don't realise its long-term potential.
The tiny devices could be exchanged or worse stolen, she says, if they're not looked after.
Tony Roberts, former chief executive of the global charity Computer Aid International, also has concerns.
He warns it would be over-optimistic to place too much belief in technology being able to simply solve problems like improving education or making agriculture more efficient.
"In my experience it's always about how the people use the technology and not that technology itself as a magic bullet," he says.
"People will need to be trained and as more flash drives are sold even more people will need training, and more computer hubs will need more maintaining.
"Finding the resources to fund that within a $7 price tag will be tough."
He also makes a more pressing point. That most people in rural areas of the world are poor and it's in those areas where electricity and connectivity are often bigger challenges. Without those basics the scheme won't work.
Even so, he wishes the project well and would personally back it.
Keepod's founders' next plan to roll it out to India, Israel, southern Italy, and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
To help do so, they intend to sell starter packs so that anyone can supervise their own scheme with some old laptops and a bunch of cheap USB drives.
They'll be driven on by memories of the many smiling faces at the celebration thrown in Mathare to mark WhyNot Academy receiving the devices.
Here, at least, the party has already begun.
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Naomi Eisenstadt was speaking on the final day of BBC Scotland's week-long Unequal Scotland? series.
She wants inheritance tax to go up, councils given flexibility to raise taxes and increased tax on the wealthy.
In response, the UK government said it had given the "lowest paid a pay rise" and the Scottish government said it was "making taxation fairer".
Ms Eisenstadt has spoken in the past about putting up taxes.
In January this year she published a report which contained 15 recommendations, including calling for an end to Scotland's council tax freeze. That is set to happen in April next year when local authorities will be able to increase tax by up to 3% a year.
In an interview with BBC Scotland's business and economy editor Douglas Fraser, Ms Eisenstadt proposed that higher taxation was the key to producing a more equal society.
She said: "When people say they want a really wonderful NHS they don't say I want to pay more taxes for it. Well, I'm afraid you cannot have a really wonderful NHS unless you are willing to pay more taxes for it."
However, she was not convinced governments would raise taxes to the levels needed. She said: "You [governments] can always go further but you'll always have your eye on the next election and what people can expect."
Throughout this week BBC Scotland has been looking at inequality and has examined issues including income, wealth, education and health.
Ms Eisenstadt said much had been done to reduce poverty, particularly among pensioners and families with young children, but inequality had increased.
She added: "What I would say is that inequality is bad for everybody.
"Societies that have much higher levels of inequality have much higher levels of crime, they don't have as good public services. So inequality is not just bad for the bottom, it's bad for the top as well."
The Oxford University research fellow has advocated changes to a number of taxes at both Westminster and Holyrood.
They include;
Scottish government
A spokesman said: "Our income tax proposals for 2017/18 and beyond will ensure Scotland continues to be an attractive place to live, work and do business. They protect those on low and middle incomes - but generate extra revenue of around £1.2bn in cumulative additional revenues by 2021/22 which we will invest in key public services, by asking higher rate (40p) taxpayers to forego a tax cut.
"Where we have the powers to do so, we are making taxation fairer and more proportionate to the ability to pay, while also raising additional revenue. That is why we are proposing progressive reforms to local taxation which will, over the lifetime of this Parliament, raise an additional £500 million to invest in raising educational attainment.
"Our Fairer Scotland Action Plan includes commitments which will help families to maximise their incomes and a new £29m fund, with £12.5m of European money, will support communities and the third sector in tackling poverty."
The Scottish government added that it would be setting up a Poverty and Inequalities Commission next year to tackling a number of issues including child poverty.
UK government
A spokesman said: "Many people today are just about managing, but would like a little extra help. That is why the UK government is taking action to build a country that works for everyone.
"To help those struggling to manage we've cut income tax so people keep more of the money they earn, given the lowest paid a pay rise through our National Living Wage, increased the State Pension to give people greater security in retirement and are helping parents with childcare.
"The Scottish Parliament is also getting unprecedented new tax and welfare powers which will mean, for the first time, Holyrood will be able to shape the welfare system in Scotland.
"There is still much more to do though, with housing costs too high, too many households stuck on the most expensive energy tariff and not enough parents having access to good-quality childcare. We're going to act in their interests and deliver a better deal for them."
David Dutton from California makes the "old school" arcade-style films for film collective Cinefix.
His four minute version of 2001 Japanese anime movie Spirited Away has attracted nearly 1m views since it was uploaded last month.
Other films to get an "old school" makeover include Titanic, The Avengers and Frozen.
Mr Dutton uses off-the-shelf software Adobe Photoshop and editing software After FX to create the films.
His brother Henry writes the distinctive music and the sound is edited in Adobe Premiere.
"We grew up playing video games in the 80s," said Mr Dutton, who used to direct music videos.
"But we had no background in animation."
Two years and 45 films later, Mr Dutton's 8-bit cinema efforts are getting a good response from Hollywood itself.
James Gunn, who directed the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, said on Facebook that Mr Dutton's version, released in January, "makes my heart sing", and the producers also claim to have worked with some of the studios directly on remakes.
The Cinefix channel says copyright is not an issue because the creations fall under the umbrella of "parody" which is included in the "fair use" clause of US copyright law.
The short video game clips appeal because of a combination of nostalgia and artistic merit, Cinefix lead programmer Michael Cruz told the BBC.
"If I look at Spirited Away - the episode is just gorgeous. In and of itself the artistry is one of the reasons people come back," he said.
In addition to films which readily lend themselves to video game format, such as The Avengers, the team tries to focus on less obvious choices.
"Our favourites tend to be the ones where you don't expect them to be 8-bit video games," said Mr Cruz.
"The Avengers was great but it makes a really easy video game. Whereas Silence of the Lambs is a bit more difficult to do, more fascinating."
Cinefix is owned by digital production firm Whale Rock Industries.
Up to 150 mostly part-time jobs were put at risk last month when loss-making Manston Airport revealed it was in talks over a possible closure.
It was bought by the co-founder of the Stagecoach Group, Ann Gloag, for £1 from the New Zealand company Infratil in October.
Since then it is understood the airport has been losing about £10,000 a day.
A 45-day consultation period was due to end on 11 May, but this will now not happen, Unite said.
Ian McCoulough, Unite regional officer, said: "We had talks with the management today and it said that the consultation period was now extended until a final decision is made.
"This is to be welcomed."
He said the company was still considering two business plans drawn up by workers at the airport.
Dutch airline KLM said it would not return to the airport even if a buyer is found.
The Dutch airline started running two daily return flights from Manston to Amsterdam's Schipol airport at the beginning of April 2013.
Its last flight was on Wednesday.
KLM Cityhopper managing director, Boet Kreiken, told Air Transport World that it was impossible to do "business in a shaky environment".
"Now it is game over; we will redeploy the aircraft. We are gone."
In November 2011, Flybe announced it would be pulling out of Manston, blaming the size of the airport's catchment area.
The airport is still operating cargo flights.
Forrester, already on a yellow card, brought down Cammy Kerr and Michael Duffy but escaped a second caution.
"There were many contentious decisions. We were going to take him off anyway," said Warburton, who substituted Forrester after 69 minutes.
"Another referee might have given it [a second yellow] but I can't comment on that."
Forrester, who opened the scoring with a powerful volley, felt there was not too much in the challenges.
"It is what it is and the manager has decided to sub me," he also told BT Sport. "But I'll know to tone it down in future."
After Forrester gave Rangers the lead at Dens Park, Kenny Miller doubled the advantage.
Mark O'Hara pulled Dundee back into it after poor defending at a corner, and it was a nervy finish for last season's Scottish Championship winners before they eventually saw the game out.
"We were loose. We gave the ball away cheaply," said Warburton. "But at the end we should have been out of sight.
"We dipped a little bit in the second half, we were a little bit hesitant, a bit nervous."
The Rangers manager also said he is looking to make new signings next week.
"We are looking for a number of players," he added. "We're looking for a striking option and a defensive option. Hopefully we can make some progress in the next few days."
Dundee manager Paul Hartley is "hopeful" of being able to spend some of the money raised by the sales of Kane Hemmings and Greg Stewart because he believes his team "needs reinforcements".
"We need it, especially in the final third," Hartley told BBC Scotland. "Hopefully we can add one or two additions to the squad.
"The [current strikers] have got to step up and show they're worth a place in the team, but we still want to strengthen and add to the group."
Rory Loy started up front and summer signings Yordi Teijsse and Faisal El Bhaktoui came off the bench to boost the attack.
"I felt the second half was really good," added Hartley. "In the first half we should have kept the ball much better. We lost two poor goals. There are really encouraging signs for us.
"We tried to exploit their weaknesses, tried to get in behind them. What we worked on all week nearly worked today."
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said it received 31 calls in 24 hours after it launched a two-day banning order in the city centre.
Most of the calls related to the Piccadilly area, police said.
The force said it had put extra patrols in place.
Police said 14 of the calls it had received were about people collapsing.
One man was arrested in Piccadilly Gardens, an area where Spice users are said to congregate which has been branded "dystopian" by the Manchester Evening News.
Effects of the synthetic drug can be extreme, causing hallucinations, psychosis, muscle weakness and paranoia.
In March, North West Ambulance Service warned there had been a surge in calls related to Spice, which was leaving users in a "zombie-like" state.
The crackdown comes as a homeless man died in Birmingham after smoking a different synthetic drug, Black Mamba, sparking fears of a potentially lethal batch of the former legal high.
A statement from GMP said between 19:45 GMT on Friday and 19:45 GMT on Saturday, the force received 31 calls which may be related to Spice in the city centre alone.
Two men were arrested and three people were given dispersal notices on Sunday following Spice-related anti-social behaviour, GMP said.
One of the men, 19, was arrested for breaching his dispersal notice and on suspicion of assaulting a medic who was treating him for Spice-related issues on Friday in Piccadilly Gardens.
The other man, 24, who police said "is a known Spice user", was held for breaching a civil injunction, including a city ban.
Police said 51 arrests have been made in the last three weeks, including 20 suspected Spice dealers, under the force's crackdown on supply of the drug - named Operation Mandera.
Insp Phil Spurgeon said an "increased level" of resources will continue to be focused on this issue in the Piccadilly area.
"While our focus is firmly on dealers, we are also committed to tackling chaotic and anti-social Spice users, because of their impact on the wider community and emergency services", he said.
He will serve as the government's senior politician and as the president of the Policy and Resources Committee.
He was voted in by 20 votes to 19 ahead of Deputy Peter Ferbrache, with one spoilt paper.
It follows a 20-20 tie in the second and third round of voting. Further ties could have led to the drawing of lots.
Deputy Parkinson, also a former treasury minister, lost out in the first round of voting after polling eight votes, compared to 17 for Deputy St Pier and 15 for Deputy Ferbrache.
The other four members of the committee are due to be elected on Friday.
Deputy St Pier said after the result: "I'm overwhelmed, I feel a little bit ill having gone through that process. I'm sure none of us expected that.
"This is an inauspicious start, to end up with such a divided vote, but I think it re-emphasises what I was saying in my opening speech, the need for us to really work together.
"This is going to be a very difficult States as indeed the last one was. We have some major challenges and what we need to do is really think about where people's skills can be used to best effect, this can't be about personal aspirations."
Mr Brodin is the company's head in Sweden and will succeed Peter Agnefjall, who had been in the role for four years.
Ikea is now based in the Netherlands and the new boss will work in Leiden.
The new chief executive said he was "very honoured and excited" about his new role.
Mr Agnefjall said he will take some time off with his family before embarking on his next challenge.
Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, chairman of Ikea's parent company INGKA Holding, said: "Under Peter's leadership, Ikea Group has expanded into new and crucial markets, accelerated our retail transformation in order to meet the changing needs of customers and taken our sustainability commitments further."
Robert Haigh, of analyst firm Brand Finance, said an internal appointment was a "sensible move" for a firm like Ikea.
"It's a difficult decision for a company whether to look inside the company or whether to bring someone in," he said.
"But for one with strong brand identity like Ikea, as we have seen with the recent appointment by John Lewis, it makes sense to continue that identity and culture. Ikea is still performing well and is Sweden and Scandinavia's most valuable brand."
Ikea's sales have grown by double-digit percentages since it started selling its products online eight years ago, but the company is also concentrating on improving the in-store experience for customers.
Mr Haigh added: "While there has been a real decline in out-of-town shopping centres, especially in the food sector, the shopping experience can still be something people really enjoy.
"At Ikea customers like to be able to feel the product and it is almost uniquely tied in with the Ikea experience, with people also going there for the meatballs and other food."
Ikea opened its first store in 1958 and has made ready-to-assemble furniture a global phenomenon.
Last year 783 million people visited the company's 348 stores, while it had 2.1 billion visits to its website.
Police in Andratx had been searching for Noakes, who has Alzheimer's disease, after they were alerted by the 81-year-old's wife Vicky at about 9am local time.
Local police told the BBC he was spotted by a helicopter at around 18:45 local time close to his home.
He is now in hospital and his wife is with him.
An update on the town's Facebook page said that Noakes had been taken to hospital and was in a stable condition.
Noakes presented the BBC children's show for 12 years from 1966 to 1978.
Police and civil guard had been searching for him in the village. They said his wife was worried "because of his state of health and the heat, which is around 35C (95F) today."
Two photos of Noakes had been posted on the local council's Facebook page asking people to look out for him.
Noakes moved to Majorca with his wife after a round the world yacht trip was cut short when their boat was badly damaged by a giant wave off the coast of North Africa.
They had embarked on the trip after Noakes quit Blue Peter in 1978 and Go With Noakes 18 months later.
Noakes, who trained as an aircraft engine fitter before training as an actor, was 31 when he made his first appearance on BBC One's Blue Peter.
He became a firm favourite with fans for his friendship with his border collie Shep and became the show's longest-running presenter.
Famous for his on-air efforts to calm down his lively dog, Noakes was often heard saying "Get down Shep!" which prompted the Barron Knights' 1978 song of the same name.
Will Patterson, 33, chairman of the Wigan and Leigh Green Party, is to run following the death of Deyika Nzeribe.
"These are tough circumstances to run in but I'm honoured that I have the chance to continue the great work Deyika started," he said.
All the main parties have chosen their candidates for the 4 May election.
Green campaigner and father-of-three Mr Nzeribe from Hulme was 50 years old when he died in January.
His campaign manager Astrid Johnson said party members were in "total shock" after losing a great friend and colleague.
He was a former chair of the party's Manchester branch and had stood at several local elections.
Danni Jordan put the home side up 2-0 at half time after Sian French opened the scoring with a fine strike. Poland replied through Amelia Kateria.
Wales beat Poland 2-0 on Saturday and 3-0 on Friday.
The series is preparation for the group stages of the Euro Hockey Championships being held in Cardiff from 6-12 August.
"It took us some time to get going in the series but we're delighted to continue the momentum that we've been building for a while now and it's nice that we're putting in consistent performances," head coach Kevin Johnson said.
"I'm pleased this weekend that as the games moved on we became more creative and I think we opened Poland up in a number of areas.
"The atmosphere and everything around it will be completely different but I think the belief that we will gain from these results is obviously key.
"We would much rather be in our camp having the momentum of having three wins against Poland but we are acutely aware that one match in August against them is going to be a different scenario to deal with."
Wales beat Poland 2-0 for a second victory thanks to goals from Eloise Laity and Sophie Clayton.
Captain Abi Welsford and vice captain Leah Wilkinson - a scorer in Friday's 3-0 win - each earned their 135th international cap in that match.
That left Welsford and Wilkinson three caps shy of equalling Anne Ellis' record 138 Wales appearances.
Jo Westwood and Sarah Jones joined Wilkinson in scoring the home goals on Friday.
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The Welsh Rugby Union want to take over Newport Gwent Dragons and the ground. They have said they will "call the shots" over tenants County.
"Let's start by keeping them in the Football League then worry about what pitch we play at," said manager Flynn.
County are six points adrift in League Two and face Crawley on Saturday.
The club signed a 10 year lease to play at Rodney Parade in 2013.
Flynn says the continuing speculation over the ground has not affected the players.
"They are a good bunch of lads, they have just been getting on with their jobs, since I have been here. They just get on with things," added Flynn.
"None of us really know. I don't think they (the WRU) have spoken to the board or anybody. That needs to come first because at the end or the day I still think we have a long lease.
"That is something I will let the board, directors and chairman worry about.
"I don't need any added motivation, keeping Newport County in the Football League is the only motivation I need."
The WRU, Newport RFC and Dragons boards have ratified the deal, but it requires 75% support of Newport rugby club's shareholders for the agreement to go ahead.
The WRU want to take control of the region and the ground on July 1.
Their plan is to lay an artificial 4G pitch to cure water logging problems, but artificial pitches are not allowed in the Football League.
He joined Bristol City on Saturday, but Barnsley kept their focus to win a seventh successive league game, beating Bury 3-0 the following day.
The club had also made it to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final three days before Johnson's departure.
"The players deserve the credit after what's been a tough week for them," Heckingbottom told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"It's been a hectic week, but it is better that way because you get everything over and done with within a few days.
"Now it's about moving forwards and carrying on as normal."
Johnson led Barnsley through a run of eight consecutive defeats earlier in the season, but the latest victory moved them up to 10th place in League One.
They have not lost a league game since 19 December and now have Heckingbottom and Tommy Wright in caretaker charge.
"We just want to carry on as normal," the former added. "We will keep going, keep getting the players organised and motivated when they're out on the pitch."
Cynhalwyd y rownd gyn derfynol yn Llangefni ddydd Sadwrn gyda phedwar ymgeisydd yn dod i'r brig.
Y rheiny a ddaeth i'r brig eleni oedd Hugh Brightwell o Ellesmere Port, Sir Gaer, Emma Chappell o Ddeiniolen, Gwynedd, Richard Furniss o Langefni, Môn a Daniela Schlick o Borthaethwy, Ynys Môn,
Dywedodd Elwyn Hughes, Cadeirydd Pwyllgor Dysgwyr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Ynys Môn: "Roedd yn hynod braf croesawu pawb draw atom i Langefni dros y penwythnos ar gyfer y rownd gynderfynol, a chawsom ein plesio'n arw gyda safon pob un o'r cystadleuwyr eleni.
"Mae'n biti nad oes modd i bawb gyrraedd y rownd derfynol, gan fod y safon mor uchel, a phawb yn ysbrydoliaeth, nid yn unig i ddysgwyr eraill ond i Gymry Cymraeg hefyd.
"Mae'n brofiad arbennig cael cyfarfod a siarad gyda'r rheiny sydd wedi cystadlu a chlywed am sut mae dysgu Cymraeg wedi siapio a newid eu bywyd.
"Rydym yn llongyfarch pob un ymgeisydd yn wresog, ac yn diolch iddyn nhw, nid yn unig am gystadlu ond am eu hymroddiad i'r iaith a'n diwylliant. Dymuniadau da i bob un ohonyn nhw yn y dyfodol," meddai.
Y beirniaid eleni yw Jenny Pye, R Alun Charles a Nia Roberts, ac wrth gyhoeddi'r rhestr fer yn Oriel Ynys Môn dywedodd Jenny Pye: "Rydym i gyd wedi cael modd i fyw yn cyfarfod yr holl ymgeiswyr ar gyfer y gystadleuaeth eleni.
"Mae'r safon wedi bod yn uchel, ac mae straeon pawb wedi bod yn hynod o ddiddorol. Llongyfarchiadau i bawb sydd wedi ymgeisio, ac rydym yn edrych ymlaen at gyfarfod Emma, Dani, Hugh a Richard eto yn y rownd derfynol yn ystod wythnos yr Eisteddfod."
Bydd yr enillydd yn derbyn tlws arbennig, yn rhoddedig gan Rhian a Harri Pritchard, Cemaes, a £300 (Cymraeg i Oedolion Prifysgol Bangor), a bydd y tri arall sy'n cyrraedd y rownd derfynol yn derbyn tlysau, sydd hefyd yn rhoddedig gan Rhian a Harri Pritchard, Cemaes, a £100 yr un (Teulu'r Wern, Talwrn).
Bydd y rheiny sy'n cyrraedd y rownd derfynol yn derbyn tanysgrifiad blwyddyn i'r cylchgrawn Golwg, a rhoddion gan fudiad Merched y Wawr. Bydd yr enillydd hefyd yn cael ei gwahodd i fod yn aelod o'r Orsedd.
Cynhelir Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Ynys Môn ger Bodedern o 4-12 Awst.
The court is hearing a plea to end the life of Aruna Shanbaug, a nurse in Mumbai who has been paralysed and considered "brain-dead" since she was attacked by a rapist in November 1973.
The plea has been made by a journalist who has written a book on Ms Shanbaug.
The court will examine if the plea is "akin to euthanasia".
It is being seen as a landmark case in India where euthanasia or mercy killing is illegal.
The court asked the doctors to submit a report on Ms Shanbaug's medical condition after examining her, and fixed 22 February as the next day of hearing.
Ms Shanbaug is force fed by nurses looking after her twice a day at the KEM hospital in Mumbai.
In her petition journalist Pinki Virani has said that Ms Shanbaug has been in a "persistent vegetative state" for 36 years and is "virtually a dead person".
Ms Virani wants the court to issue instructions to "forthwith ensure that no food is fed" to Ms Shanbaug.
But hospital authorities have told the court that Ms Shanbaug "accepts food in normal course and responds by facial expressions" and responds to "commands intermittently by making sounds".
The Supreme Court said on Monday that "euthanasia is one of the most perplexing issues which the courts and legislatures all over the world are facing today".
"The court, in this case, is facing the same issue, and we like a ship in an unchartered sea, seeking some guidance by the light thrown by the legislation and judicial precedents in foreign countries", it said.
Ms Shanbaug was raped by a hospital sweeper at the KEM hospital on 27 November 1973. The sweeper tried to strangle her.
The petition says that she suffered "brain stem contusion injuries with associated cervical cord injury and due to this she was reduced to almost a vegetable".
Her attacker was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to murder and rob Ms Shanbaug.
This is not the first time that a mercy killing demand has gone to the courts.
In 2004, a terminally-ill Indian chess champion became a focus of a euthanasia debate before he died in a hospital.
Venkatesh, 25, was suffering from a genetic neurological disorder and was on life-support for more than seven months.
Both the hospital authorities and the Andhra Pradesh high court refused his request to turn off his life support system, saying that would amount to an illegal mercy killing.
The incident happened as the Spanish man passed a bus stop beside Marco Polo and Tesco in Hawkhill, Dundee, at about 19:10 on Saturday.
Police said he was spat at by a man standing with two other people at the bus stop.
The suspect was in his early 20s and was wearing a red top.
He was about 5ft 9in tall, of medium build with short, brown hair.
Police described the man's actions in the unprovoked assault as "particularly disgusting".
Officers urged anyone with information to contact police.
Pressure built on Mills as they again failed to score in their 2-0 defeat at Tranmere in the National League.
A mistake by Dragons' goalkeeper, Shwan Jalal, for one goal, did not help matters, but Mills insists the problem is at the other end.
"I thought the lads did well. We had a good shape and we worked hard, but we are struggling up-front," said Mills.
"We've got a situation where we want to address the striker situation and it's not possible to do that.
"Unfortunately we did not look like scoring a goal again. We need the striker situation to change. We need more up top."
He said a number of players had left the club in the summer in search of better deals and the club had been unable to stop them.
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Mills said he welcomed the break from league action, but was convinced he was still the man to get things back on track at the club.
"There's about four or five players gone elsewhere for better money because I could not afford to give them the money to stay at this club." added Mills.
"Then you have to go and try and address it. Yes, I might have made two or three mistakes, but who doesn't as a manager?
"I know what the situation is. I've got a squad of players to work with and that is what we work with. We get on with our jobs.
"As a supporter you want to win football matches and there's no sentiment in it.
"We came to a club in Tranmere that, when you are talking budgets, probably has double the one I've got, but that's just the way it is.
"I live and die with the resources I have got. We will put it right."
Spanish police said they were holding 21 people who allegedly trafficked cannabis to the city hidden in packs of marble tiles.
Merseyside Police arrested three further suspects.
Spain's Policia Nacional also said five cannabis production centres had been dismantled, and thousands of plants seized.
Footage of part of the operation was posted on the force's Twitter feed.
Union leaders had endorsed the proposed agreement, which would have allowed prison officers to retire at 65, but members voted against it by two to one.
The union said it wanted to address "issues of concern" with the government.
The Ministry of Justice said it was disappointed but would continue talks.
It comes after a 12-hour riot at HMP Birmingham last week, described by the Prison Officers Association as the worst since the Strangeways jail riot 26 years ago.
Up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales protested last month over claims of a "surge" in jail violence but returned to work after a High Court injunction ordered them to end their 24-hour protest.
Under the rejected deal, which was approved by the POA's National Executive Committee earlier this month, staff would be able to retire with an occupational pension at 65 - even when the state pension age rises to 68.
Pay was proposed to increase by between 0.5% and 1% in each of the next three years, with further loyalty payments of up to £1,000.
But almost two-thirds of union members who voted rejected the deal. There was a 52% turnout among the 19,000 eligible prison staff in England and Wales.
BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said some prison staff believe they should be allowed to retire with a full pension at 60, as police officers are allowed to do.
There are also concerns that pay is still not enough to attract sufficient staff, the correspondent added.
The Ministry of Justice said Justice Secretary Liz Truss intends to meet with union leaders in the New Year.
The deadlock was finally broken three minutes from the end of the second period with Ashley Tait scoring for the visitors on a power-play.
Rutherford levelled just 40 seconds later and he made it 2-1 early in the third period.
Jeff Mason and Chris Higgins added 'empty net' goals in the final minutes.
Sparks flew early in a feisty first period as Blaze's Garrett Klotz and Giants opponent Jim Vandermeer 'dropped the gloves'.
Both players sat out play for five minutes, with Klotz serving an additional two for the slashing offence that initiated the fight.
Belfast could not exploit the extra man advantage and an even first period ended scoreless.
The visitors took the lead through Tait after Matt Nickerson was penalised for boarding - the Giants responded with Rutherford firing past Brian Stewart into the Blaze net.
Rutherford put the hosts ahead as the Giants finally made a power-play count.
Simmering tensions boiled over once more as Adam Keefe and Klotz fought - the subsequent penalties incurred meant the latter would play no further part in proceedings.
The Giants then scored a decisive 'empty-netter' through Mason just seconds after Blaze had pulled keeper Stewart from the ice, and Higgins rubbed salt in by making it four with 32 seconds remaining.
Next up for the Giants are back-to-back home games against the Sheffield Steelers on Saturday and Sunday.
The news was confirmed at an event in the city hosted by enterprise minister Arlene Foster.
The jobs will be created by Hunter Apparel, All Pipe Engineering, Fleming Agri-Products, Modern Democracy, Quinnspares, Steam and Generation Services and SmithDehn.
The companies are investing a total of £2.8m.
"The commitment being demonstrated by these local companies shows business confidence is improving throughout the area, meaning they are prepared to take advantage of the steadily improving economy," said Mrs Foster.
"It is through a continued focus on innovation and export that local businesses will remain ahead of the competition, maximise growth and succeed in their chosen markets."
The 15-year-old, from Castlederg in County Tyrone, disappeared after a school disco in 1994.
Over the last two days searches took place near Killen, outside Castlederg after a farmer found disturbed earth that he said looked like a grave.
A police spokesman said "the Arkinson family have been updated".
The search had been concentrated on a derelict farmyard close to where the teenager was last seen alive.
That evening she was seen in a car with the convicted child killer and rapist Robert Howard, the main suspect in her disappearance.
Howard, who died in prison in England last year, was found not guilty in 2005 of murdering Arlene.
The jury was not told that Howard, who was originally from County Laois, had a history of sexual violence and was already serving a life term for rape and murder.
Arlene has been missing, presumed dead, for 22 years.
A number of searches have been carried out at various locations, but her body has never been found.
The farmer, who rents the land where the search is ongoing, said he noticed clay had been dug up and refilled with stones.
"It's about six feet long and about three-to-four feet wide with stones," Noel Doherty said on Friday.
The police cordoned off the area on Wednesday and brought in specialist teams to examine the site.
Searches took place on Friday and Saturday morning but were called off on Saturday afternoon.
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It's a toxic problem, corroding trust in everything from politics to sport to international aid.
But what can be done to stop it? How about a more creative approach to deterrence?
The development charity, One, which has warned of corruption as a "trillion dollar scandal", has come up with ideas for hitting the corrupt oligarchs where it hurts.
In their first class travel.
The charity is suggesting an airline ban for first class travel for those guilty of corruption. Airlines can have restrictions on passengers who have behaved badly on board - so why not have a corruption blacklist?
They might be indifferent to public opinion and can buy enough PR covering fire, but do they really want to be jockeying for position in economy?
The anti-poverty campaigners say the idea would be to "make it more difficult and less enjoyable for the corrupt to spend their ill-gotten gains".
The ultra-rich might appear to inhabit a parallel world, but they might not look quite so smug going through the in-flight options on Ryanair.
The third world development campaigners say they want to start a conversation about smarter ways to tackle corruption.
The concept is to challenge the luxury lifestyles as well as to tighten the legal loopholes.
Another idea put forward is to encourage banks to put an international block on credit cards of those guilty of corruption.
There are also ideas borrowed from the ethical consumerism that pushed free-range eggs or fairtrade goods on to supermarket shelves.
There could be a "corruption free" kitemark for luxury goods, with the idea of accrediting firms to show there is no corruption in their supply chain.
They also suggest less secrecy about the buying, selling and true ownership of high-value objects and transactions.
Because if you know who seems to have an endless stream of money for buying paintings, jewels, high-end cars or property, it raises the question about where they are getting their cash.
These are ideas to be floated, rather than fully-formed policies. But the aim is to make corruption and money laundering a cultural target.
And it reflects the frustration that even when corruption is evident, the beneficiaries, whether individuals or corporations, seem to be able to step around any restrictions.
Mr Cameron is reported to be considering an international agency to tackle money laundering and high-level tax evasion.
But the scale of the challenge has been laid bare by the Panama Papers, shining a light on a globalised world of power, politics, anonymous assets and immense wealth.
The prime minister has to show that the democrats can keep up with kleptocrats.
Before a previous G20 summit, the One campaigners estimated that corrupt activities were siphoning away a trillion dollars a year from the world's poorest countries.
It claimed that this really was a matter of life and death as money that should have been spent in developing countries on health and nutrition was disappearing into the bank accounts of the corrupt.
"Corruption hits the poorest hardest," says David McNair, One's director of transparency.
He says it's wrong to think of corruption as something that happens "out there" and far away. It's a question for regulating financial networks in London and New York.
The One campaigners want Mr Cameron to commit the UK to do more to challenge secrecy in the ownership and beneficiaries of companies and trusts.
It has set out a list of formal proposals, aimed at clarifying corporate ownership, improving public disclosure and removing hiding places for corrupt assets.
"Corruption is a global problem - and it needs a global response."
Local media reported that police were treating the incident as minor trespass and were investigating.
The sign on Mount Lee is made of 45-foot (13.7m) tall letters.
Voters in California approved the legalisation of marijuana in a ballot held at the same time as the presidential election - on 8 November.
The prank has not caused lasting damage to the sign, however, as parts of both "O" letters were covered by tarpaulins to make them look like a lower-case letter "E".
The Los Angeles Times reports that a single person was recorded on security cameras climbing the sign to hang the materials.
A similar prank took place in 1976, to mark a relaxation in the state's marijuana laws.
Share markets have now erased much of their losses suffered in the wake of last week's UK vote to leave the EU.
The Dow Jones ended up 235.3 points, or 1.3%, at 17,929.99, and the S&P 500 gained 28.09 points, or 1.36%, to 2,098.86. The Nasdaq added 63.43 points, or 1.33%, to 4,842.67.
Hershey shares surged 16.8% on news that Mondelez had made a takeover bid.
"We're reversing the Brexit as it becomes evident that it was more of a political vote and decision than an economic decision," said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management.
Major gainers on the Dow included Boeing, Caterpillar, General Electric and IBM, all of which rose more than 2%.
Financial stocks were broadly higher after the Federal Reserve gave the green light to 31 of 33 banks to return capital to shareholders following stress tests. JPMorgan Chase rose 1.5%, Goldman Sachs 2.1%, and Wells Fargo 0.8%.
The 36-year-old, from West Cornforth, was driving a Peugeot 206 which was involved in a collision with a VW Polo on the A688 West Auckland bypass.
The driver of the other vehicle, an 18-year-old woman, was taken to hospital with back and neck injuries.
Durham Police has appealed for witnesses to the incident, which took shortly before 19:00 GMT on Tuesday.
The successor to Hubble has been locked tight inside a giant chamber where it will undergo a series of tests to simulate conditions off Earth.
Engineers must first pump out all the air, and then chill down the telescope to fantastically low temperatures.
In about 30 days' time, they should be ready to start the checks that ensure JWST's spectacular mirrors can focus light properly.
"The operational temperature on orbit is about 30 kelvins - 30 degrees above absolute zero; but we're going to test JWST to slightly lower," explains Juli Lander, a US space agency (Nasa) engineer on the project.
"We're going to see if we can push on the hardware and the instruments a bit to give us a little margin on orbit," she told BBC News.
JWST is on track to be launched on a European Ariane rocket in just over a year from now. It will carry technologies capable of peering even deeper into space than Hubble - to detect the light coming from the very first stars to shine in the Universe.
The development phase it has now entered at the Johnson Space Center in Texas is its final thermal-vacuum test; and this will confirm Webb does not have "a Hubble problem".
If you remember when the veteran space telescope first went into orbit in 1990, it had difficulty focussing images of the sky because its monolithic primary mirror was ever so slightly misshapen. Visiting astronauts had to fit corrective optics to the observatory - to, in effect, give Hubble a set of spectacles.
JWST is designed in such a way that the same mistake cannot be repeated - but the systems that should guarantee its perfect vision must first be demonstrated in the extreme conditions they will experience in space.
Lander explains: "One of the lessons from Hubble was if you have one big mirror then you could have a problem. Whereas on JWST, we have 18 separate mirror segments and each mirror has motors on the back that we can then align to make all the mirror segments perfectly in focus."
Fibre optics will feed light to different parts of the telescope to see how the mirrors bounce the signal into Webb's four instruments.
An important goal of the coming weeks is to calibrate all of the optical systems - to have a benchmark against which engineers can begin to understand and troubleshoot any anomalies that might occur when Webb is stationed at its observing position some 1.5 million km from Earth.
Once it fully gets going, the Johnson testing regime should last about a month. It will then take another month for the telescope to be brought back up to ambient conditions, to allow the door of the 17m-high chamber - built originally to run the rule over Apollo hardware - to be opened.
Webb's next destination is California and a satellite factory belonging to Northrop Grumman. The telescope still has to be attached to the spacecraft "bus" that will shepherd it in orbit - and to the colossal sunshield that will shade its delicate investigations of the distant Universe.
As industrial prime contractor on the project, Northrop Grumman has produced a film to explain its work and the near three-decade effort that has gone into developing the biggest ever space telescope. It can be watched online.
One of its most amusing moments is when Nobel Prize winner and chief scientist John Mather considers whether Webb's optics could sense the heat energy of a bumblebee at a distant equivalent to that of the Moon. It could, he concludes: "You have to take a time exposure to get something that sensitive; the bumblebee shouldn't move. The bumblebee has to hold still, but of course the most distant Universe looks as though it is standing still."
Northrop Grumman astrophysicist Alberto Conti has been travelling through Europe to promote Webb with the film. He says he hopes the epic scale of the project will prompt many young people into a STEM profession.
"We need to show people that not only the science is cool but that it’s really inspiring. And every single bit counts," he told BBC News.
"It doesn’t matter if you're an engineer or a scientist trying to figure out how you can do it; you just want to excite a new generation. It takes a village, as they say; it takes a lot of people to build complex machines like this."
The James Webb Space Telescope is a joint endeavour between the US, European and Canadian space agencies.
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The former military Alouette aircraft crashed at Breighton Aerodrome, near Selby, North Yorkshire, on 17 July 2016.
Nigel Feetham, 36, from Hedon, East Yorkshire, died a week later in hospital.
Investigators also noted there was "no technical failure" with the helicopter.
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In its report, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the aircraft exceeded the 1,361kg limit by nearly 15kg.
All four passengers suffered head, back, chest and leg injuries when the aircraft crashed to the ground of the former World War Two airfield, which was hosting a 1940s-themed event at the time.
The AAIB said the flight manual for the SE-313B Alouette II helicopter stated if the aircraft was carrying excess weight then it "must be handled 'gently' at higher speeds and shallow approach angles are required".
It also recommended pilots "reduce speed before attempting sharp manoeuvres".
Investigators said the pilot had been "inviting different people for flights during the course of the day".
But for the fatal flight, he agreed to take four passengers he "hadn't originally planned to", which meant the helicopter "exceeded the flight manual limitation for maximum weight".
Witnesses said they heard a "crack" and a "very loud bang" after the aircraft performed several steep manoeuvres. The main rotor blades hit the tail boom before the helicopter crash landed, the AAIB said.
Airfield owner, the Real Aeroplane Company, said the helicopter was visiting the site where private owners of classic aircraft had gathered for the weekend.
After insisting Scotland were "red-hot favourites" to win at Murrayfield on Saturday, Jones has now changed tack.
He joked that he would apologise to Scotland coach Vern Cotter and is happy for his side to assume that mantle.
"The more talking he does about us, hopefully the less he's concentrating on England," said Laidlaw.
Laidlaw, who will win his 47th cap in the Six Nations opener, the same tally as his uncle Roy Laidlaw, was nonplussed about who should be considered favourites.
"You'll have to phone the bookmakers," he said. "I'm not a betting man. We just have to control the controllables. We will roll up our sleeves and we'll certainly be giving it our best shot.
"We'll go out there with confidence. We have to. We want to turn Murrayfield into a place that is extremely hard for visiting teams to come.
"We need to move on from the World Cup now. We've under-performed in the Six Nations in the past but no-one other than ourselves is going to give us a helping hand.
"We need to grab the opportunity. It's going to be a tough game. England have good players and a strong set-up but we know the task ahead."
Scotland have not beaten England in their last eight attempts since 2008, with one draw in 2010. They have only won their first game of the Six Nations once, in 2006, and have not scored a try against England at Murrayfield since 2004.
But Laidlaw, who was buoyed by watching Scotland's World Cup quarter-final performance against Australia back for the first time on Monday evening, says the Scots are "totally fixed" on consigning those statistics to history.
"Clearly Scotland have under-performed in the tournament in the past but us as a team, this is our time in the jersey. If we can be the team who turned that around, that would be a great legacy for us to leave for the next group.
"The Six Nations is a momentum-based tournament so if you can win early it gives you confidence. Winning your home games is also extremely important. History shows a defeat in the first game is not good, so it's a big game this weekend. We understand that.
"Watching the Australia game for the first time in full, I got excited. I was able to take the emotion away from it and crikey, we played some good rugby. It gave me a great feeling.
"The anger will never disappear but we can use it in the right way. I got a lot out of it. We played well but we could have played even better."
The two men were suspected members of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a militant group accused of links to previous attacks on bloggers, police said.
Mr Neel was hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes at his home in the capital Dhaka last week.
It was the fourth such killing of a secular blogger this year.
Police say the two men being held are key suspects in Mr Neel's murder.
Mr Neel's attackers had tricked their way into his home by saying they were looking to rent a flat.
Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government is indifferent to attacks on bloggers by Islamist militants.
In May, secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was killed by masked men with machetes in Sylhet. He was said to have received death threats from Islamist extremists.
In March, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Dhaka. Blogger Avijit Roy, who courted controversy by championing atheism and also tackling issues such as homosexuality, was killed in Dhaka in February.
Ensus stopped production at Wilton on Teesside in February 2015 blaming significantly reduced demand in Europe.
Commercial director Grant Pearson said, although the market had not picked up, government moves to increase the use of bioethanol in petrol could lead to increased demand.
Redcar MP Anna Turley said it was "a sign of confidence in the region".
The plant opened in 2009 but was mothballed in 2011 due to US competition and dwindling demand.
Production restarted in October 2012 after conditions improved but paused again in April 2013 because of rising energy costs and a poor harvest.
The facility was then taken over by German firm CropEnergies AG in July 2013 with production restarting the following October.
It stopped again at the beginning of last year.
At the time of the takeover Mr Pearson said it was good news after the firm's "rollercoaster ride".
The plant converts wheat into fuel grade alcohol, animal feed and carbon dioxide for the food and drinks industry and employs about 100 people.
The company expects to start the trial in July at the latest.
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said it was "beyond belief" that Carál Ní Chuilín was unaware of safety concerns until a committee meeting last month.
A safety expert said the 38,000-capacity stadium could not be evacuated safely in certain emergencies.
The minister said she was "confident" her role would stand up to scrutiny.
In a statement, Carál Ní Chuilín said Mr Nesbitt's comments were "without foundation".
"It is unbelievable that Mr Nesbitt would try to seek some form of political gain by suggesting that I would put people's lives in jeopardy in order to build a sporting stadium," she said.
"This issue is well above petty political point scoring.
"I have repeatedly stated that I will not compromise on safety and that no stadium will open without a valid safety certificate. That was the case for the Kingspan Stadium at Ravenhill and it will be the case for Windsor Park and Casement Park.
"It is encouraging, however, to note the new found interest of Mr Nesbitt in GAA stadia and I look forward to seeing him in the future in the new and safe Casement Park."
Last month, Paul Scott of Sport NI and the Safety Technical Group examining Casement, briefed the Culture, Arts and Leisure Committee about the redevelopment plan by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
Mr Scott said there was the potential for a disaster at the new stadium, like the Hillsborough tragedy.
He also told the committee he was put under "undue pressure" to approve plans for the new ground by officials from the minister's department. He said his concerns about safety had been "largely ignored".
Afterwards, Ms Ní Chuilín said she first heard of his allegations when he appeared before the committee. She said she was "absolutely confident that had concerns of that nature been raised with my officials before I would have heard about it".
However, on Wednesday, UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said it was "frankly inconceivable that a senior official in possession of the sort of briefing Paul Scott would have given, focused as he was on the possibility of a Hillsborough-style disaster in a 38,000-capacity stadium, would sit on that knowledge".
Mr Nesbitt called on members of the Committee for Culture Arts and Leisure to vote on Thursday to begin an inquiry.
Ms Chuilín has asked for a full review of the Casement Park project and has refuted the allegations.
A new consultation process is due to take place ahead of any fresh planning application.
Ms Ní Chuilín has said safety would always remain paramount.
Former Fifa officials Chuck Blazer, Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb are among those being sued by world football's governing body, which has submitted documents to US authorities.
Fifa has been in turmoil since allegations of corruption in May 2015.
In total, 41 individuals and entities have been charged by US authorities.
A US investigation exposed widespread corruption at the top of world football and Fifa esitmates millions of dollars were diverted from the sport illegally through bribery, kickbacks and corrupt schemes carried out by the defendants.
In a statement, Fifa described itself as a "victimised institution", with new president Gianni Infantino saying those convicted "abused positions of trust".
He added: "They caused serious and lasting damage to Fifa, its member associations and the football community.
"The monies they pocketed belonged to global football and were meant for the development and promotion of the game.
"Fifa as the world governing body of football wants that money back and we are determined to get it no matter how long it takes."
Infantino, 45, was elected as Fifa chief last month following the suspension of predecessor Sepp Blatter, who had been in charge of the governing body since 1998.
He said that once the money had been recovered, it would be directed back to its original purpose to benefit and develop international football.
Ifantino added: "These dollars were meant to build football fields, not mansions and pools; to buy football kits, not jewellery and cars; and to fund youth player and coach development, not to underwrite lavish lifestyles for football and sports marketing executives. "
Defender Scott Wharton gave the U's the lead against the run of play 10 minutes before half-time, glancing Harrison Dunk's corner across Glenn Morris and into the net.
Cambridge had previously been saved by the post when Andre Blackman's effort from distance bounced back off the inside of Will Norris' upright, before Norris produced a superb stop to keep out Jimmy Smith's effort from the edge of the box.
After the interval, Leon Legge nearly doubled the lead with another header from a corner, only for substitute keeper Yusuf Mersin to turn his effort over the bar.
With a minute to play, United sub Gerry McDonagh ran through on goal and was brought down by Josh Payne, who was sent off, with Luke Berry sealing the win from the subsequent penalty.
Shaun Derry's side must win at Wycombe next weekend to have any chance of making the top seven, while hoping for favourable results elsewhere.
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Match ends, Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Lewis Young.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Josh Payne (Crawley Town) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Penalty Cambridge United. Gerry McDonagh draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Josh Payne (Crawley Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Gerry McDonagh (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Medy Elito.
Foul by James Dunne (Cambridge United).
Matt Harrold (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Roberts (Crawley Town).
Medy Elito (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mark Connolly (Crawley Town).
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Harrold (Crawley Town).
Attempt missed. Matt Harrold (Crawley Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Gerry McDonagh (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Luke Berry (Cambridge United).
Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Jordan Roberts replaces Enzio Boldewijn.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Matt Harrold replaces Kaby.
Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Attempt missed. Josh Payne (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
James Collins (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
Foul by James Dunne (Cambridge United).
Kaby (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Collins (Crawley Town).
The site has been accused of tampering with its Trending Topics feature, promoting "progressive" views and websites over content presenting views from the American right.
Mr Zuckerberg has denied the reports - which first appeared on tech news site Gizmodo - were accurate, though the site did concede that the feature was controlled by human editors rather than a popularity algorithm.
After Wednesday's meeting at the company's headquarters in California, he wrote on his Facebook page: "This afternoon I hosted more than a dozen leading conservatives to talk about how we can make sure Facebook continues to be a platform for all ideas across the political spectrum.
"Silicon Valley has a reputation for being liberal. But the Facebook community includes more than 1.6 billion people of every background and ideology - from liberal to conservative and everything in between.
"We've built Facebook to be a platform for all ideas. Our community's success depends on everyone feeling comfortable sharing anything they want. It doesn't make sense for our mission or our business to suppress political content or prevent anyone from seeing what matters most to them."
Facebook earlier confirmed to the BBC that those travelling to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, included:
It is understood that several others declined Mr Zuckerberg's offer.
Matthew Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, wrote in a statement: "We will not be attending this meeting. We know one meeting cannot possibly resolve all of the above mentioned issues."
Glenn Beck, writing on his Facebook page, said: " It would be interesting to look him in the eye as he explains and a win for all voices if we can come to a place of real trust with this powerful tool.
"While they are a private business and I support their right to run it any way they desire without government interference, it would be wonderful if a tool like Facebook independently chose to hold up freedom of speech and freedom of association as a corporate principle."
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Heads and principals who have played a key role in turning around a school or college will get the letters, with a copy going to the education secretary.
Sir Michael Wilshaw set out the plan as he confirmed a switch to more frequent, but shorter Ofsted inspections.
Heads said the changes could make inspections fairer and more effective.
The plans are designed to encourage school leaders who put their careers on the line to tackle troubled schools.
In a speech in London, Sir Michael said: "Those leaders who are taking risks, putting themselves out and disseminating good practice beyond their own institution need to be celebrated as exceptional reformers."
On the move to shorten inspections, Sir Michael said it would "reduce the burden of inspection without losing the rigour which parents and the public rightly expect of Ofsted".
The new inspections will last a single day, rather than two days as at present, and be led by two senior inspectors or HMIs.
"Make no mistake, this a very different inspection model to what has gone before," Sir Michael said.
"The starting assumption of HMIs will be that the school or college is good. This should engender an atmosphere in which honest, challenging, professional dialogue can take place."
The changes are due to come into force in September along with changes to the way Ofsted inspectors are hired and managed.
More Ofsted inspectors will be drawn from staff in good and outstanding schools and colleges, for example.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "While we welcomed Ofsted's plan to carry out short inspections of 'good' schools rather than full inspections, we felt that schools likely to be downgraded, or upgraded, should immediately have the required full inspection rather than being kept in limbo. We are reassured that our advice has been acted upon.
"We are also pleased that the emphasis in Ofsted's revised school inspection handbook will be on assessing schools on the outcomes they achieve for students, particularly in terms of the progress made at school.
"We believe it is right that the inspection system should focus on outcomes, rather than telling schools how to teach. This is a step in the right direction."
Moore, 33, was picked by captain Davis Love III after losing to Rory McIlroy in a play-off at the Tour Championship.
Love III, who skippered the US team beaten in 2012, named Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar and JB Holmes as his other wildcard choices on 12 September.
This year's Ryder Cup will take place at Hazeltine National in Minnesota from 30 September to 2 October.
Love III made the announcement during the half-time break of Sunday night's televised NFL match between Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys.
The selection of rookie Moore, who is the world number 42, means there is no place in the US Ryder Cup team for two-time Masters champion and world number seven Bubba Watson, 37.
"Ryan fits so well with what we have in place. He's an easy-going, thoughtful guy, but don't be fooled. Ryan's a great match-play player with an incredible match-play record," said Love.
"He has guts and determination and everyone saw that on Sunday. We are thrilled to have him with us."
Brooks Koepka is the only other rookie in the US team.
Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed, Jimmy Walker, Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker and Zach Johnson qualified automatically by making the top eight of the money list.
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European captain Darren Clarke has named Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and rookie Thomas Pieters as his three wildcards.
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Two years ago the American team travelled to Scotland in the knowledge that they would not be fielding their strongest possible line-up.
At the time, the most in-form US player was Billy Horschel. He had not been selected because the team was picked before his late surge through the PGA Tour play-offs, culminating in Tour Championship victory at East Lake.
Chris Kirk was similarly inspired, winning the Deutsche Bank Championship, finishing fourth at the season finale and second to Horschel in the play-off standings. He too was absent from the American team.
The US have ensured they don't suffer a similar fate this time by introducing what is unofficially known as the "Horschel rule".
The 26-year-old was the Championship club's top scorer last season, with 20 goals in 48 games in all competitions.
Lansdown also said the Robins would not sell Kodjia to any Championship clubs.
"It would have to be a mega price to prize him away and it would have to be a Premier League side," Lansdown told BBC Radio Bristol. "People have talked about five or six million - no chance."
The former Angers front man, who signed for the club in July 2015 for around £2m, played 90 minutes as City beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 on Saturday in their first match of 2016-17 and their first home game in the fully-redeveloped Ashton Gate.
"We wouldn't sell him to anybody in in the Championship because we're looking to compete in the Championship this year, and he's an integral part of that," Lansdown added.
"If it's not £10 million-plus, we're not even looking at it. If it's £10 million-plus from a Championship club, we're still not looking at it.
"If somebody comes in with the right offer, you've got to look at it."
Uche Ikpeazu gave the U's the lead six minutes into the second half, running onto Conor Newton's pass and firing a rising effort past Ben Garratt.
Newton had missed the best chance of the first half, which the hosts had dominated, shooting wastefully off target when well placed following Harrison Dunk's pass.
Full-back Greg Taylor doubled the lead on the hour, robbing Chris Dagnall and unleashing a stunning effort which flew home via the underside of the crossbar.
Despite being comprehensively outplayed, Crewe found a way back into the match eight minutes later through James Jones, who fired a fine low effort across Will Norris from just outside the box.
Piero Mingoia came closest to building Cambridge's advantage and sealing their fourth straight league win, forcing Garratt into a parry after being played in by Ikpeazu.
The U's are now seventh, having been bottom until the end of September.
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Match ends, Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Substitution, Cambridge United. George Maris replaces Luke Berry.
Attempt missed. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Uche Ikpeazu.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Harry Davis.
Conor Newton (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Max Clark replaces Harrison Dunk.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt saved. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the top left corner.
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Zoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Daniel Udoh replaces Ryan Lowe because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) because of an injury.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Lowe.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Charlie Kirk replaces Chris Dagnall.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Billy Bingham replaces Danny Hollands.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Oliver Turton.
Foul by Conor Newton (Cambridge United).
Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 0. Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Jones (Crewe Alexandra).
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Jones (Crewe Alexandra).
Goal! Cambridge United 1, Crewe Alexandra 0. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Conor Newton.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Jon Guthrie.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
It said those travelling to the continent should take plenty of food and water and check with travel operators before starting out.
The Port of Dover says roads are clear and it is not expecting severe delays.
Last weekend drivers queued for up to 14 hours because of extra French security checks.
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Traffic going to the Port of Dover traffic should use the M20/A20, while drivers not planning to cross the channel should consider routes such as the B2011, A256 or A258, which may not be suitable for HGVs, KCC advised.
The Port of Dover said anyone travelling to the port should be "properly prepared".
KCC said it has delivered 52,300 2-litre bottles of water to the Dover coastguard from where it can be distributed to delayed motorists if necessary.
Writing on the Conservative Home website on Thursday, Charlie Elphicke, Tory MP for Dover and Deal, said: "It seems every summer there is travel chaos in Kent.
"If this happened at Heathrow there would be uproar.
"But it's somehow seen as okay for tens of thousands of holidaymakers and truckers to be stuck in the sweltering heat all day long without water, food, information or toilet facilities," he wrote.
"You can't help but get the impression that travelling from the Channel Ports is looked down upon and far less of a priority than the elite jet-set."
The pair were appointed in December when Martin Allen departed to become manager of National League Eastleigh.
"Henry was instrumental in bringing through a number of our talented youngsters while he was academy manager," a club statement said.
"Everyone at the club would like to wish Henry all the best for the future."
Barnet say Newman left the club on Sunday, after winning four of 11 games in joint charge with Eames.
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Coleman says he will step down when his current contract expires at the end of the 2018 World Cup campaign.
He guided Wales to the Euro 2016 semi-finals in their first appearance at a major tournament in 58 years.
"Hopefully we'll be able to persuade him to stay on because what we've done over the past few years has been sensational," Roberts said.
"I haven't spoken to him about it yet. The plan is to get to Russia. I'm hoping there's 12 months until that decision has to be acted upon.
"During that time I'll certainly be talking to him about it. I know how much he's enjoyed the experience leading this group of players, leading the team behind the team, and leading the nation.
"He's obviously done a remarkable job. Anything's possible in football. Things change very quickly. Hopefully on this occasion Chris will change his mind."
Coleman's side drew 1-1 away to Serbia in their recent World Cup qualifier to remain unbeaten in their group.
Wales are currently four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland in group D, with four matches remaining.
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Only the winners of the nine European World Cup qualifying groups will advance automatically to next year's finals in Russia, while the eight best runners-up enter the play-offs.
However, Roberts still believes finishing top is a realistic aim and is not ready to concede that Wales cannot win the group.
"All we can do is focus on the games coming up in September. Win those and see where it takes us," he said.
"But we know that we have to take maximum points really, and that's well within the reach of this group of players.
"The aim is to finish top of the group. If that doesn't happen we'll have to aim for the play-off spot. But we're prepared for either [scenario]."
After beating Moldova in their opening game in the group, Wales have drawn their last five matches.
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But Roberts says the coaching team have been happy with the performances.
"We've created more chances than the opposition in each of those games. So it's fine lines," he said.
"When we look at the games against Serbia - in the home game, they had one effort on target and they scored. And yet again last week they get one effort on target and they score.
"It's very difficult to stop a team for 90 minutes from getting one effort on target.
"Based on statistics, we've been really unlucky not to get maximum points out of most of the games, apart from [the 1-1 draw] with Georgia. That's the only game we didn't deserve maximum points.
"But we are where we are. We've got to continue to work hard. And we've got to continue to be effective in that final third, in particular in open play."
But Russia said the partnership agreement, also signed by two other ex-Soviet states Georgia and Moldova, would have "serious consequences".
The pact is the issue that triggered Ukraine's current crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said making Ukraine choose between Russia and the EU would split it in two.
A week-long ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in restive eastern Ukraine expired on Friday at 22:00 (19:00 GMT).
Rebel spokesmen had indicated they were willing to extend it to 30 June.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in Brussels to sign the pact, had said he would take a decision on an extension on Friday evening, after he arrived back in Kiev.
There is a general sense of irritation or perhaps even anger here that Moscow has failed to convince countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia not to sign this historic free trade deal today with the EU.
Moscow has economic concerns about these deals - it is worried that the Russian market could be flooded by cheap goods from the EU that would hit Russian producers.
More pressing for Moscow are the geopolitical concerns here - the whole idea of former Soviet states, countries that Moscow still views as being within its sphere of influence, drifting towards Europe and one day possibly becoming part of the EU - that really grates with Moscow, particularly in the case of Ukraine.
There's a lot of concern about what could happen in eastern Ukraine - the ceasefire announced a few days ago by Mr Poroshenko, and the ceasefire announced by armed separatist rebels, is due to expire today. It's unclear how things are going to develop later.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had said he would welcome an extension, but not if it were simply an ultimatum for separatists to lay down their arms.
Mr Putin insisted on a long-term ceasefire to allow for negotiations between the Ukrainian government and separatists, urging Mr Poroshenko to embark on a "path of peace, dialogue and accord".
Mr Putin said: "There is bloodshed in the south-east Ukraine, humanitarian catastrophe, tens of thousands of refugees have to look for shelter, on Russian territory."
Mr Putin said that "attempts to force on the Ukrainian people an artificial choice between Europe and Russia brought [a split] to society, a painful internal confrontation".
The refusal of Mr Poroshenko's predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, to sign the EU deal, under pressure from Russia, had led to protests in Kiev and his eventual overthrow this year.
In Brussels, Mr Poroshenko hailed the 1,200-page Association Agreement as a turning point, describing it as a "symbol of faith and unbreakable will".
"What a great day! It is a historic day, maybe the most important day since independence," he said.
Mr Poroshenko also said he saw the signing as the start of preparations for joining the EU bloc.
The pact binds the three countries more closely to the West both economically and politically.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy described the pacts as a "great day for Europe".
But Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said there would "undoubtedly be serious consequences for Ukraine's and Moldova's signing".
The Kremlin immediately said it would take "all the necessary measures" against Ukraine.
Russia has warned it will hit Ukraine with punishing trade restrictions.
It could withdraw Ukraine's duty-free benefits as a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The European Council on Friday also issued a policy statement on Ukraine, setting out key steps it expected to happen by Monday, including the return of three key checkpoints to Ukrainian forces and the "launch of substantial negotiations on the implementation of President Poroshenko's peace plan".
Mr Poroshenko set out a 15-point peace plan on 20 June. It involves decentralising power and holding early local and parliamentary elections.
It also proposes the creation of a 10km (six-mile) buffer zone on the Ukrainian-Russian border, and a safe corridor for pro-Russian separatists to leave the conflict areas.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Russia the EU was prepared for "drastic measures" if there was no speedy progress on Mr Poroshenko's peace plan.
French President Francois Hollande said more measures would be taken if there was no progress after Sunday, when he and Mrs Merkel will speak to Mr Putin by phone.
Fighting is said to have continued in some areas of eastern Ukraine despite the ceasefire.
But rebels have now released four international observers captured more than a month ago.
More than 420 people have been killed in fighting between pro-Russia rebels and government forces in eastern Ukraine since mid-April, the UN estimates.
The separatists have declared independence, claiming that extremists have taken power in Kiev.
Their move followed Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
Shiloh Moore, 21, of Elmbridge Road, Deptford, appeared before Wimbledon magistrates and was held in custody.
Two others are in custody after being charged with the same offence.
Nassem, 17, was killed on 26 September when he crashed his car after a concrete block was hurled at it on the Turnham estate in Brockley, south-east London.
Tershan Thompson-Williams, 21, of Seager Place, Deptford; and Remi Moore, 22, of Lea Bridge Road, Leyton; were charged with violent disorder earlier this month.
Mr Thompson-Williams is due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court later this month, and Mr Moore in November.
Officers were called to reports of a fight on the estate which flared up before the car was attacked.
The suspects ran off afterwards, leaving passers-by to rush to the aid of Nassem and two friends who were in the car with him. A post-mortem examination revealed Nassem died as a result of multiple injuries.
A Muslim cleric in Izbat Marco, a village in Beni Suef province, said he saw the boys, aged nine and 10, take pages of the Koran and urinate on them.
A Coptic priest said local Islamists attended demonstrations calling for revenge for the desecration of a Koran.
Human rights groups say allegations of contempt of religion are on the rise.
Seventeen cases have been filed since the 2011 uprising, many of them against Copts, who make up about 10% of Egypt's 82 million people.
Tensions have also been heightened in the past month by the posting online of Innocence of Muslims - an amateur video made by a Coptic Christian in the US which mocks Islam and has sparked violent protests worldwide.
A neighbour of the boys detained in Izbat Marco said he doubted the allegations were true because they were illiterate and could not have recognised the Koran.
"We brought one boy and asked him if he knew this is the Koran. He didn't know it was the Koran. He can't even read or write, like most kids in the village," he told the Associated Press news agency.
The neighbour said a police office had detained the boys for their own safety because Islamists from outside the village had gathered at the mosque calling for revenge.
"We begged him to leave the kids. They can't spend night outside their home. The officer said he feared for their lives and he wanted to keep them with him."
On Thursday, a senior security official in Beni Suef, Gen Attiya Mazrou, said police had been ordered to release the boys, but that they would remain under investigation.
The entertainment organisation has tweeted that WWE Network will start in the UK and Ireland on 19 January.
The subscription video-on-demand service will be available just before the Royal Rumble 2015, which takes place in the US on 25 January.
"This time we really mean it," said WWE CEO Vince McMahon, confirming the news in a video statement.
"You've been waiting a long time for the WWE Network and we thank you for your patience."
In October, the company blamed delays to the launch of the UK branch of the service on ongoing "discussions with potential partners".
It promised an announcement of the new date by 1 November, but this was again delayed.
WWE is currently broadcast exclusively on Sky Sports with pay per view events such as WrestleMania and Royal Rumble sold for £15 on Sky Box Office.
Sky signed a new deal in 2014 with WWE to broadcast 12 pay per view events every year from January 2015 until 2019 exclusively in the UK and Ireland.
At the time managing director of Sky Sports, Barney Francis, said: "WWE is brilliant entertainment and I am delighted to once again extend our relationship with them.
"WWE is hugely popular with our viewers and now they can continue to watch all the big events and weekly programmes with us."
The WWE Network was launched in the US just before WrestleMania XXX in April 2014 and costs $9.99 (£6.16) a month with a minimum six-month contract.
Users get access to library matches and a daily live show as well as pre and post-match extras.
In the UK, subscriptions will be priced at £9.99 and there will be no minimum commitment.
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Mr Carney said he believed that those chosen should represent the diversity of great British historical figures.
He wrote a letter in response to a Conservative MP who is disappointed that the appearance of Sir Winston Churchill on a new £5 note leaves no female characters on the currency.
Mr Carney said discussions began on his first day in office on Monday.
Mary Macleod is the Conservative MP for Brentford and Isleworth and chairwoman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in Parliament.
She told Mr Carney that the decision to leave no women on banknotes when Elizabeth Fry is replaced by Sir Winston Churchill was "completely unrepresentative of the role that women have played and continue to play in our country's history."
"The symbolism of having no women on our banknotes leaves a chasm where there was once inspiration."
In reply, Mr Carney said that it was not the Bank's intention to leave women unrepresented and that he was already discussing with his new colleagues the best way to ensure that the currency celebrated a diverse range of figures, both now and in the future.
"Like you, I consider Sir Winston Churchill to be an excellent choice to appear on a banknote," he said.
"However, I fully recognise that, with Sir Winston replacing Elizabeth Fry as the character on the £5 note - in the absence of any other changes to the Bank of England's notes - none of the four characters on our notes would be a woman."
"That is not the bank's intention."
Mr Carney added that he expected to make a public announcement once his discussions have been completed, no later than the end of July.
The Bank of England issues nearly a billion banknotes each year, and withdraws almost as many from circulation.
Notes are redesigned on a relatively frequent basis, in order to maintain security and prevent forgeries. Other security features include threads woven into the paper and microlettering.
The most recent new design from the Bank of England was the £50 note, which entered circulation in November. This features Matthew Boulton and James Watt who were most celebrated for bringing the steam engine into the textile manufacturing process.
Close by, his neighbours make bricks, grow vegetables and run shops such as cafes, a bakery, a barber's salon and a tattoo studio.
All the workers are inmates living at Punta de Rieles, a progressive "open" prison just outside the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo.
"We never imagined we would have something like this," said Campo, 50, who has spent 23 years behind bars for bank robbery.
"It's a model prison which offers opportunities you don't find anywhere else."
With incidents of prison violence recently hitting the headlines around Latin America, particularly in Brazil where more than 100 people died in January alone in a series of riots, the liberal philosophy behind Punta de Rieles offers an alternative view of how correctional institutions can be operated.
Its director, Luis Parodi, is a former schoolteacher who believes that "if the context changes, the man changes" and who runs his prison based on three fundamental elements: work, education and culture.
"We want to provide the best daily life possible, so prisoners can sleep peacefully and do not feel humiliated, scared or fearful," Mr Parodi told the BBC.
By creating a "village" which mimics the outside world as closely as conditions allow, he hopes to ease the rocky transition when prisoners return to freedom.
Many of the 630 inmates at Punta de Rieles are approaching the end of their sentences.
With the national re-offending rate estimated at around 50%, Mr Parodi often tells departing prisoners to "call me before you think about stealing something", and gives out his personal phone number.
Uruguay's prison population has more than doubled since 2000. Prisons are currently 9% over their capacity.
In this nation of 3.4 million inhabitants, 10,416 people were serving custodial sentences in 2016.
In 2009, a UN Special Rapporteur expressed concern about the country's penitentiary system, describing "sub-human conditions" in which inmates at one prison were held "like animals in metal boxes" for nearly 24 hours per day.
At Punta de Rieles, prisoners can circulate freely within the prison boundaries until 19:00.
Many use mobile phones to stay in touch with the outside world, and some are allowed tablets or computers.
Inside the cells, which are typically shared between four people, they are allowed to have televisions, games consoles, refrigerators and musical instruments.
Families can visit three times per week, and overnight stays have been allowed since 2015.
In many cases, family members assist inmates who run businesses which sell their wares outside, like Cesar Campo's carpentry workshop.
Of 38 active "companies", 35 were started by prisoners themselves, and another is run by several former inmates who still return to work at the prison.
All business owners pay a small tax, which is used to provide micro-credit loans for inmates opening a new venture.
Successful start-ups are also registered with Uruguayan tax authorities, and Luis Parodi's latest initiative enables prisoners to open bank accounts from inside.
Another of Mr Parodi's unconventional ideas was to create a security force comprised almost entirely of unarmed female guards.
"At first I was scared, but not for long," said Ines Marcos, who has been working at Punta de Rieles for three-and-a-half years. "I wouldn't say we're like their mothers, but we give the right advice, like a guide or a sister who helps them out."
Sport and cultural activities are offered to complement education programmes.
A colourful music studio in the main cell block rumbles with noise at all hours of the day as bands practise.
"Instead of staying inside, cutting your arms or building up rage against the police, we do something positive," said Santiago Garrido, 28, who plays in a rock group and teaches guitar to fellow inmates.
"It's a way of channelling our energy. If we didn't do this, our heads would be thinking about other stuff," he added.
"The need to save ourselves is fundamental."
Garrido's group is currently working on an album that will be recorded at a studio outside the prison.
With members of a theatre workshop, he frequently performs at other penitentiaries and in public, including a show at the Uruguayan parliament last year.
Adriano Baraldo, 29, is an actor and singer who is serving a 19-year sentence for armed robbery.
"I recognise that I've done bad things," he says.
"I shouldn't have left my children [to grow up like] orphans."
"Prisons are the sewer of the capitalist system, but people can always learn to recycle themselves."
The 25-year-old former Newcastle United trainee made 110 appearances for the U's over three seasons, but was restricted by injuries last campaign.
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The final result came in Fermanagh and South Tyrone where UUP's Tom Elliott lost to Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew.
Former SDLP party leaders Mark Durkan, Margaret Ritchie and Alasdair McDonnell were toppled in Foyle, South Down and Belfast South.
In Foyle, Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion won by 169 votes after a recount.
She is the first non-SDLP MP to win the seat since the Foyle constituency was formed in 1983.
Mr Durkan said the loss "hurt" and apologised to former SDLP leader John Hume, who was the constituency's MP from 1983 to 2005.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was a "very difficult night" for the party and paid tribute to the party's three former MPs.
Meanwhile, the DUP celebrated a resurgence with a 10% increase in their vote share, a return to a level of support they last enjoyed in the 2005 general election.
The confirmed results saw the DUP win 10 seats, Sinn Féin win seven and independent candidate Lady Sylvia Hermon retain her seat in North Down.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said she was "absolutely delighted" with the result, and that it showed the voters had bought into the party's vision.
Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin's northern leader, ruled out the prospect of the party taking its seats at Westminster.
The Conservatives are on course to be the largest party but may not have an overall majority, which may make Northern Ireland's 18 MPs crucial in the balance of power.
In South Down, Ms Ritchie lost to Sinn Féin's Chris Hazzard while the DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly won the seat in Belfast South from Dr McDonnell.
The UUP's Danny Kinahan lost his seat in South Antrim to the DUP's Paul Girvan.
Politics here has turned another corner.
The middle-ground parties have been wiped from Westminster and the DUP will be Northern Ireland's only voice on the green benches.
Playing the union and border poll card has paid off for the DUP and Sinn Féin.
The polarisation of politics has moved to another level.
The upshot may well be a coming together of the unionist parties while the SDLP are likely to look south to Fianna Fail to find their way back from the wilderness.
Lady Sylvia Hermon retained her seat in North Down but had her majority of over 9,000 votes cut to around 1,200 by DUP candidate Alex Easton.
The DUP's Jim Shannon, Jeffrey Donaldson, Gregory Campbell, Gavin Robinson, Ian Paisley, Nigel Dodds, David Simpson and Sammy Wilson retained their seats in Strangford, Lagan Valley, East Londonderry, Belfast East, Belfast North, Upper Bann and East Antrim.
Sinn Féin's Paul Maskey, Mickey Brady and Francie Molloy also retained their seats in Belfast West, Newry and Armagh and Mid-Ulster while Barry McElduff won in West Tyrone.
A total of 109 candidates stood across Northern Ireland and 1.2m people were eligible to vote.
The general election exit poll indicated that the Conservatives will be the largest party at Westminster but may not secure an overall majority.
If this proves correct, Northern Ireland's 18 MPs may become crucial in the formation of a government.
The discovery could explain why seabirds such as the albatross swallow plastic, causing injury or death.
The smell, similar to the odour of rotting seaweed, is caused by the breakdown of plankton that sticks to floating bits of plastic.
About 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic and may keep some in their bellies, putting their health at risk.
The rate of plastic pollution is increasing around the world, with a quarter of a billion tonnes of plastic waste recorded in the oceans in 2014.
Scientists think seabirds associate the smell of plastic with food - and are tricked into swallowing plastic waste.
"These seabirds actually use odours to find their way around in the world and to find food," said Matthew Savoca, of University of California, Davis.
"We found a chemical on plastic that these birds typically associate with food, but now it's being associated with plastic.
"And so these birds might be very confused - and tricked into consuming plastic as food."
In experiments, scientists at the University of California put microbeads into mesh bags and dangled them in the ocean.
After three weeks at sea, they analysed the plastic for chemical signatures.
Nothing was found on new plastic samples, but three types of plastic in the sea acquired a distinctive chemical smell.
The chemical - dimethyl sulfide - has a characteristic sulphurous odour associated with boiling cabbage or decaying seaweed.
It is also produced in the oceans through the breakdown of microscopic algae or phytoplankton, which collects on plastic.
Seabirds with a keen sense of smell, including albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, can detect this odour, which they associate with food.
Thus, smells as well as visual cues - such as shiny plastic - may attract seabirds to plastic.
Co-researcher Prof Gabrielle Nevitt, also from UC Davis, said species such as petrels were likely to be affected by plastic ingestion.
"These species nest in underground burrows, which are hard to study, so they are often overlooked," she said.
"Yet, based on their foraging strategy, this study shows they're actually consuming a lot of plastic and are particularly vulnerable to marine debris."
The researchers are calling for more research to see if other animals - such as fish, penguins and turtles - are also drawn to plastic by chemicals.
And they say it might be possible to develop plastics that either do not attract algae or break down more quickly in the environment.
Even knowing which species are most at risk based on the way they find food is informative - because it helps us - the scientific community - figure out how to best allocate monitoring and conservation effort to those species most at need," said Dr Savoca.
The research is published in the journal Science Advances.
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They said he had severe dementia.
Sommer, 93, was one of 10 ex-Nazi officers found guilty in absentia in Italy of one of the country's worst civilian wartime massacres.
He was convicted for his role in the murders of 560 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in August 1944.
The Nazis, who were retreating in northern Italy ahead of Allied troops, surrounded the village early on 12 August and in the space of a few hours murdered men, women and 119 children.
Sommer was serving at the time in an SS Panzer division. He now lives in a nursing home in Hamburg-Volksdorf and tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi criminals.
Hamburg lawyer Gabriele Heinecke, who has campaigned on behalf of the victims' families to put him on trial, said she was unhappy with the way specialists had reached the conclusion that Sommer was suffering from dementia.
When asked by Berlin website Tageszeitung if she thought dementia could be faked, Ms Heinecke said: "Of course. In matters of pensions it's something that happens every day."
The decision to drop the trial comes as Oskar Groening, another 93-year-old former Nazi, described as "The Bookkeeper of Auschwitz" is being tried in Germany on at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.
For years, attempts have been made to put Sommer on trial in Germany, and prosecutors in Hamburg said if he had been deemed fit he would "with high probability have been charged with 342 cases of murder, committed cruelly and on base motives".
In 2012, the case was dropped for lack of evidence after a 10-year investigation, but it was eventually re-opened in August last year.
Police say he attacked officers with a large knife after being approached by a Boston police officer and an FBI agent.
The shooting took place early on Tuesday morning outside a CVS pharmacy in the residential Roslindale neighbourhood of Boston.
Officials say the man, identified as 26-year-old Usaama Rahim, had been under 24 hour surveillance.
Police and FBI officials would not comment on any ties to Islamic extremism, or whether Mr Rahim had been planning a terrorist act.
Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans described the man as "known suspect wanted for some terrorist-related information", but he said there was no warrant for his arrest.
Officers approached the man without drawing their guns intending to interview him on the street, officials said.
They did not intend to take him into custody at that time, although officials acknowledge he was considered a threat to the public.
"He's someone we were watching for quite a time... and so that level of alarm brought us to question him today," Mr Evans said.
"I don't think anyone expected the reaction we were going to get out of him today, and that's why we had the tragic turnout here."
Iman Ibrahim Rahim, a religious leader in San Francisco, had posted to his Facebook page saying his brother was shot in the back while waiting for a bus to bring him to his job, contradicting police reports.
"This morning while at the bus stop in Boston, my youngest brother Usaama Rahim was waiting for the bus to go to his job. He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times," Iman Rahim wrote.
Iman Rahim says his brother was speaking on the phone with his father when he was shot.
"His last words to my father who heard the shots were: I can't breathe!"
Officials say the man refused multiple orders to drop his weapon before charging at the officers.
"Our officers tried their best to get him to put down the knife,'' Mr Evans told the Boston Globe newspaper.
"Unfortunately, they had to take a life.''
Police say witnesses and video confirm that the officers were retreating when they each fired shots at Rahim, who was wielding a "military style knife".
The suspect was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead from at least two gunshot wounds.
The two officers are in hospital to be examined for stress, but did not suffer physical injuries, police said.
An investigation will be conducted by Boston Police and the FBI to determine if the shooting was justified.
A home in the nearby town of Everett was being searched in connection with the case.
Officials say there is no threat to public safety.
Governing body British Cycling said there had been a 25% increase in Welsh members in the last year.
About 70% of them are competitive cyclists with the rest including commuters.
The rise has been in part to the success of Nicole Cooke and GB cyclists who took eight golds at Beijing.
British Cycling said the pastime in Britain had "never been in better health".
Gold Olympian and Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins is just one of the high-profile names who are said to be part of an upsurge in interest into the sport.
The attention on Thursday turns to Cardiff cyclist Geraint Thomas, who won gold in Beijing, as the GB team pursuit take to the track in the Velodrome.
And cycling clubs around Wales are preparing for a rush of new members as people are inspired by this success.
Phil Graham, secretary of Swansea Wheelers Cycling Club, said: "I'm a solicitor and I was with a client on Monday and we spent half an hour talking about her wanting her kids to go out cycling and join a club.
"She had been watching the Olympic [cycling] road race. Until she had watched that, she had no idea how the racing worked.
"I suspect if there was no coverage of it on the TV she wouldn't have known about it."
Mr Graham said that the Beijing Olympics in 2008 was an important factor in the increased interest in the sport.
"Wiggins himself would say it's not an overnight thing. It's definitely been growing," he said.
"In the past 12 months, our average attendance has gone up about 20%."
Other clubs around Wales have enjoyed similar success in attracting new riders.
Dax Jenkins, chairman of Pontypool Road Cycling Club in Torfaen, said it had doubled its membership in the past three years.
"That's because of the success of the cyclists at the Olympic Games [in Beijing]," he said.
"I would say the success the British lads are having has been building for the past five years.
"It's promoted an interest in cycling and we've noticed a surge in membership."
He said the success of British cyclists had been "phenomenal".
"We've got Geraint Thomas as well. I think he's going to concentrate on the road racing the next few years and we will see him making an impact," he said.
Mr Jenkins said he had noticed an increase in the number of people who were using bicycles to commute to work.
Director of development for Welsh Cycling, Ian Jenkins, said there had been a "real surge" in recreational cycling, including organised non-competitive events, due to the interest sparked by the elite riders.
"That was triggered off by Beijing but we're expecting another spike this year with Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de France and all the Olympic coverage that's upon us," he said.
"I think the other key thing since Beijing is that we've almost doubled our under-16 membership.
"It's very important to us because we're bringing youngsters into the sport."
But there is concern that seeing elite cyclists on the television may give the message that it is a sport only for ultra-fit athletes.
Lee Waters, director of sustainable transport group Sustrans Cymru, said: "One of the barriers is that people feel they are not fit enough for it.
"There's a danger people might get put off by somebody like Bradley Wiggins from giving cycling a go.
"Having said that, it's very high profile and very positive so we expect it to inspire people to try it, which is fantastic, but we also want the message to be that you don't have to be like this to have a go."
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The 28-year-old, who previously said he would be missing for three months, has now stated that he will be out for between four and six months.
Nasri posted a picture of himself with former Arsenal team-mate Marouane Chamakh on his Instagram account.
"Just had surgery everything went really well hopefully will be back in 4 to 6 months," he wrote.
Nasri has made eight appearances for City this season - scoring once in the 2-0 win at Everton in August - but has started only two games.
The France international has not featured since coming on as a second-half substitute in the 5-1 Premier League win over Bournemouth on 17 October.
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Darren Owen, 51, received seven years and four months after pleading guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and dangerous driving including ramming a police car.
Lee Brearley, 35, was given three years and two months after admitting conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
The south Wales pair were arrested in Rhondda Cynon Taff on 6 December 2014.
Police saw packages being exchanged between the pair in a lane between Ynysybwl and Perthcelyn.
Both drove at high speeds to evade capture, damaging police vehicles, injuring officers and causing damage to property nearby.
A kilogram of cocaine with a street value of £375,000 was found in Brearley's car.
After ramming a police vehicle head-on, Owen ran off on foot, with police finding a carrier bag containing £35,500 in cash nearby.
The 34-year-old won 79 caps and was part of manager Michael O'Neill's squad at the Euro 2016 finals in France.
He played his final game for Northern Ireland in their opening game of the tournament, a defeat by Poland in Nice.
"I am not getting any younger and I feel it is the right thing to do at this stage," said Baird.
The versatile County Antrim man made his debut against Italy in 2003 and has played at right-back, centre-back and more recently as a defensive midfielder for his country.
He lined out in nine of the 10 qualification games that took O'Neill's side to Euro 2016.
"It was a tough decision because I have enjoyed every single minute that I have played for Northern Ireland," added the former Southampton, Fulham and West Bromwich Albion player, who also had spells with Reading and Burnley.
"Qualification for Euro 2016 was the icing on the cake for my international career, but I have so many fantastic memories, like the win over England and beating Spain.
"I am fortunate to have lined out with some great players over the past 13 years and I would like to thank the managers, coaches and Irish FA staff that I have worked over that time.
"I would also like to thank the Northern Ireland fans who have been absolutely tremendous. It is true - they are the best supporters in the world."
O'Neill added: "Chris has been an absolute rock for me in the four years that I have been in charge. His defensive qualities, his reading of the game and his experience have been invaluable, especially in our Euro 2016 qualification campaign.
"In addition to his football ability, he is also a fantastic person and we will miss him around the squad.
"Chris has been a tremendous servant to Northern Ireland. I fully respect his decision to retire from international football at this stage and I wish him every success as he continues his highly successful club career."
Players and officials have given mixed reactions to the panel being set up by world football's governing body.
They are accused by the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) of attempting to fix a goalless draw 2010 World Cup qualifier against South Africa in Pretoria.
Eleven officials and four players, who have all denied any wrongdoing. have been suspended since 2014 pending an investigations.
The SLFA president Isha Johansen confirmed the establishment of the Fifa panel on Thursday.
"An international investigative body is being set up which will, together with one appointed person from Sierra Leone look into the match fixing allegations," she said.
However one of the officials being looked into, Rodney Michael the former chairman of Sierra Leone Premier League board, is questioning the legality of the Fifa body.
"I am revered for demanding adherence to the principles of transparency, accountability and constitutionality and thus will only appear before a legitimate body," Michael told BBC Sport.
"Fifa has always maintained internal issues do not fall under their remit.
"Fifa will have to justify the sudden change of policy in setting up their committee rather than use the independent ethics board elected by the SLFA Congress.
"My position is purely on principles and not in fear, as I have adequate evidence to prove my innocence in front of any committee."
Another of those accused, who preferred to remain anonymous, agreed with Michael's interpretation of the SLFA rules but also welcomed the move.
"It's a total contravention of the SLFA constitution. But if that will help speed the process that has stalled for over three years, then let it be," he said.
"Am tired of the time wasted and am pretty sure I will be vindicated because I don't have anything wrongfully to hide or to answer to."
"I hope they will do it fast and clear our names because I'm confident that I'm innocent."
One of the players accused is the former Leone Stars goalkeeper Christian Caulker, who is currently based in USA, is happy with the latest developments.
"We welcome the investigations. This is what we've been calling for," Caulker told BBC Sport.
"We've been suspended for three years now without any investigations and it has seriously affected our careers.
"They should compensate us for tarnishing our reputation and wasting of time if they don't find us guilty. I know I'm innocent.
Johansen's statement came a week before her executive's term of office comes to an end it remains unclear whether she will stand for re-election.
However elections will not be held on or before 3 August after Fifa suspended the SLFA ordinary congress that should have paved way for an elective congress.
When Eliza Small started seriously restricting her eating two years ago, she was referred for specialist help.
Her family had a history of eating disorders. But she was refused specialist outpatient mental health treatment because her body mass index (BMI) was too high.
''It made me feel like I wasn't good enough at my eating disorder," she said.
"It made me feel like I would have to get better at it.''
Which she did. A family member eventually paid for her to have private treatment and she was diagnosed with atypical anorexia - all the symptoms but not the right weight.
But what is the right weight?
Prof Tim Kendall, England's most senior mental health adviser, says weight shouldn't come into it.
''If you leave an eating disorder until it's got to the point where, say with anorexia, they've lost say a third of their body weight, that has a lot of longer-term consequences which make it very difficult to treat, so it's wrong in my view to leave this until it's got very bad.
"To be told you're not thin enough - it's almost an incitement to get worse. It's like someone going to their GP and being told - you drink one bottle of whisky a day right now? Come back when you drink two.''
Prof Kendall believes patient choice is important and community care has a much better chance of success. It should never be withdrawn, he says, and hospital treatment should be enforced only in the most extreme cases.
Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) state that on its own, BMI is an unreliable measure of an eating disorder.
BBC Breakfast asked all 62 mental health trusts in England and Wales if they used BMI to decide who would qualify for outpatient eating disorder services.
Of the 44 trusts which responded, one-third said they did.
All said they used it along with other indicators - such as the speed of weight loss. Three trusts, however, said it was a primary measure. They were Derbyshire, Coventry and Kent and Medway.
In some areas, patients might be refused access to services if their BMI was over 14. In others, like Kent and Medway, if it was over 17.5.
Some trusts said they had a minimum threshold under which people might be refused outpatient services.
This is what happened to Claire: ''The first thing they did was weigh me and tell me my BMI was too low.
"I would have to go to hospital. I didn't want to, I'd had a bad experience before and I thought I was making good progress as an outpatient. So I was left to my own devices.
"Everyone's eating-disorder experience is completely different, you can't put everybody in the same box - you have to listen to the person, to how they are feeling."
Sarah Hodge, from Kent and Medway Partnership Trust eating disorder service, said they would rather not use it as a measure at all, but the problem was resources.
''You can have much more success when people have a higher BMI, they're much better able to engage with the therapy. But we just don't have the resources.''
The Department of Health says more funding is on the way: "We are investing £150m to develop community services in every area of the country for children and young people." Eating disorder guidelines from NICE are being redrafted. The hope is some of these concerns will be addressed when new guidelines are published later in the year."
Eliza said: ''You wouldn't tell someone with cancer to come back when their condition had deteriorated, why tell someone with an eating disorder?"
725,000
people affected in the UK
11%
of patients are male
49% of those being treated in hospital are under 20
40% of patients have bulimia
10% are anorexic
50% have binge-eating diorders
Research from the eating disorders charity Beat suggests more than 725,000 people in the UK are affected by an eating disorder.
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence estimates around 11% of those affected by an eating disorder are male.
The Health and Care Information Centre published figures in February 2014 showing an 8% rise in the number of inpatient hospital admissions in the 12 months to October 2013.
It is estimated that around 40% of people with an eating disorder have bulimia, 10% anorexia, and the rest other conditions, such as binge-eating disorder.
Many eating disorders develop during adolescence, but it is not at all unusual for people to develop eating disorders earlier or later in life.
Source: Beat: Beating eating disorders.
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Update 4 August 2016: This story has been amended to remove the Cumbria trust from the list of trusts using BMI as a primary indicator. Although it told the BBC that BMI was a primary indicator, the trust has since stressed that it is one of a number of criteria used after a diagnosis of anorexia.
The scheme is believed to be England's biggest wireless broadband scheme, based on transmitter numbers, 120.
Six councils back wider plans to bring download speeds of 24Mbps to 80Mbps for 95% of Devon and Somerset by 2017.
Planning permission for masts to help carry broadband across moorland, wooded ravines, and farmland is being sought.
Phase one of the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) scheme began in 2013 and now supplies 220,000 homes and businesses - largely using "fibre to the cabinet" technology - a mixture of fibre optic and copper cables.
But phase two will see radio technology used to deliver wireless broadband with speeds of up to 30Mbps over the "geographically challenging" national parks, which cover an area between them of 1,646 km squared.
Somerset councillor David Hall said: "It's the biggest wireless broadband project in England and it will transform businesses and the lives of thousands of people on the moors."
The aim is to reach 5,800 homes, farms and businesses over an area roughly 1,646 sq/km using radios attached to masts or transmitters. Permission is sought for one 50m tall mast, some 25m tall masts and others averaging 12m tall.
Those behind the scheme say most transmitters will not be attached to masts - but to existing church towers, barns and other buildings or wooden telegraph poles, to limit the "visual impact to the Moors".
Most of the Dartmoor planning applications have now been submitted by CDS while the Exmoor applications have been designed and are due to be submitted shortly.
According to UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, the average UK broadband speed was 22.8Mbps as of November 2014, while rural speeds averaged a third of that.
Mr Santorum launched his campaign on Wednesday at an event in his home state, Pennsylvania.
The former senator won several key races in 2012, emphasising social issues like abortion and gay marriage.
But he may have trouble standing out in the crowded the field of 2016 Republican candidates.
Santorum stuck to his key themes of traditional family structure, increased support for middle-class working families and lower taxes in his speech.
"As middle America is hollowing out, we can't sit idly by," Santorum said. "We don't need another president who is tied to big government or big money. Today is the day we begin to fight back."
He also talked about supporting US war veterans and getting them access to healthcare quicker.
Santorum said if he is elected president, the US "will defeat ISIS".
If history were a good judge, Rick Santorum's 2012 second-place campaign performance should have left him well positioned for a 2016 bid to capture the party's top prize.
Mitt Romney went from runner-up in 2008 to nominee in 2012. John McCain took silver in 2000 and gold in 2008. George HW Bush, Bob Dole, even Ronald Reagan - all turned earlier losing efforts into eventual Republican nominations.
And yet Mr Santorum is already being treated by much of the media as a 2016 also-ran, and he registers toward the bottom of the pack in polls and money raised.
In early appearances he's tried to blend his trademark evangelical conservatism with foreign policy experience gained during his tenure in the Senate and a blue-collar pitch to working Americans. It's a combination that could distinguish him in this crowded field - but he's up against a formidable assortment of well-funded fresh faces and established names this time around.
Mr Santorum will compete against candidates like former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who have all been actively courting Mr Santorum's base of socially conservative and religious voters.
The sheer number of candidates for the White House has created logistical issues for debate moderators.
Fox News, which will host the first Republican debate, has decided to the limit the field to 10, based the candidates' standings in recent national polls.
Mr Santorum, who would just qualify for the debate based on recent polling, took issue with the Fox News decision, calling it arbitrary.
Balfour said its PPP contracts, which include long-term agreements to run projects such as schools and hospitals, were worth far more than the offer.
The company said that the loss of its PPP business would have an impact on its remaining operations.
Balfour shares plunged in September after the firm issued a profit warning.
The offer from the John Laing Infrastructure Fund "falls significantly short" of the value of the PPP portfolio, Balfour said.
"The directors' valuation of the PPP portfolio stood at £1.05bn, as at 28 June 2014," the company said.
"However, the group's targeted approach to selling individual assets as each investment matures, combined with the current and expected future strength of the market, leads the board to conclude that the realisable value of the PPP portfolio continues to be substantially in excess of the current directors' valuation," it added.
The company's shares closed 15.3% lower on the day it issued its profits warning in September, compounding concerns over the UK's biggest construction group.
Balfour Beatty said there would be a further shortfall of £75m this year in its UK construction services division, following two earlier profits warnings this year.
The company appointed accountants KPMG at the end of September to review the contract portfolio.
The offer, a record cash takeover, values Monsanto shares at $128 and will create a company worth $66bn (£50bn).
As well as farm-products, Bayer also sells healthcare products including Alka-Seltzer.
Monsanto is known for its genetically modified seeds for crops.
The use of such seeds is widespread in the US, but plans to introduce these into Europe have prompted fierce protests by environmental activists.
Bayer said feeding the world's population, which is expected to rise by around a third by 2050, was a massive challenge.
Werner Baumann, chief executive of Bayer, said the takeover would bring benefits across the board and deliver "substantial value to shareholders, our customers, employees and society at large".
The tie-up, which will give the new company control of more than 25% of the world's supply of seeds and pesticides, comes amid a wave of mergers in the agriculture sector.
Falling crop prices have seen farmers cutting back on buying seeds and agricultural chemicals, such as herbicides and pesticides, leading to lower profits for suppliers.
The industry has been fighting back in order to save business costs.
Rivals including Dow Chemical, DuPont and Syngenta have all announced tie-ups recently, although some have yet to be cleared by regulators.
Bayer's takeover of Monsanto is likely itself to attract close scrutiny from anti-competition regulators because of the sheer size of the combined company and the control it would have over the global seeds and sprays markets.
Farming groups have raised concerns that such mergers could lead to fewer choices and higher prices.
Professor John Colley of Warwick Business School said: "Bayer's acquisition of 'Frankenstein' crop producer Monsanto could be a horror story for both Bayer and its customers: the farmers."
He said there were a number of worrying issues: "The farmers will lose out as product ranges are rationalised and attempts are made to increase prices.
"Clearly Bayer will realise cost savings from the acquisition, but they have had to pay an enormous price for Monsanto at a 45% premium to the previously undisturbed share price."
There is a $2bn break fee if the deal does not complete.
Bayer shares are 3% higher in Frankfurt. Monsanto shares were up 1.6% ahead of the US market open.
UAE officials said Qatar needed to end its support for terrorist groups, a claim the Gulf state strongly denies.
Several countries including the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt cut travel and diplomatic links with Qatar on Monday.
Turkey, meanwhile, has approved a bill allowing more troops to be based in Qatar.
Reports say Iran and Turkey are also planning to airlift food and water into the country as supplies run low.
US President Donald Trump, whose tweets on the crisis have caused controversy, spoke to Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, by phone on Wednesday and offered a possible White House meeting to help resolve the crisis, officials said.
Mr Trump stressed the importance of countries in the region working together, the White House said.
The emir of Kuwait is mediating in the dispute and the president of Turkey has also offered to help, but the UAE tightened the squeeze on Qatar on Wednesday.
"Strict and firm action will be taken against anyone who shows sympathy or any form of bias towards Qatar, or against anyone who objects to the position of the United Arab Emirates, whether it be through the means of social media, or any type of written, visual or verbal form," UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi was quoted as saying by Gulf News.
Separately, UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash denied that Gulf Arab states were seeking "regime change" and accused Qatar of being "the main champion of extremism and terrorism in the region".
"The government of Qatar is in denial," he told AFP news agency. "It is trying to describe this as an issue about the independence of their foreign policy, and it is not."
In an apparent act of support for Qatar, Turkish MPs approved a bill allowing more troops to be deployed to the country and to take part in joint training exercises. Turkey has had a base there, with about 150 troops, since 2014.
Qatar is heavily dependent on food imports and the crisis has led to stockpiling and shortages. Officials quoted by Reuters said talks were taking place with Iran, Turkey and others to secure supplies of food and water.
President Trump urged Gulf unity in a call to Saudi Arabia's King Salman, US officials said on Wednesday. He had earlier claimed credit for the pressure placed on Qatar saying his recent visit to Saudi Arabia was "already paying off".
In a series of tweets on Tuesday morning, Mr Trump accused Qatar of funding terrorism, saying: "During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar - look!"
But the Pentagon has also thanked Qatar for hosting the largest US airbase in the Middle East.
On Tuesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir called on Qatar to cut ties with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the occupied territories, and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, if it wanted to end its isolation.
"Nobody wants to hurt Qatar. It has to choose whether it must move in one direction or another direction," he said.
But Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman al-Than said there was "no evidence that the Qatar government is supporting radical Islamists".
Judges previously announced include BBC 6 Music presenter and former Mercury winner Jarvis Cocker, poet and rapper Kate Tempest, jazz musician Jamie Cullum and Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac.
The final panel also includes several music journalists and editors.
A longlist of 12 contenders for album of the year will be revealed at a live launch in London on 4 August.
The event will be hosted by BBC Radio 6 Music's Shaun Keaveny.
"Each year the albums of the year highlight some of the best in British and Irish talent - and 2016 is already shaping up to be a brilliant year for music," said Keaveny.
"It's going to be a tough decision for the judges, so I'm glad I'm not one of them! I'm really looking forward to finding out this year's shortlist."
Keaveny's fellow 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne will reveal the list live on the station simultaneously at 11:00 BST.
An online poll will then take place, which, for the first time, will enable music fans to select the first of six 2016 finalists from the original 12 albums on the longlist.
The five remaining finalists and overall winner will all be chosen by the Mercury Prize judging panel.
The six shortlisted albums and the winner of the £20,000 prize will be announced on 15 September at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, west London.
Albums by British and Irish artists with a UK digital release date between 26 September 2015 and 29 July 2016 are eligible to enter.
The ceremony will be shown live on BBC Four and broadcast on 6 Music.
Last year's winner was Benjamin Clementine for his debut album At Least For Now.
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After feeling ill the 24-year-old underwent tests which confirmed he has contracted nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma.
The Rochdale-born midfielder will begin a six-month course of chemotherapy.
"Nodular sclerosing is the most common of all types of Hodgkin lymphoma in the UK. Nearly six out of 10 of all diagnosed cases are this type and it is the most common type in young adults. It is usually found at an early stage when lymph glands in the neck become enlarged."
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"Joe will get all the love and support we can give him as he undergoes his treatment," said Tranmere chief executive Mick Horton.
"We are stunned by this news and all our thoughts are with Joe and his family.
"We ask that the privacy of Joe and his family is respected and we will share information with supporters as and when we receive it.
"I'm sure all of our fans will join us in wishing him a full and quick recovery."
Thompson began his career at Rochdale where he made over 100 appearances for his hometown club and moved to Rovers in 2012 for an undisclosed fee.
"Joe is a fantastic young man and he will be missed around Prenton Park while he has treatment," manager Ronnie Moore told the club website.
"He has the full support of all the coaching staff and his team mates and we will do everything we can to help him make a full recovery."
A Batik Air passenger plane was taking off when its wing clipped the tail of a TransNusa aircraft being towed across the runway.
Authorities said there were no injuries in the Monday night incident, and all passengers were evacuated safely.
Indonesia has had a dismal air safety record amid a boom in air travel, particularly with budget carriers.
The incident took place at the largely-domestic Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta, causing the temporary closure of the airport.
The Batik Air plane was carrying 49 passengers and crew, reported AFP news agency.
A spokesman for budget carrier Lion Air Group, which owns Batik Air, told the wire news agency that the pilot had aborted the takeoff after the collision, and passengers and crew were safe.
Transport ministry officials said the collision had mangled parts of both aircraft. A video posted online shows flames erupting from the Batik Air plane wing.
In 2013, a Lion Air plane overshot the runway at Bali's Denpasar airport and crashed into the sea, in an incident that hospitalised at least 22 people.
That same year another Lion Air plane skidded off a runway on the island of Sulawesi after it crashed into a cow.
In 2014, an Indonesian subsidiary of AirAsia flying from Surabaya to Singapore crashed into the sea, killing all 162 onboard.
The outstanding loan debt is £46bn and will rise to £200bn in the next 30 years, the National Audit Office said.
About 50% of students are not expected to earn enough to repay all their loan.
The NAO report also highlights concerns over the more than £5bn owed by about 368,000 former students whose exact whereabouts are unaccounted for.
It says officials are overestimating how much money will be recovered each year, and is not securing value for money for tax payers.
The increase in tuition fees in England has meant much higher levels of student loans and debts - and the spending watchdog says there needs to be much tighter scrutiny of levels of repayment.
Such an expansion requires a "much more robust strategy" for recovering loans, said Margaret Hodge, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
"It is essential that government collects every pound it can of the debt that should be collected," she said.
The report says there is a lack of employment information about the former students who owe more than £5bn.
This includes people who might be unemployed or have moved overseas, but the watchdog warns that too little is known about where they now are.
In March 2013, the report says, there were 14,000 students living overseas, who were behind with repayments of £100m.
The report says the Student Loans Company could do more to retrieve these missing payments.
This is against a rapidly rising number of UK students who are taking out student loans, with the NAO reporting that the number of borrowers will more than double to 6.5 million people over the next three decades.
The report warns that the government has previously been over-optimistic in how much is likely to be repaid by students.
The expected level of debt to be written off had been set at 28% in 2010, which had risen to 35% by 2013.
Labour's university spokesman, Liam Byrne, said figures from the House of Commons library showed this had risen to more than 40%, which would cost a further £600m.
"We may be at the point where so many students loans are being written off, that the government's new student finance system is actually more expensive than the old arrangements, even though the government is asking students for three times as much money," said Mr Byrne.
Earlier this week the government announced the sale of part of the student loan book to the private sector, from a type of student loan from the 1990s.
There are ambitions to sell off the bigger, income-related loans that have come with higher fees - a move that will be much more politically sensitive.
The report notes that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is "preparing to sell early cohorts of the income‑contingent repayment loan book, and will take a sale decision in due course".
Martin Freedman of the ATL teachers' union said the report showed the loan system was "out of control".
"The system is unsustainable and the government needs to review it urgently," said Mr Freedman, who argued that it would result in "unbelievable" levels of debt.
He also criticised spending £27m on debt collection, which he said would have been better used on education.
The head of the National Audit Office, Amyas Morse, said the increasing cost of the student loan system required a "more energetic and considered approach" and a "high level of collection performance".
A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokesman said: "The report demonstrates that there is an effective and efficient process resulting in high collection rates at a low cost which we believe demonstrates good value for money.
"We need to ensure that all borrowers who are earning over the relevant payment threshold are repaying their loans, including those who have moved overseas after leaving their course."
A support team is being sent to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley where, last month, 84% of patients were treated within a four-hour timeframe. The national target is 95%.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said intervening was a "responsible move".
Labour and the Liberal Democrats have claimed the problem is widespread.
Jenny Marra, Scottish Labour's health and wellbeing spokeswoman, said the Scottish government's decision to step in at the Royal Alexandra "confirms what Scottish Labour have been saying for weeks - we have an A&E crisis in Scotland".
She said: "What they can't do is treat this as a localised problem to Paisley. This is a problem up and down the country.
"I was in Fife yesterday and it's a problem there. They really need to be looking at this right across Scotland.
"We have heard terrible stories from Glasgow, from Fife, from Paisley, from up north. The Scottish government needs to realise this is a problem across Scotland."
Ms Marra called for weekly reporting of accident and emergency (A&E) statistics.
The last set of A&E figures were for the period from October to December. From February the figures will be published monthly.
Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Jim Hume also said there was a crisis in A&E departments across Scotland.
"The SNP government took its eye off the ball and now it is attempting to whitewash the growing crisis in Scotland's A&E units," he said.
"The reality is that the crisis in emergency care is worsening - not improving. Why were the public only told about the extent of the situation facing Royal Alexandra Hospital once the Scottish government sent in an emergency support team?
"People will understandably be concerned that other hospitals could be on the brink of a similar situation."
Opposition comment came after Ms Sturgeon defended the move to send support to the Paisley hospital.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, the first minister said: "Why we've taken the action of sending a support team into the Royal Alexandra Hospital is because we are concerned we're not seeing the degree of recovery in that hospital that we are seeing at other hospitals and that we would be expecting.
"It's a responsible move, we will have unscheduled care managers from the Scottish government in there to help the management on the ground look at different ways of speeding up the flow of patients through A&E, and doing what is most important of all - making sure patients get the quick access to treatment that they deserve."
Ms Sturgeon said that accident and emergency (A&E) statistics published weeks ago, showed that NHS Tayside's performance for treating patients within the four-hour timeframe was at 98%.
She added: "So, what we need to do is make sure that the better working practices, the way in which patients are being taken through A&E that are working well in some hospitals are being applied in all hospitals.
"And that's one of the things that the support team that we've sent to the Royal Alexandra, will be helping the local management to achieve."
In January, it emerged that one patient at the Royal Alexandra had waited 20 hours for a bed.
The failure to meet the national waiting times target prompted an apology from the head of NHS Scotland on Tuesday.
Chief executive Paul Gray said it had been a "challenging winter" for A&E departments across Scotland.
He said that the support team being sent to the Royal Alexandra Hospital from next week would "help identify issues where they exist and prioritise actions that can be taken to improve A&E performance".
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC), which runs the Royal Alexandra, said it hoped the support team would help "improve on our current challenged performance".
In January, NHS GGC admitted that 2,400 people across the health board area waited more than four hours for treatment over the Christmas period.
Figures published last week showed widespread disparities among health board's in meeting A&E waiting times targets.
Dunlop previously occupied the top step of the podium in 2011, 2012 and 2016 and rides the Bennett's Suzuki.
Dean Harrison, Dan Kneen, Ivan Lintin and William Dunlop are expected to be among his chief rivals for top honours.
Three-time Solo Championship winner Guy Martin is absent as further testing is still being carried out on his Honda.
The Lincolnshire rider crashed out of the Superbike race at the Isle of Man TT last month and opted to sit out the Senior event later in the week.
Bradford rider Harrison holds the lap record at 114.601mph from 2014 and will be on board Silicone Engineering Kawasaki machinery.
Lintin rides for the Dafabet RC Express Kawasaki outfit, while Manxman Kneen will hope to build on a successful TT as he competes for Penz13.com BMW.
Jamie Coward pilots BMW and Honda machines for the Radcliffe's Butchers team, with James Cowton on board a fleet of McAdoo Kawasakis in various classes.
Ryan Kneen, Adam McLean, Dan Hegarty, Dominic Herbertson and Daley Mathison should also be in the mix, while notable newcomers to the meeting near Castletown include Joe Thompson, Derek McGee and Sam West.
A total of 14 solo races and two sidecar outings make up a busy schedule, with racing getting underway with three races on Tuesday night, followed by four on Wednesday evening and nine on Thursday morning and afternoon.
A prize fund of £36,015 is on offer, including £3,400 for the winner of the feature Solo Championship.
A quality sidecar entry is headed by Ben and Tom Birchall, John Holden and Lee Cain , Dave Molyneux and Dan Sayle, Conrad Harrison and Andrew Winkle and Tim Reeves and Mark Wilkes.
Phelan, 54 on Saturday, said last week that he had been offered the job, but there has been no contact or update on his contract since last Sunday.
"I want it resolved, but it's not my decision," he said.
"A lot of it rests on the position of the club. All I keep hearing is 'takeover, takeover, takeover'."
An agreement to sell the club to a Chinese family fell through amid reports that they did not meet the Premier League's owners' test.
"It's difficult for me to comment because I don't know all the issues outside the football," said Phelan.
"Takeovers are confusing, there are rumours. I've tried to stay focused on my players.
"Supporters want answers and they will get them in time, I'm sure. I'm under no illusions. I want it resolved but it's not my decision."
Phelan became caretaker-boss following Steve Bruce's departure in July and was named Premier League manager of the month for August.
His side are 12th in the top flight and beat fellow Premier League side Stoke in the EFL Cup third round on Wednesday.
Shirley D'Silva, 55, admitted giving Martha Pereira an overdose of insulin and smothering her with a pillow, at the Old Bailey on Monday.
A medical report found D'Silva was "actively psychotic" when she attacked her 77-year-old mother at their south London home on 25 October.
The trained nurse then called 999 saying: "I murdered my mother."
D'Silva told police she heard a voice in her head telling her to kill Ms Pereira, who suffered from dementia, lung cancer and diabetes.
Asked why she did it, the mother of two said: "It's the world we live ... The war around the world."
Prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC told the Old Bailey that D'Silva had a history of mental illness and was sectioned in 1996 after she tried to commit suicide.
The court heard her mental state had deteriorated as a result of the stress of caring for her mother.
On Monday, D'Silva pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility, which was accepted by the prosecution.
Her husband, Joe D'Silva, who attended court with other family members, described her as "devoted to her mother".
The family, who supported the defendant, found it "very difficult to comprehend this has happened", said Judith Khan QC, mitigating.
Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC handed D'Silva a hospital order with a restriction order without limit of time and returned her to River House at Bethlem Royal Hospital in south London.
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The winner of Saturday's decider will enter England's Super 10 group.
Hong Kong won the toss but their total of 116-6 never looked enough as spinner Mohammad Nabi took 4-20.
Openers Mohammad Shahzad (41) and Noor Ali Zadran (35) added 70 as Afghanistan won with two overs to spare. Hong Kong join Scotland in being eliminated.
The Scots, who have never won a game at a major ICC global tournament, lost to Zimbabwe by 11 runs in Thursday's earlier game, and now meet Hong Kong in a dead rubber on Saturday.
Relive Afghanistan v Hong Kong with in-play highlights clips.
In the day's warm-up games, Colin Munro (67 from 34 balls) and Corey Anderson (60 from 29) helped New Zealand rack up 226-4 against Sri Lanka in Mumbai. Adam Milne then took 3-26 as Sri Lanka finished well short on 152-7.
Tournament hosts India also piled on the runs in Kolkata, opener Rohit Sharma batting through the innings and smashing seven sixes in his 98 not out from 57 balls. Chris Gayle top-scored with 20 as opponents West Indies were bowled out for 140.
In the first warm-ups for the women's tournament, India beat Ireland by 29 runs while Sri Lanka eased to a five-wicket win over Bangladesh.
The group said first-half pre-tax operating profit rose 6% to £290m.
However, it reported a £39m fall in its spread/risk margin, compared with the previous year, as a result in part of lower annuity sales.
This year the pressure for retirees to use their pension pots to buy an annuity was lifted completely.
In a trading statement, the Edinburgh-based company said it expected annuity new business to drop by between £10m and £15m this year, with asset liability management falling by £30m-£40m, compared with 2014.
Standard Life has been switching focus to "fee-based" business, such as more flexible drawdown pensions, and its asset management arm.
The group added 120,000 new customers in the UK through auto-enrolment in the first half, contributing to a 15% increase in regular contributions into workplace pensions.
Meanwhile, assets under administration rose 2% from December 2014 to £302.1bn, which the company said had been driven by increased demand for its investment solutions and the acquisition last year of fund manager Ignis Asset Management.
The insurer said it would pay a dividend of 6.02p per share, an increase of 7.5%.
Outgoing chief executive David Nish said: "Standard Life has performed well during the first half of 2015 driven by a focus on providing value for our customers, clients and shareholders.
"We have increased the assets that we administer on behalf of our customers to £302bn helped by strong demand for our propositions."
He added: "Our UK fee-based propositions continue to build momentum with regular contributions into our workplace pensions up 15%.
"The strength of these propositions, investment solutions and our market positioning means we have been able to help our customers with the new pensions regulations and continue to support them as saving for their futures becomes increasingly front of mind."
Mr Nish is due to stand down on Wednesday, and will be replaced by Keith Skeoch, currently head of Standard Life Investments.
Shares fell 14.1p to 440.3p, valuing the company at £8.6bn.
Daryl Brady, 29, and Darren Smith, 25, admitted slashing Sean Kergan, 27, in the exercise yard on 14 May 2015.
The High Court in Glasgow heard claims of "bad blood" between Brady and Kergan over an alleged earlier attack.
Brady is currently serving a minimum of 16 years, Smith a minimum of 19 years and Kergan a minimum of 13 years.
Brady and Smith were told the new sentence would begin after they had served the minimum part of their life terms.
Jailing them, judge Lord Burns said: "This was a vicious and obviously planned assault with improvised weapons.
"You both have a violent history and are clearly dangerous young men."
Brady was jailed for life in 2008 after stabbing to death father-of-one Brian McWilliams in Glasgow's Govanhill area.
Smith was jailed in 2010 after stabbing George Mathieson through the heart in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire.
Kergan was jailed for the murder of Stephen Daly in Glasgow's Sighthill area in 2005.
A 20-year-old woman was raped as she walked home from the town's train station at about 22:15 on Tuesday 24 March.
The man police want to trace is white, aged 30-50, and about 5ft 9in. He was wearing dark clothes, including a hood.
He was also described as having red hair and red facial hair. Anyone with any information should contact police.
Sean Buckley, 28, was imprisoned for life, with a minimum term of 17 years, after being found guilty of murdering Finley Thomas with a garden chair.
The court raised his tariff to life with a minimum of 20 years.
Chloe Thomas had a 20-month child cruelty sentence extended to two-and-a-half years for failing to intervene.
Finley's 25-year-old mother originally denied neglecting her son, who was found with "catastrophic" injuries at their home in Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, before changing her plea.
Cardiff Crown Court had previously heard Thomas' boyfriend Buckley had carried out a "deliberate" attack on the toddler in September 2014 and claimed the boy had fallen down the stairs.
Finley suffered a fractured skull and broken ribs at the hands of Buckley and was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales but died the next day.
The boy had historical injuries consistent with being physically assaulted, neglected and having been exposed to illegal and prescribed drugs.
Both had their original sentences quashed and jail terms raised following a referral to the Court of Appeal from Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP.
"Finley was a very vulnerable young boy who relied on these offenders to protect him," said the solicitor general afterwards.
"I referred this case to the Court of Appeal as I did not think the seriousness of the offending was adequately reflected by their original sentences."
Commenting on the decision, a NSPCC Cymru spokesman said: "Sentencing should always reflect the seriousness of crimes of this nature against children.
"The horrendous abuse suffered by Finley Thomas and the horrific way he died remains deeply shocking. "
The centre had taken in indigenous minority Montagnard people from the central highlands of neighbouring Vietnam.
They are mostly evangelical Christians who claim they have been persecuted because of their beliefs.
Human rights organisations have urged Cambodia to stand by its commitment to the UN convention on refugees.
There have been mixed messages from the Cambodian government; it had said asylum-seekers from Vietnam would be turned back at the border.
Later it stated that it would use immigration and refugee laws to assess people claiming refugee status.
Human Rights Watch says it is concerned that future asylum-seekers may not be treated "according to international standards".
But the Jesuit Refugee Service says it is glad the facility is closing as it has been "the equivalent of a detention centre".
Only 20 people are still at the centre.
Ten of them will be resettled in a third country - but the remainder failed to get refugee status and will be deported to Vietnam this week.
The group racially abused a man at Motherwell station and let off a fire extinguisher. A woman was also spat on.
About 10 to 12 boys, aged between 14 and 17 years old, were involved just, after 18:45 on Wednesday.
The group was also involved in disorder after boarding the 18:20 Glasgow to Lanark service at Bellshill before getting off at Motherwell.
BTP said officers were reviewing CCTV images in a bid to identify those involved.
Det Con David Merchant said: "This sort of appalling behaviour is unacceptable and I am appealing for anyone who was on the train or at the station and can provide information which can help identify the youths responsible to contact BTP."
Eight-time Olympic gold medallist Bolt was the star attraction as six teams of 12 male and 12 female athletes competed in a mixture of old and new events.
Bolt raced in the mixed 4x100m relay, which his All-Stars won.
"I was just enjoying myself from the start to the end," said Bolt, 30.
"Everybody was just having fun. Everybody was trying to support their team-mates - going over to the long jump, to the javelin - that's something we're not really used to."
During the meet, flame cannons shot fireballs into the air and there were dancers as pop music blared out, with a 7,000 crowd at the 8,500-capacity stadium.
The All-Stars, Australia, England, New Zealand, Japan and China competed across 12 events, with points awarded for each athlete's placing.
The 4x100m mixed relay featured two male and two female athletes, with Bolt handing over to American Jenna Prandini.
"We just want to do something different," said Bolt. "I've never handed [a baton] over to a girl. For me that was exciting."
There was a men's elimination mile, where the last-placed runner was eliminated at the end of each of the first three laps of the track.
In the 2x300m mixed relay, England's Christine Ohuruogu and Theo Campbell finished third.
The second of the three-event series will take place on Thursday, 9 February, with the final one on Saturday, 11 February.
Full results and points table available here.
King, who won his first career ranking event at last week's Northern Ireland Open, trailed fellow Englishman Sam Craigie 3-1 at the break.
But that turned to 4-1 when he returned to the arena having left his cue in the tournament office.
"It's just one for the silly book," said King, 42.
"I have now done two things in three days that I have never done in the rest of my career - winning a ranking tournament and forgetting my cue."
Romford-born King said he was having trouble with a sponsor logo on his cue and went with referee Jan Verhaas to replace it in the tournament office.
"I was in a daze, had my cup of tea, had my banana and left my cue in there," said King. "Then I came out to the arena and thought 'oh my god, where's my cue'!
"If I'd said to Sam 'can I borrow your cue to break off' and then said I was going to the toilet, I wonder if I wouldn't have been punished?"
King could still win the £5,000 prize money for the tournament's highest break, having scored a superb 141 in the frame immediately after he was penalised.
He added: "It has been a bad day but it has been a really good week - the best week of my life when you talk about snooker. It's not all doom and gloom."
The turbine, valued at more than £500,000, was one of eight on the Screggagh wind farm on Murley mountain.
It collapsed on Friday night, scattering debris over a wide area. Winds were said to be light at the time.
The director of Screggagh Windfarm Ltd said they were working with the suppliers to ensure the site was safe.
"We are currently investigating the circumstances that led to the collapse of the turbine at Screggagh wind farm," Doreen Walker said.
"We are however satisfied that the site's precautionary health and safety alert processes worked well with local emergency services in attendance within minutes of the incident taking place.
"There were fortunately no injuries and no personnel on site at the time."
The turbine has a tower height of 60 metres, an 80 metres rotor diameter, and an overall base to blade tip height of 100 metres.
People in the area said the rotor blades were spinning out of control on the evening the turbine buckled.
The sound of the failing mechanical structure was heard more than seven miles away.
Some people said the sound was like thunder. Others report grinding and the sound of metal against metal.
Debris from the stricken turbine was scattered across the mountainside and a large spike remains impaled in the earth several hundred yards from the turbine site.
The turbine is one of eight on Screggagh farm which was commissioned in April 2011.
The site operators have fenced off the site.
Shaun Woodburn, 30, from Edinburgh, died after a disturbance in Great Junction Street at 02:00 on Sunday.
A 16-year-old male appeared in court on Monday charged with murder. He made no plea and was remanded in custody.
Mohammed Zakariyah, 18, from Edinburgh, also appeared at the petition hearing to face a charge of assault to injury.
Mr Zakariyah made no plea or declaration and was released on bail.
Mr Woodburn's family said: "Shaun was first and foremost a fantastic and loving dad, he was a great and caring son, brother, partner and friend.
"He was a hard working young man loved by all of his colleagues, and had an honours degree in architectural engineering from Heriot Watt University.
"Shaun also had a passion for playing football, latterly with Bonnyrigg Rose, only to give up to spend more time with his family.
"That was Shaun, a selfless, kind and loving young man who has had his life cut short in the most tragic of circumstances.
"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and support at this time."
Det Insp Stuart Alexander, of Police Scotland, said he wanted to speak to anyone who was in the area of Great Junction Street or Mill Lane between 01:30 and 02:00 on New Year's morning.
He added: "I want to know why the disturbance started in Great Junction Street and continued into Mill Lane, near to Gladstones Public House.
"I would appeal to everybody that was present to contact us so that my enquiry team can interview them and assess whether they have any relevant information.
"For the sake of Shaun's family it is important that we find out exactly what happened and why Shaun had his life so tragically taken from him."
2 June 2017 Last updated at 07:59 BST
In 2015, there was a huge international agreement to do something about climate change from nearly 200 world leaders.
Among them was Barack Obama, who was the US president at the time.
Only two countries chose not to sign the deal, and now Trump has announced he's pulling the US out of it too.
But leaders across the planet have reacted with anger and disappointment.
Watch Leah's report for more on why Trump's done it - and what it means.
The Movistar rider looked set to challenge the time of five minutes 57 seconds set by Trek-Segafredo's Italian rider Fabio Felline.
But the 28-year-old overshot the final corner and finished two seconds behind in second place.
Chris Froome played it safe in wet conditions on the 4.8km circuit around Aigle, finishing 29secs behind in 78th.
The Team Sky rider was in good company, with a number of other general classification contenders opting not to take risks.
Briton Simon Yates of Orica-Scott finished in a time of six minutes 15 seconds to take 25th place, one second and one place behind Irishman Nicolas Roche of BMC.
Tour de Romandie prologue results:
1. Fabio Felline (Ita/Trek) 5:57"
2. Alex Dowsett (GB/Movistar) +2"
3. Alexander Edmondson (Aus/Orica) +7"
4. Maximilian Schachmann (Ger/Quick-Step) +8"
5. Victor Campenaerts (Bel/LottoNL)
6. Primoz Roglic (Svn/LottoNL) +9"
7. Vasil Kiryienka (Bel/Team Sky) +10"
8. Tom Bohli (Swi/BMC Racing)
9. Johan Le Bon (Fra/FDJ) +11"
10. Christoph Pfingsten (Ger/BORA)
He said UK weapons are being used and Saudi assurances of compliance with humanitarian law are "not enough".
UK sales to the Kingdom would halt if they are found to have breached international law.
His comments have been welcomed by the charity Oxfam, which has urged the UK to halt arms exports while allegations of war crimes are investigated.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight during a visit to Washington DC on Tuesday, Mr Hammond said he had raised the issue of air strikes with the Saudis in recent weeks.
Saudi Arabia denies targeting civilians during its bombing campaign in Yemen, which began in March.
"Obviously that denial alone is not enough," Mr Hammond said. "We need to see proper investigations.
"We need to work with the Saudis to establish that international humanitarian law has been complied with - and we have an export licensing system that responds if we find that it has not. We will then find that we cannot license additional shipments of weapons."
Josephine Hutton, Middle East programme manager at Oxfam, welcomed what she called a "change of heart from the government".
She said: "The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is worsening by the day. Civilians are in the firing line, not only by weapons but also by the ever-tightening blockade which is strangling the country's essential services and its economy. Britain needs to put all its diplomatic weight behind the push for peace."
The war in Yemen escalated in March, when a coalition led by Saudi Arabia entered the conflict on the side of the internationally recognised government to try to oust Houthi rebels from the capital Sana'a and other areas. All sides have been accused of targeting civilians.
Oxfam, Amnesty International and other organisations have called on the UK and the US to suspend the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia while "damning evidence of war crimes" is investigated.
In September, BBC Newsnight reported from the aftermath of an airstrike on a water bottling plant in Yemen in which 13 civilians were killed. A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition claimed the plant was a secret weapons factory.
Saudi Arabia is Britain's biggest market for defence exports, worth $1.7bn (??1.1bn) last year, according to IHS's Global Defence Trade Report.
Mr Hammond said the UK operated "one of the strictest export licensing regimes in the world".
"We only export weapons systems where all the criteria of our export licensing system are met," he told Newsnight.
David Cameron's government has championed the UN Arms Trade Treaty, which came into force in December and which prohibits states from exporting weapons that would be used for war crimes.
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph last month, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UK noted an "alarming change" in Britain's attitude towards his country, which he warned could lead to "serious consequences".
Special reports from BBC Newsnight on the crisis in Yemen:
Inside Yemen's forgotten war
Yemen's forgotten war (part 1)
Yemen's forgotten war (part 2)
Daniel Kawczynski MP on Saudi arms sales
Her son Robert Willis, actor Darren Day, EastEnders star Jessie Wallace and singer Peter Andre also settled claims, all against Mirror Group Newspapers.
Their barrister David Sherborne said their privacy was "grossly violated" by the newspapers, "solely for profit".
MGN counsel Matthew Nicklin QC offered "sincere apologies" on its behalf.
The hacking was alleged to have taken place between 2000 and 2006.
Mr Sherborne read out statements on behalf of Ms Black, her son and manager Mr Willis, Mr Andre, Mr Day and Ms Wallace as well as for a further five people whose settlements have previously been reported.
They are the former head coach of the England football team, Sven-Goran Eriksson, actor Christopher Eccleston, David and Victoria Beckham's former nanny Abbie Gibson, actor Shane Richie's wife Christie Roche and his friend and agent Phil Dale.
He said: "In summary, these 10 individuals all bring claims that cover unlawful activity by each of the three newspaper titles [the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People] over a lengthy period.
"They have all expressed their feelings of distress and anger that their private information has been treated in this way, and their privacy has been so grossly violated by these newspapers solely for profit."
Mr Nicklin said that MGN "accepts that the methods which were used to obtain private information about these 10 individuals through the unlawful accessing of their voicemails and the obtaining of their personal information should never have been employed" and that there was "no legitimate justification" for doing so.
He added: "MGN is here today, through me, to offer its sincere apologies to these claimants for the damage and distress caused to them by hacking into their voicemail messages and by obtaining private information about them, including the use of blagging."
Mr Nicklin said that MGN was paying "substantial sums by way of damages and their reasonable costs".
No damages figures were announced as part of the statements read to the court.
Other celebrities have previously taken action against MGN, which is a subsidiary of Trinity Mirror, and filed claims over alleged hacking.
In September last year Trinity Mirror admitted for the first time that some of its journalists had been involved in phone hacking, and said it would pay compensation to four people.
They were entertainer Shane Richie, soap actresses Shobna Gulati and Lucy Benjamin, and BBC creative director Alan Yentob.
At the time the company was thought to have set aside between £8m and £9m to settle phone hacking claims and legal costs.
Scores of people have also reached similar settlements with the publisher of the now-defunct News Of The World after taking legal action.
Avril Whitfield, 57, from Caernarfon, has not been seen since leaving her home on 1 April.
British International Rescue and Search Dogs are helping North Wales Police.
Chief insp Richie Green said the force was "determined" to find her to bring "peace of mind to her family", with the investigation "open".
Her sister Ann said: "It has been weeks since you went missing. We need you home with us. You are the rock of our family."
The comments come after France were criticised for their approach in their win over Ireland, which saw Irish fly-half Johnny Sexton forced off.
"There was a bit of 'afters' but you have to be careful we don't sanitise it too much or the game might turn to touch rugby," said Jones.
France lock Yoann Maestri received a warning for a tackle on Sexton.
Jones believes the sports' match officials are capable of policing the line between hard, but legal and dangerous play.
"I'm sure the officials will keep an eye on that, but that's their job," said the Ospreys player.
"What's in vogue at the moment (for offences) is no arms in the tackle, hands on the floor so there's always things that dip in and out of the game."
Charteris challenge
Jones will be partnered by Wasps lock Bradley Davies in the Welsh second row after a knee injury to Racing 92's Luke Charteris, the tallest player in the squad at 6ft 9in.
"Obviously Charts is taller than the rest of us, but we try to stick with the policies we've had," said Jones.
"It's like when someone goes off during a game, you don't want to change too much.
"He's been pretty disruptive in the driving mauls, but we'll just have to go under, rather than over the top!"
Jones is warning Wales will compete on the opposition line-out throw despite the loss of Charteris, whose place has gone to 6ft 6in Bradley Davies.
"We had two decent steals (against Scotland) so there's probably a perception now that we will compete, teams have to make sure they can win the ball before they can drive so it's good we're putting that pressure on."
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Speaking at the Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 premiere, the actress, who plays Gamora, talked about the involvement of Guardians stars in the Avengers films.
Asked about the third Avengers film on Monday, she said: "I think the Guardians just shot their part when it comes to Infinity War.
"And we all have to go back for Gauntlet later this year."
But later on Tuesday, James Gunn, writer and director of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, denied Saldana had given the game away.
According to Yahoo Movies journalist Tom Butler, Gunn said Gauntlet was not the title.
The Avengers and The Guardians of the Galaxy are all part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
So far they have appeared in separate films, but will join forces in the next two Avengers films. Avengers: Infinity War and its sequel, which we which now know could well be called Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet or perhaps just plain Avengers: Gauntlet.
Over the weekend, Cinemablend revealed that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was not going to reveal the name of the fourth film because the name could be a spoiler for Avengers: Infinity War.
The infinity gauntlet is a glove specially made to hold infinity stones, including the power stone, the space stone, the reality stone, the mind stone, the time stone and the soul stone.
When all the stones are held by the infinity gauntlet, it gives the wearer the powers of a god.
The Infinity Gauntlet was a six-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics from July to December in 1991.
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is out on Friday in the UK, and next month in the US.
Avengers: Infinity War is due out in 2018, with the follow up slated for release in 2019.
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The wheelchair collects data to gather information to flag emergencies - for example when a user has slumped forward.
It can also monitor that the chair itself is functioning properly.
The robotics student, Tim Balz, actually secured a patent for a similar idea while he was in high school.
Developers can also use the information to make apps which will enhance a wheelchair user's experience.
He says one application would be to feed in the location information to crowdsource accessibility around cities.
Tim showed the BBC's North America technology correspondent Richard Taylor how the wheelchair works.
You can follow Richard @RichTaylorBBC.
The Spitfires made a strong start but were unable to make it count with Bondz N'Gala among those to see good chances saved by Michael Poke.
Gozie Ugwu punished the hosts for their early profligacy, nodding home Dennon Lewis' cross from close range in the 16th minute to notch his 12th goal of the season.
Garry Hill's side, who beat Torquay last time out, went down to 10 men when Lewis saw red for a second yellow in the 68th minute, but they came through a nervy finish unscathed as Eastleigh pushed for a late winner.
Woking are now up to 19th, two places and a point above the relegation zone.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Eastleigh 0, Woking 1.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Woking 1.
Hakeem Odoffin (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
Max Kretzschmar (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Woking. Max Kretzschmar replaces Charlie Carter.
Substitution, Woking. Jake Caprice replaces Macauley Bonne.
Second yellow card to Dennon Lewis (Woking) for a bad foul.
Dennon Lewis (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Mekhi Leacock-McLeod replaces James Constable.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Sam Muggleton replaces Michael Green.
Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Woking 1.
First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Woking 1.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Mikael Mandron replaces Tyler Garrett.
Charlie Carter (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Woking. Ismail Yakubu replaces Brian Saah.
Goal! Eastleigh 0, Woking 1. Gozie Ugwu (Woking).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Constable Niran Jeyanesan told CP24 that Walmart staff apprehended an 18-year-old for attempting to steal a dress shirt, tie and socks.
He said when he arrived at the scene he realised the offender had been stealing the items for a job interview.
He then decided to release him and purchase the items for him.
"This young person has been facing his own difficulties in life and he was looking to straighten out all that by providing for his family and trying to get a job," Mr Jeyanesan said.
"This individual didn't have any resources.
"He wanted to go get that job. That was in his mind. I think he truly made a mistake."
Speaking to the BBC, his staff sergeant Paul Bois praised Mr Jeyanesan's actions.
"Arresting him wouldn't have been in the best interests of anyone," he said.
"I reacted very positively to the news; all issues were resolved by the action the officer took.
"It reiterates our goal of being positive role models in the community."
Cambridgeshire Police were called at 01:45 GMT to the jail following reports of violence. A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A police investigation is under way at the category B prison, which is run by Sodexo and has both male and female inmates.
The arrested man is currently in custody at Thorpe Wood police station.
A Sodexo Justice Services spokesman said: "The next of kin have been informed and our thoughts are with the family.
"It would be inappropriate to comment further while the police investigation is under way."
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HMP Peterborough is the only prison in the country to have men and women kept separately but on the same site, with the same senior management team and some staff moving between the two prisons.
The male side of the prison, which has space for 874 inmates, was inspected by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in February.
It was described as "an impressive local prison with a positive staff culture" and praised for its excellent and innovative work to resettle prisoners.
It was criticised for having "too many men still locked up during the middle of the working day".
His base salary will fall from £1,250,000 to £750,000, and he will also see cuts in incentive payments.
Chief executive Richard Pennycook says the business is now back "in calmer waters" and the reduction reflects the revised demands of the current job.
He said the pay cut was "by no means the main news", which was the Co-op's recovery.
For that, he credited his 70,000 colleagues' "dedication".
Mr Pennycook was finance director of the group, but took over as chief executive in 2014 when the former boss, Euan Sutherland, resigned after 10 months in the job.
His total pay package - including salary and bonuses - was reported to be £3m.
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The Co-op is undergoing a three-year plan to steady the business after deep problems emerged in 2013 with its bank, which it has since largely sold off.
The news on Mr Pennycook's pay came as the Co-operative Group - which includes 2,800 food stores, 1,000 funeral homes and financial services - reported its financial results for 2015.
Profit was £23m for the year, down from £124m last year, when the figure was boosted by a one-off gain of £121m from selling parts of its business.
Underlying profit before tax was £81m, up from £73m last year.
The Co-op said it had made progress, with sales at both its food and funeral home businesses growing.
Sales in its 2,800 food stores grew 1.6%, to give a £250m profit.
The Co-op said its convenience stores were outperforming the UK grocery market, because people's shopping habits were changing as they made more frequent trips to buy food.
Earlier this week, grocery research firm Kantar reported that the Co-op's sales had risen at their fastest rate since it bought rival Somerfield in 2009, climbing by 3.9%.
At its funeral homes business, which is the largest chain in the country, profits were £78m and sales rose by 9.9%.
It plans to open another 200 funeral homes in the next three years, which will increase the size of its estate to more than 1,100 homes.
In 2013, the Co-op was rocked by the discovery of a £1.5bn hole in the Co-op Bank's finances.
The bank was rescued by a group of investors and the Co-op Group now owns a 20% stake in the bank.
Last week, the Co-op Bank reported that its annual pre-tax losses had more than doubled to £610m, from £264m in 2014.
The problems at the Co-op Group led to a review of the business by Lord Myners. This led to the number of board members being cut drastically, while directors now need to have qualifications suited to running the business.
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Hackers Fancy Bears this week released athletes' stolen TUE medical files.
Asked if the files raised concerns, Dr Richard McLaren said: "Probably, yes. It would depend which sport."
British Olympic champions Laura Trott and Nicola Adams had files released on Friday, although there is no suggestion they are involved in any wrongdoing.
UK Anti-Doping chief executive, Nicole Sapstead said: "We absolutely condemn the latest release of personal information.
"The use of TUEs is not a doping offence, and all of these athletes have legitimately applied for, and been granted, medical support within the anti-doping rules."
Russia president Vladimir Putin said that he "did not support what the hackers have been doing", but suggested the leaks "raised many questions".
His comments came after International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said he will ask Moscow for help to stop the hackers, who the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) believes are linked to Russia.
The records released mostly detail TUEs, which allow banned substances to be taken for athletes' verified medical needs.
Canadian law professor and sports lawyer McLaren told BBC World Service: "One would have to conduct investigations on specific sports as to whether or not too many TUEs are being used with respect to particular substances.
"One of the common TUEs is for ADHD medication - there may be abuse there.
"That's one area that probably needs to be looked at - how frequently are [certain medicines] being used in particular sports?
Methylphenidate, for example, is a stimulant that helps improve brain function in people with ADHD, but it could also help improve an athlete's performance and is only allowed to be used by elite performers with medical approval.
McLaren also questioned the IOC response to his Russian state-sponsored doping investigation, which is believed to have prompted the hackers to break into Wada's systems and release the athletes' files.
He said the IOC downplayed the findings of his report, which concluded that Russia's sports ministry "directed, controlled and oversaw" manipulation of urine samples provided by its athletes between 2011 and 2015.
The IOC imposed a partial ban on Russian athletes competing in the 2016 Olympics, in contrast to the International Paralympic Committee, which imposed a blanket ban on Russian participation at the Paralympics.
"The IOC turned it into an issue about individuals," he said.
"The report looked at individuals not because they had committed doping infractions, but [to ascertain] whether they were part of a system that was operated outside of their national governing body, and was being run by the state."
He said he was "confident" the report found sufficient proof of Russian state-sponsored doping, "beyond a reasonable doubt".
"They were not interim conclusions," he added. "They were final conclusions, and not allegations, as was suggested by various organisations including the IOC.
"The decision by the IOC [to impose a ban only on individual Russian athletes guilty of doping offences in the past] turned that on its head and turned it into an issue about individuals and their rights to compete, which was nothing to do with the report."
A TUE allows an athlete, for medical reasons, to take a prescribed substance or undergo treatment which is prohibited.
British athletes must contact their national governing body or follow UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) guidance before applying for a TUE.
There are strict criteria for one to be granted:
Ukad says it has "a number of robust controls in place to make it as difficult as possible" for athletes to misuse the system.
Three-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome and five-time Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins were among five British athletes to have their files released earlier this week.
The medical files of golfer Charley Hull, rugby sevens player Heather Fisher and rower Sam Townsend were also made public.
Froome, 31, said he had already made public his use of TUEs.
Froome twice took the steroid prednisolone for "exacerbated asthma" while Wiggins used salbutamol to treat chest conditions and asthma.
Medical details for swimmer Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and rower Olivia Carnegie-Brown, who both won silver medals for Team GB in Rio, were published along with Trott and Adams on Friday.
Four-time Olympic cycling champion Trott had TUEs for salmeterol and salbutamol, which are used in the treatment of asthma and expired on 31 July, 2013.
Her spokesman said: "It's well known that Laura has suffered from asthma from an early age and inhalers are part of most asthmatics' lives.
"It's disappointing that her medical records have been put on the internet but asthma is something she's always been happy to discuss."
Wada director general Olivier Niggli has strongly criticised the leak.
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British number four Evans, 26, dropped to 58th in Monday's latest standings, two places below Slovenia-born Bedene.
Bedene, 27, moved to the UK in 2008 and switched nationality in March 2015.
"I don't think he really believes he's British either," said Evans after losing in the Madrid Open first round to Robin Haase on Monday.
"It's nothing against Aljaz. I like him, he's not confrontational in any way - but to me it doesn't sit well if you play for another country.
"I don't feel bad about him, but for me it's a bit baffling as to why."
The BBC has contacted Bedene for his response to Evans' comments.
It is not the first time Evans has spoken out against Bedene's switch, with the player previously saying - before the change of allegiance was confirmed - Bedene should not be allowed to represent Britain in the Davis Cup.
International Tennis Federation rules do not allow players to represent more than one country in the Davis Cup.
Bedene, who has represented Slovenia in three ties, had an attempt to overturn his ban and play for Britain rejected by an arbitration hearing in March.
Evans went out early in Madrid after losing 7-5 6-2 against Dutchman Haase, who is ranked 13 places higher at 45th in the world.
Evans lost his serve in the opening game, breaking back for 5-5 but then failed to hold in the next game.
Haase raced into a 4-0 lead in the second set and, although Evans managed to get a couple of service games on the board, eased to victory in 80 minutes.
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Evans, who rates clay as his least favourite surface, did make his opponent work in what proved to be final game, spurning three break points before Haase, 30, took his fourth match point.
Britain's world number one Andy Murray, who received a first-round bye, will play Romania's Marius Copil in his opening match on Tuesday.
The Scot, 29, finished runner-up in Madrid last year, losing to Novak Djokovic in the final.
Johanna Konta, Britain's leading female player, continued her own struggles on clay with a final-set slump during her defeat by Laura Siegemund in the first round of the Madrid Open on Sunday.
Sam James, from Salisbury, now 13, entered a competition to design the helmet's artwork two years ago.
It will be worn by Andy Green when he attempts to exceed 1,000mph (1,609km/h) in the Bloodhound SSC next year.
It has been hand painted by the same artist who paints many F1 helmets, including Lewis Hamilton's.
The artwork by Sam was selected from thousands to form the basis for the final design.
Sam and his family met the driver and the team behind the record bid at the technical centre near Bristol where the car is being assembled.
He said it was "really interesting" to see how his design had been used to make an "amazing helmet".
He added: "I thought the colour orange was like fire, and it would be a good way to interpret it.
"They've even included my signature at the back."
Kenneth McClelland overtook without making proper checks and collided with Sally Preece who was coming the other way on her bike in September 2014.
Ms Preece, from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, died of her injuries the following day.
The crash happened on the A85 near Killin, Stirling.
The 49-year-old cyclist was a week into a nine-day Land's-End-to-John-O'Groats cycle to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society.
McClelland, from Largs in Ayrshire, had earlier admitted causing her death by careless driving.
At Stirling Sheriff Court, the sheriff sentenced McClelland to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work, banned him from driving for five years, and ordered him to re-sit his test before ever driving again.
Sheriff William Gilchrist said McClelland's offence could have led to imprisonment.
"However, given your age, I do not think it would be appropriate to impose a short period of imprisonment, which would be essentially a matter of weeks," he said.
The pensioner, who suffers from angina and arthritis, was returning with his wife from a caravan holiday, when he overtook a "slow, elderly campervan", and the car behind it on a mountain pass, ploughing into mother-of-two who was coming the other way on her bike.
The wing mirror of his Volvo S40 caught Mrs Preece's handlebars, and then she was caught by the wheel of a bike that McClelland himself was carrying on a rack on the back of his car.
She was thrown more than 30 metres, coming to rest in the middle of the single-carriageway A85 trunk road.
Solicitor Alexander Currie, defending, said McClelland, who had a 55-year unblemished driving record before the accident, "tendered his condolences" to Mrs Preece's family.
Sheriff Gilchrist told McClelland: "These were tragic events, obviously for Mrs Sally Preece, but also for her family.
"I have read victim impact statements from her husband, her mother and her father, and it is quite clear, as it inevitably would be, that they are suffering terribly as a result of the loss of Sally.
"The consequences of your driving that day were the most serious -- they resulted in a fatality."
Mrs Preece's husband Phil and other members of her family were in court to see McClelland sentenced.
Mr Preece looked dumbstruck as the sheriff announced that McClelland would avoid jail, but afterwards he refused to comment on the outcome.
They opened fire on the vehicle as it headed towards the Spanish city's harbour on Tuesday, officials said.
The detained man, reported to be a Swedish national, has a history of psychiatric problems, the Spanish interior minister said.
Barcelona's city hall said the truck had been stolen.
Police started pursuing the vehicle after the driver, who was travelling at high speeds, failed to stop when ordered to do so, regional police chief Joan Carles Molinero said.
The driver then turned to make his way along the wrong side of a ring road in the city, finally coming to a stop when the truck hit a wall at about 11:00 local time (10:00 GMT).
Around 20 officers and at least six police cars arrived quickly on site, where several gas bottles were later seen lying on the ground.
At least one gunshot was visible on the windscreen of the truck, although officials have not said whether there were any injuries following the incident.
Spanish national television TVE reported that the truck had rammed several cars before police fired several times to stop it.
Spain's interior minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said in a tweet that the incident on Tuesday was "not a case of a terrorist act".
"The detained driver of the stolen butane gas truck has a psychiatric history," Mr Zoido said.
Mireia Ruiz, who witnessed the incident, said the driver ignored others who were urging him to stop.
"When people shouted at him, he would laugh and make offensive gestures with his hand," she told AFP.
Police said that the 32-year-old driver was being questioned.
Substitute Taylor Miles struck with 13 minutes remaining, cutting in from the right and firing home.
Grimsby striker Nathan Arnold's late free-kick was well saved by Tom King before Richard Tait hit the crossbar with the rebound.
The hosts remain fourth, four points above the visitors, and have won just once in their last five league games.
Meanwhile, the Iron moved level on points with Tranmere, in the last National League play-off place, but have an inferior goal difference with just three games of the season left.
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Grimsby Town manager Paul Hurst told BBC Radio Humberside: "Braintree came to frustrate us and they did that.
"We lost the game and it was a bad goal on our part. We were looking to see the ball out in desperation to try to launch an attack ourselves, rather than just dealing with the ball and the lad finished it well.
"We found it difficult to create chances against what we knew beforehand. They're a very organised team that have frustrated a lot of teams this season and we're just the latest."
A National Osteoporosis Society survey found a fifth of under-25s are cutting out or reducing dairy in their diet.
It said it was concerned many young adults were putting their health at risk by following eating fads.
Cutting out dairy can be healthy if enough calcium is consumed from other sources, such as nuts, seeds and fish.
The charity surveyed 2,000 adults, including 239 under the age of 25 and 339 aged 25-35.
Milk and dairy food, such as cheese and yoghurt, are important sources of calcium for strong bones.
The charity's survey suggests that many young people seek dietary advice from bloggers and vloggers on the internet.
Although some of this advice can be good, the charity is concerned some people become too restrictive about what they eat.
A recent Food Standards Agency survey found that nearly half of 16-24 year olds said they had an intolerance to cow's milk and dairy products, compared to just 8% of over-75s.
Yet only 24% had actually had their condition diagnosed by a doctor.
Prof Susan Lanham-New, head of nutritional sciences at the University of Surrey and clinical advisor to the National Osteoporosis Society, said: "Diet in early adulthood is so important because by the time we get into our late 20s it is too late to reverse the damage caused by poor diet and nutrient deficiencies and the opportunity to build strong bones has passed."
For adults, 700mg of calcium per day is recommended but boys and girls between 11 and 18 need up to 1000mg.
However, a quarter of teenagers in the UK are thought to consume less than the minimum 400mg of calcium every day, dietary surveys suggest.
Recommended levels can be achieved by eating three portions of dairy a day, such as cereal with milk, a yoghurt and a small chunk of cheddar cheese, experts say.
Consuming foods rich in calcium and vitamin D, such as dairy products, green leafy vegetables, salmon, sardines, broccoli and baked beans, is particularly important before the age of 25, the osteoporosis charity said.
It is urging parents to talk to their children about their diet.
After the age of 50, half of all women and one in five men develop osteoporosis, a fragile bone condition that causes painful fractures of the hip, wrist and spine.
Smoking, lack of exercise and fizzy drinks high in acid are all detrimental to healthy bones.
A spokeswoman from the British Nutrition Foundation said: "While it's not necessarily dangerous to cut out dairy from your diet it's important to ensure you get enough calcium from other sources.
"Dairy tends to make the biggest contribution to our calcium intakes and so this needs to be replaced by other sources such as bread, cereal, canned fish, nuts, seeds and leafy green vegetables as well as choosing dairy alternatives that are fortified with calcium."
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Brenda Iyoha nominated Inkosi Kachindamoto, who is a chief in the district of Dedza in Malawi. She annulled 330 child marriages last year, sending the children back to school.
"This is a bold step and a statement of intent in the fight to end child marriages," said Ms Iyoha.
Chi Yvonne nominated Marie-Claire Nabila Kuja, saying the Cameroonian campaigner "is on an unquenchable quest to ignite change in the lives of women and youths in Africa and beyond".
"Her KujaPads initiative has gone a long way to improve the menstrual hygiene of thousands of girls in Cameroon."
According to Ms Kuja, more than 80% of female students in the North West region of Cameroon have limited access to sanitary pads.
Larry Swatuk nominated Louise Vale, executive director of the Association of Independent Publishers in South Africa, because she is a "lifelong rescuer of NGOs and communities in crisis".
As an English teacher in the 1970s and 1980s, Ms Vale campaigned against the apartheid regime. She later helped open up access to education for disadvantaged youths and adults through various governmental and non-governmental organisations, and last year was appointed by President Jacob Zuma to the board of the Media Development and Diversity Agency.
Udk Kalimalwanyo nominated Charity Salima, a community nurse in Malawi, because she "has volunteered for years to help women in maternal health through her community clinic Achikondi in Area 23, Lilongwe.
"She is my unsung hero."
Ms Salima founded her clinic in the impoverished district in 2008, offering affordable pre- and post-natal care, and has since delivered thousands of babies.
Imani Amrani nominated Chesang Domtila, because she "worked wonders at the End FGM Academy - she made it happen and was an inspiration to all".
A Kenyan anti-FGM activist, Ms Domtila was born into a community that practises female genital mutilation but managed to escape.
"I have campaigned since I was 13 - I am now 26 - and I can say together with my team and other Kenyan activists, we have achieved a lot. I helped found an anti-FGM community-based organisation and currently work with the Guardian Global Media Campaign against FGM," she told the BBC.
Brenda Iyoha nominated Mary Mangwiza for "tirelessly supporting orphans of HIV/Aids in Malawi".
"With very few resources, she offers love and the chance of a meal and early education for children who would otherwise not get any," she says.
Mother Mary's Children Centre looks after more than 900 orphans and other vulnerable children, particularly in the districts of Zomba and Chikwawa.
International charity Sightsavers nominated one of their own volunteers in Cameroon, Evodia Njah, who delivers treatment for those at risk of river blindness.
A widow with five children, she takes a census of her village between June and August and the information is used to allocate treatments. She then begins the job of overcoming people's suspicions, convincing them take medicine to stop itchiness and eye problems.
"I get up very early in the morning and distribute between 6am-12pm, then from 6-8pm - this way you can make sure people are at home. I distribute every day for two weeks, to 20 households in my village. If people are not in, I go to other households, then I keep going back until I find them."
Sarah Carpin nominated Josephine Agutu, a gold miner from Uganda, for "empowering women through Fairtrade gold" - an ethical jewellery certification system to get fairer wages for alluvial miners.
Ms Agutu began working in mines at the age of 12 and now, as part of the Tiira Small-Scale Miners Association, she participates in a pilot Fairtrade project to prevent child labour and warn women about the dangers of using mercury to extract gold.
US-based charity Etisah Foundation nominated Josephine Ngale, a retired police inspector from Limbe in Cameroon, who in 2007 set up the Save The Children Alliance Orphanage in the same area, which currently supports around 50 children.
Ms Ngale is also a UN peacekeeper who focuses on gender-based violence. Previously stationed in Sudan's Darfur region, she is currently based in the main Ivorian city of Abidjan.
Commenting on her nomination, she told the BBC: "Thank you for nominating me, it makes me proud to be a strong African woman."
Josiah Mugo Mosby nominated Tegla Loroupe because she "won marathons for Kenya, now she runs for peace in her Pokot community", where cattle rustling and revenge killings are common.
A three-time world half-marathon champion and two-time world marathon champion, Ms Loroupe established the Tegla Loroupe Peace Foundation in 2003 to bring peace and unification through sports.
Read more stories about the Women of Africa as a second series starts, featuring female entrepreneurs.
The Conservatives were in second place on £25.4m with the Lib Dems third on £7.3m, according to accounts lodged with the Electoral Commission.
The UK Independence Party doubled its income, from £1.2m in 2012, to £2.5m.
The SNP saw a slight decrease, from £2.3m to £2m, with Sinn Fein on £1.2m, the Green Party on £881,819 and the British National Party on £605,208.
Labour's income included £6.9m in public funding - most of it from the so-called Short money to help opposition parties with policy research and other costs. The Conservatives received just £659,000 in public funding.
The rest of the income is from donations, including those too small to be registered quarterly, plus money from conferences, merchandising and any sales of property and other assets.
The trade unions are major contributors to Labour coffers, but the party said funds from individual members amounted to more than £8m.
"The total increases to £10.5m with contributions from our elected representatives making funds from members our greatest income segment."
The accounts show the party has moved a step closer to clearing its record debts, which stood at £41,798,000 in 2005.
John Mills, founder of TV shopping channel JML continued to be one of Labour's biggest donors, with one non-cash donation worth £1.6m.
Labour's membership increased by nearly 2,000 to 189,531 - less than half the total in 1997, when Tony Blair won his landslide general election victory.
The Lib Dems' membership increased for the first time since 2010, with an extra 950 people joining the party, bringing the total to 43,451. Membership was 65,038 when the party entered into coalition with the Conservatives.
The party's total income was also up by more than £1m on 2012.
The Conservatives do not declare membership figures but their membership income was up slightly, from £747,000 to £749,000.
Electoral Commission chief executive Peter Wardle said: "We are pleased that, for the third year running, all the larger political parties have submitted their accounts to us by the statutory deadline.
It is essential that parties continue to be transparent with their financial information so voters can see exactly how they are funded and how this money is spent."
Here is the full list of income for parties with gross expenditure of more than £250,000:
British hopeful Molly Smitten-Downes will be among the 26 acts hoping to emulate previous winners such as Abba, Bucks Fizz and Celine Dion when she takes to the stage for the world's biggest music contest.
From humble beginnings, things have moved on considerably since it began in Switzerland in 1956 - from spiralling costs to the influence of The X Factor. Here we look at the evolution of Eurovision.
It is easy to forget when faced with the scores for Engelbert Humperdinck (25th out of 26 in 2012), Bonnie Tyler (19th out of 26 in 2013) or Jemini (nil points and last place in 2003), that the United Kingdom has not always been a Eurovision failure.
The UK is actually the joint second most successful country - sharing the honour of having won five times with Luxembourg, France and Sweden.
Only Ireland has been more successful, clinching Eurovision victory a whopping seven times.
Sandie Shaw's Puppet On A String became the UK's first winner in 1967, before Lulu's Boom Bang a Bang tied with Spain, the Netherlands and France in 1969. In 1976, it was the turn of Brotherhood of Man, Bucks Fizz triumphed in 1981 and Katrina and the Waves took the crown in 1997.
Great Britain has recently spent more time on the bottom half of the leader board, but this year's entry Smitten-Downes is hoping to turn things around - and Radio 1 DJ and Eurovision presenter Scott Mills thinks she has a chance.
"We've tried to get former pop stars that have a following in Europe and it didn't translate in terms of votes, but actually I think getting a newcomer with an amazing voice - I mean she can really sing - is probably the way forward."
Mills added: "I know they've really studied the science of it as well this year, gone into the details of what kind of person wins, what age they are, the structures of the songs.
"So if we don't do even slightly better this year I'd be really surprised."
Norway is the least successful Eurovision country of all time - having finished last 11 times and scoring 'nil points' on four separate occasions.
There was a time when each country's entry was only heard once by Eurovision voters - on the night they performed it in the competition.
Thanks to social media and increasingly large promotional campaigns, those days are long gone. This year Radio 2 is even running a pop-up digital radio station, so fans can really get to know the entries ahead of voting.
The last time the UK pulled in a respectable score - when Jade Ewan came fifth in Moscow in 2009 with a song by Andrew Lloyd Webber - the pair had been on a press tour of Europe to drum up support.
This year, Smitten-Downes was one of several contestants to perform at a live show in Amsterdam last month and told the BBC she thinks campaigning makes a difference.
"I think it is quite important, it definitely gives you an advantage if people are hearing your song beforehand," she said.
"Us humans, we like familiarity. We know that if you hear something so many times, you remember it, you like it."
She added: "But I like to think it will be the best song that wins and not because of campaigns and politics or anything like that."
The fan community also plays a big part in stirring up support for songs, with more than 83,000 of them signed up to the Eurovision Family online site.
A generation raised on shows such as The X Factor and The Voice are used to hopefuls warbling into their living room on a Saturday night - and those programmes have had a big influence on Eurovision.
"The show that they put on now is pretty spectacular," said Mills, who hosted the semi-finals for BBC Three.
"For the last two years a German company who do all the stuff for X Factor in Germany have built the stage and it looks impressive."
The contest now regularly features former talent show contenders - with Ireland picking X Factor rejects Jedward to represent them not once but twice, in 2011 and 2012.
This year's entries include Denmark's Basim, who came fourth in the first season of the Danish X Factor, and the Ukraine's Mariya Yaremchuk who reached fourth place in their version of The Voice in 2012.
Acts from Sweden, Albania, Hungary, Austria, Israel, Italy and Lithuania are also all veterans of televised talent contests on their home turf.
"I think that is why the standard is better," said Mills.
"They know how to look at the camera, they know how to perform to that large audience - because it's actually a really daunting thing to perform for 170 million people."
Spain's entry Ruth Lorenzo came fifth in the UK X Factor in 2008.
"What can I say? X Factor is the best show in the world," Lorenzo told the BBC.
"And it prepares you for anything. If you've survived X Factor, Eurovision is nothing."
For years, Eurovision has been dogged by rumours of vote-rigging, bribery and countries doing deals to support their neighbours.
This year organisers are getting tough in a bid to "strengthen the credibility of the voting and protect the Eurovision Song Contest brand" - with any countries caught in the act facing a ban of up to three years.
New rules also mean each country's jury has been revealed ahead of the contest, instead of after the final and their votes will be published.
They account for 50% of the total score along with the televoting by the public - over the phone, on the Eurovision app or by text.
There is more information about how the complicated voting system works available at the official website.
The changes follow last year's investigation into voting for Azerbaijan - when rigging attempts were detected by the European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) security systems.
Executor Jon Ola Sand said: "In nearly every competition, there are attempts to cheat. It's our job to spot and stop these attempts."
Denmark has already bust its budget for this year, after renovating a former shipyard to create the venue, and press reports this week claimed the national broadcaster has had to cough up an additional 22.8m kroner (3m euros / £2.5m) after organisers ran out of funds.
Hosting Eurovision is definitely not cheap and, until last year's cost-cutting exercise in Malmo, budgets had spiralled out of control.
Norway's broadcaster NRK had to give up the rights to the World Cup when they hosted the show in 2010, spending around 211m kroner (£23m) and Azerbaijan was rumoured to have spent the equivalent of 60m euros (£49m) when it hosted in 2012.
"Malmo did it for 12m euros (£9.8m) last year," said Ewan Spence, who writes for ESC Insight and Forbes.
"Swedish broadcaster SVT committed very little capital to the contest thanks to smart budgeting, using revenue from tickets sales and so on.
"Whereas Azerbaijan and Russia (2009) threw loads of money into it because it was an opportunity to showcase themselves on the world stage," added Spence.
And what an showcase it it is: Denmark's tourism agencies estimated the country earned 117m kroner (£12.9m) after Copenhagen last played host in 2000.
As well as boosting the local economy during the competition, Visit Denmark says a TV audience of 125 million viewers could translate into advertising revenue alone of 160m kroner (£17.6m) this time round.
The last few years have seen countries including Portugal, Serbia and Croatia stay away - mainly due to the cost of sending a delegation.
A freedom of information request revealed the BBC spent around £300,000 taking Humperdinck to Azerbaijan, fuelling criticism of the use of the BBC licence fee, particularly when the UK performed badly.
However, the EBU is keen to point out the Eurovision Song Contest is actually "cost-effective" broadcasting and Spence agrees.
"If you compare that with Strictly, which is believed to cost about £1m an hour, the value of Eurovision is seven hours of prime time TV for roughly the same cost, excellent value for the licence fee payer," said Spence.
Join Graham Norton for the grand final on BBC One this Saturday 10 May from 20:00 BST.
Interestingly Police Scotland released the latest quarterly data in not one, but two spreadsheets.
It should be pointed out that the release of the figures was also published on the same day as reports into the system of stop-search and the M9 crash in which two people died after their crashed car was left unattended for days.
The two spreadsheets have almost been overlooked on what has been an incredibly busy news day.
Looking at these data sets, what can we conclude?
The first spreadsheet, for April-May 2015, shows a massive reduction in the number of searches from the same period last year.
In this two-month period, officers conducted 37,162 searches - that's about the same number undertaken in just the one month of May last year.
Police Scotland, and the outgoing Chief Constable Sir Stephen House, has long denied the existence of targets and yet this data seems to suggest otherwise.
But despite these new data sets, the single police force has remained adamant that it "did not have and does not have any targets around the volume of stop and search".
Since BBC Scotland broke the story about the continued practice searching under-12s, the total number of searches has decreased steadily.
Even the independent Scott Report has stated stop-and-search use was "excessive" and that "this is emphasised by the significant reduction in its use more recently, especially since April of this year".
Some police sources also told the advisory group that the "use of the tactic took it beyond any available intelligence and best use of officer hours".
The report added: "It is clear that targets...have been a significant factor, possibly the significant factor in driving up numbers and influencing daily practice [of stop and search]".
But not only have the number of searches halved in the last year - the number of consensual searches reduced drastically from approximately 70% to 46%.
And what's more the success rate of consensual searches during these two months improved to 30% - up from 21% for the same period in 2014.
But perhaps what is more interesting is the fact that Police Scotland released a separate, second spreadsheet for the month of June.
This data has been extracted from "an enhanced national database was rolled out across Scotland on 1 June 2015 together with changes to operational practice and recording procedures."
The enhanced database apparently includes additional validations designed to improve the quality of the data by preventing inaccurate data capture through input error.
One such validation apparently includes the verification of a person's age.
These enhancements came in the wake of Sir Stephen admitting that data released to BBC Scotland was "inaccurate".
In response to the new data, a Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police Scotland has been working through a substantial programme of improvement around the use and recording of stop and search. As part of these ongoing improvements, an enhanced database was launched across Scotland on 1 June.
"Due to the improvements made, and recognising that the data captured previously is not wholly accurate, it is not appropriate to compare the new stop and search data against the historical data.
"The number of stop searches has dropped every year of Police Scotland and the number of stop searches carried out in the final years of the eight legacy forces was higher in than the first year of Police Scotland."
The fact that this data has been released separately serves to draw a line under the debacle of not only how the force has conducted searches, but also how it has recorded the search data previously.
The data includes;
A refusal is where someone refused a consensual search; a seizure is where a search was not necessary and items such as weapons or alcohol were seized.
However, the data shows that there were only 33 refusals - that means only 1% of consensual searches were denied even though a person can legally refuse to be searched.
This underlines the fact that many aren't aware of the different types of search,
Combined with the media scrutiny, the two new criteria of seizure and refusal have arguably contributed in a further decline in stop and search totals.
These 2,491 seizures of alcohol would otherwise have boosted the figures for consensual and statutory searches for example.
The segregated June data reveals there were just 11,680 searches that month - only one of which was on a minor under 12.
That compares to 42,447 searches in June 2014, a month in which 52 children were searched.
And on the topic of conducting consensual searches on children, the Scott Report noted the many ways in which "children" can be defined.
It proposed that children are not only those under 16 but those under 18 too, "as currently proposed in the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill."
If that's the case the latest data is even more interesting as 809 under-18s were still searched last June.
Ultimately, this is a step forward in transparency and accountability as we are now able to search the raw data for ourselves - it's just a shame it's taken so long and so many controversies to get there.
New York Republican Michael Grimm was arrested and charged with 20 counts of fraud and other crimes.
Prosecutors allege he concealed from tax authorities more than $1m (£595,000) in sales and hired undocumented immigrants.
Mr Grimm is also accused of lying under oath about his business practices.
A lawyer for the congressman, a former FBI agent and marine, has said the case against Mr Grimm was "politically driven".
"Congressman Grimm asserts his innocence of any wrongdoing," William McGinley said.
The New York congressman, who was elected in 2010, was caught on camera in January threatening to throw a reporter who questioned him about an investigation into his campaign funding off a balcony in the US capitol building. He later apologised.
According to an indictment released on Monday, in 2007-10 Mr Grimm was running the day-to-day operations of Healthalicious, a restaurant in New York city's Manhattan borough, when he under-reported more than $1m in sales, reducing his tax costs.
He paid workers in untracked cash and hired workers who were in the US illegally, further reducing the business' tax burden, the indictment alleges.
Prosecutors said Mr Grimm lied about these practices under oath during a deposition for a lawsuit filed by workers at the restaurant.
"In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner," US Attorney Loretta Lynch said on Monday. "Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken."
Mr Grimm had expected federal charges, his lawyer said on Friday, but the US justice department had previously said it was also investigating Mr Grimm for possible campaign finance violations.
No campaign finance charges were levelled against Mr Grimm on Monday.
He has previously acknowledged receiving $250,000 to $300,000 in contributions from followers of an Israeli rabbi, Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, some of whom later said they made illegal contributions. Mr Grimm has denied knowledge of any illegal action.
On Friday, a woman who had been romantically involved with Mr Grimm was charged with using fake donors to make illegal contributions to his campaign.
Suzie McCash, from Tynemouth, rang police and calmly explained that "Mummy's got her eyes closed" and that she could not talk.
A recording of the call was released by Northumbria Police, who said she almost certainly saved her mother's life.
Rowena McCash was treated in hospital and has made a full recovery.
The GP suffered a severe allergic reaction at home last month and went into respiratory arrest.
Suzie dialled 999 and described her mother's situation to police call handler Adam Hall, who guided paramedics to the family home in Tynemouth.
The youngster earlier received a bravery award and was reunited with the police and ambulance service staff involved in the drama.
Dr McCash said: "I feel incredibly fortunate for how brave and clever Suzie was and I am incredibly proud of her.
"She's so amazing. Everyone thinks their children are amazing, but this is something else.
"Suzie tells me I fell on the floor and that I just wouldn't get up again.
"At some point I got to the sofa, but we don't quite know what happened after that.
"I'm so grateful to the police, especially the police call handler, who was just so calm."
Paramedic Jamie Frend, who treated Dr McCash before taking her to hospital, said: "When we arrived Suzie made a beeline for me and gave me possibly one of the most professional and succinct handovers regarding her mum that I have ever had. From a child, it blew me away.
"She said Mum was possibly having a reaction to something, that she had taken her medication twice and it hadn't worked.
"She also told me how Mum had presented before the 999 call and during the call, which gave me a good picture of what was happening."
Supt Nicola Musgrove said: "Suzie's mum stopped breathing altogether but paramedics were able to stabilise her.
"Had it not been for the quick actions of Suzie she would undoubtedly have died."
The book in question is Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich - and it's fairly clear from the title exactly what conclusions author Peter Schweizer draws.
He alleges that while Mrs Clinton was secretary of state, her family's non-profit organisation, the Clinton Foundation, was accepting donations from foreign interests and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was bringing in six-figure fees for speeches overseas in exchange for special considerations and favours.
Questions about the propriety of the foundation's donation policy aren't new. The International Business Times, for instance, has published a series of articles digging deep into the Clinton family's relations with Colombian petroleum company Pacific Rubiales and its founder, Canadian-born billionaire Frank Giustra, who sits on the Clinton Foundation board.
Word of this book has been bubbling in conservative circles for a while - Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has been alluding to the "big news" ever since he launched his presidential bid in early April.
But the New York Times article, which calls Schweizer's work the "most anticipated and feared book" of the presidential cycle so far, has boosted interest in the topic.
So what can we make of all this? Here are five questions to get us started.
Schweizer's book isn't scheduled to be released until 5 May, so the quotes being circulated have been provided by Amy Chozick of the New York Times, who has seen a preview copy.
According to the Times, Schweizer writes: "We will see a pattern of financial transactions involving the Clintons that occurred contemporaneous with favourable US policy decisions benefiting those providing the funds."
Some of the "hundreds of large transactions" that the Clintons have made during Mrs Clinton's time in public service, he writes, "have put millions in their own pockets".
While Mrs Clinton was secretary of state, Schweizer writes, her husband was being paid by foreign interests as much as $500,000 (£335,000) to give speeches. In 2011 he gave 54 speeches for $13.3m "the majority of which were made overseas".
Schweizer contends that Mrs Clinton backed a free-trade agreement with Colombia that benefitted a donor's South American "natural resources investments" (presumably a reference to Giustra), had conflicts of interest in the recovery efforts after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and received "more than $1 million" from a Canadian bank that was funding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline through the US while the State Department was considering whether to approve the project.
The State Department review in question has not yet been concluded, it should be noted, more than two years after Mrs Clinton left office.
Clinton Cash is published by HarperCollins, a mainstream US house - not a more partisan imprint like Regnery, which has made a small fortune from anti-Clinton books. Critics will be quick to point out that HarperCollins is owned by conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, however.
Schweizer is a former speechwriting consultant for Republican President George W Bush, a fellow at the conservative California-based think tank the Hoover Institution, president of the Government Accountability Institute and a senior editor-at-large for Breitbart.com, a right-wing news and opinion website.
He's written two other books, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes and Line Their Own Pockets and Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Jail.
In Extortion, Schweizer accuses members of Congress, Republican and Democratic, of running a glorified protection racket, where they shake down donors under the threat of adverse legislation.
"Pay me money, and I will promise not to make your life miserable," is how he describes it to the National Journal. "Fail to pay, and bad things will happen to you."
It was enough to stir the ire of Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, who said Schweizer was making "bogus and salacious claims to sell books".
Others have defended Schweizer's work.
"Schweizer is no hack," tweets Scott Lincicome of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "He's written several great books on DC corruption."
Not surprisingly, many on the right are heralding the book as further evidence of Clinton malfeasance - and a possible major blow to Mrs Clinton's presidential ambitions.
"She's in big trouble," tweets Commentary's John Podhoretz.
It is yet further evidence of Mrs Clinton's secrecy and corruption, they contend - in what has become an early line of attack on candidate Clinton.
In an ironic twist many of the same commentators who regularly bash the New York Times are now citing its article as evidence supporting the seriousness of the charges against the former secretary of state.
"Dems attacking the messenger, but even the NYT admits his [Schweizer] reporting is solid and documented," writes Guy Benson, political editor of the conservative website Townhall.
Others on the right are less hopeful that the story will have a lasting impact, given the enthusiasm with which reporters covered Mrs Clinton's recent van tour of Iowa.
"Remember who we are dealing with here," writes Pocket Full of Liberty's Jay Caruso. "The spectacle of a bunch of professional journalists chasing after Hillary's Mystery Mobile like a gaggle of screaming teenage girls hoping to get a glimpse of a New Direction group member should give anybody pause to think they're going to ask any hard questions."
Now that Mrs Clinton's campaign is fully up and running, expect a robust defence of the Clinton Foundation, praising its global effort to address childhood obesity, Aids and poverty.
"The Clinton Foundation is a philanthropic organisation that funds programs to help people throughout this great nation and all over the world," says Adrienne Watson of Correct the Record, a liberal group supporting Mrs Clinton, in a press statement. She adds that if Republican candidates "think attacking the foundation for its work to stop the Aids epidemic in Africa is an electoral strategy, then bring it on."
The campaign will also likely attempt to paint Schweizer's book as just another right-wing attack on a woman who has been targeted by political hotheads and conspiracy theorists for decades.
"Schweizer is a partisan right-wing activist whose writings have been marked with falsehoods and retractions, with numerous reporters excoriating him for facts that 'do not check out', sources that 'do not exist' and a basic failure to practice 'Journalism 101'," writes David Brock of the liberal group Media Matters for America.
Brian Fallon, a Clinton campaign spokesperson, also offers an opening shot, as quoted by the Times: "It will not be the first work of partisan-fueled fiction about the Clintons' record, and we know it will not be the last."
The trick with any "appearance of impropriety" allegation is that, without concrete proof of corruption, the seriousness of the charge is in the eye of the beholder.
Will the book be able to make a connection between donations and official actions? That's a difficult task, and the Times article gives no indication that the book provides direct evidence.
This could, then, end up being treated like many of the other stories unfavourable to Mrs Clinton - trumpeted by her critics and dismissed by supporters.
According to Chozick, however, the Times - as well as the Washington Post and Fox News - have entered into "exclusive agreements" with Schweizer "to pursue the story lines found in the book". If these news outlets can unearth details of a quid pro quo, Mrs Clinton's political outlook could darken quickly.
Then again, it could lead some Clinton supporters to turn on the Post and the Times. In fact, it already has.
"The partnership between HarperCollins, Fox News and the nation's two leading newspapers amounts to an open declaration of war in a presidential election, and the consummation of an alliance with a totally disreputable 'news' conglomerate," writes the National Memo's Joe Conason. "This is the journalistic equivalent of the Hitler-Stalin pact."
At the very least Republican candidates for president will prominently feature Clinton Foundation references in their campaign stump speeches.
Mr Paul has added a form to his website asking visitors to provide "additional information" on foreign contributions to the foundation.
The risk for Republicans who want this story to gain traction is that the more this gets turned into another partisan football, the more it will fade into the growing din of campaign politics and hot air - whether it deserves to or not.
But he says it is good that manager Chris Coleman will use the games against Ukraine and Northern Ireland to "try out" ideas before the tournament.
Coleman is "99% certain" Wales will also play Sweden before their first major tournament finals for 58 years.
"We're quite surprised with two games, especially out in Ukraine," said Crystal Palace's Hennessey.
"But obviously the gaffer has got something up his sleeve he wants to try out and, probably look at a few players.
"So it's always good, those little warm-up games to go into a big tournament."
Hennessey played on Saturday as Palace earned a 1-1 draw at Swansea.
Wales host fellow qualifiers Northern Ireland on Thursday 24 March at Cardiff City Stadium.
"They've done really well themselves so it's always good to play against good competition and they'll be a good team to play against," added Hennessey.
They face Ukraine at Kiev's NSK Olympiyskiy Stadium four days later.
Wales' Euro 2016 campaign begins against Slovakia in Bordeaux on 11 June in Group B where they are also paired with England and Russia.
The men, who had gone to Belgium for United's Champions League match on Wednesday, were on Thursday's 20:40 BST service from London to Manchester.
British Transport Police (BTP) said a 51-year-old man was arrested after he was reported by a witness as making racist comments to a fellow passenger.
Another 51-year-old man was later detained for kicking the witness.
He was arrested at Manchester Piccadilly station on suspicion of common assault.
The first man was held at Crewe station on suspicion of committing a racially aggravated public offence. He has been bailed until 17 September.
Manchester United beat Club Brugge 4-0 to seal their place in the group phase of the Champions League.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patent licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the verdict was important to guard its inventions from unauthorised use.
The jury had earlier decided that Apple incorporated patented microchip technology into some iPhones and iPads without permission.
Apple said it would appeal.
The company declined to comment further.
The amount was less than the foundation had claimed. It had originally sought as much as $862m.
The sum was lower in part because the judge ruled that Apple had not wilfully infringed the patent.
University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences professor Gurindar Sohi, one of the inventors of the microchip technology - designed to boost the performance of computer processors - was in the federal court in Madison, Wisconsin, for the decision.
"For Dr Sohi, I hope you felt that your invention was vindicated,'' US District Judge William Conley said.
Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, said: "This is a case where the hard work of our university researchers and the integrity of patenting and licensing discoveries has prevailed.
"The jury recognised the seminal computer processing work that took place on our campus.''
The case relates to use of the technology in the iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Plus - but an additional lawsuit making the same claim against Apple's newest models, the 6S and 6S Plus, has also been filed.
The University of Wisconsin sued Intel over the same patent in 2008. That case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
Despite recent well-publicised truces between some big tech firms, fierce patent battles are still being fought in courts globally.
A judge recently threw out claims by graphic card specialist Nvidia that Samsung and others had infringed three of its patents.
Apple's annual revenue in 2014 was $182bn.
Brian Reader, 77, described as "The Master", is the oldest member of the gang who stole jewellery from the safety deposit, last Easter.
Reader, of Dartford, Kent, who appeared at Woolwich Crown Court via video link from jail, is the last gang member to be sentenced.
The five other members have been jailed for up to seven years each.
Sentencing Reader to six years and three months in jail the judge, Christopher Kinch, said he had taken into account the fact Reader is "seriously unwell" following a stroke while being held at Belmarsh Prison.
The court was told he suffered from a range of medical conditions, from prostate cancer to loss of hearing, and requires daily assistance with simple tasks.
But he added: "I'm satisfied that you were rightly described as one of the ringleaders and involved in regular meetings."
The court heard Reader - whose sentencing had been delayed because of his poor health - was present on the first night of the two-day heist, and during "at least one dry run".
He was chosen to mastermind the raid due to his involvement in the notorious Brinks Mat robbery in 1983.
Also known as "The Guv'nor", the judge pointed out there was "a degree of irony" in Reader's monikers given his absence of the second night of the heist, apparently because he had "had enough" on the first night and returned home.
Reader's first ever conviction was in 1950 at the age of 11 for burglary.
Another man who helped get the gang into the vault, known simply as Basil, remains at large.
Around a third of the property stolen by the group has been recovered and most of it returned to the owners, the Met said.
The fight will be at the Manchester Arena on 23 January after Crolla, 27, beat Gyorgy Mizsei Jnr of Hungary on points in Dublin on Saturday.
Crolla said: "I am a Manchester lad so to be fighting in Manchester for a world title, I couldn't ask for anything more.
"The only way it could get better than that is to go out there and win it."
Crolla is the WBO Inter-Continental lightweight champion and former British champion.
Abril, 32, is the reigning WBA champion with a record of 19 wins from 23 fights whose last defence saw him end Finland fighter Edis Tatli's unbeaten record in Helsinki in September.
Four of the dead worked for the broadcaster RTA. Two police also died.
The attack began when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the compound. The other two entered it and battled security forces for four hours.
So-called Islamic State claimed the attack, which is near an IS stronghold on the eastern border with Pakistan.
The Taliban also has a strong presence in the area but the group said it was not involved.
Twelve employees, including the head of the station, were evacuated early in the attack but others were trapped in the building, which is near the provincial governor's compound.
A BBC Afghan service correspondent at the scene said the attack began when two gunmen on motorbikes blew themselves up about 30m (90 feet) away from the building.
Heavy gunfire then erupted and at least three loud blasts were heard before the security forces regained control. It was not immediately clear if the two attackers who entered the compound were shot dead or blew themselves up.
IS posted its claim on its news outlet Amaq, saying a "commando" operation targeting the broadcaster was under way.
Both the Taliban and IS have conducted a series of high-profile attacks in recent months on targets including Afghanistan's largest military hospital in Kabul and a military base in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
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The 37-year-old scored two late goals at Ibrox on Saturday as the hosts came from behind to beat Motherwell 2-1 in the Scottish Cup.
Miller, who began his third spell at Rangers in 2014, has found the net seven times in 27 games this term.
"They've got to get him signed up," Ferguson told BBC Scotland. "For me, he's still the best player at Rangers."
Miller's current deal expires in the summer and the player has spoken of his desire to stay on, while manager Mark Warburton frequently talks highly of the forward who retired from Scotland duty in 2013 after 69 caps.
"I don't understand why he plays out on the left or out on the right at times," added Ferguson, who played alongside Miller at Rangers in seasons 2000-01 and 2008-09.
"He's got to play through the middle because most times Kenny's going to score you a goal.
"At this moment, he's looking as fit as I've ever seen him.
"I know people will go on about his age but when you get that bit older you look after yourself better.
"I don't think he gets enough credit. He's a very good footballer, a clever player. People thought he was just a workhorse but I always enjoyed playing with him."
Mark Carney said that action by the Bank before and after the vote to leave the European Union had reduced the danger to the country's financial stability.
He added, however, that the overall level of risk was still "elevated".
The risk was greater for continental Europe than for the UK, he said.
The governor also told members of the Treasury Select Committee that a period of transition was "highly advisable".
"If there is not such a transition put in place, in our view it will have consequences. We will work to mitigate those consequences as much as possible," he said.
Mr Carney said that the UK should concentrate on stable access to financial markets after Brexit. The financial services industry could suffer "outsize" consequences from losing only some of its access.
He also expressed the belief that it would not only be possible, but desirable for the UK to remain part of the EU mechanisms that make financial rules.
He said the EU and the UK were starting from the position of having the same rules. The regulators know each other, he added, and it is a "tightly wound ecosystem".
In the face of questions from Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, Mr Carney insisted the bank had identified the risk to the financial sector from the Brexit vote "correctly".
Last week, the Bank of England's chief economist, Andrew Haldane, admitted that some criticisms of economic forecasts about the immediate impact of a Brexit vote were justified.
Mr Carney told the committee that economic forecasting had improved since the financial crisis, by being more pessimistic.
"As you'd expect a bunch of dour central bankers to be, we're focused on the downside and less focused on how everything could turn out well, but what could go really wrong... and where can we potentially mitigate that.
"We do have to ask ourselves continually what could go wrong. We don't have to see a ghost behind every corner, but we do have to ask ourselves what could go wrong."
Mr Carney agreed with the chairman of HSBC that the financial structure of the City was like a Jenga tower. Giving evidence to the Treasury Select committee on Tuesday on the effect of the move towards Brexit, Douglas Flint suggested that when blocks are removed, the impact is hard to predict.
"It's a decent analogy," said Mr Carney, "just like when you start Jenga, and you start early on, there's some pretty obvious pieces that you can start taking out without really imperilling the tower."
According to the show's website, it "will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations".
The hugely successful show franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016.
"There is no better time to give Star Trek fans a new series," said David Stapf, president of CBS TV studios.
Alex Kurtzman, who co-wrote and produced the blockbuster films Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) will serve as executive producer for the series.
"Everyone here has great respect for this franchise and we're excited to launch its next television chapter in the creative mind and skilled hands of Alex Kurtzman, someone who knows this world and its audience intimately," added Stapf.
The series will begin with a special preview broadcast on the CBS Television Network before running exclusively on CBS All Access, the network's digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service.
It is also expected to be distributed around the world by CBS Studios International.
The original Star Trek spawned a dozen feature films and five television series, and is still licensed on platforms across over 190 countries.
According to StarTrek.com the franchise still generates more than a billion social media impressions every month.
The new series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond, to be released in summer 2016.
Leanne Wood said if Plaid wins power in Thursday's election ministers could call a public vote if the UK government refused to negotiate on devolution.
Plaid wants new powers that include policing, income taxes and reforms to the way the Welsh government is funded.
UK ministers' have delayed their further devolution proposals until the summer, after criticism of the plans.
In February, the previous Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb promised "significant changes" to the draft Wales Bill, after claims it was confusing and would leave Welsh ministers with fewer powers.
Plaid Cymru's manifesto states that within days of winning power its ministers would begin urgent talks with the UK government seeking "immediate progress" on implementing constitutional changes.
Speaking on the BBC Radio Wales Good Morning Wales programme, Ms Wood said: "We have a whole raft of things that are yet to be implemented that have got cross-party agreement.
"If people vote for a Plaid Cymru government next Thursday than they will be voting for a mandate for us to implement all of those policies and recommendations, from the Silk Commission and so on, that have already been agreed cross-party.
"The point is that if the UK government refused to consider to negotiate with us - we've got an unwritten constitution [and] all constitutional changes are done by negotiation.
"And we reserve the right to hold a referendum on the principle of making sure that we get the powers we need in this country."
Plaid's manifesto says independence "remains our long-term aspiration" but it can only be achieved "stage by stage".
The last devolution referendum was held in Wales in 2011, in which 63.5% of voters backed giving the assembly direct law-making powers, 14 years after the referendum that established the institution.
The party's 14 MLAs have signed a petition of concern on the measure which is to be debated next Tuesday.
Combined with the 28 signatures already collected by Sinn Féin, the SDLP move means the welfare reform bill will be blocked as it will not get the necessary cross community support.
First Minister Peter Robinson said the move would not help welfare recipients.
"Contrary to the comment in the SDLP's u-turn statement this is not an artificial deadline. If they had the least knowledge of the statutory budgetary timetable, they would know that next week is the deadline," Mr Robinson said.
"Nothing in the SDLP's actions changes the legal timeframe. The budget still looms with Sinn Féin and the SDLP indicating that they will do nothing to avoid £600m of cuts to our public services."
He said the debate would go ahead on Tuesday.
Alliance leader David Ford described the move as "reckless" and says the assembly faces its worst crisis in five years.
"We cannot continue to go around in circles on this issue. The future of Northern Ireland's economy and political institutions are at stake," he said.
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said Northern Ireland could not "afford to keep on lurching from one political crisis to another on a regular basis if we want this country and its people to prosper".
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan urged all of the parties in the executive "to redouble their efforts in the immediate days ahead to resolve the current impasse over welfare".
Dr McDonnell said his party has tried to be as constructive as possible over the past three days.
"It's over to others now, we have made our views clear.
"Next Tuesday's deadline was artificial and should have been avoided," he said.
It now looks certain that the assembly will reject the welfare reform package negotiated as part of the Stormont House Agreement, unless DUP Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey withdraws the bill.
The DUP has warned that this would lead to a £600m black hole in the budget and a scenario in which the First Minister Peter Robinson believes the Assembly may collapse.
Sinn Féin has welcomed the SDLP's support for a petition of concern. Conor Murphy called on the DUP to withdraw the bill.
Conor Murphy said the DUP should "re-engage" with other executive parties over welfare.
One case is in a man and the other in an older woman. Both have recovered from the infection.
They both have a history of travel to a Zika affected country. The Republic of Ireland's Health and Safety Executive has said the cases are unrelated.
The World Health Organization has declared Zika a global health emergency as it spreads through the Americas.
Zika is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to thousands of suspected cases of underdeveloped brains.
The HSE said neither of the confirmed cases in Ireland is "at risk of pregnancy".
It said that infection usually results in a mild illness lasting between two and seven days.
The HSE statement advises people who become ill within two weeks of their return to Ireland from an affected area to contact their doctor for assessment.
"The finding of Zika cases in Ireland is not an unexpected event as many other European countries have reported cases as a result of travel to affected areas," it said.
"The Zika virus is a mosquito-borne infection, which isn't harmful in most cases.
"However, it may be harmful for pregnancies, as it's been potentially linked to birth defects, specifically, abnormally small heads [microcephaly]."
The virus is primarily transmitted through mosquito bites, although it can also be sexually transmitted.
The US confirmed the first case of Zika contracted through sexual transmission in Dallas on Tuesday evening.
The 35-year-old was hit on the head by a man who attacked him from behind on Scott's Street in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway.
The victim was taken by ambulance to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary following the incident at about 23:00 on Friday.
He was released from hospital after receiving treatment.
Police have appealed to anyone who has information to come forward.
Sgt Alan Dillon, of Annan police office, said: "From our inquiries so far, two men were seen running away from Scott's Street through Newington Park after the attack.
"Officers are currently checking CCTV in the area and carrying out door-to-door inquiries."
Gillings-Brier, 30 and her husband and coach Dan Brier are due to become parents in August.
Qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, starts in December.
Fellow Briton Ennis-Hill, also 30, became world champion just 13 months after the birth of her son Reggie.
"To see how Jess came back after pregnancy was awesome and hugely inspiring," said Gillings-Brier.
The Isle of Man-born snowboarder is taking advice from Olympic silver medallist and friend Shelley Rudman, who won skeleton World Championship gold for the first time after becoming a mother.
"There's a lot of research being done about how women can potentially come back stronger after pregnancy because of hormones," she said.
Gillings-Brier made her Olympic boardercross debut at the 2006 Games in Turin and achieved her best result at Vancouver 2010, where she was eighth.
She was ninth at the Sochi Games and spent much of the 2014-15 campaign practising freestyle snowboarding techniques to help her favoured event.
Ciaran Thomas Morris was arrested after the incident in the village of Cynwyd, near Corwen.
He admitted possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and affray via video link at Mold Crown Court.
Armed police and negotiators were deployed during the incident in March.
Morris was remanded in custody for sentencing on 5 May.
At the hearing on Friday, he pleaded guilty to possessing an air pistol with intent to cause fear of violence to a police officer and affray between 24 and 27 March.
Defending Morris, Simon Mills stressed that the air pistol was not a prohibited weapon which required a licence.
Prosecutor Emmalyne Downing said that the prosecution was not proceeding with charges of threatening to kill a police officer and damaging a police car.
Judge Philip Hughes warned Morris to expect a custodial sentence.
They will be provided with a "disclosure pack" which "they may consider undermines the conviction in a specific case," a spokesperson said.
Three live cases where Mr Mahmood - dubbed the Fake Sheikh - was due to give evidence have also been dropped.
Mr Mahmood has previously said he used legitimate investigatory methods.
The decision to contact defendants was made after the CPS reviewed prosecutions following the collapse of the trial of former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos in July.
The judge in that case said there were strong grounds for believing that Mr Mahmood had lied at a hearing before the trial started.
Subsequently, in a BBC Panorama investigation, one of Mr Mahmood's former colleagues at the News of the World claimed that they created elaborate stings to target celebrities unfairly.
As a result, former attorney general Lord Goldsmith told the same BBC programme that Mr Mahmood's record needed to be re-examined.
Lawyer Mark Lewis has been contacted by 16 people over possible civil claims against Mr Mahmood, including some not convicted of a crime.
He predicted that payouts to alleged victims if convictions are overturned could be "in financial terms, bigger than phone hacking ever was" because people have "lost their livelihoods, their homes and their incomes".
Mr Mahmood has previously said he has spent his career investigating crime and wrongdoing through legitimate investigatory methods, bringing many individuals to justice.
He said any criticism of him usually came from those he had exposed or people he had worked with who had an "axe to grind".
He is currently suspended from the Sun on Sunday following the collapse of Ms Contostavlos's trial.
A spokeswoman for the Sun said: "We are aware of the CPS statement. Mr Mahmood remains suspended and we are continuing our internal investigation into the matter."
A CPS spokesman said on Thursday that no defendants were currently in custody in cases involving Mr Mahmood.
In three live cases, prosecutors decided there was not a realistic prospect of conviction.
The spokesman added: "We are now considering past cases which resulted in a conviction in criminal courts in England and Wales based on evidence provided by Mr Mahmood, and have identified 25 cases.
"As part of this process, over the coming weeks, CPS Areas will be contacting representatives of the defendants - or defendants themselves as necessary - convicted in these cases in order to provide them with a disclosure pack - details of material which they may consider undermines the conviction in a specific case."
In September, several cases involving evidence from Mr Mahmood were halted.
The CPS offered no evidence against Dr Majeed Ridha and pharmacist Murtaza Gulamhusein, who were accused of illegally supplying an abortion drug.
Leon "Starino" Anderson and co-defendant Ashley Gordon also had drug charges dismissed.
There was no confirmation from the PA. But President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened "unprecedented steps" to end the political division with the rival Hamas movement, which dominates Gaza.
Hamas called Thursday's move "a grave escalation and an act of madness".
Gaza's 1.9 million inhabitants already endure lengthy blackouts.
The United Nations says there is no electricity in the coastal territory for up to 20 hours per day, meaning that basic services are "grinding to a halt".
On Thursday, the Israeli military's Co-ordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat) announced that it had been notified by the PA that payments for electricity supplied to Gaza would stop immediately.
Israel currently provides Gaza with 125MW, which accounts for 55% of the territory's usual electricity supply. Israeli media say the cost is about $11m a month, which Israel deducts from tax revenue collected on behalf of the PA.
Israel does not deal directly with Hamas, which it considers a terrorist organisation.
In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian Legislative Council elections. It reinforced its power in Gaza the following year after a violent rift with Mr Abbas' Fatah faction.
The rival groups agreed to the creation of a unity government in 2014, but it never got off the ground in Gaza.
On 12 April, Mr Abbas said Palestinians faced a "dangerous and tough situation" and that he was "going to take unprecedented steps in the coming days to end the division".
He did not elaborate, but the PA has already cut the salaries of civil servants based in Gaza and taxed Israeli fuel for Gaza's sole power plant.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said the salary cuts would stay in place until Hamas moved towards reconciliation.
"I think there is a golden and historic chance to regain the unity of our people," he said. "Hamas should relinquish control of Gaza."
On 17 April, the Gaza Power Plant, which produced about 30% of the territory's electricity supply, was forced to shut down completely after exhausting its fuel reserves and being unable to replenish them due to a shortage of funds.
Days later, malfunctioning power lines coming from Egypt, which accounts for 15% of the supply, exacerbated the outages.
That left Gaza totally reliant on electricity purchased from Israel.
The UN has expressed particular concern about the impact of the blackouts on Gaza's hospitals, which already rely on back-up generators and whose fuel reserves are expected to be exhausted within days.
The frequency of water supplies to homes has also been reduced, with desalinisation plants operating at a third of their capacity, and wastewater treatment has largely halted, resulting in the discharge of some 110m litres (24m gallons) of raw or poorly-treated sewage into the sea.
Gaza's electricity supply has been also affected by restrictions on the import of goods imposed by Israel as part of a land, sea and air blockade that is now in its 10th year. Egypt is meanwhile blockading Gaza's southern border.
Israel and Egypt maintain the blockades as a measure against attacks by Islamist militants based in Gaza.
Among other issues, it will look at how well sites such as Moneysupermarket, Uswitch and Gocompare can be trusted by their customers.
The CMA says it will look at whether consumers should be made more aware of how such sites earn their commission.
The study will look at all price comparison sites, including broadband, energy, insurance and banking.
Consumers are not always made aware of the cheapest deals on price websites, and usually they cannot switch to such deals immediately.
Companies often pay a fee of about £30 to a site for each new customer they gain.
Analysis: Brian Milligan, personal finance reporter
The CMA study will be seen by many as an opportunity to revisit one of its most controversial decisions. Back in June, its inquiry into the energy market ruled that price comparison sites would no longer be under an obligation to show consumers the cheapest deals.
In other words, such sites only need to show deals on which they are making a commission.
That decision reversed a previous ruling by the energy regulator Ofgem, which said consumers should see all the deals on offer. MPs on the Energy Select Committee have already complained about the U-turn.
While the CMA claims this new inquiry is completely separate, it says it will "see what issues it throws up".
It is now asking for evidence. There will certainly be no shortage of people willing to give it.
Andrea Coscelli, CMA acting chief executive, said: "Digital comparison tools have played a big part in changing markets for the better, bringing new ways of doing things and forcing businesses to up their game.
"Consumers have benefited as choice and access to goods and services have grown."
He said they had been more successful in some sectors than others.
The CMA said it wanted to understand why this was the case and whether more could be done to ensure consumers and businesses can benefit from them more widely.
It will examine four areas:
One energy provider said the CMA was clueless about comparison sites.
Luke Watson, GB Energy managing director, said: "This latest investigation shows that the CMA has no idea what it thinks when it comes to comparison sites.
"It makes a farce of the CMA's energy market review, which handed more power to the comparison sites only a few months ago. Let's not forget some of those sites are also being investigated for anti-competitive practices. I think this is beyond a question of trust; these sites are profit-making machines posing as consumer champions, and they need proper regulation."
A MoneySuperMarket spokesperson said: "We look forward to working with the regulator to provide information and support as its work progresses."
The CMA must announce within six months whether it intends to refer the market for a more in-depth investigation and must publish its report within 12 months.
Margot James, the consumer minister, said: "The government welcomes this market study, as consumers deserve to have access to the best deals and the clear, reliable information they need to make the best decisions."
Two people were seriously hurt and 31 others injured in the explosion at New Ferry, Wirral, on 25 March.
Police have held a 62 year-old from North Wales and 55 year-old from Wirral on suspicion of conspiring to commit arson with intent or recklessness.
More than 100 people were evacuated from their homes after the blast. Ten properties that were badly damaged may have to be demolished.
Youlgrave in Derbyshire was crafted by villager Lynne Nolan in icing with neighbours baking 35 cakes.
Organisers said they had been surprised but delighted by the national media attention the story inspired.
The auction of the cakes raised £3,000 on the night with another £2,000 coming in from donations. All proceeds are going towards the church roof appeal.
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The model consisted of 16 detailed buildings including a pub and church, with the icing alone taking 387 hours to apply.
The cakes have been soaked in whiskey which preserves them for months.
Mrs Nolan, who is a keen cake maker, said: "I think the butcher is my favourite.
"I did it first and it has got black puddings and pork pies and cuts of meat in it."
Ian Bright, one of the team behind the project, said: "We have had a lot of media attention. We have had reporters from lots of papers, TV cameras and of course it has travelled the world on the internet.
"One man who paid £1,000 for some of the cakes promptly donated them back and they will be divided up for elderly and needy people.
"As well as the cake auction money we have had donations from all over the country."
The commission says the EU needs its real economy now more than ever, to underpin growth and boost jobs.
Over the past decades, European companies have moved production to cheaper, developing countries.
It now says it needs to explore ways of boosting EU manufacturing or future competitiveness will be compromised.
The commission hopes to improve the EU's performance in industry by helping to iron out differences within the 27-country single European market that hinder the free movement of goods.
Its says too much of the internal market is regulated either by national technical regulations or not at all.
The commission plans to improve financing for small and medium-sized companies by making it easier for private investors to back them.
One of the sectors it hopes to expand is clean technology, where it says Europe has a dominant world market share in automatic waste separation, where materials can be sorted and recycled by machine.
But Och! I backward cast my e'e.
On prospects drear!
An' forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!"
I am uncertain as to whether there is much of the poetic in the soul of the Chancellor. But, still, Gideon was casting both backward and forward in his Budget statement today.
The backward bit came when he transformed an announcement of support for the North Sea oil industry into an excoriating attack upon the SNP.
In a prolonged section - to the sound of his backbenchers jeering in the general direction of the Nationalists - George Osborne said that the tax support announced for the North Sea was only feasible because of "the broad shoulders of the UK."
Reflecting back to the independence referendum, Mr Osborne argued that Scotland was better together with the rest of the UK. Cue growling from said SNP benches.
But there was a look forward as well - to the EU referendum due on June 23. Much of Mr Osborne's budget was aimed at strengthening support for the PM's position in that plebiscite - or, more precisely, avoiding issues which might see that position deteriorate.
The Chancellor is a keen backgammon player. (As am I. Maybe I should challenge him to a match.) He will be aware of the tedious debate as to whether backgammon is a game of skill or chance.
The answer is that, in a single game, chance can allow the beginner to triumph. Over a prolonged series of games, skilled judgement will generally favour the experienced player.
Mr Osborne was playing the long game today. Nothing much to frighten folk - or, again to deploy precision, Conservative back-benchers and supporters. Those who will figure largely in the already fractious EU referendum.
So no increase in fuel duty. No increase in beer, cider or spirits duty. A series of individually tailored announcements, even to the level of a leisure centre in Helensburgh (credited to Ruth Davidson.) Keeping the local lieges happy.
The only exception to that policy would appear to be the sugar tax. Tory folk are wondering whether such a move is intuitively Conservative. Weren't they against new taxes? Weren't they against prescribing for individual lifestyles?
Certainly, sundry naughty MSPs are recalling that Ruth Davidson expressed such views rather forcibly in a previous interview in which her essential "libertarian" soul railed against taxing sugar. Would it, she demanded, be the Curly Wurly next?
Mr Osborne set the announcement in the context of encouraging a healthy outlook. This aspect was reinforced by the plan to divert any revenue raised to school sport in England, with a Barnett consequential chunk for Scotland.
More cynical observers saw the move as a way to mask a tax rise. "It is all about the spondulicks", said one senior politician. Either way, the industry now has two years in which to respond before the tax kicks in.
More generally, though, the Budget was calibrated - at least in part - to enthuse supporters of the PM and thus underline the case for backing him in the EU referendum.
Indeed, Mr Osborne made this point explicitly when he cited the Office for Budget Responsibility as warning of the disruption which might attend Brexit, while stressing that the OBR remained politically neutral.
The income tax moves are particularly intriguing here in Scotland, coming on a day when the Scottish Parliament will endorse the new tax powers en route to Holyrood. Those tax powers will be in play from April 2017.
That means it is open to MSPs to decline to implement the Chancellor's plan to increase the threshold at which higher rate income tax kicks in. Labour and the Liberal Democrats have criticised the scheme - and pointed to their own distinctive tax plans.
The Scottish Conservatives back the Chancellor in line with their argument that Scotland should, at a very minimum, keep pace with the UK tax levies.
And the SNP? John Swinney, the Finance Secretary, told me he was not persuaded of the need to cut the levy upon higher earners at this point - which will be the result of the Chancellor's move. However, he stressed we had to await the detail of his party's proposals.
As forecast, today's Holyrood debate on new powers was relatively tame, although notably consensual. There were even tears, mostly from the presiding officer, as departing MSPs Alex Salmond and Duncan McNeil delivered their final speeches.
Mr Salmond, as is his cheeky way, had a little sting in the tail. It was, he said: "Goodbye from me. For now." He explained later that he meant that he would hope to return in the event that Holyrood became an independent parliament.
PS: I will be conducting a webcast interview with Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, at the end of this week. Could use loads more questions for her. Please respond.
PPS: On the subject of the EU referendum, I chanced this morning to be casually re-reading Roy Hattersley's elegantly droll memoir, Who Goes Home? (Little, Brown, 1995)
Mr Hattersley was a minister, frequently dealing with European matters, when Britain last voted in a European referendum in 1975.
On divisions within Labour, the then governing party, he notes: "The referendum which followed was not an attempt to hide the divisions in the party's ranks. The gulf was too wide and deep to be hidden by any contrivance of that sort."
On the choice confronting voters, he argues: "They put a cross against their prejudices and - most important of all - supported the position taken up by the politicians they supported.
"A referendum campaign with Harold Wilson, Ted Heath, Roy Jenkins, David Steel and (rather reluctantly) Margaret Thatcher on one side and Enoch Powell, Tony Benn, Barbara Castle and Jack Jones of the Transport and General Workers Union on the other can only have one result.
"If we ever have another referendum in this country, it will be decided on much the same, irrelevant and inadequate, considerations".
Liam Lyburd, from Newcastle, was jailed for life for possessing an arsenal of weapons including pipe bombs and a gun.
He had written graphic messages about a planned attack on Newcastle College in 2015, in which he had said "people will die".
A tip-off suggested "potentially harmful items" could be buried in the garden of the house he rented.
Lyburd, then 19, was jailed for a minimum of eight years after a trial heard he was a "significant risk" to the public.
A jury heard he had a "kill bag" containing overalls, a mask, boots and pipe bombs, a Glock pistol and ammunition at his home in Hamilton Place.
In a deleted file recovered from his computer, he had written: "People will die, there's no question about that."
Northumbria Police said they had begun a search of the garden after receiving information that two potentially harmful items may be buried.
A spokesman said: "Officers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit are currently searching the garden of the property.
"The safety of the public is our priority and so as a precaution police have cordoned off the garden while the search is safely carried out.
"The occupant of the address has been temporarily moved, however no other residents in the area are affected at this point."
Lyburd claimed he had not intended to hurt anyone at Newcastle College.
But sentencing him in September 2015, judge Paul Sloan QC said it could be "a very long time" before he was considered safe enough for release.
After being thrown out of college in 2012, Lyburd retreated into a reclusive online world, rarely leaving his bedroom, and amassed his arsenal using the Dark Web to buy illicit items.
Police said the search of the garden, which includes the use of metal detectors, would continue for several hours.
Friends of 20-year-old Macauley Campbell, known as Mac, have raised £14,000 for the cause in 24 hours.
David, who is from Southampton, said: "My heart goes out to Macauley's family. I sincerely hope I can be part of any tribute put together."
Candlelit vigils have been held at the site of the accident near Romsey.
The campaign to host MacFest in memory of Mr Campbell has been discussed using #MacFest.
Rob da Bank, who set up Bestival, has said he will support the event, as well as BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ Charlie Sloth.
Mr Campbell was driving a Volkswagen Lupo which collided with a BMW on the A3057 between Nursling and Romsey. He was pronounced dead the scene.
Fleur Gollogly, Mr Campbell's girlfriend, said they loved going to festivals together.
She said: "We were really looking forward to seeing Craig David in May.
"We thought we would tweet him and we never thought we would get the response we have had. It's unbelievable.
"To see the support makes it that little bit easier.
"Just like everyone else, I adored him.
"It does give me comfort to be at the flowers and be around his friends and family."
Flowers have been laid at the scene of the accident, as people visit for the vigils.
A family statement said he was "a truly loving and active young man in the prime of his life."
He worked as an apprentice fitter with Sparkes of Totton and he loved sport, especially rugby, his family said.
His brother Luke said: "The support from his friends has been amazing, just goes to show what a much-loved young lad he was."
Patrick Flinders, from Jersey, suffered a fractured skull and was flown to the UK on Sunday with fellow survivor Scott Bennell-Smith, 16, from Cornwall.
Patrick's father said he was a "hero" for trying to fight off the bear that killed Horatio Chapple, 17, on Friday.
Two expedition leaders with "severe" injuries will be flown home later.
Michael "Spike" Reid, 29, from Plymouth and Andrew Ruck, 27, who is from Brighton but lives in Edinburgh, are said to be in a "stable" condition.
The British Schools Exploring Society, a youth development charity which organised the expedition, said in a statement they would be admitted to hospital on arrival.
Mr Reid shot the bear dead, but was also mauled himself.
All four survivors injured in the attack on Spitsbergen island, Norway, had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Tromso.
Patrick's father Terry Flinders said his son was being treated at Southampton General Hospital, while he believed that Scott, from St Mellion, was taken to a hospital in Plymouth.
Mr Flinders said doctors in Southampton had told him that his son suffered a fractured skull and that some of the polar bear's teeth had to be removed from his head during surgery in Norway.
His parents had previously thought he had only been bitten on the arm and swiped in the face by the bear.
Patrick is said to be conscious and lucid and under observation by the medical team at the hospital.
Mr Flinders had earlier said his son had attempted to defend the group, saying he "tried to jump on it and smash the polar bear's nose" when the animal attacked the boys in their tent.
Scott shot but did not kill the bear, which then "went for Patrick, he bit his arm and then just swiped his face and top of his head. And then the same with Scottie," Mr Flinders said.
Referring to a conversation he had with his son, he said: "I told him 'you're a hero here mate, the way you attacked that bear'.
"He said he can't remember doing it, but I suppose it might come back to him later."
Doctors are set to assess Patrick on Monday in a bid to ascertain when he can be transferred home to Jersey.
Scott's father, Peter, said in a statement that Friday was the worst day of his life.
"It will never leave me to think how close Scott came to being killed that day," he said.
"I am so sorry for the loss of his new friend and fellow adventurer, Horatio. It is every parent's worst nightmare."
The family of Horatio paid tribute to him in a statement, describing him as "strong, fearless and kind".
They said Mr Chapple had been "so excited about his plans to be a doctor" and praised his "amazing sense of humour and ability to laugh at himself".
Eton College, where Mr Chapple was a pupil, expressed its deep sadness at the schoolboy's death and offered its condolences to his family and friends.
The attack on the campsite near the Von Post glacier about 25 miles (40km) from Longyearbyen, took place early on Friday.
The BSES, based in west London, organises scientific expeditions to remote areas to develop teamwork and a spirit of adventure. There were 80 people on the trip to Spitsbergen, which had been scheduled to run until 28 August.
Its statement said the eight uninjured members of the group involved in the incident had returned to the UK and were with their families.
The other groups would return on Tuesday, it added.
The search will now shift south to focus on an area 1,800km (1,100 miles) off the west coast of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss confirmed.
Flight MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March with 239 passengers on board.
Officials said they believed the plane had been on autopilot when it crashed.
A 55-page report released by the Australian government concluded that the underwater search for the plane should resume in the new 60,000 sq km area.
An extensive search of the ocean floor was conducted in April after several acoustic pings, initially thought to be from the plane's flight data recorders, were heard. However, officials now believe the pings were not caused by the plane.
"It is highly, highly likely that the aircraft was on autopilot otherwise it could not have followed the orderly path that has been identified through the satellite sightings," Mr Truss said.
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The new search area focuses on the "7th arc" - a line through which the analysis suggests the jet had to have crossed as it made a final, brief, connection with ground systems. The interpretation of the data is that this "electronic handshake" was prompted by a power interruption onboard MH370 as its fuel ran down to exhaustion. As auxiliary power came on, the jet tried to log back into the satellite network.
In normal circumstances following such a logon request, there would usually have been additional "chatter" between the network and MH370. That these connections are not seen in the data log are a very strong indication that the jet was in its crash descent.
Several teams within the investigation have been running the numbers; this is not the sole work of the satellite system's operator - Inmarsat.
The collective opinion of several independent teams has therefore arrived at a zone of highest priority covering some 60,000 sq km. Once the ocean floor there is mapped, the investigation team can then summon the best - but also the most appropriate - submersibles in the world to go hunt for sunken wreckage.
The underwater search for the plane was put on hold to allow more time for survey vessels to map the ocean floor.
The new search is due to commence in August and is expected to be completed within a year, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) chief Martin Dolan confirmed.
Submarines will scour the ocean floor to look for signs of the missing Boeing 777. The area has already been searched by air, and officials say any floating wreckage will have sunk to the ocean floor.
Several teams working independently of each other have reached similar conclusions relating to the new search area, the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos says.
The search for the missing airliner is already among most expensive in aviation history.
After more than 100 days since the disappearance of the airliner, many of the relatives of the missing passengers have continued to express frustration at the lack of progress in the search.
The firm is accused of giving donations to several non-profit foundations operated by Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of President Park Geun-hye.
The donations were allegedly made in exchange for political support of a controversial merger.
The scandal has led to President Park being impeached last December.
"I deeply apologise to the people for failing to show a positive image because of this incident," Mr Lee told reporters upon arriving on Thursday morning.
Earlier this week two other Samsung executives were interviewed by the special prosecutors, but were treated as witnesses rather than suspects.
The claims against the company circle around a merger between the electronics giant's construction arm, Samsung C&T, and an affiliate firm, Cheil Industries.
Prosecutors allege that Samsung gave €2.8m euros ($3.1m; £2.5m) to a company co-owned by Ms Choi and her daughter, in return for Ms Park's support for the deal.
Lee Jae-yong, also known as Jay Y. Lee, has already given evidence to politicians over the scandal, but this is the first time he has been quizzed as a suspect by investigators.
Connoisseurs of the apology will study this case for years to come. There has now been a string of important people saying they are deeply sorry, even as they profess their innocence of wrong-doing.
On his way into the investigator's office, Jay Y. Lee said he was sorry for portraying a bad image. In the past, President Park said she was sorry - for being too trusting.
And her mentor, Choi Soon-sil, also apologised, saying she had "committed an unpardonable crime". What crime that was though remains unclear - since she also said she was innocent!
Incidentally, Mr Lee has a record of apologies. Four years ago, he took his son out of a school after it was revealed that the boy had a space there meant for the underprivileged (which the son of the acting-head of Samsung clearly is not - in the land where the son always rises, the lad may well end up as the head of the company himself).
There will be more apologies before the current saga is over.
- Grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul, son of current chairman Lee Kun-hee.
- Aged 48, he's spent his entire career in the company and is vice chairman of Samsung Electronics.
- Last year was nominated to join the board of Samsung Electronics - an appointment confirmed on 27 October.
- Widely expected to take overall control of Samsung once his 74-year-old father steps down.
- Critics say his position on the board is due to his birth, not his business experience.
At the parliamentary hearing in December, Samsung admitted giving a total of 20.4bn won (£16m; $17.46m) to the two foundations, but denied seeking favours.
And Mr Lee also confirmed the firm gave a horse and money to help the equestrian career of Ms Choi's daughter, Chung Yoo-ra, something he said he now regretted.
Mr Lee is currently vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics. But since his father, Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack in 2014, he is considered de facto boss of the entire Samsung Group conglomerate.
Politicians voted on 9 December to impeach President Park over the scandal - a decision South Korea's constitutional court has six months to uphold or overturn.
Until then she remains formally president but stripped of her powers, which are handed to the prime minister, a presidential appointee.
Ms Choi is on trial for charges including corruption and coercion.
Ms Park's position began to unravel in October last year when details of her friendship with Ms Choi began to emerge.
They included revelations that the president had allowed her old friend - who holds no government role - to edit political speeches.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of protestors have gathered every weekend in Seoul to demand Ms Park stands down.
Ms Park denies wrongdoing but has apologised for the way she managed her relationship with Ms Choi, who also denies committing criminal offences.
Her mother's home, where Natalia lives, is usually in half-light, because sunlight is not good for burns.
She suffered them twice - serious ones.
When she was three years old, she went to pick up a ball on the road, and got stuck under a car exhaust. Her face was badly burned.
The second one took place 30 years later. A man she had barely even seen before threw a litre of acid over her, burning her face, her arms, her abdomen and one of her legs.
She does not understand why he did it.
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Natalia spent weeks in hospital. She had to go through dozens of operations, and much more surgery lies ahead of her.
She was the victim of one of the most savage acid attacks ever recorded in Colombia - and it has one of the highest number of cases in the world.
On 27 March 2014, Natalia's neighbour Jonathan Vega pretended to be an ex-boyfriend to make her come to the door so he could pour sulphuric acid on her.
"It felt like water", she says of the moment when the acid touched her skin.
"I didn't know what it was. I don't remember a smell, or anything.
"My clothes started to dissolve - then I felt the burning. I went into the house screaming."
Natalia's mother, Julia Gutierrez de Pineres, says: "I almost died that day."
Mrs Gutierrez was with her daughter when she was just three and had to spend five months indoors after the car exhaust burn.
She was also with Natalia through her long recovery after an acid attack that shocked Colombia.
Natalia's main fear was that she might become blind.
"Light bothered me. I couldn't close my eyes because I didn't have eyelids.
"I had to wear some cones so that my eyes got hydrated and to protect my corneas from damage," she says.
Doctors operated on her eyelids about four times and in that process she had to learn how to blink again.
She did not go blind, but even the idea that she could have makes her still very anxious.
She reflects on the case of an Iranian woman who had the chance to blind her attacker in retaliation for taking her eyesight in an acid attack.
The talion law, meaning an eye for an eye, is valid in Iran.
Ameneh Bahrami pardoned the man instead.
Had Natalia been in Ms Bahrami's place, she says, she might have acted differently.
"Revenge is not a way to heal," she says.
But then she says: "If I had been blinded and then given the chance of making that man live through the same suffering I had gone through, I would do it."
She did not have to face that choice.
But having kept her eyesight did force her to face her new self in the mirror - not an easy encounter, by her own account.
"The first time I looked at the mirror I almost died," she says. "I didn't recognise myself. I was a monster.
"I told myself: 'There is no point in going on like this.'"
Natalia suggests she thought about suicide many times.
But with time and repeated operations her face improved, and Natalia got used to looking at her new self.
"My aunt gave me a small magnifying mirror and I always keep that mirror with me.
"We are best friends now," she says with a smile. "I've lost my fear of the mirror."
For some time now, Natalia has been comfortable moving around the streets.
She is an elegant woman and before the interview, she insists I should wait until she has finished applying her make-up.
Before the attack, she did not wear make-up.
The house is full of beautiful masks - on walls, on tables, in Natalia's room.
There are also medical masks, part of her treatment.
She wore them in public for a long time.
But she stopped doing that when a law that toughened the sentences for acid attacks was brought into being. The law is named after her.
She made the decision that same morning.
She was just back from a trip to New York after "spending too much time indoors".
She told herself she looked pretty and it was time to show her face to the world.
Natalia still wears the masks as a treatment.
Not even two years have passed since the attack and she has achieved a remarkable recovery, thanks to the doctors and her willpower.
"I decided to come through and the result of the evolution is visible," she says.
"I have an expression, I've got skin, I've got my features, my eyes, my nose, my mouth.
"Fortunately I didn't lose anything; my neck wasn't burned, which could have been very hard, my chest didn't get burned either; I didn't lose my hands, fingers, ears."
She says than when we see her next year, once she has completed the remaining surgeries, she will be much better.
Advice from Natalia's surgeon in Bogota, Jorge Luis Gaviria:
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There was never more than a frame between the two before Higgins produced a break of 85 to move into a 5-4 lead.
Liang missed a green along the cushion to allow Higgins, who had made three centuries of 119, 104 and 133, to win.
UK Championship winner Neil Robertson had an easier victory as he thrashed an out-of-sorts Marco Fu 6-0.
Fu was ill with a virus on Tuesday and nearly pulled out of the match.
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Robertson will now play world number five Judd Trump in the quarter-final on Friday, which starts at 13:00 GMT.
Higgins faces world champion Stuart Bingham from 19:00 GMT on the same day.
"A lot of players will think it was an easy shot on the green, but I knew it was difficult," said Higgins after his win over Liang.
"It was great to come through. We all know he is a great player. He played great today, stuck in there and potted some unbelievable balls."
He added: "If I play like that I have got a chance against anybody."
It is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Wales, with the Eurocare study ranking Wales 28 out of 29 countries for survival rates.
A cancer centre, a charity and a pharmaceutical firm have joined forces to highlight the importance of early diagnosis.
The Welsh government said an extra £1m will be spent on lung cancer projects.
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, the Cardiff Velindre Cancer Centre and Boehringer Ingleheim have teamed up to increase awareness and to call on the Welsh government and Public Health Wales to improve survival rates.
Welsh rugby legend Jonathan Davies, president of Velindre's fundraising arm, said of Wales' Eurocare ranking: "Just reading that smacks you in the mouth and makes you say: 'Right, we have got to deal with this and sort it'."
Mr Davies, who lost his first wife to cancer, said it is vital people get an early diagnosis.
Symptoms can include shortness of breath, coughing, chest pains and sudden weight loss.
About half of all people with lung cancer in Wales die from the disease within six months of diagnosis and almost three-quarters within a year, the campaign group said.
Lorraine Dallas, director of information at the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, said some people avoid getting checked out as they fear a diagnosis is an inevitable death sentence.
"We have to be really honest in health messaging, we have to be positive. We have to see more that there are incredible, inspiring people who are living with lung cancer and living well," she said.
"It was a life-changing experience," she said. "I stress the importance of following up if you do have a persistent cough or any other symptoms."
She did not even realise at the time that she had been coughing and ended up having half of her lung removed.
"You do get these people who have got this strange attitude of 'I would rather not know'," she added.
Ms Dallas added that, while Wales had a historically high level of lung cancer due to industrial exposure, the progress of other European countries in terms of early diagnosis had not been matched.
Dr Jason Lester, of the Velindre Centre, said e-cigarettes are "undoubtedly" a safer alternative for heavy smokers but added vaping has not yet been shown to be "completely safe".
He said he was "comfortable" with the data cited by the Welsh government in its ban on e-cigarettes in public spaces.
The Welsh Government said more people than ever are surviving cancer in Wales, but acknowledged "more needs to be done to reduce mortality from lung cancer".
"Smoking remains the biggest contributor to death from lung cancer and we all have a responsibility to reducing tobacco use," a spokesperson said.
"As a government, we are making significant efforts to tackle the effects of smoking through our Tobacco Control Action Plan and through measures set out in our Public Health (Wales) Bill.
"Earlier this year, we announced that an additional £1m will be invested in the cancer delivery plan to support projects to improve outcomes for people with lung cancer, including improving public awareness of the disease and a programme of 'pre-habilitation' to get people ready for surgery, helping to maximise the benefits of their treatment."
Andrew Coates, 41, died alongside Polly Connor, 46, after a shed where the fireworks were stored went up in flames on Saturday.
A display was to be staged at a house in Ecclerigg near Windermere following a wedding earlier in the week.
Inquiries into the cause of the explosion, which is not being treated as suspicious, are continuing.
About 70 people had gathered to celebrate the wedding of local insurance boss John Simpson and his partner Nicole Rothwell.
Witnesses said they heard a loud bang at 15:15 BST, followed by smaller explosions.
The fire spread to a neighbouring shed and parked vehicle.
Police said they were working with the fire service, the Health and Safety Executive and Trading Standards to investigate.
Both victims were from Kendal.
Dozens of off-road motorcycles, quad bikes and scooters brought Kirkstall Road, a major route into Leeds, to a standstill.
Riders were also filmed driving on some of the city's busiest shopping streets in scenes likened to the Mad Max films.
West Yorkshire Police has released images of ten men believed to have been involved.
Six men, aged between 22 and 26, and a 29-year-old woman were held on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance after early morning raids across Leeds.
Four motorbikes were seized, with items of equipment also taken.
Videos posted online show bikers riding in convoy, with some pulling wheelies. Others can be seen riding on the pavement during the event, which was organised on social media.
The force said it wanted to identify ten males pictured on security cameras, with inquiries also identifying about 80 registration plates of vehicles involved in the ride.
Leeds City Council has gained an injunction at the County Court which bans anyone from "participating in anti-social driving of motor vehicles" in a group of two or more in a public place in Leeds.
The interim order, which grants power of arrest, also forbids people promoting or organising the anti-social driving of motor vehicles, officers said.
Ch Supt Paul Money, Leeds district commander, said: "The behaviour that was witnessed in the city that night put people's safety at risk, caused unnecessary fear to the public and created an image of lawlessness that we simply cannot allow to go unchecked.
"We hope today's operation and our continuing investigation will send out a very clear message to anyone who is considering arranging or taking part in any such event in the future."
Lord Ahmad said he did not want to "kill merriment", but that he would "look at" the times alcohol was on sale, and passenger screening.
Figures show 442 people were held on suspicion of being drunk at an airport or on a plane in the last two years.
The government said there were no plans to specifically address the issue.
In one recent case a female passenger punched an Easyjet pilot in the face after being ordered to leave an aircraft before take-off from Manchester.
In February, six men on a stag party were arrested by German police after a mid-air brawl caused a Ryanair flight from Luton to Bratislava, Slovakia, to divert to Berlin.
Lord Ahmad said: "If you're a young family travelling on a plane you want to go from point A to B, you don't want to be disrupted.
"I don't think we want to kill merriment altogether, but I think it's important that passengers who board planes are also responsible and have a responsibility to other passengers, and that certainly should be the factor which we bear in mind."
He went on: "In terms of specific regulations of timings of outlets [which sell alcohol] and how they operate, clearly I want to have a look at that."
He also highlighted the value of screening travellers before they boarded planes.
Glasgow and Manchester airports have trialled a scheme with shops selling alcohol in sealed bags in a bid to reduce problems on flights.
Police statistics obtained by the Press Association through Freedom of Information requests showed at least 442 people were held on suspicion of being drunk on a plane or at an airport in the UK between March 2014 and March 2016.
Trade bodies representing UK airlines and airports said such incidents were "a very rare occurrence", but warned they could lead to "serious consequences".
They pointed out that disruption on board an aircraft was an illegal offence which could carry a heavy penalty - including a travel ban, fine, or prison sentence.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority's most recent passenger survey, some 238 million passengers passed through UK airports in 2014.
Earlier this week budget carrier Jet2.com published a code of practice on disruptive passengers following collaboration between airlines, airports, the police and retailers.
The "zero tolerance" approach includes airport shops advising passengers not to drink alcohol they have purchased before or during their flight, and training staff in bars and restaurants to limit or stop the sale of alcohol to prevent or manage disruptive behaviour.
A Department for Transport spokeswoman said: "Airport security is always under review, however there are no plans to specifically address the issue of alcohol at airports."
He moved to Leyton Orient in July 2014 and made 40 appearances for them before leaving in the summer following their relegation from League One.
The 26-year-old had loan spells at Plymouth, Leeds, Sheffield United and Millwall before signing permanently for the Lions in January 2012.
Australia international Lowry had a successful pre-season trial with Blues.
Tomasz Bachta, 29, was found near his home on All Saints Road, Burton upon Trent, on Wednesday and later died.
The men, all from Burton, are due before magistrates in Cannock on Saturday.
Police said the accused are aged 35, 29, 31 and 29. A 33-year-old man who was also charged with murder appeared before magistrates on Friday.
Eight other people arrested in connection with the incident have been bailed pending further inquiries.
The aim is to try to tackle global problems by discussing big issues and planning what action to take.
The leaders of the countries meet every year in a different member country.
G8 stands for Group of Eight and is made up of leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the United States of America.
The leaders of these countries take it in turns to be president of the G8, with the leader of the host country acting as the president that year.
In 2013 David Cameron is president as the summit is being held in Northern Ireland, part of the UK.
The first summit was in 1975 - but back then it was just six countries, known as the G6.
It was formed because of big worldwide money troubles in the early 1970s, which prompted the US to form something called the library group, a meeting of senior financial officials from Europe, Japan and the US.
In 1975, heads of governments became involved and they agreed to meet every year.
The G6 was made up of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and America. It then changed to G7 when Canada joined in 1976 and G8 with Russia in 1998.
The G8 summit is a busy schedule of meetings, statements and photographs for the press.
On the second day of the summit, leaders gather for an informal talk without lots of officials or the media. In the past leaders have discussed issues such as peace in the Middle East, aid for the developing world and how to stop terrorism.
The G8 members can agree on plans and set objectives but they can't force anyone to agree with them. However, the wealth and power of the G8 members means they are often listened to by other countries.
The G8 summit lasts for two days.
Recent summits have seen big protests and sometimes violence, meaning security is very high.
Critics say it's wrong that big countries like China and India are not represented.
There are also no African or Latin American members and some says that the G8 leaders ignore the needs of the wider world.
The 27-year-old is Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's third signing of the summer and the deal includes the option to be made permanent.
Viviano has won six caps for Italy, but is not in their squad for forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.
The signing will provide competition for Arsenal's current keepers, Wojciech Szczesny and Lukasz Fabianski.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will be the happier after they extended their unbeaten league run to 24 games, a feat achieved without Fellaini in the closing stages after he was dismissed for a senseless headbutt on Aguero.
Argentine Aguero came closest for City when he hit the post early on and manager Pep Guardiola was left with an injury concern when keeper Claudio Bravo was taken off on a stretcher after injuring his calf catching a cross in the second half.
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City substitute Gabriel Jesus had a later header correctly ruled out for offside as they remain in fourth place, with United a point behind in fifth as both sides have five games remaining.
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United had 30.8% possession - their lowest figure in a Premier League game since Opta started recording possession in 2003-04.
But Mourinho's side showed all the qualities that have ensured they have remained unbeaten in the Premier League since October to battle their way to a point here.
United spent much of the game on the back foot and almost the entire second half camped in their own territory, but showed the reserves of resilience, organisation and defiance that compensates for their current lack of stardust.
Michael Carrick provided the solid platform and for the most part City were frustrated, with too many efforts off target or lacking the power to trouble United keeper David de Gea.
United carried real threat in the pace of Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial but their midfield lacked the guile to provide the right service.
This result keeps United right in the hunt for the top four as they stand in fifth place, one point behind City and two points behind third-placed Liverpool with a game in hand.
The biggest minus on their night was the crass stupidity of Fellaini, needlessly involved in the incident that saw him thrust his head into the face of Aguero.
Fellaini had been booked 19 seconds earlier for another foul on the City forward and after his red card the Belgian had to be encouraged to leave the field by his team-mates.
This was deja vu for City and Guardiola - so much possession and territory, too little end result.
City created the best chances and effectively spent the second 45 minutes camped in United territory but as on so many occasions this season, including the FA Cup semi-final loss to Arsenal, possession and territory was not turned into scoreline supremacy.
It is a puzzle Guardiola must solve and one which will cause him disquiet given the range of attacking talent at his disposal.
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City are still having to fight for that top four place and Guardiola must hope his side discover a ruthless edge, with the return to fitness of Gabriel Jesus sure to help. The Brazilian, signed last year but unable to play until January, was making his first appearance since he was injured playing against Bournemouth on 13 February.
Vincent Kompany's return to form and fitness has been massive bonus for Manchester City and Guardiola - and the 31-year-old who has captained the club to two Premier League titles looked back to his imperious best against Manchester United.
Kompany gives City's defence added power and assurance, as well as leadership, and illustrated again how much he has been missed as he has battled a succession of injuries.
He played only 33 games in 2014-15 and 22 last season, a total that included only 14 league matches, and this was only his 10th appearance this term as the campaign moves into May.
This was the first time in more than a year Kompany has put together a sequence of three successive games and came after a tough 120 minutes in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final defeat by Arsenal at Wembley.
Kompany is providing quality for the present and may also give Guardiola food for thought when he makes his summer transfer plans, which are almost certain to include a move for another central defender, with Southampton's Virgil van Dijk and Burnley's Michael Keane among those linked with a switch to Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City will climb above Liverpool, who don't play until Monday, if they win at relegation-threatened Middlesbrough on Sunday (14:05 BST), while Manchester United host struggling Swansea City at Old Trafford on the same day (12:00 BST).
Match ends, Manchester City 0, Manchester United 0.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 0, Manchester United 0.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jesse Lingard.
Foul by Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City).
Eric Bailly (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Substitution, Manchester United. Ashley Young replaces Marcus Rashford.
Offside, Manchester City. Sergio Agüero tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.
Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City).
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United).
Substitution, Manchester City. Gabriel Jesus replaces Raheem Sterling.
Substitution, Manchester United. Timothy Fosu-Mensah replaces Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Substitution, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard replaces Anthony Martial.
Substitution, Manchester City. Jesús Navas replaces Leroy Sané.
Substitution, Manchester City. Willy Caballero replaces Claudio Bravo because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Claudio Bravo (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Pablo Zabaleta.
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Leroy Sané.
Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marcus Rashford (Manchester United).
Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Fernandinho (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Delay in match Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) because of an injury.
Foul by Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City).
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Eric Bailly.
Attempt blocked. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Leroy Sané with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Ander Herrera.
Foul by Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City).
The resolution of a labour dispute in key West Coast ports and the strength of the US dollar pushed imports up.
The dollar, which has risen around 12%, also had an impact, as it makes imports cheaper and exports more expensive.
Food, capital and consumer goods' imports reached record highs in March, while petroleum imports fell to the lowest level on record.
US imports jumped 7.7% while its exports rose by less than 1% in March.
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Su-Yeon, who finished her second round on Friday after bad weather affected Thursday's play, then shot a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 to reach 17 under.
American Cristie Kerr's 62 equalled the tournament and course record to move into a tie for second with Canada's Alena Sharp on 14 under in Hawaii.
Wales' Becky Morgan shot a 72 to drop to 10th, nine shots off the lead.
World number one Lydia Ko of New Zealand matched Su-Yeon's 65 and is tied in seventh on nine under.
England's Bronte Law is on six under, while Northern Ireland's Stephanie Meadow is further back on two under.
Friday's third round was affected by the weather with a delay of just over an hour, with more rain forecast for Saturday.
Su-Yeon, who was invited to the tournament by the sponsors, said: "Because I had to finish up the second round this morning and play another 18 I was a little bit tired.
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Authorities had previously thought the virus was limited to Wynwood, a small area west of Miami Beach.
Health officials now say five people in Miami Beach have been infected. Florida health officials have been aggressively spraying pesticides there.
Zika, often spread by mosquitoes, can cause life-threatening birth defects.
"We're in the midst of mosquito season and expect more Zika infections in the days and months to come," Tom Frieden from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday.
Florida has now had 36 cases of the disease, not counting those that were connected to travel outside the US.
Known for its Art Deco architecture and expensive shops, Miami Beach attracts millions of tourists each year.
Critics have said that Florida Governor Rick Scott has been delaying the release of information and downplaying the threat of Zika to protect the state's billion-dollar tourism industry.
But Governor Scott said the state was taking every measure to ensure the information they provided to the public was accurate.
"We recognise the desire for information quickly, but it is important that we conduct our interviews and investigations pursuant to epidemiological standards," he said.
Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic minority leader, said the transmission of Zika in Miami Beach "is the most alarming development yet in the rapidly growing threat of Zika in the United States".
Senator Reid along with Governor Scott urged Congress to provide additional funding to the area. Democrats and Republicans in Congress have been at odds for months over a bill that would contribute to the aid efforts in Florida.
The officers were guarding road workers in the Sukma district, which has seen a long-running insurgency by Maoists.
The details of the attack are sketchy, but one report said it was carried out by 300 rebels.
The Maoists say they are fighting for communist rule and greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor.
Their insurgency began in the eastern state of West Bengal in the late 1960s, later spreading to more than one-third of India's 600-plus administrative districts.
Profile: India's Maoist rebels
The attack on the personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) began at 13:00 local time on Monday and the clashes went on for a few hours, reports said.
It is not yet known if the Maoists suffered any casualties.
India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh later tweeted about the attack:
Indian media reports say helicopters have been used to transport the wounded to the nearest medical facility.
Extra security personnel have been now been sent to the location to look for the attackers.
The rebels are active in several eastern and central states of India.
They routinely target Indian security forces. In 2010 they killed 74 policemen in the Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh in one of the most deadly attacks.
The Shrimpers seemed to be heading for defeat when their former midfielder Franck Moussa fired the Saddlers into a 2-0 lead.
But goals from Nile Ranger, Anton Ferdinand and Simon Cox saw Southend pick up all three points to move into the play-off places.
Substitute Moussa fired Walsall into an 18th-minute lead with a neat finish from Joe Edwards' left-wing cross and then doubled the visitors' lead with another clever finish after a poor clearance from Ryan Inniss.
However, Southend got back into the game in the 63rd minute with Ranger heading home Will Atkinson's left-wing cross following a quickly-taken Ben Coker free-kick.
The Shrimpers then drew back level in the 76th minute when skipper Ferdinand volleyed home from 12 yards after Anthony Wordsworth's free-kick had only been half cleared.
And Southend completed their comeback seven minutes from time when Cox curled a 20-yard free-kick into the top left-hand corner of the net.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Southend United 3, Walsall 2.
Second Half ends, Southend United 3, Walsall 2.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Stephen McLaughlin.
Attempt saved. Simon Cox (Southend United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Nile Ranger (Southend United).
Matt Preston (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Theo Robinson (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Nile Ranger (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Ben Coker (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kieron Morris (Walsall).
Foul by Nile Ranger (Southend United).
James O'Connor (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ben Coker (Southend United) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Southend United 3, Walsall 2. Simon Cox (Southend United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
James O'Connor (Walsall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James O'Connor (Walsall).
Substitution, Walsall. Kieron Morris replaces Franck Moussa.
Foul by Ryan Leonard (Southend United).
Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Walsall. Amadou Bakayoko replaces Andreas Makris.
Goal! Southend United 2, Walsall 2. Anton Ferdinand (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by James O'Connor (Walsall).
Attempt missed. Nile Ranger (Southend United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Southend United. Simon Cox replaces Will Atkinson.
Attempt saved. Theo Robinson (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Neil Etheridge.
Foul by Nile Ranger (Southend United).
James O'Connor (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Theo Robinson (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Matt Preston.
Attempt missed. Jason McCarthy (Walsall) right footed shot from long range on the right is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Jason Demetriou (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Franck Moussa (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Nile Ranger (Southend United).
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Southend United 1, Walsall 2. Nile Ranger (Southend United) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Will Atkinson following a set piece situation.
Nile Ranger (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Chambers (Walsall).
Attempt missed. Isaiah Osbourne (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
It follows a court case in March which found Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan (BMAP) planning policy had been adopted unlawfully.
BMAP restricted future expansion at Sprucefield to bulky goods only - an obstacle to a John Lewis department store.
However, the restriction has now effectively been lifted.
On Friday, a judge ruled that the rest of BMAP can now be implemented, declaring it a "fair, just and proportionate" remedy.
A spokesperson for John Lewis said: "We do not have any current plans to open a shop in the province."
Intu, the UK-property company which owns the Sprucefield site said: "We plan to study this judgement carefully.
"Until then we are really not in a position to comment."
Analysis by BBC NI Business Correspondent Julian O'Neill
The court has removed a significant barrier to John Lewis, but no one should expect sudden action.
This is already a saga which has run for more than ten years.
Firstly, there is the prospect of a legal challenge to the court ruling.
Secondly, there are other policies around out-of-town retail developments versus a cities-first strategy.
Thirdly, there are the intentions of the Sprucefield site owners, Intu, and John Lewis.
What are they?
Neither party has said much in response to the ruling.
John Lewis saw profits slump earlier this year and is assessing what it means for expanding its 48 stores.
So while the court move is important, the issue is far from settled.
Welcoming the verdict, Lagan Valley MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said renewed attempts will now be made to attract John Lewis to Sprucefield.
But Belfast City Council immediately announced its intention to appeal the outcome amid concerns for the impact on the retail sector.
Earlier this year, a High Court judge held that former SDLP Environment Minister Mark H Durkan acted unilaterally and unlawfully in authorising BMAP without securing consent from executive colleagues.
Mr Durkan's approval of the planning framework adopted in 2014 was challenged by the DUP's Arlene Foster, who was the Stormont enterprise minister at the time.
But following the assembly elections in May, agreement was reached by newly created departments on the way forward in the legal action.
Simon Hamilton, the DUP Economy Minister, and Sinn Féin Minister for Infrastructure Chris Hazzard, agreed on a proposal to have BMAP adopted without the bulky goods restriction.
In a joint statement, both ministers welcomed the court's decision, saying it would provide "certainty" for communities, councils and investors.
But a barrister for Belfast City Council urged the judge against rubber stamping the draft order.
He argued that it would involve the court veering into the area of creating planning policy.
However, a barrister who brought the original challenge on behalf of the enterprise minister, claimed that Mr Durkan should not be allowed to get away with "going on a solo run".
He said: "If correct that would drive a coach and horses through the Northern Ireland Act and would be a charter for ministers to effectively chance their arm and hope for the best later on."
Despite Belfast City Council's objections, the judge agreed to make the declaration sought by the two departments.
Announcing the council's intention to appeal the judgment, Councillor John Hussey said it raises important issues about the role of the courts in sanctioning changes to planning policy, when the original complaint was that a minister acted unlawfully.
"This is not about Belfast versus anywhere else," he said.
"Neglecting Belfast will have an adverse effect on the economy of Northern Ireland as a whole."
But Sir Jeffrey, the DUP MP in whose constituency the Sprucefield retail park area is situated, predicted a new planning application would be submitted by the site's owners INTU.
"The restriction should never have been placed on Sprucefield in the first instance - I'm pleased it's now been removed.
"We will certainly be looking to attract John Lewis into the park as part of future development," he added.
The body of Peter West, who was 60, was discovered at the property in Glazebrook Road, Leicester, at 11:00 BST on Tuesday.
Emma Hicken, 35, and Kieron West, 35, both of Glazebrook Road, were charged late on Thursday evening.
Officers are still treating Mr West's death as unexplained.
The detained pair have also been with a child neglect offence and are due to appear before Leicester Magistrates' later.
It followed reports of problems at Bilston Glen, which previously handled calls from the Lothians and Borders.
Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the control room in Midlothian was struggling to cope following the closure of the Glenrothes control room in Fife on 17 March.
He told Holyrood more than 1,000 calls were lost in one day, and non-emergency calls took 40 minutes to answer.
The Glenrothes control room is one of five across Scotland scheduled to be closed as part of the reorganisation of the Scottish Police Service.
Dumfries and Stirling closed earlier, with Glasgow city, Inverness and Aberdeen to be shut later in 2015.
Police Scotland said the rationalisation, reducing the number of control rooms from 11 to four, would save £6m annually.
Speaking at First Minister's Questions, Mr Rennie said: "The closure of Dumfries last year was described as shambolic.
"Stirling was closed, and only weeks later had to re-open in an emergency, and Aberdeen and Inverness are still to come.
"I am alarmed that the first minister seems to be unaware of the problems because earlier this month there was almost a critical incident because staff levels were so low."
He called on the government to halt further closures.
Police Scotland has disputed the detail of the claims made by Mr Rennie.
Ch Supt Val Thomson said: "It does not take callers 58 minutes to get through when they call Police Scotland using 101 or 999.
"The average time taken for connecting a 101 non-emergency call is one minute, with many calls being answered in less. The average response for a 999 call to be answered is nine seconds.
"When you dial the 101 non-emergency number, callers have a menu of options that is intended to prioritise those calls that have an incident or crime to report."
Ch Supt Thomson added: "On Saturday 21 March 2015 there was an issue with one call received by the Bilston Glen Service Centre where the caller chose an option which is treated as a lower priority. This call stayed in the queue longer than expected. Action has been taken to stop this happening again.
"We do not recognise the claims made by Mr Rennie about the Stirling Centre opening in an emergency. There remained a presence in Stirling when the workload transferred to Bilston Glen, in the form of a Police Assistance Desk (a facility where police officers take crime reports over the phone and provide advice and guidance to members of the public)."
Nicola Sturgeon said she would raise the matter with the justice secretary and Police Scotland.
"People have the right to get a high-quality service from the police and where for any reason that is falling short then we will ensure that action is taken to rectify that," she said.
The matter was raised again in a member's debate initiated by Labour's justice spokesman Hugh Henry.
He said the experience of the two-year period since Police Scotland was established had given "grave concern".
Mr Henry said he was not criticising individual officers or non-uniformed staff.
But he criticised the force's watchdog body, the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), which he characterised as a "toothless tiger".
Mr Henry told MSPs: "It is largely ineffective and comes to the game after the event rather than setting out its policies and expectations in advance."
The debate followed criticism of Police Scotland over the way it has implemented controversial policies including stop and search, arming officers on routine duties and the closure of police station public counters.
Nigel Boocock, from Yorkshire, competed in 748 matches for Coventry Bees in 18 consecutive seasons in the 1960s and 70s.
Known as "Little Boy Blue" because of the colour of his leathers, Boocock died in Australia last April.
The service will see 1976 champion Peter Collins ride around the track in Brandon with Boocock's grandson, Jack, holding his ashes.
Tony Gillas, a former Bees rider and now chairman of the Speedway Control Bureau, said Boocock entertained hundreds of thousands of people, and regularly rode for the England team.
"Nigel will always be Mr Coventry Speedway," said Mr Gillas. "He put his heart and soul into Brandon and entertained so many people... we wanted to do something like this."
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire's speedway correspondent, Wayne Roberts, said Boocock was unsurpassed and arguably "the best rider ever".
Boocock's son, Darren, and Darren's wife Sharon were killed in a road collision in 2008 when their Triumph motorcycle collided with a lorry.
The aircraft manufacturer added it expected profits would be flat in 2016.
Airbus shares fell 10.4% to €43.20 (£34.32)on Wednesday, marking their worst one-day fall for six years and wiping €3.9bn off the company's value.
At the same time, Qatar Airways said it was postponing delivery of the first A350 jetliner "until further notice".
Delivery of the A350 to Qatar Airways had originally been planned for 13 December followed by a flight to Doha.
The two sides then scheduled a pre-delivery ceremony for Friday, before the handover was scrapped altogether.
The A380 aircraft is only in its seventh full year of operation and cost about $25bn to develop.
While Airbus will break even on the plane in the years up to 2018, chief financial officer Harald Wilhelm said the aircraft manufacturer would have to provide different engines from 2018 to make it more attractive, or discontinue making it altogether.
The announcement prompted a furious reaction from the head of Dubai's Emirates airline, who said it was prepared to invest heavily in buying more of the aircraft.
Tim Clark, president of Emirates, said he had protested to Airbus.
Mr Clark said if Airbus went ahead with proposals to upgrade the A380 by adding new Rolls-Royce engines, Emirates would eventually replace all the 140 aircraft it had ordered with the newly upgraded version.
He added the aircraft was popular with passengers and "full to the gunwales" with passengers.
Airbus has already announced plans to cut production of its A330 aircraft by 10% to nine aircraft a month.
But it said on Wednesday it would have to cut production again in 2016 to an unspecified level, following slow progress in finding buyers for the aircraft, ahead of a planned upgrade in 2017.
In an attempt to restore calm, Airbus head of corporate communications Rainer Ohler issued a statement on behalf of the company which said: "The entire Airbus top management continues to believe strongly in the market prospects of the A380, but any investment by Airbus requires a sound business case, which we will continue to study,"
Peter Anstell, chair of the Friends of Horsey Seals (FHS), said the "phenomenal" number of pups had turned Horsey into a tourist attraction.
Volunteers from FHS are attempting to keep visitors from disturbing the record 600 pups on the beach.
Norfolk Police has advised people to stay away because of traffic problems.
Grey seals begin arriving at Horsey beach in November, give birth over the coming months, and suckle their young before leaving in late January or February.
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In the past decade, the number of seals born on the beach has risen from about six to about 600 this season, which Mr Anstell described as "a bit of a phenomenon".
"Visitor numbers is a real issue for local people," he said.
"On peak days such as Boxing Day and New Year's Day, people descended on Horsey in their hundreds, if not thousands. It is chaotic for parking in a place not designed for this many visitors."
He said he was unsure why thousands of seals chose to come ashore at Horsey, but added: "They would want a solid and stable beach on which to give birth and Horsey is good for that.
"It's got a wide expanse of sand and dunes, which give them some protection from the weather and very high tides."
Mr Anstell said the seal pups would be suckled for about three weeks, during which time they would put on about 2kg (4.5lb) a day.
"The mother then leaves them alone on the beach for another three weeks. That's when they're at their most susceptible.
"If they wander into another seal's territory, they will be attacked."
Mr Anstell said until a year ago, the seals were monitored by Natural England, but following funding cuts FHS was asked to take on the task of counting the seals and keeping them safe.
On Monday the prospective Republican presidential candidate raised some eyebrows when he responded "yes" to a question about whether he would have approved the 2003 invasion of Iraq "knowing what we know now". Is Jeb standing by Bush's Iraq War decision?
It took less than 24 hours for his political supporters to begin walking back that statement, however, after he was subjected to withering criticism from the left and the right.
Ana Navarro, an adviser to Mr Bush who served on his staff when he was governor, said she emailed Mr Bush on Tuesday about the remark, and he told her that he didn't hear Fox host Megyn Kelly correctly.
"I think when you hear the entirety of his answer, and he talks about the faulty information, it's hard not to conclude that he misheard the question," she said on CNN. "Instead of hearing 'if we knew what we knew now', he must have heard 'if we knew what we knew then'."
The latter version of the question is a fairly common one for candidates of all political stripes, and - for the most part - it results in a dispassionate discussion of faulty intelligence, missed opportunities and unintended consequences not too different from the way Mr Bush answered.
Very few politicians these days would answer "knowing what we know now" with a solid affirmative, however. Then again, only one politician on the national stage today has the surname Bush.
Syndicated radio show host Laura Ingraham, a long-time conservative critic of Jeb Bush, said after Monday's remarks that "you can't still think that going into Iraq, now, as a sane human being, was the right thing to do".
She added that comments like that show that Mr Bush is ill qualified to be the Republican nominee.
"You have to have someone who says, look, I'm a Republican but I'm not an idiot. I'm not stupid," she said. "I learn from the past, and I improve myself."
Another conservative commentator, the Washington Examiner's Byron York, writes that the Iraq issue isn't going to go away for Jeb Bush - especially if he continues mishandling what should be easy questions
"Jeb's statement is likely to resonate until he either changes his position or loses the race for the Republican nomination," he writes. "Should he become the nominee, the issue will dog him into the general election campaign."
Meanwhile the Democratic National Committee wasted no time taking advantage of the opening Mr Bush's remarks created. It launched a YouTube video tying the two Bush brothers together, and spokeswoman Kristin Sosanie quipped: "Apparently hindsight isn't 20/20 for Jeb Bush. Even knowing how badly we were misled, he would still have done it all again."
Jeb Bush's remarks come less than a week after he reportedly told a private audience in New York City that George W Bush was one of his primary advisers on Middle East policy.
Mr Bush's staff have said since that his comments were about Israel policy specifically, not the Middle East in general. Some members of the audience at the event disagree, however.
Being a Bush brings with it a number of distinct advantages when running for the Republican presidential nomination - such as money, name recognition, a set of influential connections within the party and a seaside compound in Maine in which to relax for a few days.
This week's events highlight that the pedigreed surname has some very particular challenges, as well.
Republican candidates in - and out - of the race
Gen Gilbert Diendere made the proposal at talks brokered by West African mediators in the capital Ouagadougou.
On Saturday one of the mediators had spoken of a breakthrough and hinted at a new transition government reinstating interim President Michel Kafando.
At least 10 people have been killed in clashes since Thursday's coup.
The overthrow of the civilian interim government - carried out by the presidential guard - was widely condemned. Burkina Faso has been suspended from the African Union.
BBC West Africa reporter Thomas Fessy says the junta's proposal is unlikely to signal a return to power of the civilian authorities.
The document, signed by Gen Diendere and exclusively seen by the BBC, says he should remain president until elections - currently due on 11 October.
This is in stark contradiction to the optimism shown on Saturday by one of the mediators, Benin President Yayi Boni, who suggested the presidential guard might give up power, our correspondent adds.
Gen Diendere was chief of staff of former President Blaise Compaore, who was deposed in a popular uprising last October.
Meanwhile violence erupted on Sunday at the hotel in Ouagadougou, where the talks have been taking place.
About 50 coup supporters burst into the lobby of the Laico hotel, injuring several people.
"They invaded the hotel," an eyewitness told Reuters news agency. "They attacked ex-opposition members as they arrived. One had to be saved from the crowd by security forces."
Outside the building opponents of the coup held a protest but were later dispersed by security forces.
Mr Kafando, who was initially held by the coup leaders, is now free. However, other questions remain, including the fate of Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who was also detained.
Mr Compaore is currently in exile and was accused of committing widespread abuses, and trying to change the constitution to extend his term in office.
Some of his key allies had been barred from contesting the election.
Gen Diendere has said he has had no contact with Mr Compaore and will do everything to "avoid violence that could plunge the country into chaos".
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The Welsh region says Smith, 28, has suffered a "series of concussive events" and after "expert advice" has decided to "hang up his boots".
"I am utterly disappointed and devastated that I have been forced to retire through injury," said Smith.
"But I feel that the medical advice given to me cannot be ignored."
Former Wales Under-20 captain Smith, made more than 160 appearances for Dragons since joining the Rodney Parade side in 2005.
Dragons' director of rugby, Lyn Jones said it was a "big blow" for the region.
"We are all so upset at the news of Ashley's forced retirement," said Davies.
"Over his 10 years at Rodney Parade, he has been a credit to the region, himself and his family.
"We will miss his maturity, football, decision making and his experience.
"It's a big blow for us, but Ashley has made the right decision for himself and his family. We wish him well for the future."
The airline is concerned that only a third of the 29 electronic passport gates are open at Heathrow Terminal 5.
BA says the gates shut prematurely at 23:00 while customers are still disembarking, causing huge queues.
The Home Office has said it strongly disagrees with BA's remarks.
Back in 2015, when the electronic gates at Terminal 5 were opened, the Home Office said that the technology would help the Border Force to process a higher number of low risk passengers "more quickly and using less resources" to reduce queuing times.
The electronic gates were meant to help border control officers to focus on "more priority work" like cracking down on people trafficking and drug smuggling.
However, since many of the gates are often closed, families returning from holidays have been facing long queues to pass through immigration, particularly late at night.
"It is a constant frustration to us and to our customers that after a long flight they have to stand in queues, sometimes for over an hour, just to get back into the country," said Raghbir Pattar, British Airways' director of Heathrow.
"And it is a dreadful welcome for visitors to the UK... It adds insult to injury when you're stuck in a queue but can see numerous gates which just aren't being used."
British Airways has submitted its concerns to the Home Office and hopes that action can be taken to reduce unnecessary delays.
Mr Pattar said: "We recognise some of the steps being taken by Border Force to improve the service they provide to travellers. However more focus must be put on operating in the most efficient and flexible way and ensuring that passengers' needs are put first."
Heathrow Terminal 5 currently only serves BA and Spanish airline Iberia.
A spokesperson for Virgin Atlantic told the BBC: "This hasn't been a particular issue for our customers as all our flights land before 10pm."
The Home Office strongly disagrees with British Airways' comments.
"This statement significantly misrepresents the experience of the vast majority of passengers arriving at Heathrow this summer," a spokesperson said.
"More than 99% of British and European passengers arriving at Heathrow are dealt with within 25 minutes. For passengers from outside the European Economic Area, 87% of passengers have been dealt with within 45 minutes.
"Border Force and British Airways have an agreement to close the Terminal 5 ePassport gates at 11pm every evening. In recent months, Border Force has kept the gates open beyond 11pm - often to accommodate passengers arriving on delayed British Airways flights.
"The security of our border is paramount - which is why 100% of scheduled passengers are checked when arriving in the UK. While every effort is made to keep delays for passengers to a minimum, we make no apology for carrying out this important work."
The silver Vauxhall Corsa knocked down a bollard before crashing into the Salvation Army store in Trinity Street, Dorchester, just before 11:00 GMT.
Dorset Police said the driver, a man in his 70s, was checked over by ambulance crews and is not believed to have been injured.
There were no reports of anyone being hurt inside the shop.
The driver was attempting to park in the adjacent car park at the time of the crash, according to reports from the scene.
Ray Slater, from the Salvation Army, said staff were "shocked" after the crash.
Mr Slater said: "Our staff were at the other side of the shop so heard it, they didn't actually see it.
"It looks like the damage is just to merchandise - so that's fine - we're just pleased nobody was hurt."
He said it was likely part of the shop would have to close while repair work is carried out.
The WWF and the International Rhino Foundation said the country's last Javan rhino was probably killed by poachers, as its horn had been cut off.
Experts said the news was not a surprise, as only one sighting had been recorded in Vietnam since 2008.
Fewer than 50 individuals are now estimated to remain in the wild.
"It is painful that despite significant investment in Vietnamese rhino conservation, efforts failed to save this unique animal, " said WWF's Vietnam director Tran Thi Minh Hien.
"Vietnam has lost part of its natural heritage."
The authors of the report, Extinction of the Javan Rhino from Vietnam, said genetic analysis of dung samples collected between 2009-2010 in the Cat Tien National Park showed that they all belonged to just one individual.
Shortly after the survey was completed, conservationists found out that the rhino had been killed. They say it was likely to have been the work of poachers because it had been shot in a leg and its horn had been cut off.
Globally, there has been a sharp increase in the number of rhino poaching cases. Earlier this year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published a report that said rhino populations in Africa were facing their worst poaching crisis for decades.
An assessment carried out by Traffic, the global wildlife trade monitoring network, said the surge in the illegal trade in rhino horns was being driven by demands from Asian medicinal markets.
Conservation blow
The Vietnam rhino, as well as being the last of the species on mainland Asia, was also the last known surviving member of the Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus subspecies - one of three recognised groups of Javan rhino populations.
(Source: IUCN/IRF)
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Another is already extinct. R. sondaicus inermis was formerly found in north-eastern India, Bangladesh and Burma.
The remaining subspecies, R. sondaicus sondaicus, is now found on Java, Indonesia. However, since the 1930s, the animals - now estimated to number no more than 50 - have been restricted to the westernmost parts of the island.
Bibhab Kumar Talukdar, chairman of the IUCN's Asian Rhino Specialist Group, said the demise of the Javan rhino in Vietnam was "definitely a blow".
"We all must learn from this and need to ensure that the fate of the Javan rhino in [Indonesia] won't be like that of Cat Tien in near future," he told BBC News.
"Threats to rhinos for their horn is definitely a major problem. But in Indonesia, due to active work done by rhino protection units and national park authorities, no Javan rhino poaching has been recorded in Indonesia for past decade."
Dr Talukdar observed: "What is key to the success of the species is appropriate habitat management as the Javan rhinos are browser and it needs secondary growing forests."
He warned that the habitat within the national park on Java serving as the final refuge for the species was being degraded by an invasive species of palm.
"As such, control of arenga palm and habitat management for Javan rhinos in Ujung Kulon National Park is now become important for future of the species."
Speaking to me at the International Monetary Fund autumn meeting in Washington, Phillip Hammond said that although sterling's rapid fall was partly "technical", markets would have to get used to volatility while Britain negotiated its departure from the European Union.
He said that it was important to "look through" currency volatility to the fundamentals of the UK economy which he said were strong.
"[There will be] no spending splurge," he told me.
"What we have said we are going to do is create within a new fiscal framework enough space for the government to be able to respond to the turbulence in the economy that I have talked about.
"As we go through this period we want to be able to provide fiscal support if necessary.
"At the moment I can't predict whether that will be necessary at the time of the Autumn Statement in November.
"We will have more data by then and if the data show that the economy needs support we will make carefully targeted, precise interventions aiming to support the economy through investment in infrastructure which not only gives a short term boost but gives a long term benefit to the UK's productivity."
He told the BBC the government would take the "necessary measures" to support the economy, but that did not mean abandoning attempts to control Britain's high levels of debts.
He said that despite abandoning the pledge made by George Osborne to eliminate the deficit by 2020, the Treasury would provide a "clear set of benchmarks" about tackling the deficit.
Mr Hammond said it was "not credible" to have the government's fiscal position "unanchored" and that any new target on balancing the books would be achieved "over a sensible period of time".
On sterling, the Chancellor said investors who control billions of pounds of sterling assets were "resetting their expectations" as it became clear that Britain would not seek to engineer a "soft" or partial departure from the European Union.
He said the "final foot had dropped" in investors' minds that "it is going to happen".
That could suggest further downward pressure on sterling as many investors believe that UK assets will be less valuable if Britain is outside the European Union single market, Britain's biggest destination for exports.
Others believe that after a period of volatility, the UK economy will bounce back, which could see sterling strengthen.
"Markets will go up and down - markets respond to noises," the Chancellor said.
"We are going to go through a period of volatility, there will be lots of commentary going on and we can expect to see markets being more turbulent over this period and we should prepare for that."
Mr Hammond said he wanted to ensure the "maximum possible access" to the European single market for businesses but that it was not yet time to set out the details of Britain's negotiating position.
9 December 2015 Last updated at 09:43 GMT
Gallons of dirty, smelly water has damaged their furniture, toys and clothes.
They have had to leave all their toys, clothes and Christmas presents behind until all the flood water drains away.
It could take months to dry before the houses can start to be repaired.
Our reporter Naz went with one young boy, Ben, as he went back to his badly damaged home for the first time since the water flooded in.
However, he describes it as the "mission" of Rangers, the team he managed to a domestic treble in season 2002-03, to halt champions Celtic.
"I see the Dons being second," the 58-year-old told BBC Radio Scotland.
"Derek McInnes has made good acquisitions and it is there for Rangers to try to usurp him."
McLeish, who also enjoyed success in charge of Motherwell and Hibernian, joked that Rangers fans would be "ganging up" on him for tipping the club for whom he played in central defence almost 700 times.
But, as Celtic target a seventh consecutive title, the former Scotland manager thinks the Reds have the edge over Pedro Caixinha's Rangers team when it comes to being runners-up.
He is impressed with the standard of players to have arrived at Pittodrie over the summer, such as Kari Arnason, Greg Tansey, Ryan Christie, Stevie May, Greg Stewart, Nicky Maynard and Gary Mackay-Steven.
McLeish continued: "I still think Aberdeen are the favourites. They still have a really good chance of finishing second.
"Derek McInnes has bought wisely again. If you look at the guys he's recruited, there is good experience there. Stevie May - what a buy that is.
"Being first, that's the only thing that Rangers fans crave but common sense would tell you that they should be accepting second.
"People talk about 'let's stop 10 in a row'. They've got to stop seven in a row. That is their mission this season.
"I've said Aberdeen could finish above them but Rangers have still got to pull out all the stops to try to beat Celtic this season."
McLeish describes the treble-winning Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers as an "all-round terrific package", with a successful blend of man-management and coaching skills.
"Brendan came to Birmingham when he was out of work," he recalled. "I invited him in for a day's training.
"I knew he was an educated guy. I think he learned a lot about man-management over maybe a sacking or two and going on to manage players like Steven Gerrard (at Liverpool) and doing it with great aplomb."
McLeish was Scotland manager in 2007 before leaving for Birmingham City. He is urging the Tartan Army to get behind the current boss Gordon Strachan for September's World Cup qualifiers against Lithuania and Malta, insisting Scotland can win both games.
Asked if he would welcome a return to the Scotland job one day, he replied: "Yeah, I would, absolutely. You kind of evolve in your life and there comes a moment when you think 'that would really suit me'.
"I've got the experience and they say experience is forever. It would be a great challenge in the future. You never know."
The woman's body was found in a flat in Meelmore Drive in the County Tyrone town on Saturday.
Matthew Darryl Taylor, of Meelmore Drive, faces a total of 10 charges.
They include the possession and supply of Class A, B and C controlled drugs, namely ecstasy, cannabis and diazepam.
He is also facing a further charge in connection with selling or supplying the prescription-only drug, Lyrica.
Mr Taylor appeared at Fermanagh Magistrates' Court on Monday for a bail application, which was opposed by the police.
A PSNI detective constable told the court the deceased had been involved in an "on-off relationship" with the defendant for the past year.
An eyewitness told the police that the deceased had attended a house party late on Thursday night and in the early hours of Friday.
The witness alleged Mr Taylor had arrived at the house "with different bags of drugs", and supplied a number of ecstasy tablets to her, the court heard.
As a result of what the witness had said, police spoke to the defendant.
He told officers that he had seen the woman on Friday morning and admitted that he had supplied Class C drugs to her, but would not say where he got them.
After he was arrested, a police search found quantities of suspected ecstasy and cannabis.
During interview, Mr Taylor claimed these drugs were for his own personal use.
The police objected to bail due to the risk of further offending.
During cross-examination, the detective constable confirmed she was not aware of the port-mortem examination results, adding that this was scheduled to take place later on Monday.
A defence solicitor told the court his client wished to convey his sympathies to the family of the deceased at this stage.
The solicitor said Mr Taylor, who admitted to being a drug user, was "very upset".
The solicitor told the court his client accepted that he supplied drugs to the deceased, but added that there was nothing to suggest he was involved in the wholesale dealing of drugs to the wider community.
A district judge said it was clearly a tragic case that was a "chilling example" of the dangers of the illicit use of drugs.
The judge said the defendant, who was "sadly known" to the deceased, had provided her with drugs that had led to her "untimely and sudden demise".
The judge said that Mr Taylor suffered from some form of drug addiction and had other offences on his record as a result of a failure to deal with that issue.
Refusing bail, he expressed his fear that, if released, the defendant would be unable to deal with his addiction issue and attempt to re-involve himself in that behaviour.
Mr Taylor was remanded in custody to appear before Omagh Magistrates Court on Tuesday for a possible compassionate bail application.
Shadow Welsh Secretary Nia Griffith challenged Stephen Crabb over UK government support for the industry: "You know just how serious the crisis facing the steel industry in Wales is and indeed in the whole of the UK. Four years ago, the chancellor promised a compensation package to the energy-intensive industries.
"What reassurance can you now give the thousands of workers in Wales whose jobs depend on the steel industry that your government will deliver that package by the end of this month?"
Mr Crabb told her: "The steel industry in Europe is facing a perfect storm as a result of a glut of cheap imports, falling prices and high energy costs. With nearly half of the UK's primary steel industry employed in Wales we fully recognise the impact of these global challenges on Welsh steelworkers and their families.
"We are working closely with the industry and with the devolved administrations to do everything possible to support the industry at this time."
Mr Crabb said the government was in the process of delivering that compensation. "We have already paid out around £50 million in compensation to British steel companies, not least to companies based in Wales."
Whenever two or three Welsh MPs are gathered together it is traditional, if not compulsory, for them to debate the future of devolution and so it proved at the first question time since the draft Wales Bill was published.
Plaid Cymru's parliamentary leader, Hywel Williams, wanted to know what progress Mr Crabb had made consulting civil society on the draft bill.
Mr Crabb said he continued to meet "members of civil society, the judiciary and leading business organisations across Wales to take soundings and hear their views".
Mr Williams, who had clearly been taking his own soundings in civil society, warned him: "There is general, substantial and growing dissatisfaction with the draft Wales bill, not least among legal colleagues. Would you not be better advised to withdraw the bill and start again?"
Mr Crabb was not for turning: "I fear that if we were to withdraw the bill, we would see no progress whatsoever on strengthening and clarifying Welsh devolution, which I understood Plaid Cymru and the Labour Party supported."
Enter Michael 'my mam's from Aberavon' Fabricant : "When I raised this issue before the general election, a previous secretary of state for Wales said that I was wrong. Will the present Welsh secretary say that if the Welsh people would like a Welsh parliament, rather than a Welsh assembly, they will be able to have one?"
Stephen Crabb, a reader of Gerald of Wales's works, told him: "To paraphrase the famous old man of Pencader, it will be the Welsh people ultimately who determine the direction and pace of Welsh devolution. The draft Wales bill will give powers to the Welsh assembly to call itself a parliament and take on more law-making responsibilities."
Mr Crabb rejected calls for a single Welsh legal jurisdiction, warning that it could lead to "a flight of talent" from the Welsh legal profession.
You can read the full exchanges here.
In other news, Jeremy Corbyn has continued on his "steep learning curve" as Labour leader, with some frontbench spokespeople continuing to question openlyhis leadership and policies.
One Labour activist, Madeleine Jennings, who works for Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock, tweeted: "Pretty embarrassing week 2 b Labour Party member. Parisians must see our party spat over their national tragedy & think we're total morons."
But charges of match-fixing against Petersen, who has spent the past two years playing for Lancashire, were withdrawn by Cricket South Africa.
It follows a lengthy investigation into South Africa's domestic Ram Slam T20 Challenge Series competition in 2015.
"I accept the punishment that CSA has imposed on me," said the 36-year-old.
Petersen, who played the last of his 36 Test matches in January 2015 and has spent the last two English summers playing county cricket for Lancashire, admitted 13 breaches of CSA's anti-corruption code:
In January, as part of the same investigation, former South Africa spinner Gulam Bodi was banned for 20 years after admitting charges of contriving or attempting to fix matches.
Then in August, CSA banned former wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile for 12 years for his part in the scandal, while Pumelela Matshikwe, Ethy Mbhalati and Jean Symes received lesser bans for accepting money from Bodi.
A CSA statement said: "After considering representations made by Petersen, CSA has withdrawn certain charges against him, including those relating to fixing or contriving to fix any match and seeking, accepting or offering to accept any bribe or other reward to fix or influence any match."
Petersen added: "I would like to apologise to my family, friends, the public who are fans of the game of cricket, my team-mates, Gauteng cricket, Lions cricket and especially to Cricket South Africa for my actions.
"At the time that the meetings with Bodi and the fixers happened, I never had any intention of fixing matches or taking money.
"I now deeply regret having participated in these meetings and not to have immediately reported them to the authorities as I am obliged to do."
A statement by Petersen's former county said: "Lancashire County Cricket Club respects the outcome of the recent proceedings between Alviro Petersen and Cricket South Africa (CSA), and as such can confirm that the player won't be playing for the club in the 2017 season."
Petersen was Glamorgan's captain for the 2011 season and also had spells with Essex and Somerset.
A spokesman for the defence ministry said his army unit was "looking into the matter" following a public outcry.
The 30-year-old, whose real name is Jung Ji-hoon, is doing compulsory military service until this year.
Thousands had signed an online petition calling for an investigation into possible preferential treatment.
All able-bodied South Korean men are required to serve time in the military - a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.
The South is still technically at war with North Korea, as the conflict ended in a ceasefire and not a peace treaty.
Men in military service have limited free time and are largely confined to their barracks.
In the past, artists have been known to try to avoid military duty, which has proved unpopular with the public.
Psy - known for his global hit Gangnam Style - was made to repeat his military service after being accused of neglecting his duties.
The report of Rain's apparent romance with popular South Korean actress Kim Tae-hee, 32, broke in local media on Tuesday.
Kim's representatives said in a statement that the two had been dating for a month.
Rain began his career in 2002 and became part of the Korean Wave of drama and popular music that has spread in Asia.
His 2004 album It's Raining sold 1m copies and he appeared in several movies, including Hollywood production Speed Racer in 2008.
The Guernseyman is part of the new Ford Chip Ganassi team, with Priaulx hoping to better his third-place result he achieved in his class in 2011.
"We led it for most of the race in 2011 and lost it in the final hours, so I hope we can do one better than that," he told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"But this is a very tough and demanding race on the cars, drivers and teams."
Priaulx will be racing a Ford GT alongside fellow Britons Harry Tincknell and Marino Franchitti.
"It would go amongst the big wins for me," said Priaulx, who won three successive World Touring Car titles between 2005 and 2007.
"I won the Nurburgring 24 hours in 2005 and Sebring 12 hours in 2011, so this - along with Daytona - would be two big races for me.
"I've finished second in Daytona and third here, so there's still some unfinished business.
"To win Le Mans in the Ford GT would be a massive career step for me, so I'm very motivated about it.
"I've been told that I'm starting the race and, for me, that's a massive honour.
"Obviously that's a pretty crucial part of the race, to get under way a 24-hour programme with the huge commitment of Ford, to be given that privilege is a great honour and I'm looking forward to doing that on Saturday."
The Shropshire side have parted company with manager Rob Smith and his assistant Larry Chambers.
BBC Radio Shropshire reports that this is all part of a plan that will provide new investment to secure their future.
"It was tough to part with Rob (Smith) and Larry," said director Andy Pryce.
"But Rob (Edwards) is a Telford lad, who had a successful career as a player and has since gone on to make a very good start to his coaching career."
"This is my hometown club," said Shropshire-born Edwards, 34, who was heavily linked with the manager's job at Shrewsbury Town earlier this year.
"I will be working very hard to see what we can achieve and hopefully see the football club raise its profile to a new level."
Edwards returns to football four weeks after leaving in Wolves in May, when he departed Molineux along with boss Paul Lambert and the rest of his backroom team.
AFC Telford were formed by fans in 2004 following the liquidation of the old Telford United, famed in the 1970s and 1980s for their non-league FA Cup-fighting exploits.
Since being reformed, in the eighth tier of English football, the Bucks have twice been promoted to English football's fifth tier, in 2011 and 2014, only to be relegated in 2013 and again in 2015.
They have now spent two seasons back at sixth-tier level, finishing 18th in 2015-16 and 17th in 2016-17.
After seeking new investment in October 2016, an American-based Telford fan made an official approach for his hometown club. But the then fan-owned club's constitution, run by a Supporters' Trust, would only have allowed him to initially invest no more than 20%.
The club, who last year tried to raise £50,000 in extra income to improve a cashflow problem, have since changed their structure.
BBC Radio Shropshire's Nick Southall
"Obviously this is a pretty major development for the club. We caught wind that something was happening after the first scheduled pre-season training session was cancelled on Tuesday.
"Then today I was told that Rob Smith and Larry Chambers have left the club. This is as a result of new investment coming in, which I'm told is an offer too good to turn down.
"I'm also told the club's chairman Ian Dosser is leaving and Andy Pryce will be interim. This isn't a takeover and nothing will change as regards the current share structure or the name of the club.
"But I think it's a game-changer. We're talking pretty major investment and the prospect of some Football League players joining on loan.
"Sources also tell me that Telford are to receive additional financial support from Wolves, on top of their current agreement, in which the Championship side pay to use Telford's Bucks Head home to stage their Under-23 games."
The loss of Anthony Foley transcended provincial borders and national borders. It even transcended sport. People with no connection to Killaloe, where he was laid to rest on Friday, or Limerick, where his memory was evoked so thunderously on Saturday, were moved by the tragedy of his wife and two young boys left behind to deal with the cataclysm of his death.
So we begin not with the epic at Thomond Park but with a slow walk down the back streets of Foley's home town, the funeral cortege following his coffin from the gates of St Flannan's church to the graveyard, down the road, around the corner, past the GAA club and in the narrow gap to his final resting place.
Munster players of Foley's vintage carried the coffin, then they paused, handed it over to six more and the next wave of team-mates took it onwards. Every 100 yards or so, new pallbearers - men who had played, laughed and cried with him - carried him forward. For so long he was their protector, now the roles had been heartbreakingly reversed.
Walking a discreet distance behind was our Leinsterman - Malcolm O'Kelly. At 6ft 8in tall, hard to miss.
O'Kelly, a lock forward of the highest quality, won 92 caps for Ireland, 47 of them in the same pack as Foley. He looked at the scene ahead of him, this changing guard of Munster greats, and said quietly: "No shortage of big shoulders today."
At the time, approaching 2pm on Friday, it was almost inconceivable that the current crop of Munster players could leave the funeral of their coach and the emotion of his graveside and immediately focus on a game less than 24 hours away. It was borderline cruel to even ask them and nigh on impossible to envisage them holding it together so soon after a piece of their world had fallen apart.
At 10.30am on Saturday, Thomond Park was busy. Two and a half hours to kick-off and yet the place was filling up. What struck you was the warmth of the welcome and the brilliance of the organisation.
Pre-match was powerful. The songs, the montage on the big screen and then more songs. The guard of honour from kids from Foley's old school, St Munchin's, and Foley's old club, Shannon.
When the minute's silence ended, what passed as normality hit Thomond Park again, but you wanted to wince in that moment. You felt for the Munster players and the burden they were carrying. You knew how good Glasgow could be and the damage they could wreak.
Forty-plus points on Leicester Tigers last weekend at Scotstoun. The lethal running of Stuart Hogg, the orchestration of Finn Russell and Henry Pyrgos, the power and mobility of their pack led by the wonderful tyro, Jonny Gray.
If they put 40 on Leicester, what could be they be capable of now, against a team whose preparation involved more tears than tactics. We got our answer soon enough - right between the eyes.
This was Munster rugby played in the style and ferocity of their greatest teams from the past decade; unrelenting ferocity, clinical finishing, passion personified. It could have been Foley out there making the hard yards instead of CJ Stander. It could have been David Wallace at seven inside of Tommy O'Donnell.
In the mind's eye, O'Mahony was as much of a dervish and monumental pain in the opposition's backside at blindside as Alan Quinlan and Denis Leamy were in their pomp.
For Paul O'Connell and Donncha O'Callaghan, read Donnacha Ryan and Billy Holland. For Marcus Horan, Jerry Flannery and John Hayes, read Dave Kilcoyne, Niall Scannell and John Ryan.
You can pay these guys no greater compliment. They fronted up. As individuals, and as a team, they're not in the same class as Munster's Heineken Cup-winning sides of 2006 and 2008 - but on this particular day they were.
Maybe it was a one-off, hewn from the despond of the week, but they were outrageously good.
Two tries in 14 minutes, then a red card for Keith Earls and then - without missing a beat - another try. Unyielding and unstoppable.
There were so many moments that stood out and some of the finest ones were old school Munster. The monster 26th-minute scrum that brought a penalty, a Thomond Park roar that shook the ground and then three points that stretched the lead to 17-3.
Another moment and another scrum. Or scrums. At the beginning of the second half the worries still hung in the air about Munster's capacity to maintain the power without hitting an emotional wall. Again the questions were answered.
In the early minutes of the new half, Munster blitzed the Glasgow scrum once, twice, three times. Penalty try. Bonus point. Euphoria in the stadium. A powerful reminder of blissful old times, when they were kings.
Glasgow changed their team. They substituted their props but the pain didn't lessen. They brought new blood into their pack, but the demolition continued. They tried to fight Munster fire with fire of their own, but what's to be done when you're packing a lighter and the others a flame-thrower.
Gregor Townsend said that his team never turned up. You could see his point. Again, it was a throwback to when fancied teams came here - to the old Thomond Park as opposed to the new - and were sent away as beaten and slightly haunted men. Glasgow had that look about them on Saturday evening.
Townsend said something else. He spoke about the red card for Earls and Glasgow's inability to capitalise on it. He said that in ways, yes, his team were playing against 14 for over an hour, but in other ways they were playing against 26,014.
The Glasgow coach got that one right, too. It didn't lessen his frustration and anger at the way his team was bullied out there, but it was true none the less.
A powerful day had the perfect ending for Munster: a win and a song. Normally these players find the sanctuary of their own dressing room before they belt out their anthem, 'Stand Up And Fight', after a match - but this time they made it public and it was moving.
Foley's two young sons, Tony and Dan, joined the players in a huddle on the pitch and of all the remarkable things that have been seen here down the years - the great performances and seismic European wins - that simple moment when a family, a team and a support were united together was one to top them all.
Poignancy and points on a bittersweet day.
First Minister Arlene Foster said the terms for an independent inquiry were worked out in consultation with the attorney general.
She said they were sent to Sinn Féin who, so far, had not responded.
However, Sinn Féin's MLA Conor Murphy said they were "insufficient".
"There has been no agreement with the DUP on the terms of reference of an independent investigation," he said.
"In order to restore public confidence in the political institutions we need an independent investigation, which is robust, transparent, timeframed and led by a senior judicial figure from outside the jurisdiction and with the power to compel witnesses and subpoena documents.
"Arlene Foster should step aside to facilitate that investigation pending a preliminary report."
Set up in November 2012, the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was an attempt by the Northern Ireland Executive to help to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
It is approximately £490m over budget as businesses were receiving more in subsidies than they were paying for renewable fuel and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed.
A quarter of 1,000 parents said they would support a free school in their area, with 31% against and 43% unsure.
The schools - being set up by groups of parents, charities and faith bodies - will be funded directly by Westminster and be outside local authority control.
The government says the NUT is "blindly opposed" to the schools, which it argues will drive up standards.
The NUT is campaigning against free schools - and the conversion of existing schools to academy status.
Both types of school will be what the government calls independent state schools, with more freedom over the curriculum and teachers' pay and conditions.
Teachers employed by them will also not need to have formal teaching qualifications.
In September, the government gave provisional approval for 16 free schools to open at the start of the next academic year. Another nine have since also been given the go-ahead.
The NUT asked pollsters YouGov to survey just over 1,000 parents in 22 local authority areas of England where free schools are being planned.
When asked which groups should run schools, about half said local authorities, 43% said teachers, 30% said charities, 25% said parents and 15% private companies - people could specify as many options as they liked.
About half of those questioned said there was a need for a new school in their area - with the same amount saying there was not.
However, 31% said they were against or "tended to be against" a new free school. The largest proportion were neither for nor against such a school opening locally, or did not know their opinion on the issue.
Most parents questioned (72%) said they thought any new state-funded school should follow the national curriculum and that children should be taught by qualified teachers (78%).
Asked what impact they thought a free school would have on other schools in their local area, one in five said it would raise standards, while one in four said they did not know.
Christine Blower, NUT general secretary, said: "This survey clearly shows that parents are not clamouring to set up free schools, have no issue with schools being accountable to the community through democratically elected local authorities, and absolutely reject the premise of their children's education being handed over to private companies.
"Free schools are not wanted or needed. They are divisive and unaccountable.
"It is time the government stopped playing with the educational future of this country based on nothing more than the fact they can."
But Mark Lehane, a maths teacher planning to form a free school in Bedford, said he had the backing of parents who had opposed previous plans for a "ginormous" secondary school with up to 400 pupils per year group.
"What me and my teacher colleagues are proposing is a much smaller secondary school. There's an awful lot of community support," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"I'm really worried that the union leaderships are really opposed to their members trying to do something for their local community."
Asked about union concerns over the separation of free schools from councils' democratic structures, he added: "If unions wanted to set up free schools and build in these accountability processes involving the local council they have got the opportunity to do that."
And Rachel Wolf from the New Schools Network charity, which has received some government funding, said free schools need not have 100% support and would give parents more options.
"A lot of state schools are absolutely fantastic, but there are a significant minority that aren't," she said.
"Those are overwhelmingly in more deprived areas. What this survey shows is a very high number of parents think they don't have an option."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: "It's disappointing to see the NUT continuing to blindly oppose free schools before one has even opened its doors.
"As well as teachers and charities, it's also parents themselves who are behind many of the free school proposals.
"And each proposal has to show there is demand locally for the type of education they plan to offer.
"Too often the poorest families are left with the worst schools while the rich can pay for good education via private schools or house prices. Free schools will give all parents, not just the rich, the option of a good local school with great teaching, strong discipline and small class sizes."
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The Blues became champions of England for a sixth time - with two games to spare - thanks to Michy Batshuayi's late goal in a 1-0 win at West Brom.
Conte's side face Arsenal in the FA Cup final on 27 May.
"For me to win in my first season in England, I am really proud of the achievement," he told BBC Sport.
"My players showed me great professionalism, commitment, work-rate and will to try to win this league.
"We have two games to celebrate, then we try to make this season from great to fantastic."
Conte, who took charge at Chelsea after leaving Italy at the end of Euro 2016, says switching to a three-man defence in the wake of a 3-0 defeat by Arsenal in September was pivotal to the Blues' season.
Chelsea were eighth, eight points behind leaders Manchester City after that loss at Emirates Stadium. A 13-match winning streak followed, and they are now 10 points clear of their nearest challengers with two games remaining.
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"It was very frustrating for me because at the end of the Arsenal game I didn't see anything from my work or my ideas on football," said Conte.
"But in this moment I found the strength to change and take responsibility and find a system for the players.
"It was a key moment in the season because every single player found in this system the best for him.
"When you arrive after a bad season and the team has arrived at 10th in the league it means there are a lot of problems.
"To find the right solution quickly isn't easy and for this I want to thank my players because they trusted in the new work, my philosophy, video analysis to see mistakes and they showed the right attitude and behaviour."
Conte apologised after arriving late to his post-match news conference, explaining his players had showered him with beer and champagne and that "my suit is a disaster".
He revealed he had cut his lip as he celebrated Batshuayi's winner, but that it was not the first time he had been injured as a result of his joyful exuberance.
"In these moments, anything can happen," he said.
"I hurt my lip during the Euros as well and they had to put a stitch in it after we scored against Belgium.
"Simone Zaza gave me a header - I don't think it was on purpose. I'm not sure if this was a header or a punch but I am ready to repeat this."
The conference came to an abrupt end when players Diego Costa, John Terry and David Luiz arrived and, impatient to start their celebrations, ushered him away.
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Captain Gary Cahill said the players always believed they could mount a title charge despite finishing 10th last season, 31 points adrift of champions Leicester.
"We felt confident in the dressing room all season," he said.
"We deserved it over the season. We worked very hard and have been the better team.
"It is fantastic to wrap it up with a couple of games to go. It is very difficult in this league."
Fellow defender David Luiz says the chance to land his first Premier League title was one of the reasons he returned to the club from Paris St-Germain in a £34m move in August.
"When I decided to come back here I dreamed to win the Premier League. I am very happy because my dream came true," he said.
"Conte works with passion every day. He deserves it because he is working hard every day."
The Chelsea boss' influence on his side was also acknowledged by West Brom counterpart Tony Pulis.
"They're worthy champions," he said. "They had a poor start, and Conte had to change things.
"He's made it his team. Italian teams are tactically organised and well run.
"He changed their shape and they've been superb from that moment onwards."
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BBC analyst and former Tottenham and Newcastle midfielder Jermaine Jenas believes Conte deserves the credit for turning the club around, highlighting his conversion of Victor Moses from a fringe midfielder to first-choice wing-back.
"They lost their way last season, they were unrecognisable. He has come in and reinvigorated them," Jenas said.
"What I like about Conte is he gave Moses a chance and trusted him. He has made him a better player and a Premier League champion."
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Six of the top 10 most mentioned tweets were about matches at the tournament, statistics from the company show.
Germany's 7-1 semi-final defeat of hosts Brazil was the most tweeted event, followed by Wayne Rooney's equaliser for England against Uruguay.
1D singer Harry Styles's tweet celebrating the band's fourth anniversary was the most retweeted.
The 23 July message - "4 years. Thank you to everyone who is involved in this. I feel so lucky to be part of it. Everyone who has worked with us thank you.." - has been retweeted more than 359,000 times.
In terms of news, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in March was the most talked event by UK users in 2014.
It was followed by the Scottish independence vote; the inquest of Mark Duggan, who was shot by police in Tottenham, north London in 2011, and the deaths of US comics Robin Williams and Joan Rivers.
The third most tweeted event overall in the UK in 2014 list was Daniel Sturridge's equaliser for England in the team's eventual defeat against Italy, followed by new year celebrations and Germany's defeat of Argentina in the World Cup final match.
The other World Cup tweets to make the top 10 list were about Croatia scoring against Brazil, and the Netherlands' 5-1 victory over Spain in their opening match, while matches involving Manchester United and Real Madrid, and 1D's best video Brit Award win in February also attracted attention.
The statistics for 2014 showed UK Twitter users had similar interests to the previous year when football and 1D dominated the top 10.
Globally, the Brazil World Cup in June and July broke records to become the most tweeted about subject in 2014.
Twitter has dubbed 2014 the year of the selfie, with worldwide statistics showing users had mentioned the word 92 million times, an increase of 500% on 2013.
Ellen DeGeneres' star-filled Oscar photo taken on a mobile phone was retweeted more than three million times - a Twitter record.
Lewis Wiltshire, director of media partnerships at Twitter UK also highlighted the selfie of Prince William and Prince Harry with internet entrepreneur Jamal Edwards at a Buckingham Palace event.
Between them 1D have five of the most followed UK accounts.
Harry Styles has the most followers at 22.8 million. The top 10 most-followed list also includes Adele, Emma Watson, Coldplay, BBC News' @BBCBreaking, and Ed Sheeran.
In global terms, singer Katy Perry is the most-followed person on Twitter (61 million), ahead of Justin Bieber (57 million) and Barack Obama (51 million).
A disturbance was reported at Welwyn Road, Hinckley at about 21:30 GMT on Tuesday.
Detectives believe the deceased to be David Stokes, 43, and his sons Adam, 11, and Matthew, aged five.
An injured woman, who left the house in the early hours and is being treated in hospital, has been locally identified as 44-year-old Sally Stokes.
Trained police negotiators were deployed to the house following concerned calls from neighbours.
After Mrs Stokes left and was being given first aid, officers searched the house and found the bodies of a man and two children.
The causes of death are not yet known but detectives are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
One neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: "They were very nice people."
Det Ch Supt David Sandall of Leicestershire Police said trained negotiators spoke to the man and woman at the address for several hours.
He said: "In the early hours of this morning the officers gained access to the property following a female who left the address with injuries.
"Officers provided first aid to the female, she remains in a stable condition in the hospital.
"At that time, [other] officers entered the address, they found a male who was pronounced dead within the address.
"Tragically, and very traumatically, the officers on searching the address have also found two deceased children.
"I'm appealing to anybody who knows any information about what occurred last night in the address or anybody who can… tell us about what happened within this family leading to these tragic circumstances."
At the scene - Jeremy Ball for East Midlands Today
It has hit people really hard here [in Welwyn Road]. Just after we arrived we saw one woman on the street in tears.
The question is why did these three people lose their lives?
We still don't know how they died, or what their injuries were. We won't know until we get the results of a post-mortem examination.
Arrangements have been made for a candlelit vigil in Hinckley tomorrow afternoon.
The two boys attended St Mary's CE primary school, and the head teacher, Rachel Ayres, said: "Everyone is devastated by the tragic news about our pupils, Adam and Matthew, and our sincere sympathies are with their family and friends."
She said special assemblies will be held to support the children at the school.
As officers had been in contact with both the man and the woman during the evening, Leicestershire Police has informed the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
It works with a Windows phone and uses location and navigation data with a network of information beacons in urban locations to describe routes.
The headset was tested on a journey from Reading to London, including shopping, bus and train travel.
The charity Guide Dogs, which helped develop the technology, said it could help improve lives.
Of the two million registered visually impaired people in the UK, 180,000 rarely or never go out, according to the charity.
"People living with sight loss face a multitude of challenges every day that can prevent them from getting where they want to be in life," explained Jenny Cook, head of strategy and research at Guide Dogs.
"Currently, visiting a new city is often daunting, even for people with enough confidence to tackle the challenge independently. For others, who rarely leave home alone, the thought of an unfamiliar journey leaves them stressed and anxious and visiting a new area is an impossible dream."
The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones tested out the headset.
Before trying out Microsoft's headset I put on a blindfold, picked up a white stick and went for a short walk along London's Grand Union Canal.
All the way, I was being helped by a tutor from the Guide Dogs organisation - but even so I found it an exhausting and disorientating experience. That gave me some context for when I used the experimental audio system on the trial route in Reading.
At first I found it distracting rather than helpful, a clippety-clop sound echoing around my head plus a repeated ping to say I was on track. But as I hesitantly made my way down a residential street, across a road and to a bus stop, the instructions - "parked cars and overhanging trees ahead" - gave me added confidence and the 3D sound provided me with a somewhat better feel for my surroundings.
For me it was all about feeling a little less scared - but for the visually impaired people who have been testing the technology for some weeks, it seemed to have increased their confidence in taking new routes up to a new level.
The headset is an adapted version of one already on the market. Designed for cyclists, it sits in front of the ear so as not to drown out traffic and environmental noise.
Sound is conducted through the jawbone and the headset gives a series of verbal and non-verbal descriptions.
For someone who has requested a specific route, it will make a series of clicking noises to assure them they are on the right course and it will provide specific instructions such as "turn right".
It also provides information about the route and points of interest.
Eight people with sight loss have tested the headset and five of those reported feeling safer and more confident wearing it.
Kirstie Grice, one of those to trial the technology, said: "We want to live like normal people. We don't always want to plan ahead to see if we can get community transport or a taxi or something, we want to be able to just jump on a bus and go somewhere and have that freedom."
The idea for the headset, which has been designed in partnership with the UK's Future Cities catapult and Guide Dogs, came from a Microsoft employee.
Amos Miller is visually impaired and realised that technology might be able to help him "enjoy everyday experiences outside of the home" after his daughter was born.
Some experts have questioned if the technology is capable of being rolled out widely as it is to rely on a network of beacons attached to street furniture.
A Microsoft spokesman said: "A lot of the information comes from GPS and annotated maps in the cloud which provide as much, if not more than, the beacons."
Watching his demeanour on set between takes left him, he says, feeling disturbed.
"He seemed cold, odd. I just felt uncomfortable."
As an adult, Mr Davies interviewed Savile again and again. He knew there was something dark about him but he did not know what.
Thirty-five years after that first encounter, he published what is the most comprehensive account of Savile's life and crimes. And yet he had been as surprised as anyone when the flood of revelations about him emerged two years before.
How did Savile get away with it?
In 1971, a 15-year-old girl was found dead. She was known to her friends as Samantha. In the papers she was called Claire McAlpine where she was described as a "dolly dancer" on Top of the Pops.
The death, from an overdose of sleeping pills, was front page news. Just before, her mother had contacted the BBC to complain that a DJ had seduced her.
In her diary she is said to have described seeing two DJs. Savile was not suspected of sleeping with her but the inquiry was described by Dame Janet Smith as "wholly inadequate" - more concerned about protecting the reputation of the BBC than getting at the truth.
In a separate inquiry, Savile admitted to the bosses at Radio One that their suspicions were right. He had been taking girls - 14 year olds - back to his flat from Top of the Pops but only because they did not have a place to stay for the night. Doreen Davies, a former Radio One executive, said it seemed to be entirely plausible - kind hearted.
Dame Janet Smith says the BBC failed to investigate the "warning signs" adequately. She does not believe that senior managers knew about Jimmy Savile but she certainly thinks there was a corporate failure to take the issue of protecting young people.
What's perhaps even more surprising is that when there were front page stories about Top of the Pops in the 1970s, the BBC's Board of Management were pleased that Savile went to the papers to discuss life behind the scenes at Top of the Pops.
In the interview, he describes how it was like a high class discotheque and that, yes, he did go on dates but he only visited homes when parents were present. He was approaching 50 at the time.
Dame Janet Smith accepts that attitudes towards older men having relationships with young girls has changed but adds that it is not an excuse for the BBC.
Canon David Winter is a former head of religious broadcasting for the BBC. He has written a shelf of books on theology. He was also Savile's boss.
In the 1970s, Savile presented a programme called Speakeasy. He brought a large youth audience and was happy to do programmes on moral and ethical issues.
Savile, Canon Winter said, would in private "go on about girls" and so one day he questioned how this squared with the DJ's "professed Roman Catholic faith". Savile said it was simple, he would get in to heaven because of his charity work.
So did Canon Winter think Savile was abusing young girls? He didn't. He thought it was bluster - the invention of an odd mother-obsessed loner. He suspected he was gay. He also adds he and his colleagues were probably "deluded by celebrity".
The Dame Janet Smith report is filled with similar stories.
Savile did not spend time with colleagues, he didn't even in the 70s give the BBC a phone number. The head of Radio One's press office, Rodney Collins, rang Leeds General Infirmary's porters office if he wanted to get hold of him.
Some, however, suspected the truth. Wilfred De'Ath was a BBC radio producer in the 1960s. Since then his life has had many ups and downs. He has lost touch with his family, become homeless and had a spell in prison for theft.
But back in the early 60s his lifestyle was rather more orderly and he made a programme called Teenscene. One day he decided he would interview Savile. Savile agreed, so long as they could meet first in a restaurant on London's Edgware Road. When De'Ath arrived he found Savile with a young girl. "Prepubescent", he says.
Afterwards he spoke again to Savile and asked if he wasn't "living dangerously". That was, he says, as brave as he got. The idea of reporting the incident was he feels "out of the question - it wasn't a moral issue". Savile was daring him to say something knowing that he could deny everything. He was, he says, also "physically intimidating".
It is something that appears again and again in the report. Staff are said to have received complaints from victims and done nothing. Some 117 people gave evidence saying they had heard rumours or seen things that were inappropriate but did not report them.
The culture, Dame Janet says, was to turn a "blind eye" - especially towards stars.
With Stuart Hall she goes much further, naming two senior managers who she says should have done more. It wasn't just a matter of missing a few "warning signs".
And today? Dame Janet says "whistle-blowing" is now easier but says many of the same fears about the consequences still exist.
George Elwood Tschaggeny, 51, was found wearing the wedding ring of one of the victims, Ricky Best, police say.
Mr Best, 53, was killed when he intervened to protect two young women from anti-Muslim abuse last week.
His ring and backpack were stolen after the stabbing on Tuesday.
Mr Tschaggeny has been charged with theft, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. He is due in court on Monday.
Mr Best, an army veteran, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, have been hailed as heroes for their actions.
The pair intervened to protect two young women, one of whom was wearing a hijab, from a man shouting abuse at them.
Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, is accused of stabbing both men, as well as another victim who survived.
The news that someone had stolen belongings from Mr Best prompted an outcry and an appeal from police to help recovering the items.
Police department spokesman Pete Simpson had tweeted: "Find this man Portland. This family has already suffered too much pain."
Police said they received "numerous tips" about a man matching the suspect's description, including one from a pizza restaurant employee who directed them to where he was staying.
Police also recovered Mr Best's missing backpack, but his wallet and phone were missing.
Earlier in the week, the accused in the stabbing incident, Jeremy Joseph Christian, appeared in court charged with murder, attempted murder, possession of a weapon and intimidation.
During a brief court appearance on Tuesday, he made no plea, but shouted slogans such as: "You call it terrorism. I call it patriotism" and "death to the enemies of America".
He is due to appear in court again on 7 June.
London, who finished second to Rovers in the Championship's regular season, opened the scoring through Andy Ackers.
Danny Addy, Kieren Moss, Robbie Mulhern and Ryan Shaw then went over to put the hosts 25-8 up at the break.
A second from Shaw sealed victory, before London finished strong with tries from James Cunningham, Alex Walker, Mark Ioane and Elliot Kear.
The win ensures KR maintain their perfect start to the Qualifiers and puts them equal on points with leaders Warrington Wolves after three matches.
Hull KR: Moss; Shaw, Hefernan, Blair, Carney; Atkin, Ellis; Jewitt, Lawler, Masoe, Clarkson, Addy, Kavanagh.
Replacements: Lunt, Greenwood, Marsh, Mulhern.
London Broncos: Walker; Williams, Hellewell, Kear, Dixon; Sammut, Barthau; Spencer, Ackers, Ioane, Wilde, Pitts, Evans.
Replacements: Cunningham, Davis, Gee, Roqica.
Referee: Chris Campbell.
Brendan Boland was sexually abused by Fr Brendan Smyth in the 1970s.
An inquiry heard this week that police in Dublin were aware of Smyth's activities as far back as 1973, more than 20 years before he was convicted.
Mr Boland also said an apology to abuse survivors from a senior member of the Catholic church was "weak and feeble".
Smyth was a notorious child abuser, and was at the centre of one of the first clerical abuse scandals to hit the Catholic church in Ireland.
Details emerged at Northern Ireland's Historical Instutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry on Wednesday that gardaí (Irish police) were aware that a psychiatric hospital had diagnosed Smyth as "suffering from paedophilia".
But he was not jailed until the 1990s, when he was convicted of more than 100 indecent assaults against children, in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, over a 40-year period.
Mr Boland said the revelation that police knew of Smyth's offending was "shocking".
"[Gardaí] are equally as responsible as the Catholic church because they chose not to prosecute him," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"And if they had prosecuted him back then I would never have met him, so I'd never have been abused in the first place.
"I can't imagine what my life would've been like now. I don't think it'll ever leave me."
The retired Cardinal Seán Brady, the former head of the Catholic church in Ireland, appeared at the inquiry on Thursday and apologised to those affected by Smyth's actions.
He had been involved in a 1975 internal church inquiry into the priest's activities.
Mr Boland, who was 14 at the time, reported the abuse to the then Fr Brady, and was interviewed about his allegations.
Mr Boland was made to sign an oath of secrecy at the time, and police were never informed of the abuse.
Cardinal Brady's apology to Smyth's victims was "a last-ditch attempt to save his face and the face of the Catholic church", Mr Boland said.
He added that the senior cleric had made an attempt to contact him previously to apologise, but that it was to be "under his conditions".
"If I had have went I would've felt like a little boy again being scrutinised in his environment," he said.
"I refused to go."
With Tehran keen to exploit every drop of propaganda from the scientist's alleged kidnap by CIA agents, more revelations are inevitable.
But so far, there are two contradictory narratives about the man, both told in his own words.
In a video message broadcast on Iranian state media on 8 June, a man claiming to be Mr Amiri said he was abducted by US and Saudi agents during a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in 2009.
"They took me to a house located somewhere that I didn't know. They gave me an anaesthetic injection," the man said in the video.
He said he was living in Tucson, Arizona, and said he had been subjected to eight months of "the most severe tortures and psychological pressures".
He described himself as an "expert and researcher" at Malek Ashtar University, but claimed that the US had wanted him to pretend he had stolen nuclear secrets.
This is the version Iranian officials have pushed, and Tehran claims to have passed on to the US evidence that he was abducted.
This is also the version Mr Amiri has now repeated in interviews with Iranian state media.
But another video message appeared on YouTube on the same day as the first, recorded apparently by the same man, entirely contradicting that version of events.
In the second video, he said he was in the US to continue his education, adding: "I am free here and I assure everyone that I am safe."
He said he was "not involved in weapons research and have no experience and knowledge in this field".
Malek Ashtar University has long been alleged to have a role in a nuclear weapons programme and on 9 June, the day after Mr Amiri's initial videos emerged, the university was put under UN sanctions.
Other reports have muddied the waters still further, variously claiming that Mr Amiri had defected to the West and helped the CIA, or that he had actually been employed by Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation.
Reports from the US quote unnamed officials and security sources as saying Mr Amiri was a low-ranking technician who had defected and provided the US with useful corroborative evidence of Iran's nuclear programme.
According to these sources, Mr Amiri was put into a witness-protection programme, but became concerned for his family in Iran and, after suffering a breakdown, decided to return to his home country.
Mr Amiri showed up at the Iranian section of the Pakistan embassy in Washington on 13 June and demanded to be returned to Iran.
The Pakistani foreign ministry confirmed to the BBC that he had taken refuge at their embassy - the first time non-Iranian officials had confirmed any details about Mr Amiri.
Later, the US also acknowledged his presence - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying he was in the country "of his own free will" and was free to leave.
After months of flat denials from the state department that they had any information about Mr Amiri, department spokesman Philip Crowley revealed that he had been in the country "for some time", and the government had "maintained contact with him".
On 14 July, Iranian officials said he had finally left the US and was on his way back to Iran.
Mr Amiri has promised to clarify all of the allegations made about him when he returns.
"When I am hopefully in my dear country Iran, I can speak to the media and my own people with ease of mind, and tell them about my ordeal over the past 14 months, incidents that have been a mystery to many," state media quoted him as saying.
Tendulkar and Amit Mishra looked to be batting India towards safety as they frustrated England with a partnership of 144 at The Oval.
But Mishra was bowled by Graeme Swann (6-106) for 84 and Tendulkar, who had ridden his luck to reach 91, was out to a marginal lbw decision in the following over.
India's remaining batsmen were skittled in quick succession as England stormed to victory by an innings and eight runs - their seventh innings triumph in 13 Tests - midway through the afternoon session on the final day.
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When they finally broke the Mishra-Tendulkar partnership, England were ruthless, claiming India's last seven wickets for 21 runs in 94 balls, with Swann finally making his mark on the series with a spell of four wickets for seven runs.
It was England's first whitewash over India since 1974 and completed a memorable series in which Andrew Strauss's men usurped the visitors as the top-ranked Test side in the world.
"We had to work pretty hard for that," England captain Andrew Strauss told BBC Radio's Test Match Special. "When you enforce the follow-on, you're always asking a lot of the bowlers especially on a flat wicket. They stuck at it. To bowl India out for 300 and 283 on that wicket is quite a performance."
After India resumed their second innings on 129-3 - still 162 runs adrift of England - Tendulkar got his score ticking over with a four off the second ball of the day and reached his 61st Test fifty off 74 balls.
Nightwatchman Mishra, who had served notice of his batting ability with a breezy 43 in the first innings, started to find the boundary with regularity, taking the partnership past fifty with a flick to the midwicket fence.
Tendulkar played and missed twice in a Broad over as he got bogged down in the fifties, but he eventually broke the shackles with a trademark drive through the covers for a boundary.
With Tendulkar edging closer to his hundred, the air of expectancy grew around The Oval, as a vast Indian contingent cheered his every run.
But the pressure seemed to weigh heavily on the 38-year-old's shoulders as he offered England a string of chances.
First, Alastair Cook at short leg just failed to hold on to a sharp bat-pad chance off Swann, then Matt Prior dropped a tricky caught-behind chance off the spinner, who also had a close lbw appeal turned down.
Mishra had equalled his highest first-class score with his 10th boundary when he finally succumbed in the 41st over of the day, bowled by a quicker ball from Swann that fizzed past his outside edge.
Tendulkar's show-stopping demise arrived in the following over when he played across a Bresnan delivery and was given out by Rod Tucker, with replays suggesting the ball would have clipped the top of leg stump.
With the "Little Master" back in the pavilion, India seemed to lose their stomach for the fight as England's bowlers ruthlessly finished off the match.
Suresh Raina was trapped on the crease by Swann before MS Dhoni and RP Singh were both caught off edges in the same over from Stuart Broad.
Gautam Gambhir sliced to backward point and last man Sreesanth was clean bowled after missing a huge leg-side heave off Swann.
After the match, England were presented with the ICC Test Mace to mark their status as the world's number one side.
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Current holders Riders are on a 15-game winning run and have won the last 15 meetings between the sides.
Raiders are in transition, searching for their first silverware since winning the competition in 2007.
"Of course they're going to feel the pressure - they know what they're up against," Barber Jr told BBC Sport.
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"We're hungry. I like being the underdog - it's fine, it's perfect."
Though Plymouth have a wretched record against their opponents, American Barber Jr, 31, had success against Leicester last season for former club Sheffield, who beat them to the 2015-16 BBL Championship.
"I feel people are trying to make UK basketball bigger, like with the BBC Sport coverage - I think that's huge," added Barber Jr.
"I'm here to do the impossible. I see what we're doing mentally and I feel that us believing it and knowing we could win, is what's going to help us win."
The final is being held in Glasgow on Sunday alongside the women's equivalent, which Riders are also competing in, with both games being shown live on the BBC Sport website.
Leicester have lifted silverware in three of the past four seasons and sit top of the league table, while Raiders are down in sixth.
"We have played 28 games this season so far and have won 25," said Riders head coach Rob Paternostro.
"It will be a little different when we get there with the bright lights and atmosphere, but when the ball is tipped it will be pretty similar.
"We have a lot of guys who have played in these type of games before in our league and around the world. It's all about the day, and who comes up big when the lights are on."
Deputy Mayor for Transport Isabel Dedring said discussions were at an early stage but "we would be keen for trials to happen".
The battery-operated vehicles use a system of lasers, radar and cameras to detect objects around them in order to complete journeys.
Google is understood to be focused on testing only in the US at present.
The project, which began in 2009, has seen the vehicles clock up more than 1.4 million miles at test tracks in California and Texas.
At a future of transport event Ms Dedring said that while she was "personally a bit sceptical about the technology", driverless cars could makes roads safer and reduce transport costs.
This week Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced the government would invest £20m in driverless car projects in the UK, saying the technology would "profoundly change the way we travel within years".
Trials of the cars have not gone without problems with developers still trying to improve how the vehicles interact with other road users.
A report published by the California Department of Motor Vehicles detailed a collision with another car which left a Google test driver in hospital.
Tasked with saving £3.8m by 2020, Cheshire Fire Service wants to change staffing arrangements and reduce one of its three aerial appliances.
The FBU says the changes will mean full-time firefighters are replaced with on-call staff and that incident response times will increase.
Managers insist they will "continue to deliver a high quality service".
Under proposals scheduled to be implemented in April, staffing arrangements will be changed at stations in Macclesfield, Wilmslow, Birchwood and Penketh.
Andrew Fox-Hewitt, from FBU Cheshire, said: "If you cut the number of full-time firefighters and appliances, you will see an increase in attendance times.
"This will ultimately lead to an increase in preventable injuries and deaths."
Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said the service was "exceeding" its response targets and it has continued to recruit on-call firefighters - taking on a further 18 whole-time firefighters last year.
"We aim to get to all 'life risk' incidents, namely road traffic collisions or house fires, where there is a person reported as being in the property within 10 minutes on 80% of occasions - a target we are currently exceeding by 8%."
It said its average response time to such incidents is under eight minutes which has "remained the same for the past five years".
The service said it has kept its pledge of making no firefighters redundant, instead the reduction in full-time posts has happened naturally, as people have left or retired.
But, a water tower, the site of a World War Two anti-aircraft gun and the home of a shrunken head collector are three which have been added.
Historic England (HE), formerly English Heritage, compiles the annual UK-wide list and award funding for repairs.
Its figures show that 43% of Yorkshire sites have been removed from the register, up from a target of 25%.
Tammy Whitaker, of HE, said that was an "amazing achievement" for the county.
Across England, 604 sites were removed and 324 were added. Ms Whitaker said in Yorkshire 36 sites were removed and 19 added.
Sheffield's non-conformist chapel at the General Cemetery was classed as no longer at risk.
"The very things that make our region special are the things most at risk," she said. "If they're lost, then a sense of that region is lost too."
Bramham Biggin, an 18th-century manor house in Leeds, Wressle Castle in East Yorkshire which was once owned by Henry VIII, the 14th-century Ayton Castle near Scarborough in North Yorkshire, and Pontefract Castle in West Yorkshire have all been removed from Historic England's list.
The body awards and organises tens of thousands of pounds in grants.
Walkington anti-aircraft gun site, added to the register this year, was built in 1941 in a chain of East Coast defences to protect Hull and Yorkshire from air raids.
Places in West Yorkshire also off the at-risk list, include Blacker Hall in Wakefield, Dalton Mills in Keighley and Illingworth Gaol.
In East Yorkshire, Flamborough Castle with its prominent chalk ruins has been offered an HE grant.
In North Yorkshire, a management scheme is planned for the Howardian Hills while a six-year scheme to repair sites on the North York Moors National Park has just ended. Proposals to restore Whorlton Castle's gatehouse have collapsed.
Police say the pair - a Hindu and a Muslim - slit their own throats after their parents had refused to let them marry because of different religions.
They were found in a pool of blood, and are now said to be in a stable condition.
Marriage outside religion or caste still attracts censure, and even honour killings, in parts of India.
"The girl cut her throat first followed by the boy," said deputy superintendent Aseem Chaudhary, the AFP news agency reports.
The Times of India quoted the young man as saying that the couple had tried to convince their parents to change their minds, but that "the boundaries of religion remained the biggest hurdle".
"We did this after failing at all possible ways to be together," he said.
The Taj Mahal was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal in the 17th Century.
It is the top tourist attraction in India.
The one-time IRA commander went from the riots of the Bogside in Londonderry during the 1970s, to the very heart of government.
He became one of Sinn Féin's two ministers in the first power-sharing deal that followed the Good Friday Agreement.
In the Stormont Assembly election of May 2007, he was elected deputy first minister, with the Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley as first minister.
Many people were surprised at how well the two leaders appeared to get on.
They were labelled the "Chuckle Brothers" as a result of being frequently photographed laughing and smiling together.
Martin McGuinness stood down temporarily as deputy first minister to contest the Irish presidential election in 2011, when his IRA past received much attention in the media.
He came third in the election in which he was the only candidate who, as a non-resident, was ineligible to vote.
In 2008, he went to Baghdad to share his knowledge of peace-making.
In recent years, Martin McGuinness insisted his job had become a political one.
"My war is over. My job as a political leader is to prevent that war and I feel very passionate about it," he said.
"I want to build a better future for all our people. It is a political project, not a military one."
In 2008, McGuinness and Ian Paisley's successor Peter Robinson were nominated as first and deputy first minister.
Their relationship was less amicable than the one between McGuinness and Paisley, who died in September 2014.
The following year, Robinson and McGuinness became embroiled in controversy over the £1.2bn sale by Nama of its Northern Ireland property loans portfolio to US firm Cerberus.
In January 2016, Arlene Foster took over from Robinson as first minister of Northern Ireland.
In an interview a month later, Foster spoke of the difficulties she experienced with the deputy first minister, because of his graveside oration at the funeral of the man who, she believes, tried to kill her father.
Despite this - and the fact that the pair were on opposing sides of the subsequent Brexit vote, Mr McGuinness and Mrs Foster managed to forge a positive working relationship since they began sharing the OFMDFM portfolio.
In December, Mrs Foster insisted she had "nothing to hide" over the RHI scandal and refused to step down, but pressure mounted on Sinn Féin to act.
Last week, Martin McGuinness said that Mrs Foster should step aside as first minister to "allow a time-framed, comprehensive, independent investigation" into the RHI scheme. She refused.
On Monday, Mr McGuinness announced he would resign in protest at the DUP's handling of the crisis.
The series will see the comedian introduce gifted youngsters aged three to 13 - but, unlike with other talent shows, there is no competitive element.
It was the most-watched new programme on US TV in the 2015-16 season.
Meanwhile, ITV has revealed that Harry Hill will return to present a panel show featuring two teams tasked with saving Earth from an alien invasion.
In Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule, contestants will have to find "clips, people, basically anything that is fun or funny" to present to aliens in the event of an invasion "to demonstrate Earthlings are good fun and therefore worthy of saving".
Hill said: "It's great to be back on ITV with an all new format that finally tackles the problem of an imminent and prolonged war with space aliens, by proving to them that us humans are really a lot of fun to hang out with!"
The zany comic has fronted shows including TV Burp, You've Been Framed and Stars in Their Eyes for ITV in the past.
The two new productions were announced at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Little Big Shots will not be Dawn French's first time on a talent show - she was a judge on ITV's Superstar in 2012 and on Australia's Got Talent the following year.
She has recently been filming a four-part drama titled Delicious for Sky1.
In a statement about her new hosting job, the Vicar of Dibley star said: "Rarely have I relished the thought of doing a show as much as this.
"I love love love everything about it, especially the fact that I will get to witness the amazing talents of these remarkable little humans up close. It's going to be a privilege."
In the US, Little Big Shots is hosted by Steve Harvey on NBC.
ITV also announced on Friday at the Edinburgh Television Festival it had commissioned a second series of its crime thriller Marcella, starring Anna Friel.
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He gave his first in-person explanation of the FBI chief's dismissal during a surprise meeting with Henry Kissinger.
The president has said he fired Mr Comey over his handling of the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's emails.
But Mr Comey reportedly asked for more money for his inquiry into Russia's alleged meddling in the US election, according to US media.
Days before his removal, he made the request to Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who recommended Mr Comey's dismissal to the president, according to leaks.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Wednesday the president had "been considering letting Director Comey go since the day he was elected".
She added there had been "an erosion of confidence" over the last several months.
Mr Comey's dismissal has shocked Washington and outraged Democrats.
The sacking "raises profound questions about whether the White House is brazenly interfering in a criminal matter," said Adam Schiff, who is the highest ranked Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
But the president stood by his actions on Wednesday morning, hours before a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov - his first with any Russian official since taking power.
"James Comey will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job, bringing back the spirit and prestige of the FBI," he said in early morning tweets.
"Comey lost the confidence of almost everyone in Washington, Republican and Democrat alike. When things calm down, they will be thanking me!" he added.
It is only the second time the head of the FBI has been fired.
Russian President Vladimir Putin weighed in from a hockey rink in Sochi, saying: "We have nothing to do with that".
"President Trump is acting in according with his competence and in accordance with his law and constitution," he told CBS.
Meanwhile, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will request a closed and "if necessary, classified" all-senators separate briefing from senior Justice Department officials.
He also called for a special prosecutor to oversee the FBI investigation into any potential Russian ties to Mr Trump's associates.
But Vice President Mike Pence told reporters Mr Trump demonstrated "strong and decisive leadership" in his decision and the move was "based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interest of the American people".
"The president made the right decision at the right time," he said.
President Trump wrote in a letter to Mr Comey that he agreed with Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recommendation that "you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau".
Mr Sessions said the department of justice was "committed to a high level of discipline, integrity, and the rule of law", and "a fresh start is needed".
Many have expressed surprise that Mr Comey should be fired for his handling of the investigation into Mrs Clinton's emails, given that Mr Trump often praised the FBI director's conduct in the matter.
But on Tuesday, Mr Trump followed the recommendation of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who wrote a letter saying he could not defend the director's handling of the investigation into Secretary Clinton.
He added Mr Comey had been wrong to "usurp" the previous attorney general in July 2016 when he announced the Clinton emails inquiry should be closed without prosecution.
Mr Comey was addressing FBI agents in Los Angeles when, according to US media, he learned he had just been fired when he saw the news on television.
The 56-year-old - who was three-and-a-half years into his 10-year term as FBI director - reportedly laughed, thinking it was a prank.
Democrats swiftly suggested that Mr Trump had fired Mr Comey to influence the FBI inquiry into whether members of the Trump election campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
The House of Representatives and Senate intelligence committees are looking into the same allegations but no conclusions have yet been reached.
"Were these investigations getting too close to home for the president?" Mr Schumer asked a Tuesday evening press conference.
"This does not seem to be a coincidence," he added.
Mr Trump responded on Twitter that Mr Schumer had recently expressed his lack of confidence in the FBI chief.
President Trump has repeatedly insisted the Russia allegations are "fake news". He and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Washington later on Wednesday.
Donald Trump and senior justice department officials are framing the firing of James Comey as a result of his botched investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server. They do so using language that even Clinton backers would probably support.
Democrats, to put it bluntly, aren't buying it, however - not from this White House. They are dismissing this Clinton explanation as a smokescreen, and view the suddenness of the move as an attempt to subvert the ongoing FBI investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
At the very least, their calls for an independent investigation into the matter will become deafening - and some Republicans may now be inclined to agree.
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Mr Comey has been criticised by Democrats for the handling of his investigation into whether Mrs Clinton's use of a private email server when secretary of state compromised national security.
The now-former FBI director made two interventions during the 2016 election campaign to make pronouncements about the investigation.
He said in July the case should be closed without prosecution, but then declared - 11 days before November's election - that he had reopened the inquiry because of a discovery of a new trove of Clinton-related emails.
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He told the Senate last week it had made him "mildly nauseous" to think his intervention could have affected the election, but insisted he would make the same decision again. Mrs Clinton lays part of the blame for her shock election defeat last November on Mr Comey.
He told the Senate Judiciary Committee on 3 May that Mrs Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin, had forwarded "hundreds and thousands" of emails, "some of which contain classified information", to her husband.
But the FBI conceded on Tuesday that Ms Abedin had sent only two email chains containing classified information to her husband, Anthony Weiner, for printing.
In June 1972, five men were arrested trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at the Watergate office and hotel complex in Washington. The break-in was traced to President Richard Nixon's supporters.
The firing of James Comey is drawing comparisons with the so-called Saturday Night Massacre of 1973, when Mr Nixon fired an independent special prosecutor investigating the break-in and the subsequent cover-up.
"Not since Watergate has a president dismissed the person leading an investigation bearing on him," the New York Times wrote late on Tuesday.
Mr Nixon later admitted he had been aware of the cover-up and had tried to halt the FBI's inquiry. He later became the only US president to resign.
William Carini, 54, was convicted in 1992 of a sexual assault against a woman who was sleeping in her car on the side of a road.
But authorities re-examining his case say tests show there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime.
Carini will continue to serve a life sentence however for the murder of his uncle and a young woman.
Carini's case is the seventh overturned conviction in Lake County since 2010. Four of those have been for murder and three for rape.
Lake County State Attorney, Michael Nerheim said the lack of forensic evidence against Carini was grounds for a new trial.
He said he would not seek a fresh trial however, in part because the victim did not want it. The conviction was then formally overturned in court this week.
Carini had served nearly 25 years of his 26-year sentence for the rape. The case remains unsolved.
His 73-year-old mother, Ruthe Wille, who was convicted of killing her husband, Carini's stepfather, in the 1970s, was instrumental in securing the review of her son's case.
She said she hoped that his murder case would now also be re-examined.
Carini was arrested in February 1985 in connection with a double murder, when his uncle and one of Carini's female friends were found dead in a garage he had rented.
At the time, police did not have enough evidence to charge him with murder. He was charged instead with concealing a homicide and sentenced to five years in prison.
After early release he resumed a normal life, until his wrongful conviction for rape in 1992.
It was not until 1999, while he was serving that sentence, that another witness came forward and he was formally charged with the murder of his uncle and friend.
He was convicted on those charges and sentenced to life in prison, which he continues to serve.
Speaking to a reporter from the Chicago Tribune in July last year, Carini said he had been targeted as a suspect for the rape charge because of his past criminal record.
Despite his life sentence for murder, which would see him remain behind bars in any event, it was important to have the false charge quashed, he said.
"I didn't do the crime. So let's set the record straight," he told the newspaper. He also maintains that he is innocent of murder.
The Lake County State Attorney's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The duo were chosen after taking bronze in the World Cup event in Poznan at the weekend ahead of team-mates Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell and Matthew Tarrant.
They were named in a group of 12 this month from which the men's eight, pair and two reserves were to be confirmed.
Reilly-O'Donnell and Tarrant will travel to the Olympics as support.
Innes said: "Everything has hung in the balance for the last few months and finally being selected to race the men's pair for Team GB in Rio is a dream come true.
"We now have a big job in front of us and look forward to the challenge."
Scotland's Sam Scrimgeour will also travel to Rio as the lightweight men's reserve.
The announcements mean 44 of the 47 available places have now been filled.
The tweet from Edryd James, 18, of Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire, was investigated by Dyfed-Powys Police after complaints from the public.
The teenager apologised to Mr Owens at Carmarthen police station on Wednesday.
Mr Owens said he "applauded" Mr James for accepting he had made a mistake, adding it should not affect his life.
He told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement: "It takes a big man to say you're sorry and to do that and also to do that publicly as well sends out, I think, a strong message.
"I think the important message here is that people who are genuinely sorry for their actions, then we need to applaud them for that and accept what they did was wrong, it was a mistake.
"And then we can all move on and them and other people become better people for it."
The tweet was sent to the referee after he officiated England's 55-35 Six Nations victory over France at Twickenham.
Mr Owens said the people who complained about it were the ones who "can make a difference".
"When we have one individual or a few people shouting something in a stadium of 70, 80, 90,000... when you have more people turning around telling them 'there's no place for that here' then it does send out a strong message.
"And I think the same goes for social media as well.
"Those are the people who deserve the credit and can make a difference."
Social Bite co-founder Josh Littlejohn said he approached A-list actor Clooney about visiting the chain and he agreed.
Social Bite is a social venture which helps the homeless community by allowing customers to pay for food and drink for the vulnerable.
Clooney will meet employees at the Edinburgh shop on 12 November.
He will deliver the keynote address at the Scottish Business Awards, also founded by Mr Littlejohn.
The 28-year-old entrepreneur said: "It's a fantastic honour to be bringing one of the world's most famous men to Scotland and it is amazing that he is supporting Social Bite.
"He'll be visiting a Social Bite cafe to meet our staff and customers as well as sample the food while here, and who knows, he may even join the team and lend a helping hand behind the counter.
"For many of our team who until recently lived on the streets, this is a really amazing thing to look forward to."
The not-for-profit enterprise was set up in 2012 and over Christmas ran a hugely successful fundraiser to pay for festive dinners for those in need, with people donating enough for more than 36,000 meals.
One in four of Social Bite staff were previously homeless themselves.
Clooney co-founded the humanitarian charity Not On Our Watch with fellow actors Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and others.
The group campaigns to end atrocities in Darfur and Zimbabwe and to provide assistance to victims in areas of conflict.
The actor-director will address about 2,000 people at the Scottish Business Awards at the EICC, chaired by Sir Tom Hunter.
John Prendergast from Not On Our Watch said: "Not On Our Watch and our board member George Clooney hope to raise further awareness about the important impact charitable donations can have in making a difference in the world."
One member of the public will get the opportunity to attend a private dinner with Clooney in Edinburgh by donating £5 to an online charity competition, with all proceeds going to Social Bite and Not On Our Watch.
The incident happened at about 20:40 on Friday 16 December in Saughton Mains Park after the pair - aged 16 and 20 - left a house party.
They became involved in an argument with a passerby who then allegedly assaulted them both before running off.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested and is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday.
The victims suffered serious neck injuries and were taken to the city's Royal Infirmary.
At the time, officers described the incident as an "unprovoked attack" and said one of the victims could have had "life-threatening" injuries.
The 23-year-old Australian made 17 appearances for the Reds last season, scoring once.
"I think this will be a good career move for him, he has lived in the area, and he is a really good character," boss Paul Warne told the club website.
"All the people that I've spoken to speak highly of him, so I am really pleased to have him on board."
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The bear - named Bernard - bursts into song when people walk past Loft Café in Shefford, Bedfordshire, where he has stood since 1 December.
An enforcement officer told owners Rob and Teresa Farndon there had been a complaint about "noise nuisance".
Central Bedfordshire Council said there was an "ongoing investigation".
Bernard sings snippets of five or six Christmas songs, including Andy Williams' It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, and is activated either by movement or by pressing a button.
He stood outside the cafe in North Bridge Street every day last December with no complaints and has been put away at 16:00 GMT every day so far this year.
The owners' son Connor Farndon said the complaint was "so petty".
"We put the bear outside for the kids to get them in the Christmas spirit and all the kids love him," he said.
"You can't even hear him over the traffic when it is standing stationary at the traffic lights outside.
"It's not the council's fault - they're just following up a complaint. It's the person who's complained who is ridiculous."
Mr Farndon said he thought the only thing the council could do was "tell us to take it away".
A council spokesman confirmed the premises had been visited "on a number of occasions" but that "Bernard has not been deemed a nuisance".
"We have written to both parties, explaining the situation as part of an ongoing investigation," he said.
"The council takes noise complaints seriously and has a legal obligation to fully investigate them, but we also want everyone in Central Bedfordshire to enjoy themselves over the Christmas period and would urge residents and business owners alike to be mindful of their neighbours when planning festivities."
From 2014, schools where students take both subjects at GCSE will see them listed as one in league tables.
The government says this is because the subject matter is too similar.
"Some schools may be tempted to say, 'If we can't count both we won't let pupils do both,'" said Duncan Baldwin of the head teachers' union ASCL.
Mr Baldwin added that the changes would also affect some other pairs of related subjects such as art and photography or music and music technology - which will no longer count as separate subjects for performance tables from next summer.
He told BBC News that the union broadly supported the principle behind the practice of "discounting" very similar qualifications as this prevented some schools manipulating the performance tables by entering pupils for the same subject twice and having both grades count.
He said schools were under pressure to perform well on league table measures, which included the proportion of pupils who achieved five GCSEs graded A* to C.
However, he argued that some of the pairs of subjects which now cancelled each other out were definitely "distinct disciplines".
"This is a debate about where you draw the line," said Mr Baldwin, who is the union's deputy policy director.
He added that the changes were concentrated disproportionately on arts subjects rather than on the humanities or sciences.
"Many subjects overlap in content and in the skills demanded.
"History and ancient history will continue to be counted as separate subjects and there is maths in science subjects.
"The question is - at what point is there sufficient overlap for them to be ruled effectively the same?"
The union has asked the Department for Education to reconsider some of its decisions, particularly on dance and drama, and is gathering evidence from subject specialists.
Mr Baldwin added that it was "particularly unfair" that the changes, which will take effect from next summer, were announced after students had begun their GCSE courses, as it was too late for schools to make changes.
The new rules will affect schools rather than individual students, who will still gain separate GCSEs even if they do pairs of subjects that "discount" each other in the performance tables.
In a statement, the Department for Education responded: "We use discounting to discourage schools from entering their pupils into a number of similar qualifications.
"As there are overlapping elements in the syllabuses for dance and drama and for art and photography, they will discount each other in the 2014 performance tables."
ASCL's comments echo those of other leading figures in the fields of education and the arts who have expressed concern that the government's strategy does not give parity to arts subjects and so may jeopardise children's cultural education and risk undermining Britain's creative economy.
The security services face a Commons inquiry after it was confirmed the two men arrested over the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby were known to MI5.
But Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said it was impossible to control everyone all the time.
Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were named as suspects.
Mr Pickles told the BBC: "Peers and MPs will do a thorough investigation in terms of what the security forces knew but I've seen experts on security explaining how difficult it is in a free society to be able to control everyone."
Drummer Rigby, 25, was murdered on a street in Woolwich, south-east London on Wednesday afternoon.
Shortly after the killing, a man, thought to be 28-year-old Mr Adebolajo, was filmed by a passer-by, saying he had carried out the attack because British soldiers killed Muslims every day.
Armed police arrived on the scene 13 minutes after the first 999 call and shot the two suspected attackers, who had made no attempt to flee.
More than 30 people attended a prayer service in Drummer Rigby's hometown of Middleton, Greater Manchester on Friday morning. Residents on the Langley estate where he grew up are being urged to fly union jacks by community activists.
Drummer Rigby had served in Afghanistan, Germany and Cyprus.
The former head of counter terrorism at MI6, Richard Barrett, told the BBC how hard it could be to detect attacks of the type seen in Woolwich - despite the suspects having been known to MI5 for eight years.
"I assume that these people are probably coming out of a small group without, necessarily, any overseas connections or any other broader connections in the United Kingdom which could come to the attention of the security services more than they did," he said.
"When does a person who expresses radical views, who joins a radical group, flip over to be a violent extremist?
"To find the signals, the red flags as it were, I think is enormously hard."
Former Metropolitan Police commissioner, Lord Blair, told BBC radio he hoped the committee investigating how the suspects were monitored "would act fast" to establish what might have gone wrong.
"I think it's important for the public to have somebody say within the limits of legality that either something was mistaken, either decisions were badly taken or they weren't, because I think it's important for the public to know security services and the police are operating properly," he said.
His comments came as video footage, obtained by the Daily Mirror, emerged showing the moment police shot Mr Adebolajo, originally of Romford, east London, and Mr Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, south-east London.
It shows one of the men charge at police sitting in a patrol car. He drops a knife as he is shot and falls to the ground.
The other man is shown aiming a gun at officers as he runs in a different direction. Police are heard firing eight shots in total at the two men.
Both of the suspects remain under armed guard in separate London hospitals in stable conditions with non-life-threatening injuries.
And police are said to be standing guard outside Mr Adebowale's home in Greenwich, according to BBC correspondent Tom Bateman.
Detectives are also interviewing a man and a woman at a south London police station after they were arrested on Thursday night on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.
The BBC has uncovered its own footage of Mr Adebolajo taking part in an Islamist demonstration in April 2007 against the arrest of a man from Luton, holding a placard reading "Crusade Against Muslims".
He is shown standing next to then-leader of the now banned al-Muhajiroun organisation, Anjem Choudary, who has said Mr Adebolajo went his own way in around 2010.
Mr Choudary appeared on Newsnight on Thursday and said Mr Adebolajo had made comments that "I think not many Muslims can disagree with".
The radical Islamist preacher said he was "shocked" by what had happened. He also said: "One man killed in the street does not equate to the hundreds and thousands and millions, in fact, who've been slaughtered by the British and American foreign policy."
Meanwhile, thousands of members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community are expected to gather in London to offer prayers for the dead soldier and his family and to "express solidarity against extremism".
National president Rafiq Hayat said: "We hope that the perpetrators of this crime, that is based on a twisted and warped ideology, are brought to justice."
On Thursday, Drummer Rigby's family paid tribute to "a loving son, husband, father, brother, and uncle, and a friend to many".
They said in a statement that Drummer Rigby, who had a two-year-old son, "would do anything for anybody - he always looked after his sisters and always protected them".
The 30-year-old England international has scored 10,635 runs in all formats of the game for The Oval side
Davies, who joined Surrey from Worcestershire in 2009, has also taken 322 catches and made 36 stumpings.
Ben Foakes has been first-choice keeper this season and Surrey say Davies has decided he would be "afforded greater opportunities" elsewhere.
Davies played eight one-day internationals and five Twenty20 matches for England between March 2009 and February 2011.
He has been an ever-present for Surrey in the One-Day Cup this season, scoring 373 runs at an average of 41.44 to help the club reach Saturday's final against Warwickshire.
Surrey already have ready-made batting replacements for Davies, having agreed contracts with Durham's Mark Stoneman and Scott Borthwick.
Religious belief has changed sharply in recent years but religious education has not kept pace, says the Goldsmiths, University of London, report.
"Content should reflect the real religious landscape," said co-author Prof Adam Dinham.
The government says its approach promotes knowledge of all religions.
The report comes after a High Court ruling that the government made "an error of law" in leaving "non-religious world views" out of a new religious studies GCSE to be taught from next year.
The report, RE for REal, considers the subject throughout the education system.
Teaching is currently required to reflect mainly Christian traditions while also taking into account the teaching and practices of other principal religions - but official statistics from the 2011 Census showed an increasingly fractured pattern of religious belief, argue the authors.
Christianity was the largest religion in the 2011 Census, with 59.3% declaring themselves Christian, while Muslims made up 4.8%, but the proportion who said they had no religion rose from 14.8% in 2001 to 25% in 2011.
"The religious landscape now includes religious traditions, informal religion and beliefs as well as non-religious world views," said Prof Dinham.
"We think non-believers and those with informal beliefs need to be treated more seriously as a growing part of the picture."
That picture has been further complicated by the exclusion of RE from the EBacc performance measure, which has led to teaching time for the subject being squeezed in many secondary schools.
In addition, academies and free schools, which will soon become the majority of schools, are exempt from following locally agreed RE syllabuses.
This makes the need for clarity "pressing", says the report, with an "urgent conversation" needed about the future of learning about religion and belief.
Interviews with teenagers across England revealed a desire for the truth beyond media stereotypes of major religions and a feeling that religious education was increasingly important, says the report.
But even the name of the subject is a major problem, argue the authors.
"It has a really low status and it needs a new name," said Prof Dinham.
Ideas put forward included "religious literacy", "religion and belief studies" or "religion, belief and secularity studies".
Primarily, the authors recommend a national panel to develop a new statutory framework for the subject which would be applicable to all schools and would balance a national approach with local needs.
It should also be compulsory for all students to 16, they add, though taking it at GCSE should remain optional.
Daniel Hugill, chairman of the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, said the key was better training for all teachers of RE.
"This report confirms what RE teachers know already, that the students in their classrooms value the opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the phenomena of religion and belief...
"In order for every young person to experience high quality religious education we need the Department for Education and school leaders to value and make further investment in teacher training and ongoing professional development.
"It is only when teachers are well-trained, confident, and knowledgeable that they can equip students with knowledge of lived contemporary religion and belief."
The government did not directly respond to calls for reform but a Department for Education spokeswoman said religious education was vitally important to help children develop the British values of tolerance, respect and understanding for others.
"It prepares young people for life in modern Britain and that is why it remains compulsory at all key stages.
"Local authorities are responsible for drawing up locally agreed syllabuses that must be followed by maintained schools without religious designation," said the spokeswoman.
SYHA Hostelling Scotland said three additional summer youth hostels will open in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth between June and August.
The new hostels will be based in existing student accommodation vacated during the summer months.
The announcement follows a refurbishment of Portree Youth Hostel on the Isle of Skye.
Edinburgh University's halls of residence on the Cowgate will provide 199 spaces, with 110 at the Glasgow School of Art's Margaret Macdonald House and 65 in Perth College's student residence.
The hostelling organisation said visitors would be offered a choice of self-catering apartments and single, double, and twin rooms.
SYHA Hostelling Scotland chief executive, Keith Legge, said: "In response to customer demand we are again delighted to be providing extra accommodation in three popular city destinations - Perth, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
"All three youth hostels are perfectly situated for city tourist attractions, outdoor activities, cultural and music festivals and events, shopping, restaurants and bars; as well as for onward travel to our other hostels throughout Scotland."
The organisation will build a new youth hostel at Glen Nevis later this year.
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Soudani, who scored twice against Seychelles and Lesotho in their first two Group J games, has been out of the international fold since November due to injury.
His return coincides with the absence of Sporting Lisbon's Islam Slimani who is suspended after an accumulation of yellow cards.
Slimani is the joint top scorer in this campaign with four goals.
The PFA's Player of the Year and Leicester City's player of year award winner Riyad Mahrez, captain Carl Medjani and former BBC African Footballer of the year Yacine Brahimi are all included.
But Watford's Adlene Guedioura, Mehdi Abeid and Ramy Bensebaini are all notable absentees in the squad announced by the Algerian Football Federation.
Nabil Neghiz - Algeria's assistant coach - takes interim charge of the Desert Foxes as the 1990 African Champions begin life without Frenchman Christian Gourcuff who stood down as coach last month.
After three wins and a draw, Algeria are top of their qualifying group for the 2017 tournament in Gabon.
They need just one win from their remaining games, at Seychelles and at home to Lesotho on 2 September, to seal automatic qualification.
Algeria are also into the final group stage of 2018 World Cup qualifying. The draw takes place in Cairo on 24 June 2016, with the final round starting in October.
Algeria squad:
Goalkeepers: Rais Mbolhi (Antalyaspor, Turkey), Azzeddine Doukha (JS Kabylie), Malik Asselah (CR Belouizdad)
Defenders: Aissa Mandi (Reims, France), Carl Medjani (Levante, Spain), Mehdi Zeffane (Rennes, France), Mohamed Khoutir Ziti (JS Kabylie), Faouzi Ghoulam (Napoli, Italy), Hichem Belkaroui (Nacional Madeira, Portugal), Abdelghani Demmou (MC Alger), Brahim Bedebouda and Nacerddine Khoualed (USM Alger)
Midfielders: Ryad Boudebouz (Montpellier, France), Yacine Brahimi (Porto, Portugal), Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia, Spain), Walid Mesloub (Lorient, France), Saphir Taïder (Bologna, Italy), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City, England), Sofiane Hanni (Anderlecht, Belgium), Sofiane Bendebka (NA Hussein Dey)
Forwards: Rachid Ghezzal (Lyon,France), Hilal El Arabi Soudani (Dinamo Zagreb, Croatia), Yassine Benzia (Lille, France)
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The 33-year-old came home ahead of her compatriot Nina Kessler and Canada's Leah Kirchmann.
Wild, one of the pre-race favourites, won the Tour de Yorkshire event in April.
British rider Dani King, who won gold in the team pursuit at London 2012, finished outside the top 10 in the 66km race around a central London circuit.
Australian Chloe Hosking fell away during the final sprint stage and was unable to build on her La Course victory in Paris last weekend.
After the race, Wild told the BBC: "It might have looked easy but it wasn't. With our team, the plan was to go for the final sprint.
"The team was really strong and I was happy to pull it off."
King, who was controversially omitted from the GB road race team for Rio, said Wild produced "an amazing ride".
"She's amazing," King added. "She's fresh going to Rio tomorrow and she was always going to be one of the favourites to win here.
"She gets herself in the right position and then there is no coming round her."
When asked about the Olympic Games that begin on 5 August, King struggled to hide her disappointment.
"I'm still gutted to be honest, given the form I'm in," she said.
"I don't want to be bitter about it and I'm still rooting for the girls out there."
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Dutch cyclist Kirsten Wild put in a powerful final sprint to win the 2016 RideLondon Classique.
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For most of last year and much of this, IS's focus has been on taking and holding territory in the Middle East. For its leaders in Raqqa and Mosul, that is still the priority.
But the militants are well aware of their transnational appeal to violent jihadists in Europe and elsewhere.
As they reel under the daily onslaught of US-led coalition airstrikes, haemorrhaging one leader after another, they are increasingly looking to direct or inspire attacks further afield.
In June, IS claimed a gun attack at a Tunisian beach resort in Sousse that killed 38 tourists, 30 of them British.
In October Turkey blamed a suicide attack killing 102 people in Ankara on IS. Later that month, IS's Sinai affiliate claimed to have brought down a Russian airliner, killing all 224 people on board.
On 12 November, IS claimed the bomb attack on the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut that left 44 people dead. And then came Paris, with at least 120 dead and over 300 injured.
Paris attacks: What we know
Fear stalks Paris
These are not isolated, lone wolf, spur-of-the-moment attacks.
Although not necessarily difficult to execute, these attacks still took planning, preparation, training, sourcing of weapons and explosives, reconnaissance of the target and the careful recruitment of so-called "martyrs" - fanatical young men prepared to carry them out in the full knowledge they will probably die doing so.
This is far more reminiscent of al-Qaeda's modus operandi in the early 2000s, going for big publicity, high-casualty attacks that make headlines around the world.
Western counter-terrorism officials had recently come round to the conclusion that while there were still people aspiring to such grand-scale attacks, the prevailing threat was more likely to come from "self-starters", people like the murderers of British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich near London in 2013.
In the light of what has happened in Paris and elsewhere, they may now be revising that assessment.
How will Paris cope?
A new type of terrorism?
There is also another factor here. The 1000-mile (1,600km) Turkey-Syria border used to present little obstacle to the thousands of would-be jihadists coming from Europe to swell the ranks of IS.
While the border is still porous in places, much of it on the Syrian side is now controlled by the YPG, a Kurdish militia opposed to IS.
So the "window" through which new recruits can cross has narrowed considerably. Iraq is not a realistic transit route for European jihadists to reach Syria, Jordan's border is closed and in Lebanon there is a high risk of being caught by security forces.
The net result is that IS's online recruiters have recently been encouraging their followers to stay in their own countries and plan attacks there, rather than attempt the risky journey to Syria.
In the short term at least, this will translate into a heightened chance of terrorist attacks here in Europe.
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The disease must be treated as a global public health priority, experts report in the journal PLOS Medicine.
The study compared clinical depression with more than 200 other diseases and injuries as a cause of disability.
Globally, only a small proportion of patients have access to treatment, the World Health Organization says.
Depression was ranked at number two as a global cause of disability, but its impact varied in different countries and regions. For example, rates of major depression were highest in Afghanistan and lowest in Japan. In the UK, depression was ranked at number three in terms of years lived with a disability.
Dr Alize Ferrari from the University of Queensland's School of Population Health led the study.
"Depression is a big problem and we definitely need to pay more attention to it than we are now," she told BBC News.
"There's still more work to be done in terms of awareness of the disease and also in coming up with successful ways of treating it.
"The burden is different between countries, so it tends to be higher in low and middle income countries and lower in high income countries."
Policy-makers had made an effort to bring depression to the forefront, but there was a lot more work to be done, she added.
"There's lots of stigma we know associated with mental health," she explained.
"What one person recognises as disabling might be different to another person and might be different across countries as well, there are lots of cultural implications and interpretations that come in place, which makes it all the more important to raise awareness of the size of the problem and also signs and how to detect it."
The data - for the year 2010 - follows similar studies in 1990 and 2000 looking at the global burden of depression.
Commenting on the study, Dr Daniel Chisholm, a health economist at the department for mental health and substance abuse at the World Health Organization said depression was a very disabling condition.
"It's a big public health challenge and a big problem to be reckoned with but not enough is being done.
"Around the world only a tiny proportion of people get any sort of treatment or diagnosis."
The WHO recently launched a global mental health action plan to raise awareness among policy-makers.
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As a result, Enquest and Cairn Energy will take on the company's 15% stake in the Kraken North Sea Oil field.
Enquest will now have a 70.5% interest in the vast field, and Cairn a 29.5% interest.
First Oil began reviewing its operations last year as the oil price fell and started the process of selling parts of the business.
Zennor Petroleum is expected to take on its interests in the Mungo and Monan, Bacchus, Cormorant East and Causeway fields.
Blair Nimmo, joint administrator and head of restructuring at KPMG in Scotland, said the sales, via the administration process, were a reflection of the "significant challenges facing UK North Sea oil and gas companies in the current oil price environment".
He said: "These sales will ensure that the group's four largest field interests are smoothly transferred to new ownership, and provide time to resolve the position concerning the smaller assets in the group's portfolio."
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Elliott Hague, 18, from Beighton, is alleged to have started the blaze, which destroyed parts of the Bizzy Bees Playgroup, in November.
The cost of repairing the nursery has been put at about £575,000.
Mr Hague appeared at Sheffield Magistrates Court earlier where he was bailed to appear at the city's crown court on 18 February.
She says she "wasn't taken seriously" when she first went to the doctors with her mum.
It wasn't until she says she "basically broke down in front of the GP" that she was diagnosed with Dermatillomania and was referred for professional help.
Now, the 20-year-old from Shropshire wants more people to know about the condition.
She said: "There's not really a lot I can do about it other than raise awareness to help people out there in the same situation."
Samantha has set up a support network on Facebook to help share advice for other people in her position.
She says she hopes the group can pass on some of the help she got when she received cognitive behavioural therapy.
The treatment teaches her what triggers the condition and ways she can control the urge.
"It really helped to be honest," she said.
"But it's not a miracle cure. It's not going to get rid of it straight away."
Samantha's condition has affected her face but she says Dermatillomania can leave cuts and scabs all over the body.
She said her condition puts her into a "trance-like state" and stops her doing day to day tasks.
"Sometimes you feel like giving up because it's always going to keep going," she said.
"It's horrible because I feel like I have to put make-up on and people don't understand. You just feel constantly judged.
"But when I've got make-up on I don't really feel like myself either, so none of them are me."
She added that she doesn't like making social plans because she knows that she'll become self-conscious worrying about her condition and will end up not going out.
"I think it's hard because there's so much pressure out there on social media.
"It's never really bothered me because I am who I am. I just want other people to know they're not alone."
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The Hampshire site was evacuated on the show's opening day after trade stands were left without power. Flying displays were also cancelled.
The biennial show runs until Friday and organisers said Monday's tickets would be valid on Tuesday.
The event boasts about 1,500 exhibitors and 100,000 visitors each year.
Farnborough airshow tweeted: "Disappointing to close today's show early. However, we expect to run a full programme of events tomorrow and for the rest of the week."
Marc Curant, who was at the show, said the airfield "looks like an an ocean".
The issue is so serious that the police has been asked to investigate Colchester General Hospital.
Such a situation is unprecedented in the NHS - and as a result the temptation is to dismiss it as a one-off that should be seen in isolation.
Unfortunately, it would be complacent to do so.
What this case demonstrates is the problem inspectors have in identifying some issues in organisations as complex as hospitals.
The Care Quality Commission did not find the dodgy records. It was told where to look.
During the spring Colchester was subject to an inspection as part of the Keogh Review into mortality rates.
The review - launched after the Stafford Hospital public inquiry - investigated the 14 trusts with the highest death rates.
Problems were identified, including with the ways complaints were handled, staffing rates and leadership weaknesses, but not this.
The concerns that were identified were not even considered important enough for Colchester to be placed in special measures.
When the results of the review were announced Colchester was one of only three trusts that escaped the sanction.
But towards the end of the Keogh process a whistleblower raised concerns about the tampering of records.
This was passed on to the CQC which carried out its own inspections in August and September.
These led to Tuesday's report that showed different information was being entered into the hospital's system than was on the patients' notes so their cancer performance data looked better than it was.
The trust has now been placed in special measures and the management of the trust is being reviewed.
But to make matters worse, the trust had also carried out its own probe in early 2012 after concerns were raised by admin staff in the cancer department.
It did not identify serious problems, but the trust now accepts the issue was "not properly investigated".
The fact that concerns had been aired but not properly looked into has chilling echoes of the Stafford Hospital scandal.
Christina McAnea, head of health at Unison, whose members raised the alarm, says: "They raised their concerns repeatedly and in emails to senior managers, right up to the chief executive, but they were ignored."
Last week a review of complaints by the Labour MP Ann Clywd said the culture of "delay and denial" had to end.
The Colchester case shows just how far the NHS has to go.
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The American, 33, beat Spain's Garbine Muguruza 6-4 6-4 at Wimbledon to take possession of all four major titles.
It gave her the second 'Serena Slam' of her career, but she can break new ground in New York next month.
"I feel like if I can do the 'Serena Slam', I will be OK heading into the Grand Slam," said Williams.
"Like I always say, there's 127 other people that don't want to see me win. Nothing personal, they just want to win.
"I had a really tough draw [at Wimbledon]. This gives me confidence that if I had this draw, I can do it again. I'll just do the best I can.
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"I really don't feel like I have anything to lose. I've kind of solidified my place at number one. My goal is always to end the year at number one."
Williams has now won 21 Grand Slam titles, one short of the open era record set by Steffi Graf who was the only other woman to complete the calendar Slam in 1988.
The American, who has won the US Open for the last three years running, was in little doubt about the scale of the achievement that is now within her sights at Flushing Meadows.
"It's really, really huge," said Williams. "But I haven't done it. I have the 'Serena Slam' now, which is amazing.
"But it's different to actually have something and then try to accomplish it."
Williams will turn 34 next month and Saturday's victory made her the oldest Grand Slam winner in the open era, although Roger Federer would surpass her if he wins Sunday's men's singles final.
"I feel great," said Williams. "I definitely don't feel old. I think in life I'm still pretty young.
"With new technology, new workouts, all this other stuff, I think the life of an athlete is changing and the longevity is becoming longer."
Muguruza, 21, received a huge ovation from the Centre Court crowd after fighting back in the second set.
"I couldn't stop crying," said the Spaniard. "So many people are clapping. I don't know, I make all these people feel this in a tennis court? I felt special."
Asked what the final had told her about Williams, Muguruza added: "I learned that she's also nervous, even though she played I don't know how many finals.
"And she finds the way, being so nervous, to serve, to hit winners. She's world number one. That's what I saw today. I see it every day."
At the same time, they have created a narrative about the referendum result which casts it as a victory for the common man and woman against a liberal, metropolitan establishment that counts the mainstream media - whatever that now means - as its weapon of choice.
This is one of the more pleasing ironies about the state of media in Britain today.
A brief glance at this week's headlines gives ample evidence of what psychologists call confirmation bias - the tendency to interpret events in a way that accords with pre-existing prejudices.
For papers who backed Leave, Theresa May's speech showed a stern commitment to freedom and love of country. The Mail, Sun, Telegraph and Express, who between them have done most to advance the Brexit cause, lauded the prime minister's speech.
The Mail has been a strong backer of May, seeing her as much the most plausible Tory leader in the aftermath of David Cameron's resignation, and contrasting her ostensible gravitas with the lightweights in her cabinet. Just for clarity, I'm paraphrasing the Mail's position there rather than mine, and doing so based on several conversations with the most senior figures there.
Picture choices matter so much in newspapers. I must say I am a very big fan of cartoons on front pages, as this Charlie Hebdo front page from my previous job shows you, and the Mail's use of a cartoon to show the prime minister looking defiant in a way redolent of the Dad's Army title sequence achieves its desired effect.
Similarly the Sun has her looking cheerful next to supportive furniture (the headline and sub-headline).
The Telegraph and the Guardian use similar pictures but by using a much tighter crop, a blue background and a positive headline, the Telegraph seem to endorse the prime minister; whereas the Guardian seem to issue scepticism about her chances of success. Interestingly, the Financial Times, which like the Guardian backed Remain, also uses exactly the same picture, albeit with a different crop. Their headline, being longer than most of the others, equivocates.
Wednesday's front pages alone provide ample evidence of the way the same events are interpreted in wildly different ways by different newspapers - always and without fail in accordance with their prejudices.
In some ways, Fleet Street, as romantics like me still sometimes call it, is basically the industrialisation of confirmation bias.
Does that matter, when newspapers are in swift decline?
Of course it does, and hugely so. Despite their perpetual shrinkage, newspapers are still read by millions of people across Britain.
Moreover, they exert huge - some would argue disproportionate - influence on the news agenda of broadcasters like the BBC, Sky and ITV.
And in my experience, Westminster is still obsessed, to a really bizarre degree, with trying to influence newspapers.
This was perhaps understandable 20 years ago; but today, when fake news goes viral, it seem strange to me how much politicians care about headlines on page 17 of daily publications.
And yet they do. Which is why the other important point about Fleet Street is that it is strongly weighted toward Brexit, and in that sense in touch with voters who, albeit by a small margin, voted to Leave.
Most papers are delighted with the referendum result and support the prime minister. Given the sheer complexity of Brexit negotiations, it's lucky for Theresa May that, despite having backed Remain herself, she can generally count on Britain's newspapers to back her every move in Brussels.
That is not a luxury many previous prime ministers have enjoyed.
It affects both the A55 expressway and the A483 south of Chester.
Overnight closures will be in place from 20:00 BST on Friday on the western side of the roundabout, and the northbound carriageway from Pulford traffic lights.
Restrictions will be in place until 05:00 on Monday.
Highways England, which is overseeing the £6m improvement project, said the long-running roadworks were nearing completion and should be finished by 28 June.
During the day on Saturday and Sunday there will be one lane open on the A483 northbound onto the Posthouse Roundabout, however vehicles will not be able to turn right onto the eastbound A55.
Instead, traffic must follow A55 diversions via junction 35.
"We apologise for the delay and disruption in completing this complicated improvement and for the inconvenience these delays have caused to road users on both sides of the border, " said Andy Withington from Highways England.
"We have pulled out all the stops to make sure that the project is completed by Sunday, 28 June - and are still on course to open the road by then."
Work on the roads was originally due to be completed in March, prompting complaints from local politicians on both sides of the Wales and England border.
Theresa May had said her decision would "deter potential extremists".
But the High Court said Mrs May's position lacked "internal logic" and was "irrational".
The court said it was unfair to deny citizenship to the wife of Egyptian-born Hany Youssef and their children.
It said Mr Youssef's wife, 51, and the two children, 27 and 26, were all of good character.
Mr Justice Ouseley said: "There is real unfairness, on the face of it, in refusing naturalisation to someone who qualifies in all other respects, in order to provide a general deterrent to others, over whom the applicant has no control."
The family's barrister, Michael Fordham QC, had said it would be wrong to penalise them for "the sins of the father", and any such move would have "no place in a liberal democracy".
Robin Tam QC, for the home secretary, had said being granted British citizenship was "a privilege, not a right".
He argued that denying citizenship was a reasonable deterrent and was not disproportionate because those concerned were still permitted to carry on living in the UK.
The family have lived in the UK since 1994 and have had indefinite leave to remain since 2009.
A United Nations independent ombudsman had concluded that Mr Youssef had "repeatedly made statements which glorify the activities of Osama Bin Laden and other prominent members of al-Qaeda and which encourage others to emulate them".
A UN sanctions committee lists him as associated with al-Qaeda through the militant group Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
The Tynecastle head coach will only serve the suspension if he breaches league rule 72 again before the end of the current season.
Neilson commented after the match that Collum had been wrong to send off Hearts defender Callum Paterson.
And he said the squad had trained with 10 men to prepare for a red card.
The Scottish Football Association's compliance officer issued a notice of complaint for a breach of disciplinary rule 72, stating of Neilson that "in an interview with the BBC you criticised the performance of the Match Officials in such a way as to indicate bias or incompetence on their part".
Hearts' appeal against the notice was rejected when the disciplinary tribunal met on Thursday.
Neilson remarked after the match at New Douglas Park: "We actually practised going down to 10 men because of the environment we're coming to and the officials who are taking the game and we have to do that.
"In the recent past, the statistics involving the officials have shown a lot of red cards against us, so we have to prepare for it.
"The next time we get these officials, we will again train with 10 men."
Patterson's red card was rescinded a few days later.
"I continue to believe that Mr Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people," said Mr Obama.
Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman, is the frontrunner in the race to be his party's choice for the White House.
He has won one state primary already, and leads the polls in South Carolina, where Republicans vote on Saturday.
Speaking at the Asean economic summit in California, the president was asked by a reporter about Mr Trump.
The electorate will not pick him, said Mr Obama, because "they recognise that being president is a serious job".
"It's not hosting a talk show or a reality show, it's not promotion, it's not marketing, it's hard. It's not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day."
Mr Trump responded by saying it was a compliment to be criticised by a president who had done so much damage to the country.
The New York hotel developer's antipathy to Mr Obama goes back a number of years - he used to demand that the president produce proof that he was born in the US.
And his election campaign has continuously made headlines, for controversial remarks and policies.
Mr Trump said he would deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, build a wall on the southern border paid for by Mexico and that Muslims should be stopped from entering the US.
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His chief rival is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, but one of his other rivals, the big-spending former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, will be hoping for a better performance after disappointment in Iowa and New Hampshire.
On Tuesday, a tweet by Mr Bush depicting a gun engraved with his name, alongside the word "America", provoked a strong reaction online.
Within hours it had been retweeted 15,000 times and was met by outrage and parody.
US fugitive Edward Snowden told Mr Bush to delete his account.
And Piers Morgan, who used to host a primetime show on CNN and was well known for his stance against gun rights, said it was "appalling".
Mr Bush tweeted the picture after taking questions at the premises of gun maker FN Manufacturing in Columbia, South Carolina.
The Washington Post said the tweet "has the potential to boost his image among Southerners beyond South Carolina who value the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms".
The Democratic race will focus on Saturday on Nevada, where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will do battle in a caucus, which operates as a public show of support rather than a closed ballot.
Figures from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) show that since 2010 they have received more than 1,300 reports of smoke or fumes inside a large passenger aircraft operated by a British airline.
But is there evidence to suggest air quality on flights can pose a serious health risk? We examine the evidence.
At the altitude at which commercial jets fly, the air pressure does not allow humans to breathe independently.
To overcome this, hot compressed air is drawn from the plane's engines and, once cooled, directed into the cabin to supply breathable air - known as bleed air.
This does not pose a health risk in itself. But campaigners believe that potential faults in the engine seals can lead to heated engine oil, hydraulic fluids and harmful chemicals called organophosphates - used to lubricate the engine's metal parts - contaminating the air.
They claim this can cause negative health consequences in both the form of fume events - one-off instances where oil fumes from the engine move into the cabin - and long-term, low-level exposure from frequent flying. The only exception being the new Boeing 787, which uses "bleed-free technology".
These health effects are known to campaigners as "aerotoxic syndrome", but British airlines and the CAA maintain there is no scientific evidence that shows the condition exists.
Prof Alan Boobis, director of Public Health England's Toxicology Unit at Imperial College London, estimates fume events take place in "one in every 2,000 [British] flights". As a result, he says, studies have never been able to record one.
He adds that the information available indicates even during potential fume events, levels of air contamination "are low, and probably below those which would be affecting health in humans".
According to safety reports submitted to the CAA, there were 251 incidents of fumes or smoke in the cabin between April 2014 and May 2015.
These figures just apply to UK airlines so would not include any fume event reported by Lufthansa or Ryanair for example, even if they took place in British airspace.
Where possible, the BBC has stripped out cases which were clearly the fault of broken internal equipment like toilets and air conditioning systems.
Dr Jenny Goodman from London's Biolab Medical Unit, who has treated many crew members, says she has heard anecdotal accounts from airline staff of "old stinkies" - planes in which the cabin fills with fumes every time they start up the engine.
Although the smoke evaporates in such instances by the time passengers go on board, she explains, cabin crew are nevertheless exposed to the contamination.
Dr Goodman believes the risk for health complications is particularly great for airline staff and frequent flyers. "If you fly regularly, or fly as part of your job, you're going to have exposure to constant low-level leakage, which you may or may not be aware of," she explains.
She adds that those on long-haul flights are also more susceptible to illness, when taken regularly: "You're stuck there for hours and hours. You're breathing far more concentrated levels of these substances, and a far greater level of them."
Aviation lawyer Frank Cannon believes pilots and cabin crew are at greatest risk, and as a result of exposure to contaminated air could become unfit to fly. He believes in some instances pilots may be willing to hide cognitive dysfunction or memory deficits caused by the poor air quality for fear of losing their jobs, which puts others at risk.
In other instances, he says, pilots may not be aware of the symptoms, meaning they similarly continue to fly while unsafe to do so.
Prof Boobis says the possibility of long-term health effects from repeated exposure to fume events is an area that needs more research.
Dr Goodman says aerotoxic syndrome affects the central nervous system and brain in particular. While genetic variation means not all people suffer symptoms, the nature of the chemicals present in contaminated air means they can "dissolve in our cell membranes, get into our cells and therefore get into every system in the body".
She says this can lead to wide-ranging symptoms including migraines, fatigue, difficulty thinking, aches and pains in joints and muscles, breathing problems, digestive problems and even an increased risk of breast cancer for women. She adds that many GPs fail to see the link to frequent flying and wrongly prescribe anti-depressants.
But Prof Boobis believes levels of chemicals in the cabin following a leakage are "similar to a normal home or workplace", and do not pose a serious health risk.
He says the symptoms Dr Goodman describes may instead be the result of a "nocebo effect" - in this instance an individual's false belief that they are being harmed by a chemical after smelling an odour in the cabin, most probably from fuel.
He believes this can lead to "serious health issues" in its own right and should not be ignored. But, he adds, it should not be misconstrued as aerotoxic syndrome.
Dr Goodman and Mr Cannon say the industry must ensure filters are fitted to aircraft engines. Mr Cannon notes that there are "two or three different companies" making the filters - including one manufacturer that claims it can prevent 99.9% of the contamination.
They both believe that the principal reason the industry is reluctant to fit the filters is that doing so would be seen as a "tacit admission" that aerotoxic syndrome exists.
A report from the Committee on Toxicity in December 2013, commissioned by the Department of Transport and chaired by Prof Boobis, said there was a "continuing imperative to minimise the risk of fume incidents that give rise to symptoms", whether this be through toxicity or nocebo effects.
The CAA said in a statement: "There is no positive evidence of a link between exposure to contaminants in cabin air and possible long-term health effects - although such a link cannot be excluded."
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It also confirmed that it will not introduce the controversial press control measures north of the border.
The UK government is currently considering whether to implement measures contained within Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013.
They could lead to financial repercussions for newspapers which have not signed up to an official regulator.
Newspapers would have to pay the legal costs of both sides in libel and privacy actions brought against them.
Press regulation is devolved in Scotland and Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said there were no plans to introduce the statutory measures.
But she warned that a move to enact Section 40 by the UK government could affect local and national newspapers in Scotland.
It is understood that the SNP's 54 MPs at Westminster will make a decision on whether or not to support the repeal of Section 40 once they see the UK government's proposals.
Ms Hyslop's statement on the issue came as a 10 week UK government consultation on the issue closed.
She said: "A diverse and independent media is vital to sustaining a flourishing democracy.
"Any movement by the UK government to action Section 40 must carefully consider potential threats to the health of our democratic life and to the freedom of the press."
The planned reform of press regulations followed the Leveson Inquiry, which was set up on the back of the phone-hacking scandal.
The proposals have divided opinion between those who believe the measures are "fair" and those who fear they will severely limit the scope for newspapers to conduct investigative reporting to expose corruption and wrongdoing.
Most newspapers have signed up to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), the press-funded body which has not sought official recognition, and would therefore be faced with paying plaintiffs' costs under the Section 40 provisions.
Ms Hyslop said: "We are committed to ensuring the practices which led to the Leveson Inquiry in the first place do not happen again and we believe that all individuals should have the ability to seek redress when they feel they have been the victim of press malpractice.
"However, the context of press regulation in Scotland is quite distinct from that in England and Wales and section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act does not apply under Scots Law.
"We have not introduced statutory measures to incentivise participation in the regulatory system, as has happened in Westminster, and I can confirm we have no plans to do so.
"Despite press regulation being devolved, Scottish local and national media could be impacted by any decision to enact section 40 in England and Wales, and it is my view that the measures consulted on by the UK government would put at risk the viability of much of our independent media, particularly local newspapers, and pose a potential threat to freedom of the press."
Mohammed Saleem was stabbed by Pavlo Lapshyn in Small Heath on 29 April, less than a week after Lapshyn had arrived in the UK.
At the Old Bailey, 25-year-old Lapshyn pleaded guilty to murder, as well as plotting to cause explosions near mosques in Walsall, Tipton and Wolverhampton in June and July.
He will be sentenced on Friday.
The postgraduate student, from Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, was living in Birmingham while on a temporary work placement in the city when he killed Mr Saleem.
The grandfather of 22 had been attending prayers at the Small Heath mosque and was just yards away from his home when he was stabbed three times.
Later, Lapshyn planted three bombs near three mosques in the West Midlands as part of a campaign he said was motivated by racial hatred.
He was arrested almost a week after an explosion near the Kanzul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton on 12 July.
Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale described Lapshyn as a "self-starter" who would have been likely to go on to commit further offences, while in the UK on a year-long visa.
"He was motivated through what he had learnt himself - he was operating alone and not part of wider group," he said.
"He is an evil and ill-informed man, he was extremely dangerous.
"His motivation was that the white man was better than anyone else."
After his initial arrest for planting the explosive device outside a mosque in Walsall, he told police: "I would like to increase racial conflict."
When asked why he had targeted the mosque he replied: "Because they are not white - and I am white."
Mr Saleem's daughter Shazia Khan said: "He did not do anything to deserve this - other than be a Muslim.
"The effect of the trial process has been very difficult for the whole family; we have not had the peace to grieve for our father, but we are hoping for closure after sentencing on Friday.
"Hopefully he will get the sentence he deserves.
"We question why he did it, the reasons he has given we can't accept, for someone to commit such a heinous murder.
"It's such a pity he's wasted his whole life for personal hatred of a particular race."
Lapshyn was on placement at software company Delcam, and his apartment above the company's offices was searched as part of police investigations.
The company's chief executive Clive Martell said staff were "deeply shocked and saddened".
Det Supt Shaun Edwards, from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "We found part-made devices in Lapshyn's room plus chemicals and bomb-making equipment, so it is clear he planned to place further devices with the intention of killing or maiming innocent members of the public.
"All three of the devices he detonated were powerful but his final attack in Tipton was the first to feature shrapnel and nails.
"He placed this near the mosque's car park with the intention of hitting worshippers as they arrived for prayers.
"Thankfully, the service had been put back an hour so the mosque was largely deserted when the bomb went off."
Mr Edwards said that during interviews Lapshyn had been keen to take credit for the attacks, although at the Old Bailey he denied endangering life in the Walsall blast. That charge is to lie on file.
Within days of the first bomb exploding in Walsall on 21 June, officers had a clear picture of what the 25-year-old looked liked after analysing footage from hundreds of CCTV cameras in the area.
West Midlands Police said the problem was finding Lapshyn as he was a "loner".
"It was local neighbourhood officers in Small Heath, asking 'do you know this man?', that got him," Mr Edwards said.
"They noticed he appeared to be wearing work clothes, and started asking the businesses - one of which was Delcam."
One of Lapshyn's tutor in the Ukraine, Viktor Laskin, said he was in "the same state of shock" he had experienced when the 25-year-old was first arrested.
Mr Laskin said: "We never did believe and don't believe now that he could have done this on his own and consciously.
"During the years of his studies, he never expressed any anti-nationalist sentiment, and so his statement that he wanted to increase racism, or whatever it is he said, came as a big surprise for us."
It comes after the latest inspection figures revealed there were more "inadequate" ones than "good".
Councils rated as "inadequate" face having children's services handed to charities or other authorities if they do not improve.
One council leader called for a review of Ofsted's inspection criteria.
The call came after fewer than a quarter of children's services inspected in the past two years were judged "good".
Only 17 out of 74 council children's services were good and none was outstanding. The other 38 across England "require improvement".
About half of councils have been inspected under new Ofsted criteria introduced two years ago. The education watchdog said the results were "not necessarily representative of the quality of services for all local authorities in the country" until reports for all the others were done.
But they suggest that councils will find it harder to satisfy inspectors than those inspected before November 2013.
Figures showed that out of the nine English regions, the South West did not have a single local authority children's services department rated "good" among seven inspections since the end of 2013. Another nine have yet to be inspected under the new criteria.
The North West and the South East each have four "inadequate" children's services, while the West Midlands and North East have three and all other regions have one.
Councils judged inadequate for 'overall effectiveness' of children's services:
Birmingham; Buckinghamshire; Coventry; Cumbria; Darlington; Doncaster; Knowsley; Lambeth; Lancashire; Leicester; Manchester; Norfolk; Rotherham; Sandwell; Slough; Somerset; Sunderland; Surrey; West Berkshire
'Re-think needed'
Prime Minister David Cameron has said failing departments have to improve within six months or they will be taken over by high-performing councils or charities.
However the Labour leader of Sandwell Council, which has had two successive "inadequate" ratings and will see commissioners sent in within a year, has called for a re-think of the inspection criteria.
Councillor Darren Cooper said: "When the figures show there are more 'inadequate' councils than 'good' ones and that none are outstanding, something is obviously wrong.
"There must be a pause for reflection and a re-think."
He said the council was working to address the criticisms made in the Ofsted reports but that officers and councillors had been given expert advice that they had improved before their last poor rating in June 2015.
But Conservative MP James Morris, whose Halesowen and Rowley Regis constituency covers part of Sandwell, said: "When protecting our most vulnerable children, we need to make sure that we have the most rigorous safeguards in place. The Ofsted report into Sandwell highlighted some very serious flaws. We need to make sure that we sort this out now, rather than looking for excuses to delay change."
The new "single inspection framework" sees inspectors judge child protection and services for looked-after children at the same time in one report. Ofsted said the harder test asked what difference services were making to children's lives.
That framework "has undoubtedly raised the bar," according to Ofsted.
"While we accept it is tough to achieve a good or better grade, children deserve no less than a good standard of support from those charged with caring and protecting them," a spokesman for organisation said.
"Inspectors have seen examples of good and outstanding practice in several local authorities and this is reflected in their overall inspection outcome."
In a statement, the Department for Education vowed "to take tough action where councils are failing children" highlighting "over 30 securing real improvement as a direct result of our intervention since 2010".
It continued: "We must now go further... We will also be partnering with the best local authorities, investing £100m in innovative support to local authorities, as well as investing £100m in fast track social work training."
Children's homes improve
Ofsted inspected 959 children's homes between April and September 2015 and found 71% were good or better, an improvement of 13 percentage points on the year before.
But of the 71 homes previously inspected as "outstanding", 29 of them declined to "good", two declined to "requires improvement" and one declined to "inadequate".
The figures showed the South West had the largest number of "inadequate" rated children's homes, 14 in total.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial proposal had split the cabinet, with 13 voting for and seven against.
The cabinet also backed a bill requiring any peace deal with the Palestinians to be put to a referendum.
Palestinian sources have suggested peace talks, stalled since 2010, could restart next week.
Some 104 long-term Palestinian prisoners will be released in four stages over a number of months, linked to progress in the peace process.
In addition to the votes for and against in cabinet, there were two abstentions, a government official said. One source told Associated Press that two ministers from Mr Netanyahu's Likud Party voted no.
Some of the prisoners have carried out militant attacks that claimed Israeli lives and were jailed for up to 30 years.
Sunday's cabinet meeting was delayed by an hour as Mr Netanyahu sought support.
"This moment is not easy for me, is not easy for the cabinet ministers, and is not easy especially for the bereaved families, whose feelings I understand," Mr Netanyahu said shortly before the meeting.
"But there are moments in which tough decisions must be made for the good of the nation and this is one of those moments."
Ahead of the meeting, Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon condemned the proposal, telling Israel Radio: "This is a political mistake, it is an ethical mistake. The message we are sending the terrorists is that we eventually free them as heroes."
But Kadoura Fares, the head of a Palestinian advocacy group for prisoners, said that there would be "no negotiations unless they are all released".
The bill on a referendum is seen as a conciliatory gesture to right-wing members of the government who are wary of concessions Israel might have to make during peace process negotiations.
A statement from Mr Netanyahu's office said that it was "important that on such historic decisions every citizen should vote directly".
"Any agreement which may be reached in negotiations will be put to a referendum," the office said.
The Israeli government will seek "urgent and important" approval for the bill, asking parliament to fast-track its passage.
It has been suggested by Palestinian sources, although not confirmed officially, that peace talks could start again in the US next week.
US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on 19 July that the talks would begin "in the next week or so".
He said the parties had "reached an agreement that establishes a basis for resuming direct final status negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis".
The Palestinians have insisted Israel recognise pre-1967 ceasefire lines as borders of a Palestinian state, subject to some negotiation, before any talks commence, but this is something that has been opposed by right-wing members of Mr Netanyahu's coalition.
The issue of settlement-building halted the last direct talks in September 2010.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will also put any peace deal to a referendum.
The leaders of 17 national anti-doping organisations met at a special summit in Copenhagen this week.
The group says the fight for clean sport is now "at a crossroads".
Damning reports into Russian state-sponsored doping, which led to a partial Rio Olympics ban, have shaken the anti-doping community.
The country has been given a blanket ban from competing at the Rio Paralympics, which start on 7 September.
Among the range of reforms agreed was a demand that Wada becomes more independent.
Under the proposals, Wada executives would not be be able to simultaneously hold a policy-making position within another sports organisation.
Wada president Sir Craig Reedie has been a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), leading to criticism of a potential conflict of interest.
UK Anti-Doping chief executive Nicole Sapstead said: "Now is the time for the entire sporting community to come together to find a way forward and ensure that the right processes, funding and safeguards are in place to protect everyone's right to clean, fair and honest competition."
The IOC controversially resisted Wada's call for Russia to be banned from this month's Rio Games, but the saga deeply divided the Olympic community.
Most Russian track and field athletes were banned from competing, while all Russian competitors are barred from the Paralympics.
More than 100 are appealing against the International Paralympic Committee's decision.
"We recognise we are at a crossroads in the fight for clean sport," the leaders of the national anti-doping organisations (Nado) said in a joint statement.
"With the best interests of clean athletes at heart, we have come together to discuss reforms that we believe will better protect them, restore confidence in the global anti-doping effort that has been deeply damaged, and ensure that the disturbing events of recent years are not repeated."
The news comes at a key moment in the fierce debate over the future of Wada, which is jointly funded by the IOC and governments.
The IOC has convened a meeting later this year to discuss changes to the anti-doping regime.
Its president Thomas Bach was critical of Wada's handling of the Russia scandal, suggesting it should have acted quicker on evidence given to it.
The Nado leaders also backed calls for a public commitment from the IOC and Russia to assist in guaranteeing the safety, security and well-being of whistle-blowers Yuliya Stepanova and her husband Vitaly Stepanov, "without whom the state‐supported system of doping would likely never have been exposed".
Athlete Stepanova, 30, is in hiding with her family and has said she "fears for her life".
The proposals were written and endorsed by anti-doping leaders from Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations (iNado).
An inquest was halted in October when coroner Alan Wilson referred the boy's death in 2014 at the vicarage in Freckleton, Lancashire to prosecutors.
A doctor had told the hearing Jonathan could have survived with resuscitation.
The Rev James Percival and his daughter Ruth were initially held on suspicion of murder but no charges were brought.
Ms Percival, 30, gave birth in a bathroom at the vicarage and her 66-year-old father, then vicar of Holy Trinity CE Church, helped her.
He told police the baby appeared "sallow and lifeless" and he believed the infant was "obviously deceased".
However, Blackpool Coroner's Court was told the boy could have survived up to 15 minutes after delivery on 25 November 2014.
Consultant neonatologist Dr Ruth Gottstein told the inquest that when babies are born with the umbilical cord around their neck, there is an 80% survival rate following resuscitation.
As well as being initially arrested on suspicion of his murder, both Mr Percival and his daughter were held on suspicion of conspiring to conceal the birth of a child.
The baby was not seen by a medical professional for about two hours and was left alone in the house wrapped in a towel on a sofa as the pair visited their GP, the inquest was told.
In a statement, the CPS said: "There remains insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction for a criminal prosecution.
"The CPS has written to the coroner to explain the decision and to confirm the inquest can now be continued."
The actor and comedian previously hosted the 77th annual Academy Awards in 2005, when the reception to his opening monologue and some controversial jokes was mixed.
"I'm so glad to be hosting the Oscars," Rock said. "It's great to be back."
The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday 28 February, 2016.
Last year's ceremony, hosted by television and Broadway star Neil Patrick Harris, had the lowest Oscar ratings for six years, and were down 16% on the previous year, when Ellen DeGeneres had been at the helm.
"Chris Rock is truly the MVP of the entertainment industry," said Hill and Hudlin. "Comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, documentarian - he's done it all. He's going to be a phenomenal Oscar host. "
"We share David and Reggie's excitement in welcoming Chris, whose comedic voice has really defined a generation," said Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs. "He is certain to bring his amazing array of talents to this year's show."
In 2005 - the year that Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby won best picture - Rock received a standing ovation before uttering a word and began by ordering the assembled A-listers to "sit your asses down".
But as the LA Times recalls, Rock's performance was met with a range of reactions. USA Today described him "one of the worst hosts ever" while critic Roger Ebert praised a "home run" opening monologue that was "not shy of controversy".
Rock's recent film roles include I Think I Love My Wife, Head of State, Death at a Funeral and and the first three films in the blockbuster Madagascar series, as the voice of Marty.
In 2009 he wrote, produced and presented the documentary Good Hair.
On TV, he created the series Everybody Hates Chris, which ran from 2005 to 2009. He most recently directed the TV comedy special Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, which premiered this month on HBO.
Scotland bore the brunt of the bad weather with hundreds of homes evacuated in the Borders towns of Dumfries, Hawick and Peebles.
Hundreds of homes are without power in Yorkshire. Two severe flood warnings are in place in Scotland and dozens of flood warnings remain in place UK-wide.
Experts said the worst of the rain had passed but more flooding was likely.
In Dumfries and Galloway, the River Nith has burst its banks causing flooding in the town of Dumfries. A severe flood warning, indicating danger to life, has been issued for the Whitesands area. The villages of Moffat and Carsphairn have been cut off and fire crews have been rescuing people from properties by boat.
The River Tweed in Peebles also has a severe flood warning in place and more than 300 homes have been evacuated in Hawick.
Emergency services responded to reports of a missing kayaker on the River Findhorn in Moray, while in south Ayrshire 12 passengers had to be airlifted from a bus stuck in flood water near to Dailly Cemetery.
More than 100 people evacuated from their homes in Ballater in Aberdeenshire are spending the night at Victoria Barracks which are usually used to house security personnel who guard the Queen when she stays at nearby Balmoral Castle.
In Northern Ireland, thousands of homes have experienced power cuts, air passengers were delayed and fallen trees caused problems on the roads.
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In Devon, a delivery driver smashed through the window of a car to save the lives of two elderly people trapped in rising floodwater in Sparkwell, Devon.
Meanwhile, in North Yorkshire, soldiers evacuated homes near a bridge in Tadcaster after it collapsed on Tuesday evening, prompting fears of flooding and a possible gas explosion.
The town's 18th-century stone bridge over River Wharf collapsed on Tuesday, causing a nearby gas pipe to rupture.
Richard Sweeting, a member of the town council, said the community was finding it difficult to manage.
"The impact has been absolutely terrible because it's divided Tadcaster east and west. The bridge was the main thoroughfare to connect the whole town. The people in the west cannot get to the medical centre or to our supermarket," he said.
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In Croston, which was hit by floods on Boxing Day, an RAF Chinook helicopter delivered 400 tonnes of sandbags on Tuesday in a bid to shore up the nearby River Douglas in preparation for Wednesday's storm.
Meanwhile, police in York said it was "extremely disappointing" that thieves had broken into homes submerged in flood water. They said dry goods had reportedly been stolen from outside homes, tools taken from sheds and a back door forced open.
North Yorkshire Police's acting Supt Mark Grange said: "It is impossible to comprehend why anyone would want to bring further suffering to those who are already in a very vulnerable situation."
Environment Agency head Sir Philip Dilley returned to the UK after cutting short his family holiday in Barbados to visit some of the flood-hit communities.
He said he had been "in very close contact" with senior agency staff throughout his Christmas break.
"Everybody can't be everywhere at the same time," he said, when asked about his whereabouts during the floods.
"I think we've been very effective and efficient in what we've been doing. There's obviously some lessons to learn."
On Tuesday, Communities Secretary Greg Clark announced £50m extra funding to help households and businesses affected by flooding in northern England. The government says it has now pledged more than £100m.
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The team looked at adolescents who were generally more impulsive than their peers - a trait sometimes linked to the misuse of drugs.
They found teenagers who had a particular pattern of activity on brain scans were more likely to misuse drugs.
The early work appears in the journal Nature Communications.
Scientists asked 144 adolescents who had not previously used recreational drugs to fill in questionnaires and take part in behavioural tests to assess how impulsive they were and how attracted they were to trying new things.
Researchers then conducted a range of brain scans, while asking the adolescents to carry out tasks that could win them cash prizes at the same time.
The tests were designed to look at how particular parts of the brain responded to the prospect of getting a reward.
They found those teenagers who had less nerve activity in these brain areas during these tasks, were more likely to have drug problems two years later.
One theory behind this, the scientists say, is that teenagers who are more likely to take drugs have less motivation for traditional rewards like money, and more for less conventional rewards.
Prof Brian Knutson, at Stanford University, says he hopes with more work, these types of tests could help identify vulnerable teenagers who could be offered help before problems arise.
Meanwhile Prof Derek Hill, of University College London, said the study was "interesting" with carefully collected and analysed data.
But he cautioned that the methods used in the study were still experimental.
He added: "It is therefore important that results like this are replicated in separate studies before the results in this paper should be used to change the way these young people are diagnosed and treated."
And now the Commons Health Select Committee says a similar policy in England would help to cut sugar consumption at least in the short term.
The government has consistently been opposed to introducing such a tax, and the drinks industry say poorest families will be hit the hardest.
But Tory MP Dr Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the cross-party committee, says it could cut rates of child obesity.
Currently, one in three primary school leavers are overweight or obese.
In October, Public Health England recommended:
On social media, there has been overwhelming criticism of the idea. And this is reflected in emails received by the BBC.
Helen Attwood said: "I have had type-1 diabetes for 36 years.
"Type 1 is not linked to lifestyle choices and is an autoimmune disease.
"I have to buy sugar regularly, and sugary drinks in particular are great at treating hypo[glycemia]s - one of the issues associated with this disease.
"It doesn't seem fair that I have to pay more to treat a medical condition which I ended up with through no fault of my own. "
But there was also some cautious support for the proposed sugar tax.
One anonymous emailer to the BBC said: "I agree something must be done.
"The school attended by my grandchildren has machines selling cans of fizzy drinks, crisps et cetera.
"It would be a good start if that stopped.
"The answer is not just banning things, it is educating young people.
"The more you ban them, the more they will want them."
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Gerrard, 34, won his first cap in a 2-0 win over Ukraine in 2000 and made his last England appearance in a 0-0 draw with Costa Rica at the 2014 World Cup.
The Liverpool midfielder said: "I have enjoyed every minute of representing my country. It's a sad day for me."
Gerrard will now take on a "high profile" ambassadorial role with the Football Association.
He retires from international duty having scored 21 goals and played at six major tournaments. He ranks third on England's most-capped player list behind only Peter Shilton (125) and David Beckham (115).
Gerrard skippered England at this summer's World Cup in Brazil, however it was to end in disappointment for Roy Hodgson's team after they exited the tournament bottom of the group and without a victory.
"It was a very difficult decision to make," said Gerrard. "It's something I have been contemplating for a long time, not just since the end of the World Cup.
"I've had to take an awful lot of advice from people who are close to me - players that I still play with, ex-players who I played with a long time ago, managers who I played for years ago.
"It's been a really tough decision, certainly one of the toughest since I turned professional at 18."
England manager Hodgson said: "While I'm disappointed, I can entirely understand Steven's situation and can have no complaints given the incredible service he has given to his country."
Gerrard will continue his club career with Liverpool, for whom he made his debut in 1998 against Blackburn Rovers.
He has spent his entire career at Anfield - winning the Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup.
"To ask my body now, the way it is and what it has been through, to play international and domestic football was too much of an ask," he added.
"I've made my decision on my age, on my body and being fair to Liverpool, especially with having the Champions League back - that was a huge factor."
Gerrard's first tournament as an England player was Euro 2000, and he went on to play in two more European Championships, in 2004 and 2012.
After missing the 2002 World Cup through injury, he played in three others, his first in Germany 2006, then as captain for both South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014.
Former England striker and BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker led the tributes to the midfielder, tweeting: "Steven Gerrard has retired from international football. He's been a wonderful servant to his country. A great player who always gave all."
Ex-England and Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher, who played alongside Gerrard, tweeted: "Good decision by Steven Gerrard, 114 caps - great servant for England."
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty said: "Gerrard said he was 'broken' by England's exit from the World Cup after only two games and he was never going to be involved in Euro 2016.
"He had, by his own standards, a disappointing campaign in Brazil and it was clear his influence at this level was wavering."
We have some great role models now and we are going to take advantage of the upturn in participation
He said that view was "narrow-minded", adding: "There are over 40,000 people who play curling in Scotland."
Britain won four medals in Sochi.
Lizzy Yarnold took gold in the skeleton, the men's and women's curlers claimed silver and bronze respectively, while snowboard slopestyler Jenny Jones pocketed a bronze.
"We have some great role models now and we are going to take advantage of the upturn in participation," said Hay.
He also highlighted the ease of access to curling facilities in Scotland, but conceded that is not matched in other parts of the United Kingdom.
"There are 30 ice rinks in Scotland - 15 of them dedicated to curling and the rest being multi-sport - but we have a problem in England," Hay told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We have the ice rinks but we do need the facility there in terms of the stones and the ice-making equipment."
Jones, who became GB's first ever medal-winner on snow, insisted her sport was "more accessible than a lot of people think".
"There are a lot of folks up in Scotland that can go and ride up in the mountains and there are loads of indoor and dry slopes I would encourage people to go to," said Jones, who learnt to ski on a dry slope near Bristol and funded her early career by working as a chalet maid.
Chef de Mission Jon Doig, speaking 12 months before the Games get under way, said the 2006 Melbourne Games would act as the "benchmark".
Scotland won 29 medals in Melbourne and Doig hopes to eclipse that number.
"We're looking for that best-ever overseas performance," Doig told BBC Radio Scotland.
Doig says the Scots involved will relish the prospect of competing at the Gold Coast Games.
"There's been a bit of a change for the programme from Glasgow (2014) which makes it a bit more challenging for us with Judo being out," he added.
"We've got some great sports like beach volleyball and basketball in there. There are also some other changes, we've now got equality in the middle programme between male and female. And, of course, we've got the para sports as well.
"We're really looking forward to it; things are on track and the selection period is open for us. We've got some great performances already starting to happen.
"We're looking for that best-ever overseas performance. Melbourne is a really good benchmark for us because it was nearly the same programme and the same time of year, and challenges and preparation.
"So, that's our first benchmark and, once we get past that particular point, then we'll be looking for other performances to come in and then go past that point."
Lynne Beattie, who captained the British volleyball team at the London Olympics, is hoping to qualify for the Gold Coast with partner Melissa Coutts after making the switch to beach volleyball, which will be played for first time at a Commonwealth Games.
"I represented Team GB at London 2012, so now to have the opportunity to represent Team Scotland in the Gold Coast is an absolutely massive opportunity not just for us as a team but our sport as well," she said.
The pair have just returned from competing in their first world tour event in Sydney, where they finished ninth.
"There are a couple of routes to quality for the Games and one of those is a top-four world ranking by September and the other is a one-off continental tournament in September," Beattie added.
"The winner of that would then go in and we are trying to keep our options open.
"We are really optimistic and our training is going really well."
Paul Bowers, 47, died when several tonnes of metal fell on him in January 2013 while working at the warehouse of CAV Cambridge at Cambridge Airport.
The Old Bailey trial heard the components were stacked too high.
Parent company CAV Aerospace, from County Durham, has pleaded not guilty to corporate manslaughter.
Mr Bowers, of Peverel Close, Cambridge, died of severe multiple injuries on 26 January 2013, an inquest heard.
Cambridgeshire Police charged the aerospace firm following evidence from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Consett-based CAV Aerospace, which owns five sites in the UK and four abroad, was responsible for ordering stock and maintaining health and safety at the warehouse run by a subsidiary company.
Opening the trial, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson told the court Cav Aerospace had been warned that piles of components were "dangerously high".
Mr Bowers died when an unstable stack of metal components toppled on to him as he made his way down a "designated safe walkway", trapping him up to his chest and crushing him.
The components had not been stacked safely and there was too much stock in the hangar, Mr Atkinson said.
"Only the senior management team of CAV Aerospace Ltd... had the power to resolve this problem before such an accident occurred.
"Despite the repeated and explicit warnings they received, they failed to do so by 26 January 2013."
He alleged CAV Aerospace Ltd was "guilty of negligent acts and omissions" and breached its duty of care to workers in the hangar.
The trial continues.
February footfall saw a 2.3% drop compared to 12 months earlier; Scotland and Northern Ireland saw an increase of 1.2% and 1.3% respectively. The UK average saw a 0.8% drop.
Greater London and Wales saw the biggest decline.
Sara Jones from the Welsh Retail Consortium said the figures will be of "continued concern for retailers".
Despite a twelfth successive month of falling shoppers, there was some recovery from the January slump.
Diane Wehrle, of Springboard, which compiled the data, said the Welsh figures "must be put into the context of a much greater drop of 8.8% in February last year and 4.6% fall in January".
Ms Jones said the WRC will work with partners, including the Welsh government, to look at how regeneration strategies can help boost shopper numbers.
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, fell from a fire escape after Friday evening's performance at the Imperial Theatre, said representative Marc Thibodeau.
Last month, Mr Jean-Baptiste made history performing the role of ex-convict Jean Valjean in the musical.
A statement described him as a remarkable young talent.
The notice placed on Facebook said: "The entire Les Miserables family is shocked and devastated by the sudden and tragic loss of Kyle."
It described him as a "tremendous person who made magic and history in his Broadway debut".
In May, Mr Jean-Baptiste announced on Twitter he would be joining Cameron Mackintosh's production of Les Miserables as Courfeyrac and understudying Jean Valjean. He first went on stage in that role on 23 July.
He told Playbill magazine: "This was my dream since I was a little boy."
His last performance in the role was on Thursday.
The circumstances of Mr Jean-Baptiste's death are unclear. Some reports have said he was at his mother's home at the time.
Fellow actors took to social media to pay tribute to the star.
"Shocked and saddened to have lost one of Broadway's youngest treasures,'' tweeted Tony Award-nominee Joshua Henry.
Teal Wicks, starring in Finding Neverland, said she was "devastated" and he was "a new friend and a shining star".
Ansel Elgort said: "I played opposite Kyle Jean-Baptiste in Hairspray in high school at Laguardia. What I remember most above his talent was his warmth."
Ukrainian electricity company Ukrenergo said a pylon had come down and it was investigating the cause.
Russian forces annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, but the peninsula remains largely dependent on Ukraine for electricity.
The current disruption is not thought to be as serious as November's outage.
Crimea's two million people were severely affected when four pylons on the Kakhovsky-Titan power line were intentionally damaged on 22 November. It took more than a fortnight for supplies to be restored.
Until recently Ukraine provided Crimea with 70% of its power, but Russia is now trying to boost electricity supplies to the peninsula.
Moscow officials says two power lines through the Kerch Strait began providing 400 megawatts of electricity to Ukraine this month and further supplies will begin in May 2016.
The issue of energy supplies between Russia and Ukraine has become intensely politicised since Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was deposed in February 2014.
A contract between Ukrenergo and Crimea was set to come to an end on Thursday and there was no indication that it was being renewed in time for the new year.
A free trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU, due to come into force on 1 January, has also added tensions in the region.
No power at all was flowing from Ukraine to Crimea on Thursday, and officials on the annexed peninsula were planning to phase in rotating power cuts ahead of the Russian New Year holiday.
"I am asking people of Crimea not to worry. The Crimean authorities have the situation completely under control," Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov wrote on his Facebook page.
"We have not been relying on Ukrainian electricity and we are not relying on it now."
Ukrenergo spokesman Zynoviy Butsyo told Ukrainian TV that a pylon had come down some 20km (12 miles) from Kakhovka, to the north of Crimea, and officials were trying to work out how long repairs would take.
Crimean Tatar activist Lenur Islyamov suggested that strong winds might have brought down the pylon and denied that Tatar activists had been behind the latest power cut.
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The FTSE 100 ended the day down 27.06 points or 0.42% at 6,417.02.
WPP shares dropped 2.2%, despite the company saying it was on track to hit its full-year targets.
Like-for-like net sales grew by 3.3% in the third quarter, up from 2.3% in the first half of the year. Its full-year target is growth above 3%.
However, analysts said the results were slightly disappointing.
In the FTSE 250, shares in TalkTalk fell a further 12% as investors continued to shun the telecoms company in the wake of last week's cyber-attack.
At the weekend, TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding said the attack was "smaller" than originally thought, but customers' bank account and sort code details may have been accessed.
Shares in Aberdeen Asset Management rose 2.9% following a report in the Financial Times that the company could be up for sale.
The FT said that Aberdeen's chief executive, Martin Gilbert, had begun to seek possible buyers of the business.
However, in a statement issued to the Reuters news agency, the company denied the reports.
"In his 32 years running Aberdeen, Martin Gilbert has never approached anyone, formally or informally, about buying the business," the statement said.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.3% against the dollar to $1.5361 and was barely moved against the euro at €1.3905.
The eastbound exit at junction 4 of the M54 at Shifnal, Shropshire, remains closed while forensic teams continue to search for clues to the man's identity.
Police said the bones were human and were believed to be from the same skeleton as the skull found by maintenance workers on 20 August.
Tests determined the remains had been at the scene for at least two years.
A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive as to how the man died.
The latest discoveries were unearthed close to the surface and near where the previous remains were found, a spokeswoman for West Mercia Police said.
It will not be known if all findings represent a complete skeleton until the pathologists have completed their inquiries, she added.
Searches are expected to come to an end on Thursday evening and the M54 slip road will remain closed for unrelated road works, she said.
Ruth Appleby, from North Yorkshire, was told her daughter had died hours after being born apparently healthy in 1992.
She later learned that thousands of Spanish babies were taken and given up for adoption.
Mrs Appleby has pursued her case through the Spanish legal system without success.
"The last appeal that we did was to the constitutional tribunal," she said.
"When that was rejected that was considered there was no where else we could go, so it opened the door for us to the European Court of Human Rights."
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Mrs Appleby, from Catterick Garrison, gave birth at a hospital in La Coruna in northern Spain where she was living at the time.
The following day she was told her child had died.
When she returned to the UK in 2010 she had her daughter's remains exhumed for cremation but said the skeleton she saw in the coffin appeared to be that of a much older infant.
The following year she learned of the scandal of stolen babies in Spain and went on to report the matter to police in 2012.
In May, she travelled to Madrid with a number of MEPs from the European Parliament who were investigating the claims of child abduction.
Labour MEP for the North East, Jude Kirton-Darling, who has campaigned alongside Mrs Appleby, said: "The... decision to hear Ruth's case is a great step forward for both finding the truth about her child, and the countless other mothers who have had their children taken from them.
"One of the human rights which is defended in Strasbourg is the right to fair justice, a fair hearing in court.
"The second right that Ruth is really challenging on is her right to a family life. Her child has been gone for so long and that's a child that's missing from her family.
"It could be a massive precedent which will really blow open this whole scandal and allow people to finally get the justice they have been calling for."
Spain's 'Niños robados' (stolen children)
The suspect walked into the Wineflair store on the Upper Lisburn Road in Finaghy at 08:10 GMT on Saturday.
Police said a small amount of money was handed over.
The man was described as being in his 20s, about 5ft 5", of heavy build and wearing a red hat and red-hooded top.
PSNI Det Sgt Michael Hawthorne said: "I would appeal to anyone who saw a male matching this description in the Finaghy area this morning or who has any information which could assist us with our enquiries to contact detectives at Musgrave on 101 quoting reference number 300 26/11/16 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."
In December 2011 the regions - Cardiff Blues, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets - imposed a salary cap of £3.5m a year when all four were posting losses.
The rise reflects improved finances, with extra money from Europe and a new deal with the Welsh Rugby Union.
Pro Rugby Wales declined to comment, but it is understood the decision was mutually agreed after a review.
It is hoped the extra cash will help the regions retain star players and potentially bring more "Welsh exiles" home.
Leigh Halfpenny, Jonathan Davies, George North and Luke Charteris are thought to be considering returning to Wales next season.
The Ospreys are hoping Dan Biggar and Alun Wyn Jones will agree to extend their current National Dual Contracts.
However, the regions - represented by Pro Rugby Wales - are expected to make building squad depth a priority, and not necessarily spend big figures on marquee signings.
The new ceiling - which is self-imposed - is still some way below that of England's Aviva Premiership.
Premiership Rugby Limited - the umbrella body that governs England's Premiership clubs - announced in October they would be raising their cap next season from £5.1m to £6.5m, and to £7m the season after that.
These figures exclude the salaries of two so-called "marquee signings" that remain outside the cap.
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The defendants were detained after secret filming by BBC Panorama at Winterbourne View, near Bristol.
They face 38 charges of either neglect or ill-treatment of people with severe learning difficulties.
Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol, said the sentencing hearing could last up to five days.
Earlier the court dealt only with Wayne Rogers, 31, of Kingswood, the most senior support worker to be charged.
Rogers has already pleaded guilty to nine charges of ill treating five patients. He is currently in jail after asking for his bail to be cancelled.
In court, Rogers' barrister Giles Nelson said his client accepted there was no excuse for his conduct and that an "atmosphere of conflict had spread like a disease".
He said Rogers had pleaded guilty "at the earliest possible opportunity" and said his client "genuinely does not recognise himself" on the footage shown to the court.
"He knows he will be perceived as someone behaving in a grotesque way. He accepts there is no excuse for his conduct," he said.
During five weeks spent filming undercover, a Panorama reporter captured footage of some of the hospital's most vulnerable patients being repeatedly pinned down, slapped, dragged into showers while fully clothed, taunted and teased.
A serious case review published in August condemned the hospital's owner Castlebeck for putting profits before care.
Castlebeck said the criticisms in the report were being "actively addressed".
The other 10 defendants are:
Michael Ezenagu, 29, from Shepherds Bush, west London; Alison Dove, 24, of Kingswood; Graham Doyle, 25, of Patchway; Jason Gardiner, 44, of Hartcliffe; Daniel Brake, 27, of Downend; Holly Laura Draper, 23, of Mangotsfield; Charlotte Justine Cotterell, 21, from Yate and Neil Ferguson, 27, of Emerson Green have all admitted ill-treating patients in their care.
Sooaklingum Appoo, 58, of Downend, and Kelvin Fore, 33, from Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to wilfully neglecting patients in their care.
Dove requested to remain in custody but the remaining nine defendants were released on bail by Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol.
The sentencing hearing was adjourned until tomorrow.
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The budget is £11.5bn, according to the budget document produced by the finance department.
It was passed by 62 votes to 30 on Tuesday evening.
The DUP and Sinn Féin voted in favour. The UUP, SDLP, Alliance, TUV, the Green Party, NI21's Basil McCrea, Independent Unionist John McCallister and Independent Claire Sugden opposed it.
Spending on benefits and pensions in Northern Ireland will be nearly £9bn, meaning that overall government expenditure is about £20bn.
The document says the taxes generated in Northern Ireland are "considerably less" than the level of funding received from the Treasury.
It says this shortfall, known as the fiscal deficit, was estimated to be more than £9bn in 2013-14.
Stormont has the power to borrow money under what is known as the Reform and Reinvestment Initiative, introduced in 2002.
The document says the level of outstanding debt in respect of these loans will be an estimated £2.1bn by the end of 2016-17.
The document says this equates to £1,138 per head of the population.
Finance Minister Mervyn Storey told MLAs Stormont is facing significant real term reductions and it is impossible to do more with less.
The budget document is divided up according to the new nine departmental structure which will come into effect after the May Assembly election.
The budget includes increases for the new communities department, as well as health and justice.
By contrast, there are cuts for the department of agriculture, environment and rural affairs, the economy department and the executive office, which is the new title for the office of the first and deputy first ministers.
The document shows no percentage change in the education budget.
The new Stormont economy department is taking responsibility for higher education.
The section of the latest budget document dealing with the department is frank about the difficulties facing local universities.
It says: "Over the last number of years, a clear funding gap has emerged and widened between our own universities and those in other parts of these islands.
"With tuition fees frozen and grant funding reducing, we have been overseeing a reduction in the unit funding provided per student.
"The challenge for Northern Ireland universities is to compete in a very competitive global higher education marketplace.
"If we cannot maintain competitive funding levels, the quality of provision in Northern Ireland will diminish in relation to other parts of the UK and we will end up with a second rate higher education system."
It was the first opportunity for the assembly as a whole to examine the document.
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Mujati, 32, signed for Ospreys from English Premiership side Sale Sharks in February as cover for Dmitri Arhip and Ma'afu Fia, who were out with injury.
The former Springbok has started seven of the last eight games for the region.
"I've settled in really well here and I'm thrilled to be staying with the Ospreys longer-term," Mujati said.
He continued: "My family is here with me and everybody has made us really welcome. It's a good environment to be in.
"While I'm pleased to be with the Ospreys next season, we have some really important business ahead of us on the field and that has to be the focus for everybody over the next few weeks."
Mujati has played in South Africa's Super Rugby with Lions and Stormers, in Top 14 in France with Racing Metro, and in England with Northampton Saints and Sale.
"It's always difficult for a player moving to a new team in-season and having to learn on the go but Brian has adapted to what we want really well, like the professional that he is," Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy said.
"With the continued absence of Dmitri and Ma'afu, Brian has had a big role to play. With a good pre-season under his belt, I think we'll truly see the best of him."
The army said the militants "were given a fair trial" in military courts before the verdict was handed down.
The attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar last December, carried out by the Taliban, shocked the country.
In response, Pakistan lifted a seven-year moratorium on executions.
It also amended the constitution to allow for the establishment of military courts to try terror suspects.
Since December, 200 people have been put to death. Many of them were not convicted for terror offences.
A statement on the Pakistan military's website said seven militants were found guilty of links to the attack - only one had been given a life sentence instead of the death penalty.
"The convicts were given fair trial by following all the legal formalities and offering/providing them legal aid and defence counsels," the statement said.
"Today the sentences of death have been confirmed by the Chief of Army Staff."
These are the first death sentences to be handed out in connection to the Army Public School massacre, the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil reports from Islamabad.
Those facing the death penalty are not the seven who took part in the attack - all of whom died in the assault.
They scaled the walls to get into the school and set off a bomb before moving from classroom to classroom shooting indiscriminately at both the children and teachers.
The school was near a military complex in Peshawar and many of its students were the children of military personnel.
Peshawar, which is close to the Afghan border, had seen some of the worst of the violence during the Taliban insurgency in recent years.
John Langley, who is representing the party in Bristol's Stockwood ward, said he is an adult entertainment industry veteran who owns a production business.
He said he was "happy to confirm" reports he had appeared in and produced a number of X-rated films.
A party spokesperson said UKIP was aware of Mr Langley's other profession and supported him.
Mr Langley said: "I'm exactly the same as anyone else. On one side I have my performer side, and on the other I have my normal life."
"We in UKIP represent the ordinary working-class person who will go to the pub, they will read The Sun and they will look at adult entertainment.
"There are those who will be judgemental, and that is their choice."
Mr Langley said he thought party leader Nigel Farage would support him, and recognise his commitment to "to standing for his community".
A full list of candidates standing in the same ward is expected to be confirmed later.
The ex-New South Wales State of Origin representative, 35, also said players in Britain "need more of a voice" as demands on them are "ridiculous".
Hull FC travel to Catalans on Monday, having lost to Leigh on Friday.
In response, Ralph Rimmer of the RFL said: "Player welfare is paramount."
The chief operating officer continued: "The Rugby Football League does care about every player involved in the sport from community through to the top tier."
However, former South Sydney and Gold Coast Titans forward Minichiello, who has being playing in the northern hemisphere competition with Hull FC since 2015, said there are many things in Super League "that need to improve to get the game on the right path".
"I don't think the RFL look after their players at all," he told BBC Radio Humberside.
"They ask a lot of their players. It is a physical game we play and then we play two double-header periods in one season - that is ridiculous in my opinion."
Hull, like Catalans, have the most taxing travel over the Bank Holiday weekend as both have games in England and France.
They are both back on English soil for the following round, as Hull are at home to Wigan on Saturday, 3 June, while Catalans fly in to face Widnes a day later.
"We'll do everything recovery-wise to get our energy levels back up and our body in the right frame to play a game a couple of days later," Minichiello said.
"It is even tougher when have to fly to Catalans, but we will deal with that and do it as best we can."
The additional double-header in the Super League calendar this year, coming after the traditional Easter weekend fixtures, is the result of an England training camp being scheduled to take place in Dubai - a camp that was cancelled following consultation with Super League clubs.
"That is another thing that is absolutely crazy," said Minichiello.
"Start the competition a week later for a camp that didn't happen, then make players play three games in seven days twice in the year. I'd like to see them to do it."
Rimmer reiterated that the delayed start to the campaign was "collective decision in support of the national team".
Minichiello said players should have a voice when it comes to scheduling, but admits they lack a say because "players of the game don't have a united front".
"That allows the RFL to do what they want without consulting players," the Australian said.
"I know what it is like back home, all the players are on board and we are there to make sure the game is growing in the right direction and that everyone is looked after.
"It is easy to say and tough to do - there needs to be a collective player union where 100% of Super League players are involved.
"That is a great starting point to make sure the RFL has a point of call to go to and negotiate terms of play and the growth of the game.
"Players are the biggest asset the game has and we need a voice."
Despite the absence of a player union at an elite level since the demise of League 13 in 2015, the RFL said there is access to union representation through GMB.
"I know many do take up this option to support them with various matters," Rimmer said.
"Also, since being appointed as our rugby director, Kevin Sinfield has created a line of communication with club captains to regularly discuss different issues in the game with an aim to improve in any way we can."
Anne Milton won Guildford for the Tories with a 57.1% share of the vote, and in Woking Jonathan Lord kept the seat blue, with a majority of more than 20,000.
Labour has more than doubled its vote in the two constituencies.
In Guildford, Labour polled 6,534 votes compared to 3,700 in 2010, while the Lib Dems dropped from 13,000 to 8,354.
In Woking, Labour doubled its vote while the Liberal Democrats' support more than halved.
Follow all the latest from the counts on the BBC's election live service or see the latest from your constituency on the BBC News website.
There are clear advantages in being short. Generally, shorter players are more mobile and flexible than taller men and can get into position quicker. Particularly small batsmen do pose unusual problems for bowlers.
England's James Taylor, at 5ft 6ins, emphasised that in the fourth one-day international against Sri Lanka in Colombo on Sunday, as he scored 90 in his side's narrow six-wicket defeat.
Taylor's performance was similar to how a man of similar diminutive size - Aravinda de Silva - used to play for Sri Lanka.
Like De Silva, Taylor pulls balls that are barely short of a length and Sri Lanka soon discovered that after his understandably scratchy beginning. He had just eight from his first 23 balls having come to the wicket in the second over.
Then, he suddenly sidled up the track and picked up a ball from Thisara Perera and hammered it way over midwicket for six. It was an astonishing stroke that surprised the Sri Lankans and got his innings going.
But it was his pulling which was most disconcerting for the bowlers. Several deliveries that would be a decent length to a batsman of average height seem fractionally short to the right-handed Taylor and are rifled to the boundary with a pirouette of the body and a thrust of the bottom hand.
The power Taylor, 24, generates from this rapid swivel and jab of the bat leaves the deep fielders standing.
The huge benefit of this shot is that it forces bowlers to readjust. They can't rely on their regulation length as a banker against Taylor. A simple, good length ball will not guarantee a dot in the book. Often bowlers over-compensate and, in attempting to bowl fuller, over-pitch. Half-volleys materialise.
This frequently happened when bowling to De Silva and, indeed, other short batsmen such as the West Indians Alvin Kallicharran and Gus Logie. They were excellent drivers as well as ferocious pullers and cutters. As a bowler you ended up with no length that you could be sure would contain them.
Taylor enjoys this advantage and makes good use of it. His innings was hugely impressive: lively, energetic, well thought-out, the field manipulated and the ball cleanly struck until he succumbed to cramp.
Most importantly it placed different demands on the bowlers who had to realign their timing - as disruptive to them as a bowler delivering from an unusual angle or an exceptional height is to a batsman.
Diversity in a team is invaluable, as England's bowlers trying to contain the sublime artistry of the right-handed Mahela Jayawardene and the ruthless accumulation of Kumar Sangakkara keep discovering. They put on 96, their 45th partnership of more than 50 in one-day internationals. And both men are under 6ft.
The controversial MP looked relaxed during the hearing at a secure courtroom near Schiphol airport.
Mr Wilders is the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) and has often spoken out against Islam and immigration to the Netherlands.
His full trial is due to start on 31 October.
The charges date back to a rally in The Hague in March 2014.
Mr Wilders asked supporters if they wanted more or fewer Moroccans there.
When they chanted "fewer, fewer," Mr Wilders said: "We'll organise that."
Prosecutor Wouter Bos told the court that freedom of speech was of great importance, but it was not an absolute.
Mr Wilders's legal team is demanding an investigation into how its draft opening statement was leaked to a Dutch newspaper.
His lawyer told the judges that the case should be stopped so the investigation into the leak could be completed.
On his way to court, Mr Wilders tweeted: "No one will silence me. No terrorist, no prime minister and no court either."
In 2011, Mr Wilders was acquitted of incitement after being accused of encouraging hatred towards Muslims.
Zofino Muiuane was arrested after Mrs Guebuza was killed at their home in the capital, Maputo, police said.
Mrs Guebuza, 36, is the daughter of Mozambique's ex-President Armando Guebuza, who ruled from 2005 to 2015.
She married Mr Muiuane at a lavish ceremony, attended by regional leaders, in 2014.
While police said the shooting was a case of domestic violence, they also said they were still investigating the motive.
Mr Muiuane, a manager at Mozambique's first mobile phone company M-Cel, has not yet been charged.
The killing has shocked many people and it is rare to hear of domestic violence in wealthy and politically linked families in Mozambique, says the BBC's Jose Tembe in Maputo.
Mrs Guebuza became one of Mozambique's wealthiest businesswomen during her father's presidency, our correspondent adds.
Business magazine Forbes listed her in 2013 as one of the 20 most powerful women in Africa.
She headed a family-owned investment holding company, Focus 21 Management & Development, which has interests in sectors ranging from telecommunications to mining.
Focus 21 has a significant stake in Chinese Pay TV Company StarTimes' operations in Mozambique.
It's probably not every day that a museum will get a couple of drill bits in the post accompanied by a polite request to bore a hole in one of their highly valuable exhibits.
But those holding rhino horn can expect just such a package in the next few months as the National Wildlife Crime Unit roles out its database.
"The illegal trade in endangered species is one of our six wildlife crime priorities and, within that, the number one issue for us is the illegal trade in rhino horn," says unit head Det Insp Nevin Hunter.
In Africa, white rhino numbers are rising.
But despite this, a rapid rise in the incidence of hunting means that, if present trends continue, it won't be long before the population begins to dwindle.
Poachers are driven by the high prices paid in China and Vietnam for rhino horn - strongly, but wrongly, believed to have powerful medicinal properties.
Stealing antique rhino horn kept in the UK can deliver similar profits with much lower risks.
As one curator in East Anglia said to me: "Thieves fleeing from a county museum are unlikely to get shot."
In the past two years, there have been at least 20 criminal incidents involving rhino horn in the UK and it's not just old trophies at risk - live animals in zoos have been targeted.
PC Andy Long, a wildlife crime officer in Essex who advises Colchester Zoo on keeping its rhinos safe, says it is "highly-organised crime at an international level".
"They know how to obtain the horn and they know how to dispose of it - you can't just sell it on eBay," he says.
Some criminals also try to pass off freshly-poached specimens as antique.
The police say precise DNA knowledge will deter thieves, enable officers to secure more convictions and prevent smugglers making bogus claims.
It is part of an emerging effort to use the latest science to push back against smugglers and prevent them cloaking their crimes in the anonymity of their goods.
Ross McEwing, from international forensics service Trace, says: "If we want to make inroads into the illegal trade in endangered species, DNA will certainly be the key tool to do that."
Dr Lucy Webster, who is co-ordinating the government-funded science from a lab outside Edinburgh, usually spends her time investigating DNA at wildlife crime scenes.
But she is now using genetic science as a preventative weapon.
"This is where your DIY skills come in handy," she says.
"We'll be providing museums with a kit with which to take the sample including a 5mm drill bit.
"The shavings of rhino horn contain cellular material that has DNA within it and it's this DNA we will look to isolate to build the individual profiles."
Zoos will be encouraged to gather cheek swabs or blood samples.
The precise technique will be left up to the keepers who know best how to get biological material from their potentially grumpy, two-tonne donor while giving least offence.
At Colchester Zoo, staff stroked Otto the rhino's ear, simultaneously calming the patient, bringing up a vein and slipping in a small syringe.
It didn't appear to interrupt his carrot and apple snack.
Costing the Earth will be shown on Tuesday at 15:30 BST and on Wednesday at 21:00 BST.
Goalkeeper Craig Samson remains out, along with Stephen Pearson, Stephen McManus, Richard Tait, Jacob Blyth, Ross MacLean and Jack McMillan.
Kilmarnock striker Kris Boyd will miss the final two games of the season after undergoing knee surgery.
Scott Boyd and Rory McKenzie remain out but defender Greg Taylor returns after serving a one-match ban.
Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson: "Saturday [1-0 win at Hamilton] was a relief more than delight because we knew how important the game was and it was a scrap and a battle, it wasn't the prettiest game in the world.
"What is was though was three points towards our ultimate goal of staying up and we know that we need to follow that up.
"We just have to focus solely on us and put the same level of commitment in to the game that we did on Saturday and add a little bit of quality to that, which I believe will be different being on our home patch."
Kilmarnock interim manager Lee McCulloch: "It will be a hard game, The formation they play can be 3-6-1 at times so there will not be a lot of room in the middle of the pitch. We will need to pass the ball well.
"With the situation they are in, it will be a great atmosphere under the lights.
"It's my old club so I know the Motherwell fans can get behind their club very well.
"We discussed the atmosphere. We're going to have to deal with it, we're going to need to deal with the pressure they put on us so the quicker we can pass the ball the better."
No inquest has been held into the 2012 murder at her family's request.
Ms Meagher was originally from Drogheda, but moved to Australia from Ireland in 2009 with her husband.
She worked for ABC Radio but went missing during a night out with colleagues.
Her body was discovered six days later buried on the outskirts of Melbourne.
Adrian Bayley, who had a history of violent sex attacks, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum jail term of 35 years for her murder.
On Friday, coroner Ian Gray said Jill Meagher's death had been "preventable".
He pointed to failings by Community Correctional Services (CCS), a division of Corrections Victoria and the Adult Parole Board (APB), a separate body within the Department of Human services.
"A more rigorous, risk-averse approach by CCS and the APB would have led to a cancellation of Bayley's parole," Mr Gray said.
"The approach taken is difficult to understand ... it did not bring dangerous and high risk parolees immediately to account."
Bayley had been on parole for previous rapes when he raped and murdered Ms Meagher as she walked home from Brunswick in the early hours of 22 September 2012.
He was also on bail pending an appeal of a three-month sentence after pleading guilty to attacking a man outside a pub at Geelong in 2011.
At the time of that incident, Bayley had been on parole after serving eight years' jail for 16 counts of rape against five women.
He had already served time for rapes committed from the age of 18.
The coroner noted Victoria's parole system had been amended since Ms Meagher's murder.
Had it been changed when Bayley was charged with the Geelong assault, a representative from Corrections Victoria told the coroner, his parole probably would have been cancelled automatically when he was convicted of that offence.
"The poignant truth of this ... will resonate with Ms Meagher's husband, family and friends," the coroner said.
Matej Vydra's headed the hosts in front during a dominant first-half display.
Having secured promotion last week, the Hornets knew a win would see them claim their maiden Championship title.
But substitute Nuhiu scored from close range, as Watford were made to pay for failing to take their chances, with Bournemouth taking top spot.
Watford started brightly, finding plenty of joy down the right, with Marco Motta and Miguel Layun exposing the Sheffield Wednesday defence.
Captain and attacking talisman Troy Deeney was at the centre of the first moment of controversy, as he latched on to Ben Watson's through ball and went down in the box as he looked to round goalkeeper Chris Kirkland, although the Wednesday man looked to have his hands on the ball.
Watford continued to move forward with ease but the away fans made sure the home crowd knew Bournemouth had taken the lead against Charlton, as they belted out a chorus of "AFC Bournemouth, they're top of the league".
However, the party atmosphere returned to Vicarage Road midway through the first half as Vydra headed in his 16th league goal of the season.
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Ikechi Anya almost made it two goals in two minutes but the winger could only find the side-netting from a tight angle.
Wednesday changed formation in an attempt to stem the attacks from Watford, but it was to no avail and the away side were lucky to go into the break only a goal down.
The Owls, safely situated in mid-table, came out looking to attack more in the second period and Chris Maguire and Tom Lees forced Heurelho Gomes in a couple of good saves.
Watford seemed to lose their attacking edge in the second half and were made to pay for failing to add to their narrow lead, as Nuhiu's equaliser in the 91st minute handed Bournemouth the title.
Watford head coach Slavisa Jokanovic: "We made mistakes during the game but the referee didn't give a penalty, it's a clear penalty and inside the last second of the game Nuhiu was offside 100% - I am sure of that.
"Promotion to the Premier League was our first target. We're disappointed we don't lift silverware, this was our dream, but now we must start thinking about what is in front of us."
Sheffield Wednesday boss Stuart Gray: "It feels like a huge point because at half-time I just could not believe we were only 1-0 down.
"That was probably one of the worst 45 minutes we've had. We were so disappointing.
"We were like a rabbit in the headlights. We gave them far too much respect, we stood off them, our passing was poor and then they created chance after chance."
Summer signing Murray, replacing the injured Callum Wilson, nodded in a Matt Ritchie cross to put the hosts ahead.
Watford were gifted an equaliser when Cherries goalkeeper Artur Boruc passed to Odion Ighalo, who side-footed home.
Bournemouth were awarded a penalty for Etienne Capoue's foul on Adam Smith, but Murray's effort was pushed away by Hornets keeper Heurelho Gomes.
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Although Boruc's error and Murray's miss will frustrate Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe, his side did survive a Ben Watson half-volley hitting the crossbar.
Bournemouth beat Watford to the Championship title by a point last season, but this was the third draw in their past four meetings.
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Murray shouldered the burden of scoring for his side with Wilson ruled out for six months after suffering a knee injury last week.
The £4m signing from Crystal Palace missed a close-range header at the far post from a Ritchie cross before atoning with his opener.
After Ighalo had equalised, Murray - a constant aerial threat throughout - headed just wide from among a crowd of players.
The 32-year-old had no hesitation in taking the 85th-minute penalty, only to see it saved.
Howe said: "No blame attached to Glenn. He was excellent and he was the heartbeat of most of what was good about our team.
"He's a totally different player to Callum Wilson. He brings different strengths and we're going to have to mould ourselves around Glenn as we did with Callum.
"We tweaked things slightly but we were still very effective."
Bournemouth looked like they were heading into half-time with a deserved lead before Boruc's blunder.
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After controlling a Sylvain Distin backpass, Boruc gave the ball away to Ighalo, who shimmied past the Cherries keeper to score his fifth goal of the season.
Hornets keeper Gomes, by contrast, played a key role in earning his side a point.
The Brazilian acrobatically tipped over a superb 18-yard overhead kick from Cherries defender Steve Cook and dived to his left to save Murray's late spot-kick.
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "There's no blame attached to Artur - we encourage our players and our goalkeeper to take responsibility and play from the back.
"It was just unfortunate with the timing of the goal. If Steve Cook's overhead kick had gone in, we'd have been talking about it for years to come, but Gomes has got a hand to it, and then he makes a top-class save for the penalty."
Watford boss Quique Sanchez Flores: "We have given away two penalties in the last two matches. We have to find a balance between defence and attack.
"We had scored only six goals so everyone knows how important Gomes it to us - he is a leader. I thought the overhead kick was a goal, then he saved the penalty."
Bournemouth face a trip to Manchester City on 17 October after the international break, while Watford host Arsenal the same day.
The explosion targeted a building housing judges and prosecutors in Viransehir, in Sanliurfa province, which borders Syria.
Provincial governor Gungor Azim Tuna told the state news agency Anadolu that a child aged three had been killed.
Turkish cities and towns have been hit by several attacks in the past year.
Anadolu quoted Mr Tuna as saying that the bomb, which exploded at 20:45 local time (17:45 GMT), was detonated by remote control, after a man in his late teens or early 20s had left the car.
The child who died in the blast was the son of a court clerk, Mr Tuna said.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag condemned the attack which he said had specifically targeted the judiciary. He said it would not deter judges from doing their job.
The explosion shattered windows in nearby buildings and could be heard or seen throughout the town, witnesses said.
So far no group has said it was behind the blast but Turkey has suffered a number of attacks attributed to Kurdish militants and so-called Islamic State. Hundreds of people have been killed.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which launched an armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984 to push for an independent Kurdish state, has been labelled as a terrorist organisation by Turkey and its allies in the West.
Fighting flared up again after a two-year-old ceasefire ended in July 2015.
In August last year, a police officer in Viransehir, a mainly Kurdish and Arab town, died in an explosion also said to have been triggered by remote control.
And in May last year, police in the town shot dead four men who officials suspected were members of the PKK.
The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said that they had been planning to bomb a government building.
Four teams each from Ireland and Wales plus two each from Scotland and Italy make up the current format.
The possibility of the Six Nations moving to a spring start has encouraged hopes of Pro12 expansion.
"We've had really early discussions, with USA Rugby, broadcasters, sponsors," said Pro12 managing director Martin Anayi.
He wants the annual tournament involving England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Wales and Italy moved in the calendar and expects international governing body World Rugby to help that happen.
Speaking at the launch of the 2016-17 Pro12 season in Dublin, Anayi underlined the desire for north American teams to be included, with Houston and Vancouver having been earmarked as possible host cities.
He said: "Everyone's saying the same things, that if it's good for the tournament across a whole range of areas, player welfare, if it's good commercially, for the fans, and does it form part of their strategic plan too, then we should explore how far we can take it.
"They believe in the same things we do, which is the only way for a tier-two nation to become a tier-one nation is through professional club rugby.
"Because there is no scope to expand the international calendar, for the USA to play more games."
However, Anayi accepts that a long-talked-about global season has to be implemented for any Pro12 revamp to take place.
"You've got to talk about why it is that we're losing a huge proportion of international players not week in and week out, but in big chunks of the season," said Anayi.
"Intersperse that with European club rugby as well and you get quite a disjointed season.
"We think there's a simple solution, which is to push the Six Nations back and finish the club season before the Six Nations.
"We'll be really, really sure about our future and how successful club rugby can be globally if we can just get to the point where we get our international players playing in a consistent fashion."
Harrison struck twice in the opening half, the second from the penalty spot, to improve his tally to five goals in five games.
Barrow have been unbeaten during the 29-year-old striker's rich run of form - taking 11 points from a possible 15 - and are now on the brink of the play-off places.
Richie Bennett and Liam Hughes added their names to the scoresheet before second-from-bottom Southport got a late consolation through James Caton.
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Match ends, Southport 1, Barrow 4.
Second Half ends, Southport 1, Barrow 4.
Goal! Southport 1, Barrow 4. James Caton (Southport).
Substitution, Barrow. Lindon Meikle replaces Richard Bennett.
Substitution, Barrow. Paul Turnbull replaces Alex-Ray Harvey.
Substitution, Barrow. Ross Hannah replaces Byron Harrison.
Substitution, Southport. James Gray replaces Ashley Grimes.
Goal! Southport 0, Barrow 4. Liam Hughes (Barrow).
Goal! Southport 0, Barrow 3. Richard Bennett (Barrow).
Substitution, Southport. Andrai Jones replaces Mark O'Brien.
Second Half begins Southport 0, Barrow 2.
First Half ends, Southport 0, Barrow 2.
Alex-Ray Harvey (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Southport 0, Barrow 2. Byron Harrison (Barrow) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Southport. Ashley Grimes replaces Gary Jones.
John Cofie (Southport) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Southport 0, Barrow 1. Byron Harrison (Barrow).
Tyrell Belford (Southport) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Dr Sarandev Bhambra, 25, was attacked with a machete by Zack Davies at a Tesco in Mold, Flintshire, in January.
Neo-Nazi Davies, 26, from Mold, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years for attempted murder.
Dr Bhambra questioned whether the "barbaric incident" could have been prevented and called Davies a coward.
"He attacked me from behind and tried to behead me," dentist Dr Bhambra said outside court.
"By the grace of God I remained conscious and was able to defend myself.
"It is abhorrent that he has claimed that he tried to kill me in Lee Rigby's honour. My thoughts and prayers go out to Lee Rigby and his family."
Dr Bhambra, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, added: "While Zack Davies has been convicted and sentenced for attempting to kill me, I am convinced the background behind the incident has not been explored fully.
"Was I targeted? Mold is a small market town. Davies may have been aware of my movements.
"By his own admission Davies was a man that harboured a real hatred for non-whites. He had a history of violence and always carried a knife.
"He was, by his own admission, known to the police. Could this attack have been prevented?"
The trial heard items associated with white supremacy and Nazism were found at Davies's home, including banners, swastika badges and stickers for the extreme rightwing racist group, Combat 18.
During the attack, he was heard to say "white power", leading Dr Bhambra to also question why Davies was not considered a "terrorist" given his political ideals.
After the guilty verdict was delivered in June, Dr Bhambra's brother, Dr Tarlochan Singh Bhambra, said he was "in no doubt" the case would have been reported as an "act of terror" had the "racial disposition of this case been reversed".
The victim also said he would be meeting Peter Fuller, who is being honoured for coming to his defence during the attack.
Since the attack, Dr Bhambra has undergone intense physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
"Incidents of this nature are avoidable and have no place in our multicultural society," he added.
"There are no winners here and true justice is never served. I am moving on with my life both emotionally and professionally in an attempt to catch up on time that has been robbed from me.
"I will never understand racial hatred. What possesses a man to have so much distain for another person? I would not wish this experience on anyone and I will endeavour to gain positively from this totally negative ordeal."
North Wales Police Det Ch Insp Alun Oldfield defended the force's actions, insisting that racist and extremist incidents are taken "very seriously".
He said: "Having consulted with a number of agencies, including the Crown Prosecution Service, a joint decision was made to charge Davies with racially aggravated attempted murder.
"Although Davies was known to the police before this incident, there was nothing to suggest he posed an immediate risk to the public."
The tiny pad, featuring "scientific scholarly notes" written during the Bard's lifetime, left manuscripts specialist Matthew Haley "trembling".
The notebook is believed to have come from the collection of 18th Century antiquarian John Loveday of Caversham.
It will be shown on Sunday's episode.
The book was found by the five times great grandson of Loveday among his mother's belongings.
Mr Haley said it included detailed notes in Latin and suggested the jottings could have been the work of a student analysing the playwright's work.
"There is so much research that can be done on this item," said Mr Haley, who appraised the item at Caversham Park in Berkshire.
"It's amazing, it's almost completely illegible, but you can pick out the odd word, and you can pick out phrases that appear in Shakespeare."
He said it was "one of the best things" he had seen on the programme "by a fairly good stretch".
"I was completely knocked for six," he added.
The estimated value of the notebook will be revealed on Sunday's show, which will be broadcast at 20:00 on BBC One.
People living nearby were woken up by the woman screaming then saw the car reversing and "speeding off".
The cyclist said her "lucky rucksack" cushioned her head as she fell, and she has now come out of hospital.
Leicestershire Police are trying to trace the driver involved in the crash, which happened in Upperton Road in Leicester at 04:16 BST on Wednesday.
It happened at the same junction where a car being followed by police collided with a tipper truck, killing two men in the car.
The tipper truck then crashed into the front of Snutch News, which captured CCTV of the latest collision.
Owner Rama Varambhia said: "We were asleep and we just heard the noise of screaming.
"We looked through the window and could see this car reversing out and then speeding off in the other direction."
Mrs Varambhia and her husband were worried other drivers would not see the woman in the dark.
They saw another car coming and started shouting at it to stop.
Fortunately, the second car did stop and the driver got out to help.
"It's a good job she was screaming and we spotted it and ran down," said Mrs Varambhia.
"It's appalling that they [the first driver] didn't stop to check she was OK."
The cyclist has since returned to the shop to thank them.
"She was so lucky because her head fell on her rucksack," said Mrs Varambhia.
"She calls it her 'lucky rucksack'."
Mrs Varambhia's husband is a civil engineer and said some sort of traffic calming measure is needed at the junction.
Subhash Varambhia suggested changing the sequence of the traffic lights or having a yellow box junction.
Leicester City Council has been asked to comment.
Yellow "be aware" warnings are also in place for snow in southern and central Scotland and ice in the north east.
The amber warnings cover the Borders, Midlothian and East Lothian and the Shetland Islands.
About three to six centimetres (one to two inches) of snow was widely expected with 10cm (4in) possible on higher ground.
The warnings are valid overnight from Wednesday into Thursday.
Heavy snow started to fall across central Scotland early on Wednesday evening.
Bridge of Allan and Stirling were among the first places to be affected.
Scottish Borders Council has opened its emergency planning centre which was expected to remain operational until at least 10:00 on Thursday.
Ch Insp Andy McLean said: "We are urging members of the public not to travel unless their journey is absolutely necessary from 6pm tonight until 9am tomorrow.
"If we get the levels of snow forecast then travel across the region will become extremely difficult, and high volumes of traffic will cause issues with snow clearance, as was the case in the Hawick area last Friday when we had sudden, heavy snowfall.
"If any motorists become stranded we would advise them to contact Police Scotland on 101 and wait for assistance. Drivers should not abandon their cars, as this leads to further problems."
Gritters have been pre-salting primary routes and will be running throughout the night.
Additional resources have also been put in place on a number of key routes by Transport Scotland, including the A68 at Soutra and Carter Bar and on the A7.
As a result of the snowfall forecast, and the likely levels in the morning, the council has taken the decision to cancel all school transport on Thursday morning.
A decision on school closures was expected by 06:00 on Thursday.
Jim Fraser, SBC's emergency planning officer, said: "We are urging members of the public to stay off the roads tonight if at all possible and keep up to date with the latest situation via local radio and the council's website and social media channels.
"All necessary winter maintenance has been carried out this afternoon on primary routes and our gritters will be out throughout this evening in an attempt to keep key routes open for emergency travel."
The incident happened in the St David's area of Old Colwyn, Conwy county, at about 09:30 BST on Wednesday.
North Wales Police said a man, 29, has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and assault.
Insp Kelly Isaacs said: "I would like to reassure the local community that we are not looking for anyone else in relation to this incident."
The claim: The government's figures on business rates are misleading because they exclude inflation and an appeals adjustment.
Reality Check verdict: The figures do exclude both those things, but government publications specify that they do. The government's figures are for the situation after any appeals have been completed, so they depend on how accurately it has predicted their outcome.
The overall effect of all the changes comes to zero, which means that the policy is revenue neutral.
But there is a key caveat at the bottom of the table, which is that the figures are: "Before inflation and the adjustment to the multiplier for future appeal outcomes."
The inflation part is widely known. The measure of inflation used will become CPI (Consumer Price Index) instead of RPI (Retail Price Index), which will usually mean the increase is smaller, but that change will not happen until 2020. Increasing rates for RPI will add about 2% per year.
But the other part is a bit more complicated - it is the adjustment required to make sure that the changes in rates are revenue neutral even after some businesses have appealed against the rated value of their premises and won.
Analysis from the property consultants Gerald Eve suggested that the adjustment would be between four and five percentage points. They did that by working out how much business rates would change across the country to find out what adjustment would then be needed to make the policy revenue neutral again.
They add that including both the inflation and the appeals adjustment means that business rates will fall in 135 of the 326 local authorities in England, not 259 as the government claimed.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has strongly disputed suggestions that it has misled people with its figures, but has not disputed the suggestion that the appeals adjustment is between four and five percentage points.
Speaking on the Today Programme, Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen said he thought the figures provided, "might not be giving the picture that businesses in the real world are going to get when they get their bills".
This is certainly true. The DCLG has been clear that its figures are before inflation and the appeals adjustment.
The government's figures are for the situation after any appeals have been completed, so they depend on how accurately it has predicted their outcome.
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He said it showed "a lack of understanding" of English.
He made his remark after Labour's Baroness Jones of Whitchurch used the expression in the House of Lords to describe "empty vegetable shelves".
The government offered reassurance that, among lettuces, only the iceberg variety was in short supply.
Retailers have blamed poor weather in Spain and Italy for limiting stocks of some vegetables, including courgettes and spinach.
In the House of Lords, Baroness Jones said of environment minister Lord Gardiner of Kimble: "He will have seen the news reports of vegetable shelves in supermarkets, with the crisis expected to last until the spring.
"And, meanwhile, prices have trebled in part because it costs more to fly vegetables from the USA and Egypt than it does to bring them overland from Spain."
In his critique of Baroness Jones's comments, Lord Tebbit, a former chairman of the Conservative Party, narrowed his focus to a particular vegetable.
He asked peers: "Might any rational man or woman think that to describe a shortage of lettuces in a supermarket as a 'crisis' shows a lack of understanding of the meaning of the word in the English language?"
In response, Lord Gardiner said: "I was seeking to be courteous to the baroness, but it's certainly not a crisis. The only shortage will be of iceberg lettuces, which we think will be for about a few months - and there's a wonderful variety called cos, which is even better."
He added: "I was pleased only this morning to hear that cauliflowers from Cornwall are coming on to the market, so we have a great opportunity to buy some British vegetables."
During the winter, Spain's south-eastern Murcia region supplies 80% of Europe's fresh produce. But after suffering its heaviest rainfall in 30 years, only 30% of its growing fields were deemed useable.
This has coincided with a cold snap in Italy, which normally exports vegetables but instead had to start importing them.
Lord Gardiner said his officials had spoken to workers at London's New Covent Garden, the UK's largest wholesale fruit, vegetable, and flower market, who had reported an "improving" supply situation.
Mr Smith, who becomes shadow Northern Ireland secretary, is the only senior figure who quit the frontbench in 2016 to return following Labour's better-than-expected election result.
John McDonnell, Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry all keep their current jobs.
And campaign managers Andrew Gwynne and Ian Lavery are rewarded with new roles.
Mr Lavery will now chair the Labour Party while Mr Gwynne has been named shadow communities secretary. Both remain as co-national campaign co-ordinators in anticipation of what Labour believes could be another general election within months.
In other moves, the newly elected MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, Lesley Laird, becomes shadow Scottish secretary.
There had been speculation that the likes of Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn might return to the shadow cabinet but they are likely to focus on securing re-election as chairs of the influential home affairs and Brexit select committees respectively.
Mr Corbyn said on Tuesday that his party should be in "permanent campaign mode" in light of Theresa May's attempts to form a minority government with the backing of the Democratic Unionists.
"I look forward to working with the strengthened shadow cabinet as we prepare a government in waiting to carry out our manifesto for the many not the few," Mr Corbyn said.
"I am therefore appointing Ian Lavery to the additional role of Labour Party chair to strengthen our campaigning and party organisation."
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Russia is planning to drill for gas and oil in the Arctic Ocean.
The Russian government says the country's future wealth depends on finding oil in the Arctic.
But scientists say the region is home to walruses and polar bears, which could be put at risk.
The team say there are signs that drilling could disrupt the natural habitat of the creatures.
They are hoping their research will help them campaign for special laws to be put in place to protect the land and the animals there.
The 24-year-old, who joined from Liverpool for £3m last month, played 38 games for the Rams back in 2013-14.
"I always want to strive forward whether it's on loan or if I am there permanently, I always have goals every season," Wisdom told BBC Radio Derby.
"It is great here at Derby, I want to improve and progress as a player."
The defender is one of two new signings for manager Gary Rowett, with Curtis Davies joining from Hull City for an undisclosed fee.
Wisdom played for the Rams on Tuesday in their 4-0 pre-season win over Kidderminster - his first game for the club since being part of the starting XI which lost the 2014 Championship play-off final to QPR at Wembley.
"Everyone knows that I love Derby. It is good to be back. I had a great time when I was here before and it is great to see all the lads again," Wisdom continued.
"Then there's all the guys that I didn't know and it feels like I have been here for ages. It's a good feeling.
"When I was here last time we had a great run and it was a great season for us.
"I am sure hard work, determination, the right results and a bit of luck here and there, hopefully we can do the same.
"You know what football is like, it's up and down. Hopefully we can concentrate on pre-season and take that into the season."
The 34-year-old died in hospital after he was electrocuted on the outdoor pitch at Mountbatten Leisure Centre in Portsmouth on Sunday evening.
Hampshire Constabulary said investigations into the circumstances of his death are continuing.
The centre is managed by Parkwood Community Leisure on behalf of Portsmouth City Council.
The taxi firm which Mr Xhediku worked for paid tribute to him on Facebook.
The company posted: "Our deepest sympathies and thoughts are with the family and friends of Albert Xhediku, taken away in such tragic circumstances. R I P Albert - you will be missed."
Manager Glenn Madden said Mr Xhediku "was a good lad... You wouldn't wish this on anyone".
He said Mr Xhediku had worked with the company since October and had recently returned from visiting family in the Balkans.
A diesel scrappage scheme would be part of a new strategy to improve air quality after Europe said UK proposals did not go far enough.
The reports said ministers may opt for a scheme that pays drivers up to £2,000 towards a new, cleaner car.
However, it is likely to be restricted to certain drivers to minimise costs.
Options could include limiting payments to owners living in the areas suffering the worst pollution, or those on low incomes.
The scheme is expected to be announced in the coming days.
Diesel cars emit nitrogen oxides linked to lung conditions such as asthma, with older models said to be particularly polluting.
The UK had almost 12,000 premature deaths linked to nitrogen dioxide in 2013, according to the European Environment Agency. That was the second-highest total in Europe after Italy.
There are about 11.2 million diesel cars on UK roads, 17% of which are more than 12 years old.
Neil Parish, chair of the Commons environment committee, supports the scrappage plan and will use a parliamentary debate on Wednesday to raise the proposal.
He is expected to tell MPs that government funding of £500m would take nearly 10% of the five million dirtiest diesels off the road.
This would target as many as half of the most polluting diesel vehicles in UK air quality hotspots, Mr Parish will say.
Last year, the government was told to strengthen its plans to tackle pollution after a judicial review found its existing proposals to be "woefully inadequate".
It is also said to be considering new taxes on dirty vehicles, although Theresa May has said she did not want punish drivers who have been encouraged to buy diesel cars by previous governments.
Under the new scrappage plan, half of the payments could come from the government with the rest coming from car manufacturers.
A previous scheme in 2009/10 offered drivers cash payments of £1,000 to trade in their aging cars.
This was topped up by matching payments from the car industry and took almost 400,000 of the most polluting vehicles off UK roads.
Protesters have gathered in Tunis and other cities across the country calling for the government to resign.
Tunisia's largest trade union has called for a general strike on Friday and Tunisair has cancelled all flights to and from Tunisia for that day.
Mr Brahmi, 58, led the nationalist Movement of the People party.
Prime Minister Ali Larayedh condemned his assassination, but said: "We are against all calls to dissolve the government to create a [power] vacuum."
In February, the killing of prominent secular politician Chokri Belaid sparked mass protests and forced Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali to resign.
An uprising in Tunisia in late 2010 kick-started a series of revolutions that spread through the Middle East and became known as the Arab Spring.
But there has been deep division between Islamists and secular opponents since the revolution, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports.
Many Tunisians, particularly the young, complain that their quest for secular democracy has been hijacked by intolerant Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood which forms part of the current government, our correspondent says.
Gunmen on a motorbike shot Mr Brahmi in his car in front of his wife and daughter on Thursday morning, Movement of the People party officials said.
Local media reported the assailants fired 11 bullets at the politician. It is not known yet who was behind the attack.
The family of Mr Brahmi has accused the governing Islamist Ennahda party of being behind the killing.
The party has not responded to the claim, but released a statement expressing "sadness and shock" at the "cowardly and despicable crime".
Mr Brahmi's wife, Mbarka, and her daughter Belkis were joined by angry Tunisians outside the hospital in Tunis where the politician died.
Large crowds also gathered in front of the Ministry of Interior in the capital in protest at the killing.
Meanwhile, reports are emerging of police firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators who allegedly stormed a local government office in the southern city of Sfax.
And demonstrators are said to have attacked Ennahda's headquarters in Sidi Bouzid, Mr Brahmi's hometown and the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
"People have blocked roads and set tyres alight," a local resident told the Reuters news agency.
Tunisia's prime minister said Mr Brahmi's murder was aimed at taking advantage of the upheaval in Egypt, where President Mohammed Morsi was recently ousted after mass protests against him and his ruling Muslim Brotherhood.
"This is aimed at pushing us into the unknown, whether it is chaos, fighting, civil war, or the return of tyranny," Mr Larayedh said in a televised address on Thursday evening.
The killing came as Tunisia celebrated the 56th anniversary of becoming a republic after gaining independence from France.
Human rights organisation Amnesty International said the killing was a "blow to the rule of law in Tunisia", which was experiencing a "worrying tide of political violence".
Mr Brahmi founded the Movement of the People party after the 2011 revolution.
He was also a member of the National Constituent Assembly, which is drafting a new constitution.
The assembly announced Friday would be a day of mourning.
Mr Brahmi was not as big a political figure as Mr Belaid, but he too was a leftist critical of Ennahda.
Ennahda came to power following the overthrow of long-term ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
The party has faced growing popular unrest over a faltering economy and a rising extremist Islamist movement.
After Mr Belaid's assassination in February, many Tunisians accused Ennahda of not doing enough to stamp out a rise in Islamist violence, with some critics saying the party was actively fomenting it, correspondents say.
The party denied the accusations.
A walker said he saw around 40 hounds chasing after a greyhound type dog at Gunwalloe Beach, Cornwall.
The owner of the dog was bitten several times when he intervened, the eyewitness said.
A spokesperson for the Cury Hunt said a representative had visited the dog owner the next day, adding: "We very much regret the incident."
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Julian Parrott said the elderly owner "bravely grabbed the dog" who had got "five or 10 metres ahead of the pack".
"The dog was bitten on its back a few times, and the owner was bitten several times. He had his blood all over him and his wife."
Judy Glover, also on the beach, said: "I don't think they should take the hounds on the beach when there are people with dogs and children."
The National Trust said the hunt was "licensed to enter our land for the purposes of trail hunting and exercising hounds over a restricted area and on restricted days".
A Cury Hunt spokesman said: "Some of the riders went down to the beach to wash their horses off in the sea. Unfortunately, while paddling with the horses, one horse spooked, careered through the others and kicked a hound.
"This hound then ran across the beach with some of the others across the path of a dog. An altercation then took place.
"The couple involved were spoken with at the time and were visited by a hunt representative the next day. The dog was checked and cleared as fit and well by their vet. We very much regret the incident."
In Cuba it seems there will forever be two histories of Fidel Castro.
One is the revolutionary who succeeded and became the guiding star for all who saw the world through the lens of Marxist Leninism.
The other is the brutal dictator who suppressed democracy and kept his country poor.
There is one place where Castro undoubtedly made a difference: Angola.
In 1975 a military coup in Portugal overthrew the dictatorship of Antonio d'Oliveira Salazar.
The country was tired of fighting wars in its colonies in Africa, long after the UK and France had pulled out of their African empires.
Angola's three liberation movements had been fighting the Portuguese but they were at odds with each other and soon civil war broke out.
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), backed by the Soviet Union, was largely coastal and urban.
Of the other two, Jonas Savimbi's Unita was supported by apartheid South Africa and Western countries, and the FNLA, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola, was backed by Angola's northern neighbour Congo.
The Vietnam war was just drawing to an end but here, on the West Coast of Africa, a new war began which threatened to become a proxy war for the communist and capitalist superpowers.
The Americans, whose long and bloody war in Vietnam had scarred the country's conscience, were not ready for another intervention.
From a distance they backed the FNLA and then worked with the South Africans to support Unita.
The Russians and Fidel Castro in Cuba supported the MPLA. But while the big players sought a power-sharing agreement, Castro decided to act.
The Russians sent about 1,000 advisers, money and prayers but no combat troops. East Germany also sent military assistance.
But for Castro this was not just an adventure or purely ideological. Many Cubans are of African origin and come from the Angolan coast.
Castro saw an opportunity to exert his brand of international solidarity and make a difference on a global scale.
He sent 3,000 combat troops and 300 military advisers, as well as tanks and fighter aircraft.
The battleground was Cuito Cuanavale, a small town in the south on the river Lomba and the gateway to south-eastern Angola where South Africa was training, supplying and directing Unita forces.
The first attacks were in 1983 and a full-scale battle took place in 1986 - the biggest battle in Africa since El Alamein in Egypt in 1942.
The largely white South African army took heavy casualties but held the town and stopped the Angolan offensive, preventing it from advancing south and capturing Savimbi's headquarters at Jamba.
There was a stalemate but it was not a situation that South Africa could maintain for long, even though it also controlled neighbouring Namibia at the time.
Shortly afterwards Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union and began to make overtures to the US.
I was in Washington at that time and managed to get a briefing on Angola at the Pentagon. I was shown a satellite photograph that showed Cuban and East German airforce bases in southern Angola, some south of Cuito Cuanavale.
I asked if the South Africans had seen them yet.
"They will find out soon enough," came the reply.
At that extraordinary moment I realised that the world had changed.
The Americans had decided that since the Soviet Union was no longer the big threat in the region, the real enemy of peace in southern Africa was the racism of South Africa.
The man whose decision to go to war in Angola had triggered this moment was Fidel Castro.
Southampton's Jack Stephens, 22, and Bournemouth's Baily Cargill, 20, have signed until the end of the season.
Coventry have also extended 34-year-old ex-Republic of Ireland international winger Stephen Hunt's short-term deal until the end of the season.
And they will still have use of teenage midfielder James Maddison, on loan, after selling him to Norwich City.
"I've made no secret of my desire to bolster our defensive options," said City boss Tony Mowbray, whose Sky Blues side have slipped to fifth in League One after picking up just one point out of a possible 12 from their last four games.
Stephens will undertake his second loan of the season after spending the first half of the campaign on loan at City boss Mowbray's old club, Championship side Middlesbrough.
The former England Under-21 international made his league debut as a 16-year-old with home-town club Plymouth Argyle before signing for Southampton for £150,000 in April 2011.
He spent last season on loan at Swindon Town, helping them to reach the League One play-offs, playing alongside City skipper Sam Ricketts.
Left-sided Cargill began his youth career at Leicester City, then Southampton before signing his first professional contract with Bournemouth in 2012.
All his 10 appearances for the Cherries have come in cup games, but he did make his Football League debut with Torquay United two seasons ago, following a three-month loan in the non-league top flight with Welling United.
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The then-prime minister only saw it was likely after getting "raw intelligence" two days before the Argentines landed.
Papers released under the 30-year rule show Mrs Thatcher was acutely worried about retaking the islands.
One historian said the documents were among the "most powerful material" declassified in the last three decades.
In October 1982, a few months after the war ended, Mrs Thatcher gave evidence behind closed doors to the Falkland Islands Review Committee, chaired by Lord Franks.
The transcript of that dramatic testimony has now been published for the first time.
"I never, never expected the Argentines to invade the Falklands head-on. It was such a stupid thing to do, as events happened, such a stupid thing even to contemplate doing", Mrs Thatcher told the Franks Committee.
There had been some British contingency planning in the month before the Argentine invasion of the Falklands.
On 26 March 1982, Ministry of Defence officials came back to Mrs Thatcher with a plan to deter a full-scale invasion.
255 British servicemen and three Falklands civilians died during the conflict. The number of Argentine dead is estimated at about 650
The Falklands War: Timeline
One sentence shocked her, and she wrote it in her diary: "Moreover, if faced with Argentine occupation on arrival there would be no certainty that such a force would be able to retake the dependency."
She told the committee: "You can imagine that turned a knife in my heart, that lot."
However, in her oral evidence, she said she had still considered an invasion unlikely: "I again stress, I thought that they would be so absurd and ridiculous to invade the Falklands that I did not think it would happen.
"Nevertheless, one has always to make contingency plans, and soon after we got the South Georgia incident happening."
The picture changed on 31 March 1982 when Mrs Thatcher was shown intelligence suggesting that an invasion was on the cards: "I just say it was the worst I think moment of my life."
She also told the committee: "That night no-one could tell me whether we could retake the Falklands - no-one. We did not know - we did not know."
The British foreign secretary at the time, Lord Carrington, also gave evidence to the Franks Committee, where he too held the view that Argentina was not going to invade the Falklands.
"I have been accused, and was accused violently after 2 April in the House of Commons, and in the press and elsewhere - of wilfully ignoring signs and statements and evidence, and just ignoring it. I can truthfully say I did not do any of these things… they (the signs of an invasion) were not there," Lord Carrington said.
On 5 April, Lord Carrington resigned as foreign secretary, which prompted this reaction from Mrs Thatcher: "I had tremendous confidence in Peter Carrington, and his loss seemed to me a devastating blow for Britain and I would back him up all the way."
The political historian Lord Hennessy said Mrs Thatcher's evidence about the Falklands War was some of the most powerful material to be declassified by the National Archives in the last three decades.
"It's only three months after the end of the war, so it's immensely vivid. It's still coursing through her veins.
"She also has this great power of expression - she's a primary colours politician."
Argentina's invasion of the Falklands may have come as a surprise to Mrs Thatcher and her ministers, but the government papers do reveal some interesting pointers.
As early as 1977 there was a British intelligence assessment that Argentine military action was possible if talks over the Islands went badly.
At the end of that year, the British government decided to send a submarine and two frigates to the South Atlantic.
However, the ships' movements were kept secret.
Indeed, there was no conspicuous British naval presence in the South Atlantic in the five years that preceded the war. This may be why Argentina thought Britain would not launch an attack to retake the Falklands in April 1982.
Also, Britain's ambassador in Buenos Aires in 1982, Anthony Williams, felt some of his warnings sent to London were simply ignored.
"Argentina is not just another 'banana republic' - a tin pot country led by a tinpot dictator," he wrote in his valedictory despatch in June 1982.
"Argentina has its share of vandals, hooligans and roughs. But this is not the whole story, nor was the seizure of the islands a simple act of brigandage."
Lord Armstrong was Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet secretary at the time. He told the BBC: "If we had failed to recover the Falklands she would have had to go.
"If we had lost it she couldn't have won the next election. Her own political career, and that of her party, were on the line.
"During those weeks, she lived more fully and more completely than at any time in the rest of her time as prime minister."
Argentine forces landed on the islands in 2 April 1982 and the recapture by a British task force was completed on 14 June.
Argentina says it inherited ownership of the islands - which it calls Las Malvinas - from Spain, arguing that British colonists occupied the islands by force in 1833 and expelled settlers - thus violating Argentina's territorial integrity. It also bases its claim on the islands' proximity to the South American mainland.
Some 255 British servicemen and three Falklands civilians died during the conflict. The number of Argentine dead is estimated at about 650
All document images courtesy of the National Archives
Zookeepers have been adding different colours of the sparkly stuff, including purple, red and gold to food given to the polar bears.
It doesn't harm the animals, but it allows researchers to identify which sample came from which furry friend.
Tests have been performed on the droppings for two years to track levels of stress in the bears as they adjust to life at the zoo.
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The airport's comments came as it unveiled its draft masterplan, which lays out development plans until 2040.
Airport owners BAA had expected to reach 13 million passengers per year by 2013, but does not now expect to reach that number before 2020.
However, BAA said new aircraft hangars and stands would soon be required.
In the shorter term, the masterplan forecasts passenger numbers will grow from nine million to 12.3 million per year until 2020, with aircraft movements increasing from 116,200 to 141,300.
New aircraft hangars and stands will be built to meet that demand, while transport facilities at the airport and to the site will be improved.
The airport said the projected developments would be largely within existing boundaries.
BAA has just completed a £40m expansion and upgrade of the airport, which is sufficient for up to 13 million passengers per year.
The masterplan estimates passenger numbers could increase to 20.5 million per year by 2040, with more than half travelling to and from international destinations. According to projections, aircraft movements could also increase to 200,600 per year.
Kevin Brown, managing director of Edinburgh Airport, said the airport would be consulting as widely as possible on its masterplan over the next few months.
He added: "Ours is a sustainable and responsible plan, grounded in the reality of our post-recession economy and keen to capitalise on the opportunities that will arise when our economy begins to grow again.
"It is important for us therefore to test our plans and provide clarity, certainty and understanding to local communities, local authorities and wider business and tourism interests whose futures depend very much on a strong, successful and well-connected airport."
A 14-week public consultation exercise on the draft plans has been launched, after which a final masterplan will be drawn up.
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At its height, eight fire engines, two aerial appliances and two water bowsers tackled the blaze at M&P Motorcycles in Gorseinon.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service left the scene at 2200 BST Sunday after being called out just before midnight on Saturday.
Two officers are visiting the scene on Monday to begin their investigation.
Alan Davies, a witness who lives nearby, said three-quarters of the building was already well alight shortly after midnight.
Steve Bryant, the fire officer in charge, said it developed very quickly and crews worked hard to safely bring it under control and protect nearby properties.
"We have spent all night dealing with this incident and the investigation into the cause of the fire will commence later today," he said.
Mr Davies said: "I came home at about 12.15 (on Sunday morning) and I could see the blaze.
"By the time I got there three-quarters of the building was well alight - all except for the office block.
"The office block was the last thing to go.
"They were trying to prevent the fire from going to the furniture place next door, and managed to."
The fire is only a couple of miles from the serious tyre blaze in the old Mettoys factory in Fforestfach, which has been going since 16 June and is not expected to be put out until next month.
That earlier fire produced a lot of smoke, and Mr Davies said the latest one had also done so.
M&P's website describes itself as "Europe's largest motorcycle parts and accessories company".
Mr Davies said the building was normally "like a pilgrimage" for motorcyclists, and some were turning up on Sunday morning, unaware of the fire.
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The Perth-based firm expects to remain within the target range for payouts to shareholders, but at the lower end.
It foresees a complex set of issues reducing profits from its networks division by £100m during 2017-18.
These include lowered income from electricity transmission charges, and less income having sold a stake in its gas distribution network.
The company also pointed to the effect of "under-recovery" of income booked from previous years.
The SSE share price fell 2% in early trading following the market update.
The company, which retails as Scottish Hydro, Southern Electric and Swalec, set out plans for investment next year which are in line with the current year, at £1.7bn.
It had previously said it was reviewing the future of its gas-fired power station in Peterhead.
A fifth of that capital spending will be on renewable energy, with earnings from new wind turbines helping to generate earnings by the end of this decade.
The current year's financial results are likely to be affected by a "disappointing" year for hydro and wind power, due to weather conditions.
But SSE has told investors it has offset that financially, partly through output from conventional thermal power stations.
Profits on its retail operations for the past year, to 31 March, are likely to be below the 2015-16 figure.
SSE recently announced it will be putting up the standard electricity tariff for British customers by 15% from 28 April, and gas prices by 8% in Northern Ireland.
Gregor Alexander, the SSE finance director, said: "We can expect additional challenges in the new financial year, but we are committed to delivering annual dividend growth that at least keeps pace with inflation, and to working towards ensuring that dividend cover remains within the expected range, albeit towards the bottom of it."
16 December 2015 Last updated at 07:42 GMT
The former army pilot blasted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz rocket on Tuesday morning.
After a delay opening the hatch, Major Tim was able to speak to his wife, Rebecca, and his mum and dad back in Baikonur.
"Everybody sends their love and I hope you have a wonderful time," said his mother, Angela.
"Thanks very much - and love to everybody back home."
The storage facility, deep inside a mountain, is designed to preserve the world's crops from future disasters.
Unseasonably high temperatures last year caused the permafrost to melt, sending water into the access tunnel.
No seeds were damaged but the facility is to have new waterproof walls in the tunnel and drainage ditches outside.
The vault stores seeds from 5,000 crop species from around the world. Dried and frozen, it is believed they can be preserved for hundreds of years.
Although most countries keep their own supplies of key varieties, the Global Seed Vault acts as a back-up.
If a nation's seeds are lost as a result of a natural disaster or a man-made catastrophe, the specimens stored in the Arctic could be used to regenerate them.
Scientists at the facility describe the vault as the most important room in the world.
Government spokeswoman Hege Njaa Aschim told the BBC that the reason the vault was built on Svalbard was because the permafrost was thought to be permanent.
She said the problems emerged last October when the temperatures, instead of being -10C or colder, were hovering around 0C.
"It was like a wet summer in Norway," she told the BBC.
"Inside the mountain it's safe but the problems we have experienced are just outside and in the front of the tunnel, which is the entrance. So Yes, maybe something has changed in the permafrost, but we don't know, and that is what the climate researchers are looking into. We have to follow them carefully."
The new measures announced include drainage ditches on the mountainside to stop water from accumulating around the access tunnel.
Waterproof walls inside the tunnel itself will provide extra protection for the vaults.
In addition, Statsbygg, the agency that administers the vault, is to carry out a research and development project to monitor the permafrost on Svalbard.
The Welsh Premier League side led at half-time thanks to Wayne Riley's goal.
But after the break Damir Sovsic fired the visitors level, before goals from Mirko Maric and Marko Kolar made it 3-1.
Broughton goalkeeper James Coates saved Sovsic's penalty late on.
This is Airbus' third attempt at progressing beyond the first qualifying round.
Andy Preece's side lost on away goals to Latvian side FK Ventspils in 2013 and were beaten 3-2 on aggregate to Haugesund of Norway last season.
He told BBC Radio Wales he was "proud" of his players.
"We were playing a top team from the Croatian Premier League. I'm really proud," he said.
But the former Bury manager was unhappy at the way his side conceded the equaliser following a counter attack by the Croatians.
He wondered what might have been had Zagreb not scored from that move.
"It was just a lack of discipline. If we'd done our jobs they wouldn't have scored that first goal and from there who knows what might have happened?" pondered Preece.
"Because they [Zagreb] would have had a decision to make if 1-0 was good enough or if they thought they needed to go for an away goal."
The return leg will be played in Croatia on Thursday 9 July.
Mitchell Schibeci, dubbed "watermelon boy", said he devised the stunt to get his face on the game's big screen.
Commentators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) were shocked to see him chomping into the fruit, skin and all, at Saturday's game.
The hashtag #watermelonboy trended on social media in Australia.
Mitchell, 10, told the BBC that eating the whole watermelon was tougher than expected.
"It was a lot more hard work than I thought it would be... I just kept on eating and eating it," he said.
Mitchell said he had been eating watermelon rind since the age of two.
"I've been doing it for a long time - I just like the taste of it," he said.
The clip of Mitchell tucking into the watermelon was picked up as ESPN's Play of the Day, but he hasn't let the attention go to his head.
"I'm not really a hero, I'm just a normal average kid," Mitchell told the BBC.
Saddlers left-back Andy Taylor's drive was tipped over by Luke Daniels and Paddy Madden had a free-kick for the Iron saved in a quiet first half.
Both sides stepped up their game after the restart, but Milan Lalkovic was thwarted by Daniels and Scunthorpe's Conor Townsend dragged just wide.
Walsall's Kieron Morris hit the bar late on with an offside flag raised.
The Iron went close to winning it themselves when substitute Tom Hopper's shot was cleared off the line by Paul Downing.
Walsall, who have drawn three of their last four games in their current winless run, have now failed to win at Bescot in five attempts since the turn of the year.
Walsall head coach Sean O'Driscoll told BBC WM 95.6:
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"Everybody has got to hold their nerve a little bit. We're in a position where nobody is going to come to the Bescot and roll over.
"It was a game where we tried to do the right things throughout the 90 minutes.
"A lot of the times it probably didn't quite come off for us. But nobody's head went. They're an honest bunch of players and we've shown that."
Scunthorpe manager Nick Daws told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"We were really quick out of the traps but we then seemed to indulge ourselves a little bit in possession of the football because we were allowed to do so. It kind of came away from how we have played in the last six games.
"We were playing against a good side so I'm slightly disappointed with the first half and we spoke about it at half-time. We asked them to put it right.
"We asked them to deal with the issues that we knew Walsall would cause us a problem and, in the second half, we did it well."
But it's exactly what Cassandra Stavrou, the co-founder of "posh popcorn" brand Propercorn, did, and so far it's proved a surprisingly good move.
The British brand has emerged as one of the fastest-growing snacks in the UK, stocked everywhere from cafes to supermarkets, and also sold overseas in 10 countries including Germany and Switzerland.
And 32-year-old Cassandra herself recently scooped the New Generation Award at the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman awards.
Though Propercorn has yet to make a profit, it now employs around 40 staff, had takings of £10m last year, and forecasts sales of between £15m to £17m this year.
The London-based company has certainly come a long way since Cassandra, then working in advertising, noticed that her colleagues were always hit by a mid-afternoon slump.
"Everyone wanted a snack but all that was on offer was a rice cake, which is bland and boring, or a chocolate bar that's unhealthy," she says.
"I noticed an opportunity for a snack that was tasty and good for you, and I felt popcorn would be a good vehicle to do that."
She believes serendipity played a role too.
"My father passed away when I was 16, and the last present he bought me was a popcorn machine. I still had it in the box and felt that was a nice extra bit of conviction I needed."
In 2009, aged 26, Cassandra quit her job and moved back in with her mum in London, helped by a deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit.
"I always knew I wanted to run my own business from a young age," she says.
By working in pubs in the evenings and at weekends, as well as undertaking painting commissions, she managed to scrape together a £10,000 start-up fund.
However, she was surprised by how long it took to launch the brand. "What I thought I could achieve in six months took a lot longer," she admits.
Cassandra's determination to make sure her popcorn was healthy but still tasty was the issue. It meant she had to come up with a way to get the flavouring to stick to the corn without covering it in oil.
In the end, she came up with the idea of spraying the corn with a car spray gun to cover it in a really fine mist of rapeseed oil, and then "tumbling" the corn in a cement mixer with the flavouring to give it an even coverage.
But it took almost a year to find a UK manufacturer able to make it in the way she wanted.
It was around this stage of the business that Ryan Kohn, a friend of her ex-boyfriend, came on board as co-founder. Ryan was, at the time, running his own property development firm.
Cassandra says: "I'd had some advice from Richard Reed from Innocent [the co-founder of the UK drinks company], who said you don't have to do it on your own, it's good to be accountable to someone."
Ryan's mother pumped £30,000 into the business, and they launched Propercorn with four flavours including Sweet & Salty and Sour Cream & Chive in October 2011.
Within six months two private individuals - "friends of friends" is how Ryan and Cassandra describe them - invested a total of £120,000 in the company, resulting in them, together with Ryan's mother, owning just under 20% of Propercorn, with the co-founders retaining the rest.
Propercorn's first customer was the cafe at Google's London office.
"Our philosophy is to leave no stone unturned," laughs Ryan. "I had a mutual friend who worked at Google and he put us in touch with the chef."
Out of the 48 snacks at the Google cafe Propercorn was the most popular, says Ryan.
"That was the first stat we had, and we went to Leon, Chop'd, Benugo and told them. It caught their attention."
The business partners were certainly hard to miss when they were running late for their first appointment with the buyers at London department store Selfridges.
As Cassandra had recently broken her leg she couldn't move very fast, so Ryan flung her over his shoulder.
"Ryan literally had me over his shoulder, my crutch in one hand and the presentation in the other. It was a complete farce. But I think even turning up in a complete state was part of the charm."
They won Selfridges over, and other accounts have swiftly followed, helping the brand now shift three million bags a month.
Their success has come in tandem with an explosion in popcorn's popularity, with UK sales increasing from £50m in 2010 to £129m in 2015, according to Mintel.
Propercorn is just one of a proliferation of of newer brands including Metcalfe's, Tyrrells and Poshcorn, to emerge in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
Amy Price, senior food and drink analyst at research group Mintel, says: "These have been keen to tap into the health credentials of popcorn through signposting calorie content on the front of pack, but have also looked to flavour innovation and packaging design as ways to stand out and target a more upmarket consumer."
To try to distance itself from its rivals, Propercorn is pressing pause on entering new markets, and plans instead to focus on expanding existing sales.
To help achieve that, the duo are currently in talks with investors to source additional funds, although with Ryan admitting they're both "control freaks", they still plan to lead the business.
There's also a new product on the horizon for September. The founders are tight-lipped but say it will involve corn.
"We're not deviating [from what we are], we are a popcorn brand and the aspiration is to be the number one global popcorn brand," says Cassandra. "This product is just another extension of that mission."
With all money reinvested in the business - including renting new premises, advertising and hiring ex-Innocent commercial director Ben Greensmith last year - Ryan says they do expect to make a pre-tax profit this year, of over £1m.
"We do have a long-term vision for the business," says Ryan. "We're hell-bent on making Propercorn the number one global snack brand, and we're reinvesting in a big way [to achieve that]."
Healey, on loan from Cardiff City, has been linked with a loan move to Plymouth Argyle.
But Westley thinks the 22-year-old could be given a chance by Neil Warnock at his parent club.
"I don't expect Rhys to be here in January because he [Warnock] wants to have a look at his player." he said.
"I think the early part of January is going to be about Cardiff seeing whether Rhys has got a role to play at Cardiff.
"Other clubs might have an interest if he goes back out on loan, we may have an interest if he goes back out on loan."
Healey has scored six goals in 18 appearances for the League Two side this season having joined the club on loan before Warnock's appointment as Cardiff manager in October.
The Manchester-born striker revealed Plymouth, who County face in an FA Cup replay on Wednesday, had made an approach for him,
That resulted in Warnock criticising Westley for allowing Healey to speak to the media about interest from Argyle.
Russia will not be allowed to take part after losing an appeal against the ban, imposed after a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report found the country had operated state-sponsored doping.
While there have been a number of issues and uncertainty in the run-up to the event, organisers remain confident it can live up to the success of London 2012.
With two weeks until the opening ceremony on 7 September, can Rio can pull it off?
Wanting to build on the success of London 2012 and Sochi 2014, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Sir Philip Craven said the Paralympics "could not ask" for a more vibrant city than Rio.
It will feature the most sports at a Paralympics and a record number of broadcasters will show the Games, with the IPC confident it can beat the 3.8 billion TV global viewers that watched in 2012.
There was a £7.9bn budget for the 2016 Olympics and the Paralympics, lower than London and Beijing, but Rio mayor Eduardo Paes has said 57% of the funds will come from private enterprises rather than public pocket.
Tickets: Rio put 3.3 million tickets on sale in May 2015, attempting to surpass the 2.7 million sold at London, with 94% costing less than 70 reals (£16.50) in an attempt to drum up support for the Games.
By March 2016, however, Craven said he was concerned about low ticket sales and said there were two million tickets available at 10 Reals (£2.35) each.
Last week, a Rio 2016 spokesperson said only 12% of tickets had been sold but that the organisers hoped to sell the majority of the remaining 2.4m tickets available.
Budget and funding: Emergency talks have been held after travel grants worth 8m euros (£7m) were not paid to all 165 participating countries by the end of July.
While the grants, which help cover travel costs for athletes and officials, will now be paid, there are fears that 10 countries may struggle to get teams to Brazil.
An injunction was also lifted to allow up to 65m euros (£56m) from the mayor and Brazilian federal money to be used to fund the Paralympics.
The budget shortfall was created after money intended for the Paralympics had to be used to cover gaps in the Olympic budget.
Organisers confirmed they were trying to secure a further 150m reals (£35.3m) of funding from Rio Mayor Paes and up to an additional 100m reals (£23.5m) of sponsorship from state-run companies.
With any additional revenue still short of the original plans, the IPC confirmed a number of cuts, which include downsizing the Rio 2016 workforce, changing transport services and closing a number of media centres.
The wheelchair fencing competition was also moved to the Olympic Park from the Deodoro complex, which will see its common public areas outside of ticketed venues closed.
Deodoro Park, however, will host the equestrian, seven-a-side football and shooting, which will be held in three stand-alone venues.
IPC president Craven said he wants competitors at the Games to act as "a catalyst for social change".
"The Paralympics has a strong track record for changing global attitudes towards people with an impairment, and are now widely regarded as the world's number one sporting event for driving positive societal change and social inclusion," he said.
"The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games will take place here as planned with all 22 sports.
"They will be the People's Games with tickets available that are accessible and affordable to all Brazilian people, and I am fully confident they will be the best Games ever in terms of athletic performance.
"The opportunity we have here to make Rio, Brazil, Latin America and the world a more equitable place for all does not come around very often, so we have to grab it with both hands."
The Great Britain team, set a target by UK Sport of finishing second at London 2012 with at least 103 medals from 12 different sports, ended the Games with 120 medals, including 34 golds.
In Rio, UK Sport has set a target of 121 medals, but the British Paralympic Association (BPA) wants to beat London's medal count.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, BPA chairman Tim Reddish said: "UK Sport, working with national governing bodies, have this range that always comes into play.
"Initially it is from 113-165 but nothing will give me great pleasure for that team to come back with at least one more than we did in London.
"That would match the great result that the Olympians had in being that great team that comes back from being a host nation and delivering again."
Wooden coffins and metal caskets have been the traditional means of carrying the dead to their final resting place, but more people are looking for an alternative form of carriage, illustrating the changing face of the funeral industry.
In the digital age, personalisation is at a premium.
Coffin supplier Desmond Stephenson has noticed a growing trend for bespoke funerals and coffins.
"It could be an expressive design that would evoke memories and start a conversation," he said. "It is unique to that person.
"If grandad was a long-term Northern Ireland football team supporter, or a fan of a particular GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) team, we can do it.
"There is a woman from Lisburn who is a big music fan and she has put in a request to have Elvis Presley on her coffin with the words 'Love Me Tender' on it.
"Her husband said he would like a lone piper on his coffin.
"Other people might like an image of the Mourne Mountains or the Fermanagh lakes on their coffin - an image that is special to them. We can also put on a photo of the loved one in happier times - the coffin design can have a photograph of the person celebrating a birthday or on holiday.
"It is a difficult time for families and these things can help a bit."
Ian Milne is a Northern Ireland representative of the National Association of Funeral Directors and has been involved in the business for over three decades.
He says bespoke coffins are another example of the transformation of funeral practices in the region during the past five years.
"I would say that people feel easier about expressing their wishes at the time of death now," he said.
"In society now, we have a greater density of faiths and non-faiths.
"I have carried out funerals for people who would describe themselves as high priestesses and wizards.
"There are a lot more humanist funerals now. The number of cremations has also increased dramatically. There is a lot of change, the number of religious-based funerals seems to be decreasing.
"The time that people stay in a funeral home has increased. Some people have booked their holiday and they simply cannot cancel it - the longest we have kept any body here is six weeks."
Mr Milne said that population changes in Northern Ireland meant he had become educated in the funeral cultures of various nationalities.
"I would do a lot of Eastern European funerals now," he said.
"I have also been involved in a number of Vietnamese funerals which are lovely.
"They can burn money including (replica) high-value notes, the idea is that the money goes to the higher place where the person who died is supposed to be."
Mr Milne also acknowledged that the internet was driving development in the industry and that the "personalisation of the funeral is in full swing".
"A lot of people are writing down what they want ahead of their funeral," he added.
"I have wishes for people who want to wear ostrich feathers in their coffin.
"There are some people who want to be buried with their pets, but because it is consecrated ground that cannot happen.
"Some people want to be dressed in their favourite football kit, which would not have happened before."
He said he expected imaginative ways of remembering the individual would continue with future generations.
"My son Andrew who is 21 works for us and part of his role is to monitor our Facebook page," he said.
"The young people are open to change, his generation sees funerals as stuck in the 1950s.
"At one of the funerals we did for a young woman recently those in attendance wore pink ties and doves and balloons were released, something that we had not done before. It was a lovely touch.
"The people who were friends of the young woman wanted that."
Two brothers, Ken, 18, and Kobi Saththiyanathan, 22, died at the Sussex beach last August along with three of their friends.
A pathologist told the hearing in Hastings that all five drowned.
Earlier, a lawyer said the beach, which can attract 30,000 people a day at peak times, had "hidden dangers".
Two other people died in July 2016, after one got into difficulty at Camber and the other tried to reach him - the circumstances of their deaths will be considered as part of the inquest into the five friends' deaths.
In his opening remarks, the family's barrister Patrick Roche said relatives were keen that "no-one else suffers the same appalling tragedy".
The men who died all lived in the London area and were of Sri Lankan origin.
The inquest heard the two brothers had grown up in a Sri Lankan village surrounded by three rivers and had "good swimming ability".
A statement by the brothers' father Arumukam Saththiyanathan said his sons regularly played cricket and football and swam in Sri Lanka almost every weekend before they came to the UK in 2008 when they were aged 10 and 14.
He added: "As a family we went to the beaches in the UK nearly every summer and the boys went without us sometimes."
He said Kobi, a business studies student at Brighton University, loved Camber and had visited the beach three times in 2016 before his death.
Consultant forensic pathologist Dr Brett Lockyer, said toxicology tests on both brothers were negative for drugs and alcohol.
Ken, an A Level student, was described as healthy with no natural disease, and a GP report on Kobi said he had no serious conditions and was not on repeat medication.
Their mother, Jegaleela Saththiyanathan, said both her sons were physically fit and played sport at a district level in Sri Lanka.
Kenugen Saththiyanathan, 18, known as Ken, died alongside his brother Kobikanthan Saththiyanathan, 22, known as Kobi, both from Erith, south east London.
Their three friends, who also died on 24 August were Nitharsan Ravi, 22, from Plumstead, Inthushan Sriskantharasa, 23, from Grays, Essex and Gurushanth Srithavarajah, 27, from Welling.
On 24 July, Mohit Dupar, 36, from Hayes, west London, attempted to reach Brazilian Gustavo Silva Da Cruz, 19, after he got into difficulty.
Mr Silva Da Cruz died at the scene. Mr Dupar died in hospital four days later.
The inquest heard Mr Ravi had been admitted to hospital with a head injury the day before he died, after an alleged assault four days earlier, but Dr Lockyer said: "I don't believe the head injury has played a significant part in this man's demise."
Mr Ravi's father, Nagaratnam, said his "fit and healthy" son, who had driven the group to Camber, was a competent swimmer.
The Brighton University aeronautical engineering student was "caring, polite and humble and was active with a high work rate," Mr Ravi added.
He said his family visited beaches every year and his son was "accustomed to swimming".
Inthushan Sriskantharasa, a Tesco shift manager, was on a day off from work when he died.
His uncle, Sivapragasan Thavarasa, said he had seen him swimming in the sea and described him as a "very able".
Gurushanth Srithavarajah, a student and part-time shop assistant, spent the first 12 years of his life living near the sea in Sri Lanka and was described by his sister, Kabinuja as a competent swimmer.
The inquest continues.
Rovers led 26-10 at half-time on the back of five tries, although Trinity, who had won nine of the past 11, kept in it with two tries of their own.
Wakefield reduced arrears but five more Rovers scores, which saw Dixon complete his hat-trick, took them beyond 50.
It was an unhappy reunion for home coach Chris Chester, who was sacked by Rovers in February.
However for his opposite number James Webster it was a sweet return following his departure as Trinity boss last season.
This success keeps ninth-placed Rovers' eyes fixed on a place in the top eight, something that Wakefield are desperate to hang on to after their own fine run lifted them into the reckoning.
The Robins have struggled to get their key personnel on the field in 2016 but a fit Kelly and halves partner Terry Campese were hugely influential, causing Wakefield problems with their dangerous kicking games.
Their deft kicks and perfectly timed passes were involved in scores for Dixon, James Greenwood who scored twice, Shaun Lunt, James Green and Maurice Blair, while Kelly himself scored a double.
Ex-Rovers full-back Craig Hall was among the Trinity try-scorers, along with Bill Tupou and Mikey Sio.
Dixon has been playing for Newcastle Thunder two divisions below and was only considered after teenage winger Joe Wardill was ruled out through illness.
The former London Broncos flier has been limited to seven appearances for James Webster's side, with his last outing in the Challenge Cup defeat by Oldham in April.
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester told BBC Radio Leeds:
"We looked tired, things didn't change,. Hull KR were too good for us that first 40 minutes and put us under some real pressure but defensively we were very poor all night.
"You can't give players like Albert Kelly and Terry Campese time on the ball but because we were losing ruck after ruck - it killed us.
"We showed some desire and character to get within 10 points but it's what we did without the ball that disappointed me and that's two poor performances on the bounce."
Hull KR head coach James Webster told BC Radio Humberside:
"After backing up from Catalans we struggled with energy, our scores during the week with energy were low all week, and we did a good job of finding motivation and to produce a great performance.
"We built it up all week about starting well and playing a bit but we made our own luck tonight.
"Having the best players playing helps, it's the second time this year that Campese and Kelly have played together, we think we're a good team when we have everyone playing."
Wakefield: Hall; Johnstone, Lyne, Arundel, B. Tupou; Miller, Finn; Scruton, M. Sio, Simon, A. Tupou, Ashurst, Molloy.
Replacements: Anderson, Annakin, Arona, Howarth.
Hull KR: Marsh; K. Sio, Clarkson, Thornley, Dixon; Campese, Kelly; Tilse, Lunt, Walker, Blair, Greenwood, Mulhern.
Replacements: Donaldson, Green, Allgood, Boudebza.
Referee: Chris Kendall (RFL).
McCall first took charge following the Bantams' relegation to League Two in May 2007, but quit in February 2010 with his side 16th in the table.
The 52-year-old has since managed Rangers and Motherwell, and left his role as Scotland coach to rejoin City.
"The last time I was here it certainly wasn't a perfect fit, but it is now," he told BBC Radio Leeds.
"I don't like to keep looking back, but the last time I was here the club had just dropped into the bottom division, and in hindsight I let my heart rule my head because it was a place I wanted to come to.
"But it was a totally different football club and I was a totally different manager."
Bradford lost to Millwall in the League One play-off semi-finals in 2015-16 and McCall, who was appointed following former manager Phil Parkinson's decision to take charge at Bolton, is targeting promotion to the Championship in his first season.
"That's got to be the aim," he said. "The club have been progressing nicely over the last few seasons and we don't want that momentum to stop.
"For me as a manager, it's about getting the best of what you've got, whatever that may be, whether that be big signings coming in, or young signings, or young players or players on loan.
"It's about getting the best of what you've got and that's something I've been able to do over the last few years."
Harry Clarke, 60, had his licence withdrawn for medical reasons in the months following the bin lorry crash on 22 December 2014.
He pleaded guilty to driving a car nine months later, despite knowing he was unfit to drive.
Clarke was not prosecuted over the bin lorry crash.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court on Friday, Clarke admitted driving a car on 20 September 2015 in the knowledge that he had suffered a loss of consciousness while at the wheel of a moving refuse collection vehicle the previous December.
The charge stated he also knew he had suffered a loss of consciousness or episode of altered awareness while at the wheel of a stationary bus on 7 April 2010.
He will be sentenced at a later date.
Clarke's licence had been revoked for 12 months on 27 June 2015 and the charge stated that he knew or ought to have known that he was unfit to drive, and that there was a risk he might lose consciousness or suffer an episode of altered awareness while driving.
Procurator fiscal depute Mark Allan told Glasgow Sheriff Court that Clarke's neighbours had seen him in the car park outside his house then saw him get into his white Corsa.
He said: "After watching for between 30 seconds and two minutes, both witnesses saw the accused enter into the driver's seat, switch on the exterior lights and drive out of the car park onto Buchanan Street."
He said Clarke returned about two hours later at about 22:15.
He added: "He went round to either the passenger door or boot and retrieved some carrier bags from the car before leaving the car and walking to his home address."
Two days later when Clarke was cautioned and charged by police he replied: "I have never been out on a public road. I have just moved the car in the private car park."
The court was also told Clarke later phoned his insurance company and told them his licence was revoked in June "on medical grounds".
He told them about the allegation of driving and said "I do move it but it's private property so I just moved it back and forward just to kind of keep the wheels turning a wee bit, I said, but certainly I wasn't out driving in the road."
In relation to the 2014 bin lorry crash, the Crown Office insisted there was insufficient evidence to raise criminal proceedings against Clarke.
However, in a rare legal move, relatives of three crash victims sought permission from senior judges to bring charges against him in a private prosecution.
Despite that, judges at the Appeal Court in Edinburgh ruled in November last year that the family could not launch a private prosecution.
Jack and Lorraine Sweeney, 68 and 69, and their granddaughter Erin McQuade, 18, Stephenie Tait, 29, Jacqueline Morton, 51, and Gillian Ewing, 52, died in the incident.
The subsequent fatal accident inquiry heard Clarke had a history of health issues but had not disclosed his medical background to his employers or the DVLA.
It also emerged that Clarke had previously blacked out while working as a bus driver but failed to disclose it when he became a bin lorry driver with Glasgow City Council.
The 36-year-old was involved in a clash with another group of men, who were celebrating one of their birthdays, outside a city centre nightclub.
PC Doyle, who had worked for Merseyside Police for a decade, was felled by a single "pile-driver" punch that caused a fatal brain injury.
Two men were found guilty of manslaughter following a five-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
Football agent Andrew Taylor, 29, and sports event manager Timmy Donovan, 30, were convicted and a third man, footballer Christopher Spendlove, 30, was cleared of manslaughter.
PC Doyle received extensive treatment outside the Aloha Club in Colquitt Street at 03:15 GMT on 19 December 2014 but died in hospital.
The following month, he had been due to take a delayed honeymoon with his wife Sarah in January, but instead his funeral took place at the church where they wed in July 2014.
PC Doyle's life came to a violent end when he sustained an injury to an artery in his neck, which led to fatal bleeding over the surface of his brain.
The men, all from Huyton, had been charged with murder, but also faced alternative manslaughter charges.
What is known of PC Neil Doyle?
He had joined the Merseyside force in May 2004, mostly working in Liverpool, and was an operational officer who was "well-liked" and "respected by his colleagues."
Flags were flown at half-mast at police stations across the county after his death and a memorial rugby match took place in Ormskirk in March.
Professionally, he had been commended for his actions when arresting three men in a "violent offensive robbery".
The two groups of men presented very different versions of events.
In an interview the following day, Taylor, who earned £40,000 a year as a football consultant, told officers that PC Doyle had been "ultra aggressive" and intimidating towards him after the two groups met as they left separate bars.
He told the court that he was "in fear of violence". Taylor said PC Doyle "went for him" and had to be "physically restrained". He had threatened to give him "a good hiding", he added.
He claimed he had become annoyed when he said "hello" as a joke and when he tried to defuse the situation by shaking his hand, he went for him.
Taylor told the court that he had not known that PC Doyle was a police officer and he and his friends used the word "officer" as a "term of endearment" during the night out.
He insisted that he regarded police officers as "good people" and said he had "no issues" with them. Taylor was "quite surprised and confused" as to why PC Doyle became angry and swore at him.
Footage of PC Doyle confronting the other group was shown in court, but Merseyside Police resisted attempts by the media to obtain it.
Initially, Taylor told officers he had struck PC Doyle in self defence, but later denied it and said he had been mistaken.
Mr Spendlove played football for Everton and Preston North End as a boy and studied at Oklahoma City University, where he played for their football team.
He maintained he did not play any role in the incident, which took place while they had been out celebrating his birthday.
Donovan said it was his friend Taylor, a former Forest Green Rovers footballer, who had "knocked out" PC Doyle.
He said it "all broke out very quick" and he accepted he struck PC Robert Marshall with "excessive" force before going back and stamping on him after "seeing red" for a few seconds.
Donovan left the UK on the day PC Doyle was fatally injured and was later arrested in Germany.
Sir Jon Murphy, the chief constable of Merseyside Police, said at the time the three officers were "subject to an apparently unprovoked attack."
More detail emerged in court which seemed to suggest PC Doyle was more involved than it first appeared.
However, PC Doyle's colleague told the court it was they who had felt "intimidated" moments before the confrontation.
Michael Steventon said Taylor had approached the group and asked PC Doyle if he was having a good evening and repeatedly addressed his colleague as "officer".
Under cross-examination, Mr Steventon denied there had been "a conspiracy of silence" about what had happened.
He said he viewed PC Doyle as a "mentor" and he denied that PC Doyle swore at Taylor, or angrily followed the group into Colquitt Street.
Mr Steventon also refuted claims he was "not telling the truth in the witness box in order to protect the memory of an esteemed colleague".
Taylor had "unsettled" his friend, he told the hearing, but he said he did not believe PC Doyle had known Taylor, who was described as "very persistent".
Taylor and Donovan were also convicted of wounding PC Marshall with intent. Taylor was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to Mr Steventon.
Prosecutors claimed Mr Spendlove watched Donovan kicking and stamping on PC Marshall before intervening in the 45-second attack on the three off-duty officers. He disputed this version of events.
The day after the brawl, Mr Spendlove went on holiday to Abersoch, north Wales, and explained he did so because he was not involved.
The jury agreed by clearing Mr Spendlove of all charges and finding Taylor and Donovan had played their part in the PC's death by reaching guilty verdicts.
The Kim Nirvana was carrying 173 people when it overturned in rough waters just outside the port of Ormoc.
Philippine coast guard officials told the BBC the rescue operation was ongoing but gave no further details.
The chair of the Philippine Red Cross, Richard Gordon, said that between 50 and 70 people had been rescued from the boat, which was visible from the shore.
"We're sending an ambulance and divers to the area to help with the search and rescue," he told the BBC.
Ciriaco Tolibao, an official at Ormoc's disaster risk reduction and management office, told the AFP news agency that divers were searching inside the upturned ship.
Local reports said the ferry was heading for the central islands of Camotes, in Cebu province, to the south-west of Leyte. The cause of the sinking is not yet known.
"[The ferry] rolled while attempting to turn around swiftly. I am alive because I jumped overboard as soon as it happened," vegetable trader Reynante Manza told reporters.
A photographer for the AFP news agency at the scene of the sinking said that only a small section of the boat's underbelly, surrounded by rescue boats, could be seen by late Thursday afternoon.
People in the Philippines rely on ferry services to get around its thousands of islands, but vessels are often poorly maintained, leading to scores of deaths at sea every year.
Civil servants are currently in control of Stormont's finances because the executive collapsed before agreeing a 2017-18 budget.
But James Brokenshire's intervention will stop short of imposing a budget for now.
There is, however, money in the system which needs allocated to departments.
A figure of £116m is being cited, including £42m flowing from the Chancellor's spring budget in March, under the Barnett formula.
Mr Brokenshire is expected to make decisions on this cash soon, possibly as early as next week.
This would result in the money being allocated and legislation is not required to do this.
In the House of Commons on Monday, the secretary of state talked of a need "address immediate health and education pressures".
Mr Brokenshire said he would "reflect" on his next move after talks failed to restore a power-sharing executive.
Northern Ireland has been without a functioning devolved government since January, when the coalition led by the two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, collapsed over a green energy scandal
Under the current rules, civil servants only have control of 75% of the £10bn block grant.
By the end of July, this will rise to 95% of funds.
But they are reluctant to take some spending decisions in the absence of direction from ministers.
The issue of passing a full budget for Northern Ireland from Westminster, in the absence of Stormont, is on hold for now.
The autumn is thought the more probable time for this, if a political deal continues to prove elusive.
A budget would give Northern Ireland access to all its block grant.
Craig Mackey told new recruits at the police training college Hendon it had also been been an awful week "for the policing family".
But he said they would "never be alone" and that their city was proud of them.
It comes two days after PC Keith Palmer was killed preventing Khalid Masood from entering Parliament.
Masood, 52, drove his car onto the pavement and into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before crashing the vehicle into railings and running into the grounds of Parliament.
On Friday acting commissioner Mackey said: "We are mourning the loss of a brave officer, PC Keith Palmer, who died protecting Parliament and our democracy.
"At moments like this, rare though they are, it is natural to be afraid and to despair at the inhuman violence we have seen.
"But it is at moments like these that you truly appreciate the strength of the policing family."
Fifty people were injured in Wednesday's attack, with 31 receiving hospital treatment.
Two people remain in a critical condition, and one has life-threatening injuries.
Acting commissioner Mackey told the new recruits: "As police officers, we have a special bond with the public, as their protectors and guardians. It is a bond that grows stronger in adversity.
"We have seen the gratitude of this city to its police service manifested this week with kind words and gifts. They're proud of you and your colleagues. As am I."
On Thursday evening acting commissioner Mackey joined Home Secretary Amber Rudd, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and hundreds of people at a candlelit vigil in Trafalgar Square to remember those who lost their lives as a result of Wednesday's attack.
Candles were laid on the ground and on the steps leading to the National Gallery, then lit in memory of those who died.
Earlier, Army veteran Mike Crofts, who witnessed the attack and rushed to help PC Palmer, told BBC Breakfast it was his military training that made him react.
"Unfortunately despite our best efforts we were unable to save him.
"He was at the time surrounded by a whole host of colleagues who really loved him. We held his hand through the experience, talked to him throughout."who lost their lives.
Orchard Media and Events Group quit as organiser of the Brecon Jazz weekend last year due to "financial considerations".
But residents came together to raise funds and attract sponsors so it could take place for the 32nd time.
A feasibility study will be done over the weekend to assess the festival's future.
Brecon Jazz project producer, Lisa Davies, said: "The trades are behind it, the town council are behind it, so many members of Brecon are behind it, I think it shows more of a want than a need for it."
The trust, which runs Keighley's Airedale hospital, and Skipton and Castleberg hospitals, was rated 'requires improvement'.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said there were not enough doctors in the new emergency department at Airedale.
The trust said it was addressing staffing issues.
Inspectors found that although the trust provided services that were caring, effective and responsive, it needed improvements to be safe and well led.
The report said nurse staffing levels in many clinical areas were regularly below the planned number, particularly in medical care, surgery and children's services.
It added that a new emergency department, which had been opened to meet an increase in patient numbers, did not have enough doctors to meet national guidance and there were too few specialists in critical care.
The inspection was carried out by the CQC between 15 and 18 March but inspectors also made unannounced visits.
Inspectors did however praise the work of community-based care teams in providing a "valued service" to help people remain in their homes as well as the trust's end of life care.
Bridget Fletcher, the trust's chief executive, said she was delighted the report highlighted examples of good practice but accepted there were areas that needed improving.
She said issues around staffing were being addressed and it had looked at the way it recruits nurses.
Mane's absence may lead to a recall for Divock Origi, while Daniel Sturridge is in contention after returning to training.
Bournemouth midfielder Andrew Surman is out with a knee injury, so Jack Wilshere may be promoted to the starting line-up.
The Cherries have several other unnamed fitness doubts, while Tyrone Mings is still suspended.
Jonathan Pearce: "Sadio Mane's injury has come at a horrible time for Liverpool. He's been involved in 18 league goals this season - his most productive in England by far.
"Jurgen Klopp has admitted he has no direct "one-for-one" replacement.
"The likely return of Daniel Sturridge is timely but with Adam Lallana and Jordan Henderson also out, their squad looks thin for the run-in.
"It gives Bournemouth a chance. They still need two more wins. They're as likely to get a victory here as they were in the home meeting when Liverpool's attacking brilliance was betrayed by defensive buffoonery.
"That was an open thriller. This will be tighter."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on losing Sadio Mane to injury: "Everyone would miss Sadio. Southampton probably still miss him, Red Bull Salzburg miss him.
"It is not about thinking 'how can we play perfect football', we need to get results and the first thing I will think about is how we can defend [against] Bournemouth, not how can we create 27 chances.
"If we are strong and perfectly organised in defence then Bournemouth cannot get confidence in the game.
"We don't think what we miss, we only think what we can do to win this football game."
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "Liverpool will be a really tough test for us. We respect them and their manager. We've done okay at Anfield in recent games.
"The home game against Liverpool was arguably our standout game of the season so far, but it's of no relevance now. This is a new game.
"We want to gather as many points as we can. The challenges in our next three games [Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham] are tough, but ones we have to relish.
"We're in a good place at the moment. We're also aware of how quickly things can change in football."
Bournemouth might try to sit back a bit but the best thing about their team is the way they play when they come forward.
If they go on the attack then that will help Liverpool, and I also think Jurgen Klopp's side have regained a bit of their belief from earlier in the season anyway.
The Cherries will let them play and I think Liverpool will have too much for them.
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With a consultation complete in the last Parliament, there is nothing to stop ministers moving quickly.
No one should be surprised, as the change has been long trailed.
For years Conservatives have argued that the current poverty measure - the proportion of children living in households earning less than 60% of median income - is inadequate:
But if internal Conservative differences barred change in the past, its time now appears to have come.
David Cameron argues the existing indicator has perverse results: child poverty is deemed to have risen when the state pension goes up.
What should replace it? There are clues to that answer again in recent Conservative history.
When Gordon Brown's Labour government passed a law legally binding the government to eradicate child poverty by 2020 Conservatives argued for targets that did not relate to family income.
They wanted assessments of the number of households with parents in long-term relationships and households where parents were addicted to drugs, alcohol or gambling for example.
That law is now set to be either repealed or amended.
When the announcement is made, Conservatives will say they have been consistent and that their approach will improve lives.
The political challenge will be to persuade voters this is not a response to what are anticipated to be worsening child poverty figures, or an attempt to mask the impact of equally widely anticipated cuts to tax credits.
In short - can a Conservative government that says it is governing for "One Nation" unpick the rules around measuring and cutting the number of poor children in Britain without being accused of cynicism?
The company has announced the price of most post sent within the islands and to the UK will rise from 7 April.
Low Value Consignment Relief ended on 1 April 2012, but had allowed some items to be sent VAT-free to the UK.
Boley Smillie, chief executive, said the freeze aimed to help "an industry under significant pressure".
The price of a local letter will increase by 1p, from 40p to 41p, while the price of a letter to the UK will stay at 55p.
Other changes include rises for certain weights of large letters and packets sent to the UK with full details due to be released on the Guernsey Post website on Friday.
Mr Smillie said: "It's been another challenging year for Guernsey Post, but we believe we have been successful in keeping any increases to our postal tariff to a minimum.
"We are also confident that our prices remain competitive in comparison with the UK and Europe.
"As an example Royal Mail will be increasing the price of a letter for UK customers by 2p to 62p. By freezing the UK letter price in Guernsey at 55p, our rate is 7p cheaper."
The building society said that the annual change picked up from 3.3% a month earlier.
Property values rose by 0.4% in July compared with June, taking the cost of the average home to £195,621.
Demand for housing remained "encouraging", the report said, but supply strength was "unclear".
Nationwide's chief economist Robert Gardner said: "The number of new homes under construction has started to pick up, albeit from historically low levels, and further increases are required if a sustainable recovery in the housing market is to be maintained over the longer term."
Mr Gardner said that the house price growth might be "stabilising close to the pace of earnings growth" which had historically been around 4% a year.
Estate agents and analysts point out that the market could be affected by a potential change in interest rates at the turn of the year.
"The one blot on the horizon is a potential interest rate rise, which may slow down the mainstream market as buyers become concerned that their mortgage will cost more," said Jonathan Adams, director of estate agency Napier Watt.
"Buyers often do not realise the impact of a rate rise until the first one actually happens."
The Nationwide has also studied the effect of the change in stamp duty rules that were announced in Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement last year.
Since December, stamp duty has only applied to the amount of the purchase price that falls within the particular duty band, making it more like income tax. This replaced the old "slab" system.
The Nationwide has estimated that the change has led to £275m less tax being paid.
In the first six months since the change, nearly 235,000 buyers in England and Wales have paid less stamp duty than they would have done under the old system, paying £1,800 less each on average.
"The benefits are greatest in the South of England where average house prices are higher," Mr Gardner said.
"We estimate that around 85% of transactions in London, the South West of England and South East of England have benefited from the changes, compared with around 55% in the North of England, Yorkshire and Humberside, and the North West of England."
He said there was less "bunching" around price points where the thresholds sit, such as £250,000 and £500,000.
Some 5,000 buyers paid more stamp duty than they would under the old system, at an average of £28,000. Two-thirds of these buyers were in London.
The base in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, will shut in 2016 due to cuts by the National Police Air Service (NPAS).
Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards accused NPAS of using "deeply misleading" arguments to justify the cuts.
But Policing Minister Mike Penning said politicians should not tell police how to run their forces.
Mr Edwards told MPs on Tuesday that the number of police aircraft bases in England and Wales was being cut by nearly half from 29 to 15 following the creation of NPAS, and the number of helicopters cut by 40%.
From 1 January 2016, Wales will be served by bases at St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, and Hawarden, Flintshire, along with others in England after the closure of bases at Pembrey and Rhuddlan, Denbighshire.
The MP said the decision had been made on "shaky ground" and could be open to judicial review.
He questioned whether it was really possible for fixed-wing aircraft to cover mid and west Wales without constant mid-air refuelling, claiming that would be "ridiculous".
"The residents of Dyfed-Powys have been failed by their police commissioner and ill-served by NPAS," he said.
Mr Edwards also asked that Home Secretary Theresa May order a review of the decision, as she had done for a base in Teesside, north east England.
But Mr Penning told the debate: "It isn't for a police minister or an MP to tell the police their operational duties, how they should run their forces."
He said the decision would be kept under review, but added: "I fully understand the concerns but if we want the police to do the job we are asking them to do we must listen to the police."
Kelso North parish church, on the town's Bowmont Street, was broken into some time between 20:00 on Sunday and 08:00 on Monday.
The cash tin - containing a total of £130 - was taken along with the jar full of coins.
Police have appealed for anyone with information about the incident to contact them.
PC Craig Hood said: "The church runs on a very tight budget and this incident has had a significant impact on available funds which would otherwise have gone towards the upkeep of the church and any local events that they participate in.
"I would ask anyone with information in relation to any suspicious persons seen around the church during this time and in particular anyone seen exiting the building via the front door, to please get in touch."
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Cammy Smith fired the Buddies ahead before half-time but Chris Duggan's penalty levelled matters in the second half.
A brace of strikes from Lewis Morgan put the visitors in command.
And though Duggan scored another spot-kick late on, St Mirren did enough to reach the last eight, the draw for which will be made on Sunday.
Jack Ross' St Mirren had caused an upset in the previous round - beating Premiership Dundee - and the Championship side were now seeking to avoid a cup shock against League One East Fife.
The Fifers, on an unbeaten 11-game run, began well and thought they had taken the lead when Nicky Paterson bundled a corner over the line only for referee Don Robertson to blow for a free-kick in St Mirren's favour.
And the visitors took full advantage when they went ahead. The home defence failed to clear a deep cross into the box and Smith calmly clipped the ball over the outstretched arms of Ryan Goodfellow in the home goal.
East Fife came out the traps quickly in the second half and Scott Robinson was denied an equaliser when a last-gasp lunge by Harry Smith cleared the ball off the line.
However, the Methil side did not have long to wait before they drew level.
Ross Brown was bundled to the ground inside the box by Davis and Duggan duly made no mistake from the spot.
Ross brought on Morgan for Rory Loy and his impact on the game was instantaneous.
Stevie Mallan played a through ball to Morgan inside the East Fife box and the substitute showed great composure to fire the ball beyond Goodfellow into the left corner of the net.
And Morgan secured the Paisley side's place in the last eight when he fired a magnificent 25-yard shot around a ruck of home defenders into the bottom corner.
East Fife continued to push forward and deep into stoppage time referee Robertson awarded the home side their second penalty of the day after Davis was judged to have handled.
Duggan was again on target but this was to be the final kick of the game with St Mirren safely through.
East Fife manager Barry Smith: "The players gave me everything. That's all I can ask for.
"We were against a team from a higher division and they should have more quality but I didn't think there was much between the teams.
"The boys kept fighting and when we got the equaliser in the second half we looked like the team that was going to push on. Unfortunately, we conceded a disappointing goal and we struggled to get back into it after that."
St Mirren manager Jack Ross: "When you go into any cup tie, getting through is ultimately the most important thing.
"It was a very difficult match played in very difficult conditions. East Fife made it very difficult so we are delighted to be through.
"East Fife started the game better than us and adapted well to the conditions. But once we got ahead I thought we were better and in the second half the game became much more open."
Match ends, East Fife 2, St. Mirren 3.
Second Half ends, East Fife 2, St. Mirren 3.
Goal! East Fife 2, St. Mirren 3. Chris Duggan (East Fife) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Harry Davis (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Harry Davis (St. Mirren) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Paul Fjelde replaces Cameron Smith.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Jonathan Page.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Patrick Slattery.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Patrick Slattery.
Attempt saved. Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! East Fife 1, St. Mirren 3. Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Foul by Chris Kane (East Fife).
John Sutton (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jamie Insall (East Fife) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Mackenzie (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, East Fife. Jamie Insall replaces Ross Brown.
Attempt missed. Chris Duggan (East Fife) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Goal! East Fife 1, St. Mirren 2. Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Stephen Mallan.
Corner, East Fife. Conceded by Harry Davis.
Scott Robinson (East Fife) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Stephen McGinn (St. Mirren).
Substitution, St. Mirren. Lewis Morgan replaces Craig Storie.
Substitution, East Fife. Mark Lamont replaces Kevin Smith.
Craig Storie (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
James Penrice (East Fife) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Storie (St. Mirren).
Chris Kane (East Fife) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Craig Storie (St. Mirren).
Jonathan Page (East Fife) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Mackenzie (St. Mirren).
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by James Penrice.
Attempt missed. Gary Mackenzie (St. Mirren) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Patrick Slattery.
Substitution, St. Mirren. John Sutton replaces Rory Loy.
Attempt saved. Kyle Magennis (St. Mirren) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! East Fife 1, St. Mirren 1. Chris Duggan (East Fife) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Corner, East Fife. Conceded by Harry Davis.
Attempt saved. Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Up to 85% of the corals in the Chagos Marine Reserve of the British Indian Ocean Territory are estimated to have been damaged or killed in the event.
Scientists say the conditions there are worse than in 1998 - the last major bleaching occurrence.
The problem is caused by anomalously warm water, which prompts the coral polyps to eject their symbiotic algae.
This drains them of their colour and is fatal unless conditions are reversed in a reasonably short time.
Unfortunately for the Chagos, the water has been persistently warm for many months.
"In 1998, the temperature that killed all the corals was probably about 29.5C. Last year, in April, at the beginning of the latest bleaching event, it was 30.5C and down to 25m. And this year scientists have been out and it's the same again," said Prof Charles Sheppard, the chair of the Chagos Conservation Trust.
Prof Heather Koldewey, from the Zoological Society of London and a CCT Trustee, led the expedition. She described what she saw as shocking: "I was there two years ago and it's always an absolute joy to go diving in Chagos because you really get to see what a reef should look like - rich, living corals with abundant fish and other marine life at densities you just don't get in other places. This was very depressing."
Bleaching is happening globally on a huge scale because of the El Nino phenomenon, which sees surface water temperatures spike in many ocean regions.
Reports in the past couple of weeks have highlighted the damage to the famous reefs off Australia and the Maldives.
The big question now is how well Chagos will recover when conditions calm down, which they should do as the El Nino subsides.
The reserve successfully bounced back after 1998, principally say the scientists because it is normally such a pristine environment.
Controversially, the Chagos Archipelago has been maintained relatively population free since the late 1960s, but this has had the effect of limiting the stress factors that can weaken corals.
"This is what makes Chagos such an important reference site for corals worldwide," explained Prof Koldewey.
"This is not an oil spill, this is not coastal pollution, sewage, or overfishing or siltation. If anywhere can bounce back, it is the Chagos Archipelago, and I hold on to that positive point of view."
Prof Sheppard said the hope would be that juveniles in deeper, cooler water will come up to re-invade the reef and re-establish communities.
The Chagos Marine Reserve was established in 2010 and covers an area of 640,000 square kilometres - more than twice the area of the UK.
The zone covered by reef is estimated to be about 60,000-80,000 square km.
Biodiversity catalogued in the reserve includes - in addition to the corals - more than 1,000 species of fish; endangered green and hawksbill turtles; the world's biggest land crab, the metre-spanning coconut crab; and breeding colonies of terns and shearwaters.
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Breslin resigned as Reds manager in September 2015 after winning eight trophies in four years.
He will be in charge along with assistant Peter Murray for Saturday's final league game against Linfield and the Europa League play-offs.
Lyttle left Cliftonville to become manager at Sligo Rovers.
"We are very grateful to Tommy and Peter for entering into this short-term agreement and trust they will help guide the team through the rest of the season," said club chairman Gerard Lawlor.
"We still have plenty to play for in this campaign and, though myself and the Management Committee will be working hard to determine our next manager, we must not lose sight of our remaining targets on the pitch and believe that Tommy and Peter can help us achieve those."
The interim manager has made clear that the arrangement is until the end of the season and that he will not be taking the job on a permanent basis.
Breslin won two league titles during a successful reign at Solitude and he could help prevent Linfield lifting the Gibson Cup on Saturday.
The table-topping Blues are two points clear of Crusaders going into the last game.
Cliftonville have lost their last four league games and sit fourth in the Premiership standings.
The event was so successful officials had to limit access to the Rallyfest stage at Kinmel Park following issues at Chirk Castle on Saturday.
World champion Sebastien Ogier kept his lead to clinch victory at the finish line in Llandudno on Sunday.
Elfyn Evans from Dolgellau won the WRC2 class, saying: "It feels great".
"We're thrilled with the response and interest in this year's new-look Wales Rally GB," said Andrew Coe, chief executive of the event organisers, International Motor Sports.
"Moving the event to north Wales has proved a huge success and we're seeing unprecedented spectator numbers lining the forests and roads of every stage."
However, he said it led to some fans being unable to get access to the Chirk Castle stage on Saturday.
"We're aware that many of these were existing ticket holders and for that we apologise," added Mr Coe.
"The venue's car parks simply reached capacity and with the nature of a rally taking place in largely remote areas there was simply no alternative."
This year's rally saw the race headquarters move from Cardiff to Flintshire, to a purpose-built £250,000 site at Queensferry.
The organisers hoped the move would attract new fans to the event from nearby cities in England, such as Liverpool and Manchester.
Welsh driver Elfyn Evans from Dolgellau stormed clear to win the WRC2 class race.
Speaking after crossing the finish line, the 24-year-old son of Welsh rallying legend Gwyndaf Evans said: "It feels great ... a fantastic car and great experience.
"I don't know about next year yet. We've had a few disappointments but the team has worked hard."
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The number of applications has increased faster than the number of offers being made.
By implication this means a lower proportion of applicants secure a place although the number of places available is around a record high.
In itself, a drop in the proportion who are successful is merely a mathematical fluke.
But it draws attention to a significant challenge as universities seek to attract students from a wider range of backgrounds.
One reason for the rise in the number of applications is likely to be that some universities have been proactively selling themselves to youngsters who may not previously have considered higher education.
Some schools and teachers may also have been pushing more borderline candidates to apply.
There has never been a guaranteed place in higher education for all who apply or merely meet the minimum requirements.
There are a number of interconnected issues.
The Scottish government sees free university tuition as an important statement of principle. It removes a potential deterrent to some applicants and helps keep down the overall amount of money graduates have to repay.
The downside is that this, inevitably, means a fixed limit on the number of places available.
In contrast, universities south of the border - which can charge fees of up to £9,000 a year - have much more freedom to decide for themselves just how many students they can admit.
Some within universities in Scotland fear that the government's ambitions to increase the number of students from areas of deprivation could have an unpleasant side effect.
They fear that unless the overall number of students increases too, meeting minimum quotas on the numbers from disadvantaged areas could make it harder for everyone else to get in.
Some argue that universities - in theory - could actually find widening access easier were Scotland to leave the European Union.
At the moment, EU citizens (but not people from other parts of the UK) are entitled to free tuition at Scottish universities on the same terms as Scots. EU applicants are competing for the same places.
There is no possibility of the current Scottish government going down this route even after a Brexit but it could become a political debating point in the future.
The mood in Scottish academia was overwhelmingly in favour of Britain remaining in the EU for a wide range of reasons.
Ultimately, all policies have pros and cons. There is a price to be paid for free university tuition.
The White Paper published ahead of the renewal of the BBC's Royal Charter in 2017 has recommended a non-executive member from Wales sits on the new unitary board.
Under the current system, a trustee for Wales has a seat on the BBC Trust.
The proposals were outlined by Culture Secretary John Whittingdale.
These include overhauling the existing structure of governance and senior management, and abolishing the trust governing the BBC.
The white paper also called for the BBC to continue its partnership with S4C, although a review of the Welsh language broadcaster in 2017 would determine its remit, funding and accountability arrangements.
Meanwhile, BBC director-general Tony Hall has written to the leaders of the devolved administrations, including the Welsh Assembly, to re-iterate the BBC's commitment to the nations.
Lord Hall has committed to spending more on English language programmes in all of the devolved nations, and will appoint a programme commissioner responsible for drama in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Objectives designed to improve the portrayal of Wales on network programmes will also be set.
Language campaigners have warned the changes could threaten S4C's independence.
Cymdeithas yr Iaith's digital spokesman Curon Wyn Davies said there was a risk the UK government will take decisions "which will harm the Welsh language", adding broadcasting needed to be devolved to Wales.
"The proposals suggest there is a further threat to S4C's independence," he said.
"Indeed, there is a major risk this could prepare the ground for further cuts and a wholesale gobbling up of the channel by the BBC."
But S4C authority chairman Huw Jones welcomed the "specific and supportive reference to S4C".
"The references to ensuring the continued independence of S4C under the new provisions, together with the intention to ensure certainty and clarity of funding for the service, are to be welcomed greatly," he added.
"The independent review of S4C, which is to take place in 2017, can be expected to pay more detailed attention to the precise means by which these principles will be put into effect in the long term."
Independent think tank, the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA), expressed concern about some of the plans in the White Paper, including a proposal to create a centre for excellence in factual programming in Scotland but failing to "address the challenges for this area of programming in Wales".
Angela Graham, chair of the Media Policy Group of the IWA, said: "There is acknowledgement that more should be done to reflect Wales to itself and to the UK but no specifics about funding."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said the BBC would continue to offer "distinctive content aimed at Welsh viewers, both in English and Welsh".
"The White Paper safeguards choice and ensures that Wales has a top table place on the BBC board running the corporation," he said.
"The fact that independent programme makers can now bid to make more BBC shows is a fantastic boost for Wales, which is already home to some of the UK's most exciting and innovative production companies making world-beaters like Hinterland."
At the start of 2016, single coins were only worth around $435 but their value has climbed steadily all year.
The steady upward progress has continued despite regular hack attacks on virtual currency exchanges in which coins have been stolen.
Experts said the rise in value was linked to the long-term depreciation of the Chinese Yuan.
The Chinese currency has dropped about 7% in value during 2016, said Reuters. The majority of Bitcoin currency trading takes place in China as it allows people to skirt restrictive local laws that limit how much money Chinese people can swap.
Charles Hayter, founder of the Cryptocompare website that watches virtual currencies, said global political uncertainty and Indian moves to control paper currency were also driving people to buy Bitcoins.
If those trends continued, he told Reuters, many more people may be tempted to buy Bitcoins as they could be seen as a "flight to safety".
Hackers have also been tempted by the rising value of the virtual coins. In August Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange Bitfinex suffered a major hack attack in which bitcoins worth $65m were thought to be taken.
Bitcoin values dropped about 10% when the news of the hack attack was made public
The virtual currency has yet to reach the heights it managed in late 2013 when each coin was worth more than $1,000. The total value of all bitcoins in circulation has now surpassed $14bn.
The Ulster sides - along with Dublin and Tyrone - are among four counties topping the table on seven points.
Niall Morgan and Padraig Hampsey replace Mickey O'Neill and Cathal McShane in two Tyrone changes from the defeat by Donegal for their Mayo game.
Cavan earned a superb away win over Mayo last weekend but a home defeat by Kerry on Sunday could relegate them.
Mayo boss Stephen Rochford makes two changes from the Cavan defeat with Chris Barrett and Evan Regan replacing Donal Vaughan and Conor Loftus.
Also in Division One, Dublin are odds on to stretch their unbeaten run to an all-time record of 34 league and championship games by beating relegation-threatened Roscommon at Croke Park on Saturday evening.
All three Ulster counties in Division Two are in relegation trouble going into their games on Sunday with bottom-placed Derry and Fermanagh occupying the drop spots at the moment and Down just ahead of the Ernemen on scoring difference.
However such is the tight nature of Division Two that two closing wins for Fermanagh and Down could put them in contention for promotion.
Derry look set to include Slaughtneil duo Chrissy McKaigue and Brendan Rogers in their squad for the vital home game against Cork, who are only a point ahead of the Oak Leafers in fifth spot.
Mark Lynch and Danny Heavron will also be available to Derry boss Damian Barton after injury.
After three successive defeats, Fermanagh got back on the winning trail by beating Clare last weekend but a reverse against unchanged Meath in Navan would keep them very much in the relegation mix.
Tomas Corrigan has been passed fit to start for Down while Chris Snow returns in goal in place of Thomas Treacy.
Down are in the same category as Fermanagh going into their home contest with Galway, who currently are in second spot in the table on seven points.
Galway boss Kevin Walsh has named an unchanged team from the win over Derry with Michael Daly set to play on Sunday after lining out for the county's under-21s in the Connacht semi-final against Mayo on Saturday.
In Division Three, there is a crucial all-Ulster clash at the Athletic Grounds on Saturday night with promotion contenders Armagh facing an Antrim team still in the relegation mix despite last weekend's win over Laois.
Armagh go into the weekend in third spot - a point behind leaders Tipperary and Louth.
But Tipperary face Louth on Sunday so Armagh will find themselves in a promotion place if they beat the Saffrons and there is a winner at Semple Stadium.
Kieran McGeeney makes two changes from the impressive 3-15 to 0-11 win over Louth as Gavin McParland and Stefan Campbell take over from Ciaran McKeever and Aidan Forker.
Forker's straight red card from last weekend's game has been overturned by the GAA's Central Hearing Committee so he could yet play a part in Saturday evening's game.
Monaghan (v Donegal): R Beggan; F Kelly, D Wylie, R Wylie; R McAnespie, N McAdam, K O'Connell; D Hughes, K Hughes; D Ward, S Carey, G Doogan; K Duffy, J McCarron, C McManus. Subs: C Forde, O Coyle, K McQuaid, V Corey, J Mealiff, B Greenan, T Kerr, O Duffy, C McCarthy, S Gollogly, M Bannigan.
Tyrone (v Mayo): N Morgan; P Hampsey, R McNamee, C McCarron; R Brennan, Justin McMahon, T McCann; C Cavanagh, D McClure; K McGeary, N Sludden, P Harte; M Bradley, S Cavanagh, M Donnelly. Subs: M O'Neill, C McCann, A McCrory, D McCurry, HP McGeary, R McNabb, P McNulty, C McShane, C Meyler, J Monroe, R O'Neill.
Mayo: D Clarke; B Harrison, K Higgins, C Barrett; C Boyle, L Keegan, P Durcan; T Parsons, D Kirby; F Boland, C O'Connor, C O'Shea; K McLoughlin, A Moran, E Regan.
Kerry (v Cavan): B Kealy; F Fitzgerald, M Griffin, R Shanahan; P Crowley, T Morley, P Murphy; D Moran, J Barry; A Spillane, K McCarthy, D Walsh; J Savage, P Geaney, S O'Brien.
Fermanagh (v Meath): C Snow; M Jones, C Cullen, K Connor; CP Murphy, B Mulrone, A Breen; E Donnelly, L Cullen; P McCusker, R Jones, R Lyons; E Courtney, Sean Quigley, T Corrigan.
Meath: P O'Rourke; D Keogan, C McGill, D Tobin; W Carry, B Power, P Harnan; B Menton, J Toher; A Forde, C O'Sullivan, R Ó Coileáin; B McMahon, G Reilly (capt), D Lenihan.
Galway (v Down): R Lavelle; L Burke, D Walsh, C Sweeney; G O'Donnell, G Bradshaw, J Heaney; P Conroy, F Ó Curraoin; T Flynn, M Daly, E Brannigan; G Sice, B McHugh, D Cummins.
Armagh (v Antrim): B Hughes; P Hughes, C Vernon, G McCabe; A McKay, B Donaghy, N Rowland; A Findon, S Sheridan; R Grugan, A Duffy, N Grimley; J Clarke, S Campbell, G McParland.
Allianz Football League Fixtures
Saturday - 19:00 GMT
Division One
Dublin v Roscommon, Croke Park
Division Three
Armagh v Antrim, Athletic Grounds
Laois v Longford, Portlaoise
Division Four
Waterford v Limerick, Fraher Field
Sunday - BST
Division One
Cavan v Kerry, Breffni Park, 14:00
Tyrone v Mayo, Healy Park, 15:00
Donegal v Monaghan, Ballyshannon, 15:00
Division Two
Derry v Cork, Celtic Park, 13:00
Meath v Fermanagh, Pairc Tailteann, 15:00
Down v Galway, Pairc Esler, 15:00
Kildare v Clare, Newbridge, 15:15
Division Three
Sligo v Offaly, Markievicz Park, 15:00
Tipperary v Louth, Semple Stadium, 15:00
Division Four
Leitrim v London, Carrick-on-Shannon, 13:00
Wexford v Westmeath, Wexford Park, 13:00
Wicklow v Carlow, Aughrim, 15:00
It is the terminus where the heroine of Leo Tolstoy's 19th Century novel Anna Karenina watches a man being cut in two by a train - a warning of the tragedy to come.
Today the station is still a busy place, with long-distance trains setting off for St Petersburg and the Arctic.
This month, on a Tuesday night, well after midnight, an elderly woman made her way through the crowds and bustle to board the "Arktika" express to Murmansk. It was the start of a long journey in a two-bed sleeper compartment.
Marina Khodorkovskaya was not heading for Murmansk. She was planning to alight a few stops earlier at Segezha - a scruffy town close to the Arctic Circle, known for its pulp and paper factory and for the gulag of the Stalin era.
These days there is still a prison in Segezha - Penal Colony No 7.
That is where Mrs Khodorkovskaya was heading to visit her son Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, and now seen by many as its longest serving political prisoner.
She makes the journey every three months, and this month she agreed that we could travel with her.
She told me she had lost count of the number of times over the last 10 years that she had made the journey either to Segezha or to Eastern Siberia where her son use to be held.
"I used to collect tickets," she recalled. "But then I threw them all away."
When she described the visiting room, it sounded more suited to violent criminals than those convicted of economic crimes.
"It is a long room divided into two with prisoners on one side and relatives on the other," she explained. "Then there are partitions - each with a little desk and a phone set on either of the thick glass. If somebody talks loudly next to you, you can hardly hear anything."
The journey to Segezha takes 20 hours in each direction. The three-monthly visits last four hours.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is also allowed a 15-minute weekly phone call from a booth outside.
"It's very cold there in winter," Mrs Khodorkovskaya said. "Once we thought he was ill, because he was speaking very strangely. But it turned out that his lips were frozen, and he couldn't speak with his normal voice."
Khodorkovsky was a billionaire who made his money in the 1990s by building Russia's biggest oil company Yukos.
When Vladimir Putin became president he told the oligarchs to stay out of politics, but in 2003 Khodorkovsky started challenging that, pushing back against the increasing authoritarianism and - according to some ministers of the time - buying influence in the Duma.
Eventually he was arrested and put on trial for tax evasion and fraud.
There is little doubt that some of his business practices in the 1990s had been questionable.
The pro-Putin Duma deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov told me: "I don't consider Khodorkovsky to be a political prisoner. He got what he deserved according to the Russian criminal code. There is no-one saying that he paid his due share of taxes."
But no other oligarch was put on trial, and when Khodorkovsky's eight year sentence was drawing to a close he was put on trial again and given a further six years in prison.
The US and EU called it "selective justice." The Russian opposition insists he is a "political prisoner", and it is hard to argue with that.
As the seemingly endless birch forests and lakes of northern Russia trundled past the window of the "Arktika" express, I asked Mrs Khodorkovskaya if she still got angry.
"You know, it's not anger", she replied.
"It's contempt - contempt towards people who are ready to destroy the lives of people, and their wives and children, just for money. Lives destroyed, and why? Only because of money."
We were not able to go in with Mrs Khodorkovsky to visit her son.
The colony's governor told me to my face that if the BBC team came within 50m of the prison we would be arrested.
But what we saw from the road is a dilapidated compound surrounded by rusting barbed-wire fences and guard dogs.
Giant spotlights can be seen on top of some of the buildings, and all around the perimeter stand wooden watchtowers strangely reminiscent of a World War II movie. It is not a high-tech prison, but it is strangely intimidating.
Khodorkovsky's incarceration has become relevant this year, partly because it is his 10th year in prison, but also because there has been an acceleration recently of what seem to be "political trials."
Amnesty International has declared two imprisoned women from the punk protest group Pussy Riot to be "prisoners of conscience".
A group of street protesters who demonstrated on the day before President Putin's inauguration have been in jail for almost a year, and are still awaiting trial.
The most charismatic leader to emerge from the new opposition, Alexei Navalny, is on trial for embezzlement - in what he claims is a political prosecution. The maximum prison sentence he faces is 10 years.
Ahead of her visit Marina Khodorkovskaya agreed to ask her son a question on our behalf. What were his thoughts about those standing trial today?
Through his mother, Khodorkovsky sent his reply.
"Because our courts are unfair, it is hard to stay strong. But people need to be honest, tell the truth and speak out. They should not be afraid."
Seventy jobs are expected to go at Shieldhall by the end of the year and 35 at Leven, unless new bottling contracts can be won.
Diageo's bottling plant in Italy is running below capacity after it disposed of its wine business.
Unions at the main distiller of Scotch whisky strongly criticised the move.
Unite said it was a "shocking betrayal of Scottish workers" and the GMB said it was connected to the economic uncertainties arising from Brexit.
But Diageo said it followed a review of its spirits bottling business to ensure the company delivered "leading performance" in domestic and export supply chains.
A spokesman added: "Regrettably, these changes may impact some roles in our European bottling plants towards the end of the year and we will now enter a period of consultation with our employees and their representatives to discuss the proposals in more detail.
"We are committed to our three spirits bottling sites in Europe - two in Scotland and one in Italy.
"The outcomes of this review will ensure we have the flexibility to respond to increased competition and external volatility, alongside testing and building the capability we need across our global supply chain to grow our brands."
There are currently 500 workers at Shieldhall, in south-west Glasgow, and 800 at Leven in Fife.
Cabinet Secretary for Finance Derek Mackay said Diageo's announcement was "deeply disappointing news".
He said: "Scottish Enterprise is engaging with the company to explore all possible options for supporting those affected, and we will work with the company to safeguard Scottish jobs.
"If any redundancies proceed, through our initiative for responding to redundancy situations, Partnership Action for Continuing Employment, we will provide skills development and employability support to minimise the time that individuals affected are out of work."
The Liverpudlian is second on 3,932 points, 40 behind leader and reigning champion Brianne Theisen-Eaton.
Johnson-Thompson has said her main aim this weekend is to get the 6,200 points needed for Rio.
She needs 2,268 points on Sunday in the three remaining events.
The 23-year-old began the day equalling her personal best of 13.37 seconds in the 100m hurdles and followed it up by clearing 1.92m in the high jump, a personal best outdoors.
After two events, Johnson-Thompson was in the overall lead but slipped to sixth following a disappointing 11.55m in the shot put - the worst mark in the field and 1.59m below the personal best she set earlier in the season.
She made amends for that poor display with a personal best 22.79 secs in the 200m, which pulled her closer to Canada's world silver medallist Theisen-Eaton.
Johnson-Thompson will start with the long jump on Sunday, the event which ruined her chances of gold at last year's World Championships following her failure to record a legal jump.
She said: "I'm sure I'll be nervous again in the long jump. I really want to get a good jump in the first round.
"This is my first big competition especially after a knee operation last autumn so I just want 6,200 points and to be injury free and to be going home with my ticket for the Olympics."
The Briton has also said her experience in Beijing changed her, created a "new Kat" who is determined to bounce back and quash her demons.
Her performances on the opening day in Austria promised much not only for this competition but the summer ahead.
Although she has repeatedly said Olympic qualification rather than regaining the title she won in 2014 is her priority this weekend, she looks set to vie with favourite Theisen-Eaton for first place.
And despite a poor display in the shot, her weakest event, Johnson-Thompson will take heart that she achieved her best heptathlon score of 6682 points in Gotzis two years ago, when her total after the opening day was also 3923.
The long jump, javelin and 800m remain on Sunday but fellow Brit Morgan Lake - adrift of her personal bests in all four events on the first day - is likely to fall short of the total needed for Rio.
Lake - recording 14.43 secs in the 100m hurdles, 1.86m in the high jump, 13.18m in the shot put and 26.12 secs in the 200m - is 29th overall.
British decathletes John Lane (4159 points) and Ashley Bryant (4121 points) are ninth and 13th respectively at the halfway stage in Austria, with the pair needing 8100 points to be selected for the Olympics.
It took until the second half for the match to stir up any excitement, as Gulls midfielder Damon Lathrope was forced to head off his own line to keep the scores level.
Minutes later, following Nathan Blissett's handball in the box, keeper Brendan Moore was the Torquay hero, saving a penalty from Danny Johnson.
Both sides were reduced to 10 when Johnson scythed through Ben Gerring, and the latter reacted to the bad tackle with an irate shove.
McGinty came close to winning it for Torquay late on when he struck the post.
Match ends, Gateshead 0, Torquay United 0.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 0, Torquay United 0.
Substitution, Torquay United. Jamie Chamberlain replaces Jamie Reid.
Substitution, Gateshead. Rhys Oates replaces James Bolton.
Wes York (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card.
Ben Gerring (Torquay United) is shown the red card.
Danny Johnson (Gateshead) is shown the red card.
Nathan Blissett (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Torquay United. Brett Williams replaces Sam Chaney.
Substitution, Gateshead. Reece Styche replaces Sam Jones.
James Bolton (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Torquay United. Giancarlo Gallifuoco replaces Aman Verma.
Second Half begins Gateshead 0, Torquay United 0.
First Half ends, Gateshead 0, Torquay United 0.
Damon Lathrope (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
The two have been at loggerheads over UKIP's future direction and strategy.
Mr Banks has called for the Clacton MP and a "Tory cabal" to be expelled - with ex-leader Nigel Farage also saying it was time for Mr Carswell "to go".
Mr Carswell, who defected from the Tories to UKIP in 2014 and won the Essex seat at the 2015 election, said Mr Banks's plans were "news to him".
The BBC understands party leader Paul Nuttall has asked his chairman Paul Oakden to meet Mr Carswell on Tuesday to "discuss the situation" amid growing questions about his future in the party.
Mr Carswell and Mr Banks have been engaged in a long-running feud. The latest development comes amid claims that Mr Carswell resisted attempts by senior UKIP figures to secure a knighthood for former leader Nigel Farage.
The Daily Telegraph reported that in an email the MP suggested Mr Farage should settle instead for an OBE for "services to headline writers".
On Monday, the MP, who has denied trying to block a knighthood for Mr Farage, alluded to the row when he tweeted "knight night".
Following UKIP leader Paul Nuttall's failure to win the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election last week, Mr Banks has said the party is at a "crossroads" and has offered to become party chairman in order to bring about a "total rebrand".
He has said Mr Farage, who stepped down last year and has since spent much of his time in the United States, should be "re-engaged".
Mr Banks has described Mr Carswell, whose relationship with Mr Farage is also strained, as a "terrible individual who has done his best to destroy UKIP".
Mr Banks' office said he intended to stand in Clacton, the Essex seat which Mr Carswell won with a 3,437 majority in 2015. It is not clear whether he will seek the UKIP nomination himself or will stand as an independent.
Mr Farage has claimed the party's only MP has been "totally disconnected" from UKIP since February 2015 and it was time for him to sever his links entirely.
"From the date of the result of the general election, he has actively been working against UKIP," Mr Farage wrote about Mr Carswell in the Daily Telegraph.
"I think there is little future for UKIP with him staying inside this party. The time for him to go is now," he added.
Mr Farage told the BBC: "If Paul [Nuttall] is constantly contradicted and dragged in the wrong direction by our one MP, that's not where he should be."
MEP Bill Etheridge has also said Mr Carswell should lose the party whip as he was "not compatible with what UKIP is trying to achieve". He told Radio 5 live that Mr Carswell should "look elsewhere" for his political future.
He told Radio 4's World at One the situation was "not a party at war it is one man... who has gone out of his way to subvert the party's leadership".
"I'm not suggesting that Douglas isn't a good MP he just doesn't have the UKIP principles at heart," Mr Etheridge said.
But UKIP Welsh Assembly member Mark Reckless said Mr Carswell should stay, saying "we have got to learn from him" as he won a Parliamentary election.
Mr Carswell, who has urged the party to project a more positive image and tone down its rhetoric on immigration, has warmer relations with Mr Nuttall and several of his key advisers.
Current UKIP chairman, Paul Oakden, said after the Stoke result that it might be years before his party can pick up another seat via a by-election.
Mr Banks criticised Mr Nuttall's tactics in the Stoke campaign, saying he wrongly adopted a "red UKIP" strategy, copying Labour policies on the NHS.
The businessman has said UKIP needs to become more professional if it is to make further headway, saying that as chairman he would oversee a new membership drive, and install a new team of "trained professional agents" to focus on target seats.
Unless this happened, he has suggested he could turn his back on the party.
North Wales Police has launched Operation Darwen, a campaign to cut the number of motorcycle-related deaths.
Figures have shown motorcyclists make up just 1% of road traffic but account for 18% of all fatalities.
Last year there were 108 motorcyclists killed or seriously injured on north Wales' roads compared with 71 in 2013.
Police said that there has been an emerging trend in motorcyclists who drive after drinking alcohol or taking drugs.
Until early autumn officers in north Wales will be checking tyres on motorcycles.
Ch Insp Darren Wareing said: "Whilst the vast majority of motorcyclists ride appropriately, some riders choose to use the roads as a racetrack.
"We want them to enjoy the roads but most of all we want them to ride safely and responsibly."
A 5-0 demolition of Alloa - inspired by a John Baird hat-trick - moved the Bairns to within a point of second-placed Hibs, having played a game more.
"The two clubs above us are very good sides," Houston told BBC Scotland.
"What we have to do is rid ourselves of the inconsistencies of last year."
Houston concedes it will be a huge challenge to compete with Rangers and Hibs given their superior resources but believes his own side have improved this season.
"We're looking at the two teams who are ahead of us," Houston said.
"Last year, we had an awful lot of draws. This season, we are turning them into victories.
"Raith Rovers, we're also nine points ahead of them, albeit with a game in hand, and there are teams below us like Morton and Queen of the South.
"They are our cup finals in many ways. We go to Palmerston next week, which will be another tough game.
"The one thing I've said to the players is, rather than look too far forward, we take one game at a time and they're concentrating on that and getting the results that are required."
Baird's treble against Alloa took his goal tally for the season to 13 and Houston has been thrilled with the striker's recent displays.
"He's in real good form just now," said the manager. "I think that's his second hat-trick in four games.
"When he plays like that, he can become unplayable.
"He's a player who takes up great positions in the box, as strikers do, but his goal he's actually ran from the halfway line and beat their centre-half for pace.
"Great credit to him. John deserves the match-ball. He's been in hot form."
Bob McHugh also found the net against Alloa and Houston - whose side have lost only twice in the league all season - says all his strikers are chipping in with important contributions.
"Bob's been a wee bit unlucky," said the Falkirk boss. "They were starting to form a partnership that was looking quite good in the pre-season matches.
"Bob was actually out for five or six weeks with an ankle injury. He done his ankle and then, during his rehab, he done his other ankle.
"Lee Miller's come in and stood up to the plate as well. He scored the winner against Morton here in the last minute.
"So all three strikers I've got here - the older ones - have done exceptionally well and I've got a couple of good ones underneath in young Kevin O'Hara and Scott Shepherd, boys who could break into the Falkirk first team during this season."
When he took the reins at Australia's largest department store chain Myer last March the group's profits had been stagnating for two decades.
His challenge was to reinvent the brand and bring the love of shopping in its stores back to life.
Just over a week into his new role, he had to warn investors that earnings would be lower than expected and admitted the firm had "lost relevance with some customers".
Less than six months later he had a plan, albeit an expensive one. His idea was to spend some 600m Australian dollars (£340m; US$450m) over the next five years transforming the company, whose value then was just A$700m.
The cost was indicative of the scale of the task.
The 116-year-old company had been struggling to compete with online shopping outlets and foreign brands such as Zara and Topshop.
Rivals were more advanced in their use of technology and customers' demands had changed, meaning the chain had no choice but to respond.
"We're in a period of time which is experiencing significant changes in the environment that we operate in. Industry as a whole, not just retail, has to respond to those significant changes, because they are disruptive in every sense.
"If we fail to respond to that, in all likelihood we lose relevance in an increasingly international, increasingly digital world, with people who have new perspectives on life," says Mr Umbers.
His pledge to shareholders was that he would arrest its 20-year sales decline, promising sales would grow 3% a year by 2020, and that earnings growth would outpace sales growth by 2017.
The plan, as Mr Umbers called it, was the "New Myer".
But how can one person even begin to make such a huge change, especially at such an old company where the ways of working were long established?
Mr Umbers says it essentially required a wholesale restructuring of how the business operated.
"Which is not just about appointing individual positions. It's actually about changing the systems and processes that go on within the organisation.
"In fact, it's about getting the right kinds of people in the organisation, generating the right culture, having a really sound plan to be able to execute against."
Some of the initial changes Mr Umbers made were to create entirely new positions, including a chief digital officer and a data officer. Typically these jobs would be rolled into just one senior role.
He says the appointments highlighted the importance of technology in the new business, making it clear that it was not just a back office function, but part of the firm's "frontline toolkit" to drive sales higher.
"So while on the one hand it feels like a title change, actually it's signalling something very important about the future potential for the business and the importance of digital and data in the future journey of the business," he says.
For similar reasons, he also created a "chief transformation officer" role.
And while the chain currently operates only in Australia, Mr Umbers regularly looks at what overseas retailers are doing to see if there is anything he can learn.
The firm's tie-up with British fashion chain Topshop, for example, originated from a trip to the UK, where Mr Umbers was born.
Myer has since taken a stake in its Australian franchise and now sells its products in some of its stores.
It has also instigated a cultural change programme called "self help" aimed at giving store managers and teams more autonomy over how they run the store.
Managers are now able to choose things such as some of the products they sell as well as the overall appearance of the store, for example, which Mr Umbers says has made them feel more responsible for the shop's performance.
"A large part of transformation for me is about how you engage the large majority of your organisation. It's got to be grassroots.
"If you do harness the masses of the organisation, in my view you stand a very good chance of success in transformation, he says.
Mr Umbers' biggest lesson sounds simple: "Change is not something that happens by accident.
"Change is something that is a very deliberate process that you embark upon. When you put systems, processes, capability in place in order to get the right business outcomes."
It is a sentiment that Andy Penn, chief executive of Australian telecommunications giant Telstra, agrees with.
"Ultimately it's the job of a CEO to lead an organisation through change. That's one of the big parts of the job," he says.
Communicating the new direction of the company is also vital, says CEO coach Steve Tappin: "The key is to build shared ownership and unite the company around building a better future together."
It is early days, but in May Myer reported better-than-expected third quarter sales which were up by 2.1%, more than double the 0.8% sales growth of the same period a year ago.
Like-for-like sales, which strip out new store openings, were up 3.4%.
Evidence, says Mr Umbers, that the "New Myer" is moving in the right direction.
This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.
Arcan Cetin was arrested in his hometown Oak Harbor on Saturday, nearly 24 hours after the attack in Burlington, 40 minutes' drive away.
He was born in Turkey and is a legal US permanent resident, officials say.
Investigators say they are not ruling out any motives, including terrorism.
Cetin's stepfather says he has a history of mental health issues.
According to the Associated Press, Cetin's postings online included references to a serial killer and Adolf Hitler, as well as pictures of so-called Islamic State's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomenei.
Five people - a teenage girl, three women and a man - were killed inside Macy's department store at Cascade Mall on Friday.
Court documents filed by prosecutors allege that Cetin confessed to shooting all five victims with a rifle.
Police said in court papers that all five victims were shot within a minute and the rifle was left on a cosmetics counter before the gunman fled.
At a news conference, police said Cetin had been identified as a suspect after a car connected to him was seen on security camera footage at the shopping centre.
Lt Mike Hawley, of Island County sheriff's department, said the car was later spotted in Oak Harbor. He said he had been on his way to the scene when he saw the suspect by the side of a road and arrested him.
Lt Hawley said the man "said nothing, he was zombie-like" and was not carrying a weapon.
The Seattle Times reported that the youngest victim was 16-year-old Sarai Lara, who had survived cancer as a young child.
Her mother described her as a happy, responsible, driven student.
Burlington is about 65 miles (105km) north of Seattle.
The pupils, from the independent Perse School in Cambridge, were allegedly seen by guards picking up buttons and fragments of a spoon from the ground.
In June, the school said they had been fined after admitting responsibility.
But Polish prosecutors said the boys had changed their minds and would now face a trial.
The pair, who were aged 17 at the time of the alleged theft, have withdrawn their admission of guilt, explaining that they were not aware the items had special cultural significance.
They had originally accepted a fine and suspended probation, their school said in June.
The artefacts, which also included a rusted hair clipper and glass fragments, were allegedly picked up in an area where new arrivals at the Nazi death camp were stripped of their belongings.
Krakow Regional Prosecutor's office spokeswoman Boguslawa Marcinkowska said the indictment had been sent on Tuesday to the Regional Court in Krakow.
She said it was likely the pupils would have to appear in court as they had changed their position and their intention to voluntarily submit to punishment.
The maximum penalty for the crime is a 10-year prison sentence.
No-one at the Perse School was available for comment.
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
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Premier Foods, which has a host of well-known brands including Bisto gravy and Loyd Grossman sauces, said the grocery market was subdued.
It said a later Easter and mild weather also meant lower sales this year.
However, Premier, which recently completed a £1.1bn restructuring, said trading conditions would continue to be tough for the rest of the year.
Premier said that it would, however, meet its annual forecasts and planned new product launches and a rise in marketing spending in the second half of the year.
Sales at the group's "support" brands including Homepride and Angel Delight, were down 10.4%.
The sales fall reflects a weak quarter for supermarket food sales. All four major supermarkets saw sales drop in the three months to March as discount chains Aldi and Lidl picked up business.
Premier is in the process of forming a joint venture with US private equity group Gores, which will see its ownership of Hovis fall to 49%.
Premier aims to concentrate more energy on its cake business, which will invest £20m in a new production line at its factory in Barnsley.
The Welsh region came from 21-7 down to beat Newcastle Falcons 21-26 and make it six wins from six in Pool Two.
Their bonus-point win means they became the first team ever to register the maximum 30 points from the pool stages of a European club competition.
"It won't count for a lot when it comes to the quarter-finals," Tandy said.
Ospreys will go on to face Stade Francais at home in the last eight after the French side beat Harlequins 27-17 in their final group game.
He told BBC Radio Wales: "For the group as a whole, it's been a good stage for all of us. It's a record and it's never been done before but it means nothing now.
"But we go into the last eight which is really pleasing for the squad."
Daniel Temm, Rob Vickers and Chris Harris all scored tries for the Falcons after Rhys Webb crossed on his Ospreys return following a spell out with an ankle injury picked up in Wales' defeat by Australia in November.
But Hanno Dirksen, Sam Davies and Scott Otten replied in the second half for the visitors to seal yet another European victory.
"We've had to rotate the squad around a hell of a lot in this competition and everyone's responded," Tandy continued.
"The first half's probably the worst half we've played in the competition but how the boys battled back was really pleasing.
"Ultimately, coming in at half-time at 21-7 probably didn't reflect the first half but I think ultimately we got what we deserved for not looking after the ball."
Many residents in the worst hit areas are still without proper shelter as they try to rebuild their homes.
A group of "citizen journalists" in Iloilo on the central island of Panay documented the devastation in the province. Here are some photos and stories gathered by the group, known as Typhoon Yolanda Story Hub Visayas.
Corazon Barsanas, 91, was staying with her family when Haiyan ripped off the roof of their house. Corazon says she never imagined she would be able to brave a storm as strong as Haiyan. (20 November)
A convenience store in San Rafael, Iloilo has re-opened again despite being heavily damaged by the storm. (20 November)
The house of Ninfa Blanca, 57, was wiped out by the typhoon. Her neighbours have already started rebuilding their homes but Ninfa is unable to begin as she has no-one to help her. (20 November)
Local women selling woven bags, purses, and hats at the community centre in Sitio Nagpana. (20 November)
A resident of Lemery, Iloilo gathers some materials that she can use or burn. People are still in the process of re-opening the roads and cleaning up the storm mess. (20 November)
Vic Bataluna from Barotac Viejo, Iloilo is straightening out old nails to use them again. Vic says they have received some relief but he wishes for nails to help people rebuild their houses. (20 November)
Nelly Paclibar - pictured in the foreground - waiting for another day to end by the roadside. (20 November)
Residents of Estancia town gather around a TV set powered by a battery from a vehicle to watch a boxing match. Beside them is the roofless Northern Iloilo Polytechnic State College. (24 November)
Men from Estancia town rejoice as Manny Pacquiao - from the Philippines - beats American Brandon Rios. (24 November)
Prof Dr Glyn O Phillips said leaving Euratom would make it difficult to get staff for projects like Wylfa Newydd.
The UK will leave the body if the bill to trigger Article 50 to start the process of leaving the EU is approved.
Wylfa Newydd's developers said it was confident any issues could be resolved.
But Prof Phillips, winner of international science awards, said that withdrawal from Euratom "will be destructive to any nuclear work in the UK" as European resources have been centralised at Cern in Geneva, Switzerland.
"They are trying to build a centre now in Manchester, to bring some kind of training but, in the end, all our researchers go back and forth to Cern," he said in an interview BBC Cymru Fyw.
"If that link is cut and we can't keep the connection, then I can't see how we could ever produce the workforce that is vital to maintain the new power stations that they are talking about."
He said training is "crucially important" to staff the next generation of plants, and that doing so is dependent on "working with other people".
"I don't see cutting ourselves off through Brexit bringing any new jobs. It just means that you cannot use other people's resources."
Prof Phillips added: "Wylfa Newydd will go on, of course, and we will have to depend on people from the outside to be trained, and make plans to do so.
"The investment will be bigger and, of course, the expense will be bigger as the pound has fallen in value. It does not bode well."
Wylfa Newydd developers Horizon Nuclear Power said that although withdrawal from Euratom could cause "problems", these would not impair the company's ability to source and train staff.
A spokesman said: "Whilst the UK's withdrawal from Euratom would present issues that would need to be addressed we are confident these can be resolved on a timescale that keeps us on schedule to successfully deliver our lead project, Wylfa Newydd.
"The government has indicated that it is determined to ensure there are no negative impacts from withdrawal and we welcome this commitment."
In response, the UK government said: "Leaving Euratom is a result of the decision to leave the EU as they are uniquely legally joined.
"The UK supports Euratom and will want to see continuity of co-operation and standards.
"We remain absolutely committed to the highest standards of nuclear safety, safeguards and support for the industry.
"Our aim is clear; we want to maintain our mutually successful civil nuclear co-operation with the EU."
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "We note the UK government has been assessing the implications of exiting Euratom.
"We will seek further detail on this matter along with assurance the withdrawal will have no negative effects on the nuclear sector in Wales and the UK."
"It was on the plane over I realised I'd made a mistake," a 25-year-old private tutor tells me.
He was flying to New York to spend the summer helping to prepare a 12-year-old boy for the Common Entrance exam - a test taken by children applying to private secondary schools.
The boy's mother had insisted he sat next to the boy so he could spend the flight time teaching him.
He did an hour and then given they were spending the next three weeks together, decided to take a nap.
The next thing he knew, he was being woken up by the mother standing over him, shouting "You think this is some kind of holiday?".
Given the high fees charged by such tutors and the intense competition for places at top British schools it's perhaps not surprising that tensions can sometimes run high.
"In an already privileged world, tutoring is an extra level of pushing," he says.
The Londoner uses the job's flexibility to fund his real passion of film production and acting. He is unwilling to be named in this article in case it jeopardises future jobs.
Yet he says the money easily makes up for the occasional difficulties. He charges anywhere from £40 to £90 an hour in the UK, although the agencies he is hired through take a 25% to 50% cut of this.
When he takes an overseas job, the fees are much higher to compensate for the fact that he can't do any other work. Typically he earns between £800 and £1,500 a week.
In three years as a tutor he's worked in India, Indonesia and Costa Rica, as well as the US.
Hiring an English tutor is increasingly common in many countries, particularly for those who want their children to go to an overseas private secondary school, he says.
The fact that he "sounds a bit posh" and went to a top London school are "valuable trading cards" in an international industry which is "a lot about image as well as actual background," he says.
This kind of tutoring is one of the British education services that makes a valuable contribution to the UK economy. Collectively, education exports were worth a whopping £17.5bn in 2011, the most recent figure available. This includes education products and services, income from international students in higher education as well as schools and English language lessons.
Those working in the industry suggest the value is likely to have grown since then.
Mark Maclaine, who co-founded the agency, Tutorfair, in 2012 after over a decade of tutoring, says overseas demand is enormous and growing. His overseas customers are mostly from Asia, the Middle East, eastern Europe and Russia.
Dubbed "a super tutor" due to his students' success rate, he charges fees on a sliding scale, anywhere from £150 an hour up to a staggering £1,000.
At the upper end of the scale, he says it's typically consultancy. A short time to teach someone how to study and prepare for an exam independently as opposed to a continuing arrangement.
Word of mouth recommendations have seen him hired by US actors and actresses and he's taught in a variety of exotic locations from a yacht sailing around the Caribbean to private islands in luxury holiday resorts.
He admits that the high pressure can create a toxic environment, and says experience has taught him to interview a family before he commits to a job.
We're speaking over the phone while he's in Bali, where he has tagged a holiday onto the end of a tutoring job.
"The British private education system is seen as one of the best in the world. Royal families, rulers of countries are very very keen that their kids get some form of education in Britain," he says.
The demand is high enough that two to three times a year Mr Maclaine will get an "emergency call" from a family desperate for his immediate services.
Normally these calls come when a child has failed a practice exam for a UK school and "everyone panics".
Often he'll offer to tutor by Skype, but occasionally when he's offered a "stupid amount of money" he'll agree to fly out.
"I'm a human being. I've got a mortgage to pay".
To help address the balance, Tutorfair says that for every child whose parents pay for its service it gives tutoring to another boy or girl whose mother and father, or other guardian, cannot afford to pay.
It's not just tutoring agencies cashing in on the foreign demand for a British education.
Many private schools have opened branches overseas: Harrow has schools in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok; while Dulwich College and Wellington College both have overseas franchises in China.
Such extensions create a handy extra revenue stream for private schools as the domestic market slows.
But Charles Bonas, founder of Bonas MacFarlane, which offers tuition and also advises on choices of schools from nursery to university, says many families still prefer to send their children to school in the UK.
He says partly it's because it's a way for wealthy families with drivers and nannies to help their offspring become more independent.
But he says the main reasons that parents choose the UK is because English is spoken as a first language, and the education is deemed well-rounded - teaching children how to think critically and take risks.
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Often parents only want the top name schools, he says recalling the time two years ago when the parents of a five-year-old girl said they wanted her to go to Eton next term. "They didn't take no as an immediate answer," he says.
But this is where the firm uses its consultation skills, a process costing from £3,000 to £12,000 with a relationship that can last years.
"I took on a parent last year whose children weren't even born yet. They're going to need a nursery, pre-prep, prep and a senior school," he explains.
Whether or not these arrangements are simply perpetuating inequality, Mr Bonas argues that they are of long-term benefit to the UK, and not just because of the economic boost.
"These children have often got a family business to take over and will be the movers and shakers in their world.
"If they have an affinity for Britain then that can only be a good thing," he says.
Ian Milligan, 52, from Dumfries, caused the crash after driving onto the wrong side of the A702, near Abington, South Lanarkshire, on 8 July 2013.
His friend and passenger, Alistair Wells, 56, later died in hospital. Five people in the other car were injured.
Milligan will be sentenced later for causing death by dangerous driving.
His trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard that Milligan and lifelong friend Mr Wells, also from Dumfries, were returning home from working on a building site in Edinburgh.
William Johnston and his family were also on the A702 as they headed back from a holiday in Wales.
Milligan ended up driving his Honda car on the opposite side of the road as he approached a bend, causing him to smash into Mr Johnston's oncoming Peugeot.
An air ambulance was called to the scene to help the casualties.
Mr Wells never recovered from his injuries and died the next day at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital.
Mr Johnston suffered a broken elbow, his wife Deborah had a serious neck injury while three other relatives were also hurt - including one who later needed emergency surgery.
Milligan - who also ended up in hospital - told the jury that he had no memory of the crash.
Prosecutor Tim Niven Smith put it to Milligan that being on the wrong side of the road that day was "kamikaze-like".
Mr Niven Smith went on: "This was suicidal...moronic to drive that way?" Milligan said: "Yes, moronic."
The advocate depute added: "You say that you cannot remember so cannot assist as to how you came to be on the other side of the road?" Milligan replied: "No."
Lord Matthews continued bail as he deferred sentencing until next month for reports.
The judge later told jurors: "These cases are always very anxious and there are no winners or losers. They are a tragedy for all concerned."
Losses mounted in late trading to leave the FTSE 100 1.8% lower at 6,036.7 points.
Direct Line was one of several companies going ex-dividend, along with BHP Billiton, which fell 4.9%.
Supermarket chain Morrisons, which recently returned to the FTSE 100, was another big faller, shedding 4.5%.
The decline came after the retailer posted a further drop in annual profits as a result of the price war in the supermarket sector.
Shopping centre owner Intu Properties, a recent entrant to the FTSE, was the top riser, adding almost 1.5% to 299.8p.
The company, whose centres include Lakeside in Essex and the Trafford and Arndale centres in Manchester, is worth just over £4bn.
On the FTSE 250, estate agent Savills rose 5.2%, while OneSavingsBank was the biggest faller, losing 7.8%.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.6% against the dollar to $1.4301, but tumbled 0.9% against the euro to €1.2810.
Souttar, who was stretchered off during Sunday's 4-0 defeat by Celtic, will undergo an operation next week.
"There's positives and negatives to take from the situation," the 20-year-old told the Hearts website.
"On the bright side, I'm not spending a year on the sidelines. However, I'm still gutted that I won't get to finish the rest of the campaign."
The former Dundee United defender added: "It's been a good season for me up until this point as I had been playing every week, but I'll just use that as motivation to get back to fitness and win my place back in the team.
"I've got the likes of Callum Paterson and Sam Nicholson who will be able to offer me advice on long-term injuries and I know I'll have the support of everyone at the club.
"Now we just get the operation out of the way and aim for returning in pre-season a stronger and better player."
Speaking after Souttar suffered the injury, Hearts head coach Ian Cathro said: "The situation with John is one where his career will flourish, irrespective of what has happened.
"He is a very talented, a very motivated young player. He's had to deal with some bits and pieces of flak and frustration, even from his time at Dundee United.
"That was a bit of a challenge for him but he is a strong young man having dealt with that."
Tepco said xenon had been found in reactor two, which was previously thought to be near a stable shutdown.
There has been no increase in temperature or pressure, but the discovery may indicate a problem with the reactor.
Boric acid - used to suppress nuclear reactions - has been injected as a precaution.
Ever since the meltdowns in March triggered by the huge earthquake and tsunami, engineers have been working to bring the Fukushima reactors under control.
The government and Tepco - the Tokyo Electric Power Company - have said they are on track to achieve a stable shutdown by the end of the year.
But now they have found what could be a problem - radioactive xenon gas detected in a filter in reactor two.
Since it has a short half-life, it indicates a possibility of resumed nuclear fission in recent days.
Tepco says the temperature of the reactor, which has been below boiling point, has not increased, indicating any reaction would be small.
It is not ruling out a false reading but boric acid, which suppresses fission, was injected into the reactor overnight.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Japan a reactor has been switched on for the first time since the disaster.
Safety fears mean local authorities have been refusing permission for restarts after routine maintenance.
Dozens of facilities are offline amid concern about electricity shortages.
James Peter Gavin, 80, of College Bank Way, Rochdale, has been charged with 13 offences against a boy under 14 and one offence against a boy under 16.
He is due to appear at Bury and Rochdale Magistrates' Court on 9 February.
Police said the charges relate to alleged offences from 1970 to 1978 at Foxholes Children's Home in Rochdale.
Saturday, 17 December
(Kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless stated)
Crystal Palace v Chelsea (12:30 GMT)
Middlesbrough v Swansea City
Stoke City v Leicester City
Sunderland v Watford
West Ham United v Hull City
West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United (17:30 GMT)
Sunday, 18 December
Bournemouth v Southampton (13:30 GMT)
Manchester City v Arsenal (16:00 GMT)
Tottenham Hotspur v Burnley (16:00 GMT)
Friday, 16 December 2016
Norwich City v Huddersfield Town (19:45 GMT)
Saturday, 17 December
Blackburn Rovers v Reading
Bristol City v Preston North End
Burton Albion v Newcastle United
Cardiff City v Barnsley
Fulham v Derby County
Leeds United v Brentford
Nottingham Forest v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Sheffield Wednesday v Rotherham United
Wigan Athletic v Ipswich Town
Birmingham City v Brighton and Hove Albion
Sunday, 18 December
Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa (12:00 GMT)
Emergency services were called out at about 19:00 on Wednesday to Purveshaugh Farm near Earlston.
No people or livestock were harmed but the barn suffered "substantial damage" including the collapse of its roof.
Police want to hear from anyone who saw any activity near the barn around the time of the incident.
Insp Alistair Hutchens said: "This has been a substantial fire in an area that contains livestock and is well used by agricultural workers.
"We believe the fire to be suspicious and are asking for the public's help in tracing those responsible.
"I would ask that anyone who was in the area at the time and saw anything suspicious to please get in touch as soon as possible."
Councillor Olwyn Peters, a council cabinet member, said a "culture of bullying" exists in the local party.
It comes after the party was reviewed in 2012 due to complaints of bullying and intimidation between members.
A Labour spokesman said the party has made a "number of changes" to the way the group operates since then.
The BBC published details of the internal Labour Party report that described the Redcar Council group as being "dysfunctional" and having "serious failings".
The report, written in 2012 by Darlington councillor Nick Wallis, found that a culture of "group bullying" existed within the council group and that he received reports of members "physically intimidating" each other.
Ms Peters, who is a former ceremonial mayor of Redcar, recently passed an initial selection process to stand as a Labour candidate in this year's local council elections.
She said she wants to stand as a candidate who believes in "openness and transparency".
"Let's make it absolutely clear. It makes me cringe when people say that the Labour group in Redcar and Cleveland is dysfunctional. I would just like to clarify that it is not," she said.
"There are a handful of people in that group that are dysfunctional and are all out to cause trouble, not the Labour group.
"The culture of bullying within the group is very much alive and well, people are almost being silenced."
A Labour party spokesman said: "Since the Wallis report was written The Labour Party has worked with the Redcar Group to implement a number of changes in the way the group operates.
"Nobody has yet been selected as a candidate to stand, this will be done by local members over the coming weeks.
"We are confident that local Labour members will select a united and talented team of candidates who will put the interests of the people of Redcar and Cleveland first in the elections this May."
The 20-year-old SNP politician made her first speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
She paid tribute to her constituency, attacked benefit sanctions and challenged Labour to work with the SNP to create effective opposition.
The speech became a viral hit and has been racking up millions of views.
Mhairi Black's first speech: Five things we learned
It has been watched more than 8 million times on Channel 4 and Buzzfeed's Facebook pages, with hundreds of thousands of views on newspaper sites, YouTube and the SNP's own site. On the BBC the story has been viewed 150,000 times.
SNP Westminster Leader Angus Robertson said: "Mhairi's outstanding maiden speech was principled and passionate. She is without a doubt a huge credit to Paisley and to the SNP.
"The House of Commons listened in silence to its youngest member remind us all why we are sitting in our place and those we were elected to speak for - it is of no surprise that this message had resonance far beyond the walls of Westminster.
"That millions of people across the UK and abroad watched her speech is staggering."
Baby and adult ashes were mixed together at the crematorium and given back to relatives of the adult.
The parents of infants were told there were no ashes.
Aberdeen City Council said Pete Leonard had resigned following a period of ill health. The council thanked him for 12 years of service.
BBC Scotland revealed in 2013 that no ashes had been offered to the families of infants cremated in Aberdeen over a five-year period.
It followed similar revelations about Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh, which had been secretly burying baby ashes for decades.
A report into the scandal by Dame Elish Angiolini described the practices as "abhorrent".
The 6.7-magnitude quake hit 12km (seven miles) north-east of Kos, near the Turkish coast, with a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.
At least 20 others were injured on Kos, a popular tourist destination. Some buildings were damaged.
In the Turkish city of Bodrum, several people were injured as they tried to flee the quake.
Pictures on social media showed people in the city walking with water lapping their ankles and localised flooding, and about 70 people sought hospital treatment for minor injuries.
The earthquake struck at 01:31 on Friday (2230 GMT Thursday).
Turkey and Greece sit on significant fault lines and are regularly hit by earthquakes.
One of the deadliest in recent years hit the heavily populated northwest of Turkey, in 1999, killing some 17,000 people.
The 33-year-old Portugal defender has 18 months left to run on his current deal, which he signed in October 2015.
Southampton's director of football Les Reed says the player has had the chance to sign an improved deal, but Fonte has now asked to leave the club.
"He's had several opportunities to improve the contract situation. He's reserved his right not to do that," Reed told BBC Radio Solent.
"He's made it very clear he would like to explore the opportunities for a transfer.
"That's where we are at the moment, Jose wants to leave the club. He's formally asked for a transfer."
Reed went on to confirm the club have not yet received any formal bid for the player, who joined Saints from Crystal Palace in January 2010, and has made 288 appearances.
Fonte was linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer after helping his country win Euro 2016, and he wrote on Instagram last month: "Just to set the record straight I did not reject a new contract. In fact, I have been informed by Southampton that they are not offering me a new contract."
However, Reed insists new terms have been offered to the former Benfica player: "What was offered to Jose was, in my view, quite significant off the back of the contract he signed in October 2015.
"Six months later we were prepared to improve that contract and extend it. He has turned down the opportunity to increase his salary, and he's turned down the opportunity to get another permanent year on his contract."
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Some 311 football clubs, spanning all tiers of the game, are involved in the inquiry, called Operation Hydrant.
The ages of the victims - 96% of whom are male - span from four to 20.
A hotline was set up to report abuse last year when a number of ex-footballers said they had been victims as youngsters.
The investigation is being co-ordinated by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC).
In its last update in January, the number of victims stood at 526, while the number of potential suspects stood at 184.
Police forces across the UK have received an increased number of calls from victims and from people offering information since the hotline was set up.
The NPCC said 25 referrals to the inquiry related to sports other than football.
These have included rugby, gymnastics, martial arts, tennis, wrestling, golf, sailing, athletics, cricket and swimming.
While the number of referrals being received is beginning to decline, the NPCC is continuing to urge anyone who may have been a victim of child sexual abuse to come forward.
The Football Association has also begun an independent review, led by Clive Sheldon QC, into its handling of abuse allegations in the years prior to 2005.
The hotline set up by the NSPCC is available 24 hours a day on 0800 0232642.
The woman was driving on the A466 between Redbrook, Gloucestershire, and Llandogo, Monmouthshire, when her car left the road and hit a tree.
Gloucestershire Police said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene and her next of kin had been informed.
The crash, at 08:15 GMT on Saturday, left the road closed for several hours while an investigation took place.
The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) approved 104 so-called altruistic organ donations in 2012-13 compared with 38 the previous year.
The figures include the first case of someone giving part of their liver to someone they had never met.
Altruistic donations now make up about one in 12 of all living donations.
The total number of living donations, including those to family members or friends, rose from 1,217 to 1,243 over the same time period.
Diana Warwick, chair of the HTA, said donating an organ was a remarkable thing to do.
"Giving someone an organ is a brave and amazing gift. To do it for someone whom you don't know is doubly so, and the huge increase in people willing to do so is incredible," she said.
"The HTA works on more - and more complex - living donation cases every year and we expect this to continue. We remain committed to ensuring that people can donate organs with confidence."
For me, it's the same principle as giving blood, it's just a much bigger commitment. I did a lot of research into the process - I was aware you go through very rigorous psychological and medical tests.
There wasn't a moment when I felt I was doing the wrong thing. I didn't really feel any doubt at all. I think a lot of people didn't understand why - it's a very personal thing.
If you're considering it - do your research - it's a major operation. It's a personal thing, it's about how you choose to live your life.
For me it was something I could do for someone that could make a really significant difference to their life and to their family.
The HTA believes the number of living organ donations is rising, as public awareness spreads.
Lisa Burnapp, lead nurse for living donation at NHS Blood and Transplant, said donors were motivated by a decision to do something genuinely good for someone in need.
"The increase in non-directed altruistic living donors has exceeded all expectations and means that more patients can benefit from a successful transplant and enjoy life with their families and loved ones," she said.
"This is an incredibly important gift and we are indebted to people who choose to donate in this way."
There are currently about 10,000 people in need of a transplant in the UK, with three people a day dying due to the lack of suitable available organs, according to NHS figures.
Potential living donors undergo extensive medical and psychological screening.
This includes an independent check, which ensures that the donor understands the risks involved, is not under any pressure, and that no reward has been offered.
At least six people are reported to have been killed in the US missile strikes early on Friday.
Syria's ally Russia accused the US of encouraging "terrorists" with its unilateral actions.
"I'm disappointed in that response," said US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
"It indicates their continued support for the Assad regime and, in particular, their continued support for a regime that carries out these type of horrendous attacks on their own people.
"So I find it very disappointing, but, sadly, I have to tell you, not all that surprising," he added.
Moscow has promised to strengthen Syria's anti-aircraft defences.
It is also closing down a hotline with the US designed to avoid collisions between their air forces over Syria.
According to Idlib's opposition-run health authority, 89 people, including 33 children and 18 women, died in the suspected nerve agent attack in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday. Syria denies using nerve gas.
The US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley told an emergency session of the UN Security Council that the US had acted to ensure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would never use chemical weapons again.
"We are prepared to do more but we hope that will not be necessary," she said. "It is in our vital national security interest to prevent the spread and use of chemical weapons."
She blamed Iran and Russia for standing by the Syrian government when it committed crimes. "Strengthening Assad will only lead to more murders," she said.
Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Safronkov, described the US strikes as "illegitimate".
"When you take your own path, this leads to horrible tragedies in the region," he told the Americans.
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he was preparing further economic sanctions against Syria.
Cruise missiles fly low and have a relatively small radar cross-section so they are difficult to destroy with air defences. Russia may seek to improve Syria's surface-to-air missile system in the wake of this US attack but it would be very much a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Syria used to have a highly effective national air defence system based on Soviet-era radars and missiles but it has been significantly weakened in the wake of the civil war and the loss of territory by the regime. Look at the ease with which the Israelis carry out strikes against Hezbollah arms convoys and weapons stores in Syria.
Russia has some of its most modern surface-to-air missile systems at its air base in Syria and radars with a huge reach but, for whatever reason, they too have not deterred Israeli strikes.
Their presence makes air strikes by manned US aircraft unlikely and for Washington the Tomahawk cruise missile will remain the weapon of choice.
Two US Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Shayrat air base in western Homs province at about 04:40 Syrian time (01:40 GMT) on Friday.
They targeted aircraft, aircraft shelters, storage areas, ammunition supply bunkers and air defence systems at the Syrian government-controlled facility, according to the Pentagon.
It said the base was used to store chemical weapons and that "every precaution" had been taken to avoid casualties. The Russian military was informed beforehand, the Pentagon said.
Syrian state media said as many as nine civilians had been killed in the strike, four of them children. The BBC is unable to confirm this information.
The Syrian army said earlier there had been significant damage to the base.
However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based opposition news service, said on Friday evening the base was already back in operation and aircraft had taken off and "struck targets near Palmyra". The report could not be independently verified.
The US has led a coalition carrying out air strikes against jihadist groups in Syria since 2014 but this is the first time it has targeted government forces.
Thanet council's UKIP leader Chris Wells received a summons after he failed to pay a monthly instalment in April last year.
He paid his entire annual council tax bill in November, six months after he became leader in May.
Mr Wells declined to comment to the BBC, but a UKIP spokesman said the case had no bearing on his leadership.
He told the Kent Messenger newspaper, which revealed the details, he was unable to pay because he was not getting a lot of work as a self-employed management consultant and was owed money.
Opposition politicians have said his position is "untenable".
Labour councillor Iris Johnston said: "The council had to pursue him at a cost to the council. That really concerns me."
She added: "There are a number of reasons why I consider his position is not tenable and this is just one of them."
Mr Wells's council tax bill for 2015-16 was £2,579.10.
After his first instalment was not paid, he was sent a reminder notice on 28 April 2015 and a final notice on 19 May.
The authority said any council tax payer who received a final notice forfeited their right to pay in instalments, and Mr Wells then received a bill for the full amount of £2,579.10.
A summons was issued on 22 June and a liability order obtained at a hearing on 14 July, with £50 court costs added to the bill.
The account was paid in full by 25 November.
Thanet council said Mr Wells agreed payment arrangements before the hearing and did not need to attend court.
North Thanet's Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale said: "I think most of us have sympathy with somebody who privately is having difficulty in paying their bills.
"MPs deal with people in that situation all the time. But I do find it a little extraordinary that the leader of a council should allow this to get to court."
UKIP won a majority in last year's Thanet elections but lost overall control after five members defected.
A UKIP spokesman said a "phenomenally good" independent report released this week had praised the council.
"The case is embarrassing for Cllr Wells personally, but all the outstanding tax was paid and it is now closed," he said.
"It has no bearing on the council he leads, as can be seen by the report."
The visitors led when Karim Benzema finished off a great move involving Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, but Dani Parejo equalised with a penalty.
Real had Mateo Kovacic sent off for a lunging tackle but looked set for a win when Bale headed home.
However, Valencia earned a third point under Neville when Paco Alcacer headed in from close range seconds later.
The home side could have won the game in injury time when substitute Alvaro Negredo was found in space at the edge of the box, but he could only shoot straight at goalkeeper Keylor Navas.
There is no doubt this is the best result of Neville's spell as Valencia boss, following a Champions League defeat, two draws from three La Liga games and a Spanish Cup win over lower league Barakaldo.
Los Che did not look impressive in the opening half hour but Parejo deservedly levelled from the spot after Pepe fouled Andre Gomes.
Once Real went down to 10 men, Neville made some changes, bringing on Rodrigo, who headed a cross into the path of Alcacer to equalise.
Negredo, another substitute, should have sealed a famous win when Alcacer found him in space deep into injury time but he was denied by Navas and Gomes put the rebound wide.
After the game, Neville insisted he wanted to remain at Valencia beyond his six-month contract and said his claim he did not see himself in management long term had been misunderstood.
It appears that Real boss Rafael Benitez is more popular among Valencia fans than his own.
Home supporters unfurled a banner thanking him for a spell in charge that yielded two La Liga titles earlier in the millennium.
Benitez was named Madrid boss in the summer, but they sit four points off city rivals Atletico at the top of La Liga and two behind Barcelona, who have a game in hand.
Benitez appeared to anger goalscorer Benzema when replacing him with winger Lucas Vazquez two minutes before Kovacic was dismissed for hacking down Joao Cancelo.
Although they looked like they were going to win it when Bale headed home before Alcacer's quickfire equaliser, Madrid did nowhere near enough to deserve a victory.
The 21-year-old was named man-of-the-match in the 1-0 win over Denmark.
Both he and Celtic full-back Kieran Tierney, 18, impressed manager Gordon Strachan at Hampden.
"I was probably as nervous as I've ever been but it's credit to the older boys - Gordon Greer, Scott Brown, on his 50th cap, helped Kieran and me settle," said Hibernian midfielder McGinn.
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"I think it was clear to see by the time kick-off came we were relaxed and it helped us play to the best of our ability.
"First and foremost I was delighted to get the opportunity to play. It was rather unexpected but once I found out on Tuesday morning, I was focused on doing a job for the team and I'm delighted with how it went."
McGinn has been widely praised for his club form this season and he revealed Strachan simply told him to stick to the same principles ahead of his international bow.
"He just said do what you've been doing, that's why you're here and don't be overawed with the players who are on the pitch, just go and do what you do and it was important that myself and Kieran did that and I think we showed it in spells," he added.
"I'm playing with good players at club level and I've come here and played with top players and that can only improve my game.
"I feel as if I'm getting better and better as the season's going on. I'm learning every day.
"I had a great opportunity this week to learn from good coaches and players and I'm just soaking everything in like a sponge and getting wee tips here and there and I think it's making me an all-round good player."
McGinn will hope to add to his first cap when Scotland play further friendlies against Italy and France just before Euro 2016.
But he is grounded enough to appreciate that climbing above Darren Fletcher, James McArthur and James Morrison in the central midfield pecking order will be no mean feat.
"I've got belief in myself but I'm realistic as well. There are top players missing, sitting at home ready for the games in May, so I've just got to concentrate on what I'm doing at my club and if I get the shout I'll be ready," he stressed.
Tierney enjoyed a fine first half before being replaced by his Celtic team-mate Charlie Mulgrew.
"I don't think anyone could have predicted this is the way the season would have gone for me so far, so I just hope it can continue," the teenager told BBC Scotland.
"I'm delighted obviously to make my debut, but it was an important win for us and a good clean sheet again."
Like McGinn, Tierney looked unfazed by his appearance at Hampden.
"I was excited and surprised [to be selected] but I've been surprised every time I've been on the Celtic teamsheet," he added.
"It wasn't so much bad nerves. Everybody's the same obviously - your first cap, a bit of nerves before. But it's nothing negative. You need to make it positive.
"You've got everybody showing for the ball as well. Shaun Maloney was ahead of me - he's a great, experienced player and Grant Hanley was inside me, helping me along."
Tierney started the match confidently and put in a timely challenge early on to deny Denmark what looked like a certain equaliser, which he admitted helped him settle further.
"It was one v one and I've just got my toe in and the fans cheered, which gave me a bit of confidence for the rest of the half," he said.
The Red Devils made an ideal start when Anthony Martial caressed Juan Mata's pinpoint pass into the bottom corner.
Wolfsburg replied within three minutes through Naldo's sharp volley and led when Vieirinha finished a flowing move.
United thought they were through after Josuha Guilavogui's own goal, only to be condemned to the Europa League by Naldo's late header.
Louis van Gaal's side knew they would qualify for the last 16 by beating Wolfsburg, or if they matched PSV Eindhoven's result against CSKA Moscow.
Twice inside the final 15 minutes, United thought they were progressing at the expense of the Dutch side, who needed to better the Red Devils' result.
CSKA led 1-0 in Eindhoven as United trailed, before both PSV and United were briefly level in their respective games.
But late goals for Wolfsburg and PSV, who won 2-1, knocked out Van Gaal's team.
United's late misery was a stark contrast to Manchester City, who saw fortune swing back in their favour as their neighbours unravelled.
Five goals were netted inside six minutes across the two games, with City coming back to win 4-2 against Borussia Monchengladbach and pip Juventus to win Group D.
That means the Blues will avoid the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid in the last 16, while the Red Devils face the prospect of Europa League football in the New Year.
Van Gaal has been criticised by some Red Devils supporters for his pragmatic, defence-minded approach - United were booed off after Saturday's 0-0 draw with West Ham at Old Trafford, the fifth time in nine matches they had failed to score.
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However, United freed the shackles and produced an entertaining display in Germany, yet it was one that ultimately led to their exit from Europe's premier club competition.
Martial settled any early United nerves by racing on to Mata's perfectly weighted through ball, taking a touch before coolly sliding past Wolfsburg keeper Diego Benaglio.
Van Gaal's side continued to create chances, only to see Benaglio brilliantly stop Marouane Fellaini's first-half header and Memphis Depay's far-post volley after the break.
Fellaini's height caused problems at the corner which led to Wolfsburg midfielder Guilavogui flicking into his own net, but United were undone by their own defensive deficiencies.
While United found a solution to their recent goalscoring woes, a suspect defensive display resulted in their downfall.
Wolfsburg threatened United with blistering counter-attacks and slick, one-touch passing around the penalty area.
But, more importantly, the Premier League side twice switched off at Wolfsburg set-pieces shortly after scoring themselves.
Injury-hit United had a makeshift defence, with young Uruguayan right-back Guillermo Varela making his first start for the club, and teenager Cameron Borthwick-Jackson playing for almost 50 minutes after replacing injured left-back Matteo Darmian.
It was a lack of organisation - and possibly experience - that allowed Brazilian defender Naldo to score the late winner.
Many observers were surprised Van Gaal decided to start 22-year-old Varela ahead of England international Ashley Young, while the exclusion of experienced holding midfielder Michael Carrick also raised questions.
Even more surprisingly, Young was still ignored when Darmian had to be replaced. Instead, Van Gaal turned to 18-year-old Borthwick-Jackson, who was making only his second United appearance.
England midfielder Carrick was eventually introduced for Germany's World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger after 69 minutes, at the same time Mata was withdrawn for Nick Powell - the 21-year-old midfielder whose previous United appearance came in the 4-0 defeat by then-League One side MK Dons in August 2014.
Van Gaal said afterwards that United were unfairly denied an equaliser shortly before half-time, a decision which he felt could have changed the complexion of the match and their Champions League future.
The visitors thought they had equalised when Jesse Lingard curled a 20-yard shot past Benaglio.
But their celebrations were cut short when the assistant referee raised his flag, after a long delay, for offside against Mata.
However, replays proved the official was correct with his decision. Despite not touching the ball, Mata's movement in front of Benaglio clearly impacted the Wolfsburg keeper.
Spectators in the Volkswagen Arena were prevented from leaving the ground after a suspect package was found in a car park outside the stadium.
After approximately 15 minutes, fans were allowed to leave after police were satisfied it was not a bomb.
It did mean United's VIP flight back to Manchester, which included Van Gaal and his players, former boss Sir Alex Ferguson and former chief executive David Gill, was slightly delayed.
Match ends, VfL Wolfsburg 3, Manchester United 2.
Second Half ends, VfL Wolfsburg 3, Manchester United 2.
Corner, VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by Jesse Lingard.
Guillermo Varela (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Guillermo Varela (Manchester United).
Marcel Schäfer (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Nick Powell (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Nick Powell (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Michael Carrick.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Maximilian Arnold.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Marcel Schäfer.
Attempt blocked. Chris Smalling (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nick Powell.
Attempt missed. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Marouane Fellaini.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Daniel Caligiuri replaces Julian Draxler.
Goal! VfL Wolfsburg 3, Manchester United 2. Naldo (VfL Wolfsburg) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcel Schäfer with a cross following a corner.
Corner, VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by Daley Blind.
Own Goal by Josuha Guilavogui, VfL Wolfsburg. VfL Wolfsburg 2, Manchester United 2.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Diego Benaglio.
Offside, Manchester United. Michael Carrick tries a through ball, but Chris Smalling is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Timm Klose replaces Vieirinha.
Delay in match Chris Smalling (Manchester United) because of an injury.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by André Schürrle (VfL Wolfsburg).
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Naldo tries a through ball, but André Schürrle is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Naldo (VfL Wolfsburg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Naldo (VfL Wolfsburg).
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Vieirinha tries a through ball, but Christian Träsch is caught offside.
Substitution, Manchester United. Nick Powell replaces Juan Mata.
Substitution, Manchester United. Michael Carrick replaces Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Attempt missed. Max Kruse (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcel Schäfer with a cross following a corner.
Corner, VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Vieirinha.
Corner, VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by David de Gea.
Offside, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini tries a through ball, but Memphis Depay is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Attempt missed. Dante (VfL Wolfsburg) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Maximilian Arnold with a cross following a corner.
Corner, VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by David de Gea.
The former first minister surprised the crowd of 350 at Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms with his choice of guest.
He introduced Mr Davis as "the next prime minister of the United Kingdom, perhaps the last prime minister of the United Kingdom".
Mr Salmond will perform 18 sold-out shows at the Fringe.
He has promised light-hearted banter and a few behind-the-scenes-revelations from his time in office.
As he kicked off his first show, the former SNP leader jokingly warned the audience: "Remember, all the guests are my pals so watch how you treat them."
Mr Salmond said the subject of his first show was Scotland In Europe and after talking about William Wallace and the country's European history, he introduced Mr Davis.
In a light-hearted discussion, Mr Davis was pushed on cabinet divisions and the timescale for Brexit and replied Mr Salmond was "trying to make me lose my job".
Mr Salmond told how they had worked together to try to impeach Tony Blair over the war in Iraq but Mr Davis had to remove his name from the motion when he was appointed to Cabinet.
Questioned about his leadership ambitions should Prime Minister Theresa May step down, Mr Davis laughed and said: "I am really a very, very bad leadership candidate."
Mr Salmond said his friend was "the acceptable face of the Brexiteers and certainly the one who knows what he's talking about".
Questioned by the audience, Mr Salmond said Nelson Mandela was the most impressive politician he had seen and that the only time he was nervous was the first time he met Sir Sean Connery.
He ended the show by raising £1,000 for charity with a member of the audience paying to have lunch with Mr Salmond and Mr Davis in Edinburgh.
The highest price was for an Italian Fascist cast bronze eagle that sold for £7,500 despite only having a guide price of £400 to £600.
Warner Dailey, from New Jersey in the US, began collecting the mementos from the age of seven, with items dating back as far as the Crimean War in 1854.
The auction was in Taunton on Friday.
Mr Dailey, who is from Somerset, New Jersey, sold his collection in the auction in Somerset, England, for a total of £83,200.
He said: "I will keep a few things of not very much value which are too sentimental for me to pass up."
The collection had been expected to raise up to £40,000.
Other lots sold included a propeller blade from a World War Two German JU88 bomber, pierced by a cannon ball, which sold for £4,500.
The plane was shot down by F/Lt George Budd and Sgt Evans Beaufighter of 604 Squadron, on 2 May 1941.
It was recovered from the crash site and presented to F/Lt Budd as a souvenir and was later acquired by Mr Dailey.
A piece of metal from a German bomber, bearing the Nazi swastika, sold for £3,200, while an Italian Fascist trophy fetched £2,200.
The collection contained pieces from World War One, World War Two, the Crimean War and Boer War.
A portrait of Hermann Goering, the founder of the Gestapo and commander of the Luftwaffe, and a wooden sideboard from his office in Germany both failed to sell.
The oldest item, sold for £1,000, was an inkwell made from the hoof of a horse that rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade, in 1854 during the Crimean War.
The auction was held at Greenslade Taylor Hunt in Taunton.
Kevin Jones - the owner of IT suppliers Manorshop in Kidsgrove - has made a formal £1.25m bid, matching the offer made by Burslem based IT company Synectics Solutions earlier this week.
It follows owner Norman Smurthwaite's decision to stand down as chairman.
Smurthwaite and ex-business partner Paul Wildes paid £1.25m when buying Vale out of administration in 2012.
Jones, who currently sponsors Vale Park's Railway Stand, would make up one part of a four-person consortium of local business owners.
The new bidder's family have long-standing connections with the relegated League One club.
His father Alan is a former director, who served under Bill Bell's tenure as chairman.
As part of Jones' offer, his father Alan would become chairman, while former Vale player and manager Brian Horton, 68, and ex-Tranmere and Rotherham manager Ronnie Moore, 64, would be brought in as directors of football.
Vale, who confirmed the appointment of Michael Brown as their manager on Wednesday, were relegated back to League Two last Sunday after four seasons in League One.
Froome, who climbed back to third in stage 10, narrowed the gap on overall leader Nairo Quintana to 54 seconds.
Spain's Alejandro Valverde has fallen to third, with Briton Simon Yates in seventh place.
"Quintana is really strong and I'm trying to do as much as I can day by day and trying to get close to him," Froome said.
"After the season I've had it is really tough for me at the moment".
Froome, who is aiming to become the first man in 38 years to win the Tour de France and the Vuelta in the same season, had previously been 58 seconds behind Quintana.
1. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) 3hrs 44mins 47secs
2. Nairo Quintana (Col/ Movistar) same time
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar)+6secs
4. Leopold Koenig (Cze/Team Sky) same time
5. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff)
6. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +13secs
7. Michele Scarponi (Ita/ Astana) +14secs
8. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica) +19secs
9. Pierre Latour (Fra/AG2R) +22secs
10. Samuel Sanchez (Spa/BMC Racing) +30secs
1. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) 42hrs 21mins 48secs
2. Chris Froome (GB/ Team Sky) +54secs
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +1min 5secs
4. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica) +2mins 34secs
5. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff) +3mins 6secs
6. Leopold Koenig (Cze/Team Sky) +3mins 9secs
7. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +3mins 25secs
8. Michele Scarponi (Ita/Astana) +3mins 34secs
9. David De La Cruz (Spa/Etixx-Quick-Step) +3mins 45secs
10. Samuel Sanchez (Spa/BMC Racing) +3mins 56secs
Jackie Walker has faced criticism over comments made on social media and at an anti-Semitism training event.
The TSSA union says it will "seriously reconsider" its support for Momentum if Ms Walker remains in place and the group says its steering committee will meet on Monday to seek her removal.
She told Channel 4: "I certainly wouldn't call myself an anti-Semite."
"I'm Jewish and my partner is Jewish."
But a spokesman for Momentum, the left-wing grassroots organisation set up in wake of Jeremy Corbyn's 2015 election as Labour leader, said: "Members of Momentum's steering committee are seeking to remove Jackie Walker as vice-chair of the committee."
Ms Walker was suspended by the Labour over comments made on social media in which she claimed that "many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade" but was re-admitted following an investigation.
But a leaked video emerged on Wednesday of her saying she had not found a definition of anti-Semitism she could work with, and questioning why Holocaust Memorial Day was not more wide ranging, at an anti-Semitism training event.
Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA union, which backed Momentum and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, said on Thursday he was "deeply saddened that a fellow member of our Labour and trade union family holds such anti-Semitic views" and said she should not be allowed to "remain active within our party".
"I am asking Jackie that in the interests of unity she resigns at once from our party and also as vice-chair of Momentum.
"If she doesn't, both the Labour Party and Momentum need to act to get rid of her at once. We would seriously need to consider our union's support for Momentum if she is still in post by this time next week."
In an interview with Channel 4 News, Ms Walker said she had not intended to offend anyone. Asked whether she had thought about resigning, given criticism from some Jewish groups, she said: "Some other prominent Jewish groups, of which I'm a member, think a very different thing.
"What we have to look at when we're talking about this subject, particularly at the moment, is the political differences that are underlying this as well."
Whoever leaked the video "had malicious intent in their mind", she said. Ms Walker said she was anti-Zionist, rather than anti-Semitic: "Zionism is a political ideology and like any political ideology, some people will be supportive and some people won't be supportive of it."
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Ms Walker previously had support from six Jewish Labour activists who issued a statement saying she had been subject to a witch hunt.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has denied there was a "crisis" in the party amid accusations of anti-Semitism in its ranks.
Labour MP Naz Shah and former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone were among those to be suspended over allegations of anti-Semitism.
A review of the issue of racism in Labour, led by former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, found the party "is not overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or other forms of racism".
But the report was criticised by Jewish leaders and MPs, who said its credibility was undermined because Ms Chakrabarti was nominated for a peerage by Labour just weeks after its release.
Australia international Irvine, 24, scored 10 goals in 44 appearances last season after joining from Ross County.
"We'll see what happens in the next few weeks," Clough told BBC Radio Derby.
"When you score as many goals as him and play as well as he has done, speculation is inevitable."
Irvine, who is currently away with his national team, still has two years left to run on his existing contract at Burton.
Although Clough is keen to talk to Irvine about an improved contract, he knows the former Celtic player will be on the radar of other clubs after an impressive debut season in the Championship.
He continued: "We're realistic. If an offer comes in - and it's the right offer - and Jackson feels that it's a step up in progress for him, then it's very difficult for us to stand in his way.
"It should all become clearer in the next month."
Meanwhile, Burton have given a new one-year deal to reserve goalkeeper Harry Campbell.
The 21-year-old joined from Bolton Wanderers at the start of last season and follows first-choice keeper Stephen Bywater, striker Marvin Sordell, captain John Mousinho, centre-back Shaun Barker and veteran winger Lloyd Dyer in agreeing new contracts at the Pirelli Stadium.
Clough, who says there is no prospect at the moment of re-signing Fulham striker Cauley Woodrow and Leeds midfielder Luke Murphy on loan, is hoping to add to the number of new recruits with midfielder Matty Lund the only arrival so far this summer.
"We're getting closer - we've been doing a lot of talking with clubs and agents," Clough said. "We've got a couple of offers in at the moment and we're making progress, certainly."
The Murray brothers, so successful in Great Britain's Davis Cup triumph last year, are expected to team up again at the Games in Rio.
Fleming, 31, is looking for a strong showing at the French Open to be considered as a partner for Dom Inglot.
"If I could enter with Dom that would be a dream come true," Fleming told BBC Scotland.
"Dom will probably be hoping someone gets up the rankings enough to have someone to play with because he deserves to be there."
Englishman Inglot is currently 29th on the ATP list, with Fleming 61st in the standings.
Fleming and his Israeli partner Jonathan Erlich are through to the second round of the French Open, where they will meet 14th seeds Daniel Nestor and Aisam Qureshi.
The Scot has reached the last eight at Grand Slam level twice - with Ross Hutchins and Jonathan Marray,
Fleming and Hutchins also qualified for the London Olympics in 2012 but suffered a first-round loss.
With Inglot doing well and Australian Open champion Jamie Murray ranked in the world's top three, Fleming missed out on Britain's 2015 Davis Cup victory.
"I had about five years as pretty much a mainstay of the team," he said. "Those are times I'll never forget, they were always the highlights of the year.
"I always said when I was in the team that it was something you need to go out and earn on the court.
"Jamie and Dom have been doing great and they're ranked above me. They deserve to be in the team.
"It's something I'd love to do again but I need to get my ranking up."
Meanwhile, Jamie Murray and his Brazilian partner, Bruno Soares, kept their winning grand slam run going with victory in the first round of the French Open.
The Australian Open champions are the fourth seeds in Paris and defeated Russian pair Evgeny Donskoy and Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3 6-3.
The A&E department has been temporarily shut between 18:30 and 09:00 since August because of a lack of staff.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (ULHT) said nine extra doctors had been recruited but were yet to start work.
Unison said it was "seeking urgent talks with the trust" for an immediate solution to the "huge staffing gap".
Dave Godson, from Unison, said: "It's bitterly disappointing that the trust has failed to recruit sufficient medical staff to enable the A&E department to reopen.
"With winter fast approaching, access to A&E services for local people across Grantham, Boston and Lincoln will be critical.
"Doctors and other health staff have shown huge commitment to try and maintain services against the odds of woefully low staffing levels."
The trust has been approached for a comment.
On Tuesday, ULHT announced the unit would remain closed overnight but said it had recruited "locums, agency staff and permanent staff" at Grantham and an additional two locum staff at Lincoln A&E. However, "due to the time it takes to recruit" none had started work.
Dr Suneil Kapadia, medical director at ULHT, said the service remained "fragile", adding that "sustaining staffing rotas in the three A&Es is difficult".
Campaigners say the closures risk patient safety, which the trust denies.
ULHT says it does not have enough doctors to staff the department safely and also maintain services in Lincoln and Boston, which treat more patients.
Brain scans showed that they are the areas associated with complex thought processes.
The scientists also discovered a link between teenage brain development and mental illness, such as schizophrenia.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The team from Cambridge's department of psychiatry scanned the brains of 300 people between the ages of 14 and 24.
While the areas associated with the basic functioning of the body such as vision, hearing and movement are fully developed by adolescence, the areas associated with complex thought and decision making are still changing.
These areas are nerve centres with lots of connections to and from other key areas.
You can think of the brain as a global airline network that's made up of small infrequently used airports and huge hubs like Heathrow where there is very high traffic.
The brain uses a similar set up to co-ordinate our thoughts and actions.
During adolescence, this network of big hubs is consolidated and strengthened. It's a bit like how Heathrow or JFK have become gradually busier over the years.
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The researchers then looked at the genes involved in the development of these brain "hubs" and found that they were similar to those associated with many mental illnesses, including schizophrenia.
The discovery is in line with the observation that many mental disorders develop during adolescence, according to researcher Dr Kirstie Whitaker.
"We have shown a pathway from the biology of cells in the area through to how people who are in their late teenage years might then have their first episode of psychosis," she told the BBC.
Many studies have shown that, in addition to genetics, stress during childhood and the teenage years is linked to mental illness.
The new findings indicate that maltreatment, abuse and neglect may well continue to disrupt the development of the higher brain functions during the crucial teenage years and so contribute to the emergence of mental illness.
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Lead researcher Prof Ed Bullmore, whose work was funded by the Wellcome Trust, believes the discovery of a biological link between teenage brain development and the onset of mental illness might help researchers identify those most at risk of becoming ill.
"As we understand more about what puts people at risk for schizophrenia, that gives us an opportunity to try to identify individuals that are at risk of becoming schizophrenic in the forseeable future, the next two to three years, and perhaps to offer some treatment then that could be helpful in preventing the onset of clinical symptoms. "
The study also sheds light on the mood and behavioural changes experienced by teenagers during normal brain development.
"The regions that are changing most are those associated with complex behaviour and decision making," says Dr Whitaker.
"It shows that teenagers are on a journey of becoming an adult and becoming someone who is able to pull together all these bits of information.
"This is a really important stage to go through. You wouldn't want to be a child all your life.
"This is a powerful and important stage that you have to go through to be the best and the most capable adult that you can be."
It's less than half the size of Cardiff and a fifth of the size of Bristol.
But is Newport finally emerging economically with something distinctive to its two Severnside rivals?
The city centre has been struggling for years with locals complaining of high business rates, empty shops on the high street and with manufacturing waning.
The 2010 Ryder Cup and last year's Nato summit at the Celtic Manor helped put Newport on the map.
Building on that, the city has beaten Cardiff to the punch backing plans for a Wales international convention centre, with capacity for 4,000 delegates.
Analysis by the Centre for Cities think-tank suggests optimism that the tide has turned but there are still obstacles to overcome.
A YOUNG CITY
Newport is young: awarded city status in 2002 and more than a quarter of its population is under 19, a higher proportion than either Cardiff or Bristol.
The University of South Wales' £35m campus has helped in the riverside regeneration and 4,000 students give a youthful vibe.
But there is also relatively high level of youth unemployment - 14.89% in 2011, above Cardiff at 10.87% and Bristol at 9.81% .
The proportion of all working adults who are unemployed and claiming Jobs Seekers Allowance in Newport is also greater than its two neighbouring cities.
Despite that, the rate of people in employment in Newport is higher than Cardiff but lower than in Bristol.
MORE THAN STEEL AND THE DOCKS?
Steel may not be as dominant in Newport as it used to be but it is still important.
As well as mixed fortunes for Llanwern steelworks, there's Cogent, or the Orb Works making specialist high-value steels for the electrical industry. The former Alphasteel works was re-opened by the Liberty group only last month.
Newport's main docks are 150 years old and last week I saw Associated British Ports investing £2.6m in new warehousing. to handle the increase in trade of steel, animal feeds, fertiliser and timber. There has been a 20% increase in turnover overall.
Then there is the high-tech sector including electronics company STPS and Airbus's cyber security division.
Manufacturing accounts for 11.7% of the work in Newport, well ahead of Cardiff on just 4.4%. The city is ranked in the top third in a list of 63 UK cities.
Private firms in the services sector such as Lloyds TSB and Gocompare have also been important, while Admiral has helped boost the city centre's regeneration with new offices opposite the railway station.
But public services have dominated the Newport employment map for decades. The Passport Office may be smaller these days, but the Office for National Statistics and the Patent Office are significant employers, with the Ministry of Justice a more recent addition.
It means one in three of the Newport workforce is in public services; this is slightly more than Cardiff despite the capital being the centre for the Welsh government, Wales Audit Office and Companies House.
DO WAGES GO FURTHER?
Putting all the sectors together the value of the work carried out by people in Cardiff and Newport is the same - and the highest in Wales - but significantly lower than Bristol.
That gross value added figure stands at £3.25bn for Newport.
However, average weekly wages in Newport are lower. Workers earn on average £45 a week less than the average for Cardiff and £60 a week less than the average for Bristol.
In terms of what wages can buy, lower house prices in Newport will compensate. The average house price in Cardiff is £30,000 more than in Newport while in Bristol houses are on average £70,000 more.
75%
drive to work in Newport
62.9%
drive to work in Cardiff
64% drive to work in Bristol
1.45% cycle to work in Newport
3.7% cycle to work in Cardiff
6.2% cycle to work in Bristol
COMMUTING
More than 40% of the 73,000 working in the city travel in from outside.
The planned M4 relief road around the city will have an impact. However, its route is contentious.
Three quarters of people drive to work in Newport, that's more than Bristol and Cardiff.
Very few go to work by bike - half the proportion who cycle to work in Cardiff and a quarter of the number in Bristol.
STILL GROWING
The city is clearly changing and you can't help fail to notice the new housing developments, especially around the River Usk and docks.
Figures suggest that the numbers working in Cardiff and Bristol but living in Newport is likely to rise.
The number of new house builds started in Newport in the three months from April is already more than for the city in whole of 2010/11.
And for the last two years at least it has continued to outstrip Cardiff.
Its biggest social landlord Newport City Homes estimates 550 new homes are needed each year for the next five years to keep up with demand.
The city is predicted to continue growing - its 149,000 population is set to increase at double the rate of the Wales average and hit 171,000 by 2036.
But Cardiff is still the UK's fastest growing city and its population is set to grow even faster - by a quarter within 20 years.
WHAT NEXT FOR NEWPORT?
For many there's still an emotional and economic attachment to Newport, the steel city.
To truly thrive, it needs to build on its success in a range of different industries - like digital and software sectors - without losing its important traditional manufacturing industries.
Regeneration consultant Hamish Munro knows Newport well and believes it has to forget about competing with Cardiff and Bristol, which it has tried to do historically.
"It has to create its own niche, it's got a different feel about it and it can be a great alternative," he said.
In the short term, Newport council is spending money from Welsh government to encourage people into the city centre again - to live, eat and work.
Friars Walk shopping development is an important milestone but if you look at Newport council's interactive development map there are other signs the city is progressing - not only in building urban homes but a £5m revamp to the old market.
Council leader Bob Bright said Newport's steel industry and docks were "alive and kicking" but the city had reinvented itself.
He is also conscious there is still work to do to spread wealth to the poorer parts of the city but believes the private sector is the key to drive it.
"We need to create the wealth to mitigate those factors - it will take time but we've started the journey," he said.
Hug, who triumphed in Boston last week, claimed his second London title in one hour 35 minutes 19 seconds.
The 30-year-old beat Australian Kurt Fearnley and six-time London winner Weir in a sprint finish on The Mall.
Tatyana McFadden, 27, of the USA won the women's race for a fourth consecutive year in 1:44:14.
Paralympic gold medallist McFadden, also the Boston champion, was pushed all the way by runner-up Manuela Schar of Switzerland, who finished one second behind. Wakako Tsuchida of Japan was third.
"Each year it's going to get tougher and tougher with athletes getting faster," McFadden told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I was a little nervous towards the end but I found the will and the drive within."
Britain's Shelly Woods retired for a second consecutive year with a puncture.
The event doubles as the IPC Athletics Marathon World Cup, and is the second race in the Abbott World Marathon Majors series.
Weir first won the London Marathon in 2002, adding five more titles over a 10-year period to share the record with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson with six victories.
Six-time Paralympic champion Weir - nicknamed the 'Weirwolf' - finished second on home soil in 2014 and 2015 and was beaten into third on Sunday in a thrilling finish.
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Hug, who suffered a puncture in last year's race, led a five-man pack into the final turn and maintained his position, with Fearnley one second behind and Weir a further second back.
"It's the media that hype it up so much. I don't think too much about it," Weir, 36, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"This is my 16th year in a row, I think. To get six victories and be in the top three a number of years is not bad going. I've got to applaud myself for that and not get beaten up about the seven.
"If it comes, it comes and if it doesn't, it doesn't. I'm happy with what I've done in my career, but I'm not saying I'm going to retire.
"I still feel I have more to give and I'll be back next year."
The IPC Athletics Marathon World Cup brings together international calibre wheelchair racers as well as athletes with disabilities including visual impairment and limb impairments.
China's Jin Zheng set a world record in the T11/12 category - for athletes with visual impairment - while Brazil's Aniceto dos Santos warmed up for his home Paralympics with victory in the T13 category, which serves athletes with basic visual impairment.
Here are the racing cars that less than two weeks ago were rounding Barcelona's Turn Three at 160mph, and soon will be swooping through Eau Rouge at Spa at close to 200mph, being driven on the limit through streets barely wide enough for a Rolls-Royce.
A Rolls-Royce - or a Lamborghini or a Ferrari or any other material symbol-on-wheels of the global uber-rich - is the more 'normal' transport for a trip around the roads of this Mediterranean principality that combines glamour and seediness like perhaps nowhere else on earth.
The glamour; everyone knows about that - the weather, the boats, the cars, the beautiful people, the lovely Beaux-Arts villas clinging precipitously to the hillsides.
The seediness? Well, Somerset Maugham's observation a century ago that Monaco was a "sunny place for shady people" still applies. Although the conspicuous consumption has grown notably more conspicuous.
The yachts have become super-yachts - some so big they don't fit in the original harbour and resemble floating buildings rather than pleasure cruisers. The elegant villas are in danger of being swamped by modern skyscrapers. And every year there seem to be more supercars crawling around the streets.
Whatever one's feelings about this, though, they are apt to evaporate for a time when the Formula 1 cars go out on track.
Watch at Casino Square or in the tunnel or at Tabac or Piscine and the violence and awe involved in an F1 car on the limit around the streets takes your breath away.
It is F1 at its most raw, the incredible skill of the drivers and performance of the cars forcing a recalibration of one's sense of the possible. And an experience not to be missed.
BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson
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Some people say its a true driver's circuit, but three-time world champion Nelson Piquet was not a fan. "Tell you the truth, I hate Monaco," he said. "It's like riding a bicycle around your living room."
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Their dismembered remains had lain undiscovered for some time, said Pavel Astakhov.
Police are hunting for the children's father, the main suspect in the case.
Staff at the children's pre-school reportedly raised the alarm after they failed to turn up in July. The children are thought to all be aged under six.
Two bold visions from two men who wanted to use their vast wealth to do good.
John D Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie made their money in the oil and steel industries respectively, but both of them wanted to make sure their money would make an impact on society long after they were gone and set up their own philanthropic foundations.
Indeed, according to Carnegie, "he who dies rich dies disgraced".
A century on from when they were created, the mission statements of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation reflect the areas in which their founders wanted to make a difference - in Rockefeller's case healthcare and in Carnegie's education.
But although those vision statements were bold, they were also very broad in their scope, leaving how one goes about achieving those visions open to interpretation.
Often when past philanthropists endowed a large sum of money to a foundation, they had the broadest objectives in order to get legal status, says Dr Beth Breeze from the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent.
"But because the objectives were so broad, it's then the job of trustees to interpret it when the founder dies," she says, adding that it can be a bit of a guessing game.
Luckily for the Carnegie Corporation, Andrew Carnergie recognised that "conditions upon [earth] inevitably change" and did not wish to tie future trustees down to certain policies or causes.
"I [give] my Trustees full authority to change policy or causes hitherto aided, from time to time, when this, in their opinion, has become necessary or desirable. They shall best conform to my wishes by using their own judgement," he wrote in his letter of gift to his original trustees.
So although the corporation still has a heavy focus on education, and has moved from building libraries in Carnegie's day to expanding higher education and adult education, it also has programmes in other fields, for instance aimed at promoting international peace and the advancement of minorities.
That is not to say that philanthropists of yesteryear would not be surprised by the way the agenda for issues they were interested in may have changed over time.
In 1920 Barrow Cadbury, grandson of the founder of the Cadbury's chocolate company, and his wife Geraldine set up the Barrow Cadbury Trust to promote social justice. Today, the Trust is chaired by their great granddaughter Ruth Cadbury.
"Barrow and Geraldine were Quaker industrialists. Quakers believe in the intrinsic equality of all people and in the responsibility of all people to give public service and care for others," Ms Cadbury says.
"The world has changed dramatically over the past century and some of the projects we now support might be surprising to Barrow and Geraldine."
Sara Llewellin, the Trust's chief executive, points to the Quaker support for gay marriage and the Trust's willingness to support work promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality.
"While neither [Barrow nor Geraldine] lived even to see homosexuality legalised in the UK and certainly not to see the birth of a rights movement on the issue, we are confident they would have been supportive of that movement were they alive now," she says.
Like Carnegie, she adds that: "Barrow wrote the trust deed in such a way as to give trustees of the future absolute discretion."
As current trustees of these large foundations and trusts are keen to point out, they strive to carry on their work in the same spirit as their founders.
The rich are getting ever richer, big companies are getting bigger, while new fortunes are being created faster.
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In a new series we will be looking at how companies and rich individuals are discovering their social responsibility and are using their wealth to change society and the wider world.
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But looking more generally across the field of philanthropy, there are some broad themes from a century ago that are still valid today, according to Leslie Lenkowsky, clinical professor of public affairs and philanthropic studies at Indiana University.
"In terms of the substance of [past philanthropists'] giving, there remains a lot of interest in increasing opportunities," he says.
"Carnegie says it is the duty of the wealthy to allow other people the opportunity to be wealthy. [Bill] Gates has also made that very clear."
He also cites the desire to make giving as effective as possible. Rockefeller, who from his very first pay cheque made regular church donations, was always a tither, says Prof Lenkowsky.
"But when he got so much money, he felt he should make his giving better than just giving to this or that church."
A commitment to rely on experts and the collection of empirical data, pioneered by the English philanthropist and social researcher Charles Booth - who carried out surveys of the poor in London in the 19th Century - also prevails.
But clearly not everything is the same as it was 100 years ago.
The biggest change affecting the older foundations has probably been the growth of government, with state funding now covering areas that they weren't previously, such as health and education.
"Nowadays people call philanthropists the third sector but in many ways that's a bit of a misnomer," says Beth Breeze. "[In Victorian times] they were the first sector. If they didn't build a hospital no-one would."
She points to how the funding of water has changed over the years as an example of how funding in different areas can evolve: "In centuries past the water pump would be funded philanthropically, then it became state funded, and then privatised."
With government cuts now taking place across Europe and the US as countries attempt to repair their economies, there is a chance that charities who see their funding dry up turn to the "third sector" to step in.
But Dr Breeze says what philanthropists don't want to do is step in and fill the gap, funding something just because the government stops. They want to fund something new.
So what will the philanthropy of the future look like?
Prof Lenkowsky believes we are already seeing more big donors who are choosing not to use foundations, sometimes feeling that big foundations can be too bureaucratic.
Some might be choosing to give directly, while others are looking at social entrepreneurship - using business models to tackle problems in society.
This does not mean that the likes of the Carnegie or Rockefeller foundations will disappear, because they are permanently endowed, but we might not see so many new ones cropping up.
"I think we're going to continue to see a mixture of things," Prof Lenkowsky says.
"We'll see more [people] involved in direct giving, more looking at business and charity. [But] I think the Gates Foundation will be the last big foundation for a while."
The evidence comes from detailed brain scans of 12 infants born prematurely.
At just 28 weeks' gestation, the babies appeared to discriminate between different syllables like "ga" and "ba" as well as male and female voices.
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the French team said it was unlikely the babies' experience outside the womb would have affected their findings.
The research lends support to the idea that babies develop language skills while still in the womb in response to their parents' voices.
Experts already know that babies are able to hear noises in the womb - the ear and the auditory part of the brain that allow this are formed by around 23 weeks' gestation.
But it is still debated whether humans are born with an innate ability to process speech or whether this is something acquired through learning after birth.
The authors of the study in PNAS say environmental factors are undoubtedly important, but based on their findings they believe linguistic processes are innate.
Dr Fabrice Wallois and colleagues say: "Our results demonstrate that the human brain, at the very onset of the establishment of a cortical circuit for auditory perception, already discriminates subtle differences in speech syllables."
But they add that this "does not challenge the fact that experience is also crucial for their fine tuning and for learning the specific properties of the native language".
Their brain scan study was carried out in the first few days following birth, so it is possible that the noises and sounds the newborns encountered in their new environment outside of the womb may have triggered rapid development. However, the researchers doubt this.
Prof Sophie Scott, an expert in speech perception at University College London, said the findings supported and added to current knowledge.
"We know that babies can hear their mother's voice in the womb and pick up on the pitch and rhythm.
"And they use this information - newborn babies are soothed by their mother's voice from the minute they are born."
Gordon Smith told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme it should look at how clubs and national bodies responded to allegations.
His comments came after Partick Thistle confirmed that a physiotherapist was dismissed from Firhill in 1992.
The club said it acted immediately after allegations of abuse were made.
It said it had now informed the police and the football authorities.
Mr Smith said: "There should be an inquiry, an inquiry into anybody who knew anything about this sort of thing.
"If this was happening at a club, what action did they take?
"We're now finding out some of the cases down in England where the club tried to hush the situation, even paid a player money to not say anything about it."
The English Football Association has commissioned an independent investigation into the way it dealt with abuse allegations.
Partick Thistle have not named the physiotherapist accused of carrying out abuse or made clear if he was reported to the authorities at the time.
He has subsequently been named as John Hart, who died in 1995.
In a statement, the north Glasgow club said: "As far as Thistle's current management can ascertain, no other allegations were made to the club at that time with regard to him or any other employee.
"The club has contacted the SFA and Police Scotland to advise them of what they know to date and will fully comply with any investigation."
Gordon Smith said any inquiry set up by the football authorities would have to consider three groups of people.
"Obviously there's people who were committing the offences," he said. "They are a disgrace and hopefully they're going to be found out legally and charged.
"There's the kids who suffered from it who are now adults who obviously got great psychological and traumatic effects of it.
"The third element is the people who maybe knew something about this going on and didn't do anything about it. Although they're maybe not legally culpable they're certainly morally culpable because they didn't do anything about it."
Striker Luis Suarez scored his first goal for six games with a low finish from just inside the penalty area.
Southampton's Adam Lallana was denied an equaliser by a post before Reds substitute Raheem Sterling made it 2-0.
Liverpool, as well as Chelsea, remain unbeaten in the Premier League in 2014. Seven of their nine games have ended in victory, with 23 points from a possible 27
The teenager netted with his first touch after Suarez's cross, and Steven Gerrard added the third with a penalty.
The spot-kick was awarded after the tireless Suarez, making his 100th Premier League appearance, was hauled down by Jose Fonte deep in stoppage time.
With Arsenal losing earlier at Stoke and Manchester City not playing, Liverpool are now table-topping Chelsea's closest rivals.
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The Reds head into a two-week break four points behind Jose Mourinho's leaders with 10 games remaining.
But they leapfrog Arsenal because of a superior goal difference and, just as importantly, are nine points clear of fifth-placed Tottenham in the race for Champions League qualification.
Manager Brendan Rodgers will be just as pleased with a clean sheet after his side conceded five goals in their previous two games.
Liverpool remain unbeaten in the top flight in 2014, with seven wins in nine games.
They arrived at St Mary's Stadium having scored in their previous 17 league games, and required just 16 minutes to extend that run to 18.
The goal came after a powerful run by Daniel Sturridge following a Liverpool throw-in, with Fonte diverting the ball into the path of Suarez, who finished clinically.
In a game that featured nine players called up for England duty against Denmark, Southampton spent the remainder of the first half testing the visitors' defence.
Lallana was denied by a post after the Reds had failed to deal with Jay Rodriguez's looping cross, while French midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin fired narrowly over with a shot on the turn.
Rodriguez was then left frustrated by Simon Mignolet's diving save before Sterling put the game beyond the hosts 80 seconds after replacing Philippe Coutinho.
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Watched by England boss Roy Hodgson, Sterling kept his composure after Suarez turned provider, beating Dejan Lovren before cutting the ball back into the path of his teenage team-mate.
And Liverpool fans were singing "We're going to win the league" when Gerrard made it 3-0 in stoppage time after Fonte's lunge on Suarez.
Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino:
"I thought 3-0 wasn't a fair result. Liverpool were a lot more clinical than we were in front of goal.
"But we had some very good chances that wouldn't go in for us.
"We just need to keep on working. We're going to be without many players who are going to be away on international duty.
"When they come back on Thursday and Friday, we'll be more than ready for the next game."
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Godfrey, 19, made six appearances for Norwich last season after signing from York City in January 2016.
"Norwich know the manager here (Paul Hurst) is going to help me develop," he told Shrewsbury's club website.
"A lot of players disappear in the 23s system, so for me to come out here, prove myself and try to make a name for myself, it's a good opportunity."
Godfrey, who can also play at centre-back and right-back, joins a Shrewsbury side that has won all three of their League One games so far this season.
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The prisoner was returning from exercise at HMP Oakwood near Wolverhampton when he threatened the officer, HM Prison Service said.
He was ordered back to his cell but as he returned, he attacked the officer causing him to fall onto railings and "take a blow to the head".
He was taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs and a black eye. G4S, which runs the jail, said he is now at home.
Updates on this and more stories from Birmingham and the Black Country
The prisoner was restrained and put in segregation pending adjudication, HM Prison Service said.
Staffordshire Police was also informed following the incident last Thursday.
HMP Oakwood is managed privately by G4S and opened in 2012.
It is one of the largest prisons in England and Wales, providing places for up to 1,605 Category C male prisoners.
In a statement, John McLaughlin, director of the jail, said: "A prisoner attacked a member of our team last week and we have already stripped them of their privileges and we are looking at other possible sanctions, including additional days added to their sentence.
"There is no place for violence or aggression at Oakwood."
The US, UK, French and Turkish envoys were among those designated "personae non gratae". Many have already left.
President Bashar al-Assad has blamed outside powers for Syria's divisions.
Meanwhile, the UN has said the Syrian government has agreed to allow aid agencies to enter the four provinces that have seen the most violence.
"This agreement was secured in Damascus with the government there, in writing," John Ging, the director of operations for UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told reporters in Geneva after a meeting of the Syrian Humanitarian Forum.
"Freedom of movement, unimpeded access for humanitarian action within Syria, is what it's all about now. The good faith of the [Syrian] government will be tested on this issue today, tomorrow and every day," he added.
Procedures would be streamlined for granting visas to staff from nine UN agencies and seven international NGOs, Mr Ging said. The UN will open field offices in the provinces of Deraa, Deir al-Zour, Homs and Idlib.
1. Syrian-led political process to address the aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people
2. UN-supervised cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties to protect civilians
3. All parties to ensure provision of humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by the fighting, and implement a daily two-hour humanitarian pause
4. Authorities to intensify the pace and scale of release of arbitrarily detained persons
5. Authorities to ensure freedom of movement throughout the country for journalists
6. Authorities to respect freedom of association and the right to demonstrate peacefully
The UN has been trying for months to get its aid workers into Syria, but with little success, reports the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva. Visa applications have been delayed or denied, and supplies of aid blocked.
The UN estimates that one million people are in need of assistance inside Syria, and that the number will likely increase after further assessments.
In a separate development, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, urged the international community to continue to support the peace plan negotiated by the UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, Chinese state TV said.
But Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Gulf Arab states had "begun to lose hope in the possibility of reaching a solution... within this framework".
Mr Annan is to address the UN Security Council in New York on Thursday. He is believed to want a "serious review" of efforts to implement his plan.
Last week, at least 13 countries expelled top Syrian diplomats in protest at the massacre of more than 100 people, including 49 children, in the Houla area of Homs province. Turkey expelled all Syrian embassy staff.
In what it described as a reciprocal move on Tuesday, the Syrian government announced that 17 diplomats from the US, UK, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany and Canada were now considered "personae non gratae".
All Turkish diplomatic staff were also declared unwelcome.
"The Syrian Arab Republic still believes in the importance of dialogue based on principles of equality and mutual respect," a foreign ministry statement said.
"We hope the countries that initiated these steps will adopt those principles, which would allow relations to return to normal again."
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says it will be a long time before the Western states are prepared to re-establish diplomatic ties.
US ambassador Robert Ford was called back to Washington in October over fears for his safety, while all British embassy staff were withdrawn in March on security grounds.
France also closed its embassy that month in protest at the "scandalous" repression of dissent by the government.
On Sunday, President Assad told parliament that Syria was facing not an internal crisis but an external war, waged against it because of its support for resistance to Israel.
In his first public comment on the massacre at Houla, in which 108 people were killed on 25 May, Mr Assad said that even "monsters" would not have carried out such an act and it should prompt an end to bloodshed.
Survivors and human rights groups blamed the army and shabiha militiamen allied to the government for the deaths.
Tuesday's diplomatic move by the government came as activists said at least 34 people had been killed in violence across the country.
At least 15 soldiers were killed and dozens wounded, while four rebel fighters also died in fighting in several towns and villages in the Mediterranean province of Latakia, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"These are the heaviest clashes so far in the area since the beginning of the revolution," Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of the UK-based group, told the Reuters news agency.
Several villages south-west of the central city of Homs earlier came under intense army artillery- and mortar-fire, leaving five people dead, according to the Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist network.
Four civilians were also reportedly killed overnight in a "huge military operation" in Kafrouaid, a village in the northern province of Idlib.
The UN says at least 9,000 people have died since pro-democracy protests began in March 2011. In April, the Syrian government reported that 6,143 Syrian citizens had been killed by "terrorist groups".
Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel said reigning champions Mercedes started the weekend at Melbourne's Albert Park as "favourites".
But Hamilton believes Ferrari were deliberately talking their chances down before Sunday's race.
"I think Ferrari have something up their sleeve," he said.
"I think they are going to be a lot closer than they talk about. I think they are going to surprise. They are arriving on a low but will deliver high."
Ferrari set the pace on five of the eight days of pre-season testing in Spain in the run-up to this race but Vettel said he believed they were still not yet at the level of Mercedes.
Asked if Ferrari had enough performance to trouble Mercedes, Vettel said: "I think we have. The question is: 'Are we ready in time?'
"I think we did a good step over the winter. Mercedes are the favourites but the target is to turn things around and be the favourite in the future."
He added: "We know we are still a little bit behind. We will try to be closer this year. How close I don't know yet, but we have a plan. Bit by bit, I hope we improve."
Hamilton has won the last two world titles to add to the first he won with McLaren in 2008 and has achieved his aim of matching the achievements of his childhood idol Ayrton Senna - both in championships and races won.
But Hamilton said he was as motivated as ever to keep on winning.
"You are always searching for perfection, always learning, always growing, inside and outside," he said. "I'm just looking forward to that journey.
"You're always looking for that perfect lap, that perfect race and raise the bar every time you go out, because it can always be raised."
The season starts with a raft of rule changes, including a new qualifying format and stringent restrictions on the amount of information teams can pass to drivers over the radio while they are out on the track.
Hamilton said he was not concerned about the effects of either change but team-mate Nico Rosberg believes the radio ban could have "a big influence."
The German added: "It's great because we're not muppets any more. It is now down to us to get the job done. It is going to make it more challenging as a result."
Mark Jones, 55, is leaving the Rank Group, where he led Grosvenor Casinos, to become chief executive of the five-a-side football company on 1 July.
The appointment follows a major review by Goals of its operations and the firm's performance in recent years.
It was set up after East Kilbride-based Goals reported its first annual loss in 12 years.
The company currently operates 46 centres in the UK and one in California.
Goals launched a search for a new chief executive in January after announcing that former incumbent Keith Rogers would relocate to the US to become president of its American business.
Mr Jones previously held a number of senior roles in the leisure industry. He is a former managing director of Mecca Bingo, chairman and chief executive of Premium Bars and Restaurants and chief executive of Yates Group.
Goal chairman Nick Basing said: "I am delighted Mark is joining to lead the company through its next phase of development.
"Mark has an exceptional and experienced track record of managing leisure brands and growing businesses."
Mr Jones said: "I am delighted to be joining Goals.
"Whilst the company has experienced its recent issues, it remains an excellent business with significant potential both here in the UK and in the US.
"I look forward to working with the Goals team and driving the business forward."
Industry bosses said failure to do so could harm the UK's supply of food and drink and lead to higher prices.
The National Farmers Union (NFU), the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) made the call in a joint letter.
Separately, the EEF engineering group said a deal needed to be struck.
Terry Scuoler, the chief executive of the EEF, said: "The EU is our sector's single biggest trading partner in a complex, tightly interwoven trading environment."
He told the BBC that falling back on World Trade Organization (WTO) rules would hit some sectors hard.
"I struggle at the idea of dismantling what is the best free trade agreement in the world. WTO rules may well be an end-of-the-day back-up, but WTO rules... vary enormously across industrial sectors - 10% on automotive and automotive parts and more for agricultural products."
The prime minister is due to start the process of leaving the EU on Wednesday.
Mrs May will trigger Article 50, after which the UK has two years to finalise the terms on which it will withdraw from the EU.
The NFU, BRC and FDF urged ministers to ensure higher tariffs were not imposed on imported and exported produce.
Although much of the industry is based in the UK, it "cannot operate in isolation", they said.
Helen Dickinson, director general at the BRC, said the bloc was by far the UK's biggest trading partner for food.
"To keep prices low for consumers, it is particularly important that we don't have any new tariffs and we maintain frictionless movement of goods and put consumers at the heart of this," she told the Mail on Sunday.
The groups' members include British farms, food giants such as Nestle and supermarket chains such as Tesco.
The prime minister has said leaving the EU with no deal would be better than signing the UK up to a bad one.
However, the food groups suggested the industry and consumers would suffer from the consequences of no trade deal if tariffs and customs checks were imposed after Brexit.
They have called on the government to:
Ahead of the Brexit talks, many different industries are lobbying ministers about the importance of their sectors and how they will be affected when Britain leaves the EU.
The food groups estimate that their members employ 3.9 million people in total and are worth £108bn to the UK economy each year.
They say farmers need to import animal feed, and to export products if UK demand is insufficient.
Food and drink manufacturers rely on exports to grow their businesses and on imports for some ingredients, while retailers need access to a full range of goods all year round, they add.
At least 37 people have been killed and more than a thousand injured by the 7.3-magnitude quake, which the Nepalese government says has affected 31 of the country's 75 districts.
Two UK residents among those who witnessed the tremor and its aftermath told the BBC how it had affected the ongoing relief effort around them.
Puja Poddar, from Glasgow
I'm with my sister and father, and we are doing charity work, setting up orphanages and distributing relief aid.
I arrived a day before this second earthquake struck.
Everyone felt the quake. The aftershocks were just as bad. The children in the orphanage were screaming and crying. Many were screaming and shouting for their mothers who they had already lost in the first earthquake. It was heartbreaking.
No words can describe how it felt. The ground was shaking. With the onset of each aftershock, the birds went crazy and the dogs were barking loudly.
Now, all shops are closed and people are sitting outside. Everyone has lost confidence.
We carried on doing what we came here to do and tried keeping the children safe and happy, giving out toys after the earthquake.
Richard Jones, from Worcestershire
My friend James Watson and I were on the way to the immigration office in Kathmandu to extend our visas, when the latest quake hit.
The taxi driver didn't have control of the steering, as if he was being forced down a slalom course.
Getting out it felt like we were on a swaying boat, much shallower and gentler compared with the major quake a few weeks ago.
I had been at the Annapurna base camp when the bigger earthquake happened, 3,500m (11,500ft) up in the mountains.
This one felt a lot less dramatic, and I didn't feel at any risk as we were in open space.
It lasted 40 to 45 seconds as opposed to previous aftershocks that lasted around five to 10 seconds.
There are modern buildings where we are with massive cracks in them - they look like they are ready to go.
When it stopped, we turned back to go to the place we are staying, but the roads were jammed and the local drivers behaving erratically.
We ended up walking back across the city.
Since the initial quake myself, James and other tourists have been providing shelters and food aid to villages that have not been supported by the larger non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or the government, building bamboo/tarp shelters in Ramkot, in the Kathmandu valley, and, recently, distributing food in the Sindhupalchok district.
We've been supported with very generous donations by our friends and family.
Yesterday, we took a truck with sufficient supplies to feed the small village, roughly 100 homes, of Khiping for 10 or more days.
James and I have been travelling, long-term, although we're both photographers so we work as we go.
Together with Gareth Pickering, from South Africa, and Laura Szanto, from Canada, we have started work on a photo project to carry on our fundraising effort after we have left Nepal.
Written by Alison Daye and Richard Irvine-Brown
Not long before they died, convicted drug traffickers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran expressed a wish for a global campaign to abolish the death penalty.
They had spent 10 long years in Indonesian prisons after being convicted in 2006 of playing a major role in the so-called Bali Nine drug ring that attempted to smuggle more than 18lb (8.2kg) of heroin from Indonesia to Australia.
By all accounts, they had worked hard to rehabilitate themselves: Chan had qualified as a pastor and ministered to fellow inmates. Sukumaran found solace in art. His talent for painting earned him an associate degree in fine arts from Western Australia's Curtin University two months before his execution.
Those changes slowly won them the sympathy of many Australians. Now, their desire to see more action on the death penalty is being taken up by some of the country's top politicians.
Devastated by the failure of frantic diplomatic and legal bids to save their lives, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop last week said "it is time for us to have a significant discussion about the application of the death penalty for drug offences in our region".
Former Attorney General Philip Ruddock has taken the campaign a step further. He has written to the local diplomats of countries such as Brazil, France and Nigeria, whose nationals were executed this year by Indonesia or are on death row there.
Co-chair of Australian Parliamentarians against the Death Penalty, Mr Ruddock wants them to work with Australia on abolishing the death penalty in and beyond the region, including in the United States.
"I think it is timely that Australia indicates it has a principled position on this matter and that we're prepared to be on the front foot in advocating change," Mr Ruddock told the BBC.
But Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, who is charged with managing sensitive trade issues with Indonesia, says Australia might have to look into its own backyard as well as trying to influence others.
"I have to be honest, I do get approached by people saying, 'Well, that might be your view, Barnaby, that you don't support the death penalty, but it's not our view'," he told ABC television.
"And I find that rather startling at times and I think that the discussion that we're having about others, we should also be carrying out domestically."
Australia has a long-standing bipartisan opposition to capital punishment and has not executed anyone since 1967.
But the nation's leaders at times send mixed messages about the death penalty. Comments by former Prime Minister John Howard in 2007 about the ringleaders of the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, are a prime example.
"The idea that we would plead for the deferral of executions of people who murdered 88 Australians is distasteful to the entire community," he said.
However, Australians' acceptance of the use of the death penalty by other countries has fallen in recent years.
A 1986 poll found more than 70% believed it should be carried out if Australians were sentenced to death in another country, says Lowy Institute for International Policy polling director Alex Oliver.
But a Lowy poll conducted in February this year showed nearly a complete reversal: 62% of people did not want Chan and Sukumaran to be executed, and nearly 70% believed the death penalty should not be used to punish drug traffickers.
Another poll, in 2010, found that nearly 60% of people wanted Australia to push for abolition of the death penalty in South East Asia. Ms Oliver expects to see similar sentiments in a poll conducted at the weekend about the latest executions, to be published later this week.
"The last 35 years have seen a strengthening opposition to the death penalty generally," she says.
However, she says views can change depending on who is facing capital punishment and what their crime is.
Most people hold inconsistent views on the death penalty, says Patrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Melbourne's Deakin University.
"Most people don't like the death penalty but think maybe certain people should be put to death, or they don't want the death penalty here but are less concerned about overseas, or they don't like the thought of Australians being executed, say, in China or Malaysia or Indonesia but are not concerned about it being applied in places like the US, or Iran or Japan or Saudi Arabia," he says.
"It's an area where most people don't have a clear, principled position but a fragmented reaction to cases as they arrive."
Working harder to abolish the death penalty rather than just winning a reprieve for sentenced Australians would shield Australia from accusations of hypocrisy or "special pleading", says Lowy executive director Dr Michael Fullilove.
Asia is the obvious place for Australia to begin - it is home to "the world's worst offenders" on capital punishment, like China. Mr Fullilove says Australia should forge a regional alliance with countries in the region that have abolished the death penalty: Cambodia, Nepal, East Timor, Bhutan and the Philippines. It should also make the issue not just a principle, but a priority.
"We should aim to become a leader in the international movement against the death penalty," he says.
The Dutch striker has been United's stellar striker for much of the season before labouring of late after two goals in his previous seven Premier League appearances.
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But the £24m summer signing returned to form in spectacular fashion to secure the silverware with four games to spare.
Defeat for Manchester City at Tottenham on Sunday meant that United knew before kick-off that victory would be enough for them to cross the line.
Despite an improved second-half showing by Villa, now three points above the relegation zone with four games remaining, that outcome never seriously looked in doubt.
United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has now won the Premier League 13 times but the manner and margin of this triumph, a year after seeing the title wrenched from his grasp by City with the last kick of the season, should give him as much satisfaction as his first success.
His side were already 13 points clear before kick-off, and there was an air of expectation bordering on euphoria at Old Trafford.
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If there were any nerves too, they went out of the window when Van Persie opened the scoring after 83 seconds.
A move started by Wayne Rooney ended with Ryan Giggs knocking Antonio Valencia's cross into the path of the Dutchman, who converted from two yards out.
It was an ominous start for a defence looking as vulnerable as Villa's, and more chances swiftly followed.
The visitors escaped when Van Persie headed over and Rafael fired against the post but a second goal was not far away.
Villa had just started to gain a foothold in the match, with Christian Benteke firing just over after a quick break, when United struck again in devastating fashion after 13 minutes.
This time it was the home side on the counter-attack, and Rooney's searching ball found Van Persie running to meet it on the edge of the area to smash an unstoppable left-footed volley past Brad Guzan.
It was a world-class strike worthy of putting the seal on a title that has been in United's grasp since early February, when they first moved 12 points clear, but he and United did not stop there.
Giggs ran on to Shinji Kagawa's pass and had a chance to let fly himself, but instead set up Van Persie, who steadied himself before firing high into the roof of the net.
His 31-minute hat-trick not only put the win and the title beyond doubt, it also moved the summer signing to 24 league goals - one above Liverpool's Luis Suarez as the Premier League's leading scorer.
At that stage Villa's prime concern was damage limitation, especially because goal difference could yet play a part in their fight for survival, but to their credit they regrouped for the second half.
It took a goal-line clearance from Van Persie to stop Andreas Weimann from pulling a goal back and David De Gea was called into action to keep out Benteke's low shot.
United's players could be forgiven for having their minds on the parade to come at the final whistle, and even with the encouragement of Ferguson on the touchline, they failed to hit the heights they had managed before half-time.
Villa went close again when Weimann curled an effort wide from the right of the box and, even when United did respond, Kagawa wasted an easy chance to make it 4-0 when he fired over with the goal gaping.
The spirit shown by Paul Lambert's side bodes well for their battle against the drop.
But it only succeeded in taking the edge off the celebrations from the home fans in the stands during the second half.
They made up for it at the final whistle when the ground let out a collective roar of delight.
Ferguson embraced his players as they completed a lap of honour - one they will repeat on 12 May after their game against Swansea when they will be handed the Premier League trophy.
Brown returned to the fold for the 3-0 defeat away to England in November, but has yet to confirm if he will still be available for the return in June.
Lennon believes Scotland can come out on top in the World Cup qualifier and would love to see Brown feature.
"The team needs him and the country needs him," Lennon told BBC Scotland.
Brown, who worked under Lennon when he was Celtic manager, skippered the Scotland side that secured a 1-0 win against Slovenia on Sunday night to reignite their World Cup 2018 qualifying campaign.
The June Group F qualifier against England would, however, deny Brown the rest time that played a part in his initial decision to retire from Scotland duty.
But the Hibs boss reckons there is a solution to suit Brown and his club.
"The other thing is that they (Celtic) could win the league this weekend and then they don't have what you would call a meaningful game until the (Scottish Cup) semi-final, so maybe Brendan (Rodgers, Celtic manager) could tell him to go and have a week or 10 days now," said Lennon, who described Brown as "outstanding" in the Slovenia match.
"Then he'd have had a holiday during the season but before the Scotland game, then maybe more time off after that. Listen, I'm not going to tell Brendan how to do his job but that may be a solution for Scott getting more rest.
"He's looked as fresh as I've seen him in a long time so whatever they're doing in training at Celtic, it's working."
Lennon was highly impressed with how the under-pressure Scots performed against Slovenia, and reckons that lays a solid foundation for England's visit.
"I think they can beat England at Hampden," he added. "I've not been overly-impressed with England, although they are an excellent side that have quality players, but Scotland at home, off the back of a great win, and having lost at Wembley - there's plenty of sub-plots in that one.
"If you look at the score-line against England it was 3-0, but for 65-70 minutes Scotland were, for me, the better team at Wembley. That result on Sunday will hopefully galvanise them, it puts them right back in the group and hopefully it will galvanise the support."
Lennon is, of course, close to leading Hibs to the Championship title with the Easter Road outfit enjoying a 10-point lead at the summit with seven games to play.
The first of those comes against Morton on Wednesday night and Lennon said: "It's going to be another tough game and Morton, off the back of a defeat, will be keen to rectify that.
"He (Morton manager Jim Duffy) has worked wonders, not only are they up there challenging for promotion but they made the semi-final of the League Cup as well. Jim has galvanised them and made them a real force in the league."
Ross is a former England C international and was a regular in the Whitehawk side which narrowly missed out on promotion to the National League last season.
The 26-year-old has also had spells at Cambridge United, Eastbourne Borough and Hampton & Richmond Borough.
He will compete with Ritchie Branagan for a place in the Macclesfield side.
The Silkmen have also confirmed that former Newcastle United and Everton defender Steve Watson, 42, is their new assistant manager.
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The aim is to create a paperless service that would be more convenient for patients, and help doctors to provide faster diagnoses.
More than £4bn has been set aside for areas such as electronic records and online appointments, prescriptions and consultations.
But Labour said the NHS was "going backwards" under the Conservatives.
Full details of the funding are being agreed between the Department of Health and NHS England, but are expected to include:
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said doctors found filling out paperwork and bureaucracy "so frustrating".
"We know that proper investment in IT - it's not without its pitfalls - can save time for doctors and nurses and means they can spend more time with patients," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
The aim is to allow patients to book services and order prescriptions online, access apps and digital tools and choose to speak to their doctor online or via a video link.
Examples of NHS-accredited apps include one developed by young people to help prevent self-harm, and another that can help care home workers identify the early signs of dementia among residents.
Through the funding, everyone will have access to their own electronic health record, which will be shared between professionals so patients will no longer have to repeat their medical history.
Patients will also be given the opportunity to upload and send real-time data to medical professionals on long-term conditions such as blood pressure.
By 2020, it is hoped that a quarter of patients with long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and cancer will be able to monitor their health remotely.
The government wants at least 10% of patients to use computers, tablets or smartphones to access GP services by March 2017.
At the end of last year, Mr Hunt said free wi-fi would be provided in all NHS buildings in England but a deadline has still not been set.
Previous efforts by other governments to modernise NHS technology have been fraught with difficulty.
Labour tried to launch electronic medical records in 2002. Described as "the world's biggest civil information technology programme", the effort was scrapped after at least £10bn was spent.
Under the previous coalition government, Mr Hunt announced the NHS would go paperless by 2018.
BBC health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson said progress had been slow and this latest announcement was another attempt to push the NHS forward.
Labour's shadow health minister Justin Madders said: "Rather than rehashing old announcements, Jeremy Hunt needs to be telling the public how he intends to sort out the crisis facing our NHS.
"The Tories cannot hide from the fact that the NHS is going backwards on their watch.
"Hospital departments have become dangerously full, patients are waiting hours in A&E, and the health service is facing the worst financial crisis in a generation."
A dead leg sidelined the 22-year-old at the Ricoh Arena, with Tyrell Belford coming in for the Liverpool loanee.
Vigouroux, who could return against Wigan Athletic on Friday, took it as a chance to learn a few club chants.
"I enjoyed it and it was good to hear what the fans were singing about the players," Vigouroux told BBC Wiltshire.
"I could not hear anything else other than Swindon fans singing. The players appreciate the support.
"I was telling them that we have a very good squad here and if you stick with us then hopefully we will do you proud at the end of the season."
Swindon, who appointed Luke Williams as head coach on a five-year deal earlier this month, are unbeaten in their last seven matches.
Back-up goalkeeper Belford helped maintain that run, denying Coventry's Darius Henderson in injury time to ensure a goalless draw.
"It was probably one of the best saves of the season - he did exceptional," added Vigouroux.
"We get along quite well and I was really happy for him and he deserved a clean sheet."
Members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) intend to stop work for four hours.
They voted by 9-1 in favour of strike action - the first such vote in the college's 134-year history.
The Department of Health said it was "disappointing" and that it would work with trusts to ensure a safe service was provided to mothers and babies.
It added that its door was always open for discussion.
The RCM is seeking urgent talks with the health minister to resolve the dispute.
RCM NI director Bredagh Hughes said midwives are calling for the 1% pay increase given to their colleagues in Wales, Scotland and England.
"It is very important that women understand that this dispute is not with or about them. It is with the department of health and the employers," she said.
"Not one woman will be put at risk, there will be full emergency cover provided, of course if the midwives on the picket line are called in to make up the numbers, they will do that."
Ms Hughes said clinics and elective work may be disrupted. However she said other forms of industrial action planned from 1 May to 7 May would have an effect.
"The real message will be the following week when midwives start counting the hours they currently work and which they are not paid for and they submit a bill to their employer asking to be paid for the breaks they do not get on a 12 hour shift and the hour or two hours they stay behind and work every day," she said.
"From our experience, we know that every midwife works about three hours unpaid work every single week of their working lives and they have never claimed for that."
Public transport workers have already announced they are to take part in a second strike that will affect all bus and rail services in Northern Ireland.
Unite said that a 24-hour strike was being planned for Wednesday 6 May.
Last month, public transport workers took part in a one-day strike involving education, administration and health service staff.
Unite said the second strike would affect Ulsterbus, Metro and NI Railways services.
In a statement, Translink said it was disappointing that passengers "could be inconvenienced" as a result of the proposed strike action "which comes at a time when many schoolchildren are preparing for or taking exams".
"We are, of course, seeking to urgently meet with Unite to discuss this news that they are to go on strike on 6 May," they said.
Taxi firm boss Nasser Rezaie, 63, of Petersfield in Chelmsford, is accused of murdering Allan Frampton in May.
Mr Rezaie told Chelmsford Crown Court he noticed his wife's behaviour had changed when he returned from a trip to Iran in 2013.
He denies murder but accepts killing the 60-year-old divorced grandfather.
He argues his actions were a result of losing control and were not premeditated.
Mr Rezie told the jury his wife Jane had started wearing false eyelashes and making regular trips to the hairdressers when he returned from Tehran.
She admitted the 10-month affair with Mr Frampton, who rented a car workshop unit from the couple's taxi firm, after a confrontation with Mr Rezaie in June last year, he said.
The court previously heard Mr Rezaie made threats to kill Mr Frampton over the phone, which were recorded by Mrs Rezaie.
The jury was told he repeatedly ran over Mr Frampton with his silver Mercedes in Osea Way in Chemsford 11 months later.
Mr Frampton, a mechanic, died at the scene from multiple injuries.
Mr Rezaie broke down in tears as he told the court how his relationship with his children suffered following the breakdown of his marriage.
He said they were angry with him and admitted he had written "terrible things" in a series of Facebook posts in June and July 2014.
He also described how his business, Ali's Taxis, had suffered after the breakdown of his relationship with his wife, and alleged she had run up debts of £176,000 which he had to pay off.
The trial continues.
Laurie Rimon found the gold coin, believed to be nearly two thousand years old, whilst taking a break near some ruins.
Until now the only known coin of its kind was kept in the British Museum.
The coin has the image of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, on one side.
Experts at the Israeli Antiquities Authority say it may have been part of a Roman soldier's wages and would have been worth a lot of money at the time.
Having already managed to turn the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton into a Broadway sensation, getting Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to sing a few bars must have posed little challenge for Lin-Manuel Miranda.
In fact, the challenge was more to be found in getting him to stop.
"Everyone has been asking, 'How do you get The Rock to sing?'" laughs Miranda, the Tony-winning writer of Hamilton whose latest project, Disney animation Moana, draws on his strengths as a composer and lyricist.
"As soon as The Rock signed up, he was like, 'Where is my song?' He knew that was one of his favourite parts of the Disney animated musical tradition."
Moana sees Johnson play Maui, a Polynesian demigod whose feats and exploits are part of the mythology of the Pacific islands that provide the film's backdrop.
It is Maui to whom the film's eponymous teenage heroine must turn if she is to lift a curse that has bedevilled her little corner of this Oceanic idyll.
"The character of Maui is involved in all kinds of creation myths, depending on which island in the Pacific you go to," explains Miranda.
"The fun of that was already knowing the personality of the character I was writing towards, as well as writing something worthy of The Rock."
The result is the tuneful You're Welcome, a brash and humorous exclamation of egotism that includes some of Miranda's trademark rhyming patter.
Other songs in the movie include the uplifting How Far I'll Go, a number Miranda describes as "an 'I want' song" in the tradition of The Little Mermaid's Part Of Your World.
"The first time I sat at my piano to work on it I said, 'Don't think about Let It Go!" laughs Miranda - a reference to the chart-topping earworm from 2013's Frozen.
"But the job is to tell the truth about our characters and really make you feel about where they are in the journey, so you try to treat it as honestly as possible."
The Little Mermaid is something of a touchstone for Miranda, who is part of a team tasked with turning that 1989 animation into a live-action feature.
"My main role is as a super fan of the original movie," the 36-year-old explains. "I'm just on deck to make sure the fans of the original film are happy."
Miranda, indeed, is such a "super fan" he named his son Sebastian after the crab who warbles Under The Sea, perhaps that film's best-known number.
There are plans afoot also for an unnamed Disney animation, though Miranda claims "there will be men in coats" to whisk him away if he says anything about it.
Before that, Lin-Manuel will be seen as "an actor for hire" in Mary Poppins Returns, a belated follow-up to Disney's PL Travers-inspired 1964 classic.
The New York-born performer will be playing a new character called Jack, a street lamplighter who joins Emily Blunt's Mary on her magical adventures.
The original Mary Poppins is perhaps best remembered, on these shores at least, for Dick Van Dyke's lamentable stab at a broad Cockney accent.
Miranda, though, confidently predicts that his London brogue will be even worse.
"I'm going to manage expectations right now and tell you it's the worst accent you've ever heard in your life," he tells the BBC.
"You're not going to know what planet I am from, much less which street in London."
With Hamilton coming to London next year and an all-star Hamilton "mixtape" released this month, these are busy times for a polymath whose prodigious talents have made him very much in demand.
They have also brought him a measure of controversy, evidenced last month when he helped write a message to vice president-elect Mike Pence that was delivered to the politician from the stage of New York's Richard Rodgers Theatre.
That drew a heated response from president-elect Donald Trump, who called on the Hamilton cast to apologise to Mr Pence for their "terrible" behaviour.
Moana too has not been immune from criticism, with some accusing Disney of cultural misappropriation after it offered for sale a child's costume bearing a facsimile of Maui's all-over tattoos.
There has also been censure over how the character is depicted, with some viewing the Disney version as an obese caricature of Polynesian men.
Yet Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican descent, insists the film's production was built around "research and empathy" and that its makers "consulted on every decision".
"We wanted to make sure it was something that people of the Pacific Islands could point at with pride, and hopefully that's the case," he continues.
It is certainly a film Miranda takes pride in, if only for having his own vocals feature on the version of You're Welcome that accompanies its end credits.
"It's crazy and overwhelming," he says. "I now know how Phil Collins feels when he sees Tarzan."
Moana is out now in the UK.
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Mark Hartley's son, Jamie, has been given just months to live.
The 22-year-old and his brother Kyle both have Juvenile Huntington's Disease.
Mr Hartley said Jamie's condition had accelerated over the past month "so essentially Jamie's got not a great deal of time left with us".
The family, from Blyth, are bike enthusiasts so he posted the request for a sidecar on Facebook to a few dozen friends.
"I put my phone down and about two hours later I picked it back up again and there was 400 messages," Mr Hartley said.
A ride involving hundreds of bikers is planned for Sunday.
Juvenile Huntington's Disease is an uncommon form of the condition, causing stiffness, tremor or muscle twitching, seizures and difficulty speaking.
It is terminal but the timescale can vary.
Calvin McIntosh, from Larkhall, was driving his BMW when it was in a collision with a Volkswagen Polo at about 17:00 on Saturday.
Mr McIntosh sustained serious head injuries and died at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on Wednesday.
Two women travelling in the other car are in a stable condition in hospital.
The 58-year-old driver suffered leg and back injuries, and her 24-year-old daughter sustained internal injuries.
Police have appealed for anyone who may have witnessed the crash, or who has information that could assist the police, to contact them.
They said a number of passing motorists had already come forward.
The Gunners have played the German champions four times in the previous five campaigns and finished behind them in the group stage last season.
There will be guarded optimism surrounding the prospect of facing Bayern Munich, Sevilla and Monaco
The Foxes, in their debut campaign, have a tough test against Europa League champions Sevilla.
Manchester City's opponents Monaco beat Tottenham twice in Group E.
One of the other standout ties of the round pits Spanish champions Barcelona against French champions Paris St-Germain. Barca beat PSG in the quarter-finals en route to winning the title during the 2014-15 season.
Champions and La Liga leaders Real Madrid face Italian side Napoli, who are fourth in Serie A.
Reaction to the Champions League & Europa League draws
Man Utd v Saint Etienne, Tottenham v Gent - Europa League draw
(First legs to be played on 14 & 15 and 21 & 22 February 2017; second legs on 7 & 8 and 14 & 15 March)
Arsenal have been knocked out by Bayern the past three times they have met in the knockout stage.
Gunners club secretary David Miles told BT Sport: "We are through to the knockout stage for the 14th consecutive season, which is testament to manager Arsene Wenger and the teams throughout that time.
"But the fans will think we have got the rough end of the draw again - at some stage the tide has got to turn and we will beat them."
Bayern skipper Philipp Lahm tweeted: "Tough draw as Arsenal is in really good shape. Looking forward to seeing my former colleagues from the national team again!"
Manchester City director of football Txiki Begiristain said Monaco should not be underestimated.
He added: "Monaco are playing probably the best football in France now.
"In the group of Tottenham and Bayer Leverkusen, they were top. They have young players and a lot of talent. They play good football. It is a good draw."
Manager Claudio Ranieri said his Leicester side were set for a tough challenge against a "big, big, big team".
"I know that Sevilla have lifted the Europa League three times in three years - it is unbelievable," said the Italian, who led the Foxes to their first Premier League title last season.
"Now they are third in the league and have lost only three so far. They are fighting to win the title with Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, so that tells you how good they are."
BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty
The Premier League's three representatives have all been handed tough draws - but also ties that will offer them the realistic opportunity of progress.
Arsenal, Premier League champions Leicester City, and Manchester City could have been given easier opponents but there will also be guarded optimism surrounding the prospect of facing Bayern Munich, Sevilla and Monaco.
The Gunners are aiming to end a run of six successive exits at this stage and some may curse the draw that pairs them with Bayern.
It is not a comfortable reward for topping their group and they have suffered before against Bayern in this competition.
Leicester City will give anyone a tough time if they play with the intensity and power they showed in thrashing Manchester City at the weekend.
Monaco's displays in beating Tottenham home and away will have warned Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola about their quality, and he also has serious defensive issues to address.
The Hong Kong-based businessman also claimed his firm, Portpin, was the only bidder with the "experience and money to return Portsmouth to its glories".
He said a Pompey Supporters' Trust (PST) bid would fail due to "in-fighting and lack of actual money".
"You can't run a business like that," Chainrai told BBC Sport.
He did, however, admit to being unsure whether Portpin would pass the Football League's "owners' and directors' test", a necessary step if Pompey are to continue to play league football under his control.
Colin Farmery, spokesperson for PST, said: "I am a bit bemused by Mr Chainrai's statements. The last time we heard from the administrators there were no issues in terms of our bid stacking up financially - and the Football League has made it clear they have no issues either.
"As for 'in-fighting', nothing could be further from the truth. PST has been consistent throughout in our belief that we offer the best deal for creditors and the club. We are completely united in our goal."
That objective was in sight last week when PST appeared to be on the verge of being named as administrator Trevor Birch's "preferred bidder" last week, but the trust has heard nothing from his firm PKF since Thursday.
That has led to rumours that the administrators have decided to hand the club back to Portpin, meaning Chainrai would become owner for the third time since February 2010.
They can't pin [the second administration]on us, and the club directors [at that time] know it. We were totally distant
"PKF weren't able to confirm PST as preferred bidders because its offer has no substance," Chainrai said.
"[PKF] realised that once you start the due diligence on the trust's offer, there is no actual money in place and there are about 30 of them all trying to run it. You can't run a business like that.
"We have the money and experience needed to take the club back where it belongs."
The issue of Portpin's experience at Portsmouth, however, could work against Chainrai.
For most fans, community leaders and the local media, he personifies a fall from grace that saw the 2008 FA Cup winners change hands four times in the 2009-10 season and become the first Premier League team to enter administration.
Portpin controlled Portsmouth's parent company at the time of this dramatic financial collapse, and it was Chainrai who appointed an administrator to halt an HM Revenue and Customs winding-up petition.
Describing himself as a "reluctant owner", Chainrai claimed he was only acting to protect his "investment", a £17m loan - secured against the club's assets - to former owner Ali Al Faraj.
In October 2010, Portsmouth, now shorn of a large chunk of its £135m debt, emerged from administration with Portpin in charge again, only for Chainrai to sell the club in June 2011 to Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov.
Six months later, Antonov was arrested for alleged bank fraud and the holding company he used to buy Portsmouth was placed in administration.
Within two months, the club also entered administration. The supporters' trust alleges Portpin controlled this process, too, which means it falls foul of the owners' and directors' test - a rebranded version of football's infamously ineffectual fit and proper person test.
Under the new system, anybody who has been a director of a club that has suffered two insolvency events since June 2004 - or two clubs that have had an insolvency in that time - is disqualified.
* After nine and 10-point deductions respectively
So far, the Football League will only say it is in talks with Birch about the legal status of the respective bids, but the "next stage is for him to select a preferred bid for the board to consider formally".
Pressed on this by the BBC, Chainrai said he had heard "the same rumours of people claiming this and that" about the post-Antonov administration, but denied Portpin had anything to do with it.
"They can't pin that on us, and the club directors [at that time] know it. We were totally distant," he said.
But his claim runs counter to details PST has sent to the Football League.
"Portpin's past actions have caused the club to twice go into administration, which is why we have written to the Football League formally on this matter now the time for them to make a decision is coming closer," said PST spokesman Farmery.
Former chief executive David Lampitt, now chief executive of Supporters Direct, the organisation that promotes community ownership of sports clubs across Europe, is believed to have made it clear that Portpin was the primary mover in Portsmouth entering administration again.
This would appear to put the Football League on a path to a legal dispute with Chainrai, a well-worn route some PST supporters believe is behind PKF's sudden change of heart towards Portpin as well.
With Portpin's strongest card being the mortgage it holds on Fratton Park, any move to take it from Chainrai was likely to end up in the courts, an expensive business for an administrator under pressure to secure the best return for creditors and his partners.
For his part, Chainrai says he is willing to spend whatever it takes to get Pompey back up the league ladder.
"The club has no value in League One. Everybody knows that," he said.
"So I'm going to put money in to return them to their glories and then sell the club. But who knows? I might enjoy it so much I won't sell it.
"I'm not reluctant anymore. I've changed my mind."
The big-budget, action-centric PC and console titles that Californian buyer Activision Blizzard is best known for are quite different to the more simple puzzle and role-playing mobile and web-based games its Stockholm and London-headquartered acquisition is skilled at making.
Furthermore, the size of the acquisition dwarfs other mega-deals in an industry already prone to consolidation.
For comparison's sake, other recent mergers include:
So, what's behind the huge sum involved in the latest deal?
Gaming on smartphones and tablets is enjoying a growth spurt.
Research firm Newzoo predicts that 2015 will be the year that mobile games revenues overtake those of console titles, despite the fact the latter typically cost much more to purchase.
This is in part down to the fact many more people own and game on handsets and tablets, but also because of the success King.com and some others have had at convincing players to make multiple "in-app" purchases.
In other words, rather than trying to make players shell out a large sum to buy access to all of a game's content upfront, consumers are instead charged a low price or given the software for free but then convinced to pay extra to unlock levels, add abilities, change the appearance of their character and get other booster content.
As many a player - and parent - has learned to their cost, the prices of such virtual goods may seem cheap, but can soon add up.
Activision Blizzard has struggled to make much impact in the mobile sector despite it releasing dozens of titles.
Efforts to build on existing franchises including Call of Duty, Skylanders and Tony Hawk skating games have had mixed success.
It can only really claim hit status for Hearthstone - a World of Warcraft spin-off - and even that ranks outside the top 25 grossing titles on both the iOS and Android platforms at present.
By contrast, King.com's puzzle game Candy Crush Saga and its sequel Candy Crush Soda Saga both appear inside the top six titles and have been consistently high-earners over the years.
At the end of its most recent quarter, King.com reported an impressive $490m worth of sales and 501 million active players.
Even so, some analysts still have concerns about its prospects.
"Its actual audience has declined [from a peak of 550 million active users]," said Piers Harding-Rolls from the IHS Technology consultancy.
"King would say that the audience it shed were less committed players who didn't monetise as well, and that it's hanging onto people who play more than one of its games and tend to spend more on average.
"So, it says it is holding onto its best customers.
"But I still think it has a challenge about what to do post-Candy Crush, which Activision will now have to take on."
This latter point could prove crucial.
The firm has developed more than 200 titles since it was founded 12 years ago. But none of them have come close to repeating the two Candy Crush titles' success.
King.com might like to boast that a recent launch - AlphaBetty Saga - shot to number one in both the iOS and Android game download charts when it first went on sale.
But the sad truth is that it no longer appears in either platform's top 100.
Other mobile developers - including Angry Birds' Rovio and Clash of Clans' Supercell - have also found it harder to create new franchises than to carry on milking their best-known brand.
The risk is that over time this leads to ever-decreasing returns.
One statistic that might cause particular concern is that about 40% of King.com's revenue for the first six months of 2015 came from a single title - the original Candy Crush Saga - and its earnings power is diminishing.
Even so, at least in the short term, Mr Harding-Rolls acknowledges there is logic in the merger, in large part because it gives Activision Blizzard access to players it has previously struggled to appeal to. Especially women.
"Female players make up 40 to 50% of gamers globally," he explained.
"And many of them are playing on mobile and tablet devices.
"The takeover will allow Activision Blizzard to tap into that audience."
One final thought: although $5.9bn may sound a lot for King.com, it's still less than the $7bn the company was valued at when it floated on the New York Stock Exchange last year.
Activision Blizzard may have picked up a bargain - alternatively it may discover the subsequent "micro-transaction" costs of trying to repeat Candy Crush's success add up quicker than expected.
After the talks, she reaffirmed Washington's support for a "full transition to civilian rule" in Egypt.
President Mursi has become embroiled in a constitutional crisis after trying to reinstate a parliament dissolved by the judiciary and the military.
Mrs Clinton has backed Mr Mursi, saying Egyptians should get the government they voted for.
Mr Mursi, of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, was elected in June in the country's first ever freely contested leadership vote.
After the meeting in Cairo, Mrs Clinton told reporters: "I have come to Cairo to reaffirm the strong support of the United States for the Egyptian people and their democratic transition.
"We want to be a good partner and we want to support the democracy that has been achieved by the courage and sacrifice of the Egyptian people."
The BBC's Jon Leyne, in Cairo, says that not many years ago, one US secretary of state declared that Washington did not speak with the Muslim Brotherhood, and never would.
But, he says, the administration of Barack Obama has been quick to engage with the new president - a case of accepting the inevitable and trying to make the best of it.
The US government wants to see Egyptian democracy and human rights being protected.
The Muslim Brotherhood has repeatedly stressed it does not want to be isolated internationally, not least because the country depends so heavily on international trade and tourism.
Mr Mursi has tried to defuse the row over parliament - a body he tried to reinstate by decree last weekend.
The chamber was dominated by Mr Mursi's Islamist allies, and was shut down by the military before he took power.
The Supreme Constitutional Court has said the dissolution is final.
Mr Mursi has said he is "committed to the rulings of Egyptian judges and very keen to manage state powers and prevent any confrontation".
Mrs Clinton said she would meet the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, on Sunday.
He became the country's interim ruler after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February last year.
Asked what she would tell Field Marshal Tantawi, Mrs Clinton said she would make clear the US supports the return of the armed forced "to a purely military role".
Earlier this week, Mrs Clinton said Egyptians should "get what they protested for and what they voted for, which is a fully-elected government making the decisions for the country going forward".
Mrs Clinton arrived in Egypt from a week-long trip to Asia, and will later visit Israel.
They are rarely shown enjoying a pint and instead appear as glamorous window dressing.
A South American beer company, Feminista, wants to change that.
Thais Fabris is behind the branding and says women in the ads are "either the waitress in the bar, a girl on the beach, or a prize the men get for drinking that beer".
She says for them "it has many dangerous aspects, since it objectifies women".
Hannah Rhodes is the founder of Hiver, an award-winning beer that has marketed itself to men and women.
She agrees that beer needs a makeover when it comes to selling itself.
"There are already great beers out there that tackle some of the traditional issues; smaller serving sizes, more balanced and interesting flavour profiles and finally, more neutral branding.
"I'd suggest that many men would feel similarly uncomfortable selecting a beer with floral patterns on the label and an advert focussed on a man's groin.
"It's just not mature and we all, men and women, want to be respected a bit more in how we're marketed to."
She told Newsbeat that beer is in need of a general rebrand.
"Like the creative agency behind this beer are saying, much of the advertising is targeted at men and I've heard many women say no to a sample of beer on the basis that they prefer 'more girly drinks'.
"So I think they're right, the perception of beer and the advertising campaigns around put women off and even make them feel drinking a beer challenges their identity.
"It's just a drink!"
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The Shia-led governments that have held power since then have struggled to maintain order, and the country has enjoyed only brief periods of respite from high levels of sectarian violence.
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The majority Shia population, which had been excluded from power, was initially jubilant at the 2003 campaign to remove the dictator Saddam Hussein.
But optimism gradually gave way to despair as insurgent groups - mainly drawn from embittered Sunnis, dismissed army officers and supporters of the former regime - began an increasingly bloody campaign of bomb attacks.
The insurgents - with al-Qaeda in Iraq among the most violent - targeted civilians as well as security forces, at times killing hundreds of people in one day.
The conflict acquired a marked sectarian aspect in 2006-7 when Shia militant groups struck back with a campaign of kidnappings and killings.
The transfer of power to an interim government in June 2004 and, seven months later, the first multi-party elections in 50 years, which brought an overwhelmingly Shia-dominated coalition to power, failed to stem the violence.
By 2008, however, a "surge" in US troop levels to confront the rebels, the co-opting of moderate Sunni tribesmen in the struggle against militants, and an improving Iraqi army succeeded in turning the situation around.
In June 2009 US troops withdrew from Iraq's towns and cities, and the last remaining US forces left the country at the end of 2011. But the Shia-led government of Nouri al-Maliki failed to unite Iraq's various communities and from 2013 faced a rapidly-rising tide of extreme Sunni rebellion in Anbar Province.
By early 2014, Sunni rebels led by the extreme jihadist group calling itself Islamic State (IS) had established strongholds in the mainly Sunni Anbar Province.
Army resistance quickly melted away, and within months, IS fighters had begun to move into central and northern Iraq, threatening the unity of the state.
A US-led coalition of regional and Western powers responded with a campaign of air strikes, as the Iraqi government attempted to counter the group.
After elections in 2014, the Shia-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was replaced with the less divisive figure of Haider al-Abadi and a new broad-based government including Sunni Arabs and Kurds in September 2014.
Straddling the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and stretching from the Gulf to the Anti-Taurus Mountains, modern Iraq occupies roughly what was once ancient Mesopotamia, one of the cradles of human civilisation.
In the early Middle Ages, Iraq was the heartland of the Islamic Empire, but a brutal Mongol invasion in the 13th century destroyed its importance. Part of the Ottoman Empire from the 15th century, it came under British control after World War I, gaining independence in 1932.
The British-installed monarchy was toppled in 1958, and a coup in 1968 brought the Arab nationalist Ba'ath (Renaissance) party to power. Oil made the country rich and, when Saddam Hussein became president in 1979, petroleum made up 95% of its foreign exchange earnings.
But the 1980-88 war with Iran and the 1991 Gulf War, sparked by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, together with the subsequent imposition of international sanctions, had a devastating effect on its economy and society.
What remained of the economy was largely shattered by the 2003 invasion and the subsequent violence. Attacks by insurgents on Iraq's oil infrastructure cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenues.
In the north, the Kurdish community has managed to create an autonomous region of its own, and is pushing for greater territory and more powers.
The area threatened to hold a referendum on independence after the seizure of northern Iraq by IS militants in 2014, but backed down after the creation of more broad-based government in Baghdad.
The 30-year-old Frenchman was a free agent following a spell with League of Ireland side Shamrock Rovers, where he played his last game in August of 2016.
Blanchard, who is the Exiles' 14th signing of 2017, will be available for Friday's League Two game against Doncaster Rovers.
"Max has experience, quality and grit," County manager Graham Westley said.
"Max has joined us on a game by game arrangement because we have a need and because he loves playing football. Those are the people I want at our club."
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The incident happened at the Western Industrial Estate in Bracknell shortly before 23:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Witnesses reported seeing flames shooting into the air and hearing loud explosions.
Thames Valley Police said the fire, at TV production company NEP Visions Ltd, was not a danger to the public and there were no casualties.
National Rail said there were some delays to trains between Ascot and Wokingham as a result, but services were later restored.
State-owned CalMac and private firm Serco Caledonian Ferries Limited had been competing for the contract to run the services.
CalMac already operates the routes on the west coast of Scotland, which include the inner and outer Hebrides.
The new contract, which was awarded by the Scottish government, covers the eight-year period from 1 October.
Serco's bid was deemed to be "non-compliant" by government body Transport Scotland after the firm sought changes to commercial terms aimed at striking a balance between the risks and rewards involved.
The tendering process was the source of a dispute between unions - which wanted the ferry services to remain in public hands - and CalMac and the Scottish government last year.
The Scottish government said EU rules meant it had to open the process to competitive bids.
The dispute saw an independent panel set up to provide examine the tender process, which it found to have been fair, open and transparent.
Serco already runs the NorthLink ferries to Orkney and Shetland.
The Scottish government said CalMac had committed to retaining its pension scheme, and to a policy of no compulsory redundancies.
Its bid included 350 commitments to improve the service, including £6m investment in vessel and port improvements.
Among its other pledges are:
CalMac operates 31 vessels, which provide 135,585 sailings every year - an average of 371 sailings a day - to 24 island destinations and 50 ports.
Its ferries carried more than 4.6 million passengers last year, as well as 1.1 million cars, and 87,000 commercial vehicles.
Confirming CalMac as the preferred bidder, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the ferry company was "woven into the fabric of the communities they serve".
Ms Sturgeon added: "Their tender offers a good deal for those communities served by these vital transport links and ensures that we can maximise the opportunities to support and nurture our island economies.
"CalMac will better manage demand to drive an increase in traffic, as well as make the ferry services more attractive with the introduction of smart ticketing on key routes."
She said the contract meant Scottish Ministers would retain control of all of important issues, such as fares and timetables, through the public service contract.
Welcoming the announcement, CalMac managing director Martin Dorchester said: "We are proud to be given the opportunity to transform ferry passengers' experience across the west coast of Scotland and to work closely with our partners to connect towns, cities and communities like never before.
"Our successful bid demonstrates our ability to provide innovative service improvements and value for money for customers."
Scottish Labour, the Scottish Greens and the RMT union had been due to hold a demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament calling on CalMac to be awarded the contract.
The rally was repurposed as a celebration, although MSPs said they would now turn their attention to other ferry contracts due for renewal, including the northern isles ferries.
New transport secretary Humza Yousaf was also in attendance at the Holyrood rally.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the award of the contract to CalMac was a "major victory for the union and a successful defence of the principle of public ownership and operation of lifeline Scottish ferry services".
He also said it was a "complete vindication" of the union's industrial action last year, which he said had secured meaningful employment and pension protections.
Labour and the Scottish Greens also said Scottish ministers had made the right decision, but Labour continued to claim that the "costly and time consuming" tender process had not been necessary.
The Scottish Conservatives said the tender process had been designed to deter private companies from bidding and winning, and that a number of questions remained to be answered as to why Serco's bid was ruled out as being non-complaint.
Kevin Craven, chief executive of Serco's UK central government division, said it was disappointed by the decision as it believed it could have made significant improvements to the quality and reliability of ferry services.
But Mr Craven said the improvements promised by CalMac demonstrated the benefits of putting public sector contracts out to competitive tender.
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Konta, the first British woman to reach the top 10 in the world rankings in 32 years, has confirmed her place at the Aegon Open in Nottingham and will then play in Birmingham and Eastbourne.
The 25-year-old world number 10 said: "The grass-court season is one of my favourites.
"This series of tournaments ahead of Wimbledon provides great preparation."
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She added: "Tournaments like Birmingham, Eastbourne, and Nottingham have such an incredible history, you just need to look at the roll of honour to see that, and you can sense that when you step on court."
The Aegon Nottingham Open at the Nottingham Tennis Centre starts on 10 June.
Konta was beaten in the second round last year, losing 6-4 7-5 to Zheng Saisai of China, having reached the quarter-finals in 2015.
Meg Brace's border collie has retrieved more than 20 balls on the open space behind her home in Glemsford, Suffolk.
After a public appeal, the Epic Youth Club recognised the balls had been taken from its kickabouts at the nearby village hall.
Stuart Ayling, youth club manager, said: "It's one remarkable pet."
The border collie, called Maggie, soon revealed her skill at retrieving balls and was featured in the East Anglian Daily Times.
"She's sometimes hard to get on with, but she has this talent," said Ms Brace.
"My other border collie Gizmo picks up litter from the same playing field and brings it to me to put in the bins.
"I just wish the kids would do it themselves."
Mr Ayling, who runs the youth club as part of the Edens Project based in neighbouring Sudbury, said: "We have had problems with our footballs being taken to the rec by older teenagers who weren't part of the youth club.
"We used to take several outside at once, so people walking past could easily take one without us noticing.
"They were being kicked into the bushes rather than brought back to us."
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Modern Australia has been built on immigration, and the latest census confirms this, finding that almost half (49%) of all Australians were born overseas or had at least one parent born abroad.
But fewer of those arriving in Australia are coming from Europe - once the dominant source of migrants for a country that restricted immigration until the 1970s under the "White Australia" policy.
The 2016 census found that 40% of the overseas-born population were born in Asia, marking the first time more people have come from there than Europe.
In 2001, just 24% of those born overseas came from Asia.
In comparison, the proportion born in Europe decreased from 52% in 2001 to 34% in 2016.
While the number one place of origin for foreign-born migrants is still England, at 15%, migrants from China (8.3%) and India (7.4%) have been arriving in greater numbers in recent years.
In total, migrants born in China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia now outnumber those born in Europe and New Zealand.
For the first time, more Australians (29.6%) said they had "no religion" than any other specific affiliation, up from 16% in 2001.
This was followed by Catholic (22.6%), Anglican (13.3%), none stated (9.6%), the Uniting Church (3.7%), Muslim (2.6%), Buddhist (2.4%), Hindu (1.9%), Other (0.8%), Sikh (0.5%) and Jewish (0.4%).
Some 2.8% of Australians said they were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, up from 2.5% in 2011.
The total number increased by more than 100,000 people, or 18% - from 548,368 in 2011 to 649,171 in 2016.
Estimates of the size of the indigenous population before Europeans arrived in Australia in 1788 range from 315,000 to more than one million people. The population sharply declined from that point due to new diseases, violence, displacement and dispossession.
Australia's best known city could soon be overtaken by Melbourne in terms of its population size.
Melbourne's population is growing faster and has reached 4.4m, not far behind Sydney's 4.8m people.
But with a weekly median rent of A$350 ($265; £200), compared to A$440 for Sydney, it's not difficult to see why more people are being drawn to Melbourne.
A huge number of languages are spoken in Australian homes - more than 300 - including Indigenous languages.
More than one in five Australians (22.2%) speak a language at home that is not English. The most common one is Mandarin (2.5%), followed by Arabic (1.4%) , Cantonese (1.2%), Vietnamese (1.2%) and Italian (1.2%).
Reporting by the BBC's Kevin Ponniah
Crews were called to the flat in Brunswick Road just before 01:00 after a neighbour reported smoke coming from underneath a door.
They helped the two men, aged 50 and 22, to safety.
The men were suffering from smoke inhalation but did not go to hospital.
Midfielder Pajtim Kasami and defender Danny Fox are back in training after injury but may not be ready in time.
New Bristol City keeper Fabian Giefer could start if international clearance for his loan deal from German side Schalke is received in time.
The visitors have no new injury worries but midfielder Korey Smith is out for up to six weeks with a hamstring issue.
The Robins, who have lost their past seven consecutive league games, go into the match level on points with Forest.
Nottingham Forest interim manager Gary Brazil:
"The chairman asked me to step in on a caretaker basis. I will carry on with the role until told otherwise.
"We have brought a greater intensity to the training ground which the players have enjoyed. All the focus is about the game.
"The players have responded very well to the work we have done with them. We are looking forward to going out and getting ourselves a win."
Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol:
"We want to get a win. We definitely don't want to lose it. We can go there in full belief that we can get a win.
"We failed miserably in the last 15 minutes against Cardiff but, apart from that, we've had three very assured performances.
"We need to make sure we lock out that last 15 minutes a bit better, but that will come."
Two-time world champion Alonso said it had been hard to sustain his motivation as McLaren struggled, largely as a result of the Honda engine.
He said: "I need to improve for next year. When you're at the front and have more motivation, it helps.
"I am on, let's say, economy mode to have a strong season next year."
Alonso, regarded by many in Formula 1 as the best all-round driver in the world, is being paid a $40m (£26.3m) salary on a three-year contract with McLaren-Honda that runs until 2017.
Asked about his own performance this year, he picked only two moments when he said he had been completely satisfied.
"I did some good laps here and there," he said. "I remember Japan in second qualifying - it was at the limit. The Austin race, the whole race was good, difficult conditions, wet-dry, dry tyres on a damp track. Then I felt confident in the car and able to push.
"But apart from these two moments I don't think I had the best season."
Alonso has a marginally better qualifying record than team-mate Jenson Button in 2015 but is five points behind the Englishman in the championship.
However, Alonso has been ahead in races more often than not this season but has had a worse reliability record.
Alonso - who at the Japanese Grand Prix last month appeared to cast doubt on his future at McLaren, only to later insist he would see out his contract - said that it would be "frustrating and sad news" if McLaren-Honda did not improve in 2016.
But he added it would also be "a surprise if we are not very, very competitive next year".
"We have high hopes for next year and I really trust the team and really believe we have the talented people and the resources to have everything to do well," Alonso said.
"The car is responding very well. Aerodynamically, we understood the direction to go and I see when I am in the track how we can attack the corners, how fast we are in the corners, so I am not afraid next year's car will not be at the top level.
"The engine is the question mark."
He said he believed that, compared to Renault and Ferrari's struggles in their first season in the new hybrid formula last year, Honda was "a step ahead" at the end of its debut year.
But he added: "The only question now is doing a good winter."
Honda believes it understands the area in which the engine is lacking but its F1 chief Yasuhisa Arai admits that its target of closing the gap to the front will be "hard work considering the preparation time".
The figures show the five-year survival rate for bowel cancer increased from 38% between 1983 to 1987, to 55% between 2003 and 2007.
The Scottish government will launch a new awareness campaign on Monday.
From April the bowel screening programme will be extended to those over the age of 74.
Currently, men and women aged between 50 and 74 are invited to participate in screening every two years.
The bowel cancer drive will focus on the importance of screening in increasing the early detection of bowel cancer, and encourage all men and women aged over the age of 50 to participate in the screening programme.
Health Secretary Alex Neil said: "These statistics are encouraging and show that today people are far more likely to survive bowel cancer than they were 30 years ago.
"However, there are still far too many people being diagnosed with bowel cancer at the later stages.
"Participating in the bowel screening programme gives the best chance of detecting bowel cancer early. When bowel cancer is detected at an early stage it is treatable and nine out of 10 people beat it."
Deborah Alsina, from the charity Bowel Cancer UK, said: "We are delighted to be supporting the Detect Cancer Early awareness campaign. Bowel cancer is very treatable especially if diagnosed at an early stage.
"This is why it is so important that if anyone receives a screening kit that they use it and return it. Bowel cancer screening really does save lives."
In 2010, only 15% of bowel cancers were detected at the earliest stage, but cancer was almost twice as likely (28%) to be diagnosed at the earliest stage through screening.
Colorectal cancers killed 1,526 people in Scotland in 2011.
Overall cancer death rates have fallen 12% over the past decade.
Stoke dominated most of the game, but neither side failed to create clear chances in a low-key first half.
Newcastle improved after the break but went behind when Shaqiri's 20-yard strike flew in past Rob Elliot.
Jack Butland superbly saved substitute Seydou Doumbia's injury-time header as Stoke clinched a third straight win.
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Newcastle, who had not played since the 5-1 hammering at Chelsea 18 days ago, knew that a point would move them out of the bottom three at the expense of Sunderland and Norwich.
But the Magpies arrived at a cold, wet and windswept Britannia Stadium having scored just seven away goals this season - the lowest total in the entire English league.
That miserable statistic did not look like improving, with the visitors - despite a resolute defensive display - barely stretching Potters keeper Butland throughout.
However, the England keeper - who denied Newcastle victory in October's reverse fixture - remained alert to come to Stoke's rescue in the dying moments.
"I'm glad we don't have to play against Jack Butland every week," said McClaren, whose side suffered a 15th league defeat of the season.
"He denied us victory at St James' Park and tonight he denied us a point I think we deserved. It's cruel that we lost."
Stoke dominated possession and territory throughout, but were unable to break down a compact Newcastle side who defended deep in a bid to stifle their hosts.
The Potters' supporters were becoming increasingly frustrated until Shaqiri scored with his side's first shot on target of the second half.
The former Bayern Munich and Inter Milan winger ran onto Mame Biram Diouf's lay-off to blast an unstoppable past an off-guard Elliot.
"It was a great goal to win the game," said Potters manager Mark Hughes afterwards. "It had great power, was a great strike and the keeper didn't see it."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes:
"They were difficult conditions today. The first half went against us, but I thought we were excellent in getting hold of the ball and probing crosses. The negative was not getting on the end of them.
"Second half, with the wind, we thought it would be an advantage but it didn't turn out that way.
"We kept going and Newcastle didn't have too many opportunities."
Newcastle manager Steve McClaren:
"I couldn't fault the players. We were organised, hard to beat, compact and we frustrated Stoke. They had one shot in the second half and scored.
"If we continue that hard work then we'll get what we deserve.
"It's difficult to stomach but you have to. Saturday at home against Bournemouth is a big game - we've got 11 games left and need a certain amount of victories. With the talent we've got, we're confident we can do it."
Newcastle face another important game in their battle against relegation, hosting 15th-placed Bournemouth at St James' Park on Saturday (15:00 GMT).
Meanwhile, Stoke go to 10th-placed Chelsea, who are three points behind the Potters, at the same time.
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The Colima volcano in western Mexico is one of the most active volcanos in the area.
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The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) has submitted its report to the first and deputy first ministers.
The Report will be formally published on 20 January 2017 following a statement by the Chairman, Sir Anthony Hart.
Belfast City Council has awarded "urgent funding" to Belfast Citywide Tribunal Service, which supports people appealing their benefits decisions.
Funding for the service had been due to end by 31 December 2016 but the council agreed to provide £54,000 to the service "in light of the invaluable work" it carries out.
Gerry Tubritt, the chair of the Belfast Advice Group which manages the scheme, said he was "delighted".
The new timetable will run from 5 - 29 August with the last trams leaving Princes Street at 23:32 from Sunday to Friday and 00:39 on Saturday nights.
The late-night departures from the city centre will run to Edinburgh Airport, including Ingliston park and ride.
Although bikes can normally be taken on trams, they are banned during the festival.
George Lowder, Transport for Edinburgh chief executive, said: "The success of Edinburgh's festivals is important to the economic growth and prosperity of Edinburgh and Scotland's tourism market.
"With so many additional visitors coming to the capital in August, we are keen to help passengers travel safely around the city by offering a late-night timetable that suits their plans.
"This service will be a great addition to the city's festival programme and we expect thousands of locals and tourists to make use of the additional trams to travel to and from venues."
France twice went over late from rolling mauls from line-outs but they paid the price when Sandrine Agricole failed to convert the tries at Stade Jean Bouin in Paris.
Canada wing Magali Harvey scored the try of the match when she ran 80m from a scrum in her own half.
Earlier, England defeated Ireland 40-7.
Canada have finished fourth in the World Cup three times but never before reached the final.
"We're elated. Right now we're going to enjoy the moment," said Canada captain Kelly Russell.
"But we can execute a little better and fine tune a few things."
Drake's One Dance has tumbled to number five, pushed aside by Justin Bieber's latest single, Cold Water.
Bieber's song is a collaboration with dance acts Major Lazer and MØ, whose 2015 hit Lean On is Spotify's most-streamed song of all time.
"We are amazed at the support from the UK," Major Lazer said in a statement.
Cold Water racked up 102,000 combined sales (comprising 47,000 downloads and 5.6 million streams) - almost double the number Drake achieved last week, in his fifteenth and final week at number one.
Adams' Everything I Do (I Do It For You) remains the UK's longest-running number one, having spent 16 weeks at the top in 1991.
Only Frankie Laine's I Believe has managed longer - 18 weeks - but that total was achieved over three separate spells in pole position.
The success of Drake's single was bolstered by its popularity on streaming sites, which allowed it to remain number one even when it fell to 14 in the "pure" sales chart.
His dominance raised questions about the way the charts are calculated, as songs that achieve popularity on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services linger in the Top 40 at the expense of new music.
This week is no exception. Apart from Bieber's single, there is only one new entry in the chart - by former Rudimental singer Anne-Marie, whose new song Alarm debuts at number 32.
On average, the songs in this week's Top 40 have been on the chart for 14 weeks each. Ten years ago, the average was 5 weeks.
Earlier this week, BBC Radio 1's head of music, Chris Price, suggested some music streamed from playlists, such as Spotify's "United Kingdom Top 50", should be excluded from the chart because they become self-perpetuating.
"Since the chart itself has such a massive impact on consumption, streaming editorial is being counted once when users discover music via playlists, and then many times more as later-adopting listeners discover them in the chart," he told trade paper Music Week.
The Official Charts, which compiles the weekly top 40, said its rules were constantly under review but defended the inclusion of streaming data.
"The industry is in a transitional period between the old-world sales model and new-world rental model," said managing director Martin Talbot.
"It is fundamental to ensure the chart continues to reflect the way music is consumed."
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They said they were acting on information of suspicious individuals thought to be in the city or the area.
Investigations were being carried out to "locate and arrest these individuals", a statement said.
Islamic State militants said they carried out the 13 November attacks on multiple locations, killing 130 people.
Investigations have been launched in several European countries, with two men linked to the attacks - Salah Abdeslam and Mohammed Abrini - still on the run, and others found to have travelled to France posing as refugees.
While Geneva police's statement said that the hunt was related to the Paris investigation, Switzerland's federal police later said it was not linked.
The authorities had gone from a "vague to a precise threat", said Emmanuelle Lo Verso from the Geneva department of security, RTS reported.
In the latest developments:
A conference on Syria's future, involving the US, Russia and the UN, is scheduled to begin in Geneva on Friday, but is not expected to be attended by world leaders.
Some Swiss news outlets say the talks have now been moved from a UN building to an undisclosed location.
The number of police on the streets of Geneva has been increased, so too has their level of alert.
The border with France runs through the outskirts of Geneva and Switzerland is in the Schengen passport-free zone, so the borders are open.
Security at the frontiers was stepped up in the wake of the Paris attacks, as well as at the UN where the world's senior diplomats regularly meet.
But tens of thousands of people cross the Geneva border every day, and checking every car is unlikely to be possible.
In a separate development, police in Belgium had searched three properties in connection with the attacks, the prosecutor's office said.
This week, details emerged of a failed operation involving Belgian and Greek police to capture a suspected ringleader of the Paris terror attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Greek authorities had planned to capture Abaaoud in January, when he had been directing a Belgian terror cell from Athens, the BBC has learned.
Briton Button is out of contract at the end of the year and McLaren are likely to promote their reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne in his place.
The 2009 world champion, 36, was asked by BBC Radio 5 live whether he still enjoyed F1 and wanted to continue.
He replied: "At this moment in time, I am loving it. The second part of your question, I can't answer."
Button said that he "hadn't thought about" his future, adding: "I keep getting asked the question. I'm living in the moment."
McLaren have Button's team-mate Fernando Alonso under contract for 2017 and have not yet made a final decision on who will partner the Spaniard.
But the team are said to be strongly leaning towards Belgian Vandoorne, on whom chairman Ron Dennis issued what amounted to a "hands-off warning" to other teams at the Monaco race two weeks ago.
However, the situation could swing in Button's favour if the team land a major sponsor which insists on his presence as a result of his high marketing appeal.
McLaren are not Button's only hope of staying in F1.
Williams, where he started his career in 2000, are known to be interested in him as a replacement for Brazilian Felipe Massa, who is likely to be dropped.
Button said he was hoping for a respectable weekend for McLaren at this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix.
Alonso scored the team's best result of the season so far with fifth in Monaco, but the team were generally not as competitive as they had hoped.
On paper, Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve should not be a good track for the team given the importance of engine power here.
The Honda engine used by McLaren is the least powerful in F1, but the team has a new turbo, which increases the efficiency of the engine's hybrid system, and new fuel.
Button said that, in tandem with some specific qualities of the car, it should mean McLaren are in reasonable shape.
"We expected to be more competitive in Monaco and I think it's an efficiency thing," he said.
"We don't have massive downforce, but we have efficient downforce. We also have very good braking, so here I don't think it will be too bad."
Run in association with the Scottish Crofting Federation and the Crofting Commission, the contest set out to explore what this traditional way of life means to crofters in 2014.
Heather Gray, of Shetland, won first prize with her photograph called Hentin Totties, which shows a family of all ages working the land.
She said: "I suppose my main inspiration for the photo is family.
"Seeing the extended family from grannies to toddlers coming together and helping out with the yearly crop - it just makes you smile."
Second prize was awarded to Checking the Sheep with Grandad, submitted by Ria Macdonald.
Taken on the Isle of Lewis, it shows Cormac Sandison with dog Mac checking on pregnant ewes on his grandfather's croft.
In third place was Fiona MacKay's image of haymaking on Lewis, entitled Summer Bales.
John King, of RoS and one of the panel of judges, said: "We received a large number of fantastic photos taken by people of all ages from across Scotland's crofting regions.
"What really comes across in these images is how much crofters love what they do, and how central family still is to this traditional way of life.
"Hentin Totties stood out for its depiction of everyone mucking in and having a great time doing so."
The second-top Dons narrowed the gap at the top to four points by beating Dundee United 1-0 at Tannadice as Celtic were held at home by Dundee.
"I believe we can win enough games to make it exciting enough." manager McInnes told BBC Scotland.
"We came out and made sure we got the reward for our dominance tonight."
Aberdeen's position would have been even better had they not dropped points to Inverness Caledonian Thistle and St Johnstone in their two previous games.
But McInnes said: "I'm always encouraged by my team and always confident when the game comes round we can win it.
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"For us to try and even force the issue with 10 games to go, we have to make sure there is no sloppiness, no room for error and keep winning games."
McInnes was sent to the stand after protesting about a goal disallowed in the first half by referee Bobby Madden.
The manager has apologised for his outburst at the officials but maintains the goal should have stood.
"I was probably a bit too animated with what I said to the fourth official and I have apologised to him for my part in it," said McInnes.
"For me, there is nothing wrong with it, but obviously the referee has felt there was.
"He has obviously felt that Graeme Shinnie has made the most of it and maybe jumped into the challenge.
"For me, it was clear. I actually thought at the start the referee was pulling it back to award us a penalty, which I was annoyed about at the time.
"But then I realised he was going to book Graeme, who I thought had been fouled in the box."
United missed out on a third straight victory and remain eight points adrift at the bottom of the table, but manager Mixu Paatelainen believes they still have a realistic chance of avoiding the drop with 10 games left to play.
"I thought our performance merited a draw, although I don't think we started as well as Aberdeen," he said.
"They were certainly quick off the mark, but second half we certainly had chances to score and we should have scored and maybe a draw would have been a fair result.
"But, you know, it's not a fair game and we were beaten."
Paatelainen was disappointed with his team's overall performance but retains faith in his squad.
"I thought we were a little bit off it," he added. "I thought our passing game was nowhere near what it should have been and also the chances we created we should have been much sharper in those situations.
"All credit to the players, though, there was a real fight there and they did everything tonight, but unfortunately it wasn't enough."
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The bank accounts of 85 individuals and "entities" had also been frozen, Joseph Nkaissery added.
Those targeted include a Somali-linked bus company and hotel.
An assault by the Somalia-headquartered al-Shabab group killed 148 people at Kenya's Garissa University last week.
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Kenyan officials have repeatedly accused Somalis in the country of colluding with the militants.
Nearly 500,000 refugees are in the country - many of whom fled decades of conflict and drought in Somalia.
Kenya also has its own Somali population - most of whom live in the capital, Nairobi, and in the north-east, where the university attack took place.
Somalis say most of them are law-abiding citizens of Kenya, and they have also bore the brunt of al-Shabab's insurgency.
They have condemned the government's crackdown as "blanket punishment" of the community.
BBC Africa's Abdullahi Abdi in Nairobi says hotel and transport companies, as well as Muslim clerics and human rights organisations, risk having their bank accounts frozen.
The 85 individuals and entities put on an officially published list had 24 hours to demonstrate why their bank accounts should not be frozen.
They include leading money transfer firm Dahabshill, which has repeatedly denied links with militant Islamists.
The list is headed by Mohamed Kuno, a former Islamic school teacher in Garissa and the alleged mastermind of the university attack.
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Somalis around the world rely heavily on money transfer firms, known as "hawalas", to do business and to send cash to relatives because of the almost non-existent banking sector in Somalia.
There have been a similar crackdown on the companies in the UK and US where the governments have adopted strict money-laundering laws making it difficult for banks to deal with them.
A spokesman for the Somali money transfer agencies in Kenya, Abdi Ali, told the BBC they would oppose moves to shut them down.
"To us, it is only a ministerial directive which is sent to the central bank. We will talk to the Kenyan government about this issue and use its justice system to settle matter," he said.
The United Nations estimates Somalis in the diaspora send home about $1.6bn (£1.1bn) annually, significantly more than foreign aid.
More than 40% of Somalis receive remittances, the bulk of which are used for basic needs, including food, clothes, medicine and education, according to a UN survey.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since the fall of Siad Barre's government in 1991, and has been hit by religious and clan conflicts.
The proposed bill will not only limit the number of guests and dishes served to avoid waste, but also put a "tax" on the most extravagant newlyweds.
Those who spend over 500,000 rupees ($7,500; £6,000) will have to give 10% of the overall cost to poorer brides to help them pay for their weddings.
It comes amid rising anger over the huge sums being shelled out by some.
In November, the five-day wedding of businessman and ex-state minister G Janardhana Reddy's daughter, Brahmani, with an estimated cost of about 5bn rupees ($74m; £59m), prompted outrage as millions of Indians struggled with a cash flow crisis.
Among the extravagances were gold-plated invitation cards fitted with LCD screens, costing 10m rupees.
MP Ranjeet Ranjan, who is proposing the Marriages (Compulsory Registration and Prevention of Wasteful Expenditure) Bill, 2016, told Indian news agency PTI weddings had become "more about showing off your wealth" and not about the institution.
"As a result, poor families are under tremendous social pressure to spend more," she said. "This is needed to be checked as it is not good for society at large."
The proposal could be taken up as a private members bill in the next session of the country's Lok Sabha, or lower house.
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"On the basis of the facts we have, this involves a technical fault; it isn't human error," the director of the board's aviation department said.
The Airbus H225 Super Puma crashed in the North Sea after picking up passengers from an oil platform.
Thirteen people died - 11 Norwegians, a Briton and an Italian.
Some of the victims' families have chosen not to identify them publicly. The Briton has been named as Iain Stuart, from Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire.
Footage of the crash showed the helicopter's rotor detached from the body of the aircraft and spinning through the air.
A warning light had come on in the cockpit of the helicopter on two occasions in the days before the crash, resulting in two components being changed.
Widely used in offshore oil and gas industry around the world; more than 220 in service.
But the Super Puma's recent history is blighted by several accidents:
On Tuesday the aviation director of Norway's Accident Investigation Board, Kaare Halvorsen told reporters that they were "as certain as they can be" that a technical problem caused the crash, rather than human error.
Mr Halvorsen confirmed that the crew had no time to send an emergency message before the crash.
He told Norway's VG website that there had been less than one second between the fault appearing and the helicopter's flight recorder coming to a halt. The recorder is thought to have stopped working when the rotor became detached.
But he stressed that the investigation - in which British and French experts are participating - was at an early stage and no conclusions could yet be drawn.
The Super Pumas remain grounded in both Norway and the UK, though their manufacturer, Airbus, said on Monday that it was no longer recommending a blanket ban on their use. It insists the fleet is safe.
The Offshore Co-ordinating Group, which co-ordinates trade union policy and campaigns in the oil and gas sector, released a statement calling for the H225 helicopter to be grounded until the cause of Friday's crash was established.
"Workers in both the Norwegian and UK sectors must have genuine guarantees from regulators before flights in this aircraft can be considered," said group chair Tommy Campbell.
"Statements from manufacturers and operators will not suffice."
It has officially opened the doors of an ultra-modern campus, with state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories and social spaces including an indoor park and amphitheatre. It is based in the purpose-built education hub, EduCity, on the Iskandar peninsula
Reading has invested £13m in the project so far, and intends to increase the initial cohort of 200 students to 3,000 in five years.
The investment is part of a global strategy to meet the insatiable demand for higher education in Asia and South East Asia and to build a base in these critical new markets.
If this sounds very much like a long-term business investment, that is because it is - but it is also about creating a vehicle that will encourage Asian students into Reading University for part of their course and Reading students into Malaysia for part of theirs.
Professor Tony Downes, provost and CEO at University of Reading Malaysia, said: "We made a decision in 2006 or 2007 that if we were to be truly a international university, it had to be about more than just bringing overseas students to the UK. So we started developing a new strategy for internationalisation and one of the elements included establishing campuses overseas."
Reading looked at setting up in India or China but Malaysia seemed a better fit for a medium-sized UK university, with 17,000 students.
"We had an offer from China but they wanted us to grow to 10,000 students in seven years and we did not think we had the capacity to do that without emptying our own university of academic staff," said Prof Downes.
For its part, Malaysia has a long-term aim to become a global education hub and turn itself from a net exporter of students into a net importer and is running its own ambitious expansion programme for higher education.
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It plans to raise enrolment of international students to 250,000 by 2025 - nearly doubling the 2014 figure of 135,000.
The government could not afford to hit this target by expanding public universities, so one of the ways it is expanding numbers is through the establishment of foreign campuses.
Three new UK university campuses have been set up at EduCity, which is part of a wider development of the Iskandar peninsula in the heart of the country's economic zone.
Alongside the University of Reading's new campus are Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia and University of Southampton Malaysia Campus.
But they are not competing with each other, instead they are sharing the risk, working together on planning, and pooling facilities. This co-operative model - unusual in UK higher education - is possible because they are specialising in different disciplines.
The Newcastle campus focuses on medical and biomedical courses, Southampton's on engineering, and Reading's on psychology, real estate, quantity surveying and finance and business management - with pharmacy due to be added soon.
The draw for Asian students is the chance to benefit from the quality of UK provision for a much cheaper price, a factor that has become increasingly important due to the falling value of the Ringgit, Malaysia's currency, and the gloomy economic outlook in Asia.
While tuition fees for domestic undergraduate students in England are capped at £9,000 they are not capped for international students and on average cost £12,000 - with higher fees for laboratory-based courses.
But in Malaysia the Reading campus charges less than half that at £4,500 to £5,000.
Immigration policy in the UK, with restrictions on getting a job after graduating, can be a turn-off too.
All these factors are good news for the Malaysian authorities who want to attract Asian students keen to study closer to home, especially from the big developing economies such as Indonesia and China.
Earlier this month Aaron Porter, author of a Hotcourses Insights report into Malaysia, said recent rapid increases in international student numbers could see the country "pulling away prospective students from the big three [student destination countries], US, UK and Australia".
But the University of Reading Malaysia is hoping its campus will lead to two-way traffic that will help the university internationalise.
Prof Downes, a former deputy vice-chancellor of Reading University, says being able to go and study at a branch of the university in another country is probably the easiest way of going to study abroad.
"There are no credit transfer issues, no recognition issues. The programme is the same," he says.
"But the [Malaysia] campus also creates a pipeline the other way, in that some undergraduates will spend a third of their degree at Reading in the UK and some graduates will go on to do masters and PhDs in the UK."
He says the establishment of the campus is already getting a message out to the world and there have been increasing student numbers from Malaysia applying to study at Reading in the UK.
"This is an export," Prof Downes says. "Education as a whole is the second-highest earner of invisible earnings in the UK.
"It is about getting a foothold in the South East Asian market, which is very attractive, because right across the region there is ambition to get participation rates in higher education up."
Prosecutors allege the Hamal sailed from Istanbul in Turkey to waters off the coasts of Greece, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Guyana boat between February and April.
The ship is said to have then gone from Tenerife to 100 miles east of Aberdeen.
The case at the High Court in Glasgow was adjourned to October.
Kayacan Dalgakiran, 63, Mustafa Guven. 47, Mustafa Ceviz. 54, Umit Colakel. 38, Ibrahim Dag, 47, Mumin Sahin, 46, Emin Ozmen, 50, Abdulkadir Cirik, 31, and Muhammet Seckin, 26, face a charge of being "knowingly concerned in the carrying and concealing of a controlled drug".
Mr Sahin is further accused of a charge under the Merchant Shipping Act.
2 February 2016 Last updated at 07:24 GMT
Clearing up and rebuilding has been a big task and children living there are given special classes so they know what to do if another earthquake hits.
Leah travelled to Ishinomaki Elementary School to take part in a safety class.
On 11 March 2011, an earthquake, which started under the sea, shook the north-east of the country.
The earthquake was measured at force 9.0 magnitude, high enough to trigger a huge wave called a tsunami.
The wave crashed on to the shore destroying huge areas. Sadly, thousands of people lost their lives.
A nuclear power plant was also damaged and began leaking radiation. triggering the worlds worst nuclear disaster for 25 years.
The hearing, at the high court in Belfast, centred around filming at a news conference given by the alleged British agent at his solicitor's office on 14 May 2003.
The programme will be broadcast on Tuesday on BBC One at 22:40 BST.
A BBC spokesman said the programme "is of major public interest".
He added: "Tonight's Spotlight is an important investigation by Darragh MacIntyre of allegations that Freddie Scappaticci was involved in the murder of alleged British informants while himself an agent of the state, codenamed Stakeknife, at the heart of the IRA."
Kyle of Sutherland Development Trust has been awarded more than £1m to build a new visitor centre at Falls of Shin to replace one damaged by fire in 2013.
Skye's Broadford and Strath Community Company has received £1.1m towards a new 50-pitch campsite in Skye.
Home-Start East Highland has won £513,212 for a project offering help to 55 vulnerable families in Inverness.
The body of Josh Clayton, 23, from Taunton, was found on rocks near Tresco in the Scilly Isles following an eight-day search.
Party-goer Leroy Thomas said he saw Mr Clayton "ranting and raving" and saying he was going to kill himself.
Mr Clayton's family broke down in tears at the inquest in Plymouth.
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The search started for Mr Clayton after he went missing on 13 September 2015.
His body was discovered 10 days later by a French yachtsman.
Mr Thomas told the inquest at Plymouth Coroner's Court that he saw the argument between the Polish workers and Mr Clayton outside The Shed party venue.
More than 40 seasonal staff on the privately-owned island were at the party.
He said he heard Mr Clayton say he had "had enough" and his bike was thrown into a hedge by the workers.
Mr Thomas said he went back to the scene later to look for Mr Clayton but could not find him.
Friends and colleagues at the party said "incredibly popular" Mr Clayton was "intoxicated" and "stumbling around" at the party.
The inquest continues.
The charity said 201 of the 873 counselling sessions it arranged were connected to cyber bullying.
Children as young as seven told Childline counsellors they were being tormented by malicious and hurtful messages.
Across the UK, the charity counselled 4,541 children about online bullying.
That 2015/2016 figure represented an 88% increase from 2,410 in 2011/12.
The findings, released at the start of Anti-Bullying Week, showed that in a quarter of counselling sessions children and young people across the UK were also counselled for a mental health and wellbeing issue, including low self-esteem, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and depression.
The comments posted on their social media profiles, blogs and online pictures ranged from bullying and abusive words about how a young person looked to death threats and, in the most extreme cases, directly telling them to go and kill themselves.
Matt Forde, national head of service for NSPCC Scotland, said: "Online bullying is one of the biggest child protection challenges of this generation.
"It is a problem intensified by the ever-increasing presence of the internet.
"Years ago a child could escape their bullies when they left the playground and get some respite in the safety of their home. Now the 24/7 nature of the internet means that a child can be targeted around the clock.
"Bullying, regardless of whether it occurs online or in person, can have a devastating impact on a young person, affecting their self-worth, leave them feeling isolated and potentially being a trigger for depression.
"In the worst-case scenarios, bullying has driven children and young people to self-harm and even suicide."
In nearly a third (31%) of counselling sessions for online bullying, children and young people talked about a gaming or social networking site as the platform for their abuse and humiliation.
The NSPCC, which is currently working with the Royal Foundation Cyber-bullying Taskforce to develop new tools for children and young people, has also created a dedicated area about online bullying for the Childline website.
On the site, young people can share their experiences and offer support to their peers through message boards.
Last year there were more than 11,000 posts about online bullying.
Childline president Dame Esther Rantzen said: "Bullying can wreck young people's lives, especially now that the bullies don't stop at the school gates.
"It is imperative that adults, parents and teachers intervene to protect them, because we have learned over the years from Childline callers that bullying does not stop on its own, left alone it gets worse."
The Bank kept its key interest rate at 0.25%, as expected, but the 5-3 split among policymakers was the closest vote for a rate rise since 2007.
The pound jumped as the vote raised the possibility of rates rising earlier than had been expected.
Sterling had been below $1.27, but it surged to $1.2795 after the decision.
However, it then lost some ground to stand at $1.2766. The pound followed a similar pattern against the euro, and was up 0.6% at 1.1439 euros.
Minutes from the Bank of England's latest meeting showed that Monetary Policy Committee members Ian McCafferty and Michael Saunders had joined Kristin Forbes in voting for a rate rise.
However, some analysts judged that the possibility of an early rate rise was still distant, despite the closeness of this month's vote.
"We continue to think that a majority of MPC members will vote to keep interest rates on hold this year," said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
"This was Kristin Forbes' last meeting, so the number of hawks likely will decline at the next meeting in August."
On the stock market, news of the Bank's decision pushed the FTSE 100 share index down further.
The index had already been trading lower and the surprise news from the Bank left it down 88.6 points, or 1.2% lower, at 7,385.7.
The FTSE 100 often moves inversely to the pound as many of the firms in the index have significant earnings overseas, and a stronger pound means these profits are worth less when converted back into sterling.
3 June 2016 Last updated at 13:34 BST
With the help of a melting ice cream, Ikenna carries out his own social experiment to prove the US president made the right choice.
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL), which co-ordinated the work, says many had died of disease or starvation.
Overall it recorded a fall in the number of strandings but said that some still weren't being reported.
The Society has now launched a campaign to encourage the public to tell them when they find beached mammals.
Rob Deaville from ZSL said they had been studying cetacean species - whales, dolphins and porpoises - in British waters for the last 20 years to find out what human threats they faced.
"In terms of threats that we cause I mean by-catch, accidental catch by fishing nets is far and away the most significant one," he said.
"Also things like ships, being accidentally hit and killed by ships, and perhaps more insidious is animals that have died because of infectious disease, perhaps because of problems to do with chemical pollution."
The report by the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) details the investigation of whales, dolphins, porpoises, marine turtles and basking sharks found stranded around the UK coast between 2005 and 2010. Seventeen different cetacean species were found.
As part of the project - funded by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Scottish Government and Welsh Government - figures for the number of animals found were collated and more than 750 post-mortem examinations were carried out to establish the most common causes of death.
The study found a decline in the number of reported strandings of harbour porpoises and common dolphins on UK shores, but recorded a small increase in strandings of some species like the humpback whale.
Of the harbour porpoises examined - around half had died either from starvation or infectious disease. Others had become entangled in fishing nets or had been attacked by bottlenose dolphins.
It total 3,430 stranded cetaceans were recorded- but that is down around 22% on the preceding five year period (2001-2005).
The largest number of reports were received in England (1,650), with a smaller number in Scotland (996), Wales (709) and Northern Ireland (46). But experts say this is not surprising as England has the longest coastline.
Defra and the devolved administrations have recently agreed to additional funding for a further three years study into UK strandings.
But Mr Deaville says they also need help from the public: "Without the help of the public over the last six years, we would not have been able to investigate strandings effectively.
"However, some strandings are still going unreported in the UK, so we are launching a new campaign to encourage more people to report stranded animals to us."
The CSIP says public reports of strandings have enabled it to build up a vast database of information that is shared with scientists across the world.
It has also helped generate many important discoveries, including the detection of persistently high levels of banned polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) - chemical contaminants - in bottlenose dolphins and killer whales.
Thousands of leaflets containing information on how to identify stranded animals will be distributed around the coastline and made available online, to help obtain more accurate reports.
The Environment and Fisheries minister Richard Benyon said "Whale and dolphin strandings are distressing and we need to understand why they happen and what can be done to prevent them.
"The UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme is carrying out valuable work on whale and dolphin strandings which will help shed more light on this issue so that we can reduce the incidence of strandings in the future."
He was found in the lake just before 09:00 BST on 4 June. Emergency services attended but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Mr Barlow died from drowning, a post mortem examination has revealed. His family has been informed.
Officers are appealing for information about how he came to be in Southport.
Dame Mary Peters was among the guests as this year's meeting was launched on Monday morning in the Lord Mayor's Parlour at Belfast's City Hall.
Lord Mayor Brian Kingston, himself a keen runner, hosted Monday's reception.
The Beechmount Harriers meet will offer the local competitors the chance to chase Commonwealth Games standards.
Meet director Eamonn Christie says pacemakers will be organised to ensure fast racing, which he says, should also guarantee a strong entry of athletes from throughout Ireland, as well and British and overseas competitors, in the third staging of the Belfast meeting.
"We're going to have men's and women's races over 800m, 1500m and 3,000m," Christie told BBC Sport Northern Ireland.
"The plan is also to put on a women's 5000m which will hopefully see Emma Mitchell trying to get the Commonwealth standard of 15 minutes and 39 seconds.
"We will be bringing over a couple of pacemakers for that race and hopefully get Emma under the Commonwealth mark. She dipped her toe over 5000m in a British Milers Club race last year when she ran just under 17:15 but given her good form this year, we think she can go a lot faster."
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Ciara Mageean, David Gillick and English 800m talent Alex Bell have been among the athletes to have competed at the Belfast meeting since it started in 2015.
After finishing third behind Scotland's Katy Brown and Ireland's Laura Crowe in the 800m event in Belfast last May, Bell went on to claim a surprise win over Mageean at the Morton Games in Dublin in July.
World Masters champion Kelly Neely is also likely to be in the 800m field while Christie also expects international athletes from Poland and France to make the trip to Belfast.
"It's going to be another big international meeting and while the likes of Ciara Mageean and Christine McMahon may be on European Team Championship duty with Ireland that weekend, we are still confident we will be able to assemble strong fields in all the events."
In a nice nod to the past, Christie is also planning to get some of Northern Ireland's sub-four minute milers to present prizes at the meeting.
There could include Jim McGuinness (3:55.00, 1977), Mark Kirk (3:59.67) and Seamus McCann (3:59.84) who achieved the feat during something of a golden age for Northern Ireland middle distance running in the 1970s and 80s.
The footage shows a mob destroying a Muslim gold shop and then setting fire to houses. A man is seen on fire.
It was filmed last month, when at least 43 people were killed in Meiktila.
Meanwhile the EU is expected to decide whether to lift sanctions imposed on Burma, in response to recent reforms.
It is thought likely that despite concerns about the treatment of minorities, Brussels will confirm that the sanctions, which were suspended a year ago, are now permanently lifted.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has said this is the right time to permanently lift all sanctions against Burma, except the arms embargo.
Speaking at the EU meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg, Mr Hague said he had spoken to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who agreed with lifting the sanctions.
He did not comment directly on pictures obtained by the BBC which show Burmese police looking on as Buddhist mobs attack Muslims.
The sanctions include the freezing of assets of more than 1,000 Burmese companies, travel restrictions on officials, and a ban on EU investment in many areas. However, an arms embargo is expected to remain in place.
The move is a response to political change under President Thein Sein, who came to power after elections in November 2010. His administration has freed many political prisoners and relaxed censorship.
Ms Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest for many years, leads a pro-democracy opposition which has a small presence in parliament.
Some human rights groups, however, have warned that sanctions should not be lifted until the government addresses issues including recent violence against Muslims.
The video from Meiktila, in Mandalay Region, is remarkable both for the comprehensive way it documents the violence and because much of it was shot by the Burmese police themselves, the BBC's Jonah Fisher reports from Singapore.
In the sequence where policemen look on as a man rolls on the ground having been set on fire, someone in the watching crowd is heard to say: "No water for him - let him die."
Another sequence shows a young man attempting to flee and getting caught, after which he is beaten by a group of men which includes a monk.
Finally he is struck with a sword strikes him and left on the ground, apparently dead.
Only in one shot are the police seen escorting Muslim women and children away from their burning homes.
The footage corroborates eyewitness testimony. A row at a Muslim-owned gold shop on 20 March was said to have started the violence, when a dispute involving a Buddhist couple escalated into a fight.
This was followed by an attack on a Buddhist monk who later died in hospital. News of that incident appeared to have sparked off sustained communal violence.
The violence then spread to other towns and led to curfews being imposed. There were reports of mosques and houses being torched in at least three towns.
The gold shop's owner, his wife and an employee were convicted of theft and assault on 12 April and jailed for 14 years. Dozens of other Muslims and Buddhists are said to be under investigation.
Violence between Buddhists and Muslims erupted in another part of Burma, Rakhine state, last year following the rape and murder of a young Buddhist woman in May.
Clashes in June and October resulted in the deaths of about 200 people. Thousands of people, mainly members of the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority, fled their homes and remain displaced.
On Monday, the New York-based organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) presented a report containing what it said was clear evidence of government complicity in ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity against Muslims in Rakhine state.
It said security forces stood aside or joined in when mobs attacked Muslim communities in nine townships, razing villages and killing residents.
It said HRW also discovered four mass grave sites in Rakhine state, which it said security forces had used to destroy evidence of the crimes.
However, the allegations were rejected by Win Myaing, a government spokesman for Rakhine state, AP news agency reported.
HRW investigators didn't "understand the situation on the ground," he said, adding that the government had no prior knowledge of the impending attacks, and had deployed forces to quell the unrest.
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City of London Police detectives believe 680 people made purchases from a UK-based eBay account found to be selling counterfeit airbags and covers.
A 34-year-old man was arrested in Blandford Forum, Dorset, and is being questioned by officers.
Police have warned the airbags could pose a danger to drivers and passengers.
City of London Police, which is co-ordinating the investigation, has also found more than 100 suspected counterfeit airbags of various makes at an address in Poole.
Bomb squad officers were called to the premises to ensure there was no risk of the airbags exploding.
The airbags have been been taken to a Ministry of Defence facility for safe storage.
The inquiry, Operation Landguard, was launched in January after Honda UK conducted test purchases on airbags sold through eBay.
Two airbag units and an airbag cover for the Honda Accord and Honda CRV bearing the Honda badge were found to be fake.
Detectives discovered that fake airbags had been supplied by the eBay seller to at least 148 individuals or businesses since September 2013.
Officers are also looking into another 532 purchases to see if they concern other counterfeit manufacturer car parts.
The airbags were being sold for £170, about half the cost of genuine Honda airbags.
Police say the fake airbags are made differently from the real ones and there is a "significant risk" they will not inflate in an accident, or that the metal Honda emblem will fly off.
They have advised car owners with concerns about their airbags to contact car manufacturers.
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The WRU said it was "surprised" Marler escaped punishment.
That came after both Wales head coach Warren Gatland and Lee described it as banter, although Gatland later apologised, while assistant Rob Howley criticised the England prop.
"Maybe the WRU don't know whether they are Arthur or Martha," said Jones.
Marler apologised after making the comment during England's 25-21 Six Nations win over Wales on Saturday.
Campaigners from the Traveller community - and figures inside the sport - had been critical of Marler and called for a ban.
At a news conference on Thursday, Jones refused to say whether the comment was racist, but said he had spoken to the 25-year-old, telling the player he had acted inappropriately.
"There was a decision made, that is what we have these judiciary committees for. I said I would let the process run its route - it has run its route," he added.
Marler also also avoided a sanction for striking Wales' Rob Evans during the Twickenham win.
Jones has dropped the loose-head to the bench, replacing him with Mako Vunipola for Saturday's Grand Slam clash with France in Paris.
But the Australian says the decision was not made as a punishment for Marler.
He added: "We were always going to start Mako. We've got a certain game plan we want to play against France and it suits us starting with Mako and Joe will come off the bench and do a great job for us".
Opposition parties are bidding to have the legislation, which is aimed at tackling sectarianism, repealed.
SNP MSP John Mason said the chaotic scenes at Hampden showed that "this would not be an appropriate time to relax the law" in relation to football.
But Labour's James Kelly said it showed up the "inadequate nature" of the act.
Former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill said the legislation could be "reviewed and refined" in light of the Hampden disorder.
All four opposition parties pledged to repeal the act in their manifestos, with only the minority SNP administration backing it.
Mr Kelly has started work on a Member's Bill to repeal the "hated" legislation, which was introduced in 2012.
Critics say there is already sufficient legislation in place to tackle sectarianism and other football-related offences including disorder at matches, and say the act unfairly targets law-abiding fans.
However, Glasgow Shettleston MSP John Mason said the scenes of disorder at Hampden, when supporters clashed on the field after Hibs beat Rangers 3-2, showed this was not the time to roll back the law.
The Clyde FC fan's motion notes that parliament "shares widely the disappointment at the scenes felt following the game", which saw mounted police deployed as fights broke out and fans tore up the turf and broke a set of goalposts.
He said that while "football can be a great opportunity for fans to let off steam...there have to be limits as to what behaviour is acceptable".
The motion further states that parliament should "note calls to change the law in relation to football, including repealing the ban on alcohol and relaxing the rules on offensive behaviour, and, in light of the recent situation, considers that this would not be an appropriate time to relax the law in either of these areas".
Mr Kelly said that, on the contrary, the "unacceptable scenes" at Hampden were evidence that the act was "not adequate".
He said: "Charges brought against those involved are likely to be for breach of the peace or assault.
"This underlines the inadequate nature of this legislation, which has caused distrust between football fans and police. I will therefore be pressing ahead with my plans to repeal the discredited football act."
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has updated the Scottish government cabinet on the police and Scottish Football Association investigations into the incident.
He has urged the SFA to come back with a report on the matter before the new football season begins, so that any lessons can be learned before more matches are played.
Meanwhile, Mr Matheson's predecessor Mr MacAskill, who retired as an MSP at the election earlier in May, said the legislation could be improved.
He said: "I think it has to be retained, but I think it could perhaps be improved to make sure that some who have not been prosecuted can be.
"Scotland still has an issue. Saturday could have been catastrophic - albeit a lot of it was done with the good intentions of [fans] enjoying themselves.
"Let the SFA, let Police Scotland do the work. I have no doubt parliament will review this, but what we can't do is go backwards in the legislation - we've maybe got to go forwards in making it better."
Labour MSP Iain Gray has also lodged a motion about the final, congratulating Hibs on their first Scottish Cup win since 1902.
His motion, supported by Edinburgh Northern and Leith's SNP MSP Ben Macpherson, said parliament should "congratulate both teams on an exciting and close-fought final".
It further said parliament should "commend what it sees as the hard work, commitment and perseverance of the players and staff in delivering the historic victory and ending the 114-year wait to lift the cup again".
Rangers hit out at First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for tweeting her congratulations to Hibs without making any reference to the disorder which followed the match.
"This is the hole," says the 45-year-old.
Mr Stutley's mining partner, Richard Saunders, who seems eternally caked in dusty soil, mumbles in agreement.
The two men are stood in the middle of the sun-bleached South Australian outback, hunting for opals, the rare gemstones that can sparkle with a rainbow of different colours.
They sift through the earth that the test drill pulls up, searching for signs of opals that could potentially make them a fortune.
With the largest, best-quality Australian opals worth more than £600,000 thanks to soaring demand from jewellers around the world, there is vast amounts of money to be - potentially - made.
The trouble is that opals are so scarce. Even in designated opal fields, you need luck, and months, or even years, of patience to find them.
"Half of it is in your head," says Mr Stutley. "You have to think positive, otherwise you wouldn't come to work."
Mr Stutley and Mr Saunders are mining a patch of land 15 miles north of the South Australian town of Coober Pedy, which is known as "the opal capital of the world".
South Australia supplies 80% of the world's opals, and the industry is centred on Coober Pedy, a town of around 3,500 people located 850 miles (1,368km) north of Adelaide, and 430 miles south of Alice Springs.
At the peak of the opal rush 40 years ago there were thousands of miners based in the town that can see summer temperatures top 47C (117F), but as finds have steadily fallen ever since, today there are just dozens.
There is, however, still considerable amounts of money to be made, with state-wide opal output totalling 15.1m Australian dollars ($11.5m; £9m) last year, according to the South Australian government.
This comes as the global prices of opals have doubled in the past few years, thanks to constant demand from India and China, as well as an opal renaissance in western markets such as the US.
While Mr Stutley and Mr Saunders are still waiting for their big find, they did at least have some recent luck, when in March they won a free lottery to mine a newly reopened opal field.
The pair, along with about 50 other miners, were chosen at random to restart mining in Shell Patch Reserve, an area that had been off limits for 40 years due to its importance to local Aboriginal people. More than 200 people had entered the lottery, and the winners got plots or "claims" of land that measure 100m by 50m (328ft by 164ft).
John Dunstan, the vice president of Australia's Opal Mining Association, was one of the first to get to work at Shell Patch.
He has already received a small payday after finding a piece (known in the industry as a "parcel") of opal worth about 5,900 Australian dollars.
Rather than tunnelling into the ground, Mr Dunstan is open-cut mining, which involves scraping away a few inches of rock with an excavator, and then periodically investigating for opals.
He hopes that a big find at Shell Patch will attract new entrants into the industry.
"There hasn't been a major strike [in Coober Pedy] for quite a few years," says Mr Dunstan.
"We are desperate to find a new opal field and hopefully attract some new opal miners."
He adds that there's a saying in Coober Pedy that often rings true - the moment you find your first opal you catch "opal fever".
Its symptom is a relentless pursuit of opal, which is Australia's national gemstone.
For Mr Dunstan that moment happened at age 14 back in 1965 when he found his first opal.
"It's a lifestyle for me," he says. "It's a passion."
Justin Lang, 27, is one of the new miners that Mr Dunstan wants to see. He and his business partner, Daniel Becker, 43, started opal mining five years ago.
Mr Becker says they approach it as "a hobby that makes you money".
About one week a month they leave the shops where they work in the town of Hahndorf, near Adelaide, and head to Coober Pedy, where they mine several different fields.
Mr Lang says: "The possibility of finding millions and millions of dollars is real."
He adds that he is also drawn to opal mining because it favours small operators, unlike the multi-million dollar companies that mine Australia for copper and uranium.
Finding opal is "just too irregular" for big business, says Mr Lang.
For Mr Lang and his fellow miners, it also doesn't hurt that opals are back in vogue, and quite literally in Vogue.
Earlier this year the magazine profiled young jewellery designers who are making "opal cool again" after years with a reputation as either an antique that grandma wore, or as tacky jewellery that tourists would buy from Australian airports.
In another boost to opal's comeback, Dior's latest jewellery collection is centred on the gemstone.
"Every opal is completely different," says Emily Amey, a New York-based jewellery designer who sources many of her opals from Australia. "Different colours, different patterns, they are just mystical."
While Ethiopia is now extracting about half the amount of opals that South Australia produces - other nations with sources of opals include Brazil and Peru - Australia is not going to lose its number one crown anytime soon.
Australian miners such as Mr Dunstan just seemingly need a mixture of blind positivity, patience and luck to find the gemstones.
"There are still millions of dollars here to be found," he says. "You've just got to be digging in the right spot."
About 41% of jobs in the area are part-time with some finding it difficult to buy their own home, according to Conwy council officials.
Staff are meeting with businesses to discuss creating a year-round offer.
"If we're going to grow the economy here, we've got to grow the quality of the jobs," said economy strategic director Jane Richardson.
"What I want to start talking about here is creating a winter tourism offer."
The council has said low seasonal wages - the average wage is £23,000 in the area - mean many people struggle to buy a home in the county.
However, there has been an increase in tourism across north Wales with about 1.7m people visiting Conwy in August.
"It's not that people stop going away in December," said Ms Richardson.
"People go to Christmas markets, to Blackpool illuminations, but they're not coming here because we haven't created that winter offer for them."
One business which has already started increasing its opening hours during the winter is Llandudno pier, increasing full-time staff.
"Some days you do lose money paying staff through the winter," said owner Adam Williams.
"But it has a huge payback for us at the start of the season.
"If the staff are with us full-time, they bring their experience with them and I don't have to train them from fresh at the start of the season.
"Our industry has a stigma of being very seasonal, but my colleagues work long hours in the summer and are very loyal to the business, so it's nice I can be loyal to them."
The Iron led early on when home keeper Lawrence Vigouroux dropped a cross, which hit Murray Wallace and went in.
Swindon's fate was effectively sealed as Sam Mantom swept home a second for the visitors from a low ball in.
Rohan Ince netted from range but the Robins, with Tim Sherwood as director of football, could not save themselves.
With just one game remaining Swindon are five points behind 20th-placed Gillingham, while Scunthorpe cannot now be automatically promoted after Bolton's win, meaning Graham Alexander's side will contest the play-offs.
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In November, Tim Sherwood was named director of football at the County Ground, a move described as "one of the biggest appointments the club has ever made" by chairman Lee Power.
The former Spurs manager was given responsibility for "transfers, the way we play, the formations and the picking of the team" - though head coach Luke Williams was kept in his post.
Despite an impressive 3-0 win over Charlton in their first game following Sherwood's arrival, the appointment did not result in a sustained improvement in form, as Swindon have won only seven of their 31 games since his hiring.
At times, it was unclear whether or not Sherwood was managing the team, though in recent weeks his first-team responsibilities have decreased, and he has not attended all of the Robins' games.
But the return to a more conventional coaching structure has not paid dividends, as a four-game winless run sent them down to the fourth tier for the first time since 2012.
Match ends, Swindon Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2.
Second Half ends, Swindon Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Neal Bishop.
Luke Norris (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Ness (Scunthorpe United).
Foul by Rohan Ince (Swindon Town).
Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Attempt saved. Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Joe Anyon.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Neal Bishop.
Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Ness (Scunthorpe United).
Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United).
Foul by Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town).
Jamie Ness (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Craig Davies replaces Paddy Madden.
Attempt missed. Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Dion Conroy (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United).
Goal! Swindon Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2. Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Raphael Rossi Branco.
Attempt blocked. Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Scott Wiseman (Scunthorpe United) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. John Goddard (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Paddy Madden (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Neal Bishop.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by David Mirfin.
Substitution, Swindon Town. Luke Norris replaces Fankaty Dabo.
Goal! Swindon Town 0, Scunthorpe United 2. Sam Mantom (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Josh Morris.
Attempt missed. Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Swindon Town. John Goddard replaces Charlie Colkett.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Sam Mantom replaces Ivan Toney.
Foul by Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town).
Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Raphael Rossi Branco.
Foul by Charlie Colkett (Swindon Town).
Jamie Ness (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dion Conroy (Swindon Town).
Ross Taggart, 31, denies murdering Carol Anne Taggart between 21 December last year and 11 January this year.
He is alleged to have repeatedly struck her on the head "by means unknown" and compressed her throat using his hands or an unidentified item.
He is then alleged to have hidden her body under a caravan in Pettycur Bay, Kinghorn.
He is accused of attempting to defeat the ends of justice between 21 December and 14 January this year.
He is also alleged to have tidied, cleaned, removed and attempted to remove blood staining and other forensic evidence from his mother's address in Hill of St Margaret, Dunfermline, a caravan and the boot of a car.
He is also charged with reporting his mother missing to police and stealing £700 between 22 December and 31 December last year by using her bank card and PIN number at cash machines in Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and Edinburgh.
Taggart is further charged with fraudulently obtaining £380 worth of goods and services by using his mother's credit card and stealing a bangle and ring belonging to his mother. It is claimed that he exchanged the bangle for £100 at a pawnbrokers and tried to sell the ring.
The trial, at the High Court in Edinburgh, is estimated to last three weeks.
Strict new rules on term-time holidays - including fines - were introduced in 2013 to punish parents over absences.
But the LGA says the current system "does not always favour families".
Campaigners say a "blanket ban" remains unworkable, but schools minister Nick Gibb said the government was determined to raise pupils' attainment.
The fresh call from the LGA follows a case last week in which a father avoided prosecution for refusing to pay a fine for taking his child out of school for a holiday.
Source: Department for Education
A Freedom of Information request to councils by the Press Association found 86,010 fines had been issued by 98 councils in 2014-15 for pupil absence - either because of holiday or truancy.
The figure was up from 62,204 in 2013-14 and 32,512 in 2012-13.
Last week, the case against Jon Platt, 44, was thrown out at Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court after he argued the law required parents to ensure their children attended school "regularly", and did not put restrictions on taking them on holidays in term time.
He had refused to pay a £120 fine for taking his six-year-old daughter out of school to go to Disney World in Florida.
Craig Langman, who founded the organisation Parents Want A Say, which campaigns for the law to change, said 93% of all school absence was down to truancy.
"Only 7% is down to term-time holidays. So it's a massive sledgehammer to crack a nut," he said.
"At the end of the day, take the law back to what it was in 2013, when head teachers had the discretion of up to ten days on a case by case basis."
The LGA says families often struggle with the high cost of holidays out of term-time.
Councillor Roy Perry said family holidays can have "social and emotional benefits which are of lasting value and support to children".
"It should not be something for which they are unduly punished," he said.
However, schools minister Mr Gibb said it has "always been the case that you should not take time out of terms to go on holiday".
He said taking children out of class can disrupt teachers' planning, affect the education of other children and affect the child themselves.
"Our data shows that just a week off per year leading up to the GCSE courses can reduce the chances of that child getting good GCSEs by about a quarter," he said.
His spoke as figures showed reported sexual assaults in the US military rose from 3,192 to 3,374 in 2012.
But as many attacks go unreported, officials estimate the total number of sexual assaults stands at 26,000, up from 19,000 last year.
It comes after the officer tasked with stopping sexual crimes in the US Air Force was charged with sexual battery.
Lt Col Jeff Krusinski, 41, was arrested on Sunday accused of grabbing a woman's breasts and buttocks in a car park in Virginia, police said.
The Air Force has been criticised after a slew of sexual assault cases at its main training centre in Texas.
"If we find out that somebody is engaging in that stuff they have got to be held accountable, court martialled, fired, dishonorably discharged. It is not acceptable. Period," Mr Obama said at the White House on Tuesday.
He said he had spoken directly to Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday about the need to "exponentially step up our game" in addressing the matter.
The Pentagon study on sexual harassment and assaults, released on Tuesday, was based on anonymous surveys.
It will be followed by a series of measures to tackle abuse, the news agency AP reported.
Government officials want to make officers more accountable for what happens under their command, it said.
"Sexual assault is a crime that is incompatible with military service and has no place in this department," said the US defence secretary.
"The DoD needs to be a national leader in combating sexual assault and we will establish an environment of dignity and respect, where sexual assault is not tolerated, condoned, or ignored."
Air Force officials told US media that Lt Col Krusinski had been removed from his post following reports of the arrest.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, said the case showed how far the defence department still had to go in addressing the problem of sexual crimes in the military.
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The Blues thrashed ex-boss Roberto Di Matteo's side to qualify for the last 16 with one Group G game remaining.
"I don't remember Chelsea playing this way away from home," Mourinho said.
"Obviously, there have been great wins away from home with me, Roberto and other managers. But this was very impressive. Very complete."
The Premier League leaders, who are now unbeaten in 19 matches across all competitions, continued their fine form with a clinical performance in Germany.
Chelsea led 3-0 at half-time after goals from John Terry, Willian and Schalke defender Jan Kirchhoff, before Didier Drogba and Ramires completed the rout in the final 15 minutes.
"I think they have to accept we were too strong for them," added Mourinho, whose side inflicted Schalke's first home defeat since April.
"When you lose against a team that produces a perfect performance and a perfect result it's not your fault."
The Portuguese boss, 51, added: "At this moment we are a good team. Obviously we can lose and a bad result is waiting for us but the team is playing really well and we have big self-belief."
Di Matteo, who coached the Blues to Champions League success in May 2012, said the result was the most painful he had suffered in his managerial career.
"It is certainly a disappointing night for us in terms of the scoreline, and also the way we played," said the Italian, who was sacked by the Blues six months after leading them to the European title.
"But we did play against a really great team. If you concede too much space and time to those players, they'll exploit that."
He said on the post: "My crib is almost finished in AFRICA. I'm gonna have the craziest House warming party ever."
In July he filed for bankruptcy days after a jury ruled he had to pay $5m (£3.2m) to a woman suing him over a leaked sex tape.
Forbes estimated in May that 50 Cent's net worth was $155m.
He doesn't mention on Instagram where in Africa the new house is located, saying only: "I'll explain later. I got a good life Man."
The video shows people working outside the house but gives few clues to its location.
Reaction across the media and Twitter has been that of surprise given he had filed for bankruptcy.
The entertainer, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, said at the time that filing for bankruptcy was a "strategic business move".
Chapter 11 bankruptcy gives time for a business to re-organise finances while protecting it from creditors' demands.
The Grammy-award winning rapper's business interests have included clothes, boxing, drinks, and mining.
His stake in VitaminWater reportedly netted him tens of millions of dollars when Coca-Cola bought the drinks brand in 2007.
His 2003 album Get Rich or Die Tryin' catapulted him to global fame.
Gary Connery, 42, used a "wingsuit" to make his descent from 2,400ft (730m) above Oxfordshire.
The 42-year-old said he felt "elated" after landing on a pile of 18,600 cardboard boxes.
He was fitted with a parachute for the jump, which saw him accelerate to 80mph, but it was not deployed.
The entire flight took less than a minute to complete.
During the flight, father-of-two Mr Connery dropped for three seconds before his suit "started to fly".
He used a landing strip of cardboard boxes, known as a box rig, covering about 350ft (100m) by 45ft (15m).
Cameraman Mark Sutton also jumped from the helicopter in a wingsuit but deployed a parachute before landing.
Minutes after landing, Mr Connery said: "I feel incredible, just completely elated.
"I have been training and planning for this record attempt for many years now and I am so proud to have achieved a world first.
"I want to thank everyone involved for their support and belief in me because this really has been a team effort.
"Tonight will be all about celebrating with friends and family. Tomorrow I will be plotting my next daring challenge.
"I was absolutely fine afterwards. I was completely buzzing."
The jump had been planned for early April but had to be postponed due to poor weather conditions, he said.
Mr Connery, who has worked on films including Die Another Day, Batman Begins and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, said performing stunts was "his life".
He has already completed about 880 skydives and 450 base jumps.
Before carrying out the flight in countryside near his home in Henley-on-Thames, Mr Connery, whose wingsuit has the ability to dramatically reduce speed on descent, said he was "100% confident" he would be successful.
Former Real Madrid forward Alvaro Morato tapped home Stephan Lichtsteiner's cross for the opener.
Morata added a second before Brazil defender Alex Sandro made it 3-0 after finishing at the back post.
Paul Pogba made it 4-0 with his fifth league goal of the season to put Juve top, but Napoli regained the leadership later in the day by beating Empoli 5-1.
The result equalled Juventus' record number of consecutive league wins in a single season.
Massimiliano Allegri's side, who won just two of their first eight league games, are chasing a fifth successive domestic title, and could have won by a greater margin, as Pogba hit the bar late on.
They have won all their league games since 28 October when they lost 1-0 at Sassuolo.
Sacha Dench will fly by paramotor - paragliding with a propeller strapped to her back - to get as close as possible to flying as the swans do.
Each night she will land close by to observe their habits and hazards.
She hopes to shed light on the steady decline of Bewick's swans whose numbers have halved in the last 20 years.
The first part of the journey will take her across the Russian tundra, a desolate land of extreme weather and home to polar bears, bears and wolves.
There were no roads for the first 1,000km which meant a ground support crew was not an option, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Ms Dench, a former free-diving champion, must rely instead on good weather forecasting and nomadic reindeer breeders for help, and will sleep in small huts built by hunters for shelter.
She will meet communities along the swans' flight path across 11 countries, including reindeer herders, farmers and hunters.
A main aim of the expedition was to show the world the "amazing flight" that birds did, linking wetlands between the Arctic tundra and the UK, she said.
She said swans which arrived at her workplace at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Gloucestershire needed safe passage all the way from northern Russia and fewer were making it in the last two decades.
"It's crucial that we act now before it's too late," she said.
Naturalist and TV presenter Sir David Attenborough said the Flight of the Swans expedition was "marvellously imaginative and adventurous".
"That swans should fly from Russia to come here is surely a kind of parable - we can live in harmony with nature and it's up to us to do so."
Actress Dame Judi Dench, who was contacted by Ms Dench after a family member found out they were related, said: "Flight of the Swans is absolutely fascinating, full of adventure and passion. I'm proud to support it.
"We need to work together if we're to help these beautiful birds, and I am looking forward to following the expedition."
The company said the service would operate six times a week, with limited single fares starting at £19.99.
The announcement marks the first non-chartered international route from Dundee Airport.
Dundee computer gaming entrepreneur Chris van der Kuyl said the new service was a "game-changer" for the city.
The service will offer outbound and return flights on weekdays and Sunday.
It is the third route Flybe has announced under the UK government's £7m regional air connectivity fund.
UK Aviation Minister Robert Goodwill said: "It is fantastic to see Flybe launch this new service between Dundee and Amsterdam, giving the Scottish city its first international route.
"Our smaller airports are vital engines for local economies, connecting the UK and overseas destinations and opening up opportunities."
Chris van der Kuyl, founder of 4J Studios, said: "I'm delighted to hear that Dundee's first connection to a global hub airport is to go ahead.
"A direct flight to Amsterdam will be a game-changer for the city and sends a strong message that Dundee is open for business worldwide."
Inglis Lyon, managing director of Dundee Airport operator HIAL, said: "The new route offers business and leisure travellers fast, convenient links to hundreds of destinations worldwide and, crucially, creates new opportunities for inward investment and inbound tourism at an exciting time for the city."
The 22-year-old woman, from Liverpool, has been discharged from hospital, Queensland Police confirmed.
An Australian man, 22, is facing 23 charges over the alleged ordeal that ended on Sunday.
Police on Wednesday said the attacks took place over a one-month period, not two months as alleged earlier.
They say the assaults happened between 3 February and 5 March on a road trip stretching from Cairns, in Far North Queensland, across the state's outback.
It ended when officers stopped the pair's 4x4 more than 1,000km (620 miles) south at Mitchell, after a service station reported they failed to pay for petrol.
In a brief statement on Wednesday, police said the woman had been released from hospital into the care of friends and family.
They also said the pair met at a Cairns party on 27 January, clarifying wrong information that it was three months ago.
Detective Inspector Paul Hart on Tuesday said the pair began a relationship but "at some point that had soured". She was then subjected to a "horrific and terrifying" experience, he said.
He said she had suffered facial fractures, bruising, abrasions to her neck and cuts to her body, as well as psychological injuries.
The accused man, from Cairns, is facing charges including four counts of rape, eight counts of assault and four counts of strangulation.
He is also charged with two counts of deprivation of liberty, causing wilful damage, possessing drugs and drug equipment and obstructing police.
The man appeared to be "hiding from police" in the back of the vehicle when he was arrested, Mr Hart said.
Police had stopped the 4x4 after receiving a call from a service station owner in Mitchell.
"She pulled up and fuelled up and then when she came in, she couldn't pay for her fuel," the owner, Beverley Page, told the Courier Mail.
"The girl was crying at the time and our person told her to just go outside and have another look for her wallet and take a deep breath and come back in," she said, adding the woman then drove off.
Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad described the allegations as "absolutely horrific".
"I want people to understand that Queensland is a safe place and these sorts of things are the exception," she said on Wednesday.
"We want to make sure that violence against women, these sorts of crimes, are completely unacceptable."
The accused man was refused bail on Monday and will go before the courts again on 23 May.
Neither the man or the victim can be named for legal reasons, Queensland's Department of Justice said.
21 February 2016 Last updated at 19:34 GMT
The Cat S60 can measure the temperate of objects and take thermal selfies in complete darkness.
BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones asked product manager Pete Cunningham what people would use the device for.
The two relevant points (leaving aside moral ones) are that:
So to put it another way, it is arguably particularly useful to Germany to have an influx of young grateful families from Syria or elsewhere, who may well be keen to toil and strive to rebuild their lives and prove to their hosts that they are not a burden - in the way that successive immigrant waves have done all over the world (including Jews like my family in London's East End).
Here are the European Commission's projections from its Ageing Report that was published earlier this year.
It projects that Germany's population will shrink from 81.3 million in 2013 to 70.8 million in 2060, whereas the UK's will rise from 64.1 million to 80.1 million.
As you can see, what is striking is that the UK is set to become the EU's most populous country, ahead of Germany and France, as a result of a relatively high fertility rate and greater projected rates of net migration.
It is probably relevant that the Commission forecasts that the proportion of the German population in 2060 represented by migrants arriving after 2013 would be 9%, compared with 14% in the UK. So Germany would be a lot less multicultural than the UK.
As for the dependency ratio, the percentage of those 65 and over compared with those aged between 15 and 64, that is forecast to rise from 32% to a very high 59% in Germany by 2060.
Or to put it another way, by 2060 there will be fewer than two Germans under 65 to work and generate taxes to support each German over 65.
Because people are living longer more or less everywhere, the dependency ratio is also set to increase in the UK, but by less - from 27% to 43%. Which still represents a massive increase in the burden on the younger generation of supporting the old, but not as great as in Germany.
One way of seeing the impact of ageing is in differences in the relative burdens on the public finances of support required by older people.
So in Germany, age-related spending on pensions, health and long-term care is expected to rise by a hefty five percentage points of GDP or national income by 2060, more than double the projected 2.3% increase anticipated for the UK.
Here is the thing. Wherever you stand in the debate on whether immigration is a good or bad thing - and most economists would argue that immigration promotes growth - right now immigration looks much more economically useful to Germany than to the UK.
That is perhaps one of the unspoken reasons why Germany is being much more welcoming to asylum seekers from Syria and elsewhere right now.
That said, some business leaders and a couple of Tory ministers gave me what can only be described as an off-message critique of David Cameron's approach to the migrant crisis over the weekend.
They said that Angela Merkel is creaming off the most economically useful of the asylum seekers, by taking those that have shown the gumption and initiative to risk life and limb by fleeing to Europe.
Precedent suggests they will be the ones that find work fastest and impose the least economic burden on Germany or any other host country.
By contrast, David Cameron appears to be doing what many would see as the more morally admirable thing - which is to go to the Syrian camps and invite children and the most vulnerable of refugees to Britain.
But this version of living up to what the prime minister calls our moral responsibilities is undeniably more expensive in the short term than giving a welcome to the able-bodied refugees already in Hungary, Greece or Italy, and desperate to come here.
Thomas Haighton's family bought the meal from KFC in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, and when they got home, his wife discovered the insect in her food.
She vomited in disgust and the family made an official complaint to KFC.
In a statement, KFC said it was a "one-off incident" and added that its Carrickfergus branch had scored highly in a recent hygiene inspection.
Mr Haighton said it took the company more than two months to respond after he submitted a formal complaint.
He has rejected KFC's offer of a voucher for a six-piece variety bucket and said he will never order food from the restaurant again.
Mr Haighton told the BBC's Nolan Show that he bought four takeaway meals from the Carrickfergus KFC branch in November and took them home to share with his wife and children.
"I had just finished my burger and went into the kitchen to wash my hands and my wife called me in, saying 'Thomas, there's a caterpillar in my burger'.
"Obviously I went in and there was big grub, a caterpillar, in her burger. She literally stood up, ran into the kitchen and vomited.
"So we phoned KFC in Carrickfergus and they asked us to bring the burger back, which we did. They apologised and asked us did we want to exchange for another burger, and we said no."
Mr Haighton said the staff member refunded the price of the burger, filled in an investigation form and told the family to ring KFC's customer care line.
The family called the number the next day to lodge their official complaint, but said that it took KFC more than two months to respond.
Mr Haighton said that his wife can no longer eat salad unless she had prepared it herself and added that his family felt the voucher for a six-piece variety bucket was an "insult."
In its statement, KFC said: "We are very sorry for Mr Haighton's experience because we take both customer service and food quality extremely seriously.
"Like many retailers, our salad arrives fresh, pre-washed and packed direct from a supplier, and after carrying out a thorough investigation it appears that on this very rare occasion, an insect was not removed during preparation."
"Unfortunately due to a backlog of letters resulting from the busy festive period we were unable to respond to Mr Haighton's complaint as quickly as usual and we can fully appreciate his frustration. However, we have since sent several letters and emails expressing our sincere apologies, so it is unfortunate that he has only just received our response.
"We would like to reassure customers that this was a one-off incident, and our Carickfergus restaurant achieved a food hygiene rating of 4 stars meaning that the business was found to have very good hygiene standards."
But can it be soon enough to ease growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear programme and stave off more crippling sanctions?
"Another failed diplomatic foray is likely to prolong the standoff and increase the price each side has to pay for a compromise," commented Ali Vaez, senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group (ICG), who was in Almaty.
The only common ground between Iran and six world powers seemed to be recognition of how far they still have to go to negotiate a way out of this crisis.
Time is not on their side. US Secretary of State John Kerry, now visiting the region, warned talks cannot last forever.
"There are four lanes, each with a different clock," commented another long-time observer of these tortuous talks.
He pointed to the speed of Iran's nuclear work, Israeli military threats, and deepening sanctions, alongside the negotiations.
On the negotiating track, the lane is still open.
"We're hopeful that P5+1 and Iran will meet again to resume our dialogue," said a senior US official in Almaty, referring to the five permanent members of the Security Council, plus Germany, tasked with the nuclear file.
The official didn't rule out another round before Iran's presidential election in June.
And it's also clear that, in this latest round, there was more talking in the talks than ever before.
"My colleagues, some of whom have been doing this for a decade, had never seen anything quite like it," remarked a senior American official. "Rather than stilted and overly formal exchanges we had an intensive dialogue on key issues."
But what world powers didn't get was what they say they need to make any progress: a concrete, comprehensive Iranian response to their "fair and balanced" package first put on the table in Almaty in February.
It puts the onus on Iran to take the first confidence-building step. That's reported to include a six month suspension of the 20% uranium enrichment programme regarded as dangerous. Incentives include modest relief from sanctions.
But Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, insisted: "Confidence building is a two-way street."
Sources say Iran is ready to stop 20% enrichment but only in return for a full lifting of sanctions. That's a step the international community won't take.
Conversations with Iranian officials also underscore their demand for a clearer sense of the "end game".
What will be the final shape of Iran's nuclear programme and the scale of sanctions if it halts some of its most sensitive nuclear work?
Essential for Iran is recognition of what it regards as its "inalienable right" to enrich uranium, enshrined under the Nuclear Non Proliferation (NPT) treaty.
Western diplomats disagree with Iran's interpretation. They also point out that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would have to certify that Iran's nuclear programme is entirely peaceful, which it has so far been unable to do.
On both sides, there is still too little trust and too much inflexibility.
"The structure of the P5+1 deal makes a deal almost impossible," commented one informed observer in Almaty who said Iran could not work with the proposed sequence of steps.
One Western diplomat admitted as much to me.
"Iran's delegation can't go home and say it is a good offer," said the diplomat.
"Dr Jalili may want a deal but it's Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who calls the shots," he remarked with frustration, describing negotiations as "political theatre".
In this play, both sides read from a different script.
Playing to a domestic audience, Dr Jalili said the P5+1 had to return to their respective capitals to evaluate "Iran's proposed plan", implying the ball was now in the other court.
A senior US official said "All of us need to evaluate what the next steps should be in this process and think through how we can move more effectively to get there."
Some observers hold out hope that Iran may come forward with new ideas after its critical elections are over.
But no matter how diligent diplomats are, the clocks are also ticking on the other lanes.
"The time has come," said a statement from Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, "for the world to take a more assertive stand and make it unequivocally clear to the Iranians that the negotiations games have run their course."
Both Western and Israeli sources say Israel is holding fire, at the moment, aside from its verbal barrage.
And one Western official said Tehran was, for now, being "very careful" in its nuclear programme. It recently confirmed it had resumed the conversion of medium enriched uranium into oxide fuel to slow down growth of its stockpile.
On the sanctions front, more penalties are pending.
"The US president can't push back sanctions when diplomacy is going nowhere," emphasised Ali Vaez of the ICG.
But world powers, bitterly opposed on key crises like Syria, are still finding enough common ground when it comes to Iran.
Russia's chief negotiator, Sergei Ryabkov, spoke of being "still on the threshold" in remarks to the Interfax news agency.
"There may not have been a breakthrough but there was also no breakdown," was how a senior US official summed it up.
But without a break in the stubborn deadlock, pressure will mount, surely and steadily, on all fronts.
The new law comes as research suggests half of the UK population mistakenly believe their household smoke alarms will alert them to the gas.
The law follows the deaths of two teenagers from carbon monoxide poisoning in August 2010.
Neil McFerran and Aaron Davidson died after a gas leak in a holiday apartment in Castlerock, County Londonderry.
The two young men, who were 18 years old, had been staying at the apartment near Coleraine with a third friend, Matthew Gaw, who survived. The three friends were found by relatives.
Their families have welcomed the news but said it only reaches about 5% of properties. They have called for more to be done.
"I think it's a great forward step, but this is only going to be new buildings, they still could go further," Aaron Davidson's mother Katrina said.
"We still need to push awareness of carbon monoxide, that it is a killer."
The new law also requires that an alarm be fitted whenever a boiler or solid fuel stove is upgraded or replaced.
A survey carried out by the Carbon Monoxide - Be Alarmed! campaign states that only 39% of people have a carbon monoxide alarm.
It also suggests that half of the UK population mistakenly believed their smoke alarm would alert them to carbon monoxide gas.
The research was carried out in September among 3,458 UK adults. It said 81% of those surveyed know that carbon monoxide can kill.
Carbon Monoxide - Be Alarmed! is the national campaign to reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by carbon monoxide.
The campaign is run by Energy UK on behalf of Britain's six major gas and electricity companies, in partnership with the Dominic Rodgers Trust.
From 31 October, Northern Ireland Building Regulations will require a carbon monoxide detector or alarm "in the room where the appliance is located. However, if the combustion appliance is installed in a room or space not normally used e.g. a boiler room/cupboard, the detector/alarm should be located just outside the room or space".
The research findings also included:
Carbon monoxide is produced when fuels such as gas, oil, charcoal, coal and wood do not burn completely.
The most common cause of this is when an appliance, such as a boiler or cooker, is installed incorrectly or poorly maintained. Carbon monoxide can also build up when flues, chimneys or vents are blocked.
The Department of Health estimates that 50 people are killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, and at least 4,000 are treated in hospital, in the UK each year.
However, the Carbon Monoxide - Be Alarmed! group says that figure is likely to be much higher, as carbon monoxide poisoning is very difficult to diagnose because symptoms are often similar to common illnesses like flu and food poisoning.
Meanwhile, safety checks carried out by the fire service in more than 22,000 homes across Merseyside in England found that fewer than one in 10 had a carbon monoxide alarm.
Caffe Nero said it would stop using milk from farms in Somerset and Gloucestershire that were part of a pilot tackling badger numbers.
Their move follows action against the coffee shop chain on Facebook by anti-cull protesters.
A spokesman for the Stop the Cull group denied any threats being made.
The cull, in Gloucestershire and Somerset, was part of a government pilot aimed at killing 70% of the badgers to test how effective, humane and safe a cull could be.
Ministers believe killing badgers will curb TB in cattle, but opponents argue shooting is not the best way to eradicate the disease.
A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said: "It is wholly unacceptable for a small group of protestors to intimidate and threaten retailers in this way.
"Our strategy for tackling bovine TB is based on advice from the Chief Veterinary Officer about the best way to control this harmful disease which threatens the future of our dairy and beef industries.
"We will continue to work closely with the dairy industry and retailers to offer them all the support we can."
Jay Tiernan, from Stop the Cull, denied there had been any threats against the cafes but said the chain had stopped selling the milk over animal rights issues.
He said it was "most likely" because of the "British Veterinary Association now speaking out [about] the method with which the badgers are shot".
Ross Gavey of Total Technical Solutions (TTS) said workers could be made redundant because the project was not running as planned.
The company was working with telecom firm JT on the States-backed roll-out, connecting homes to fibre optic cables.
JT said the project was still on target but TTS had "lost out" on a deal with its contractor CH2M Hill.
Mr Gavey said: "TTS sourced local islanders, many of them out of work, for employment in engineering, planning and call centre positions.
"We are proud to have employed previously out of work islanders and supported their training in order to achieve the high level of skill necessary for a project of this scale.
"We have more than fulfilled our contractual obligations and provided a valuable service for the island in getting local people back to work."
Graeme Millar, CEO of JT Global, said it was just a case of contracts changing.
He said JT subcontracted the work to CH2M Hill who then used Total Technical Solutions and that contract had now come to an end.
He said: "The project is on course, it is on track, two of the three major elements are on schedule, one [which involves getting] homes connected, is a bit behind schedule.
"We have looked at mistakes we made in the last year, we have corrected them and our main contractor has started to do things in a different way and I'm sorry TTS have lost out in that."
He told colleagues at the start of a closed meeting on Thursday that he was not the right person for the job.
Just hours before votes were due to be cast, the news has left the race to succeed John Boehner in disarray. The election has now been postponed.
Mr McCarthy was considered the favourite to take over from Mr Boehner, who quit amid party tensions.
The speaker is the third in line to the presidency and is in charge of the lower chamber of Congress.
"If we are going to unite and be strong, we need a new face to do that," said Mr McCarthy on Thursday following his announcement.
"I feel good about the decision."
He said he wants the Republican Party to be "100%" united in backing a new speaker of the House.
The hard-right wing of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives - the "Freedom Caucus", as its members calls themselves - has flexed its muscle once again.
First it put House Speaker John Boehner in a position where he opted to resign rather than face a challenge to his leadership. Now it has apparently blocked Mr Boehner's second-in-command, California Congressman Kevin McCarthy, from ascending to the top job.
It seems clear that Mr McCarthy just didn't have the votes to become speaker - either within the Republican House caucus or when the House, as a whole, was to weigh in later this month.
In the end, perhaps, Mr McCarthy was just too closely tied to the current, unpopular Republican establishment in the run-up to Thursday's scheduled leadership election. His comments about the House's Benghazi hearings and its goal of thwarting Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations - only served to further undermine his speaker bid.
At this point the process of picking a replacement for Mr Boehner has been thrown into total chaos. The speaker of the House is third in line for the US presidency, but it's a post that's proving difficult for the Republican Party to fill.
Mr McCarthy is not dropping out of Congress and will stay on as House majority leader, he said.
"We fought hard to win this majority and turn this country around," he said. "I don't want to make voting for speaker a tough one."
Mr Boehner, who planned to leave at the end of October, has said he would stay on "until the House votes to elect a new speaker".
Some members of Congress have called upon House Ways and Means Committee chairman Paul Ryan to run, but he confirmed in a statement he does not plan to.
Mr McCarthy was criticised by Democrats and Republicans for suggesting that investigations into the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya which left four Americans dead were hurting Hillary Clinton's chances at the presidency.
He later said Benghazi investigations "are not political".
The House Freedom Caucus has backed Florida representative Daniel Webster for the speaker of the House slot.
Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz is the only other Republican who has said he is running.
Grimsby's Central Library and Immingham Library have security between 16:30 and 19:45 BST, said Lincs Inspire.
Groups of 15 to 20 youths are meeting at the libraries and causing "nuisance and disturbance to regular users", the charity also said in a report.
The security measures are to be reviewed by 21 April, the charity said.
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Each library has one member of security staff in attendance, said the charity, which runs four libraries and five sporting facilities.
The security staff were recruited for Central Library on 30 January and at Immingham on 14 February.
The organisation said it was working with police and the council over anti-social behaviour and to provide safe libraries.
Humberside Police said it was carrying out regular patrols and would apply for Criminal Behaviour Orders to curb negative behaviour by repeat offenders.
The library problems are in a report to be discussed by North East Lincolnshire Council at a meeting on 12 April.
The previously unseen letter was apparently written by Chinese Olympic medallist Wang Junxia in 1995, but only published in state media this week.
Wang still holds two world records.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said it was aware of the letter and is trying to confirm if it was genuine.
In a statement, it said: "The IAAF's first action must be to verify that the letter is genuine. In this respect, the IAAF has asked the Chinese Athletics Association to assist it in that process."
The IAAF said that under federation rules any athlete who admits to taking a prohibited substance prior to achieving a world record could be stripped of his or her title.
Wang broke the world record for 10,000m and 3,000m in 1993. No athlete is yet to come within 20 seconds of her time on the 10,000m. She also won the 5,000m at the 1996 Olympics, finishing second in the 10,000m.
The Chinese Athletics Association could not be reached for comment. Wang has not yet commented.
Chinese news outlet Tencent Sport published a series of reports on Wednesday on the doping allegations, which were then covered widely in state media.
The report quoted extensively from a chapter which was removed from a 1998 book on famed Chinese coach Ma Junren before publication.
It included the letter apparently from Wang, with nine other signatories, that alleged that the athletes had been forced to take drugs.
Ma, who has since retired, was known to be a very tough coach to his athletes, known as Ma's Army.
He has not commented on the allegations but has previously denied he gave athletes banned drugs.
The Chinese claim comes after the IAAF was hit by allegations that its officials were complicit in doping among Russian athletes in 2009.
Former IAAF chief Lamine Diack has been placed under criminal investigation.
His successor, Lord Sebastian Coe, has pledged to boost anti-doping measures and funding.
He will start 10th, with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg on pole, after crashing out following a series of mistakes through the hour-long session.
The Briton, 31, told BBC Sport: "Not a good day for me. Probably the worst session I've ever had in qualifying."
Hamilton, who is defending the drivers' title, said he would "have to think about" what had gone wrong.
Sunday's race is live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live from 14:00 BST.
"These kind of things do happen," he added. "I did not feel comfortable in the car. Ultimately, it was only me, nothing to do with the team or car. I just wasn't feeling good.
"I was 0.4secs up on both laps so there is no question of whether I was quick enough. I just didn't finish the laps. The car was very good yesterday. We made some changes and it wasn't as good today. I wasn't able to brake in the same places and I made too many mistakes."
Hamilton faces a race of damage limitation to his title hopes, as Rosberg, who is nine points ahead in the championship, is likely to run away in the lead, such is the level of Mercedes' dominance around the demanding new 3.7-mile street track in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
"P10 is going to be horrible as it always is around street circuits," Hamilton said.
"I don't know what I can do from there but I need to try to get as many points as I can.
"Finishing the race is important and not allowing Nico to pull too far away. Hopefully I can stay out of trouble.
"If I don't get caught up in other people's mistakes, good points are still possible. It's not impossible I could win."
Hamilton has a potential problem for the race because it is unclear whether he has a set of tyres in good enough condition to start.
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The rules say a driver must start the race on the set of tyres on which he set his fastest time in Q2, but Hamilton's were damaged because he locked them up.
If there is a safety issue they can be changed at the FIA's discretion, which would almost certainly be granted.
Hamilton said: "All my tyres are flat-spotted so I have no idea what they are going to do."
However, he said he was optimistic he could still have a good race.
"If I don't get caught up in other people's mistakes, good points are still possible. It's not impossible I could win."
Hamilton's string of mistakes at one point affected Rosberg, as the German had to abandon his first flying lap in the final session because the other Mercedes had gone off in front of him.
Rosberg said: "One of the more challenging sessions out there but everything worked out well.
"There was a bit of reorganising because in Q3 Lewis had an off in front of me and I had to abort that lap and do one more at the end. But it worked out great.
"I have been building towards it and qualifying felt really optimum."
Rosberg anticipates an action-packed race on the new Baku street track.
He said: "They have done a great job up to now with the track.
"We have seen one of the most exciting sessions for a long time and that is down to the track and I am sure the race is going to be very exciting.
"It is one of the easiest places to overtake so a lot of places changing and probably some safety cars."
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The 20-year-old Dutchman has yet to make his first-team debut, but was an unused substitute for Saturday's League One game with Bolton.
"His game understanding is excellent and he is very good in possession, as a lot of players that come from Holland are," said boss Karl Robinson.
Meanwhile, the Addicks have released 23-year-old midfielder El-Hadji Ba.
The Estonia international, 26, has agreed a deal until the end of the campaign following a short spell in the Swedish top flight with Kalmar.
The Highlanders have also extended 23-year-old Larnell Cole's loan from Fulham for the remainder of the season.
And defender David Raven, 31, has signed a six-month extension which ties him to the club until January 2018.
Anier started the season at Tannadice, making five appearances as a substitute and scoring twice, before securing a move to Sweden in August.
Kalmar announced his release in December at the end of their league campaign.
English midfielder Cole has made 11 appearances since joining Caley Thistle in late August and has scored once in that time.
Raven is an established figure in the Inverness back line, joining from Tranmere in June 2012 and having since made almost 150 first-team appearances.
Chay Roberts-Jones, of Preston Street, Exeter, told the city's crown court he had never touched them inappropriately and all the allegations were untrue.
The 29-year-old is accused of three counts of sexual assault.
He was suspended from Blundells School, in Devon, over the allegations.
Mr Roberts-Jones, who was a physics teacher and has since moved to France with his wife, told the court: "I was first told about the details of what was alleged in the police interview, and I was shocked - it was like being punched in the stomach.
"You never really think it will happen to you.
"The fact this could happen has shocked me and I don't feel I could be the same teacher after something like this has happened."
The prosecution alleges that Mr Roberts-Jones touched three different girls in separate incidents in 2011, 2013 and 2014.
The first has told the jury he groped her bottom while having his picture taken with her, when she was 18.
The second alleges he ran his fingers over her breasts during a camping trip, when she was 16, after unzipping her onesie.
The third told the court he stroked her thigh, tried to pull down her jeans, touched her stomach, and kissed her neck while supposedly giving her a sports massage, when she was 18.
Mr Roberts-Jones said he had given the third girl a short sports massage on her calf because she has suffered cramp while swimming earlier in the day.
He said: "I did not massage her thigh. I did not kiss her and I did not touch her stomach."
The trial continues.
Yanis Varoufakis said "too much time, hopes, lives" had been wasted by Greece's forced austerity programme.
He was speaking after talks with his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schaeuble, who said a reduction of Greece's debt was off the agenda.
Mr Varoufakis has been seeking support for Greece's plan to renegotiate its massive international bailout.
On Thursday evening, thousands of people gathered in front of the Greek parliament to back the radical leftist Syriza party, which won last month's general election with a pledge to write off half the country's debt.
"It's the first demonstration in favour of a Greek government," Telemaque Papatheodorou, an engineer attending the rally, told the AFP news agency.
The demonstrators were also protesting against what they described as "blackmail" by the EU. Earlier on Thursday, the Greek stock market fell sharply after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it would refuse to accept Greek bonds in return for lending.
The ECB's move, a response to Greece's efforts to rewrite the aid-for-reform terms of its €240bn bailout, will force the Greek central bank to provide tens of billions of euros more emergency liquidity to the country's banks.
Greece's finance ministry played down the move, saying the country's banking system remained fully protected by alternative sources of funding.
Speaking after the meeting with Mr Varoufakis, Mr Schaeuble was quick to rule out a so-called "haircut" of Greece's debt, which stands at more than €320bn (£240bn; $366bn).
He said that Greece "belonged in the euro" and that Germany had offered to help the country meet its debt conditions by strengthening its tax system.
But he added: "I also could not conceal my scepticism that some of the measures the new government announced ... don't necessarily go in the right direction in our view."
Greece's debt plans: What we know
Germany is seen as the strongest opponent among eurozone countries to the Greek government's plans to renegotiate the terms of the bailout.
Mr Schaeuble said he and Mr Varoufakis had "agreed to disagree" over the issue but had "come much further than anyone expected" in their talks.
Mr Varoufakis told the news conference that the two ministers had not got that far.
"As Mr Schaeuble said, we didn't reach an agreement. It was never on the cards. We didn't even agree to disagree, from where I'm standing."
On Thursday, the Greek finance minister said the conditions of austerity attached to Greece's 240bn euro (£179bn; $270bn) bailout had been "begetting indignity in my nation for too long".
Mr Varoufakis said that the bailout provided in response was far too high, and called for more time to address the problem of Greece's debt.
"The largest loan in history was granted to the most insolvent of EU nations... With a list of reforms that was just a fig leaf," he said.
"This could not end well."
Earlier on Thursday, Mr Varoufakis compared Greece's plight to that of inter-war Germany.
Germany was burdened with massive debts after World War One and threatened by hyper-inflation, crippling the German economy and contributing to the rise of the Nazis.
In an interview with German ARD television, Mr Varoufakis said: "If you humiliate a proud nation for too long and subject it to the worry of a debt deflation crisis, without light at the end of a tunnel then things come to the boil."
He also warned about the rise of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, which came third in January's elections.
"It is one of history's greatest ironies that Nazism is rearing its ugly head in Greece."
Among those being sworn in to the new Greek parliament on Thursday were 17 members of Golden Dawn, including a number who were released from custody for the ceremony.
It came a day after 72 people with links to Golden Dawn - including its leader Nikos Michaloliakos - were indicted on charges including murder.
Correction 9 February 2015: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the average wage in Greece is €600 a month.
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The study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine followed 3,500 healthy people at or around retirement age.
Those who took up exercise were three times more likely to remain healthy over the next eight years than their sedentary peers.
Exercise cut the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and depression.
People who took up exercise in their 60s were also less likely to struggle with day-to-day activities such as washing and dressing.
After eight years of follow-up, a fifth of the participants were defined as healthy - not suffering from any major chronic mental or physical illness.
This group was largely made up of people who always exercised and relative newcomers to exercise. Few were people who did no exercise at all.
Doing regular exercise throughout your life is ideal, say the researchers, but there are health benefits to be had even if you are a late starter.
Lead investigator Dr Mark Hamer, from University College London, said: "The take-home message really is to keep moving when you are elderly.
"It's [a] cliche, but it's a case of use it or lose it. You do lose the benefits if you don't remain active."
In the study, those who had regularly indulged in moderate or vigorous physical activity at least once a week were three to four times more likely to be healthy agers than those who had remained inactive, even after taking into account factors such as smoking.
Dr Hamer says physical activity does not necessarily mean going to the gym or going for a run - gardening or walking to the shops also counts.
The Department of Health recommends all adults, including those over 65, do 150 minutes of physical activity a week.
Doireann Maddock, of the British Heart Foundation, said: "It's well worth getting into the habit of keeping active, as we know it can help reduce the risk of heart disease along with many other conditions.
"Every 10 minutes counts, so even hopping off the bus a couple of stops early or taking a brisk walk on your lunch break will help."
Swan, Britain's youngest ever Fed Cup player at 16 years old, won 6-3 6-3 in the opening contest of the best-of-three tie in Eilat, Israel.
Heather Watson then beat Sofia Shapatava 6-2 6-0 to ensure Britain top Pool B in Europe/Africa Group 1.
Britain will play Belgium in Saturday's play-off.
Another victory there would see Judy Murray's side progress to a World Group II play-off in April, and the possibility of a first home tie for Britain's women since 1993.
In the four years since Murray took over the captaincy they have twice come through Europe/Africa Group 1, only to lose away ties against Sweden in 2012 and Argentina in 2013.
Murray's hopes were dealt a blow before the tournament started this year when Australian Open semi-finalist and British number one Johanna Konta withdrew because of illness, prompting the captain to call on Swan.
The US-based teenager made her Fed Cup debut on Thursday with a victory against South Africa, but Gorgodze - ranked 197 places higher than the Briton - was a significant step up in class.
The Georgian broke serve at the first opportunity for a 2-0 lead but Swan then took 10 of the next 12 games to build a decisive advantage.
Leading 6-3 4-1, Swan held off a fightback and saved break points before closing it out after one hour and 31 minutes.
Watson, ranked 85th, was far too strong for world number 226 Sofia Shapatava in the second singles match as she won in one hour.
Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith were beaten 6-2 6-4 by Shapatava and Oksana Kalashnikova in the doubles match.
"Joss had a back injury which restricted her, especially on serve, and of course that's a little bit of a worry for Saturday," Murray told the LTA.
Belgium will go into Saturday's decider as the favourites in terms of rankings, with Alison van Uytvanck their number one at 43 in the world.
Murray added: "They have a strong team but I know enough about Fed Cup to know that rankings can go out of the window when you're playing for your country."
On Sunday, the ruling AIADMK party announced Sasikala Natarajan would become the next leader, two months after the death of influential politician J Jayalalitha.
O Panneerselvam, who had taken over after her death, resigned on Sunday.
He now says he had to make way for Sasikala, who prefers to be known by her first name.
On Tuesday evening, Mr Panneerselvam visited a "monument" erected in honour of Jayalalitha at Marina beach in the capital, Chennai (Madras).
He meditated there for 40 minutes before announcing that Amma (mother), as Jayalalitha was popularly known, wanted him to be chief minister and that he had been compelled to put in his papers by a group of legislators on Sunday.
Sasikala: The 'new mother' of Tamil Nadu politics
Jayalalitha: The 'goddess' of Tamil Nadu politics
Mr Panneerselvam told reporters that he was not "convinced of the decision" taken by this group, but "by then they had collected the signatures of the legislators" in favour of Sasikala, a close confidante of Jayalalitha.
For close to three decades, Sasikala, known as Chinnamma (younger mother) to her supporters, had been an almost permanent fixture in Jayalalitha's life, and was often seen with the former chief minister on public platforms.
"Finally she [Sasikala] held my hands and asked me to obey the decision, for the party, as she did when she insisted me to take the chief minister's post," he said.
Mr Panneerselvam also said he was willing to withdraw his resignation "if people wanted".
Some leaders of the AIADMK, who owe allegiance to Sasikala, have criticised Mr Panneerselvam's remarks and called him a "betrayer".
Reports say he will need the support of at least 118 of his party's 134 lawmakers if he wants to continue as the leader of the government.
Correspondents say it is unclear whether Mr Panneerselvam will be able to garner the requisite support, although many people in the state have opposed Sasikala's elevation.
Tamil Nadu's main opposition DMK party also criticised the decision saying that "the people of Tamil Nadu did not vote for anyone from Jayalalitha's household to become chief minister".
The governor of Tamil Nadu will now have to take a call on whether to ask Mr Panneerselvam to demonstrate his support in the state assembly, or swear in Sasikala as the next chief minister.
Never given any formal role by Jayalalitha in the party or the state government, Sasikala's role was always that of aide and confidante.
But analysts say her proximity to power allowed her and her extended family to wield huge influence in the party and the government.
Sasikala's influence over Jayalalitha also became the source of intense media speculation and tabloid gossip.
They also faced corruption charges together. A Karnataka high court order in 2015, which cleared them of involvement in a corruption scandal, paved the way for Jayalalitha's return to power after a setback in September 2014 when a trial court found them guilty of corruption.
India's Supreme Court has heard an appeal in the case, and is expected to issue a verdict next week.
If convicted, Sasikala will not be allowed to hold public office for six years.
League Two new boys Rovers should have had a dream start in the first minute when Stanley goalkeeper Aaron Chapman bundled over Matty Blair in the area.
But the keeper redeemed himself, diving low to his right to save Andy Williams' penalty and then scrambling away the follow-up.
Stanley, who finished fourth in the last campaign, edged ahead on eight minutes when Scott Brown played through Rommy Boco, who was one-on-one with keeper Ross Etheridge, and he slotted home the opener.
Rovers had not been behind for long when Tommy Rowe weaved his way into the area before firing home from 10 yards on 12 minutes.
Doncaster should have been comfortably ahead, with Andy Butler squandering two great chances.
Stanley made them pay on 29 minutes when defender Matty Pearson got the ball 30 yards out and unleashed a fierce shot into the bottom.
Doncaster dominated possession after the break but it was Stanley's McConville who came close, heading against the post.
With eight minutes left, sub Liam Mandeville's cross was slotted home by Williams as Doncaster thought they had rescued a point.
But there was more drama as former Manchester United and Burnley midfielder Chris Eagles sent McConville in for the winner, which he curled into the far corner of the net in the first minute of added time.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Accrington Stanley 3, Doncaster Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Accrington Stanley 3, Doncaster Rovers 2.
Attempt missed. Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley).
Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Chris Eagles (Accrington Stanley).
Foul by Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers).
Mark Hughes (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) because of an injury.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 3, Doncaster Rovers 2. Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Seamus Conneely.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Sean McConville.
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matty Blair (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley).
Attempt saved. Terry Gornell (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers).
Seamus Conneely (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) because of an injury.
Foul by Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers).
Matty Pearson (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Accrington Stanley 2, Doncaster Rovers 2. Andy Williams (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Mandeville with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Callum Jones replaces Janoi Donacien because of an injury.
Delay in match Janoi Donacien (Accrington Stanley) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Chris Eagles (Accrington Stanley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Sean McConville (Accrington Stanley) hits the left post with a header from the left side of the six yard box.
Foul by Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers).
Shay McCartan (Accrington Stanley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Liam Mandeville replaces Jordan Houghton.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Chris Eagles replaces Jordan Clark.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Accrington Stanley. Shay McCartan replaces Romuald Boco.
Delay in match Jordan Clark (Accrington Stanley) because of an injury.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Harry Middleton replaces James Coppinger.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Cedric Evina replaces Riccardo Calder.
To state the obvious, investors love the Tories' general election victory.
There are a few reasons.
One (no surprise here) is that Labour's threat of breaking up banks and imposing energy price caps has been lifted.
Second is that investors have been discounting days and weeks of wrangling after polling day over who would form the government - and so they are semi-euphoric that we already know who's in charge.
Third, many investors tend to be economically conservative and instinctively Conservative.
But although the City may be a bit drunk on the result, its pleasure in Ed Miliband's and Ed Balls' humiliation may be making it a bit blind - perhaps dangerously so - to some bumps in the economic road ahead.
The first thing to note is that England and Scotland have voted for diametrically opposed economic policies.
If there was one policy associated with the Tories it was further deep spending and welfare cuts to generate a budget surplus.
If there was one policy associated with the Scottish National Party it was an end to deep spending and welfare cuts.
Which means that if the integrity of the United Kingdom is to be sustained, somehow a way has to be found - and presumably fairly fast - to reconcile the English vote for more austerity and the Scottish vote for an end to austerity.
And this would have to be done in a way that doesn't reinforce the view of millions of English citizens that they are subsidising feather-bedded Scottish public services.
The transfer of more economic decision-making powers to Edinburgh also has to be done in a way that doesn't split the ruling Tory party.
Which takes us to the second important uncertainty of this apparently certain result - which is whether Tory MPs will be more or less united than in the current parliament.
Strikingly, the eurosceptic, nationalist and more socially conservative right of the Tory party has been remarkably loyal to David Cameron over the past few years - partly because they could see that in a coalition party discipline was vital to governing and staying in office.
But the trouncing of the Liberal Democrats means that Tory MPs no longer have to be on their best behaviour - they no longer have to be careful not to alienate coalition partners with their words and deeds.
So David Cameron could live to regret his electoral dream come true, what looks set to be a slim overall majority in the Commons.
Or to put it another way, the new Tory government may not turn out to be a unified, strong government, of the sort that investors prefer. And that is partly because the Fixed Term Parliament Act means there can be endless backbench rebellions that do not come anywhere near to tipping the government out of office.
Apart from anything else, David Cameron will now be under enormous pressure from many of his MPs, alarmed by UKIP's success in taking votes - if not seats - to claw back much more sovereignty from Brussels than is realistic, as a precursor to the the promised referendum on EU membership.
Or to put it another way, the UK's continued membership of the EU is today more uncertain than it has ever been - and many investors and those who run big multinationals will hate that.
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Tom Bleasby's performance with the star of "Flashlight" from the movie Pitch Perfect 2 has racked up seven million views on Facebook.
However, it did concede that the government overstepped its authority with "overly harsh" conditions imposed on an $85b loan to prevent AIG from collapse.
The government took an 80% stake in the company and 14% interest on the loan.
In total, AIG received nearly $185bn in aid during the financial crisis.
Mr Greenberg, through his company Starr International, had sought $50bn in damages on behalf of the company and its shareholders.
Starr was the largest shareholder in AIG at the time of the bailout, with a 12% stake.
But Judge Thomas Wheeler awarded no damages because the alternative to the loan would have been bankruptcy.
"In the end, the Achilles' heel of Starr's case is that, if not for the government's intervention, AIG would have filed for bankruptcy," he said in the ruling.
''In a bankruptcy proceeding, AIG's shareholders would most likely have lost 100% of their stock value."
The US central bank, which worked with the US government on the bailout, said it strongly believed its actions "were legal, proper and effective".
"The Federal Reserve's extension of credit to AIG prevented losses to millions of policyholders, small businesses, and American workers who would have been harmed by AIG's collapse," it said.
The Fed added that the terms of the deal "were appropriately tough to protect taxpayers from the risks the rescue loan presented".
Tom McPhail, head of retirement policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, suggested taxing pensions in the same way as Isas could lead to a "Northern Rock-style run on the pensions system".
The result of a review of pension saving will be revealed in the Budget.
Other options could benefit the savings of basic rate taxpayers.
Click here to explore the chancellor's options to change the pension system, if he decides on an overhaul.
They include changing the method of tax relief, establishing an Isa-style system, altering allowances, and cutting salary sacrifice.
There could be winners and losers from such changes.
Speculation suggests that Chancellor George Osborne might change the system to make pensions like Individual Savings Accounts (Isas).
Pension savers currently pay no tax on money they put into a pension, but they do pay tax on the money they take out. An Isa system would be the opposite, with income tax paid before the money was saved but tax-free when taken out.
Such a move would save the Treasury money but, according to Mr McPhail of pensions and investments manager Hargreaves Lansdown, this would cause huge instability.
"Investors don't trust politicians not to muck around with the pension system, with good reason," he said.
"An Isa-style reform, with tax relief being scrapped in favour of tax free withdrawals, would create the risk of a future Northern Rock-style run on the pension system and the UK stock market.
"Any hint of political interference in the future could result in billions of pounds being withdrawn overnight; it would be hugely unstable."
Former Pensions Minister Steve Webb, now director of policy at pensions provider Royal London, suggested that an Isa-style system would mean future pension savers would be at risk of politicians tinkering with this tax-free withdrawal, by having "another dip" at taxing pension savings.
Lord Adair Turner, a former chairman of the Pensions Commission, told the BBC on Thursday that an Isa-style system would not have any effect on the incentive to save into a pension, although it would bring forward the Treasury's tax income.
He said he was sympathetic to the idea of single rate of tax relief, suggesting it was "the direction in which we should head".
At the moment, basic-rate taxpayers who pay into a pension get 20% tax relief. Higher-rate taxpayers get 40% - and top-rate taxpayers get 45%.
Higher-rate tax relief costs the Treasury some £7bn a year, and clearly favours the well-off. A flat-rate has the potential to benefit basic-rate taxpayers and hit higher-rate taxpayers, depending on the level at which it is set.
A Treasury spokesman said all options were still being considered - including retaining the current system.
"The government launched a wide-ranging consultation into pensions tax relief last summer. We have not decided on whether or how to reform the system and are considering all options, including retaining the current system. This consultation is now closed and we will respond at the Budget," he said.
Hansons believe the vase was made during the reign of Emperor Qianlong between 1735 and 1799.
It had been valued at £300,000-£500,000 before the auction in Derby.
The seller inherited the vase from a great aunt who acquired it during her life in Cornwall in the 1920s, it is believed.
Charles Hanson, of Hansons, said earlier: "We've had significant interest across China and Taiwan and Hong Kong. We've had buyers fly in from these regions to view the vase.
"We've had telephones lines booked and it's just quite remarkable."
NHS Lothian said the patient was screened at the Western General on Thursday after reporting a fever.
Earlier the health board said the test was being done as a precautionary measure and that the patient was being kept in isolation.
The Scottish government said a blood sample taken from the man was "found to be negative for Ebola".
It had initially been reported by a news agency that the patient was female.
In a statement posted on Twitter overnight, NHS Lothian said: "The patient admitted to the Regional Infectious Diseases Unit at the Western General Hospital yesterday has tested negative for Ebola.
"We have robust systems in place to manage patients with suspected infectious diseases and staff follow tested national guidelines."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "The individual was transferred by the Scottish Ambulance Service to hospital on Thursday afternoon.
"As the individual had recently returned from one of the west African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak and felt unwell, they were tested for Ebola and other infections as a precaution.
"A blood sample was taken and tested at the viral haemorrhagic fever testing facility in Edinburgh and found to be negative for Ebola."
The suspected Ebola case in Edinburgh came about 24 hours after Northampton General Hospital said it was treating a possible case.
The hospital has since confirmed that the female patient, who has a history of travel to west Africa, tested negative for the deadly virus.
Last month a Scottish nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, became the first confirmed UK case of Ebola after she returned from Sierra Leone where she had been working with the charity Save the Children.
She is being treated at London's Royal Free Hospital and was in a critical condition although she has since improved.
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, such as blood, vomit or faeces.
The virus has killed more than 8,400 people, almost all in West Africa, since it broke out a year ago.
The players from the Bundesliga 2 side run out to the song Hells Bells by rock band AC/DC, while the club is known for its skull-and-crossbones logo and left-wing stance against racism, sexism, fascism and homophobia.
Now, after having two beehives installed at their Millerntor stadium in Hamburg, St Pauli have become the first German club to produce their own honey.
The honey will be called Ewaldbienenhonig, named after manager Ewald Lienen and 'bienen', the German word for bees.
Residents within a 3km radius of the stadium have been asked to make "bee friendly" window boxes to help the insects flourish.
It is hoped the initiative will raise awareness of the declining bee population.
"Others have balconies to celebrate championships and we have them for the bees," said managing director Andreas Rettig.
The poll was set for May 2016 to avoid a clash with the 2015 general election.
There have been suggestions the extended term has left ministers and AMs with too little to do, leading some to dub it a "zombie" assembly.
Mr Davies told BBC Wales five years was "a considerable stretch", claiming a shorter term would make democracy "fresh".
In 2011, the assembly's term was changed from four years to five years by the Westminster government to avoid future clashes with UK general elections - themselves now fixed every five years.
The assembly's five-year cycle was made permanent in the 2014 Wales Act, but control over the issue will pass to Cardiff Bay under new legislation due to be published in the autumn.
Mr Davies told the Sunday Politics Wales programme: "We're certainly going to be rolling our sleeves up and getting on with the work.
"But I do think to make democracy relevant, to make democracy fresh, I do think you need to shorten that term."
He added that there were also problems caused by the high number of AMs standing down next May.
"With the best will in the world, many people's minds wander when they are looking at what they are going to do after the election," he said.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood told the programme the Welsh government was not "making the most of the opportunity that presents itself" with a five-year term.
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said: "The Welsh government and Welsh ministers seem content to let us drift towards the election."
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the Welsh government had adapted to the five-year term as Westminster had done and Scotland would have to.
"There's a lot of legislation to get through before the assembly rises for the election," he said.
"From my point of view, it's never quiet."
The Sewol sank off Jindo island on 16 April 2014, killing 304 people, almost all of them children.
The bodies of nine people have never been recovered and relatives have long campaigned for them to be found.
The ship was raised in March after almost three years on the sea floor and towed to port.
Workers are searching the silt and debris inside the wreck to search for human remains, while divers are looking on the seabed where the ferry had been lying.
The 34-centimetre bone was found at the site of the sinking.
"The result of a DNA test on a bone piece identified it as Danwon high school teacher Ko Chang-seok," the maritime ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The sinking of the Sewol shocked the nation.
Most of those on board were teenagers from the same high school. Many obeyed erroneous crew instructions to remain in their cabins as the ship sank.
The disaster was blamed on a combination of illegal redesigns, cargo overloading, the inexperience of the crew member steering the vessel, and lax government regulations.
The ship's captain was later convicted of murder.
The interior ministry warned against "activity that undermines the dignity, reputation and honour of the army".
Its statement came two days after TV channels received similar instructions.
The military was accused of undermining democracy when it rejected the findings of an inquiry by the prime minister's office into a row over press leaks.
The so-called "Dawn leaks" affair began in October when the Dawn newspaper reported on tensions between government and military officials.
Many Pakistanis have taken to social media in recent days to attack the army's top brass. The new chief of staff, Lt-Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, has been a target of many of the barbs.
One poster tweeted a picture of his predecessor, Raheel Sharif, with the comment: "You are being missed."
Another tweet said: "I want to stand with the army, but somebody please tell me where the army is standing."
Others pointed out the changing mood towards the army.
Such comments prompted Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to accuse some Pakistanis of "criticising and maligning the armed forces on social media without any reason".
He warned that it was a serious crime and anyone found doing it would be dealt with "sternly and indiscriminately". Humiliating the army or its officers "under the cover of free speech is intolerable", he added.
From the day Dawn first reported on the government's spat with the military, reactions have ranged from it being a national security breach to one in which the newspaper is seen to have reported only what had been public knowledge for decades, reports the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.
For almost all the time since independence in 1947, top decision making in Pakistan has remained either directly or indirectly under the military's control, our correspondent says.
A section of society, including some political groups, have endorsed the military's moves largely on the premise that many politicians from the parties which tend to govern Pakistan are corrupt and even a "security risk".
The last three years saw a massive effort by the military's public relations wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), to present former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif as a "saviour".
But since 10 May, when the ISPR withdrew the explosive 29 April tweet that said the directives issued by the prime minister's office had been "rejected", many of its supporters have been disappointed at what they see as capitulation.
The military establishment is seen as being sensitive to criticism on social media, and was accused of being behind the "kidnapping" in January of several liberal bloggers who had aired unfavourable views.
The issue saw some allegedly pro-military activists and a section of the judiciary highlight perceived "blasphemous" posts, forcing the government to negotiate the blocking of such content.
By comparison, the storm of protest over the "Dawn leaks" has assumed a direct anti-military tone, and none of the material can be censured on grounds of blasphemy.
Many observers believe the episode has sparked the most vicious anti-military campaigns since the 2007 sacking of the chief justice by military ruler Pervez Musharraf and the 2011 killing of Osama Bin Laden by US special forces in a raid in Abbottabad.
Critics say the affair shows the military has no respect for legitimate civilian governments.
It is thought the military's "retreat" has delivered political dividends for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government less than a year before a general election is scheduled to be held.
But allowing such criticism to continue in country with such a powerful military might not go down well.
Even though the military "withdrew" the 29 April tweet - the entry remains on its main media account, many observers note.
The 39-year-old, who won 111 caps, replaces Mykhaylo Fomenko, whose four-year spell ended with elimination at the group stage of Euro 2016.
Shevchenko was his assistant as Ukraine lost all of their matches, against Germany, Northern Ireland and Poland.
The former Dynamo Kyiv player, who retired in 2012, has never before worked as a manager.
Ukraine's record scorer with 48 goals, Shevchenko captained his country to their first World Cup finals in 2006.
He has signed a two-year contract with the possibility of another two-year extension.
Former Italy defender Mauro Tassotti, who was assistant coach when Shevchenko was at Milan, will join his coaching staff, as will former Dynamo coach Raul Riancho.
Ukraine's World Cup 2018 qualification campaign begins with a home match against Iceland in September. They are both in Group I along with Croatia, Turkey, Finland and Kosovo.
Cambridge-based UK Antarctic Heritage Trust chose a small team to spend five months at Port Lockroy.
Rachel Morris from Essex, Adele Jackson from West Yorkshire, Laura Martin from Inverness-shire and Iain Pringle from Lincolnshire beat 2,500 other hopefuls.
The tiny post office deals with mail from 18,000 visitors during the summer.
Before heading off to their new jobs, the four postmasters spent a week in Cambridge learning about all aspects of life on Goudier Island, which is home to thousands of gentoo penguins.
The training course included lessons in emergency first aid, role-play sessions on dealing with the thousands of tourists who arrive on cruise ships, maintenance of the museum and historic buildings and learning how to use specialist data collection equipment to monitor the impact of people on the resident penguin population.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office also sent an expert to deliver a lesson on the finer points of the Antarctic Treaty.
The training was intended to equip them for everyday life at Port Lockroy.
"We ask a lot of the team when we send them to Antarctica, with each member having responsibility for a very broad and diverse set of duties," Camilla Nichol, chief executive of the trust, said.
Trainee postmaster Rachel Morris described the training as "very thorough" and said it had helped them "bond as a team".
"I feel as prepared as possible for the work we will do," she said.
Once settled in their new home, the team are expected to send regular blogs back to the Antarctic Heritage Trust detailing daily life as a postman among the penguins.
It was understood to have been posted on a wall telling staff to only speak English for health and safety reasons.
A statement issued by the company said it had sent the guidance on its language policy to all UK stores.
Welsh Language Commissioner Meri Huws is investigating any breaches in rules.
The notice, which was printed on Sports Direct-headed paper, was criticised by Plaid Cymru AM Sian Gwenllian who said it was "discriminatory" in an area where a lot of people speak Welsh.
In a statement, the firm said the notice was intended to ensure that all staff fully understood health and safety briefings, and that the note would be re-written and re-issued.
"English is the most common language used by our multi lingual staff and, therefore, the most likely to be understood by all," it said.
"This notice was not intended to restrict the use of the Welsh language, or prohibit staff from communicating in their local language, outside these briefings or with customers.
"We will be reviewing the wording of the notice to ensure this is made clearer and re-issuing an updated notice. We are an international business and fully support the use of the local language in all our jurisdictions."
It added: "We apologise for any misunderstanding or upset this notice has caused."
Markit said its monthly UK Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing rose to 52 in May from 51.8 in April.
Although a figure above 50 still indicates expansion, May's increase was weaker than analysts had expected.
April's reading had marked a seven-month low for the sector, which has been hit by weak exports.
Markit senior economist Rob Dobson said the readings "called into question" expectations of a broad rebound in UK economic growth in the second quarter.
"Manufacturing looks on course to act as a minor drag on the economy, as the sector is hit by a combination of the strong pound and weak business investment spending," he added.
Manufacturing represents about 10% of the UK economy.
The PMI survey follows research from the engineering and manufacturing employers' body EEF, which said its latest survey of firms showed demand for goods in the UK had weakened in the past few months, as exports remained flat.
Lee Hopley, EEF chief economist, said that manufacturing was still growing.
However, she said it was not expanding "at the pace anticipated at the beginning of the year".
"The sector is still in positive territory, but the ground is looking a lot less firm beneath its feet," she added.
"Much of this weakening is down to the impact of the decline in oil and gas activity on the supply chain."
Ms Hopley said the "weakening trend" could continue to the end of the year.
"The sector has seen a good run of not only growth, but employment, investment and productivity gains over the past couple of years and it's vital that the new government takes all necessary steps to enable this to continue into the future."
The EEF represents a quarter of the UK's manufacturers.
Mr Akinci, standing as an independent, won 60.3% of the votes in Sunday's runoff, according to election commission figures.
The 67-year-old defeated incumbent president Dervis Eroglu, a conservative elected five years ago.
He has said he would work with renewed urgency to find a peace deal on Cyprus after four decades of division.
The island was divided in 1974 by a Turkish invasion staged in response to a short-lived Greek-inspired coup staged to secure a union with Greece. In 1983 the Turkish-held area declared itself the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Peace negotiations came to a halt last October, when Greek Cypriots walked out in protest at the presence of a Turkish ship prospecting for natural gas off the island's south coast.
Correspondents say that Mr Akinci is viewed as a moderate who can push forward the stalled reunification talks that are expected to resume next month.
The new leader capitalised on a wave of discontent against Mr Eroglu, who failed to unite right-wing supporters.
"We achieved change and my policy will be focused on reaching a peace settlement," Mr Akinci told thousands of joyful supporters at a victory rally.
"This country cannot tolerate any more wasted time."
Mr Akinci said that he had already spoken to Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and that they had agreed to meet soon.
"[Mr] Anastasiades and I are [of] the same generation... If we can't solve this now, it will be a tremendous burden on future generations,'' he said, pointing out that the strength of his victory was a riposte to those who accused him of selling out to Greek Cypriots.
The new president earned his political colours during a 14-year term as mayor of the Turkish-Cypriot half of the capital Nicosia from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
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Nor does his snooker referee wife Tatiana.
"I had never heard of him," she joked to BBC Sport. "When we met he was 70 or 80 in the world. I think it improved him a lot and has given him motivation. Maybe it inspired him.
"I am really proud of what he has achieved, I think family is really important for snooker players."
That initial meeting presented a problem for Belarusian Tatiana, who was refereeing at her first professional event.
Seeing the Woollaston name for first time at the Paul Hunter Classic in Germany 2010 added to her nerves.
"I thought how do I say that - but it's now my surname. I had never heard of him but I was impressed with the way he played."
The 28-year-old from Leicester is not about to disagree with the idea his game has improved since they were married in 2011.
"I had not really done anything before then," said the world number 30. "She has definitely improved me; my form has been a lot better."
Last season was something of a breakthrough for both of them.
Ben reached his first ranking event final, beating Mark Allen, Ali Carter and Mark Williams on his way to the final, where he lost to four-time world champion John Higgins.
And Tatiana refereed her first televised game at a ranking event while at the tournament in Cardiff.
But for Tatiana mixing a full-time job with being a snooker referee, and a mum to three-year-old Edward, is tricky. The chances are also limited because there are only a few full-time referees on the circuit.
"I would love to do it full time because I am really passionate about it but I cannot do as much as I would like," she explained.
Her refereeing commitments are restricted to when she can book time off work, but having such a hectic life has not diminished her enthusiasm - something which Ben says helps him a great deal.
"It's really good that we are both in to snooker," he added. "It makes it much easier as a family to have a common interest. She understands I can be miserable for a few hours if we lose."
Woollaston is confident he can continue his improvement and make his mark on the game's elite, starting with the UK Championship in York.
He faces Steven Hallworth in his first-round match on Wednesday, but is expecting to go deep in to the tournament.
"I want to make the quarter-finals, but if I got that far I would be disappointed to go out," he said.
"My ambition is to win a big ranking event. I have already got to a final so there is no reason I could not go one step further.
"I have developed quite late in snooker terms but hopefully my best is yet to come. I have been much more consistent recently. My aim is to get in to the top 16 by next year and be close by the end of the year.
Tatiana is due to come up to York if Ben progresses beyond the first round. And the fact she is not refereeing may help her husband settle and increase his chances
"We have good memories from Cardiff, but I was more nervous watching her than playing," Ben added.
The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, now in its 37th year, takes place at Ashton Court with more than 500,000 visitors expected.
Organiser Clive Bailey said Bristol was "the world capital for ballooning" and hosted Europe's "biggest free event".
The four-day festival starts on 6 August, with more than 100 hot air balloons expected to take part.
Industrial output grew 2.1% compared with the first quarter of the year, the Office for National Statistics said.
Despite the quarterly figures there were signs that growth on a monthly basis was slowing during the three-month period.
But the ONS said "very few" respondents had been affected by the uncertainty from the EU referendum vote on 23 June.
The production figures reflect the latest official growth figures for the whole economy which show strong GDP growth in April, followed by a sharp easing off in May and June.
Meanwhile in a separate report the ONS said the deficit on trade in goods and services was £5.1bn in June, compared with a £4.2bn the month before.
The UK exported £12bn worth of goods and services to the European Union in June, an increase of £500m compared with May.
Most of the growth in the quarter came in April when output rose by more than 2% on the previous month. By June the month on month increase had slowed to just 0.1%
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: "The 2.1% quarter-on-quarter rise in production in the second quarter... mainly reflected the 2.3% month-to-month jump in production in April."
Some recent surveys have suggested the economy slowed sharply in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, said: "Clearly, indicators of sentiment post referendum suggest that we've hit the high point for manufacturing this year.
"Amidst the wavering levels of confidence however we should take away some positive news, firstly that manufacturing entered this period of uncertainty from a relatively strong stance and the weaker exchange rate could yet bring benefits on the export side."
However, Mr Tombs said: "We fear that the trade boost could take even longer than usual to materialise this time, because exporters will be very reluctant to invest until the UK's future trade arrangements are known.
"In short, hopes that exports will surge and offset the Brexit hit to domestic demand seem misplaced."
Well thankfully you don't have to wait for too much longer for Strictly to be back.
The first set of stars for this years competition - series 15! - will be announced on Monday.
We want to know who you'd like to see step in to the Strictly ballroom.
This chat page is now closed, thanks for your comments
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I want hacker t dog because he is funny and fire cute and can dance very well.
Jahed, 12, Luton
I would love to see JK Rowling on Strictly as she has an amazing imagination which would help her create a wonderful dance! All the Harry Potter cast would be wonderful!
Alara, London
I would love Emma Watson to be on Strictly, because I think she would be good at dancing and I love all things Harry Potter!
Grace, 10, Ormskirk
This year I am wanting Harry Hill on the show because I think he is quick witted and funny.
Barny, 10, Manchester
I would like to see Lauren from CBBC HQ on strictly come dancing.
Lauren, 9, Essex
There were errors in seven different agency operations before the attack involving Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale between 2009 and Lee Rigby's murder in May 2013 where processes were not followed, decisions not recorded or delays encountered, it says.
Below are some of the key dates from the investigations into both men published in the Intelligence and Security Committee's report.
May 2008: First identified by MI5. An "investigative record" was opened.
2009-10: Occasional indirect coverage of Adebolajo as a result of his contact with another person of interest to MI5.
21 November 2010: Arrested in Kenya by Kenyan authorities with a group of other individuals, assessed to have been attempting to travel to Somalia to join Islamist militant group al-Shabab. MI5 opened a trace on him when informed of the arrest the next day.
25 November 2010: Adebolajo arrived back in the UK, having left Kenya voluntarily, and was interviewed by SO15 - the Met Police's counter terrorism unit - under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
April 2011: Operation created to focus on Adebolajo's involvement in extremist activity. Initial inquiries made to confirm where he was living.
14 April 2011: MI5 linked Adebolajo to a GCHQ report from January 2010 which listed the historic contacts (between 2008 and 2009) of an individual of interest who later became a high profile and senior figure from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The content of this communication was not sought.
9 May 2011: Urgent application made for further "intrusive" coverage, such as intercepting phone calls, against Adebolajo.
21 July 2011: Surveillance indicated that Adebolajo had met a subject of interest investigated for radicalising UK-based individuals and facilitating their travel overseas.
August 2011: MI5 passed intelligence to the police regarding Adebolajo's possible intention to be involved in the London riots. In the event, Adebolajo was not arrested. MI5 also contacted the National Terrorist Financial Investigative Unit, suspecting Adebolajo was engaged in fraudulent activity. No evidence of fraud was discovered.
September 2011 - October 2012: MI5 commissioned an internal report to summarise what was known about Adebolajo's activities. This noted there was no indication he was currently involved in extremist activities. MI5 cancelled their coverage and planned to close the investigation.
November 2012 - May 2013: "Intrusive" coverage of Adebolajo reinstated. But no security threat was identified, and investigations indicated that Adebolajo was spending most of his time involved in drug dealing.
February - April 2013: MI5 notify SO15 of their belief that Adebolajo was involved in drug dealing. They in turn channelled this information to the local police. However, the house number was accidentally omitted and no further action was taken.
11 April 2013: "Intrusive" coverage of Adebolajo cancelled.
22 May 2013: Fusilier Lee Rigby murdered.
August 2011: Adebowale identified by GCHQ as having shown an interest in extremist material online.
April 2012: An "investigative record" is opened. Telephone analysis showed that Adebowale had been in contact with subjects of interest. Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) and the Welsh Extremism and Counter-Terrorism Unit conducted enquiries into Adebowale. No trace of current involvement in extremist activity was found.
June 2012: MI5 closed its investigation into Adebowale. It assessed he did not pose a current threat to UK national security.
September 2012: Adebowale identified by GCHQ as having been referred to as a "lone wolf" in monitored online comments.
25 January 2013: Decision to create investigation into Adebowale was endorsed by MI5 management team.
January-February 2013: Adebowale's online activity was reviewed and revealed he had been in contact with another person of interest.
13 March 2013: Intelligence indicated Adebowale had sought to disseminate extremist material. This was a possible offence; potential executive action was considered.
19 April 2013: MI5 and SO15 agreed to build further coverage of Adebowale in order to form a better assessment of how to disrupt him and manage any risk.
26 April 2013: Application drafted for further "intrusive" techniques against Adebowale. Several revisions to the draft were subsequently discussed and made in order to meet statutory and policy requirements.
21 May 2013: Revised application was approved by a senior manager and MI5's deputy director general. Final draft sent to the Home Office as a routine application.
22 May 2013: Fusilier Lee Rigby murdered. The home secretary signed the submission as an urgent application.
Andrew Bailey, the chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said a cap would be considered as part of its inquiry into high-cost credit.
Up to 400,000 people use rent-to-own firms to buy household appliances, paying the money back over three years.
After interest, they can end up paying three times the original price.
It follows a call for a cap from Citizens Advice, which said restrictions imposed on payday lenders two years ago had been a success.
Citizens Advice also said there was a lack of affordability checks in the industry, meaning that people signed up to agreements they could not afford.
And it said that rent-to-own firms did not always take a flexible approach when shoppers got into debt.
However, BrightHouse, the biggest rent-to-own firm, accused Citizens Advice of producing a "misleading" and "inaccurate" report.
The FCA said that it would be prepared to consider a cap in the rent-to-own market, but added that in the case of the payday loan sector it had been a "last resort".
"The price cap is very much the thing we do when all other price measures don't look very promising," Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the FCA, told the BBC.
"So we would start elsewhere, and work our way through the possible remedies."
Total paid (including credit): £1,170 Source: BrightHouse
Since January 2015, the FCA has imposed a cap on the amount that payday lenders are allowed to charge their customers.
Loan repayments are limited to no more than 0.8% per day of the amount they borrowed, and in total no one should pay back more than twice the original sum.
Since the introduction of that cap, Citizens Advice says that the number of people with payday loan debt problems has halved.
So it wants similar controls on the rent-to-own market.
"There ought to be some kind of cap on the cost to the individual of the item they are buying, so they know right up front how much they are going to pay," said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice.
In the 18 months since the cap was introduced, about 800,000 fewer people took out payday loans, according to the FCA.
Citizens Advice also wants to see new rules that would require rent-to-own firms to do more thorough affordability checks.
Dawn North, from Port Talbot in South Wales, is a regular customer of such firms, and has fallen behind with payments.
"They didn't really do a credit check," she said.
"All they wanted was your income and what your expenditure was."
She showed the BBC a washing machine, which she said cost £300 in the shops. However, because she has fallen behind with payments, she calculates she will end up paying as much as £3,000 in total.
But BrightHouse, the biggest of three rent-to-own firms in the UK, rejected the claims made by Citizens Advice.
"We dispute the findings of this misleading, deeply flawed and inaccurate report," a spokesperson for BrightHouse said.
"Having worked closely with the FCA, BrightHouse's affordability checks are some of the most thorough in the financial services industry."
"Should BrightHouse customers be in difficulty, we have a wide range of options including the flexibility for them to return the product at any time without owing anything further."
It said all agreements were subject to a 14-day cooling-off period.
The FCA is now asking for evidence for its inquiry into all forms of "high cost" credit, including overdraft charges and logbook loans.
It will also review the payday loan cap, two years after it came into force.
Mr Bailey told the BBC that catalogue lending and pawnbroking would also be considered.
It is important that people can still have access to credit, but the FCA wants them to have it "on terms that are fair to them", he said.
It said it spotted "suspicious transactions" on 40,000 accounts over the weekend, with money reportedly taken from about half of them.
Tesco has declined to elaborate on what happened, or say how much cash went astray, but said it was working with the National Crime Agency to investigate and find the culprits.
Yes, because this seems to be the first time that a UK bank has reacted so publicly by stopping some types of transactions on a web banking system because of "online criminal activity".
Banks are targeted all the time but typically those attacks just hit a few individuals, so do not bring about a site closure. In this case, as far as we can tell, a lot of people lost cash very quickly.
Security expert Troy Hunt said the incident was unprecedented in its scale. He added that the shutdown was "embarrassing" for Tesco and indicated how serious it was.
Tesco did not use the "H" word in its statement and in interviews its chief executive and other people speaking on behalf of the company have been careful in their choice of language.
It has said that the attack was "sophisticated" and that an initial investigation had revealed exactly what had happened.
So far, it has not shared that information but Tesco's actions in the wake of the weekend's events do help to narrow down the possibilities.
By letting customers withdraw cash from ATMs, use cards in shops and pay bills, it suggests that whatever went wrong does not involve the core computer systems underpinning Tesco bank. These systems used to be run by RBS but since 2008 Tesco has operated independently.
Security expert James Maude, from software company Avecto, said Tesco's decision to suspend online transactions combined with the information that so many people were hit at once clearly suggests problems with its website.
All too often, he said, maintenance or website updates can introduce errors and bugs that were not present before. Cyber-thieves are constantly scanning valuable websites to spot changes and will swoop if one emerges.
It might also be the case that a third party connected to Tesco had a security issue and attackers got in via that route, which has happened in some of the biggest attacks in recent memory.
Most cybersecurity experts have a very jaundiced view of the world that they often sum up by saying: "Everything is broken and there is always a way in."
In short, there is no way that any organisation can keep it, and its customers and their data, safe all the time. Many organisations now assume they will be breached and set up monitoring systems to spot when that happens, while also training staff to react quickly to fix problems.
Nik Whitfield, from security firm Panaseer, said often firms were caught out by vulnerabilities that emerge in software they use rather than through a change they make. It can be hard for organisations to keep across these factors because they use so many software packages.
In addition, some of the bugs are found by malicious hackers who sell them to gangs that want to use them. In these cases, the first an organisation will know about a bug is when it is used against them.
Tesco has had problems with some other web-based systems in the past. In 2014, thousands of Tesco customers' net accounts were deactivated after login names and passwords were shared online.
In that case, Tesco said attackers had compiled the data by using details stolen from other sites, because some Tesco customers reused passwords.
Like many other banks, Tesco has automatic fraud-spotting systems that keep an eye on accounts and build up a picture of normal activity.
It is these kind of systems that can catch you out if you suddenly use your credit or debit card to buy lots of things from lots of different places in just a few minutes.
It is these monitoring systems that are believed to have alerted Tesco to the problems that led to it suspending the site and halting transactions.
We still do not know the details of what happened so it is difficult to give concrete advice. However, it is worth taking a few simple steps to protect your online account.
First, choose a good password and do not reuse one that you use elsewhere. Use the bank's two-factor authentication and keep an eye on the transactions carried out via your account.
Keep security software on your PC, phone or tablet up-to-date and be on the lookout for phishing emails that capitalise on news about any breach.
James Chappell, chief technology officer at computer security service Digital Shadows, said it was already starting to see cyber-gangs it monitors sending out spam posing as updates from Tesco security staff. The gangs are hoping to trick people into handing over their Tesco account details to let thieves take advantage.
The previous state governor, Zenaida Gallardo, stepped down citing medical reasons.
She had only been in the post since January when she took over from another of Hugo Chávez's brothers, Adán.
Both Argenis Chávez and Ms Gallardo rose to the post through a rule which says that in case the governor steps down, the interior minister takes over.
Mr Chávez had been named interior minister of Barinas only days before being sworn in as governor.
He is taking over as governor at a time when Barinas has been rocked by violent anti-government protests.
Official buildings have been attacked and shops looted by Venezuelans angry at the country's spiralling inflation and shortages of food and medicine.
In a speech at his swearing-in ceremony, Mr Chávez blamed the country's problems on an "economic war" being waged against the government.
"The US empire is trying to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution and the government through a coup d'etat," he said.
Mr Chávez is expected to be in power at least until December, when long-delayed gubernatorial elections are due to be held.
However, opposition activists say they fear the elections, originally due to be held in December 2016, could be postponed again.
John Paul Jones, 27, admitted dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving while disqualified and without insurance, and failing to provide a blood sample.
Cardiff Crown Court heard he reached speeds of 78mph.
It came to an end when the car got wedged under a railway bridge.
The court was told police attempted to stop Jones' car near to Brynhyfryd to carry out checks on 15 June.
He initially stopped, but when officers approached he made off.
The seven-mile (11km) pursuit came to and end in what Gwent Police described as a "moment of sheer recklessness and stupidity" when Jones drove down a footpath and got wedged under a railway bridge towards Churchhill Park.
PC Matt Richley said: "He proceeded to drive in such a manner that he not only put members of the public at risk but also himself, his passengers and the police."
As well as the jail sentence, Jones of Pontypridd, was disqualified from driving for four years and nine months.
The legal challenge was brought by World War Two veteran Harry Shindler, 94, who lives in Italy, and lawyer and Belgian resident Jacquelyn MacLennan.
Under law, UK citizens who have lived elsewhere in Europe for more than 15 years are barred from voting.
But the pair argued the in-out vote on EU membership directly affected them and called for a judicial review.
They asked the two judges to declare that section Two of the EU Referendum Act 2015, which established "the 15-year rule", unlawfully restricted their right to freedom of movement under EU law.
But the judges ruled that the section did not restrict their rights and rejected their application for judicial review.
Lawyers representing the pair say they will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the judgment.
Earlier this month, the court heard up to two million expats were being denied the right to take part in the referendum.
Mr Shindler - who has lived in Italy since 1982 - and other campaigners argue the 15-year cut-off is arbitrary and that rules governing UK general elections, the basis for the referendum franchise, are not being applied evenly.
His lawyers say the EU Referendum Act authorising the vote extends the right to vote to peers, and Gibraltar residents who would not normally be able to take part in general elections, but not long-term expats.
The government says the franchise was agreed by both Houses of Parliament.
It picked up the honour at the British Guild of Travel Writers' awards ceremony.
The multi-million pound project linking the capital and the Scottish Borders was officially opened by the Queen last year.
It saw off an artificial surfing lake in north Wales and a cycling route in Devon to win the award.
"It is an amazing railway and unique to the area," said Ailsa Herd of VisitScotland on accepting the prize.
"You can visit so many different attractions over the journey so I would recommend you go now, especially since we won this amazing award.
"I think the team will be over the moon, there were so many different contenders in the category we are delighted to have won."
A 48-year-old man and two women, aged 29 and 63, were arrested after police stopped two vehicles in Ferguson Drive on Tuesday afternoon.
Det Insp Pete Mullan said: "All three individuals remain in custody this evening assisting us with our enquiries."
Doctors at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital said it was time to rethink the need for six centres after a 46% fall in transplants in the last decade.
They said having bigger and better resourced units may be preferable, the British Medical Journal reported.
The government has already indicated it is looking to carry out a review.
It is unclear why the number of heart transplants has fallen as the number of potential donors is at a record high.
A decade ago, 159 transplants were carried out each year, but by 2009-10 that had fallen to 86, the researchers said.
The analysis by four doctors, including two surgeons, suggested it could be down to a lack of intensive care beds or it could be because potential donors are found to have hearts which are unsuitable for transplant.
The fall in transplants has meant doctors are having to increasingly rely on the use of mechanical heart pumps instead.
But the experts said it was now important to review whether the right patients were being prioritised for transplants as well as looking whether the six units - in Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Cambridge and London - were still viable.
One of the risks of having smaller centres is that surgeons do not do enough transplants to maintain their skills - although there are no suggestions care is suffering yet.
Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director at the British Heart Foundation, conceded fewer centres may be the solution.
But he added he would like to see more work to increase the number of suitable donors.
"Encouraging more people to join the organ donor register, or even better, changing our organ donation system so people must 'opt out' if they don't want to donate would help increase the number of donor hearts available."
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh said an official review would be starting soon to ensure transplants were being "carried out in the most effective way".
He added: "The department is committed to strengthening the heart transplant programme, increasing the number of organ donors and hearts donated for transplant and giving more people the opportunity to benefit from a heart transplant."
It comes amid a storm in Silicon Valley over the number of women employed in the tech industry.
Experts agree that the world faces a digital skills shortage and that a more even gender balance is crucial.
One industry body worried that too few boys were also choosing the subject.
"Today's announcement that nearly 7,600 students in England took A-level computing means it's not going to be party time in the IT world for a long time to come," said Bill Mitchell, director of education at the IT Chartered Institute, BCS.
He said that it fell well short of the 40,000 level that "we should be seeing".
But he added that the fact so few girls were taking the subject was particularly worrying.
"At less than 10%, the numbers of girls taking computing A-level are seriously low."
"We know that this a problem starting at primary school and it's something that we need to address at all levels throughout education.
"As a society, we need to make sure that our young women are leaving education with the digital skills they need to secure a worthwhile job, an apprenticeship or go on to further study."
The figures, from the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), are not all bad news. They reveal that there has been a 34% rise in the number of female students sitting the computer science exam, up to 816 from 609 in 2016.
Google engineer James Damore caused controversy this month when he penned a memo suggesting that there were fewer women at Google because of biological differences. The search giant sacked him over the remarks, saying they were "offensive".
A recent survey of 1,000 university students conducted by audit firm KPMG suggested that only 37% of young women were confident they had the tech skills needed by today's employers.
A total of 73% said that they had not considered a graduate job in technology.
Aidan Brennan, KPMG's head of digital transformation, said: "The issue here isn't around competency - far from it - but rather how businesses understand the underlying capability of an individual and how to unlock it.
"I think this research highlights the work that needs to be done to show the next generation that when it comes to a career in tech, gender isn't part of the equation.
"Competition for jobs is tough and we know that female job seekers can be less likely to apply for a role than their male counterparts if they don't feel they already possess every prerequisite the job demands."
Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, who founded the charity Stemettes to persuade more girls to pursue careers in Science, Technology Engineering and Maths has her own view about the low number of girls taking A-level computing.
"Girls often don't want to be the only one in the class so they tend not to pick the subject when it is an option," she said.
"Also, it's often not even an option in a lot of schools so it's an uphill battle but fortunately, a lot of computer science courses take A-level maths students, so there is a very viable route for girls into the course itself and related courses."
All three players have agreed deals that run until the summer of 2019.
Wing Nowell, 23, has played a part in all but one game under England head coach Eddie Jones.
Centre Slade, 23, has yet to feature under Jones, but both he and hooker Cowan-Dickie, 23, were in the squad which whitewashed Australia in June.
"It's great that they've come through our academy," Exeter head coach Rob Baxter told BBC Sport.
"They're international-quality players who want to stay at the club long term, and that in itself talks about what we're all about.
"We want to be a club where they can realise their international and club ambitions."
Nowell scored a try in Exeter's first-ever Premiership final appearance in May, which they lost to Saracens, with Slade having a hand in the score.
The highly-rated centre, who can also play at fly-half, missed six months of last season after breaking his leg in the Devon side's win at Wasps.
Cowan-Dickie is currently vying with Saracens number two Jamie George to be England's second-choice hooker behind captain Dylan Hartley.
"It wasn't a difficult process, they were all keen to stay and we were keen to keep them," added Baxter. "It was business that was all wrapped up pretty quickly."
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Douglas Gordon has directed Neck of the Woods, starring Charlotte Rampling, at the Home theatre in Manchester.
Critics have described it as a "vanity project" and "humourless and sedate".
The show features several axes, and Gordon is thought to have wielded an unused prop to take a chunk out of the wall, which he then signed and dated.
He inflicted the damage on Saturday, the day after Neck of the Woods opened as part of the Manchester International Festival (MIF).
The show begins with the sound of an axe, and the stage has a number of axes screwed to it.
The Daily Telegraph said Neck of the Woods had "the unmistakable whiff of a vanity project", with a script that "simply isn't very good", while "Rampling looks terribly uncomfortable most of the time".
The Guardian, meanwhile, described it as a "humourless and sedate Red Riding Hood retelling" that "takes itself very seriously" and is "so old-fashioned you wonder if Gordon has any familiarity at all with contemporary theatre".
MIF artistic director Alex Poots said: "We understand that one of our artists acted in a wholly inappropriate way on Saturday night, causing slight damage to the fabric of Home's new building.
"This is totally unacceptable, and the artist involved will be paying for repairs.
"MIF and the artist have contacted staff who were present and our co-commissioning partners at Home to apologise."
Mr Poots went on to say that the festival supported artists to make ambitious shows.
He added: "We do not support or condone reckless, inappropriate or intimidating behaviour and will work with our co-commissioning partners and artistic and producing teams to ensure that this doesn't happen again."
Gordon won the Turner Prize in 1996.
Home opened in May after being built at a cost of £25m.
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Mayor Sadiq Khan promised in his manifesto that Londoners "won't pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than they do today".
While many voters and at one point TfL assumed he meant all fares in London, including rail fares (which affects south London predominantly), actually it transpired he meant just TfL fares.
The mayor has defended himself, pointing repeatedly to another sentence in his manifesto which said he would freeze "TfL fares" and says he delivered on that promise.
Putting that long-running row to one side (and I doubt it will go away), the letter shows you the start of what the TfL fares freeze will mean.
And the point is the TfL fares freeze will cost £640m, so it now has to make efficiencies.
Those cuts are on top of the loss of Tfl's £591m government operational grant by 2018.
The letter is to all directors and band five managers - senior managers - and asks them if they want to be considered for redundancy.
It says: "TfL faces unprecedented financial challenge and we do not have enough money to continue as we are.
"We need to make our business sustainable and transport affordable for the millions who rely on us while protecting vital investment and day-to-day services.
"We need to set ourselves up for success by ensuring our organisation, and in particular our senior manager structure, is right for the future."
It goes on: "This is examining every element of what we do to eliminate unnecessary duplication, obtain greater value from procurement, cut reliance on agency staff and cut costs across all functions."
This is just the start of big changes at TfL.
Inevitably these redundancy trawls will become more common and probably affect all levels of staffing.
Ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was convicted of misdemeanour conspiracy to violate mine safety standards.
The 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster in West Virginia was the deadliest mine explosion in decades.
Mr Blankenship expressed sorrow but denied he was responsible during the sentencing hearing.
A judge also gave him the maximum fine of $250,000 (£165,000).
He called the coal miners who died "great guys, great coal miners".
"It is important to everyone that you know that I'm not guilty of a crime," he said.
His lawyers had argued probation and a fine would be a more appropriate sentence.
Family members of miners killed in the accident yelled at him as he left the courthouse.
"We buried our kid because of you," said Robert Atkins, whose son died in the accident. "That's all I got is a goddamn tombstone."
Mr Blankenship was convicted of conspiracy last December, and the former superintendent of the mine was given 21 months in prison for falsifying records, disabling a methane gas monitor and tipping off workers ahead of inspections. In total, the investigation into the explosion resulted in five criminal convictions.
"This sentence is a victory for workers and workplace safety," said Acting US Attorney Carol Casto in a release. "It lets companies and their executives know that you can't take chances with the lives of coal miners and get away with it."
Harris Faulkner said the company's portrayal of her as a plastic hamster "was demeaning and insulting".
She filed a legal case saying the toy resembled her traditional professional appearance, including complexion, eye shape and eye make-up design.
The toy is part of the company's popular Littlest Pet Shop collection.
It was first introduced in 2014, according to legal documents obtained by entertainment news website Deadline.
The legal case, which was filed at a district court in New Jersey on Monday, said Hasbro had "wilfully and wrongfully appropriated Faulkner's unique and valuable name and distinctive persona for its own financial gain".
It said Mrs Faulkner, who has been a Fox News anchor for 10 years, had never given the toy manufacturer permission to use her name or likeness and in January demanded they stop using the product.
But three weeks later, it said, the doll was still available on the Hasbro website.
Ms Faulkner said she did not want to be associated with a toy that is a "known choking hazard that risks harming small children".
However, Julie Duffy, a spokeswoman for the company, said the Littlest Pet Shop toys "meet and exceed all safety standards".
The company is behind other well-known toy brands, including Transformers and My Little Pony.
Louis van Gaal's side failed to record a single shot on target as their 10-match unbeaten league run was ended.
Dusan Tadic scored the only goal of the game when he tapped in calmly from 12 yards after Graziano Pelle's effort had come back off the near post.
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The Reds improved after the goal but Juan Mata missed two good chances.
It is the first time United have been beaten at home since their opening day reverse against Swansea and reaffirms Southampton's top-four credentials, as Ronald Koeman's side backed up their home win against Arsenal with another three points.
The visitors had not won at Old Trafford in the top tier since January 1988 - a run stretching back 19 games - and this result was built on a 10th clean sheet in 21 games.
Even after centre-half Toby Alderweireld left the pitch injured in the first half, Southampton remained well-drilled and limited United's array of attacking talent to very few chances.
United's front four, plus wing-backs Luke Shaw and Antonio Valencia, cost the club almost £200m in transfer fees but the best they managed in a poor first half was Angel Di Maria's shot which was dragged past an upright.
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Nathaniel Clyne also shot wide for the visitors, while some smart defending from Jose Fonte blocked Robin van Persie's effort.
The game was being played at a sedate pace and only burst into life when Tadic completed a fine move after good work from James Ward-Prowse and Pelle.
United took off former Southampton full-back Luke Shaw and switched Daley Blind to the left, and the Dutchman's dangerous deliveries presented the Reds with two good chances to level.
First, he whipped in a dangerous ball which goalkeeper Fraser Forster failed to deal with and Mata's shot went just wide.
Minutes later, Blind drove a low ball into the box and Mata stabbed over from six yards out.
However Saints held on for arguably their most impressive victory of the season and one which puts them three points clear in the Champions League places.
Hong Kong students angry at China's plan to vet candidates for 2017 polls say protesters will start occupying government buildings if Mr Leung does not resign by Thursday night.
State media, however, dismiss the calls and praise the chief executive's performance.
"The chief executive is chosen through a legal election process and appointed by the central government. The central government fully trusts Mr Leung, and is very satisfied with his work performance," says People's Daily.
Criticising the protesters for disrupting social order and challenging the "law", the front-page commentary stresses that Beijing will not change its position on Hong Kong and will continue to back Mr Leung "for the sake of national security and interests, as well as for the interests of Hong Kong".
"The central government will continue to give Chief Executive CY Leung its firm support to execute his policies in accordance to the law. The government will firmly support the police in dealing with the illegal activities in the city," states the article.
In a separate report, the paper quotes several experts from think-tanks and universities in the mainland on Hong Kong affairs.
The report says most experts agree that the protesters are hurting Hong Kong's interests and "they are not executing the freedom of expression in a normal way".
Echoing similar views, an article in the China News Service slams the protesters for "bringing shame to the rule of law in Hong Kong".
News portal China.com, in a commentary, accuses the US and UK of "inciting" the Occupy Central campaign "in order to mess up Hong Kong".
"China is developing while the US and UK are on the decline, so they could only gather a minority of Hong Kongers who forgot their roots to create trouble for China. Such a scheme will definitely not succeed," says the article.
Adopting a softer approach, the Shenzhen News website publishes an open letter from a high school student in Shenzhen, a southern China city bordering Hong Kong.
"When I know that some students in Hong Kong are participating in the class boycott, and even taking to the streets, I cannot understand why. Being a student of your age, and being your neighbour, I have some heartfelt words to share," writes the "ordinary high school student" known as Si Yu.
The letter, which has been reprinted on various websites, urges Hong Kong students to "go back to class, and to believe in the country".
Ending the letter on an emotional note, the writer says that "we all have a home, its name is China… I deeply believe that when the country is good, Hong Kong will also be good".
But some of China's main newspapers continue to ignore the protests. Outlets including the Beijing Times, Beijing News and Southern Metropolis make no mention of them.
Instead, the papers have reprinted a Xinhua News Agency report noting that celebrations to mark the 1 October National Day attracted "large crowd of people in Hong Kong".
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, papers remain divided.
Pro-Beijing China Review News says the "mastermind of the protests" should be punished and cautions Hong Kong authorities to remain on high alert against "foreign forces" supporting the opposition.
Calling for solidarity among the protesters, the editorial of the pro-democracy Apple Daily cautions "the people" to be "on high alert against the underhanded measures" of the chief executive.
The article accuses Mr Leung of "pushing the blame of the chaos on the protesters and trying to reinforce his power".
"He is not solving the problem, instead he is intensifying the conflicts, as preparation for clamping down the protests," says the article, urging protesters to "fight a long war" and not to lose the understanding and support of ordinary residents.
Noting the silence from top officials, the South China Morning Post says the Beijing and Hong Kong governments "are playing a waiting game in hope Occupy will run out of steam".
And finally, several Hong Kong celebrities have voiced their support for the protest.
"What Hong Kong is going through now fills our hearts with pain. Most importantly, hope the students and residents are safe and sound. Hong Kong, add oil! [a form of cheer which means 'come on'!]," singer Sammi Cheng writes on her Weibo, a Twitter-like service.
According to audio uploaded on the Apple Daily's website, reputed actor Chow Yun Fat said he was "touched by the brave actions of the protesters and the residents", adding that the police "were wrong" to fire tear gas at students who were "rational".
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Of the 86 players to make the cut, only the top 10 had been unable to start when play was suspended at 19:15.
Joint leaders Robert Streb and Jimmy Walker are nine under, two clear of Australia's world number one Jason Day and Argentina's Emiliano Grillo.
Kevin Kisner is the clubhouse leader on five under after a five-under 65.
Thirty-seven players had completed their third rounds before the klaxon sounded to suspend play.
Phil Mickelson, who carded a two-under 68 on Saturday to get to one under before the storm arrived, said he thinks the major record of 63 will be broken in the final two rounds this weekend.
Streb birdied his last hole, after missing a birdie putt on the hole before, to card a seven-under 63 on Friday to move into a tie for the halfway lead.
And Mickelson, who missed a putt for a 62 at The Open earlier in July, said: "There's a 61 or 62 out there because it's par 70, the greens are pristine - they're rolling beautifully - and they're soft.
"There's just a lot of birdie holes."
Mickelson won the US PGA when it was last held at Baltusrol in 2005.
He added: "The rain has taken a lot of the fire and the speed out of the greens and it's also softened the fairways to where balls stay in the fairways.
"You're going to hit a lot of six, seven and eight irons at the pin and have the ball just stop right by its divot is taking away the challenge of the greens."
Ireland's Padraig Harrington, who won this tournament in 2008, had a bogey-free 65 to move up to four under.
Russell Knox of Scotland rushed to tap in for par on the last to complete a three-under 67 and three under par total, seconds before the klaxon sounded to signify all play must stop.
England's Justin Rose celebrated his 36th birthday with a four-under 66, that included three birdies in his last four holes, to move up to two under.
And Italian Francesco Molinari had an incredible back nine, finishing with six successive birdies to post a two-under 68 for a one-under total.
However, Wales' Bradley Dredge moved backwards, dropping five shots in his opening seven holes on his way to a 75 and five-over total.
His compatriot Jamie Donaldson was lining up a four-foot par putt on the par-four first after playing his second and third shots from bunkers when play was suspended.
Meyrick Bramhill-Purchase, 63, pleaded not guilty and Mo Quan Zhou, 44, made no plea, during a hearing before Derby magistrates.
The charges relate to the operation of eight suspected brothels in Chesterfield, Derby, and Lincoln between May 2015 and May 2017.
The men were remanded in custody and are due at Derby Crown Court on 9 June.
Mr Bramhill-Purchase, of Muntjac Way, Witham St Hughs, Lincolnshire, and Mr Zhou of London Road, Derby were charged with controlling prostitution for gain, causing/inciting prostitution for gain, and human trafficking - arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
The men were arrested after an investigation by Derbyshire and Lincolnshire police forces.
Below, Colin suggests which horses to look out for as the famous Gloucestershire course prepares for it's annual, four-day jump festival.
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13:30 GMT - Supreme Novices Hurdle: The first race on day one is going to be an absolute belter. If you like horses for courses, Ballyandy (10-3) is a 'give me'. I know there's a Willie Mullins hotpot in the race in Melon, but Ballyandy is that good.
15:30 GMT - Stan James Champion Hurdle: This is the big race of the day. I know a lot of horses are not going to be there but it is still an absolutely fantastic race. Yanworth (11-4) from Alan King's yard looks like an absolute beauty. It is a lovely-looking horse and I really expect that to come up the hill like a train.
14:10 GMT - RSA Chase: For me, Might Bite (7-2) from Nicky Henderson's yard looks a star in the making and is going to be a brilliant horse on its day. I cannot see it being beaten. People are worried about his jumping but Henderson will get it bang on - there is not a better trainer than Henderson at Cheltenham.
15:30 GMT - Queen Mother Champion Chase: Douvan (1-4) is odds-on for a reason. It is really, really good. But I don't back odds-on shots and, if you're looking to have a couple of shillings each way, then try God's Own (12-1) from Tom George's Yard, because any mistakes that Douvan makes, he will be all over him.
16:10 GMT - Pertemps Network Final: Trainer Philip Hobbs tells me he is very hopeful for this one. For Good Measure (10-1).
16:50 GMT - The Trull House Stud Mares' Novices Hurdle: By now we are going to know how Mullins' horses are getting on. For me, Let's Dance (2-1) is probably one of his best horses of the whole meeting. This horse is awesome.
14:50 GMT - Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle: Wholestone (5-1). I love this horse. I think he's going to be excellent. I can't believe he's not favourite for the race - he should be.
15:30 GMT - Cheltenham Gold Cup: We know certain horses aren't going to be there but this is still one fantastic race. Which one is going to win it? For me, a couple of local horses, Bristol de Mai and More of That will do well and, if the ground dries up, they are both going to run absolute crackers. Bristol de Mai (20-1) gets my vote. Ignore his last run, it was too bad to believe.
16:50 - Martin Pipe Conditional Jockey' Handicap Hurdle: It's Poetic Rhythm (40-1) shot in the conditional hurdle for me. It knows Cheltenham really well.
All odds correct as of Monday, 13 March.
Colin Onens was speaking to BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Paul Furley.
Police said a man, 71, was in custody after his arrest on Thursday morning in the Wisbech area of Cambridgeshire.
Officers are searching a property in Norfolk.
Mr Martin lived alone at a farmhouse in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk, when he caught Brendon Fearon and Fred Barras inside.
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He fired his shotgun three times towards the intruders, killing Mr Barras, 16.
The case provoked a national debate about the measures homeowners can take to defend their property.
Mr Martin was released in 2003 after serving two-thirds of a five-year sentence.
He was found guilty of murder in 2000, but his conviction was reduced on appeal to manslaughter.
Norfolk police said in a statement: "As part of a planned operation, a 71-year-old man has been arrested in Wisbech this morning on suspicion of possession of an illegal firearm.
"A police search of a property in Emneth Hungate is currently being undertaken."
Olmert was handed a six-year sentence in 2014 after being convicted of bribery charges relating to his time as Mayor of Jerusalem.
This was reduced to 18 months in December, but an extra month was added last week for obstruction of justice.
In a video released on Monday, the 70-year-old said he "rejects outright" the bribery charges.
It came just hours before Olmert, prime minister from 2006 to 2009, was due to arrive at Maasiyahu prison in the central Israeli town of Ramle.
In March 2014 he was found guilty of accepting, while he was Mayor of Jerusalem, a 500,000-shekel ($129,000; £89,000) bribe from developers of one real estate project and a 60,000-shekel bribe in connection with another.
But the Supreme Court subsequently cleared him of the charge of accepting the 500,000-shekel bribe and reduced his sentence to 18 months.
On 10 February, the court rejected key part of a plea bargain and added one month on to Olmert's sentence after he admitted attempting to persuade his former secretary not to testify against him.
The Supreme Court is yet to rule on an appeal by Olmert against an eight-month prison sentence he was handed last year after being convicted of fraud and breach of trust for accepting illegal payments from an American businessman.
James Brokenshire made the comments after meeting Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan.
Martin McGuinness resigned on Monday in protest against the handling of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
The Sinn Féin MLA said he was willing to meet the DUP about the crisis that looks set to spark a snap election.
After meeting Mr Flanagan on Thursday, Mr Brokenshire said they discussed "a way forward" to "support the parties to avoid an election".
The secretary of state added that "the clock is ticking down towards the start of next week" when an election would be inevitable.
"It's important for the parties to talk together and anything that indicates a move to encourage that type of discussion I take as helpful, albeit that position does remain serious and stark," he said.
"We are still looking at an election, but we are doing everything we can, as the two governments, to work with the political parties to see if there is a way forward that can be found," he added.
Mr Brokenshire and Mr Flanagan also held separate meetings with the political parties on Thursday.
The Sinn Féin delegation was led by Mr McGuinness and included Michelle O'Neill and Conor Murphy.
Mr Flanagan said that an election seemed "even more likely" and that there will be "an extremely difficult challenge following the election in putting together an administration".
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny said any talks between parties would have the full backing of the governments in Dublin and London.
But Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams continued to insist there is no basis for any negotiation.
The party has also confirmed it will not be replacing Mr McGuinness as deputy first minister.
Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, his departure meant DUP First Minister Arlene Foster also lost her job.
Under Stormont rules, Sinn Féin have until next Monday to nominate a new deputy first minister, or the secretary of state must call an election.
Next Monday, Stormont's finance committee is having an additional meeting to discuss the budget.
Former first minister Mrs Foster has warned that if an election goes ahead, it will be "brutal".
She set up the RHI scheme in 2012 when she was enterprise minister, in an attempt by the NI Executive to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
However, businesses received more in subsidies than they paid for fuel, and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed.
Not for the first time the institutions at Stormont are on the brink of collapse, as efforts continue on both sides of the border, to break the deadlock.
On Wednesday night, Martin McGuinness told Enda Kenny he was willing to meet the DUP.
But in a statement later, party president Gerry Adams said while Sinn Féin was open to talks, it could see no basis yet for credible negotiation this side of an election.
From 17:00 GMT on Monday it will be over to the secretary of state to set a date for an election.
While both parties accept an election is the likely outcome, they will continue to use what little time they have left to try to save the institutions."
Sinn Féin Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir told BBC's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday that while talks with the DUP were the "right thing to do", he did not hold think they were likely to resolve matters.
Sinn Féin is to hold the first of a number of election selection conventions on Sunday.
An election, which is widely predicted to take place in early March, could cost the taxpayer around £5m.
Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt said that direct rule from Westminster was a possibility should the two biggest parties returned in the election fail to reach agreement.
But Colum Eastwood, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), said there could be no return to direct rule.
It follows claims broadcast on the BBC's Panorama that grants were made to charities in return for electoral support in Tower Hamlets.
Three files of material were handed to the police by the Department of Communities and Local Government.
The Met said there would be no new investigation into the files.
However the Met said there was an continuing investigation by police into alleged irregularity concerning money awarded by Tower Hamlets Council to an organisation within the borough.
Panorama had alleged the council, run by directly-elected mayor Lutfur Rahman, had diverted £3.6m of grants to Bangladeshi and Somali-run charities in return for political support.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said the files had been reviewed by a team of officers over the past six days.
It said: "In addition, officers have liaised with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (PWC) who are conducting a full and wide-ranging audit of financial matters at The London Borough of Tower Hamlets."
Tower Hamlets Council insisted it had "seen no evidence" that its processes had been run inappropriately.
A spokesman for the council said: "The news from the Metropolitan Police is to be welcomed and Tower Hamlets will continue to work with the auditors and DCLG."
Panorama had said it found Bangladeshi-born Mr Rahman had more than doubled funding recommended by officers for Bengali-run charities.
In a statement, it said: "We continue to stand by the programme's findings which uncovered serious concerns about the use of public money, which are still being investigated by the government.
"Our programme did not say there was evidence of criminality."
The inspection by PWC is continuing to look into the authority's payment of grants, the transfer of property, spending decisions in relation to publicity, and other contractual processes, from 25 October 2010.
It has been asked to report back to Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles by 30 June.
The Met Police said before the three files were handed to officers a report concerning irregularity was made to police by Tower Hamlets Council on 20 March.
Tower Hamlets Criminal Investigation Department is currently investigating irregularity concerning money awarded to the Brady Youth Forum in January and April 2013, which was identified in an internal review by the council.
There are elections in London on 22 May, including for the directly-elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets. A list of candidates will be published after the close of nominations next week.
Part of London Road - the main route into the town - has been shut since 10 August for barrier works.
Some firms claim there has been a drop in trade with residents now opting to shop elsewhere.
Network Rail (NR) said the crossing would open by 11 October and there were no plans to permanently close the crossing.
However, local taxi driver Jaffa Hassan said signs in the town stated work would continue until 22 October.
He said the work was costing him fares, as people were not willing to pay the extra fare to divert around the closure, and described peak times as "gridlocked".
Ben Jackson, president of Bicester Chamber of Commerce, said traders had noticed a "drop-off" in the number of people shopping in Bicester.
He also said some residents were now shopping in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, claiming it was "quicker and easier".
NR said the crossing was being upgraded in preparation for a new service that starts later this month from Oxford Parkway through Bicester to London Marylebone.
The vote opens the way for an early election, now expected in April rather than the scheduled July.
Mr Borisov's surprise resignation followed nationwide street protests against high electricity prices and austerity measures.
On Tuesday clashes between protesters and police left at least 14 people injured.
The government's resignation was accepted in a 209-5 vote.
President Rosen Plevneliev will now try to appoint an interim cabinet, to take the country through to early elections.
A crowd of supporters chanted their approval of Mr Borisov as he left the parliament building - a stark contrast to the anger of the streets during the past 10 days, says the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Sofia.
But Bulgarian commentators largely agree that his departure deepens rather than solves the crisis, our correspondent says.
The protesters have accused the whole political class of being corrupt and inefficient, not just Mr Borisov's party.
By Nick ThorpeBBC Central Europe correspondent
The surprise resignation of Boiko Borisov and his GERB (Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria) cabinet leaves Bulgaria in turmoil.
Mr Borisov has made clear that he and his party will not take part in an interim administration.
GERB were trailing in polls to the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party even before the current unrest.
One interesting aspect of the protests is that they are taking place largely independently of traditional political parties and trade unions.
The core of the protesters are young people, organising via social media sites such as Facebook.
The immediate concern in Bulgaria is stability. Many parallels are being drawn with 1997, when the socialist administration was brought down by street protests.
Some commentators said Mr Borisov's resignation may have been designed to save too much damage to the ruling party.
The street protests across Bulgaria, which is the EU's poorest country, were initially over high electricity prices but soon took an anti-government turn.
The prime minister tried to calm the protests on Tuesday by promising to slash prices and by sacking his finance minister.
He also pledged to punish foreign-owned power companies that he said charged too much.
But our correspondent says that the clashes on Tuesday were the last straw for Mr Borisov.
The government lost support after it abandoned plans in March 2012 to build a new nuclear power station at Belene, close to the Romanian border.
A controversial referendum last month on whether to build a second nuclear power plant was invalidated by a low turnout, although more than 60% of those who voted backed the idea.
Correspondents say that while budget cuts have felled a series of governments around Europe, Mr Borisov - a former bodyguard to Bulgaria's Soviet-era dictator Todor Zhivkov - had until recent weeks seemed relatively immune.
The body of Leighanne Cameron, 29, was discovered at a house in Calder House Road, Mid Calder, on Wednesday.
Erhan Havaleoglu, aged 35 and originally from Turkey, made no plea or declaration when he appeared at Livingston Sheriff Court.
He was remanded in custody and is expected to appear again next week.
Police are still carrying out inquiries and have appealed for witnesses.
Ms Cameron's family said: "Leighanne was a much-loved daughter, sister and mother of two young children whom she adored, and who absolutely adored her."
"She was an intelligent and talented individual with huge energy and her tragic loss has left us and her wide circle of genuine friends all utterly devastated."
Det Insp Phil Richards, of Police Scotland, said: "We are still looking to trace witnesses in connection with this incident and are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
"Anyone who was in the Calder House Road area on Wednesday 28 October, between 20:00 and 21:30, is asked to contact police immediately."
The coroner Sir John Goldring told the remaining jury members there was a "medical basis" for the woman being discharged.
Six women and three men will continue to consider how and why 96 Liverpool fans died in Britain's worst sporting disaster on 15 April 1989.
The jury was sent out on Wednesday after more than two years of evidence.
The hearings, which are the longest running inquests in British legal history, began on 31 March 2014 with the maximum of 11 jurors.
That number was reduced to 10 in February last year when a juror was discharged for "wholly exceptional medical reasons".
The minimum number that can hear evidence at an inquest is seven.
Despite losing 2-0 to Hapoel Beer Sheva in Israel, the Scottish champions won the play-off 5-4 on aggregate.
"They're going back in amongst Europe's elite - it's where Celtic belong," said Rodgers.
"Tonight was really about getting through and all the plaudits go to the players because they got through."
Goals from Ben Sahar and Ovidiu Hoban made the match a nervous experience for Celtic but they did enough to avoid conceding a third that would have taken Hapoel through on away goals.
The aggregate success takes Celtic back into the group stage - a feat they were unable to achieve under Rodgers' predecessor Ronny Deila over the past two seasons.
"This is a huge step for us," said Rodgers, whose club stands to make around £30m from the group stage. "It's an incredible moment for them.
"At Celtic, when I came in, the focus of the criticism was that they couldn't tough it out, but we showed over two games and under a huge amount of pressure that this team can.
"You have to take into consideration the mentality of the players in the last couple of seasons when it's been so tough for them, mentally, to go out at this stage.
"We've only been together a short period of time. We've made huge strides as a team and as a club in every way.
"We showed an incredible desire to want to see the game through and you can't ask any more. They coped really, really well."
At 0-0, Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon saved Maharan Radi's penalty and Rodgers said: "It was a huge save at that time of the game. He's read it really well."
The draw for the group stage takes place on Thursday and Celtic are likely to be in the fourth pot of seeds while Barcelona, holders Real Madrid, Leicester City and Bayern Munich will be among the sides in pot one.
"There's so much riding on this qualification - so much has been spoken about," added Rodgers.
"It has really happened and we've qualified. Great for the nation as well. For Scotland, it's huge."
5 September 2016 Last updated at 15:27 BST
In this edition, then SDLP leader John Hume talks to the late David Dunseith about the Hume-Adams talks in October 1993. The talks were the beginning of a new nationalist strategy as part of the peace process.
The Prime Four Beast Race - a 10km challenge with various obstacles - was held in Banchory on Saturday.
The event was being staged for a fourth year.
Jono Buckland, director at organisers FireTrail Events, said the response had been "phenomenal".
The visitors were ahead with the first attack, Shaun Miller's header spilled by Christian Walton and Jason Kennedy tapping home on five minutes.
However, Luton levelled on 10 minutes, Jack Marriott crossing for Danny Hylton to notch his 14th of the season.
Alan Sheehan shot straight at Mark Gillespie, while Nicky Adams' effort was tipped over by Walton.
Marriott then missed a glorious chance, heading straight at Gillespie from Stephen O'Donnell's inch-perfect delivery, and curled another effort marginally wide.
In the second half, Cameron McGeehan almost bundled his way over the line, denied by a brave Gillespie stop, while Kennedy's overhead volley was easy for Walton.
Carlisle's Michael Raynes was dismissed for an apparent elbow on Hylton with 10 minutes to go but they should have won it in stoppage time, Adams denied from close range by Walton.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Luton Town 1, Carlisle United 1.
Second Half ends, Luton Town 1, Carlisle United 1.
Attempt missed. Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Cook (Luton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Nicky Adams (Carlisle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Luton Town. Jordan Cook replaces Isaac Vassell.
Dan Potts (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Charlie Wyke (Carlisle United).
Foul by Dan Potts (Luton Town).
Charlie Wyke (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Nicky Adams.
Attempt missed. Glen Rea (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Mark Gillespie.
Attempt saved. Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Michael Raynes (Carlisle United) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Danny Hylton (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Raynes (Carlisle United).
Substitution, Carlisle United. Jamie Devitt replaces Shaun Miller.
Foul by Danny Hylton (Luton Town).
Michael Raynes (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Scott Cuthbert (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Shaun Brisley.
Attempt saved. Jason Kennedy (Carlisle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Carlisle United. Conceded by Alex Gilliead.
Alex Gilliead (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Reggie Lambe (Carlisle United).
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Macaulay Gillesphey.
Attempt blocked. Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Carlisle United. Macaulay Gillesphey replaces Danny Grainger because of an injury.
Substitution, Luton Town. Pelly Ruddock replaces Jack Marriott.
Mark Gillespie (Carlisle United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Luton Town. Alex Gilliead replaces Alan Sheehan because of an injury.
Corner, Carlisle United. Conceded by Scott Cuthbert.
Attempt blocked. Shaun Miller (Carlisle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Danny Hylton (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaun Brisley (Carlisle United).
Shaun Brisley (Carlisle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Danny Hylton (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun Brisley (Carlisle United).
Attempt blocked. Danny Grainger (Carlisle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
At the hearing in Germany, one soldier admitted pulling an Afghan boy's hand towards his crotch; the other admitted racially abusing an Afghan man.
Their patrol commander was cleared of failing to deal with the offences.
The three men have been granted anonymity amid fears naming them would endanger them and their families.
Judge Advocate Alan Large said it would be wrong to name the soldiers in light of the murder in Woolwich of Drummer Lee Rigby and concerns about the threat posed by "lone wolves".
The defendants, referred to as soldiers X, Y and Z, appeared in court at the British army barracks in Sennelager.
Mohammed Shafiq, of the Ramadhan Foundation, condemned the sentences as "not acceptable".
Soldier X, a former private who left the army after his tour of duty in Helmand, admitted pulling an Afghan boy's hand towards his crotch while serving in Afghanistan in December 2011.
The court was shown video footage of the incident, which took place near a checkpoint, showing the former serviceman with a child surrounded by other soldiers and laughing as he repeated "touch my special place" several times.
He pleaded guilty to conduct to the prejudice of good order and service discipline and was fined £1,000. The judge advocate said there had been no sexual motive behind the behaviour.
The soldier also admitted insulting another Afghan child between 16 October 2011 and 6 January 2012.
A second piece of video footage shown in court, which the former soldier filmed himself, showed him being approached by an Afghan boy, smiling and offering to shake his hand.
Soldier X was heard swearing at the the boy before the child turned back in surprise.
The judge advocate said the soldier's behaviour had "clearly caused offence" and had been "unacceptable".
Soldier Y - a serving lance-corporal - admitted he was involved in having an Afghan man photographed with a racially-offensive sign, which read "Silly Paki", between 16 October 2011 and 6 January 2012.
The serviceman pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated offence likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress under the Crime and Disorder Act. He has had his rank reduced as punishment.
The judge advocate said soldier Y's behaviour had been "highly offensive and particularly stupid".
He said: "You have been trained to act with decorum and you singularly failed to do that."
Sentencing both men the judge advocate said the offences had taken place during a "demanding operational situation".
But he added: "All soldiers, particularly those serving in Afghanistan, are fully trained and fully prepared for all aspects of your duties."
He said both men had been briefed on the need to respect local customs and cultures and to avoid any behaviour that could be interpreted as having sexual or racist connotations as part of their training.
Meanwhile, their patrol commander, referred to as Soldier Z, was cleared of failing in his duty to deal with the offences.
The prosecutor said it would not be in the public interest or appropriate to proceed against him in the light of the guilty pleas from soldiers X and Y.
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, which aims to promote better understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims, said he was alarmed and disgusted by the "minor" sentences given to the two men.
"To be fined £1,000 and demoted sends the message out that Afghan lives are worth less than Westerners," he said.
Brian Conaghan's third novel, The Bombs That Brought Us Together, has been announced as the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award.
The former apprentice painter and decorator from Coatbridge is now in the running for the Costa Book of the Year.
But it took him 10 years of trying before his work was published.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland, 45-year-old Conaghan, who now lives in Dublin, said it was "fantastic" to scoop the children's book prize.
He added: "It's quite staggering to be even on the shortlist but to win it is amazing.
"It's beyond anything that you probably ever think about when you publish your books - me, certainly, because my goal was just to get something published."
He worked as an apprentice painter and decorator before he decided to take his Highers and go to university, where he started writing.
Asked what kept him going through the next decade, when he was rejected more than 200 times, he joked: "Stupidity, maybe?"
The novelist said: "When I started writing the first couple of novels, which remain unpublished, you learn that you're making a lot of mistakes.
"And I felt that I was probably getting better with each novel that I was writing."
He added: "I think I'm quite a tenacious person, quite a stubborn person so rejection is also part of what you do in life."
The Bombs That Brought Us Together centres around the friendship of two 14-year-old boys who come from different sides of a war.
His competition for the main Costa Book of the Year award includes Irish writer Sebastian Barry who won the novel prize for a second time.
Barry the prize with Days Without End, a historical novel set in 1850s America, after winning the same award in 2008 with The Secret Scripture.
Other winners announced in Tuesday's ceremony included Keggie Carew, who received the Costa biography award for Dadland, an exploration of her late father's past.
Alice Oswald won the poetry award for her collection Falling Awake and non-fiction writer Francis Spufford won the first novel award for his debut work of fiction Golden Hill.
Colleagues on the Cunard flagship spent five hours looking for the man as the vessel made its way from Southampton to Halifax, Canada.
But a spokeswoman for operator Cunard said the search had now been called off.
The ship, which left Southampton on Tuesday, is scheduled to arrive in Halifax on Monday.
The crewman is believed to have fallen from the Southampton-based ship early on Saturday morning, Cunard said.
The cruise liner turned around to retrace its route to search for the man.
The Cunard spokeswoman said: "A search was carried out for a missing crew member on Queen Mary 2. It has been clearly established that the crew member went overboard."
"The ship was off the coast of Newfoundland and, in association with local authorities, it carried out an extensive search of the area in which he went overboard but unfortunately there were no sightings.
"Having discussed this with experts ashore, there is no possibility that the crew member could have survived this long in the water and we therefore have to presume that he died in the water.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, which is being informed, as well as friends and his colleagues on board."
A girl, 18, was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor after the crash, which happened on the A4086 at about 07:00 BST on Thursday.
Four others were also taken to hospital, but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing.
The boy's family is being supported by specialist officers, and police have appealed for witnesses.
It calls for DE and bodies such as the Education Authority, to actively promote integrated education.
Currently, the department only has a statutory duty to encourage and facilitate integrated schools.
The authors make recommendations to tackle "the long-standing issue of our separate and costly schooling".
However, they reject proposals that parents should indicate what school they want their child to go to when registering their birth.
"Stakeholders believed this would allow a more pro-active approach to planning for integrated education in response to demand," said the DE report.
But it concludes that it would not be feasible to base planning decisions on preferences made four to five years in advance.
The authors are also critical of teacher-training in Northern Ireland, claiming that young teachers are "trained to be familiar with and teach in approximately one half of the schools across Northern Ireland only".
They recommend that teachers should no longer be exempt from fair employment regulations.
They claim this would end the practice of controlled schools employing mainly Protestant teachers while maintained schools employ mainly Catholic teachers.
The authors also say that shared education "should not be seen as a pathway to integrated education".
The report calls for a number of other measures including:
In integrated education, schools aim to enrol approximately equal numbers of Catholic and Protestant children as well as children from other religious and cultural backgrounds.
There are currently 65 integrated schools in Northern Ireland, attended by 6.9% of pupils.
The first, Lagan College, opened in Belfast in 1981.
Forty-one per cent of integrated school pupils are from a Protestant background and 36% are from a Catholic background.
However, the report reveals that 32 integrated schools have fewer than 30% of pupils drawn from the minority community in their area.
Four of those have fewer than 10% of pupils from the minority community.
The review was commissioned by the former Education Minister John O'Dowd in January 2016.
He said it would be an opportunity to examine the growth and development of integrated education in the 21st Century.
He appointed the president of the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education Colm Cavanagh and Prof Margaret Topping to carry it out.
It was completed in November 2016.
Publishing it was outgoing Education Minister Peter Weir's final act in his term of office.
The move shields Lula from possible prosecution by a federal judge investigating a massive corruption scandal named Operation Car Wash.
Under Brazilian law, cabinet members can only be tried by the Supreme Court.
Lula was questioned two weeks ago over allegations of money laundering connected to Operation Car Wash.
He says the allegations are aimed at preventing him from running for president again in 2018.
Lula flew to the capital, Brasilia, on Tuesday for talks with President Rousseff. After a four-hour meeting, they agreed to reconvene on Wednesday.
Lawmaker Jose Guimaraes of the governing Workers' Party, to which both Lula and President Rousseff belong, tweeted (in Portuguese) that current chief of staff Jaques Wagner had "shown greatness and selflessness on the day of his birthday" and ceded his post to Lula.
The former leader's appointment was confirmed later in a statement issued by Ms Rousseff.
He is expected to be sworn in next week, Brazilian media reported.
As chief of staff, Lula is expected to lead the fight against moves in Congress to impeach President Rousseff over allegations she manipulated Brazil's account books to hide a growing deficit.
Analysts say President Rousseff is hoping that Lula will use his political nous and influence with members of Congress to block impeachment proceedings.
The two politicians have been close for decades. Lula was Ms Rousseff's political mentor and she is his hand-picked successor.
On 4 March, Lula was briefly detained and questioned over allegations of money laundering connected to Operation Car Wash, a massive investigation into corruption at the state oil giant, Petrobras.
Prosecutors have since filed fraud and money laundering charges against him. However, the charges have yet to be accepted by a judge.
The case has been transferred to federal judge Sergio Moro, who is in charge of Operation Car Wash.
But if Lula is confirmed as a cabinet member, Judge Moro will not be able to investigate or try him.
Lula has consistently denied any wrongdoing and alleges the allegations are politically motivated.
He confirmed this week that he intends to run for president in the 2018 elections.
Felix Stoica, 19, Forin Geblescu, 18, and Piper Dumitri 18, admitted stealing a total of £1,100 by pushing people aside while they were taking out money.
The men were brought to Glasgow Sheriff Court after being sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court last year.
They are all currently serving time in a young offenders' institute as a result of committing a similar crime.
All three admitted a charge of assault and robbery at an HSBC bank on Argyle Street Glasgow by pushing a woman and stealing £200 on 1 April.
Stoica pled guilty to a further four charges of theft, Geblescu and Dumitri to another three charges of stealing cash on 21 and 22 April at machines in Port Glasgow, Stevenson, Newton Mearns and Biggar.
All three were caught on CCTV just before the incident in Newton Mearns.
Police Scotland circulated a UK-wide bulletin in an attempt to identify the men, and they were recognised by police in Manchester and the Wirral.
In August last year, Stoica was given a two-year sentence, Geblescu 16 months and Dumitri eight months for a similar offence in Merseyside.
The survey by Which? found that 60% of 2,000 adults questioned online had changed how they shop, with many now buying less processed meat.
It also suggested that public trust in the food industry had declined.
Horsemeat has been found in a number of processed beef products across Europe, raising questions about the food chain.
"The horsemeat scandal exposed the need for urgent changes to the way food fraud is detected and standards are enforced," said Which? executive director Richard Lloyd.
Some 68% of those surveyed do not think the government has been giving enough attention to enforcing labelling laws, with half of consumers not confident ingredient information is accurate.
"These serious failings must be put right if consumers are to feel fully confident in the food they are buying once more," Mr Lloyd said.
The scandal began in January when Irish food inspectors announced that they had found horsemeat in frozen beef burgers made by firms in Ireland and the UK, and sold by a number of UK supermarket chains, including Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
Since then beef products containing horsemeat have been found in a number of European countries, including France, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and Germany.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliamentary select committee chairmen and women on Tuesday that the Food Standards Agency (FSA), the government and retailers all had lessons to learn.
Ian Stoutzker created the outreach scheme Live Music Now with violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
The Dora Stoutzker Hall remembers his mother who taught music in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.
The college said it was "fitting" it should be named after a 'valleys girl' who inspired her son so much.
Principal Hilary Boulding said the merchant banker had been "unstinting in his support".
"We're thrilled that, through his generosity, future generations of talented young musicians in Wales will have the opportunity to train and perform in exceptional facilities.
Born in 1897, Dora Cohen spent her first 25 years in Tredegar where she taught piano and singing until she married and left for London.
Mr Stoutzker was evacuated to his mother's birthplace when the family home was bombed during World War II.
He was taught at Tredegar County School before returning to London to study the violin and later develop a career in merchant banking.
He has combined his business career with his musical interests, having been chairman of a number of leading orchestras and continuing to chair Live Music Now.
The music outreach programme, created in 1977, employs hundreds of young music graduates to teach workshops to disadvantaged youngsters.
Mr Stoutzker's donation is said to be a personal tribute to the love and support he received from his mother, who died in 1968.
Lord Rowe Beddoe, president of the college, also paid tribute to the benefactor.
"Ian is himself a most accomplished musician, but he has devoted much of his life to nurturing and supporting artistic talent in others," he said.
"This significant donation to the college is so typical of him and I am delighted that through this extraordinary gesture Ian will rekindle his family connection with Wales."
The concert hall is part of a £22.5m scheme to improve facilities at the college which opened in the grounds of Cardiff Castle in 1949.
The development also includes the 160-seat Richard Burton Theatre, four drama rehearsal studios and an exhibition gallery.
The new facilities are due to open in June.
Stephen Chapman raised concerns about the number of entry points with no checks.
He spoke out ahead of a week of action by Welsh forces after those at risk of human trafficking and modern slavery in Wales rose by 400% in five years.
Victims recorded through the National Referral Mechanism increased from 32 in 2012 to 125 in 2016.
To cope with growing numbers, last year 5,500 people were trained to identify potential victims, including police, emergency and social workers.
The figures refer to people "at risk" as they also include children of victims who could potentially be used as slaves as well.
Gwent, South Wales and Dyfed-Powys Police are taking part in an awareness week to help people spot the signs.
"We are aware and we are concerned about our porous borders," Mr Chapman said.
"Whilst we have sea ports and we've got airports, there's no check on who's coming in by road, through our other border with England.
"And there are ports across Wales, where there is no one (making checks)."
He also said the Common Travel Area - where people moving between the Republic of Ireland and Wales do not need to show passports - brings "some difficulty".
Recorded victims in Wales include UK nationals as well as people from Vietnam, Romania and Albania.
Another is a Nigerian-born woman called Blessing, who worked as a maid from the age of seven before being sexually abused and trafficked.
She said: "My auntie brought me here for a better life, that is what she said."
However, after arriving in London, her life was controlled, with all money she earned going into her relative's account.
She said: "It's difficult because if someone doesn't know they're being trafficked, they would not know how to deal with it.
"Like my case I was thinking it was help."
Blessing, who fled to Cardiff, said her situation made her feel "bad, sad and sorrowful".
"I feel people had taken great advantage of my circumstances and situation. I want to forget about everything I've been through in the past - I just want to close that chapter," she added.
She is currently waiting to hear if she will receive asylum.
Aid organisation Bawso, which is helping her, said its trafficking project helped 82 people in 2014-15, rising to 209 in 2016-17.
Its accommodation is almost full and spokeswoman Angelina Rodriguez said: "What we're also seeing is a lot of people who've been through historical trafficking - so haven't identified they've been victims of trafficking for a while and now they're coming out and are saying 'actually this is what's been happening to me'.
"So we're picking up a lot of cases not only in our supported accommodation but outreach accommodation in the whole of Wales."
Wales' policing lead for human trafficking and modern slavery, Gwent Police Deputy Chief Constable Julian Williams, said: "It is often called a hidden crime, a new emerging crime because it spans across so many areas of criminality.
"People who are trafficked into the country come here under false pretences, people who are in the country are engaged in sexual exploitation, labour exploitation and domestic servitude and it may span into criminalised areas such as child sexual exploitation or abuse, domestic abuse, money laundering or drugs."
The predicted decline is being blamed on schools entering more pupils for the exams a year earlier than intended.
Education Secretary Kirsty Williams warned pupils capable of high grades could be missing out by sitting the exams early and not being re-entered.
She told BBC Wales she may stop schools entering pupils for exams a year early.
Speaking on the Sunday Politics Wales programme, Ms Williams said she would consider the matter after an investigation reports back to her in the autumn.
For GCSE English Language, entry data shows a substantial number of pupils taking the qualification this summer while still in year 10.
There are slightly more than 21,000 year 10 entries - approximately 65% of all year 10 students in Wales.
Exam regulator Qualifications Wales said that as a result "we expect that this will mean that the overall results this summer will be lower than in previous years".
Ms Williams said: "What I'm concerned about is that children that, perhaps had the potential to get an A* and A or a B at the end of a two year course end up having to settle for a C because they do it early and they're not re-entered again.
"I want children to fulfil their potential in school. I want early entry to be only for the children who will benefit from it.
"When I see such large numbers as are being reported as being entered, that's something I am concerned about."
This year, for the first time, pupils have sat GCSE English and Welsh exams which are unique to Wales.
Ms Williams said the new qualifications were more rigorous and this could also account for the expected drop in results.
However, last October, Qualifications Wales wrote to schools about the new qualifications and insisted: "There is a well-established approach to maintaining stability in outcomes when a new GCSE or an A level is introduced, known as 'comparable outcomes'.
It said the aim was to ensure pupils taking new qualifications were "neither advantaged nor disadvantaged" compared to those who took the previous exam, and that the approach "works well in situations where one specification is replaced with another".
In May, Welsh Government Director of Education Steve Davies told AMs some schools were "gaming" the exam system, that officials were "concerned" about the volume of early entry and the government wanted to take action this autumn.
Earlier in the month, Ms Williams expressed concerns the focus on raising GCSE attainment to C grade had led to "unintended consequences", with some children put in for early entry to bank a lower qualification instead of potentially reaching higher.
This is an issue which has been on the Welsh Government's radar for a number of years.
In 2013, the then Education Minister, Huw Lewis, warned he would intervene to prevent schools "gaming the system" in the future if they did not stop voluntarily.
In England, the number of pupils being entered early for their Maths GCSEs fell sharply in 2014 when the UK government made changes to how school league tables were calculated so that only the first entry counted.
PC Glen Oliver set up a gym in Crawley with Daniel Bell, from Horley, who was convicted of GBH with three Surrey men at a retrial in Crete in September.
Robert Hughes was left brain-damaged after he was attacked in Malia in 2008.
The Metropolitan Police has told the PC his business is not compatible with his role. PC Oliver, who is appealing, said he believed he could still run the gym.
Mr Hughes, 35, a former Oxford United player, was attacked outside a nightclub, stabbed with a broken bottle, stamped on, and left in a coma.
Mr Hughes' mother, Maggie, said: "How many more times do we have to explain the courts have made a decision and the Metropolitan Police should be now looking at it seriously that this business interest should not be going on?"
The BBC has seen an email from the Metropolitan Police which states the officer is not able to continue involvement with the gym while the appeal is ongoing.
But PC Oliver told the BBC he understood he could run the gym while the appeal was pending.
He said he met Bell a long time after the assault, he had every sympathy for Robert Hughes and had asked to meet his family face-to-face.
The four attackers were originally convicted in 2012.
In 2013, PC Oliver sought permission to set up the gym.
After Mrs Hughes complained, the Metropolitan Police found no evidence of misconduct but the IPCC upheld her appeal.
Det Con Leanne Henery, who was also involved in the opening of the gym, has ended her association with the facility.
Six weeks ago, the four attackers were convicted at a retrial and each given a three-year suspended jail term.
A police spokesman said: "The Metropolitan Police Service has informed the officer that this business interest is not compatible with the role of a serving Metropolitan Police officer.
"The officer is appealing this decision; the outcome of this appeal awaits."
The incident happened on Damfield Road at about 14:10 on 8 June while the woman was walking towards Old Edinburgh Road.
Police want to trace a man described as being about 50-years-old, 6ft tall, of slim build and with grey shoulder length hair and a distinctive grey beard.
He was wearing a dark knee-length coat.
The man was last seen in the area of Old Hilton Hospital, which is now residential flats, on Damfield Road.
North Wales Police said the foxhound could not be brought under control and the "only safe option" was to destroy it in the early hours of Monday.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it would leave the review to the force.
The RSPCA will also be involved.
A roads policing specialist from a separate police force will sit on the panel along with a representative from the veterinary profession.
Police said the dog's owner had been left "devastated" but agreed officers had made the right decision.
Traffic police drove at the dog on the dual carriageway between Llanfairfechan roundabout and the Conwy tunnel.
North Wales Police said firearms officers were sent to the scene, but there was concern they would not be able to get a safe shot.
Ch Insp Darren Wareing, of the roads policing unit, said police had not taken the decision to kill the dog lightly and it came after an officer was bitten while trying to bring the animal under control.
He said the "potential for a serious collision was present throughout" and there was "no alternative way" for them to minimise risks to motorists.
IPCC commissioner Jan Williams said: "I have been reassured by the deputy chief constable at North Wales Police that the matter is being treated very seriously."
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Rovers held the upper hand in the first half as James Norwood tested Jonathan Maxted with a first-time volley before Andy Cook had a header cleared off the line following a corner.
However, it was the West Yorkshire strugglers who took the lead in the 33rd minute when Derek Asamoah smashed the ball into the top corner from outside the box.
Tranmere wasted little time in grabbing an equaliser at the start of the second half, Norwood heading home Jeff Hughes' corner in the 49th minute.
Rovers piled on the pressure and clinched the points in the 58th minute as Cook turned in a left-wing cross from Liam Ridehalgh to leave Guiseley still one point above the drop zone.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Guiseley 1, Tranmere Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Guiseley 1, Tranmere Rovers 2.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Andy Mangan replaces James Norwood.
Andy Mangan (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Connor Brown (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Guiseley. Jordan Preston replaces Marcus Williams.
Substitution, Guiseley. Alex Purver replaces James Wesolowski.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Cole Stockton replaces Andy Cook.
Steve McNulty (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jack Dunn replaces Connor Jennings.
Goal! Guiseley 1, Tranmere Rovers 2. Andy Cook (Tranmere Rovers).
Goal! Guiseley 1, Tranmere Rovers 1. James Norwood (Tranmere Rovers).
Jon Maxted (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Guiseley 1, Tranmere Rovers 0.
First Half ends, Guiseley 1, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Goal! Guiseley 1, Tranmere Rovers 0. Derek Asamoah (Guiseley).
James Wallace (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
James Wesolowski (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
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Kamil Dantes, 29, stabbed his disabled father Leszek Dantes and mother Malgorzata in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
His parents, both aged 54, were found dead in their bedroom on 21 April 2014.
Dantes, originally from Poland, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was jailed for 19 years.
He was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and was ordered to serve his sentence in a high security hospital after pleading guilty at Nottingham Crown Court.
His father, who walked with a frame following brain surgery in 2010, had more than 20 stab wounds and his mother between 25 and 30, the court heard.
The attack was so severe the tip of one of the knives became lodged in Mrs Dantes's head.
Det Ch Insp Leigh Sanders said it was one of the "most brutal, unprovoked" attacks that he had ever come across in his career.
"The severity of the attacks is something I have not experienced before, nor have many others in the criminal justice system," he said.
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said Dantes had an "abnormality of mental functioning".
He added: "Your deteriorating mental health had much to do with your history of drug use and in particular your cannabis habit.
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He said the attack was "the biggest mistake of my life".
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said: "You will remain an ever present serious threat to others, in particular members of your family."
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The Rams, who led 2-1 after the first leg, extended their lead when Will Hughes flicked in Jamie Ward's cross.
Chris Martin bundled the ball over the line after Ward's knock-down and George Thorne volleyed in a spectacular third.
Jeff Hendrick made it 4-0 after Patrick Bamford's pull-back, before Kazenga Lua Lua's consolation from 18 yards.
"It has been a great day for Derby and they thoroughly deserved it.
"They looked a far better team, but credit to Brighton. They have got to the play-offs for two years running, but they were just outplayed by Derby."
Brighton, who have never played in the Premier League, have lost in the play-offs in two successive seasons.
But this was a deserved victory for Derby, who will play either Wigan Athletic or Queens Park Rangers in the final on Saturday, 24 May.
Steve McClaren's side, who finished 13 points above their opponents, benefited from a controversial 22nd-minute decision from referee Craig Pawson.
He only booked Hendrick for a lunge on Brighton's Rohan Ince when he could easily have sent the midfielder off.
And the hosts were in front 12 minutes later, when Hughes back-heeled Ward's left-wing delivery home for his first goal since 9 November.
Derby, who were last in the top flight in the 2007-08 season, nearly made it 2-0 on the night as Ward charged down Tomasz Kuszczak's attempted clearance, but the ball bounced over the bar.
Derby County have won seven and drawn one of their past eight games
Brighton's top goalscorer Leonardo Ulloa had a chance to pull a goal back when he collected Jesse Lingard's intelligent lofted pass, only to be denied by Lee Grant's excellent save.
Any hopes of a fightback ended in the 56th minute as Martin grabbed his 25th goal of the season following Ward's unselfish header across the face of goal.
Oscar Garcia's side fell further behind on 76 minutes as Thorne volleyed in a spectacular third after Brighton failed to clear Johnny Russell's shot.
It was 4-0 when Hendrick converted after fine work from Bamford, though Lua Lua did at least give Brighton fans something to cheer with a composed finish from the edge of the penalty area.
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This was Derby's day, though, and they can look forward to a trip to Wembley.
They will learn the identity of their final opponents on Monday, when QPR and Wigan play their second leg at Loftus Road after a 0-0 draw at the DW Stadium.
Derby manager Steve McClaren said:
"It is a great achievement by the players. We did not perform as we can on Thursday but they were awesome today, wearing Brighton down with their energy, enthusiasm and bringing the end product as well.
"It is a one-off game at Wembley and if we play like that we are a match for anyone."
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Brighton manager Oscar Garcia said:
"They were much better than us and deserved the win.
"We have had a lot of injuries and we played the most important game of the season with four or five under-21 players.
"We wanted to give everything and gamble, but it didn't pay off. They are extremely good in front of goal and we did not play very well, but we have no regrets."
It comes as officers prepare to revisit the scene of the attack on a 32-year-old woman in Armadale one week on.
The woman was punched in the face and knocked to the ground before being sexually assaulted at about 21:00 on Tuesday 25 April.
Detectives will return to the scene between 20:00 and 22:00.
Vehicles and pedestrians on the Bathgate Road (A89) will be stopped at the junction with Armadale racetrack.
Police will also be stopping cars and people at Lower Bathville Road near its junction with Mallace Avenue and in the wooded area to the east of Armadale racetrack.
The rapist a white man, about 40 years old, with large ears and dark or black wavy hair.
He was wearing a black woollen jacket, black jeans and royal blue navy trainers. He is believed to speak with a Scottish accent.
Det Supt Pat Campbell, of Police Scotland, said: "One week on from this horrific sexual assault, we will be in the area to capture any information members of the public can provide with a view to identifying the individual responsible.
"The area is popular with dog walkers and joggers and so we are hopeful that someone may have information relevant to our investigation."
The Briton, 28, has admitted taking cocaine to deal with depression and could also lose his boxing licence on Thursday.
He has not fought since beating Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015 and has twice withdrawn from rematches.
"I now enter another big challenge in my life which I know, like against Klitschko, I will conquer," Fury said.
He said it was "for the good boxing" and "only fair and right" to give up his belts.
"I won the titles in the ring and I believe that they should be lost in the ring, but I'm unable to defend at this time and I have taken the hard and emotional decision to now officially vacate my treasured world titles," he said.
In a statement, Fury's promoter Hennessy Sports said the decision would "allow him the time and space to fully recover from his present condition without any undue pressure and with the expert medical attention he requires".
Mick Hennessy added that the decision was "heartbreaking".
Uncle and trainer Peter Fury has said Fury will return "stronger" and "reclaim what's rightfully his".
Fury withdrew from his latest rematch against Ukraine's Klitschko, scheduled for 29 October, because of mental health issues.
He then admitted in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that he was taking cocaine to help deal with depression.
The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) met on Wednesday to discuss that revelation, as well as other comments by Fury, and could decide to strip him of his licence to box.
The WBO and WBA had already said Fury could lose his titles because of inactivity.
Meanwhile, promoter Eddie Hearn has said a deal is "very close" for Britain's heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to fight Klitschko for his IBF belt and the now vacated WBA title.
It is thought New Zealand's Joseph Parker and Mexico's Andy Ruiz Jr could now contest the WBO title.
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Mike Costello, BBC Radio 5 live boxing correspondent
"First of all, Tyson Fury needs to get himself medically fit then it's up to him and his uncle and trainer Peter Fury and promoter Mick Hennessy to decide what route they want to take.
"Will he be fit enough and able enough to go straight back in for a world title shot or will he need a warm-up contest before he fights again? It's so unclear at this stage because of the medical situation."
WBO chairman Luis Batista-Salas had said Fury could lose his belt because of "inactivity, breach of contract and performance-enhancing drugs and stimulants".
The WBA president Gilberto Mendoza said Fury deserved a chance "to overcome this situation", but added the Englishman could ultimately lose his title.
There is an option that Fury can be declared as a 'champion in recess'. This means Fury is the mandatory challenger for the belt when he returns to the ring.
Fury is also facing a UK Anti-Doping hearing next month with reports claiming he tested positive for banned substance nandrolone in February 2015.
Trainer and uncle Peter Fury: "It's driven him to despair. I see him being back in the gym in March or April. He'll resume his career."
Billy Joe Saunders: "It is a big mistake, taking his boxing licence away. It is like taking food from a baby," he added. "He needs the licence to pull through."
IBF champion Anthony Joshua: "Tyson is a fighting man, a real talent and he is good for boxing in his own way. It's too easy to point the finger because none of us really know what he is going through."
A French colony until the 1953, the power struggle which ensued between royalists and the communist group Pathet Lao also saw the country caught up in the Vietnam War. Communist forces overthrew the monarchy in 1975, heralding years of isolation.
After the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Laos began opening up to the world. But despite economic reforms, the country remains poor and heavily dependent on foreign aid.
Most Laotians live in rural areas, with around 80% working in agriculture mostly growing rice. The state has made no secret of its huge hydropower ambitions and its desire to become the "battery" of Southeast Asia.
The government anticipates that by 2025 hydropower will become the country's biggest source of revenue. But neighbours Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia have raised concerns about the environmental impact of its dam building projects along the Mekong River
Population 6.4 million
Area 236,800 sq km (91,400 sq miles)
Major languages Lao, French
Major religion Buddhism
Life expectancy 66 years (men), 69 years (women)
Currency kip
President: Bounnhang Vorachit
Bounnhang Vorachit was appointed president by the National Assembly in April 2016. four months after being installed as head of the country's ruling Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP).
In his acceptance speech, the president said he would strive for "peaceful international policies, unity, friendship and cooperation".
He has since forged stronger relations with the United States, welcoming President Barack Obama on an official visit in September 2016, the first by a US president.
Mr Vorachit has held several senior cabinet posts including vice-president. As a teenager he joined the Pathet Lao armed movement which fought for Laos' independence.
The communist state exerts tight control over the media, owning all newspapers and broadcast media.
Estimates suggest that there are over half a million internet users and the number is rising.
In 2014, the government introduced strict new internet controls, making online criticism of its policies or the ruling party a criminal offence. The new legislation also demands that web users register with their real names when setting up social media accounts.
Some key dates in the history of Laos:
1893 - Laos becomes a French protectorate until 1945, when it is briefly occupied by the Japanese towards the end of the Second World War.
1946 - French rule over Laos is resumed.
1950 - Laos is granted semi-autonomy as an associated state within the French Union.
1953 - Independence restored after the end of French rule. Civil war breaks between royalists and the communist group, the Pathet Lao.
1975 - Pathet Lao - renamed the Lao People's Front - replaces the monarchy with a communist government.
1986 - Laos introduces market reforms.
1997 - Laos becomes member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
2011 - New stock market opens in Vientiane.
2013 - Becomes a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
As well as stunning scenery, researchers found that the islanders benefit from low crime rates, quiet roads - and a good choice of pubs.
It is the first time that the islands have topped the Bank of Scotland's rural quality of life survey, having jumped from 46th last year.
It beat Wychavon in the West Midlands into second place.
And it comes four months after the same islands were rated the second-best place to live in the UK.
Graham Blair, mortgage director at Bank of Scotland, said: "The Orkney islands is a stunning part of Scotland with some beautiful scenery.
"Pair this with one of the lowest population densities and traffic levels in Scotland, as well as the lowest levels of anxiety and highest life satisfaction ratings, and it's not surprising that the Orkneys offer a quality of life that is unmatched elsewhere in rural Britain.
"The Shetland Islands and Western Isles continue to dominate the Scottish rural quality of life top three for another year, ranking well in a lot of similar categories to Orkney.
"If it's a rural life you are after, then nothing beats being up north on one of Scotland's many islands."
Shetland was ranked second in Scotland for quality of life (15th in the UK), while the Western Isles was third (50th overall). The Scottish Borders and Perth and Kinross finished third and fourth respectively.
The quality of life survey rates locations based on a variety of factors, including its employment rate, quality of education, and levels of anxiety.
This year, two new categories have also been added to survey - rating the number of pubs and the availability of health clubs and leisure centres.
Among the benefits of living on Orkney, where the population stands at just over 20,000, it listed:
Police said 54-year-old Sandra Element and Aiden Hoggard were last seen at about 08:45 on Monday 8 May in the town's Main Street.
They were reported missing at 14:00 on Friday afternoon.
Police said they wanted to know that the pair were safe and well and said it was possible that they had left the area using public transport.
Sandra Element is described as being about 5ft 5in and of a slim build, with brown hair and was dressed in black.
Aiden is described as being about 4ft tall with a slim build and a pale-face. He was carrying a black rucksack.
Insp Jane Nicolson said: "We are looking to trace Sandra and Aiden to ensure they are safe and well. It may be that they have left the area by using public transport and we just want to make sure they are ok."
Guy Hedger, 61, was killed in the early hours of 30 April in Ashley, near Ringwood.
A 39-year-old Bournemouth man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary on Thursday.
Dorset Police said officers were continuing to search a property in the West Howe area of the town.
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Three men have already appeared at Winchester Crown Court accused of Mr Hedger's murder.
Kevin Downton, 40, of Winterborne Stickland, near Blandford, Jason Baccus, 41, and Scott Keeping, 44, both of Verney Close, Bournemouth, are due at Winchester Crown Court on 26 July to enter pleas.
A fourth man, aged 45 and from Poole, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and released under investigation.
A 40-year-old woman previously arrested has also been released under investigation, police said.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Hedger died as a result of gunshot wounds.
Net profits fell less than forecast to $6.2bn (£4.6bn) in the three months to the end of June, compared with $6.29bn last year.
In the previous quarter, the bank's profits had fallen by 6.7%.
"JP Morgan Chase continued to perform well in all of our major businesses," said chief executive Jamie Dimon.
"We saw strong underlying performance, with record consumer deposits (up 10%), credit card sales volume (up 8%), merchant processing volume (up 13%) and broad core loan growth (up 16%) - particularly in mortgage and commercial real estate.
"Outside of energy, both wholesale and consumer credit quality remained very good," he added in a statement.
Profits were dented by the bank's provisions for loan losses, which rose to $1.4bn in the second quarter from $959m in the same period a year earlier. The bank was building up its reserves for potential bad corporate loans in the oil and gas sector, and bad credit card and car loans.
"JP Morgan continues to execute really well in a tough environment," said Evercore ISI analyst Glenn Schorr.
JP Morgan is the first of the big US banks to report results for the second quarter, and the first since last month's vote by the UK to leave the EU.
"Throughout the recent uncertainty and turbulence in the markets, we continued to be there for our clients - solid and steadfast to meet their needs, execute their transactions and provide liquidity," said Mr Dimon.
The 30-year-old faces WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares at Manchester Arena, six months after being outpointed by the Venezuelan.
Trainer Joe Gallagher has asked Crolla to become more "selfish, angry and horrible" to beat the 31-year-old.
"My speed's improved, my variation of shots has improved," said Crolla.
"I just think I'm a bit more clever in the ring," the Mancunian told BBC Sport.
"I've had to be a little bit selfish and miss out on a few things, like training kids at the old amateur club. But I certainly feel the benefits of being locked away a bit more this camp."
Crolla believes September's fight turned in the sixth round after one of the hardest punches he has received.
Defending the WBA title he claimed in 2015, he was beaten for the fifth time in his 39-fight career.
If Crolla avenges the defeat, he will also claim the Ring Magazine title, becoming the first English lightweight to do so.
"He's a sharp counter-puncher with power in either hand, so I've got to fight using my head and not just my heart," added Crolla.
"It's very hard to top winning a world title but I believe winning back this world title, when I'm fighting a future hall of famer and for the prizes I'm fighting him for, would go down as one of the most special nights in Manchester boxing."
Linares, who left Venezuela to train in Japan at the age of 17, has held world titles in three weight divisions on his way to a record of 41 wins from 44 fights.
Brady, 75, has been on hunger strike since 1999, but is being fed by tube at Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside.
He claims he faked psychotic episodes and wants the mental health tribunal to allow a move to a prison in Scotland.
He and girlfriend Myra Hindley murdered five children in the 1960s, burying some on moors in Greater Manchester.
The tribunal is being held in Ashworth and relayed by video to Manchester Civil Justice Centre, where the public and press are able to observe proceedings.
BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani tweeted a description of Brady "sitting in court wearing dark glasses, curly/wavy grey hair. He's got a feeding tube. He speaks with a very soft voice".
Brady was sitting between two female members of his legal team at the hearing.
Judge Robert Atherton stressed that the tribunal would not consider Brady's crimes or the whereabouts of the body of missing victim Keith Bennett.
Brady's current state of mental health was the only matter being considered, he said.
By Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent
This is the first time Ian Brady has been seen in public since he was jailed for life almost 50 years ago.
As the tribunal at his maximum security hospital got under way, the camera relaying the proceedings to the public in Manchester turned briefly to show the detainee.
He was sitting quietly next to his lawyers, looking down.
Brady still has wavy hair, albeit now grey. He wore dark glasses and had a feeding tube attached to his face.
He spoke briefly to the judge about how the hearing would be conducted, his voice soft and quiet, and his accent a mixture of Scottish and north-west England.
The task for this tribunal is to decide whether, under the Mental Health Act, Brady should still be detained at Ashworth or returned to the normal prison estate.
Even if the tribunal decides that Brady is not mentally ill, under specific legal tests, it could still recommend that he be kept at Ashworth.
Either way - hospital or prison - there is no chance he will be ever be released.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr Cameron Boyd gave the hearing an outline of what was said during four interviews he conducted with Brady in recent months.
When asked about his crimes, Brady had said that "in some way his behaviour was petty compared to politicians and soldiers in relation to wars", said Dr Boyd.
He added that Brady had denied being psychotic and said he had been "acting".
Sectioned under the Mental Health Act, Glasgow-born Brady has continued to be tube-fed during years of refusing food.
He wants to be judged sane by the tribunal and moved to a prison in Scotland, where there is no precedent for feeding a prisoner on hunger strike against his will.
The hearing heard that Brady had a "fairly solitary existence", with watching TV and writing letters his main activities.
Another expert witness, Dr Adrian Grounds, was called to give evidence about the mental health notes made about Brady since he was first jailed in the 1960s.
He said Brady has "spoken on a number of occasions about wanting to go to prison so he would be able to die".
He said there had been "very occasional" but "striking" episodes in the past where Brady appeared to be hallucinating, including in February this year.
But Dr Grounds said Brady claims to have learned how to simulate psychotic episodes while working as a cleaner in prison.
He said in the 1980s Brady displayed mental illness with psychotic symptoms but evidence of psychosis was "equivocal" and he had not "reached the threshold for compulsory treatment".
Dr Grounds added that, in his opinion, Brady has a very severe personality disorder, describing it as "paranoid narcissistic".
He said it was "characterised by superiority, self-centredness, contempt, hostility."
Questioned by Eleanor Grey QC, representing Ashworth Hospital, Dr Grounds said he did not accept its view that Brady had schizophrenia.
The high-security hospital is against Brady being transferred back to prison and Ms Grey said since 1967 medical experts had expressed "concerns" that he was suffering from psychotic symptoms, possibly since his teens.
The tribunal at Ashworth had been due to take place about a year ago but was postponed because Brady was too ill to attend.
It is scheduled to last about eight days, with the judgement then due to be reserved to a later date.
Brady and Hindley tortured and murdered five children aged from 10 to 17, burying some of their victims' bodies on Saddleworth Moor.
They were convicted and jailed for life in 1966. Hindley died in prison in 2002, aged 60.
Karen Gardner, who was assaulted by the star in 1977 when she was 16, said Harris had still not taken responsibility for his crimes.
In the song - contained in a letter written to a friend and given to a newspaper - Harris seems to refer to his victims as "slimy little woodworm".
Harris was jailed last year for 12 indecent assaults against four girls.
The 85-year-old was sentenced to five years and nine months for the crimes, which took place between 1968 and 1986, and is understood to be serving his sentence at Stafford prison.
Harris wrote a letter to someone close to him containing lyrics to a new song, which he said he planned to record once he was released. The letter was then passed to the Mail on Sunday.
According to the Mail, one line of the song, which Harris said he would like to set to country rock music, reads: "Perhaps you believe you're pretty still, some perfumed sultry wench?"
Other lines say: "Make him burn, get your 50-year-old hooks into his dough.
"Make him burn, burn, burn. Come and join the feeding frenzy, girls."
Ms Gardner, whose written evidence was used by the prosecution, told the BBC she was angry that after a year in prison, Harris "still didn't get it".
She said he was a "sexual predator" and was still trying to make himself feel "big and strong" when he was actually "a pathetic, disgraced old man in prison".
"He used his hands and his words to damage young women," she said. "It was sexual, it was about power, but he didn't leave any physical evidence, and that's what men like that do."
Ms Gardner, who works for BBC Wiltshire, said she was "less harmed" than most of the girls and she can remember "that his aftershave smelled of spice, that his breath smelled of menthol, that his hands were so sweaty they stained my jeans".
One of the most upsetting things about the letter were the comments from people who still supported him, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"If he had caused physical damage, if he'd bruised us or broken our limbs, nobody would question that he should be punished 40 years later," she said.
"Because he didn't leave physical evidence, they think somehow it wasn't as bad. Yet what he did was damage young women's self-worth, their confidence and, for some of those women, he affected them deeply for the rest of their lives."
Harris was unanimously found guilty of molesting four girls, including one woman who was just seven or eight at the time and was groped when she asked for his autograph.
The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, said Harris had taken advantage of his celebrity status and had shown "no remorse".
The veteran presenter had his CBE annulled at the order of the Queen following his conviction.
The building society said prices dropped 0.4% in April, and the annual rate of price growth slowed to 2.6%, the weakest pace for almost four years.
It said the slowdown may indicate that households were reacting to the "emerging squeeze on real incomes".
"Affordability pressures" in some parts of the country were also having an impact, Nationwide added.
"Various data suggest that the latest slowdown in house prices may be part of a broader trend," said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, noting that retail sales growth had slowed "markedly" in recent months.
"Household budgets are coming under pressure, as wage growth has moderated and inflation has accelerated."
However, Mr Gardner added that in some respects, the slowdown in price growth was "surprising".
"The unemployment rate is near to a 40-year low, confidence is still relatively high and mortgage rates have fallen to new all-time lows in recent months."
Last week, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said the UK's housing market was in "neutral gear", with a shift towards first-time buyer and remortgage customers, away from home movers and buy-to-let landlords.
Also last week, the latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) showed that the number of property sales remain static.
On a seasonally-adjusted basis, property transactions have generally been close to the 100,000 mark each month for the last three years.
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Black Cats striker Jermain Defoe opened the scoring, smashing in a penalty after being brought down by Jose Fonte.
Home striker Charlie Austin forced Jordan Pickford into a low save, while the Sunderland goalkeeper also kept out Shane Long and Nathan Redmond strikes.
But Pickford was at fault for the equaliser, letting Jay Rodriguez's long-range shot squirm under his body.
After selling striker Graziano Pelle in the summer, Southampton are without a presence and focal point at the top of the pitch.
Charlie Austin was making his first start of the season but looked off the pace and has netted just once since joining from QPR in the January transfer window.
Although they worked Sunderland stand-in goalkeeper Pickford on a number of occasion, the efforts were mostly from outside the area.
Two draws and a defeat is the return for new boss Claude Puel in his opening three league games, and although the Frenchman's side had 63% possession, they were struggled to carve open a sturdy Sunderland defence.
However, a late speculative strike did come off for the Saints through substitute Rodriguez, who netted his first goal since March 2014, after an effort which evaded the grasp of England Under-21 international Pickford.
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Back-to-back defeats in their opening two games meant Sunderland boss David Moyes was already under pressure, especially after "realistic" comments about the club facing another relegation battle this season.
Defoe's opener 10 minutes from time looked to be the match-winner, but the visitors conceded five minutes later following an individual error.
Up until that point, they had looked solid in defence with the newly formed central defensive partnership of Papy Djilobodji and the returning Lamine Kone, who has been linked with a move to Everton.
The duo combined well as Senegal's Djilobodji made 11 clearances, more than any other player on the pitch, while Ivorian Kone helped out by gaining possession seven times.
If the pair can build on this impressive showing and team-mates can cut out their errors, the North East side may well look up the table rather than down it.
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Southampton boss Claude Puel: "It is disappointing this afternoon. It was important for my players to show good character and spirit to find the equaliser. It is a better result for us just before the international break."
Sunderland boss David Moyes: "Jordan Pickford played really well today and made some good saves. This is what you get with young goalkeepers. There are times they will make mistakes and you have to put up with it. If a defender or midfielder make mistakes, it is not highlighted, but for a goalkeeper it is."
Southampton face a trip to Arsenal on Saturday, 10 September (kick-off 15:00 BST), while Sunderland host Everton on Monday, 12 September (20:00 BST).
Match ends, Southampton 1, Sunderland 1.
Second Half ends, Southampton 1, Sunderland 1.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Papy Djilobodji.
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Oriol Romeu (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jack Rodwell (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Duncan Watmore.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by José Fonte.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by José Fonte.
Foul by Matt Targett (Southampton).
Jeremain Lens (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Matt Targett (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Nathan Redmond (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Donald Love (Sunderland).
Goal! Southampton 1, Sunderland 1. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.
Attempt blocked. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland).
Substitution, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse replaces Pierre-Emile Højbjerg.
Attempt saved. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Oriol Romeu.
Goal! Southampton 0, Sunderland 1. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty conceded by José Fonte (Southampton) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Sunderland. Jermain Defoe draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Duncan Watmore.
Substitution, Sunderland. Donald Love replaces Lynden Gooch.
Foul by Jay Rodriguez (Southampton).
Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Southampton. Jay Rodriguez replaces Charlie Austin.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Jordan Pickford.
Attempt saved. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Cédric Soares.
Attempt saved. Shane Long (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Attempt saved. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Steven Davis.
Substitution, Sunderland. Jeremain Lens replaces Steven Pienaar.
Substitution, Southampton. Shane Long replaces Dusan Tadic.
Steven Pienaar (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Pienaar (Sunderland).
Foul by Dusan Tadic (Southampton).
Duncan Watmore (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sunderland. Duncan Watmore replaces Fabio Borini because of an injury.
An international team of scientists gave the drug to patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia, alongside standard treatment.
Those who received the combination therapy were more likely to be free of the disease for longer.
Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a rare blood cancer.
About 600 people are diagnosed with the condition each year in the UK.
Though a number of successful treatments exist, they do not help every patient and some become resistant to conventional therapy.
In this study, scientists gave a combination of the anti-diabetic drug pioglitazone and standard treatment to 24 patients whose CML remained active despite receiving conventional drugs.
After 12 months, more than 50% of the patients given the combination treatment were in remission.
And the first three patients to be given the drug had no reoccurrences of cancer in the five years that followed.
Scientists hope this combination therapy approach may prove helpful for other similar cancers.
Patients with untreated CML make excessive numbers of abnormal white blood cells.
Over time, these can crowd out the normal white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets a person has, making it harder for patients to mount a defence against infections and causing some people to bleed more easily.
The current standard treatment includes therapies such as imatinib.
Prof Peter Johnson, Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, said: "The outlook for people with chronic myeloid leukaemia has improved dramatically since the introduction of drugs like imatinib.
"But for some patients these drugs aren't always effective. This study is an interesting example of how understanding the biology of cancer stem cells could help improve treatment for these patients.
"However, this is early stage research and only a small number of patients have been studied. It will be interesting to see if this combination is also successful in larger clinical trials."
Other experts add that the side-effects of pioglitazone would also have to be taken into account if this treatment were to be offered in routine care.
The Italian, 60, takes over after the O's, 17th in League Two, ended Andy Hessenthaler's five-month reign as boss in late September.
He becomes Orient's eighth manager since Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti bought the club in 2014.
Interim boss Andy Edwards, who had overseen one defeat and one draw, reverts to his role as assistant boss.
Orient travel to Southend in the Checkatrade Trophy on Tuesday.
The bill to raise the national minimum to $10.10 (£5.99) from $7.25 failed in a largely party-line vote of 54-42.
Republicans say it would be unaffordable for employers, while Democrats say Republicans are taking sides against poor workers.
In recent months several states have passed their own minimum wage rises.
On Wednesday, the bill failed to attain the 60 votes needed to proceed to final passage.
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker was the only Republican to vote yes, while Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid switched his vote to "no" as it became clear the bill would fail, a procedural move that allows him to call another vote on the measure.
The national wage rise failed a day after Hawaii's state legislature raised the state's minimum wage to $10.10, a level recommended by the Obama administration.
Hawaii joined a number of states and municipalities that have recently approved rises in their base hourly wages. Earlier in April, Minnesota went from having one of the nation's lowest minimum wages to the highest.
President Barack Obama criticised the vote in a White House press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
"By preventing even a vote on this bill, they prevented a raise for 28 million hardworking Americans," he said. "They said no to helping millions work their way out of poverty. And keep in mind this bill would've done so without any new taxes or spending or bureaucracy."
Mr Obama added a majority of Americans support such a rise.
After the vote, Democratic leaders attacked Republicans for blocking a bill they said would bring a pay rise for millions of Americans.
Mr Reid accused Republicans of "fighting for billionaires" while saying Democrats were fighting "for people who are struggling to make a living".
"It's very simple to us," New York Senator Chuck Schumer said. "An American who works 40 hours a week deserves a fair shot of getting out of poverty. At the present minimum wage level you can't."
Republicans in the Senate and the House maintain the proposal is too expensive for businesses and would result in job cuts.
"Washington Democrats' true focus these days seems to be making the far left happy, not helping the middle class," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said ahead of the vote.
The president's Democratic Party is facing a potential loss of control of the Senate in November, when one-third of the body's 100 senators are up for re-election.
In the upcoming campaign, Democrats hope to use the minimum wage fight to portray themselves as the guardians of working people and the middle class and the Republicans as the party of the wealthy, analysts say.
The Senate bill, sponsored by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, would increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 over the course of 30 months and then provide automatic increases for inflation.
Opponents of the rise cite a study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimating the law would result in the loss of about 500,000 jobs.
But the same study also anticipated as many as 16 million poor workers would see a substantial pay rise.
The bill is opposed by a host of industry groups, including the National Council of Chain Restaurants and the International Franchise Association, and well-funded conservative political organisations.
Congress has raised the minimum wage about once every decade but has not previously connected it to inflation. The wage's purchasing power has dropped significantly with inflation from its peak in 1968.
Parry, 24, has made two appearances for Barrow during a loan spell from the League Two club.
The former Southport and Telford player, who can also play in midfield, had a spell at league rivals Altrincham earlier in the season.
Bluebirds boss Paul Cox is hopeful of adding a further signing to his squad.
Meanwhile, Luton boss Nathan Jones says he "expects a quiet transfer deadline day", having already signed defender Alan Sheehan and forward Joe Pigott, while Luke Guttridge and Luke Wilkinson have left to join Dagenham and Stevenage respectively.
Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, 27, was arrested on 27 April near Parliament Square in Whitehall.
In an unrelated incident, six people were arrested following evening raids in Willesden and Kent, including 21-year-old Mohamed Amoudi.
The maximum terror suspects can be held for with judicial approval is 14 days.
Police have been given authorisation by a court to detain all the suspects for several more days.
Mr Ali was found carrying knives near the Houses of Parliament and was detained by armed police.
He is a British national who is believed to have gone to school in Tottenham, north London, but was not born in the UK.
The Metropolitan Police said he had been detained on suspicion of terrorism offences.
He had been on the force's radar for some time and it is thought police acted after a concerned family member contacted them.
It also emerged on Saturday that he had spent time in Afghanistan, returning to the UK at the end of last year.
The second operation took place at a house in Harlesden Road, which had been under observation by police.
It was revealed on Saturday that Mr Amoudi had previously been quizzed by British authorities under suspicion of trying to travel to Syria to join so-called Islamic State
He was arrested alongside a 20-year-old woman, a 16-year-old boy, and a man and woman both aged 28, as well as a 43-year-old woman, who was arrested at another raid in Kent.
All of them were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts.
A 21-year-old woman was also shot during the raid and remains in hospital. She is likely to be questioned when she is well enough to be discharged.
The Met said the two incidents were unrelated.
Neil Basu, deputy assistant commissioner, said that in both cases he believed the force "contained the threats that they pose".
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Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell clocked three minutes 14.051 seconds to beat the world record they set in the first round.
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The United States took silver, more than five seconds behind Britain, with Canada edging out Australia in the race for bronze.
"It's mad," said Trott. "I can't believe it. It's been my dream since I was eight. We've gone and done it. I don't think we expected it."
Rowsell added: "I could tell we'd done it by the cheer of the crowd."
Team GB have now won four out of five track events, only missing out in the women's team sprint after Jess Varnish and Victoria Pendleton were disqualified from the final.
While some of those triumphs have been unexpected, this gold medal was not.
Britain have won seven out of 10 track cycling gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics
King, Trott and Rowsell, all of whom are aged under 23, had won the previous two World Championships and had broken the world record on each of their previous five rides, including qualifying on Friday and the first round earlier on Saturday, when they clocked 3:14.682.
Roared on by passionate home support inside the packed 6,000-capacity velodrome, they took another half a second off their fastest time.
Led off by Rowsell, whose job is to get them up to top speed inside a lap and a quarter, they opened up a decisive lead early in the 3km 12-lap race, and never looked like being caught.
It was soon all about whether another record would fall and, after achieving that, they saluted a delighted crowd at the finish line before embracing their families.
"We didn't expect a world record in every round, but we did it," said Trott.
Rowsell added: "The world record was a bonus.
"The crowd was absolutely fantastic and they really pushed us on through the last kilometre."
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Britain's triumph comes in the first staging of the women's team pursuit event at the Olympics and follows a gold medal for the men's team pursuiters on Friday.
Trott, at 20 the youngest of the trio, will also go for gold in the women's omnium, a six-discipline event that begins on Monday.
If successful, she will become only the second female track cyclist to win two track golds at a single Games, joining France's Felicia Ballanger, who won the 500m time trial and women's sprint in Sydney in 2000.
"I can't think about the omni now, but it'll be nice to be another Olympic champion," she said.
James Ejankowski, who's 24, defrauded Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group of more than £99,000 in December 2016.
He spent the money on a BMW, a Range Rover and tattoos for his face.
He lied to his family that he had won the money on a scratchcard, according to the prosecutor.
Ejankowski, formerly of Guisborough but now of Clarence Road, Bridlington, discovered that if he used the Clydesdale Bank's online banking software to transfer notional funds between his current account and his savings account between midnight and 01:00, the transaction would work and the bank would not find out.
"For one hour there was a credit balance in his account even though he did not have any money," Prosecutor Shaun Dryden told Teesside Crown Court on Monday, according to the Teesside Evening Gazette.
He used his partner Charlotte Slater's Natwest account to funnel £53,399. In addition to making purchases for himself, Ejankowski, who is unemployed, also used the money to pay off debts and to give two thousand pounds to his aunt and £1,362 to his father-in-law.
Four weeks after he began stealing the funds, he turned himself in to the police on Boxing Day and made a full admission of guilt, saying he only had £40 left.
Clydesdale Bank has so far been able to recover £34,000.
Ejankowski has been sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment for fraud. Slater received a suspended sentence over her supporting role in the crime.
Ejankowski was previously convicted in May 2015 for seven offences of fraud over selling items on the internet. He received a community service punishment of 200 hours of unpaid work, which was later replaced by a curfew.
A Clydesdale Bank spokesperson told the BBC News website: "This was a one-off isolated incident. We take fraud very seriously and note the court's decision."
They say that their faith is no barrier to doing their job.
"What else can we do? There is no other work," says one of the women.
"We don't drink in our family," adds her friend. "But everyone should decide for themselves."
The two women continue to tend the rows of budding vines under a bright blue sky. But this picturesque scene is sadly no longer the sort of image that springs to mind at the mention of Tunisia.
The north African country has instead been the focus of attention recently following the deadly attack on holidaymakers in the seaside resort of Port El Kantaoui, near the city of Sousse, on 26 June.
In the attack, for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility, a gunman opened fire on a beach and at a hotel killing 38 tourists.
With foreign governments now advising against travelling to Tunisia, the country's tourism sector - a vital part of its economy - faces an uncertain future.
Yet while the Tunisian holiday industry will inevitably be most affected by the fear of further Islamist violence, and the knock-on big reduction in tourist numbers, the country's wine producers are also now increasingly nervous.
Although it may seem odd to some that a Muslim country like Tunisia has a wine industry, given that alcohol is generally considered to be forbidden under Islam, the drink has been made in the country since before Roman times.
And while production diminished after the introduction of Islam in the 7th Century, it never completely stopped. Under French rule between 1881 and 1956 it increased substantially.
Following the departure of French winemakers, and the nationalisation of the industry, the sector saw decades of decline.
However, some Tunisians still to this day discreetly enjoy a glass or two of wine, especially in the north of the country.
Wine is available for them to buy in large supermarkets, with the only restriction that it cannot be bought on Fridays, the Islamic holy day, or during the month of Ramadan, which this year is due to end this weekend.
And in the past decade, the quality of Tunisian wine has increased greatly. The state-run monopoly on production has been removed, clearing the way for the establishment of more than 10 ambitious privately-owned wineries.
Last year industry figures estimate that Tunisians drank 14.3 million bottles of the country's wine, only slightly fewer than the 14.4 million bottles consumed by visiting tourists.
But with foreign holidaymakers now staying away, the country's winemakers may be left with a lot of unsold wine on their hands.
And there is fear that Islamist extremists may turn their attention to the industry.
One Tunisian winemaker asked not to be quoted in this article, saying that the authorities had advised caution, and that he had to be discreet because of security concerns. But others remain upbeat and open.
Among the rolling hills, olive groves and fruit trees of the Cap Bon region in north eastern Tunisia - the centre of the country's wine industry - lies the winery Domaine Neferis.
"Since there are now more competitors, the quality has increased," says Samia Ben Ali, showing the oak barrels in which her red wine matures.
The 39-year-old, who learned the trade in Australia, is currently the only female Tunisian winemaker.
"My work is my passion," she says. "Not many people get to do what they want."
Despite being often warned not to talk to the media, Ms Ben Ali says: "I think it's important to let the rest of the world see that women in Tunisia can do the work they want to do."
She adds that drinking wine is certainly not taboo in her family.
"I come from the Kerkennah Islands [which lie off Tunisia's eastern coast], where people have been making wine at home for centuries."
When the moderate Islamic party Ennahda came to power in Tunisia after the 2011 revolution, there was an initial fear that alcohol would be banned.
Instead the government only increased the tax on alcoholic drinks, and this had no impact on sales. And in last year's general election Ennahda was replaced by the secular Nidaa Tounes party.
At the nearby winery, Societe Ceptunes, winemaker Yacine Amami pours a glass of white wine.
The 43-year-old, who has a Tunisian father and a German mother, says that wine will always be popular in some quarters of the country.
"Throughout the history of mankind, people have wanted to drink," he says.
A few hours drive to the west, past golden wheat fields and flocks of sheep, another woman is working in the Tunisian wine industry.
Pilar Rodrigo Monzon, a 49-year-old Spaniard, is the owner of a winery called Domaine Shadrapa.
After previously working for Tunisia's former state-run wine company, Les Vignerons de Carthage, she took over the then run down Shadrapa site nine years ago.
Many years previously it had been owned by a Frenchman who left the country when Tunisia gained independence.
Mrs Monzon says the picturesque hilly landscape is an excellent spot to grow grapes.
"The French chose a good place for the wine industry here," she says.
With foreign tourists staying away, many Tunisian winemakers are now hoping to sell more of their wine abroad. With exports in 2013 only totalling two million bottles, there is much scope for growth.
However, French-Dutch wine expert Christian Callec says Tunisia may find it difficult to greatly increase this number.
"It's difficult to convince people to buy Tunisian wine when there are already so many other wines in the world," he says. "There is [also] no money to do large-scale promotions and compete with the aggressive campaigns from other countries."
Ms Ben Ali agrees that "it's difficult to compete with cheap wines from Californian, Chile and South Africa".
Yet while Tunisian winemakers may have longer term concerns, most are now looking forward to this weekend's festival of Eid al-Fitr, which will mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Many Tunisians include drinking wine in their Eid celebration, so much so that wine sales are typically double that of normal times of the year.
Dallas-based Clarkson, 22, has lost eight of her 12 professional bouts, although she has never been stopped.
Taylor, the 2012 Olympic champion, has won her first five pro bouts and her promoter Eddie Hearn hopes she will fight for a world title later in 2017.
Taylor, 31, has earned stoppage wins in three of her five bouts.
Saturday's fight at the Barclays Centre will be on the undercard of the super-lightweight non-title contest between Adrien Broner and Mikey Garcia.
Taylor stopped German Nina Meinke in a world title eliminator at Wembley Stadium in her last contest in April.
And WildCat, the four-legged robot that can gallop untethered at up to 16mph (26km/h).
These are the latest creations of Boston Dynamics, a US robotics company part-funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).
The robots are part of Darpa's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation programme.
Darpa says such robots "hold great promise for amplifying human effectiveness in defence operations".
Referring to Atlas's ability to remain balanced despite being hit by a lateral weight, Noel Sharkey, professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield, told the BBC: "This is an astonishing achievement... quite a remarkable feat."
This version of Atlas is one of seven humanoid robots Boston Dynamics is developing in response to the Darpa Robotics Challenge.
In December, competing robots will be set eight tasks to test their potential for use in emergency-response situations, including crossing uneven ground, using power tools and driving a rescue vehicle.
Darpa wants to improve the manoeuvrability and controllability of such robots while reducing manufacturing costs.
WildCat can bound, gallop and turn, mimicking the movements of quadruped animals. It is powered by an internal combustion engine.
"It is a shame that such technology is not being developed with other research funding," said Prof Sharkey, who is also chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.
"We do not know what military purpose it will serve but certainly it is a step towards a high-speed ground robot that could be weaponised to hunt and kill."
The video shows WildCat performing on a flat surface, but Prof Sharkey said: "It would be good to see how well it could perform in a muddy field."
Last year, Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot reached a sprint speed of 28.3mph tethered to a treadmill.
Geoff Pegman, managing director of RURobots, told the BBC: "Robotics has been making important strides in recent years, and these are a couple of demonstrations of the technology moving forward.
"However, their application may be limited to areas such as defence and, maybe specialised construction or demolition tasks.
"In other applications there are more efficient ways of achieving the mobility more cost effectively."
Election officials announced the date after violent protests erupted last month over fears that President Joseph Kabila was trying to delay polls.
The government denied the claim, and dropped plans for a controversial census to be held before elections.
Mr Kabila is constitutionally barred from contesting the poll.
He took power in 2001 after his father Laurent Kabila was assassinated.
He has won two disputed elections since then, and cannot stand for a third elected term.
Both the presidential and parliamentary elections would take place on 27 November 2016, election commission official Jean-Pierre Kalamba said in the capital, Kinshasa.
At least 42 people died in the protests in Kinshasa and other cities last month.
The demonstrators wanted to block parliament from adopting a new electoral law which would have required that a national census be held before elections.
The opposition said the plan amounted to a "constitutional coup" by Mr Kabila, as it would have taken about three years for a census to be conducted in DR Congo, which is two-thirds of the size of western Europe, has very little infrastructure and is hit by instability in the east.
Loteri Cymru will be broadcast on S4C beginning on Friday, 28 April, with a minimum of 20% of proceeds going to grassroots community causes in Wales.
Participants will need to match five of 39 drawn numbers to win the jackpot, with prizes also on offer for tickets matching fewer numbers.
Tickets are £1 and are due to go on sale from 10 April and can be bought by anyone aged over 16.
Loteri Cymru is chaired by former Wales rugby international and WRU chairman, Gareth Davies.
The disabled woman was kept in a house in Northern Ireland for eight years.
She was reported missing, but when she apparently called Suffolk Police to say she was fine, they stopped searching.
PCC Tim Passmore said "lessons must be learned" and he would discuss with the chief constable why further inquiries were not carried out at the time.
Husband and wife Keith and Caroline Baker were jailed on Tuesday after admitting a catalogue of charges against their victim.
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When police rescued her from their house in Craigavon, County Armagh, in 2012 she was emaciated, had only a single tooth left in her mouth and had been subjected to horrific sexual assaults.
The woman, who has severe learning difficulties, had been taken from her home in Suffolk by the couple in 2004.
She was reported missing by her husband on 15 March, but the following day police took a call from a woman who told them she was not missing, but was on holiday with a friend.
She used the missing woman's phone and there was "no indication at the time to suggest that she was anyone but the named individual", a force spokesman said.
The inquiry was "concluded",
Mr Passmore said it seemed "very strange... that the husband of this poor woman seemed to just accept that she was on holiday and that wasn't followed up either.
"There are some very odd circumstances here."
He said he intends to discuss the investigation with Suffolk's chief constable, adding: "We owe it to the victim, her friends and relations to get to the bottom of this and we must learn the lessons of what went wrong across many agencies."
In a statement released after Tuesday's sentencing, Suffolk Police said: "In view of this case, we are looking into whether there was anything further that could or should have been done at the time she was reported as missing."
Catherine and Ben Mullany were shot on the Caribbean island in July 2008. Mrs Mullany was killed at the scene. Her husband died in Wales a week later.
Georgette Aaron, 37, was sentenced to six years for providing alibis for their killers Kaniel Martin and Avie Howell.
Martin is serving a life sentence.
Howell, 24, was shot dead by police in Antigua in June after escaping from prison, where he was also serving a life sentence for the murders and a four-year term for burglary.
Dr Mullany was training to be a GP and Mr Mullany was a student physiotherapist. The couple, both 31, were from Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley.
Martin and Howell, who were 20 and 17 at the time of the killings, shot the Mullanys in the head in their hotel bedroom on the last day of their honeymoon.
They were also convicted of murdering a Jamaican shopkeeper, Woneta Anderson, 43. Both were also charged with two further killings, although neither stood trial for them.
Aaron had told police she had been with her teenage lover Howell and his accomplice at the time the Mullanys were shot.
At Aaron's hearing, prosecutor Adlai Smith said her statements had been "calculated to derail an investigation into two men subsequently found to have killed five people over the course of eight weeks.
"It was a dark period in the history of Antigua and Barbuda."
He added it was quite likely the pair would have continued killing if they had not been arrested.
Defending, Ralph Francis said his client had worked for a law firm for 11 years, had been given a good community report and had a young family.
She had to wait six years for the matter to be resolved, he said, and had been "made to suffer" during that period.
Jailing Aaron on 31 October, Justice Albert Redhead said she had committed a very serious offence.
"You lied and continue to lie even at your trial that they were with you, and left with you, and you persisted in making a false alibi, knowing that the murders had been committed," he said.
He said he could not grant a non-custodial sentence as the defence requested as he would be "shirking his responsibility to society" if he did.
Following the hearing, prosecutor Mr Smith said: "We echo the sentiments of the learned trial judge, Justice Albert Redhead, that the court should take a dim view of persons trying to assist others to evade justice."
A funeral service for the Mullanys held at Cardiff's Llandaff Catherdral saw over 1,000 mourners attend, including the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, after she met the couple's parents on a flight to the Caribbean.
The duchess became patron of a charity set up in their name, the Mullany Fund, to assist those seeking to enter the health profession.
The fund continues to award an annual prize for excellence in physiotherapy to a trainee.
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Marc Ashdown asks Robert McCulloch-Graham, education director of Tower Hamlets, if any changes will be brought in.
Mr McCulloch-Graham says it is an "isolated incident" and has already been dealt with.
Her confirmation means she will be the first black woman to take up the post.
The 56-43 vote comes after a five-month delay during which the confirmation became entangled in a dispute over President Barack Obama's recent immigration reforms and other issues.
Ms Lynch replaces Eric Holder, who has served since the beginning of Mr Obama's presidency.
Welcoming the news of the confirmation, President Obama said "America will be better off for it".
She had waited since November for the vote, which became ensnarled in a bitter political debate that started with the immigration reforms announced that month, and ended most recently with contention around an unrelated bill to combat sex trafficking.
Ultimately, 10 Republicans voted in favour of her nomination and she is expected to take over as head of the US Justice Department on Monday.
During her confirmation hearing, Ms Lynch told the panel that, if nominated, her focus would be on fighting terrorist threats, cyber-crime, and improving relations between law enforcement and minority communities.
When she assumes office, she will take on major financial cases involving some that allege prominent banks helped clients evade US taxes and manipulated the currency markets, Reuters reported.
Ms Lynch grew up in North Carolina. She most recently served as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Janet Reno, who served from 1993 until 2001, was the United States's first female attorney general.
There have been 108 Russians banned from next month's Olympics so far, including 67 out of 68 from the athletics team.
Putin said there was a "deliberate campaign targeting our athletes".
"The other sportsmen understand that the quality of their medals will be different," he told the Russian Olympic team at the Kremlin in Moscow.
Putin, who said the Games would be "less of a spectacle" as a result of the bans, said the "campaign" he alleged "was characterised by so-called double standards and opted for the idea of collective responsibility, which is not compatible with sport, justice in general, or the basic norms of law".
Russia's fencing, volleyball, triathlon and table tennis squads are the latest to have been cleared to compete at the Rio Games, which begin on 5 August.
Governing bodies are making rulings on whether Russian athletes can take part following the damning World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report into state-sponsored doping in the country.
Russia had hoped to send 387 athletes to Rio. On Wednesday, the country's Olympic Committee chief Alexander Zhukov told Rossiya-24 that, despite the suspensions, more than 250 are still set to go.
There are 16 Russian fencers due to compete in Brazil and six triathletes.
The International Volleyball Federation has cleared the Russian volleyball and beach volleyball teams for Rio, with 30 players across the respective squads.
Fencing's governing body the FIE said it had re-examined the results from 197 drug tests taken by Russian fencers between 2014 and 2016 and all came back negative.
An International Triathlon Union (ITU) statement said: "None of the six Russian triathletes (three men, three women) that have qualified for 2016 Olympics are included in the McLaren report, nor have any of them served suspensions or bans for failed doping tests.
"Additionally, they have all been tested outside of Russia. Therefore, ITU will recommend to the IOC that these six athletes be permitted to compete in Rio next month."
The International Table Tennis Federation said that after carrying out "individual test analysis outside the Russian anti-doping system" it "believes the provided evidence meets the requirements of the IOC and confirms the eligibility of the three qualified Russian players".
The International Olympic Committee has said individual federations should decide if Russians in their respective sports can compete following Wada's report.
Some international federations have banned Russians from competing altogether, some have issued a partial ban, while others have cleared all Russians to take part.
All Russian competitors from equestrian, shooting, judo, tennis and archery have been given permission to compete.
Athletics' governing body, the IAAF, opted to ban Russian track and field athletes unless they can satisfy strict doping criteria. So far, only one has been able to do that.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko sent a letter on Monday to IAAF president Lord Coe, asking him to reverse the ban, but said on Wednesday his request had been refused.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, sports lawyer Mike Morgan said Russian athletes have a chance of winning a legal challenge against rulings to ban them.
He claimed that even if they were named in the Wada-commissioned McLaren report into state-sponsored doping "they may have never done anything wrong".
He added: "Mr McLaren has a list of 'protected athletes', who allegedly the Russian state would protect by covering up any positive doping results. But that doesn't necessarily mean they were using substances.
"The athletes themselves may not know anything about these lists and why they are on the lists.
"Even if there is a good basis for suspicion, there are processes in place through the Wada code to ensure athletes have a right to see what the evidence is against them, and to provide counter evidence in court."
Russell Findlay, 41, is believed to have had liquid thrown in his face at his home at about 08:45.
He was treated at the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Police said later that a 55-year-old man had been arrested. He is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday.
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Many burned tyres and wore balaclavas; some carried white supremacist flags.
They called on the government to end the Minsk ceasefire accord and declare war on pro-Russian rebels in the east.
The demonstrators say the Russian government is bringing troops and equipment into Ukraine, a claim that Russia has always denied.
Many in the rally were from volunteer battalions and were dressed in their battle fatigues.
They said they had returned from fighting Russian forces and demanded an end to all diplomatic relations with Russia.
The ultra-nationalist Right Sector group called the march. Protesters also demanded the nationalisation of Russian-owned businesses.
More than 6,400 people have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine that began in April 2014 when rebels seized large parts of the two eastern regions. This followed Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula.
The BBC's David Stern in Kiev says Friday's rally was a show of strength in the heart of Ukrainian officialdom.
But above all, our correspondent says, the demonstrators were calling for change. Both in the way that the conflict is being fought in the east and in the way that the country is being run.
Central to their demands is an end to the Minsk ceasefire agreement signed in February which they say is a charade because of Russia's activities in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government, Western leaders and Nato all say there is clear evidence that Russia is helping the rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions with heavy weapons and soldiers. Independent experts echo that accusation.
But Moscow denies it, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are volunteers.
Clashes between government troops and rebels have recently intensified.
Fierce fighting took place in June outside the rebel-held city of Donetsk, with Ukraine accusing the rebels of launching a full-scale offensive in violation of a truce.
The separatists denied this and accused Ukrainian troops stationed nearby of repeatedly shelling the city - a claim in turn denied by the Ukrainian military.
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About 1,000 Ukrainian pro-government fighters and far-right supporters have marched through the centre of the capital, Kiev.
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The properties in the town of Leyburn, near the Yorkshire Dales, lost their supply at 18:55 GMT on Friday.
More than 621 homes were originally affected by the power cut, but Northern Powergrid said it was able to restore electricity to 428 homes by "remote switching of the power network".
The company said it restored power to the remaining 190 homes on Saturday.
Elsewhere in the county, there have been reports of minor damage and small isolated power cuts due to the storm.
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Indian officials said there were eight survivors among 160 passengers and six crew on board the Air India Express flight from Dubai.
The Boeing 737 overshot the hilltop runway as it tried to land and burst into flames in a valley beyond.
Indian Aviation Minister Praful Patel said he felt "morally responsible" for the crash, AFP news agency reports.
Survivors said they thought they heard what sounded like a tyre bursting just before the crash.
Speaking to Indian TV from his hospital bed, survivor Umer Farooq said he heard a loud thud as the plane touched down.
"Then the plane veered off toward some trees on the side and then the cabin filled with smoke. I got caught in some cables but managed to scramble out," he said.
Mr Farooq was being treated for burns to his arms, legs, and face.
All the passengers on the flight were Indian nationals, with many returning from jobs in the Gulf to visit their families, says the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi. There were up to 20 children on board, our correspondent adds.
Mangalore airport lies on top of a hill with steep drops at the end of each of its two runways. One of the runways was extended in 2006 to accommodate larger planes like the Boeing 737.
By Sanjoy MajumderBBC News, Delhi
Air India Express is a budget airline and a subsidiary of the national carrier Air India.
This is the first crash in its relatively short history. The plane was no more than three years old.
Air India Express mainly caters to the southern Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka, where this plane crashed, with flights to and from the Gulf, where a large number of Indian nationals work.
India has a relatively good air safety record but in the past decade there has been a rapid growth in the aviation industry.
A number of new airlines have been launched, which has led to a shortage of some experienced crew.
The airline said the plane had overshot the runway as it came into land at about 0600 (0030 GMT) and crashed into a wooded valley.
TV pictures showed rescue workers and local villagers scrambling on steep hillsides to search the smoking wreckage.
A Mangalore police official told the BBC that smoke from the crash site had made it difficult for rescue workers to gain access to the plane.
"As far as the information available with us is concerned, eight persons were rescued and shifted to local hospitals in Mangalore for treatment," Air India official Anup Shrivasta told reporters.
Mr Patel said one person was unharmed, four had minor injuries and three were being treated for major injuries.
One passenger, described as a seven-year-old boy, died on the way to hospital.
Officials said 146 bodies had so far been recovered, some burned beyond recognition.
A light, pre-monsoon rain was reported to be falling at the time but the head of the Indian airport authority, VP Agarwal, said visibility was not a problem.
He said the pilot had given no distress call to the control tower.
Local media named the pilot as Serbian Zlatko Glusica. He was said to have 10,000 hours of flying time, including experience of Mangalore's airport.
AFP news agency said Mr Glusica also had British citizenship.
The civil aviation minister said an investigation had been ordered into the crash, and that the flight data and voice "black box" recorders had not been found.
After visiting the scene of the crash, Mr Patel observed that Mangalore airport had a short runway and a limited area after that to accommodate planes that overshot the landing strip.
He said the Air India Express flight had missed its landing threshold by about 2,000 feet (600 metres).
"Because the spill-over area was limited, it went off a cliff," he said.
Mr Patel added that one of the plane's wings had hit a navigational aid near the end of the runway called a localiser and broke off before the rest of the plane plunged into the valley.
There have been cautions before about the position of Mangalore's runways, which analysts say poses challenges for pilots.
A former adviser to the Civil Aviation Ministry said he had given warnings in the past about the airport and said it should not be used by bigger aircraft such as the Boeing 737.
"The problems are there, that if you overshoot, if your brakes fail or if you can't stop the aircraft for any reason, then it will fall and roll over the cliff into the valley with disastrous consequences, and that is what happened today here," said Air Marshal Denzil Keelor.
One of the survivors, KP Manikutty, said the landing had at first appeared to be smooth and then the plane had crashed with no warning.
"Immediately on touching the ground, the aircraft jerked and in a few moments hit something," he said.
"Then it split in the middle and caught fire. I just jumped from the gap," he added.
Air India Express began operations about five years ago as an offshoot of the state-run Air India.
Its Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed was less than three years old.
India's air safety record has been good in the past decade, despite a rapid increase in the number of private airlines and air travel in the country.
The last major crash happened in the city of Patna in July 2000, killing at least 50 people.
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Nearly 160 people are feared dead after an airliner crashed while landing near the southern Indian city of Mangalore.
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"Daniel lives and breathes Bond," said the actress, who will reprise her role as Moneypenny in the new film Spectre, which comes out later this month.
Time Out magazine recently quoted Craig as saying he would "rather slash [his] wrists" than make a fifth Bond film.
Harris, though, said the actor's words had been "blown out of proportion".
"It was not as he intended it," she told BBC News, claiming her co-star's "sense of humour… doesn't come across particularly well in print".
Speaking at a promotional event for technology that features in Sam Mendes' film, she continued: "He's so dedicated to his craft and he loves playing Bond.
"It's easy to take something that someone says in passing and blow it completely out of proportion. I think that's what's happened here, so I don't really believe those comments at all."
Craig's remarks, made shortly after Spectre completed shooting in July, have ignited speculation over who will play Bond if the 47-year-old should relinquish the role.
Damian Lewis, Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch are among those who have been suggested as potential successors.
According to Harris, however, Craig is "the ultimate Bond" and "it wouldn't be Bond without him".
Spectre, the 24th instalment in the official Bond series, will have its world premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall on 26 October.
Harris, 39, said she had yet to see the film but had heard Writing's On the Wall, Sam Smith's chart-topping theme song.
"I think that it's great and will have even more impact and meaning once it's put into context," she said.
Harris stars in a new advertisement for a Sony camera and phone, in which she has a Bond-style adventure on London's South Bank.
The advert was directed by Daniel Kleinman, who designed the title sequences for Casino Royale, Skyfall and all the Bond films in which Pierce Brosnan appeared.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star said shooting the promo on London's South Bank had allowed her to make use of the stunt training she undertook for Skyfall.
"It was great to be out there in the field on a mission and experience what it would be like to be Bond," she said.
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It was a crushing 5-0 defeat for Senegal in their match, which was virtually over after only seven minutes.
Andelinou Correa scored an own goal on five minutes and Senegal's disastrous start got worse just moments later when Marcos Guilherme finished off a sweeping move to make it 2-0.
Gabriel Jesus struck the post as Brazil continued to press, and in the 19th minute Boschilia tapped in after goalkepper Ibrahima Sy was unable to hold a cross.
Senegal's Sidy Sarrdid hit the bar soon after but they went 4-0 down when Jorge score a fine solo effort.
And just before the break Senegal's misery was compounded when Elimane Cisse was sent off for a second yellow card.
The fifth and final goal came on 78 minutes when Guilherme scored his second of the game.
Mali fared better against Serbia, forcing extra-time after coming back from an early goal to hold their opponents to a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes, but eventually falling 2-1.
Only four minutes were on the clock when Andrija Zivkovic burst through to open the scoring.
Having been on the back foot for the first half an hour Mali began to work their way back into the game and they drew level through a ferocious 30-yard strike from Youssouf Kone.
Serbia almost regained the lead when Milan Gajic struck a volley against the bar, but extra-time was needed to separate the teams.
And on 101 minutes substitute Ivan Saponjic nodded in to put his side 2-1 ahead.
Mali's hopes of a comeback took a blow when Kone received a second yellow card six minutes from time, and Serbia held on to book their place in the final.
A further sour note for Mali was the reaction of Kone, who looked to have pushed referee Mauro Vigliano following his second yellow. He was pulled away by team-mates and went behind the goalposts.
Mali coach Fanyeri Darra said after the game: "Until the end of the game we believed in our strength to win, but ... the inexperience of our players was the main point in our defeat."
Mali and Senegal will play in the third place play-off.
The ongoing attempted hack of Scottish Parliament IT systems is similar to one which targeted Westminster in June.
Staff from Holyrood's IT office are working "closely" with the National Cyber Security Centre to put extra defences in place.
Chief Executive Sir Paul Grice said analysis was taking place to trace the origin of the attack.
MSPs and staff were advised that Holyrood had been targeted from "external sources" on Tuesday.
All users of parliamentary systems were encouraged to be vigilant and make sure their passwords were as strong as possible.
A brute force cyber attack involves hackers making repeated attempts to log in to a system using a series of different passwords, in an attempt to effectively guess the passcode.
In an update to colleagues, Mr Grice wrote that "various cyber security measures were quickly deployed" in the wake of the attack, saying that "the frequency of failed log-ins and account lockouts" had decreased.
He wrote: "At this point there is no evidence to suggest that the attack has breached our defences and our IT systems continue to be fully operational.
"Users should be aware, however, that this attack remains ongoing. It is not uncommon for brute force attacks to be sustained over a period of days so it is essential that IT account users are vigilant and report any suspicious issues."
The chief executive said IT staff were "working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre" to put "additional security measures" in place to continue to contain the incident and "mitigate against any future attacks".
He added: "In addition, analysis is taking place to better understand the origin of the attack and to assess its overall impact."
MSPs recently discussed cyber security in the wake of malware attacks which affected several Scottish NHS boards, concluding that "effective arrangements" were in place.
The panels, which each weigh between 1.5 and 2.5 tonnes, are being individually fixed into place on the walls of the £80.1m building.
A total of 2,466 panels will be hung on the building's exterior, each with two specially-designed brackets.
The museum is expected to open in the summer of 2018.
V&A Dundee is the first British building by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, who is also designing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium.
The museum's design is inspired by the cliffs along Scotland's north-eastern coastline.
The drone footage shows an engineer inspecting panels fixed to the highest point of the building, an 18.4m (60ft) high wall built out into the river.
Mike Galloway, executive director of city development at Dundee City Council, said: "V&A Dundee is an impressive feat of engineering and installing thousands of stone panels is the next stage of this ambitious build.
"Nothing like this has ever been constructed in Scotland before.
"In fact, I can't think of another building anywhere in the world similar to this.
"Because the museum is so unique, the team of constructors, designers and engineers have had to use the latest technology to realise the architect's vision."
Panels on the riverside have been attached first to allow the removal of the cofferdam, a watertight enclosure, in the summer.
The cofferdam consists of 12,500 tonnes of stone and has allowed the museum to be built out over the river.
Hethel Innovation Ltd will support 300 businesses and look to create 24 new ones at Hethel Engineering Centre, near Wymondham, Norfolk County Council said.
The authority said the firm, part of a ??7.8m innovation project, will focus on low carbon technologies and help ensure Norfolk's global competitiveness.
The company will be funded at the centre for three years.
It is being paid for by a European grant and county council loan.
Norfolk County Council said the firm's aim was to help businesses at the hi-tech centre create new products and services as well as encouraging new spin-off companies and jobs.
It said the company would "create opportunities for businesses to explore, engage, experiment, collaborate and cluster in order to be globally competitive and secure Norfolk as a county that is home to world class business, providing world class products and services".
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But just days before the start of the Games, a study has found that the Brazilian city's waterways are still filthy, and even contaminated with human waste.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has played down concerns about water pollution in Rio, insisting that the city's waterways will be safe for athletes and visitors.
Naz has been looking into it.
In a spot of typically measured self-analysis, the 62-year-old, who will assume control at Old Trafford after the Netherlands' World Cup campaign, announced: "I am who I am - confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative."
Van Gaal is all of those things and more. If United appeared an ill-fitting suit for Moyes then this much-travelled and well-decorated coach will regard the "Theatre Of Dreams" as tailor-made for his talent and pedigree.
After emerging as a visionary coach with an emphasis on attacking football and youth development at Ajax in the '90s - he won the Champions League in 1995 - he has had had a magnetic attraction for the biggest clubs with two spells at Barcelona and another at Bayern Munich, who he took to the Champions League final in 2010.
With United swiftly admitting the Moyes experiment had been an abject failure as a good man and decent manager floundered out of his depth, United have cut to the chase. They have gone short-term with a personality and coach who will apply more of a quick fix and will see Old Trafford as perhaps the final destination on a tour of Europe's elite destinations.
On almost every level, Van Gaal's appointment represents a significant change from the criteria United applied when bringing in Moyes as successor to Sir Alex Ferguson when he retired after 26 years as manager.
Moyes often seemed grateful United had come to him. Van Gaal will feel no such awe - indeed he may feel exactly the opposite. He will believe it is only right that executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward chose someone of his calibre to undertake the great rebuild.
Stalking the touchline with menace, often carrying a clipboard for added impact, Van Gaal will not shy away from confrontation - if there are cages to be rattled and egos to be rocked at United he will be very comfortable doing the rocking and rolling.
Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano, who worked at one of Van Gaal's former clubs Barcelona, was blunt about his confrontational approach, while at the same time acknowledging his success.
Commenting in March, Soriano said: "If you treat people badly they remember. One day you make an error and they will kill you. I've seen this in many clubs.
"Louis van Gaal has been a very good coach in many clubs but his style is very difficult. The same thing happened to him in Barcelona as in Bayern Munich.
"He is very tough, people don't like him but he wins. And one day you won't win - and when you don't win everybody that is angry with you will come back and try to kill you. In the movies this works but in real life it doesn't."
Whereas Moyes seemed to shy away from making the big decisions, giving a title-winning side a chance out of apparent deference and respect as opposed to making the changes required, Van Gaal will have no hesitation in moving on those he feels no longer serve his purpose.
Van Gaal inherits a squad in need of serious renewal. Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand are going and Patrice Evra looks certain to be replaced by Southampton's Luke Shaw at left-back.
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He will, finally, be the man to tackle the quality deficit that has existed in Manchester United's midfield for years. The names of Bayern Munich's Toni Kroos and Borussia Dortmund's Marco Reus are on the radar, while Dortmund defender Mats Hummels has also been linked.
What will he make, if anything, of United's £27m midfield misfit Marouane Fellaini when everything he has shown so far marks him down as a questionable inheritance for Van Gaal?
And what will become of unfulfilled fringe players such as Nani, Ashley Young and Tom Cleverley? Will Danny Welbeck have a part to play?
Van Gaal will happily promote talented youth so Adnan Januzaj can be expected to get the chance to flourish and build on the precocious quality he has already demonstrated.
The appointment appears to be good news for United striker Robin van Persie after an injury-troubled season punctuated by suggestions of an uneasy relationship with Moyes and what seemed a dysfunctional partnership with Wayne Rooney.
Van Gaal is close to Van Persie, who cherishes such a relationship with his managers. He made him captain of the Dutch national team so it would seem certain he will be pivotal to the new Old Trafford era.
As a man not known for diplomacy, Van Gaal must tread a fine line in this area. It would be a hazardous occupation to be seen as favouring Van Persie over Rooney, who could hold his head up high as a player who gave everything for Moyes.
If Van Gaal is the innovator he believes he is, and his track record suggests, one of his major goals and proving grounds could be to make Van Persie and Rooney a workable football marriage while also finding a role for £37.5m Juan Mata.
Ryan Giggs, as assistant, provides a link with the past, and someone with experience of how this giant footballing beast works.
But from United's point of view, this is not an appointment without risk. Van Gaal's combustible personality takes this out of safe territory.
Van Gaal's finest hour was with Ajax in the mid-'90s, although he also took Bayern to the Champions League final four years ago. He has not coached at club level since being sacked by Bayern Munich in 2011. He will, however, undoubtedly have kept his finger on the pulse and will regard the United challenge as his destiny.
When he was linked with a role at Liverpool in 2012 following Kenny Dalglish's sacking he said: "My fingers are itching. I am full of fire and want to work with players."
He will get the chance at Manchester United. The flame still burns inside one of European football's most enduring and charismatic figures - now can he light the touch paper on a new era of Old Trafford success?
The simple answer is by winning more seats in the House of Commons than all the other parties put together. There are 650 seats available, which means 326 seats are needed to win an overall majority.
However, an effective majority could be smaller as the speaker and his deputies, although MPs, do not usually vote. Also, Sinn Fein, which won five seats in Northern Ireland in 2010, traditionally refuse to swear allegiance to the Queen, and are not entitled to vote as a consequence.
Also called a "seat", in a general election, this is where the political battles are fought.
Voters in each constituency choose just one MP. The constituencies are towns or areas all of roughly the same size.
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After the last election, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats proposed changing some constituency boundaries and reducing the number of MPs. However, these plans were scuppered by backbench Tory MPs in 2012 and this year's election will be fought in the same seats as 2010.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is an MP and has to stand for re-election as Speaker in their constituency at every general election.
Traditionally the biggest parties in the House of Commons do not stand against the Speaker however some parties, such as UKIP, do.
The current Speaker, John Bercow, is standing for election in Buckingham.
The Speaker is a neutral figure in Parliament, so Mr Bercow is no longer a member of the Conservative Party as he was before his election to the role (by parliament).
However, for the purposes of calculating the number of seats belonging to each party - and calculating those held, gained or lost by each party - Mr Bercow's seat is regarded as being a Conservative constituency as he won it for the party in 1997, 2001 and 2005 before being elected speaker.
If Mr Bercow wins again, the result in Buckingham will be described as "Speaker hold" - and his seat will be added to the Conservative total.
The BBC followed exactly the same principle in 2005, when previous Speaker Michael Martin's Glasgow Springburn seat was added to the Labour party's tally.
What matters most is how many "seats" each party wins, and for things to change political parties need to win seats from each other.
Because winning seats from each other is so important, a special language is used to show this. Seats that are won can mainly fall into two categories: "hold" or "gain".
Hold: If a party wins a seat that it won in 2010, this is described as a "hold".
Gain: If a party wins a seat that it did not win at the last general election, this is called a "gain".
Win: Where there has been a by-election since the last general election and that by-election resulted in a different party gaining the seat compared to the general election result (see below).
Clearly these are really important to the opposition parties.
If they are to form a new government, they need to win seats from the existing government and other parties to make "gains", while they retain or "hold" all the seats they had last time.
By-elections are one-off elections in seats where, for example, the sitting MP has stood down or died. There have been 21 by-elections since 2010.
When the BBC reports general election results, all of these interim by-elections are ignored, to allow for straightforward comparison with 2010's seats.
Some of the terminology used to describe results in by-election seats is different.
For example: In 2010 Labour's Marsha Singh held Bradford West, but resigned in 2012. Respect's George Galloway won the seat in the subsequent by-election.
If Labour regains this seat at the general election, the BBC will describe it as a Labour "win", not a "hold" or "gain". It will not appear as a net gain in Labour's overall UK seat tally.
Another example: In Rochester & Strood, the resignation and defection to UKIP of Conservative Mark Reckless triggered a by-election in 2014. If Mr Reckless retains his seat, the result will also be described as a "UKIP win", but it will appear as a net gain in the UKIP seat tally.
The BBC adopts this policy in recognition of the very particular circumstances which often shape the outcome of by-elections.
Comparing seat change from 2010 represents a fairer way of representing how the political expression of voters has altered from general election to general election.
To win an election, a party must win enough seats in the House of Commons to form a government. To do that simply one party needs to get one more seat than all the others added together.
That is called an overall majority, but in the shorthand language of elections it is just called "a majority".
There are 650 seats in parliament, so to get one more than everyone else put together a party must get 326 or more to get a "majority".
Of course it makes things much easier for a government if they have many more MPs than all the others put together.
That number is called the "size of the majority. So, if one party were to win 326 seats, then all the other parties added together would be 324.
The majority is therefore 326 minus 324: two. So the smallest majority possible is not one seat but two.
Another quick way of working this out is to take away 325 from the number of seats that winning party has got and double the result. For example:
If the winning party has 350 seats what is the majority?
350-325=25
25x2=50
So the majority is 50.
A tip for any office sweepstake on the size of the majority is never bet on an odd number.
A hung parliament happens when no single party wins a majority over all the others.
A party can stay in power without an absolute majority by trying to forge an alliance with a smaller party to create a coalition government.
Alternatively, they can aim to reach agreements with smaller parties to support them in parliament in the event of a confidence motion aimed at bringing down the government.
Another possibility is for the biggest party to form a minority government with no agreements with other parties and just try to form majorities in favour of each individual bill as it comes up - an arrangement sometimes called "confidence and supply".
If no party is prepared to go down one of these paths then parliament will be dissolved again and there will be another election.
The last general election in 2010 ended in a hung parliament, with the Conservatives the largest party. After negotiation, a coalition government was formed between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
An exit poll is conducted by approaching voters as they leave polling stations and asking them to fill in a mock ballot paper to indicate how they have just voted.
The exit poll is carried out by polling companies NOP/Mori for the BBC/ITV News/Sky News.
The results of the exit poll will allow BBC analysts to forecast approximately how many seats each party has won.
When polls close at 2200, the BBC will broadcast the results of the exit poll. The projected seats for the top five parties based on the exit poll will be displayed in the summary graphic as grey bars.
When the first results are declared, around an hour later, parties will begin to be ordered left to right by number of seats won at that time.
As the night progresses, the summary results graphic will always display the top five parties according to seats won. All other parties' seats will be amalgamated into "Others".
Full results are always available via the link to the results homepage, which contains a listings and breakdown of seats, votes and vote share by party.
When all results are known, the summary graphic will conclude by displaying the top 5 parties by seats won in the new parliament.
In the event of a tie in the top five - eg two parties have two seats - the party with the most votes will be named.
There are no seat predictions available for parties in Northern Ireland, as the exit poll is carried out in Great Britain (GB) only.
To appear as a named party in either the overall UK scoreboard or a nation scoreboard, a party must fulfil one of the following criteria:
All parties which do not meet these criteria are amalgamated into a group called Others.
Each constituency page will always name every party standing in that constituency.
The postcode search box uses the latest available data supplied by Ordnance Survey.
Discrepancies can occasionally occur when a postcode search returns a different constituency to the one given on polling cards sent to an address at the same postcode.
Normally the constituencies concerned are next to each other, and it appears these discrepancies occur when postcodes are on the border between the two constituencies.
We would advise people affected to follow the information on their polling card in terms of the constituency they are in and the polling place to be used on 7 May.
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
Barnaby Cork was out with his family when he was struck outside the Thame Leisure Centre in Oxfordshire at 10:30 GMT on 10 December.
Despite attempts to revive him, he died on his way to hospital in air ambulance, the Oxford court heard.
Oxfordshire Coroner Darren Salter said it was a "tragic case" and adjourned the inquest until 23 March.
Barnaby's father Stefan has set up an online fundraising page to raise money for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance and has raised more than £27,700 so far.
A museum team has now put 165 million-year-old plesiosaur "Eve" together, although a few bones are missing and the skull is still embedded in clay.
They hope to put her on show but admitted she is too long and heavy for any of their current display cases.
Plesiosaurs were sea creatures that died out 66 million years ago.
The "fantastic fossil" was discovered at Must Farm quarry near Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, by archaeologists from Oxford Clay Working Group
It has an 8ft (2.5m)-long neck, a barrel-shaped body, four flippers and a short tail.
They named the creature Eve, as it was their first major find.
However, scientists at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, to which the bones were donated, are unable to confirm the sex of the plesiosaur.
"We might never know," palaeontologist Dr Hilary Ketchum said.
"It is very difficult to tell between males and females in the fossil record because soft parts are rarely preserved.
"The only definite female plesiosaur ever found was one that was discovered with a foetus preserved inside."
Dr Ketchum was tasked with putting together the "puzzle" of more than 600 pieces of bone uncovered by archaeologist Dr Carl Harrington and his team.
When various pieces were glued they were left with 232 bones plus the skull, which is still preserved in a block of clay.
Gradually, using the archaeologists' notes and Dr Ketchum's "own knowledge of plesiosaur anatomy", Eve began to take shape.
66
million years ago plesiosaurs became extinct
76 vertebrae in their necks - mammals such as humans and giraffes have just seven
5mph (8.2km/h) the top swimming speed of the creature
6m the average length
660lb (300kg) the approximate weight
A number of bones are missing including the thigh bones and parts of the tail, Dr Ketchum said.
The "delicate task" of removing the skull bones could take several months.
The clay block which encases them was CT-scanned to help scientists extract the bones without causing damage. So far they have exposed part of the lower jaw and the back of the skull near the neck.
Eventually they hope to release a time-lapse video of the process.
Scientists have said Eve could prove to be a new species of plesiosaur, as she has anatomical features that differ from other plesiosaurs found in the Oxford Clay.
The Jurassic sediment lies under parts of England from as far west as Dorset and north to Yorkshire - taking in the Peterborough area which was Eve's last resting place.
Eve's upper and lower arm bones and wrist show some differences, as do parts of the neck vertebrae, Dr Ketchum said.
"It is possible this is because Eve is a new species, however, we still have lots more research to do before we can be sure."
The museum hopes to put Eve on temporary display in the autumn, however, first they have one large problem to solve.
"Eve is the biggest and most complete plesiosaur specimen that we have. Our largest display case is just over four metres long, so it's not quite big enough for Eve to be displayed entirely straight," Dr Ketchum said.
"We might have to bend the neck around a little."
Eve was donated to the Oxford museum by Cambridgeshire landowners Forterra.
Ferdinand's wife, Rebecca, was 34 when she died of breast cancer in May 2015. Together they had three children, now aged 10, eight and five.
He said: "It kind of opened everything up and it was a beautiful moment just seeing them talk happily and being joyful about their mum rather than it being sad and negative moments.
"It switched it from dark to bright."
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The ex-Manchester United defender was speaking ahead of a BBC One documentary about grief on Tuesday 28 March.
He said: "I didn't know any techniques to speak to the children. I didn't know what buttons to push.
"I'd been starting conversations with them to try and get how they were feeling out, and they would just shut me down, walk away, close the conversation down completely."
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The situation in Turkey "appears to be calming", it said, but visitors should still avoid public places in Ankara and Istanbul, particularly demonstrations.
Coastal resorts do not appear to be significantly affected at present - but visitors should be vigilant, it said.
Britons had been advised to stay inside after a faction of the military tried to overthrow the government on Friday.
Some 265 people were killed in clashes between soldiers involved in the coup and supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
More than 6,000 people, including soldiers and judges, have been arrested, in what is being described by officials as a "clean-up operation".
Flights to and from the country are beginning to return to normal, but travellers are advised to check with their airline or tour operator before travelling, the Foreign Office added.
In the latest travel advice:
Passengers are advised to arrive at the airport earlier than normal to get through additional security checks in place.
While the Foreign Office says the security environment in Turkey remains "potentially volatile", resort areas have been relatively unaffected, according to the Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators.
Victoria Bacon, from the association, said reports from the ground were good.
"At this stage it does look calm. Certainly we're in contact with people in resorts and all of the feedback we've had is that actually things are very quiet in the resort areas," she said.
"But... the Foreign Office says keep vigilant so you should keep vigilant. And also just keep in contact with Foreign Office advice, with your tour reps - just keep informed."
Britons in Turkey have described hearing gunfire and explosions during the attempted coup.
Mike Baddeley, who is in Marmaris, said he was woken on Friday night by "a very large explosion, followed by, it seemed like one or two helicopters flying above our heads... with machine gun fire".
Louise McMillan said she was relieved to be back home in Northern Ireland on Sunday. She heard helicopters and jets overhead during her holiday, but she had to rely on reports from home to find out what was happening.
"It scared the life out of us, but you've just got to get on and hope for the best", she said.
Bamford has only played two first-team games but has caught the eye with some superb displays in the FA Youth Cup.
The 18-year-old scored four goals in the last-16 win at Southampton and five in the previous round, but he has rejected two contract offers.
Bamford is out of contract at the end of the season.
"I'm as sad as I was with Wes (Morgan) going. That's a fact of life at this football club at this moment in time," Forest boss Cotterill told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"It's tough times and I just happen to be in charge when the times have got tougher."
Heseltine, who had been driving a green Jaguar car, pulled out of a lane and into the path of the cyclist on the B4525 near Thenford, Northamptonshire, on 19 June.
The male cyclist had multiple injuries, including a broken arm and shattered knees which required plates and pins.
On Thursday at Northampton Magistrates' Court the 83-year-old peer pleaded guilty to careless driving.
Heseltine was also ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge and £85 costs, a magistrates' court clerk confirmed.
He was also handed five penalty points on his driving licence.
The blaze broke out in the detached property in Hangersley Hill, Ringwood, just after 06:30 BST. The owners were not at home and no-one was injured.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said flames had spread through the entire building, but crews had surrounded the fire and brought it under control.
Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising into the air at the height of the fire from the nearby A31.
The pair, regarded by many as the greatest players of all time, have played out the last two Olympic finals, with Lin winning on both occasions.
But, amid huge interest in their home countries, Lee won 15-21 21-11 22-20 in a classic 79-minute encounter.
He could now become Malaysia's first Olympic gold medallist.
"This is my last Olympics and I have never won the gold medal so now it's just one more step," the Malaysian, 33, said.
"I think it's good for my retirement."
The pair have dominated men's badminton in recent years, with Lin leading the head-to-head record 25-11 before the match, including wins in two Olympic and two World Championship finals.
The match in Rio is likely to be their last in the Olympics, with Lin, 32, a year younger than his rival.
Lin said: "I feel relieved because today's match has ended.
"I think today's biggest result is that our audience - no matter if they are here live or watching on TV - can enjoy a really good match that has the best quality ever. I think that is one of the best points."
Lee will play Chen Long of China in Saturday's final at 13:20 BST.
Hospital chiefs have rejected plans for next year's payment system, warning that safe care could not be guaranteed under what was being proposed.
Much of a hospital's funding comes from a set of tariffs that rewards them per patient treated.
NHS bosses had proposed a cut of just under 4% - once inflation is taken into account - as part of a savings drive.
The dispute does not affect services, but is a sign of the mounting pressure on the hospital sector.
Waiting-time targets are already being missed for A&E, cancer and routine operations and at the halfway point of the 2014-15 tax year, the NHS was £630m overspent.
NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts, said it was the fifth year of cuts to the payment system - and hospitals could no longer cope.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said the decision to reject the proposals had "not been taken lightly", but 80% of hospitals were now in deficit.
"It is a clear response from the front line that they can no longer guarantee sustainable and safe care," he added.
The dispute may now have to be considered by the Competition and Markets Authority - the first time such a move has happened since the system changed under the Health and Social Care Act.
If it is not resolved by April, it will mean the payment rates for this year are carried over. As they are more generous, that would put even more pressure on budgets.
NHS England, which is in charge of the payment system along with Monitor, the economic regulator for the NHS, said changing the plans would be "robbing Peter to pay Paul".
The reduction in the tariff had been proposed to free up more money for services outside of hospitals as part of the push to move care into the community.
The restrictions were part of wide ranging immigration controls that also suspended refugee arrivals. It appears that existing restrictions in place during the Obama administration informed Mr Trump's list.
These countries were already named as "countries of concern" after a law passed by a Republican-led Congress in 2015 altered a visa admissions programme.
The Visa Waiver Program allows citizens from 38 countries to enter the US for 90 days without a visa. The UK, France and Germany are among those countries allowed in under the waiver programme. Visitors apply for an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (Esta).
In December 2015 Congress passed a law - created by senators from both parties, and supported and signed by the White House - that removed waiver benefits for foreign nationals who had visited certain countries since March 2011. The countries were identified as having a terrorist organisation with a significant presence in the area, or the country was deemed a "safe haven" for terrorists.
After Libya, Somalia and Yemen were added to the list in February 2016, the "countries of concern" were the seven named in Mr Trump's order.
According to the restrictions, citizens who had been eligible for the waiver programme and had visited one of those seven countries in the time period were forced to apply for a visa.
The Obama administration passed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 after the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. The Act, however, unlike Trump's much more broad order, only affected people eligible for the visa waiver programme, rather than suspend all citizens' travel from one of those seven countries.
In a statement on 29 January, President Trump said his policy was "similar" to an Obama order that "banned visa for refugees from Iraq".
Trump referred to an incident in May 2011 when the FBI indicted two Iraqi citizens in Kentucky on federal terrorism charges. Both were accused of providing material support to al-Qaeda and had been involved in attacks against US forces in Iraq.
A hearing before the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence found that the pair had "exploited special Iraqi refugee programs". The vetting system came under review and this resulted in fewer Iraqi refugee admissions that year.
The number of refugees from Iraq dropped from 18,016 to 9,388 as a result of the suspension. That number increased to 12,163 the following year.
Mr Trump's order said that foreign-born individuals have been responsible for "numerous" terrorism-related crimes since 9/11, including foreign nationals who have entered the country on visa or refugee programmes. The 9/11 attackers came from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Lebanon and Egypt.
In September 2015 the Homeland Security Committee reported that the so-called Islamic State had inspired or directed 60 terror plots or attacks in Western countries, including 15 in the United States. There are 250 American citizens known to have joined Islamist extremist groups.
Significant recent attacks in the US were not committed by citizens from any of the seven countries included in the order. This list includes:
There have been a few non-fatal attacks by individuals from two of the countries on the banned list.
According to the New America Foundation, 82% of all terrorism incidents since 2001 were conducted by citizens and permanent residents. Since 9/11, jihadists have killed 94 people inside the United States.
A Cato Institute study found that Americans are 253 times more likely to die in a regular homicide than dying in a terrorist attack committed by a foreigner in the US.
US Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have said the order "may do more to help terrorist recruitment than improve our security", because of the signal it sends to the Muslim world.
But President Trump has rejected that notion, saying in an interview that America's enemies were already angry and it was his number one responsibility to keep the country safe. And his supporters wholeheartedly agree.
"Donald Trump says this is temporary and I trust him," said one resident in New York's Staten Island. "His number one job is to protect the American people."
The 30-year-old South African is set to make his first appearance of the season following a knee injury against Surrey in the T20 Blast at the Oval.
Ingram has been a spectator as Glamorgan have failed to win any of their six County Championship matches.
"It's been a really tough start to the season," Ingram said.
"It might be really good for us to change the format up completely and change the momentum of the season and keep building on that with a really good run in the next couple of months coming."
Ingram will need an operation to "clean-up" his knee which he injured during the warm-up to Glamorgan's first game of the season.
But he has chosen to return to the team because he wants to "get as much cricket as I can out of the season."
Ingram added: "I've torn a cartilage in my knee and at some stage I'm going to need an operation to clean that up.
"If I go for that operation now it could 10 or 12 weeks out again."
However, Ingram insists it is not a risk to play and is looking forward to his return to the Oval where he scored 91 off 47 balls in Glamorgan's most impressive win last season.
"We showed last season we could beat anyone on any day. A few wickets up front wouldn't go awry either," he added.
"It's been pretty frustrating and it's just been great the last couple of days just joining up with the squad again and I'm just ready to go."
The 38-year-old said he was "honestly sorry" and hoped families would find peace if he was convicted, news agency DPA reported.
Identified only as Niels H under German court reporting rules, the accused told the court he acted on impulse.
"Usually the decision to do it was relatively spontaneous," he said.
Niels H has been on trial in Oldenburg in the north of Germany since September and is accused of murder and attempted murder.
The deaths occurred at the Delmenhorst clinic, where the man worked in the intensive care unit between 2003 and 2005.
He is alleged to have killed three patients and attempted to kill two others during that time, using a heart medication that lowers blood pressure.
A psychiatric expert last month said Niels H had admitted to the crimes and also claimed to have over-medicated another 90 patients, 30 of whom died.
His plan was to trigger medical emergencies so he could resuscitate his victims but he also acted out of boredom, the court heard.
The defendant said: "There was a tension there, and an expectation of what would happen next."
He claimed that each time someone died, he decided he would never do it again. But his determination would then slowly fade, he added.
Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for Niels H, who at a first trial was convicted of attempted murder in 2008 and imprisoned for seven and a half years.
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The Barcelona forward curled home a free-kick after only 12 minutes, and Luan added a second after the break.
Brazil will now play Honduras in Wednesday's semi-finals after they won 1-0 against South Korea, thanks to Alberth Elis's winner.
Germany play Nigeria in the other last-four match.
The Africans beat Denmark 2-0 in their quarter-final, while Germany won 4-0 against Portugal.
Brazil's second pool win came after 0-0 draws with Iraq and South Africa, and a 4-0 victory over Denmark.
Neymar, the poster boy for the Games, finally got off the mark at the fourth attempt when he curled home from 25 yards out.
He then provoked a mass brawl between the two teams after a heavy challenge on Andres Roa, and five yellow cards were handed out.
Brazil made sure of a place in their third consecutive Olympic semi-final when Luan's effort from outside the area beat goalkeeper Cristian Bonilla.
Kinde, 36, was the last of the 10 refugee athletes to compete in Rio, coming 90th in the men's marathon on Sunday.
The team of swimmers, judokas and runners competed under the flag of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
IOC president Thomas Bach said the athletes were selected to "send a message of hope to all the refugees of the world".
"We are equal now," said Kinde, who is originally from Ethiopia. "We compete like human beings, like the others.
"We are 10 refugees selected by the IOC and their flag leads us. Sixty-five million follow us, more than one country. We are inspiring them."
Here are the athletes of the Refugee Olympic Team, their stories and how they got on in Rio.
Who is he? The 25-year-old fled war-torn Syria in 2015, travelling by boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Turkey before continuing to Belgium.
How did he do? Anis earned a standing ovation after setting a personal best in the men's 100m freestyle. He clocked 54.25 seconds to finish 56th out of 59 in the heats. On Thursday, his time of 56.23secs in the 100m butterfly saw him ranked 40th out of 43 in the heats.
What did he say? "It's a wonderful feeling to compete in the Olympics. I don't want to wake up from this dream."
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Who is he? The "lost" South Sudanese runner lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for 10 years after escaping a civil war. He started running competitively just over a year ago. Despite the weather being unfavourable for training during the day, and there being no facilities, he continues to compete.
How did he do? Biel finished last in the heats for the men's 800m, in a time of one minute 54.67 seconds and failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
What did he say? "Sport gave me a sense of belonging. Even if I don't get gold or silver, I will show the world that, as a refugee, you can do something."
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Who is he? James Chiengijek fled his home to avoid being recruited as a child solider, like many of the "lost boys of Sudan" who made it to refugee camps in Kenya from which several long-distance runners have emerged. He picked up injuries as a result of having the wrong footwear, but that did not stop him.
How did he do? Chiengjiek finished eighth in his heat for the men's 400m, in a time of 52.89secs.
What did he say? "My dream is to get good results at the Olympics and also to help people. Because I have been supported by someone, I also want to support someone."
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Who is he? Paulo Lokoro was a cattle herder in South Sudan, until the war broke out and he fled to join his parents in Kenya. On the journey there was only fruit to eat, and when he arrived at the refugee camp he did not even have any shoes.
How did he do? Lokoro finished 12th in his heat for the men's 1500m and 39th overall, with a time of 4:03.96 meaning he failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
What did he say? "A dream would be to break a record. To win a medal, a gold, that is my dream."
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Who is she? Since the age of six, Anjelina Lohalith has been disconnected from her family in South Sudan after escaping civil war. The 21-year-old hopes her running career will allow her to help improve the life of her family, return one day and help her father build a better house.
How did she do? Lohalith finished 14th in the second of the women's 1500m heats, with a time of 4:47.38.
What did she say? "I'm happy because it will be the first time refugees are represented in the Olympics. It will inspire other refugees because wherever they are they will see that they are not just the 'other people'."
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Who is she? Rose Lokonyen discovered her talent for running at a 10km competition at her refugee camp in Kenya, where she came second. She only started running with shoes last year. The South Sudanese runner believes she would have died if she and her family had not left the country when she was 10.
How did she do? Lokonyen finished seventh in her women's 800m heat, where a time of 2:16:64 was not quick enough to see her progress.
What did she say? "My dream, my first priority, is to help my parents and my siblings and then after that to help my fellow refugees."
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Who is he? The Ethiopian marathon runner had to leave his native country because of political problems, and has been living in Luxembourg since 2013. He has a personal best marathon time of two hours 17 minutes and would qualify for the Olympic team if he had his citizenship.
How did he do? Kinde came 90th in the marathon in a time of two hours 24 minutes eight seconds.
What did he say? "I can't explain the feeling, it has power, it's amazing. It's very good news for refugee athletes that Olympic Solidarity have given us this chance to participate here."
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Who is she? Yolande Mabika left the Democratic Republic of Congo three years ago to escape the country's civil war, moving to Rio. She was separated from her family at a very young age. On her arrival in Brazil, she was taken to a centre for displaced children, where she took up judo.
How did she do? She was knocked out in the first round of the -70kg contest by Israel's Linda Bolder.
What did she say? "Judo never gave me money, but it gave me a strong heart. I got separated from my family and used to cry a lot. I started judo to have a better life."
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Who is she? Mardini is known for rescuing 20 people in a capsizing boat after fleeing Damascus from the conflict in Syria. She used her talent in open water swimming to swim for three hours and help everybody survive the journey to Germany.
How did she do? She won her women's 100m butterfly heat, but her time was not quick enough for her to progress. She also failed to progress in the 100m freestyle.
What did he say? "I want everyone to think refugees are normal people who had their homelands and lost them, not because they wanted to run away and be refugees."
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Who is he? Popole Misenga grew up in Bukavu area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was severely affected by the Second Congo War. When he was six, his mother was murdered, and he fled to a nearby rain forest, where he wandered for a week before being found and returned to Kinshasa, the country's capital. He sought asylum in Brazil in 2013.
How did he do? Misenga beat India's Avtar Singh in his opening match, but lost by ippon to South Korea's Gwak Dong-han.
What has he said? "I have two brothers and I haven't seen them, I don't know how they look any more because we were separated since we were small. So I send hugs and kisses to my brothers."
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Mathias Depardon, 37, was being held in the south-eastern city of Gaziantep, accused of propaganda links with outlawed Kurdish militants.
The group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said his detention was "illegal".
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to intercede.
The Istanbul-based photographer was on assignment for National Geographic magazine when he was detained in Hasankeyf, in the south-eastern Batman province, on 8 May.
The accusation of "propaganda for a terrorist organisation" was a possible allusion to photos of members of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which had been published in French media outlets, RSF said in a statement.
The police apparently found the images while looking at the photographer's social media accounts following his detention, the group added.
His deportation comes a day after his mother visited him in detention. Mr Macron said on Twitter he was "very happy" with the news.
RSF said Depardon's detention was "further evidence of the suspicion with which foreign journalists are increasingly treated in Turkey".
"Depardon's only crime was practising journalism, so his detention is illegal and arbitrary," RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said earlier this week.
Dozens of foreign journalists have been expelled from Turkey since fighting between the Turkish army and the PKK flared up in July 2015, after the end of a two-year ceasefire, the group added.
Turkey is ranked 155th out of 180 countries in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index by RSF.
In an open letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 45 US lawmakers said Haiti needed a strong, representative government in the wake of January's disaster which made a million and a half homeless and, according to the Haitian government, left more than 200,000 dead.
The letter said the decision of the electoral authorities, the Provisional Electoral Council, to exclude some of the most popular candidates from the 28 November poll, so potentially conferring decisions to a government perceived as illegitimate, was a "recipe for disaster".
The US lawmakers say the exclusion of candidates, including those from Fanmi Lavalas, which they describe as "Haiti's largest political party", risks causing popular unrest.
And they go as far as quoting former US President John Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Fanmi Lavalas leaders, some of whom are loyal to the exiled former Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, have been barred on technical grounds following a dispute between candidates.
The popular Haitian hip hop singer Wyclef Jean was excluded from running in the presidential poll because he was said not to meet eligibility requirements.
The lawmakers' letter to Mrs Clinton, issued last Thursday, says excluding candidates will undermine both the right of Haitians to vote and the resulting government's ability to govern.
The current Haitian government led by President Rene Preval has rejected allegations that it is excluding popular candidates for political reasons.
It said Fanmi Lavalas was split and some of its leaders unrepresentative of the party. And it said Wyclef Jean had spent too much of his time resident in the United States to be eligible for election.
In Haiti's fluid political landscape some prominent members of the current government claim allegiance to Fanmi Lavalas.
But many ordinary Haitian voters spontaneously say they support populists like Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Wyclef Jean, and they express deep scepticism about the current administration because it is not seen to have responded well to their needs after the earthquake.
The letter to Mrs Clinton said allowing the elections to proceed with the exclusions in place would "come back to haunt the international community" because the government that is elected will have to make difficult decisions about post-earthquake reconstruction and spend large amounts of aid money.
"Running transparently unfair, exclusive elections with the support of the international community, will leave many Haitians to conclude that they have no choice but to protest the elections and the consequent government through social disruption," the letter says.
Finally, the letter concludes that the US government should not provide any funding to elections that do not meet "basic democratic requirements".
Ten people were arrested after police officers and other personnel surrounded the remote property in a canyon in northern Los Angeles County.
As well as the birds, firearms and drugs were found in the area.
Cockfighting, which is illegal in every state in the US, involves two birds fighting each other to the death.
Captain Jeff Parry, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, told a press conference: "This, according to the experts here, is the largest seizure in US history of illegal cockfighting roosters."
Most of those detained by his officers were "at the lower level, the caretakers, entrusted with feeding and caring for the animals", while the property owner was the main suspect.
More arrests are expected, with some of those already detained caught after being chased through the canyon by mounted police officers.
Video of the raid shows officers discovering bodies of birds which Cpt Parry said bore "wounds consistent with cockfighting".
As well as the birds, a number of mobile fighting pit and "hundreds of slashers" - which are attached to the animals feet during fights - were discovered on the site, along with syringes and steroids.
This is not the first time the property has been raided.
Eric Sakach, of the Humane Society of the United States, told the press conference that about 2,700 birds were seized in 2007.
Assets were reportedly seized in just over 100 cases in Switzerland last year out of almost 30,000 asylum applications.
The Swiss Refugee Council has criticised the practice as unworthy.
But the government says the policy reflects the will of Swiss voters.
The UN refugee agency and human rights groups have condemned Danish proposals to seize migrants' cash and other individual items worth more than 10,000 kroner (£1,000; €1,340, $1,450) to pay for their stay.
Danish MPs debated the plans on Wednesday and the bill is expected to be voted on later in the month.
Asylum seekers in Switzerland are required to declare their assets on arrival, and anything over $1,000 can be taken.
The authorities collected a total of 210,000 Swiss francs ($210,000; €200,000) from 112 people in 2015 under the regulation, public broadcaster SRF reported on Thursday (in German).
Government spokeswoman Lea Wertheimer told Swiss television: "Swiss law states that asylum-seeking refugees who have money have to contribute to the costs that they cause while being here.
"And that's why we take their valuables away once they arrive in Switzerland."
But Stefan Frey, from the Swiss Refugee Council, described the practice as "daylight robbery".
"This is unworthy" he was quoted as saying. "This has to change."
A Syrian man told Swiss television that he had been forced to sell his house to pay people traffickers to help his family flee the conflict in their country, but the money left over was seized when he arrived in Switzerland.
"In Zurich we were controlled by the police. They took away all our money," he said, explaining that he had about £2,000 at the time.
"It seems that it is their right to take it away. They gave us a receipt. The officers promised that the money would be returned, but until now this has not happened."
On Wednesday, the UNHCR criticised the proposals being considered in Denmark, saying it was hard to believe that the country wanted to confiscate the few belongings that asylum seekers had managed to save.
But Integration Minister Inger Stojberg said the measures simply put migrants on an equal footing with jobless Danes, who must sell assets above a certain level to claim benefits.
Wedding rings and other items of sentimental value will not be included in the plans.
Unlike Denmark, Switzerland is not a member of the EU - but it is part of the Schengen Agreement, which is supposed to enable passport-free travel between countries.
Some countries have reintroduced border controls amid concerns over the arrival of more than a million migrants in Europe last year.
On a sandy stretch of waste ground a few miles outside Tripoli, a small crowd of militiamen gather almost excitedly around a large yellow earthmover. The digger is excavating a huge hole in the ground.
From the pile of earth at the side of the hole a few bones are sticking out. Bones that are immediately recognisable as belonging to humans: long leg bones and pieces of skull. This is a mass grave.
At this particular site, Ahmed Atar, a medical student and militia member, tells me there may be as many as 30 or 35 bodies.
"These were people killed right at the start of last year's revolution," he tells me.
"When the regime wanted to clean the streets of Tripoli, so it could show off to the foreign press how much it was in control, they shot protesters and buried their bodies here."
Hisham Sharif is hoping his brother has not met a similar fate. I went back with him to En Zara prison. This is where 40-year-old Tarek was last seen after he was detained at the clinic where he worked as a doctor.
As long as there is a chance his brother may be alive, or that he can at least recover his body, Hisham will try anything and has already given a DNA sample to a central data bank.
"I don't know if he's dead or alive," Hisham says with tears in his eyes as we look over the prison courtyard, now full of captured Gaddafi loyalists. "I just need to know where Tarek is."
Later, at a small centre established to help families of the missing, I gaze at a huge wall of photographs. There are about 800 pictures, mainly of young men, but also some older men and a few women.
Crucially, they are not just opponents of the former Gaddafi regime but men in uniform and others who either supported or served the former leader.
These are some of Libya's missing - a gap on the wall indicates where a photo has been removed, not because someone has been found alive but because their body has been identified.
Officials at the organisation set up to help families of the missing said some of them had been abducted on the direct orders of Abdullah al-Senussi, Col Gaddafi's hated head of intelligence.
The Libyan government has now requested his extradition after he was reportedly detained over the weekend in neighbouring Mauritania.
To be blunt, Libya is ill-equipped to do much about the missing. Central government is alarmingly weak and ministries are barely more organised than the country's many armed militias.
Soaade Messoudi from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says relatives of the missing should not expect too much, too soon - especially in a country with little expertise in forensics. Excavating graves with diggers is not the best way to preserve bodies or collate evidence.
"These people are so desperate that, even during the fighting, they would go to grave sites and dig up the bodies, thinking they would find their loved ones," Messoudi tells me from the base in Tripoli where the ICRC is trying to advise and help the fledgling and inexperienced Libyan authorities.
"It just isn't going to happen quickly, they have to be told this is a process that will take years."
During part of last year's uprising, much of the international media was "billeted" by the Gaddafi government at the infamous Rixos hotel in Tripoli. At night we would often hear the sound of gunfire from the woods behind the hotel.
This week my suspicions were confirmed when I was shown a video of dozens of dead bodies, lying in a ditch behind the Rixos.
They were, apparently, activists picked up from their homes in Tripoli and brought here to be executed.
By the time they were discovered many of the bodies were unidentifiable.
No-one has lost more than Abu Salam. Photographs of five smart young men, all college graduates, are spread out on the carpet in front of him. Abu Salam has not seen or heard from his sons since they were all abducted by Gaddafi's police last summer.
"One of the boys, Ahmed, was picked up when he went out walking. They beat him and forced him call his brothers for help, saying he'd been in an accident.
"They were all taken in the space of 15 minutes. It was an ambush," Abu Salam told me in the living room of a large family home that he had built with his sons.
Human rights groups say there are as many as 8,000 missing or disappeared people in Libya.
The old man keeps a lonely vigil in the hope that at least one of his boys may come home.
The incident, involving a black Volkswagen Polo, happened on King Street, Brynmawr, at about 00:25 BST.
The victim, named by Gwent Police as Sophie Brimble from Crickhowell, Powys, died at the scene.
A 24-year-old man was seriously injured and is being treated at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
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Check out Greece's entry - Freaky Fortune - who are performing their track Rise Up while bouncing on a trampoline!
The final takes place on Saturday in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Watch the video clip to see them in action.
The Loons were comfortable 4-1 winners while Clyde won 2-0 at Elgin City.
Berwick Rangers leapfrogged Arbroath into third thanks to a 2-0 victory at Cowdenbeath as Arbroath grabbed a late 1-1 draw against Annan Athletic.
And Montrose beat bottom side Edinburgh City 1-0 to go eighth and leave City on one point - four points adrift.
Andy Munro headed home a David Cox corner to give Forfar the lead before Sean Dickson levelled for the visitors on the stroke of half-time with a superb strike from the edge of the area.
Forfar went in front again when Gavin Swankie teed up Josh Peters, who soon grabbed his second with a shot from distance. Danny Denholm completed the scoring in added time as Forfar maintained their 100% league record.
Sean Higgins' early strike was added to by Peter MacDonald for Clyde, who had Martin McNiff sent off near the end.
Gary Fraser's close-range strike was enough for Montrose to secure victory away to City, despite Terry Masson being dismissed.
Two first-half goals from Steven Thomson moved Berwick up to third in the table.
Ryan McCord's stoppage-time equaliser denied Annan at Gayfield. Earlier, Arbroath goalkeeper Robbie Mutch could only parry Omar Kadar's shot into the path of David McKenna, who put the visitors ahead.
Increasing numbers of young graduates are tempted by UK salaries up to three times what they might earn at home.
A body representing UK recruitment companies has admitted a few agencies "misrepresent" the work they offer.
Health Education England says it is increasing the number of nurse training places in England to fill NHS gaps.
In an HEE film, used to attract EU nurses, new arrivals to the NHS in the West Midlands are asked why they left Spain and Portugal.
They refer to the career and skills opportunities in the UK - as well as higher salaries.
But Portugal has its own nursing shortages.
The vice-president of Portugal's nursing regulator, Dr Bruno Gomes, told BBC News: "Some recruitment firms have very aggressive tactics.
"The companies - mainly from the UK - come to the nursing schools, and hold big conferences in the fourth year of the degree.
"Among the conditions they offer is free language training, and sometimes accommodation for three or even six months."
Spanish Council of Nursing president Dr Maximo Jurado told BBC News: "They lie - they fool nurses.
"Perhaps a group of nurses go to a country, rent a flat, and they think they are going to work at a particular hospital.
"Then that company organising temporary work sends nurses one day to a hospital in one city, another day to a different hospital in a different city."
Spain sends the largest number of nurses to the UK - about 2,000 last year.
Dr Jurado added: "There is a more general problem of poor planning by the NHS.
"Any health service in any country has to do appropriate planning for the future - because otherwise nurses will have to be recruited from other countries.
"We are all trying to plan for the future, in order not to have such a big gap."
Sometimes, the NHS enters into formal overseas agreements with local staffing boards - 150 nurses from Venice came to three hospitals in Manchester in this way.
Dr Genarro Rocco, who helps lead Italy's nursing colleges, said: "We have had just a few complaints, but these are from nurses who were told they would be working in a hospital - and they end up providing just basic care instead.
"On other occasions, they were maybe getting a lower salary than what was promised."
Samantha Hurley, from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (Apsco), said: ""We are aware that misrepresentation can happen when recruitment firms engage professional healthcare workers from other EU countries.
"The issue is one of a lack of understanding of the process.
"In order to practise in the UK, healthcare professionals must register with the appropriate professional body and obtain a Pin number.
"Without which, for instance, a band-five nurse would not be able to work as such and would be in a position where they had to accept a band-two healthcare assistant role instead."
Apsco says foreign staff need comprehensive preparation and induction - as one study indicated up to a third returned home within a year.
Ms Hurley added: "We believe that the vast majority of recruitment firms which provide international staff are doing so in an ethical manner and are ensuring workers are properly inducted.
"But a minority of recruitment firms, based not only in the UK but also in other EU countries, are shipping over large quantities of workers without the appropriate support."
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The refugee team competed with the rest of the world as "equal human beings" at the Rio Olympics, marathon runner Yonas Kinde says.
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The 34-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest early in the second half of the third-round tie while playing for the French sixth-division side.
The medical services treated him on the pitch but were unable to revive him.
Derme had been capped four times by Burkina Faso and had played in the French lower leagues and in Moldova, as well as in Burkina Faso.
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Former Burkina Faso international Ben Idrissa Derme has died during a French Cup tie for amateur side AJ Biguglia.
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Jean Evans, from St Clears, joined Carmarthenshire Constabulary as a Woman Police Constable in 1953, aged 21.
In 1958 she was promoted to sergeant in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire Constabulary - the first female in the force to rise to the rank.
Now in her eighties, Mrs Evans said the role was very different to that today.
"Discipline was strict," she said.
"Policewomen were required to keep their hair short, not wear jewellery and seldom removed their hats.
"Indeed, if you were seen without your hat you would be put on a charge."
In the 1950s, policewomen were responsible for dealing with women and children, and one of Mrs Evans' responsibilities as a sergeant was to supervise policewomen in other stations.
She would regularly visit each of the 39 pubs in Carmarthen, where underage drinking was rife and indecent language was "dealt with firmly", with the culprits often ending up in court.
Mrs Evans said: "All we had was a whistle and no radios or anything like that."
She recalled a day when she was dropped off at a road block in the countryside and forgotten about.
"I had to eat blackberries from the hedgerow until I was picked up," she said.
"As darkness fell I managed to get a message to headquarters via a passing motorist. It turned out the suspects had been arrested earlier and I had been forgotten."
One of the first cases Mrs Evans was involved in was the notorious 1953 Pendine murders of John and Phoebe Harries, which were investigated by Det Supt John Capstick of Scotland Yard.
Their nephew Ronnie Harries was convicted of their murders and was one of the last men to be hanged in Wales.
Fresh out of training school, Mrs Evans was tasked with looking after the families involved during the court proceedings.
"Being a local girl I knew Ronnie Harries personally and was also a school friend of his wife," she said.
"I was in court throughout the trial and witnessed him being found guilty of murder and the judge donning his black cap sentencing Harries to hang.
"Carmarthen town square was full of people throughout the trial, they gathered daily from 3:30am."
Mrs Evans is the widow of the late Supt Delme Evans.
Today, she is an active member of Dyfed-Powys Police National Association of Retired Police Officers and holds a number of charitable roles in the Carmarthen community.
She recently visited the police's headquarters where she presented an embroidered force crest to the Chief Constable Mark Collins.
It was originally presented to the late Ch Supt Donald Griffiths on his retirement and, after he died, it was held in the safekeeping of Mrs Evans.
She has also donated a number of items for the force museum.
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Brandon Astor Jones was sentenced to the death penalty 36 years ago, after being convicted of killing a shop manager during a robbery.
His execution was delayed by several hours after his lawyers filed a last-minute appeal with the Supreme Court.
Georgia has executed about 60 people since 1976, and has dozens of people on death row.
Jones was given a lethal injection in the early hours of Wednesday at a prison in Jackson, after accepting a final prayer.
He and another man, Van Roosevelt Solomon, were both convicted of the killing of store manager Roger Tackett during a robbery in 1979. Solomon was executed in 1985.
Jones's supporters argued that he had denied shooting Mr Tackett, and that the court had not considered evidence of mental illness and sexual abuse as a child.
In a statement issued before his execution, the Death Penalty Information Center said Jones was "two weeks short of his 73rd birthday" and that his case "raises questions of proportionality and discriminatory application of the death penalty".
A federal judge had overturned Jones's death sentence in 1989, saying that the jurors had improperly brought a Bible into the deliberation room, which could have influenced their decision.
Jones was re-sentenced to death in 1997.
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The US state of Georgia has executed its oldest death row inmate, a 72-year-old man.
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Hodgson feels that Leicester's Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane of Spurs have been "a sensation" this season.
The form of England and Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney is also encouraging to Hodgson.
"We are pleased Wayne has pulled himself out of that trough," Hodgson told BBC's Match of the Day.
Rooney went eight Premier League games without a goal, but has scored five times since the start of 2016 and Hodgson believes England's all-time leading goalscorer will have a key role to play in the summer.
"He's an important player, our captain and a player we need to depend upon for the Euros," added Hodgson.
Vardy, 29, is the Premier League's top scorer with 18 goals and his top-of-the-table side face third-placed Arsenal on Sunday.
Kane, who has netted 15 league goals, will also be in action on Sunday as his Tottenham team in second play away at fellow title challengers Manchester City.
"We have a lot of possibilities in terms of formation," said Hodgson.
"We can play in a diamond, or with one centre forward, and the big thing is Kane and Vardy who have both been such a sensation."
England begin their Euro 2016 Group B campaign against Russia on Saturday, 11 June before facing Wales on 16 June and Slovakia on 21 June.
The option of playing Spurs' Dele Alli, 19, and Everton's Ross Barkley, 22, together in the same England midfield is one that Hodgson thinks could work.
"The midfield is looking really good," added Hodgson. "We talked a lot about Ross and what he needs to add, if he can add a few more goals, and he is doing that now.
"We have several formations, there no reason why Ross and Dele can't play in the same team because they are all-round players."
The form of uncapped midfielders Danny Drinkwater, 25, of Leicester and West Ham 28-year-old Mark Noble has also been noticed by Hodgson.
"It is good to see Mark Noble and Danny Drinkwater doing so well," said the 68-year-old.
"We are pretty happy with our midfield, but it is nice to have extra competition.
"We can never close the door. Mark is a very good character, as is Danny Drinkwater I believe."
Hodgson also confirmed that he rang Southampton goalkeeper Fraser Forster during the 27-year-old's lengthy lay-off with a knee injury before he returned to action in January 2016.
"Having him and Joe (Hart) and Jack (Butland) means we are as strong as England have been.
"I tried to keep in touch with the players. Fraser is a very good character. Joe is playing well, Jack is paying well.
"Jack wasn't playing, Fraser was injured and Ben Foster was injured, but now they are back again, which is excellent."
So it's understandable that everything she's done since the National League for Democracy's victory last November has been focused on avoiding a repeat of 1990 and making sure that this time power is actually transferred.
There's been no victory rally, no triumphalism, and respectful overtures have been made not just to the current president and the commander in chief of the army, but also the former military ruler Than Shwe.
Much to the frustration of the local media The Lady has been saying very little about how the talks are progressing.
There's been no word on whether she's still pushing to be president, whether the constitution might be changed, or who she has in mind for the government she plans to lead.
Though it was talked up a few months ago the prospect of the NLD nominating Ms Suu Kyi for president appears to have receded.
She's still barred by the constitution because her sons are British not Burmese, but there had been speculation that a deal might be struck to waive or suspend the clause.
If that is the plan, those in the know, both in the army and in the NLD, are very good at keeping secrets.
It now seems likely that Ms Suu Kyi has chosen to consolidate her win and stick with the plan she articulated pre-election. That she would nominate someone loyal and that she would lead the government from "above" them.
That moment is fast approaching. Myanmar's newly elected parliament gathers for the first time on Monday and one of its first tasks will be to choose a successor to Thein Sein.
Such is the numerical advantage of the NLD in parliament and Ms Suu Kyi's dominance over party affairs, that the presidency is effectively her gift to give.
So are we closer to knowing who that puppet president might be?
From Ms Suu Kyi there have been few clues, apart from indicating it would be a civilian and a current party member.
The elderly men who make up the leadership of the NLD are less discreet. When journalists call, if they've got information they tend to talk.
So last week there was a flurry of excitement when long-time NLD spokesman Nyan Win told the French news agency AFP the names of the party's candidates for lower and upper house speaker.
U Win Myint, who's been very visible during the transition talks, was apparently in line to take the powerful position of speaker of the lower house. So not president.
His appointment was later confirmed by the party. But the "leak" of information was revealing and clearly infuriated Ms Suu Kyi. Shortly afterwards the NLD released a statement.
"The NLD has been delicately handling matters at the moment," it said.
"That's why only the NLD chair [Ms Suu Kyi] has the right to speak regarding the issues of NLD policies and transitional matters."
It was a clear expression of what many already knew. Party policy and strategy is being driven by Ms Suu Kyi and a small group of advisers around her.
She doesn't trust anyone else not to mess it up.
Then this week came another clue in the presidential puzzle. Aung San Suu Kyi's personal doctor suddenly made an appearance at a key meeting with army Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing.
Dr Tin Myo Win has long been mentioned as a possible presidential pick. He meets Ms Suu Kyi's two stated criteria - as a civilian and an NLD member, and is one of her closest confidantes.
During her years under house arrest he was one of the few people the generals allowed to visit at her house on University Avenue. In recent years the doctor has also become more involved in the politics of the NLD, and has helped shape its policies on healthcare.
When I spoke to him on the phone in December I asked him directly if he would serve as Myanmar's president if asked to.
"I'm not interested," he said. "I'm a surgeon so I more or less prefer to do my job rather than the other things."
Take that with a pinch of salt. If he's not interested in politics why then was he suddenly one of the four people Ms Suu Kyi chose to sit alongside her at important discussions with the army?
Dr Tin Myo Win hadn't been involved in transition talks before and Ms Suu Kyi didn't look in need of medical back-up.
Could this have been a first opportunity for Ms Suu Kyi to introduce the commander-in-chief to her hand-picked president? A way of ensuring that things go smoothly when his name is proposed in parliament?
We'll soon know for sure. For now there's no-one to allowed to give us the official answer, apart from Ms Suu Kyi.
Chris Foote Wood, from Darlington, has run a crowdfunding campaign to erect a life-size sculpture of his sister, who died of cancer in April aged 62.
However he is now seeking a further £10,000 to cast and transport the solid bronze statue and fix it in place.
"Thanks to hundreds of Victoria's fans, we can now pay the sculptor," he said.
"Casting in bronze is an expensive exercise, and there are transport and fixing costs."
Bury Council is providing the site in Library Gardens in Manchester Road and will maintain the sculpture.
Dame Judi Dench has pledged £1,000 to the fund, while an anonymous donor gave £740 on Tuesday to push it over the £20,000 mark.
That donor wrote: "Your sister made me laugh hard from the age of 14 until she left us (a whopping 32 years)... will continue to do so for the remainder of my days. This feels the least I can do in return. Made it!"
Foote Wood is also asking fans to vote on whether the statue depicts her as Bren from Dinnerladies or Kimberley's friend.
Kimberley's friend is currently in the lead with 56% of the vote. It costs £2 to cast a vote and the poll closes at noon on Monday 17 October.
If the full funds can be raised, the statue is expected to be erected by May or June next year.
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This predates all previous ancient DNA sequences by more than 500,000 years.
The study in the journal Nature was made possible because the bone was found preserved in Canadian permafrost following the animal's demise.
The study also suggested that the ancestor of all equines existed around four million years ago.
A remnant of the long bone of an ancient horse was recovered from the Thistle Creek site, located in the west-central Yukon Territory of Canada.
Palaeontologists estimated that the horse had last roamed the region sometime between a half to three-quarters of a million years ago.
An initial analysis of the bone showed that despite previous periods of thawing during inter-glacial warm periods, it still harboured biological materials - connective tissue and blood-clotting proteins - that are normally absent from this type of ancient material.
And this finding was significant as study co-author of the paper, Dr Ludovic Orlando from the University of Copenhagen, explained to the BBC World Service programme Science in Action.
"We were really excited because it meant that the preservation was really good," he told the BBC.
"So at that stage we thought, let's try a DNA extraction to see how much of the genome we could characterise."
The multi-national team of researchers pulverised a fragment of the bone to recover its DNA, then subjected it to high-throughput, next-generation gene sequencing to unravel the blueprint of this antediluvian mount.
The first approach they tried resulted in relatively poor yields of horse-derived sequences, so they turned to a technology that could directly analyse single molecules of DNA.
This proved far more successful - but they still had an abundance of data to plough through.
Using high-powered computers and an existing horse genome sequence as a reference, the scientists sifted through the 12 billion sequencing reads to distinguish between DNA motifs belonging to the ancient horse and those from contaminating organisms, such as bacteria accumulated from the environment.
From the resulting equine DNA fragments, they reconstructed a draft of its genome. Although the derived sequence data only covered around 70% of the entire genome, this was sufficient foundation for some revealing analyses.
The tell-tale presence of Y chromosome markers showed that the Thistle Creek bone had belonged to a male.
But the DNA also enabled them to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the larger Equus genus, which includes modern-day horses and zebras.
To do this, the scientists also determined the DNA sequence of a donkey, an ancient pre-domestication horse dating back around 43,000 years, five modern horses and a Przewalski's horse, which possibly represents the last surviving truly wild horse population.
Family trees, based on similarity of the DNA sequences, revealed the relationships between these equine stable-mates and their longer evolutionary history.
The Thistle Creek genome was reassuringly ancestral to the modern horses - positioned as it was at the base of the tree.
Geological dating evidence meant that the researchers could calibrate the rate of evolution in the different branches, and from this look back into the depths of the tree to approximate the age of the Equus genus ancestor - the forerunner to the donkey, zebra and horse.
The results suggested it grazed the grasslands between 4 and 4.5 million years ago - twice as long ago as most previous estimates.
Through surveying sequence diversity in a larger number of domestic and Przewalki's horse samples- by looking in the genes for what are known as single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs - past population sizes could be modelled.
Over the last two million years horses had experienced significant population expansions and collapses associated with climatic changes, and one collapse coincided with the date when the Thistle Creek and modern horses diverged.
The location of the genetic differences between the ancient and modern horses also provided tantalising clues into some of the possible consequences of these genetic differences, as Dr Orlando explained to the BBC.
"Once you have the genome, one thing you can do is to actually look at different genes that we know today are important for different traits.
"What we've learned for example the alleles that prime to the racing performance in domestics were not present at that time, for example."
Commenting on the wider implications of the study, co-author Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen said: "Pushing back the time barrier is important because it has implications for our evolutionary understanding of anything from hominins to other animals, because we can look further back in time than people have done previously."
Palaeoecologist Keith Dobney from the University of Aberdeen echoed the sentiment.
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"There were many things we said wouldn't be possible in ancient DNA [studies] not that long ago, until next generation sequencing came along and all of a sudden everything has changed, and I mean everything," he said.
Modern sequencing approaches and better fossil specimens will allow scientists to gaze further and further back into the mists of ancient evolution, and Prof Dobney said that procuring samples for future studies should not be a problem.
"You would be amazed how much material of this kind is actually out there.
"Museums are full of fossil material from all over the planet, caves are fantastic stable environments for preservation and some of the best preserved DNA has come out of cave deposits," he said.
But would we recognise the Equus ancestor as a horse?
"Even if you look at the Przewalski horse, which has a divergence time of only about 50,000 years ago... and compare it to the domestic horse, you can already see differences," observed Prof Willerslev.
"I would definitely say it would not look like a horse as we know it… but we would expect it to be a one-toed horse."
Ludovic Orlando was speaking to the BBC World Service programme Science in Action, which will air first 18:32 GMT on Thursday 27 June, and will be available on iPlayer and as a downloadable podcast.
Richard Page was struck off after he told the BBC it would be better for a man and a woman to adopt.
He has been suspended as non-executive director by Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT).
Mr Page said it was no longer possible to be a Christian and maintain a role in public life.
KMPT chairman Andrew Ling wrote to the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) requesting the suspension.
He said Mr Page's comments and continuance as a trust member would have a major impact on staff and patients, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) staff.
He said: "Links between the stigma often associated with being LGBT and poor mental health are well-established.
"It is vital that patients and local population are confident that KMPT will challenge stigma or discrimination."
The TDA said it had suspended Mr Page with immediate effect pending a decision on whether it is in the interests of the NHS to take further action and for him to remain in post.
But Mr Page, who worked in mental health for 20 years, said: "It would appear no longer possible to be a Christian, to state what the Bible actually says and what the Church has believed for 2,000 years, and maintain a role in public life in today's Britain.
"My seat on the NHS Trust came as a result of my long service in mental health and total commitment to the NHS - none of that has changed."
He added: "What about treating my views, held by billions of Christians around the world, equally and fairly?"
Andrea Minichiello Williams, barrister and founder of the Christian Legal Centre, said Christians were being marginalised and removed from public life.
Mr Page, from Ashford, made the comments about same-sex adoption in an interview with BBC News correspondent Carolyn Wyatt last March.
He had been reprimanded in 2014 after he was found to have been influenced in an adoption case by his religious beliefs.
Speaking about his views, he told Ms Wyatt: "My responsibility as a magistrate, as I saw it, was to do what I considered best for the child.
"My feeling was therefore that it would be better if it was a man and woman who were the adoptive parents."
After he was sacked as a magistrate, Mr Page said he would take legal action. He served in Maidstone and Sevenoaks.
Her appeal comes as homeless volunteers are mourning the recent death of a homeless man on the streets of Belfast.
As a volunteer for Belfast charity The Welcome Organisation, 84-year-old Sister Olive Cooney spends her days washing clothes and sleeping bags for the homeless.
Speaking to the BBC's The Sunday News programme, she said the government could do more to help them.
"It makes me feel very very sad to think there are people out there who would have nobody to love them, to care for them," said Sr Olive.
"It touches my heart."
She explained that her hope, in washing their clothes and bedclothes, is that she might encourage the homeless to feel a sense of dignity, which could convince them to get back on their feet.
Paying tribute to homeless man Jimmy Coulter, who died earlier this month, Sr Olive described him as "a lovely person - full of life, full of beans".
Mr Coulter, who was in his mid-thirties, died in a doorway in Donegal Place in Belfast city centre.
"I was just devastated - couldn't believe it, because he came from a very good family.
"But really and truly, it doesn't matter what your family circumstances are. If you're going to go that road, you're going to go that road anyway."
The Belfast nun said she encounters "a whole range of people" on the streets, "be they in their teens, right up to quite elderly people", but that they tend to be mostly male.
"Some will come and disclose how they ended up in the street - it might be through domestic violence, domestic circumstances, addiction in the home.
"They think this is the best place for them - to just get out."
In other cases, she said, unemployment can play a part.
"And possibly foreigners coming over, looking for work and not finding it, then not having enough money to get back home."
Laughing at the affectionate comparisons to Mother Teresa, Sr Olive stressed that she was not in the same league as the revered nun, but admitted it was flattering.
"I was very humbled, because I certainly wouldn't classify myself in the same plane as our venerable, blessed Mother Theresa.
"But it gave me a sense of pride that people appreciate what I do."
Although voluntary organisations work hard to address the homeless problem in Northern Ireland, Sister Olive believes it is time for the government to step in with financial support.
"There are so many organisations out there helping the homeless. I think the government really should now up their efforts to help the homeless," she said.
You can hear Sr Olive's interview in full on The Sunday News, BBC Radio Ulster, at 13:00 on Sunday, 20 February.
But can he turn this support in the polls into votes and win the Republican nomination, or even the presidency itself?
Party voters will begin casting ballots on 1 February in Iowa, followed by New Hampshire and then a bevy of other states, to decide who will represent the party against the Democratic nominee.
We asked political experts about Mr Trump's chances.
Yes to nomination, unlikely he will win the presidency
Despite the long-time pundit consensus that Donald Trump had no chance, he is likely in it for a long time and definitely has a chance to win the nomination.
To be sure, we need to be a bit cautious here. It is very early, and some survey results suggest that Trump's supporters have not voted before in primaries or caucuses.
But his support is not simply capped at 25%, and even if it were, he can still win several early contests and build more momentum. He has not had to spend any real money, but has allocated significant resources to building some structure in the early states.
The more we have the possibility of another terrorist attack in the US or even in Europe akin to Paris or San Bernardino, the more his strongarm, strongman rhetoric resonates with angry and disaffected conservative voters.
We can't downplay and shouldn't underestimate the power of the anti-establishment anger at both Republican leaders and Mr Obama, fuelled by talk radio and bloggers who have enormous financial incentives to do so. It is very unlikely but not impossible he could also win a general election.
But it is also important to keep an eye on Ted Cruz, who also has a strong possible road to a Republican nomination if Trump falters at all. He has assiduously courted evangelicals and Carson voters, and is cleverly positioning himself to get many of the Trump supporters.
No to nomination / presidency
There are several good reasons to believe that Donald Trump will not be the Republican party's nominee. We can start with history.
Never, ever has a major US political party nominated someone so utterly lacking in experience as Mr Trump.
Five times men have achieved the presidency as their first elective office, but three of them were military heroes and the other two had served as presidential cabinet secretaries.
More recent experience demonstrates the deep fallibility of opinion polling. On this date eight years ago the Republican polling frontrunner, as he had been all year, was former New York City Rudy Giuliani.
The man who actually won the nomination, Arizona Senator John McCain, was in fourth place. Four years ago former House Speaker Newt Gingrich enjoyed a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney.
The former Massachusetts governor would win the nomination but not before seeing himself eclipsed in the polls by Mr Gingrich a second time.
Mr Trump has clearly tapped a noxious nerve among Republican voters insecure about the economy, the country's changing demography and terrorism. But he also benefits from the self-fulfilling cycle of unending press coverage.
One way or another - whether it's because a rival finally starts a sustained assault on Trump involving paid ads, or because his straight-line journey to the political fringe finally repels enough supporters - Trump will fade well before the convention.
Yes to nomination, no to presidency
Donald Trump's run for president seemed a lark at first. Some speculated that his early outrageous statements - the wholesale smearing of Latinos, for example - were attempts to sabotage a campaign that he never intended to become serious.
But here we are. He's been denounced across the globe and he's doing just fine among his largely blue-collar fan base.
Can Trump win the Republican nomination for president? Any doubt that he's serious is gone. So is the assumption Republican elders could easily sink his candidacy and secure a more respectable choice.
Yes, Trump could win the Republican nomination.
Could he win the general election and become president? No way. Polls have long shown Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, edging out all the Republican possibilities, Trump included.
His latest eruption was so bizarre that many Republicans are now openly contemplating a vote for Mrs Clinton. A new survey has a third of Republicans saying that Mr Trump scares or concerns them.
And let's be mindful that though Trump leads other Republican candidates, he commands only 35% percent of the party's total primary electorate.
The next president will not be Trump. That he got this far is worry enough.
Unlikely to win nomination, no to presidency
Some have pointed to Donald Trump's endurance at the top of the Republican primary polls as an indication that his various absurd and offensive comments have not done him damage. But I think they have done him real harm.
Trump's racist proposals and rhetoric have solidified the GOP leadership against him and made it easier for other Republicans to argue that the man would be a disaster as the general election nominee against Hillary Clinton, an opponent who Republicans do not want to be president.
The primary process is a long slog that starts in February and ends with the convention in July, and unlike in previous contests where losing candidates have dropped out earlier than they needed to in deference to the clear winner, the other competitors will have little reason to cede the nomination to Mr Trump. If he thought standing on a debate stage for three hours was hard, wait until he has to endure that slog.
Trump is very unpopular nationally - one recent poll pegged his favourability/unfavourability split at 30% favourable/60% unfavourable - and it's hard to see how he would improve those numbers if nominated.
One of the persistent questions of this election is whether Mrs Clinton can motivate lower-turnout, non-white voters to show up to the polls. The presence of Mr Trump at the top of the ticket would be, for Clinton and the Democrats, the best motivator of all.
Possible but unlikely he will win nomination / presidency
Although Mr Trump has captured the overwhelming majority of news coverage and has tapped into a real demand in the electorate for the anti-politician, a great deal stands between him and the nomination. In order to win, he needs 1,236 delegates out of the 2,470. He gains delegates by garnering a high percentage of votes in each state's caucus or primary.
One wrinkle is that the Republican National Committee mandated this year all states with contests prior to 15 March have to allocate their delegates proportionally, based on the percentage each candidates receives. After that, it's winner takes all.
There are a number of primaries or caucuses before that date. The two early states, Iowa and New Hampshire, matter because the outcome there will generate buzz and momentum. The most recent polls of likely voters have Trump up in New Hampshire by 18 points, but even with Senator Ted Cruz in Iowa, when one accounts for the margin of error. After these two are South Carolina, Nevada and so-called Super Tuesday - 12 states on the same day - on 1 March.
Because all these contests allocate proportionally, it gives Mr Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and possibly Chris Christie every incentive to hang on. Between this factor and the most recent outrageous statements by Mr Trump, a lot can change on the way to the nomination.
World number two Murray, 29, has reached the final of all three Grand Slams this year, winning Wimbledon for a second time last month.
Defending US Open champion Novak Djokovic, who has had a wrist injury, is the top seed at Flushing Meadows.
American Serena Williams is seeded one for the women's singles.
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Konta, 25, is ranked 14th in the world.
Last year's champion, Flavia Pennetta of Italy, retired after beating compatriot Roberta Vinci, who is seeded seventh, in the 2015 final.
The tournament starts on 29 August, although qualifying began on Tuesday, with Britain's James Ward beaten 6-3 6-4 by Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina.
Fellow Britons Tara Moore and Laura Robson begin their qualifying campaigns in New York on Wednesday.
US Open men's singles seeds
1. Novak Djokovic (Ser)
2. Andy Murray (GB)
3. Stan Wawrinka (Swi)
4. Rafael Nadal (Spa)
5. Milos Raonic (Can)
6. Kei Nishikori (Jpn)
7. Marin Cilic (Cro)
8. Dominic Thiem (Aut)
9. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra)
10. Gael Monfils (Fra)
US Open women's singles seeds
1. Serena Williams (US)
2. Angelique Kerber (Ger)
3. Garbiñe Muguruza (Spa)
4. Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol)
5. Simona Halep (Rom)
6. Venus Williams (US)
7. Roberta Vinci (Ita)
8. Madison Keys (US)
9. Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus)
10. Karolina Pliskova (Cze)
Fahmy, a Canadian national, told the BBC Mr Harper's approach to negotiating his freedom had been too mild and lessons must be learned.
Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian reporter with Al Jazeera, were freed last week after receiving pardons.
They had been sentenced to three years in jail for broadcasting false news.
Egyptian state media said a third person involved in the case was also pardoned. It is not clear if this is the Australian journalist Peter Greste, who was deported from the country in February.
Prosecutors accused them of collaborating with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood after the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi by the military in 2013.
The journalists denied the allegation and said they were simply reporting the news. Legal experts said the charges had been unfounded and politically motivated.
In the BBC HARDtalk interview, Fahmy said: "I do believe Prime Minister Stephen Harper let me down."
He said the Canadian government "should have put more clout and stepped up the way the Australian government did in their lobbying to release me."
"For example, the (former) Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, he called (Egyptian) President (Abdul Fattah al) Sisi about three times when Peter was in prison. The Canadian prime minister didn't."
Fahmy, who renounced his Egyptian citizenship in February to qualify for deportation, also stressed that "many innocent Canadians tomorrow morning could be in my same situation. There are certain approaches that need to be taken to better protect the citizens and extract them".
However, he also thanked Canadian diplomats who then "really stepped up their approach".
The Canadian government has so far made no public statements regarding Fahmy's comments.
He also recalled his ordeal in the Egyptian jail, saying that "I do remember cracking down for the first time after I was sentenced to seven years".
In August, the three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced to three years in prison after a retrial.
In the BBC interview, Fahmy also revealed that after the presidential pardon "the cops just dropped us (Fahny and Mohamed) in the street with our prison garb and no money, no mobile phones".
"It was surreal in every sense of the word."
The pardons were issued by President Sisi ahead of the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha and a day before he travelled to New York to address the UN General Assembly.
He had said he would be willing to pardon the Al Jazeera journalists once the judicial process had ended.
The case against the journalists began in December 2013, when they were arrested at a hotel used by Al Jazeera English to report from Cairo after its bureau was raided by police.
The journalists were initially convicted in June 2014 after a trial that was widely condemned. Greste and Fahmy were sentenced to seven years in prison, while Mohamed was given a 10-year sentence after also being found guilty of possessing a spent bullet casing.
In January, Egypt's Court of Cassation ordered a retrial after ruling that the original court had been "hasty in pronouncing its verdict".
Their convictions at retrial on 29 August were described as an "outrage" and an embarrassment for President Sisi by Amal Clooney, one of Fahmy's lawyers.
Mr Erdogan has accused US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of plotting against him.
The schools are a major source of income for Mr Gulen's 50-year-old Hizmet ("Service") movement.
Millions of students attend the schools to prepare for entrance exams.
The law had been due to come into effect on 1 September.
The focus of schools is to help those attempting to win a place at secondary school or university.
In December, a Turkish court issued an arrest warrant accusing Mr Gulen of establishing and running an "armed terrorist group".
Mr Gulen strenuously denies all the charges against him.
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Mr Erdogan had introduced the law as part of what he says are educational reforms.
Turkey's education system lags behind most other developed countries in literacy, maths and science. At the time of the bill's passage, Mr Erdogan described the current system as "unhealthy".
Mr Gulen was once an ally of the president, but in the recent years he has been accused of attempting to overthrow the government.
Tensions between the two were exacerbated in 2013, when thousands of alleged Hizmet sympathisers in the police and judiciary were demoted while prosecutors with alleged links to the movement aggressively pursued investigations against allies of the prime minister.
The Ivory Coast full-back, who was a free agent after leaving Galatasaray in the summer, started training with the Black Cats in February.
Eboue, 32, spent eight seasons at Arsenal after arriving from Belgian side Beveren in 2004.
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It is hoped the regeneration - including the partial pedestrianisation of Union Street - could create 5,500 jobs and an extra £280m in income a year.
Dozens of projects have been put forward by architects BDP after a public consultation.
Council leader Jenny Laing told Wednesday's meeting it was a "once in a generation opportunity".
A delegation of leading city figures started the meeting by offering support to the masterplan, with Prof Ferdinand von Prondzynski of Robert Gordon University saying it was time for action after a "number of false starts".
Francis Glare, of BDP, told councillors that all city centres were responding to the challenges of competing for investment.
He said Aberdeen needed a city centre for a "global city".
Mr Glare said 85% of respondents wanted more space for people in Aberdeen city centre.
He said that Union Street could become "elegant" and attract new business.
And Mr Glare stressed the "spectacle" of the working Aberdeen harbour should be opened up, describing it as "relatively unique" compared to some other cities, and a "very attractive feature".
Councillor Alan Donnelly expressed fears that pedestrianisation could be "challenging" due to the significant amount of displaced traffic.
Councillor Marie Boulton said it was a "momentous day for Aberdeen", and that it had been made clear to BDP that the council did not want another plan to "sit on the shelf".
Councillor Ross Thomson said he took heart from the "political unity", and that it was time to repair the city's "broken heart".
Councillors had agreed not to comment on the plans before the meeting.
The plan pulls together key housing, building, transportation and regeneration proposals to transform parts of the city.
The report says the focus is on areas that are less well used or failing to deliver the scale of activity expected in a thriving and successful city centre.
Proposals include an expansion of the Union Terrace Gardens and a new urban quarter at the head of the "valley".
The vision for Queen's Square includes cafes, shops, apartments and pedestrian friendly streets.
The city redevelopment is designed to cement the west of Union street as "an elegant city quarter", with focus around the refurbished Music Hall and new City Rooms.
A redesigned "gateway" between Union Street and the station aims to "radically improve first impressions of Aberdeen".
The idea for Castlegate is to position it as Aberdeen city centre's main civic square, forming a crossroads between Union Street, the harbourside and the beach.
Plans for North Dee aim to cement an identity as the city's business quarter, with a Global Energy Hub at its centre.
Visions for the waterfront include a link to the city across a new pedestrian bridge to create a new residential community "like no other" in Aberdeen.
David Hughes, a governor at Park View School, defended it against what he said were "unfounded attacks".
The Department for Education (DfE) is investigating 12 schools over the alleged plot.
Ten MPs have asked for the council and DfE to jointly review any lessons to be learned following the investigation.
In a letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove the Birmingham MPs said it was "essential" such a review was undertaken, led by an advisor appointed by the two organisations.
A so-called "Operation Trojan Horse" letter claimed responsibility for leadership changes at four Birmingham schools, but its authenticity has not been established.
Mr Hughes, who describes himself as a "white, practising Anglican Christian", has been a governor at the Alum Rock school for more than 15 years.
"In all my time as a governor we have not received a single complaint about 'extremism' or 'radicalism'.
"If we had we would have investigated it openly and thoroughly," he said.
Ofsted has confirmed it is carrying out a number of snap inspections at Birmingham schools, including Park View, at the request of the DfE.
Mr Hughes said he suspected the school would receive a negative Ofsted report, despite previously being rated as "outstanding".
"The revisit of the inspection team gave every indication of having no wish other than to condemn the school - even the outstanding features," he said.
"Are there areas to improve at the school? Yes of course, as there are at most schools."
An Ofsted spokeswoman declined to comment on the remarks.
Last week Michael White, a former teacher at Park View School, said he was dismissed in 2003 after raising concerns about extremism among governors.
But Mr Hughes dismissed the claims, saying "at no time" during a disciplinary panel had Mr White raised concerns.
He said some former staff members were "smearing" the school and "sharing fictitious allegations".
The allegations were "socially divisive and dangerous for a settled, stable, multi-cultural Birmingham," he said.
Birmingham City Council has said it is continuing to investigate the allegations and cannot comment further.
Ms Sturgeon told MSPs at Holyrood that the move was an "exceptional response to an exceptional economic challenge".
She also insisted that education was the "defining mission" of the Scottish government.
Proposals to help close the attainment gap were among the 14 bills the Scottish government will introduce.
The plans include a Child Poverty Bill, which Ms Sturgeon said was arguably the government's most important legislation.
The bill would establish Scotland as the only part of the UK with statutory income targets on child poverty, and see a "baby box" given to every newborn.
But much of Ms Sturgeon's focus was on boosting the economy in the wake of the Brexit vote, with the first minister promising £4bn will be spent on infrastructure next year alongside the £500m Scottish Growth Scheme package of support for private businesses.
Ms Sturgeon said the growth scheme would offer individual investment guarantees, and some loans, of up to £5m to small and medium sized firms who would otherwise be unable to grow because of a lack of investment finance.
As financial guarantees, the support will not come from existing spending plans, and will instead see the Scottish government share some of the risk faced by small companies, when they make big investment decisions.
The first minister described the fund as a "half-billion pound vote of confidence in Scottish business, Scottish workers and the Scottish economy".
Ms Sturgeon's SNP formed a minority government after winning 63 seats in May's Scottish Parliament elections.
She told MSPS that Holyrood was operating in a "new political, economic and constitutional context" following the UK voting to leave the EU.
The first minister said the Scottish government would use its newly devolved powers over tax and welfare to adapt to those changes.
Ms Sturgeon has already ordered ministers to start drawing up legislation for a second independence referendum, which she said is "highly likely" - although not inevitable - following the Brexit vote.
Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that the Scottish government would consult on the draft referendum bill in case an independence referendum was the "best or only" way to protect Scottish interests - sparking groans and laughter from opposition politicians.
They have called on the Scottish government to "focus on the day job" of improving public services instead of pushing for independence.
It was, we were assured, a programme for different - and troubled - times. Hence a renewed emphasis on bolstering economic growth alongside the priority accorded to education.
Not, to be clear, that the economy has ever been far from ministers' minds. However, Nicola Sturgeon's narrative is that Brexit will add considerably to the challenges facing Scotland and the UK. Requiring additional support.
But, even in these post referendum days (EU, that is, not the 2014 version), there is still scope for a few familiar notes.
And so Ms Sturgeon lambasted the Tories, characterising them as the right-wing enemies of her social democratic programme.
Ruth Davidson, who leads said rightist cabal, smiled benignly from her new elevated status as the principal opposition party, accusing Ms Sturgeon of preparing to hike Scottish tax by failing to pass on UK Treasury concessions to higher rate payers.
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Ms Sturgeon said four of her government's bills would focus on some of the new powers that have been devolved to Scotland, with proposals to cut Air Passenger Duty, incorporate British Transport Police in Scotland into Police Scotland, and to promote gender equality on public boards.
The fourth bill would set out proposals for a Scottish welfare system based on "dignity and respect", the first minister said, with the SNP having already pledged to increase carer's allowance and create a new grant for low-income parents.
Among the government's other plans are:
Ms Sturgeon said education was the "defining mission of my government", and that she was aiming for "truly transformational investment" in childcare.
She added: "I have said that I want to be judged on our success in narrowing and ultimately closing the attainment gap.
"We must not tolerate a situation where some children from deprived areas do less well at school than those from affluent areas.
"The measures we will implement over the next five years constitute a comprehensive approach to tackling that".
Responding to Ms Sturgeon's proposals, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson urged the first minister to ditch the "threat" of a second referendum and focus on governance, adding that she was disappointed by the SNP's "failure to listen" on the economy.
Energy is being "diverted into an endless political campaign", she said, with Ms Sturgeon's list of legislation serving as "a warm-up act to nudge the independence caravan another few inches along the road".
"I do not subscribe to the view that we are helpless to act in the face of Brexit - nor do I think that breaking up a union worth four times more to Scotland than the EU is going to help matters very much," she said.
"I said two weeks ago I wanted a new type of Scottish government and what I mean is one which no longer asks - how will this boost independence? But one that asks - how are we growing the country?"
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the programme lacked ambition and failed to address the "big questions" Scotland faces in areas such as public services and jobs.
She added: "Over the past decade, this parliament has become more and more powerful, but the government's programme has become less and less ambitious.
"The first minister and the SNP have had nearly a decade. They now have another five years.
"Let this be five years where focusing on jobs, public services and our economy rank as highly as the SNP's fight for independence."
Scottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie reminded the first minister that she was leading a minority government, and that there would need to be compromise and open-minded discussion in order for its legislative programme to be passed by Holyrood.
He said the new challenges brought by Brexit were against a backdrop of pre-existing challenges, and that there had not been enough progress made in working towards a "fairer, more equal and healthier society".
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "Nine years after they came to power there is no sign of the SNP are willing to drop independence and get on with the job of making our economy and services the best again.
"The first minister spent the whole summer talking up the prospect of a second independence referendum instead of getting on with the day job."
Lord Bew warned the level of vitriol was now such that it could deter people from running for office.
Labour MP Diane Abbott said this week she had endured a torrent of "mindless" racist and sexist abuse.
MPs have blamed hard-left and far-right groups and the rise of social media.
During a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, MPs from all parties spoke about the harassment they and their staff had received both in person and online, including death threats, rape threats and anti-Semitic abuse.
Conservative MP Simon Hart said he had heard of candidates having swastikas painted on their offices, and that the "hashtag Tory scum had become a regular feature of our lives" on social media.
First-time candidate Emily Owen, who stood for Labour in Aberconwy in this year's general election, has also spoken out about the sexually explicit messages she received online.
"I started having messages come through and they quickly became very explicit, with people explaining what they wanted to do to me - with or without my consent - asking lots of questions, what I would do to get votes," the 22-year-old told BBC Breakfast.
Using strong and graphic language, Ms Abbott gave the debate examples of the offensive messages she and her staff had to endure every day, not just at election time, including people tweeting she should be hung.
Theresa May has asked Lord Bew, who chairs the Committee on Standards in Public Life, to look into what went on during the election campaign and whether existing laws need to be strengthened to protect candidates in future.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour, Lord Bew said there was a problem in public life that had not been seen before.
"We are in a bad moment and we have to respond to it," he said. "We cannot afford to lose people of quality in our public life and we may be approaching a tipping point."
Conservative MPs say Jeremy Corbyn has been too slow to condemn the actions of left-wing activists, including members of the Momentum pressure group, who they claim have been targeting them as well some Labour MPs. Momentum has denied any involvement whatsoever.
Lord Bew said it was "absolutely clear" that the Labour leadership believed there was no place for threats or fear in politics but that political leaders, as a whole, needed to be more outspoken on the issue.
"Above all, we do need leadership from Parliament itself on this point. We have reached a point where this is not a sermon. This has got to be said with some sharpness."
The committee, he added, was "in listening mode" and would not rule out anything at this stage.
"It's perfectly obvious that the ways in which the culture of civility in this country has been eroded has come from a number of different sources.
"And we need to see if we can find ways of getting a tone in our public debate which is still vigorous but avoids that tinge of nastiness and hatred which has definitely entered into things in more recent times."
The actor was in a weekly soap opera Sew Le Sew on state television.
He left because of "repeated harassment and for being Amhara" reports the opposition Zehabesha website.
Human Rights Watch says security forces killed at least 100 people at protests in the Amhara region in August but the government denies this.
In an interview with Voice of America's Amharic service, the actor said the Ethiopian security forces had carried out "atrocious actions" and he had decided not to return home until the "regime is changed".
"It is sad to respond with bullets to people's demand for their rights," he added.
At the root of the recent demonstrations in Amhara is a request by representatives from the Welkait Amhara Identity Committee that their land, which is currently administered by the Tigray regional state, be moved into the neighbouring Amhara region.
The Oromo people in Ethiopia have also been protesting against the government, saying they have been excluded politically and economically.
During the Rio Olympics, marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa crossed the line in second place with his arms above his head in solidarity with Oromo activists.
He said he wanted to seek asylum after the high-profile anti-government protest, and he is now in the US.
Police received a report on Tuesday that a woman had been dragged into a car park and raped between 03:10 and 03:15 GMT that morning in Warwick Road in Trafford.
Samaun Shah, 43, of Hornby Road, Stretford has been charged with rape, Greater Manchester Police said.
He was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Monday.
A glass jar containing brown paint was smashed over the monument at White Brae, Ligoniel, on the outskirts of north Belfast.
The damage was discovered at 12:30 BST on Sunday 3 May.
The monument has been repeatedly targeted and damaged since it was put up five years ago.
It is a tribute to teenage brothers John and Joseph McCaig, and their colleague Dougald McCaughey.
The off-duty fusiliers were shot dead at the site by the IRA in March 1971.
The memorial was built using funds raised by the Royal British Legion.
Police have appealed to anyone with information about the attack to contact them.
Not usually, it must be admitted, a cause for too much celebration. "Train arrives on Sunday" is not much of a headline.
But yesterday was a little different for New Street Station, Britain's busiest outside London.
After a five year, £750m overhaul, Network Rail unveiled the new interchange which now looks more like an airport.
And for those who are keenly hunting for evidence that the UK economy is finally rebalancing away from the hothouse that is London and the South East of England, it was an important moment.
Infrastructure investment is directly linked to economic redevelopment. Just ask those around King's Cross and St Pancras stations in London.
Birmingham's cheer leaders believe New Street will be no different.
Later this week, the new Grand Central shopping centre will open above New Street, one of the largest shopping centres to be unveiled in Europe this year.
The anchor tenant is John Lewis, whose managing director, Andy Street, is also head of the Birmingham and Solihull enterprise partnership.
He says that Birmingham and the West Midlands have turned the corner since the 2008 recession, which saw the region the hardest hit across Britain.
New figures on economic output appear to back him up.
As does the arrival of HSBC's UK bank headquarters - which will open in Britain's second largest city in 2018.
And the continued expansion of Midlands car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover which has invested £11bn since 2008 and employs 36,000 people.
"Gross value added" per head is the economic value of the goods and services produced in an area, divided by the total population.
It reveals how well an area is performing economically.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal that in 2008-9, GVA in the West Midlands (which includes Birmingham) fell by 3.8%, the most rapid fall of any region in Britain.
The average across England was -2.2%.
The most recent figures available - for the year 2012-13 - reveal a changed picture. West Midlands GVA grew by 2.8%.
That's higher than the England average (2.6%), London (also 2.6%) and the South East (2%).
In terms of rebalancing the British economy geographically, the figures show progress. The North East, North West, West Midlands and Wales all grew faster than London - although of course from a much lower base.
As with all urban areas, there is still a long way to go.
Don't forget, Birmingham was the first location for the documentary series Benefits Street, which revealed the sometimes stark reality of life for those dependent on welfare benefits in Winson Green, a deprived area of the city.
And if the economic figures are studied over a 15 year time frame, a more mixed picture emerges.
A Deloitte report for the local enterprise partnership says that between 2001 and 2015, the West Midlands saw 152,000 net jobs created (that's the surplus of jobs created over jobs lost).
That's fewer than in the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, the South East and Scotland.
London, which has a much larger population, enjoyed a far higher number of jobs created - 870,000.
The South East ran it a close second with 845,000.
For the West Midlands the new jobs delivered £6.1bn of fresh wage income, undoubtedly an economic shot in the arm.
But that compares to £30.9bn in the South East, £30.1bn in London, £10.6bn in Scotland and £8.3bn in the East Midlands.
And shows the difficulty of rebalancing the economy when you have such a large powerhouse sitting in the south-east corner.
Fresh income tends to flow towards it.
If we look at the GVA figures over the same 15 year period, the West Midlands saw a 16% increase.
That compares to Merseyside, up 39%, the South East, up 37%, and Wales, up 31%.
Of the nations and regions across Britain, only the North West saw a lower increase, up 14%.
Which shows, despite many positive figures, Birmingham and the surrounding region still have a lot of ground to make up.
And rebalancing the UK economy will be an awfully tough job.
The girl is now in hospital after she was found in the streets, while the police have registered a case against the 29-year-old fast bowler.
Shahadat became the first Bangladeshi to be added to the Lord's honours board after taking five wickets against England at the ground in 2010.
He has played 38 Tests and 51 ODIs.
Shahadat last featured for the Tigers in the second Test against Pakistan in May, during which he twisted his right knee and was ruled him out action for six months.
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The sanction followed his tirade at a Fed Cup tie in Bucharest in April.
He swore at an umpire, insulted British number one Johanna Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong and made a derogatory comment about Serena Williams' unborn child.
Nastase, 70, was also fined $10,000 (£7,700).
As it stands, as well as being prevented from taking any official roles, he will not be accredited for ITF events until 2019.
An independent tribunal will be arranged to hear his appeal.
Grand Slam tournaments are not included within the sanction, nor the respective ATP or WTA Tours, as they lie outside the jurisdiction of the ITF.
The ITF adjudication panel said his comment about Serena Williams' unborn child was racially insensitive, adding that he made advances of a "sexual nature" towards Keothavong.
Nastase said his comments were intended as a joke and had been misinterpreted.
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During the Fed Cup in April, Romanian player Simona Halep was answering a question in English about former world number one Williams and her pregnancy. Nastase then turned to one of his other team members and added in Romanian: "Let's see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?"
Speaking to BBC Sport earlier in the year, he defended his comment, saying: "For me, it's not racial. Somebody in England thinks it is."
Former world number one Nastase also put his arm tightly around Keothavong and asked for her room number, in earshot of the watching media.
The following day before play had even started, Nastase insulted a British journalist over their reporting of his comments about Williams, calling the Press Association's tennis correspondent Eleanor Crooks "stupid".
Later, after Konta and Keothavong complained of calling out from the crowd in the World Group II play-off tie in Constanta, Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul and abusive language.
He then called both Konta and Keothavong "a bitch" multiple times, as well as swearing at them.
Nastase, who won the US Open in 1972 and the French Open the following year, has said he would quit tennis if he was banned.
Governor Jose Melo said Amazonas police were "at their physical and psychological limit" and federal troops should be sent as reinforcements.
State police struggled to contain the violence as rival gangs clashed.
Many jails in Brazil are overcrowded and underfunded.
Last week, Gov Melo asked the federal government for electronic tags, body scanners and devices to block mobile phone signals within the state's prisons.
But following Sunday's deadly clash in a prison in the city of Manaus, Governor Melo said he needed federal forces.
He said that police in Amazonas had worked flat out not just to secure the prisons where the riots had taken place, but also to try to capture scores of inmates who had escaped during the riots.
Since the start of the year:
The rioting also spread to neighbouring Roraima state, where 33 prisoners were killed in the Monte Cristo rural penitentiary on 6 January.
Officials say the spike in violence is due to the breakdown of a truce between two of Brazil's most powerful criminal gangs, First Capital Command (PCC) and Red Command (CV).
The PCC has its power base in the city of Sao Paulo, while Red Command is based in Rio de Janeiro - although the two gangs' influence extends much further.
For years, members of these gangs have been transferred to prisons in northern states in an attempt to break up their gang ties.
But these remote prisons are often poorly equipped and badly staffed making it hard for officers to contain a riot once it has started.
Raimundo Vidal Pessoa jail, where the latest riot happened, had been closed in October but was re-opened to house prisoners moved from the Anisio Jobim prison after a deadly riot there had left 56 dead.
Gov Melo said the problem was at a national level and urged the federal government to help devise a restructuring of the prison system.
Called Minecraft: Story Mode, it will be an episodic game set in the familiar Minecraft world but will introduce some new characters into the setting.
The game is being made by Telltale Games which has produced several other episodic titles.
The first episode is due to be released in 2015 on consoles, PCs, Macs and Android devices.
So far, little information about what it will be like have been released. Mojang has produced a short browser-based game called Info Quest II to explain what it might be like.
In a blogpost, Mojang said the game would be developed with the help of the Minecraft community.
It sought to reassure players that Story Mode would not be like the violent and bloody games Telltale has produced before now. Recent Telltale games include The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands and titles based on Game of Thrones and zombie thriller The Walking Dead.
"Telltale's game will feel similar in tone to Minecraft itself," said Mojang, "though it's a totally original take inspired by our game."
The news about Story Mode comes soon after Mojang released a finished version of its Scrolls card-based magic battling game.
Sun Wenlin and Hu Mingliang filed a lawsuit against Changsha city authorities after their application to register a union was rejected.
In January a district court agreed to hear the case, a first in China.
China does not legally recognise same-sex marriage but there is growing awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.
On Wednesday, there were cheers for Mr Sun, 27, and Mr Hu, 37, when they entered the court, from hundreds of supporters who had gathered outside. Authorities allowed about 100 of them inside.
The court dismissed the case a few hours after the hearing started.
The entire case was argued and decided within a few short hours, and the judge was quick to reject China's first legal argument in favour of gay marriage. But many gay rights activists see reason for hope.
The fact the case was heard at all was reason for optimism - the plaintiffs and their lawyer were surprised when the Hunan court agreed to hold a hearing in January. The hearing itself was held in an unusually large courtroom, with uncharacteristically light security outside.
Few believe the Chinese courts are poised to issue dramatic decisions permitting same-sex marriage. But bit by bit, some cases are being won. In December 2014, a Beijing court awarded damages to a man who had suffered electric shock therapy meant to "cure" his homosexuality. Advertisements for the service were ordered to be removed from the internet.
The demand for gay rights is certainly part of the national conversation now in China. Just last week a mass social media campaign in which gay people pledged not to yield to pressure to marry straight people attracted more than 1.5 million views on Weibo.
China's legal courts are moving slowly, but the court of public opinion is still in session.
The couple's lawyer, Shi Funong, said he had expected the judgement to go against them but not so quickly.
"It goes against the spirit of the laws of the People's Republic of China," he said.
Mr Sun said he would appeal against Wednesday's court decision.
The two men had tried to register their union in June last year and filed the lawsuit in December.
Mr Sun said police had visited him after he filed the case to try to persuade him to drop it, but he refused.
"The original text of the Marriage Law does not say one man and one woman, but a husband and a wife," he said in an interview with state media in January. "I personally believe that this term refers not only to heterosexual couples but also to same-sex couples."
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The 66-year-old Australian, who replaced Steve McNamara earlier this month, has a contract to lead England through to the 2017 World Cup.
Bennett, who is yet to announce his backroom team, told BBC Sport: "I am not going to stay as English coach for 20 years - that is not going to happen.
"I want to leave it with people who have a similar philosophy to me."
Bennett, who will combine the role with leading Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League, is not planning wholesale changes to the England set-up.
"I'm very conscious of the English game and England. I am not coming here to teach anyone how to suck eggs," he added.
"I want as much English involvement as I can. I am bringing two staff with me - one of them is an Englishman - and the other is involved in the tactical side. Everyone else will be English."
Former St Helens full-back Paul Wellens, who has taken up a player performance coaching role with Saints, was one of McNamara's backroom staff.
Bennett has remained a stony-faced touchline presence in Australia's NRL during a top-level career that has spanned 27 years, three different clubs and a record seven Grand Final victories.
He says his persona reflects one of the demands he will make of England's players.
"I might be smiling on the inside, I might be pretty twisted on the inside, but I am not there to please anyone else but myself," he said.
"I taught myself a long time ago to be extremely disciplined with my behaviour in the public spotlight and I expect my players to be the same."
Bennett said he would not shirk from the difficult decisions and disagreements that are inevitable when running a top team.
"I don't want them to dislike me, but you are dealing with people and there will always be issues because people take positions on things," he said.
"The bottom line is that if I have to make a hard decision for the benefit of the team and it upsets people, I'm fine with that."
Bennett's appointment means - with Eddie Jones in rugby union and Trevor Bayliss in cricket - Australians are in charge of three of England's major national teams.
Bennett believes work ethic and a willingness to share ideas across sport are one of the strengths of Australian coaching culture.
"There is one common denominator: we are a pretty committed bunch and to coach you have to be committed," he said.
"We share a lot of ideas between sports back home, it is not something we hold back on."
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Wayne Bennett's seven Grand Final wins make him the most decorated Australian coach ever. And his determination to succeed is not confined to the rugby field.
"My daughter has barred me from playing with my grandchildren," he said. "They want to win and so do I, so we get into fights. I can't help it. It is just who I am."
Bennett has no intention of reigning himself in.
"I don't want to stop myself," he said. "I want to do my best and I want to win, whether it is cards or whatever it is. I have been like that all my life.
"In fact I make people stay until I win at cards."
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The Welsh are rightly proud of the stadium which has the cream of European club football battling to reach the Champions' League final there in June this year.
But Ireland's rugby players have little reason to fear Friday night's Six Nations match with Wales at the Principality Stadium - as a rugby nation they have the happy habit of winning there.
Irish teams have won three European Cup Finals and one Six Nations Grand Slam at the venue - all in the space of five years.
They've won the big prizes in green of Ireland, red of Munster and blue of Leinster and the Irish fans will will be back in Cardiff at the end of the week by the thousand and ready to party.
Wales haven't exactly been standing back in admiration of the Irish handiwork - on the contrary.
They beat Ireland to claim the first of the three Welsh Grand Slams of the 21st century, on St Patrick's Day weekend twelve years ago.
And thereby hangs a tale or two.
Wales won 32-20 and what made the occasion all the more memorable was the first Welsh try.
A collector's item if ever there was one because it featured a prop charging down a clearance from a fly-half - not any old fly-half, but one of the all-time greats.
Ronan O'Gara was the number ten and Gethin Jenkins the man who brought him to grief. Rarely can a prop have demonstrated such a nifty bit of footballing skills as Jenkins did that afternoon.
As O'Gara will tell you: a charge-down is an occupational hazard for fly-halves the world over but you never expect it to happen against a loose-head prop.
But Munsterman O'Gara would learn to love the arena - in those days known as the Millennium Stadium - as a home from home.
The following year he was back with Munster, helping them win the European Cup for the first time against Biarritz.
Two years later he and the red army, some 40,000 strong, won a second European title again at the expense of French opposition, this time Toulouse.
And when the Ireland national team came back in 2009 it was to win the ultimate prize in European international rugby, and one that had eluded them since 1948 - the Grand Slam.
Wales, in with a faint sniff of retaining their Six Nations title, led until O'Gara intervened with two minutes to go.
And even then Wales still had one last chance, a sniper's shot at ambushing the Irish slam.
Stephen Jones took aim from just inside his own half and when the ball came down in front of the crossbar those of us who wondered why Wales hadn't given the kick to Gavin Henson, the long-distance specialist, wondered all the more.
Instead all Ireland had to do was catch the ball and belt it into the crowd, Geordan Murphy duly obliged and, at long last, the slam was theirs.
Not everything though has gone swimmingly for the boys in green since then. They lost here six years ago to a try from Mike Phillips which ought not to have been allowed.
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The laws state that a quick throw can only be taken when using the same ball that has been kicked out.
Wales used a different ball and the subsequent confusion between the Scottish touch judge and the South African referee left Ireland's two five-star generals, Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell, apoplectic with rage.
They had good reason because the seven points it cost them made all the difference.
As for this time, expect to see the fur flying all over the place as per usual.
They may be Celts but there's been no love lost between these two and no reason to believe that peace is about to break out any time soon.
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Police called to Bramble Road in Witham, Essex, on Friday found a man had been burned on the face and hands.
A spokesman said they could not say which of two suspected attackers was in custody for "investigative reasons".
Last week police said they wanted to question two men about the attack and on Sunday released an e-fit.
Police said the 56-year-old victim had gone down to collect his post from the communal entrance to the block of flats when he encountered two men banging on the door.
A spokeswoman said it was now thought he was in "the wrong place at the wrong time" and "was not the intended target of this attack".
The victim is receiving treatment at the specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
"The two suspects are described as a white man and a black man and if anyone saw them either in the area prior to this attack or afterwards we would urgently like to speak to them," a spokeswoman said.
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The tax is aimed at preventing foreign investors, many from mainland China, from driving up costs in Canada's most expensive property market.
British Columbia's property transfer tax rates currently range from 1% to 3%, depending on a home's value.
The average cost of a Vancouver home increased 32% over a year.
Recent government data shows that foreigners have invested an estimated C$1b (£572m) in property in British Columbia, where Vancouver is located, between 10 June to 14 July.
About 86% of that investment was focused on Vancouver's metro area.
The new law, which took effect on Tuesday, imposes a one-time tax on foreign buyers, foreign-register corporations and Canadian corporations controlled fully or in part by foreign nationals or foreign corporations.
British Columbia will also hire additional auditors to help enforce the new tax.
Many have blamed wealthy overseas buyers for driving up the city's soaring house prices, a sentiment echoed in places like Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK.
49%
of residential sales in London over £1m in June 2012 to 2013 made to international buyers
28% were non-residents
Miami top US destination for foreign buyers
21% of buyers in Miami are Venezuelan
59% of US foreign buyers are residents of the country
There are some 11,000 homes in Vancouver that have been sitting empty for at least 12 months, according to city data.
Critics of the new measure argue that investors could find loopholes to evade the tax or that it might increase housing prices in other attractive Canadian cities.
Ontario's Finance Minister Charles Sousa said his government will follow the new tax "very closely" in the coming months as a possible solution to rising prices in Toronto, where the average cost of a home was C$746,546 in June -a jump of nearly 17 percent during the same month last year- according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.
Some real estate agents are concerned the tax could affect sales that are currently in negotiation.
Vancouver was also given authority to levy a special tax on vacant homes, which has been another major concern with foreign investors in the property market.
Mayor Gregor Robertson, who proposed the tax, has said the measure will encourage investors to rent their homes and help end the city's housing affordability crisis.
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BBC Newsnight reports on how it has been transformed over the past years - and how residents feel about the EU referendum vote.
Watch more: Chris Cook's full report
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The bill was proposed by Sinn Fein MLA Daithi Mckay, and is due to be debated in the Assembly tomorrow.
Currently amateur sports clubs qualify for an 80% reduction in their rates.
The petition of concern means the bill would require a cross-community majority, so can be blocked by the DUP.
Mr McKay says that such clubs make an important contribution to local communities and should be exempt from paying rates.
Three Clinical Commissioning Groups in Worcestershire plan to only treat the most severe cases where pain interferes with daily life and ability to sleep.
Bosses said changing the scoring system to cut operations will save £2m a year.
The Royal College of Surgeons said the proposals have "no clinical justification".
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Redditch and Bromsgrove, South Worcestershire, and Wyre Forest are the CCGs behind the proposals, estimated to lead to around 350 fewer operations a year.
The plans would focus on treating "severe to the upper end of moderate" cases, and people who are obese with a body mass index of 35 or over needing to lose 10% of their weight unless their problems were very severe.
CCG documents said a "patient's pain and disability should be sufficiently severe that it interferes with the patient's daily life and/or ability to sleep".
Stephen Cannon, vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said the scoring system used, known as the Oxford scoring system, "should not be used to create barriers to care".
Many local NHS commissioning groups in England are introducing these kinds of cost-cutting measures.
Harrogate, Vale of York, Shropshire and the south coast of Kent are all imposing similar restrictions on non-emergency surgery.
Some are asking patients to lose weight or stop smoking before they can be considered for an operation.
Other NHS bodies are restricting patient access to some treatments, surgery, expensive drugs and IVF.
Demand for new hips has risen across all ages groups and particularly in the under 60s, NHS figures for England show.
This is mainly because new replacements now last for much longer than before, surgeons say.
But with demand only likely to grow with an ageing population, and the money to pay for them getting increasingly scarce, NHS rationing of hip and knee replacements may well become more common.
A spokesperson for NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, on behalf of the three groups, said: "If a patient feels that they require this surgery but do not meet these criteria, there is a clear appeals system."
Gordon Wainwright, from Malvern, is waiting for a hip operation and said he is concerned how eligibility will be judged.
"If you are filling in the Oxford test, as we all do, if you want to get the op done you're probably going to not be totally truthful because you want to get your operation done," he said.
The 18-year-old helped dismiss the hosts for 149 after Afghanistan scored 212-6 in St Lucia.
The Windies were 68-2 before Rashid entered the attack and took two wickets in two balls in both of his first two overs.
At one point Rashid had figures of 4-1 in a spell which lasted 8.4 overs.
Sri Lanka left-arm pace bowler Chaminda Vaas has the best bowling figures in an ODI, taking 8-19 against Zimbabwe in 2001.
Afghanistan's win came after they had lost the Twenty20 series 3-0 to the Windies, with the second game of the three-match ODI series on Sunday.
1. Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas - 8-19 v Zimbabwe, December 2001
2. Pakistan's Shahid Afridi - 7-12 v West Indies, July 2013
3. Australia's Glenn McGrath - 7-15 v Namibia, February 2003
4. Afghanistan's Rashid Khan - 7-18 v West Indies, June 2017
5. Australia's Andy Bichel - 7-20 v England, March 2003
Source: Cricinfo
Under the deal, Mr Elop will receive 18 months of his salary and money from incentive and share schemes.
Mr Elop moved from Microsoft to run Nokia in September 2010 and will return to his former employer when the deal is completed.
Microsoft will fund 70% of his pay-off, which has sparked anger in Finland.
The nation's economy minister, Jan Vapaavuori, reportedly said: "I find it difficult to understand the merits of this bonus."
Earlier this month Microsoft agreed a deal to buy Nokia's mobile phone business for $7.2bn.
The purchase is set to be completed in early 2014, when about 32,000 Nokia employees will transfer to Microsoft.
Nokia shareholders are due to vote on the deal on 19 November.
In information provided for shareholders ahead of that meeting, Nokia explained in detail Mr Elop's compensation.
When the deal with Microsoft was signed on 3 September, Mr Elop agreed to step down as Nokia chief executive and take a new job at Microsoft when the deal is completed.
Due to that change Nokia says that he is entitled to 18 months of his salary and what Nokia describes as a "management short term cash incentive" which combined are worth $5.7m.
He is also entitled to share awards worth $19.7m.
When Mr Elop took charge at Nokia in September 2010 he became the first non-Finn to run the company.
In February 2011, he sent a warning memo to staff describing Nokia as a company standing on a "burning platform" surrounded by innovative competitors who were taking its market share.
Mr Elop decided that the company should abandon its own operating software for smartphones and instead use Microsoft's technology.
The first phones were launched in September 2012, but have failed to reclaim market share from Apple and smartphones running Android software.
The result was a slight improvement on the 41 seats they took in 2015, and bucked the national trend that has seen the party lose more than 380 seats.
Mirroring the national picture, UKIP lost its only seat on the council.
The Conservatives secured seven councillors, while the Mexborough First party secured three seats and two Independent councillors were elected.
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The council said the total turnout was 29.35%.
Labour's Glyn Jones, the deputy mayor of Doncaster, put his party's success down to Ros Jones, the town's elected Labour mayor who earlier secured a second term in office, and hard work on the campaign trail.
"In Doncaster we work hard with the public to raise the Labour ethos and profile but it's down to the Ros Jones phenomena who has come in and made progress," he said.
"We've really worked hard as councillors in the Labour Party to ensure that our candidates for the council have come forward as well."
Doncaster's got a reputation for doing things differently. Across the country, things were falling apart for Labour, but in Doncaster they actually gained two seats on the council.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives dropped a seat, and UKIP lost their only representative.
With local MPs Caroline Flint, Ed Miliband and Rosie Winterton all attending the count, this was one of the few places Labour politicians could be seen smiling.
Former UKIP councillor Clive Stone, who lost his Rossington and Bawtry seat to Labour's Mick Cooper, said his party's future was uncertain after losing all of the 145 seats it was defending nationally.
"The Tories have taken a lot of our ground and it has left us in a very difficult position, " he said.
"Whether we can come back from it or not is debatable. Only time will tell."
The project will involve the restoration of the Grade A listed Killeavy Castle and its outbuildings.
The castle was bought in 2013 by Jaramas Investments NI.
The firm is controlled by Mick Boyle, an Australian with family roots in the Killeavy area.
Invest NI Chief Executive Alastair Hamilton said the project represented "a valuable boost to the tourism infrastructure in the region".
"The development is expected to create over 80 new jobs in the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area, in addition to the employment generated during the construction phase over the next two years," he said.
Mr Boyle said the intention is to create a distinct visitor attraction that maximises the heritage and beauty of the Killeavy Castle Estate.
The overall cost of the scheme will be about £10m with a plan to open in 2018.
Killeavy Castle started life as a country farm house, built in a gothic style by the Foxall family between 1810 and 1820.
In 1836, Powell Foxall commissioned the Dublin-based architect George Papworth to extend the building, adding four stone towers, outbuildings and Tudor-style windows.
The extended 4,000 sq ft house then became known as Killeavy Castle.
It sits on a 330-acre estate which backs onto the slopes of Slieve Gullion and includes a farm and woodland.
More appropriate care could be found for people closer to home, he said.
It follows the neglect and abuse of patients by staff at the Winterbourne View private hospital, near Bristol, which was uncovered by BBC Panorama.
The NHS funds hospital care for 3,400 people with learning disabilities.
Mr Lamb - announcing the results of a government review into the Winterbourne View scandal in the Commons - said all such hospital placements would be reviewed by 1 June 2013.
Where such care was found to be "inappropriate", patients would be moved to "community-based support" no later than June 2014, he added.
He said he felt "shock, anger, dismay and deep regret" about the treatment of vulnerable people with severe learning disabilities at Winterbourne View.
Many of its patients should not have been there in the first place and the story was "the same across England", he added.
He said hospitals were not places "where people should live" and there were "far too many people with learning disabilities or autism in hospital and they stay there for far too long - sometimes for years".
"We should no more tolerate people being placed in inappropriate care settings than we would people receiving the wrong cancer treatment."
He said that, "with the right support, the vast majority of patients can live happy, fulfilled lives close to their own families in their own communities".
Boards, directors and senior managers who allow abuse to take place will face tougher sanctions which could include criminal prosecutions, he said.
"When you look at Winterbourne View, the people who committed the abuse and the assaults were convicted but what about the people making the money from that company?
"We need to have a situation where people who run care organisations - public or private sector or voluntary - know that they are accountable for the services they provide and there are consequences if they don't."
The proposals were broadly welcomed by Labour but shadow care minister Liz Kendall called for greater clarity on the number of people the government wanted to move out of long-term care.
Mark Goldring, chief executive of the learning disability charity, Mencap, said the report showed the government had "listened to families and campaigners by committing to a national programme of change".
In June 2011, BBC One's Panorama programme showed secret footage recorded by undercover journalist Joseph Casey when he was employed as a care worker at Winterbourne View of the abuse of patients with severe learning disabilities.
The victims were visibly upset and were shown screaming and shaking.
One victim was showered while fully clothed and had mouthwash poured into her eyes while another, who had tried to jump out of a second-floor window, was mocked by staff members.
The hospital, then owned by care provider firm Castlebeck, was closed in the weeks following the BBC expose and has been since bought by another firm.
On Monday, Mr Lamb said Castlebeck should consider helping to cover the costs of inquiries into the criminal behaviour of staff at Winterbourne View.
The 26-bed hospital, which opened in 2006, had a turnover of £3.7m by 2010. The average weekly fee for a patient was £3,500.
In October, four support workers and two nurses were jailed for between six months and two years for their part in the abuse, while five others were given suspended prison sentences.
After sentencing, the families of former hospital residents called for similar private hospitals to be replaced by more local services.
"Places like Winterbourne View should not exist - they should be closed," they said in a statement.
Klebsiella - a type of pneumonia - kills between 30 and 60% of those who get it and is resistant to all antibiotics.
However, researchers at Queen's University say they have discovered a therapy which eliminates it.
Team leader Prof Jose Bengoechea said that it was potentially a big breakthrough.
The new treatment uses a molecule called an inhibitor to prevent Klebsiella pneumonia from blocking the body's natural defences.
"The global problem of antimicrobial resistance is fast becoming one of the major health issues of modern times," Prof Bengoechea said.
"Of particular concern is the mounting prevalence of infections caused by Klebsiella pneumonia which has been identified as an urgent threat to human health by the UK government and the World Health Organisation due to extremely drug resistant strains.
"Our research has helped us gain a better understanding of the vulnerable pathways of human defences, meaning we have been able to develop a potentially ground-breaking new therapy that will block the bug and stop it in its tracks."
Transport for London (TfL) has proposed a new rail route running from north to south across much of the capital.
The Victorian Society has raised concerns the plans "would see numerous historic buildings demolished".
A TfL spokeswoman said demolition was "always our last resort".
The sites identified as at risk by the group include several Grade II-listed buildings dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, and part of Angel station in Islington, which was built in 1902.
The society's director, Christopher Costelloe, said: "Every effort must be made to use those sites which would minimise Crossrail 2's impact on London's unique and historic environment."
The group also criticised Crossrail 2's statement on how construction would affect London's heritage, claiming it "almost entirely deals with the impact of ground settlement caused by tunnelling rather than minimising the demolition of historic buildings of quality".
Michèle Dix, TfL's managing director for Crossrail 2, insisted that in planning the route they had "looked to minimise the impact on local residents and communities as much as possible".
She pointed out that while some Victorian buildings are within the proposed Crossrail 2 construction area they may not necessarily be affected when works are carried out.
She added: "Demolition is always our last resort and where buildings are needed we will try to ensure the façade is retained to maintain the character of the local area."
Permission has not yet been granted to build the railway, and members of the public can contribute to the consultation on the route until 8 January.
The emergency services were called to the incident on the junction of Water Street and Bridge Street at about 15:20 GMT.
It involved an articulated heavy goods vehicle, two cars and a pedestrian in her 60s, who died at the scene.
The road was closed for several hours.
The Scottish Championship manager of the month says football needs to do more, not just to advise players about gambling but all welfare issues.
Ross has guided the Buddies to Championship safety after being at the foot of the table on 8 April.
Saturday's 1-1 draw at Hibs ensured they avoided a relegation play-off.
Ross was speaking after Annan Athletic chairman Henry McClelland was charged with allegedly placing 4,011 football bets, including 430 involving his own club.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle defender Lewis Horner has also been charged with allegedly placing 353 football bets, including three accumulators involving his side.
The Scottish FA charges against McClelland date back to July 2011 up to 1 May 2017 and four of the bets were placed on Annan to lose. He has until next Tuesday to respond.
"Gambling is ingrained in our culture, not just football," said Ross, a former chairman of PFA Scotland.
"It creates more headlines in football because of the rules and the regulations. There has to be a continued education process.
"It's when we have instances that create headlines, quite often there is a focus on it and people think we need to be proactive in how we deal with it, then that dissipates over a period of time until the next headline comes along. It happens with other areas, like mental health.
"I don't think the structure is right, in terms of how everybody in football comes together to try to be supportive on all-round welfare issues, not just gambling.
"I don't think it's an epidemic within the game. There will be instances of players or people who will break the rules and regulations, but the key is to put forward a consistent and ongoing education programme, particularly with younger players, and trying to make that part of the culture. It's not an easy thing to do."
Ross says "satisfaction" was the over-riding emotion after St Mirren secured their Championship status at the weekend following the 1-1 draw with title-winners Hibernian at Easter Road.
The manager and his staff took Sunday off but were straight back to work on Monday to begin the process of building a side to mount a promotion challenge next season.
Ross expects interest in midfielder Stevie Mallan to "firm up" and acknowledges that he may also lose Lewis Morgan, whose performances have generated interested other clubs, but he does not expect to make wholesale changes.
"Naturally, I would like to keep the bulk of the squad together, and I will have to add two or three," Ross said.
"I've always known there was a chance I would lose [Mallan]. I'd prefer not to, for obvious reasons because he's a big asset. But because of the relationship I have with him, he knows I want him to progress.
"That will be a decision for Stevie himself, if there is firm interest, and the earlier that's done, if it is, the more it helps me. I'm realistic to know [losing players] might be the case and then it's about finding good replacements.
"It very much depends on who leaves, but we don't need to add an awful lot if we keep the bulk of the squad together. For next season, the aim has to be to be promoted. I like to have aims, and I like the players to have that, and I probably started to think about that as soon as the game finished on Saturday. That's my job, top try to push this club as far as I can.
"Not just since Saturday but prior to that, the form we were in and the way we were playing, you start to get more players coming to you and saying they want to play for St Mirren. I don't think we have to persuade people to be interested in coming here, they recognise the potential of the club."
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The nomadic existence Ards FC has led over the most recent part of its 116-year history has been one of the longest-running sagas in Northern Irish football.
Crushing lows and glorious highs have punctuated the tale along the way.
Earlier this month, the County Down outfit gained promotion to the Irish Premiership, Northern Ireland's top flight, after a two-year absence.
But the many seasons spent playing home games at grounds miles away from the club's birthplace in Newtownards have taken their toll, and the campaign to return the club to the town has been a lengthy one.
While ground-sharing is not uncommon in Northern Irish football, the Ards scenario is somewhat unique.
The club's Castlereagh Park home was sold in the late-1990s to raise money to pay off debts and the club played its last game at the ground in 2001.
Ground-shares were then agreed, firstly with Cliftonville, then Carrick Rangers and, in later years, with Bangor.
But the sale failed to solve the money problems and Ards were in dire straits when Brian Adams became chairman 12 years ago.
"One man stopped me in the street and said: 'Ards has been my life and I'm now in my 70s - don't let it die'," Brian said. "I thought: 'Yes, I have to do this.'
"When I arrived I found not only had they no ground but they were £200,000 in debt and there were several court cases over players and managers that hadn't been paid."
He pulled together a rescue committee to pay the club's debts, keep it in business and get its "integrity back on a better footing".
That process was long, arduous and led to relegation, and the prospect of a return to Newtownards looked distant.
"Some critics would've said we'd forgotten about the ground, but we hadn't," Brian said.
"We were working away trying to get a ground and it was the most frustrating bit."
Brian said the number of sites the club has tried to secure over the years is well into double figures.
Each has fallen through for various reasons, with one collapse ending in a dispute with Ards Borough Council and a blame game played out in full public view.
"We had given up hope of anybody helping us, it was just knockback after knockback," Brian added.
Ground-sharing continued, with attendances dropping to about 80 when the club played at the home of Ballyclare Comrades, almost 30 miles away.
A return to Bangor, a much more manageable 15-minute drive, saw numbers rise again and that arrangement exists to this day.
With every game effectively being an away day, the club has unsurprisingly "suffered", according to Keith Bailie.
The lifelong Ards supporter has watched the ups and downs around the grounds and now writes about them as a journalist with the Newtownards Chronicle.
Crowds of as many as 2,000 would have watched the club play at Castlereagh Park, he said, but that figure is closer to the 300-mark now.
"Irish League football attendances have declined in that time as well, but certainly Ards would've had a much bigger support if they'd stayed in Newtownards," he added.
"It's definitely affected the reputation of the club, the amount of supporters coming through the gates and the success of the team.
"Ards had spent almost their entire existence in the top flight, and then post-ground sale, they've spent the majority of their time in the second tier.
"It's definitely taken a lot out of the club."
But, in spite of that, a sense of optimism remains.
On-field success gradually returned after the club's debts were finally paid and it was able to recruit manager Niall Currie.
He has led Ards to promotion twice and to several cup semi-finals and finals.
"In many ways the struggle has brought people closer together, having to fight for things," Keith said.
"It has almost unified those supporters who stuck by the club and kept going to games even when they were in Carrickfergus or in Ballyclare."
But can a team really thrive when it has no home of its own?
Well, there could be a reason for hope among fans on that front as Ards begin another attempt to end their exile.
The club is moving closer to an agreement with Movilla High School in Newtownards over building a ground on two of its pitches that are no longer in use.
It is, of course, early days, but Brian said it would be a win-win for both parties, providing the club with a return to the town while the school would have use of the facilities.
Plans have been drawn up by the architects that worked on the redevelopment of Northern Ireland's national football stadium Windsor Park and a public meeting will be held next week to discuss the project.
"Movilla want it, we want it and a lot of the people in Newtownards are saying: 'We would like to see Ards come back'," Brian said.
"I think the majority of people would prefer to have it than not have it."
The site is in a residential area and the lease of the school's land to the club would need approval from the Education Authority.
A scepticism therefore exists among Ards supporters over whether the project will succeed, according to Keith - they have been here before.
But Brian thinks it is Ards's most realistic prospect yet of a return to its roots and the heights achieved in decades past.
"Ards was a premier club for 74 years but a couple of generations have missed out," he said.
"It's our big goal to get back in Newtownards and my thinking is we should be able to double our crowd there.
"That generates more money and in the long term we stay in the Premiership, stabilise and try to work our way into the top six."
Ards hope these first few tentative steps will finally lead them along the road home.
Ashley Daniel Talbot was run over by PE teacher Chris Brooks, 34, at Maesteg Comprehensive School, Bridgend county, on 10 December 2014.
A second 13-year-old boy suffered minor injuries.
South Wales Police said it had questioned Mr Brooks but confirmed no action would be taken against him.
The force said Ashley's family had been informed and a police investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident continued.
In a tribute released after his death, Ashley's family described him as a "typical teenager, a practical joker with a wicked infectious laugh".
Pupils at the school also paid tribute to a "good friend" and said the gap he had left could never be filled.
Yet the area, which is better known for the coal trade, is home to the country's only manufacturer of tinsel, which makes it the nation's real "Tinseltown".
It is here at Festive Productions where they make the stuff that many in the UK use to decorate trees and their homes at Christmas.
And it is no cottage industry. The company is one of the biggest tinsel producers in the world.
Festive Productions can turn out 150,000m of the sparkly stuff a day when it needs to.
And its market share would put a twinkle in the eye of any businessman or woman.
Reliable statistics on the country's tinsel consumption are hard to come by - after all, who is counting? - but the company reckons it makes almost two-thirds of all the tinsel sold in the UK.
That is enough, it says, to wrap the whole world in a glittery garland.
So how has this Welsh company managed to hold out against the competition from China?
After all, virtually everything else that sparkles, glimmers, glints or shines at Christmas comes from vast Chinese factories that work year round turning out forests of fake trees, seas of shimmering baubles, galaxies of Christmas lights and armies of ho-ho-ho-ing Santas.
The answer, says the company's chief executive Ian Newton, lies in the product itself.
"The fact is," he says, "tinsel doesn't travel well."
If you pack tinsel into a container and ship it halfway around the world, it comes out limp and flaccid, he explains.
What customers want, he says as he lifts up a thick golden rope of the stuff, is pert, bushy tinsel.
So even though labour costs are higher in south Wales than they are in the industrial parks of Southern China, it is still worth making tinsel in the UK.
"The proof of the business model is our customers," Mr Newton says.
"We sell to all the major supermarkets and to garden centres across the country. They just wouldn't buy from us if they could get good tinsel cheaper somewhere else."
Rack after rack of shimmering cords of tinsel fill the insides of a fairly typical, large industrial unit, where Jason Poulsom, who has worked here for a quarter of a century, is eager to show off a wide array of products.
There are the usual reds, golds and silvers, as well as an incredible range of other colours. Gingham tinsel anyone?
There is a blend of cerise and burnt sienna with just a dash of an iridescent material, black with a glitzy purple, and off-even green with folded red strips to produce an impressive holly effect.
These concoctions are created in what looks like great big candy floss machines that shred the shiny plastic tape into strips, which in turn are drawn into a spinning bowl along with nylon string.
The spinning action binds the whole thing together into the familiar shiny rope.
Each machine can produce 25m of multicoloured bling every six minutes, Mr Poulsom says.
It is an impressive operation and clearly a big business, though in the greater scheme of things it is a relatively new one.
Festive Productions has only been around for 30 years.
So where does the UK's tinsel tradition come from?
That is something no-one seems to know the answer to.
Most Christmas customs have been pored over by the experts - Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the giving of presents.
But it seems there is a tinsel-sized hole in the history of Christmas.
Historians agree that the origins of tinsel lie in 17th Century Germany.
That was when thin strips of gold and silver begun to be hung in trees to reflect the light of candles at Christmas time.
What no-one can say is when and how the tradition made its way to the UK.
There were strong links between Germany and Britain at the time, says Jenny Uglow of Queen Mary College, University of London.
So it is fair to assume that the UK would have followed the German fashion, she says, as it did in many other things.
Ms Uglow has written about how the UK imported the German tradition of garden gnomes in the 17th Century, for example.
But, as she acknowledges, there is no proof that tinsel made the same journey.
The Victorians are famous for their Christmas celebrations, yet David Oakley, curator of the Queen Victoria's Christmas exhibition at Windsor Castle, says there was no trace of tinsel on Queen Victoria's tree.
Daru Rooke, an expert on the Victorian home, says he has been through hundreds of Victorian Christmas cards dating all the way back to the 1860s, many of which depict trees.
None, he says, had tinsel.
That has led some scholars to insist that tinsel is a modern tradition in the UK.
Some believe that it was imported as recently as the 1930s, and not from Germany but from America, where it was then known as "icicles".
But wherever it comes from, the fact is that tinsel has become a byword for our modern Christmas.
Den Dover was investigated over European Parliamentary expenses claims that the parliament argued were unjustified.
The former MP for Chorley in Lancashire said he submitted his expenses in "good faith", but was ordered to repay £345,289 in expenses claims in 2011.
Mr Dover, 75, said he was delighted to be exonerated after a six-year fight.
Mr Dover was expelled from the Tory Party in 2008 for "gross misconduct" and originally faced a demand to repay £538,000.
He said: "I enjoyed my time as a Chorley MP for 18 years and 10 years as NW MEP and chief whip then suddenly I was seen as a bad guy and expelled.
Mr Dover said he was "used as a scapegoat" when the party knew the whole system for expenses was "completely flawed".
"I had to pay all the money back even though I had all the receipts and they were perfectly legitimate items."
He added: "It was totally unjustified."
A police spokeswoman said: "Hertfordshire Constabulary sought early investigative advice from the Crown Prosecution Service regarding an allegation of fraud relating to European Parliamentary expenses.
"Hertfordshire Constabulary have subsequently made a decision that no further action is to be taken regarding this matter."
Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies had urged the police to investigate whether Mr Dover, who represented the North West of England in Brussels until 2009, had committed a criminal offence.
The Conservative Party said it would not be commenting on the latest development.
Mr Dover said now he had been "completely cleared" he would reconsider his future.
The Eagles 3-0 win in South Sudan on Saturday took them to 13 points to guarantee them one of the two best runners-up places.
Should Benin be readmitted to global football and complete their fixtures they can top the group with two wins.
Mali will top the pool with a draw or a win in their last qualifier against Benin.
Benin's future in the tournament is in doubt as they are currently banned from global football by Fifa.
However they will be readmitted if elections for a new Benin Football Federation (FBF) Executive Committee are held "no later than 11 June 2016."
The Confederation of African Football have confirmed that if those elections do happen Benin will be allowed to play their qualifier against Equatorial Guinea on 12 June.
The match had been due to be played on Sunday.
Group D is the only other group where the runners-up can finish with 13 points as Burkina Faso and Uganda both have 10 points and face Botswana and Comoros respectively.
If both Uganda and Burkina Faso win in September the two sides will advance to the Nations Cup finals - the Stallions as group winners and the Cranes as one of the best runners-up.
Tunisia and Liberia both have 10 points at the Group A and face each other in the final tie and so the runners-up can finish with a maximum possible 11 points.
It is similar in Group B with DR Congo playing Central African Republic in the last tie meaning the runner-up cannot finish with more than 12 points.
The 28-year-old had been considering his options, as he was out of contract this summer, after helping Argyle to promotion out of League Two last term.
But Carey, who has scored 27 goals in 100 appearances for Argyle, penned his new contract on Thursday as players returned for pre-season.
The length of Carey's contract has not been disclosed by the Pilgrims.
"We can bring more of China to America, and some more of America to China," as Mr Spielberg described the deal.
The tie-up is the latest to involve a Chinese company and the US movie industry.
China is soon expected to overtake the US as the industry's biggest market.
The two sides said they would co-produce movies for a global and Chinese audience and also work together on the marketing and merchandising of each other's films.
While China is tipped to be the biggest movie market of the future, Western companies remain limited in their access and therefore often forge partnerships with Chinese firms.
Alibaba Pictures president Zhang Wei, however, said the tie-up was "not just a financial investment" and that the company picked Amblin over other Hollywood partners because their early conversations did not focus on funding alone.
"There's a lot of hot money from China floating around Hollywood right now, and we've had quite a few people approaching us wanting a partnership," she said.
"Oftentimes people see us as a source of capital and as a way into China."
Mr Spielberg stressed that his partnership with Alibaba founder Jack Ma would go beyond that.
"Some of the stories I'm hoping Jack and I can tell in this new partnership between Amblin Partners and Alibaba Pictures will be able to bring Chinese-themed stories to the American audience, and we can do co-productions between our company and your company," he said at a briefing in Beijing.
Alibaba chief Jack Ma pointed out that while the US and China "may have cultural differences", the company would focus on human stories and serve as a bridge between the two countries.
The co-operation is the latest in a long list of deals and acquisitions allowing Chinese companies to extend their footprint in Hollywood.
Earlier this year, Dalian Wanda bought Legendary Entertainment, the company behind blockbusters such as Jurassic World, the Batman Dark Knight trilogy and Godzilla.
Wanda has also recently announced a major investment in Sony pictures.
Environmental campaigners have said deposits and refunds would increase recycling rates and reduce litter.
Meanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is keen to learn from countries which already have such a scheme.
These include Germany, Sweden and Norway.
But ministers have stopped short of giving the idea their formal backing.
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "A scheme like the deposit return has the potential to be very beneficial for the environment - reducing litter and boosting the recycling of these materials and their value.
"As we have seen with carrier bag charging, attaching a value to something can be very effective in helping us make small but important changes."
Industry leaders have issued a warning about the potential costs.
They argue that existing recycling facilities should be improved instead.
The Packaging Recycling Group Scotland represents more than 30 food and drinks companies and industry bodies.
Spokeswoman Jane Bickerstaffe said: "We do not support the introduction of a deposit return system in Scotland and recommend alternative proposals to promote recycling, reduce waste and tackle litter, which we believe will be more effective."
Zero Waste Scotland has called on food and drinks companies to provide it with detailed evidence supporting their claims.
Its chief executive, Iain Gulland, said: "The research explores how a deposit return system could work in Scotland, and the issues to consider in designing and implementing a system.
"That's why we are also launching a call for evidence today, to understand the impacts of such a system and how it could work most effectively."
Any return to the days when shops gave a refund to customers returning glass bottles would be welcomed by environmental groups.
Dr Richard Dixon, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: "Many people in Scotland remember collecting Irn Bru bottles when they were kids to cash in the deposit.
"These proposals could create jobs, reduce needless waste and grow the green economy."
He appeared at a gala in Havana's Karl Marx Theatre with his brother, President Raul Castro, and Cuba's ally, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
In his first public appearance since April, he appeared frail and remained seated during the event.
Fidel Castro, who stood down in 2008, had earlier attacked US President Barack Obama in a newspaper column.
He criticised Mr Obama for not apologising to the people of Hiroshima for the nuclear bomb dropped there by the US in World War Two. Mr Obama visited the Japanese city in May.
"He lacked the words to ask for forgiveness for the killings of hundreds of thousands of people," Mr Castro wrote.
Ninety years of Castro and the Queen
Fidel, the great survivor
Ties between the US and Cuba have been restored under Raul Castro's presidency, but after a visit by Mr Obama to Havana in March, Fidel Castro wrote that "we don't need the empire to give us anything".
The gala in Havana focused on key moments of Fidel's life, including the CIA-backed invasion attempt in the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
A large street party was also held in the capital late on Friday, and fireworks exploded when the clock hit midnight.
The BBC's Will Grant in Havana says that Fidel Castro now has all but retired from public life and is thought to exercise limited influence over political affairs in Cuba.
Jeanette Parkinson was overpaid when she left Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust in 2012, an internal review found.
Ms Parkinson and other midwives were accused of colluding over evidence given to an inquiry into baby deaths.
Now former HR manager Roger Wilson, who signed off the deal, is being probed by the Care Quality Commission.
A spokeswoman for the trust said he was being investigated under the fit and proper person test.
This regulation, introduced in 2014, means that all people with director-level responsibility for the quality and safety of care, can be deemed unfit if they have been involved in "serious misconduct or mismanagement".
Ms Parkinson, a maternity risk manager, was one of the midwives caring for newborn Joshua Titcombe, who died at Barrow's Furness General hospital in Cumbria in November 2008.
He was one of 11 babies and one mother to die after being treated at the trust's hospitals over a nine-year period.
A later inquiry led by Dr Bill Kirkup found that a "lethal mix" of failures at the trust led to their "unnecessary" deaths between 2004 and 2013.
Last month it emerged that in 2012, Mr Wilson signed an exit deal for Ms Parkinson which allowed her to leave without an investigation into her performance.
At the time Mr Wilson, who now works at Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation Trust, told the Health Service Journal: "I would like to record that I strongly refute any allegation of impropriety on my part while employed at UHMB or at any other role that I have held in either public or private sectors."
Spencer Bell, 71, from Bushey, Hertfordshire, went to the aid of Alan Trethewey, 67, who had fallen on to the M1 near Watford on 30 January.
Both men were then hit by an oncoming car.
Mr Bell's family previously described him as "the most loving, funny and generous person".
The hearing regarding Mr Bell's death has been adjourned due to criminal proceedings involving a car driver, who has been charged with causing death by careless driving.
"Knowing he died in such a selfless way is no comfort. But we would not have expected anything else of him," Mr Bell's family said.
He has also been ordered to pay $28.4m in restitution to victims, who include billionaire William Koch.
Mr Kurniawan is the first person ever to go to jail for selling fake wine in the US.
He was found guilty of mixing old wine with newer vintages in his kitchen.
Mr Kurnaiwan then passed them off as even more expensive wines.
The scheme ran from 2004 to 2012, according to government prosecutors. In December, he was found guilty of committing wire and mail fraud.
As an Indonesian national, Mr Kurniawan will be deported once his sentence is served. He has already spent two years in jail since being arrested in March of 2012.
Analysis: Michelle Fleury, New York Business Reporter
Rudy Kurniawan was rumbled selling fake vintage wines to fuel a lifestyle of fast cars and expensive art.
But we still don't know exactly how many bogus bottles he sold. And perhaps we never will.
Part of the problem is that many of his rich and famous clients kept quiet. Perhaps they were embarrassed.
Or maybe they were hoping to resell some of the wines they'd bought from him.
Only a handful of his victims ever stepped forward during his trial.
They included a billionaire (Bill Koch), a real estate mogul (Peter Fascitelli) and a California restaurateur (David Doyle).
An avid collector himself, Kurniawan was once considered one of the best aficionados in the world.
In 2006 alone, it was believed he sold up to 12,000 bottles at auction.
But authorities were said to have found thousands of labels for fine Burgundy and Bordeaux wine along with full, unlabelled bottles in Kurniawan's home.
Prosecutors argued Kurniawan deserved a longer sentence because he flaunted his ill-gotten gains "with extravagant purchases of authentic wine, luxury cars, a Beverly Hills mansion, flights on private jets, designer watches and clothing, fine art and much more".
Powys council said the move would help it meet the Welsh government's 58% recycling target by 2015/16, which rises to 70% by 2024/25.
The new collection cycles will start from the week beginning 23 November.
Weekly recycling collections, including food waste, will be unaffected.
Harriers chief executive Colin Gordon, who picked the team prior to Hockaday's arrival in October, will again take on team selection responsibility.
Harriers lie bottom of the National League, 12 points adrift of safety, having won just twice all season.
"We've talked at length and both agree that this is the right move forward," said Harriers chairman Rod Brown.
"We'd like to thank Dave for his hard work and contribution to the club during his time with us."
The 57 year old former Blackpool, Swindon, Hull, Stoke and Shrewsbury defender took over after Gary Whild's exit from Aggborough. in September.
He spent seven years at Watford from 2000 as Under-18s coach, then first-team coach, after which he worked briefly under Martin Allen at MK Dons.
He had two years as Southampton youth coach, then worked again under Allen at Cheltenham before four years at Forest Green.
He was given the manager's job by Championship club Leeds United in August 2014, only to be sacked by Massimo Cellino after only six games and 70 days in charge.
He worked for non-League side Swindon Supermarine, then had two months at League One side Coventry before moving to Kidderminster.
The home side looked to be heading for all three points thanks to Myles Weston's first goal of 2017, but Blissett's maiden Plymouth goal since arriving from Torquay saw the spoils shared.
In a cagey opening, Wycombe seized the first chance out of nowhere from Adebayo Akinfenwa's 30-yard lob, which dipped just wide with Luke McCormick well-beaten.
Gareth Ainsworth's side snatched the lead in the 17th minute when Weston ghosted in from the left and buried an inch-perfect cross from Michael Harriman.
Plymouth could have been level soon after when a Jamal Blackman double-save thwarted Jimmy Spencer, and Jake Jervis from the rebound.
In the second half, a dangerous Weston delivery was put on a plate for Dominic Gape, who could only nod his header straight at McCormick.
The impressive Blackman was required again to tip over a Jervis volley but Plymouth equalised from the resulting corner as substitute Blissett pounced to guide it home with 15 minutes left to play.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Wycombe Wanderers 1, Plymouth Argyle 1.
Second Half ends, Wycombe Wanderers 1, Plymouth Argyle 1.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Adebayo Akinfenwa.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Jordan Slew replaces James Spencer.
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Sam Saunders replaces Myles Weston.
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Marcus Bean (Wycombe Wanderers).
Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dominic Gape (Wycombe Wanderers).
Nathan Blissett (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Yann Songo'o replaces Matthew Kennedy.
Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers).
Matthew Kennedy (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Will De Havilland (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Will De Havilland replaces Max Müller.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Aaron Pierre.
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Goal! Wycombe Wanderers 1, Plymouth Argyle 1. Nathan Blissett (Plymouth Argyle) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jake Jervis with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Jamal Blackman.
Attempt saved. Nathan Blissett (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Nathan Blissett replaces Antoni Sarcevic.
Delay in match Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers) because of an injury.
Foul by Dominic Gape (Wycombe Wanderers).
Matthew Kennedy (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.
Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers).
James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Antoni Sarcevic (Plymouth Argyle) header from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
When Russia last went to war, in Georgia in 2008, it looked like an easy victory. But Russia's generals were deeply concerned at how badly their forces performed in some key areas of modern warfare.
Russia has spent the seven years since then rearming, re-equipping, and retraining, in order to deal with those deficiencies, and to try to close the capability gap with modern Western armies.
Now the results can be seen in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists have gained ground against Ukrainian government troops.
Ukraine's army has not gone through the same intensive modernisation process, and is suffering the effects, facing the newer weapons and systems supplied by Russia.
Two key examples are the use of UAVs (drones) for surveillance and targeting, and the use of electronic warfare.
Both technologies were identified as areas of weakness in the Russian forces in 2008, and both have been intensively developed since. Now, they are in widespread use in eastern Ukraine, placing Ukrainian government forces at a strong disadvantage.
Ukrainian forces are short of secure communications systems. The result is that their communications are both subject to jamming, and often also show their location to Russian direction-finding equipment. This can lead to being swiftly targeted by Russian artillery, including Grad and other, more powerful, rocket systems.
As part of the non-lethal aid provided by the US, Ukraine has received special radar to try to pinpoint the source of incoming mortar fire. But their use is limited by the difficulty in communicating the results to other forces.
And, for the time being, Ukraine has not received the more sophisticated systems that would pinpoint the source of fire from longer-range artillery systems.
Ukrainian forces are also outclassed by the tanks arriving from Russia. Not only are these more modern than Ukrainian models, but Ukraine is also short of effective anti-armour weapons in working order.
All of these systems, plus medical support and field hospital equipment, are on the list of Ukrainian requests for support, to increase the survivability of their forces when confronting new Russian military equipment.
Losses of Ukrainian aircraft over the conflict zone show how well-equipped the Russian-backed separatists are for air defence. This includes not just the Buk missile system - blamed for downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 - but also others like Strela for use at lower altitudes and shorter ranges, and a wide range of lighter, shoulder-launched missiles.
Independent experts, as well as Nato, Western leaders and the Kiev government, say there is clear evidence of direct Russian military involvement, despite Russian denials.
As part of its military transformation process, Russia has been practising for conflict with an intensive programme of exercises and manoeuvres, involving tens of thousands of servicemen across the country.
These exercises have been increasing in size and complexity, and often have a storyline which is directly hostile to the West.
Now, in addition, Russia has the benefit of a live testing ground in eastern Ukraine, where it can try out its new weapons, systems and tactics. The results - especially if all of these are tested against any potential new US defensive systems supplied to Ukraine - will help Russia assess how its forces would fare in a direct confrontation with Nato.
Keir Giles is an analyst with the Conflict Studies Research Centre in Oxford, and an Associate Fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London.
The Saudi government and and security forces said they are looking for the wanted man.
A Snapchat video showed him using a rifle to shoot cats in neighbourhood areas.
It prompted online anger with tens of thousands calling for the "cat butcher" to be held to account.
In the video, the cats are shown writhing in pain after being shot.
Commenting on his actions in the same video, the man - who also applied a Snapchat cat filter to his face - said this was "the price for four car washes".
Several online users called for his execution while some said he was "sick" and shared a ministry hotline for anyone witnessing acts of animal cruelty.
Some tweeted that his violent acts contravened Islamic teachings on care for animals, where an act of cruelty to an animal is considered a sin and equated to an act of cruelty to a human.
Among those who tweeted their thoughts was journalist Turki Shalhoub who said: "God will have mercy on those who show mercy toward others."
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This isn't the first case of serial cat killers on the loose.
In June, 200 cats were poisoned inside a month in the French village of Saint Pierre la Mer.
In July, a man in California was jailed for 16 years after admitting he stole and tortured cats, killing 18 of them.
And in 2016, up to 30 cats were thought to have been mutilated and decapitated in south London over the course of two years.
By the UGC and Social News team and BBC Monitoring
The 27-year-old Argentina international has made 24 appearances for Sarries since joining the club from Montpellier in the summer of 2014.
"He is one of the best scrummagers in world rugby," Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall said.
"He has shown great character to battle back from injury to get back to the form we know he is capable of."
Saracens have not disclosed the length of Figallo's new deal at Allianz Park.
St Asaph Cathedral will develop new interactive activities and displays and have an officer to run school visits.
It could be awarded a further £243,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
It houses one of only 20 known copies of the William Morgan bible from 1588, but needs the new facilities to preserve the manuscript.
The cathedral is waiting for planning permission to create a tearoom, new toilet facilities and community meeting rooms.
Most opinion polls indicate the conservative party New Democracy and Syriza are running very close.
But unlike last January's election, there is little excitement about Sunday's vote; campaigning has been lacklustre and the response of the electorate muted.
Syriza's high noon has passed, the party and its leader bruised by their experience in government.
Mr Tsipras' decision to abandon the anti-austerity stance which had propelled him into government, and instead sign a bail-out deal with Greece's European creditors, fractured Syriza, with 25 MPs setting up their own parliamentary party.
Since then his popularity ratings have fallen.
On the streets in Athens, people talk of their disappointment with Mr Tsipras.
One man angrily highlights how the Syriza leader signed the bailout deal shortly after a referendum, in which more than 60% of Greek voters rejected the austerity measures European creditors wanted to impose.
In a bland, smoke-filled office in the heart of Athens, the senior Syriza official and former economy minister, Giorgos Stathakis, admits they have lost a lot of supporters - perhaps 30%.
Many of these, he says, are young people who were crucial in bringing Syriza to power in January.
"That's why I'm campaigning primarily with the younger generations," he says. "Some are critical of what we did as a government in this seven-month period. [But] given our options we did the right thing and we have to continue.
"Alexis [Tsipras] will be forgiven."
For all that has gone wrong, Mr Stathakis is convinced his party still has a good chance to come to power.
He claims their own polls indicate they have a lead of 3-4% over their nearest rivals, New Democracy.
It is a view shared by the independent Athens-based journalist and analyst John Psaropoulos, who argues that while Syriza has faced a lot of criticism, it has also benefited from the resentment felt by many Greeks at the way Brussels treated its ministers during the bailout negotiations.
"So I expect they will still come out on top of New Democracy in this election," he says.
"I don't think they will do as well as the 36% they got in January, but probably they will get in the high 20s or maybe 30%."
In an upmarket office near the city centre, a top New Democracy MP, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, dismisses all this, claiming it is his party which has the momentum in this election.
"A couple of months ago we were trailing by 10%, now we're tied," he says.
Accusing Syriza of grossly mismanaging the economy while it was in power, he argues it is only a centre-right party like his that can bring the long, painful financial crisis to an end.
It is estimated that 10% of voters have yet to make up their minds which party they will vote for.
Their choices on Sunday are likely to determine the outcome of this election.
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Danielle McDermott, who has an address in Belfast, admitted taking almost £11,000 from two pensioners between August 2013 and May 2014.
She used the money for shopping, hotels and a trip to the Isle of Man.
The judge described the offences as "very serious, mean and nasty".
McDermott had pleaded guilty to all three charges of stealing money, converting criminal property and fraud by false representation.
One of her victims is a 75-year-old woman who suffers from dementia.
The court was told that in August 2013 she had £11,000 in her bank account but by April 2014 she had £474.
Another victim, 89-year-old Dinah Porter told BBC Radio Foyle that she was able to forgive McDermott but her daughter could not.
Her family set up a secret recording after becoming suspicious and caught McDermott stealing on camera.
McDermott denied stealing the money and said she had taken it to collect some precooked meals for Mrs Porter.
The court heard the money was used for a variety of purposes such as shopping, car insurance, heating oil, hotels and the paying off of at least one loan.
The defendant also used it to fly to the Isle of Man where her boyfriend was working.
The entire sum was spent on the defendant and her boyfriend, who knew nothing of its source.
The judge said that McDermott had persisted in her actions even after being questioned by police about the missing money.
''It is clear that both injured parties were taken advantage of because they were vulnerable and the defendant was in a relationship of trust with them.
"The sort of offending that has to be deterred by the imposition of an immediate custodial sentence," said the judge.
It is the first time the guild has declared a tie for best film in its 25-year history, another indicator that this year's Oscars race is wide open.
The PGA has correctly picked the film that has gone on to win best picture at the Oscars for the last six years.
Disney's Frozen won best animation and Behind the Candelabra won best TV film.
ABC's Modern Family picked up the best episodic comedy award, while Breaking Bad won for best episodic TV drama.
James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were among those given special honours for their contribution to film.
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, scooped best documentary, while The Voice won best competitive TV series.
Other winners included Sesame Street, which won outstanding children's programme.
The PGA awards followed hot on the tails of the Screen Actors Guild awards, which also took place this weekend - SAG voters eschewed both Gravity and 12 Years a Slave, choosing instead 1970s crime caper American Hustle for its top honour.
The Oscars take place on 2 March.
Voting among the 6,000 members runs from 14 to 25 February.
The two clashed before one of three restarts in a chaotic race, Vettel hitting the back of Hamilton's Mercedes and then swerving sideways into him.
Vettel said Hamilton had deliberately slowed - or "brake-tested" - him.
Hamilton denied that and added that it was "disgusting driving" and "not sportsman's conduct".
Vettel was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty in the race - won by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo - after being adjudged guilty of dangerous driving but still finished a place ahead of Hamilton in fourth, extending his championship lead to 14 points.
The 29-year-old was also given three penalty points on his licence, taking him up to nine. If a driver receives 12 in a 12-month period, it triggers an automatic race ban.
If he wants to prove he's a man, we should do it out of the car face-to-face.
If Vettel receives three penalty points at the next race in Austria on 9 July, he would face a race ban. However, two points will drop off after the British Grand Prix on 16 July as he was punished for forcing Felipe Massa off the track at Silverstone last year.
Hamilton was not penalised. The stewards examined data from his car and found that he had maintained a more or less constant speed, had not lifted off the throttle or braked, and had behaved no differently at that restart at that point on the track than at the other two restarts.
Hamilton appeared not to accelerate out of Turn 15, the penultimate corner, and Vettel hit him up the back, damaging the Ferrari's front wing and part of the Mercedes' floor.
Vettel then pulled alongside Hamilton and swerved into him, banging wheels.
Asked if he drove into Hamilton deliberately, Vettel said: "It was very clear. We are racing with men. I don't have a radio to him. If we get a penalty, we should both get a penalty."
He added: "I wasn't happy with the brake-testing. I drove alongside him and raised my hand to say that is not the way to do it and we had a little contact."
Vettel added that it was "quite obvious" Hamilton had brake-tested him.
"I don't run into the back of him on purpose," he said. "I damaged my wing; he had a little damage as well.
"His restart was really good; I didn't think it was necessary. The problem is me right behind getting ready and all the other cars.
"He did something similar a couple of years ago in China at the restart. It is not the way to do it.
"The leader dictates the pace, but we were exiting the corner, he was accelerating and then he braked so much that I was braking as soon as I saw and I could not stop in time and ran into the back of him. That was just not necessary."
Vettel was unaware immediately after the race that his penalty was for swerving into Hamilton. He said that he thought the penalty must have been for hitting Hamilton from behind.
Hamilton, who lost victory in the race because he had to pit to have a loose head restraint fixed, responded: "I didn't (brake-test him). I controlled the pace. All the restarts I slowed down in the same spot.
"He was obviously sleeping and driving alongside and deliberately driving into a driver and coming away scot-free is is a disgrace. He disgraced himself.
"If he wants to prove he's a man, we should do it out of the car face-to-face. Driving dangerously in any way can put another driver at risk.
"Luckily we were going slow. If we were going fast it could have been a lot worse. Imagine all the kids watching Formula 1 today and see that kind of behaviour from a four-time world champion. It says it all."
Asked if things had got dirty in the title fight, Hamilton said: "Not for me. I am going keep to going.
"We had the upper hand this weekend. We can continue to move forwards in the future. Through difficult times true colours show, so it is a good day for me."
Vettel said the fight was "still respectful", adding: "I don't have a problem with him. It is just one action today that was wrong.
"I am willing to sort it out with him. I don't think there is much to sort out. I will talk to him when you (the media) are not there and then we move on."
Asked if he expected Vettel to apologise, Hamilton said: "I don't fancy seeing him. It might turn into something else."
Frazer Shaw: Whether Hamilton brake-checked Vettel or not does not excuse using your vehicle as a weapon for the second hit. Outrageous behaviour.
Alex Rose: So Vettel drives into Hamilton, gets a penalty and still manages to finish in front. That's not right.
Alex Withington: The repercussions will go on for a while after this one. Both Vettel and Hamilton will feel they were wronged. F1 2017 looking tasty
Steven Coy: The Vettel/Hamilton doesn't need penalties, the fierce competitiveness between these two is what this sport needs!
Andrew Ogley: Well, frankly that was all a bit bonkers today.
Disagreements, insults, a flurry of hype on social media - and then a lucrative fight.
But how far should the bad blood go? And can pay-per-view boxing exist without it?
Before Tony Bellew and David Haye meet at London's O2 Arena on Saturday, the British fighters speak to BBC Sport to address controversial comments, glamorous Miami training camps and whether animosity works for boxing fans.
The pair have sparred together but it seemed any bond they shared disappeared when Bellew, 34, called his rival "Spongebob Squarepants" after beating BJ Flores in October. However, that insult, a dig at Haye's hairstyle that Bellew admits referred to the wrong character (he meant Sideshow Bob), was a relatively gentle precursor to the nastiness that has followed.
Bellew: "He was saying that he's going to leave me in hospital and I'm going to leave the ring on a stretcher. I thought that was absolutely disgusting. All I care about is going home to provide for my three kids and my missus - that's all I need to make me happy.
"We have to remember there are fighters lying in hospital at the moment in comas because of boxing. You've had the whole thing with Nick Blackwell, the tragic death of Mike Towell, and it's becoming more frequent of late, which is worrying for my sport. This clown David Haye thinks it's a joke."
Haye: "When a boxer gets knocked unconscious in a ring, it's standard procedure to take that boxer to hospital for a brain scan to make sure there is no serious damage. I've knocked out 26 of my 28 opponents. They've all been taken to hospital.
"I told him the truth by saying he will go the same way. I don't want anything serious to happen - but that is a fact."
Haye is no stranger to confrontation. The 36-year-old from London brawled with Dereck Chisora at a news conference in 2012. This time around he threw a punch at Bellew at a media gathering in November. Liverpool's Bellew, meanwhile, built a reputation as one of British boxing's biggest talkers from early in his career. His camp have claimed Haye needs this fight for the money.
Haye: "People who aren't boxing fans are interested in this fight because it makes so much noise when you have two men trading insults and shoving each other.
"We broke ticket records at the O2 and it's a non-title fight with me beating the hell out of some guy. So the fans will always be there to see those types of fights."
Bellew: "Nobody will pay good pay-per-view money to see two good guys shaking hands and saying how good the other one is. It's not a good thing though - it's a bad thing. But it sells and it works.
"Boxing should not be about all the talk beforehand but that's what gets people going. People want to see two men who really don't like each other, who have a bit of bad blood and history, and they want to see a good scrap."
Bellew steps up to heavyweight after becoming the WBC cruiserweight champion - a title he still holds. Haye, a former WBA heavyweight champion, will fight for the third time since returning from over three years out, knowing a win could see him return to a position where he could compete for a title.
Bellew: "David Haye is making a mockery of boxing. The last two fights he had were exhibitions - they weren't fights. He has been conning the public for a very long time and it has to stop because it's a joke.
"I'm a prizefighter and the prize in this fight is massive. So what was I supposed to do? Fight my mandatory WBC title challenger for absolute buttons or face David Haye for 10 times the pot? It's a no-brainer. I beat this clown and I will become a pay-per-view star on my own."
Haye: "He tried to attack me when he jumped out of the ring. But when I tell him home truths it really upsets him. He's going to get a reality check."
Haye's Instagram page shows a series of posts in the Miami sunshine during his preparation camp, with trainer Shane McGuigan sometimes in attendance. Bellew, who works under Dave Coldwell, prefers a more traditional camp.
Haye: "I wanted to show fans a glimpse of a better training style - because how much fun can you have in London? It's always raining and it's very depressing. You can't go on beaches, you can't ride jet skis or play basketball on a yacht.
"It was the best training camp I've ever had."
Bellew: "Haye is a pretender. He keeps trying to portray this fake celebrity lifestyle on social media to keep his name out there. I don't do that.
"I use social media to talk to fans because they help pay my wages. Without the fans, I wouldn't be where I am in boxing."
Both men are heavy hitters and have losses on their records. On paper, defeat for Bellew would still leave him in a position to return to cruiserweight as a champion, albeit one carrying a stinging setback. Haye's two wins since returning to the sport have not lasted long enough to convince some punters of his ability to contest a tough fight after shoulder surgery in 2013.
Bellew: "David Haye is a quality fighter. He was brilliant at cruiserweight but that was 10 years ago.
"I've had 13 hard fights over three and a half years when this clown has been sunbathing in Miami or Dubai or wherever he likes to hide. How does he think I'm going to be an easy touch?"
Haye: "He has seen my success and he will never be considered as good a cruiserweight as I was. He won a vacant title in his own stadium; I beat the long-reigning champion Jean Marc Mormeck on his home turf and knocked him out to take all the titles.
"I've done things he'll never be able to do and he doesn't like the fact I draw a bigger crowd from the masses."
When the punches fly from two 6ft 3in fighters, any telling blow could change the trajectory of the other man's career. Both have two defeats on their record, with one loss apiece by knockout - but who will have been beaten for a third time by the end of Saturday?
Haye: "Bellew got knocked out by Adonis Stevenson at light-heavyweight. I weigh 50 pounds heavier than that guy so how does he think he's not getting knocked out against me?
"This will be a proper destruction job. This is the last you will hear of Tony Bellew."
Bellew: "Make no mistake, I'm labelled as the underdog and everyone's saying what David Haye will do to me - but they don't know what I can do to him.
"If he loses this fight, he's finished and he's got nowhere to go."
Burge, 24, made 39 appearances in all competitions for the Sky Blues last season as the club were relegated from League One.
The academy graduate competed with Reice Charles-Cook in goal, but secured the number one spot after the arrival of manager Mark Robins on 6 March.
He is the third City player to commit his future to the club following Chris Stokes and Dion Kelly-Evans.
The 18-year-old had a year left on his contract at Craven Cottage but handed in a transfer request on Saturday.
Roberts made his Fulham debut at the Etihad Stadium in 2014 and amassed 22 first-team appearances.
He becomes City's third English summer signing, following Liverpool's Raheem Sterling for £49m and Fabian Delph from Aston Villa for £8m.
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The 19-year-old can play as a centre-forward or on the wing and has been loaned out by the Hornets in order to gain first-team experience.
Lewis has been with Watford since he was a schoolboy and was given a three-year contract at Vicarage Road in 2015.
The deal came after he scored 18 goals for their under-18 side during the 2014-15 campaign and he has since featured at under-21 level.
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The 11 Plus was scrapped in Northern Ireland in 2008.
However, grammar schools started using new tests to select pupils.
Results of the contentious tests are due on Saturday.
The department has told teachers in the past that they they should not coach pupils for the tests.
The figure of 11 schools being sent letters by the department emerged in a reply to a request by Radio Ulster's Nolan Show.
In a statement, the department said: "The department wrote to some primary schools following reports that these schools may have been involved in coaching pupils for the unregulated tests during core teaching hours.
"This was to provide the school principals with an opportunity to confirm that the board of governors had complied with their legal duty to have regard to the department's guidance, and that the school was meeting its statutory obligation to deliver the curriculum to all pupils.
"The fact that the department writes to a school does not indicate that the school has been engaging in preparing children for unregulated tests, or indeed that the school is failing to deliver the statutory curriculum.
"It is intended to enable the schools to provide the department with the assurance that the pupils' educational needs are being appropriately met."
Mark Langhammer, from the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the coaching was acceptable outside school hours.
"Many of the schools, either from their own resources or paid for by parents, do offer coaching sessions outside of school either at weekends or after school," he said.
"Our advice to our teachers - some other unions simply tell their teachers not to do it - we say if the school is going to employ you on a secondary contract and pay you, that's fine outside school."
Ulster Unionist Party education spokesman Danny Kinahan criticised the department over the letters.
"I completely abhor the actions of the Department of Education in naming, through the media, primary schools which they have sent warning letters to over allegedly 'coaching' Year 6 and 7 pupils in repairing for the transfer test," he said.
"It is totally unfair to single out schools in such a manner. The principals of all primary schools have been placed in this invidious situation because the AQE and GL tests have become increasingly popular with parents.
"The simple fact is that as unofficial tests have become embedded, a large proportion of parents want their children to sit them and have an opportunity of gaining a place at a grammar school."
There are two unofficial replacement systems for the 11-plus in operation.
The single, multiple choice GL Assessment is used mostly by Catholic schools and the AQE sets a different exam for other schools.
In what was a pretty dull and lifeless encounter between two mid-table sides who have faced off three times in as many weeks, Lookman's well-taken strike in the first half saw the Addicks secure their first win in seven games.
The hosts started the brighter of the two sides as both Nicky Maynard and Ben Reeves both saw their early chances fly just wide of Charlton goalkeeper Dillon Phillips' right-hand post inside the opening exchanges.
Dean Bowditch then failed to tap into an empty net just minutes later after Reeves' cut-back across the visitors' six-yard box found the Dons forward unmarked at the back post.
But it was the visitors who took a surprise lead through Lookman in the 38th minute after Andrew Crofts' excellent through-ball found the teenager one-on-one with Dons keeper David Martin before slotting home from close range.
Nicky Ajose almost wrapped things up for Charlton with five minutes to go after a mix-up in the Dons defence between Paul Downing and keeper Martin, but the striker's shot was well blocked.
Report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, MK Dons 0, Charlton Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 0, Charlton Athletic 1.
Joe Walsh (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joe Walsh (MK Dons).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Roger Johnson replaces Nicky Ajose.
Foul by Paul Downing (MK Dons).
Joe Aribo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George C Williams (MK Dons).
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ben Reeves (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Adam Chicksen replaces Ademola Lookman.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, MK Dons. Chuks Aneke replaces Kieran Agard.
Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Morgan Fox.
Attempt saved. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ed Upson (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Aribo (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Samir Carruthers.
Foul by George C Williams (MK Dons).
Jorge Teixeira (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George B Williams (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Aribo (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Ed Upson (MK Dons).
Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Reeves (MK Dons).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George B Williams (MK Dons).
Nicky Ajose (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ed Upson (MK Dons).
Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Jorge Teixeira (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
The brooch was found at Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire, and is dated to the second half of the 15th Century.
The fortress was being built by nobleman William Hastings when he was executed by Richard just a month before he took the crown.
The heart-shaped brooch, uncovered near the moat, may have been a gift from Hastings to his wife, Katherine.
Bearing the French inscription "honor et joie" (honour and joy), it was unearthed in 2016 by a metal detectorist.
Hastings was a close friend and ally of Edward IV and on the king's death in 1483 had supported Richard of Gloucester in his role as Lord Protector.
But with Richard looking to take the crown, and Hastings a champion of Edward's son's claim to the throne, Richard had him arrested and just hours later, executed.
While it has no names on it, the brooch would have only been worn by a high-status woman.
Charles Hanson, of Hanson's Auctioneers, said: "It's remarkable to think that this brooch this may have been a gift to Katherine from William Hastings.
"It is a true sweetheart brooch. It is likely it fell from her gown while she was strolling through the castle grounds."
It will be auctioned on 23 August with a guide price of £6,000 to £8,000.
David Sterling has done so because of the failure to pass a budget for the new financial year.
Mr Sterling will use emergency powers to release cash and resources to departments until a new budget is in place.
He said that while the procedures can keep cash flowing to public services it is "not a substitute for a budget agreed by an executive".
He has written to all Stormont departments setting out their spending limits for the next four months.
Mr Sterling now controls a sum of money equivalent to 75% of this year's budget.
Section 59 of the Northern Ireland Act allows him to use that money "for such services and purposes" as he directs.
However, he cannot start funding new policies and has limited flexibility to respond to unforeseen events.
If no budget is in place by the end of July, Mr Sterling will then have the right to spend an amount equivalent to 95% of this year's budget across the whole of the financial year.
That will effectively mean in-year cuts of least 5% across the public service.
However, officials think it is improbable that the emergency situation will continue for that length of time.
When a budget is eventually passed, departments will have access to the full level of funding available.
Mr Sterling has also sought to reassure community and voluntary bodies who feared losing funding.
He said departments are writing to groups to "confirm interim funding designed to maintain the ongoing integrity of the key services they provide until an agreed budget is in place".
Meanwhile, it is understood that the Department of Finance has received legal advice that it can spend so-called "accruing resources" as part of emergency budget procedures.
This is money that comes to departments from sources other than the block grant and includes things like planning fees and EU farm subsidies.
There had been doubt about whether officials had the legal authority to spend that money.
Former Scotland centre Sean Lineen will be the English Championship club's director of rugby.
And Roddy Grant, who retired through injury after playing for Edinburgh, joins as a forwards coach.
SRU chief executive Mark Dodson said: "This is an exciting partnership which benefits both organisations."
Their most immediate goal will be to prevent London Scottish, who are third from bottom of the English Championship table, being relegated.
Dodson said the arrangement was the result of months of planning between two organisations that "share the common objective of developing and improving Scottish rugby".
"It provides a new, competitive step on the performance pathway for both players and coaches and we look forward to working with London Scottish CEO Rod Lynch and his team," he said in a statement.
Players sent on loan from Pro12 clubs Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors, along with Scottish rugby academy and national age-grade players, will be based at the Richmond Athletic Ground and will be available to London Scottish for Championship and B&I Cup fixtures.
London Scottish chairman Sir David Reid said: "We will benefit from having experienced players, while we can provide the level of on-field competition that younger Scottish players need to aid their development.
"London Scottish intends to remain a successful and ambitious Championship club. Sean Lineen and Roddy Grant will help us achieve this.
"The relationship between the union and London Scottish has never been stronger. I really appreciate the leadership and vision shown by Scottish Rugby in this exciting initiative and the support they have shown to London Scottish."
Former Glasgow Warriors coach Lineen will work part-time at Richmond to support London Scottish head coach Peter Richards while continuing as Scottish Rugby's head of international age-grade rugby.
The 54-year-old will have responsibility for support staff, facilities, match scheduling, pre-season preparation and player recruitment.
Grant, the 28-year-old who played for Scotland A, joins the coaching team for the remainder of the season.
Scotland back Rory Hughes is currently on loan with London Scottish, while Scottish Rugby Academy players Robbie Fergusson, George Horne and Jack Cosgrove have also been with the Championship club this season.
The win over the Dutch means Kate, 36, and her spouse, 34, are also thought to be the first married couple since 1900 to win medals on the same team.
The pair played their first Olympic Games together at Sydney in 2000.
Fellow members of Reading Hockey Club have described them as an "inspiration".
They became the first British married couple to win gold since Cyril and Dorothy Wright in the sailing in 1920.
Helen, from West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, who scored in the penalty shoot-out, said: "To win a gold medal is a dream come true - to win it standing next to my wife is really special."
Their romance reportedly began after Beijing in 2008 and the couple wed in 2013 after playing in the bronze-winning London 2012 squad.
Ahead of the Rio Games, Manchester-born Kate spoke to the BBC about their relationship.
"It's not that interesting for us, but I can see why it's interesting to everyone else.
"When we're at work, we're Kate and Helen, just two separate players, and the coaches and players are fantastic about treating us in that way.
"And when we're away from the pitch, we're a couple.
"What has changed since I first came in the team is that it's just accepted - some of the team have boyfriends, some have girlfriends - it literally doesn't matter.
"The best thing is the reaction we've had from the public in that we've helped people feel more confident in themselves. People feel it's OK to come out as bisexual or gay or lesbian - that's been the best thing for me," she said.
At Reading Hockey Club, fellow members watched the nail-biting climax to the Olympic final.
Club coach Andy Watts described them as "great role models".
Georgia Bootha said: "They've done so much for this club over the years - everyone looks up to them so much.
"How hard they work and what they do for hockey is amazing. Hopefully it'll really inspire people to come and play."
Testing company Emissions Analytics told the BBC it has measured a significant rise in poisonous gas emissions from a wide range of models as the temperature drops.
It found the problem is worst among the Euro 5 category of cars, which became mandatory in 2011.
The firm tested 213 models across 31 manufacturers.
The finding means millions of vehicles could be driving around much of the time with their pollution controls partly turned off.
But it seems many cars are deliberately designed that way and it is all perfectly legal.
European rules allow manufacturers to cut back on pollution controls as long as it is to protect the engine.
Engineers agree that hot and cold weather can damage components.
But some suggest car companies are taking advantage of the rule to switch things off, even in mild weather, because it improves the miles per gallon of the car.
"I would say from the Euro 5 generation of cars, it's very widespread, from our data. Below that 18 degrees [Celsius], many have higher emissions... the suspicion is, to give the car better fuel economy," Emissions Analytics CEO Nick Molden told the BBC.
"If we were talking about higher emissions below zero, that would be more understandable and there are reasons why the engine needs to be protected. But what we've got is this odd situation where the [temperature] threshold has been set far too high, and that is a surprise".
Carmakers insist it is to stop the vehicles breaking down.
There are currently 5.1 million Euro 5 diesels on Britain's roads and they are likely to be driving around for another 10 to 15 years.
The Emissions Analytics data found the average Euro 5 vehicle was 3.6 times over the legal limit for poisonous Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) when it was above 18C. But that increased to 4.6 times over the limit, when the air temperature dropped.
The latest generation of Euro 6 cars, on sale from September last year, were better, he added.
They averaged 2.9 times the limit above 18C, rising to 4.2 times the limit at lower temperatures, but the figures were skewed by three especially bad performers, Mr Molden said, although he refused to name those cars.
Asked if millions of diesel cars are currently driving around for most of the year, not using their pollution cleaning systems at all Mr Molden replied:
"That is the suspicion, or they're using their emissions system at a reduced level".
Recent testing by the German, French and UK governments uncovered a similar trend.
Many popular models polluted more when it was colder.
In Britain for example, experts checked the same Euro 5 Range Rover Sport early on a cold morning, and then later in the day when it had warmed up. Its pollution (NOx) levels nearly doubled when it was colder.
Jaguar Land Rover said it was a car that was engineered 10 years ago and had the best emissions equipment available at the time. It is not on sale any more.
Professor Ricardo Martinez-Botas from Imperial College London, the independent engineer overseeing the British tests, told the BBC that despite decades designing engines he was "shocked" at the higher pollution levels on the real road compared to the lab.
He is calling for carmakers to be more open about what they do with temperature.
"They need to be clear as to what strategies are employed," he said.
The German government has asked Opel, Mercedes, VW, Porsche and Audi to upgrade the software controlling emissions on around 630,000 European vehicles, including thousands in the UK.
Unlike in Germany though, the UK government hasn't asked car firms to make changes.
A Department for Transport spokesman said: "The regulations are clear that temperature control devices can be justified to prevent engine damage, but we want to see action to ensure that manufacturers are only using these systems in limited circumstances".
Still, some argue that ministers are failing to get tough on powerful carmakers which employ lots of people in Britain.
Carmakers keep engineering details close to their chest, so we don't know for certain how any of their systems work and at what temperatures. They argue that this information is commercially sensitive and stress they haven't broken any rules.
But there is some information available that gives clues.
Vauxhall has been accused by German media of not using one of its diesel cleaning systems for 80% of the time on one model. It is something the company flatly denies.
"Exhaust gas recirculation [the emissions cleaning system] remains active at temperatures below 17C, however, for physical reasons related to engine protection as permitted by the regulations, with differing rates", a spokesperson for the firm said.
In other words it is on, but not at full strength below 17C.
Suzuki said it is changing the software on 3,200 cars in the UK, all of which use Fiat engines, and added it is linked to temperature. Fiat could not provide numbers but did say: "As a voluntary measure, not mandated or requested by any regulatory authorities, FCA will be updating its Euro 6 calibrations with new data sets to improve emission performance in real driving conditions".
Renault is offering anyone with a car bought from September last year to July this year a software upgrade that will double the temperature range of the emissions system.
And Mercedes say they will adjust around 26,000 A class and B class models in the UK, all with Renault engines and it will lower NOx levels.
Ford says its system works normally until it gets to -10C outside.
Mike Hawes, the chief executive of industry body The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, told the BBC: "Any manufacturer that's responded has done so on a voluntary basis, because all the vehicles that have been put on the road are legal. It's a small number".
Mr Hawes also stressed that it was all about protecting engine parts, which is good for customers.
European regulations will begin to get much tighter from 2017 although they will not be fully in place until 2021. Mike Hawes says it will get rid of this temperature issue completely.
What it will not do of course, is deal with the millions of cars driving around for the next 15 years that could be affected.
Pollution is a balancing act.
The down side of cutting NOx gases is that the engine uses more fuel. The more fuel you use, the more carbon dioxide the car puts out and that's a greenhouse gas that harms the planet.
Emissions Analytics found that, in 2015, average mpg dropped for the first time in years. Probably because the car firms are concentrating more on cleaning up NOx.
"That is evidence that the tightening emissions regulations are having a negative effect on mpg," Mr Molden says. Although he thinks vehicle engineers will eventually find a way around the problem.
Pollution has been linked to heart attacks, strokes, breathing problems and premature babies. There is a suggestion that children going to school near busy roads may develop smaller lungs.
Professor Frank Kelly at King's College London has been calling for tighter rules for years, especially with diesel vehicles.
"On average we think pollution is probably taking away about six months of life for the average British citizen," he says.
The Dane crashed at the exit of the 180mph Eau Rouge/Raidillon corner, bringing the race to a halt because of extensive damage to the barriers.
He was taken to hospital with a left ankle injury.
Magnussen, 23, later wrote on Twitter: "On my way home now with a sore ankle but will be ready for Monza."
Former senior aides Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni have been found guilty on nine counts of conspiracy and fraud.
The gridlock lasted several days and the two face up to 20 years in prison.
Mr Christie, now a senior adviser to Donald Trump, has denied any knowledge of the 2013 plot but court testimony cast doubt on that claim.
Prosecutors said the plan to shut down the George Washington Bridge was a way of exacting revenge on a local mayor who refused to back Mr Christie in his re-election bid.
Both Ms Kelly and Mr Baroni testified in court that the governor had known about the lane closures on the country's busiest bridge in advance.
A third aide who has already pleaded guilty, David Wildstein, testified that Mr Christie had laughed about the traffic jam during a 9/11 memorial service two days after the lanes were blocked.
Mr Christie launched an unsuccessful presidential run that came to an end in 2016, and was reportedly considered by Mr Trump as a possible running mate.
He released a statement shortly after the verdict was read saying "Like so many people in New Jersey, I'm saddened by this case and I'm saddened about the choices made by Bill Baroni, Bridget Kelly and David Wildstein.
"But let me be clear once again, I had no knowledge prior to or during these lane realignments, and had no role in authorizing them."
The governor added that he intends to "set the record straight in the coming days regarding the lies that were told by the media and in the courtroom".
Bridget Kelly, the governor's former chief of staff, had claimed in court that he had been a bully to her and that he once threw a water bottle at her.
One of the most damning pieces of evidence was an email that Ms Kelly wrote saying "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee".
Later, as the Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich complained about children being unable to get to school, she texted: "Is it wrong that I am smiling?"
During the trial both aides testified that they believed the lane closures were part of a legitimate traffic study.
They are due to be sentenced in February.
Ms Eagle told Labour's conference she disagreed with leader Jeremy Corbyn's stance of scrapping Trident but was keen to have a full and open debate.
She later predicted "something will have to give" when the party formalises its position.
Labour won't discuss Trident this week.
Delegates decided against choosing the issue of Trident renewal - which divides the party - for a full debate in Brighton. Read our full story here.
In her first speech since accepting the role earlier this month, Ms Eagle said those working in the submarine industry and the defence supply chain had a legitimate right to a voice.
She added: "I recognise and respect the different views in our party on the future of our nuclear deterrent. Jeremy knew that I disagreed with him about this when he appointed me. And he still asked me to do the job.
"At the last election, we were committed to having a much more transparent and public facing debate about our place in the world and how best we should fulfil it.
"Jeremy Corbyn has asked me to facilitate such a debate. And I will do that."
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Ms Eagle was asked whether she would resign if the party adopted a position of opposing Trident renewal.
She added: "Let's have the debate, let's see what happens, and at the appropriate stage something will probably have to give one way or another."
"Keith just got caught with his head on the wrong side of the tackle," said Schmidt after the Aviva Stadium game.
"He was totally lucid in the changing rooms and remembered his involvements in the game.
"Those are promising signs and he will follow the concussion protocols."
Earls came off the field midway through the second half of the second World Cup warm-up match between the nations during the month of August.
Ireland complete their World Cup preparations against England at Twickenham next Saturday, and there is little doubt that they will require an improved display.
"To be honest, it is a little bit of deja vu," reflected Schmidt after his side's disappointing reverse on home soil.
"We conceded a lot of penalties at the Millennium Stadium during the Six Nations last season, and I think we were six-nil down on penalties on Saturday when we were 10-0 down on the scoreboard.
"You can't give Leigh Halfpenny goal-kicking opportunities, because he is too good at it. You can't give a team the quality of Wales the opportunity to enter into your defensive zone, because they will make you pay for it."
The Ireland coach added: "I said to the players in the changing room 'it's going to be very tough next week'.
"They (England) are going to look to rebound from a slip-up in France, and they are going to bring a really physical performance to Twickenham to lay down a marker prior to the World Cup, and we are going to have to walk in there and man-up and do the best we can."
Meanwhile, Ireland skipper Paul O'Connell was disappointed that his final international appearance on home soil ended on a losing note.
"There are certain things we wanted to improve on from the Scotland game, and we probably didn't do that. From our point of view that is disappointing," said the second row.
"There are some things that we pride ourselves on, and we didn't do a whole lot of those very well, with discipline being one of them."
Thomas Mair, 53, is accused of shooting and stabbing Mrs Cox, 41, in Birstall, near Leeds, on June 16.
He is also charged with grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon.
At the Old Bailey in London, the court heard Mr Mair's health would not be part of the defence.
He was due to appear via video link from Belmarsh jail, but his barrister gave permission for the brief hearing to be held in his absence because the link wasn't working.
Mr Mair, from Birstall, is being held in custody and is due to appear at the same court on 4 October.
This week, Robbie Lyle - the man behind the ever-entertaining ArsenalFanTV - is joined by Sammy, Jack and Ben from the Fulhamish podcast as Lawro's opponents.
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ArsenalFanTV have almost 350,000 subscribers on YouTube and their passionate, opinionated post-match interviews have attracted viewers far beyond the club's fanbase.
Former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville has agreed to appear on the channel after calling some of the opinions aired after the Gunners defeat to Chelsea earlier this month "embarrassing".
Robbie has particularly fond memories of the 2014 final when Arsenal recovered from conceding two goals in the opening eight minutes to beat Hull 3-2 in extra time and win their first trophy in nine years.
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"I looked over at Arsene Wenger and he looked a worried man, he could have been out of a job if we lost that final," he told BBC Sport. "It was typical Arsenal, we did it the hard way, but we did it."
Sammy, Jack and Ben chose a snowy night at Molineux for Fulham's No Guts, No Glory moment, part of a BBC Sport campaign to capture drama from the competition's illustrious past from every fan's perspective.
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* Away team to win at home in the replay
** Home team to win away in the replay
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Robbie and the Fulhamish boys need a big performance to claim top spot on the FA Cup leaderboard after BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ A Dot stormed in at number one with some precise predictions in round four.
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Burnley v Lincoln City (12:30 GMT)
I think that Lincoln, more than fellow National League side Sutton, are the real success story of the FA Cup so far. As well as beating Championship side Brighton at home in the last round, they went and beat Ipswich in the third round.
Burnley away is probably one of the worst draws they can have though. Sean Dyche's side are strong, physical and very well organised - there won't be many in that team that roll over when they are on the wrong end of a heavy tackle.
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Lincoln will have made lots of money, lots of friends and, having won all three games since beating Brighton, their run does not seem to have detracted from the rest of their season.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Robbie: Burnley are very, very strong at home, I think it is going to be the end of the road for Lincoln unfortunately. 2-0
Fulhamish: 1-1
Match preview
Huddersfield Town v Manchester City
Manchester City are playing Monaco in the Champions League last 16 on Tuesday, but Pep Guardiola has picked strong teams in the FA Cup so far this season.
Huddersfield are going great guns under manager David Wagner. They have won six straight games coming into this match which takes some doing in the dog-eat-dog Championship.
But City have hit a good run of form that has coincided with a 4-3-3 formation that they have hit on with Raheem Sterling, Leroy Sane and Gabriel Jesus up front.
Jesus is out, but they have Sergio Aguero - one of the best strikers in the country - to come in. That's not bad.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Robbie: 1-3
Fulhamish: We beat Huddersfield 5-0 earlier this season, but they are going well in the league. With City possibly resting players ahead of the Champions League, you can imagine it will be a tight game, but perhaps not an upset. 1-2
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Middlesbrough v Oxford
This is an absolute free hit for Oxford. Middlesbrough don't score many goals at home, so there is no need to park the bus. They should go and have a real go at Aitor Karanka's lot.
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I would love my old team to get through, but I fear this might be a hurdle too far.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Robbie: 1-0
Fulhamish: 1-0
Match preview
Millwall v Leicester
League One Millwall have picked up two Premier League scalps already on their run, with Bournemouth and Watford falling by the wayside. They have not lost in 12 games.
But Leicester are in a serious mess if they can't go away to Millwall and avoid defeat at the very least. It will be interesting to see which team Claudio Ranieri picks. That 2-0 defeat by Swansea at the weekend might have been the last straw for some. Maybe a change of personnel will provide the impetus they need.
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I can't see Millwall winning again though.
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Robbie: 1-0
Fulhamish: I can smell an upset here, big time. Millwall love the FA Cup, they beat Premier League Watford pretty comfortably in the last round and Leicester are not looking great. 2-0
Match preview
Wolves v Chelsea (17:30 GMT)
I was at Wolves' 2-1 win over Liverpool in the last round and they had a real go. Their left-sided attacker Helder Costa looked a real handful that day and two days later Wolves announced that they had bought him for £13m on a permanent deal. One way or another, I think he will end up in the Premier League soon.
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Chelsea looked very good for the first 20 minutes of their draw against Burnley, but were pretty ordinary for the next 70. They didn't get beaten though and that is why they are going to win the league.
They may not be involved in any other competitions, but manager Antonio Conte won't want the bother of a replay.
Lawro's prediction: 0-1
Robbie: 0-2
Fulhamish: You couldn't look further than Wolves on this one could you? Comfortable for the hosts. 3-0
Match preview
Fulham v Tottenham (14:00 GMT - live on BBC One from 13:40 GMT)
Fulham are one of the most attractive teams to watch in the Championship. There is a lot of talk of 16-year-old left-back Ryan Sessegnon, who is an outstanding prospect, but Tom Cairney in midfield is a very good player. In Slavisa Jokanovic, the former Watford boss, they have a manager who really should still be in the Premier League as well.
We are not quite sure what sort of team Tottenham will put out. They included Harry Kane, Dele Alli and other first-choice players from the start against Gent in the Europa League on Thursday night which might be a factor.
I think Tottenham might struggle to get the job done at Craven Cottage, but I think they will come through a replay back at White Hart Lane.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Robbie: Come on Fulham! No, I'm trying not to be biased doing this, but this is a game where you could see a shock. Fulham are playing some decent stuff at home, Tottenham will probably rest a few players, you never know. 1-1.
Fulhamish: I think we can pull off an upset, but it is going to be a very, very close game. We are two clubs with strong footballing identities, who love to keep possession, and have great full-backs. 1-1
Match preview
Blackburn v Manchester United (16:15 GMT)
In terms of the depth of quality, Manchester United have as good a squad as any. Even if they make six or seven changes for this, they will field a team that would finish halfway up the Premier League.
Blackburn are down in the Championship relegation zone, but they have had plenty of bad luck with disallowed goals and sendings-off in recent weeks.
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If there is going to be a big protest from the Blackburn fans against the Venky's owners to coincide with United's visit and the television cameras, that won't help the players.
The Ewood Park pitch is a large one which is not good for the hosts.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Robbie: 0-3
Fulhamish: 2-3
Match preview
Sutton United v Arsenal (19:55 GMT - live on BBC One from 19:30 GMT)
On certain days against certain teams, Arsenal are mentally weak. That is not something that you can instil in people and without it there is only so far you can go. We saw that in that 5-1 defeat away to Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Wednesday night.
I'm a massive fan, but I think that Arsene Wenger will leave at the end of the season when his contract is up. I think it has come to a natural conclusion.
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I think Arsenal will win against Sutton. It'll be tough because Sutton are very good at playing on their artificial surface, but they can't win an argument in the National League. Since beating Leeds in the fourth round, they have scored one goal and conceded 10 in four matches. It is understandable if they have switched off mentally.
Lawro's prediction: 0-3
Robbie: It's the big one. You look at it and think it is going to be a standard win for Arsenal. But you know what we are like! I think the plastic pitch might be a bit of an advantage to Arsenal, suiting our passing game more than a mud bath. I can see us winning this, although we'll probably pick up about three injuries on the way. 0-3
Fulhamish: 1-3
Match preview
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Last weekend, Lawro got six correct results, with three perfect scores, from the 10 games for a total of 150 points.
He beat hip-hop star Loyle Carner,who got five correct results, with one perfect score for a tally of 80 points.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week 22 v James McAvoy)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
The 26-year-old man is in a "serious" condition after the assault in Netherton Way, Bootle.
Police were called to Royal Liverpool University Hospital after the man reported driving 20 minutes to casualty.
A number of police cars surrounded the site after the man was admitted.
Witnesses are being sought.
Det Ch Insp Gayle Rooney said: "It appears the victim was specifically targeted by the offenders, who it is believed are known to him, and witnesses have described two Mercedes vehicles being involved."
The government has initialled a draft agreement, but requested a further 15 days before signing in full.
International sanctions had been threatened by mediators if both sides failed to reach an agreement on Monday.
Tens of thousands have died and more than two million have been displaced since fighting broke out in 2013.
Rebel leader Riek Machar, who did sign the deal, said he had expected more concessions from Mr Kiir, and did not know beforehand that the South Sudanese president would fail to sign it.
President Kiir's team had "reservations" over the deal and wanted 15 days for "consultations" before returning to sign it, Seyoum Mesfin, mediator for the regional group Igad, told the media.
Mr Mesfin described it as "a great day in the forward movement of the peace process in South Sudan", despite noting that the signing of the deal was "not complete".
James Copnall, BBC South Sudan analyst
For the past few weeks, President Kiir's camp had complained about the proposed peace deal.
How could they sign a document which would give so much power to Riek Machar and his rebels? Surely the proposed security arrangements were detrimental to South Sudan's sovereignty?
There were several supposedly spontaneous (but probably organised) demonstrations against the foreign imposition of a peace deal. So on one level, President Kiir's decision not to sign the agreement is not a surprise.
Over the next two weeks, he will have to decide whether he can convince the hardliners within his own government and army that this is a deal worth accepting. One thing is clear, though: if he doesn't sign, all the international pressure - the threats of sanctions, arms embargoes and more - would then be concentrated fully on President Kiir and his side.
Tobias Ellwood, a British Foreign Office minister at the talks, said now was not the time to celebrate.
The contents of the deal are not yet clear, but there was disagreement about power-sharing in a transitional government.
Alongside Mr Machar, the deal was also signed by Pagan Amum, a senior South Sudanese politician who is representing other significant political figures accused of involvement in the alleged coup.
Mr Amum was recently reinstated as secretary general of the ruling SPLM.
Several previous ceasefire agreements have failed to hold.
South Sudan is the world's youngest country, having gained independence from neighbouring Sudan four years ago.
The leaders of Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia were also at the summit, as part of an international peace-building effort which includes the US, UK, EU, Norway, China, the African Union and the UN.
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President Kiir had initially decided not to attend the talks, saying that a recent split within the rebel forces made it impossible to sign a lasting deal, because not all parties would be present around the negotiating table:
"A peace that cannot be sustained cannot be signed," Mr Kiir said on Sunday.
In July, a UN report alleged that government troops had gang-raped and burned alive women and girls in the oil-rich Unity State, during an offensive against rebel forces.
The rebels have also been accused of carrying out widespread atrocities, killing civilians in attacks on mosques and hospitals.
The conflict erupted in December 2013 after Mr Kiir accused Mr Machar, his sacked deputy, of plotting a coup.
Mr Machar denied the allegation, but then formed a rebel army.
Much of the fighting has been carried out along ethnic lines, between Mr Machar's Nuer group and Mr Kiir's fellow Dinka, the two dominant ethnic groups in South Sudan.
It was the second of three main risings by supporters of King James VII of Scotland and II of England and his heirs.
UHI, the National Trust for Scotland and Saltire Society will hold events during August, September and October.
They will be held at Culloden Battlefield, the site of the Jacobites' defeat in April 1746.
Orain Nan Seumasach - Sounds of the Rising - will be the first of the events on 15 August.
The concert will explore the music and folklore of 1715.
A new temporary exhibition on the rising will open at the battlefield centre near Inverness on 6 September.
On 26 September, the Saltire Society will host a talk examining the Highland contribution to the rising.
Another talk organised by the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) History Department will be held on 24 October.
The 27-year-old was a free agent after leaving Highlanders prior to the Rugby World Cup.
Hardie, born in New Zealand with a Scottish grandmother, helped the Scots reach the quarter-finals of the tournament.
"It's a privilege to have the opportunity to stay in Scotland and play for a Scottish club," he said of his move to the Pro12 side.
"I see it as an exciting new challenge in my rugby career and I am really looking forward to joining up with the squad and competing for a place in the team.
"Edinburgh have made a strong start to the season and I hope I can help the boys and contribute to continuing that success."
Alan Solomons' side have won all four of their league matches so far this season.
"We are very happy to welcome John to Edinburgh," said the head coach. "He is a quality player who will add real value to our squad."
Hardie played for Southland in New Zealand before joining Super Rugby Highlanders, where he spent five years.
After being included in Vern Cotter's Scotland squad for the World Cup, he played in two of the warm-up matches for the tournament and then scored two tries in Pool B.
He was part of the side that lost 35-34 to Australia on Sunday, as the Scots came close to reaching the semi-finals for the first time since 1991.
Former Scotland back-row forward John Beattie says adding players like Hardie to the national squad "is working".
South Africa-born pair Josh Strauss and WP Nel joined Hardie in the Scots' World Cup squad after qualifying under residency rules while playing for Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh respectively under Scottish Rugby's 'project signings' system.
"Scottish rugby has pretty shaky grassroots foundations but in terms of how the national team is being looked after, we can build on something," said Beattie, who won 25 caps for Scotland between 1980 and 1987.
"There's a good coach in place. You can see that bringing in players from abroad is working - projects signings Strauss and Nel, that's working. Bringing in Hardie, who had already turned Scotland down three times, that worked.
"Whether it's the right or wrong thing to do, it's working.
"In terms of the top team, undoubtedly a good coach and a structure in place to make it work is having an effect. That team played better than any Scottish rugby team I think I've ever seen, even the 1990 Grand Slam team.
Scottish Rugby director of rugby Scott Johnson, who was interim head coach before Cotter took charge, believes it is "vital we continue to recruit well to develop our professional teams".
"John has proved himself to be an excellent professional and his performances during the Rugby World Cup consolidated our belief that we would like him continuing his rugby in Scotland," said the Australian.
"His addition to the Edinburgh Rugby squad will strengthen both his connection to rugby in the country and the team."
Record labels Warner and Universal sued VKontakte (VK) in 2014, demanding the removal of the pirated music and 50 million rubles ($1.4m) in damages.
The court ruling goes one step further by asking it to install preventative technology.
In July, VKontakte reached a settlement with Sony Music.
The Russian social network is something of an anomaly in the market, according to the body which represents the music industry, IFPI .
It told the BBC that VK is one of the few widely used social networks to still make pirated music available.
It had requested that the social network be forced to use fingerprint technology which could match uploaded music against a file of copyright music to filter out all pirated tracks.
It is unclear yet what technology will be used by VK but IFPI said that the ruling was good news for rights holders in Russia.
"This is a very important and positive decision for the Russian music market and for music creators in Russia," said IFPI chief executive Frances Moore.
"VK's infringing music service has been a huge obstacle to the development of a licensed business in Russia, making available hundreds of thousands of copyright-infringing tracks to more than 70 million daily users."
The Uruguayan, who joined Barca from Liverpool for £75m in July, was banned for four months for the incident.
"I found it hard to take in and realise what I had done," Suarez, 27, said.
"I'm only human and sometimes it's hard to face the truth. I didn't want to listen to anybody, or speak to anybody. I didn't want to accept it."
Suarez apologised to Chiellini on 30 June - six days after Uruguay's 1-0 Group D win over Italy - saying the Juventus defender "suffered the physical result of a bite in the collision he suffered with me".
Suarez initially said he lost balance and fell on the Italian face first.
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Chiellini accepted Suarez's apology via Twitter, saying the incident was "forgotten" and expressing hope Fifa would reduce his ban.
Suarez has been training and playing in friendlies, scoring two goals in Uruguay's 3-0 win over Oman on Monday.
The first competitive match he will be available for following his suspension is Barcelona's league match away to fierce rivals Real Madrid on Saturday, 25 October.
His new side are top of La Liga - four points clear of Real - after dropping just two points in their first seven games.
"I'm getting more anxious to play and help the team out," Suarez added.
"I'm the kind of person who believes that things happen for a reason, and out of all 19 teams in the league, it's precisely against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu that I'll make my comeback. There must be a reason."
Suarez's former side Liverpool have made a less assured start to their own league campaign, lying ninth after seven games in the absence of the striker who scored 31 goals last season.
Having led the 2013-14 title race with three games to go, Liverpool finished two points short of Premier League champions Manchester City and, while regretting the Reds' failure to win the title, Suarez is content he did all he could for his former club.
"Liverpool came so close to winning the Premier League, which would have been spectacular," he said.
"I appreciate all the work the team did, but I missed six matches and scored all those goals in the Premier League without being the penalty-taker.
"I really could leave happy because if I hadn't had the attitude and mentality to lead the team, I don't think Liverpool would have done as well as they did."
Kathy Chen announced she was leaving following a restructure of the business in Asia.
While Twitter is blocked in China, it lets Chinese advertisers reach a global audience. It is also very popular with Chinese dissidents based in the West.
Ms Chen is the latest in a string of high-profile Twitter executives to depart from the firm.
Chief technology officer Adam Messinger and chief operating officer Adam Bain have both left recently.
Hong Kong-based Ms Chen, who had previously worked for Cisco and Microsoft, was hired as managing director for Twitter's China region in April 2016.
She also used to be in the Chinese military, and her apparent links with the Beijing government meant the appointment prompted concern from some China activists that it had hired somebody who was pro-China.
Since then Twitter has reorganised its Asia division, with country heads in India and Australia also leaving.
"Now that the Twitter APAC [Asia Pacific] team is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company," Ms Chen wrote on the site.
Her 12-tweet message also included claims that revenue from Chinese advertising partners had soared 400% in the past two years and that the Hong Kong office - rumoured to be closing - would remain open "for now".
"Working at Twitter has opened my mind, my passion is to connect people to the world through cross-cultural communications & businesses," she added.
Council members discussed the current state of Scotland's economy following the UK's vote to leave the European Union.
The group will continue to monitor the country's economic performance as the impact of Brexit becomes clearer.
Nicola Sturgeon said the council plays a critical role in growing the economy.
She said: "We have acted to take further measures to stimulate the economy and support jobs by adding an additional £100m to our capital infrastructure programme this year.
"While Scotland's economy has a range of fundamental strengths, in the face of the continuing uncertainty following the Brexit vote Council members will consider the current economic outlook, prospects for growth and advise on our economic approach as our potential future relationship with the EU becomes clearer."
Chairman of the council Crawford Beveridge said: "This is a challenging time for Scotland's economy given the uncertainties that lie ahead.
"In our role as an independent advisory group, our members bring expertise from across a range of areas, both nationally and internationally, and benefit from direct links to the Standing Council on Europe.
"We act as a 'critical friend' and sounding board to advise the first minister on key areas impacting on Scotland's performance, including on the economic implications of the EU referendum outcome, innovation and inclusive growth."
Many regular customers stayed away while traders said fans only arrived in the city centre late on Saturday afternoon.
One food shop owner said it was one of the worst weekends on record.
Pub and bar owners also criticised a message going out to local people to avoid the city centre.
Road closures and heightened security were in place, with 170,000 people expected in the city for Saturday night's match between Real Madrid and Juventus.
Mastercard had said it expected a 300% increase in card use based on previous Champions League finals in other cities.
Wally's Delicatessen, a family business in the city centre since 1947, had been geared up for a busy weekend with a special menu and it had hired tables and chairs outside for the occasion.
"It was very disappointing," said owner Steven Salamon.
"On the Thursday and Friday we saw trade at record low levels, and on the Sunday too. We ended up having to send staff home.
"It was one of the worst weekends in our history."
He said the numbers of fans on the streets were overestimated, with supporters not travelling in from London, Bristol and Birmingham until late on Saturday afternoon - and they also left the city quickly afterwards.
Residents were "encouraged" to stay away, he said, adding that briefings were dominated by security and road closures but had underestimated the impact on trade.
Mr Salamon said the city was used to coping with big sporting events with less impact on business but in future things should be "kept in proportion".
Nick Newman, chairman of Cardiff's licensees forum, which represents 100 pubs and bars, said: "Albeit, it was a fantastic day for the city. But I began starting to realise on Friday there wasn't going to be quite the trade we were expecting and I was stating to get calls from colleagues.
"By Saturday morning it was clear it wasn't going to be what we'd expected."
He said some of the security arrangements were changed, including access to Westgate Street opposite the stadium, which were "completely different" to those presented at briefings.
Mr Newman said pubs and bars along there, which were normally extremely busy on match days, were hit as a result.
Mr Newman said up to now businesses had done well for events and they were well planned but what he "couldn't get his head around" was the "don't come to Cardiff" message to local people.
Other independent businesses were hit too, as shoppers stayed away.
A designer goods shop in the Castle Arcade tweeted: "I took £50 on Fri & £5 yesterday in the shop!! Can't wait for Cardiff to get back to normal. Really wanted to be positive & stay open but it was a total diff vibe to other events."
One Canton restaurant criticised one of the main sponsors for not turning up for a booking on Friday evening.
Another nearby tweeted: "Total wipe out for us this weekend - seems that the organisers had very little interest in local businesses."
Football Association of Wales (FAW) chief executive Jonathan Ford said organisers Uefa were extremely happy with the final.
As for future events, the FAW said it "may just be interested" in hosting Euro 2020 games after growing doubts over whether the new national stadium in Brussels would be ready in time.
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The 35-year-old surpassed 1,000 Championship runs for the first time in his career last season, helping Somerset finish second to Middlesex.
Trego has played 207 first-class matches since his debut in 2000.
"2016 was such an exciting year for us all and in many ways increased my passion for the coming years," he said.
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Trego has scored more than 16,000 runs and taken over 600 wickets in all formats of the game during his career.
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New figures were released on the anniversary of its introduction.
The charge for single-use carriers has also raised about £6.7m for good causes in the past 12 months.
Scotland's Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead hailed the 5p charge a "major success", and thanked Scotland for "embracing the policy".
650m -
Fewer carrier bags in 2014/15
80% - Drop in bags handed out by Morrisons, the Co-operative, Waitrose and Boots
90% - Drop in bags handed out by Asda
100% - Drop in bags handed out by Sainsbury's
He added: "Previously, statistics showed that people in Scotland used more than 800 million new single-use carrier bags every single year - more per head than anywhere else in the UK.
"It's now becoming second nature to shoppers to reuse their carrier bags and hopefully to think more about our impact on the environment."
Morrisons, the Co-operative, Waitrose and Boots have all reported an estimated 80% reduction in carrier bag use, with Asda witnessing a drop of 90% and Sainsbury's 100% as it no longer offers them to shoppers.
In 2011, Wales was the first nation in the UK to introduce a bag charge. Northern Ireland followed in April 2013.
The policy came into being in Scotland on 20 October last year and England introduced charging at the beginning of this month.
Scottish government research concludes that a reduction of 650 million bags north of the border means a net saving of more than 4,000 tonnes of plastic and other materials each year.
That is the equivalent of more than 500 million single-use carrier bags once it is offset by estimated increases in other forms of plastic bag, such as bags for life.
The net carbon saving is more than 2,500 tonnes of CO2 equivalent annually.
All retailers are being urged to sign up to Scotland's carrier bag commitment, an agreement to disclose information on the charge and donations made to good causes.
Lang Banks, director of WWF Scotland, said it was really great to see how successful the initiative had been.
He added: "Before the charge Scotland consumed a staggering 800 million carrier bags every year, many of which ended up polluting our environment and threatening wildlife.
"As an additional benefit, less resource use also means fewer carbon emissions."
Former Alliance and independent councillor Brian Wilson joined the Greens. He was elected in North Down in a significant breakthrough for the party.
The seat was retained by the party in the 2011 assembly elections by Steven Agnew.
Breaking the hold of traditional unionist and nationalist parties in Northern Ireland has been a challenge for non-aligned groups for many years.
In the 2009 European election, the Green Party in Northern Ireland took more than 3% of the vote with Mr Agnew as a candidate, polling 15,764 votes.
This was more than three times the Green Party's previous poll result. However, in the 2014 European election the Green vote fell to 10,598.
It is the only Northern Ireland party that does not accept corporate donations.
The Green Party in Northern Ireland works in co-operation with other Greens across the European Union, and has a close relationship with its counterpart in the Republic of Ireland.
The party has four councillors.
The 40-year-old, who will take up his Ireland position after the Six Nations, will provide part-time support to Munster for four months.
Munster have struggled this season and have suffered a European Champions Cup exit at the group stage.
Farrell will assist Munster head coach Anthony Foley and his coaching group.
Former rugby league international Farrell lost his England job following head coach Stuart Lancaster's resignation after their World Cup exit.
"We have been looking for additional support for our coaching staff," said Munster CEO Garrett Fitzgerald.
"With the timely availability of an experienced coach such as Andy Farrell, we felt his inclusion would be hugely beneficial in assisting our coaching team."
Munster lie fifth in the Pro12 standings and Saturday's 27-7 defeat by Stade Francais in the European Champions Cup left the two-time winners with only five points from four pool games.
"Andy's gardening leave prevents him from coaching in the international game at this time but he has agreed to an advisory role working with Anthony and his backroom team," said IRFU performance director David Nucifora.
Munster coach Anthony Foley insisted that he didn't feel undermined by Farrell's appointment.
"Last week I was very positive about him (as Ireland defence coach), today I'm even more positive about him," said Foley.
"He's a professional and he's a gentleman. I think within an environment like what we have it's about creating the best environment for our players to achieve stuff."
Mr Jace's bail was set at $2m (£1.2m) and he was ordered to stay away from his two children if he is released.
Prosecutors say he shot April Jace, 40, multiple times at their family home on 19 May, while the couple's young children were present.
Mr Jace called 911 to report the shooting, according to police, and was at the house when they arrived.
The 51-year-old actor played Detective Julien Lowe in FX series The Shield.
On Wednesday, his lawyer, Jason Sias, said his client might seek a reduction of his bail at a future hearing. He is due in court next on 1 August.
Mr Sias said the actor would not contest the order keeping him away from his children.
"Mr Jace is just concerned about his children," he said after the hearing.
Fire officials have released an emergency call from April Jace's father, in which he reveals the actor told him he had shot his wife.
The audio recording features an unnamed caller who explains to the operator, "My son-in-law called me, and (texted) me, and said come get the kids because he shot April, our daughter."
Her family have called her death a senseless act of domestic violence and police are looking into whether financial or other domestic issues may have been the motive.
April Jade worked at Biola University and had three sons, including two boys under the age of 10 with Jace. They were unharmed and are now living with relatives.
The couple were married for nine years while Mr Jace, who has another child from a previous relationship, was previously married to Jennifer Bitterman. They divorced in 2002.
The actor's other roles include a police officer in Southland and small parts in Forrest Gump, State of Play, Boogie Nights and Planet of the Apes.
The Shield ran for seven series, from 2002 to 2008, and won a Golden Globe for best television drama series in 2002.
The 2-1 victory ensured that Scotland qualified as the best-placed runners-up from the three groups thanks to a 0-0 draw between Brazil and Czech Republic.
Scot Gemmill's side will take on England at 14:00 BST on Thursday at Stade Parsemain in France.
Ivory Coast take on the Czechs in the other semi-final.
Scotland faced the Indonesians with captain Oliver Burke on the bench after the Leipzig winger picked up a knock in the win over Brazil.
Indonesia took a surprise lead when Putra Saghara fired past Jack Ruddy after 33 minutes.
But striker Hardie, making his first start in the tournament along with Rangers team-mate Ross McCrorie, curled the equaliser just after the half-hour mark.
Hardie added his second from the penalty spot after 65 minutes following a trip on Celtic defender Anthony Ralston, who had taken over the captaincy.
It had been hoped that the Chilcot Report would be published soon after the general election.
A source close to the inquiry has told Newsnight's Defence and Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban that "nobody thinks it will come out this year".
A spokesperson for the inquiry declined to comment on speculation.
The inquiry began its work in 2009 and held its last public hearing in 2011.
It was commissioned by the previous government to investigate the background to UK involvement in the Iraq War, which began in 2003 when Tony Blair was prime minister.
British forces lost 179 personnel during the conflict, of which 136 were killed in action.
By 31 August 2010, when the last US combat troops left, 4,421 US personnel been killed, of which 3,492 were killed in action. Almost 32,000 had been wounded in action.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians also died as a result of sectarian killings and a violent insurgency.
In January, MPs reacted angrily to the news that the inquiry would not be published before the general election.
Having missed the pre-election deadline, another source involved in the inquiry told BBC Newsnight that "they [the inquiry] gave up trying to speed things up".
In February, inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot told MPs he had "under-estimated" the time it would take to study up to 150,000 documents.
According to the BBC's Mark Urban, Sir John originally intended to give those due to be censured a deadline by which they would have to make representations in their defence - but it was abandoned as the process became more complex.
The inquiry has also suffered from the death of one of its five panel members, historian Sir Martin Gilbert, as well as staff losses.
Rejecting calls to set a timetable for publication in January, Sir John said he did not want to "arouse false hopes".
Prime Minister David Cameron called the delay "extremely frustrating", while Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said it was "incomprehensible".
Some observers have claimed that the decision not to publish before polling day was due to concerns that criticisms of Mr Blair's government might be seen as harmful to the Labour Party.
Mr Blair has rejected suggestions he was behind the delay, saying it would be "far better" for him if it were published.
In a statement, Mr Blair said he had "repeatedly" made clear that he was not responsible for hold-ups to the inquiry and suggestions to the contrary were "incorrect and politically motivated".
The 44-year-old will work alongside ex-team-mate and caretaker manager Paul Warne.
"I'm buzzing to have him here. He's a big character, he's infectious, funny and energetic - everything I like in my staff," Warne told the club website.
Pollitt will be in the dugout on 14 January when the Millers host Championship rivals Norwich.
The former keeper spent two spells at Rotherham from 1998 to 2000 and 2001 to 2005.
"He's part of the fabric of this club and has spent as many years here as me. He's a big part of the club's history and I hope he'll be a big part of the future," Warne said.
However, the most successful period in Pollitt's career was at Wigan Athletic, playing in the Premier League and helping the side to the 2006 League Cup final.
After retiring from professional football in 2014, Pollitt worked as Wigan's goalkeeping coach until late 2016.
His prodigious boxing talent was matched only by a towering self-belief.
"I am the greatest," he said, and who could doubt a man who won the World Heavyweight Championship three times.
His outspoken support for civil rights endeared him to millions of people across the world.
He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, on 17 January 1942, the son of a sign painter. He was named after a prominent 19th Century abolitionist.
When he was 12, he reported his bicycle had been stolen and told a police officer he was going to "whup" the culprit.
The officer, Joe Martin, trained young fighters at a local gym and suggested the youngster learn to box before he challenged the thief.
Clay quickly took to the ring, making his competitive debut in 1954 in a three-minute amateur bout.
"He stood out because he had more determination than most boys," Martin later recalled. "He was easily the hardest worker of any kid I ever taught."
Over the following five years, his amateur career flourished and he won a number of awards including the Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions in 1959.
In 1960 he was selected in the US team for the Rome Olympics. At first he refused to go because of his fear of flying. Eventually, according to Joe Martin's son, he bought a second-hand parachute and wore it on the flight.
It was worth all the effort. On 5 September 1960, he beat Poland's Zbigniew Pietrzykowski to become the Olympic light-heavyweight champion.
He received a hero's welcome when the team returned to New York but the reality of the segregated US society hit home when he got back to Kentucky and was refused a table in a restaurant.
Ali claimed in his 1975 autobiography that he threw away his Olympic medal in disgust but it was later revealed that he lost it a year after his return from Rome.
Though only 18, he joined boxing's paid ranks and began his professional career later the same year with a six-round points win over Tunney Hunsaker, a police chief from West Virginia.
"Clay was as fast as lightning," Hunsaker said after the bout. "I tried every trick I knew to throw him off balance but he was just too good."
Ali also took on Angelo Dundee, the trainer who would contribute so much to his boxing success.
A steady succession of victories, reinforced by outrageous self-advertising, brought him fame, if not universal popularity.
Clay's extraordinary manner in the ring involved dancing around his opponents like a lightweight.
He taunted them, delighting crowds with his showboating, shuffling feet and lightning reflexes.
He offered further hostages to fortune by predicting not merely his opponents' defeat, but when precisely he would dispose of them. "They must fall the round I call," he boasted.
In London in 1963, he was floored in the fourth round by British champion Henry Cooper, but fulfilled his pre-fight prediction when cuts to Cooper's eye forced his retirement in the next round.
The following year Clay challenged the formidable world champion Sonny Liston, whom he referred to as "that ugly old bear".
Clay was given no chance by the boxing press but ran rings round his older opponent and forced Liston to quit on his stool at the end of the sixth round.
"I shook up the world," a near-hysterical Clay declared after the fight.
Away from the ring, Clay was a fierce opponent of the racism that blighted large areas of the United States in the 1960s.
By the time of his first fight with Liston, Clay was already involved with the Nation of Islam, which called for separate black development.
The policy was in direct contrast to the inclusive approach favoured by civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King.
The heavyweight champion of the world became Muhammad Ali. Cassius Clay, he said, was his "slave name", and he took exception to anyone who continued to use it.
Ernie Terrell referred to Ali by his birth name during the build-up to their world championship fight in 1967, only for Ali to hand out a 15-round battering.
At various points during the bout, Ali screamed in Terrell's face: "What's my name, Uncle Tom?"
Ali became a hate figure for sections of the American public and barely more than 2,000 people turned up to see his rematch with Liston, which he controversially won with a first-round knockout.
Eight more title defences followed but when Ali refused to sign the oath of allegiance to join the US Army ("I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong") , he was stripped of his title.
He was also given five years in jail, a sentence that was quashed on appeal.
After three years of growing anguish among Americans about the Vietnam War, Ali was granted a reprieve and returned to the ring in 1970 with a win over Jerry Quarry.
But his enforced absence had taken its toll on his speed, and in 1971 he was beaten for the first time in his professional career by Joe Frazier. Ali gained his revenge three years later.
Perhaps Ali's greatest moment came in October 1974 when he defeated George Foreman in Zaire in the so-called Rumble in the Jungle.
As with the first Liston fight, Ali was given little chance against the indomitable Foreman and some commentators even feared for his life.
With a frenzied crowd behind him, Ali spent most of the first eight rounds leaning back on the ropes, soaking up the punches of his younger, and significantly larger, foe.
He called the tactic "rope-a-dope", and at the end of the eighth round he sprang out of his defensive shell and sent Foreman sprawling to the canvas with a picture-perfect combination.
At the age of 32, Ali had become only the second man in history to regain the heavyweight championship of the world.
A year later, Ali met Frazier for a third time in the so-called Thrilla in Manila, perhaps the most brutal encounter in heavyweight history.
Ali said it was the closest he had come to death in the ring, but he was victorious when Frazier's corner halted the fight after 14 rounds.
Ali could, and perhaps should, have retired at that point, but he fought on.
In Las Vegas in February 1978, he lost his title to Leon Spinks, the 1976 Olympic light-heavyweight champion who was 12 years his junior.
The return fight in New Orleans eight months later drew a world record gate, with millions more watching on television.
This time Ali took a unanimous decision and won the world title for a third time at 36.
Generous with his money, Ali is thought to have earned more than $60m (£37.2m) from his ring career - but by 1979, he seemed to have little of it left.
That may be one of the reasons he refused to call time on his ring career, but he was clearly a fading force when he lost his title for the last time to former sparring partner Larry Holmes in Las Vegas in 1980.
Ali had one more fight, against Canadian Trevor Berbick in December 1981, and after losing on points he finally retired from the ring, at the age of 40.
Soon after, rumours began to circulate about the state of his health. His speech had become slurred, he shuffled and was often drowsy.
Parkinson's disease was eventually diagnosed, a condition only too obvious when, with courage and dignity, he lit the 1996 Olympic cauldron in Atlanta.
Rumours about Ali's health periodically became a subject of heated discussions in the US and abroad.
But he continued to travel, receiving an ecstatic welcome wherever he appeared, especially in the developing world, where he was particularly revered.
The millennium celebrations saw Ali honoured around the globe.
In Britain, BBC viewers voted him Sports Personality of the Century, and he was given a similar award from Sports Illustrated in the US.
In 2005, Ali received America's two highest civilian awards - the Presidential Citizens Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom - for "exemplary services" to the country.
The same year saw the opening of the non-profit Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, which promotes peace, social responsibility and respect.
Muhammad Ali's record as a boxer was impressive. The record books show that his professional career spanned 21 years, during which he won 56 fights, 37 by way of knockout, and lost five.
But he was much more than that. He was a great showman whose off-the-cuff quips and improvised poetry won him many friends, not least in the UK.
His high profile gave his espousal of civil rights additional weight and he was a hero to large numbers of black people both in the US and further afield.
And late in life, when this magnificent athlete was brought low by a debilitating disease, his quiet dignity impressed everyone he met.
Rarely has any person transcended his sport in the way Ali did, to become one of the best-known figures of his time.
Ryan Christie curled in a wonderful strike for the Dons and Gary Mackay-Steven went close to a debut goal after going round the keeper.
Shay Logan and Graeme Shinnie had second-half efforts saved but the visitors were always a threat.
And the game was level when Stipo Markovic fizzed in a shot from 18 yards on 69 minutes.
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes wants to steer his side to the group stages of this tournament but they have their work cut out to get through to the third qualifying round for the fourth successive season.
A disappointing draw really cranks up the pressure for the return leg but the consolation is they have a good away record in Europe recently with notable wins in Groningen and Rijeka.
New signing Mackay-Steven may have hogged the pre-match headlines but it was a sublime piece of skill from his former Celtic team-mate Christie that captured the imagination when the action started.
The pair made their European debuts for the Dons along with Greg Tansey with fellow summer signings Greg Stewart and Nicky Maynard on the bench.
McInnes may have lost several key players over the summer but he went with his tried and tested 4-2-3-1 formation and high tempo pressing game.
The Bosnian side found that tough to deal with early on but it took a moment of real magic from the midfielder on a season-long loan from the Scottish champions.
His only exposure to European football with Celtic last season was an infamous defeat in Gibraltar and he certainly made amends for that on 18 minutes.
Joe Lewis didn't have many saves to make but he influenced things going forward with an impressive assist for Christie's stunning strike.
It was the goalkeeper's vision and technique that sent the player clear but the midfielder enhanced his already glowing reputation with the Red Army with a sublime finish.
Christie earned cult status during his loan spell last season scoring seven goals in 15 games and enhanced it with a delightful curled left foot shot from the edge of the area.
Mackay-Steven squandered a good chance to increase that lead before the break but saw his shot deflected wide after rounding the Siroki Brijeg goalkeeper.
Aberdeen's defensive problems were often self inflicted, possibly as a result of ring rustiness in their first game of their season but luckily their opponents often lacked sharpness themselves in front of goal, knocking two first-half chances wide.
After further bad misses from their two strikers, that good fortune finally disappeared when Markovic scored their precious away goal.
Mark Reynolds struggled at the back and the left-back hammered home from the edge of the penalty area, running on to the latest fine cross from Dino Coric.
Substitute Nicky Maynard then nearly made a dream Dons debut but the former MK Dons striker headed Graeme Shinnie's perfect cross wide of the target.
They said the judge had not correctly understood their son's finances.
The judge accused Neymar of only declaring the equivalent of 8% of his assets in 2013.
He said the forward had omitted payments received from advertising and from Barcelona football club.
The judge froze $47.6m (£30.5m) of Neymar's assets.
He said this was to cover potential interest and fines and to prevent the player selling assets before the case was settled.
The judge said the frozen assets were in the name of the Brazilian player and three companies in which he and his parents jointly owned.
However, Neymar's parents said the decision was based on an "incorrect understanding" of their son's income.
"Neymar did not avoid paying taxes, and neither did any of our companies," they said.
Neymar joined Barcelona in June 2013 after a successful career with the Brazilian club, Santos.
But the transfer has prompted fraud investigations in Spain over allegations that the fee paid was much higher than the declared €57m ($65m; £41m).
They were a "grave threat to our national security", he added, and pledged to get to the bottom of them.
US media published photos of evidence from the scene of Monday night's blast.
Earlier, UK police said they had stopped sharing information with the US as a consequence but those ties have now been resumed.
The decision to end the suspension was taken after assurances were received by counter-terrorism officers in the UK.
A diplomatic tiff broke out after the New York Times published photos on Wednesday appearing to show debris from the crime scene, including bloodstained fragments from the bomb.
The move outraged British police and government officials, and prompted Mr Trump to address the matter during a visit to Brussels.
"These leaks have been going on for a long time," he said.
He pledged to ask the US Department of Justice to launch a review, and "if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted".
"There is no relationship we cherish more than the special relationship between the US and the UK," he added.
Meanwhile, police have been assessing "potentially suspicious items" found at a property in Wigan, some 16 miles from the scene of Monday night's attack.
A street was evacuated for several hours and a bomb disposal unit called in. The cordon has now been lifted and residents have been allowed to return to their homes.
No controlled explosion was carried out, but the search at the address continues.
The raid comes after Salman Abedi blew himself up at the end of an Ariana Grande concert three days ago, killing 22 people and injuring 116.
Mr Trump, who is at a Nato summit along with UK Prime Minister Theresa May, paid tribute to those who died in the attack.
"Innocent little girls and so many others were horribly murdered and badly injured whilst attending a concert," he said.
"Beautiful lives with so much great potential, torn from their families for ever and ever. It was a barbaric and vicious attack upon our civilisation.
"All people who cherish life must unite in finding, exposing and removing these killers and extremists, and yes, losers, they are losers.
"Wherever they exist in our societies we must drive them out and never, ever let them back in."
Abedi detonated his "nuts-and-bolts" bomb at the end of the gig as people were making their way out of the arena. Others were waiting in the foyer to pick up family and friends.
Security officials say they have thwarted 18 plots since 2013, including five since the Westminster attack in March.
General election campaigning, which was suspended in the wake of the Manchester attack, will resume on Friday, with Labour set to draw links between wars abroad and terrorism "at home".
Leader Jeremy Corbyn will say that under a Labour government, UK foreign policy would change to one that "reduces rather than increases the threat" to the country.
Greater Manchester Police were said to be "furious" with the New York Times' report and said they would temporarily stop sharing information with the US.
Police chief constable Ian Hopkins said the leak undermined the investigation and had distressed families "already suffering terribly with their loss".
The New York Times newspaper defended its decision to publish the pictures, saying they were "neither graphic nor disrespectful of victims".
Prime Minister Theresa May said she would make clear to Mr Trump that shared intelligence must remain secure, at the Nato summit.
UK officials believe that US law enforcement rather than the White House is the likely culprit for the leaks, BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera says.
The Queen has been to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital to meet some of the injured, and members of the emergency services.
During her visit, she paid tribute to Manchester and the "extraordinary" way the city had responded to the attack.
Earlier, a minute's silence fell over offices, public squares, shops and in homes as people honoured the victims.
In St Ann's Square, a perfectly-observed silence was followed by applause, cheers and a spontaneous crowd rendition of the Oasis song Don't Look Back in Anger.
Lydia Rullow, who started the singing, told BBC Radio 5 Live: "It just felt like the right moment.
"It wasn't something that I'd planned or thought about, but I had been thinking about that song in particular in the past few days.
"Everyone started joining in and it was really beautiful. You should drown out any of the fear and hate with beautiful voices. That's the best thing to do."
In other developments:
Police believe Manchester-born suicide bomber Salman Abedi, from a family of Libyan origin, acted as part of a network.
Whitehall sources say 22-year-old Abedi was among a "large pool of people whose risk was kept under review" by security services.
In total 10 people have been arrested in the UK since Monday night. A man and a woman have since been released without charge.
Eight men remain in custody as part of the ongoing investigation.
Raids involving controlled explosions have been carried out at flats in the city centre and at an address in Moss Side.
In the Libyan capital Tripoli, Abedi's younger brother Hashem, 20, and their father, Ramadan, were held by special forces linked to the interior ministry.
Analysis
By Dominic Casciani, BBC home affairs correspondent
It could be over in hours - or it could take weeks.
That's how unknowable an acute counter-terrorism investigation can be for MI5 and the police.
While there is a sense that there has been significant headway in the last 24 hours, we should be careful about reading too much, too soon, into how long it will take Greater Manchester Police and their colleagues to be sure they have dealt with every single possible lead after Monday's events.
In recent years, we've got a greater understanding of how the more secretive end of these massive operations play out.
At any one time, MI5 is handling in the region of 500 active investigations involving 3,000 "SOIs" - "subjects of interest" in security world jargon.
Read more from Dominic here.
Of the 22 victims killed at Manchester Arena, 21 have been named.
The youngest known victim so far is eight-year-old Saffie Roussos from Lancashire, who was described as "simply a beautiful little girl" by her head teacher.
The oldest victim was Jane Tweddle-Taylor, 51 and from Blackpool, who had gone to the arena with a friend to pick up her friend's daughter.
An off-duty Cheshire police officer Elaine McIver was also among the dead.
In a statement, her family said: "Despite what has happened to her, she would want us all to carry on regardless and not be frightened by fear tactics."
On Thursday evening, well-wishers in a convoy of bikes, scooters and cars adorned with pink ribbons and balloons wound their way from Bury to Manchester to pay tribute to 15-year-old Bury victim, Olivia Campbell.
Of the 116 injured, 75 remain in hospital. Of those, 23 are in critical care - five of them children.
More details have begun to emerge about 22-year-old suicide bomber Abedi.
His sister, Jomana, has said she believed her brother may have been reacting to US-led strikes in the Middle East.
"He saw the explosives America drops on children in Syria, and he wanted revenge.
"Whether he got that is between him and God," she reportedly told the Wall Street Journal.
It is also being reported that a Libyan government spokesman said 15 minutes before he blew himself up, Abedi called his mother and brother.
His movements in the run-up to the attack have also come into focus, with reports that he left the UK for a while, but returned in the days before the bombing.
During a trip back from Libya, where his parents now live, he briefly stopped at Düsseldorf Airport, having reportedly been in Prague, but remained in the airport's transit zone.
The BBC also understands Abedi was in Manchester earlier this year, when he told people of the value of dying for a cause and made hardline statements about suicide operations and the conflict in Libya.
At the age of 16 and during his school holidays, Abedi is believed to have fought with his father in Libya against the Gaddafi regime, according to BBC Newsnight.
Greater Manchester Police would not comment on these claims.
In recent days, former classmates of Abedi have variously described him as jokey, gullible and short-tempered.
Another, who did not want to be named, told the BBC's World At One Abedi did not "come across as an intelligent person".
Asked whether he thought Abedi might have been manipulated by more intelligent people, he replied: "A hundred percent.
"I can't imagine the idea that he would be able to go through with such a complicated procedure. He must have had help."
"I wasn't shocked," the classmate added. "He fits the profile for a suicide bomber."
Profile: Who was Salman Abedi?
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A vaccine for meningitis B will be made available for all babies from September.
There were nine cases in Wales in the first five months of 2015.
Meanwhile, students under the age of 25 who are attending university for the first time will get ACWY - a replacement for the existing meningitis C jab - in August.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said: "Wales is one of the first countries in the world to introduce a nationwide MenB vaccination programme to help tackle the effects of this disease, which can be devastating for children and their families.
"I am very pleased to be able to approve the introduction of the MenACWY vaccine, which will protect teenagers against a number of forms of this disease, ensuring young people are protected at such an important time in their lives."
There will also be a catch-up programme for all 14 to 18-year-olds over the next two years for ACWY and for those children born between 1 May and 30 June, 2015.
Q&A: Meningitis B vaccine
Winkelman stood in the stands as MK Dons directors decided not to sit in the corporate section.
AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 by former Wimbledon FC supporters dismayed by the club's move to Milton Keynes.
MK Dons lost 2-0 on their first visit to Kingsmeadow.
AFC Wimbledon did not name their opponents on the front cover of the programme for the match
And Winkelman, 59, left it late to decide whether to travel to the game as he is deeply unpopular among Wimbledon fans because of his part in the formation of Milton Keynes Dons.
In February, former MK Dons manager Karl Robinson was confronted by a member of AFC Wimbledon's staff when his new side Charlton Athletic visited Kingsmeadow.
Neilson said Winkelman had "stuck by" the players as "everyone wanted to be here together".
He added: "I'm really pleased he did that as the players appreciate the support he gave us."
The 30-year-old scored 22 goals in 187 appearances for the Shakes after moving to Gigg Lane in 2012.
Former Crystal Palace and Stoke man Soares becomes Wimbledon's first signing of the January transfer window.
"Tom is very powerful, has good aerial ability and I think he is in his prime now," Dons boss Neal Ardley told the club website.
The south-west London club have not disclosed the length of Soares' deal at Kingsmeadow.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.
The revelations came in a second BBC Spotlight programme on MLAs' expenses.
The programme also found claims of more than £4,000 in heating oil costs for one DUP MLA's office.
One MLA has called on police to investigate what he described as "several aspects of what appear to involve criminality".
Traditional Ulster Voice leader Jim Allister said he would be writing to the chief constable about the issue.
"In particular, the siphoning of public money by Sinn Fein to an apparently bogus research company must be thoroughly investigated, along with potential forgery," he said.
Over the past 10 years, 36 different Sinn Féin MLAs claimed about £700,000 in total through Stormont expenses to pay Research Services Ireland.
Martin McGuinness alone claimed £42,000 over 10 years for the expertise of the company.
The company is run by Seamus Drumm and Sinead Walsh, who are in charge of running Sinn Féin's finance department in Northern Ireland.
The BBC Spotlight NI programme was not able to find any evidence of research that had been carried out by Research Services Ireland (RSI).
The party said that RSI provided a centralised service and that other research facilities could not be used because the work was "too sensitive".
One Sinn Féin MLA said they had never heard of the company until they saw it on their annual expenses.
Five years ago, the police were alerted to concerns about expenses claims made by Sinn Féin for work done by the company, and a meeting was held with two assembly officials.
At the time, the Police Service of Northern Ireland decided that an investigation was not necessary.
Sinn Féin's biggest claims for payment to Research Services Ireland came after that date.
The party said that its office cost allowance spent with RSI was used exclusively for assembly and constituency work.
Speaking on the BBC's Nolan Show, Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney said there had been "no impropriety" in his party's expenses claims and added they had "nothing to hide".
"I have no issue with any investigative process, indeed the Spotlight programme alluded that some time in the past the PSNI had been involved.
"They didn't find anything to proceed with an investigative process, I can draw a conclusion from that there was no evidence to go by" Mr McCartney said.
The former chair of the Westminster Committee on Standards in Public Life, Sir Alistair Graham, believes the issue should interest police.
"That sounds to me very near fraud - fraudulent behaviour and I would have thought was a very clear breach of even the current rules in Northern Ireland," he said.
"And I would've thought was worthy of police investigation."
Meanwhile, £4,355 was claimed in one year in the name of the former assembly speaker and DUP MLA Willie Hay for his constituency office's heating oil - the cost of heating his offices increased from £265 over a 10-year period.
Mr Hay's brother-in-law and former office manager has been suspended since Spotlight raised the issue with Mr Hay.
The former speaker now says he cannot comment on the issue as it is now the subject of a police investigation.
The heating oil company who were named as the recipients of the claim told Spotlight that they had not yet been contacted by the police about the issue.
Each MLA is required to sign their own expenses claim forms. But one former Sinn Féin MLA said one expenses claim form for mileage was signed without his knowledge.
Davy Hyland was the Sinn Féin MLA for Newry and Armagh between 2003-2007 before being deselected by the party.
He does not drive and said that the only mileage he would have accrued would be the journey to and from Stormont, where his wife gave him a lift.
Spotlight obtained a copy of an expenses form claiming for 11,500 miles at a cost of almost £5,000.
Mr Hyland told the programme that shortly after he was deselected by the party and became an independent MLA, he received a phone call from the assembly finance team asking him to verify this mileage claim, of almost £5,000, which was about to be paid into Sinn Féin's bank account in west Belfast.
He told them he knew nothing about most of the mileage claimed.
Mr Hyland claimed the form had been signed without his knowledge. He also claimed a senior member of Sinn Féin's finance team then rang him and asked him to agree the expenses.
He said he refused, the claim was never processed, and the money was never transferred into the Sinn Féin bank account
The assembly told Spotlight the claim was never paid out and the assembly's bribery and fraud response plan was initiated.
Sinn Féin said they had no record of such an expenses application, and their records show no monies were drawn down on any such claim.
Mr Hyland was in the assembly for four years. In that time £19,000 was claimed in his name for mileage.
Mr Hyland said he did not use the bulk of the £19,000 of mileage claimed and he would not have knowingly signed off that amount.
Questions were also raised in the programme about Ulster Unionist and SDLP expense claims for services provided by their own parties.
The SDLP claimed £10,000 for each MLA to fund their press office. The rules say the money should have been going to benefit constituents.
The party said "any monies claimed for secretarial expenses or professional advisors… was spent to enhance the service given to constituents".
In one year the UUP claimed £84,000 for "support services".
Investigative Journalist Heather Brooke said these types of claim were "a way of taking money that the public's given to fund legitimate political expenses and it's recycling them into that political party".
The programme also found DUP MLAs employing a number of family members. Three quarters of all DUP MLAs have at least one relative on the pay roll, including eight wives, and eight sons.
Fifty-eight thousand pounds went to members of Robin Newton's family in 2013, who are employed in accordance with assembly rules.
With his own salary on top of that, a total of £106,000 from the assembly went into the Newton family in a year.
In recent years changes have been made to the way the expenses system operates. Money must now be paid to an MLA's individual bank account, rather than to a party account, as had been the case Sinn Féin.
However, Sir Alistair Graham believes that rather than just changing the system, people and parties should be held to account for past issues
"It seems to me that what you require here is a pretty root and branch independent investigation to the arrangements in place," he said.
"If there's potentially been a criminal offence or if there's been a serious breach of the rules, then I think there needs to be proper investigation."
Davies worked under Rodgers at Swansea and Liverpool, and the new Celtic boss is thrilled to bring him to Glasgow.
"I am delighted to bring Chris to Celtic, he is a magnificent coach and someone I know will make a hugely positive contribution to the club.
"He is ready and prepared for the challenge at Celtic," Rodgers said.
Davies, 31, will start work at Celtic on 1 June and is relishing the challenge of working with the Scottish champions.
"Celtic is a huge club with such a special place in world football," he said.
"It is a great honour and a proud moment for me to be named assistant manager.
"I saw the scenes at Celtic Park on Monday and there are not many clubs or fans in the world who could have put on such a show.
"We know what Celtic fans bring to the club and we want to reward our fans every week with entertaining football that gets results."
Davies knows Rodgers well having played under him in the Reading youth team. Rodgers then took his old team-mate with him to join his coaching staff at Swansea and again at Liverpool.
"I have worked with Brendan over a number of years, as a player and a coach, and it will be fantastic to team up with him again," Davies continued.
"I know all about his affection for Celtic and his appetite for taking on this great job.
"I am looking forward to meeting all the players and staff and working with them to give the supporters a team to be proud of."
Security concerns will now be given greater weight against privacy when venues such as shopping centres apply for permission to install cameras.
Only now will federal police get systems to scan car license plates.
Bad memories of Communist-era state snooping have made Germans wary of extending surveillance powers.
But mass sexual assaults on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve in 2015, and a string of attacks on civilians in July, prompted Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere to introduce the bill of measures in August.
Pressure for more effective security measures increased further after December's lorry attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.
The measures were approved by the Bundestag in a marathon session on Thursday which began at 09:00 (08:00 GMT) and concluded at 01:39 local time on Friday, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports.
Bundestag statement: the case for the new surveillance
"The attack on the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, as well as the attempted attack in Ansbach and the shooting spree in Munich in the summer, have shown quite clearly: terrorists and offenders choose frequently crowded public areas for attacks to inflict the greatest possible damage.
The Federal Government therefore wants to amend the regulation on video surveillance in the Federal Data Protection Act. The protection of life, health or freedom of people should be regarded as a 'particularly important interest' in video surveillance by private operators in publicly accessible areas. Data protection authorities are to take particular account of this statutory assessment when examining video surveillance."
An expert view: Tobias Matzner, Ethics of Intelligent Video Surveillance project leader, University of Tubingen
"I am not aware of any studies that prove the effectiveness of video surveillance as a deterrent. In some cases, criminal activity has decreased after the installation of video surveillance, but that has always been part of a bigger number of measures.
Regarding the threats to security by terrorism and other violent actors, a deterrent effect is rather unlikely. Terrorists will either take existing surveillance into account, or in the case of a suicide mission, most probably don't care.
So surveillance might deter some specific forms of criminal deeds (car theft is sometimes cited, but I wouldn't even take that as definitive) but the ones which have been foregrounded as a reason for the new legislation are most probably not among them."
Authorities will still get final approval when places such as shopping centres, sports venues and car parks want to fit cameras - but "protection of life, health or freedom" will now assume greater weight.
The bill also introduces small body cameras for police - a measure whose impact on crime some critics have questioned.
There has also been some criticism of the wider measures - with some making the point that cameras are already widespread around Cologne railway station, where the New Year's Eve assaults took place, and that what was needed was more efficient monitoring of the cameras.
The charges, which include indecent assault and serious sexual assault, involve four boys who were aged between 11 and 14 at the time.
The former Crewe Alexandra youth coach now faces a total of 55 charges, relating to alleged offences between 1979 and 1991.
The 63-year-old denied all accusations during previous court appearances.
He appeared via video link for the hearing at South Cheshire Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, speaking only to confirm his name, age and that he understood the charges.
He was remanded in custody and will appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 17 July.
Mr Bennell coached a number of junior teams in north-west England and the Midlands, some with associations to Manchester City and Stoke City.
Eleven others were reportedly wounded. Officials say two people also died in Indian shelling elsewhere in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
India had earlier vowed to avenge the killing of three soldiers, one of whose bodies it said had been mutilated.
Tensions have risen since militants killed 19 Indian troops in September.
Both countries accuse each other of violating a 2003 truce accord.
Kashmir - the region at the heart of dispute
The teenager blinded by pellets in Indian Kashmir
The passenger bus reportedly came under fire from India's side of the de facto border as it was travelling from Kel to Muzaffarabad in the Neelum valley region.
Pakistani officials accused India of deliberately targeting civilians. There was no immediate response from India.
On Tuesday the Indian army promised "heavy" retribution" after one of its patrols was ambushed in the Kupwara sector.
Pakistan says more than 30 civilians and 11 soldiers have been killed on its side in fighting since August. India says 12 civilians and 11 of its soldiers have died over a similar period.
Dozens more have been injured and thousands of people have left the area or are trapped in their homes.
Before the new deaths this week, the Pakistani military apparently suffered its biggest single loss of life in Kashmir since the 2003 truce, when seven soldiers were killed in shelling in a single day.
Firing from both sides has increased since the deadly militant attack on an Indian army base on 18 September. India hit back on 30 September with cross-border "surgical strikes" targeting militant groups blamed for killing the soldiers.
A BBC investigation found that Indian troops had crossed the de facto border (the "Line of Control") to hit border posts but then pulled back without going deep into Pakistani-administered territory.
Narendra Modi's BJP government swept to power in 2014 promising a tough line on Pakistan and was under tremendous pressure to hit back after its soldiers were killed in September.
Many observers say Mr Modi feels he has to placate an angry domestic constituency and send out a message that he is a strong leader.
Pakistan accuses India of taking military action to deflect attention from human rights abuses in the region.
At least 85 people, nearly all protesters, have died in months of violent unrest against Indian rule since a popular militant leader was killed in the summer.
Swansea slipped back into the relegation zone after Spurs' late comeback earned a 3-1 win on Wednesday.
But Olsson, 28, says Swansea can take points from Saturday's visit to West Ham United.
"It's going to be a tough game but I'm confident we can go there and get something," Olsson said.
"When you're in a scrap like this you've got to work hard and maybe sometimes it's not pretty football.
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"We've got to dig deep and work as a team. We've got a good team.
"We're not out of it and a few more wins and hopefully we'll be safe."
Swansea City head coach Paul Clement says his side are running out of time in their bid to avoid relegation, with seven games remaining.
The Swans have not won in four games ahead of their first ever visit to West Ham's London Stadium home.
Slaven Bilic's West Ham are themselves in relegation trouble and are only five points ahead of Swansea in 15th spot.
Wednesday's 3-0 loss at Arsenal was their fifth consecutive Premier League defeat.
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England were reduced to 42-4 and 57-6 by the only side outside Test cricket left in the tournament, but recovered to post 142-7 and win by 15 runs.
"The execution of what we were trying to do wasn't good enough today," captain Morgan told BBC Sport.
"We weren't at our best, which allowed Afghanistan in to the game. Ultimately we did enough to win."
England chased 230 to beat South Africa in their previous game, but were on the verge of humiliation against Afghanistan after losing five wickets for 15 runs, including three in an over.
They were rescued by Moeen Ali and David Willey, who shared an unbroken stand of 57 in 33 balls, before Afghanistan were restricted to 127-9.
"Conditions change and scores come down," added Morgan. "You have to show experience and composure, which Moeen Ali and David Willey did to get us up to a defendable total.
"The depth of out batting is one of our strongest suits. We're grateful that we bat deep, but we want the bulk of the responsibility falling on the top six or seven."
England, World T20 winners in 2010, will definitely reach the semi-finals if they beat Sri Lanka on Saturday and South Africa lose one of their final two games.
"There's an incredible amount of talent in this side," said Morgan. "Once we get the right mindset and adapt to conditions, we'll be a strong side."
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Joe Robinson, 22, from Accrington, Lancashire, posted on Facebook that he had spent months with Kurdish rebels.
A warrant was issued for his arrest in July in connection with an alleged breach of an unrelated court order.
He was held under Section Five of the Terrorism Act at Manchester Airport on Thursday.
Greater Manchester Police said he had been bailed, pending further inquiries, until 22 March.
Gmail SMS can run on so-called "dumb phones" which only have very basic features and no access to the internet.
The service has so far been made available in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.
Gmail SMS is the latest in a line of Google products aimed at the African market - the company is also running educational programmes in the region.
The search giant describes its efforts in improving computer science training as "an important goal for Google in 2012".
It recently offered grants to 17 universities to expand its
Computer Science for High School
project.
However lack of access to affordable hardware is still seen as a critical barrier to technology adoption across the continent.
Geva Rechav, Google's product manager for emerging markets,
explained in a blog post
how Gmail SMS was adapted to work by using simple text commands.
"Gmail SMS works on any phone, even the most basic ones which only support voice and SMS," he wrote.
"Gmail SMS automatically forwards your emails as SMS text messages to your phone and you can respond by replying directly to the SMS.
"You can control the emails received by replying with commands such as MORE, PAUSE and RESUME.
"Additionally, compose a new email as an SMS and send to any email address recipient - who will find your message in the right email conversation thread!"
It will be free to receive messages from the system, but any sent texts will be subject to standard network rates.
Across Africa, adoption of mobile services has been swift and widespread.
Mobile commerce offerings like microfinancing tool M-Pesa have in excess of 15 million users.
Dr Tony Perry, a pioneer in cloning, has announced precise DNA editing at the moment of conception in mice.
He said huge advances in the past two years meant "designer babies" were no longer HG Wells territory.
Other leading scientists and bioethicists argue it is time for a serious public debate on the issue.
Designer babies - genetically modified for beauty, intelligence or to be free of disease - have long been a topic of science fiction.
Dr Perry, who was part of the teams to clone the first mice and pigs, said the prospect was still fiction, but science was rapidly catching up to make elements of it possible.
In the journal Scientific Reports, he details precisely editing the genome of mice at the point DNA from the sperm and egg come together.
Dr Perry, who is based at the University of Bath, told the BBC: "We used a pair of molecular scissors and a molecular sat-nav that tells the scissors where to cut.
"It is approaching 100% efficiency already, it's a case of 'you shoot you score'."
It is the latest development of "Crispr technology" - which is a more precise way of editing DNA than anything that has come before.
It was named one of the top breakthroughs in 2013, hailed as the start of a new era of genetics and is being used in a wide-range of experiments in thousands of laboratories.
As well simply cutting the DNA to make mutations, as the Bath team have done, it is also possible to use the technology to insert new pieces of genetic code at the site of the cut.
It has reopened questions about genetically modifying people.
Prof Perry added: "On the human side, one has to be very cautious.
"There are heritable diseases coded by mutations in DNA and some people could say, 'I don't want my children to have these mutations.'"
This includes conditions such as cystic fibrosis and genes that increase the risk of cancer.
"There's much speculation here, but it's not completely fanciful, this is not HG Wells, you can imagine people doing this soon [in animals].
"At that time the HFEA [the UK's fertility regulator] will need to be prepared because they're going to have to deal with this issue."
He said science existed as part of a wider community and that it was up to society as a whole to begin assessing the implications and decide what is acceptable.
Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, from the UK Medical Research Council, has been influential in the debate around making babies from three people and uses the Crispr technology in his own lab.
He said testing embryos for disease during IVF would be the best way of preventing diseases being passed down through the generations.
However, he could see such potential uses of "germ-line therapies" for men left infertile by damaging mutations.
While they can have children through IVF, any sons would still have the mutations and would in turn need IVF. Genetic modification could fix that.
It would also be useful in circumstances when all embryos would carry the undesirable, risky genes.
Prof Lovell-Badge told the BBC News website: "Obviously in the UK, this is not allowed and there would have to be a change in regulations, which I suspect would have enormous problems.
"But it is something that needs to start to be debated.
"There has been a blanket ban on germ-line therapy, so there needs to be a debate about that and some rational thought rather than knee-jerk reactions that, 'No you can't possibly do that.'"
Such a debate would also have to move beyond therapies into the field of babies designed to have desirable traits.
Some alternations would only require small changes to DNA, such as some changes to eye colour or to make a child HIV-resistant.
The respected Nuffield Council on Bioethics is understood to be considering a report on the issue.
Its verdict in 2012 that it was ethical to create babies from three people formed a core part of the public debate on the issue.
At the time it said a much wider debate on germ-line therapy was still needed.
Its director, Hugh Whittall, told the BBC: "I think this is a challenge, for all of us, we should get onto looking at this fairly rapidly now."
He said the field raised questions of social justice around techniques available only to the rich and what constituted identity as well as "issues of governance and regulation".
Dr David King, from the campaign group Human Genetics Alert, echoed calls for the public to engage with the issue.
He said: "I think it's pretty inevitable that we'll get to a point where it's scientifically possible, certainly these new techniques of genome editing have made something look much more feasible than it did five years ago.
"But that does not mean to say it's inevitably the way we have to go as a society."
This is still a matter of science fiction and there is a huge amount of research - particularly on unwanted mutations, efficiency and safety - that needs to be done before any attempt of humans would even be considered.
A spokesman for the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said: "We keep a watchful eye on scientific developments of this kind and welcome discussions about future possible developments."
He said it "should be remembered that germ-line modification of nuclear DNA remains illegal in the UK" and that new legislation would be needed from Parliament "with all the open and public debate that would entail" for there to be any change in the law.
Featuring controversial speaker Faith Goldy, the event was organised by a visiting Ryerson University tutor.
But on Wednesday, the school cancelled the 22 August event because it said it could not guarantee public safety.
The clashes in the US claimed one woman's life when a car ploughed into a crowd of anti-fascists.
A spokesperson said the university was "prioritising safety" over free speech "in light of recent events".
"There is often a tension at universities resulting from our commitment to be a place for free speech and our commitment to be a place that is civil, safe, and welcoming. In light of recent events, Ryerson University is prioritising campus safety," said university spokesperson Michael Forbes in an email.
Mr Forbes said a part-time instructor had rented a room on campus to host the event, but that after conducting a standard safety review, the university decided that "Ryerson is not equipped to provide the necessary level of public safety for the event to go forward".
The event was to feature controversial speakers Faith Goldy, Jordan Peterson and Gad Saad.
Faith Goldy is a journalist and political commentator with Canada's right-wing digital news site Rebel Media. In June, Goldy broadcast a YouTube video arguing that immigration policies were contributing to a "white genocide" in Canada.
While covering Charlottesville over the weekend for Rebel Media, she appeared to sympathize with many of the ideas espoused by the protesters.
End of Twitter post by @FaithGoldy
Since then, the Rebel's founder Ezra Levant has publically denounced the so-called "alt-right," and a number of freelance journalists with the Rebel have announced they will no longer work for the organization.
University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson has made a name for himself campaigning against Canada's new transgender rights laws.
Gad Saad is a business professor who writes about how sex differences affect the consumer and argues against political correctness.
Mr Cairns replaced Stephen Crabb as secretary of state for Wales earlier this month.
On a visit to Swansea he will speak in support of the drive to secure a second city deal bid for Wales after Cardiff Capital Region secured £1.2bn.
He will say the UK government recognises the potential the Swansea Bay city region has.
City deals are a way of different levels of government financing big infrastructure projects and regeneration over long periods of time.
Speaking ahead of the visit, Mr Cairns said: "We are looking forward to seeing the discussions unfold and build towards creating a deal which could transform the fortunes of the entire south west Wales region."
Her body was found days after she was confronted outside her home by a Sky News reporter.
Mrs Leyland's Twitter account - which has been deleted - did not directly target the McCanns, who have "no significant presence" on social media.
Many of her messages had the hashtag #mccanns, making them easy to find.
One tweet read: "#mccann To Kate and Gerry, you will be hated by millions for the rest of your miserable, evil, conniving lives, have a nice day!"
Broadly speaking, trolling covers a variety of social media posts, from cheeky provocation, right through to abuse and violent threats.
Dr Arthur Cassidy, a psychologist who specialises in social media, said typically, trolls seek and enjoy a response from their victims.
He said Mrs Leyland's Twitter messages had been "unusual".
"Her whole repertoire of trolling is slightly different from those of well-seasoned trolls because of her uniqueness and the way she has done this," he said.
"It would signify to me that she has been quite a novice at this."
According to the Crown Prosecution Service, social media messages which "specifically target an individual or individuals and which may constitute harassment or stalking" could be a criminal offence.
Questions have come up about whether or not Mrs Leyland's messages could be considered to "specifically target" the McCann family.
Posts which also make a "credible threat of violence" against a person or property, may also be prosecuted.
There is also a possibility of "grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or false" messages also falling foul of the law.
People under the age of 18 are unlikely to be prosecuted as children "may not appreciate the potential harm and seriousness of their communications".
The CPS advises a "high threshold" for prosecuting social media users under the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
"Just because the content expressed in the communication is in bad taste, controversial or unpopular, and may cause offence to individuals or a specific community, this is not in itself sufficient reason to engage the criminal law," the guidelines add.
Posts must be more than "banter or humour" for prosecution to go ahead.
Last month Peter Nunn, 33, from Bristol, was sent to prison for 18 weeks after being found guilty of trolling Labour politician Stella Creasy over her campaign to put Jane Austen on the £10 note.
He sent what were viewed as "menacing" messages to the Walthamstow MP.
The judge also imposed a restraining order, preventing him from contacting either Ms Creasy or Caroline Criado-Perez, who began the Jane Austen campaign.
In 2011, Sean Duffy from Reading was also jailed for 18 weeks after he mocked dead children online.
Liam Stacey of Pontypridd was sentenced to 56 days in prison after he made racist remarks on Twitter about footballer Fabrice Muamba.
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Former Glenn Hoddle Academy product Benbow, 26, scored 32 goals for the Glassboys in last season's Northern Premier League promotion near miss.
He also scored eight times in Stourbridge's run to the third round of the FA Cup, when they lost at Wycombe.
Lait and Benbow, who had spells at both Cheltenham and Burton, are Moors' first signings this summer.
Moors manager Liam McDonald has already signed striker Oladapo Afolayan, skipper Liam Daly, fellow defenders Joel Kettle, Kristian Green and Calum Flanagan and midfielders George Carline, Ashley Sammons and Simeon Maye on new contracts for the 2017-18 season.
The club have so far lost strikers Harry White, to Chester, Andy Brown, defender Connor Franklin, who joined Brackley Town, and keeper Danny Lewis.
Benbow and Lait are the latest members of Stourbridge's successful FA Cup side to move on following Dan Scarr's move to Birmingham City in January.
Having already claimed gold in the F42 discus, this is the third time in succession the Welshman has triumphed in both events at the competition.
Davies' first throw was a World Championships record of 16.02 metres and his second a 17.52m world record.
Iran's Sajad Mohammadian won silver with a throw of 14.44m, while German Frank Tinnemeier was third.
Davies was born with talipese and hemi-hemilia, which means his right leg is missing bones, muscle and ligaments.
The 26-year-old from Bridgend has focused on shot put recently, after discus was dropped for Rio 2016.
But victory in the shot put in London completed his triple double by claiming the discus and shot put titles at three consecutive Worlds.
"No offence to Rio [de Janeiro, host of the 2016 Paralympics], this for me was bigger than Rio," said Davies.
"I told my coach at the start of the year that I wanted to throw a PB [personal best] and a world record and won gold in front of the home crowd and I did it.
"As soon as that second throw left my fingers I knew that I'd done it. I've been working so hard and I am so happy to be able to throw a world record. Everyone knows how hard I've worked."
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The nationalist and unionist parties went into opposition at the Northern Ireland Assembly in May.
Mr Eastwood told the function that he wanted to see closer co-operation between the parties.
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said: "Maybe next time we can persuade people if you vote Mike, you get Colum.
"If you vote Colum, you get Mike.
"If you vote middle ground, you get better."
In his speech, Mr Eastwood said the two parties had different policies and different visions of the future.
"Our Irish nationalism and your unionism will not seamlessly fit any time soon," he said.
"However, this difference does not diminish our ability to pursue the commonality of our immediate cause. Both the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists share the common ground of wanting to make Northern Ireland work.
"That's a healthy common ground to hold for today and tomorrow."
It was the first Ulster Unionist conference since the party went into opposition.
Mr Nesbitt attacked the two parties who form the Northern Ireland Executive - the Democratic Unionists (DUP) and Sinn Féin.
He said they were joined at the hip politically, yet the DUP played on unionist fears of Sinn Féin to get votes.
Mr Nesbitt said he not only wanted to see a post-sectarian society in Northern Ireland, but also a "post-peace process society".
"What is the peace process?" he asked.
"I'll tell you what Sinn Féin think it is, Sinn Féin think it's a weapon. Anytime something inconvenient comes along, Sinn Féin call it 'a threat to the peace process'.
"It helps maintain the illusion we remain in a state of transition, that there is something about our political challenges that needs special treatment."
He said both the DUP and Sinn Féin wanted to push the opposition parties around.
"It's not going to happen, conference," he added.
Net income for the last three months of 2012 fell 27% to $2.47bn (£1.54bn), although the figure beat analysts' forecasts. Revenue fell 3% to $13.5bn.
Sales of PCs, the majority of which use Intel chips, have suffered with the rise of smartphones and tablets.
Intel shares fell 3% in after-hours trading on Wall Street on Thursday.
The fourth-quarter figures took Intel's profits for the year to $11bn, on revenues of $53.3bn. This was a fall of 15% and 1.2% respectively on the previous year.
Intel had already warned that earnings in the three months to the end of December would be sluggish, and that the usual boost to business from the holiday buying season would be small.
"The fourth quarter played out largely as expected as we continued to execute through a challenging environment," said Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive.
Research firm Gartner said this week that global PC shipments fell 4.9% in the fourth quarter from a year ago.
California-based Intel said in a statement that it expects revenues in the first three months of this year to be about $12.7bn. That would be slightly below analysts' average forecasts of $12.9bn.
Despite the fourth-quarter fall, some analysts were broadly satisfied with the numbers.
Kevin Cassidy, at Stifel Nicolaus, said: "Seems like they're managing through this downturn pretty well." He expects new PC models due to come onto the market later this year to boost Intel's business.
"The results show that the PC industry is still around and maybe it was slightly exaggerated that the death of the PC was here," he said.
Doug Freeman, analyst at RBC Capital, said "the numbers are not worse than feared".
However, he said that the amount of money Intel is spending on new facilities, research and development, and capacity - £13bn - could be a concern for those investors who feel that this huge investment is being made at a time when the PC market will continue to decline.
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Vote Leave complained after the airline hosted an event where George Osborne, Vince Cable and Ed Balls spoke in front of a "Remain in Europe" branded plane.
The Commission ruled that while the airline had been campaigning, it had not spent enough to break the law.
Campaigners who spend more than £10,000 must register with the watchdog by law.
While it is not registered as an official campaigner, the Commission found Ryanair "was undertaking campaigning activities" and said it had been in contact with the airline about these.
But it said there was "no reasonable ground to suspect that a breach of PPERA [the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000] has occurred."
A spokesman added: "We are satisfied, following an assessment that the available evidence suggests Ryanair has not spent in excess of £10,000 without registering as a campaigner for the EU referendum.
"We will continue to monitor campaign spending in the run-up to the referendum and take action if it is appropriate and necessary to do so in line with our established Enforcement Policy".
Ryanair, which is registered in Ireland, has run adverts for a "Brexit special" discount on flights to passengers who want to fly home to vote to stay in the EU and had pledged to "continue to work hard to help deliver a resounding Remain majority on 23 June".
Ryanair's head of communications Robin Kiely said: "Ryanair's Fly Home to Vote Remain seat sale, which allowed UK citizens to buy a £19.99 one-way fare to fly to the UK on 22 and 23 June next, fully complies with Ryanair's policy of lowering the cost of air travel to/from the UK.
"Vote Leave must be getting really desperate if they are now objecting to low fare air travel for British citizens."
But a Vote Leave spokesman pointed to a Reuters story suggesting the airline had spent nearly £20,000 on advertisements urging customers to vote to remain in the EU.
He said: "Vote Leave is surprised by the Electoral Commission's decision given Ryanair has confirmed in its own publicity that they are spending more than the amount that the Electoral Commission state is the threshold for registering."
Leone Stars will face the Flames at the Siaka Stevens stadium, Freetown, on 22 March, their first match at home since they hosted Seychelles in July 2014.
The match was almost cancelled over a $10,000 fee demanded by the now sacked country's sports minister Paul Kamara.
SLFA told BBC Sport: "We will not pay any cash for the use of the stadium."
This will be the third friendly meetings between Leone Stars and the Flames with the later winning the previous two encounters at home in Lilongwe way back in 1978.
There has never been a competitive fixture between the two teams.
The match is Sierra Leone's preparation for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Gabon - away on 25 March and at home in Freetown three days later.
However, there are no points at stake for the two games because Gabon will host the finals in January.
Sierra Leone are currently bottom of group I behind Sudan and African champions Ivory Coast.
But Malawi are preparing for a competitive Nations Cup double-header with Guinea in Group L.
The Flames are presently third in the table, above Guinea but below Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
The 28 EU leaders will discuss the draft Ceta deal shortly in Brussels.
All of them, including Belgium's national government, back it. But Wallonia says Ceta is a threat to farmers and welfare standards.
That is blocking the signing of Ceta, which has put the EU's credibility at stake in trade negotiations.
Walloon PM Paul Magnette is to hold further talks with Canada's International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday, Belgian RTBF News reports.
Mr Magnette said: "We sense a willingness among our Canadian friends to make more concessions."
There are doubts about a planned signing ceremony on 27 October.
The European Commission, in charge of the EU's negotiations, has refused to unpick the text which was agreed with Canada in 2014.
Some EU leaders, including European Council President Donald Tusk, have voiced frustration that French-speaking Wallonia, with a population of just 3.6m, is delaying a deal that took seven years to negotiate.
European Parliament briefing on Ceta
There is much international interest in Ceta, the EU's most ambitious trade deal to date.
Some UK politicians see it as a potential model for a Brexit deal with the EU.
But Wallonia has echoed the fears of anti-globalisation activists who say Ceta and deals like it give too much power to multinational companies - power even to intimidate governments.
Meanwhile, the EU Council Summit is continuing in Brussels - but an EU official close to the talks said the summit was happening "very much in the shadow of Ceta".
EU leaders could only "facilitate" but not participate directly in Wallonia's discussions, he said.
In their talks on Friday the leaders are seeking to strike the right balance between free trade and preventing unfair competition.
A row about the scale of imported Chinese steel in the EU has heightened their concerns. European steel producers accuse China of unfair practices.
The European Commission, which steers trade policy, says the EU needs to tighten its anti-dumping rules. But the UK is part of a blocking minority opposed to the Commission's reform plan. The UK says tariffs must not be "disproportionate".
The Commission has urged the leaders to adopt its 2013 reform of "trade defence instruments" to allow higher tariffs to be imposed.
The European Parliament also says the EU needs "a modernised set of rules on par with other world powers" to make fair trade work.
The move comes as the company invests £5m in facilities to fill bottles quicker at its Cumbernauld plant, while it decommissions washing equipment.
AG Barr said it would no longer be able to handle returns after 31 December.
The firm explained that recycling at home had contributed to a drop in bottles being returned from 90% in the early 1990s to only about 50% now.
Dubbed "Scotland's other national drink", Irn Bru was created to an original recipe in 1901 when it was initially called Iron Brew.
The company introduced bottle returns in 1905 and changed its famous product's name to Irn Bru in 1946, amid concern over new food labelling regulations.
By Nick Eardley, BBC News
The man who used to run the newsagent's down the road from my parents' house in Edinburgh must have hated me.
As a child, my friends and I would turn up at the weekend with however many Irn Bru bottles we had managed to get our hands on to claim our 20p coins.
The bottles would come from a variety of sources - my dad, neighbours, the park where teenagers used to drink on a Friday and Saturday night.
I'll always remember the day we found dozens of bottles in a bag - for Edinburgh's answer to the Famous Five, it was like winning the lottery. There were so many we had to stagger our trips to the newsagent to claim our cash.
Many a weekend's sweet supply was bankrolled by our bottle finding adventures. Future generations will never know such joy.
Jonathan Kemp, commercial director, said: "This significant investment allows us to continue to offer our consumers their favourite products in glass, well into the future.
"With improved kerbside recycling, only one in two of our bottles are now being returned, meaning that the process of handling returned bottles has become uneconomic."
This investment will replace Barr's current glass line, which is almost 20 years old, with more efficient glass filling capability, and will see "energy-hungry" returnable glass bottle washing equipment decommissioned.
Mr Kemp added: "From the beginning of October information on the change will be carried on the bottle label and we will work with retailers to display materials in their premises to ensure our consumers understand what is planned."
By Douglas Fraser, BBC Scotland business editor
Returnable glass bottles are an unlikely national icon but their demise has unleashed a lot of nostalgia for the soft drinks that fuelled many Scottish childhoods.
"It's a sad decision to take," admits AG Barr's commercial director, Jonathan Kemp. "It's the end of an era.
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Electricity prices will rise by an average of 13.8%, and gas prices by 3.8%.
E.On said that 2.5 million customers would be affected by the increases, which come into effect on 26 April.
The average bill will rise by £97 a year. However it is the first such increase in three years.
E.On blamed the social and environmental schemes which support renewable energy, but which customers have to pay for through their bills.
Wholesale energy costs had actually come down, it said, thanks to its hedging policy.
But the announcement was criticised by some energy bill experts.
"E.On delivered yet another bitter blow to households this morning as it announced a monstrous price rise," said Mark Todd the founder of Energyhelpline.
"This massive increase will be very tough for customers to swallow and once again it's loyal standard rate customers who are hit the hardest."
Three other big power companies have announced price rises this year, while British Gas has announced a freeze until August.
E.On said it would send more than three million letters this month to its customers, making it clear that cheaper tariffs are available.
In addition, some vulnerable customers - including those over 65 - will be offered special deals.
They will receive letters with a tear-off permission slip, which will enable them to switch to E.On's cheapest tariff before the price rises come into effect.
Standard tariffs have come under criticism from MPs and the government, as they are more expensive than fixed-term deals.
The regulator has also put pressure on energy suppliers to get more of their customers to switch to cheaper deals.
At the moment about two-thirds of customers are on standard tariffs.
Enniskillen-born Lafferty, 28, has had less than an hour's first-team action for the Canaries this season, having made just three substitute appearances.
He has played more times for his country than his club this campaign.
He has won four caps and scored in two successive games in September to help his side make it to Euro 2016.
The widely travelled striker started his career at Burnley, going out on loan to Darlington before joining Rangers for £3m in June 2008.
Since then, he has had moves to Swiss side FC Sion, Palermo in Sicily and on to Norwich in June 2014.
He was loaned out by the Canaries this time last season to Turkish side Rizespor, but a move by Leeds United to get him in January ultimately fell though. This deal comes with a recall option for Norwich after 28 days.
Blues, who have scored just four goals in the last nine games, now stand ninth in the Championship, six points off the play-offs, although with a game in hand.
"The acquisition of Lafferty is interesting on two fronts. First, it suggests a further loosening of the financial ties that have bound Birmingham City in recent seasons - an experienced international striker does not come cheap.
"It also indicates an end on the over-reliance on striker Clayton Donaldson. He has been an indisputable starter under Gary Rowett over the last two seasons, one of the first names in the team sheet.
"But Lafferty desperately needs football ahead of Euro 2016 with Northern Ireland, and will surely have to be given opportunities at St Andrew's.
"Will this mean a rest for Donaldson, or will Rowett go against the grain and field two strikers? "Either way it is an ambitious move at a time when the club are in danger of slipping out of play-off contention."
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The 35-year-old lost £1.5m at the height of his gambling addiction.
He sympathises with Burnley midfielder Joey Barton, who admitted suffering from the problem on Wednesday after being banned for 18 months for betting.
"Gambling companies need to recognise those that are vulnerable and don't take bets from them," Etherington said.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he added: "I was targeted. We had gambling companies come into the club and say 'you can bet with us'.
"They knew we were young, a bit vulnerable, and had lots of money. Looking back, it was very irresponsible of them."
Etherington retired in 2014 after a career that included spells with Peterborough, Tottenham and West Ham, as well as Stoke.
Former Manchester City and QPR midfielder Barton was fined £30,000 and warned about his future conduct after being charged with breaking FA rules for placing bets on matches between 26 March 2006 and 13 May 2016.
He admitted placing "over 15,000 bets across a whole range of sports" - of which 1,260 were on football - staking an average of £150 per bet.
Between 2004 and 2011, Barton said he placed several bets on his own team to lose but added he was not involved in the match-day squad in any of those instances.
"The length of the ban is quite harsh - I think his past has gone before him," Etherington said.
"I think the FA are trying to send out a clear message to everyone that you can't bet on football matches.
"Players know the rules - FA representatives let you know in no uncertain terms. They would come in at the start of every season and let you know.
"It is sad for Joey because it looks like it's the end of his career. He's got a problem and I hope he sorts it out."
Former Everton midfielder Leon Osman told BBC Radio 5 live that a gambling company blocked his account after he staked his first bet post-retirement.
The 35-year-old, who played more than 400 games for the Toffees, was released at the end of the 2015-16 season.
"The betting company has done Barton no favours," said Osman. "They are more to blame than anybody because they've been accepting bets from him for 10 years.
"I had to phone up and explain that I am no longer playing, and suddenly they looked me through and released my account within six weeks of me having a bet.
"You're not telling me that in 10 years they've not noticed that Joey Barton's betting on football?"
Etherington feels the gambling industry needs to be "regulated" and adverts should be less conspicuous on TV and radio.
Gambling company Ladbrokes is an FA partner and 10 Premier League clubs have betting firms as shirt sponsors.
"Everyone needs to take a little bit more responsibility - the PFA, the players, the FA and the gambling organisations themselves," Etherington said.
"It's very hard and complex. The PFA can do more going into the clubs, it's just whether or not the players want to listen.
"[After training] I was so desperate to get away and place a bet you're not paying full attention to your career. That's the thing that I regret."
He also has the unusual distinction, for a journalist, of being targeted by EU sanctions - imposed in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Mr Kiselyov delivered another of his anti-Western diatribes in the 30 March edition of Vesti Nedeli (News of the Week), his flagship current affairs show on the official channel Rossiya 1.
Millions of Russians rely on the main state-owned TV channels for their news.
With dainty, almost balletic hand gestures and the faint trace of an ironic smile on his lips, Kiselyov asks with mock concern "what's up" with Barack Obama. The US president's ratings, he says, are on the slide, while Russian President Vladimir Putin's continue to rise.
Turning to another camera, he goes on to denounce the US for trying to spread revolution with "terrorists" in Syria and "fascists" in Ukraine. "They shamelessly spy on everyone, wanting to control the world, but they suffer one defeat after another," he concludes.
It was a typical Kiselyov performance, if not quite a vintage one. Two weeks earlier, he had mocked what he said were President Obama's waning powers, as symbolised by his greying hair, before boasting that Russia was the only country "genuinely capable of turning the USA into radioactive ash".
At the beginning of March, he had lambasted Ukraine as a country overrun by "bandits", where democracy was "on its knees". He sneered at the weakness of the Ukrainian army and airily dismissed the idea of Western sanctions. He also said the fate of Crimea was a "personal matter" for each and every Russian citizen.
Mr Kiselyov's polemic set the tone for the Kremlin's policy on Ukraine that culminated in Mr Putin's triumphant annexation of Crimea some three weeks later.
Mr Kiselyov is a key part of Mr Putin's media operation. Apart from his role as TV anchor, he was recently appointed to head the new Russia Today news agency, whose mission is to further beef up the Kremlin's media presence around the world.
The appointment was controversial, not least because of Mr Kiselyov's repeated attacks on homosexuals. The most notorious of these came on a Rossiya 1 talkshow in 2012, when he said gay people should be banned from donating blood and sperm, and that if they were killed in a car crash "their hearts should be buried in the ground or burnt as unfit for helping to prolong anyone's life".
A blog published by The Economist has dubbed Mr Kiselyov Russia's "chief propagandist".
According to former Kremlin insider and political analyst Gleb Pavlovskiy, Kiselyov and his state media colleagues are generators of "Russophobia". They are a "machine churning out the black myth of Russia as an enemy of Europe and civilisation", Mr Pavlovskiy said.
The Ukrainian authorities have now ordered all cable operators to suspend broadcasts of Rossiya 1 and three of Russia's other state-controlled channels. Russian TV has been widely watched in Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine, and now dominates the airwaves in Crimea.
Mr Kiselyov himself is now the subject of a travel ban and asset freeze by the EU.
But at home he appears to be riding high. A recent poll by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) named him as Russia's second most respected and authoritative journalist. Another FOM poll found that more than 50% of respondents thought it acceptable to "distort information" in the interests of the state.
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"I fear nothing," he said, after being interrogated on Friday over allegations that he received millions of dollars in illegal payments.
Lula, a left-wing icon, left office in 2011. His Workers' Party has been hit hard by the long-running scandal.
His brief detention led to clashes outside his home near Sao Paulo.
After his interrogation Lula told reporters he was the victim of a "prejudice as a working-class man", adding: "I escaped death from hunger when I was five... I was the best president to govern this country, the poorest of this country re-elected me because they could eat now."
He also said there had been no need for police to detain him. "If they wanted to hear from me, they only had to call and I would have gone, because I owe nothing to anyone and fear nothing."
This was echoed by his successor, current President Dilma Rousseff, who said it had been "unnecessary" to take him into custody.
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The Petrobras inquiry, known as Operation Car Wash, has led to criminal proceedings against dozens of business executives and Workers' Party figures accused of taking part in the multibillion-dollar corruption scheme.
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, the Lula Institute.
His home in Sao Bernardo do Campo was among the premises targeted, as was the headquarters of the institute in Sao Paulo.
Prosecutor Carlos Fernando dos Santos Lima said: "Among the five largest donors to the Lula Institute, 60% of all the donations were paid by the five largest businessmen involved in the Car Wash scandal."
A police statement quoted by Reuters news agency said: "There is evidence that the crimes enriched him and financed electoral campaigns and the treasury of his political group."
However, no charges have been brought against Lula so far.
The institute said in a statement (in Portuguese) the "violence" against the former president was "arbitrary, illegal and unjustifiable", as he had been co-operating with the investigations.
The Workers' Party called the operation a "political spectacle".
There is much more at stake in these investigations than just Lula's personal reputation. His legacy and the future of his political project for Brazil - which has shaped the country for the past 14 years - are also under scrutiny.
Under his Workers' Party, Brazil has seen a period of spectacular economic growth and a fall in inequality.
And now, under the same party, the country is facing its worst recession in 25 years; critics point to the government's mistakes for creating the crisis.
Lula has said he is prepared to run for president in 2018. However, in order for his political project to survive, he will have to clear his name and his party's. His detention is a major obstacle in his path.
Markets in Brazil reacted strongly to the news. The value of the Brazilian currency, the real, surged 3% in the morning. Sao Paulo's main stock exchange index rose more than 4% in the initial hours of trading.
Dozens of Lula supporters and opponents gathered outside his home following the raids. There were clashes as both shouted slogans either for or against the former president.
Demonstrators also scuffled outside the police station where Lula was questioned.
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Operation Car Wash, or Lava Jato in Portuguese, as the corruption investigation is known, has been closely monitored by Brazilian media over the past two years.
Many TV networks are providing live coverage from outside Lula's apartment, where protesters have gathered.
And articles reflecting what the detention means are starting to appear. One of the many headlines in the popular daily Folha de Sao Paulo quotes an opposition figure as saying: "Operations in Lula's house could be the beginning of the end".
Several newspapers are highlighting the nickname of this new phase of the investigation: "Aletheia" is a Greek word meaning "search for truth".
Lula led Brazil during a time of rapid economic growth and is credited with lifting millions of people out of poverty.
He is still a well-liked figure and has been considered a potential candidate in presidential elections in 2018.
But his popularity has been hit by recent allegations that he either had knowledge or involvement in the wrongdoings.
The corruption scandal threatens the government of Ms Rousseff, who has faced repeated impeachment calls. She too has denied having any knowledge of wrongdoings.
They will also gather data on traffic conditions, hazards and road signs.
The service by mapping firm Here, owned by a group of German car makers, will roll out next year.
The platform will record vehicle speed, location and direction, as well as sharp braking and fog light activation.
Video footage of road hazards will also be captured by a forward-facing camera on the cars.
Other brands will join the service at a later date, the firm said.
Owners of cars which incorporate Here's Open Location Platform will not have to do anything to transmit or receive data.
Community mapping service Waze, owned by Google, already crowdsources travel data but users must be logged in via their smartphones.
The parking information service will also provide parking availability predictions for each street as well as details about payment options.
"Here believes that industry collaboration is essential to address the major challenges faced by road users everywhere.
"What we are seeing today is the technology and automotive industries coming together to create services that will elevate the driving experience for billions," said CEO Edzard Overbeek.
Here was sold by Nokia to the car group last year for 2.8bn euros (£2bn).
It said the halo "presents the best overall safety performance" after the evaluation of "a large number of devices over the past five years".
The move comes less than a week after a transparent cockpit 'shield' proved unusable at the British Grand Prix.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel said the device made him dizzy after one lap.
The 'shield' had been prioritised by F1's bosses because of mixed reactions to the 'halo' after extensive testing last year.
The 'halo' was found to be the only device that both successfully passed the test of deflecting a wheel fired at it at 150mph and provided a largely unobstructed view.
Some drivers have expressed concerns about the 'halo', a wishbone-shaped device that sits on top of the cockpit and meets in a point in front of the driver, both on aesthetic and philosophical grounds.
But, as a collective body, they are in favour of additional head protection.
Alexander Wurz, chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, said: "We drivers respect the FIA's stand on safety and support its ongoing quest to make racing safer.
"Over recent decades, we have seen increasing speeds and every faster lap times and this ultimate racing quest is solely possible due to increasing safety.
"Equally, over the same period of time, we have seen an increase in popularity of our sport.
"F1 is a role model for ever-increasing safety without jeopardising performance. While the halo solution might not be the most aesthetically pleasing for everyone, we drivers will nevertheless race and push as hard as we can on track, which is the key for F1 to continue its growth and popularity."
A statement from the FIA said: "With the support of the teams, certain features of [halo's] design will be further enhanced."
The strategy group of leading teams, commercial rights holders and the FIA committed in July 2016 to the introduction of additional frontal protection to F1 in 2018, a decision which delayed by a year its originally intended debut.
Last April, the sport's bosses decided to prioritise the 'shield' with the idea of introducing it for 2018.
But the test at Silverstone proved the device needed a lot more work.
With time running out and teams needing to start work on finalising their 2018 car designs, the rule-making strategy group on Wednesday decided to push forward with the only device that does work.
The strategy group also agreed to set up a working group to examine the problem of cost control in F1, its aim to "come up with innovative solutions aimed at ensuring the sport remains sustainable".
A statement said the group debated "a number of sporting measures aimed at improving the show". It did not reveal what they were but said "specific studies will be carried out to assess" them.
The broadcaster is controlled by ITV, which bought the business last year.
The jobs at risk are understood to be primarily in the sales department but also include library staff, online staff and 'playout' (transmission services). News is not affected.
A UTV spokesperson said a total of 43 roles are under threat - potentially a quarter of the workforce.
She said staff had been informed of the restructuring plans, which are understood to be linked to the proposed sale of UTV Ireland to Virgin Media.
UTV Belfast currently has a staff of 138.
The spokesperson said: "From today, 43 roles are at risk of redundancy.
"That's 27 new roles put at risk today on top of the 16 in playout that were already at risk from July. There are eight redeployment opportunities, so that's potentially 35 job losses - potentially a 25% decrease in workforce."
But they're not complaining about the end result now, says the 44-year-old Japanese American.
He did the training to fulfil his parents' dream of him becoming a doctor, and as he jokes, his parents never actually said how long they wanted him to be a doctor for - just to be one.
The reason he left so soon was because he was determined to carry on the venture he'd begun at just 11-years-old while still in junior high school.
He had founded his own start-up company, which eventually focused on enhanced security for personal computers through technologies such as fingerprint and iris recognition.
Mr Saito formally incorporated the firm - I/O Software - in 1991 while he was at university. The company became a leader in biometrics and information security, and just 14 years later at the age of 33 he sold it to US giant Microsoft.
While the terms of the deal mean he can't reveal the price he received, Mr Saito admits he would have been in a position to retire then if he'd wanted to.
But unsurprisingly for someone so driven at such a young age, he has continued to work relentlessly, using his experience to help other entrepreneurs, particularly in his parents' home country of Japan.
While born and raised in the US, Mr Saito still believes he "owes the Japanese", because it's his heritage which he credits for his success. And now he believes he can give something back.
Mr Saito's parents couldn't speak English when they emigrated to the US, settling in Los Angeles in California, just two years before he was born in 1971.
Determined to give their son - the eldest of three - a competitive advantage to ensure he would thrive in their new country, they focused on mathematics, bringing over complex textbooks from Japan, and teaching him things well beyond the expected level for his age.
"That turned into a huge advantage for me," he says.
In fact, his maths became so advanced that his teacher ran out of suitable lessons, suggesting he played with "a thing called a personal computer" instead.
"I was able to take advantage of this lead and it changed my life," Mr Saito says.
On this teacher's advice, his parents took out a home loan to buy him his very own personal computer - worth about $5,000 (£3,200) in today's money - which from their point of view was aimed at helping him become a doctor.
But some work, organised by the same teacher, changed the direction of his life permanently. The teacher suggested to a friend - an accountant at investment bank Merrill Lynch - that Mr Saito, who at the time was just 10-years-old, could help with writing computer programmes.
"When I finished I received a cheque, and I didn't expect that.
"That really changed my view about doing something fun, but at the same time getting paid for it. It was definitely a wake-up moment for me," he says.
Despite his precocious start, Mr Saito denies that he was hot-housed, saying his parents exposed him to lots of different activities, and made it clear that success was about more than just good grades.
In particular, he says both the schools he went to, and his parents, emphasised the importance of volunteering.
It's a lesson he has taken to heart, and since the successful sale of his first firm, he has worked hard to support other would-be entrepreneurs.
He confesses one of his favourite pursuits, is judging business plans, and he travels globally to do this. To date, he calculates he's judged some 15,000 people in such competitions.
But his main focus is his parents' home country of Japan.
In 2005, after selling I/O Software, he moved to Japan and founded venture capital firm and consultancy InTecur.
He also works as a special adviser for the Japanese government, specialising in cybersecurity.
But his main drive is to make the Japanese more entrepreneurial.
As well as advising firms on various technology issues, InTecur aims to help young Japanese technology entrepreneurs become successful, something which he feels the Japanese culture, which typically bases seniority on age and experience, makes difficult.
"People in their 20s aren't given the opportunity. So for me I felt an obligation to give back to that next generation because I was given the opportunity," he says.
So far, the firm has invested in 24 companies, 14 of which are run by women - who he believes are also often overlooked in Japanese society.
He says he also makes a point of investing in people who have previously failed.
"Failure here [in Japan] is a bad word. I'm the reverse. You have to fail once and gain that experience first, then you know what your weaknesses and strengths are."
It is these attitudes, which he believes are stifling Japan's entrepreneurial spirit and making it harder for the country to grow.
But he's optimistic that things are changing. And it's this which makes him happiest.
"To unleash that potential and to see people make real change, I think I'm most proud about that.
"This is still an unfinished story but it's starting to take root," he says.
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The 25-year-old will join the Women's Super League club in January when the WSL transfer window re-opens.
Chelsea were knocked out of the Women's Champions League by Wolfsburg in October and in their 2015-16 campaign.
"I know the qualities Chelsea have after our Champions League games and hope I will be able to add to that," Bachmann told Chelsea's club website.
"I want to win trophies and believe I am at the perfect place to do that."
Blues boss Emma Hayes added: "She is a dynamic, creative spark that will make people get off their feet. She will suit the English game, because she is explosive and will make things happen."
Chelsea, who finished second in WSL 1 in 2016, have already signed Norway captain Maren Mjelde from Norwegian club Avaldsnes for next season.
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The Labour MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire was killed in Birstall, on 16 June.
Mrs Cox had cut the turf at a ceremony at the start of construction on the £1.38m unit at Dewsbury District Hospital, in December 2015.
Her parents and sister took part in a short ceremony and unveiled a plaque dedicated to her.
Jean Leadbeater, Mrs Cox's mother, said: "Jo was an MP, a humanitarian, a wife, a sister and a daughter but most of all she was a mum and she would have been amazed at the birth unit.
"She knew how important it was to have units like this in our local community."
She also reminded staff at the hospital that both Mrs Cox and her sister, Kim, had been born there.
"This is my third visit and on the last two occasions we left with two amazing babies," Mrs Leadbeater said.
"Hopefully there won't be a third," she added, to much laughter.
Jules Preston, chairman of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust which runs the hospital, said: "When Jo came and cut the first turf it was always envisaged she would come back and open the place.
"To have that promise delivered through her parents and sister is just so gratifying."
State broadcaster CCTV reported that nearly 500 children developed serious illnesses, including blood abnormalities and cancer.
The cause was thought to be air, soil and water toxins at the school, which is near three former chemical plants.
But the authorities say repeated tests showed they met safety standards.
The Changzhou Foreign Language School relocated in September 2015 next to the former site of three toxic chemical plants. Changlong, the chemical company that operated at the site, had previously been fined for environmental violations.
Both the CCTV report and the local authorities in Jiangsu province say children started getting ill shortly after the move.
However, they disagree on how severely ill the students are.
The CCTV report said out of a total of 2,451 students, 641 had medical examinations and 493 were diagnosed with illnesses including bronchitis, dermatitis, lymphoma and leukaemia.
Local authorities, meanwhile, say ailments were reported after the move but they list them as skin allergy, cough, nose bleeding, vomiting, oral ulcers and lumps in the thyroid glands.
Changzhou authorities added on Tuesday that from 11 January to 29 February, 597 students went to hospital - 464 were normal and 133 had some abnormal indicators.
But authorities said the results fell within normal ranges.
They said: "We invited experts to analyse the test results. Experts say thyroid nodule could happen to any 13-15 year old teenagers, and the possibility is 7%. The reasons are: insufficient iodine intake, too much pressure, instinct immune deficiency, drug intake; or virus affection, or immune system disease."
No leukaemia case was found, Changzhou officials have said. Only one lymph cancer was found which was diagnosed in September 2015 before the school moved to the new site, they added.
CCTV's report triggered widespread media anger, and tens of thousands of people took to social media to demand that local authorities be held accountable.
China has faced many health scares before, and many people are sceptical about assurances they receive from the local authorities.
In October, there were allegations that a running track at another school, also in Changzhou, was poorly constructed and could contain toxins, with children complaining of nosebleeds and dizziness.
Weak retail sales data for April, along with poor earnings from US retailers such as Macy's and JC Penney, weighed on investor sentiment, sending the Dow Jones and S&P 500 lower.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 closed down 1% to 19,570.24, as the dollar weakened against the yen.
The dollar was buying 119.18 yen.
That compares with 119.83 yen in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Shares of car parts maker Takata were down 5.4% after Honda and Daihatsu said it was recalling over five million cars over potentially dangerous airbags made by the company.
It follows a recall 6.5 million more cars from Toyota and Nissan on Wednesday.
Bucking the trend were shares of camera maker Konica Minolta, which soared 12% after it announced a share buyback and dividend rise on solid earnings.
Meanwhile, Japanese electronics maker Sharp agreed a 200bn yen ($1.7bn; £1bn) bailout from banks, after announcing further losses and job cuts.
It is Sharp's second bailout in three years.
Chinese shares were lacklustre, with the Shanghai Composite closing up just 0.06% to 4,378.31, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed 0.14% higher at 27,286.55.
Hong Kong-listed shares of property developer China Vanke and Dalian Wanda jumped 1.9% and 3.1% respectively after they said the companies would form a partnership to acquire land and develop real estate projects together.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.3% to 5,696.60.
Shares of GrainCorp - the country's largest bulk grain handler - fell 2.5% after its half-year profit fell more than 40% because of dry weather.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index closed up 0.3% to to 2,120.33.
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The Welsh region dominated, but met with tough resistance before claiming a fourth try in the 50th minute.
Steff Evans, Aaron Shingler and Tom Williams claimed first-half tries with Tom Price, Will Boyde and a penalty try following after the break.
Mattia Bellini claimed Zebre's touchdown early in the match.
Fly-half Dan Jones was on target five times and Aled Thomas once as all six Scarlets tries were converted.
Evans was playing for the first time in four weeks after being released from the Wales Six Nations squad and caught the eye with a number of jinking runs.
But industrious second-row Tadhg Beirne was named man of the match after a tireless display.
Scarlets started like a team intent on the bonus point, but their high-risk policy was hampered by handling errors.
As a result they were leading by just seven points after a dominant opening 20 minutes with only Evans' 12th-minute touchdown to show for their territory and possession.
They were rocked when a sweet backs' move saw Bellini rock the home team with a touchdown for the visitors from a set-piece in the 24th minute.
But order was restored before the interval when Shingler - making his 150th appearance for the region - and Williams crossed to open a 14-point margin.
The Italian side remained stubborn until Price charged over from close range, with a penalty try from an attacking scrum and Boyde's opportunist score completing the scoring.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac: "We'll bank the five points first and foremost, job done in that respect and the other one was to get through without too many knocks and apart from Emyr Phillips we look okay.
"It wasn't pretty at times, in the first half we should have scored more points but we were happy to get that bonus point early in the second half.
"We definitely left a few out there, I think guys were definitely a bit over-eager at times, but the effort was there and I think Tadhg Beirne epitomised that."
Scarlets: Johnny McNicholl; Tom Williams, Steff Hughes, Hadleigh Parkes (capt), Steff Evans; Dan Jones, Jonathan Evans; Wyn Jones, Emyr Phillips, Werner Kruger, Tom Price, Tadhg Beirne, Aaron Shingler, James Davies, Will Boyde
Replacements: Owen for Parkes (55), A. Davies for J. Evans (40), Garrett for W. Jones (55), A. Thomas for Kruger (61), Macleod for Shingler (55).
Not Used: Elias, N. Thomas, T. Phillips.
Zebre: Kurt Baker; Mattia Bellini, Giulio Bisegni, Tommaso Boni, Lloys Greeff; Serafin Bordoli, Marcello Violi; Andrea De Marchi (capt), Tommaso D'Apice, Pietro Ceccarelli, Joshua Furno, Gideon Koegelenberg, Derick Minnie, Oliviero Fabiani, Federico Ruzza.
Replacements: Replacements: Berryman for Bisegni (65), Pratichetti for Boni (68), Palazzani for Bordoli (61), Postiglioni for De Marchi (60), Le Roux for Ceccarelli (56), Bernabo for Furno (41), Zanetti for Fabiani (51).
Not Used: Roan.
Sin Bin: Postiglioni (62).
Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU)
Assistant Referees: Sean Gallagher (IRFU), Simon Mills (WRU)
TMO: Kevin Beggs (IRFU)
Eve Muirhead's rink, who had topped the round robin with nine straight wins, defeated Anna Kubeskova's side 6-2.
Muirhead said: "We're delighted to take a medal, especially in our home place and in front of a home crowd."
Peter De Cruz's Switzerland edged out Alexey Timofeev's Russia 8-6 to take the men's bronze.
Sweden's Niklas Edin, the holder, takes on Norway's Thomas Ulsrid in the men's final on Saturday, while Victoria Moiseeva's reigning champions face Anna Hasselborg's Sweden in the women's final.
Moiseeva's rink, who finished third equal with the Czechs after the round robin, were never behind in a match against the Scots in which they scored threes at three ends.
Muirhead, who had earlier admitted that her side were simply "outplayed", conceded with two ends remaining and admits the Scots had to forget all about what might have been.
"It took a lot of resilience out there to bounce back from losing that semi-final," she told BBC Scotland, having been back on the ice at Braehead Arena less than three hours after losing to the Russians.
"To come out and win a bronze medal was tough, but we managed it and I'm really, really proud of the girls."
Anna Sloan, who missed much of this season as she recovered from knee surgery, admitted that the team were after the gold medal.
"We binned it after a quick chat," she said of the semi-final loss. "And we were determined not to go away without a medal here."
It was a seventh European medal for Scotland skip Muirhead, but it was a first for Lauren Gray, who joined the team at the start of this season.
"It feels amazing" she said. "It's a proud moment."
It was a tight match against the Czechs, who had reached the play-offs for the first time, with the Scots only 4-2 ahead at the seventh end before pulling away for victory.
Fourth team member Vicki Adams said: "We had good start to the game and we felt good going out there.
"We were relaxed and we always play well when we're relaxed."
In the men's event, Scotland had already missed out on the semi-finals but did secure a place at next year's World Championship.
Tom Brewster's rink finished sixth as Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Russia progressed.
Sweden overcame Russia 8-5 in the last four, while Norway beat Switzerland 7-4 in the other semi-final.
Round-robin standings: Sweden (8-1) Q, Norway, Switzerland, Russia Q (6-3), Germany, Scotland (4-5) Italy, Finland, Austria (3-6), Denmark (2-7)
Semi-finals: Sweden 8-5 Russia, Norway 7-4 Switzerland
Bronze medal game: Switzerland 8-6 Russia
Round-robin standings: Scotland (9-0) Q, Sweden (8-1) Q, Czech Republic, Russia (6-3) Q, Denmark (4-5), Switzerland (4-5)Germany (4-5), Italy (2-7), Norway, Finland (1-8)
Semi-finals: Russia 11-6 Scotland, Sweden 9-2 Czech Republic
Bronze medal game: Scotland 6-2 Czech Republic
The scrum-half scored the game's only try and was named man of the match as the Irish made it two wins from three.
"With the weather it was going to be difficult and we had a few chances which we did not convert," said Murray
"But we stuck in the fight and to win 19-9 is great and we are still in the hunt for this championship."
Murray added: "A win and nothing else would do this week and we have managed to do that.
"Johnny Sexton slotted back in really well and the 70-odd minutes he got will stand to him for the next two matches.
"The forward laid the foundation by getting into great positions.
"A win against France is always a good win.
"We have a week off to rest up and look at Wales, so we're still in the fight."
In a segment highlighting cyber-bullying in May, the 14-year-old swore in response to being asked what he said to people who were mean to him.
Ofcom said airing the swearword before the watershed was a breach of rules.
However as ITV followed compliance guidelines and immediately apologised, it considered the matter resolved.
ITV said it had protocols in place regarding language used on the lunchtime programme and guests are briefed before going on air.
The broadcaster added it considered "very carefully" whether Harvey - who is visually impaired, autistic and suffers from Prader-Willi syndrome - should appear in a pre-recorded interview, and production staff decided he could be interviewed live.
It said Price, who is also a panellist on the show, had told Harvey not to swear and rehearsed the questions prior to broadcast.
As he did not swear in rehearsal, the editorial team were therefore "satisfied that Harvey would deal with the interview well and did not anticipate the use of offensive language".
Ofcom noted the steps ITV had taken before transmission and said it took into account the programme was aimed at adults and aired during term time when the majority of children would be at school.
It said: "In light of all of these factors, Ofcom considered the matter resolved."
The assaults happened in Canmore Road and at the town's bus station in North Street just after midnight on Tuesday.
Two men, aged 22 and 38, suffered injuries to the head and body in the assaults.
The men who have been charged, both aged 21, are due to appear in Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on Wednesday. Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Councillors voted in favour of the Monks Cross scheme, which will include department stores together with a new ground for York City FC, on Thursday.
Development firm Centros said that decision threatened its £200m Castle Piccadilly scheme in the city centre.
Oakgate, the firm behind Monks Cross, said the two schemes could co-exist.
Steve Bryson, from Centros, said: "We are obviously very disappointed because of the impact on the city centre and how it affects our development.
"It impacts enough to make our scheme unfeasible."
The application could still be called in by the secretary of state, sparking a public inquiry, and Mr Bryson said Centros would wait to see if that happened before making a decision on the future of Castle Piccadilly.
Richard France, from Oakgate, said: "We are very, very delighted with the resounding cross party support the planning committee gave us."
He said he believed the retail sector in York was in a strong position and units in the Castle Piccadilly scheme would let quickly.
"As a developer I would be absolutely delighted with that sort of demand," he added.
"Our scheme will not affect the city centre. We are the only development that can provide a future stadium and that is very important."
Councillor James Alexander, Labour leader of City of York Council, said: "There will be some impact, there is no doubt about that, but us as a council need to make sure we do all that we can to invest in the city centre and put together a package for them.
"We have seen in the town centre retail is strong and it will continue to grow."
York City has argued the new 6,000-seat community stadium is essential for its survival.
Club chairman Jason McGill said: "I am absolutely over the moon, thrilled. It was the right decision for this city."
Tata Steel UK has operations in Port Talbot, Trostre, Shotton, Llanwern and Newport in Wales and Rotherham and Corby in England.
Here we look at the options for the industry.
This is the preferred outcome for everyone - if a buyer can be found.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid has said: "There are buyers out there", but no realistic candidate has put themselves forward.
It is hardly surprising. Tata invested £3bn into its UK operations and is still losing £1m a day as steel prices continue to fall.
Liberty House who are buying Tata's Lanarkshire plants have told the BBC that they are being "very cautious". It is actively looking for steel assets but largely in the "downstream" market - the manufacturing of steel products rather than the steel itself.
Greybull Capital, which specialises in turning around underperforming businesses is negotiating with Tata over the Scunthorpe works.
But Tata Steel UK is on a different scale. Greybull is considering a £400m investment in Scunthorpe, in contrast to the £2bn or more that is thought to be needed to restructure Tata Steel UK.
Even a temporary nationalisation of Tata Steel UK by a Conservative government would be astonishing. It seems an unlikely scenario.
Mr Cameron said on Thursday: "We are not ruling anything out. I don't believe nationalisation is the right answer."
Supporters of the idea say that that is precisely what the Labour government did during the financial crisis when it bailed out the banking system. Indeed Royal Bank of Scotland is still majority (58%) owned by the government.
Rules on the steel industry are fundamental to the European Union, dating back to the Treaty of Rome in 1957, but they do not prohibit nationalisation.
Under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Article 456 says: "The Treaties shall in no way prejudice the rules in Member States governing the system of property ownership".
The Article is usually seen as a way of facilitating privatisation, but could well be used to allow nationalisation as well.
Even so the government would have to convince the Commission that it is acting as a private investor, putting money in to increase profitability - not simply subsidising a loss-making business.
If faced with immediate closure there might be an option for the government to temporarily take ownership before selling it on.
Ministers have been unable to secure a promise from Tata over how long they will allow the plants to remain open.
The Scottish government temporarily nationalised Tata's Lanarkshire mills during the sale to Liberty, although ownership lasted only a matter of minutes, and was done for technical reasons at no cost to the tax payer.
Nationalisation of the business for the short-term might be politically more acceptable, but the government would have to absorb all the costs.
It would also run into problems with EU rules on state aid.
The government was allowed to step in and help the banking system during the 2008 crisis because its failure threatened the economic security of the country.
The same cannot be said of the steel industry.
There are other ways the government might support the steel business if no buyer comes forward soon.
One option being considered by ministers is to "mothball" the blast furnace at Port Talbot.
It is thought this would cost between £10m-£20m a month and would also involve laying off most of the workforce.
Another option, thought to have been part of a package put to the Tata board earlier this week, involves a buy-out by managers and staff at Port Talbot.
While Tata called the plan "unaffordable" it might work with the help of government loans or loan guarantees, similar to the ones being considered in the sale of Scunthorpe to Greybull.
Again the EU rules restrict what the government can do to help.
The European Commission in the past has ordered the recovery of illegal state aid in the steel industry from Belgium, Germany, Italy and Poland.
For instance, the Commission is investigating Italy's third largest steelmaker Ilva, which was given €2bn in government support supposedly to help it comply with emissions and environmental standards. Rivals claim the money is being illegally used to modernise its plant and increase capacity.
The European Commission told the BBC: "EU rules do not allow rescue or restructuring aid such as emergency loans or government guarantees on loans to steel manufacturers in financial difficulties.
"This is because of past experience and taking into account the features of the EU steel industry, in particular its overcapacity."
This is the option no one wants, and which everyone fears.
The knock-on effects of a closure would be considerable. The IPPR think tank has estimated that while 15,000 jobs at Tata UK would go there are another 25,000 in the supply chain that would also be at risk, although it says that some of these are not in the UK.
The impact on the Port Talbot area where Tata Steel UK employs some 5,500 workers would be disastrous.
It would come on top of a steady flow of steel job losses: Redcar steel plant, owned by Thai company SSI, closed last year taking with it 1,700 jobs. Port Talbot itself announced 1,000 job losses in January.
Home strikers Graham Cummins, scorer of the game's only goal, and Chris Kane were the offenders against Hearts.
"It's not something I want, but it's quite ironic that it happens this week," Wright told BBC Scotland.
"If I think that the referee is spot on, the players will be fined. That's what we do here."
Hearts had Jamie Walker banned for diving against Celtic earlier in the season.
And last week Sam Nicholson won a penalty against Hamilton Accies and also successfully appealed against a booking for simulation received by Tony Watt.
Wright had said ahead of the arrival of the side sitting second in the Scottish Premiership that he would be working on his side "being disciplined in the final third" and that "certain teams and players go down too easily".
"We've won 1-0 and won 2-0 in the simulation stakes," he joked after the game against Hearts.
"I'll look at it. I've seen Graham Cummins, I've spoken to the referee about it.
"He said there is contact but he exaggerated the contact on him.
"We'll take it on the chin and the players will have to take it on the chin."
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson had insisted before the game that his players won a higher share of awards because they were an attacking side.
"I'll stay quiet about this," he told BBC Scotland after the defeat by St Johnstone. "I don't like doing my talking in the media.
"It is up to other people to deal with their teams."
Neilson was ordered from the field of play during the second half at McDiarmid Park.
"I got sent to the stand for clapping a delivery into the box that I thought was really good," he insisted.
"The fourth official thought I was clapping sarcastically at the referee, so I think he's got his wires crossed a wee bit and saw something different to what happened.
"There was no swearing, there was no shouting, but's that's football - you'll have days when you clap a delivery and they'll pat you on the back and days when they'll put you to the stand.
"It was actually the fourth official - the referee had nothing to do with it."
Extremus Dog Training in St Clears works with charity Animals Saving Animals in the conservation effort.
It has seven dogs in Africa and is training puppies Badak, Murwi and Diego to join them.
Director Darren Priddle said: "Dogs are a massively-important part of conservation - they offer a very good visual and physical deterrent."
After 12 months of training in Wales, dogs get further training in Africa with Animals Saving Animals, which works with conservation rangers.
The dogs wear body armour to help protect them from armed poachers and Mr Priddle said no dogs have been injured or killed on duty.
To help prepare them for the unfamiliar wildlife they will encounter, dogs are taken to nearby Folly Farm where they get to see and smell lions, rhinos and giraffes so they are not surprised once they arrive in Africa.
The animals are trained to direct wardens towards poachers. If an elephant or rhino carcass is found, the dogs sniff the scene to pick up a scent.
They can also detect gunpowder and ammunition as criminals often leave a stockpile of weapons to return to.
Mr Priddle, who runs Extremus with partner Jacqui Law, said: "Above and beyond anything, it's a massive thing that humanity across the world has to look at because in 10-15 years you are going to have a potential extinction-level event of Africa's rhinos and elephants and that is a major issue we all have the ability to help stop."
Two dogs, Belgian Malinois Rogue and Polaris, recently tracked a team of poachers in Zimbabwe who promptly fled, leaving a behind a cache of weapons the animals found.
Mr Priddle said he was "massively proud" of the part they played in conservation.
Once out on patrol, the dogs can cover nearly 10 miles (16km) before they need a break and Mr Priddle said they can hit a top speed of more than 30mph (50km/h) when pursuing a target.
"I would imagine 99.9% of poachers are going to, upon sight of the dogs, instantly give up," he added.
"In the interest of their own personal safety it's not going to be beneficial for them to try and outrun one of the anti-poaching dogs. There is no chance a poacher is going to outrun one of these dogs."
This video of Planet Earth was acquired by TechDemoSat-1 (TDS-1) just moments after being released by its launch rocket high above the Pacific.
It is thought to be the first such movie ever captured by a wholly British-built spacecraft.
TechDemoSat - funded part by government and part by manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) - is a testbed for spacecraft systems.
The idea is that it proves technologies so that they can then be sold to other companies and space agencies around the world for their missions.
The low-cost camera that took this video incorporates all "off the shelf" components.
SSTL envisages it being used on future spacecraft to monitor any systems on a satellite that move, including deployable structures such as solar panels.
In this particular application, the lens is trained on the satellite's antenna pointing mechanism.
At the end of TechDemoSat's life, the 157kg platform will put out a large "drag sail" to help speed its return to Earth, ensuring it is not left littering the space environment.
Engineers hope to be able to see the edge of this sail structure in the field of view, also.
"In the future, we see such cameras becoming a standard on spacecraft so that you can see precisely what's happening," explained Luis Gomes, director of Earth Observation and Science at SSTL.
TDS-1 was launched on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on 8 July.
The video begins in darkness about 30 seconds after the platform has come off the rocket's Fregat upper-stage.
The satellite is tumbling at this stage. Controllers must work over the following hours to put TDS-1 in a stable, spinning configuration.
First into view is the Sun - a white flare with a black dot at the centre where the image is saturated by the intensity of the light. Then comes the Earth - clouds hovering above the ocean, south of French Polynesia.
Watch for the gold-coloured object that moves from left to right roughly two-thirds of the way through the sequence.
This is the Fregat stage at a distance of about 60m. Very quickly, it is followed by a white dot, which is very likely one of the other six satellites launched on the same flight.
Public funding for TDS-1 - about £7m - came mostly from the government's Technology Strategy Board. SSTL then matched the finance.
Ministers view satellites as one of the "eight great technologies" that can help re-balance the British economy.
The government is also putting money into another small satellite to be built by SSTL called NovaSAR.
This will be a radar spacecraft, which will be able to view the Earth through all weathers. Surrey hopes to expand its export business with this new platform.
Key elements of the radar instrument are being de-risked by being tested on TDS-1.
"The altimeter on TDS-1 uses the same 'front end' and part of the antenna that will be used on NovaSar. It uses the same amplifier technology, the same receiver technology. We'll exercise them to get the heritage and confidence that goes with that," said Mr Gomes.
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Nathan Gill told BBC Radio Wales it would make people "feel more inclusive about Britain" and that their British roots were just as important to them.
However, Saleem Kidwai, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Wales, said 99% of sermons were in English.
He said the rest were all simultaneously translated.
Mr Gill told the Jason Mohammad programme that imams preaching in mosques should help Muslims feel "that their British roots are just as important to their religion as being instructed through a different language which not all of them fully understand".
"It would also enable families and people to know what is actually really being said to people about their faith so they can challenge it," he added.
"I would be very surprised if there was an entire congregation that didn't speak a word of English, and they should be learning English or Welsh if they live here in Wales."
Mr Kidwai dismissed the suggestion that Welsh mosques were not helping to promote integration, adding that very few Muslims in Wales did not understand English.
"For religious reasons our prayers are said in Arabic, but 99% of sermons are given in English. In some cases where they are given in a language like Bengali or Urdu, there is a simultaneous translation.
"People are making the effort to integrate by learning English - they may not be very articulate but they can get things done."
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To say that Downing Street is cross is an understatement. They are furious at the story emerging, not just because the claims in it are embarrassing and attack the prime minister's style, but because they say the document was not written by anyone with a real understanding of what's going on, but by a consultant, thought to be from the firm Deloitte, whose analysis was part of a pitch for work.
The Times disputes that, saying that senior civil servants were in fact also involved.
But whoever is right, the document does matter because it underlines what we have reported and others have written about many times.
Five months after the referendum, the cabinet is struggling to agree a common position on what "Brexit means Brexit" really means.
There is a range of opinion around the table, and a vast amount of work has been commissioned across government to help settle on a view. The Department that's working on the plan, DEXEU, (or Dexit as it's easier to call it if we can get it to catch on) has commissioned 51 different studies of different parts of the economy to 'help'.
But as a senior source suggested this week "they just don't know" what they are going to do - the "whole thing is a frightful mess".
Information is piling up, decisions are not. And with a very small majority in the Commons, ministers are worried about losing the arguments and trying to avoid big confrontations.
The prime minister's holding position of "Brexit means Brexit" is coming under real pressure now.
Downing Street was always aware that it couldn't last. But while there is an expectation that the PM might fill in some more of the blanks in a speech at the CBI next week, there is little public sign that the government is actually any closer to any conclusions.
Until that changes they will be vulnerable to the charges laid out in the memo, whoever its author, and the charges of "chaos" from the opposition.
Families had expressed concerns that they would not be given a free copy of the 12-volume report, due on 6 July.
However, Number 10 said: "There is no question of families of service personnel who died in Iraq having to pay for copies of the Chilcot report."
Next-of-kin were due to get a free hard copy of the £30 executive summary.
What is the Iraq inquiry for?
Timeline of key inquiry moments
But relatives, who have been waiting seven years for the long-awaited publication, had reacted angrily to the news that they would not get a free hard copy of the full report, which will be free online.
Earlier, Roger Bacon, whose son was killed in Iraq, told the Telegraph it was "ridiculous and very unfair".
"Where do they think the families are going to get the funds from to do that? This is big money for most people. We are not corporations or government organisations, we are ordinary people," he said.
"To be expected to pay that amount of money for a report that has had an enormous effect on all of us is really not on.
"To deal with something like this you need to have something you can hold and read. It is offensive to expect us to cough up that amount of money."
Rose Gentle, whose son Fusilier Gordon Gentle was killed in a bomb attack in Basra in 2004, aged 19, told the Press Association news agency it was "disgusting".
"Why should we have to pay - have we not paid enough times with the lives of our sons?" Mrs Gentle, from Glasgow, said.
"The families should get a free copy of this, we have paid the cost with their deaths...
"Why doesn't Tony Blair say 'I will pay for it', because he has got enough money."
Families have also been invited to attend inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot's public statement when the report is published and will be able to read an embargoed copy.
The inquiry was announced by former prime minister Gordon Brown in June 2009. The last public hearing took place in February 2011.
There are a number of reasons why it has dragged out so long.
But the main reason for the delay was the long tussle between the inquiry and the government over which classified material could be published alongside the report, or referred to in it.
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Shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry said it was "beyond insulting" that families of the bereaved would have to pay for a hard copy of the full version.
She said: "In the great scheme of things this is not a great deal of money and we have expected these brave men and women to put their lives on the line for our country.
"The least we could do is to give their families a proper full report."
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said he had written to the Ministry of Defence asking that free hard copies of the report be made available to the families on request.
He said: "It is unbelievable that after all these years of waiting, of stalling and uncertainty, we now find out that the families will have to pay for a copy of the report.
"Families who have waited years, mothers and fathers who have fought to have this report see the light of day, should not have to pay for this."
The inquiry was set up in 2009 by then prime minister Gordon Brown to examine the lead-up to the invasion, from the summer of 2001 up until the withdrawal of the main body of British troops.
The report's long-awaited publication follows 130 sessions of oral evidence, the testimony of more than 150 witnesses and is more than 2.5 million words long.
The inquiry has analysed more than 150,000 government documents as well as other material related to the invasion.
Police say they think it was a bomb dropped on Birmingham during the Second World War but that didn't explode at the time.
It was found on a building site.
BOMB FACTS
Don't worry though - it was a controlled explosion carried out by the police, to make it safe.
People living nearby were moved to safe areas to make sure that no one would be hurt.
The bomb disposal team said 13 lorry-loads of sand had been brought in to create an igloo or cave around the 250kg bomb before experts set it off.
Birmingham is a major industrial city and lots of tanks, guns and bullets for the war were made there.
On 19 November 1940, the German air force attacked the city very heavily.
Historians think this bomb could have been dropped that night, or on 20 November 1940, when a road nearby was destroyed by a bomb.
Ghana fans massed behind a goal after 82 minutes of the game to seek refuge from missiles being thrown at them.
Bottles rained down as police battled to gain control, while a helicopter hovered over the stadium.
Play resumed for just three minutes as Ghana completed a 3-0 win to reach Sunday's final against Ivory Coast.
The Black Stars had taken a 2-0 lead into half-time, having opened the scoring when Jordan Ayew dispatched a penalty after Kwesi Appiah had been fouled by keeper Felipe Ovono.
They doubled their lead when Mubarak Wakaso drilled home following a counter-attack.
At the end of the first period, crowd unrest was already evident, with the Ghana players shielded by police in riot gear as they left the pitch.
Then, after Andre Ayew had tapped in Ghana's third on 75 minutes and with only eight minutes left, the focus turned to their fans, who left the stands to seek safety behind one of the goals.
Play was stopped as bottles continued to be thrown by the home supporters, littering the running track around the pitch. Chairs were also thrown after being ripped from the stands.
With Equatorial Guinea only stepping in as replacement hosts in November, there were plenty of concerns about preparations and security before the tournament began.
Two quarter-finals were then moved from Ebebiyin and Mongomo amid reported fears of potential crowd issues, although the Confederation of African Football blamed the poor state of the pitches.
When police moved in to try to restore order in Malabo, it took a considerable amount of time before the Ghana fans were safely escorted from the stadium.
There were doubts about the match resuming, with officials locked in discussions at the side of the pitch as the players remained on it.
Once the field was cleared of objects, the match restarted, only for the referee to bring the game to an end three minutes later.
The event promised to bring some big name artists to the city.
MTV is one of the world's most valuable brands with a reach into over 400 million homes.
It had been in discussion with the council to hold a mini festival in the city this autumn, with the council keen to promote the event to showcase Belfast to a worldwide audience.
But now the council says it will not be happening.
A spokesperson said: "The MTV gig planned for September is not going ahead due to a number of other competing musical events during the same month."
Councillors had agreed to financially underwrite the cost of the two day music event up to a maximum of £300,000.
Ulster Unionist councillor David Browne said he opposed the use of ratepayers money for such events.
"I feel that the council is sometimes very generous with incentives to bring some of these things to Belfast and £300,000 to me is a lot of money that could have went somewhere more important and much more deserving," he said.
"I will not be losing any sleep over the fact that this concert has been cancelled."
SDLP councillor Patrick Convery, who was deputy lord mayor of Belfast the last time MTV came to Belfast in 2011, said the timing of the event was unfortunate.
"All of these opportunities that come up from MTV, they give us a chance to promote and sell our city internationally, both across Europe and across the world," he said.
"However, when our team of events organisers looked at this, there were a whole load of other events happening in the city around about the same time so scheduling was a very important thing.
"You just can't put all of the events on in one month."
The game falls outside World Rugby's Test window, which contravenes English Premiership rules.
But Northampton wing North and Harlequins centre Roberts - plus Wales' other England-based players - can play.
Premiership Rugby stressed its "gesture of flexibility" is a one-off.
"This comes as we continue deliberations on a new post-2019 global season structure to find an appropriate balance between club and international rugby," said a Premiership Rugby spokesman.
"We are showing flexibility to help a number of unions who have decided to play on this particular weekend but we must stress this is a one-off variation to the allowed window while discussions continue."
Bath number eight Taulupe Faletau would also be available to face Australia, but a knee injury means he is unlikely to play until the latter half of November.
All three players were included in Wales' squad for the autumn Tests.
Wales coach Rob Howley previously said North, Roberts and Faletau had informed him they were available to face Australia.
The Welsh Rugby Union had not had "formal conversations with any of the English clubs" at that point, but Premiership Rugby's change of stance appears to have resolved a long-running issue.
Northampton paid a fine of £60,000 in 2013 after their wing North played for Wales against Australia in a match which took place outside of the international window.
North had agreed a three-year contract whereby he would be available for all Wales games, but the 24-year-old has since signed a new deal.
Centre Roberts, meanwhile, is in the second year of his Harlequins contract.
Faletau's inclusion, along with Roberts and North as the three wildcards under the Welsh Rugby Union's senior player selection policy, meant that Bath fly-half Rhys Priestland missed out.
Only three players who have signed new contracts outside Wales can be included in any squad.
Japan-based lock Dominic Day and scrum-half Rhodri Williams are the others affected by the rule.
However, Gloucester's Ross Moriarty, Luke Charteris of Bath and Exeter's Tomas Francis are not affected by the selection policy, and Premiership Rugby's decision means they can all now play against Australia.
The Spanish football club are valued at £2.08bn, with American football side Dallas Cowboys and baseball's New York Yankees (£2.04bn) in joint second.
Real's La Liga rivals Barcelona (£2.02bn) are fourth.
Premier League club Manchester United (£1.98bn) drop from third to fifth.
The other places in the top 10 are taken by American sports teams: NBA pair Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks, NFL sides New England Patriots and Washington Redskins and MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers.
Of the other Premier League sides, Manchester City (£890m) are 29th overall, two places ahead of Chelsea (£877m), with Arsenal 36th having been valued at £839m.
According to Forbes, the average current value of a team on the list is £1.12bn, which is the highest ever, and a 31% increase from last year.
Concern has been rising over potential conflicts of interest between the government and the Trump Organization and particularly the organisation's dealing with foreign governments.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Mr Trump appeared to take steps to downplay those concerns saying in part, "I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country."
During the campaign the President-elect regularly touted his business skills. He spent an estimated $50m (£40m) of his own money to finance his presidential run.
So far Mr Trump has not provided details of how the "total" split will take place and who will then take control of his business. But his tweets did announce he would hold a press conference with his children on 15 December to discuss the matter.
Mr Trump said on the campaign trail and after his election that he planned to pass control of Trump Organization to his three adult children - Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric.
Passing control of the Trump Organization to his family hasn't eliminated concerns about potential conflicts of interest, or about Mr Trump's ability to enrich himself through the presidency.
The Trump Organization is a wide-ranging, international business. It is privately held and thus not required to disclose everything it owns.
But some of Mr Trump's holdings are well known.
Campaign financial disclosure showed he makes much of his money from golf courses, including two he owns in Scotland. The Trump Organization made an estimated $193m from golf-related income in 2014.
The Trump Organization also earns income by licensing the Trump name to building developers around the world, including in Turkey, India and Panama.
There's also a variety of real estate holdings: ownerships or investments in hotels, offices and residential buildings.
Mr Trump's refusal to release his tax returns, another source of information about how he makes money, means his business dealings are still largely opaque.
His firm also owes large debts. An investigation by the New York Times found Mr Trump's businesses owed at least $650m (£522m), some to the Bank of China and Deutsche Bank.
His daughter Ivanka runs a clothing line and jewellery brand, in addition to her position at the Trump Organization.
Her husband, Jared Kushner, owns the New York Observer newspaper and is a real estate developer. Eric and Donald Jr are both executive vice presidents at the Trump Organization.
As president, Mr Trump will also technically be allowed to run his business.
The US has conflict of interest laws that specifically prevent government employees, such as the White House staff, from having these types of business ties, but they do not apply to the president or vice-president.
That doesn't mean Mr Trump will not run the risk of violating US law by continuing to profit from the Trump Organization while in charge of the country.
There are several opportunities for conflict.
Mr Trump's hotel in Las Vegas has a current dispute with a hotel workers' union. In November, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled against the Trump Organization and ordered it to negotiate with the union.
The firm has appealed against this decision, and the case will go to district court, where a justice department lawyer will argue against the Trump Organization.
Starting in January, Mr Trump will have the ability to fill two empty spots on the NLRB. The head of the justice department, the attorney general, is also nominated by the president.
Mr Trump also holds a lease with the General Services Administration (GSA) for his hotel in Washington, another agency with a politically-appointed leader.
Mr Trump's overseas business interests invite questions of whether his foreign policy decisions are directed by US interests or by his own business interests.
A section of the US Constitution known as the Emoluments Clause restricts what US presidents can accept from foreign governments.
The clause says "no person holding any office of profit or trust" may accept "any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state".
America's founding fathers included this to prevent US leaders from being beholden to foreign governments.
If the Trump Organization accepts special deals, such as tax breaks or land rights overseas, it could run foul of the clause. Even overseas profits could be viewed as a violation.
Looming Trump Organization deals have already raised questions. After Mr Trump was elected in early November he spoke over the phone with Argentinian President, Mauricio Macri. After that call the company issued a press release indicating Trump Tower Buenos Aires - which had been waiting permit approval to be built - was a done deal.
Meetings with Indian business partners and current projects in places like the Philippines and Brazil are also raising questions about what the power of the Presidency could do for the Trump brand's international negotiating power.
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If Mr Trump did violate the Emoluments Clause, Congress could take action by impeaching him.
The process allows Congress to bring a charge and launch a trial against a president.
If a president were found to be guilty, he would be removed from office, immediately.
According to the Constitution, "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours" are all reasons for impeachment, giving Congress a great deal of flexibility.
But as Republicans will now control both the House and Senate, a portion of Mr Trump's own party would have to vote for such a process.
On the campaign trail, Mr Trump promised to set up a blind trust controlled by his children.
A blind trust is a fund that has been set up with the express purpose of separating a person from knowledge of how their money is being invested.
The person setting up the trust turns over control of their assets to an independent financial adviser - keeping the trust's owner "blind".
The owner can also sell their stocks or bonds before giving the money to the adviser to reinvest, adding another layer of separation from knowledge of how their money is invested.
The first president to set up a blind trust was Lyndon Johnson in 1963.
Since then, most presidents have opted to create blind trusts when they enter the White House to remove any conflicts of interest.
President Barack Obama did not create a blind trust, but instead invested in mutual funds and other broad financial instruments he could not control.
For Mr Trump, it would be impossible to set up a "blind trust" for a business conglomerate helmed by his own children, especially ones who have been playing an active role in his transition.
Ivanka Trump has been involved with meetings and phone calls with world leaders. Her husband is trying to find a way around nepotism laws that prevent him from working in the White House.
If Ms Trump were running the company, her father - and potentially her husband - would have insider information about the government's plans.
Not much.
"The law is totally on my side," Mr Trump told the New York Times recently. "The president can't have a conflict of interest." Still, he told the Times he was eager to avoid any conflicts.
Earlier, he tweeted: "Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world. Only the crooked media makes this a big deal!"
Mr Trump has also been reluctant to sell off his assets, telling the Times: "That's a very hard thing to do, you know what, because I have real estate... selling real estate isn't like selling stock."
Even if he handed over control of the business to independent management, there are still issues with fully separating himself because of the nature of the business.
Mr Trump's main asset is his brand. It will be easy for him to see just how well Trump hotels or golf courses are doing - including his newest hotel in Washington, just a few streets away from the White House.
Mr Trump's potential conflicts of interest if he became president were well-documented before election day.
Mr Trump becomes president of the United States on 20 January. He has until then to sort out how he will manage his assets to avoid such conflicts.
So far, Mr Trump has shown little concern for avoiding these pitfalls.
He met Indian business partners developing a Trump-branded project in western India, just a week after the election.
He also allegedly asked Ukip's Nigel Farage, to oppose building wind farms near his golf course in Scotland, because Mr Trump believes it will lower the course's prestige.
A key promise of Mr Trump's campaign was "draining the swamp" or eliminating the ties between big business and government in Washington.
If Mr Trump really means that he could start with his own.
Additional reporting by Taylor Kate Brown
World champion Armitstead formed part of a three-rider breakaway, but the pack recovered late on for Dutch rider Wild, 33, to clinch a sprint finish.
Wiggle High5's Garner, 21, was second - the first of five British riders in the top 10, with Floortje Mackaij third.
Stage two of the men's race will follow on the same 136km route.
LIVE: Tour de Yorkshire - stage two
Wild will collect £15,000 for winning the one-day women's race - more than the winner of the men's race and £14,000 more than 2015 champion Louise Mahe.
ITV4 was unable to broadcast the race live as scheduled because of technical issues with the aircraft that relays the pictures.
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The Tour departed from 27-year-old Armitstead's home town of Otley, but it was Switzerland's Doris Schweizer who led by more than two minutes heading into the final climb at Conisbrough.
The Cylance Pro Cycling rider was reeled in by Armitstead and Canada's Leah Kirchmann, with the trio then opening up a lead of more than a minute with around 15km remaining.
However, the peloton gradually closed the gap as the finish in Doncaster neared, allowing Team Hitec Products' Wild to make a move in a sprint on the final straight and pip Garner by a bike-length.
Armitstead finished in a bunch awarded the same time as Wild, but placed 26th - one behind Britain's 2012 Olympic gold medallist Danielle King.
"The start was brilliant," said Armitstead. "I had a couple of bike problems to begin with which was difficult but it was a goose pimple moment for me at the beginning to be supported by my community.
"It's not something I ever thought would happen to me - to start a race in my home town and as world champion - both are a surprise and a bonus."
Women's Tour de Yorkshire 2016
1. Kirsten Wild (Ned) Hitec Products3hrs 22mins 26secs
2. Lucy Garner (GB) Wiggle High5 same time
3. Floortje Mackaij (Ned) Team Liv-Plantur
4. Marta Bastianelli (Ita) Ale'Cippolin
5. Alice Barnes (GB) Great Britain
6. Anna Trevisi (Ita) Ale'Cippolin
7. Jennifer George (GB) Drops Cycling Team
8. Nicola Juniper (GB) Team Ford Ecoboost
9. Nicole Moerig (Aus) Podium Ambition p/b Club La Santa
10. Evie Richards (GB) Great Britain
Selected others:
25. Danielle King (GB) Wiggle High5 same time
26. Lizzie Armitstead (GB) Great Britain
Two cars were destroyed after they were set on fire and other vehicles were damaged by stones and paint.
The trouble followed the removal of material gathered by republican youths for an anti-internment bonfire.
Officers in riot gear have since been deployed to the area and number of police Land Rovers remain at the scene.
Bonfires are traditionally lit in some republican areas to mark the anniversary of the introduction of interment - detention without trial - on 9 August 1971.
Supt Andrea McMullan said: "Police are dealing with some localised disorder in the Friendly Street area of the Markets, which has been caused by a small group of youths.
"We are working with local representatives and members of the community to address the situation.
"There has been some stone throwing, damage to parked cars and a number of petrol bombs have also been thrown."
One man, who told the BBC he had been parking in the area for about a year, said he found his car burned out when he finished work.
He said police could not tell him what happened, only that they had found the car burned out.
The man, who did not want to be identified, said he felt "frustrated" and would now have to buy a new car.
Local Sinn Féin councillor Deirdre Hargey condemned the attacks as "nothing short of mindless vandalism".
"Both commuters and residents have been affected," she said.
"Cars have been smashed with stones and several have been set alight."
"Over the weekend there were a series of incidents of vandalism in the Market area.
"There is no defending this behaviour at all and it needs to stop now."
Alliance councillor Emmet McDonough Brown also condemned the attacks.
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Ms Hargey asked parents to take responsibility for their children and know where they were at all times.
"The community, both young and old, have been involved in a positive community festival over the last few days and those involved in this negative behaviour damage the good reputation of this community," she said.
In her statement, Supt McMullan said: "Local residents of the Markets do not want this kind of activity on their doorsteps and we would urge those engaged in violence and criminal damage to stop - and go home."
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the bank was looking to normalise its policies, neither boosting or limiting economic activity.
But a key bank interest rate would not have to rise "all that much further" to reach that neutral level, she said.
She also said she expected further increases over the next few years.
Ms Yellen was reporting to members of Congress about bank policy and the economic outlook.
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The US jobs market has strengthened and inflation is expected to rise toward the Federal reserve's 2% target, she said. The global economy has also improved, although economic challenges remain, she added.
She said the Fed was committed to relying primarily on interest rates as its key policy tool and noted that many of her colleagues thought one further rate increase would be warranted this year.
But interest rates - which increase the cost of borrowing for individuals and businesses - are unlikely to rise to levels that were once common, she said.
"The Committee continues to anticipate that the longer-run neutral level of the federal funds rate is likely to remain below levels that prevailed in previous decades," she said in prepared remarks to Congress on Wednesday.
The Federal Reserve has pursued gradual interest rate increases in recent years, after lowering them to boost economic activity amid the financial crisis.
US stocks rose after Ms Yellen's testimony was published - with the exception of those in the financial sector, which typically benefit from higher interest rates.
Supt Andrew Carr, 47, currently suspended from his job at Wiltshire Police, appeared before magistrates earlier.
The 11 charges relate to his role as treasurer for the 7th Swindon Scouts and Orchid Vale PTA in Swindon between January 2014 and September 2015.
Mr Carr has been bailed to next appear at Bournemouth Crown Court on 26 May.
He was charged with four counts of fraud relating to the scouts and PTA where the proceeds of various fundraising events were not paid into bank accounts as required.
Another two counts of theft relate to falsifying documents for accounting purposes and five counts of forgery relate to writing out cheques in another person's name.
A 12th charge of forgery has since been withdrawn by the prosecution.
In October 2015 the matter was referred to the police watchdog, the IPCC and an independent investigation was undertaken by Dorset Police.
Grant Broster, 56, from Guildford, was on his family's kayak last Monday when it capsized in front of his son Max.
The volunteer search crews have worked from "sun up to sun down" to find him, the family said on a fundraising page.
Surrey Search & Rescue said it was "grateful and humbled" by the family's words and actions.
The family has raised more than £2,000 so far.
Alongside the donations are tributes which refer to Mr Broster as an "inspiration" and "a lovely, kind man who will be missed."
On the Just Giving page, set up by Emma Leach, the family reveal how Grant's son Max and the family dog Joey jumped into the fast-flowing river in an attempt to help him.
"They were unable to reach him and were both pulled to safety by the kindest people who live at the scene," it adds.
Search crews mobilised helicopters, drones, sonar, dogs and divers, leaving "no stone unturned", the family said.
Despite extensive searches, Mr Broster has not been found.
The family said the "professional dedication" of the voluntary emergency services was "humbling and extraordinary".
"We, Grant's family, are eternally grateful to them and we would like to give something back," they add.
Surrey Search & Rescue said it was "grateful and humbled by this act of kindness" from the family "especially at such a difficult time for them".
It added: "This makes such a vast difference to us and helps us do all we can to look after our local community when in need."
Mrs Foster said that she hopes that talks on a Tory-DUP arrangement will conclude as soon as possible.
She said it should be no surprise that the DUP wants a reference to the devolution of Corporation Tax in the deal.
The Stormont Executive has long aspired to reduce its Corporation Tax rate.
Previous Northern Ireland executives have wanted to bring it down to 12.5% to match the corresponding rate in the Irish Republic.
Previously, the Treasury has argued that Stormont would need to pay for such a move by taking a cut to its block grant from London of several hundred million pounds a year.
However, Mrs Foster told the BBC's Inside Politics programme that her party wants to explore whether that remains the case because, in the light of Brexit, they argue that European Union (EU) state aid rules should no longer apply.
The DUP leader believes there is "a very good chance" of devolution being restored at Stormont.
She pointed out that the DUP had just achieved its greatest ever election result and said the party would not countenance anything regarding Sinn Féin deciding who the DUP's nominee for first minister should be.
On abortion, Mrs Foster said there is a broad swathe of consensus that the 1967 Act should not apply to Northern Ireland.
However, she said her party would go back and look at an expert report on the issue of fatal foetal abnormality which is understood to recommend legal changes.
The DUP leader noted that her party no longer has the numbers on its own to launch a petition of concern in the Stormont Assembly blocking same-sex marriage.
Asked if it would no longer seek such a veto, Mrs Foster said she would not tie her party down in relation to that matter and discussions about the Petition of Concern system were continuing between the parties.
Questioned about the DUP's relationship with loyalist paramilitaries, Mrs Foster said her party had never sought any endorsement from any group.
She repeated that she would have "no truck" with anyone engaged in paramilitarism or criminality.
Asked about the political rollercoaster which has seen her removed from office as first minister then become the Kingmaker at Westminster, Mrs Foster said she had been kept going by the support of ordinary people.
She said the mark of any politician is how they stay the course when things are tough.
On Brexit, the DUP leader said she believes high tech equipment to monitor goods crossing the Irish border will be ready in time for the UK's departure from the EU. She said developing such a capacity would involve cooperation between the private and public sectors.
Asked what she meant by a "sensible" Brexit, Mrs Foster said her party is talking to Northern Ireland's ports to see how they think trade should be handled.
Noting that 73% of goods coming through Belfast port are going to or coming from Great Britain, Mrs Foster said one thing which would not work would be a border down the middle of the Irish Sea.
Willett, who played the final round with new Open champion Zach Johnson, beat his previous best of a tie for 15th at Muirfield in 2013.
Rose recorded his best Open finish as a professional, but picked up just three birdies in a two-under final day 70.
"I needed another gear that I couldn't quite get today," Rose told BBC Sport.
He has still never done better than the fourth place he achieved as an amateur at Royal Birkdale in 1998, when he memorably holed his pitch on the last.
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Rose, Willett, Spain's Sergio Garcia and American amateur Jordan Niebrugge finished on 11-under - four shots outside the four-hole three-man play-off between Johnson, 2010 St Andrews champion Louis Oosthuizen and Australian outsider Marc Leishman.
"It was one of those days when everybody else was making birdies but I just didn't feel that easy on the front nine," added 37-year-old Rose, who had gambled on a change of putter. "It felt hard to get the ball closer than 15 or 20 feet.
"It's still a special place to be on the final day of an Open. It's an amazing finishing hole. I said to my caddie Fooch (Mark Fulcher) walking over the Swilcan Bridge 'This is as good as it gets'.
"Obviously we were playing just for places and pride, but it still gets the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up and your heart rate going one or two beats faster."
Yorkshireman Willett, 27, told BBC Radio Sheffield: "My game felt good this week and it felt great to perform.
"I'd loved to have won but I'm very pleased for Zach. I've played with him a few times and he's a great guy. We kept each other relatively calm on a very tricky day.
"The wedge game he put on today was almost perfect. Anything inside 100 yards and he was lethal. And, as for that last putt of his on 18, I gave him a bit of a read on that, so I'll be expecting a bit of a present in the post."
Of the other home contenders, 40-year-old Londoner Anthony Wall and Shropshire amateur Ashley Chester both flirted with the lead after dazzling front nines.
They ended up in a tie for 12th on nine under alongside Ryder Cup player Luke Donald, who once again enjoyed a good final round at an Open.
The Hemel Hempstead-born former Bucks/Berks & Oxfordshire amateur shot a closing 68 - to match the score he shot on day one - lifting him four places back up the Official World Golf Rankings to 60th.
Oxfordshire's Eddie Pepperell, who began the final day four shots back, fell away with a 76.
They were flown home from Mexico where he had lived for years and where he died in 2014 at the age of 87.
A ceremony was held in the cloisters of Cartagena University, near Garcia Marquez's family home in the city.
He is best known for his magic realist novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera."
A bronze bust of the writer was unveiled by the writer's son Rodrigo Garcia Barcha in the centre of the cloisters of the university as the centrepiece of the memorial.
"It's a day of joy mixed with sorrow," his sister Aida Rosa Garcia Marquez told the French news agency AFP.
"But there is more joy than sorrow because to see a brother get to where Gabito reached can only bring joy."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in the town of Aracataca near Colombia's northern Caribbean coast and started working as a journalist in the late 1940s in Cartagena.
He had lived since the 1980s in Mexico but his family decided he should be buried in Cartagena where many of his family members were also interred.
"Cartagena is the city where the Garcia Marquez family is based. It is where my grandparents are buried." said Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, one of the author's two sons, from France where he now lives in an interview with AFP.
"It seemed natural to us that his ashes should be there too."
Garcia Marquez had a love-hate relationship with Cartagena; the city appears in several of his novels often depicted as a decadent place full of conflict with a class-ridden and racist society.
The 27-year-old left-handed batsman and off-spinner was not included in the original 16-man party because of a side strain suffered during the World Cup.
However, he made 62 and four on his comeback in Worcestershire's season-opening County Championship defeat by Yorkshire this week.
The first Test, currently under way in Antigua, is set to finish on Friday.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board said Moeen will join up with the squad in Grenada on Saturday, before the second Test begins on 21 April.
The last match of the series in Barbados starts on 1 May.
Moeen averages 31.77 with the bat and 28.09 with the ball in the seven Tests he has played since making his debut in 2014.
Off-spinner James Tredwell, playing his second Test in Antigua five years after his debut, took 4-47 in the first innings.
Yorkshire leg-spinning all-rounder Adil Rashid is the other slow-bowling option in the England touring party.
Charles Brooke Pickard, 43, disappeared from Castlecove on the Ring of Kerry in April 1991.
Several people saw him being abducted by up to five men close to his home. He was then driven away in his own van.
It was found burnt out at Shronaloughnane Forest three weeks later.
No trace has ever been found of Mr Pickard.
Police have said that new information has led them to begin excavating a site to close to where his van was found.
Mr Pickard, who was originally from Leeds, moved with his wife from England to Ireland in the mid-1980s and bought a farm in Castlecove. He was the father of four children.
Members of the Irish Defence Forces are assisting the new search which began on Tuesday morning.
It is expected to last at least a week.
Superintendent Flor Murphy has appealed for further information from the public.
"There are people who may not have been in a position to assist the investigation twenty five years ago but with the passage of time their circumstances may have changed," said Supt Murphy.
"Relationships, friendships, associations and loyalties may have changed and people may be in a better position to help us now. "
The enactment by the government of the so-called Alan Turing law means about 49,000 men will be cleared of crimes of which they would be innocent today.
Wartime code-breaker Mr Turing was pardoned in 2013 for gross indecency.
Statutory pardons will also be granted to people still living who apply to have their convictions removed.
The pardons were first announced last year and have now been officially rubber-stamped after the Policing and Crime Bill received Royal Assent.
The men were found guilty of committing now-abolished offences while in consensual relationships.
Justice minister Sam Gyimah said it was a "truly momentous day".
He said: "We can never undo the hurt caused, but we have apologised and taken action to right these wrongs."
Mathematician Mr Turing was given a royal pardon in 2013, nearly 60 years after his suicide in 1954.
The pardon addressed his 1952 conviction for gross indecency, after which he was chemically castrated.
This followed an official apology by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2009 for how Mr Turing had been treated.
His relatives later mounted a high-profile campaign to secure pardons for other men similarly convicted under historical indecency laws.
(Source: Sexual Offence Act 1956, England and Wales)
Gay rights charity Stonewall said: "Another important milestone of equality has been secured in law.
"The more equality is enshrined into our law books, the stronger our equality becomes, and the stronger we as a community become."
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Sharkey, whose amendment to the Policing and Crime Bill was instrumental in securing the change, said it was a "wonderful thing" that Mr Turing's pardon could be extended to other men "unjustly convicted".
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: "Although it comes too late for those convicted, the friends and relatives of the thousands of people who suffered under this unfair and discriminatory law will now have a weight lifted off their shoulders."
Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said the pardon was an "important, valuable advance that will remedy the grave injustices suffered by many of the estimated 50,000 to 100,000 men who were convicted under discriminatory anti-gay laws".
But he said it was "unclear" whether only the relatives of a deceased man could apply for a pardon on their behalf.
"Many convicted men were rejected and disowned by their families," he said.
"The government should make it clear that any concerned person, including personal friends, can apply for a pardon for a deceased person."
The United Nations Committee Against Torture also called for a halt to a crackdown on lawyers and activists.
It issued its report after questioning a large Chinese government delegation as part of a two-day hearing.
The report gives Beijing one year to report back on progress made in implementing key areas of the UN Convention against Torture.
"The Committee remains seriously concerned over consistent reports indicating that the practice of torture and ill-treatment is still deeply entrenched in the criminal justice system, which overly relies on confessions as the basis for convictions," the committee said.
At the hearing to review China's record on torture, held for the first time since 2008, China denied it held political prisoners and said torture was banned, to derision from dissidents.
The committee, made up of 10 independent experts, said 200 lawyers have been rounded up in China since July, of which at least 25 remain in detention.
It also voiced alarm over the high number of deaths in custody.
When one committee member voiced concern over the use of interrogation chairs, in which prisoners are forced into painful postures for hours on end, the Chinese delegation insisted they were needed to keep detainees from injuring themselves, the report said. They also denied the existence of secret detention facilities.
On Thursday, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying defended China's record in a daily news briefing, saying "in recent years China has been promoting the rule of law and has made great efforts in all regards, including on opposing torture".
The 162m (531ft) seafront viewing platform will open in summer and be known as the British Airways i360.
The tower was designed by the team behind the London Eye, which British Airways also initially sponsored.
The airline's director of strategy, Lynne Embleton, said the company will promote the attraction "all over the world".
The cost of the naming rights has been kept secret owing to "commercial sensitivity".
Construction is still ongoing with the glass viewing pod being installed on the tower.
It is being built directly in front of Brighton's derelict West Pier.
A beachfront building where visitors will disembark is also being built and will house a brasserie, cafe and gift shop.
Ms Embleton said: "Brighton is an important place for British Airways - so many of our staff live around here and it's just down the road from Gatwick.
"When we heard of the i360 we wanted to be part of it".
Developers hope the tower will attract at least 700,000 visitors per year, making it the city's most popular paid-for attraction.
Up to 200 people will be transported in the viewing pod, with the experiencing lasting 20 minutes during the day and 30 minutes in the evening.
There were plans to add a wind turbine to the top of the tower. However, these have now been scrapped.
The attraction's chief executive, Eleanor Harris, said: "British Airways and the i360 share a similar market regionally in the South East and a comparable international reach.
"We also share a proud history of engineering and design excellence."
If purchased on the door a ticket will cost £15 for adults and £7.50 for children.
Hamilton has been hit with engine penalties amounting to 55 grid places, and has the choice of starting from the back of the grid or the pit lane.
Hamilton starts the race 19 points ahead of Rosberg in the championship.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen qualified second ahead of the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was fifth in front of Force India's Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg.
Rosberg now has a great chance to seriously reduce his championship deficit to Hamilton.
The world champion knows his task is one of 'damage limitation' - to climb as far back up the field as he can.
Hamilton, who did only one slow run in the first part of qualifying to ensure he made it into the race without trouble, said: "It's definitely the weirdest qualifying session or weekend I've had so far.
"We are just taking all the experience and trying to use it. We already know Sunday is a lot different.
"The temperature of the track has made it incredibly hard to get the set-up right and there is only so much you can do to get the tyres to last long. But hopefully we've done it right."
The race promises to be enlivened by divergent tyre strategies, with Rosberg, the Ferraris and Ricciardo starting the race on the soft tyre and Verstappen on the super-soft, which is proving very fragile and runs out of grip after just a few laps.
That situation is likely to have left Ricciardo full of regret. His running in Friday practice suggested he was the closest rival to Mercedes on race pace.
But mistakes on both his runs in final qualifying left him 0.3secs off the pace of Verstappen, who out-qualified the Australian for only the second time since they became team-mates at the Spanish Grand Prix in May.
The Dutchman delighted the thousands of his home fans who have crossed the border to cheer on their new national hero, who earlier this season became the youngest man ever to win an F1 grand prix.
Although Ferrari looked uncompetitive on Friday, they have turned things around overnight and Raikkonen was only 0.166secs off Rosberg's pace in qualifying - and just 0.017secs slower than Verstappen.
Vettel was 0.198secs off Raikkonen's pace, continuing his rocky form of recent races, and bemoaned over the radio at the end of the session the fact his tyres had lost grip even before the end of his single flying lap.
Hamilton is not the only superstar who will start at the back. He will be joined there by McLaren's Fernando Alonso, who so far has a total of 35 grid places in terms of engine penalties and may yet be hit with more.
The Spaniard had a worrying day, doing only three laps in final practice because of an engine problem and then grinding to a halt after only 500 metres of qualifying with another.
He said it was possible Honda may have to change his engine again before the race.
His team-mate Jenson Button qualified ninth, splitting the Williams of Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa.
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Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were killed in the Real IRA attack in the County Tyrone town.
On Tuesday, the murder case against bricklayer Seamus Daly, from Jonesborough, County Armagh, collapsed in court.
Mr Daly, 45, had denying any involvement in the bombing.
Campaigners Michael Gallagher and Stanley McComb gave their reaction.
Researchers from Glasgow University were part of an international team that has been investigating the demise of the dinosaur.
By using dating techniques on rock and ash samples, they established the creatures died out about 66,038,000 years ago - give or take 11,000 years.
That date appears to coincide with the impact of a comet or asteroid.
Debate has raged as to whether the giant impact was the sole cause of a quick demise of the dinosaurs, whether they were already in decline at the time of the impact, or whether the impact in fact happened as much as 300,000 years after they were gone.
The study has been published in the journal Science, and also involved researchers from the Berkeley Geochronology Center and University of California, Berkeley in the US and Vrije University Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The extinction of the dinosaurs was first linked to a comet or asteroid impact in 1980.
A 180km (110mi)-wide crater in the Caribbean off the Yucatan coast of Mexico is presumed to be the result of that impact.
Called Chicxulub, the crater is thought to have been created by an object 10km (6mi) across that threw into the atmosphere debris which is still found around the globe.
These include signs of the enormous force of impact and its extraterrestrial origin: glassy spheres known as tektites, "shocked" quartz and a layer of dust enriched with an element called iridium.
The international team decided last year to use these clues to put a more precise date on the dinosaur extinction, by examining layers of the geological record where they lie close to the last fossils of dinosaurs.
They looked at tektites from Haiti and volcanic ash collected from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana - the source of many dinosaur fossils and one of the best sites to study the change in fossils from before and after the extinction.
The samples were analysed in laboratories first in the US, where a technique called "argon-argon dating" was used to determine their ages precisely.
The approach makes use of a naturally radioactive isotope of potassium which decays into argon. It is among the most precise ways of "clocking" how long a particular sample has been decaying.
Paul Renne, professor in residence of earth and planetary science at the University of California, said of the revised date: "The impact was clearly the final straw that provided the tipping point.
"We have shown that these events are synchronous to within a gnat's eyebrow and therefore the impact clearly played a major role in extinctions, but it probably wasn't just the impact."
The Glasgow researchers, based at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre in East Kilbride and led by Dr Darren Mark, then conducted independent argon-argon analyses on rock samples, which confirmed the results from the US.
Dr Mark said: "This study shows the power of high precision geochronology.
"Many people think precision is just about adding another decimal place to a number, but it's far more exciting than that. It's more like getting a sharper lens on a camera.
"It allows us to dissect the geological record at greater resolution and piece together the sequence of Earth history."
A Barbary macaque fled its enclosure at Woburn Safari Park three times in one day, but remained inside the Bedfordshire zoo's grounds.
The monkey's exploits were only revealed after an anonymous letter to Central Bedfordshire Council, which issues the zoo's licence.
The zoo said the incident had "posed no risk to visitors".
An inspection of Woburn, carried out in March, highlighted other issues including the death of a peacock due to human error and a breakdown in communication.
The peacock was placed into isolation, but was forgotten about and not fed.
A BBC investigation has found environmental health officer Ben Salvatierra wrote to the park in May.
He said: "I was concerned that the zoo failed to the report the escape albeit it was temporary, short-lived and remained within the confines of the zoo. As such, the zoo breached a licence condition by failing to report the matter within 24 hours."
The zoo has since pledged to report any future escapes within the timeframe.
Born Free Foundation head of animal welfare Chris Draper claimed there was "a systematic deficiency in the current system of zoo inspections across the board".
The zoo, in a statement issued by a public relations company, said it was "saddened that human error occurred in relation to the death of the peacock and subsequently protocols were improved".
Graham, 31, suffered a head injury 14 minutes into Canterbury Bulldogs' 16-10 victory over Canberra in the NRL.
However, a spokesman confirmed Graham is expected to begin training with England later this week.
The former St Helens player is England's most-capped current international, having played 33 Tests for England and Great Britain.
England have lost several players from their original squad for the Samoa game, with half-backs Gareth Widdop and George Williams ruled out through injury.
The victims were assaulted at the junction of Dalkeith Road and Nesbitt Street by a gang of boys aged about 14 at 21:45 on Tuesday, 9 June.
The 17-year-old suffered facial injuries and had to be taken to hospital, while his friends suffered minor injuries.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
Fans united to sing La Marseillaise - the French national anthem - in front of the Duke of Cambridge and Prime Minister David Cameron at Wembley.
There was a perfectly observed minute's silence, with both sets of players standing together.
Dele Alli scored on his full England debut, a fine 25-yard finish, before Wayne Rooney's volley sealed victory.
England's 10th and final game of the calendar year brought a seventh victory yet this was a night when the result, tactics and performance were secondary.
The French Football Federation chose to go ahead with the fixture despite Friday's attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead.
There was an excellent show of unity for the French national anthem before England and France mixed in with each other for a pre-match team photograph to huge applause.
England boss Roy Hodgson and his France counterpart Didier Deschamps embraced after joining Prince William, president of the Football Association, in laying flowers for those killed.
The visitors went close to opening the scoring when Crystal Palace midfielder Yohan Cabaye, one of six Premier League-based players starting for France, fired narrowly over from 25 yards.
Hodgson made seven changes to the side that started the 2-0 defeat by Spain last Friday, with the average age of England's starting line-up - 24 years 113 days - the youngest under the current England boss.
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Alli, 19, showed great maturity to open the scoring from outside the area, the Tottenham midfielder starting the move with a crunching tackle before firing home.
Rooney doubled the lead with a close-range volley from Raheem Sterling's cross, the culmination of a move started by Alli.
Forward Antoine Griezmann and midfielder Lassana Diarra both received applause all around Wembley when they came on for France.
Diarra's cousin was killed in the Paris attacks while Griezmann's sister was caught up in it but escaped unharmed.
England boss Roy Hodgson: "I was pleased the FA set about showing our respect and marking this sad occasion.
"It was handled quite brilliantly.
"It was a very poignant occasion and we achieved all the things we wanted to achieve in the remembrance. An act of defiance was better than the other alternative."
France boss Didier Deschamps: "We would like to thank everyone for their statements and their actions of solidarity. We feel very grateful because not just the people at Wembley, but the whole nation has supported us."
On fans uniting to sing La Marseillaise: "We felt very, very strong emotions, powerful emotions. Everyone has their own way of displaying their emotions but it was certainly a moment where everyone came together.
"It was heart-rending - you felt it deep down in your gut. It was a special, moving, grandiose moment."
Match ends, England 2, France 0.
Second Half ends, England 2, France 0.
Laurent Koscielny (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam Lallana (England).
Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (France) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Lass Diarra.
Substitution, England. Phil Jones replaces Dele Alli.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (France).
Jonjo Shelvey (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, France. Moussa Sissoko replaces Morgan Schneiderlin.
Foul by Gary Cahill (England).
Olivier Giroud (France) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, England. Ryan Bertrand replaces Harry Kane.
Substitution, England. Jonjo Shelvey replaces Ross Barkley.
Foul by Olivier Giroud (France).
Eric Dier (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kingsley Coman (France) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
Foul by Raphael Varane (France).
Harry Kane (England) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Paul Pogba (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Kane (England).
Corner, France. Conceded by Gary Cahill.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (France).
Corner, England. Conceded by Laurent Koscielny.
Substitution, England. Adam Lallana replaces Raheem Sterling.
Foul by Lass Diarra (France).
Raheem Sterling (England) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, France. Antoine Griezmann replaces Anthony Martial.
Corner, France. Conceded by John Stones.
Attempt saved. Anthony Martial (France) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Lucas Digne (France) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Eric Dier (England).
Foul by Dele Alli (England).
Paul Pogba (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Cahill (England).
Olivier Giroud (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dele Alli (England).
Kingsley Coman (France) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (France) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Anthony Martial.
Ross Barkley (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The first incident happened at 13:00 on Wednesday in Riverside Drive, Haddington.
A nine-year-old girl raised the alarm after being approached by a man in a small two-door blue car, who engaged her in conversation.
In the same area at 16:15 that day a boy, nine, was also stopped.
The vehicle this time was a described as a larger saloon-style car with dents of the nearside doors, rusty wheel arches and bird droppings on the bonnet.
During both reports, the man involved was white, in his 40s, with short brown hair, a brown beard and was wearing a short-sleeved striped shirt.
Insp Alan Hogarth, of Police Scotland, said: "At this time we are trying to establish exactly what has happened during both these incidents and I would ask anyone with information to come forward.
"East Lothian remains a safe place and at this time I would urge the public to remain calm while we conduct our inquiries."
Production at the field has ceased and it has been proposed to remove the platform complex, two demonstrator wind turbines, and cables.
These operations could take place between 2024 and 2027.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) had an interest in using the complex as a training facility, but it has decided not to pursue this idea further.
This decision means a decommissioning programme approved by the UK government in 2004 has been updated and widened out to include the removal of the field's platforms and other structures.
Energy company Repsol Sinopec Resources UK has set out details of the planned decommissioning and uploaded an environmental impact assessment scoping report online.
The field, about 13 miles (22km) off the Caithness coast, forms part of the site of a massive offshore wind farm project.
The planned decommissioning project involves the removal of five platform structures and power cables.
Forty three wells in the field are to be "plugged" and abandoned.
The field was discovered in September 1976 by Mesa Petroleum and production began on a test basis in September 1981.
Five wells were initially brought on-stream at a combined rate of about 20,000 barrels of oil per day.
Several companies have owned the field over the years. Talisman Energy, now Repsol Sinopec Resources UK, acquired the facilities in 1996.
At its peak, the Alpha platform was capable of producing between 30,000 and 35,000 barrels of oil per day.
The Bravo platform was installed in 1983, followed by the Charlie platform which increased output to a peak of 54,000 barrels of oil per day.
In total there have been 43 wells drilled from the Beatrice facilities.
Two wind turbines installed to show that the firth is suitable for a large-scale offshore wind farm are also to be removed.
The turbines were installed in two phases with the first in 2006 and the second in 2007.
When the first turbine was installed at Beatrice, it set a number of records.
These included it being the largest offshore wind turbine in the world, the first to be installed in a single lift from a floating vessel and the furthest turbine from shore and in the deepest water.
Another company, Ithaca Energy, is responsible for the decommissioning of its Jacky platform and the related pipelines tied into the Beatrice field.
The field and its infrastructure is to be decommissioned because production ended at the site in March 2015, and also because the MoD's decision decided not to go ahead with a plan to use the platforms complex for military training.
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK expects a jack-up unit to arrive at the site next month.
The unit will be used in the plugging and abandoning of the wells. Plugging means sealing the wellbore from the reservoir oil to prevent hydrocarbons from reaching the surface.
The unit will also be used in the clean-up of the Beatrice field facilities.
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK said it has also begun notifying the public and non-governmental organisations to its decommissioning proposals, and seeking comments on them.
Beatrice is among the UK's best known oil fields, being visible from the shores of the Moray Firth, in particular the east Sutherland and Caithness coasts.
Fellow loose-heads Alasdair Dickinson and Gordon Reid are recovering from respective hamstring and back injuries.
The 24-year-old Allan made his only Scotland appearance as a substitute against the United States in 2014.
Scotland face Australia at Murrayfield on 12 November before facing Argentina and Georgia.
Two lorries and a minibus crashed near Newport Pagnell on Saturday.
Ryszard Masierak, 31, is charged with eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving and four of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
A second lorry driver charged in connection with the crash will appear in court next month.
Mr Masierak, a Polish national of Barnards Close, Evesham, Worcestershire, is also charged with causing death by careless driving while over the prescribed alcohol limit.
The crash happened on the southbound carriageway of the M1 near junction 14 at Newport Pagnell at 03:15 BST on Saturday.
The other lorry driver, David Wagstaff, 53, of Derwent Street, Stoke-on-Trent, has also been charged over the crash.
Mr Wagstaff is accused of eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving and four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and is due to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court on 11 September.
Six men and two women died when the three vehicles collided shortly before 03:15 BST on the southbound carriageway of the motorway between junctions 15 and 14.
A five-year-old girl, a man and a woman were left with life-threatening injuries and remain in hospital. Another person was admitted to hospital with less severe injuries.
The minibus driver and owner of Nottingham-based ABC Travels, who was killed in the crash, has been named as Cyriac Joseph.
He has been described in tributes as an "extraordinary father" and a "great leader" within the south Indian community in Nottingham.
Mr Joseph had been taking a group of people from India to London, from where they were due to start a tour of Europe.
Three other fatalities have been named as employees of IT company Wipro.
The firm said Karthikeyan Ramasubramaniyam Pugalur, Rishi Rajeev Kumar and Vivek Bhaskaran all died in the crash, while another employee was critically injured.
Alison Howe, 45, from Royton, was among 22 people who died in the suicide bombing at Manchester Arena on 22 May.
She was killed while waiting in the foyer with her friend, Lisa Lees, who also died.
Her husband Steve told the congregation at St Anne's Church in Oldham his wife was "beautiful inside and out".
She was "loyal, calm but also fiery and just perfect", he added.
Mourners sang the hymn The Lord of the Dance as the service began.
The couple had two daughters, Sasha and Darcy, who had gone to the Ariana Grande concert. Ms Howe also had four stepsons.
Stepson Harry told the congregation they were Mrs Howe's "Super Six".
To warm applause, he said: "We will love you forever."
Simon and Garfunkel songs from the Bridge over Troubled Water album were played as mourners gathered, many clutching pink roses.
Mrs Howe's friend Sam read out a tribute on behalf of the victim's mother Sue, saying: "You were the reason why my heart beat, you were my world, my everything.
"I don't know how I will go on without you.
"I will love you for all eternity."
One of her friends of 30 years recalled her love of custard creams, dancing, kebabs, and cucumber and salad cream sandwiches.
The Rev James Read said: "Follow the example of Alison to build a better world, a world of peace."
Alison Howe's husband, mother and children comforted each other outside the church as the funeral came to a close.
Her stepsons, one wearing a suit, helped carry her coffin from the church to the hearse.
Husband Steve and daughters Sasha and Darcy wept as it was placed next to a red heart of flowers and white roses spelling "ALI".
Spontaneous applause broke out among the hundreds of mourners who lined the route outside the church.
Some well-wishers shook the hand of a man who wore a black T-shirt to 'Remember the 22' in reference to the victims of the Manchester Arena bomb victims.
Dozens of single pink carnations were thrown on to the bonnet of the hearse as it was driven away.
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As Westminster does from time to time, there is a frothing row this morning over where a memo - which purports to reveal the government's private Brexit woes and is splashed on the front of The Times - actually comes from.
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Family members of British soldiers who died in the Iraq war will not have to pay £767 for copies of the Chilcot report, Downing Street has said.
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It's not often you get to see what happens when a World War Two bomb gets blown up.
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Ghana's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against hosts Equatorial Guinea was halted for 30 minutes because of crowd trouble in Malabo.
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Plans to host an MTV music festival in Belfast later this year have been dropped by Belfast City Council.
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Wales will have England-based players George North and Jamie Roberts available to face Australia on 5 November after Premiership clubs agreed to a "one-off" change of policy.
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Real Madrid are the world's most valuable sports team for the third straight year, according to business magazine Forbes.
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Kirsten Wild saw off Britain's double junior world road race champion Lucy Garner and Lizzie Armitstead to win the women's Tour de Yorkshire on Saturday.
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Petrol bombs, stones and other missiles have been used to attack police vehicles and parked cars during hours of disorder in Belfast's Markets.
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Interest rates are likely to remain historically low over the longer term, the head of the US central bank said on Wednesday.
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A police officer has been charged with a string of fraud, false accounting and forgery offences.
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The family of a man missing since his kayak overturned on the River Wey a week ago is raising funds for the volunteers still looking for him.
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The DUP leader, Arlene Foster, said it is "right and proper" that her MPs support the Conservative government's first Queen's Speech next Wednesday.
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Englishmen Danny Willett and Justin Rose finished in a four-way tie for sixth at the Open Championship, to end as the top Britons at St Andrews.
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The ashes of the late Nobel Prize winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, have been laid to rest in the Colombian coastal city of Cartagena.
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All-rounder Moeen Ali has been added to the England squad for the final two Tests in the West Indies.
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Police in the Republic of Ireland have begun excavating a site in County Kerry for a man who was abducted 25 years ago.
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Thousands of gay and bisexual men found guilty of decades-old sexual offences in England and Wales have been posthumously pardoned.
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A UN watchdog has urged China to end the rampant use of torture in its prisons and close all secret jails.
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British Airways has signed a five-year deal to hold the naming rights to Brighton's i360 tower.
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Mercedes' Nico Rosberg took pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix, which team-mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton will start from the back.
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Scientists believe they have determined the most precise date yet for the extinction of dinosaurs.
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Monkey escapes and the death of a peacock were some of the issues highlighted following a zoo inspection.
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England prop James Graham is expected to be fit to face Samoa on Saturday despite suffering concussion.
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Police have issued an appeal for information after a 17-year-old and his friends were attacked by a large group of younger teenagers in Dundee.
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England beat France on an emotional night as more than 70,000 fans honoured the victims of the Paris attacks.
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Two separate incidents of a man in a car stopping children in the street to speak to them in East Lothian have been reported to police.
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Plans are being put together to fully decommission the Beatrice oil field in the Moray Firth.
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Glasgow Warriors prop Alex Allan has been called up to the Scotland squad for this month's autumn Tests as injury cover.
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A lorry driver charged over a crash on the M1 motorway which killed eight people has been remanded in custody after appearing in court.
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Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of a mother who was killed in the Manchester terror attack while waiting for her daughters.
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Fellow centre-back Ben Mee is again set to miss out with a shin problem.
West Ham are without centre-back Winston Reid, who has undergone surgery to treat a knee injury, so 18-year-old Declan Rice may deputise.
Fellow defender Angelo Ogbonna, who returned to the match-day squad last weekend after three months out, is also available but lacks match fitness.
The Hammers' lengthy injury list also includes Mark Noble, Cheikhou Kouyate, Andy Carroll, Michail Antonio, Pedro Obiang, Diafra Sakho and Arthur Masuaku.
Alistair Man: "There is little doubt which of these sides has achieved their pre-season target.
"Having booked a second successive campaign amongst the game's elite for the first time since the 1970s, the mood at Turf Moor will rightly be jubilant.
"An impressive 11th home win in front of their own supporters could see Burnley finish as high as 11th, leapfrogging West Ham in the process.
"Even a victory won't propel the Hammers into the top half of the table - a position which seemed a minimum expectation after their seventh-place finish a year ago.
"Messrs Dyche and Bilic are certain to feel contrasting emotions as they reflect upon the rigours of the last 12 months."
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Burnley manager Sean Dyche on interest in defender Michael Keane: "We're not under any financial pressure that's for sure. The club's in amazing shape.
"Although the market is tough for us going outside to bring players in, it's very strong for us if people want to come and take our players."
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "[It has been a] very difficult season for us and the teams around us. We plan to do better but considering everything we have achieved the minimum goal and I have to praise the players for that.
"We have had our ups and downs, bad moments at the beginning of the season [and in] March, when we lost five games. Basically every time we have been one game away from trouble we have reacted well."
West Ham are not a bad side when everyone is fit but, if they want a repeat of their seventh-place finish in 2015-16, they definitely need to sign some better players.
Burnley's target this season was to stay up and they have done it. It is mission accomplished and they can build again, which is great.
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Horticulturalists from around the world are displaying their designs at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, London.
Among the gardens being shown to special guests on Monday is one created for Sentebale.
The charity, Sentebale was created by Prince Harry and helps children living in poverty in Lesotho, Africa.
The prince said the garden was "everything that I could have wished for".
He added that parts of the garden "are exactly like Africa" and that he "can't wait" to show members of his family.
Designer Matt Keightley, who created a southern-African theme for the charity, said: "It is such a privilege being part of the show.
" I'm hoping the Queen will like it - that would be the icing on the cake," Matt added.
RWE Innogy wants to use water from the River Conwy to supply its proposed hydro power project at Betws y Coed.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) was due to announce a decision on a water extraction permit but it has said it wants more time to consider the plans.
Developers have said the project would generate enough "green" energy to meet the needs of 3,200 houses.
Campaigners are worried half an acre of the centuries-old Fairy Glen Wood would be destroyed by the build.
In a statement, NRW said it wanted more time to look through the details before reaching a conclusion.
Snowdonia National Park Authority rejected the project's planning proposals in March.
NRW head of planning Richard Ninnes said an extraction permit would only be issued it it was satisfied the plans "make it clear that it can operate safely, without harming the environment or local communities".
He added: "The Conwy Valley is a rich environment, home to a diverse variety of wildlife and popular with locals and residents alike.
"This is one of the largest hydro power applications we have had to deal with and is particularly complex.
"Among the issues we have had to consider are the impact of the scheme on the river's ecology, its fish and wildlife and on other water users."
During a White House meeting with senior pharmaceutical executives he told the firms to manufacture more of their drugs in the US.
However, he also vowed to help the firms by speeding the approval of new medicines and by cutting taxes.
His pledges helped to send shares in many of the biggest US drugmakers higher on Tuesday.
Drugmakers have faced intense criticism from US politicians - including Mr Trump - as well as insurance companies and patients' groups over the high cost of new medicines and price hikes in some older generic drugs.
Among those attending the meeting were the bosses of Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Amgen and the head of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) lobbying group.
"US drug companies have produced extraordinary results for our country but the pricing has been astronomical for our country, we have to do better," Mr Trump told them in the meeting.
"We have to get even better innovation, and I want you to move your companies back to the United States," he said.
To help the firms, Mr Trump said his administration was "going to be lowering taxes big league".
"We're going to be getting rid of regulations that are unnecessary - big league," he added.
The president's promise to speed up approvals by the Food and Drug Administration for new medicines sparked strong gains in pharmaceutical shares.
Shares in Merck and Amgen rose by about 1% while Novartis was up more than 2% on Wall Street.
The Nasdaq Biotech Index gained nearly 3% after the meeting and the S&P 500 health care index rose 1.4%.
Investors had sold off shares in drugmakers in recent weeks following heavy criticism from Mr Trump - supported by Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders - over drug pricing.
However, senior pharmaceutical executives welcomed Mr Trump's proposals on Tuesday to cut taxes and loosen regulations.
"We believe if these policies are enacted, it will translate to up to 350,000 new jobs over the next 10 years as a result of growth in the biopharmaceutical industry," said Stephen J. Ubl, chief executive of PhRMA.
Amgen chief executive, Robert Brad, said in the meeting that his firm would add 1,600 jobs in the US - a move welcomed by the president.
The British astronaut has launched a mass experiment to grow the seeds of the salad leaf rocket.
They want to compare them with seeds that have not been in space to see if there are any differences.
The experiment is being run by the Royal Horticultural Society's campaign for school gardening and the UK Space Agency.
The seeds have been in space for six months and were returned to Earth in March by the former commander of the space station, Scott Kelly.
They have been carefully sorted and packed into packets which are on their way to the 8,500 schools, children's clubs and societies that have signed up for the experiment.
The aim is to learn more about the effects of weightlessness and radiation on seeds in order to develop plant varieties that can be grown on long space missions.
The results will give scientists valuable information, according to Dr Libby Jackson of the UK Space Agency.
"Should we ever want to send astronauts back to the Moon or on to Mars they will need fresh food. At the moment astronaut food is freeze dried and not very exciting. We would like to have astronauts growing their own food. It would be healthier, psychologically better for them and it would mean that they would not need to take so much with them".
The pupils of Walton School in Stafford are among the first to receive the seeds. According to the head teacher, Neil Finlay, the children have been "buzzing".
"There has been a huge reaction. The children have been so positive about the entire process. It's been the talk of the school for the past couple of weeks. They are really looking forward to planting the seeds".
One of the school's physics teachers Sunil Lal says that his students have already begun to come up with imaginative theories about how the seeds might be affected by being in space.
"We have had some fantastic ideas," he told BBC News. "One is that the stem will grow downwards rather than up because of the effects of gravity on the seeds themselves.
"We've also had ideas from students that the plants may not be as nutritious because of the radiation in space".
The children will have their results in five weeks' time. Whatever they find, the experiment is already firing their imagination and perhaps inspiring them to one day follow in Tim Peake's footsteps.
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The Nimrod MRA4 surveillance and reconnaissance planes were being built at BAE Systems sites in Stockport, Lancashire and East Yorkshire.
The project was ditched by the government in October's Defence Review.
The money was to be used on finishing the planes, but will now be spent on ending the contract with BAE.
A source said the sum included paying compensation to BAE Systems.
The MoD and BAE signed a contract in 1996 to build 21 planes. This was reduced to 12 and later nine.
All were due to be handed over to the RAF by 2012, but the project was scrapped in an effort to save money.
Axing the project means large job losses, as about 1,000 people were working on the project at Woodford, near Stockport, and another 200 at Brough, East Yorkshire.
A further 500 in Warton, Lancashire, were due to support the planes in service.
An spokesperson for the MoD said: "Ministers and service chiefs have made clear that the decision in October's Strategic Defence and Security Review not to bring the Nimrod MRA4 into service was difficult, but it will not be reversed and the dismantling process is under way.
"The severe financial pressures and the urgent need to bring the defence programme into balance meant we could not retain all existing programmes.
"We will continue joint maritime patrol activities with our allies and will ensure the integrity of UK waters by utilising a range of other military assets, including Type 23 frigates, Merlin anti-submarine warfare helicopters and Hercules C-130 aircraft."
After three recounts it was announced Chris Williamson lost the seat to Amanda Solloway by just 41 votes.
The Conservatives held Erewash, Amber Valley, Mid Derbyshire, Derbyshire Dales, High Peak and South Derbyshire
Chesterfield, Bolsover, Derby South and North East Derbyshire were retained by Labour.
Ms Solloway said she was "surprised".
"I certainly feel the country's doing well, the economy's going the way that it should be going," she said.
"When I knocked on people's doors they said they didn't want that to change so we could finish the job."
In the local elections, Labour has retained control of Derby City Council.
The party gained Blagreaves from the Liberal Democrats and took back Mackworth from Independent Lisa Higginbottom.
It also held Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire.
But the Conservatives gained control of High Peak and Amber Valley councils, while retaining South Derbyshire and Derbyshire Dales.
Votes were counted in Erewash on Saturday and saw the Conservatives retain control of the borough council.
Blues chief executive Richard Holland said the region has made the "unanimous decision" not to pursue the option.
Holland added "amicable discussions" had been held on how the WRU could assist the region during the potential redevelopment of Cardiff Arms Park.
"We will continue to explore the best way forward for the future of ... our region," he said in an open letter.
Earlier in May WRU chief executive Martyn Phillips said the governing body was in "embryonic" talks over the possibility of taking over the Blues.
Stadium redevelopment plans rest on Blues coming to an agreement over renewing their lease with Cardiff Athletic Club (Cac) that ends in January, 2022.
That agreement appears to be a step closer with a Cac spokesperson saying: "I can confirm that negotiations are ongoing and we hope to call an EGM [extraordinary general meeting] in the not too distant future.
"From a practical perspective this is unlikely to be in the next couple of weeks due to the Champions League Final (on 3 June) and the impact that it has on holding meetings etc."
Cac is a body made up of Cardiff tennis, bowls, hockey and cricket clubs which has a clubhouse at the Arms Park.
Blues boss Holland added: "With only five years remaining on the existing lease and the annual costs of maintaining the current facility escalating, the Cardiff Blues board are resolutely focused on extending the lease and redeveloping Cardiff Arms Park to provide a fit for purpose stadium for both Cardiff Rugby Football Club and Cardiff Blues.
"The history and heritage of Cardiff Rugby at Cardiff Arms Park is of paramount importance to the board and it is essential to protect all elements of this great club and its iconic home.
"We remain in ongoing negotiations with Cardiff Athletic Club regarding the granting of a new 150-year lease with development rights and are very hopeful of an agreement with the Cac management board."
The announcement came after a vote that paved the way for the WRU to take over Blues' rivals Newport Gwent Dragons.
Blues bosses have previously expressed a wish to redevelop their Arms Park home into a 15,000-capacity stadium.
The plans include a retractable pitch and sliding roof so the stadium can be used as a concert venue, as well as building an exhibition centre, a hotel and flats.
Holland also said in a statement he intends to explain "concept ideas" for the stadium revamp.
He said: "These concepts are purely an indication of what could be achieved, from the replacement of the North and South stands to a complete redevelopment of the entire site, with the playing of rugby being the priority."
Llanbedr airfield near Harlech has been chosen by the UK government alongside six in Scotland and one in England to launch commercial flights from 2018.
The announcement was made at the Farnborough Air Show by Aviation Minister Robert Goodwill on Tuesday.
Other sites selected included Campbeltown Airport and Newquay Cornwall Airport.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said space was "big business" for the UK and already contributed £11.3bn to the economy each year.
"That's why it's important for us to prepare the UK for new launcher technology and take steps towards meeting our ambition of establishing the first British spaceport by 2018," he said.
"Exploring the opportunities that commercial spaceflight presents, and potentially making strategic investments in this area, will support the growth of this thriving industry and underpin the economy of tomorrow, making the UK the place for space."
Mr Goodwill added: "In order to lead the way on commercial spaceflight, we will need to establish a spaceport that enables us to operate regular flights."
The eight shortlisted coastal locations included:
Economy Minister Edwina Hart said if Llanbedr was chosen it would provide a "transformational opportunity" for Wales as a whole.
"Wales has existing strengths in space technology and the spaceport could serve to further embed and grow this technology base as part of the UK's vision for the sector," she added.
Antony Lowry-Huws, 63, from Kinmel Bay near Rhyl, was described as the driving force behind the scams which took five years to bring to court.
He was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud, alongside his wife, a Conwy business partner, a Flintshire solicitor and a Lancashire surveyor.
The five will be sentenced in September.
The convictions follow a five-month trial in which the jury had to consider 50,000 items of evidence.
The court was told that Lowry-Huws, along with his four co-defendants, had duped mortgage lenders into handing over thousands of pounds on properties across north Wales.
Co-conspirator Frank Edward Darlington, from Barnoldswick in Lancashire, acted as the surveyor in the transactions, providing false property valuations and rental income figures.
Solicitor Nicholas John Jones, 53, based in Flint at the time, carried out the conveyancing work and submitted the fraudulent mortgage applications.
The scams were backed by Lowry-Huws' business partner, property speculator Sheila Rose Whalley from Llanfairtalhaiarn in the Conwy Valley, and also by Lowry-Huws' wife Susan.
In total, 189 mortgage applications were made between May 2003 and June 2008.
The prosecution said the deceit was achieved by inflating the actual value of the property used as security, hiding the fact that in some cases no deposit was put down, or inflating the rental income potential to make the mortgage rate more acceptable.
In some cases the apartments on which mortgages were advanced simply did not exist.
Judge Rhys Rowlands told Antony Lowry-Huws, Darlington and Whalley that they had acted out of "pure greed and nothing more", and warned them to expect "fairly significant" prison sentences.
He said he accepted that Susan Lowry-Huws had been acting under the influence of her husband, and that would be taken in to account during sentencing.
But he told solicitor Nicholas Jones: "Sadly, the same cannot be said for you.
"You plainly knew what was going on.
"An additional feature in your case is that it is a very clear breach of trust that you owed to the lenders, which you breached."
All five were granted bail to await sentencing, under the condition that they surrender their passports and are subject to a curfew monitored by electronic tagging.
The judge thanked the jurors for their diligence in considering the case and said he would excuse them from ever serving on a jury again.
Responding to the convictions, a spokesperson for North Wales Police said: "North Wales Police welcome the verdicts of guilty on individuals convicted of this substantial mortgage fraud, one of the largest investigations of this nature ever to be conducted in England and Wales.
"The investigation took almost five years to complete and get through trial.
"It is inappropriate at this stage to say more save to say thank you to all members of the investigative and prosecution team for their dedication and hard work on a very challenging inquiry."
A second surveyor - George Walker, 58, of Colwyn Bay - was found not guilty of any involvement by the jury.
All defendants denied conspiring to defraud and conspiring to falsify documents between May 2003 and June 2008 to induce false finance and mortgage payments.
IAG reported a 25% rise in pre-tax profits to €449m (£315m) for the three months to 30 June.
Chief executive Willie Walsh told the BBC's Today programme the results "reflect the underlying strength of the airlines".
IAG is in the process of buying Irish carrier Aer Lingus.
The group is still waiting for approval from stakeholder Ryanair, which Mr Walsh is confident they will receive.
"What Ryanair has said is that they do intend to sell us their stake," he said.
Mr Walsh also said the weakening euro had an impact on the company's results in the first half of the year: "We continue to take cost out of the business, with both employee and supplier unit costs down at constant currency, and improvements in productivity levels," said Mr Walsh.
The company said that at current fuel prices and exchange rates, IAG's outlook remains unchanged.
Since the formation of IAG through the merger of BA and Iberia in 2011, Iberia has been undergoing a massive restructuring programme, with jobs and salaries being cut.
Following defeats by England and Wales this month, Scotland have lost nine Six Nations games in a row ahead of Saturday's match with Italy.
They are currently on their worst run of defeats in the competition for over 60 years.
"It's hugely important for Scottish rugby that we win," said Laidlaw.
Laidlaw reiterated his view that Scotland are close to winning matches and need a little bit of luck, following the 9-15 home loss to England and the 27-23 defeat in Wales.
Italy beat Scotland 22-19 at Murrayfield in last year's campaign.
"We'll take any win," said Laidlaw. "Any team can play well and not win, but that's not good enough, we need to win games.
"There's nobody that feels a Scotland loss more than me. I won't speak to people for a couple of days. I'm desperate to get a win, just as much as every Scotland fan is, if not more. I'll be doing everything within my powers to get us that result this weekend.
"They're a sticky side, they stay in games. They had a close loss in France, which is a tough place to go and play. They were in the game with England up until the 55 to 60-minute mark.
"It'll be tight but if we stay the course we can win."
Laidlaw feels Vern Cotter's side can use last year's impressive World Cup campaign as inspiration.
The Scots reached the quarter-finals and Laidlaw points to the crucial 36-33 pool win over Samoa as proof they can handle pressure in big games.
"We played well in the Samoa game and since then our form has been pretty good to be honest with you," continued Laidlaw. "You can always learn from an experience and that game was a must-win game, and this weekend is a must-win game as well.
"I've never said we've been unlucky to lose nine (Six Nations) games in a row. We've had bad luck along the way and everybody needs a bit of good luck to go their way.
"We're not playing against bad teams. To go to Wales is an extremely tough place. We're not getting clobbered by a lot of points, we're right in these games.
"We're sick of saying it, I'm sick of saying it. We simply need to find that little bit extra. We just want to get that win under our belt.
"The support has been incredible, we value it highly as players. Stick by us, I know they will because that's the Scottish mentality. We're going over there to win that game as much for them as for us."
Centre-back Tilt, 25, has made 36 league appearances for his parent club this season, scoring once.
He joined Wrexham in July from AFC Telford United and looks set to feature against Lincoln City on Saturday.
Tilt began his career with Halesowen Town and moved to Hednesford Town before joining Telford.
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The club requested a police presence in the ground after crowd trouble.
The Hammers only moved to the London Stadium at the start of the season.
"Until there is comprehensive radio coverage officers will not be routinely deployed within it," said the Metropolitan Police's Peter Terry.
Mr Terry, who is deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and in charge of specialist crime and operations, added: "The stadium operators are responsible for the safety and comfort of their customers and staff.
"This issue was highlighted to the stadium operators in October 2014 and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been in negotiation with stadium operators regarding the provision of Airwave radio inside the stadium.
"During this time, the MPS had spoken to the stadium operators several times to highlight the consequences of not installing such a system.
"The MPS is not able to provide Special Policing Services at this time as it would normally, as there is no satisfactory radio system across the ground."
A stadium spokesman said a decision to install Airwave was "reached in March 2016" and that the procurement and installation of the system "is the responsibility of the police".
He added: "We have fully co-operated and will facilitate any access they require to carry this out.
"The safety of the stadium is paramount and all safety plans are agreed in advance by the police and if there were any significant concerns the stadium would not be licensed."
In response, the Metropolitan Police said it commissioned Airwave to complete the required work in May, and added that it is working with the company to "ensure this work is completed as quickly as possible".
All of Great Britain's emergency services and more than 300 public safety organisations use the Airwave radio system to communicate.
West Ham confirmed that 10 fans were ejected from the stadium during the 4-2 defeat by Watford on Saturday, and there were more disturbances during the first home Premier League game against Bournemouth last month.
West Ham are tenants at the London Stadium, which is owned by E20 and was built to host the 2012 London Olympics.
E20 says it is addressing the recent trouble.
Documents released last year showed the taxpayer - not the club - would foot the bill for much of the matchday operating costs, including security.
"A blame game is now developing over the violent scenes at West Ham's new home. The club says the stadium's owners and matchday operator need to bolster policing, stewarding and segregation.
"However, it has also been suggested that West Ham could have done more to plan segregated family and singing sections, rather than prioritising the sale of season tickets, with the mix of traditional supporters and thousands of new fans thought to have led to tension."
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Ibn Saleh Ibrahim was killed in an exchange of fire with six of his lieutenants, the spokesman added.
An unknown number of civilians are said to have been killed in the crossfire, says a BBC reporter in Nigeria.
Boko Haram, which has killed hundreds of people since 2009, has not commented on Mr Ibrahim's reported death.
The group's founding leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed by security forces in July 2009.
Boko Haram is now said to be led by Abubakar Shekau.
Army spokesman Lt Col Sagir Musa told the BBC that Mr Ibrahim was "very close" to Mr Shekau and had a reputation of being "invincible".
"Yesterday [Thursday], we learned he was in town and we were able to track him in a special operation," he said.
"There was an exchange of fire and in the process he was killed with six of his lieutenants."
There has been no independent confirmation of Mr Ibrahim's role in Boko Haram.
Lt Col Musa said Mr Ibrahim had been responsible for last month's assassination of retired General Mohammed Shuwa following an order from Mr Shekau.
Gen Shuwa was shot dead at his home in Maiduguri - no group has said it carried out the attack.
He is regarded by the Nigerian military as a war hero, and played a key role in crushing Biafran separatists during Nigeria's brutal civil war in the 1960s.
In a statement, Lt Col Musa said the operation in Maiduguri, supported by armoured personnel carriers and helicopters, was on-going.
Weapons and explosive devices have been recovered, he added.
The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura in the northern city of Kaduna says residents in Maiduguri told him that the security forces have sealed off four areas within the city - Ngarnam, Bulabulin, Bayan Quarters and Flatari.
This has made it impossible for people to move in and out of the areas, though some managed to flee on Thursday when fighting broke out, he adds.
Military helicopters were circling the suspected Boko Haram strongholds, but no shooting was heard on Friday, our reporter quotes residents as saying.
Residents also told our reporter that during Thursday's clashes, civilians, including women and children, were killed after being caught in the crossfire.
The number of casualties is not known.
Earlier this month, rights group Amnesty International accused Nigeria's security forces of carrying out widespread abuses in their campaign against Boko Haram, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and torture.
The group is campaigning to impose Islamic law across Nigeria.
It has carried out a wave of bombings and assassinations since 2009.
It started when Sam Mitchell, a 19-year-old plasterer in Australia, contacted a 22-year-old British backpacker on social media because he shared his exact name.
"You may be wondering why I have sent you a friend request. I had to because we share the same name. Middle name as well. Good day sir," he wrote.
The reply came quickly: "Yeah, and what is stranger is that I've just moved from the UK to Australia."
Four hours later, the Australian and his friends pooled their money to buy the London man a ticket from Victoria to Tasmania for the following morning, New Year's Eve.
"The idea of flying him down got tossed about," Australian Sam told the BBC. "The more beers we had, the better the idea became."
After collecting their new friend from Launceston Airport, the group staged what they called the "Sam Mitchell Olympics".
This involved a sack race using laundry buckets, a taste-testing game and beer pong.
Later at a bar, the Sams celebrated 2017 with a kiss.
"It was strictly platonic, but it was very nice for me knowing that he had chosen to kiss me at midnight, instead of his girlfriend who he has been with for four years," British Sam said.
The story of their unlikely meeting and ensuing fun has made news around the world.
"The games. The drinks. The mateship. The pash," said pop culture website Pedestrian. "Ladies and gentlemen, 2017 is still young, but we don't reckon the internet will get any better than this over the next 12 months."
"One day you'll get to experience the pure joy of meeting someone with the exact same name as you," wrote Mashable. It was an "extremely cute bromance", said news.com.au.
Lifestyle website Techly mused: "The Man From Snowy River, the expedition of Burke and Wills and the tale of Ned Kelly are all iconic Australian stories, but now we've finally got one for the digital age."
British Sam told the BBC: "It seems to be a story that everyone is really enjoying amongst all the bad news over the past year."
The friends parted ways but have vowed to remain in touch.
"We joked about - by next New Year's (Eve) - having a bunch of Sam Mitchells from all over the world representing their countries and having an actual 'Sam Mitchell Olympics'," British Sam said.
"We'll definitely have a drink and a few laughs at some point."
Reporting by the BBC's Greg Dunlop
Kieran Donaghy hit Kerry's goal early on as Galway, in contrast, missed several goal chances.
There was a breathless start to the second quarter-final as Fintan Cregg and Ciaran Murtagh hit Roscommon goals before Lee Keegan netted for Mayo.
As the pace slowed, both sides missed a host of chances in a nervy second half.
After Paddy Durcan kicked Mayo ahead in the 68th minute, Cillian O'Connor missed a couple of chances to extend their lead before Donie Smith levelled with a free from over 45 metres.
O'Connor then had another long-range chance to snatch victory for Mayo but left the effort just short.
The game started in dramatic fashion as Cregg lobbed a superb finish over David Clarke before Murtagh blasted a second goal two minutes later.
However, within a minute Keegan charged forward to net for Mayo, although his shot took a wicked deflection off Niall McInerney.
As Roscommon lost their way, Mayo moved 1-8 to 2-3 ahead by half-time and at that stage, Stephen Rochford's side looked the likely winners.
But the half-time break came at the right time for Roscommon as they regrouped to hit three straight points after the resumption.
Both sides seemed produced some desperate finishing during the remainder of the contest with Mayo particularly guilty and that meant that a draw was probably the appropriate outcome.
In Sunday's first game, Galway missed a series of goal chances, with Kerry goalkeeper Brian Kelly making a couple of great saves.
Kelly denied Ian Burke early on before Donaghy hammered in Kerry's goal after soaring to win possession.
Kerry led 1-10 to 0-8 at half-time and held on as Galway missed three more goal chances in the second period.
Damien Comer had a goal opportunity blocked immediately after the restart and Galway's challenge faded badly after Kelly denied Sean Armstrong shortly afterwards.
However, Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice is unlikely to be happy with his team's performance after Galway were able to create several goal opportunities.
The Kingdom, who have won a record 37 All-Ireland titles, are scheduled to face the winners of the Roscommon and Mayo tie on 20 August.
Nan Yong and his predecessor Xie Yalong were both accused of accepting bribes.
Nan was also fined 200,000 yuan ($31,400; £20,200) and Xie is set to have personal assets and illegal takings confiscated.
China has increased efforts to clean up the game, hit by a series of scandals.
Nan, charged with 17 counts of taking bribes, was sentenced by a court in Tieling in north-eastern China.
Xie, who was sentenced in Dandong, denies the charges against him adding that he only confessed to the allegations under torture.
More than 900,000 yuan in personal assets and illegal takings of his are set to be confiscated.
Several other verdicts have also been delivered in similar cases in other cities, Chinese media reported.
In Dandong, a former national team captain was also sentenced to 10 years and six months in jail and fined 200,000 yuan.
Four former national team players were sentenced in Shenyang for to up to six years' jail and fined 500,000 yuan for taking bribes and match fixing.
For long suffering Chinese football fans, the latest convictions further underline what they already knew - that the corruption in Chinese football has been deep and blatant, says the BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai.
There are stories of defenders taking shots at their own goal and of whole teams refusing to play. But this year China is sending a clear message that it is cleaning up its act.
Dozens of people - referees, players, officials and coaches - have been arrested following a campaign to reform the sport, launched in 2009.
Referee Lu Jun, who officiated at the World Cup, was jailed in February for receiving more than $128,000 in bribes to fix the results of seven football league games.
Some commentators have suggested that there could be a bigger political agenda at work.
Xi Jinping, the man widely tipped to become China's next president is reported to have set his sight on an international footballing trophy.
Cleaning up corruption, coupled with the drive to bring expensive foreign talent into the game, could help raise standards, says our correspondent, although most Chinese fans would probably agree that a World Cup win is still a long way off.
Officials said Indian border guards had obstructed "normal activities" on the Chinese side, and called on India to immediately withdraw them.
India also recently accused Chinese troops of incursion on its side.
The area, the Nathu La pass, is used by Indians going for pilgrimages to Hindu and Buddhist sites in Tibet.
The region saw clashes between China and India in 1967, and tensions still flare from time to time.
The BBC's South Asia Editor Ethirajan Anbarasan says the latest development appears to be one of the most serious escalations between the countries in recent years.
Reuters cited Chinese officials as warning the development could "threaten peace".
China has also accused India of obstructing the building of a road in what it says is its side of the boundary.
There has been no official comment from India on the accusations so far.
According to Indian media, there have been tensions between the border guards from both sides in recent weeks, with Chinese troops allegedly crossing into Sikkim and destroying two make-shift Indian army bunkers.
The tensions have already led Beijing to block official pilgrimages across the boundary.
The UK's highest court has been asked to judge whether the Attorney General's office acted unlawfully when it prevented their publication in 2012.
The Guardian newspaper is seeking the disclosure of the letters written to government departments between 2004-5.
It has been argued that releasing the so-called "black spider memos" would undermine the prince.
The Guardian said it had been "pressing the government" for 10 years to see the letters, written by the Prince of Wales to seven government departments.
He is heir to the throne and, as the royal family's own website explains, it is central to the British constitution that the reigning monarch should remain politically neutral.
The former Attorney General Dominic Grieve has said that any perception the prince had disagreed with the then Labour government in 2004-5 "would be seriously damaging to his role as future monarch because if he forfeits his position of political neutrality as heir to the throne, he cannot easily recover it when he is king".
By BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt
After 10 years, several court cases, and a cost to the taxpayer of hundreds of thousands of pounds, an end appears to be in sight for this dogged pursuit of Prince Charles's black spider memos.
A final resolution will only be delayed if there's a referral on an issue of European law to the Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
If not, the prince's private letters will either remain confidential, as the sender intended, or they'll be exposed to a large and inquisitive audience.
His friends say he has a right and a duty to communicate with the government of the day.
His critics accuse him of meddling and argue the way he operates should be transparent.
One day, as things stand, he'll be king.
As that day draws closer, the influence Prince Charles attempts to exert on ministers - and attempt he does - has greater relevance and significance.
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Guardian journalist Rob Evans originally applied to see letters under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, but was initially denied by the information commissioner.
But several legal decisions followed:
Seven justices at the Supreme Court in London have now heard a challenge by current Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC against the Court of Appeal ruling.
The 36-year-old, who played nine Tests and 43 one-day internationals, made his views in a Facebook post in July.
Vermeulen was responding to a complaint by Prosper Utseya, which alleged that there was racism in Zimbabwe cricket.
"Racism is abominable and there can be no defence for it," Cricket Zimbabwe said in a statement.
On Friday, a Zimbabwean newspaper published an apology from Vermeulen. In it, the former international said that he had made a personal apology to Utseya, and that it had been accepted.
"I know my comments were over the top and I apologise to all that I have offended. But as a cricketer, it's how our minds work," he said.
Zimbabwe Cricket said: "Mark Vermeulen has been banned from participating in all cricket activities, after he owned up to repulsive remarks that reflect racism, prejudice and plain ignorance.
"We find Vermeulen's Facebook comment distasteful and unacceptable, particularly for a senior sportsman who should have learned from playing in Zimbabwe and abroad that there is no place for racism in sport."
Here in Bidi Bidi it can take you one hour to drive from one end of the camp to the other. But it is not what you might envisage.
Much of this place is lush, green and fertile. South Sudanese are given a plot of land to build a home and farm. They live next to Ugandans, fetch water together and their children go to the same schools.
Most of the area is government-owned but some Ugandans have chosen to give part of their land to refugees, like 61-year-old Issa Agub.
It is getting late when we arrive at his compound and his family is preparing porridge and beans over a firewood stove to break their Ramadan fast.
"I gave this land because the refugees are already here. I don't see them as strangers I see them as brothers. When I run out of food, they'll be the first people I turn to for help."
Mr Agub says he cannot be sure how much land he owns but says he is helping 10-15 families.
According to the UN and other international organisations, Uganda has progressive laws towards refugees.
The foundation for these policies was laid soon after the country's independence in 1962. At the time, thousands of ethnic Tutsis were fleeing genocide in neighbouring Rwanda and coming to Uganda.
A new law was passed, the Control of Alien Refugees Act, which protected people fleeing persecution, gave refugees the right to work and created the first gazetted settlements or camps.
Since then the legislation has been updated and policies strengthened. Over the decades conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, Kenya and South Sudan have meant a constant stream of refugees into the country.
Uganda saw the largest number of refugees of any other country in 2016, UN figures show.
Many Ugandans have also had to flee their country because of conflict and know what it is like to be destitute.
But the scale of the challenge today is like no other many here have faced. Since July, more than 700,000 South Sudanese have arrived.
MP Hassan Kaps Fungaro says communities have been overstretched.
"There is pressure on the resources on the ground. In the market, prices have gone up," he says.
"UN trucks bringing food have damaged our roads beyond recognition. UN and government jobs are being given to people who are not from the area."
Protests have taken place over access to jobs for local youths. And many complain about the damage to the environment as trees were cut to make way for the refugees or firewood.
At least two South Sudanese refugees told us that women had been stopped from collecting firewood.
But Mr Fungaro and others will tell you they do not want the refugees to be chased away.
Near Mr Agub's home a Ugandan couple - Joyce Anguko, a teacher and Geoffrey Aluma, a counsellor - are busy digging.
They have come here from a nearby town. They could not find land there to grow crops and just like the new arrivals from across the border, Mr Agub has given them a small patch of land.
Are they resentful of the South Sudanese refugees who are getting free plots of land?
Mr Aluma says: 'There is not much competition. People here are very hospitable because at one time we were refugees in South Sudan. They hosted us until there was peace in Uganda."
Aid agencies and the government meanwhile say they are seriously short of funds to look after all of those in need.
A pledging conference is taking place in Uganda to raise $2bn (£1.5bn) for the emergency response.
Hunger is a common complaint as food rations were cut by half to 6kg (13lb) per person.
Elias Kandus Emmanuel is the head teacher at Koro Highland Primary School in Bidi Bidi.
"The young children do not attend classes. They come from home hungry, they doze in the classes and they even leave early."
The refugees we spoke to told us they want to go back, where they can have better control of their destiny.
After all, home is home. Uganda is generous and open but this a sticking plaster - the real solution is an end to war in South Sudan.
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Rupert Price Hallowes was awarded the highest decoration for valour in the face of the enemy for his actions during the Battle of Hooge in Belgium.
He died on 30 September 1915 at the age of 34 after he was wounded when a bomb was dropped on his trench.
A commemorative paving stone was unveiled in Memorial Park, Redhill to mark the centenary of the battle.
The citation in The London Gazette in November 1915 said that 2nd Lt Hallowes showed "the greatest bravery and untiring energy" during the battle, which lasted from 25 to 30 September.
As well as the VC awarded posthumously, 2nd Lt Hallowes, who served with the 4th Battalion The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), was the holder of the Military Cross.
He is buried at the Bedford House Cemetery in West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
"Our borough is proud to commemorate 2nd Lt Hallowes's heroic actions and remember all those who served during the First World War, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom," said Mayor Joan Spiers.
"It is important that such acts of courage and bravery are not forgotten by following generations and are acknowledged by the communities that these soldiers were fighting for."
The memorial stone is one of 469 given to local authorities to honour First World War VC recipients in the towns where they were born.
The NHS England review looked at how all 209 local health boards - called clinical commissioning groups - were performing on waiting times, cancer survival, patient surveys and early diagnosis.
Only 29 were classed as performing well enough to meet the ambitions set out in the 2015 cancer plan.
That called for improvements in care so that by 2020 another 30,000 lives per year could be saved.
Dr Fran Woodard, of Macmillan Cancer Support, said the review was "very concerning".
"It highlights just how much the NHS is struggling to meet the challenge of delivering cancer services which meet all the critical needs of people with cancer."
The findings show that two-thirds of areas are failing to achieve the target of ensuring 85% of cancer patients start treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral.
More than half are not seeing 70% of cancer patients survive for a year - another stated ambition.
But a spokeswoman for NHS England defended the performance of the local health groups.
"Cancer care is now the best it's ever been, but we've set stretching goals to save thousands more lives by 2020.
"Measured against this ambition it's not surprising that most local services need to make further improvements, but we're going to track progress transparently so everyone can see how we are improving care and outcomes for patients."
The data will now be used by cancer alliances which will work across regions to help drive up performance between now and 2020.
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The attorneys and researchers say he is receiving payments from foreign governments via guests at his hotels and leases on his buildings.
They argue that a clause in the constitution bans such payments.
Mr Trump described the lawsuit as "totally without merit".
His son, Eric Trump, who is an executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, said the company had taken greater steps than the law required to avoid legal exposure, the New York Times reported.
He said it had agreed to donate any hotel profits that come from foreign government guests to the US treasury.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) filed the lawsuit in a Manhattan federal court on Monday morning.
"We did not want to get to this point," Crew executive director Noah Bookbinder said in a statement.
"It was our hope that President Trump would take the necessary steps to avoid violating the Constitution before he took office. We were forced to take legal action."
The US constitution says no federal official should receive a gift or "emolument" - a fee - from a foreign government.
"President Trump has made his slogan America First so you would think he would want to strictly follow the constitution's foreign emoluments clause, since it was written to ensure our government officials are thinking of Americans first, and not foreign governments," Mr Bookbinder said.
Mr Trump's lawyers argue that the clause is intended only to stop federal officials from accepting a special consideration or gift from a foreign power and does not apply to payments such as a bill for a hotel room.
The riots started after rumours that Rwandans were behind recent ritual killings in the city.
The two were Zambian nationals killed "in the confusion" Home Affairs Minister Davies Mwila reportedly said.
More than 250 people have been arrested after more than 60 Rwandan-owned shops were looted in two days of violence.
The two Zambians had been burned with firewood and vehicle tyres, according to police quoted by the AFP news agency.
Six people have been murdered since March and their body parts removed.
Rumours circulated that the body parts would be used as charms to ensure success in business.
Police spokeswoman Charity Munganga urged Zambians not to believe "false rumours".
"No baby or human body parts were found in any fridge belonging to any foreign national. These statements are coming from people with criminal minds to create alarm among the members of the public and justify their criminality," she said in a statement.
She warned that it was an offence to spread rumours that caused alarm and the police would not hesitate to arrest those doing so "regardless of the medium they are using".
"We are appealing to the members of the public not to believe any statement they see on social media which is not confirmed by the police."
Rwandans are the largest group of immigrants in Zambia, owning shops in the densely populated areas which have been affected by the riots.
BBC Great Lakes service analysis:
In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, two million ethnic Hutus fled as the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels captured the capital Kigali in July, ending 100 days of ethnic killings. Some 800,000 people had been slaughtered by Hutu extremists.
Many of those who left settled in camps set up across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But others continued walking - some across the vast country into Angola, before settling in neighbouring Zambia, in the Meheba refugee camp in north-west of the country where many stayed for nearly two decades.
In July 2013, the UN said it was safe for Rwandans across Africa to go back home, and revoked their refugee status, encouraging voluntary repatriation.
Despite diplomatic efforts and assurances, about 4,000 Rwandans in Zambia do not want to go back - and are trying to get Zambian citizenship.
In the last five years, they have been joined by several hundred Rwandans who say Zambia is more conducive for business, as taxes are not as high as at home.
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The BBC's Meluse Kapatamoyo in Lusaka says the riots began in two poor neighbourhoods on Monday and spread to other areas on Tuesday.
Young men ransacked shops, possibly reflecting growing frustration at the high levels of unemployment and the rising cost of living, our correspondent says.
Riot police had to be deployed and many Rwandans fled to police stations to take shelter.
Ms Munganga said police officers were still deployed to all areas. No rioting has been reported on Wednesday.
The violence shocked many Zambians, who say they cannot recall such hostility towards foreigners, our reporter says.
Ritual killings are also rare in in the southern African nation, she says.
The home affairs minister said on Tuesday, after visiting areas hit by the riots, that 11 people had been detained on suspicion of being involved in ritual killings.
Known as a "duty of candour", the guidelines make clear that patients should expect a face-to-face apology.
In April, the NHS introduced a rule that told NHS and private healthcare organisations to admit their mistakes candidly, and as soon as possible.
Now the same rule is to be applied to individual medics.
Detailed guidance makes clear staff should tell the patient as soon as possible when something has gone wrong, and what it might mean for their health.
The guidance also makes clear that patients or their families should receive a face-to-face apology.
For the avoidance of doubt, it even spells out words that such an apology might include, such as "I am sorry".
The guidance was drawn up by the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council and applies to more than 950,000 doctors, nurses and midwives working in the UK.
The Francis Report into the scandal at Stafford Hospital, in which hundreds of patients suffered poor care and neglect, exposed how fears over damage to the reputation of the Mid Staffs Trust led to a lethal culture of silence and cover-up when mistakes were made.
Niall Dickson, chief executive of the General Medical Council, said that while things can and do go wrong, it is what doctors, nurses and midwives do afterwards that matters.
"If they act in good faith, are open about what has happened and offer an apology this can make a huge difference to the patient and those close to them.
"We also want to send out a clear message to employers and clinical leaders - none of this will work without an open and honest learning culture, in which staff feel empowered to admit mistakes and raise concerns.
"We know from the Mid Staffordshire inquiry and from our own work with doctors that such a culture does not always prevail.
"It remains one of the biggest challenges facing our healthcare system and a major impediment to safe effective care."
Jackie Smith, chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, said it was important there were common standards for nurses, midwives and doctors.
"They often work as part of a team and that should absolutely be our approach as regulators to ensure we are protecting the public.
"We believe that the public's health is best protected when the healthcare professionals who look after them work in an environment that openly supports them to speak to patients or those who care for them, when things have gone wrong.
"We can't stop mistakes from happening entirely and we recognise that sometimes things go wrong.
"The test is how individuals and organisations respond to those instances and the culture they build as a result."
Dawson will go straight into the side to start against Bristol City in the EFL Cup on Tuesday.
The 21-year-old joins the Chairboys as they only have 47-year-old goalkeeper coach Barry Richardson for back-up.
His previous first-team experience came on loan at Alfreton in 2014-15, where he made 17 appearances.
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Mr Sarkozy has been left off a list of those to appear for trial over the so-called Bettencourt affair, they say.
He had denied visiting L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt - alleged to be mentally frail - to solicit cash.
The decision could leave Mr Sarkozy, 58, clear to contest the 2017 election.
By Hugh SchofieldBBC News, Paris
The judges are not saying they do not think Bettencourt money was illegally made over to his campaign. What they are saying is that there is no proof Nicolas Sarkozy personally pressured the L'Oreal heiress into giving it.
So the trial for "abuse of mental frailty" will go ahead - its star accused now being UMP ex-treasurer Eric Woerth. But politically, the news is that Sarko is off the hook.
True, there are other investigations into which he could be drawn. The so-called Karachi affair about kickbacks from Pakistan; or claims he used influence to get businessman Bernard Tapie a massive state pay-out.
But the Bettencourt affair was the one that mattered. Before Monday, he was actually "mis en examen" - placed under investigation - which normally means there will be a trial. Exonerated, he is free to plan. The vision of a comeback in 2017 for Mr Sarkozy - a pocket political dynamo - has now slipped perceptibly into focus.
Although unpopular when he lost his attempt to be re-elected in 2012, opinion polls now suggest he would beat President Francois Hollande in a re-run.
He has hinted at a comeback, saying earlier this year that he might have to return to "save" France from economic disaster under President Hollande.
The possibility of a criminal case against him has, therefore, gripped the media in France.
Mrs Bettencourt's accountant, Claire Thibout, has said she withdrew 150,000 euros (£125,000) in cash that was to be passed to Mr Sarkozy's conservative UMP party in the run-up to his presidential election victory in 2007.
Individual campaign contributions in France are limited to 4,600 euros annually.
Mrs Bettencourt's butler testified that Mr Sarkozy was a regular visitor to her home during his 2007 campaign.
But Mr Sarkozy insisted that he only saw Mrs Bettencourt once in that year.
The argument came to a dramatic head in March, when a judge summoned both Mr Sarkozy and the butler for a face-to-face encounter, after which preliminary charges were filed against the former president.
He was charged with taking advantage of Mrs Bettencourt, by accepting cash from her when she was too frail to know what she was doing.
Mrs Bettencourt, now 90, has suffered from dementia since 2006, the AFP news agency reports.
Ten people are still facing trial over the case, Le Monde reports.
They include Mr Sarkozy's former campaign aide and UMP treasurer - and later, the French budget minister - Eric Woerth, Le Monde says.
Bettencourt staff say Mr Woerth visited the house several times to pick up envelopes stuffed full of cash. He denies doing so.
It had never been alleged that Mr Sarkozy personally received money.
He still faces investigation in other cases - including another related to his 2007 presidential run, in which it is alleged that he received funding from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi - which he strongly denies.
The H3 project combines back office services at four police, fire and council authorities in Hampshire and Oxfordshire, to save up to £5m a year.
The Police Federation said payroll mistakes were among a "catalogue of errors" since H3 began in 2014.
Hampshire's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) said the investment would deliver improvements by May.
A report to PCC Michael Lane said H3 had caused problems with recruitment and the management of staff sickness, as well as "weighing down" police officers with "back office processes which restrict their effectiveness".
In February 2016, 1,300 officers received the wrong pay, while some allowances were wrongly calculated in March.
In 2015, the BBC learned that payment delays to Hampshire County Council's suppliers had trebled. under the new system.
Hampshire Police Federation chairman John Apter said the system had been "poorly conceived, implemented and delivered".
"On paper it looked great but in reality it was shambolic and... the fall-out... has been nothing short of a disgrace," he said.
Mr Lane said the "one-off investment" would "reduce the time officers will spend on the self-service system thereby allowing them to be more effective".
Former Hampshire PCC Simon Hayes said an option he had considered was to withdraw from the scheme, after problems were caused by "IT systems which don't talk to each other".
In 2016, Hampshire Constabulary said H3 was estimated to have saved the force only half of the £1.59m it had predicted over three years.
The force received £1.8m from the government to support the project.
H3 has combined police, fire and county council administrative services in Hampshire since 2014, with Oxfordshire County Council joining in 2015.
Cockle pickers in the Burry Estuary said the leak follows a summer "wipeout" which had already destroyed thousands of cockles.
They claim it is the latest incident in a water pollution issue which they say is being ignored by the authorities.
Natural Resources Wales said it was investigating and that samples had been taken for analysis.
Welsh Water said teams were working hard to maintain services and measure any environmental impact. It said there had been no reported change to the status of the shellfishery beds.
The latest incident involved a break in an outlet pipe near Gowerton sewage works which engineers have been working to repair.
Under the Mobile Infrastructure Project 600 sites where new masts could be built were identified.
But just nine have been constructed across the whole of the UK since the scheme began in 2013.
The Department for Culture Media and Sport says providing services for remote areas can be "complex".
With the project due to end in March, just over £7m of the total budget has been spent so far.
In Northumberland it was planned that 18 new masts would be put up, but just three have been granted planning permission so far with another two in the planning stage.
Independent Northumberland councillor Steven Bridgett said: "Central government has attempted to run this project from the centre. It's attempted to run it from London. It's failed miserably."
He wants local communities and councils to be allowed to bid for money and deliver masts themselves, in partnership with phone companies.
Katherine Singer and her husband Chris farm in the remote upper Coquet Valley, in Northumberland's Cheviot Hills, where there is no signal.
She said: "One of our friends had an accident where he was stuck under his quad [bike] for over five or six hours in wintry conditions. If he'd had a mobile phone signal they would have found him."
The project was meant to deliver mobile reception to 60,000 households and businesses within Northumberland, the Lake District National Park, the North York Moors National Park and across isolated areas of the whole UK.
A spokesperson for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: "Providing services for remote areas can be extremely complex but as construction has begun on more and more sites the rollout will gather speed.
"As a result more homes will continue to benefit from improved coverage."
Horse Sport Ireland is "extremely concerned" by reports of the "alleged circumstances" of the death of Kevin Thornton's horse, Flogas Sunset Cruise.
"There is no way I would ever whip a horse to death," he told The Irish Field. "That's not what happened."
A post mortem examination is due to be carried out on the horse.
The French equestrian federation is also involved in the investigation, as is the sport's world governing body, the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI).
The FEI said it had started a full investigation into the incident, which happened on a rest day between two international events in Cagnes-sur-Mer, and revealed the event's organising committee had filed a report to the police.
"The welfare of our equine athletes is our number one priority," added the FEI.
Thornton said allegations of whipping were being made by people "confused" because he was riding several different grey horses during the session.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Swiss-based Irishman said the 10-year-old horse had "felt very weird" and "suddenly collapsed" as he finished his 20-minute ride and dismounted.
He said he had whipped the horse "once or twice" to encourage it to move forward, but said reactions on social media had "escalated into a witch-hunt endangering my safety and reputation which is totally unacceptable."
"I am very sad and devastated about this tragic accident," added Thornton. "It is heart-breaking to see a horse die".
Vinnie Duffy, the horse's owner, said he was "devastated", both at the loss of the horse and for Thornton's "vilification".
"I feel so bad for him, it's awful what is being said," he told The Irish Field, a bloodstock, racing and sport horse publication. "The last thing in the world I would condone is any abuse of horses. Horses are our lives and our business."
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More than eight in 10 areas need to improve if England is going to meet its ambitious target of developing "world class" cancer care by 2020, according to an analysis by NHS bosses.
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A group of US ethics lawyers have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, alleging he is violating a constitutional ban on accepting payments from foreign governments.
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Two people were burned to death on Monday during xenophobic violence in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, police have said in a statement.
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New guidelines are being unveiled for doctors, nurses and midwives across the UK on being honest and open with patients when things go wrong.
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Wycombe Wanderers have signed Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Cameron Dawson on a seven-day emergency loan after an injury to first-choice Scott Brown.
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A criminal investigation into former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, for allegedly soliciting secret campaign financing from France's richest woman, has been dropped, judicial sources say.
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A police force has allocated more than £1m to improve a "shambolic" finance and management system.
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A sewage spillage has contaminated cockle beds in south Wales, it has been claimed.
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A £150m project to bring mobile phone reception to some of the most remote parts of the UK currently without a signal is failing, say critics.
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An Irish show jumper under investigation after his horse died at an event in France on Monday has denied "whipping it to death".
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The UK's weather service has provided the data used for BBC forecasts since the corporation's first radio weather bulletin on 14 November 1922.
The BBC said it was legally required to secure the best value for money for licence fee payers and would tender the contract to outside competition.
The Met Office said it was disappointed by the decision. A replacement is expected to take over next year.
Steve Noyes, Met Office operations and customer services director, said: "Nobody knows Britain's weather better and, during our long relationship with the BBC, we've revolutionised weather communication to make it an integral part of British daily life.
"This is disappointing news, but we will be working to make sure that vital Met Office advice continues to be a part of BBC output."
Former BBC Weather presenter Bill Giles told BBC Radio 5 Live that he was "absolutely shattered by it (the news)".
"We have one of the best Met offices in the world... there won't be any more accurate (service) from anyone else, far less."
The Met Office also provides many of the presenters who read the weather on the BBC and said it would be supporting them to "ensure clarity on their future".
But a BBC spokesman said they didn't anticipate significant changes to the on-air presenting team, which includes Strictly Come Dancing contestant Carol Kirkwood.
The spokesman said: "Our viewers get the highest standard of weather service and that won't change.
"We are legally required to go through an open tender process and take forward the strongest bids to make sure we secure both the best possible service and value for money for the licence fee payer."
The new provider will be announced later this year.
The spokesman said the Met Office's severe weather warnings would still be used by the BBC.
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Visitors to The London Picture Archive can search any address in the capital and find photos, maps, prints and paintings of how the area once looked.
It took two years to digitise and find the location of the pictures, which are from between 1450 and the present day.
The map has been made from the collections of the London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery.
Images include well known sites in the capital such as Covent Garden and Tower Bridge, as well as less prominent sections of outer London.
Archive photos courtesy of Collage - The London Picture Archive
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More than 3,000 legislators are meeting in the Great Hall of the People starting Sunday for 10 days.
They are expected to discuss ways to reform the economy while tackling pollution that has sparked public anger.
The Chinese economy expanded at its slowest pace in 26 years in 2016.
The rubber-stamp parliament and its advisory body hold ceremonial meetings every year known as "lianghui" or "two sessions".
The NPC's advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, began its meeting on Friday.
State news agency Xinhua said legislators and advisors would, among other issues, discuss globalisation "at a time when certain Western powers are retreating into protectionism and isolation".
The meetings are the first since the election of US President Donald Trump, who has called for higher tariffs on Chinese imports.
Xinhua also reported that national defence and relations with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau would also be discussed.
Prime Minister Li is also expected to provide more detail on Sunday about the country's defence budget, which is planned to rise by 7%.
This year's "lianghui" comes ahead of a major Chinese Communist Party congress, due to be held later this year.
That congress will confirm party chief and president Xi Jinping's second term in office, as well as announce changes in the party's top leadership.
Scott Diver, 16, was last seen at about 14:45 on Saturday 17 September at his home in Second Avenue.
Police Scotland said a body found in a wooded area at Old Kilpatrick last week had been identified as the missing teenager.
The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.
In a statement, Police Scotland said: "Around 13:00 hours on Thursday 3 November, police were called to a report of the body of a young man found within a wooded area near to Old Kilpatrick.
"Sadly, the body has now been formally identified as that of Scott Diver who had been missing from his home in Clydebank since Saturday 17 September. Relatives are aware."
Scott, who moved to Scotland from the Isle of Man three years ago, was captured on CCTV walking through nearby Dalmuir Park on the afternoon of his disappearance.
His family later made public appeals for him to get in touch.
The 24-year-old was also charged with possessing class B drugs. He is due to appear at Antrim Magistrates Court next month.
He was bailed pending further enquiries in relation to a number of other offences.
Mr Cheung, 65, was attacked and stabbed near Randalstown, on 8 January.
He was attacked after his car was forced off the road. His wife, Winnie, 57, was injured in the attack on Caddy Road.
Earlier this year, two teenage girls arrested in connection with the murder were released on bail.
Three men have been charged with his murder. They deny the charge.
Dr Hugh McGoldrick, 59, of Crossgar Road East, Crossgar, County Down previously admitted two charges.
The offences took place at his Pound Lane GP practice in Downpatrick.
In April, McGoldrick, admitted conducting a clinical trial in breach of the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004.
The offences took place on dates between 27 November 2007 and 30 June 2008.
That previous hearing was told he had given an undertaking to repay all the money.
A survey of 198 employers in the UK indicated, for graduates, being good at communicating, a team player, confident and analytical were all more important than having technical knowledge.
But this changed after two years in the job, when firms said knowledge was increasingly important.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) supported the findings.
"Technical knowledge" was ranked 24th out of 30 competencies desired by employers at the recruitment stage, in the research, carried out by education provider Kaplan.
But after two years of employment, the importance of technical knowledge rose to second place.
Stuart Pedley-Smith, head of learning in the UK at Kaplan, said: "On the whole, we found that the employers we surveyed do not recruit graduates for the subject-specific nature of what they learned at university."
He said employers saw a university degree as proof that graduates had reached a certain level of competence.
Mr Pedley Smith added: "There is a well-known saying within recruitment - 'Recruit for attitude and train for skill.'"
Employers were happy to provide training for the more technical areas, he said.
Rob Wall, CBI head of education and employment policy, said: "The UK is facing a growing skills gap, so we must have an education system that better prepares young people for the world of work.
"That means not only do they need higher skills, but the character, determination and ability to communicate effectively and help forge successful careers."
Mr Wall said the CBI had found 89% of British firms had regarded attitudes to work and character as the most important factor when recruiting graduates.
First Minister Carwyn Jones told AMs Ms Clwyd had provided "unattributable" comments that "can't be investigated".
The Cynon Valley MP agreed the identity of patients had been protected in some cases.
But she insisted she had provided Mr Jones with a comprehensive summary of the complaints raised.
Ms Clwyd led a UK government-commissioned inquiry on how NHS hospitals in England handle complaints, and said she also received hundreds of letters from Welsh patients outlining poor experiences they had suffered.
During First Minister's Questions on Tuesday, Mr Jones said Ms Clwyd had been asked "on more than one occasion" to produce the evidence to back up her claims.
He said information she had provided so far could not be investigated because it was "anonymous".
Ms Clwyd insists she has provided substantial evidence, but said it was important patient confidentiality was maintained.
"As I have explained on a number of occasions, unless people want their names and addresses released then we cannot do it," she told BBC Wales.
"We have had several hundred people with complaints about the health service in Wales and the best thing we could do was give him [Carwyn Jones] a list of the kind of complaints that people were making.
"I have been on about it for a year. I wrote a very comprehensive letter to Carwyn Jones dated December 10 after a meeting I had with him a couple of days previously."
Her latest comments come a day after she called for the chair and chief executive of Cardiff and Vale Health Board to resign claiming it released private details on the investigation into the death of her husband Owen Roberts.
She claimed he spent 27 hours on a trolley at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales before dying, in 2012.
The health board confirmed information about her husband's case was released in response to a Freedom of Information request, but denied breaching confidentiality.
It said the details released were statements already in the public domain and were part of the outcome of the investigation, which was completed some months ago.
But Ms Clwyd said she had previously refused permission for the information to be released.
The MP said she would be making a complaint to the information commissioner and considering legal action.
The online retailer will open the centre in Wythenshawe in the autumn, with permanent jobs being created over three years.
The posts will include engineers, computing staff, human resources and operation managers.
The announcement is part of plans to create 2,500 new jobs this year, bringing the total workforce to 14,500.
Amazon is already planning to open a new centre in Coalville, Leicestershire, bringing its number of UK sites to 12.
The company currently employs 40,000 people in Europe and last year created 10,000 jobs.
Mike Kane, MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, said the announcement was "fantastic news" and part of a continuing "renaissance of Wythenshawe".
He added: "A thousand new permanent jobs over three years will open up new opportunities for many people in my constituency."
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The club urged fans to pledge £100 each to help clear debts, as players were told they may not be paid in April.
Bradford say an impending tax bill and a changed banking lending arrangement has left them with virtually no cash.
Ex-Bulls stars Jamie Peacock and Stuart Fielden pledged support, along with the Lord Mayor of the City of London.
The four-time Super League champions sold the lease on their Odsal ground to the Rugby Football League in January to raise funds, with the RFL renting the ground back to the Bulls.
This dramatic announcement will frighten Bradford's fans who have already dug deep to help the club through its recent financial turmoil. To see one of Super League's powerhouses now appealing for supporters to cough up £100 each to keep them alive is remarkable. Director Andrew Bennett appears to be sending out mixed messages in saying Bradford are "at death's door" while also describing the crisis as a "blip". Whether there are shock tactics at play here or not, it is incredibly sad and very worrying for all fans of the game to see one of its great champions in such dire straits. Without a wealthy benefactor in the mould of David Hughes, who is keeping London afloat, the fans are the only option left to Bradford.
A statement on the club's website read: "The RFL stadium deal only enabled us to address our long-term liabilities but could not help us stave off the grave financial situation."
Bulls chief executive Ryan Duckett told BBC Radio Leeds a changed lending arrangement by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) on the stadium deal had "brought things to a head".
RBS said it had not cut the Bulls' overdraft, but that the directors had failed to provide alternative security to secure credit since selling the lease on Odsal.
England captain and Leeds Rhinos prop forward Peacock, who made over 200 appearances for the club, said on Twitter he would pledge £800 to the cause.
While Fielden, whose sale to Wigan in 2006 raised a world transfer record £440,000 for the Bulls, offered to help out by manning the phones at the club during his rehabilitation from injury.
Fan Ralph Scott also stepped forward to pledge £5,000 before the deadline to raise funds at 1700 BST on 6 April.
Duckett continued: "It's a serious situation and it's taken a lot of people by surprise, including staff and players.
"But in the four or five hours since the news broke, the response has been fantastic, the phones have been red hot.
"Someone has just pledged £5,000 and we've had ex-players also pledging their support,
"It is those things that will help build the momentum.
"The passion people have showed so far and some of numbers pledged make me feel very confident we're going to get through it."
Earlier he said he felt the club had to be "pro-active to address some of the issues we've got rather than letting them escalate, and that's why we've gone out with this radical message".
He added that if fans did not get behind it "there might not be a Bradford Bulls".
Bradford-born Lord Mayor of the City of London David Wootton has also backed the campaign, calling "on all fans of rugby league to help support this great institution overcome its current problems".
Earlier, chairman Peter Hood told the Bradford Telegraph & Argus: "If we haven't got cash then we can't stay alive and if we can't stay alive then we can't fulfil our fixtures. It's that serious."
Bradford won their last title in 2005 and have also won five Challenge Cups, but a lack of recent on-field success has compounded their financial problems.
If we haven't got cash then we can't stay alive and if we can't stay alive then we can't fulfil our fixtures. It's that serious
RFL director of standards and licensing Blake Solly told BBC Radio Leeds: "We're concerned as the governing body of the sport, but we're giving them all the help we can.
"We're working with them on a day-to-day basis to see how the pledge scheme is going and trying to give them all the logistical support possible."
Fans spokesman Mike Farren admitted the news about the club's precarious financial position had come as a shock to the supporters.
"We've always worked closely with the club, but I was unaware of how serious the situation was. This was a bombshell," he said.
"We are certainly concerned, but very much hope the club can pull through. But, to raise £500,000 in 10 days seems extremely ambitious."
Figures from other Super League clubs have rallied support, with Leeds Rhinos half-back Rob Burrow using Twitter to urge supporters of rival teams to boost attendances at Odsal.
West Yorkshire neighbours Castleford released a statement from chief executive Richard Wright that offered his "best wishes in their bid to survive".
"It would be a tragedy for the game to lose any professional club, never mind one of such tradition and history."
St Helens interim coach Mike Rush added: "It's sad that any club is struggling financially, hopefully the fans can rally round."
The ATM at the store on Newtonhill Road, Newtonhill, was believed to have been damaged by a gas explosion.
People in the surrounding area reported a loud bang at about 03:00 on Saturday morning.
Police said inquiries were at an early stage and they did not know how much money had been taken.
The spending boost is part of a 96.72 trillion yen overall budget that also sets a record high.
The defence boost comes after a year of increasingly assertive maritime activity by China in disputed seas.
The plan also approves the purchase of a range of US defence hardware, deepening co-operation with America.
Among the defence equipment Japan will be buying from the US, is a surveillance drone, F-35 fighter jets, an Aegis destroyer, submarine construction and spending on sonar development.
The Japanese parliament must approve the budget, but as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party controls both houses of parliament, it is expected to pass.
The military spending boost is the fourth successive increase and represents a 1.5% boost on this year's total.
It follows a controversial legal change that broadened the definition of self defence, to allow Japan to come to the aid of allies abroad, despite a constitutional bar on offensive military action.
The draft budget also features record-high social security spending - the biggest single item - to help deal with Japan's ageing population, and stimulate the economy.
The government said a non-binding ballot, or plebiscite, was the quickest way to amend the Marriage Act.
Same-sex couples can have civil unions or registered relationships in most Australian states but they are not considered married under national law.
Opinion polls indicate that most Australians support same-sex marriage.
However opposition parties and many supporters of same-sex marriage argued a plebiscite would be expensive and could unleash a divisive campaign.
Instead, they say parliament should make the decision itself.
The proposal's defeat in the senate means the issue will be taken off the agenda at least until the next term of parliament.
Marriage equality has proved a tricky issue for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. He is personally in favour of same-sex marriage but is reluctant to allow his own MPs a free vote on the issue.
Labor Senator Penny Wong told parliament that, after much soul-searching, she had decided to oppose the plebiscite.
"We do not want our families and our children publicly denigrated," she said.
"This hate speech is not abstract, it is real, it is part of our daily life."
Greens Senator Janet Rice spoke about the challenges of her 30-year marriage to transgender woman Penny.
"We know that our same-sex marriage is just as important and valid and deep and wonderful and loving as our heterosexual one was," she said.
"People's human rights should not be subject to a popular vote."
Attorney-General George Brandis accused the Labor Party of "playing politics with gay people's lives".
"A vote against this bill is a vote against marriage equality," Senator Brandis told parliament.
"Those who claim to believe in marriage equality, but nevertheless, for their own cynical, game-playing reasons, are determined to vote against it, should hang their heads in shame."
Labor announced last month that it would not support the bill, condemning it to fail in the senate this week.
The move was celebrated by same-sex marriage supporters who widely favour the issue being voted on by parliament, without the need to put it to the public.
Here's part two of our festive selection of science and environment long reads.
Football as a numbers game. By Jonathan Sullivan
"Big data" - the world of analytics, algorithms and statistical models - is increasingly part of our lives, and professional sports such as football are no different.
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Are humans driving evolution in animals? By Prof Adam Hart
Mounting evidence suggests activities such as commercial fishing, angling and hunting, along with the use of pesticides and antibiotics, are leading to dramatic evolutionary changes in other species.
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How do you drill into a 500C volcano? By Rebecca Morelle
Scientists in Iceland are drilling in to a volcano to harness the energy from beneath the Earth. They hope this will enable the geothermal industry globally to step into an era of more production.
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Is there any point in planting new trees? By Isabella Kaminski
Successive governments have made popular pledges to plant large numbers of new trees. But do these trees ever actually get planted and, where they do, does it ever achieve anything useful?
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The huge promise of tiny machines. By Paul Rincon
The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded for the design and synthesis of the world's smallest machines. The work has overtones of science fiction, but holds huge promise in fields as diverse as medicine, materials and energy.
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Nuclear fusion lab faces uncertain future. By David Shukman.
A question mark hangs over a world-leading laboratory that has pioneered research into fusion for nearly 40 years. Fusion is the process that powers the Sun and a decades-long quest has attempted to replicate it here on Earth to provide a clean source of energy. Since the vote for Brexit, many at the centre have become "extremely nervous" amid uncertainty about future financing and freedom of movement.
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Solar Impulse: A repaired plane and team. By Jonathan Amos
The pilot behind the longest non-stop solo aeroplane flight recalls the big bust-up and make-up that he believes has put his team in a stronger position to complete its solar-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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Halaholo, 26, helped New Zealand side Hurricanes lift the southern hemisphere prize in a 20-3 win over South Africa's Lions at the beginning of August.
Since Blues signed Halaholo in April, he has enhanced his reputation.
"I think we certainly signed him at the right time. His value might have gone up a little bit since," said Wilson.
The Blues boss says Halaholo compares favourably with Bundee Aki, the New Zealand-born centre who helped Connacht earn a maiden Pro12 title in 2015-16.
Another Kiwi-bred midfield player for Blues, Rey Lee-Lo, brought Halaholo to Wilson's attention, according to the coach.
"He's a guy we actually got to know about through Rey Lee-Lo and we spent a bit of time watching him at the games and we looked at his stats in terms of metres made, defenders beaten and he was higher than Bundee Aki, funnily enough, from the previous year," Wilson told BBC Radio Wales.
"Granted, as an average, he hadn't played as much rugby so we knew there was something there.
"And I think he's slowly shown throughout that Super Rugby campaign what he's capable of, leading to playing and obviously winning a final, which for a guy who's still only 25, I think is quite an achievement.
"And he's going to arrive with us with another experience that hopefully we can feed off."
Wilson also hopes Halaholo's experience of playing outside New Zealand fly-half Beauden Barrett for Hurricanes can boost his side.
However, Blues are unsure of when Halaholo will arrive as he is expected to play for Waikato in New Zealand's second-tier provincial cup tournament, which ends in October.
The growing band of potential "mortgage prisoners" is thought to number as many as four million, BBC News has learned.
Stricter checks on mortgage applicants were brought in a year ago.
Many lenders are strictly applying checks despite "transitional provisions" allowing banks to show flexibility if existing customers want to move or remortgage.
As a result, some people are trapped in a mortgage deal or have to pay much more.
"They've pulled the rug from under me and I'm stuck," said Siobhan Moloughney, from Bath, who had a home and a steady job but has ended up back with her parents along with all her belongings.
Her recent move fell through after her lender refused to transfer her mortgage, even though it was supposed to be portable.
Her sale went through so she has been knocked off the property ladder, watching house prices rise in Bath.
"It's really unfair," she said. "I'd already proved that I could afford the mortgage and made sure the mortgage was portable.
"I trusted the mortgage company to look after me. It's just cut me loose."
She was refused the same level of mortgage after her lender ran affordability checks on her income and outgoings.
Yet she has a clean repayment record, her earnings have not changed and she does not need to borrow more.
"It is a crazy situation," said Ray Boulger, of mortgage brokers, John Charcol.
He has calculated that up to four million people, or 40% of those who have a residential mortgage, could be affected in one way or another.
"People who have a perfectly good track record on their current mortgage and don't want to borrow more money are finding they are being refused because of these new rules and the way they are being interpreted," he said.
Matthew Whittaker, from the Resolution Foundation, which has been monitoring the mortgage prisoner issue suggested that "between 35% and 40%" of mortgage holders could be hit.
The rules, imposed a year ago by the Financial Conduct Authority, require lenders to take a detailed look at bank statements.
Some have been scrutinising the cost of gym memberships, milk bills, childcare and pension contributions, creating a trap for home movers.
Also on the danger list are owners with interest-only mortgages, the self-employed and people who are deemed too old to borrow.
Chris Baytopp, 59, from Hertfordshire, lost out heavily over his move, because of his age.
"It doesn't make any sense," he said. "Affordability isn't an issue with me."
Many mortgage providers are questioning whether borrowers like him will be able to meet their payments once they start picking up their pensions.
His mortgage was another so-called portable one which his provider refused to transfer. It was a fixed rate, with a penalty fee for early redemption.
So, even though he was able to find a new lender when he and his wife moved to downsize, he had to pay fees of £4,000.
"I'm angry. We had plans for that money, now it's gone into the ether," he said.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said stricter treatment could be justified, even though transitional provisions drawn up by the regulator, the FCA, allow providers to make exceptions as long as applicants are not increasing their borrowing.
Paul Smee, the CML's director general, said that a review of affordability could be in the customer's best interest.
"The rules are tougher for a reason and the industry has to work within them," he said.
"If there are areas where there are glitches, then or course we must look at ways around the glitches."
But Pat Bunton, chairman of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries, said that captive customers were being treated unfairly and that "large swathes of prime customers are trapped".
He advised victims to consider taking their cases to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
The Ombudsman Service has already upheld some complaints over portable mortgages.
"We will need to see good reasons from the lender as to why they won't allow them to port their mortgage," a spokesman for the service said.
"We also have questions for lenders who decline to offer lending despite consumers financial circumstances not changing, or in many cases getting better or more consistent.
"If the risk hasn't changed - or has lessened - we may ask a lender to reconsider if they can't demonstrate good reasons for declining to port the mortgage."
American Rickie Fowler makes up the trio for the opening two rounds at Oakmont, Pennsylvania.
Defending champion Jordan Spieth joins fellow Americans Zach Johnson, who won The Open last year at St Andrews, and US Amateur winner Bryson DeChambeau.
American Phil Mickelson joins England's Justin Rose, who beat him to the title in 2013, and Sweden's Henrik Stenson.
US Open: Groupings and tee-off times
Six-time runner-up Mickelson, 45, needs to win the US Open to complete the career Grand Slam, having already won three Masters titles, one Open and one US PGA Championship.
Australian world number one Jason Day will tee off with compatriot Adam Scott and South African Louis Oosthuizen.
England's former world number ones Lee Donald and Lee Westwood make up a group with Germany's Martin Kaymer.
Three former US Open champions have been put together for Thursday's start, with South African Ernie Els (1994 and 1997) set to play alongside American Jim Furyk (2003) and Argentina's Angel Cabrera (2007).
The accident happened on the A90 near Lonmay on Monday afternoon.
The 38-year-old female driver of the black Audi A3 involved was flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for treatment. She was said to be in a stable condition.
Police Scotland said the road at the scene was expected to be down to one lane for several days due to repairs.
The 33-year-old, who was awarded an MBE for his services to the sport in 2013, claimed Olympic gold in the 200m men's single kayak.
However he failed to qualify for the Rio Games, with team-mate Liam Heath making the GB squad and winning gold.
McKeever said winning a gold medal at a home Olympics will "live with me for the rest of my life."
"Very few people get that opportunity so I am extremely grateful for all the support," he said.
"The memory that stands out for me was standing on top of the podium and singing along with the national anthem, especially knowing that my friends and family were there watching."
He became world and European champion in 2010 and won five World Cup series gold medals during his 17-year career and said becoming a father played a part in his decision to retire.
"Having a son four weeks ago means that I want to spend some time at home and realistically you can't also live the life of a full time athlete which is inherently quite a selfish one and doesn't really fit with the life of a parent," he said.
"I want to spend some time with my family and this has been a strong driver for my retirement."
The blaze happened in the village of Brown Edge early on Saturday.
People living in the area contacted police after noticing flames at about 01:30 BST. Residents said they were both angry and upset at the damage.
The Staffordshire force was chasing what it called "a number of lines of enquiry" and said it had suspects. No arrests have been made.
Ron Howard's documentary Made In America tells the story of the Philadelphia festival of the same name.
Widely considered as the kick-off to Oscar season, the 11-day film festival will feature 146 world premieres.
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts are among a host of Oscar-winning stars expected to attend.
The pair are set to walk the red carpet for John Wells' film August: Osage County, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy Letts.
Colin Firth is also due to attend for the premiere of Jonathan Teplitzky's film, The Railway Man, in which he plays the lead.
The Railway Man, a true story about the role of a British soldier who was captured by Japanese troops during WWII and for the rest of his life remained haunted by his captivity, also stars Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman.
Firth previously won an Oscar for The King's speech, which went on to have award success after being shown at Toronto.
Other films included in the full programme, which was released on Tuesday, include Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey.
McConaughey, who plays real-life Aids activist Ron Woodroof, lost nearly 40 pounds (18kg) for the part and his performance has already been tipped for an Oscar nod.
Meanwhile, the film 12.12.12 about the Hurricane Sandy benefit concert will also feature.
Launched in 1976, TIFF is among the world's top film events, and has served as a platform for international films seeking distribution in north America.
The 2013 festival, which opens with the WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate on 5 September, will screen 366 feature and short films from 70 countries.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it had decided there was "insufficient evidence to prosecute".
Sir Cliff said he was "obviously thrilled that the vile accusations and the resulting investigation have finally been brought to a close".
But he said his naming by the media, despite not being charged, meant he had been "hung out like live bait".
Four men claimed offences took place between 1958 and 1983, the CPS said.
It is understood that one of the complainants intends to use the Victims' Right to Review Scheme to appeal against the decision not to bring charges.
In a statement, Sir Cliff said: "I have always maintained my innocence, co-operated fully with the investigation, and cannot understand why it has taken so long to get to this point."
He criticised the "high-profile fumbling of my case from day one".
"Other than in exceptional cases, people who are facing allegations should never be named publicly until charged," he said.
"I was named before I was even interviewed and for me that was like being hung out like 'live bait'.
"It is obvious that such strategies simply increase the risk of attracting spurious claims which not only tie up police resources and waste public funds, but they forever tarnish the reputations of innocent people."
By Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
Sir Cliff Richard's anger, mixed with relief, seeps from every line of his 366-word statement. The phrase "hung out like live bait" stands out - and it's designed to.
Sir Cliff wants to stop the reputations of other people being tarnished by publicity about allegations that haven't crossed the threshold for a prosecution, let alone been proven.
Although it's not police practice to identify suspects who haven't been charged - unless there are exceptional circumstances - names occasionally leak out and journalists sometimes discover the details through other routes.
A statutory ban on naming would put a stop to that. But would it allow sex offenders to get away with their crimes?
The concern is that if they hadn't been named in the media at an early stage, thereby emboldening other victims to come forward, some recently convicted celebrities would have got away with it.
Last year an independent investigation concluded that South Yorkshire Police should not have released "highly confidential" information to the BBC about a planned search of Sir Cliff Richard's home.
BBC film crews, including one in a helicopter, filmed the raid in August 2014.
In a statement, South Yorkshire Police apologised "wholeheartedly for the additional anxiety caused" to Sir Cliff by the force's "initial handling of the media interest" in its investigation.
The investigation is estimated to have cost "in the region of £800,000" including staffing costs, the force added.
"Non-recent allegations are, by their very nature, complex and difficult matters to investigate and can take a considerable amount of time," it said.
"We appreciate that waiting for a conclusion will undoubtedly have caused additional distress. However, it is in the interests of justice to investigate such matters thoroughly."
Prosecutors received the full evidence file from police on 10 May, and BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said that meant the CPS had made its decision "quite quickly".
But he said the CPS had been working alongside the police for many months and there would now be "serious questions for the police about why this has taken so long".
He also said there would be "serious questions for the BBC in terms of its coverage".
Commenting on the claims against Sir Cliff, our correspondent said this "isn't necessarily the end of the matter", as the CPS maintains it must "keep every case under review" and every complainant has the right to a review of a decision not to bring charges - as one has said he will.
Responding to questions about the BBC's coverage, a BBC spokesman said: "We applied normal editorial judgements to a story that was covered widely by all media and have continued to report the investigation as it developed including the CPS's decision today - which is running prominently across our news output."
Conservative MP David Davis said Sir Cliff's case was "another high-profile arrest which resulted in no prosecution".
"It is time for a complete review of police procedures surrounding high-profile sex abuse cases, and the publicity surrounding these cases," he said.
"Whilst it is important to protect victims and maximise the chances of a successful prosecution, this must not result in the gratuitous destruction of people's reputation."
Broadcaster and campaigner Nick Ross agreed with Sir Cliff's comment that he was "hung out like live bait".
He said police faced an "impossible dilemma" trying to balance justice for victims with "trying not to have a witch hunt against people, some of whom are celebrities".
But he said police did not handle Sir Cliff's case correctly, both in terms of Sir Cliff's name being released and by taking "so long" over the investigation.
Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck said he had not expected the CPS to come to any other decision when it came to his friend.
Tarbuck was released without charge in 2014 after his arrest over allegations of historical child sex abuse.
He said: "I have known this man since we were 19 years of age, that's a long time, and I knew him then as a nice fellow.
"I can tell you so many things about him, he's a decent human being. And why keep him waiting all this long?"
The band will perform at the festival's new home at Strathallan Castle, in Perthshire, in July.
Pete also revealed details of their new album and the name of a new track when talking to BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe.
The Libertines broke up after the release of their second album in 2004 but reunited last summer.
Pete spoke to Zane from a studio in Thailand, where he's now living.
"I'm really looking forward to T in the Park, a surging sensation in my gut. Can't wait to play again. Can't wait to get on stage and make some noise. It's always a good afternoon, makes it easy for me to have a good time," he added.
Pete also said that "it was part of the deal that we play some new songs" at the festival.
As well as making new music in Thailand, the 35 year-old has also been in rehab.
"Carl (Barrat) has been over, and we've been putting the new Libertines album together. All but ready to record now, I think.
"I think we might have written the song that we've been trying to write for years, to be honest. It's called Anthem for Doomed Youth.
"We sat by the pool under the coconut tree and we banged it out. And yeah, it's a blooming belter."
Festival Director Geoff Ellis said: "The Libertines are a truly iconic British band, revered as cult heroes by a generation of music fans and adored by the Scottish crowd.
"They chose Scotland as the destination for their live return on home soil last June, and raised the roof of the Barrowlands with two exhilarating shows.
"We can't wait to welcome them back in what is a historic year for T in the Park, as we take up residency at our beautiful new home, Strathallan Castle."
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Dr Xerxes Mazda worked in museums elsewhere in the UK and Canada prior to his appointment, most recently at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
He began his career at the Science Museum in London before spending nearly a decade with the British Museum.
The appointment has been announced as the National Museum of Scotland under goes an ??80m restoration.
NMS has entered a "major phase" of development with projects under way at the National Museum of Flight, the National Museum of Scotland and the National Museums Collection Centre.
Dr Mazda said: "It is an extraordinary pleasure and privilege to be joining the senior team at such a vibrant time in its history."
NMS director, Dr Gordon Rintoul, said: "I am delighted to welcome Xerxes to National Museums Scotland.
"He joins at a particularly important time as we redevelop our sites and make our collections more accessible."
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Emily Cherry, of the NSPCC, said YouTubers had a "responsibility" to make sure relationships with young fans were appropriate.
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Mr Obama said on his Twitter feed: "Neil Armstrong was a hero not just of his time, but of all time."
Hundreds of millions watched Armstrong land on the Moon on 20 July 1969 and describe it as: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
The line became one of the most famous quotes of the 20th Century.
Armstrong's family confirmed his death in a statement on Saturday, saying he had died from complications after surgery to relieve four blocked coronary arteries.
The family statement praised him as a "reluctant American hero" and urged his fans to honour his example of "service, accomplishment and modesty".
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"The next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink," the family said.
Mr Obama thanked Armstrong for showing the world "the power of one small step".
Last November he received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest US civilian award.
Many of Armstrong's colleagues and friends paid tribute to him as a modest, private man who never sought the limelight.
Michael Collins, a pilot on the Apollo 11 Moon mission, said: "He was the best, and I will miss him terribly."
Armstrong famously refused most public appearances and interviews.
In a rare interview with Australian TV this year, he reflected on a moment during his three hours on the Moon when he stopped to commemorate US astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.
"It was special and memorable, but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do," he said.
More than 500 million TV viewers around the world watched its touchdown on the lunar surface.
Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin collected samples, conducted experiments and took photographs during their moonwalk.
Mr Aldrin told the BBC he would remember his colleague as a "very capable commander and leader of a world achievement".
"We're missing a great spokesman and leader in the space programme," he said.
Apollo 11 was Armstrong's last space mission. In 1971, he left the US space agency Nasa to teach aerospace engineering.
Born in 1930 and raised in Ohio, Armstrong took his first flight aged six with his father and formed a lifelong passion for flying.
He flew Navy fighter jets during the Korean War in the 1950s, and joined the US space programme in 1962.
Correspondents say Armstrong remained modest and never allowed himself to be caught up in the glamour of space exploration.
"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer," he said in February 2000 in a rare public appearance.
Nasa chief Charles Bolden paid tribute to him as "one of America's great explorers".
"As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own."
The accident occurred at 11:30 (09:30 GMT) at Dittingen, near Basel.
Swiss media say one of the pilots managed to escape by parachute.
The Swiss accident comes a day after 11 people died and several were injured when a military jet participating in an airshow in the UK crashed onto a busy road in the south of the country.
A drop in coach parties and fewer stallholders have been blamed for the event making just £4,000.
The figures follow a £100,000 loss in 2012, but the City of Lincoln Council maintains the event's future is secure.
It is however, proposing a 12% rise in pitch fees, which a business leader said could drive stallholders away.
Linda Wardale, chairman of the Bailgate Traders' Group, said traders may not be able to afford the increase.
"There will not be the variety of stalls there and it could be a potential flop," she said.
The 2012 event was heavily criticised for a one-way system, introduced to tackle overcrowding.
While coach numbers have declined in recent years, a council report said there was "a significant decrease" in 2013. The council said there were 438 in 2012, compared to 314 last Christmas.
There was also a fall in the number of stalls - from 243 to 199 - and parts of the castle were unavailable.
The report admits "it is increasingly clear that a fundamental review of the business plan is required" and recommends a 12% increase in pitch fees - to a maximum of £1,411.
Council leader Ric Metcalfe, said that some stall holders were making a "significant amount of money" at the Christmas market and should contribute to the running costs.
"Given there are very significant overhead costs falling on the council primarily but other public authorities as well, it's only fair that those businesses should share the infrastructure costs of maintaining the event," he said.
The owner of the Thomson and First Choice brands said it expected underlying profit growth of at least 10% in the current financial year.
Tui reported a 32% rise in net profit to €577.5m ($634.2m; £418.2m) for the year to the end of September.
In June, 33 of the 38 tourists killed in Tunisia were on Tui holidays.
More recently, flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh were suspended by many countries following an attack on a Russian tourist flight.
However, Tui said its upbeat outlook "demonstrates the resilience of our business model, against the backdrop of the tragic events in Tunisia in June 2015 and geopolitical turbulence in some of our other destinations".
It added that it had seen a good start to trading for its summer 2016 programme, with bookings from Britain up 11%.
Tui's latest update on how much the Tunisia attack had cost it was €52m.
Of that, about €26m came from the impact of events there during the year, with another €17m provision against advanced payments the group had made for accommodation in the area that would now not be used.
The winner is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, and awarded to whoever "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
Over the years, 10 individuals from Africa have been honoured for their efforts:
"The Nobel Committee for the second time chose a prize-winner who was being persecuted by his own authorities"
"After having taken the initiative in negotiating a peace treaty between the two countries"
"The Committee has attached importance to Desmond Tutu's role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa"
"For their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"
"For their work for a better organised and more peaceful world"
"For her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
"For their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"
"For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"
"For its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011."
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Zenga, who played 58 times for his country, has managed Catania, Palermo and Sampdoria, and was most recently coach of Al-Shaab in the UAE.
The 56-year-old succeeds Kenny Jackett, who was sacked on Friday, eight days after the club were taken over by a Chinese conglomerate.
Director Jeff Shi said Zenga's aim is "promotion to the Premier League".
He added: "Walter is a hugely passionate personality who lives for football and is fiercely determined to succeed in everything that he does.
"He has an excellent track record both as a player and as a coach and a wealth of experience he can bring to his new role at Wolves."
Zenga will officially begin his new role on Monday but was at Molineux on Saturday, where he saw his new side beaten 4-0 by Swansea in a pre-season friendly.
Italy's first-choice goalkeeper when they hosted the World Cup in 1990, he spent the majority of his playing career at Inter Milan.
Ten-month-old Aramis collapsed "twitching and unable to stand" after he was found chewing on a packet believed to contain a substance designed to imitate a Class-A drug.
The incident occurred on Kinnaber Beach, Angus.
Within 30 minutes of ingesting it Aramis was described as "spaced out."
Like in humans, "legal highs" can cause dangerously high heart rate and temperature rises in dogs.
Experts at animal rescue charity the Scottish SPCA said they had never heard of a previous case.
Aramis's owners rushed him to the Robson Veterinary Hospital in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, where he was detained overnight and given intravenous fluids.
Vet Ian Anderson said it was the first time he had seen a dog consume a new psychoactive substance (NPS), which will be banned under draft UK-wide legislation.
Mr Anderson, 51, said Aramis suffered "no long-term damage or effects".
He said: "He was spaced out - he wasn't able to sit down or stand up.
"He was twisting and turning and his heart rate was very fast.
"Quite a lot of the time we get dogs who eat things they shouldn't, but this is the first time I have ever seen a dog eat a legal high."
He added: "Fortunately, our client's fast action to get him medical attention meant we were able to treat Aramis effectively and he is now recovering at home but the experience was extremely traumatic both for Aramis and his owners who spent a sleepless night worrying he would never come home."
A spokesman for the Robson Veterinary Hospital added that there had also been reports that another dog owner had come across needles while walking their pet on the coast at nearby Inverbervie, also in Kincardineshire.
Scottish SPCA Ch Supt Mike Flynn said: "This is not an issue we have come across before and we are glad this dog was not seriously harmed."
In June last year, a police investigation was sparked when potentially lethal blue poison was found on the coastline nearby.
Aramis's owners have asked not to be named.
The 32-year-old seven-time champion lost 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 7-6 (7-4) 5-7 6-4 to Novak Djokovic in a thrilling final.
"I'm very happy to see that I can produce a performance like I did the last two weeks," said Federer.
"That clearly makes me believe that this was just a stepping stone to many more great things in the future."
Federer has not won a Grand Slam title since Wimbledon in 2012, but played superbly throughout the tournament, losing only one set on the way to the final.
In a memorable match on Centre Court, the fourth seed fought back from 5-2 down in the fourth set to force a decider.
But Djokovic broke in the 10th game to win his second title at the All England Club and his seventh Grand Slam crown.
"It was a great match and I enjoyed being a part of it," added Federer.
"Winning or losing, it's always something special in the Wimbledon final and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today.
"I'm very pleased with the way things went throughout the match. It was a high-quality match and it was good stuff from both players.
"Clearly we both walk away happy from here. I mean, him more happy than I am. But still, I'm happy overall."
Federer enjoyed the majority of the support from a packed crowd, which included the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The Swiss met the Royal couple after the match but said he was too upset to hold down a conversation.
"I wasn't in a great state," he said. "I was unbelievably sad at that moment just when I left the court, so it was a difficult moment for the three of us.
"But they were very sweet to comfort me and wish me well."
The Fire Service initially said the blaze near Bessbrook on Saturday was thought to be arson, but later said it was probably accidental.
Firefighters were called at 05:40 BST and took seven hours to bring the blaze under control at Derrywilligan Road.
Local UUP assembly member Danny Kennedy said it was a "very traumatic loss" for the farm's manager, who told him that about 500 sows and 2,000 piglets died.
"The clear view is that it's down to an electrical fault, but of course investigations are continuing," he said.
DUP assembly member William Irwin said it was a "terrible incident".
He said he hoped the farmer "would be able to rebuild the units and continue pig production in the area".
The blaze also destroyed three sheds at the pig farm.
Five fire appliances and a command support unit were involved in the operation to bring the blaze under control, while crews also brought in water tankers and a hydraulic platform from nearby towns and villages.
The blaze, which the Fire Service described as "very intense", was extinguished by 12:45 BST on Saturday.
An operation to remove dead animals from the property has been taking place on Monday.
Investigations are continuing to establish what caused the fire.
At least 60 others were injured in the violence as security personnel blocked roads to several important mosques.
Violence has been reported in 10 areas of the region. Mobile and data services have been stopped.
Officials said the Eid shutdown was to stop plans by separatists to march to the UN observers' office in Srinagar.
The Press Trust of India agency added that Eid congregations were not held at the important Idgah and Hazratbal shrines for the first time in 26 years.
Prayers were offered at neighbourhood mosques instead.
Kashmiri media reported that markets on the eve of Eid saw far fewer shoppers than in previous years.
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In the latest violence, security forces fired tear gas and pellet guns at protesters in the Bandipora area of northern Kashmir and Shopian in the south, as well as in Srinagar, a police officer told the AP news agency.
Indian media reported that a 19-year-old was killed after being hit by a tear gas shell in Bandipora. Another protester died of pellet gun injuries in Shopian.
Separatist groups have called for an "austere Eid" to mourn the death of more than 70 civilians in protests since 9 July.
The demonstrations were sparked by the killing of a popular militant leader, Burhan Wani, 22, in a gunfight with the army.
Disputed Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan and has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years, causing two wars between the neighbours.
Within the disputed Muslim-majority territory, some militant groups have taken up arms to fight for independence from Indian rule or a merger with Pakistan.
Signalling a shift in US policy, he called for "a political process that would lead to Assad leaving".
His remarks follow a suspected chemical attack in Syria, which US President Donald Trump called a "disgrace to humanity".
The BBC's North America editor says Mr Trump is now mulling his options and military action could be imminent.
Measures reported to be under discussion between the Pentagon and the White House include the targeting of Syrian radar using cruise missiles launched from US ships.
Dozens of people, including at least 27 children, are reported to have died following an attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province early on Tuesday.
Mr Tillerson's comments signal an apparent U-turn for the US - only last week the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said Washington was no longer prioritising the removal of President Assad.
It is a clear and pretty dramatic shift. A month ago, Bashar al-Assad in the eyes of the US was part of the solution, considered useful in the fight against so-called Islamic State.
Then yesterday, President Trump said his position had changed, that the Assad regime had crossed many lines. The implication was that there could be military action.
But given everything that's been said in the past 24 hours, I would say military action looks certain and could be imminent. We could wake up tomorrow morning and find out the Americans have taken action.
Cast your mind back to what President Trump said about Barack Obama, when the then president said a red line had been crossed and he did nothing about it afterwards.
He heaped derision on President Obama. If Mr Trump were not to act now, he would look weak and he wouldn't want that.
Speaking in Florida on Thursday, Mr Tillerson said: "Assad's role in the future is uncertain and with the acts that he has taken, it would seem that there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people.
"We are considering an appropriate response (to the) violations of all previous UN resolutions, violations of international norms."
He said "steps were under way" to organise an international coalition to remove Mr Assad.
Addressing reporters on his way to Florida to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mr Trump said: "I think what Assad did is terrible. I think what happened in Syria is a disgrace to humanity and he's there, and I guess he's running things, so something should happen."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, asked if he was concerned about possible US military action in Syria, said his priority was to ensure accountability for the deadly gas attack.
He said he could not comment on "things that have not yet happened".
Evidence has mounted that the victims of the attack in Khan Sheikhoun were killed with a nerve agent such as Sarin.
Syria has denied dropping chemical weapons from the air and its key ally, Russia, had argued that the mass poisoning was caused by an air strike on a rebel weapons dump where chemical weapons were being stored.
But the claims have been viewed with scepticism from the US and its allies.
Syria says it would only accept a UN investigation into the incident if a list of conditions are met.
Bale scored twice as Real came from 2-0 down to remain within one point of La Liga leaders Barcelona.
Madrid were without Cristiano Ronaldo through injury, while Karim Benzema went off late in the first half.
"Bale is a spectacular footballer and he demonstrated that by scoring a decisive goal," said Zidane.
"He has not been fit for long, but physically he was good. I'm very happy with him and he's very happy for being able to make the difference.
"More than his two goals, he did both offensive and defensive work very well.
"He improved physically as the game went on, which is important for him and the team. He had a little discomfort, but he was phenomenal."
Real Madrid visit Manchester City on Tuesday in the Champions League semi-final first leg.
"Cristiano will travel to Manchester. We're going to assess Benzema. All that I can say is that it's not a knock," said Zidane.
"I hope that it's nothing serious and that he'll be available for Tuesday. Right now I can't tell you any more than that."
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Writing to the chancellor before his spending review, she said investment was vital for a "balanced recovery".
Some UK government departments have been asked to plan for budget cuts of either a quarter or two-fifths by 2020.
Any reductions will be reflected in the Welsh government's budget, under a spending formula.
Ms Hutt said the Welsh government's budget had already shrunk by 8% in real terms over the past five years.
She highlighted plans for a metro-style transport system in south east Wales, a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay and a "city deal", unlocking major investment in Cardiff, as major funding priorities to boost economic growth.
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Princes Square, a former off-street courtyard in the city centre, was turned into a retail centre in 1987.
A public poll of the country's top 100 buildings - commissioned as part of the Festival of Architecture and Design - named the centre as the favourite.
The festival, which has now closed, attracted more than a million people to events across the country.
The shortlist for Scotland's favourite building from the last 100 years included a theatre, a bothy, a kirk and a seaside pavilion.
The winner was announced during Light Nights, the festival's finale event in Dundee, where the city's oldest and newest buildings (The Steeple and V&A Dundee) were lit up and a lantern parade and fireworks event were held.
The best building vote was part of the Scotstyle event - an exhibition, documenting Scotland's top 100 buildings of the past 100 years, which visited over 30 venues, travelling from Dumfries to Stromness and Kirkcaldy to Stornoway.
The top 100 buildings were selected by an expert panel from a list of over 400 nominated by the public. In August, the top ten buildings were put to a public vote.
Neil Baxter, Secretary of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) and co-editor of Scotstyle, said: "The Festival of Architecture has tapped into a keen public appetite for architecture and events on an architectural theme.
"With over 460 events and well over a million participants, it is the most substantial ever year-long celebration of a single art form in Scotland's history.
"Princes Square is a worthy popular choice for the best building of the last 100 years."
Architects Hugh Martin & Partners have won numerous awards for their renovation of Princes Square.
The brief was to preserve and restore the original buildings but create a modern shopping and dining venue of quality and distinction with an emphasis on style.
The distinctive main entrance with giant metal peacock, symmetrical criss-cross escalators and spiral staircases add to its unique appearance.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop added: "From galleries and libraries to train stations and shopping centres, Scotstyle 2016 has toured the length and breadth of Scotland, allowing members of the public the chance to vote for Scotland's favourite building from the last 100 years.
"Princes Square is clearly a worthy winner and I would like to thank all those who took the time to vote."
Claire Wilkinson from Princes Square said: "We know that Princes Square has always been one of the most special places in Glasgow to visit and that is now the case for the whole of Scotland.
"Every one of the other 99 Scottish buildings nominated for the award are truly outstanding and fantastic examples of architecture at its best."
Residents said at least 30 people were injured, most of them civilians, the Reuters news agency reported.
It is not clear who carried out the strike, but Houthi rebels have accused the Saudi-led coalition.
The Saudi offensive is aimed at restoring the government and driving back rebels loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Some 6,000 people have been killed since the start of the campaign last March, about half of them civilians, according to the UN.
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The strike hit the Nehm region north-east of Sanaa, where coalition-backed loyalists have been advancing as they try to reach rebel-controlled Sanaa, AFP news agency reported.
An unidentified security source told the rebel-controlled Saba news agency that 60 people were killed and injured in the attack. The report included pictures of children being treated, allegedly as a result of injuries sustained in the strike.
The agency also reported that other areas of Sanaa were hit by coalition air strikes on Saturday, but the information has not been independently verified.
The coalition has not commented.
The Saudi-led offensive supports the internationally-recognised government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has been based in the southern city of Aden since July.
Saudi Arabia says the Houthis are supported militarily by its regional rival Iran - something Iran denies.
In a leaked report last month, a UN panel of experts accused the Saudi-led coalition of targeting civilians with air strikes in a "widespread and systematic" manner.
The panel said civilians were also being deliberately starved as a war tactic.
Human rights groups have also said that the already dire humanitarian situation in Yemen has deteriorated severely, with more than 21 million people, or four-fifths of the population, now requiring aid.
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The term applies to raw materials, such as gold, tungsten, tantalum and tin, gathered by miners controlled by violent militia groups.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked firms to audit their entire supply chains.
But campaign groups are unhappy and say more pressure needs to be applied.
All of the materials are used widely in electronics products and the deadline applies to firms listed in the US.
Some companies, such as Apple, Intel and HP, have submitted their audits ahead of the deadline - but many others are expected to miss the cut off.
The SEC would not elaborate on possible repercussions for those who did not comply.
Campaigners have voiced concern about the quality of some audits already submitted.
"We are disappointed with quite a lot of the reports we have seen so far," said Emily Norton from the Global Witness group.
"We recognise some companies have made a huge amount of progress, but it's a question of variation... in the standard of reporting.
"Some companies are just not providing detail on the management system they should have in place, or the steps they are taking to identify risk, to manage risk, and to avoid the risk that they are financing armed groups through their supply chain."
Firms have been asked to carry out detailed examinations of their supply chain - in some cases this has involved sending staff to affected areas, including volatile countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
"We have had two people from Intel go into the DRC," explained Carolyn Duran, who has led the chip-maker's efforts to reduce use of "conflict minerals".
"Many [suppliers] that we found just didn't know and weren't interested - they were just looking for the cheapest source of mineral that they could, and not caring about where it came from."
Intel is part of a set of companies involved in the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI), a not-for-profit organisation offering guidance to firms wanting to meet the requirements.
"Some companies are really committed to this; others are doing the bare minimum because the SEC told them to," said Julie Schindall from the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, the parent organisation for CFSI.
"[But] we must not discount the tremendous challenges companies face in tracing materials in their products this far back in their supply chains," she added.
"These supply chains are global and complex, and have hundreds - sometimes thousands - of players in them.
"Some of our member companies are seven layers or more apart from these mines in the DRC where we're concerned that the trade in minerals is financing conflict."
Apple is one of the companies that has filed its audit, and made it public, ahead of the deadline.
It reported that 21 smelters and refiners in its supply chain originated from mines in DR Congo and adjoining countries. Seventeen of them had been put through third-party audits to track the sources of their materials, but four were yet to do so. Any supplier that refused to cooperate with the audit would no longer be used, Apple said.
While pulling out of the region altogether would eradicate a lot of "conflict minerals" in products, the CFSI stressed that to do so would severely damage the economy in central Africa, perhaps creating more volatility and violence.
Business groups applied pressure to the SEC to extend the deadline, but this was denied by an appeals court last month.
However, the SEC did back down on plans to force companies to disclose publicly whether a product was conflict-free.
Ms Norton from Global Witness said tough enactment of the legislation was necessary to ensure companies did not simply ignore the issue.
"Voluntary schemes simply don't work to change the ways that companies behave and source minerals," she said.
"The conflict in DR Congo has been going on for 15 years. Mineral trade has unfortunately fuelled that conflict, and it has fuelled human-rights abuses."
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The woman, who was 19 at the time, told Southwark Crown Court Mr Clifford had grabbed her breasts and tried to kiss her during a taxi ride in 1978.
He responded with "verbal abuse" when she tried to "push him off", she said.
Mr Clifford, 70, from Hersham, Surrey, denies 11 counts of indecent assault relating to seven alleged victims, aged from 14 to 19, between 1966 and 1984.
Earlier, the trial heard allegations Mr Clifford told one 15-year-old girl that the actress Julie Christie had encouraged him to take her virginity.
Mr Clifford called the 19-year-old woman and asked her to come to his office when she was working for a recruitment agency in 1978, the London court was told.
Giving evidence, she said Mr Clifford had wanted her to find him a new personal assistant, but later interviewed her for the job in a five-hour meeting - during which he spoke about clients including the late actor Oliver Reed.
He told her about Mr Reed's "problematic" sexual preferences, the court heard.
"I remember him specifically saying about Oliver Reed, that he liked young girls, but I don't remember any specifics of the others," she said.
After the meeting, she said she shared a cab with Mr Clifford, who then accosted her.
"On the journey he started trying to kiss me," she said. "He kind of launched himself at me actually, and started trying to kiss me on the mouth, which I said no to."
"I tried to push him off and hold him off," she said, adding that he was then verbally abusive.
"He was insulting, he was saying horrible things to me. He said I had led him on," she said.
Cross-examined about the incident, the woman denied that she had "wanted" his advances.
The woman also testified she had not told police at the time because, prior to Mr Clifford's arrest last year on suspicion of similar offences, she had feared she would not believed.
The court earlier heard from a woman who claims the publicist repeatedly abused her when she was 15.
"He asked me which actors I liked. I said Julie Christie," the woman told jurors.
"He said that he was her agent and he said he talked regularly to her and mentioned her on several occasions."
She continued: "I remember him saying to me he had spoken to Julie Christie and - because this had happened to her as well, by that presumably he meant the abuse that he was doing to me - she said he should take my virginity because it would be my first and then I would fall in love with him and be 100% loyal to him."
The woman also denied being "obsessed" with Mr Clifford.
A psychotherapist told the court that she had treated the alleged victim in 2011. She said her client had looked like "she might vomit" as she named Mr Clifford.
"She didn't give precise details of the abuse but it was too horrific for her," the counsellor said.
Under cross-examination, the psychotherapist confirmed she had written in her post-session notes that her client "feels she's becoming obsessed by this".
So far three women, none of whom can be identified, have given evidence against Mr Clifford.
The trial continues.
Three years ago, the residents of Galena, in Alaska, were forced to abandon their homes when the Yukon River flooded the town. The Alaska Air National Guard and the National Army Guard evacuated around 300 residents from the surrounding area, many of whom eventually returned to find their homes no longer suitable for habitation.
Since then, the town has been rebuilt and one of the residents, Adriana Hevezi, invited British photographer Ed Gold to document the re-formed community having seen his book, Wales: Portrait of an Alaska Village at a friend's house in Fairbanks.
Gold took up the challenge and set off to reach the Alaskan community. One of the first pictures Gold took was of the funeral of long-time Galena resident Sidney Huntingdon, whose casket was taken on sledges behind snow machines along the frozen Yukon River to the cemetery.
Gold spent more than six weeks in Galena, which is just 80 miles (130km) from the Arctic Circle, from late 2015 to early 2016, shooting on film. He chose to use a 35mm Contax II camera made in the mid-1930s and a Polaroid Pathfinder 110A from the mid-1950s, and found himself constantly battling with the effects of cold weather on equipment and film stock.
While there, Gold found himself helping residents search for Andrew Henry, of Ruby, who had gone through the ice on the Yukon River while travelling between Ruby and Galena. His body has not been recovered.
Gold's portraits capture some of the residents, along with their personal history.
I came to Alaska in 1986 to look for work, any kind of work. There was a depression in Washington State so I came up here. I got sucked into adventuring straightaway so didn't do any work.
Me and a good friend drove to Eagle. We had no money and ran out of everything but we built a raft and travelled down the Yukon River to Galena. The raft was 24ft long with a gas stove, a little house on it with a chicken coop and two chickens. We had hundreds of pounds of rice and beans but eventually we ran out. We'd stop at villages and hang out and let the chickens get used to land.
My girlfriend was pregnant and we asked for work along the way. Everyone said go to Galena as we'd find work there. We got here, jumped off the raft - I had already drawn up a sign saying "looking for work" and I put it in the liquor store. Within an hour, I had got work and I have been here ever since.
This house was built in 1971 by Jenie Olson, a teacher out here and it was raised about 3ft after the flood in 2013. The water was literally on my carpet.
We bought it as an abandoned house in 1994. It's just one bedroom, it had been vandalised by kids, written all over the walls.
One of the main reasons I've stayed is I have really great people who I work with. It's a great community - if you're in need they'll have a raffle for you and can raise over $5,000 in a night. There's about 450 people here right now.
To live here, you need to be versatile, self-starters, self-entertainers. Hunting and trapping is right out your back door. Over the years, I have gotten to the stage where the dark and the cold in the winters has really gotten to me. It's a great place to save money as there are no stores to spend but other items are twice as expensive so you have to tighten your belt.
When the river decided to flood, that was the day change was beckoned.
My Mom was up here and she asked me to come up to help her out. She bought me a ticket. I told my boss and girlfriend I was going for a week. I saw a few weird things when I arrived like large icebergs on the side of the road and cars flipped over.
On the flight up, a guy asked what I can do and he offered me a job there and then for $25 an hour. I helped my Mom and a lot of others out and decided that moving to Galena was a good idea. My girlfriend moved up with me. Everyone's a one-off here.
When you go outside you don't know what you're going to find. In the city, if you look at how people get their endorphins, they are totally entertainment-based from an iPhone or an arcade. Living here instils values within you which are useful to have in the first world, like survival.
I've learned how much more there is to learn about bush living but I don't want to be here forever. I have a Ducati motorbike I want to travel on and I want to go base- jumping in other countries.
There's no billboards or adverts here. I think that the luxuries that people have come to expect are not sustainable here. A lot of things that are important become secondary concerns, like what to eat and where to get shelter. In the bush, we just get things done.
This is the last structure on the last road out of town for hundreds of miles. It's right on the edge of town, to untouched wilderness.
I was born in Nulato in 1927 and was adopted right after I was born.
I never knew who my real parents were until I was nine years old. I was on my way to school then my cousin, John Henry, ran up to me and said you have two moms and two dads. I got into a fight with him and pushed him then ran home. I told my stepmom and on the way to school the next day he said it again and that's how I found out.
Once in a great while I'd see my parents but not stay with them.
In 1940, I went to Catholic school in Holy Cross for seven years. From Holy Cross, I went to Bethel and I got married and I didn't come home for 36 years. I had 14 children. Only six are still living.
When I came home I had nothing and was lucky to get a job cleaning rooms at the firefighting department. I was divorced by then.
I have 103 grandchildren. They're all scattered all the way down the coast to Anchorage and I have two or three great-great-great grand baby girls.
I come from the Tanana village on the Yukon River, Alaska. My dad, Sidney, was half white and half Athabascan, his dad was all white - a miner from New York. My mother, Angela, is full Athabascan.
When I was 12, I'd watch the dog sledding on a TV and in 1972 I was a helper and handler for Carl, my brother, at the start of the Iditarod Great Sled Race at Anchorage town, a race he won in 1974.
I decided to try mushing eight years ago and I am the first deaf musher.
I plan on going to college, to do something in the medical field as I like to help people.
My grandmother made my kuspuk [hooded top] this past summer, she does a lot of sewing. My mukluks [boots] have seal skin bottoms and are made from hide and beaver. My grandma got them for me and I've had them for two years, I wear them a lot to potlatches [traditional feasts] and cultural days at school.
The log cabin has been abandoned for as long as I can remember. It's run-down inside with old possessions lying around. I went inside because I was just curious, it was kind of spooky in a way, I felt like I shouldn't touch anything.
I have had this bicycle of over 20 years and, apart from my parents, this is the second longest relationship I've had with anything. That's more or less true, I do have a sister also who qualifies as a longer relationship.
It was purchased in 1997 near my home town of St Charles, Illinois. I bought it at a time when me and my friends were interested in long-distance bicycle trips. I call my gloves "loose dogs" because there have been incidents when I have been wearing these mitts and dogs have run up and acted aggressively towards my gloves thinking that perhaps they are two dogs wanting to play.
Extreme cold plunge mitts are critical gear for me. Being functional here is all about having the right gear and having the right attitude. I wear a thin-lined glove under them and they're usually too warm. Mentally it gives you a feeling that you have a fighting chance with these, that I will not get frostbite.
I started the retail hardware part of it in late 2012 and I'm just guessing I have about 20,000 items for sale in this store.
My customers in general are what we refer to in Alaska as a subsistence user, basically a householder who uses basic items to live off the land to survive. I sell these knives for processing fish and game. The bullets are .22 calibre. Their main purpose is for harvesting small game - upland grouse, spruce land grouse and ruffed grouse.
I'm a hunter and trapper and started when I was nine years old in Iowa.
Not that many people trap anymore. I think that 5,000 are licensed in the whole of Alaska. It is an exportable commodity in the world market so people do it for enjoyment and just being out of doors.
A companion raised the alarm after the 19-year-old plunged more than 15ft (4.5m) near Betws-y-Coed, in Conwy, on Thursday afternoon.
Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue team stretchered her out of the the Fairy Glen gorge using ropes.
The woman suffered head, back and shoulder injuries.
She was taken to hospital in a coastguard rescue helicopter from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, which landed in a nearby field.
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The FA had opposed the re-election of Blatter, who last week won a fifth term in office before his sudden U-turn.
Dyke told the BBC: "This is great news for football. It should have happened years ago.
"There has to be a root-and-branch investigation of Fifa. It has all got to be transparent in the future."
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Dyke added: "It now means that we can get someone in to run Fifa. We can get in there and find out where all the money has gone over all these years and sort it out for the future."
Blatter was re-elected despite seven top Fifa officials being arrested two days before the vote as part of a US investigation.
But after admitting his mandate "does not appear to be supported by everybody" he called for an extraordinary Fifa congress "as soon as possible" to elect a new president.
Football Association of Wales chief executive Jonathan Ford said he was "amazed" by Blatter's announcement that he is to resign.
Ford told BBC Radio Wales: "He's been a fantastic leader, but arguably one that probably stayed on a little too long.
"Let's place credit where credit is due. He's been at the helm and taken world football to be what it is today."
Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney said: "These are changes that we had called for and had hoped would come. We believe there is now an opportunity for real change and reform at Fifa.
"It is important that this opportunity to change the culture within Fifa at the highest levels is not passed up."
Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan said he was keen to discuss what should happen next with other Uefa associations.
Regan added: "We, like many other national associations, have maintained that the governance of world football's governing body requires to be reformed - especially in light of recent allegations - and we are glad Mr Blatter now shares this view.
"We will discuss today's developments and any collective next steps with all other Uefa associations at next weekend's Champions League final in Berlin."
Uefa president Michel Platini, who had urged Blatter not to stand for re-election and to quit following the arrests in Switzerland, said: "It was a difficult decision, a brave decision, and the right decision."
Former Portugal international and former world player of the year Luis Figo, who withdrew his candidacy for Fifa president a week before the election, said via Facebook: "A good day for Fifa and for football. Change is finally coming.
"Now we should, responsibly and calmly, find a consensual solution worldwide in order to start new era of dynamism, transparency and democracy in Fifa."
Football Association vice-chairman David Gill intends to reconsider his decision not to sit on Fifa's executive committee following Blatter's move to stand down.
Gill, the former chief executive of Manchester United, said: "Naturally, I fully welcome today's news as a major step forward for Fifa on the road to proper reform.
"I simply could not countenance serving on the Fifa Executive Committee alongside Mr Blatter.
"I respect his decision but am pleased he is standing aside and by the clear determination for real change within Fifa. This in turn allows me to reconsider my position."
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MacLean, 34, has ceased playing on artificial pitches after suffering two knee injuries but could be in line to play on the plastic surface in Vilnius.
His surgeon advised him to play only on grass after he suffered micro-fractures in seasons 2013-14 and 2014-15.
Saints must score at least two goals to reach the second qualifying round.
The winners of Thursday's tie will most likely play Swedish side IFK Norrkoping, who are 5-0 up on Prishtina of Kosovo from the first leg.
Trakai have played 16 league matches this season, while St Johnstone have yet to get their Scottish Premiership campaign under way, a factor that MacLean feels is to the Lithuanians' advantage.
MacLean has fought back from injury to become the Perth team's biggest goal threat.
About 120 cannabis plants worth an estimated £60,000 were discovered in a police search at Moneysharvin Road on Tuesday 19 October.
A detective said the discovery followed an arrest on Sunday.
He said a small amount of cannabis had been found by police carrying out a routine search of a car at Portstewart Road, Coleraine.
The 47-year-old driver was subsequently arrested.
In a follow-up search near Maghera, a 22-year-old man was also arrested for possession of cannabis.
Police said the cannabis plants were found in three containers that had been dug into the ground.
Both men have been freed on bail as investigations continue.
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The firm, which has been plagued by falling sales, high debts and several management crises, said it had agreed a deal to restructure its finances.
The Los Angeles-based company has been involved in a drawn-out legal battle with its founder Dov Charney.
American Apparel runs 260 shops and concessions in 19 countries. It expects the restructuring to take six months.
The company, which has been trying to turnaround its business, recorded a loss of $19.4m (£12.8m) in the second quarter.
Chief executive Paula Schneider said: "This restructuring will enable American Apparel to become a stronger, more vibrant company."
Under the restructuring agreement, American Apparel's secured lenders will provide about $90m in financing, the company said.
It expects to cut its debt to $135m from $300m through the restructuring, with the programme set to be completed within six months.
The firm said it would continue to operate its retail stores, and its wholesale and US manufacturing operations throughout the process.
It has 18 stores and concessions in the UK including locations in London, Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester and Brighton.
The Los Angeles-based retailer, known for making its products in the US, has not turned a profit since 2009.
In August, the company flagged up problems with its finances, saying it might not have enough capital to keep operations going for the next 12 months as losses widened and cash flows turned negative.
American Apparel was founded in 1989 by Dov Charney. The firm fired him in December over misconduct claims, and Mr Charney is suing the company for defamation and fraud. In June, the company was granted a corporate restraining order against him.
The combination of the firm's debts, falling sales and management crises have "finally proven too much for the iconic teen retailer", said Neil Saunders of retail analysis firm Conlumino.
"Bankruptcy protection is, in our view, the only viable option for American Apparel which is crippled by $311m of debt and is subject to a number of corporate lawsuits, including those brought by its founder Dov Charney," he said.
"Arguably, the big loser will be... Dov Charney, who will not only see his legal proceedings delayed but will also find, along with other shareholders, his holding in the company - currently worth some $8.2m - wiped out," he added.
More than a third of girls aged 10 to 15 years old are unhappy with their appearance and a quarter are unhappy with their lives, a new report from the Children's Society's has found.
While boys' sense of happiness remained stable, girls' happiness has plunged.
So why are girls suffering from low self-esteem and what can we do to make them feel better about themselves?
What advice would you give a younger you?
Nicky Hutchinson, a body image expert who works with schools, said she was surprised that the statistics weren't worse.
"It's just this generation," she said, "you have to promote yourself all the time, it's a PR job."
While people have always been interested in celebrity culture, today's celebrity world is "extreme" she said, pointing to celebrities who advertise their lives on social media or reality TV.
"There's this fake world that they've all created - taking 100 selfies just to get the one good one."
"What's new is that you have to post to everyone - in the past people wouldn't know what party you'd been to but now it's all posted and public - your social life. It's real misery for teenagers."
Social media encourages people to present a personal brand from a young age, and to seek reassurance in the form of likes and shares.
This amounts to "enormous pressure" on girls, says Nick Harrop from the charity YoungMinds.
Therapist and agony aunt Emma Kenny said: "We edit our lives constantly on social media but also we have to look at the deeper-rooted issue - which is the fact that young girls know from a very early age that they are judged on their appearance."
Girls need to know the facts about Photoshopping, that celebrities are being "airbrushed to their very core" and they need to question the images they are seeing.
Ms Hutchinson said girls are relieved when they discover the facts.
She said: "Question advertisements and photos and how real they are. Looking at the stars on the red carpet - ask [girls] how long they thought it took them to get ready."
Having honest images in the house and encouraging conversations about women's aspirations can help dispel the "myth of celebrity", said Mrs Kenny.
She said Photoshopped images are "creating foundations on sand because your looks don't last and actually they're not aspirational".
Ms Hutchinson said: "Parents should tell their daughters about the other parts of them that they appreciate - their sense of humour, or how brave they are.
"It's about letting them know about the good bits about them that are not about how they look."
Ms Hutchinson urges parents to concentrate on girls' qualities and individuality rather than focusing on their appearance - and it is worth starting from a young age.
"I've seen girls aged eight, nine or 10 saying their thighs are too big - it's not just teenagers. Start before they are feeling the pressure of being a teenager," she said.
Girls can learn from a really young age that legs are for running and arms are for lifting, she added, "bodies are for use - and are not ornaments".
Social media is here to stay and it can be a force for good - so there's no point banning it.
But Mrs Kenny says your child will be much happier if you "limit it rigorously".
Girls are spending a lot more time on social media than boys, according to Lucy Capron from the Children's Society: "Up to three hours a night in some cases."
Psychologist Lucy Beresford suggests introducing a family protocol.
Limit time spent on social media, make it a rule that homework has to be done before spending time online, or ban it during mealtimes or on Sunday mornings.
Keep phone chargers out of bedrooms so devices can't be used at night.
"Make it a treat and not a constant", Ms Beresford said.
Ms Beresford said the pressure to be perfect doesn't just come from social media.
She said parents must monitor their own behaviour. "We pick up our way of operating from our family - for example, if you're always going on about your weight - be very careful," she said.
What you say around the dinner table, the messages you send out about your daughter's life and your own life are very important, Ms Beresford said.
She added: "We think we are being kind when we say girls can have it all, but girls can feel a bit scared by that."
Talk to girls about all the options - even if your answer "ends up being three times as long".
Being open for conversation is key - and you can start with the small stuff.
Ms Beresford said: "They need to have proper conversations with you. Have conversations about random stuff - the latest on Justin Beiber, anything, and the serious stuff will follow."
She said people need to be open and available for conversations, no matter how busy or important you are.
YoungMinds' Nick Harrop said parents should take it seriously if their child is consistently anxious, unhappy, angry or withdrawn.
He said: "Let them know you're concerned about them and are there if they need you.
"Try to talk to them openly, without judging them or rushing to tell them what to do - and if they don't want to talk, try contacting them through text or email."
Above all, make sure you get help if you need it - talk to friends, family, your GP, the school, or helplines such as those run by the NSPCC and YoungMinds.
More than 200,000 people were killed when an underwater earthquake set off massive waves across the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004.
"While Indonesia bore the brunt of the waves' whiplash, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand too suffered enormously," the Deccan Herald says.
Papers say that people who lost their loved ones in India's coastal areas are still continuing efforts to rebuild their lives.
"Much of the misery in India befell the coastal fishing hamlets in Nagapattinam and Cuddalore districts in Tamil Nadu (southern state). These areas lay centred on the path of the tsunami," the Hindustan Times reports.
While normalcy has been restored, the landscape in these areas "sometimes points to the tragedy's legacy".
"Thatched huts have given way to housing clusters named Tsunami Colony or Tsunami Village, fishing markets have been built further inland and sea walls have turned the once-bustling beaches dreary and barren," the paper says.
The paper reports about a couple in Nagapattinam who lost both their children in the tsunami.
"I had just washed clothes and putting out them out to dry. When I turned around, my home was gone. We never found the bodies," the paper quotes the father as saying.
Most papers, meanwhile, feel India was not prepared for a natural disaster of such scale in 2004, but agree that precautionary measures have now improved.
"As it marks the 10th anniversary of the devastating tsunami …India is looking back with satisfaction in having created a tsunami warning system that has practically ruled out any large-scale loss of human lives by any similar event in the future," The Indian Express says.
The paper says India has set up a warning system to detect tsunami.
"This is done by Bottom Pressure Recorders (BPRs) that India has installed in the ocean about 3,500 metres below the surface near the fault-lines where earthquakes are generated. The BPRs record the pressure of water the above them," it explains.
The Deccan Herald agrees that "state-of-the-art" tsunami warning system is in place but warns "serious gaps exist in the last mile - tsunami alerts sent by emails, SMS, etc do not reach coastal populations that do not access such technologies".
Encouraging more frequent mock drills, the paper warns against government's "lax approach to natural disasters".
In some other news, many government officials did not get a holiday on Christmas, which was also marked as a Good Governance Day.
"With many events planned across the nation, it turned out to be a working Christmas for mantris (ministers) and bureaucrats," the NDTV website says.
The BJP-led government announced Good Governance Day to mark Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 90th birthday.
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Some 2,018 babies were involved in such cases at birth or soon afterwards in 2013, compared with 802 in 2008, the University of Lancaster report said.
About half were taken from mothers with other children in care. A third were from women who became mothers as teens.
Most babies would have been taken into care at hospital, the report said.
The figures, compiled for the first time using original family court records, showed a total of 13,248 babies were taken into care between 2007 and 2014 at birth or shortly after.
Dr Karen Broadhurst, who has been leading the research at the University of Lancaster, described the rise as "huge", adding: "We know generally there's an increase in children coming into care. But this group is disproportionately increasing.
"Some mothers are caught in a destructive cycle: their child's taken into care, because of neglect or abuse, they quickly become pregnant again without changing their outlook or circumstances.
"Social workers take their next baby away at birth - and the next."
Louise, who is in her early twenties, was sexually abused from the age of seven.
At 11 she ran away from home, and was placed in foster care but did not settle.
Over the next five years, she spent time in nearly 40 foster homes before going to live with a family member again.
Aged 18 she became pregnant and her son was born when she was 19.
"I started leaving him with other people because whenever he cried I just wanted to pick him up and shake him - and I shouldn't have been doing that as a mum, I should have been protecting him and looking after him - but I was going out and getting drunk.
"The social services got involved because I was involved with them as a child. I didn't have family support. I didn't have nobody. I asked them for help but obviously it resulted in me losing my child."
Shortly afterwards, she became pregnant again and was "over the moon" but she had her son taken away from her again by social workers.
"It tore me apart," she said. "I just kept crying and crying. Even now - it doesn't get any easier..."
Louise is now part of the Pause project in Doncaster, a scheme which helps women break the cycle of court proceedings and further pregnancies.
She said she was now planning to get a career and be more settled before having children again.
About 10% of the babies that are removed at birth will be returned to their mothers at the end of care proceedings.
Some may be looked after by other family members, while others may go into foster care or be placed for adoption.
Dr Broadhurst said there had been a "general trend towards taking more timely action, getting in there quicker", which partly explained the increased number of newborn babies being placed into care.
But she said there was little research about why it was happening.
"That's a key question for me. In the absence of any analysis research evidence, what more could we have done to prevent this huge increase?"
The Department for Education said it was aware of the problem and has given extra funding to projects such as Pause, and the family drug and alcohol court, which tries to help women who have successive children taken into care.
The 41-year-old wrote on Twitter he was "so excited" to be fronting the ceremony in January 2017.
He takes over from Ricky Gervais, who presented it this year, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who were hosts from 2013-15.
Next year's ceremony takes place in Beverley Hills and is one of the biggest nights of the awards season.
Fallon, who has been presenting The Tonight Show since 2014, joked he was "looking forward to spending time with the Hollywood Foreign Press before Donald Trump has them all deported".
Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, said: "This is the most spontaneous and uninhibited award show on television, and Jimmy's playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host to enhance and elevate the sense of fun and irreverence."
NBC will be broadcasting the awards live in the US.
Some 18.5 million Americans watched this year's awards on TV.
The Revenant dominated the 2016 Golden Globes, winning best dramatic film, best actor in a drama for Leonardo DiCaprio and best director for Alejandro G Inarritu.
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The news was announced on his official Facebook page, but no details about the cause of death were given.
"It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away," the statement said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led tributes to the singer, who was known for hits including Hallelujah and Dance Me to the End of Love.
"It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of the legendary Leonard Cohen," Mr Trudeau said in a statement.
"He will be fondly remembered for his gruff vocals, his self-deprecating humour and the haunting lyrics that made his songs the perennial favourite of so many generations."
Fans have gathered outside Cohen's Montreal home to light candles and lay flowers.
Tributes are also being paid on the Greek island of Hydra, where Cohen had a house in the 1960s.
Cohen's son Adam told Rolling Stone: "My father passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles with the knowledge that he had completed what he felt was one of his greatest records.
"He was writing up until his last moments with his unique brand of humour."
A memorial for Cohen will take place in Los Angeles at a later date, the Facebook announcement added.
The Montreal-born singer's hits included Suzanne, Bird on the Wire and I'm Your Man.
He released his 14th album, You Want It Darker, just last month.
John Lissauer, the producer who worked with Cohen on Hallelujah as well as a series of albums in the 1970s and 1980s, described the singer as "almost mythical".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today: "He was just an iconic figure, because his duration was so great and he was so consistent in his devotion to the craft, and his devotion to recording and performing."
You Want It Darker received great critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone calling it a "late career triumph". The Telegraph described it as a "bleak masterpiece", awarding it five stars.
The Guardian also gave it full marks, praising the album as "wise and honest", while Pitchfork said the album "feels like a pristine, piously crafted last testament, the informed conclusion of a lifetime of inquiry".
Leonard Cohen was called "the high priest of pathos" and the "godfather of gloom".
But the influence and appeal of this poet, novelist, songwriter and legendary ladies' man has endured throughout his career.
Often prone to depression throughout his life, his often witty, charming and self-deprecating manner was reflected in his lyrics.
Obituary: Leonard Cohen
Record label Sony Music said it was proud to have "celebrated Cohen's artistry" over his six-decade career.
"Leonard Cohen was an unparalleled artist whose stunning body of original work has been embraced by generations of fans and artists alike," it said in a statement.
"The Sony Music Canada family joins the world in mourning Leonard Cohen's passing."
Cohen's songs included So Long Marianne, written about his lover and muse Marianne Ihlen, whom he met in Greece in the 1960s.
She also inspired the song Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye.
In July this year, Cohen wrote a letter to Ihlen after learning that she was terminally ill and close to death.
He said: "Well Marianne, it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon.
"Goodbye old friend, see you down the road."
Hallelujah was covered numerous times and reached number one in December 2008 when it was performed by UK X Factor winner Alexandra Burke.
Cohen later suggested he thought Hallelujah had been covered too many times: "I think it's a good song, but I think too many people sing it."
The singer spoke last month about the prospect of death in what is thought to be one of his final interviews.
"I am ready to die," he told The New Yorker. "I hope it's not too uncomfortable. That's about it for me."
Speaking about making arrangements for his death, he added: "At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order.
"It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels."
Sir Elton John described Cohen as "a giant of a man", while Nick Cave said he was "the greatest songwriter of them all".
Carole King, Peter Gabriel, Bette Midler and Margaret Atwood are among others to have paid tribute.
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Shoppers at the central London store said they were asked to leave at about 15:30 GMT after a warning about a blaze in the basement of the building.
They were led to streets behind the shop while the fire brigade investigated.
The shop reopened after about an hour with no noticeable damage to the building.
There were no reported injuries.
Four-time world champion Vettel, 29, was given a 10-second penalty that dropped him from third to fifth.
Formula 1's governing body had said the German moved under braking as he tried to hold off a passing move from Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.
A Ferrari statement said "a number of new elements have come to light after the decision was rendered".
While Ferrari accepted that the result of the race on 30 October would not be altered, they want the decision to be "reconsidered" to determine what is classed as dangerous driving and "to provide clarity" over the rules.
Speaking at a news conference before this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo, Vettel said: "Obviously I don't agree with the decision that was made.
"I moved over to defend my position, I gave Daniel enough room on the inside and kept the car straight for more than the majority of the braking.
"Daniel locked up so bad because there was no grip on the inside. It looks worse than it was, I don't think it was dangerous, but I have to deal with the decision."
Vettel crossed the finish line fourth in Mexico but was promoted to third after Max Verstappen was giving a five-second penalty for cutting a corner of the track.
Vettel featured in the podium ceremony, before his penalty - received later that night - lifted Ricciardo to third and Verstappen to fourth.
"You don't want to wait so long after a race to have an outcome," said Australian Ricciardo, who described the penalty as the "right decision".
"When you're down the straight, if someone defends and moves one way you can move the other, but when you've committed to it, it's hard to pull out of the move."
Vettel is fourth in the drivers' championship on 187 points, 55 behind Ricciardo and 162 behind leader Nico Rosberg.
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It got the man dubbed the "the iPod's father" - the engineer/designer who sold Steve Jobs on his vision of a portable music player, and then worked to build it, update it and then repeat the process with the iPhone.
In January, Google's troubled Glass computer was added to his list of duties.
"It wasn't handed to me and said, 'Tony clean it up,'" Mr Fadell clarifies, "I offered."
"I remember what it was like when we did the iPod and the iPhone. I think this can be that important, but it's going to take time to get it right."
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Mr Nasheed was the clear frontrunner in last month's vote but he did not get an outright majority and the election was later annulled by the Supreme Court.
He has called for another election to take place under a caretaker leader.
Mr Nasheed is pushing for a second spell as president 18 months after he was forced to resign.
"We believe that the only prudent way forward and the solution is for Waheed to resign and the speaker of parliament to take over the government until elections are over," Mr Nasheed said on Sunday.
He accused the current leader of trying to obstruct the elections "to take this country into a constitutional void and then capture power".
Last month, he gained 45% of votes in a first-round election that was annulled because the electoral lists included made-up names and dead people .
On Saturday police prevented ballot papers from being sent out because two candidates had failed to approve the registry of voters.
The electoral commission said the police had exceeded their mandate.
Mr Nasheed has been heading peaceful protests in the capital, Male. His supporters blocked a main road, drinking tea and eating snacks in a display of civil disobedience.
The current president, who had already pulled out of the leadership race after performing badly in the annulled first round, has proposed that the re-run vote be held on 26 October.
"I hope that over that week, any outstanding problems will be ironed out," Mr Waheed told the Associated Press, saying he wanted to ensure a new president was installed before the end of his term on 11 November.
The two remaining presidential candidates - Gasim Ibrahim and Abdulla Yameen - have been fighting for the re-run not to take place.
On Friday, they had sought an injunction against the election at the Supreme Court.
They complained that they had not had time to endorse the registry of voters, a newly introduced requirement.
The court did not issue an injunction nor did it give a clear instruction for the election to go ahead.
On Saturday, electoral commission head Fuwad Thowfeek said police had entered his offices and were stopped officials from distributing election materials.
Police spokesman Abdulla Nawaz said the election was stopped because the commission did not comply with a court order to have the voters' list endorsed by all candidates.
But Mr Thowfeek accused them of exceeding their mandate.
The cancellation caused alarm among the country's international partners.
India's foreign ministry said it was "seriously concerned at attempts to stall the democratic process", while a US embassy official in Sri Lanka said the delay "represents a real threat to democracy in the Maldives".
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was "deeply dismayed" and called for the democratic process to be allowed to proceed.
Commonwealth observers in the country also issued an angry statement denying suggestions by the police that they had sought Commonwealth advice before stopping the election.
The 12 clubs involved are three games away from winning promotion, but what does it take to go up through the fiercely-contested end-of-season tournament?
BBC Sport looked at 26 years of statistics to bring you some answers.
Since the 1989-90 season - when the current Football League play-off format of four teams from the same league competing to play a one-leg final at a neutral venue was introduced - nine sides finishing as the top qualifier for the play-offs have won promotion to the top flight.
That may bode well for Brighton, who finished third in the Championship in 2015-16.
A quarter of second-tier teams who score first in the play-off semi-final first leg have gone on to reach the final and win promotion to the top flight.
Teams start with a one-in-four chance of being promoted before a ball is kicked, which would suggest that scoring the first goal of a semi-final is not that important at all.
In League One, it is even less important. From 52 semi-final first-leg fixtures, teams who scored first went through to the final on only 18 occasions (35%), while just 11 of those (21%) went on to win in the final.
Meanwhile in League Two, 58% of teams who score first in the fourth-tier play-off semi-final first leg go on to reach the final.
Brighton missed out on automatic promotion to the Premier League by failing to beat Middlesbrough in their final game of the season.
The Seagulls face Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough on Friday, but could they benefit from playing Monday's second leg at home?
In the current format from 1989-90 onwards, teams from the Championship who play their semi-final second leg at their home ground have won on 31 of 52 occasions.
Of those second-leg winners, 24 teams have got through to the final while 13 teams have gone on to win the second-tier play-off final at Wembley.
But what if you have lost the first leg away from home? How often have teams used their second-leg home advantage to turn their semi-final around and then win the play-off final? The answer is "not very".
In the Championship, it has only happened once. Bolton Wanderers lost their 1994-95 Division One play-off semi-final first leg 2-1 at Wolves but won 2-0 after extra-time in the return leg at Burnden Park, before beating Reading 4-3 in the play-off final at Wembley.
In League One, West Bromwich Albion (1992-93), Gillingham (1999-00), Peterborough (2010-11) and Yeovil (2012-13) have won the play-offs after losing their first leg away from home.
Only Blackpool (1991-92), Plymouth (1995-96), Colchester (1997-98) and Scunthorpe (1998-99) have been able to repeat the feat in League Two.
Your team battles their way to the play-off final and thousands of your fans, draped in the colours of their team, descend on Wembley - does scoring first put your side in the driving seat?
In a word, yes. Teams who score first in Championship play-off finals have won on 20 of 26 occasions, while it is 21 from 26 in League One finals and 20 out of 26 in League Two.
Interestingly, there is very little in the way of a fightback in these instances. Usually, when one team takes the lead in a play-off final, the other team will not score.
In the current format, 15 of 26 second tier play-off finals have seen just one team score, while it is 14 of 26 in the third tier and also 14 of 26 in the fourth.
As promotion gives second-tier clubs a huge financial advantage, play-off finals have been nervy affairs of late. Seven of the last 10 Championship play-off finals have resulted in just one team getting on the scoresheet.
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A BBC correspondent who has been to one of the registration sites in Turkey says there are few signs it is ready.
The UN and rights groups have expressed fears about migrant welfare and whether some may be forced back into Syria.
The EU-Turkey deal is aimed at easing the uncontrolled mass movement of people into Europe.
Under the deal, migrants arriving illegally in Greece are expected to be sent back to Turkey from 4 April if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected.
An EU official said it was hoped that several hundred would be returned on Monday.
For each Syrian returned, a Syrian migrant in Turkey will be resettled in the EU, with priority given to those who have not tried to enter the EU illegally.
Germany said on Friday it would take the first migrants.
Interior ministry spokesman Tobias Plate said that most would be families with children, with the numbers in the "double-digit range".
Last year, more than one million migrants and refugees arrived in the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece.
Tens of thousands have been stranded in Greece after northern countries closed their borders.
Greek officials told Associated Press that Monday's returns could start from the island of Lesbos and involve migrants whose asylum claims were considered inadmissible, including those from Pakistan.
Migrants will be taken on buses and put on chartered vessels, under a heavy security escort of one police guard for every migrant, the officials said.
But the BBC's Mark Lowen, who has been to a proposed registration camp near the western Turkish town of Dikili, says the field earmarked for the centre remains empty.
He says local officials are suggesting those sent back here would only stay temporarily in Dikili before being sent to other areas of Turkey.
Meanwhile, he says, boats are still attempting to cross - 160 migrants were caught by the Turkish coastguard near Dikili on Friday and many more actually reached Lesbos.
Our correspondent says there are grave doubts over the viability of the EU plan, not least due to concerns that migrants sent back could be mistreated, with several aid agencies and EU countries refusing to recognise Turkey as a so-called "safe country of origin".
A report from Amnesty International has accused Turkey of illegally forcing thousands of refugees back to Syria.
Turkey has denied sending back any refugees against their will.
On Friday the Greek parliament passed by 169 votes to 107 a law allowing migrants arriving in the country to be returned to Turkey.
But there have been violent protests among migrants.
On the Greek island of Chios, hundreds tore down the razor wire fence that was keeping them in and fled the camp.
They walked to the port demanding to continue their journeys to northern Europe.
One migrant said: "Deportation is a big mistake because we have risked a lot to come here especially during our crossing from Turkey to Greece. We were smuggled here from Turkey. We cannot go back.
"We will repeat our trip again and again if need be because we are running away in order to save our lives."
Tension has also flared at the port of Piraeus near Athens.
The United Nations refugee agency has urged Greece and Turkey to provide more safeguards before the returns begin.
It said conditions were worsening daily for the thousands held on Greek islands.
The Turkey-EU statement in full
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.
In an apparent misfiring, two of the blocks remained partially upright but the remaining high-rise blocks were brought down by controlled explosion.
Some residents in neighbouring properties had to be forced to leave the exclusion zone prior to the demolition.
Unconfirmed reports indicated they will not be allowed to return home.
They had told BBC Scotland they were concerned about damage to their properties.
A controversial plan to demolish five of the blocks as part of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony last summer was dropped.
When built they were considered the answer to the city's housing problem but became rundown and vandalised.
Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) said a single blowdown would be less disruptive to local residents.
Members of the public were kept about 1,000ft (300m) away from the blocks.
About 1,000 households were due to be temporarily moved while the demolition took place.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Tina Suffredini, who lives in the exclusion zone and was refusing to leave, said she wanted the block to be levelled gradually to lessen the impact on the surrounding area.
"I am concerned about everything," she said.
"Gas mains, there's a petrol station a couple of hundred yards away from the triple block, there's a nursery right under it, the dust, the flying debris - anything could happen.
"It could be two years down the line and our foundations could start to crack. I want to see them taken down safely, bit by bit."
Built in the mid-1960s to tackle the city's housing crisis, the flats were once the tallest residential structures in Europe, providing accommodation for almost 5,000 people.
The demolition programme, which changes the city's skyline, is part of GHA's renewal plan.
Two previous demolitions have taken place, in 2012 and 2013.
GHA said the decision to take all six blocks down in a single demolition was taken following feedback from local residents.
It said it would hold consultations on development options for the site.
Alvarez, 26, won with a ninth-round knockout as Smith, who had also been floored in the seventh, failed to beat the count following a body punch.
It was 28-year-old Smith's first defeat in 25 fights, in the third defence of the title he won in October 2015.
After the fight, Alvarez said "we are ready" for WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.
"He doesn't want to accept," said Alvarez. "I fear no man. I am the best at this sport. I want to fight the best.
"About a month ago, we offered 'GGG' three or four times as much to make the fight."
Alvarez has lost only one of his 50 professional fights, against American Floyd Mayweather on points in 2013.
Kazakh Golovkin, 34, beat Britain's Kell Brook in London last week to extend his unbeaten record to 36 fights, icluding 33 knockouts.
Smith said: "I am very disappointed. Canelo was too good. My timing was off."
They also pledged to work together more closely on a range of bilateral issues including trade and security.
The islands, which Buenos Aires calls Las Malvinas, may also schedule more direct flights to Argentina.
The agreements would not affect the Falklands' sovereignty, the UK said.
This is the most positive development in relations between Argentina and Britain for more than 15 years, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams.
Both Argentina and the UK claim the islands in the South Atlantic - with about 3,000 inhabitants - as their own, having fought a war over them in 1982.
Profile: Falkland Islands
Wednesday's joint statement was agreed following a series of high-level meetings in Buenos Aires between Argentinian President Mauricio Macri and other senior officials, and UK Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan.
Sir Alan said the Falkland Islands would be "free" to start more flights with layovers in Argentina. At present, there are occasional flights to Chile that stop in Argentina but this gives the green light to flights to other Latin American countries.
They also said they would support a project to try to identify the remains of unknown Argentines soldiers who died during the war and were buried on the islands.
The Foreign Office said it was the first positive statement the two sides had agreed on since 1999.
The UK's Sir Alan Duncan said: "It's clear to me that Argentina is open for business. The measures agreed today demonstrate we can make progress through dialogue."
Argentina's former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner pursued a claim of sovereignty over the islands and tried to put pressure on British and US companies not to drill for oil in the waters around them.
She required all vessels travelling between Argentina and the islands and those that wanted to cross Argentine territorial waters en route to the Falklands, to seek prior permission.
But her successor Mr Macri, who has been the president since December 2015, promised a "new kind of relationship" with the UK.
The Falklands are a UK overseas territory located about 530km (330 miles) off Argentina's coast.
In 2013 the islanders voted overwhelmingly to remain a UK territory.
The set on the old Granada TV lot in central Manchester was turned into a visitor attraction after filming moved to Trafford in January.
But developer Allied London, which bought the Quay Street site for £26m last year, is planning to build flats, shops and offices in its place.
The set had been used since 1982 but was refused listed status in 2012.
English Heritage said the complex was not sufficiently historic or architecturally significant to be listed.
The set has attracted more than 200,000 visitors since opening as a temporary tourist attraction in April.
The attraction is due to close on 4 October, although it could be extended to allow it to remain open until demolition work begins. The redevelopment of the area is due to start next year.
An ITV spokesperson said: "Coronation Street's new home is at MediaCityUK and the tour at Quay Street was always for a limited time.
"Although we can't confirm the official closure date - once the tour has closed, ITV will return the site to Allied London with the Coronation Street lot removed."
Glenda Young, editor of the Coronation Street Blog, said it was bad for fans and urged the developers to retain something from the street.
"It seems a shame," she said. "Even if there's just a bit of the old cobbles left, or Maxine's bench, or something that we know, it would be ideal.
"Make it a place for people to go and sit and be a focal point for that piece of Coronation Street history and culture. Once that's gone, there's nowhere else for fans to go.
"The Hacienda [nightclub] has been turned into flats, but people still turn up and have a look to see a bit of the old Hacienda."
But she admitted a full tourist attraction would probably not be viable in the long term.
"I think something like that's got a shelf life, and now that we all know they film on a different set anyway, the novelty would wear off," she said.
The German study, published in the journal Heart, found that women who had more than three miscarriages had a five-fold increase in risk.
The relatively young age of the women meant overall risk remained low, but miscarriages could alert doctors to future problems, the researchers said.
UK specialists said that the reason for the link was still unclear.
The study looked at more than 11,500 women aged between their mid-30s and mid-60s.
They looked at the pregnancy history of those who had suffered heart attacks, and compared this to the rate of miscarriages in the other women.
They found that one in four of the women in the study reported having a miscarriage - although this number could be higher because some women become pregnant then miscarry without realising what has happened.
When other factors linked to heart problems - such as weight, alcohol consumption and smoking - were accounted for, having three or more miscarriages increased the risk of heart attacks by more than 500%.
A smaller increase in risk was recorded in women who had miscarried fewer than three times.
The researchers, from the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, said that the results suggested a "substantially higher" risk later in life.
They suggested that a history of miscarriage should be recorded by doctors as an "important indicator" when trying to work out whether a woman was likely to suffer heart problems in middle-age and beyond.
The age of the women involved in the study meant that the overall risk of heart attack could not be tested.
The five-fold increase refers to a much smaller risk - that a woman would have a heart attack at a younger age.
This means that even a five-fold increase does not mean that a woman who suffers multiple miscarriages is very likely to have a heart attack.
Indeed, among a sample of 2,876 women who reported miscarriages, there were 82 heart attacks over a ten-year period.
However, other specialists said that the link between miscarriage and heart attacks remained a concern.
Professor Gordon Smith, from Cambridge University, said that other studies had pointed to an increase in heart disease risk among women who had pregnancy complications, which included pre-eclampsia, and premature birth alongside miscarriage.
However, he said that the reasons why were still not fully understood, with some evidence suggesting that it was not an effect of having miscarriages.
He said: "It is possible that there is some common predisposing risk factor for both miscarriage and heart disease. During pregnancy, it is manifested by increased risk of miscarriage, and later in life, it manifests itself as an increase in heart disease risk.
"Perhaps this involves an increased propensity to blood clotting - but the honest answer is that we don't yet know."
A spokeswoman for the British Heart Foundation said that it was hard to draw firm conclusions from the study.
She said: "While this is certainly an interesting observation it gives no proven explanation for an increase in heart attack risk.
"It's not simply a case of saying multiple miscarriages increase your risk of a heart attack - lots of other factors come into play.
"It's known in some cases of multiple miscarriages that the women have previously undiagnosed heart and circulatory disease, or significant risk factors for the disease, so they may have an increased heart attack risk which is unrelated to the pregnancy."
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The John Gosden-trained filly was ridden by Frankie Dettori to Oaks success at Epsom and in Ireland.
Enable is favourite ahead of last year's winner Highland Reel.
The three-year-old will face a host of older horses in one of the principal clashes of the season between the Classic generation and its elders.
As well as Highland Reel and Gosden's Jack Hobbs, both aged five, the four-year-olds Idaho and Ulysses, the recent Eclipse Stakes winner, are all due to take part.
Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for Enable's owner Prince Khalid Abdullah, told BBC Sport: "Enable had a little blow [on the gallops] yesterday, and everyone was happy.
"She's fine this morning so she'll be declared for the race tomorrow."
Dettori, writing in his column for bookmaker Ladbrokes, said he was "really excited" to be back with Enable.
The jockey - who missed Royal Ascot in June following a shoulder injury, added: "She was the reason I came back from injury so early. She really is special. I pushed myself so I could ride her in Ireland and it was worth it."
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Australian Fisher left the Premiership club on Monday after saying he needed to "make room for someone else" after Saturday's loss to Harlequins.
Defence coach Jonny Bell has been named interim head coach until the summer.
"I'd be surprised if we don't take an external appointment as head coach," Vaughan told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"We are probably looking for somebody who has already had head-coach experience, to keep us moving in the right direction. We have had interest from very talented people.
"We are already moving down the track on an appointment and hopefully we'll be able to make an announcement fairly shortly."
Vaughan was also keen to stress that the potential takeover of the Cherry and Whites by Montpellier owner Mohed Altrad would have no influence on the recruitment process.
"There is zero impact, interest or involvement from anybody outside the club with regards to this appointment," Vaughan added. "Myself and David Humphreys are leading that and will be the total decision-makers on any appointment.
"If there is a swift appointment then hopefully it will just serve to show people that the autonomy is there anyway."
Gloucester have had "discussions" with the France-based billionaire but any takeover deal needs approval from the Rugby Football Union, French Rugby Federation, European Professional Club Rugby and World Rugby bodies, as Montpellier compete in the European Champions Cup as well as the French Top 14.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was "not a safe, effective or responsive service", said the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The report said there were also concerns about a lack of beds and "urgent action" was needed.
The trust said it would improve services and put patients first.
The CQC report found:
The report recommends leadership "must be more visible and accessible to staff".
But the report also said: "Staff were kind, caring and responsive to people and were skilled in the delivery of care."
Dr Paul Lelliott, CQC's deputy chief Inspector of hospitals, said: "We found a number of serious problems when we inspected the services run by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
"We were concerned about the safety and quality of care provided by some of the trust's services," he added.
"We were also struck by the low morale of many of the staff that we interviewed who told us that their voices were not heard by those managing the trust."
Trust chief executive Michael Scott said: "Our priority is to make sure we work with staff to improve the services we provide across Norfolk and Suffolk.
"We are under new management, the new team is bedding in, and there is no complacency on our part about the need to continue to deliver improvements.
"I would like to assure our patients, staff and our partners that this is a turning point for the trust and we will continue to do everything possible to address all of the recommendations the CQC has made."
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health in Norfolk and Suffolk said: "The regulator confirms what our campaign has consistently said for more than a year."
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Along with key defender Ben Davies, Ramsey is suspended for the historic semi-final after being booked for handball in the 3-1 win over Belgium.
"It was a sort of natural reaction and I knew straight away it was a yellow," said the 25-year-old midfielder.
"I'm really gutted. I'm confident in the players we have to step in and get us to the final."
Ramsey made two of Wales' goals as part of a sparkling individual display that helped them reach the last four of a major tournament for the first time.
The influential Arsenal player now has four assists in five games in France, the joint-highest in the finals along with Belgium forward Eden Hazard.
Ramsey, whose other booking came in stoppage-time during the last-16 win over Northern Ireland, added: "It was up there with the best performances of my career, especially on the stage that it was.
"I wanted to stand up and be counted, so I am delighted I was able to help my team and grab a couple of assists that meant we won quite comfortably in the end.
"Now we have to beat Portugal. I am sure it will sink in before then that I will not be playing - but I will be right behind my team, cheering them on and kicking every ball. I will be right in the mix of it, so hopefully they can do it."
Davies, who plays on the left-hand side of three centre-backs, will also miss the biggest night in Welsh football history after his caution for a first-half foul on Kevin de Bruyne.
Like Ramsey, the Tottenham defender has played in every Wales game in France, but is suspended after picking up two bookings - his other came for a foul on Adam Lallana during the 2-1 defeat by England in the group stage.
West Ham's James Collins is likely to replace Davies against Portugal, while Jonny Williams could come into midfield for Ramsey.
"Obviously it is a blow because Ben and Aaron have started every game for us," said fellow defender James Chester.
"Aaron has undoubtedly got amazing ability, but the amount of work he puts in sometimes gets overlooked, while I think Ben has been our stand-out defender in the tournament.
"The biggest thing we have in our squad now is strength in depth and players who are playing at the top level - so hopefully it will not hamper us too much."
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Other Wales players talked about how emotional the dressing room was after the Belgium game, and manager Chris Coleman spoke of his sympathy for the suspended duo.
When he stopped to face the media in the early hours of Saturday, Ramsey was clearly torn between immense pride at his part in a memorable victory and the knowledge he will only feature again at Euro 2016 if Wales reach the final at Paris' Stade de France on 10 July.
"It was a very special night for us," Ramsey added. "We have a great team, great staff and great fans - and when you have the right balance then special nights like this can happen.
"Of course everyone is ready to step in for myself and Ben. Everyone wants to achieve something special for each other. We are a team and we showed it against Belgium.
"The fact it is Gareth Bale versus [Real Madrid team-mate] Cristiano Ronaldo on Wednesday is going to be mentioned - but Gareth will tell you himself that it is not about that.
"It is about this team showing what we are capable of doing and getting to the final."
The region has asked the Treasury for control of more budgets in areas including transport and housing.
Tameside Council leader Kieran Quinn said the money would prove the government was "serious" about its plan to boost the North of England economy.
The government said it was "determined" to build a more balanced economy.
Mr Quinn said: "We know [Chancellor] George Osborne's view and we know that there are people within the cabinet who don't like the speed of change.
"This is a very wide-ranging and significant submission to government which absolutely shows Greater Manchester's ambitions.
"If we don't get close to what our ambitions are then I think it will show that in reality this was a pre-election matter to get them over a line."
The Northern Powerhouse is Mr Osborne's plan for boosting the economies of the North of England through devolved powers and greater investment in infrastructure.
In a statement the government said; "We are absolutely determined to end the decades-old gap between the North and South by building a more balanced and resilient economy for working people.
"Greater Manchester broke new ground by being the first area to secure a landmark deal devolving far-reaching powers over transport, housing, planning and policing, and we welcome its new proposals to have an even greater say.
"This will now be considered as part of the spending review process."
The results of the review will be announced on 25 November.
Gloucestershire looked in trouble at 157-5 before the pair came together.
But Marshall made 123 and fellow New Zealander Noema-Barnett struck 84 as the hosts finished on 336-5.
England's Moeen Ali (0-32), playing his first game for Worcestershire in 2016, failed to pick up a wicket.
Phytophthora ramorum was first found in Dumfries and Galloway in 2010 but is now widespread in the region.
Forestry Commission Scotland said the impact at the Galloway Forest Park was particularly stark.
It said the only way to tackle the disease was to fell infected trees and those nearby over the next few years.
Keith Muir, head of tourism for the FCS team in Galloway, said: "The impact on Galloway forests will be huge.
"Within Galloway Forest Park, much of the larch can be found in highly visible areas, often close to our visitor centres, walking and mountain biking routes.
"There is a lot of forestry activity going on at the moment and this will continue for the foreseeable future so this is really a call to make all visitors - and locals - aware of the need for additional caution."
He said efforts were now being made to remove as many larch trees as possible from the most heavily-visited areas before the busier 2014 tourist season.
"This will mean that there will be a lot of heavy machinery on site and more timber lorries than usual working in the forests and some of the minor roads," he said.
"Unfortunately this means that there will be ongoing disruptions for visitors and trail users and there will be times when certain routes and car parks will be closed.
"There will be diversions in place, which might change from day to day, so people need to take extra care, especially local residents who visit the forest on a daily basis."
He apologised for any inconvenience and said every effort would be made to limit disruption.
"The forest park very much remains open and visitors are extremely welcome but we would ask that everyone make themselves aware of and observe the biosecurity guidance notices on site and online," he added.
Researchers scoured the clothes and boots of tourists and scientists visiting the continent and found that most were carrying plant seeds.
Alien plants already grow on the fast-warming Antarctic Peninsula.
Writing inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the team says the plants are likely to spread as the climate warms.
"People in the past have been sceptical, saying, 'It's largely ice-covered so it's unlikely that plants will establish themselves'," said lead researcher Steven Chown from Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
"[They're] forgetting that probably less than 1%, but still a significant area, is ice-free - some of that's in the peninsula region, and it's been warming very quickly."
The Antarctic Peninsula, which runs up towards the southern tip of South America, has warmed by about 3C over half a century, much faster than the global average.
As a result, ice cover is dwindling.
Many islands in the sub-Antarctic region have seen significant ecological changes due to invasive species that have either arrived accidentally or deliberately.
The research team believes that the Antarctic Peninsula and some other areas around the continent's coast could see similar changes in decades to come.
"Antarctica has a native ecology - a very well-established microbial ecology, and on the peninsula it has two species of indigenous plants," Prof Chown told BBC News.
"And it will be changed by species coming in."
The marine environment is changing too, with giant crabs establishing themselves in waters that were previously too cold.
During International Polar Year in 2007-08, the research team took samples from tourists and tourism operators, and scientists and their support staff.
On average, each visitor carried 9.5 seeds into the White Continent, though scientists carried far more each than tourists.
"What we found was that people's boots and bags were the things that had most material attached," said Kevin Hughes from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
"I guess the tongue of the boot is an ideal place for seeds to be caught when you're tying up your laces. But we did find them in various bits of clothing as well."
Extrapolating from their figures, this means that about 70,000 seeds arrive on Antarctica each year.
The places that tourists visit tend to be the warmest bits of the continent - which are also the places where seeds are most likely to survive.
The researchers found that although many of the seeds originated in South America, a large number came from the Northern Hemisphere.
About half of them came from cold regions and would probably be viable in the warmer bits of Antarctica.
The researchers also collated evidence from other scientists on organisms that have already established themselves.
Deception Island, 100km north-west of the peninsula, has already been colonised by two grass species and two springtails - tiny animals that live in topsoil and leaf litter.
On the western slopes of the peninsula itself, the grass speciesPoa annuahas established itself close to four research stations - implying that it has probably been brought, inadvertently, by visiting scientists.
Poa annuahas already taken over several sub-Antarctic islands where it dominates vegetation.
The researchers suggest that measures be taken as soon as possible to tackle invasive species that are already there, and to prevent the arrival of new ones, as far as possible.
Dr Hughes has already "eradicated" a South American member of the aster family from Deception Island, where tourists regularly stop to visit an old whaling base, by the simple measure of pulling up the single specimen he found.
But with some of the more widespread species, they fear it could already be too late.
The International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators (IAATO), which covers most companies in the area, already takes pains to make sure tourists arrive seed-free; and some countries' science organisations have similar requirements.
"We can use guidelines for vehicles, make sure cargo hasn't got seeds and invertebrates on it, make sure clothing is clean and that we bring fresh boots," said Dr Hughes.
"[However,] I think it's safe to say that wherever people go, it's inevitable that they bring other species with them; and no matter what we do, our best efforts will only reduce the rate at which species are introduced, we'll never prevent it altogether."
There is no legal obligation to clean up accidentally introduced alien species under the Antarctic Treaty.
But this team of scientists believes there is a moral obligation to do so, and to block new arrivals as far as possible.
One complicating factor for the Antarctic Peninsula and its islands is that some seeds are known to arrive carried on the wind from South America.
But, argues Prof Chown, there is still an element of human agency about these wind-blown cases in that the plants can only establish themselves under climatic conditions created largely through humanity's production of greenhouse gases.
If nothing is done, he says, small pockets of the unsullied continent may, in 100 years, look very like sub-Antarctic islands such as South Georgia where alien plants and animals, particularly rats, have dramatically changed the local ecology.
"South Georgia is a great sentinel of what could happen in the area in the next few hundred years," he said.
"My suspicion is that if you didn't take any biosecurity measures you'd end up with a system that would look like a weedy environment with rats, sparrows andPoa annua."
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In a statement released at their annual conference, they said violence was getting more ferocious than ever.
The government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner responded by saying this was a "deliberate attempt" to blame it for the insecurity.
Her administration has had clashes with the Catholic church before.
On Friday's statement, the bishops focused mainly on the rising violence.
"We notice with pain and concern that Argentina is sick with violence. Some symptoms are clear, others more subtle," they wrote.
"Criminal acts have not only risen in number but in aggressiveness - a violence ever more ferocious and merciless."
It says that the Church wishes to see judges and prosecutors acting swiftly, independently and calmly.
They also criticised "public and private" corruption, calling it a real "social cancer", which causes "injustice and death".
However the bishops warned people against acts of vengeance or taking justice into their own hands.
Argentina's chief of cabinet, Jorge Capitanich, reacted to the statement saying there was a "deliberate attempt" by the opposition to blame Mrs Fernandez de Kirchner's government for the violence.
"Many of those who want to be presidential candidates [in October 2015] have had serious trouble on this issue in their districts," Mr Capitanich said.
The bishops' statement also points a finger at the media for not always reporting "objectively and respecting privacy" and for promoting "divisions and aggressiveness".
Mrs Fernandez de Kirchner's relationship with the church has never been as tense as that of her predecessor and late husband, Nestor Kirchner.
In 2010, when Argentina became the first South American country to legalise gay marriage, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio attacked the government.
There have also been clashes over the issue of abortion.
However, since the appointment of Pope Francis, in 2013, relations have thawed to some extent, with the president meeting the leader of the church three times since then, correspondents say.
Ko hit a final round seven-under 65 as she eased to victory by nine shots to overtake South Korean Inbee Park, who was not playing in the tournament.
It was the 18-year-old's fourth round of under 70 as she became the youngest to earn 10 wins on the LPGA Tour.
England's Charley Hull (70) was fourth on 10 under, while Scotland's Catriona Matthew (75) finished on three under.
The Nigerians beat Algeria 2-1 on Saturday to win the trophy having already sealed a place at the Olympics.
Despite the success Siasia does not feel his side were at their best.
"We are happy we've won a very difficult tournament but there's a lot of work to be done between now and August," he told BBC Sport.
"I wasn't even sure we could make it to the final but through hard work and intense discussions after every game ensured the boys corrected their mistakes - we came out victorious.
"There can be no substitute for hard work, concentration, serious focus and that's what we're going to do.
"If you don't get it right, you're in trouble at a major tournament like the Olympics. We still have a lot of tidying up to do over all.
"I have to thank the players for what they have done but they should not let it get to their heads because we need to correct our mistakes and improve our game before the Olympics."
Even though Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, after crashing out in the group stages of the maiden African Under-23 Championship in Morocco in 2011, they boast a proud record at The Games.
They made Olympic football history in 1996 by becoming the first African team to win the gold medal and were also runners-up at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when Siasia also coached the side.
Meanwhile, Nigeria and runners-up Algeria alongside South Africa will represent Africa at Rio 2016 Olympics, all of the qualifiers will be allowed to include three players over 23 in their final squad for the Gamesa.
It is the first time that both the South Africa men's and women's football teams have qualified for an Olympics.
Branches in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Llangefni on Anglesey, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Abergele, Conwy county and Monmouth are all affected.
The move is part of a UK-wide overhaul of the UK's second largest mutual, which is putting 440 jobs at risk.
Yorkshire will shut 20 branches this year and it will close down the Norwich and Peterborough building society brand, which it now owns.
It follows an announcement by HSBC on Tuesday that nine of its branches would close in Wales.
The ability of relatives of the 11-month-old girl to protect her from harm was being assessed by Cheshire East Council's social workers.
Mr Justice MacDonald, sitting in Liverpool, said the assessments contained "patent defects".
The council said it had not met the "high professional standards" expected.
The private family court hearing was considering where the girl should live after she suffered serious head injuries while living with her parents.
A previous court judgement found she had sustained head injuries on two separate occasions that were "on the balance of probabilities" caused by her mother.
The court also found the girl's father had caused her emotional harm.
The council had chosen some relatives to care for the baby but other family members had objected.
None of the family members involved can be named for legal reasons.
The judge said assessments contained "patent defects" caused by social work which was "at best lackadaisical and at worst in contravention of statutory guidance".
He named two social workers who he said had carried out "inadequate and fundamentally flawed" assessments, adding that "the serious mistakes made by Cheshire East Borough Council in this case are of very real concern and must not be repeated".
Kath O'Dwyer, responsible for children's services at the local authority, said: "Cheshire East Council apologises unreservedly for the failings highlighted in the court judgement.
"Lessons will be learned and staff training and procedures will be reviewed and reinforced to ensure such failings are not repeated".
Further assessments of the relatives' ability to care for the child have been ordered by the judge, with the costs to be met by Cheshire East Council.
Republican Matt Rinaldi accused a Hispanic Democrat of "threatening his life" and said another Democrat had assaulted him.
It happened after he told a group of Democrats he had called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The protest targeted a bill to make local police enforce immigration laws.
The bill is aimed at so-called "sanctuary cities", where many undocumented migrants live and officials including police are not allowed to ask about an individual's immigration status in the course of their duties.
President Trump has pledged to end the practice.
Protesters opposing the so-called SB4 bill began cheering and chanting from the public gallery of the capital building in Austin, bringing proceedings to a halt on the final day of the legislative session before they were removed by state troopers.
Mr Rinaldi then called ICE before reportedly walking over to a group of Hispanic legislators and telling them what he had done.
"This is BS. That's why I called ICE," ABC news agency quoted him as saying.
He later told the Texas Tribune that the protesters, some of whom he said had T-shirts saying "We are illegal and here to stay" were "disrupting and breaking the law".
Mr Rinaldi and several Democrats have traded lurid accusations about what happened next.
The Republican released a statement in which he accused Representative Poncho Nevarez of saying he would "get me on the way to my car" and said Ramon Romero had assaulted him while other Democrats had had to be held back by colleagues.
Mr Rinaldi said he had told Mr Nevarez that he would "shoot him in self-defence" and said he was currently under police protection.
Democrats meanwhile said Mr Rinaldi had shouted expletives at them and said his call to ICE showed how the new law could be abused.
"Matt Rinaldi looked into the gallery and saw Hispanic people and automatically assumed they were undocumented. He racial profiled every single person that was in the gallery today. He created the scenario that so many of us fear," the Texas Tribune quoted Mr Romero as saying.
Mr Nevarez branded Mr Rinaldi a "liar and a hateful man".
Mr Trump has called for a federal funding cut for those municipalities that refuse to hand over their undocumented residents and said he will focus on deporting criminals first.
Even before the Westgate shoot-out, al-Shabab had been trying to use English-language Twitter accounts to broadcast its message to the wider world. However, accounts thought to be used by the group had already been shut down by Twitter twice in the past nine months.
Each time, however, the account has re-appeared under a slightly different name.
During the attack on Westgate, an al-Shabab linked account began putting out messages saying the attack was in retaliation for Kenyan forces' "crimes" in Somalia and referring to "fighting the Kenyan kuffar [infidels] inside their own turf".
That account in turn was suspended and others have appeared over the course of the siege, all of them using similar language, causing confusion over which one, if any, was genuine.
On Tuesday yet another account was created, and an al-Shabab spokesman confirmed to the BBC that it was their account. As of Tuesday afternoon, it was still active.
Like the previous accounts, it has also taken to gloating over the attack and urging Kenyans to put pressure on their government to withdraw forces from Somalia.
One message reads: "You could have avoided all this and lived your lives with relative safety. Remove your forces from our country and peace will come #Westgate."
The account also tweeted a photo originally posted by another, mainly Arabic-language, account affiliated to al-Shabab claiming to show two of the attackers inside the shopping complex.
This feed has managed to stay on Twitter since being set up on 1 May. It has also been giving updates during the current crisis, some of them in English.
Clearly aware of how the crisis is being covered in the international media, it refers to rumours that Samantha Lewthwaite, the British widow of one of the bombers that carried out the 7/7 attack in London in 2005, is involved in the Westgate attack, even using the "white widow" nickname given to her in the press.
Kenyan security officials have also been tweeting prolifically throughout the crisis, with police providing many announcements in the form of tweets.
The inspector general of Kenya's national police service, David Kimaiyo, announced after the crisis began on Saturday that the area was surrounded by police and appealed for the public and media organisations to stay away from the scene.
He has been giving a regular stream of updates ever since, as has the account for the Kenyan police.
However, verifiable facts about the situation inside the mall have at times been difficult to come by, with an apparent lack of co-ordination in the messages being given by different branches of government.
For example, on Monday the Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said in a US television interview that "two or three" Americans and one British woman were among the attackers.
On the same evening her cabinet colleague Joseph Ole Lenku sent a tweet stating: "All terrorists are male".
Also on Monday evening several official accounts began to suggest the crisis was drawing to a close. "We're in control of #Westgate", read one message from the interior ministry, while other accounts linked to Kenyan security forces retweeted congratulatory messages about the operation.
However, it soon became clear that the operation was in fact continuing and that not all of the attackers had been apprehended.
But arguably the most important use of social media by the authorities is to rally Kenyans behind the security forces as they respond to the attack using the hashtags #WeAreOne and #WithOneAccord, a reference to the Kenyan national anthem.
The prevailing mood among Kenyans on Twitter appears to be one of support for the operation against the militants and a feeling of solidarity in a time of crisis.
Kenyans are among the most active users of Twitter in Africa and have also been using social media in order to come together and organise initiatives to help the victims of the attack.
Many shared information about where to give blood - blogger Robert Alai shared a picture of children on roller-skates holding placards urging Kenyans to donate blood.
Others shared stories of Kenyans bringing food to journalists covering the siege and the security forces posted near the centre.
The double Olympic champion wants "to go back to the US and seek answers" after a "stressful week" that saw a BBC investigation allege his coach Alberto Salazar had been involved in doping.
There is no suggestion Farah has done anything wrong but he is "angry" at his name being "dragged through the mud".
Salazar strenuously denies the claims made by the BBC's Panorama programme.
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Farah spoke publicly about the allegations made in 'Catch me if you can' - broadcast on BBC One on Wednesday - for the first time on Saturday.
And on Sunday Farah, who had been scheduled to run in the 1500m in Birmingham, added: "This week has been very stressful and taken a lot out of me.
"I have not been able to focus properly on today's race and after the events of the last few days I feel emotionally and physically drained.
"I want to run well in the World Championships in Beijing (22-30 August) and have decided it is better for me to go back to the US, seek answers to my questions and get back into training.
"I apologise to the people who bought tickets to come and watch me race and ask for your understanding at this time."
On Saturday, Farah, who is the reigning Olympic and world champion over 5,000m and 10,000m, said he had spoken the day before with Salazar about the claims, and that the American had told him "it's just allegations".
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However, Farah insisted he wanted further assurances "as soon as possible".
The BBC investigation alleged that Salazar, who became Farah's coach in 2011, violated anti-doping rules and doped United States 10,000m record holder Galen Rupp in 2002 when the athlete was 16 years old.
Rupp, who would later become Farah's training partner, won Olympic 10,000m silver behind the Briton at London 2012. Rupp also denies the doping claims.
Salazar, Rupp and Farah's agent, Ricky Simms, were made aware of the BBC's allegations one month ago. Farah and his agent were together last weekend when he won the 10,000m in Eugene, Oregon.
After losing the first Test in Ahmedabad, they battled back to win in Mumbai and Kolkata, and draw the finale in Nagpur.
Here are some statistics from an enthralling series.
4: Number of Test series England have won in India. Alastair Cook joins David Gower (2-1 in 1984-85), Tony Greig (3-1 in 1976-77) and Douglas Jardine (2-0 in 1933-34) in leading England to victory there.
11: Wickets taken by Monty Panesar on his comeback Test at Mumbai. His 11-210 was the third best match figures at the Wankhede Stadium, behind Ian Botham (13-106), Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (12-181).
1984-85: India 1-2 England (5 Tests)
1992-93: India 3-0 England (3 Tests)
2001-02: India 1-0 England (3 Tests)
2005-06: India 1-1 England (3 Tests)
2008-09: India 1-0 England (2 Tests)
2012: India 1-2 England (4 Tests)
The series in numbers
12: Wickets taken by James Anderson in the series - and the combined haul of India's seamers from 190.3 overs.
16: Ian Bell's century in Nagpur was his first in India, in his 16th innings. Though he struggled with the bat and missed a Test after the birth of his first child, a couple of not-outs lifted his series average to 43.
18.66: Series batting average for India legend Sachin Tendulkar, who averages 23.80 for the year 2012 compared to a career average of 54.32.
19: Number of players in England's touring squad at one time. Fifteen played, while Eoin Morgan, Graham Onions, James Tredwell and Stuart Meaker did not feature in the Tests.
20: Wickets taken by Graeme Swann and Pragyan Ojha, the joint leading wicket-takers in the series.
34.66: Batting average of opener Nick Compton after his first four Tests.
44: Number of maiden overs bowled by both Panesar and Swann apiece in the series. They combined for 25 in the final Test.
44: The number of innings Swann had batted since his last Test fifty in 2009, before his glorious 56 in Nagpur.
60.75: Batting average of Ravichandran Ashwin, who is in the India side for his bowling. He took 14 wickets at 52.64 in four Tests.
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91: Wicketless overs bowled by England seamers Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan in four combined appearances, at a cost of 299 runs.
93: Test batting average of 21-year-old Joe Root after scoring 73 and 20 not out on his debut.
99: Nmber of Tests played by off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who was dropped after the Mumbai Test and may struggle to play his 100th.
135: Samit Patel's bowling average for the series indicates he may have to earn future Test selection purely for his batting.
288: James Anderson, who ploughed a lone seam furrow for England for much of the series, is nine Test wickets away from equalling fourth-placed Derek Underwood in England's all-time bowlers' list, with Fred Trueman (307), Bob Willis (325) and eventually Ian Botham (383) in his sights.
438: Runs in the series by India's top scorer Cheteshwar Pujara, 185 higher than nearest rival Virender Sehwag.
528: Combined international wicket totals by Anderson (288 in Tests, 222 in ODIs and 18 in T20 internationals) and Botham (383 in Tests, 145 in ODIs), who now share the England record.
5: Set a new world record with centuries in his first five Tests as captain.
23: Cook became the first England batsman to score 23 Test centuries when he reached three figures in Kolkata. Walter Hammond, Colin Cowdrey, Geoff Boycott and Kevin Pietersen have scored 22.
27: Became the youngest batsman to pass 7,000 Test runs at 27 years 347 days
49.42: Cook's Test average has been pushed close to 50 by this series.
61.85: His Test average in India is only surpassed by his averages in Bangladesh (114) and Australia (65.12).
190: Top score for the series by Cook at Kolkata, his third highest in Tests.
866: Cook is now England's highest Test run-scorer in India, surpassing Mike Gatting's 863.
*Statistics correct as of 17 December 2012
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The inquest into the death of Conor O'Neill from north Belfast was held on Wednesday.
His mother, Ciara, described to the inquest how she felt on the day: "I saw Conor, and then the car and I knew my boy had no chance".
It's politics, politics politics on the front page of The Belfast Telegraph. The paper marks election day with a full page given to the news that Northern Ireland heads to the polls today.
It reports that turnout is expected to be high despite it being the second time voters have trudged to the polls in 10 months.
From marking your choice on the ballot paper to charging £10 for a signature, the Belfast Telegraph reports "GPs defend £10 fee for signing Irish passport".
The paper reports that a Belfast City Post Office employee said there had been a hike in complaints about the "surprise fees" charged for signing a patient's application form.
However, the British Medical Association tells the paper GPs are under "tremendous pressure".
"Signing a passport is not an essential service and that is why regrettably we have had to introduce a fee," it added.
You may have heard about the parish in County Galway which held a drive-thru service for those unable to attend the Ash Wednesday Mass at St Patrick's Church in Glenamaddy.
All the papers report on this story - The Irish News says "hundreds" of busy parishioners got their ashes to go, while the Daily Mirror, unable to resist a pun (who can?) heads its story with "Flash Wednesday".
If you thought being a bus driver was a cushy number, think again.
In The Belfast Telegraph we hear from two veteran bus drivers from Londonderry with 80 years behind the wheel between them.
Johnny McLaughlin and Noel Christy describe how hi-jacking was commonplace during the Troubles but told the paper they weren't nearly as bad as "being attacked" by drunk people.
Mr Christy describes having a gun held to his head as a "terrifying experience".
But, despite his dramatic career he says bus driving is a "great job" and little kindnesses, such as an unexpected bar of chocolate or word of praise from passengers make his job worth while.
Claustrophobics can look away now. The News Letter has an unusual sight on its front page. An (alive) man lying in coffin.
The man in question, is John Edwards, who is beginning a three-day stint in a speciality built underground coffin, in Willowfield church in Belfast, to "reach out to those with mental health issues".
The Irish News and Belfast Telegraph also report on his mission. He told the papers his Christian faith has helped him over come addiction.
"I know this is a radical move but people are contacting me who are suicidal or know friends and family who are. My plan is to speak to them from the grave before they get there and show them hope," he said.
It is worth noting that Mr Edwards looks in remarkably good spirits for a man about to spend the next three days underground.
Wales' two volunteer gliding squadrons (VGS) at MOD St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, and Swansea Airport are among 14 across the UK to be disbanded following a restructure.
Air cadets from Wales will now travel to England for glider activities.
Julian Brazier said the RAF remained committed to air cadet flying.
He said a reduced glider fleet would be operated by "significantly fewer but larger volunteer gliding squadrons".
In April 2014, all air cadet gliding was suspended following concerns over the airworthiness of the fleet.
Mr Brazier announced the restructure, adding negotiations had "failed to find a value for money approach to successfully repair and recover all 146 gliders."
St Athan's 634 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, which was founded in 1955, posted on Facebook: "It is with our deepest regret that we have been made aware that as of today 634 VGS will be disbanded along with several other VGS nation wide.
"After a long association within Wales for many decades air cadet gliding will be no more."
There were 473 recorded anti-Semitic incidents between January and June this year, a 53% rise from 2014, according to the Community Security Trust.
Trust chief executive David Delew welcomed increases in crime reporting, but said the figures caused "anxiety".
Home Secretary Theresa May said anti-Semitism had "no place in Britain".
The CST - a charity that monitors anti-Semitism - said the 473 recorded incidents included 44 violent assaults and two involving "extreme violence".
There were 35 instances of damage and desecration of Jewish property, and 88 cases of abuse or threats on social media, according to the charity.
One third were said to be random, spontaneous acts of verbal abuse directed at Jewish people in public.
The CST said the main explanation for the rise was a greater willingness to report incidents.
Separate figures - released by individual UK police forces - showed 459 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded by the Metropolitan Police in London in 2014/15, up from 193 in 2013/14.
In Greater Manchester, anti-Semitic reports increased from 82 to 172.
The figures come after a number of terror attacks in Europe.
A Kosher supermarket was targeted in the Paris attacks in January, while the following month a Jewish man was killed near the main synagogue in Copenhagen.
Mr Delew said: "The terrorist attacks on European Jews earlier this year, following the high levels of anti-Semitism in 2014, were a difficult and unsettling experience for our Jewish community.
"We welcome the apparent increase in reporting of anti-Semitic incidents, but regret the concern and anxiety about anti-Semitism that this reflects."
Mrs May said the government would act against "all those who seek to divide our country and sow discord".
Communities minister Baroness Williams said anti-Semitism and hate crimes were "vile, wrong and totally unacceptable in our society" and were "an affront to the British values that we hold dear".
"Whilst one anti-Semitic incident is one too many, it is positive that members of the Jewish community now feel more able to speak out against these pernicious crimes knowing that their government will hear their voice and act decisively to protect them," she said.
National Police Chiefs' Council spokesman Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan, said: "Both CST and police data show that reports of anti-semitism have risen since the terror attacks in Europe.
"Rather than a significant increase in the number of incidents taking place, this is likely to reflect the fact that Jewish communities are now more concerned about their safety and more vigilant."
He said patrols had been increased in "key areas" and chief officers regularly talked to community leaders of all faiths.
Police were committed to supporting victims, bringing offenders to justice and tackling the root causes, he added.
The merged National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers will become the biggest union of teachers and educators in Europe.
ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said with nearly half a million members, the profession would have a stronger voice.
NUT head Kevin Courtney said the union would be a game-changer.
The NEU will be formed on 1 September and will represent some 450,000 teachers, as well as other education workers such as teaching assistants and support staff.
Members of the NUT and ATL were balloted between 27 February and 21 March.
ATL members' response rate was 25% (29,841 votes), while the NUT's was 23% (67,865 votes).
Of the ATL members who voted, 73% (21,722) said Yes to the merger, while 97% (65,908) of NUT members said Yes.
Ms Bousted said the merger was a "historic moment".
"With nearly half a million members, we will speak with a stronger voice on behalf of education professionals and the children, young people and adults they support," she said.
"The government will need to listen when we speak on the key issues facing education - funding cuts, excessive workloads, the recruitment and retention crisis, the chaotic exam reform and accountability."
Mr Courtney said: "For too long, governments have played divide and rule amongst education unions. Today marks the beginning of the end of that.
"The NEU will be a game-changer in the education landscape and I am delighted to be jointly leading it forward over the coming months and years."
Ms Bousted and Mr Courtney plan on sharing the post of general secretary, saying they have a good working relationship and jointly can "get our union in many more places".
Prof Howard Stevenson, director of research at Nottingham University's School of Education, said the union amalgamation was a "development of international significance".
"Experience of amalgamations and mergers is quite limited and often small scale. When the two huge teacher unions in the USA sought to merge, this development was rejected in a ballot," said Prof Stevenson.
"The amalgamation of NUT and ATL is on a scale that has not been seen previously, and may be the beginning of a trend, as teachers everywhere face common pressures.
"There is no easy evidence that fewer, bigger unions necessarily generate better outcomes for teachers. There is however considerable evidence that employers and governments deliberately seek to exploit divisions.
"Making this more difficult will make it harder for government to impose change without wider support and may presage the need for a new relationship between government and teacher unions."
The former foreign secretary, who stepped down as an MP at May's election, succeeds former Labour minister Lord Hutton in the role.
Announcing his appointment, RUSI's director general Prof Michael Clarke said having someone of Mr Hague's experience and calibre was "gold dust".
Mr Hague said RUSI's input was vital in an "increasingly unstable world".
Mr Hague served as foreign secretary between 2010 and 2014, during which he also played a key role in global efforts to tackle sexual violence in conflicts.
The role at RUSI is the first that Mr Hague has taken on since leaving Parliament.
"At a time when we face an increasingly complex and unstable world, we need ever greater insight and scrutiny into the challenges confronting our global security and defence," he said.
Prof Clarke said Mr Hague would help the think tank, which was founded in 1831, to better understand the security and foreign policy challenges facing the UK, in the context of the government's current strategic defence review.
"In global political terms, this is a difficult time to be a political leader, but a wonderful time to be an analyst. Mr Hague has been both and his experience is gold dust to an institute such as this," he said.
In his last conference speech as shadow home secretary, Mr Burnham accused the government of planning a "hard-line, right-wing" exit from the EU.
He said Labour must fight for a "fair Brexit" that addressed immigration concerns and protected the UK economy.
The government said it would make a success of leaving the EU.
Mr Burnham, who is running for the Greater Manchester mayoralty, told Labour conference he was stepping down from the shadow cabinet to concentrate on his campaign.
In his speech, the outgoing shadow home secretary urged the party to unite and take the fight to the Conservatives, warning of what he sees as the risks of continued Conservative government.
"While we've been turning inwards, they've been taking liberties. Bringing back selection in our schools. Abandoning promises to the north. Plotting a hard-line, right-wing Brexit that burns Britain's bridges," he said.
"We are the only hope for people who don't want that. Yes, Labour must listen to our voters who voted to Leave. But let's be the champions of a fair Brexit, not a hard Brexit."
He warned that a "hard Brexit" would hurt the UK economy, hitting the poorest hardest and "turn Britain into a place it has never been: divided, hostile, narrow-minded".
"That is how the world is starting to see us. They think we've changed."
There had been a "frightening spike" in hate crimes since the referendum vote on 23 June, Mr Burnham said.
He repeated his call for the government to grant EU nationals living in the UK the right to stay in the country after Brexit - a commitment the government says it wants to make as long as it can secure a reciprocal deal for Britons living abroad.
And he criticised Mrs May over the UK's response to the migrant crisis affecting Europe: "At every stage of the biggest refugee crisis since the end of the Second World War, she has dragged her feet.
"As Europe has struggled with the enormity of it, Britain has looked wrapped up in its own selfish little world."
Mr Burnham praised the "courage" of his predecessor, Yvette Cooper and Labour peer Alf Dubs for their campaigning on refugees, saying it had been left to them to "stand up for basic British decency".
Mr Burnham also warned that Labour could not afford to ignore voters' concerns about immigration, saying it must "fully face up" to the fact that "millions" of its supporters backed Brexit because they wanted "change".
"We haven't yet even begun to show to them that we understand why," he said.
He stressed that Brexit supporters were not "narrow-minded" or "xenophobic" and warned the party that its supporters would think the party has "abandoned" them if it argued in favour of the status quo on immigration.
Commenting on Mr Burnham's speech, Brexit minister Robin Walker said "many" Labour MPs "still don't even accept that we should leave the EU.
"Labour cannot make a success of Brexit because they don't think Britain can thrive outside the European Union - setting their face against millions of their own lifelong supporters."
Leader Jeremy Corbyn said in his end of conference speech that Labour under his leadership would not offer "false promises" on immigration numbers.
He said a new migrant impact fund would address "the real issues of immigration" and pledged his party would not "fan the flames of fear".
Instead, Walgreens has agreed to buy 2,186 Rite Aid stores and some distribution centres for $5.2bn (£4bn).
Walgreens' planned takeover of Rite Aid was first announced in October 2015.
However, it faced resistance from competition regulators as it would have seen a tie-up of the first and third largest US pharmacy chains.
"We believe this new transaction addresses competitive concerns previously raised with respect to the prior transaction," said Walgreens chief executive Stefano Pessina in a statement.
"This new transaction extends our growth strategy and offers additional operational and financial benefits."
Under the new plan, Walgreens will buy about half of the roughly 4,540 stores operated by Rite Aid. Most of the stores involved in the deal are located in the northeast, mid-Atlantic and southeast, Rite Aid said.
Walgreens will also pay Rite Aid a $325m termination fee for scrapping the prior agreement. The company also said it had dropped a related deal to sell 865 Rite Aid stores to pharmacy chain Fred's.
Walgreens Boots Alliance was created in 2014 when Alliance Boots merged with Walgreens. The business has a presence in more than 25 countries and employs more than 400,000 people.
The company earned about $1.2bn (£920m) in profit for the three months ended in May.
It has more than 8,000 stores in the US. The company said it expects the Rite Aid acquisition to bring more than $400m in savings as it makes the network more efficient.
The new Rite Aid plan is more attractive than the original $9.4bn, given the compromises that regulators were looking for, Mr Stefano told analysts. He said he continues to look at other possible partners for the firm, as well as ways to better use its customer data to reorganise stores.
Walgreens shares climbed about 2.5% on Thursday. But Rite Aid stock plunged more than 23% in morning trade. Shares of Fred's fell about 16%.
Rite Aid on Thursday reported a loss of about $75m (£57.7m) in the March-to-June period, due to interest payments.
The company said the sale will allow it to reduce its debt and give its pharmacy arm the ability to purchase lower cost drugs, through an alliance with Walgreens.
The US Federal Trade Commission, which had examined the prior deal, said officials would review the new proposal.
Neil Saunders, an analyst for GlobalData Retail, wrote in a note that the drug purchasing agreement means Rite Aid will "effectively" become part of the Walgreens network. That part of the deal is critical to Rite Aid's ability to survive on a smaller scale, he wrote.
"All eyes now turn to the FTC for its decision on this latest move," he wrote.
But for a small Scottish children's autism charity she was "the lady that played the piano", their kind-hearted first patron, and their friend.
"The children all loved her and they're a great judge of character," said Dr Ruth Glynne-Owen, Blue Sky Autism Project's founder and chief executive.
It was the charity's fourth birthday party and a special guest had arrived at their base in Bridge of Allan, near Stirling.
Perched among a throng of excited youngsters, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson started to play for the children on a small keyboard.
"There was no stand and it was held together by tape and she still played it - and she's a concert pianist," Dr Glynne-Owen said.
"Our children can be a little bit tricky to get to know given the nature of autism, but she was totally not phased.
"It was very cool, it was a great day."
The star was immediately keen to offer her support when the charity, which provides early childhood intervention for pre-school children with autism spectrum disorders and related conditions, approached her in 2013.
Dr Glynne-Owen said: "She got back in touch straight away and she phoned me and was really keen to help.
"When I first met her, we had a cup of tea at Blakes Hotel in Kensington and I was very nervous.
"I brought her a little teddy bear and she was very incredibly touched by that.
"I think she just wanted to help a small charity, it was the right time in her life.
"She was our first patron and she was in the role for a year.
"She was very kind, very down to earth and very funny."
Dr Glynne-Owen said it was a "privilege" to see Palmer-Tomkinson's private side.
She said: "Tara was personally very supportive to me, she became a very good friend.
"She got us in Hello! Magazine twice, which for us was a pretty massive achievement.
"She came to visit us for our fourth birthday and she came for dinner with all of our clients and parents in Bridge of Allan."
Palmer-Tomkinson was found dead at her flat in London on Wednesday.
She had received treatment in 2016 for a non-malignant brain tumour.
Dr Glynne-Owen said she last heard from her charity's former patron about a year-and-a-half ago.
"It's just tragic, it's really, really sad," she said. "She was just too young."
"I think it's important for people to realise that, there were stories around about her but she was actually a very kind-hearted person, a very genuine person.
"We had really wonderful experiences with her.
"Some of the children are older now and they remember the lady who played the piano."
Her warning comes as a report based on an analysis of 57,226 research studies into child sexual abuse is published.
The Office of the Children's Commissioner has launched an inquiry into how best to tackle the problem.
The two-year inquiry will look at sexual abuse within the family.
The report, entitled It's a Lonely Journey, was carried out for the Office of the Children's Commissioner by researchers at Middlesex University.
It showed there were "glaring omissions" in what was known about abuse in family environments, said Ms Berelowitz.
These include an "almost complete lack" of research directly looking into children and young people's experiences of what would help to prevent the abuse or to support those who have been abused.
The report highlights a particular lack of knowledge about the experiences of disabled children and those from minority ethnic groups.
It also finds that most services to support people who have experienced child sexual abuse within a family context are targeted at adult survivors rather than at children.
Moreover, little is known about the prevalence of long-term psychological and physical harm caused by sexual abuse in family environments and almost nothing about the economic cost this places on society.
Ms Berelowitz said: "Some studies suggest as many as one in 20 children and young people experience sexual abuse, the majority of it perpetrated by people within the family or family circle.
"We know that at any one time, around 43,000 children have child protection plans, only around 5% of whom are on a plan for sexual abuse. These figures do not add up."
Report author Dr Miranda Horvath said: "Child victim-survivors' voices and first-hand experiences were absent from the vast majority of the research we reviewed for this rapid evidence assessment.
"It is imperative that future research and the work of the inquiry brings these to the fore using ethical but innovative methods, with the well-being of the child at the centre.
"At the same time, we need to know more about programmes that are focused on preventing family-based child sexual abuse before it occurs, in order to take a preventative rather than reactive approach."
Announcing an inquiry into the problem, Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner for England, said: "Society is rightly horrified by child sexual abuse.
"Most of our children are raised in secure, loving homes but I am sure very many of us will be disturbed by how much abuse within the family environment goes unreported and how little is done to support the children who suffer.
"As adults we are morally and socially obliged to protect children from harm. As children's commissioner, I also have a legal responsibility to promote their right to protection."
Ms Atkinson's office has vowed that "the experiences and voices of children and young people will be at the heart of this inquiry, and driving all that we do".
Javed Khan, chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, welcomed the inquiry, saying: "There are few crimes more abhorrent than the sexual abuse of children but when those perpetrating this vile act are relatives, people who are supposed to love and protect, it can be all the more harrowing."
Prism Technologies makes money licensing its patents, and has taken many companies that use them to court.
The company holds a number of patents relating to computer security. A jury in Nebraska ruled Sprint had violated two of them.
Prism Technologies has also accused T-Mobile, Verizon and US Cellular of violating the same patents.
A court in Nebraska found in favour of Prism after it sued Sprint for violating patents covering ways to "manage access to protected computer resources".
Prism president Greg Duman said the damage award was "further validation" of the value of the inventions to which it owns the rights.
In a statement, Sprint said it planned to pursue "post-trial motions" to contest the judgement.
The cases against other phone firms are pending. A separate case involving the same technology against AT&T was settled before it came to court.
On its website, Prism claims that 30 other companies, including Adobe, Microsoft, Blackberry and Bank of America have already licensed the technology it patented.
The court decision is the latest in a series of judgements that have spotlighted the way the US hands out and manages technology patents.
Some critics claim that the US patent system allows companies to acquire the rights to inventions and demand money to use them, without making products of their own - a tactic that earns them the name of "patent trolls".
Some organisations make sweeping claims about the impact of patents they hold hoping the accused will settle out of court to avoid a costly trial.
"To be fair, Prism Technologies is better than most," patent litigation blogger Florian Muller told the BBC.
"It actually took its patents to trial and prevailed," he said. "But I have yet to see a patent in the IT industry that really warranted a 20-year monopoly for its holder.
"There would likely be more innovation without IT patents because new entrants would have better opportunities."
US President Barack Obama has already called for a patent reform bill to help businesses "stay focused on innovation" but progress on that legislation has been slow.
"It's a pressing problem in the US and previous patent reform efforts in Congress fell far short of what's needed to bring about change," said Mr Muller.
"US politicians do appear serious about reform, but Europe is going in the other direction with its future Unified Patent Court.
"That brings about the possibility of enforcing weak patents, Europe-wide," he said. "Europe could become the new patent trolls' paradise."
Konta won 7-6 (7-3) 6-1 and could play her second-round match with Belgian Yanina Wickmayer later on Thursday.
World number 49 Wickmayer beat former world number one Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 earlier in the day.
Konta, 25, is due back on centre court after fellow Briton Heather Watson's match with Czech Barbora Strycova.
Two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova went out to Latvian Jelena Ostapenko 6-4 4-6 6-3.
Czech fifth seed Kvitova, 26, is the world number 11 but was beaten by a player ranked 27 places below her.
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The awards recognise services to charity, education, industry, policing, sport and healthcare, as well as helping the community.
In total there are 322 British Empire Medals (BEM), 503 MBEs and 222 OBEs.
Women make up more than half of the honourees, with 603 on the list.
The Queen spoke in her Christmas message this year of how she was inspired by the actions of ordinary people.
"I often draw strength from meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things: volunteers, carers, community organisers and good neighbours; unsung heroes whose quiet dedication makes them special," she said.
Marcia Shakespeare from Birmingham, the mother of Letisha, who was shot dead by gangsters in January 2003, is to be awarded the MBE. She has worked to provide young people with life opportunities and education through her own foundation and she also works closely with West Midlands Police to highlight the consequences of violent crime.
Basketball player and coach Fabulous Flournoy, 43, is receiving the MBE both for his services to the sport and to the community in the North East.
Born in New York, he had a very disadvantaged upbringing but obtained a contract to play basketball in England, going on to lead the Newcastle Eagles to 18 separate trophy victories since 2005, including six league titles in nine years.
The Newcastle Eagles have been active in the local community with projects such as Hoops4Health, which teaches healthy living to 12,000 schoolchildren every year. Mr Flournoy has also spent time in Young Offender's Institutes working with inmates and has supported homelessness charities.
Heather Edwards, 63, from Norwich receives the BEM for services to people with dementia.
Her group Come Singing aims to provide therapeutic stimulation for people with dementia.
Future honours lists will focus on services and work with children and young people, people who work to encourage social mobility and people who work in enterprise and business.
Lianne Tapson, who chairs Grantham Tennis Club, is being awarded the MBE for services to sport and the community in Lincolnshire.
The 50-year-old has secured funding for the club to expand and it now has wheelchair members and is planning to support people with learning difficulties to compete at the Special Olympics in 2017.
Det Sgt Sarbjit Kaur, Merseyside Police's only Sikh female officer, is being made an MBE for services to policing.
The 43-year-old has developed the force's understanding of "honour"-based violence.
Devan Witter, 19, from Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, will receive a British Empire Medal for his work on a project tackling bullying.
He founded Action Against Bullying, which helps children as young as eight years old, through campaigning and raising awareness about the issue and also provides support to teachers.
After holding a number of senior posts in the Scout Association, Maurice Brunton receives the MBE at the age of 92.
Mr Brunton, from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, is credited with increasing the number of scouts in Middlesbrough and Gainsborough and the opportunities available to them.
Jacqueline Johnston-Lynch, 54, from Liverpool, is receiving the BEM for services to veteran support.
She co-founded Tom Harrison House, the first UK veterans' addiction treatment centre in 2013.
The Care Quality Commission closed St Mary's Medical Centre, in Nottingham, until further notice over "a number of concerns" but refused to be specific.
A previous inspection of the clinic found it required improvement. The surgery was unavailable for comment.
The 1,100 registered patients now need to go to Rise Park Surgery or Hucknall Road Medical Centre.
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Ward councillor Alan Clark said: "It's a great concern that this has happened. I'm supportive of the idea that medical practices are inspected - there's clearly something of grave concern there."
Mr Clark said that patients with a repeat prescription or an appointment this week would be contacted by the NHS and everyone else had been sent a letter.
The CQC said it would reveal why the Top Valley surgery had been closed when the doctors had had time to respond.
Mark Whiting was working away from his home in Grimsby when thieves broke in and left with bags of goods.
Humberside Police were called to the scene, but then left to deal with an emergency elsewhere.
Thieves later returned to the insecure house. The force said it "fell below the level of service we aim to offer."
Mr Whiting said: "When I got back to the house last Friday I discovered the back door wide open and the side entrance gate had been kicked in.
"ÂI had been burgled for the first time in my life .
"The police have told me that the unit dispatched got diverted to another incident.
"The case was immediately dropped and the police never went back to my house to check it was secure, which it wasn't.
Â"The back window was smashed and an internal lockable door had been kicked in.
"Because the property was insecure for four days there was another incident late on Wednesday where a witness saw somebody walking from my house with my TV."
In a statement, Humberside Police said: "Clearly when a report is received of a possible burglary in progress we aim to deploy officers immediately and in this instance police were sent to the address and an area search was conducted to locate possible suspects.
"Unfortunately it would seem that after the officers who initially attended the address were diverted to an emergency call elsewhere in Grimsby, follow-up inquiries at the premises were not made and the burglary was not therefore immediately discovered.
"This is not standard procedure and falls below the level of service we aim to offer our communities."
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Jane Bell, from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, died after getting into difficulty at the Dalmeny Hotel in St Annes, Lancashire on 14 August 2014.
There was no trained lifeguard on duty at the time, the inquest was told.
After the jury returned a conclusion of accidental death, coroner Alan Wilson said he had concerns about the "risk of future deaths".
Mr Wilson told the hearing at Blackpool Town Hall there may have been a lack of focus on the welfare of people using the pool at the time.
And he questioned whether financial reasons were behind the lack of trained lifeguards.
He said he would be writing to the pool's owners, the Chief Coroner of England and Wales, Fylde Council, and Jane's parents.
Jane had been on holiday with her family at the time of her death.
In a statement, her mother Sarah Bell said her daughter had slipped from her grasp in 7ft (2m) of water at the deep end of the pool.
Jane's father David and a staff member tried and failed to rescue her, before former swimming teacher Carole Greenwood dived in and pulled her out.
Mrs Greenwood and off-duty paramedic James Pendlebury tried to revive her, but she later died at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
Leisure centre manager Tom Bird previously told the hearing that the hotel's health and safety practices had been dealt with by an outside consultancy at the time of the tragedy.
Emergency response training for hotel staff began two months after the drowning, he said.
Samantha Lewis, director of the Dalmeny Hotel, said staff had sought guidance from "experts in our sector to help us put operational and emergency plans in place".
"We are also working with a national expert on pool management who is advising us on the best way forward on how we can make sure the pool is the safest it can possibly be."
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She has been recognised for her hard work promoting the right for girls to have an education.
Malala won it jointly with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.
The prize judges described both winners as "champions of peace".
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Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai has received the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the world's most respected awards, at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
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The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was established in 2008 while the former Newcastle, Ipswich and England manager was receiving treatment for the disease. He died the following year.
The charity initially had a £500,000 fundraising target.
His wife, Lady Robson, said she was "very grateful", labelling the milestone "absolutely unbelievable".
She said: "Starting the charity was literally something we talked about over the kitchen table. We'd been asked for help and this was Bob's way of giving it.
"I'm extremely proud of the work we fund and it meant the world to Bob. Every time we are able to fund something which will help make a difference to cancer patients, I think of him."
The foundation works with hospitals on Tyneside to develop new cancer treatments and has spent millions of pounds on equipment.
It is also set to contribute about £1m to fund four clinical research and nursing posts at the Newcastle University Centre for Childhood Cancer.
Sir Bobby's former oncologist Prof Ruth Plummer said: "Funding these new posts is a natural extension of the work the foundation already supports.
"We have an established clinical trials team for adults and we're building on that expertise and expanding to create a 'matching' team for children."
The 34-year-old has travelled a troubled and tempestuous road since emerging as a talented youngster at Manchester City, earning one England cap and a career full of headlines while also playing for Newcastle United, Queen's Park Rangers, Marseille, Rangers and Burnley.
The headline on Barton's personal website reads: "Footballer. Question Time Guest. Philosophy Student. Future Coach. Fluent French Speaker. What Has Become Of Me?"
Many will wonder what will be become of Barton after his ban, £30,000 fine and warning about his future conduct after accepting he placed 1,260 bets on matches between 26 March 2006 and 13 May 2016.
What is certain is that it is highly unlikely football has heard the last of an outspoken controversialist who mixes intelligence with a self-destructive streak that has too often disguised a player of genuine talent.
Barton comes from the same Huyton area of Merseyside that produced former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard - a tough, uncompromising part of the world that shapes characters.
He survived rejection by his beloved Everton to emerge at Manchester City, where his ability after making his debut against Bolton Wanderers on 5 April 2003 made him stand out.
Barton's constant courting of controversy, however, often overshadowed what he offered the team. It was a strand that has run through his career.
He picked up his first red card in an FA Cup fourth-round tie at Tottenham in 2004 and later demonstrated his rebellious streak by storming away from the stadium after being dropped by then City manager Kevin Keegan for a game against Southampton.
The more serious problems came off the field when he was fined six weeks' wages, with two weeks suspended, for stubbing a cigar out in the eye of young team-mate Jamie Tandy at City's Christmas party. Tandy later sued Barton and won £65,000 in damages.
Barton was also fined eight weeks' wages after being found guilty of gross misconduct following a confrontation with a teenage Everton fan at the team hotel in Bangkok on a pre-season tour in summer 2005.
In May 2007 he was suspended by City after a training ground altercation left team-mate Ousmane Dabo needing hospital treatment. He was charged with assault, receiving a four-month suspended jail sentence on 1 July 2008 as well as being ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and pay £3,000 in compensation to Dabo. He was also banned for 12 matches, six suspended, by the FA and fined £25,000.
Barton made his one England appearance while at City, a 12-minute appearance as a substitute against Spain in February 2007. He was linked with a recall in 2011 but then-manager Fabio Capello wrote him off, saying: "He is a good but dangerous player because you could end up 10 v 11."
It was the old, old story. The talent was obvious. The temperament too risky.
Barton joined Newcastle United in June 2007 for £5.8m but was arrested on 27 December 2007 after an incident in Liverpool city centre. He was charged with common assault and affray, and subsequently jailed for six months on 20 May 2008 after admitting the charges.
He served 77 days of his prison term and also continued to suffer on-field disciplinary problems, drawing heavy criticism from then-Newcastle manager Alan Shearer after being sent off for a late challenge on Liverpool's Xabi Alonso in May 2009 as the Magpies fought for their Premier League life.
Barton was suspended by the club and the misery was compounded by Newcastle's subsequent relegation.
He stayed with Newcastle but his career on Tyneside concluded amid acrimony in August 2011 after contract talks broke down and Barton aired his frustrations on social media, tweeting: "Somewhere in those high echelons of NUFC they have decided I am persona non grata."
Barton then joined QPR but an unfulfilling spell - which included a sending-off at former club City on the day the hosts won the Premier League so dramatically in 2012 - ended with a loan move to Marseille in France.
QPR were relegated in his absence, but even far afield Barton could not escape controversy, receiving a two-match suspended ban for likening Paris St-Germain defender Thiago Silva to an "overweight ladyboy" on Twitter.
Barton's first spell at Burnley was an unqualified success as they won promotion to the Premier League and he was included in the 2016 PFA Championship team of the year, but a short stint in Scotland at Rangers turned into a nightmare.
He was suspended for three weeks following a training-ground row with team-mate Andy Halliday after a 5-1 loss at Celtic and his contract was terminated in November.
Now, after his latest collision with authority, it is hard to see him back on the field again.
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Barton's reputation is as contrary as it is controversial - listen to interviews and an eloquent, thoughtful character can be detected amid the outspoken statements that have attracted such adverse publicity.
There were those at Manchester City, in particular, eager to highlight this other side of Barton. They spoke about an individual with very obvious personal issues who also had a softer side, as well as a bright and intelligent manner at odds with the public perception of an unsavoury, ill-disciplined individual.
Barton's reputation as a midfield enforcer on the field often obscured the natural gifts that saw him represent his country and command much interest when he came on the transfer market.
The man regarded as too dangerous to play for England reported from Rio during the 2014 World Cup, penning an article for his website on 'Social Media, Protest, And The Pacification Of The Favelas'.
Even to those of us who do not know him personally, it is clear there is much more to Barton than meets the public eye.
He was invited to appear on the BBC's flagship political programme Question Time in May 2014, although he admitted first-night nerves led to him being accused of sexism when he likened choosing a political party to making a choice "between four really ugly girls".
It was a sign of his status as someone with something to say that he was asked to be a panellist and an indication that Barton was always keen to operate on a broader front than simply football.
Barton was a guest of the Oxford Union in March 2014, where he was invited to debate philosophy, football and social media at the university. His appearance was later described as "inspirational" by students.
And he can be a character who, for all the lurid publicity, draws loyalty and affection - as demonstrated by Burnley manager Sean Dyche's willingness to take him back into the fold at Turf Moor.
Dyche prides himself on a tight-knit, trouble free, well-disciplined dressing room, so it was testimony to his high regard for Barton that he welcomed him back this season despite the player leaving Turf Moor for that ill-fated spell at Rangers following promotion back into the Premier League.
Only last week Barton displayed his enthusiasm for engaging in community work on the club's behalf, spending time with patients at the local Pendleside Hospice.
Barton, for all the noise surrounding him, was seen as a leader and a mature, experienced voice at Burnley during their promotion season. It was a far cry from undergoing anger management in 2005 and also completing a programme of behavioural management at the Sporting Chance clinic, set up to help troubled sportsmen and women.
If Barton the man is a mass of contradictions, the same could be said of some of his opinions.
Barton was embarrassed earlier this season when he dived theatrically after a clash with Matt Rhead at Turf Moor as Burnley slumped out of the FA Cup to non-league Lincoln City.
He soon found himself reminded of his own former stance on the subject via a tweet from February 2013 that had stated: "Players who roll around when nobody touches them should be subsequently banned. I hate cheats. Authorities should address it."
British boxer Carl Frampton tweeted that Barton should have been "embarrassed and ashamed".
Barton is also prepared to fly in the face of conventional wisdom, often at the risk of ridicule, as when he recently questioned the current praise of Chelsea's Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year N'Golo Kante.
He said of a player on course for a second successive title with Chelsea after Leicester's triumph last season, and enjoying successes Barton could only dream about: "At the moment, in England, people only swear by N'Golo Kante. It's the fashion.
"For pundits he's the best midfield player in the world. Oh, he's very good but I played against him three weeks ago and that's not the case. He's a fantastic destroyer in a phenomenal team but not a creator."
Barton has divided opinion throughout his career - and he was at it again in what was effectively his retirement statement when he said: "If the FA is serious about tackling gambling, I would urge it to reconsider its own dependence on the gambling industry."
He was referring to the links between betting chain Ladbrokes and the FA Cup.
It was a view that, yet again, polarised feelings. Was Barton making a valid point or simply trying to absolve himself from blame for breaking clear FA rules?
If this is the end of Barton's career, it is one that will be remembered with distaste by many and yet he creates interest to such an extent that he has 3.25 million followers on Twitter. He has achieved notoriety, but also plenty of interest, with his opinions on sport, politics and society and the occasional dabble in homespun philosophy.
He is prepared to lay bare his own shortcomings with gambling in his most recent statement and yet is regarded by his many detractors as someone simply excusing himself for more wrongdoing.
For all his faults - and his timeline of trouble hints at many - Barton is an intelligent, but clearly flawed man.
Will there yet be more chapters in Barton's contrary, controversial, eventful story?
Daniel Elliot, 23, of Rosewell Close, south-east London, is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in Grove Park, Carshalton, on 15 November.
He has also been charged with the rape of a girl, 16, attacked in Beddington Park, Carshalton, on 5 September.
Mr Elliot is also accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in Mellowes Park, Wallington, on 3 August.
He will appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court later.
Both clubs and referee Chris Kavanagh agreed the game should be called off at 18:00 GMT, after three inspections.
The late decision was likely to have affected Cardiff fans travelling to the south coast for the 19:45 kick-off.
"Player and spectator safety has to be paramount," Albion chief executive Paul Barber told BBC Sussex.
"In terms of looking at the situation for the players and the fans, it was in everyone's best interests.
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"Chris [Hughton - Brighton manager] thinks it's the right decision as do Cardiff's coaches as well."
Match official Kavanagh said he was left with little choice but to call off the match at short notice.
"The conditions have got worse. In the centre of the field it's difficult to see the assistant referee on the nearside," he added.
"If I've paid money I want to see the game and from different vantage points in the crowd it's difficult to see the pitch."
Brighton can be overtaken at the top if second-placed Newcastle beat Nottingham Forest at home.
It is not yet known when the re-arranged fixture will take place.
The fire at Sixfields Tavern in Northampton began at about 14:30 GMT, half an hour before kick-off between The Cobblers and Northwich.
Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service had about 40 firefighters on the scene.
Fans in the Sixfields Stadium posted images on social media of the fire, which was visible from the stands.
It is understood the pub, which is part of the Sixfields Leisure site of restaurants and a cinema, is at least partially destroyed.
No-one was injured.
The fire service was supported by crews from Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and said the fire was difficult to extinguish due to strong winds, with smoke being blown across the leisure park.
The FA Cup second round tie was not called off and ended with a 3-2 win for Northampton Town, who had trailed their non-league opposition 2-0.
The club advised supporters to follow the advice of police while leaving the ground.
Roads were closed and people were advised to avoid the area.
Bradgate Park in Leicestershire said it will impose strict measures in some areas after admitting its current policy is no longer working.
It recently warned dogs could be shot after only 12 red deer calves were born rather than the usual 35-40.
This week a dog savaged a duckling in front of horrified families.
Last year, the threat of lead-only policy was enough to make owners more cautious and saw a drop in attacks on wildlife.
Currently, dogs must be kept on leads or under close control.
But park manager Peter Tyldesley said something now had to be done and restrictions will be placed on about a quarter of the 830 acres of land following the latest incident.
"A dog jumped into the water, got hold of a little duckling and killed it instantly. It was seen by an awful lot of people," he said.
"One of the most disturbing things was the owner seemed completely blasé about it. Any suggestion that it might be her fault or the dog's fault was met with anger."
He added that people's attitudes to wildlife were changing and visitors were more likely to film an incident than stop it.
The park is now working with the local authority to create laws to make the restrictions enforceable.
New rules, which are still being drawn-up, are expected to be imposed in June with some areas out of bounds to everyone.
Meanwhile dogs will have to be kept on leads at the busiest spots in the park.
The programme is a partnership between central and local government in targeted regions of the UK.
Mr Macintosh said his proposal would bring "billions of pounds" and tens of thousands of jobs to the north east.
The Scottish leadership contest pitches Mr Macintosh against his fellow-MSP Kezia Dugdale.
The result will be announced on 15 August.
Speaking in Aberdeen, Mr Macintosh said: "For too long this city and this region have been short changed by the Scottish Government.
"A disproportionate amount of attention has been paid to other areas of Scotland at the expense of Aberdeen and the North-east and I intend to put that right."
It was driven out of Larne fire station and crashed at Glenarm Road in the town damaging houses and cars.
One of those arrested was taken to hospital following the crash that happened shortly after 04:00 GMT.
Police said they received several reports of a fire engine having crashed into a number of cars and gardens.
They said two men left the scene of the crash. One of them was later taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries and has since been released.
Both men are in police custody.
The fire engine ended up in the front garden of John Lashford's home. He described what happened early on Saturday morning.
"There was a long continuous crash, crash, bang, bang, bang, culminating in a final big bang at the end," he said.
"I jumped immediately out of bed, looked out the bedroom window and looked down. I could not believe my eyes. There was a fire engine in my front garden.
"Then, I looked at the absolute carnage of the cars littered down the road that had been smashed."
Residents of the Victorian Street have described the scene they awoke to this morning as "surreal".
There was a car on its roof, five others damaged and strewn across the road and a fire appliance lying abandoned in a garden parallel to the downstairs window of the last house on the street.
The fire engine had been stolen from the station 500 metres away at about 4am. Two people have now been arrested.
Several residents have been told not to return to their homes due to the risk of structural damage.
Many others on the street have spent the morning on the phone hoping their insurance companies will cover the damage.
The local fire chief, Kevin O'Neill, said the Larne station was also damaged during the break in.
"It is an inconvenience in that we have had to put in emergency arrangements, but we are in a position where we can deal with things," he said.
"I would urge anyone who has any information to report it to the police."
East Antrim MLA Gordon Lyons said those who took the fire engine should understand the consequences of their action.
"They caused a lot of damage by what they have done," he said.
"They have been putting lives at risk by their behaviour. So we can only hope that they will understand what they have done has been very selfish and very dangerous indeed."
Sinn Féin MLA Oliver McMullan said: "We are very lucky no-one was killed or seriously injured after the fire engine crashed into parked cars and buildings.
"Not only was the danger in the appliance being driven by inexperienced drivers, but it also removed this appliance from being on call."
Tiernan McNicholl struck the deciding goal from an acute angle in the 80th minute for Rangers who are one from bottom in the Irish Premiership.
He beat three defenders before firing a shot past keeper James Taylor.
Glenavon had been favourites to progress to the 18 February final but they failed to find a way through.
The home side's closest effort was a James Singleton header just in front of the far post with Carrick keeper Brian Neeson making a great save to tip it over the crossbar .
After going behind, Glenavon threw on substitutes Ciaran Martyn, Declan O'Brien and Greg Moohouse but the Lurgan men could not find an equaliser.
Carrick will play Ballymena United who beat Coleraine 3-0 after extra time.
Carrick Rangers manager Aaron Callaghan: "The players were absolutely magnificent and I'm very proud as manager.
"We have been training and playing well, and are competing against teams.
"This is a bonus because we have to concentrate on improving our league position."
Carrick scorer Tiernan McNicholl: "Words cannot describe how I feel, it is amazing and everyone is buzzing in the changing room.
"I picked the ball up in our own half and dribbled it. I got a bit of luck in beating the last man, but once I did there was no doubt I was going to finish it.
"I went straight to the fans because it means everything to them."
The 47-year-old ex-Livingston, Wycombe Wanderers, Colchester United, Norwich City, Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers began his seventh job in management on Saturday with a 0-0 draw at Preston.
"There's a great adrenaline rush about all this," Lambert told BBC Sport.
"It's still heart-attack material but it's what I've done since I was 15."
The Scot added: "There's a great buzz about the whole thing and I'm delighted to start with our first clean sheet in 10 matches.
"No slight on (previous head coach) Walter Zenga, but we had to get stronger at the back. The foreign kids have done great, but it's important to get in lads who know the league."
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Lambert made two key personnel changes against Preston, bringing back midfielder Jack Price and starting 18-year-old striker Bright Enobakhare for his first league appearance since 23 April.
"Jack's a really clever player, a good footballer," Lambert said. "He recognises danger. It was important to bring him back. That was an easy one to make.
"As for Bright, I'd watched him for the Under-23s in the Accrington game and in training. He's a big talent. He's only a baby in terms of football stature, but the things he does are great. He gets people off their seat."
Lambert started his reign without several injured players - striker Joe Mason, winger Ola John and midfielder Prince Oniangue, as well as their long-term absentees, defender Mike Williamson, striker Michal Zyro and winger Jordan Graham.
And he has insisted that, under his management, talented youngsters will get their chance.
"The future for this club is good," he added. "Not just Bright. We've got young players as good as I've seen in many a year. I've told them that if you're good enough, you're old enough."
Paul Lambert was talking to BBC WM's Mike Taylor.
Lucy Hill, 21, from Bury, broke her pelvis when her moped was in collision with a car on Saturday in Chiang Mai.
She has now had several blood transfusions after people responded to a social media appeal.
However, her aunt said "nowhere near enough blood" had been donated.
Sue Raleigh said more supplies of the relatively rare A negative blood were needed for further surgery, which was likely to be carried out on Thursday.
She said the Leeds Beckett University graduate remained in a critical but stable condition following surgery on her pelvis and a procedure to treat a bleed on her brain.
She added that her niece had briefly woken in hospital but became "quite distressed" and was placed back under sedation.
"She's having blood transfusions every day but she's going to need more," Ms Raleigh said.
"I think she's had two transfusions so far, but we've had word from Thailand to keep it coming."
She added that Ms Hill's mother Alison was at her bedside.
Family and friends of Ms Hill posted a plea on travel review site Trip Advisor after the hospital ran out of supplies of the blood. Fewer than 1% of Thai people have negative blood types.
The appeal was shared 40,000 times within six hours, with hundreds of messages and postings from people trying to help.
Much has been made about Celtic connections within the visiting party and the Parkhead club's Irish links ahead of the Euro 2016 qualifier.
But Scotland manager Strachan said: "We will turn Celtic Park into the home of Scottish football.
"You'll know fine well you are in Scotland tomorrow night."
Former Celtic manager Martin O'Neill's Ireland squad includes Anthony Stokes, who currently plays for the Scottish champions, while Aiden McGeady, Robbie Keane, Daryl Murphy and assistant boss Roy Keane have all worn the Hoops.
The build up to the game has also featured much debate about the reception likely for McGeady and Everton team-mate James McCarthy considering the Glasgow-born midfielders chose to play for Ireland. The latter has since been ruled out because of a hamstring injury.
Strachan, whose side also host England in a friendly on Tuesday, said: "The propaganda's gone. The game is on.
"Everything's been built up over the last couple of weeks. It has become a hot game.
"The emphasis six months ago was on England and it's all been shifted on to this game because of the performances of both countries and the expectations of supporters, players, media alike."
Ireland sit second in the Group D table, behind Poland on goal difference, with Scotland three points behind in fourth.
The match is being played at Celtic Park - Scotland hosted Georgia at Ibrox in their previous home game - because the national stadium at Hampden was converted to an athletics venue for the Commonwealth Games.
Strachan, himself a former Celtic manager, was not concerned that some of the Irish squad would feel comfortable at the Glasgow venue and pointed out: "We're quite familiar with it as well. Most of the lads have played on it.
"Tomorrow, it's not going to be Celtic Park. Tomorrow, it is Scotland's Park. Tomorrow, there's going to be 50-odd thousand Scotland fans in there.
"That is Scotland's territory tomorrow and they're coming to Scotland's territory.
"We had a lovely taste of it at Ibrox. I thought the atmosphere there was great as well and I thought the Scottish fans turned Ibrox into the home of Scotland for the day and we'll do that tomorrow."
Strachan played down suggestions that it was a must-win game for the Scots.
"If you take out Gibraltar, every game has been just one goal in every game, so that's how tight this group is," he added. "You never know when the big game is coming.
"I think you have to wait until we have all played each other and see where we're all standing. You will get a better idea of how tough the task is after that."
Dr Sabah Usmani and her five children, Maheen, Rayyan, Muneeb, Hira and Sohaib Shakoor died in the blaze in Barn Mead, Harlow in Essex on 15 October 2012.
Det Supt Rob Vinson told Chelmsford Coroner's Court all the evidence pointed towards murder but firefighters could not rule out an accidental cause.
Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded an open verdict.
Dr Usmani's husband, Dr Abdul Shakoor, was the only survivor of the fire, which may have reached temperatures of 800C (1,472 F), experts said.
All members of the family, originally from Pakistan, died from their injuries and inhalation of fumes, a post-mortem examination found.
Dr Usmani, 44, had wrapped herself around her three-year-old daughter, Maheen, in an attempt to save her, the court heard.
Her sons Muneeb, nine, Rayyan, six, and daughter Hira, 12, died soon after the blaze.
A third son Sohaib, 11, and Maheen were taken to hospital. He died later that morning while she lived for three more days.
Retired fire investigation officer, David Hajicostas, said Dr Usmani was found crouched over Maheen, an act which gave the girl three further days of life and a chance of survival.
"She was gathered over her on all fours, with a blanket over her," he said.
He told the court an accidental cause could not be ruled out but was "minded to think" it was deliberate.
Det Supt Vinson told the hearing the front door of the house was open, a laptop was missing and there had been a series of burglaries in the area that night.
He said no-one had been charged but it remained an "active investigation".
Ms Beasley-Murray said: "In order to record a conclusion of unlawful killing, I would have to be sure that somebody killed another without legal justification and intended to kill or cause serious injury.
"Sadly, there is also insufficient evidence to say it was an accident.
"Not all of the pieces of the jigsaw are there yet."
Officials raided the flat after a tip-off about a "haggard-looking" woman in "dirty clothes" taking bags in and out of it, the agency added.
The money was believed to be from unlawful activity, but no arrests have as yet been made, the agency added.
This is the latest in a series of raids which uncovered bundles of cash in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy.
In March, the agency said it had found "crispy" banknotes worth $155,000 (£130,000) at the airport in northern Kaduna city.
Apart from US notes worth $43.4m, investigators found nearly £27,800 and some 23m naira ($75,000) at the four-bedroom flat in Lagos's affluent Ikoyi area, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement.
The "neatly arranged" cash was stashed in "sealed wrappers" in wardrobes and cabinets in the seventh-floor flat, the EFCC added.
Guards told investigators that no-one lived in the flat, but a source reported that a "woman usually appeared on different occasions with Ghana Must Go bags", the EFCC said.
"She comes looking haggard, with dirty clothes but her skin didn't quite match her outward appearance, perhaps a disguise," it quoted a source as saying.
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On 17 December, Gary Anderson will begin the defence of the world title he won in those crazy days and nights of early January 2015, a victory that catapulted him into a new stratosphere where only the elite reside.
All world titles are special no matter how they're achieved, but Anderson's had drama as well as glory. His final, against the made man Phil Taylor, had the twists and turns and the heart-stopping quality that made it a classic. Even now, as Anderson is remembering it, the emotions are so crystal clear they still make him smile.
"I remember winning the leg to go 6-4," says the Scot. "I'm walking off the stage [for a break] and I'm saying to myself, 'don't leave the stage, stay where you are, keep throwing', but I went off and came back on and Phil took the next two sets. At 6-4, I'm happy. At 6-6 my boxers are in a mess."
Anderson looked across at the great man and knew what he was thinking. "I know for a fact that he'd have been thinking 'I got you now', because that's the way Phil is. I was thinking the same. If anybody knows how to come back and win, it's Phil Taylor.
"But I had the throw and my first throw was a 180, which settled me. Once the first three darts left my hand I thought, 'right, I have a chance here'."
He won a cool quarter of a million that night. Soon after, he won another £200,000 when crowned Premier League champion. A team of forensic scientists could be deployed to find clues of how all of this has changed his life and no matter how long or hard they searched they'd come up short.
He says he still doesn't think of himself as the champion. The money remains unspent. "An extra shot of coffee in my cappuccino is about as extravagant as I've got," he jokes. "That's me pushing the boat out."
A replica of the world championship trophy sits in his house, which is unusual, because normally he doesn't keep them. He doesn't know where most of his silverware has ended up. Maybe some are in a pub some place. Maybe Tommy Gilmour, his manager, has a few sitting in his office.
"They're dust collectors," he explains. "There might be a few on Tommy's desk as paperweights. It doesn't interest me, keeping them. It's just more things in the house to clean. I'll not change. I'm the same bloke. I've got my circle - my friends, my family and anything outside that circle I don't give a damn about. I stay in my wee bubble. The day I change, somebody slap me."
Anderson is world champion, but darts has changed since he won his title and it's Michael van Gerwen, the 26-year-old Dutchman, who has the touch of the invincible about him right now.
To his eye, Anderson says there has been three players in his years of watching darts who have had an extraordinary capacity to bring their best stuff to the oche time and time again - Eric Bristow, Taylor and he puts Van Gerwen in that company now.
He says it warmly, with not a hint of competitive jealousy.
Happy to take what success he can, he smiles. There's been plenty. Almost £2m in prize-money, which is almost £2m more than he ever thought he'd make.
"I always remember my dad sitting and watching darts," he recalls. "The first time I remember watching darts myself was in George McNeill's house. You know George, the runner? I kicked about with his kids up in Tranent. I'm sure it was the [Keith] Deller v Bristow match [in 1983]. After that, it's just a blank until I started playing.
"I just got roped in. Everybody was playing. I couldn't count worth a damn, still can't count worth a damn. But I could hit that treble. Hitting it was the easy bit, working out what I had left was the hard bit.
"People say it was natural. I don't know what's natural and what's not. I find it hard trying to teach somebody to throw darts and explaining to them why is that going across there and that's going across there. Just throw them straight. I can't work out why they can't throw straight."
There's a story about Anderson that tells you something about the kind of character he is and the kind of values he holds dear. It goes back to March 2011 when the travelling circus that is the darts tour fetched-up at Glasgow's SECC.
The crowd was not so much boisterous as totally abusive of Anderson's opponent, Adrian Lewis, the world champion from England. They threw beer at him during his walk-on and then flung coins at him on stage.
Anderson raced into a 3-0 lead but as the crowd's treatment of his opponent got worse he made a decision. He was going to show his support for his mate. It finished 8-3 to Lewis.
"It was bad that night," he sighs. "I'll say it over and over, I'm a proud Scotsman but when that happened, it sickened me. There was coins getting thrown. Aidy is a good friend of mine. It was terrible.
"I didn't want to win a game where that happened. I thought it was a disgrace, to be quite honest.
"If I'm going to play a game, I'm going to play it right. With them doing that, Aidy couldn't play with that going on. Nah, it wasn't right to win the game."
Installing fireplaces was his gig in his previous life, a life that was thrown into turmoil in late 2011 and early 2012 when, tragically, he lost his brother and then his father.
"There were a few years when I didn't want to play darts," he says. "Take the last 12 months out and it was the two years before then. Losing my dad and my brother, I didn't want to travel, didn't want to be jumping in the car and driving eight hours to go and play a game of darts, flying here, flying there.
"Every family goes through it. Darts players have lost their mum or their dad while they've actually been at the darts.
"I had no interest in it. And when I was playing I was getting beat by players, and it's a horrible thing to say, that I didn't think I should be losing to. I was terrible, but that was down to lack of practice, turning up on the day and playing, then shooting off."
The arrival of his son, Tai, was the catalyst for the recovery. Twenty-month-old Tai, plus Anderson's two older sons, are in that bubble he talks about. He plays not for glory, but for his family, living and dead.
He doesn't know how the worlds will go, or whether Van Gerwen is stoppable, but he knows one thing - no matter what happens, he'll take it in his stride. If there's a cheque and a trophy at the end of it, all very good. If not, he'll carry on.
Being world champion this past year has been nice, but it doesn't define him.
"We're not rock stars or movie stars," he says. "We're darts players."
Oops. Luckily the message lasted only a few seconds before normal service was resumed, and so began one of the most anticipated television finales in recent history.
Anticipated because in the six years since Lost began, it has had the power to enthral and infuriate in equal measure.
It launched with what is still the most expensive pilot episode in TV history.
The initial concept was pretty simple - a plane crashed on a mysterious island and the survivors soon found themselves locked in a constant battle against The Others - a hostile group of island residents and some kind of monster that lived in the bushes.
In series two, we found out that people had been on the island for some time and we learned all about the Dharma initiative.
All good so far but then the series seemed to lose its way when it started flashing forward to a future with a dead John Locke, a bitter drug-addicted Jack and the rest of the Oceanic Six living out their "normal" lives.
The island began time-travelling, half the the gang ended up living as part of the Dharma initiative in 1973, we were introduced to the island's almost mythical protector Jacob as he met the so-called "candidates" at points throughout their lives, then there was the return to the island, the Man In Black...
The show had become so complex that any rational explanation to the question: "What is it all about?" was always going to be a tough one.
The cynics questioned whether writers and head honchos Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse had any idea where it was all heading.
So, the final episode. The finish line. The finale. The end. Was it all worth it?
Honestly, the show ended the only way it could have possibly ended. It was emotionally satisfying while some of the questions were answered and yet others will remain a mystery.
All in all, the show was wrapped up rather nicely with a positive affirming kind of message.
It all began with Flocke (as in Fake Locke, or the Man In Black) having vowed to destroy the island with the help of Desmond, taking him to the island's life source.
Jack, having volunteered to be Jacob's replacement on the island, had the same idea, but rather than using Desmond to destroy the island, he had vowed to kill Flocke.
Desmond did not end up destroying the island. He came very close but by unplugging the island's light source, he succeeded in making Flocke human, thus allowing Kate to kill him with a shot to the back.
Was this a bit of a disappointing end to the Man In Black, the chief antagonist of the last season? Possibly, and a slightly unfair one as well.
The Man In Black (he never even got a name) certainly got a bit of a raw deal when goody-two shoes Jacob threw him into the light source some two thousand years earlier, robbing him both of his body and his humanity.
Was he all bad? He certainly was a bit of a trouble-maker who carried out a few terrible deeds. But in the Across the Sea episode of season six - we saw a man who saw the limitations of his life on island and saw his destiny elsewhere.
By killing him, there, was no chance of his redemption.
Also, surely killing him resulted in a loss of balance on the island. All of Lost's imagery pointed to good and bad co-existing, the black and white stones, the struggle between light and dark.
In the struggle that preceded the fatal shooting, Jack was mortally wounded and resolved to stay and repair the island. Hurley went with him and Jack made him his successor as island protector.
Meanwhile, Sawyer, Kate, Claire, Miles, Richard and Lapidis managed to get the plane working with the help of some duct tape and flew off the island to safety.
Meanwhile, the flashes sideways continued as the survivors were all drawn together at the music concert at the Widmores.
Locke had accepted Jack's offer of surgery and was now capable of walking unaided. Hurley took Sayid to a bar where - after stopping a fight - he was reunited with Shannon.
Sun and Jin were reminded of their time on the island as they saw the ultrasound of their baby and Sawyer and Juliet met again in a touching scene by a snack machine.
As early as the first season, there were suggestions that no-one survived the plane crash and the island was some sort of purgatory.
Close but no cigar. The island was real and as Jack's dad Christian Shephard ( ... Kate was the one that spotted it. Really how did we all miss that one?) pointed out "everything that happened, happened".
Instead, we learned that rather than being some some kind of alternate-timeline, the flashes sideways were glimpses of a kind of limbo between life and death.
In their deaths - some on the island, some much, much later - they were all pulled together to move on to the afterlife.
The people that meant most to them during their lives would be there with them as they moved on to the next plane of existence.
With various philosophies running throughout the entire series, the final scenes took place in a multi-denominational place of worship.
There were some genuinely moving touches, Ben remained outside the gathering, not quite ready to leave his own personal purgatory and forgive himself for his sins.
Yet Locke did offer him gratefully accepted forgiveness and Hurley, who invited Ben into the gathering said he was a "good number two", with Ben telling Hurley he was a "great number one".
We were left to assume that the two men acted as protectors of the island for some time.
It ended as it had begun with Jack lying in the same bamboo forest in which we first met him in episode one. Back then Jack opened his eyes for the first time on the island, this time around he closed them for the last.
Yes, the finale could be accused of being a bit melodramatic and certainly there were many issues left unaddressed.
Whatever happened to Michael and Walt? What was the significance of the Egyptian statue on the island? What about the temple? Why, at the beginning of this series, was the island underwater?
Discussions will likely rage for years to come but if there is any lesson from the final episode, then it is that sometimes you just have to let go.
St Helens South and Whiston MP Marie Rimmer, 69, faced two charges following an incident outside Shettleston Community Centre on 18 September 2014.
On Tuesday she was cleared of a charge of abusive or threatening behaviour.
She has now been cleared of assaulting a woman by kicking her, after a sheriff found the case against her not proven.
The trial, at Glasgow Sheriff Court, in front of Sheriff Kenneth Hogg, started in April and concluded on Wednesday after a number of adjournments.
Sheriff Hogg said he was "astonished" by some of the evidence in the case, describing it as a "storm in a tea cup".
He said a lack discretion available to the police on the day of the referendum was "very disappointing", suggesting a "yellow card would have been preferable to a red" in the matter.
He said: "I am not clear any party in this case, apart from the lady police officer, has told me what really happened on that day.
"I have unease with the whole evidence and am still unable to form a clear picture."
The sheriff said he found the case not proven and told Ms Rimmer she was free to go.
Speaking outside court following her acquittal, Ms Rimmer said: "I know what happened that day. I'm clear what happened that day.
"I've been acquitted today. I just want to get on with life now. I've answered the charges."
Ms Rimmer was elected to Westminster in 2015 with a majority of more than 20,000, and had previously served as a local councillor for decades.
Sheku Bayoh, 31, died after being detained following an incident in Kirkcaldy on 3 May.
His relatives had previously questioned the independence of the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) probe into what happened.
They will now be allowed to help select additional experts to aid the investigation.
It follows a meeting between commissioner Kate Frame and Mr Bayoh's family in Hamilton.
A post-mortem examination of Mr Bayoh's body proved inconclusive and forensic pathology experts have been sought from outside Scotland to help establish the cause of death.
Pirc said it has been carrying out extensive inquiries into the death and is determined to get to the bottom of what happened.
A spokesman said: "The commissioner today invited the family to participate in the process of identifying additional experts.
"Once all expert reports are completed they will be passed to the Lord Advocate for his consideration.
"The commissioner reassured the family that she and her team of investigators are objectively exploring all lines of inquiry and has encouraged the family to contribute to that process."
A statement released by the family's solicitor, Aamer Anwar, following the meeting said their confidence in Pirc had been "shattered" in recent weeks, and called for the commissioner to "deliver results rather than more broken promises".
It added: "Despite an expanded remit, over 17 weeks the Pirc gave an impression of uncertainty about precisely what was being investigated, for what purpose and by what means.
"Today, the family raised questions about the independence and the authority of Pirc; its extremely close relationship with Police Scotland and repeated failures to use its powers or to counter deliberate lies fed into the public domain by police sources.
"The family welcome the Scottish government's national review of Police Scotland, but if it is to be more than a cosmetic exercise then they cannot afford for Pirc to be seen publicly as a toothless regulator which only serves to whitewash police wrongdoing.
Mr Bayoh's family met Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland in Edinburgh last month to discuss the case.
The 29-year-old, who can play at lock or in the back row, had two spells at Bristol either side of playing for Exeter Chiefs and London Scottish.
"James is an excellent addition and comes with considerable Premiership experience," Bath's director of rugby Todd Blackadder told the club website.
"He is a big, powerful forward with a strong carrying game."
Bristol-born Phillips scored 16 tries for the Championship-bound club, who were relegated from the top flight at the end of 2016-17.
Extra troops have been deployed but residents described the city as lawless and schools and shops remain closed.
On Wednesday, 200 cars were reported stolen, up from an average of 20.
Military police officers are demanding higher salaries and more benefits.
The officers are demanding a pay rise after four years of frozen wages. They argue that their average monthly salary of $830 (£660) is well below the national average.
But the state government says it cannot afford to meet the demands. State Governor Paulo Hartung said the police demands amounted to "blackmail".
Union leader Jorge Leal said residents should not blame the military police for going on strike but the state government for failing to make public security a priority.
Dozens of shops have been looted and many businesses remain closed for fear of violence. Schools and health clinics are also still shut, and bus services are not running.
Head of the state's Public Safety Department Andre Garcia said incidents of violence had fallen since 1,200 federal soldiers had arrived on Monday but he requested more be sent.
Residents said because so many businesses remained closed they were finding it increasingly difficult to get food, fill up their cars with petrol and get cash.
"No doubt about it," the country's ambassador to the UK told the BBC, despite the leader's non-appearance in public since 3 September.
Ambassador Hyon Hak Bong also said US missionary Kenneth Bae was being held in a "reform institution", which was not the same as a labour camp.
Mr Bae was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour in 2013.
The ambassador said in an email to the BBC: "We have reform institutions where offenders sentenced to penalty of reform through labour by the relevant laws are held and educated through labour. Some Western media interpret them as 'labour camps', but they are reform institutions."
"If I take an example, the place where American citizen Bae Jun Ho (Kenneth Bae) is being held is a reform institution."
A month ago, under the supervision of North Korean officials, Mr Bae gave an interview to Western media where he said he was being treated "as humanely as possible".
His family said, though, that he had previously sent letters saying his health was failing and that he suffered from diabetes.
The ambassador to London seems to be part of a drive by North Korean diplomats around the world to counter criticism of the country's human rights record.
The United Nations accused North Korea earlier this year of crimes against humanity, including systematic extermination, torture, rape, forced abortions and starvation.
There are moves to indict the country's leader before the International Criminal Court.
The ambassador said the allegations were false and driven by the United States which wanted to topple the regime in Pyongyang.
"Let me make it clear", he said. "We do not have political prisons or political camps."
Human Rights Watch said earlier this year: "There has been no discernible improvement in human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) since Kim Jong-un assumed power after his father's death in 2011. The government continues to impose totalitarian rule."
It's hard to know if the ambassador's lengthy communication on the situation in his country is driven by immediate concerns such as any upcoming condemnation at the United Nations, or is a sign of a genuine change of policy.
North Korean diplomats have approached the European Union and said they are prepared to discuss human rights in North Korea.
Whatever is happening in Pyongyang, there is unlikely to be any great change from the West, though, while North Korea pursues nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
The ambassador said: "Under the present circumstances, there will be no alternative for us but to further strengthen the DPRK's self-defensive deterrence to protect its system and sovereignty."
The crash, involving a Vauxhall Meriva, happened on the A693 near the junction with West Pelton on Tuesday morning.
Radoslaw Drzewiecki, aged 29 and from Chester-le-Street, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 45-year-old woman from Stanley was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving, and later bailed pending further inquiries.
Mr Drzewiecki's family said in a statement: "Radoslaw was a wonderful son, a loving fiancé and a friend to many.
"He was always laughing and smiling, with a heart of gold and everyone who met him loved him straight away.
"He will be hugely missed by many and words can't describe our sense of loss."
On Friday, Prime Minister David Cameron and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny left Northern Ireland without securing a deal.
The outstanding issues include the budget, welfare reform and dealing with the legacy of the Troubles.
The DUP and Sinn Féin said no deadline had been set but a solution would require hard work from all parties.
"If we can't get agreement, particularly on the public finances, I think we have a real problem here," the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson said.
"The first minister has made clear that it will be very difficult for the executive to limp on in those circumstances and to deliver good government for Northern Ireland.
"So, we're not contemplating failure, we really need to get agreement on these important issues."
Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly said: "The deal that should have been done, should have been done in the last few days.
"Though I wish I could tell you I was hopeful, I can tell you that we will work hard to see if that will occur.
"But unless the British prime minister changes his attitude and that ideological doctrine of cuts no matter what, then I think we are in difficulty."
Following talks on Thursday evening and Friday morning, both the DUP and Sinn Féin said the financial package put forward by Mr Cameron was not adequate.
Mr Cameron said it would have given the executive "financial firepower" of up to £1bn.
However, the Northern Ireland parties said the package did not represent new money.
Ultramarina and Mindelense had been due to play the first leg of their Cape Verdean Football Championship semi-final.
But the game was called off when officials could not find keys to Ultramarina's ground.
The Cape Verdean Football Federation (FCF) has now ordered Sunday's second leg to go ahead before the first game has been played.
Ultramarina should have hosted the first leg on Tuesday but nobody could get into the Orlando Rodrigues stadium because the government employee with the keys failed to show up, the FCF said.
A spare set could not be found, leaving players, officials and fans locked outside for around two hours, the FCF said in a statement on its Facebook page.
The FCF has now opened disciplinary proceedings against Ultramarina, who have never won the title, with sanctions ranging from a warning to disqualification or relegation.
The match had already been postponed twice because Mindelense, the country's most successful team with 12 titles. had problems travelling to the island of Sao Nicolau where Ultramarina are 23-time champions.
Cape Verde is made up of 10 islands in the Atlantic Ocean about 500km off the coast of Senegal.
Finalists New England Patriots used under-inflated balls in their victory over Indianapolis Colts.
Referee chief Dean Blandino said 108 balls will be used as the Patriots take on Seattle Seahawks in Arizona.
"There will be some added security just because of the environment we're in for this game," said Blandino.
During a regular game, each team has 12 balls which are given to the officials before the game to be inspected.
But in the Super Bowl, because some of the footballs are later given to charity, each team has 54.
All of the balls will be taken into custody by the NFL on Friday after the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots have prepared them.
The footballs will be inspected by referee Bill Vinkovich three hours before the game, which takes place at the University of Phoenix Stadium.
Blandino said the inspection of the footballs by referee Walt Anderson before New England's 45-7 win over the Colts was handled properly and the officiating is "not part of the investigation".
"Everything was properly tested and marked before the game," added Blandino. "Walt gauged the footballs himself. It is something he has done throughout his career."
From the drama of big waves and sporting agony to the poised calm of the prima ballerina, his winning photographs were taken for the international agency Getty Images and during his time at Pacemaker Press.
Here are the photographs that impressed the judges and the stories behind them.
"This photo of Cristiano Ronaldo was taken just after Northern Ireland scored against Portugal - I just stayed focused on him, as he's always a story. Northern Ireland went ahead 2-1 and at that stage it was looking good, as Portugal were down to 10 men. You've got the fans jumping up and down behind him as he's slumped in the rain.
"In the end they came back to win 4-2 and Ronaldo scored a hat-trick."
"This picture is of Alastair Mennie, who's a big wave surfer that I'm friends with. We've been working on a project for the last 18 months, putting together a documentary.
"It was taken at Dunluce Castle on the north coast of County Antrim - I'd been waiting a long time for that big wave. It's quite a dangerous area because the rocks are close to the shore. The historic Dunluce Castle overlooking the sea really makes the picture."
"This is a photo of Melissa Hamilton, who's a first soloist with the Royal Ballet. She was there shooting a promo at the Giant's Causeway and I just happened to be there, shooting photos with Alastair. I just kind of sneaked it, and it worked out well."
"I took this picture just to do something different. Everybody knows the traditional bonfire pictures from Northern Ireland with the silhouettes.
"It's funny, but the year before we were flying home from Tenerife on the 11th night, just as they were lighting the bonfires in Belfast. I thought, 'there's a great picture, but how would you capture it?'
"I had the idea to take a photo up at Cave Hill, which is one of the highest points overlooking the city. It was a bit of a gamble but it paid off.
"It took the kids there with their smartphones to make the picture - if they hadn't been there, it wouldn't have been the same. I don't really do landscape pictures - I always need to have people in my photos, or otherwise I can't really get attached to it."
"This was taken at the Mud Madness race in Portadown, County Armagh. You can't really go far wrong with that one."
"I don't have any formal training in photography.
"I started off in the Ballymena Times, and I learned by developing and printing film, and seeing other people's photographs.
"The photographer there gave me a few pointers and that really set me on my way.
"It has been a good career so far - every day is different.
"You get into situations that normally you wouldn't otherwise get access to - it's a privilege in many ways.
"I wouldn't have said I was an outgoing person when I was younger, but you overcome that because in many ways the camera is an extension of yourself.
"It helps you communicate and interact with the world.
"It gives you a reason to put yourself in situations that you would otherwise shy away from.
"I've been lucky enough to win the Northern Ireland Press Photographer of the Year award three times.
"For this award, I submitted a portfolio of five photos, so it's probably best to have a balance between news, sport and features.
"It's always nice to be recognised - it's good to get over to London, and you feel as if you've achieved something when you go out of your own patch."
He said that a failure to change could lead to further cases of child abuse like the ones in Rotherham and Oxford.
Sir Michael said police forces were not sharing information "in a timely way" and were not informing social workers quickly when children went missing.
His criticisms were made in a letter to the chief inspector of constabulary.
In response, Sir Thomas Winsor said he would work to ensure officers fully understood their duties on safeguarding children.
In his letter to Sir Thomas, Sir Michael said there were cases where police officers had failed to attend key meetings about child protection or visits with social workers.
In a number of forces there were delays in flagging up domestic abuse cases to the local council.
He said the "most serious concerns" were raised about Cleveland Police's support for children's services in Stockton-on-Tees.
In one case, an Ofsted inspector questioned a police decision to close a case even though "there was clear evidence that the children concerned had suffered non-accidental injuries".
Sir Michael said: "I am writing to alert you [Sir Thomas] to my growing concerns about the failure of some police forces to take their child protection responsibilities seriously."
He said he would "like to be reassured that every chief constable recognises the vital role that the police have to play in protecting our most vulnerable children".
"They are the ones armed with the intelligence to identify where organised abuse may be taking place and to spot emerging patterns of criminal activity."
He went on: "My worry is that if chief constables fail to give this issue sufficient priority, we may see a repeat of the sort of catastrophic failings we saw a few years ago in places like Rotherham, Oxford and elsewhere."
A report found that in Rotherham, 1,400 children were systematically sexually abused between 1997 and 2013, while in Oxford more than 300 were abused and tortured over a period of more than 15 years.
In a written response to Sir Michael, Sir Thomas said he was currently assessing how effectively police forces investigated offences involving vulnerable victims and how they worked with other agencies to keep children safe.
Sir Thomas said forces were also running a rolling programme of child protection inspections.
He wrote: "These inspections provide a very thorough assessment of how well a force handles child protection matters, including, but not limited to: how well officers understand and respond to vulnerability and risk; how well forces deal with missing and absent children; online abuse and online child sexual exploitation; children in custody; and the management of registered sex offenders."
He continued: "We will persist in ensuring that the police understand their very high public duty most efficiently and effectively to use their powers, and discharge their responsibilities, in connection with the protection of children."
Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Simon Nickless from Cleveland Police said: "Cleveland Police takes safeguarding extremely seriously and works closely with all local authorities and other safeguarding agencies on a daily basis to protect children from harm."
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Brown, 27, marked his third touchdown in Sunday's 45-10 victory over the Indianapolis Colts by running full tilt into the goalpost, straddling it and then falling onto his back.
Brown has been ordered to pay a $11,576 (£7,631) fine by the NFL for his antics.
"They didn't like it too much," Brown told the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review.
Social media users did, however, with Brown's celebration provoking much mirth.
Labour's Ruth Cadbury said she feared spectators at the Rugby World Cup venue would be subject to smells from the nearby Mogden sewage works.
The Brentford and Isleworth MP said problems persisted despite £140m investment in 2013.
But Thames Water said it was "confident rugby fans will not be turned off Twickenham by odour".
In a statement the company, which manages the sewage works, said its £140m upgrade included the installation of odour-reducing equipment and covers.
It also said it would "continue to work closely" with stadium bosses and Hounslow and Richmond councils in the run-up to the big event.
England Rugby, which manages the west London stadium, declined to comment.
The Rugby World Cup begins on 18 September, with Twickenham stadium hosting some of the major matches.
Environment Minister Rory Stewart initially said a new sewage super storm drain further down the Thames would help, before being corrected by the Brentford and Isleworth MP who said that project was nowhere near the problem site and would not help.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Ms Cadbury said: "There is a real risk the UK could look rather embarrassing if many matches are spoilt by the stench of sewage floating over the stadium."
She called for ministerial intervention, claiming that "storm tanks need covering" and that "dilute sewage keeps discharging into the nearby Thames".
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The Beijing Bureau of public security announced the arrest of suspects charged with spreading the WireLurker malware.
The bug was one of the first pieces of malware to penetrate iPhone's strict software controls.
It mainly infected devices in China.
The suspects - named only as Chen, Lee and Wang - were arrested in the Beijing area, according to the statement posted on Chinese social network Sina Weibo.
The Chinese authorities also shut down the site that had been spreading the malware.
The malware was installed via software downloaded to Mac desktops from the Maiyadi app store.
It was then able to attack iOS devices connected to an infected Mac via a USB cable.
If a handset was jailbroken - a process used by some to remove Apple's restrictions - WireLurker backed up the device's apps to the Mac, where it repackaged them with malware, and then installed the infected versions back on to the iOS machine.
But, according to security experts, the malware was also able to infect non-jailbroken iOS devices.
It did so by taking advantage of a technique created by Apple to allow businesses to install special software on their staff's handsets and tablets.
This process has since been changed by Apple.
By the time WireLurker had been discovered, infected Mac apps had already been downloaded more than 300,000 times.
Apple took steps to block the infected apps and reminded users not to install software from third-party app stores.
A Windows version of the malware was also found.
The new company will start in January and will stage a series of shows for six months each year.
The theatre is famous for launching the careers of stars such as Bill Nighy, Julie Walters, Jonathan Pryce and Pete Postlethwaite, who were part of the celebrated 1974 Everyman company.
The theatre reopened in 2014 after a three-year rebuild at a cost of £27m.
Described as a "pioneering" new structure, the aim of the company will be to "genuinely embrace its community", welcoming people from all backgrounds and will work closely with the Young Everyman Playhouse.
The gender balanced company will be made up of around 14 actors and will work with artistic director Gemma Bodinetz and associate director Nick Bagnall.
The first line-up of plays will be announced later in the year and auditions will be held for the company in a few months time.
Everyman said the productions "will aim to speak to the city-region and create a powerful bond with audiences".
Bodinetz said the vision of the company was "about creating relationships" with the aim "to surprise, dazzle and invigorate everyone that encounters us".
Bagnall added he saw the return of the company to the theatre as "a fantastic opportunity... to tell great stories that matter to the people of this city".
There were 272 causalities aged 16 to 24 in 2014, including 22 deaths, up from 253 the year before.
Road safety charity Brake called for more training for new drivers, saying they were "more likely to take risks".
The Welsh government said it was committed to improving road safety through education, engineering and enforcement.
The report found 16-24 year-olds accounted for 18% of all passenger deaths between 2010 to 2014 and just under half (46%) of casualties aged 16-19 were in vehicles driven by their peers.
In March, four people, including three teenagers died in a crash on the A470 in Brecon, Powys.
Although the figures are down 31% on the 2004-2008 average, the Welsh government wants to see it reduced to 40% lower by 2020. It is investing £6m in projects to improve safety in 2015-16.
Dave Nichols, of Brake, said the charity wanted to see a Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL), which would see people learn over a minimum period, as well as post-test restrictions put in place.
"This allows new drivers to build up experience gradually, while less exposed to higher risk situations, such as night-time driving," he said.
"GDL is already in place in many countries, where it is proven to reduce young driver casualties."
Chris Hume, of road casualty reduction partnership GoSafe, said "black box" systems, which monitor speed, acceleration and braking, could reduce the number of casualties by making drivers more aware of their actions, whilst also lowering car insurance.
Source: Welsh government report
In his first speech since the Manchester bombing, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would change UK foreign policy to reduce the risk.
But Mr Jones said he did "not think it would have made any difference".
"They are just fanatics. It is nothing to do with what is happening elsewhere in the world," he said.
Speaking on a BBC Wales Ask the Leader programme in Ebbw Vale on Friday, Mr Jones said of Mr Corbyn's proposal: "There'll come a time for considering that, but that's not the time this evening.
"Bluntly, these people they will hate us whatever we do, no matter what we do.
"If we do nothing at all, if we don't get involved in any military conflict, they will still try and cause harm and death to us.
"The only way of dealing with them is to have the right level of intelligence to make sure that, as Jeremy Corbyn said, that their supply of weapons is cut off, that their money supply is cut off, to remove the means where they can cause such destruction.
"There is no room for negotiation with these people, they will never ever accept anything other than what they want, and that is something we can never accept."
However, when asked if Jeremy Corbyn should be prime minister, Mr Jones said: "Yes. 100%"
Mr Jones had not named the leader of the Labour party at a general election campaign event earlier this year.
During the programme Mr Jones was asked about the effectiveness of European Union-funded programmes in the south Wales valleys, when many of the areas voted overwhelming for Brexit in the referendum last June.
He said: "The funding is working but it is quite clear that people do not believe it is."
The upcoming election is going to be tough for the Labour Party. After a disappointing showing in 2015, it has failed to gain ground under leader Jeremy Corbyn and some in the party fear it could do even worse than it did last time out.
In Wales, a heartland for the party, Labour has come first in every general election since 1922. The first two Welsh polls since the election was called suggested that this dominance may well come to an end on 8 June. The data suggested that Theresa May's attempts to make this the "Brexit election" have been succeeding and were likely to lead to a Conservative breakthrough in Wales.
However, the most recent Welsh Barometer poll has put Labour back in the lead in Wales, rising nine percentage points. Despite this indication of an increase in support, Labour cannot afford to be complacent in Wales.
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Over several months, she suffered seizures, was evaluated by a stroke team and had procedures carried out, including a CT scan and EEG test.
During one seizure she lost consciousness. Hospital staff believed epilepsy to be the cause, but seven months later the tumour was diagnosed.
A watchdog said an MRI scan of her brain should have been done sooner.
The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) investigated a complaint made by the family of the woman, who has since died and has not been named.
The SPSO said NHS Highland's decision to start the woman on anti-epileptic medication was "appropriate".
But it added that the subsequent monitoring of the medication and her condition were "not reasonable".
The SPSO also said there was a delay in her receiving a follow-up appointment at a neurology clinic.
In a report on its investigation, the health watchdog said: "During our investigation, we took independent advice from a consultant neurologist.
"We found that, while some aspects of Mrs A's care and treatment were reasonable, there was an unreasonable delay in performing an MRI, a scan used to diagnose health conditions that affect organs, tissue and bone, of her brain.
"This should have been arranged within four weeks of Mrs A's admission after the loss of consciousness and seizures."
The woman was a patient of NHS Highland's Raigmore Hospital in Inverness and Nairn Hospital.
In a statement, the health board said: "We have already apologised to the patient's family for the way we handled this matter and would again like to sincerely apologise for the failures identified.
"We have reviewed the findings within the report and the recommendations will be shared with the professionals involved. We are also reviewing current practices."
Slough council has issued a warning to residents after six "substantial" trees were felled in Upton Court Park.
The authority said a chainsaw had been used and the damage was not caused by "some kids mucking about".
Police should be called if anyone is seen felling trees in the park, a council spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added it was possible the bogus tree surgeon looked like a council official and may be wearing a high-visibility jacket.
The first tree was cut down six months ago and the council said it initially believed the felling was a "one-off".
However, the council's parks team has now found stacks of logs in the area and believe the person responsible is cutting the trees down so they can sell on the wood.
Councillor Joginder Bal, the authority's cabinet member for environment, said: "These are not broken saplings, it would take a chainsaw to do the immense damage we have seen.
"Our trees are precious and the only time we would fell a tree would be if it was dead, diseased or dangerous.
"Don't approach the person, but please call the police right away and report it."
It has been placed outside 20 Queen's Gate Place, Kensington, where he and his wife Cicely Romanis had a flat.
The Birmingham-born star of Hancock's Half Hour first made his name on radio before transferring to TV.
After a lengthy battle with alcoholism and difficulties in his personal life he killed himself in June 1968.
Hancock's Half Hour writers Alan Simpson and Ray Galton unveiled the plaque on Sunday outside the Grade II-listed building.
During his time at the property, co-stars such as Sid James and Kenneth Williams were regular visitors and it was there that Hancock mapped out the story for his later film, The Rebel.
Simpson said: "Tony Hancock was the comedian's comedian.
"When we were writing Hancock's Half Hour he told us; 'You're the writers, you write, I'm the comedian, I'll comede.' And boy, could he comede."
Galton added: "We are delighted that English Heritage is celebrating Tony with a plaque. It is a little ironic that a man who steadfastly refused throughout his career to use any blue material should be remembered with a blue plaque."
English Heritage's blue plaque historian Howard Spencer said: "This blue plaque recognises a colossus of comedy.
"In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Tony Hancock became one of Britain's first comedy superstars - a radio and television phenomenon - and his influence is still apparent today."
Thousands had demonstrated on Monday and Tuesday at a town near Luoding city in Guandong province, some clashing violently with police.
Officials pleaded for calm on Wednesday night and promised to halt the plan.
It is the latest case of officials backing down in the face of public anger over plant construction projects.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing says China's middle class is increasingly aware of the huge environmental cost of breakneck development, and authorities are facing growing opposition when they propose to build industrial plants close to cities or towns.
According to reports, Luoding officials had planned to build an incinerator that would burn 300 tonnes of rubbish a day in Langtang town, which comes under the city's jurisdiction.
A deal was signed with a local cement factory, but residents reportedly grew concerned that the plan had gone through without adequate environmental checks and approvals.
Demonstrators gathered at the cement factory on Monday and Tuesday.
The protests reportedly grew violent, with cars overturned and debris hurled at riot police. Hong Kong media outlet Now News broadcast footage showing scuffles.
US based NTDTV.com reported that at least 10 people were injured and more than 20 were arrested. It ran pictures showing injured protesters and others attacking a local police station.
City officials later issued a statement (in Chinese) saying that there had been a "misunderstanding" and that the plan would be cancelled "as a response to the people's requests".
They also issued a letter to residents calling on them to "not resort to aggressive behaviour" and to refrain from destroying public property.
Our correspondent says many Chinese are worried about the safety and environmental impact of big industrial plants.
This week, hundreds of firefighters have been battling a series of fires erupting and reigniting at a chemical plant in Zhangzhou city in Fujian province. The latest fire was put out early on Thursday.
More than 30,000 people have been evacuated from the city's surrounding areas. Authorities have insisted that there has been no contamination.
In March a documentary on China's air pollution problem called Under the Dome, made by renowned investigative journalist Chai Jing, took the country by storm and garnered millions of views online in days.
Wilson turned professional in 1979 and rose to fame after he claimed the 1982 and 1989 World Championships.
A Fife police spokeswoman told the BBC: "The death is non-suspicious and due to a medical matter."
Tommy Cox, who managed Wilson from 1988-1996, said: "In the 1980s there wasn't a person in the country who didn't know who Jocky Wilson was."
He added: "Jocky transcended the whole spectrum of life in the UK. It's a very sad day because Jocky was loved by so many people for the great character he was."
The Kirkcaldy-native, who turned 62 on Thursday, had recently been suffering with the lung disorder chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Fife emergency services were called to his home in the town at 2100 GMT but he was deceased at the scene when an ambulance arrived.
Wilson's career saw him challenge Englishman Eric Bristow and John Lowe for the sport's major honours before his retirement in 1995.
His first victory in the World Championship came in 1982 when he beat Lowe 5-3 in the final.
Seven years later, he beat his other great rival Bristow 6-4, in a match where the "Crafty Cockney" had recovered from 5-0 down to find himself at 5-4 and 2-2 in the tenth set.
From his debut at the World Championship in 1979 until 1991, Wilson managed to reach at least the quarter-finals of the tournament on every occasion.
Wilson also lifted the British Professional Championship four-times between 1981 and 1988, as well as the British Open and Matchplay titles.
A minute's applause was held in his memory ahead of Sunday's UK Open Qualifier in Barnsley, with 194 players joining officials in paying tribute to the Scottish legend.
"Jocky Wilson, a player I rated one of the finest ever, and always enjoyed sharing the Oche, RIP my friend"
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Phil Taylor, the 15-time world champion, said: "It's very sad news. When I first started, you wanted to beat Eric Bristow, Bob Anderson and Jocky Wilson.
"He was such a good laugh to be with. People talk about the great characters in darts and he's one of the greatest.
"Jocky had false teeth, and I remember playing snooker with him. He asked someone to clean the white ball and took his teeth out to mark the ball.
"He'd always be doing things like that, and he'd have a great little grin on his face."
Five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld said: "It's a sad day for darts. It was a shame he wasn't involved in darts anymore because he was such a hero.
"I remember playing him in my first Europe Cup event in Great Yarmouth in 1988. The Scotland team manager got him fired up and he beat me 4-0."
Peter Morgan, 54, of Llanellen, Monmouthshire, strangled Georgina Symonds, 25, in January.
He admitted killing her but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He said he did it to stop her blackmailing him.
Morgan was convicted at Newport Crown Court and must serve at least 25 years.
Judge Mr Justice Garman told Morgan during sentencing: "You have been convicted of the murder by strangulation of Georgina Symonds. The murder of a woman you said you loved.
"In my judgement this was carefully planned and calmly executed.
"You killed her out of cold anger at what you discovered she had done and out of fear of what she might do."
He added: "When listening in to her conversations, you learned that she had absolutely no respect for you, and absolutely no time for you. You might have loved her - she didn't even like you."
In mitigation, Morgan's defence barrister, Patrick Harrington QC, told the judge his client suffered from a mental disorder and had been provoked by prolonged stress.
The judge agreed Morgan had a "mild form" of Asperger syndrome but said the plans he made for killing Miss Symonds "demonstrate perfectly clearly that you retained self-control".
He did however acknowledge Morgan was provoked, saying the abuse he suffered was "vicious, persistent and extreme" and the threat of blackmail by Miss Symonds was "gross and appalling and an abuse of trust."
Morgan paid Miss Symonds, from the Allt-yr-yn area of Newport, up to £10,000 a month to be his personal escort and described himself as a "sugar daddy".
She was reported missing after she failed to pick up her daughter from school.
Morgan admitted killing Miss Symonds after officers traced her mobile phone to his Porsche parked at his farmhouse near Usk, Monmouthshire.
He claimed he confiscated her phone to stop her buying drugs, but when asked whether he had killed her, he told detectives: "Yes. I don't know why I done it."
He handed over keys to a farm workshop to officers and told them: "You will need those keys - she's locked in the outhouse."
Police found her body wrapped in plastic.
Morgan, worth an estimated £20m, said he started seeing escorts during a "mid-life crisis", and had never planned to see anyone more than once until he met Miss Symonds.
He claimed she threatened to release explicit photos of him to his family if he did not transfer money to her and sign over a bungalow he was letting her stay in rent free at Pencoed Castle, Llanmartin.
He said he loved Miss Symonds and she had been like a "best friend", though he always knew she would leave him if the money stopped.
Using a listening device in her home disguised as a plug adaptor, he heard her tell another love interest on the phone she would leave Morgan after he signed over his bungalow to her.
The court was told he considered poisoning her with antifreeze as a way to get her to hospital to see a doctor about her drug use.
He said he was concerned about Miss Symonds' cocaine habit and suicide threats.
Despite saying "I done it" to police after he was arrested, he always maintained he was not responsible for his actions due to Asperger syndrome.
But a jury dismissed this claim following a three-week trial.
Miss Symonds' mother, Deborah, said her killing had been a "devastating tragedy" for the family.
"Her [Georgina's] beautiful daughter has been left without a mum. Georgina has left a hole in our lives that will never be repaired. All of our happy memories will be kept forever in our hearts," she added.
Speaking after the verdict was delivered, Det Supt Roger Fortey, of Gwent Police, said: "This is a tragic case that resulted in the death of Georgina, the loss of a mother, daughter, sister and friend to many.
"The actions of Peter Morgan were calculated and he committed the act without emotion."
The victim was found injured in the street following the attack in Sycamore Drive, Airdrie, at about 03:10.
Police said the attacker returned to the house in nearby Hawthorn Drive and assaulted a 25-year-old woman before escaping, possibly in a waiting car.
The man was described as white, wearing dark clothing and white footwear.
The male victim, who was also badly beaten, is being treated at Monklands Hospital.
Police are studying CCTV footage to establish how many people were involved in the attack.
Det Insp Martin Fergus said: "At this time we know that following the disturbance in Hawthorn Drive, the injured man was chased into Sycamore Drive where he was attacked.
"Thankfully a member of the public came to the aid of the man and called the ambulance. He was stabbed and beaten in what I would describe as a savage attack.
"We know the man who chased him returned to the house in Hawthorn Drive and attacked a 25-year-old woman within before making off.
"The woman was taken by ambulance to Glasgow Royal Infirmary where she was treated and has since been released."
Det Insp Fergus added: "Although this happened in the early hours of the morning, we know that a number of taxis were in the area either dropping off or picking up people in the street at the time. I would appeal to taxi drivers, or indeed anyone who was in the area, to contact police.
"There would also have been some considerable noise in the street as a result of the attack so people in the area would have heard, if not seen, what had happened."
Demba Ba's goal early in the second half settled the quarter-final replay at Stamford Bridge and sets up a meeting with Manchester City at Wembley.
Benitez said: "The priority for us is to finish in the top four but in a top side you have to keep in every competition and try to win it."
He added: "The race for the top four will be up until the end of the season but we are in the top four with a game in hand, we are in the semi-finals of the FA Cup and the Europa League quarter-finals, so it is a great season so far."
The Blues are just one match away from their fifth FA Cup final in seven seasons. They lifted the trophy in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Chelsea are now unbeaten in 29 FA Cup games (excluding penalty shootouts). It is the longest ever run without defeat by a single side.
The game with Manchester United was played less that 48 hours after Chelsea's defeat at Southampton and Benitez is concerned that a heavy programme will bring the risk of injuries.
Ashley Cole limped off in the first half against United with a hamstring strain that is likely to keep him sidelined for at least two weeks, while fellow England defender Gary Cahill is also sidelined for a similar period with a knee injury.
With tongue in cheek, Benitez said: "With Ashley's kind of injury it means at least two weeks out - which means about 20 games for us."
Meanwhile, the Spaniard insists the win against United was not vindication for his decision to shuffle his side against Southampton.
"We don't need to justify anything," Benitez said. "We have to make decisions and we have to use a lot of players, especially when you are playing two games in 48 hours.
"You can't kill players by playing them two games in a row and then lose them for 15 days. If we can manage the squad and don't have injuries we will be fine. Cahill will be out for 15 days and Ashley the same so we have to manage with other players."
Benitez was delighted with Ba's goal - and also with a stunning one-handed save from goalkeeper Petr Cech in the second half that kept out Javier Hernandez's header and preserved Chelsea's lead.
He said: "It was a great goal and a great save. Ba's goal was very important and showed great technique. Credit to Petr as well, but also credit to the rest of the team. When you have a good goalkeeper it always helps."
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said: "We were comfortable in the first half and I couldn't see them getting into the game or being any great threat to us. But the goal, as it always does, changed the game.
"We spoke about Ba and the experience we had with him a couple of years ago at Newcastle when he scored exactly the same type of goal. We were caught napping to be honest. It wasn't a good start for us right at the beginning of the second half.
"After that I think we lacked the composure to win the game and create proper openings. We had a lot of possession but didn't make the best use of it and they caused us quite a few problems on the counter-attack.
"We're disappointed and the players are down. They're disappointed because they know they can do better.
"To be honest with you, for the 90 minutes I thought only Antonio Valencia reached the standard that we expect of them. Phil Jones, for a good part of the game, and David De Gea did well. But in terms of the 90-minute performance, Antonio was the only one.
"We need to forget this result and look forward to the game with City. A positive result for us next Monday will just about seal the title for us."
The Canadian musician, whose songs include Summer of '69 and (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, is to perform at Bught Park on 16 July 2017.
The show will be Adams' first in the Highlands.
Inverness-based concert promoter, LCC Live, has organised the outdoor performance as part of its Live in the City programme.
It will also see The Beach Boys and Olly Murs performing in Inverness in 2017.
David Tuohy, 83, who now lives in Oxford, took charge of Eccles Hall, a special school, in the 1970s.
At Norwich Crown Court he denied 18 counts of indecent and serious sexual assaults on five boys with special needs aged as young as 10.
Prosecutor Andrew Shaw said Mr Tuohy was obsessed with spanking and lost interest in the boys as they got older.
"You may think from the evidence that he had a particular deviant sexual fascination with the bottoms of very young boys," Mr Shaw said.
Mr Tuohy taught at the boarding school for children who found life difficult in mainstream education and later became its head master.
The boys came from different parts of the UK and found themselves alone, isolated and separated from their families.
"As one of the people charged with the duty of caring for these children, he abused the trust placed in him and used these children for his own sexual gratification," Mr Shaw said.
"Many of the now-adult men who suffered abuse went on to have significant problems in their later lives."
All the alleged victims described being spanked by Mr Tuohy.
The attacks are alleged to have happened at the school, now known as the New Eccles Hall School, in Quidenham.
The trial continues.
Former champions Harris English and Matt Kuchar are second, while 2012 runners-up Charles Howell III and Rory Sabbatini are third on 13 under.
Lexi Thompson, only the second woman to play in the event, and partner Bryson DeChambeau are eighth on 10 under.
Kelly, 50, and Stricker, 49 are the oldest team in the field.
The 12-team event, the last PGA Tour event of the year, is hosted by former world number one Greg Norman at the Tiburon Golf Club.
It features three rounds played in differing strokeplay formats over three days, with the pairs playing a scramble on Thursday and alternate shots on Friday.
Thompson, 21, the world number five, is the first female professional golfer to compete in the event since Annika Sorenstam in 2006.
England's Luke Donald and Scotland's Russell Knox are tied for fourth on 12 under.
Army bomb experts attended the incident in the British Road area on Saturday afternoon.
Police said "nothing untoward" was found.
As I wrote over Easter, the £8bn identified by Mr Stevens last autumn as part of his proposed solution to a looming NHS funding gap had generated a mixed response from the leading parties.
Now it has fuelled a heated series of exchanges dominating the campaign debate.
To recap - Simon Stevens and other NHS leaders in England predicted a £30bn gap by the year 2020.
That's the difference between anticipated demand for health care from a rising population and a budget increasing in line with inflation and no more.
More than two thirds, they said, could be covered by efficiency savings, in effect seeing more patients and carrying out more procedures for a set amount of money.
But that still left £8bn above inflation, they argued, which the government of the day would need to stump up in 2020.
That figure would be reached, it was assumed, after a steadily increasing injection of cash over preceding years.
The Liberal Democrats said a little while ago they would find the £8bn if they were in office.
Some of this would be funded by identified tax measures, but the bulk of it would, in the words of Nick Clegg, come from the "proceeds of growth".
In other words the Lib Dems assume they will find the money if the economy is growing normally in the years leading up to 2020.
Now, after skirting around the subject and dropping various hints, the Conservatives say they will as a manifesto pledge commit to finding the £8bn in real terms in 2020.
Actually it will be "at least" £8bn and could be more, according to party sources.
There are no revenue-raising plans linked to this plan.
The Tory line is that voters can trust them to deliver next time on the back of their record of increasing NHS funding over the last parliament.
They say the NHS budget in England in 2015/16 is more than £7bn higher than in 2010/11 so finding £8bn by the end of the next parliament should not be a problem.
It's worth noting that the £7bn extra figure was reached over six financial years so over a longer time frame than a single parliament.
So where does that leave Labour? Unlike the other main parties it has not signed up to the Stevens financial numbers.
It is sticking with its pledge to raise NHS funding in England by £2.5bn a year from 2016, in effect making a start on the journey towards £8bn.
Labour points out it has specific tax-raising plans, including the mansion tax, which cover this spending commitment.
It argues this is real money and that the Conservatives and Lib Dems are guilty of promising "funny money" and making unfunded spending pledges.
The debate is in essence between "trust us, we can deliver" with a higher long-term spending pledge and a more cautious and funded shorter-run plan.
As always it will be down to voters to assess the arguments either way.
In the end £8bn could prove too small a government top-up for the NHS.
The efficiency savings talked about look extremely ambitious and may not be achieved.
And of course there could be unpalatable decisions about even deeper cuts in other Whitehall departments or tax rises to sustain cash injections required by the health service.
This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, particularly of older people.
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A total of 314,264 fans soaked up the atmosphere as Real Madrid from Spain beat Italy's Juventus 4-1 on 3 June.
The council said the footfall outstripped the previous record of 270,421, when Wales beat France 16-9 at the Six Nations in 2012.
Cllr Russell Goodway said the final had put Cardiff on the "world stage".
"It was an opportunity to make our city shine to a global audience, to market ourselves as an up and coming city that has so much to offer and we did exactly that, and I am proud that we have delivered," he said.
Some businesses have complained that they lost money during the four-day festival as local people stayed away from the city centre.
Monitoring of city centre footfall began in 1999 when the first camera was installed in Queen Street. Full monitoring began in 2007.
The figures are digitally recorded with cameras across the city showing the footfall for specific streets in the city centre.
But the government says this will not disadvantage students as they will be tested on only half the syllabus.
Calls were also made to delay exams after dozens of schools were burned by unknown attackers in recent weeks.
BBC Urdu's Riyaz Masroor in Srinagar says 98% of registered students are taking the exam amid tight security.
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"The process has been smooth since the morning. Most students agreed to take the exams to avoid wasting an academic year," he said.
The government has also promised to hold another round of exams in March for the remaining 2% of students who have opted not to sit them this time.
Schools have been shut since July following clashes between security forces and protesters after the death of popular militant Burhan Wani, who was killed in a gun battle with security forces.
The continuing unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir has seen the deaths of 89 civilians with thousands injured since July.
India blames Pakistan for stirring up violence in the region, a charge that it denies. Both countries claim Kashmir in its entirety but only control parts of it.
The region has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years, sparking two wars between the countries.
Within the Muslim-majority territory, some militant groups have taken up arms to fight for independence from Indian rule or a merger with Pakistan.
The new polymer notes stay cleaner, are more secure and should even survive a spell in the washing machine, the Bank says.
It has spent three years studying the impacts of a change from cotton paper.
The switch could start with the new ??5 note, featuring Sir Winston Churchill, with the ??10 note to follow.
The Bank has organised a roadshow to gauge public opinion across the UK over the next two months before coming to a final decision in December.
The current Bank of England banknotes are made from cotton fibre and linen rag, with the average fiver only lasting for a year. Unfit notes are shredded and can end up in industrial compost.
The proposed new polymer banknotes would be made from a thin, transparent and flexible film made of polypropylene.
This is coated with an ink layer that enables it to carry the printed design features of a banknote. This allows the inclusion of windows or clear portions in the design, used to enhance protection against counterfeits.
Polymer banknotes are produced from a thin, transparent and flexible film made of polypropylene.
This is coated with multiple layers of special ink (usually white) to the front and the back.
A portion of the film is typically left clear to form a window or clear portion in the design, to be used for protection against counterfeits.
Other security features can be embedded in, or laid onto, the banknote.
Once the film has been cut into sheets, they can be printed using standard banknote printing equipment.
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The Bank believes the new notes would be:
It added that the longer life-cycle meant that they were more environmentally friendly. In Australia, where polymer notes are used, unfit notes are recycled and used for other plastic items, such as plant pots.
They would be still be thin and flexible enough to fit into purses and wallets, the Bank argues. If they are adopted, then the new notes would be slightly smaller than the existing collection of banknotes and easier to fit in pockets and purses.
The prospect of plastic banknotes has been on the agenda for some time.
If it goes ahead it would not be the first time that polymer notes had been seen in the UK.
In 1999 Northern Bank of Northern Ireland issued a polymer ??5 commemorative note celebrating the year 2000.
Bank of England researchers have been engaged in a project for three years to look at the options.
Much of this has focussed on the experience of 20 other countries that have adopted the polymer notes. Of these, only seven have all denominations in plastic.
Adopters of the notes include Canada, whose last central bank governor - Mark Carney - is now the governor of the Bank of England.
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Earlier this year, the Bank of Canada was forced to deny that the notes had any scent added, after authorities were inundated with queries from consumers about why they detected a "hint of maple" when smelling them.
The plastic notes are also being used in New Zealand, Mexico and Singapore. More recently, the banknotes were issued in Mauritius in August.
Charles Bean, deputy governor of the Bank of England, said that the outcome of 50 public events across the country over the next two months was key to a final decision.
"The Bank of England would print notes on polymer only if we were persuaded that the public would continue to have confidence in, and be comfortable with, our notes," he said.
Following initial increased costs, the extra durability of the notes would mean they would be cheaper to issue than paper notes, he said.
The Bank of England has been busy redesigning banknotes, following the announcement of Churchill's inclusion on the ??5 note from 2016 at the earliest.
This created controversy over the potential lack of women on Bank of England notes, so in July the Bank said it planned to put Jane Austen on the next version of the ??10 note.
The Serb, then world number three, was beaten 6-3 6-2 by Frenchman Fabrice Santoro, ranked 36 places below him.
Djokovic, 28, says the match has only been re-examined following a corruption investigation by the media.
"You can pick any match that you like that the top player lost and just create a story out of it," he said.
"I think it's not supported by any kind of proof, any evidence, any facts. It's just speculation, so I don't think there is a story about it."
A joint BBC/Buzzfeed investigation alleged that the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), the organisation responsible for policing the sport, failed to act on suspicions that 16 top-50 ranked players have been involved in match-fixing.
Djokovic, the world number one, has previously claimed he was offered £110,000 to lose a first-round match at the St Petersburg Open in 2007.
When asked about the claims about the Santoro match in Tuttosport after his Australian Open second-round victory over French qualifier Quentin Halys, Djokovic said: "What it is to say? I've lost that match?
"I don't know if you're trying to create a story about that match, or for that matter any of the matches of the top players losing in the early rounds. I think it's just absurd."
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Meanwhile, a former senior police officer has claimed tennis authorities failed to act on "extremely damaging evidence" he provided about a player linked to Sicilian gamblers thought to be fixing matches at Wimbledon.
Albert Kirby, a former detective who had previously been in charge of the James Bulger murder investigation, prepared a secret report for the ATP in 2008 as part of an inquiry into suspected match fixing.
The ATP report into a suspicious match between the Russian Nikolay Davydenko and Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina cleared both players of breaking any rules.
However, Kirby said he obtained phone evidence from Arguello which he claims showed he had links to four suspected Italian fixers.
"That information showed conclusively of his direct contact with the Italian gamblers. There was really a prima facie case to go for him," he told the BBC.
Arguello has not responded to questions about his connections to the Italian gamblers. The ATP has categorically denied suppressing the evidence uncovered by investigators and said the information was not strong enough to merit any further enquiries.
It was just 10 months on from the mentally-scarred South Africa-born batsman's painfully public departure from England's Ashes tour.
Returning home to Edgbaston was part of the healing process, and although he was not short of support in the Bears dressing room, he was short of runs.
He made just two in 15 balls in the 2014 One-Day Cup final as Warwickshire's score of 165 proved nowhere near enough to beat Durham.
It has been a different story for Trott so far this summer.
He missed two of the eight qualifying group games with injury, one was abandoned and in the other he was not needed in a nine-wicket win.
In the five innings he has played, however, three of them have been marked with a century.
His 100 at Trent Bridge against Nottinghamshire was merely a valiant response to a record-breaking Notts total of 415-5.
But in the Bears' final group game win at Headingley he made 118 and then, having been promoted to open the batting, it was his 101 that set Warwickshire on their way to a comfortable 70-run win over Essex in the quarter-finals.
Laurie Evans has played his part too, with key scores of 48 not out against Yorkshire and then an unbeaten 70 against Essex. However, one more big performance from Trott in Sunday's home semi-final against Somerset would do a lot to take the Bears back to a record 19th Lord's one-day final.
"Trotty is just a world-class player," said Bears director of cricket Dougie Brown.
"He changed his position in the order and went up top (against Essex), as he has done for Warwickshire and England over the years, and he showed again just how good a player he still is.
"Trotty played beautifully in a great partnership with Tim Ambrose which laid the platform for Laurie Evans to go in and play like he can, in a completely dominating way with some incredible shots.
"Laurie's innings was absolutely blistering. His reverse-sweep for six was just ridiculous. One-day cricket is about having fun and hopefully sending the crowd home thinking they have seen something awesome. That shot was awesome."
Bears captain Ian Bell views the semi-final as an "exciting opportunity" and told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire: "One game away from Lord's. They are some of the best days you can have in your career as a county player.
"50-over cricket has probably been our best format this year. We've scored some big runs with our batting unit in the last few 50-over games. That's a really good place to be when you've got a line-up that feels good in the format."
The team were disappointed to miss out on T20 Blast Finals Day this year, but a day out at the home of cricket would be a "special" consolation, according to Brown.
"To play in a Lord's final is a great incentive," he added. "Somerset will present a tough challenge but they know we will too.
"They know Edgbaston is a bit of a fortress in big games and in the last two 50-over games we have defeated two very good sides. If we play somewhere close to how we have played in the last two games we will be very difficult to beat."
Bell reckons that groundsman Gary Barwell could be the key man on Monday.
"The square is getting a bit tired now at Edgbaston with the amount of cricket we've had," Bell told BBC WM.
"I feel for Gary sometimes. He's had a Test match, Finals Day and so much cricket this year at Edgbaston.
"We'll see what kind of surface we get before deciding if we want to bat first again.
"In T20 at times we were better chasing and in 50-over cricket we've been better setting but we'll have to see what Gary gives us. Hopefully it'll be a good surface."
Prof Otmar Issing told the BBC's Wake up to Money that faultlines across the eurozone remain, citing economic weakness in Greece, Portugal and Italy.
The European Central Bank's first chief economist also warned about the impact of negative interest rates.
And he said political pressures threatened central banks' independence.
Prof Issing told the BBC that structural problems in the eurozone and dwindling public support in some countries were still major problems.
The euro currency was "stable and performing much better than expected", he said. "But I wish I could say the same about the euro area."
Countries that tipped the bloc into recession during the global financial meltdown were still in serious economic trouble. Greece was in "permanent crisis", and economic reforms in Portugal and Italy were either on hold or being reversed, the professor said.
Prof Issing, a former adviser to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, has in recent years become suspicious of the euro project he helped to create, warning that it would collapse without reform.
He told the BBC that it was a "mistake in the construction of the whole arrangement that once a member, you remain a member for eternity".
It meant that countries not complying with the eurozone's economic and budgetary rules "can blackmail the others".
Allowing a temporary exit would, for example, have helped Greece to reform its economy so that it could then return later in better financial health.
However, some countries should never have joined the euro in the first place, he said, without naming names. They "were not yet ready to thrive under a single monetary policy and one central bank".
Prof Issing is also increasingly concerned about central banks' use of zero or negative interest rates in a bid to stimulate growth. The policy has been used by, among others, the ECB, Japan, Switzerland and Sweden
It is hindering the recovery of banks, he said, adding: "If it persists for longer, then I think we will see dramatic consequences for insurance companies and pension schemes."
Furthermore, "the longer zero interest rates continue, the more difficult it will be to exit from this situation". A gradual increase in interest rates would not stop companies investing for growth, he believed.
Prof Issing is worried that central banks are straying onto "political turf" and damaging their independence.
He would not discuss Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who has faced criticism from EU Leave campaigners.
The professor is more concerned about the ECB. Because it "is the only game in town" it wields huge power. "This does not foster independence, but undermines it," he said.
On Brexit, Prof Issing said there were too many issues to be resolved before he could speculate on its impact on the eurozone.
But he was certain about one thing - London's position as Europe's financial capital is now under threat.
He thinks the capital's financial centre will not be able to keep the same benefits and freedoms outside the EU. "It will not happen," he said.
You can download the interview via the Wake up to Money website.
Andy Williams will work in the British Embassy in Washington advising British cyber security companies on how to promote their products in the US.
Mr Williams started his career with BT before moving into security software.
He spent five years working for the US government as its international trade advisor to US IT security firms.
Mr Williams will take up the post in April.
He said: "This role will involve working with UK and US business and government to help boost transatlantic cyber security deals in support of the UK's aim to achieve £2bn in cyber security exports by 2016.
"The US currently represents the largest global market for cyber security at over $40bn (£26.4bn) and this market is expected to grow to over $60bn (£39.5bn) by 2019."
The appointment was one of a series of measures to help UK businesses tackle cyber security challenges and came as Prime Minister David Cameron met US President Barack Obama in Washington, with cyber security on the talks' agenda.
Noor Salman, 30, is due to reappear in court in a fortnight, when it is expected more evidence will be presented against her.
Her family say she is a victim herself and innocent of the charges.
Her husband Omar Mateen was killed in a shootout with police on 12 June.
He had killed 49 people and injured 53 others by the end of a three-hour standoff at Orlando's Pulse nightclub.
Ms Salman on Wednesday was accused in a California court of aiding and abetting her husband's efforts to support the group known as Islamic State and of misleading police investigators and FBI agents on the day of the attack.
It has been described as the worst mass shooting in modern US history.
Ms Salman was not there when it took place.
The prosecution's indictment on Tuesday alleged that she knew he was going to conduct the attack.
Ms Salman appeared in court dressed on Wednesday wearing an orange jail uniform and remained silent throughout the proceedings. The two not guilty pleas were read out on her behalf by an attorney.
She is the first person to be prosecuted in the US in relation to the attack and could be imprisoned for life if she is convicted.
Details of who will represent her, where she will be detained and when she will be transferred to Florida are expected to be determined at later hearings.
She was arrested on Sunday in the San Francisco area after moving there from Florida following the attack.
Al Salman, an uncle of the 30-year-old woman, on Tuesday said that his niece was "simple and innocent" and was physically and mentally abused by Omar Mateen.
He asserted that she knew nothing about her husband's plan to attack the nightclub.
During the attack, Mateen called police to pledge support for Islamic State.
In his first defence statement, he said the case's primary purpose was "pushing me out of the legal political field".
He claimed it was ordered by President Vladimir Putin, whose United Russia party he has denounced as corrupt.
Mr Navalny is accused of involvement in the misappropriation of $500,000 (£300,000) from a state timber company.
The 36-year-old activist faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Addressing the court after pleading not guilty, Mr Navalny said the charges were revenge for his exposure of high-level corruption and were intended to prevent him from running for office.
By Daniel SandfordBBC News, Kirov
Turning occasionally to the phalanx of cameras behind him, Alexei Navalny sat at the front of the court in his trademark open-necked shirt. His lawyers challenged every aspect of the case - the venue, the length of time they have had to read the documentation, and the "self-contradictory" charges.
Mr Navalny has been quite clear - he says this is a political trial.
Many of those who have followed his rise tend to agree with him. He has become a threat to the Russian political establishment. He has hit them where it hurts, by exposing the extraordinary levels of corruption in their ranks. He has written about it with savage ferocity laced with poisonous sarcasm.
Many of the tens of thousands who took to the streets last year were there because of him. He has become one of the Putin government's most successful opponents.
Eventually he attracted the attention of Russia's equivalent of the FBI - the Investigative Committee - which has become an increasingly politicised force. Now, in front of a judge who has not acquitted anyone in more than 130 cases, it seems likely that he is going to prison.
"The most important reason for this case's existence... is pushing me out of the legal political field," he said. "This case is absolutely politically motivated and fabricated.
"It is political revenge for the activities of me and my supporters. In particular our campaign to vote for any party but United Russia. It is revenge for that campaign, and the next one, aimed at preventing the election of President Putin, who seized power illegally."
Mr Navalny's trial in the city of Kirov, about 900km (560 miles) north-east of Moscow, began a week ago but was quickly adjourned after his lawyers said they needed more time to read the case files.
The trial resumed on Wednesday but was twice adjourned as Judge Sergei Blinov withdrew to consider requests by the defence to send the case back to prosecutors, citing a lack of specifics and inconsistencies.
Mr Navalny's lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, also argued that the judge should recuse himself, saying that in just two days of the trial he had already "sided with the prosecutors and in fact acted as a 'defence lawyer' for the prosecutors, who had failed to conduct a proper investigation and shape up the indictment".
However, the judge dismissed the motion, stating: "The claims by the defence that this court is limiting their rights are unfounded."
Also on trial is Pyotr Ofitserov, who ran the timber company which Mr Navalny advised while working for the governor of the Kirov region in 2009. Prosecutors alleged in March that the two defendants had also defrauded the firm.
Aside from the embezzlement charges, three other criminal cases have been opened against Mr Navalny.
Last Thursday, the federal Investigative Committee announced that he and his brother were suspected of organising a 3.8m-rouble (£79,000; $121,000) fraud involving mail deliveries in 2008.
A spokeswoman for the activist said the latest allegations were the authorities' "reaction to the massive public support that we're receiving".
Mr Navalny is the most high-profile opposition figure to be tried since anti-Putin protests 16 months ago, which saw the biggest demonstrations in Moscow since the fall of the USSR.
Since Mr Putin's re-election in March 2011, legal action against opposition figures has increased markedly. Tough laws have been passed on public order offences and tight curbs placed on non-governmental organisations.
Analysts say Mr Navalny's conviction would be a major blow to an opposition which for years suffered the lack of a central figure or platform.
Two leading human rights organisations published reports on Wednesday condemning President Putin's clampdown on democratic freedoms - a year into his third term.
The separate reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International express concern over a "witch hunt" against political activists and NGOs.
Amnesty spokesman John Dalhuisen warned: "Civil society risks being suffocated and isolated not behind an iron curtain, but a legal one."
Mr Navalny's case is highlighted by yHuman Rights Watch, which warns that Russia is violating its international human rights commitments.
"Russia's international partners should leave no doubt about the seriousness with which they view the crackdown under way in Russia, and impress upon Moscow the urgent need to stop abuses," said Hugh Williamson, HRW's Europe and Central Asia director.
About 1.8 million homes lost power during Typhoon Dujuan, which brought gusts of up to 227km/h (141mph).
Thousands of people had been evacuated from vulnerable areas ahead of the arrival of the storm, and tens of thousands of troops were on standby.
Some areas received more than 900mm of rain in just one day, about one third the average annual rainfall for Taiwan.
Dujuan weakened as it headed over China's south-eastern Fujian province on Tuesday morning.
In addition to the elderly person and construction worker who died, more than 300 people were injured in Taiwan, says the BBC's Cindy Sui in the capital, Taipei.
Schools have remained closed for a second day while air and rail transportation are disrupted. Authorities have warned there is still a risk of mudslides and high waves in coastal areas.
The storm forced US rock band Bon Jovi to cancel their gig in Taipei for a second night.
The two gigs would have been the band's first in Taiwan in 20 years - the Tuesday night performance had only been added after China abruptly cancelled the Beijing leg of their tour.
Around 3,000 people, mostly tourists, were evacuated from Taiwan's Green Island and Orchid Island on Sunday, with around 4,000 more moved from vulnerable areas on Monday.
Some of those were transported from the hot spring town of Wulai, near Taipei. Wulai was badly hit by Typhoon Soudelor in August and the Weather Bureau warned that rubble left over from that could cause more damage this time.
Soudelor, the most powerful storm of the season so far, killed at least eight people in Taiwan and a further 21 in China.
Several punches were thrown as the left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) were expelled after trying to stop President Jacob Zuma speaking.
In March a court ruled Mr Zuma violated the constitution by failing to pay back public money used on his mansion.
It is the second brawl in parliament this month.
Security guards were ordered by the speaker to eject the people who were being disruptive.
Guards surrounded the EFF MPs who were dressed in their trademark red boiler suits.
Objects, including bottles of water and a hard hat, were thrown as the guards tried to wrestle the MPs out of the chamber.
The EFF has denounced Mr Zuma as an "illegitimate" ruler who should step down.
South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court, ruled that Mr Zuma had violated the constitution when he failed to repay government money used to upgrade his private home in the rural area of Nkandla.
In a second case, at the end of April, a court said that Mr Zuma should be charged with corruption.
The case is related to a multi-billion dollar arms deal the government negotiated in 1999.
Mr Zuma denies any wrongdoing, and says he will continue to "shepherd" the nation. His term is due to end in 2019.
In his first appearance after this court ruling at the beginning of May, a brawl also broke out as EFF members were evicted for heckling.
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Mr Gilligan started his career at the company as an intern 35 years ago and became vice chairman in 2007 and president in 2013, it said in a statement.
The company did not describe the nature of his illness.
American Express chief executive Ken Chenault said Mr Gilligan's death was "devastating news" in a statement.
The company said he is survived by his wife Lisa, and their four children.
The work, to be completed by August, will involve moving 2,600 season-ticket holders over the next three years.
Old Trafford's capacity will be reduced from just over 75,000 to about 73,300 because of the changes.
A 2014 BBC investigation found United offered 43% of the recommended number of wheelchair spaces.
The new positions for disabled supporters will see the East Stand accessible platform extended across and into the Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Bobby Charlton Stands.
Though structural work will be complete by August 2017, the use of the spaces will be phased in while existing season-ticket holders are moved.
As part of the changes at Old Trafford:
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United's group managing director Richard Arnold said: "Old Trafford is a home for all United fans.
"These changes will help many more of our loyal disabled supporters to attend games to watch their heroes."
Disability charity Level Playing Field said it was disappointed United would not meet the Premier League's pledge but congratulated the club on the improvements being made.
Manchester United Supporters' Trust welcomed the expansion of disabled facilities but said it "noted with concern" the impact it would have on existing season-ticket holders.
It added: "We will also be making a strenuous argument for general expansion of stadium capacity."
Katie Gornall, sports news correspondent
For years, top clubs have offered numerous reasons for failing to meet accessibility guidelines, but Manchester United's announcement means those explanations will no longer cut it.
They have managed to adapt a century-old stadium, move season-ticket holders, and accept that capacity will have to decrease in order to cater properly for their disabled fans.
Many will rightly say "about time too" for a club of United's resources, but this type and scale of structural work is unprecedented in the Premier League and marks an attitudinal change. As MP Damian Collins said recently " this isn't really about money, it's about the will to do it".
The 21-year-old made eight appearances for Stanley on loan from Huddersfield earlier this season and was released by the Terriers last month.
Crooks, who has also played as a defender and a striker, made just one appearance for Huddersfield.
"Sometimes you can be a victim of your own versatility and Matt's keen not to do that," said manager John Coleman.
"I think he gives us strength, he can play in quite a lot of positions and I'm delighted with that signing for both this year and next year."
Stanley have also extended the loan spell of West Ham striker Sean Maguire until the end of the season, after his four goals in 22 appearances so far.
Both players available for Accrington's game against Burton on Tuesday evening.
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Members of their families will be among those attended a ceremony at the Ulster Memorial Tower in Thiepval. It was built close to the front line of the attack which took place 100 years ago today.
BBC Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler visited the site.
Rodgers, 43, has taken over as Celtic manager while midfielder Barton, 33, has joined newly-promoted Rangers.
"It's a great move for Brendan," said former Tottenham boss Redknapp, 69. "Joey Barton is a leader on the pitch and in the dressing room.
"It's a big pull next year with the Old Firm games again."
"Two of the biggest clubs in the world in my opinion, still," Redknapp added. "Even though they're not in the biggest league, they've still got incredible pull around the world.
"I'm looking forward to those games. They're going to be fantastic. I certainly would love to come up there at some stage and watch a game. It'd be a great atmosphere."
Former Liverpool boss Rodgers faces the task of extending Celtic's current run of five successive Scottish top-flight titles and returning the side to the group stages of the Champions League for the first time in three years.
"He'll be as good as the players he's got at his disposal," said Redknapp.
"He'll try to play the way he had his teams playing at Swansea. They'll pass the ball and get lots of movement.
"If he's got people who can play I'm sure he'll encourage them to try to play from the back. It'll be risky football but with the right people, if they're comfortable on the ball, I'm sure it'll be a success."
Former Manchester City and Newcastle player Barton, meanwhile, has joined Championship winners Rangers on a two-year deal after helping Burnley seal promotion to the Premier League.
"I recommended him," said Redknapp, who had Barton at Queens Park Rangers. "Burnley rang me about him. [Manager] Sean Dyche called and asked me about Joey and I said I would take him.
"He'll have his mood swings and if things don't go his way, there can be aggro. But, he wants to win.
"He's a real student of the game. He'll watch a million games. He'll be all over the place watching other teams play. He's interested in football. He'll watch every game on TV.
"He doesn't hold back. He's got strong opinions on the game. He gets people going. He'll be a big voice in that dressing room.
"He's got a real good understanding of football and his role in the game. You give him a job to do and he'll do the job.
"He was as good as anybody defending corners. The amount of balls he headed out the box when I had him, he did his job in the right position that you put him in.
"He'll be a good player for Rangers, I'm sure he will. I'm sure [manager] Mark Warburton will get the best out of him."
Right-back Azpilicueta, 22, started his career with Osasuna and has represented Spain at various youth levels and played at the Olympics this summer.
He missed Marseille's Europa League qualifier against FC Sheriff Tiraspol on Thursday as he travelled to London to complete the deal.
Chelsea have not revealed the length of the contract for Azpilicueta.
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A statement on Chelsea's website read: "Chelsea is delighted to announce the signing of Cesar Azpilicueta.
"The 22-year-old right-back, who recently represented Spain at the London Olympics, arrives at Stamford Bridge following a two-year spell in France's Ligue 1 with Marseille."
Azpilicueta made the last of his 69 appearances for Marseille in last weekend's 2-0 victory over Sochaux.
He joined the French club in 2010 from Osasuna, and although he suffered a serious knee injury in his first season there, he went on to establish himself as the club's first-choice right-back.
Azpilicueta is the fourth Spaniard at Stamford Bridge, linking up with compatriots Juan Mata, Oriol Romeu and Fernando Torres.
His arrival comes after Wigan Athletic accepted a £9m bid from Chelsea for forward Victor Moses.
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About 300 people braved the North Sea at Cromer Pier earlier, with thousands looking on from the promenade.
"I think it could well have been a record year, with more spectators than ever before, too," said organiser Clive Hedges.
Christmas Day swims were also held at Lowestoft and Felixstowe in Suffolk, Clacton, Essex and Hunstanton, Norfolk.
Mike Rodwell, who took part in the Clacton swim, said the North Sea was an "unusually warm" 10C for Friday's dip.
"A crowd of over 500 watched well over 100 hardy souls," he added.
The annual event in Cromer has taken place in the seaside town since 1985 when it was originally organised as "a bit of a dare" and is now a much anticipated tradition in the seaside town.
Air temperatures were below zero in 2014, but were a comparatively balmy 15C on Saturday.
Mr Hedges added: "The event has grown in popularity but the mild weather helped.
"I can assure you the sea was as cold as ever though."
He said he hoped the event raised about £2,000 for Mesothelioma UK, an asbestos-related cancer charity, in memory of runner Alec Fraser, who died last year.
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Dr Elin Jones wants a much greater emphasis on Welsh history and said there is "very little evidence" of it being taught well in schools.
Between 10 to 15% of the history GCSE course has content about Wales.
The WJEC exam board said things should improve with new courses in 2016.
Dr Jones said nothing has changed in the two years since she wrote a report about how the history of Wales is taught in schools.
Gareth Pierce, the chief executive of the WJEC - Wales' largest exam board - said: "I think that's certainly been the case in terms of the current specifications for GCSE history.
"But we're now reforming those specifications and we're now moving towards a situation where there will be three taught units and in two of those three, a Welsh perspective will be fundamental."
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But Dr Jones told BBC Wales pupils were being "deprived" of being taught about their own country from a Welsh perspective.
"Too many teachers think of Welsh history as an add on, in my view, rather than being the big basis from which you should look outwards," she said.
"I did a soft consultation by going to public libraries and talking to the public when I was preparing my report and very many people said to me that their education had robbed them of the opportunity to learn about their own country. And that's a sad thing to learn."
Earlier this year, a report was published outlining far-reaching changes to the entire curriculum for three to 16 year olds in Wales.
It was written by the former chief inspector of schools in Scotland, Prof Graham Donaldson.
According to Dr Jones, the report failed to place enough emphasis on Welsh history and "appears to limit consideration of the Welsh dimension to language and culture only".
A Welsh government spokesman said: "Prof Donaldson was absolutely clear that a Welsh dimension should be included in each area of learning and experience.
"This is in line with Dr Elin Jones' Cwriculum Cymreig report which recommends that a Welsh dimension should be integrated into every subject, where that is relevant and meaningful.
"We will now set about creating a curriculum for Wales, which will be designed in Wales, by Wales."
Now, we've had the Corbyn way of doing the set-piece political interview.
And it is very, very different.
Most spin doctors would probably have been holding their head in their hands at Mr Corbyn's rather diffident, unorthodox style during his round of set piece interviews with the main broadcasters on Wednesday evening.
Normally the set-piece interview with political leaders can be a rather fraught process.
There will be lengthy discussions about the backdrop; the chair; the cushions; the surrounding furniture; whether to cross legs or un-cross legs and so on.
Then there will be anxious queries about the line of questioning - the order of the subjects and the duration of the interview.
And of course the politician will have remorselessly rehearsed and prepared his answers.
His or her clothes, tie and hair will all have been carefully thought about.
As little will have been left to chance as possible.
Last night, Mr Corbyn seemed to chuck all that conventional interview wisdom out of the window.
Far from having a pre-prepared set of stock answers, he seemed to be almost musing aloud.
Asked about whether he might kneel before the Queen - he pondered and pleaded for more time to think about it.
And when asked a hypothetical question, he noted it was a hypothetical question and then answered it.
Normally politicians won't touch a hypothetical question with a barge pole.
As for his performance? Low-key would be a charitable way to describe it. Mr Corbyn seemed remarkably un-fussed by the whole pantomime of the traditional political interview.
You can argue such a style can be seen as shambolic; confused and weak.
It invites criticism for a lack of clarity and leadership.
But Mr Corbyn's team clearly believe the conventional approach to the political interview is as out-dated as the conventional approach to Prime Ministers' Questions; that people are tired of the formulaic, sound-bite driven set-piece interview.
And who knows - perhaps they are right.
In which case we might all have to get used to doing things rather differently.
Politicians. And broadcasters.
The investigation has prompted Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to send in three commissioners to work at the council for three years.
Auditors said the council grant system lacked transparency and some groups got cash without applying for it.
The east London authority said it "regretted" flaws in its processes.
The council said the report showed "no evidence of criminality or fraud" and issues identified by it had already been flagged up internally and were being "rectified accordingly".
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was instructed by Mr Pickles to investigate "allegations about governance failures, poor financial management and possible fraud".
It follows allegations in a BBC Panorama investigation that directly-elected mayor Lutfur Rahman diverted charity money for political support.
Mr Rahman has denied all allegations of electoral malpractice.
Mr Pickles said he had no choice but to appoint three commissioners to work with the council until March 2017 as there was "no place for rotten boroughs in 21st Century Britain".
The report highlighted the "954 Fund" of £954,000 in surplus monies identified in 2012.
By Karl Mercer, BBC London political correspondent
So three commissioners are to be sent in to Tower Hamlets. They will be the eyes and ears of Eric Pickles, reporting to him every six months and overseeing large parts of the work of this east London council.
They will effectively be in charge of handing out grants, of selling unwanted council property, of senior appointments and of many contracts the borough enters into.
The last time the government stepped in in such a way was in Doncaster back in 2010. And it won't be a fleeting visit.
They will be there until March 2017, unwelcome visitors with the right to oversee pretty much every move of the borough's directly elected mayor, Lutfur Rahman. Or at least, that's the theory.
Tower Hamlets has two weeks to respond to the proposals and it's unlikely to go quietly. And of course, this being Tower Hamlets, a legal challenge may well be round the corner.
It was found to have "no open application process at all, with monies targeted at member discretion" and in some cases grants were awarded to organisations ruled ineligible.
The report also found that a proposal to award money to lunch clubs for Jewish, Sikh and Hindu communities resulted in £99,212 being awarded to Bangladeshi or Somali groups, none of which had applied for the money.
The report also highlights the controversial sale of Poplar Town Hall to Dreamstar Ltd in 2011.
The authority accepted a late, lower bid from the company, which was found to have an "association with the mayor", despite being advised to accept an offer from another bidder.
Dreamstar's owner had helped the mayor in his election campaign.
PWC said: "The acceptance of a late bid in whatever form created the possibility of manipulation, which could have been avoided or significantly reduced, either by excluding the late bid... or by delaying the opening of all bids."
Dreamstar won the contract race but did not have the finances available to purchase the lease within the four-week timeframe.
It also asked for and received the council's consent to change the contract to sub-let and to change the use of the listed property.
This was granted at the discretion of the planning officer, rather than referred to the development planning committee, as would be expected.
PWC said the actions showed the "existing governance arrangements have weaknesses".
Addressing the House of Commons, Mr Pickles said: "It paints a deeply concerning picture of... denial, secrecy the breakdown of democratic scrutiny and accountability, and a culture of cronyism risking the corrupt spending of public funds."
Mr Pickles said he had proposed an intervention package which included:
The council has 14 days to consider and respond to the proposals.
Mr Pickles said: "The report has cost just under £1m which will be borne by the council. It would have been much cheaper had the mayoral administration not been so obstructive.
"In all of this it is the residents of Tower Hamlets that have been let down."
In a statement, Mr Rahman said he was "surprised at the secretary of state's comments".
He said: "I believe that there is a huge disparity between the detail of PwC's report and the level of the secretary of state's comments.
"We will be responding to Mr Pickles in due course."
The report also found that in response to the BBC Panorama programme The Mayor and Our Money, the authority spent £101,479 getting advice from law firm Taylor Wessing and PR consultants Champollion.
Despite being marked down by 24%, Elpida shares failed to find buyers.
The firm filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday as it continues to struggle to repay debts of 448bn yen ($5.6bn; £3.5bn).
It is the biggest corporate failure in Japan's manufacturing sector to date.
Investor sentiment was further dented after Japan's Trade Minister Yukio Edano refused to give a hint on whether the government might help to bail out the firm.
"What I can say now is that I will carefully watch with interest how the procedures move forward within the framework of the corporate rehabilitation law," Mr Edano said.
"It is unclear whether Elpida Memory would have been able to operate in the same scale as today in mid-to-long-term, say in the next three, five, or 10 years."
Elpida specialises in making dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, which are widely used in personal computers.
However, the sector has seen prices fall due to weak demand and increased competition.
Demand for DRAM chips has been dented by falling sales of personal computers as more consumers turn to tablet PCs, which rely more on flash memory chips.
The firm has also been hurt by a strong Japanese yen which makes its products more expensive to foreign buyers.
Analysts said investors were worried that once the firm was placed under bankruptcy protection, it may lose more ground to competitors.
"Although this doesn't necessarily mean Elpida will disappear, one can quickly fall behind in the memory chip business if large investments aren't made at the right time, which will be very difficult for Elpida under court management," said Kim Young-chan of Shinhan Investment & Securities.
Elpida's troubles have had a big impact on other firms in the region.
Concerns over its long-term future saw investors pick up stocks of Elpida's competitors, hoping they may gain from its problems.
Shares of Hynix semiconductor jumped 6.8% on the Kospi index in South Korea, while Samsung, another big manufacturer of memory chips gained 1.2%.
"With less competition, the stronger South Korean DRAM makers should be able to better control supply-side risks by aligning their investment plans more closely with industry demand," said Alvin Lim of Fitch Ratings.
However, shares of some of Elipda's suppliers and other firms associated with the company dipped.
Tera Probe, an affiliate of Elpida which does chip testing, fell 19%.
Meanwhile, Advantest Corporation, a producer of chip testing equipment, fell 1.5%, while Shin-Etsu Chemical Company, which manufactures silicon wafers for chipmaking, lost 1.3%.
The air strikes on Daglica were in response to PKK shelling of a military outpost, the armed forces said.
Both sides have been observing a truce and it is the first major air raid on the PKK since March 2013.
Kurds are furious at Turkey's inaction as Islamic State (IS) militants attack the Syrian border town of Kobane.
Fighters from the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) have been aiding Kurdish YPG militia in Kobane and Turkey has refused to help supply its long-standing enemy with weapons or allow Kurdish fighters to enter Syria.
Two PKK commanders wounded in fighting were arrested by Turkish authorities when they arrived for treatment in hospital in south-eastern Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported.
Separately, some 260 YPG militiamen were arrested when they crossed into Turkey last week, although 60 of them were allowed to go back, Turkish media reported.
French President Francois Hollande appealed to the government in Ankara on Tuesday to open its border, as US-led fighter jets continued to target IS fighters in and around Kobane.
The air raids on PKK positions near the south-eastern village of Daglica on Monday caused "heavy casualties", Hurriyet daily reported.
The strikes followed a three-day PKK assault on a military outpost with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers, it said.
Clashes were also reported between the PKK and troops in the Tunceli area of east-central Turkey on Monday, far from the border.
Last week Kurdish protests gripped Turkey's Kurdish-majority south-eastern provinces. At least 31 people died in widespread street clashes, as Kurds vented their anger at Turkey's passive policy over Kobane.
The army imposed a curfew in some areas. But some of the fighting was reported to be between PKK supporters and Islamist Kurds sympathetic to IS.
Heavy fighting has been raging in Kobane since mid-September, as Syrian Kurds battle to defend the town against better-armed IS militants.
Turkey treats the PKK as a "terrorist" organisation and its leader Abdullah Ocalan is in jail. But he has been Turkey's main point of contact in peace negotiations since he was incarcerated in 2012.
The PKK - also labelled "terrorist" by Western governments - has been waging a 30-year insurgency for self-rule in eastern Turkey. The unrest has killed more than 40,000 people.
The coroner said Bennington apparently hanged himself. His body was found at a private home in the county at 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Thursday.
Bennington was said to be close to Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, who took his own life in May.
Formed in 1996, Linkin Park have sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.
The band had a string of hits including Faint, In The End and Crawling, and collaborated with the rapper Jay-Z.
The album Meteora topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2003 and is regarded as one of the biggest indie rock records of all time.
The band had been due to begin a tour next week.
For a generation growing up in the early 2000s, it would have been hard not to find someone who didn't own a copy of the band's debut album Hybrid Theory.
It's sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and remains one of the biggest selling albums released since the start of the millennium.
Linkin Park's successful trick was to fuse elements of metal and rock with rap and hip-hop to shape the nu-metal genre on songs such as Crawling, In The End and Numb.
Arguably their biggest asset was Chester's powerhouse voice. He had a huge, raspy vocal which suited their stadium-filling, singalong anthems.
Whilst his vocal persona could be described as angry and harsh, in person he was warm, articulate and funny.
The band's most recent album, One More Light, saw a different direction as they worked with prolific pop songwriters Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter - and collaborated with UK grime artist Stormzy.
He leaves a wife, and six children from two marriages.
The singer is said to have struggled for years with alcohol and drug abuse, and has talked in the past about contemplating suicide as a result of being a victim of abuse as a child.
Bennington wrote an open letter to Chris Cornell on the latter's death, saying: "You have inspired me in ways you could never have known... I can't imagine a world without you in it."
Cornell would have celebrated his 53rd birthday on Thursday. He hanged himself after a concert in Detroit on 17 May.
Band member Mike Shinoda confirmed the news of Bennington's death on Twitter: "Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one."
Tributes to Bennington flooded in soon after news of his death.
The band Imagine Dragons tweeted: "no words, so heartbroken. RIP Chester Bennington."
Grime artist Stormzy, who collaborated with Linkin Park earlier this year, tweeted: "Bruv I can't lie I'm so upset serious."
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The academic and author, who led the Hillsborough Independent Panel (HIP) research team, said Theresa May's claim was "at worst... a culpable untruth".
The Home Office said the government was "proud" to have helped "right the wrongs of the past".
Ninety-six people died following a crush at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989.
Last year, an inquest jury concluded the fans were unlawfully killed.
Prof Scraton said the "inception, process and outcome" of the inquests "had nothing to do with Theresa May".
The author, whose book Hillsborough: The Truth is widely accepted as the definitive account of the disaster, refused an OBE in December in protest "at those who remained unresponsive" to help families and survivors.
Speaking in the House of Commons, the prime minister had been responding to Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, Jonathan Reynolds, who asked whether she stood up for British values, following her failure to condemn Donald Trump's controversial travel ban.
Mrs May listed what she considered the achievements of her government and herself, adding: "And I ensured justice for the families of Hillsborough."
In the statement posted on an online forum called "Prime Minister, Hillsborough and 'post-truth'", Prof Scraton called it a "remarkable claim" and said "we now live in a political climate where 'truth' no longer matters".
"To witness a prime minister, her ego possibly inflated by extraordinary recent events in the United States, claiming that she ensured justice for families is, at best, delusional. At worst it is a culpable untruth," he said.
He said that as home secretary when the High Court ordered new inquests into the disaster, "Theresa May had no option but to initiate a new criminal investigation and a full review by the Independent Police Complaints Commission."
"Establishing the truth of Hillsborough" was "the result of years of painstaking research and investigation," he added.
Families of the victims were also critical, saying it was disrespectful to those who campaigned for 27 years.
Louise Brookes, who lost her brother Andrew in the disaster, said: "She never got justice for us at all."
"The only people that got justice for the 96 are the HIP (Hillsborough Independent Panel) and Phil Scraton because without that HIP report, we would still be banging on the doors of the establishment."
A Home Office spokesperson said: "The fight for justice after Hillsborough has taken far too long and it is the bravery and dedication of the families and survivors that has driven the quest for truth.
"We are proud of the role the government has played in helping to right the wrongs of the past, but we know there is still much work to do.
"And we will do all we can to ensure the disclosure of the truth about what happened at Hillsborough is followed by justice for the families."
President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan received a ceremonial welcome in the capital ahead of a state banquet on Tuesday evening.
At Buckingham Palace the president was sitting between the Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge, who was making her state banquet debut.
The Queen hailed the "milestone" visit and declared Anglo-Chinese ties were being taken to "ambitious" new heights.
Before the banquet, the Chinese leader met the Duke of Cambridge, and then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Prince William was scheduled to spend about 30 minutes with the Chinese leader in the 1844 Room of the palace.
Before heading to Buckingham Palace, Mr Xi had afternoon tea with the duke's father, the Prince of Wales, and the Duchess of Cornwall, at Clarence House. Prince Charles had already met President Xi several times during the course of the day.
President Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan viewed an exhibition of items from the Royal Collection after having lunch with the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace.
One of Mr Xi's engagements on the four-day visit included addressing MPs and peers in Parliament's Royal Gallery during which he said he believed his visit would lift UK-China relations to a "new height".
Earlier in the day the Queen and Mr Xi visited Buckingham Palace, arriving in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, while China's First Lady Madame Peng and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, travelled to the palace in the horse-drawn Australian State Coach.
Thousands of supporters lined The Mall hoping to watch the cavalry parade and catch a glimpse of the president and Queen as they travelled to Buckingham Palace.
Across the capital colourful lanterns, flags and dragons brightened up the streets to mark the visit.
But not all were pleased about the visit with some protests breaking out on Parliament Square and The Mall over China's human rights record.
Members of the ceremonial guard underwent an inspection at Horse Guards Parade before the Chinese president arrived.
The state visitors and dignitaries came together during the official welcome ceremony at Horse Guards Parade.
Prime Minster David Cameron made the most of being able to talk to the Queen while they and many dignitaries waited for Mr Xi and his wife to arrive at the royal pavilion on Horse Guards Parade.
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Ben, from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he disappeared on the Greek island of Kos.
An "item" believed to have been in Ben's possession at the time was found during fresh searches.
South Yorkshire Police said the current line of inquiry, that Ben was killed accidentally, was the most probable cause for the boy's disappearance.
Mr Fox denied six new counts of indecent assault - relating to three girls aged under 16 in 1987 and 1988 - at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
He has previously denied seven counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching without consent.
He is due to stand trial for the original charges on 5 November.
Another legal hearing on 6 October will decide where a trial for the new alleged offences, said to have occurred in Euston, north London, will take place.
He was released on bail on condition he does not contact any of the complainants.
Mr Fox, from Fulham in south-west London, rose to fame presenting the chart show on Capital Radio.
He was also a judge on ITV's Pop Idol talent show between 2001 and 2003 alongside Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Nicki Chapman.
At a previous hearing, prosecutors said allegations against Mr Fox show a "consistent and determined pattern of sexual predatory behaviour".
They include claims that he assaulted a girl as young as 13 at a theme park and allegations he repeatedly assaulted a complainant at Capital Radio's studios in London's Leicester Square.
More than 2,000 people were rescued on Friday and 3,000 on Saturday in dozens of separate rescues, the Italian Coast Guard said.
But at least seven people drowned as aid workers struggled to rescue more than 1,500 migrants in one operation.
An eight-year-old boy was among the dead, rescue workers said.
An earlier agency report said 20 bodies had been recovered by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (Moas), but this was later corrected.
Moas said its rescue started in the early hours of Saturday and had continued non-stop into Sunday afternoon.
The group said it had rescued at least 453 people, but more than 1,000 remained in danger.
Chris Catrambone, one of the founders of Moas, said it had requested "urgent assistance" on Saturday morning.
"Our crew says they've never seen anything like it," the organisation tweeted.
Italian NGO Sea Eye and the German group Jugend Rettet were also aiding the rescue attempt.
Doctors without Borders (MSF) said its rescue boats Prudence and Aquarius had rescued about 1,000 people during Friday's operations, during which one migrant is believed to have died.
The improving Spring weather may have factored into the sudden surge of ocean crossings.
The Libyan coastline remains a hotspot for such rescues, as unscrupulous smugglers crowd wooden boats or inflatable dinghies with hundreds of desperate migrants.
At least 97 migrants died the previous Thursday, when their boat sank. Just 23 men were rescued, clinging to a flotation device. In late February, the bodies of 87 people washed ashore in a Libyan city.
Although the Mediterranean migrant crisis has subsided from its 2015 peak, the Libyan trafficking situation prompted EU leaders to agree a plan of action.
They gave €200m (£170m) to Libya's UN-backed government to reinforce its coastguard and disrupt the people-smuggling networks.
But that government has limited control over the largely lawless strife-torn nation, and human rights groups argue that turning refugees away and forcing them back to the dangers of Libya is unacceptable.
The United Nations estimates that 32,750 people have arrived in Europe by sea so far this year, despite the dangerous winter weather. An estimated 826 are dead, or missing.
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.
Amon had been suffering from cancer in recent years and died in hospital in his native New Zealand on Wednesday, his family confirmed.
He competed in Formula One from 1963 to 1976 and although he was considered one of the best drivers of the era, he never won a Grand Prix.
Amon did, however, win the Le Mans 24 hour race in 1966 alongside fellow New Zealander Bruce McLaren.
He worked as a consultant for Toyota after his retirement and was awarded an MBE for services to motorsport in 1993.
A family statement read: "Chris battled cancer in recent years but retained not only a close interest in Formula One - and his very wide range of favourite topics - but also his wonderful sense of humour, complete with infectious chuckle."
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A unitary board will replace the BBC Trust, the corporation's arms-length regulator, and its executive board.
Ms Fairhead said the prime minister had "strongly encouraged" her to take part in the new appointment process.
But, she added, it would be "better to have a clean break and for the government to appoint someone new".
The previous government, under David Cameron, had originally asked Ms Fairhead to continue until 2018 - moving from chairwoman of the Trust to lead the new unitary board.
But BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said government sources described Prime Minister Theresa May as being not "overly impressed" by Mr Cameron's decision to appoint Ms Fairhead to the unitary board.
It is understood that Mrs May was concerned about the lack of transparency in the appointment process and felt the new post required different skills.
The decision to open the job up to other candidates was due to be announced on Thursday as part of a package of reforms of the BBC Trust.
Ms Fairhead's announcement, ahead of time, of her decision to go will be seen as an indication of strained relations between her and the prime minister.
Norman Smith, BBC assistant political editor
Most new prime ministers choose to distance themselves from their predecessors in order to signal change.
Rarely, though, has a new prime minister gone about dismantling and unpicking key decisions of their predecessor so quickly and so brutally as Theresa May.
The move to block the automatic appointment of Rona Fairhead as chair of the new BBC Board is just the latest example of Mrs May's readiness to rip up Mr Cameron's plans.
It follows from the very deliberate decision to give the go-ahead to grammar schools - a move Mr Cameron had strenuously resisted and made central to his modernising agenda.
Similarly, Mrs May has ordered a re-think over the Hinkley power station, tackling the deficit and the so-called "northern powerhouse".
What gives even more edge to Mrs May's actions is the fact that disowning chunks of David Cameron's legacy looks personal as well as political.
Hence her decision to cull Mr Cameron's friends and allies from the cabinet.
Ms Fairhead, the first woman to lead the BBC Trust, began her four-year tenure in October 2014.
It coincided with a renewal of the BBC Charter. In May this year a government White Paper unveiled major changes to how the BBC is run.
Following this, the government, under David Cameron, asked Ms Fairhead to continue until 2018 - and chair the new unitary board.
But it has since been decided to introduce an appointment process, a spokeswoman for the Trust said.
Ms Fairhead will step down when the new board begins its work early next year.
In a statement, Ms Fairhead said: "I took on leadership of the Trust to help stabilise, strengthen and develop the BBC following a very difficult period in its history and through Charter review. I was always clear that I was willing to serve for four years, after which I would continue my career in the private sector.
"I am proud of what I and my colleagues, both at the Trust and the BBC, have accomplished during the past two years. I believe the draft charter will secure the strong, confident and independent BBC that the public want and deserve."
Ms Fairhead said she intended to continue her career in the private sector "as I had always planned to do after my existing term ended in 2018".
BBC director general Tony Hall said: "Rona has made a real contribution to BBC and at a really important time for us. On behalf of all the staff, I'd like to thank her for that and wish her the very best for the future.
"We will continue to work together in the interests of licence fee payers until the new governance arrangements are in place."
A spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: "The government thanks Rona Fairhead for her service to the BBC. Full details of the BBC Charter will be announced shortly."
Ms Fairhead is a former Financial Times chief executive and has served on the boards of a number of multinational companies including HSBC and PepsiCo and held leadership positions with plane and train-maker Bombardier and with ICI.
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Paul Cummins has designed the 8m (26ft) high sculpture covered with 2,300 hand-painted ceramic tulips.
The piece, called Candy, was unveiled in the Great Pavilion on Monday.
Mr Cummins said the work was inspired by the 17th Century "tulipomania" in Holland, during which single bulbs were exchanged for the price of houses.
The Derbyshire-based artist gained international recognition with his poppies installation at the Tower of London last year to mark the centenary of the start of World War One.
"Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" saw 888,246 poppies - one for each British and colonial military fatality in the conflict - fill the moat.
Mr Cummins said: "I make flowers. It's literally what I have done for the last 10 years.
"I like the idea that no one flower is the same unless it has been altered to look like that."
He said the sculpture commented on the marketplace and how we buy and sell commodities.
"Desirability and collecting are a large theme of my new works, and tulips will play a large role over the next year, so I thought that this would be the perfect place to showcase my art," he said.
As with the ceramic poppies, the tulips will be available to buy for £35 after they have been on display, with £10 going to a charity that has not yet been made public.
Representatives of Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist faiths spoke after meeting President Hollande.
On Wednesday evening Mr Hollande went on to attend a mass for the priest in Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral.
Fr Jacques Hamel died while conducting a service in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen.
The killing came 12 days after the attack in Nice in which 84 people died.
Only one of the two attackers has been named. Adel Kermiche, 19, had twice tried to reach Syria to fight with the self-styled Islamic State group (IS).
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Muslim leader Dalil Boubakeur, rector of Paris's Grand Mosque, said the leaders "deeply desire that our places of worship are the subject of greater [security] focus, a sustained focus", as even "the most humble place of worship" can be subject to an attack.
Mr Boubakeur expressed "profound sorrow" on behalf of French Muslims at the attack, which he described as a "blasphemous sacrilege".
The Archbishop of Paris, Andre Vingt-Trois, praised the harmonious relations between France's religions.
"We must not let ourselves get pulled in to Daesh's political games," he said, using a pejorative term for IS, saying it wanted "to set children of the same family against each other".
President Francois Hollande has also been chairing meetings of his security and defence council and his cabinet.
On Tuesday Mr Hollande appealed for "unity" as he warned that the war against terrorism "will be long".
"Our democracy is the target, and it will be our shield. Let us stand together. We will win this war," he said.
According to Le Monde (in French), the prosecutor's office had asked for Kermiche to remain in detention but this was overruled by a judge. She ordered that he be released to house arrest with an electronic tag ensuring that he remained at home, except on weekday mornings.
This meant that on Tuesday morning he was free to leave the family home and head to the church.
He and his fellow attacker slit Father Hamel's throat before being killed by police.
One of four people taken hostage suffered severe knife wounds, prosecutor Francois Molins said.
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In an editorial, Le Monde says it will no longer feature photographs of those behind attacks such as the one in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
It was doing so "to avoid giving posthumous credit" to those responsible, while adding that the intention of killing Father Hamel was to provoke "the blind vengeance that would place the entire country under the empire of hatred".
The move was repeated by the broadcaster BFM.
Elsewhere, Le Figaro's editorial accuses IS of continuing "to pursue its sinister plan: to turn the world into a bloody theatre of war" and calls on the French government to resort to "all military, police and judicial means to ensure the safety of our citizens - whether they believe in heaven or not".
The Catholic daily La Croix also declares that "responding to hatred with hatred would mean that evil has triumphed", while the left-of-centre Liberation maintains that "the war that Islamic State is waging against us is not a war against France, it is a war against freedom."
France is still reeling from the Bastille Day attack in Nice earlier this month, when a lorry was driven into celebrating crowds by Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, killing more than 80 people.
That was followed by four violent incidents in a week in neighbouring Germany, two of which are linked to IS.
IS used its news agency to claim the attack in Normandy - thought to be its first on a church in the West.
Christians in Iraq and Syria have long been targeted by the group, with reports of forced conversions and killings.
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The president of Normandy's regional council, Herve Morin, called for France to learn lessons from the countries hardest hit by terrorism. "We need to Israelise our security," the former French defence minister told Le Figaro.
Angel Rangel's winner lifted the Swans off the bottom of the Premier League hours after Clement's appointment.
The ex-Derby boss started in the stands, but later joined the coaching team on the touchline.
"He came down for moral support, he made his presence felt," said Curtis.
"But there was not too much to say. We would have surprised a lot of people with our performance today."
Clement's appointment as Swansea's third head coach of a turbulent season came in the afternoon before the game at Selhurst Park, but joined Curtis in the dugout during the match.
Swansea led 1-0 at the interval before Wilfried Zaha's stunning equaliser levelled things with less than 10 minutes remaining.
Defender Rangel's winning goal was his first for the club since 2013.
The win lifted Swansea to 19th place - one point away from safety.
"It is a terrific result for us and a huge three points," said Curtis.
"The first-half performance, we were excellent and we could have gone in with more than the one goal. We have been accused of lacking character but we came back and won it and I thought we deserved it.
"In training you can see the players have the ability, it is just the confidence that has been lacking. We deserved some luck today.
"Any team under Sam Allardyce will come on strongly, they have some terrific players. We had 24 hours more rest compared to them and that may have made a difference."
The storm has not yet moved onto land in America, and has now been downgraded to a category two hurricane, as it continues on its journey northward.
Officials think around four people have been killed by the storm in America.
President Obama has warned people that even though the hurricane is starting to move on, it does not mean it is safe to go outside yet.
He is worried there might be a "storm surge" - a huge wall of water which rushes onto land from sea.
This is caused by a combination of low pressure inside the hurricane, and strong winds pushing the water onto land.
President Obama said: "I just wanted to emphasise to everybody that this is still a really dangerous storm."
Hurricane Matthew hit the country Haiti the hardest earlier this week, leaving hundreds of people dead, and without shelter or food.
Telling the story of America's birth and founding father Alexander Hamilton in rap and R&B style, judges described it as "a landmark American musical".
In its 100-year history, it is only the ninth musical to win the prize, which is normally given to plays.
Its writer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda said: "To win today... is beyond my wildest dreams. It is a tremendous honour to even be considered."
The win adds to a series of accolades given to the show, which has grossed more than $60m (£41.9m) in advance ticket sales and has been sold out for months.
The musical won the 2016 Grammy Award for best musical theatre album, and Miranda was given the 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant.
Its cast, notably multi-ethnic, with its principal roles written for non-white actors, has been watched by the likes of US President Barack Obama, Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Paul McCartney.
Miranda was recognised as a finalist for the prize in 2009, with his debut musical In the Heights.
Previous musicals to win the award include Next to Normal in 2010 and Rent in 1996.
The Pulitzers recognise excellent in the arts and in journalism.
Other winners include The Associated Press, which won the public service award for its probe into labour abuses in the seafood business, and novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose debut The Sympathizer took home the fiction prize.
Mr Blatter's decision to step down comes amid a corruption scandal.
However, both Visa and Coca-Cola repeated warnings that they expected a swift overhaul at Fifa.
And McDonald's said it hoped this would be the first step towards "gaining back trust from fans worldwide".
Last week, Fifa was hit by the arrests of top officials on charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering as part of a US prosecution that also indicted 14 people.
Mr Blatter was subsequently re-elected, but on Tuesday resigned, saying that his mandate "did not appear to be supported by everybody".
Visa said it was encouraged "by the recognition by Fifa that extensive and fundamental reform is needed as reflected by the announcement that President Blatter is resigning".
"This is a significant first step towards rebuilding public trust, but more work lies ahead," it continued.
"We repeat, however, that it is our expectation that Fifa will take swift and immediate steps towards addressing the issues within its organisation to quickly rebuild a culture with strong ethical practices that will restore the reputation of the games for fans around the world."
That sentiment was echoed by Coca-Cola, which described the move as "a positive step", but added that it expected Fifa to "act with urgency" and "win back the trust of all who love the sport of football".
"We believe this decision will help Fifa transform itself rapidly into a much-needed 21st Century structure and institution," Coca-Cola said.
Other sponsors, Budweiser, Adidas and McDonald's, also issued broadly positive statements.
"We expect today's announcement to accelerate Fifa's efforts to resolve internal issues, install positive change and adhere to the highest ethical standards and transparency," said Budweiser.
Adidas said the news marked "a step in the right direction on Fifa's path to establish and follow transparent compliance standards in everything they do."
For its part, McDonald's said it was "hopeful" that the changes being implemented would lead to Fifa being reformed and "gaining back trust from fans worldwide".
Hyundai said the resignation was a "positive first step in creating a governance structure that ensures the highest ethical standards for the sport."
Adidas - the German sportswear firm has been supplying the official match ball for all Fifa World Cup tournament matches since 1970. Also involved in all other Fifa events, such as the Confederations Cup Brazil 2013, and the Fifa U-20 World Cups for women and men.
Coca-Cola - the US soft drinks firm is one of the longest-standing corporate partners of Fifa, with a formal association since 1974 and an official sponsorship of the Fifa World Cup that began in 1978. Coca-Cola has had stadium advertising at every Fifa World Cup since 1950.
Gazprom - the Russian energy giant signed up with Fifa in 2013 as a partner for all competitions in the period of 2015 to 2018, including the 2018 Fifa World Cup, which is due to take place in Russia for the first time. (The firm is also an official partner of the Uefa Champions League 2012 to 2015).
Hyundai/Kia - the South Korean carmaker began its Fifa alliance in 1999, in a deal to sponsor 13 Fifa competitions including the 2002 World Cup, an agreement extended to the 2006 event. It again backed the 2010 World Cup and is now the official Automotive Partner of Fifa until 2022.
Visa - the credit card company became a top-tier Fifa partner in 2007, taking over from rivals MasterCard in controversial circumstances, and recently extended its relationship until 2022. It is a sponsor of five Fifa events this year, including the Women's World Cup in Canada.
Budweiser - the US beverage has been a World Cup sponsor since the 1986 event in Mexico, and is the Official Beer of the tournament, with its product on sale in all stadia at the finals, and it also sponsors the Man of the Match award at each game.
McDonald's - the American fast food chain has been a sponsor since the 1994 World Cup in the US. Its products are available at all matches in the finals tournament, and it also sponsors the World Cup Player Escort programme, in which children accompany the teams onto the pitch.
The data suggests the high economic impact of chemicals in pesticides, plastics and flame retardants.
The team, led by New York University, said the estimates were conservative.
However, experts cautioned the findings were "informed speculation" and called for more detailed research.
The data was presented at the annual meeting of the Endocrinology Society.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can be physically similar to the hormones that naturally control our body's physiology so mimic their function. They can also block the function of hormones.
They have been linked with declining sperm counts, some cancers, impaired intelligence, obesity and diabetes. The main concern surrounds their impact during early development.
The authors of the study argued that limiting exposure would have significant benefits.
In the EU, one of the most famous disrupting chemicals, bisphenol A (BPA), has been banned in baby bottles and children's toys.
Yet the European Commission says the relationship between EDCs and health is not clear and has called for more detailed studies.
Many of the conditions linked to EDCs are also influenced by a wide range of other environmental influences. And some scientists contest the levels in the environment are not high enough to influence health.
The international research team acknowledge "there is uncertainty" and adapted techniques used by the International Panel on Climate Change to balance the uncertainty with the potential scale of the impact.
Their mathematical models suggested that across the 27 members of the EU, the most likely cost was €157bn ($173bn; £113.6bn) a year, but could be much higher. That equates to 1.2% of Europe's GDP.
This included healthcare costs as well as lost economic potential.
Their calculations said it was more than 99% certain that at least one of the chemicals was indeed having an impact on health.
• Male reproductive disorders cost €4bn ($4.4bn; £2.9bn) per year
• Premature deaths, including through cardiovascular disease, cost €6bn ($6.6bn; £4.3bn) per year
• Obesity and diabetes cost €15bn ($16.5bn; £10.9bn per year)
• Neurological impact, including reduced intelligence, cost €132bn (£145.6bn; £95.5bn) per year
The major economic impact was from pesticides (€120bn; $132.3bn; £86.8bn), followed by chemicals found in plastics (€26bn; $28.7bn; £18.8bn) and flame retardants (€9bn; $9.9bn; £6.5bn).
Dr Leonardo Trasande, a paediatrician at the New York University school of medicine, told the BBC: "These results suggest that regulating endocrine disrupting chemicals could produce substantial economic benefit that would be less than the cost of implementing safer alternatives and produce net economic benefits.
"Clearly we need further research, but there is a greater than 99% probability that these chemicals contribute to disease."
The overwhelming majority of the reported costs were from "lost cognitive potential". The studies claimed around 13m IQ points were being lost across Europe and 59,300 cases of intellectual disability could be attributed to EDCs.
Dr Trasande argued: "If one child comes back from school with one less IQ point, the parent might not notice, the neuropsychologist might not notice, but if 100,000 children come back with one less IQ point then the economy notices."
The studies looked at less than 5% of suspected EDCs and did not look at conditions such as cancer and female reproductive diseases. Hence the scientific team argue that these are conservative estimates.
Prof Richard Sharpe, from the UK Medical Research Council's Human Reproductive Sciences Unit based in Edinburgh, told the BBC he agreed with the authors that more research was needed in this area.
But he cautioned: "Most of the content of these publications is interpretation and informed speculation and none of us should lose sight of this.
"What worries me about this approach is that whilst this may help to focus attention on the need for further research to clarify the huge number of uncertainties in these areas, these highly presumptive estimations inevitably become viewed and presented as being far more solid than they actually are."
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United beat Bournemouth on Tuesday to finish fifth in the Premier League - but the three-time European champions have missed out on the Champions League for the second time in three seasons.
"We are a team in transition and I have said that since I started," said Van Gaal, who took charge in summer 2014.
"Maybe I need to bring over the message much clearer than I have done."
Former Netherlands boss Van Gaal signed a three-year contract when he took over three months after the sacking of David Moyes, who endured a miserable 10 months in charge after replacing the retired Sir Alex Ferguson.
It is unclear whether the 64-year-old Dutchman will see out his final season at Old Trafford, although he said he is "confident" of being in charge.
A number of United supporters have called for the former Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager to leave, while some boos could be heard as he addressed the home crowd on a microphone after the final game against Bournemouth.
Van Gaal could lead United to their first major trophy since 2013 - the Premier League title under Ferguson - when they face Crystal Palace in Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley.
But he admitted finishing fifth is a step back after guiding the Red Devils to Champions League qualification in his debut season.
"Our aim in the first year - and also the second and the third - is the Champions League," he said after the 3-1 win over Bournemouth.
"It is the highest level and a club like Manchester United has to play at that level."
However, he also warned supporters against dreaming too big.
"The expectation is very high," he said. "The fans are expecting a lot but I think these expectations are much too high."
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From January to May there were 96 cases of C. diff at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire, and 30 patients died while suffering with the infection.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has apologised for the outbreak.
But North Wales AM Llyr Gruffydd said he wanted police to examine how the health board responded to warnings.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) runs health and hospital services across the six counties of north Wales with a budget of around £1.2bn.
Widower, Jim Ouslem, from Flint, died of cancer at Glan Clwyd Hospital in June.
Doctors say the C. diff infection did not kill him but his daughter says it caused him terrible and unnecessary suffering at the end of his life.
Tricia Ouslem said: "He kept saying 'oh let me home, take me home'.
"It was just heart rending because we couldn't."
The chairman and vice-chairman stood down after the NHS body was severely criticised by health and audit watchdogs over its handling of the disease outbreak, among other management failings. The chief executive stood down from the board on health grounds.
But the BBC Wales programme Week In Week Out has discovered that no one at BCUHB has been disciplined.
Despite warnings of a possible outbreak, the health board was said to have failed to have acted quickly enough to prevent it.
The number of infection control nurses had been cut, and there were not enough isolation beds at the hospital to help stop the infection spreading.
Week In Week Out: Safe In Their Hands? Is on BBC One Wales on Monday, at 19:30 BST. Following the programme, there is a special debate on the state of the Welsh NHS hosted by reporter Tim Rogers on BBC One Wales at 22.35 BST.
Mr Gruffydd told the programme he wanted North Wales Police to examine the evidence.
He said: "I think it is time to consider whether there might be a case to answer in terms of corporate manslaughter and I don't say that lightly.
"Part of the criteria there needs to be, clearly, gross breach of the duty of care by senior managers.
"Thirty people have died with C. diff in Glan Clwyd alone. If that doesn't merit a serious look at this then nothing does."
BCUHB said it accepted there were weaknesses and it was working hard to address them.
It also said that every day thousands of patients continued to benefit from high quality treatment and care provided by hard working and committed staff.
The Welsh government has sent in a team of health experts to help improve things at Betsi Cadwaladr, but Geoff Ryall-Harvey, chief officer of the local Community Health Council, said public confidence in the health board has collapsed. and the CHC no longer wishes to use its name.
"It is a toxic brand. The CHC felt it could no longer carry that name. It is a name people don't want to hear," he said.
Meanwhile, a government advisor told the programme that he likened health care provision in parts of Wales to the recent Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust scandal.
Prof Sir Brian Jarman, an expert on mortality statistics, said: "From what I've seen I've been concerned about complaints, about infections and how they are dealt with at that particular hospital and I've seen measures of mortality which are not completely open."
His concerns are echoed by Cynon Valley MP Ann Clwyd, who is conducting a review into complaints by hospital patients in England.
She said: "Privately some people have said I am glad you are doing it, but clearly it is an embarrassment because clearly you are criticising something that is devolved to Wales, for which the Welsh government has responsibility."
She added: "You cannot bury your head in the sand and pretend everything is well because it isn't. I think Aneurin Bevan would be turning in his grave."
Welsh Health Minister Mark Drakeford has promised to review the way Welsh data is presented.
He said: "We are moving to a different system in Wales, a new way of measuring hospital mortality figures.
"I hope when it is completed we will have a system which is both more robust in terms of the information it provides and easier for patients to understand."
The Welsh government has sent in a team of health experts to help improve things at BCUHB.
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales Peter Tyndall warned that the redress system for patients, called Putting Things Right, was not living up to its name.
He said: "The health service in Wales is not learning from complaints as quickly as it should otherwise we would not have seen complaints rise by 290% in the lifetime of this office.
"I don't believe it is being sufficiently resourced at the centre to work."
Anonymous Africa said it had also hacked into the sites of Zimbabwe's defence ministry and the state-run Herald newspaper.
The ANC said its site had been "flooded" by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDS), which overwhelms sites with huge amounts of traffic.
Mr Mugabe has called elections in July.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is the lead mediator between Zimbabwe's leader and his long-time rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
At 12:30 BST (11:30 GMT) all three websites were working again.
ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu said the party's website team was "currently working on the problem, including assessing means to strengthen our security so that such does not recur in future".
On its Twitter feed @zim4thewin, Anonymous Africa said the ANC was an "enabler" of Mr Mugabe's government.
It said it had targeted the Zimbabwe defence ministry because of the "genocide" of 20,000 Ndebele people in the 1980s.
Zimbabwe's government has always denied accusations that it deliberately killed civilians because they were ethnic Ndebeles, seen as supporters of Mr Mugabe's rival, the late Joshua Nkomo.
It says it was targeting criminals.
Some of Mr Tsvangirai's supporters want South Africa to put more pressure on Mr Mugabe to ensure that elections are free and fair.
On Thursday, Mr Tsvangirai accused Mr Mugabe of acting "unlawfully" by saying elections would be held on 31 July.
The prime minister wants more time to ensure that reforms are in place before polling day.
Mr Mugabe says he is complying with a court order, which said the elections must be held by the end of July.
The cash offer values Exova at 26% more than the average market valuation over the past year.
The combined business would have about 6,200 employees and nearly 200 laboratories and operations in more than 30 countries.
The deal remains subject to approval from Exova shareholders and regulators.
Exova, which is 54%-owned by private equity group CD&R, recently announced that it had been holding talks with several potential bidders, including London-based Element.
Exova provides laboratory-based testing, calibration and related services for sectors such as pharmaceuticals, aerospace, engineering and construction.
Element, which is owned by private equity investor Bridgepoint, offers materials and product testing to the aerospace, oil and gas and transportation sectors.
Element chief executive Charles Noall said: "We are very excited about the potential of combining these two great businesses to better serve our customers and support their growth.
"This transaction will create a truly global product and materials testing business, increasing Element's operational reach across key markets in the US, Europe and Asia.
"The combined UK-headquartered group will benefit from deep pools of technical talent, very significant testing capacity and a strong network of facilities to support our customers' global supply chains.
"We believe that this acquisition will facilitate greater flexibility to invest further in capacity and technology, driving further opportunities across the combined group."
Pictures posted to Twitter show some of the tree's baubles damaged.
The structure is costing the council £10,000 a year. Lib Dem councillor Elizabeth Clark called it "expensive tat".
Cardiff council said it is contacting the supplier, MK Illuminations, for a solution.
The structure was installed just three weeks ago.
The council has already had to apologise after the tree - a pre-decorated "tree-shaped structure" ordered from China - turned out to be 40ft and not 40m high as had been expected.
Elizabeth Clark, Lib Dem councillor for Cardiff city centre, said: "The fact that parts of this already ridiculous tree are now breaking and peeling away is beyond belief.
"Cardiff is meant to have this for the next three years, yet it can't even last three weeks.
"It might look like cheap tat, but in reality it's very expensive tat."
The tree is on a three-year lease from UK-based company MK Illuminations.
In 2015, insurance company Admiral sponsored the main tree outside Cardiff Castle, which was up in time for the city's Step Into Christmas event.
A council spokeswoman said: "We are aware of the issue and are contacting the supplier to discuss a solution.
"The City of Cardiff Council has worked hard for many years - despite huge cuts to budgets - to deliver a Christmas offering in the city which both residents and visitors can enjoy alike.
"This year's tree costs £10,000 a year over a three-year lease and will save the council £5,000 per annum based on costs of last year's installation."
A Cardiff Labour group spokesman claimed the Lib Dems, when it had led Cardiff council, had spent £250,000 on Christmas decorations in 2012.
"We have cut that figure to £120,000," he added.
Infantino took charge of football's world governing body in February after the disgraced Sepp Blatter resigned.
Fifa's ethics committee found no "conflicts of interest" and no breaches of the organisation's ethics code.
"The benefits enjoyed by Mr Infantino were not considered improper," it said.
Infantino said he was pleased with the decision, adding he "would like to thank all those who co-operated with the ethics committee to ensure that the facts were heard and the truth prevailed".
BBC Sport learned last month that Infantino, 46, was under scrutiny from the investigatory chamber of Fifa's ethics committee.
At the time, the Swiss lawyer was said to be "very confident" no further action would be taken, with sources close to the former Uefa secretary general describing the allegations as "absurd" and "baseless".
"Mr Infantino's conduct with regard to his contract with Fifa, if at all, constituted internal compliance issues rather than an ethical matter," the ethics committee added.
A leaked internal Fifa memo outlined a series of claims relating to Infantino. The claims were that he:
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Supporters of Gianni Infantino spoke throughout this investigation of his confidence over being cleared. He has no case to answer but the Swiss Italian has been damaged by the process.
Questions concerning his judgement have been raised.
Taking private flights to Moscow and Doha was judged to be within the rules - but is it wise for a man elected on a platform of renewing trust and faith in Fifa to accept such offers?
Doubts over his political nous were raised again this week after he was pictured laughing and joking while visiting Marco Polo del Nero, the head of the Brazilian football confederation and a man who has been indicted by US authorities over corruption claims.
Infantino hasn't signed his employment contract yet either - another matter which continues to weigh him down, given reports he rejected an initial salary offer for being too low.
Despite all this he can be expected to capitalise on being cleared by the ethics committee and relaunch his stuttering presidency. The question for many will be has lasting damage already been done?
Paul Hollywood City Bakes will see the celebrity chef explore pastry and bread recipes in Europe and North America.
"Food culture can reveal so much about a nation," said the 49-year-old, who has been a Bake Off judge since 2010.
He said it would be "a privilege to be able to delve into the lives of fellow bakers and discover some really amazing international bakes."
The new show will begin in April and be broadcast on the Food Network in the UK.
Richard Farmbrough, of production company Reef Television, said the "mouth-watering project" would show "a different side" to the "baking megastar".
Hollywood has been a baker since his teenage years, when he became an apprentice at his father's bakery.
He has been head baker at some of Britain's most exclusive hotels and runs an artisanal baking business.
Earlier this week The Great British Bake Off was nominated for a Rose d'Or award in the reality and factual entertainment category.
Officials fired tranquillizer darts to control the animal after it damaged dozens of homes, cars and motorbikes.
Local forestry authorities said no-one was hurt in the incident, in the town of Siliguri.
The animal was taken to a park where domesticated elephants are kept and officials have said they hope to return it to the wild.
Eyewitnesses said the animal had strayed into the town from a nearby forest and seemed frightened and confused.
Several sections of her speech in Villepinte, north of Paris, appear to repeat almost word-for-word comments Mr Fillon made in an address on 15 April.
An official of her National Front party said she had made a "nod" to Mr Fillon and it showed she was "not sectarian".
Ms Le Pen faces centrist Emmanuel Macron in the final round on Sunday.
The similarity in the speeches was pointed out by the Ridicule TV YouTube channel, initially set up by François Fillon's supporters to attack Mr Macron before the first round of voting that saw Mr Fillon eliminated from the contest.
Ridicule TV said the far right presidential candidate had plagiarised Mr Fillon's speech "word for word" and set the two speeches side by side, inviting viewers to make up their own minds.
The videos were also posted on Twitter.
Several passages imitated Mr Fillon's address word-for-word:
The Liberation newspaper said that what was supposed to have been a key speech for the second phase of voting in the election became instead a focus of ridicule for social media users.
But Florian Philippot, deputy chairman of the National Front, told Radio Classique the party had owned up to the similarities and that Ms Le Pen's speech was "nod-and-a-wink" to Mr Fillon's speech to "launch a real debate" on French identity.
He earlier told Agence France-Presse that the speech showed "she is not sectarian".
Ms Le Pen's campaign manager, David Rachline, also played down the accusations of plagiarism, saying the speech was a form of tribute to Mr Fillon, which "was appreciated" by his supporters.
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RTL said there was a fairly simple explanation for the similarities, in that one of those who helped with the Le Pen speech, Paul-Marie Coûteaux, had written the speech for Mr Fillon.
However, Le journal du dimanche quoted Mr Coûteaux as saying that, although he had provided material for Mr Fillon, he had not done so for the National Front.
How politicians created a sense of déjà-vu
Mr Fillon was a leading candidate for the presidency, representing the establishment conservative Republicans, but his campaign foundered after a funding scandal and he did not get through the first round of voting.
Recent opinion polls suggest Mr Macron is heading for victory on Sunday, carrying around 60% of the vote.
In a speech on Monday he said he would fight "until the last second" against Ms Le Pen's ideas "of what constitutes democracy".
The two candidates will go head-to-head in a TV debate on Wednesday evening.
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A wild elephant went on an hours-long rampage in India's West Bengal state, sending residents fleeing in panic.
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French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been accused of plagiarising defeated rival François Fillon in a speech she delivered on Monday.
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The 42-year-old batsman, who was named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year on Wednesday, has led his side in 53 Tests since taking over in 2010.
Pakistan take on West Indies in a three-match series, with the first Test in Kingston starting on 21 April.
"My cricket journey was very good," said Misbah.
"There were many hardships in my career but for now I am focusing on the present."
Misbah made his Test debut in 2001 but had only 19 caps when he was appointed captain, having returned to the squad in 2007 after a four-year absence.
He had been dropped earlier in 2010 but was named captain after predecessor Salman Butt was suspended and later jailed on spot-fixing charges, along with Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif.
Misbah is Pakistan's most successful Test captain, with 24 wins from his 53 matches in charges, having also briefly led his side to the number one Test ranking last year.
He has scored 4,951 runs in 72 Tests at an average of 45.84, hitting the most recent of his 10 centuries in victory over England at Lord's in July.
Since that drawn series with England, his side have beaten West Indies but lost a two-Test series in New Zealand and been whitewashed 3-0 by Australia.
"The series against West Indies is a good opportunity to get the team back on the winning track," he added.
Misbah led Pakistan in one-day internationals from 2011 until his retirement from limited-overs cricket after the 2015 World Cup, having also been in charge for eight T20 internationals.
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Another stand-out performance for Premier League leaders Leicester on Monday saw the midfielder cover the second-highest distance for his side (11.07km), as well as play the most passes anywhere on the pitch (65) and the most in the opposition half (39).
On Thursday, England coach Roy Hodgson named the 26-year-old in his squad for the friendlies against Germany and Netherlands.
Should the uncapped former Manchester United youth player cancel his summer holidays? BBC Sport assesses his credentials.
Fellow Premier League midfielders might want to ask Drinkwater and N'Golo Kante what batteries they use, because of their seemingly undiminishing energy levels.
The heatmap below shows that Drinkwater sits in the area in front of the back four. His rivals in that role for England could include Eric Dier, Michael Carrick, Fabian Delph, Jordan Henderson and Phil Jones.
So how good is Drinkwater at protecting?
Well, he has made more successful tackles than any other English Premier League midfielder. Incidentally, team-mate Marc Albrighton is joint sixth with 47, and Dier and Liverpool's James Milner are joint eighth.
And don't think of him as simply a destroyer - because he also rates well when it comes to passing statistics.
So if Hodgson is looking for someone who offers more than just a screen for a suspect defence, Drinkwater could offer options there too.
Although Drinkwater may lack goals, having scored only one in the league this season, his creativity from a deeper position still compares favourably with more attack-minded midfielders.
Opta stats show he has created 36 chances including assists, with Everton's Ross Barkley on 41 and Tottenham's Dele Alli on 47.
Former England international Trevor Sinclair told BBC Sport that Hodgson should push aside any loyalties in order to include the in-form Drinkwater.
"It's a no-brainer for me - Drinkwater should be in the squad," he said.
"You have to be cruel to be kind to some of the players who were involved in the Euro 2016 qualifiers, but have not played regularly.
"They've been injured, not been consistent or shown any form. But because of Roy's loyalty, some of them will find themselves in the squad.
"Danny is coveted as a holding midfielder and he's been in a successful squad this season. It's a round peg in a round hole.
"I want to get players in who want to do the nasty stuff that others don't want to do. Danny fills that criteria. He's of good stock, coming from the Manchester United academy.
"He's improved massively. He's combative and keeps the ball well and doesn't lump it upfield. That is ideal for international football, where ball retention is so important."
West Ham midfielder Mark Noble is another uncapped player being backed by former professionals and fans alike to make the Euro 2016 squad, with the stats supporting those claims.
"He's been linked with the squad for a long time, but been unlucky because we've had good midfielders," added former Hammers midfielder Sinclair, who won 12 caps.
"But now you look at England. There are spaces to be claimed and I think Mark should take one of them."
John Hartson, another former West Ham player, says this could be Noble's final chance to play at a major international tournament.
BBC Radio Leicester's Ian Stringer gives five reasons why Drinkwater should be at Euro 2016
• Danny Drinkwater has the hunger which no other England player has. He's waited a long time to prove himself at this level and showcase his talents. Can you imagine the desire coursing through his veins to pull on that shirt? That's what Roy Hodgson needs.
• His range of passing has been the best I've seen this season in the Premier League. He learned plenty last season from Esteban Cambiasso - when the former Argentina international was at the club - and can deliver a 60-yarder like an accomplished international, while digging away when required.
• It means the world to him. You'll see Danny having a moan to himself when things aren't going 100%. A true perfectionist.
• Danny Drinkwater will be a relatively unknown name to the Russian and Slovakian midfields I'm sure, allowing the Three Lions to catch them cold.
• Drinkwater and Jamie Vardy have a wonderful understanding. Not only has one been the provider for the other's goals but they can hunt in packs together to flood advanced areas and win the ball back quickly. Roy is going to start Vardy up front. Isn't he? Roy?
The final decision falls to Hodgson, with the deadline for the 23-man squad on 1 June - 10 days before the tournament starts.
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Migrants entered restricted areas on the French side overnight, delaying and cancelling services, Eurotunnel said.
A spokesman for the firm called for "immediate action" from authorities to protect the tunnel and provide a solution to the migrant crisis.
Le Shuttle passenger services had been operating as normal, although technical problems have led to further delays.
Passengers, who are facing delays of up to two hours, are still being encouraged to check in on time.
Freight services are also delayed, Eurotunnel said, and freight lorries are queuing on the M20 for the second time this week.
Kent Police initiated phase two of Operation Stack - where freight traffic is parked on sections of the M20 - and closed roads at about 01:00 BST.
This was lifted at 14:00 and the road is now fully open.
A spokesman for Eurotunnel said there had been "huge numbers of migrants" in and around the area on Friday night.
The spokesperson said: "Up to 150 migrants stormed the tunnel, which caused disruption to services leading to delays and cancellations for customers.
"Eurotunnel wants immediate action from authorities to protect the tunnel - not enough is being done to stop the migrants."
Dan Cook, operations director at Europa Worldwide, a transport and logistics business, said "marauding mobs" of migrants were breaking into the company's vehicles.
Mr Cook said: "This isn't in lay-bys off the beaten track at night, this is in broad daylight on the motorways approaching Calais and what you see, to be blunt, is marauding mobs around trailers... climbing on board, breaking open backdoors with broadly no sign of any sort of policing to prevent it.
"If we were watching television in the UK and we were seeing mass groups of people wandering around the motorway climbing on vehicles I think we would be pretty outraged and we would expect the British authorities to do something about it."
Tim Job, from Worcester, said he saw large groups of migrants around the tunnel's entrance on Friday.
He said: "There was no police presence from the French. My wife was extremely shocked to see how laid back the authorities were."
He added that he believed French authorities had an "obligation" to protect people who use the country's roads.
Passengers currently onboard Le Shuttle services have said they have been told little about the latest "technical fault" which is causing delays.
James Johnson said: "Entered the train... for 10:06 and still waiting on the train [after] nearly an hour. Representatives on the train have not said much but will keep us informed."
And Maxine Dundas said: "Now another incident in the tunnel itself. Currently stuck in train awaiting further info.
"All we know is there is a 'technical' issue. Thankfully we are not under the sea."
Earlier this week lorry drivers in England faced days of misery as they were held in miles of queues until Operation Stack was lifted on Friday evening.
More than 3,000 lorries were parked on the M20 after the closure of the Port of Calais earlier this week crippled Channel sailings.
The chaos was sparked after MyFerryLink workers started a wildcat strike on Monday in protest at expected job cuts in the French port city.
The Port of Dover said no ferry traffic was being held in Operation Stack and there were full services to the Port of Calais and Dunkirk.
Sessegnon, 32, was a free agent after leaving West Brom in May.
The Benin international joined Sunderland from Paris St-Germain in 2011 before moving to the Baggies in 2013, where he scored eight times in 92 games.
Montpellier are 16th in Ligue 1 after one win in seven games.
Dominic Birch, 21, was caught after police intercepted a package containing an Uzi heading to his house in Buxton, Derbyshire.
Jurors at Derby Crown Court found him guilty of possessing firearms with intent to endanger life.
He also pleaded guilty to importing firearms and ammunitions illegally.
Judge Nirmal Shant, who sentenced Birch, told him it was a "mystery to those around you as to why you have involved yourself in these matters".
"All describe you as a good, kind son, employer, boyfriend and worthwhile friend, which is in stark contrast to the haul of weapons you stored in your bedroom," the judge said.
Derbyshire Constabulary investigated Birch with the support of the National Crime Agency and the Metropolitan Police's gun crime unit, Operation Trident.
Det Ch Insp Jason Hendy, from the Met, said Birch is "a very dangerous individual who had no qualms about obtaining lethal firearms, including a submachine gun".
But in mitigation for Birch, barrister Adrian Farrow said there was "no evidence that he would have used any of the firearms at any point".
Birch pleaded guilty to an offence relating to the importation of illegal firearms and drugs possession and supply offences, and was due to be sentenced on those charges.
However, while he was on bail, police received further intelligence he had bought more weapons.
They then searched his home and work addresses and seized loaded weapons including a Glock pistol, AK47 type weapon, FEG self-loading pistol and a Skorpion submachine gun.
Hundreds of rounds of live ammunition and a gun disguised as a pen were also found.
Rooney is still at Manchester United at the moment but he hasn't been played as much under manager Jose Mourinho.
The Chinese transfer window closes on the 28 February and so it is thought it's unlikely that a deal would be made before then.
Even if he doesn't leave this month, its rumoured that he may leave later in the year.
If Wayne Rooney followed his old team-mate Carlos Tevez to a team in China, it's thought he wouldn't make the seven appearances he needs to become England's most capped player.
Rooney is known to want to stay with United for the rest of his contract, which expires in 2019, but not being played as much could be making him think about other clubs.
He's said in the past that he wouldn't play for another English club other than Manchester United or Everton.
Check out our report on why China's football clubs are looking to sign top players.
The addresses were then targeted in a series of phishing emails from "a malicious third party".
The messages invited recipients to click on a link to a Microsoft Word document containing malware.
DocuSign says that no other information was accessed in the incident, and the e-signature service remained secure.
"No names, physical addresses, passwords, social security numbers, credit card data or other information was accessed," the company said in a statement.
"DocuSign's core e-signature service, envelopes and customer documents and data remain secure."
The company has advised people to delete any suspicious messages immediately.
The breach came to light when the company noticed an increase in phishing emails sent to some of their account holders last week.
According to a statement published on DocuSign's website, "a malicious third party gained temporary access to a separate, non-core system that allows us to communicate service-related announcements to users via email".
The emails included the DocuSign branding and appeared to come from addresses ending "docus.com", a lookalike domain.
The subject line referred to either a wire transfer or an accounting invoice, saying: "Document Ready for Signature".
A full copy of the email has been published on the TechHelpList website, which reported that the malware contained in the attachment could be used to steal passwords and banking credentials.
"Phishing is almost the default way of tricking people into giving away that information," Keith Martin, professor of information security at Royal Holloway, University of London, told the BBC.
"Where it's targeting a bank, for example, the senders are going to use headers and language that'll make customers believe it's their bank.
"With a generic phishing trawl, the message will go out and the more people who click the better - it's literally like fishing, hoping to get some bites, chucking a message out there speculatively.
"With most, you don't need a very high success rate to make money."
Would I if I could? You bet! I would be there loud and proud and singing all the songs as I followed Wales all over France.
But I've been prepared for the fact my career comes first and that means prioritising Seattle Reign.
But the tournament should be fantastic, I can't wait to follow Wales' fortunes.
It is not just as a proud Welsh women that I follow Wales with so much optimism, I genuinely believe in this team and the job that Chris Coleman has done with them.
This is a properly talented side and it extends far beyond Gareth Bale.
If I wasn't in my season for Seattle Reign, I would have followed Wales in every game, for every mile.
It is so nice to see them qualified and they are good, genuinely good, they are a team I want to watch.
Look at Chris Gunter. People never talk about Chris Gunter, but the passion he has for Wales, it is amazing.
He's part of an amazing defence built around Ashley Williams, who is such a rock for them.
I actually think we have a very good team.
I am lucky being in Seattle.
I will be in a soccer bar, and yes, they call it soccer, not football, in a pub called The George and Dragon where they show loads of Premier League games.
It will be weird going there for breakfast and for coffee, trying to wake up before training by watching the games, but I will totally be there!
Hopefully a lot of Seattle fans will come and join me and follow Wales.
Seattle is a soccer hotbed, has been since the 1970s and I believe there will be some secret Welsh fans coming along.
Hopefully, because of me, I can recruit some Seattle Reign fans to come and support Wales.
Obviously it has been a disappointing time for Wales' female footballers, after our dream of reaching Euro 2016 ended with defeat to an excellent Norway side.
I haven't decided what that means for my own future yet, but I feel like we played very well against Norway, it was no disgrace to go out in the way we did.
We played so well, that's what hurts the most at the moment, it's a bittersweet feeling.
We played well, the best we have played under Jayne and tactically, against such a strong team, from that perspective it is the best we have played.
But we are getting stuck in that little pocket of 'could've, should've, but just fall at the last.' We've been in that bracket for probably the last three campaigns.
But with Jayne in charge now, with the group that she has and the way she is working right now, this is the best chance a Welsh group is going to have.
If anyone is going to break this cycle, it will be Jayne.
Jess Fishlock was talking to BBC Wales
Former Rhino Gareth Ellis will be hoping to skipper the side to glory in his first season at the KC Stadium since his move from NRL side Wests Tigers.
The England international gives BBC Sport the lowdown of the players Peter Gentle will be sending into battle on Saturday, including the man they call 'the Ogre':
2. Jason Crookes: Wing
It's been a tough year for Jason as he has had to wait very patiently for his chance, but now he has the opportunity to take it and in no better circumstances.
He is a good player so it's great we can bring in somebody of his calibre.
4. Kirk Yeaman: Centre
Kirk is one of our impact players who could change this game for us.
He won the cup in 2005 with Hull and scored two tries in the final at Wembley in 2008. He is a big-game player and really looking forward to this weekend.
5. Tom Briscoe: Wing
I've known Tom for a number of years playing with him for England, thankfully he's started to talk a bit more now.
He is a very understated person, but a superb rugby league player. He is very quick, but it's his strength and power that are his real assets.
6. Daniel Holdsworth: Half-back
In his first season at the club, DJ is a crucial player for us, he really steers the team around.
His kicking game is up there with the best in the competition and we'll need a big performance from him on Saturday.
8. Mark O'Meley: Prop
There is no-one looking forward to this more than Mark. He's played at the highest level, including in an NRL Grand Final and State of Origin matches and this completes the set.
He's relishing the opportunity to play at Wembley and I think you'll see exactly why we call him 'the Ogre'.
9. Danny Houghton: Hooker
'Mint' was another player that missed out on Wembley in 2008, but he's used that as a motivation to build a superb career since.
He is the heartbeat of our team and gets us on the front foot. He's made more tackles than any other player in Super League this year, his effort is unreal.
10. Andy Lynch: Prop
Andy never takes a backwards step and will play a big role for us. He is a natural leader and someone we all look up to.
Like the rest of the team, Wembley is a really big occasion for him and it's something he'll relish with it being the first final of a great career.
12. Danny Tickle: Second row
'Ticks' is Mr Consistency for us. He rarely has a bad game and his goal kicking ability can win us matches on its own.
He's always wanted to win a cup with Hull and this is his chance now before he leaves at the end of the season.
13. Joe Westerman: Loose forward
He's been like a kid in a sweet shop this week, he's really excited. For Joe, playing at Wembley is everything he has worked for and now he has a chance to realise that dream.
He is a very talented player and another individual that could have an impact on the game for us.
14. Richard Whiting: Second row
There's probably nobody more deserving of playing in this final than 'Stilts'. He works tirelessly for the team in any position, including moving to full-back in the semi-final.
He missed out on Wembley in 2008, so this will be special for him.
16. Richard Horne: Half-back
Horney has been around for years and consistently at the top of his game. He won the cup in 2005 and made a brave comeback from a near career-threatening neck injury for the final in 2008.
He's rolled back the years this season with some superb performances and now back fit will make selection extremely difficult for the coach.
17. Liam Watts: Prop
Wattsy is probably the joker in the pack that keeps us all on our toes and you need characters like that in weeks like this.
On the field though, it's a different story. He is a powerful and mobile forward who has very good skills for a big man.
19. Jay Pitts: Prop
Jay deserves a lot of plaudits. He quietly goes about his businesses with little fuss or acknowledgement, but his performance in the semi-final was one of his best games for the club.
He is another workhorse that will graft until his body can't take anymore.
21. Chris Green: Prop
As a young lad from Hull, Greeny has the chance to make a name for himself in Hull FC folklore. His try at Magic Weekend kicked things off and we're still hearing about it from him now.
He's a huge man who's actually very quick and mobile for his size and he has some good years ahead of him at Hull.
23. Ben Crooks: Centre
Ben is probably favourite for Young Player of the Year. He has made a stunning impact this season and is our leading try scorer.
He has everything going for him to become one of the club's all-time greats and follow in the footsteps of his dad, Lee, a Challenge Cup winner himself with Hull.
29. Jamie Shaul: Full-back
One of our quickest players, Jamie has a real chance to shine.
He's stepped up to cover our injured full-back Shannon McDonnell and not put a foot wrong. He knows where the try line is too.
33. Aaron Heremaia: Hooker
Azza is a great player and has a great story. Five years ago he had given up the game and now he is at Wembley. That is the perfect reward for his hard work to get back to this level.
He tends to come off the bench for us and really lift the intensity in our play, watch what he can do on Saturday.
34. Jacob Miller: Scrum-half
Jacob played with me at Wests Tigers in Australia and I knew he would be a hit in England. He has all the attributes to be a great half-back over here and is already showing the quality he possesses.
This might well be a game where he shows everyone what he is about.
The county's commissioner said the decision was taken after an increase in attacks by knife-wielding gangs.
Wedding ceremonies in Mombasa can last for as long as five days and include parties that go on late into the night.
The ban came into effect immediately and celebrations had to end by 22:00 local time, the commissioner said.
Families who wanted a wedding to continue after this time would have to get police clearance and pay a fee for armed officers, County Commissioner Maalim Mohamed said.
The move comes after a group of women were attacked and their valuables were stolen after they left a night-time wedding, Kenya's Citizen newspaper reports.
The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in Mombasa says police have recently been carrying out security operations and several suspected gangsters have been shot dead.
A critic of the directive called it "archaic".
"The government cannot ban night weddings, which are cultural in this region," Julius Ogogoh, who heads the non-governmental organisation Commission for Human Rights and Justice, told the Daily Nation newspaper.
"Instead, security agencies must deal with the gangs. We are in the 21st Century and such orders are archaic."
Inspectors found staff and the public were potentially at risk in some areas of South Lakes Safari Zoo in Dalton-in-Furness and there were also animal welfare and management issues.
It said that if improvements were not made its licence would not be renewed.
The zoo said it disagreed with the report's findings and would be referring the matter to its lawyers.
The inspection was carried out in November by representatives from Barrow Council, the animal health agency and a vet.
Their report noted that the zoo had a catalogue of special inspections directions of compliance over a number of years.
In 2014 it was fined for offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act after sacred ibis escaped.
Safety fears over the condition of aerial walkways were highlighted in December, and there was also concern that baboons could escape by scaling a pile of rhino dung.
This led to an announcement by the zoo that it would be closing temporarily, although this decision was later reversed.
The latest findings included: a higher than expected animal mortality rate, reports of people bitten by animals and concerns over management structure.
South Lakes Safari Zoo said in a statement: "We are really concerned the report makes broad-based claims, but doesn't contain any factual evidence to back them up.
"Nothing in the conditions which the inspectors have placed on us reflects these comments in any way.
"We have placed the report in the hands of our legal team ... and we will be making a full response to this false and misleading information.
"We are proud of our zoo and have had our best year ever."
Barrow Council will be considering the report at a meeting of its licensing committee on 23 February.
Barker made the switch from the track to the roads for this event but had to complete the last 5km on her road bike.
Claire Rose claimed victory in the race on the Isle of Man, ahead of Hannah Barnes and Olympic champion Katie Archibald in third.
"It was not a great day for me," Barker told BBC Wales Sport.
"It was a 22km circuit and I was having quite a good run but then I punctured on quite a fast descent."
Steve Cummings won the men's event by eight seconds from Alex Dowsett, 28, who missed out on a record sixth British time trial title. James Gullen, 27, was third.
It was the first national title of 36-year-old Cummings' career and comes shortly after he recovered from a shoulder injury.
"I haven't really had time to think over the last few months, I've just been trying to get back," he said.
"Today was the perfect confirmation of what I've being seeing in training. It wasn't perfect, it wasn't pretty, but it was as much as I could do, and it was good enough."
Wales' Owain Doull abandoned his challenge because of a puncture and countryman Sam Harrison finished eighth.
Barker believes she was travelling at about 50mph when her misfortune struck and had to swap her time trial bike for her road equivalent.
"I had to stop, change my bike and get going again so I lost quite a bit of time," she added.
"Having to do the last 5km on my road bike meant I could not go as fast as everyone else so I slipped down the rankings a bit.
"I was left wondering where I could have finished. Claire Rose won and had an amazing ride and I would like to have thought I could have been close to her."
At the same event, Carmarthen cyclist Scott Davies became the first rider to win four successive Under-23 time trial titles, winning by nearly 50 seconds.
Tom Bayliss and Charlie Tanfield joined him on the podium.
"It's brilliant, a really nice feeling to do it for a fourth time," Davies said.
"I just kept telling myself to give it my all, and if that turned out to be enough for the win, then brilliant.
"This is my last year at Under-23 so I hope the record stands for a while. It'll be a step up for me next year, double the distance, so I've got some training to do."
The Lion Theatre has been operating in the Red Lion Hotel, in Horncastle, for about 30 years.
The pub was boarded up in June after it closed to the public, prompting fears that performances would end there.
Horncastle Theatre Company's chair Shirley Moffat said it had made an offer of £80,000 but needed to raise more money for alterations and repairs.
Ms Moffat had been told by owners RBNB the group faced eviction at the end of February but have since managed to hang on for longer.
"We want to keep continuity and keep productions rolling, to keep people's morale up," she said.
"It's so difficult to have to come to meetings and tell the membership we still can't say for certain we'll have a future here.
"It's got everything we want, it's got the seats, it's got the stage. It's the right place to be."
The group has put in a bid of £80,000 and has asked for a response by the end of the week.
However, about £120,000 will be needed in total to conduct repairs and make alterations to its heating and electricity.
Ms Moffat said the theatre company had lots of support in Horncastle but would have to do some "serious fundraising" and "grant hunting" to be able to keep the theatre open.
Ameen Jogee "egged on" Mohammed Hirsi to stab former policeman Paul Fyfe after an argument.
In 2012, both were jailed for murder but the Supreme Court ruled the joint enterprise law had been wrongly interpreted for 30 years.
At a retrial Jogee was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.
During the two-week retrial at Nottingham Crown Court, the jury heard Hirsi, then 25, knifed Mr Fyfe through the heart in June 2011.
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The prosecution said Jogee, 27, stood on the doorstep of the house, encouraging his friend to stab the father of three.
The pair had already been turned away from the house by Mr Fyfe's girlfriend Naomi Reid but returned frustrated at being refused entry to another friend's home.
The court heard that Hirsi, who was jailed for at least 22 years at the original trial, threatened Ms Reid with a knife.
Mr Fyfe stood between the pair and said: "What are you going to do, stab me?"
The original trial jury heard that after plunging the knife into his victim's chest, Hirsi then licked the blade.
William Harbage QC told the jury it was accepted that Hirsi "wielded" the knife, but added: "This trial concerns the part played by this defendant and his criminal responsibility.
"We say he is also guilty of murder. He was egging him on by his words and his actions intending to encourage Hirsi, with the requisite intent for murder."
Defending Jogee, Felicity Gerry QC said the death of Mr Fyfe was a "surprise" to Jogee, and said: "[He] is not a murderer. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
The UK's highest court had ordered that Jogee be retried on the charge of murder "with the included alternative of manslaughter".
On Friday, the jury of seven men and five women cleared Jogee of murder but found him guilty of manslaughter on Monday after more than 13 hours of deliberation.
Speaking after the verdict, Mr Fyfe's widow and the mother of his children said: "I'm quite disgusted with the result on Friday. We believe he is guilty of murder and that this re-trial has been unfair.
"I'm pleased he's been convicted of manslaughter. I hope the sentence fits the crime, but I don't hold out much hope."
Jogee will be sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on 12 September.
The law had allowed people to be convicted of murder even if they did not inflict the fatal blow.
It has been used to convict gang-related cases if the accused "could" have foreseen violent acts by their associates.
The Supreme Court ruled that "foresight" was not a sufficient test and said the law had been wrongly interpreted for the last 30 years.
It said jurors should view it only as evidence to be taken into account, not as proof.
The ruling could pave the way for hundreds of prisoners to appeal against their convictions, although the judges said it does not automatically make convictions unsafe.
It has certainly got him noticed, something which used to be a problem for the Liberal Democrats. He finds himself trending on twitter, along with a cheeky remix of the party political broadcast.
Although Mr Clegg has previously said that Liberal Democrats have nothing to apologise for, last year he did tell the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats: "I know I haven't always made your life easy, Kirsty, sorry about that."
In the same speech, Mr Clegg highlighted the possibility of St David's Day becoming a bank holiday in Wales.
The idea was launched in a UK government tourism strategy, which promised to consult the Welsh assembly on whether it should have the power to move the spring bank holiday from early May to March 1.
It was potentially good news for those parties which have campaigned for a St David's Day holiday, although David Jones, since promoted to David Cameron's cabinet, told MPs that it could have cross-border implications: "For that reason it is a matter that properly resides with this parliament".
So, eighteen months on, what's occurin'? Not much, by the look of it. The idea appears to have been quietly dropped.
I contacted the department for culture, media and sport to find out the latest state of play and was directed to a blog written some months ago by its former tourism minister.
John Penrose, for it was he, said: "We tested the water in a pretty general way, making it crystal clear that if there was no particular consensus - or a general feeling that the status quo was just fine, thank you very much - then that was what we'd go for."
Mr Penrose summed up the results of the "pre-consultation" like this:
"So no consensus. And - roll-of-drums - no change of bank holiday dates. And is this a victory for Merrie Englande lobbyists and a set-back for hoteliers; or is it a triumph for lawn-mower sellers and a defeat for punch-and-judy men? None of the above, really. More a case of doing what we said we'd do. Will there be headlines along the lines of MINISTER IN 'DOING WHAT PUBLIC WANT' SHOCKER? I rather doubt it."
Indeed, there were very few headlines at all. Mr Penrose was sacked in the reshuffle earlier this month but according to the DCMS when it comes to bank holidays the status quo remains.
Will Nick Clegg use his party conference to update voters on the policy or could there be another "sorry" on the way?
The woman was attacked in Muirhouse View at about 13:45 on Wednesday.
A 41-year-old man is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court later.
Police appealed for calm after unrest continued into Saturday night.
Michael Brelo was cleared of voluntary manslaughter in the 2012 incident, when he fired 15 shots into their car.
A string of high-profile police killings of unarmed black people have sparked civil unrest in the US.
Mr Brelo was one of 13 officers to open fire on Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams during a high-speed car chase. But he was the only one to face charges because he climbed onto the bonnet of their vehicle and fired directly through the windscreen at the pair who were no longer deemed a threat.
The chase began after police heard what they thought was a gun discharge - but turned out to be the sound of the couple's Chevy Malibu backfiring - as they sped past Cleveland police headquarters.
No gun was found inside the car, and Russell and Williams were each shot more than 20 times.
On Saturday a judge at the court in Cleveland said that because other officers had fired in a 137-shot barrage, he could not rule beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Brelo was responsible for the deaths.
After the ruling, protesters gathered outside the cordoned-off courthouse, some chanting, "No justice, no peace!"
Dozens more gathered at a recreation ground where a 12-year-old black boy, Tamir Rice, was shot dead after waving a replica firearm last November.
Cleveland police tweeted that they had made "multiple arrests...for unlawful congregation and failure to disperse".
The exact number of arrests was not clear. Deputy police chief Wayne Drummond was quoted by AP as saying 12 people had been arrested, while police spokeswoman Jennifer Ciaccia put the figure above 20.
Three people were arrested after throwing an object through the window of a restaurant and injuring a customer.
Some 200 people also held a mock funeral procession in the city, carrying a black coffin and singing. Some held signs that said: "Will I be next?"
A department of justice inquiry into the deaths of Timothy Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30, concluded several months earlier that Cleveland police had engaged in a pattern of excessive force and violation of civil rights.
County prosecutor Timothy McGinty said he was "profoundly disappointed" with the verdict.
Russell's sister, Michele, said Mr Brelo would not "dodge this just because he was acquitted. God will have the final say."
Michael Brelo's lawyer, Patrick D'Angelo, said his client had risked his life during the chase and that the prosecution of the case was "vicious and unprofessional".
Mr Brelo was also cleared of the lesser count of felonious assault.
City and federal officials are investigating police conduct in the case.
There have been serious race-related protests over police use of deadly force in Ferguson, Missouri, and in Baltimore in the past year.
In April, Freddie Gray died in hospital a week after Baltimore police had taken him into custody.
His death sparked weeks of protests and later riots and looting in the city.
In Ferguson, teenager Michael Brown was killed last August by a white police officer. Protests followed, and there was further unrest after a grand jury decided not to charge the officer.
2 September 2016 Last updated at 07:34 BST
It was a four day blaze, which swept through Britain's capital, destroying large parts of it.
But how did the fire start, how many people were affected and what happened after?
The author of Horrible Histories, Terry Deary, has a lot to say about popular beliefs...
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There's been an outcry, from consumers and producers alike, who are worried that a product parading itself as full-blood Wagyu beef may not be the real deal. Especially if it's a burger going for less than about $5 (£3.20), the price attached to some fast-food Wagyu burgers being sold around South East Asia.
About 10 years ago, for example, you may have been asked to pay as much as $130 (£85) for a Wagyu steak sandwich.
Admittedly, it was in London's up-market Selfridges store - and it was heralded at the time as the city's most expensive sandwich.
But still, a piece of buttery, sweet and succulent Japanese full-blood Wagyu meat should most certainly cost much more than $5, say most farmers and restaurant owners.
In fact, a juicy well-marbled 200g steak in some of the world's top restaurants can set you back as much as $200 - or more.
Its melt-in-your-mouth tenderness has been described by food aficionados, gourmet grocers, master butchers and cattle breeders as one of the most extraordinary meat products the world has to offer.
So when burgers containing very little full-blood Wagyu meat are on the market - it's a cause of concern for Wagyu cattle breeders, especially farmers in Japan, where the fullbreed has been named a national living treasure, and where the product is carefully protected and trademarked.
It's also a cause of concern in Australia - now a major exporter of the product.
In October last year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched its investigation.
The watchdog said it was concerned that products being labelled Wagyu were in fact derived from crossbred cattle, and that this "may have the potential to mislead consumers into thinking that the beef is derived from the (full-blood Japanese) Wagyu breed of cattle".
The Australian Wagyu Association, which represents both full-blood and crossbred Wagyu breeders, says it supports the investigation - and stresses its concern over "truth in labelling and product integrity".
But as some breeders continue to work towards creating a more honest marketplace, and the government's national investigation continues, Wagyu meat is becoming more widely recognised - and retailers everywhere want a slice of the action.
In Singapore alone, countless restaurants, cafes and even fast-food outlets offer Wagyu beef on their menu - and Wagyu burgers are the trend.
Retailers selling good quality burgers are most likely to tell you straight away where their meat comes from and how they mix up their patties, while others offering cheaper options are likely to avoid such questions.
One of Singapore's best-known steak houses, The Prime Society, orders a lot of Wagyu from Australia, and promises if customers want to find out exactly where their meat is from, they can.
"Sometimes I even leave the label on to show authenticity," says the restaurant's sous chef Muhamad Zulkefle.
A 200g piece of Australian full-blood Wagyu from a farm called Mayura Station at the Prime Society will set you back close to 90 Singapore dollars ($62; £40).
"If really our customers have more questions, then I can show them my invoices and the meats I've ordered," Mr Zulkefle adds. "I like to be able to say that what you see is what you eat."
In Hong Kong, a well-known restaurant called Wagyu imports all its meat from Australia. Manager Felix Lee told the BBC a full-blood 220g sirloin sells at his restaurant for about $615 Hong Kong dollars ($80; £52), and is one of the most popular choices for lovers of the tender meat.
Meanwhile, Mos Burger, which is headquartered in Tokyo, offers Wagyu burgers through its Singapore stores for as little as $4.85 Singapore dollars ($3.50; £2.30).
The firm has more than 25 stores in Singapore, and some 1,400 in Japan, but, the firm would not respond over the phone or to several written requests for information about its beef products.
"I doubt very much a Wagyu burger selling for $5 anywhere would be 100% Wagyu," Mayura Station's founder, Adrian de Bruin, said earlier this year. "In fact, I'm sure it couldn't be."
Mr de Bruin, who was appointed to the Order of Australia for his services to agribusiness, is credited with importing Australia's first black-haired Wagyu cattle from Japan in 1998, and Mayura Station is regarded today as one of Australia's top Wagyu breeders.
He said very cheap Wagyu patties "could possibly have some Wagyu trim mixed with other products", but was adamant that such products should not be labelled "Wagyu", and that crossbred products coming out of Australia should be clearly labelled.
"There's nothing wrong with selling a crossbred product," he said. "Just be honest and say what it is."
"In some places though, you wouldn't have a clue what will turn up on your plate when you order Wagyu.
"Unless you're educated and your palate is educated - you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Because some Wagyu just isn't Wagyu."
A court in Vienna has rejected the case brought by Max Schrems saying that it lacked jurisdiction in the matter.
Mr Schrems hoped the court would consider claims that the social network broke EU data protection laws because of the way it collected and forwarded users' details.
Facebook welcomed the ruling. But Mr Schrems said he intended to fight on.
"The matter will... be decided in another round at the Higher Regional Court and can be further appealed to the Austrian Supreme Court," the law student said.
Mr Schrems initially tried to bring his "class action" case on behalf of 25,000 Facebook users to a commercial court in Vienna in 2014, but it too said the matter was beyond its remit.
In the latest case, a court spokeswoman said that Mr Schrems did not have an automatic right to bring the case in his home country of Austria because he was acting more like an organisation than a consumer.
Facebook said it believed the litigation was "unnecessary" and that it was pleased with the latest ruling.
"We remain happy to work with our regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, to address any questions about our commitment to protecting people's information," said a spokeswoman.
Mr Schrems had previously attempted to get the Irish Data Protection Commission to investigate allegations that Facebook - which bases its European headquarters in Dublin - co-operated with US intelligence agencies by handing over data from Europeans.
However, the regulator declined to pursue the matter - a decision that Mr Schrems subsequently challenged in the Irish High Court.
The issue was then referred to the European Court of Justice, which has yet to issue an opinion.
Darrell Clarke's side - who host bottom club Dagenham & Redbridge on 7 May - remain one point behind third-placed Oxford United.
Billy Bodin netted either side of half-time to put Rovers in control at York.
Jermaine Easter and Lee Mansell added further goals either side of Kenny McEvoy's consolation for the hosts.
York have now lost 10 of their last 15 games, while Rovers have been beaten just once since 27 February.
Bodin put the visitors ahead with a fine finish before rounding the goalkeeper to double this tally after the break.
At that stage, Bodin's double looked like sending Rovers into third spot, with Accrington being held at Wycombe, but Stanley found a winner at Adams Park with 12 minutes remaining.
The decision comes one day before Clayton Lockett, 38, was due to die.
Another inmate, Charles Warner, was scheduled to be executed on 29 April.
Last month, a judge ruled that the secrecy surrounding the source of the state's lethal injection drugs was unconstitutional.
The court decision came as US states are having increasing trouble obtaining drugs used in executions, amid an embargo from European pharmaceutical firms.
Critics say the states risk botching executions and causing unnecessary suffering with impure drugs.
In January, an execution in Ohio took 25 minutes to complete, as the inmate reportedly gasped and made choking noises in the moments before he was pronounced dead.
The state used two untried drugs to kill convicted murderer and rapist Dennis McGuire after the maker of the previous execution drug refused to allow its use.
Oklahoma state law blocks officials from revealing - even during court proceedings - the identities of the companies supplying the drugs used to sedate the inmates, paralyse their respiratory systems, and stop their hearts.
The challenge to Oklahoma's law was brought by Lockett, who received the death penalty for the 1999 shooting of a 19-year-old woman, and Warner, who was convicted for the 1997 murder and rape of an 11-month-old girl.
Oklahoma County district court Judge Patricia Parrish struck down the secrecy law on 26 March, saying the protocol that prevented the inmates from seeking information about the drugs used violated their rights.
The state said on 1 April that the men would be executed using midazolam, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride - a combination never before used in Oklahoma, according to the Associated Press.
But the lawyers for the inmates said they had received no information showing that the drugs were "safe, or to prove that they were acquired legally".
The supreme court stayed the executions on Monday until final determination of the issues surrounding the secrecy law are settled, according to reports.
Thirty-two US states have death penalty laws and 18, as well as the District of Columbia, have abolished capital punishment.
But in recent years only a handful of states have actually carried out executions - nine in 2013 and seven in 2012.
Ian Bell led the way with 65 not out and Joe Root chipped in with an unbeaten 38 as the hosts chased down 121 in 32.1 overs to win with ease on the afternoon of the third day.
Australia's last three wickets had added 97 runs as they were bowled out for 265 to leave England a testing target, with Steven Finn completing a Test-best 6-79.
But the hosts overcame the early loss of captain Alastair Cook for seven to clinch the victory that moves them within one win of claiming back the Ashes urn.
England's three-day victory capped an incredible turnaround since their 405-run hammering in the second Test at Lord's.
And for Bell, half-centuries in both innings on his home ground were a fitting retort to those who were calling for him to dropped after a run of low scores.
The Warwickshire batsman had cracked five boundaries from his first eight balls from Mitchell Starc when he offered his only chance.
An edge off the left-arm bowler flew towards second slip where beleaguered Australia captain Michael Clarke dropped a routine catch.
Starc had earlier bowled Cook with a fast, full away-swinger before Josh Hazlewood upped the pressure on out-of-form opener Adam Lyth by pinning him lbw for 12.
From 51-2, Root dispelled fears of a wobble by cutting his first ball for four and England hardly looked back.
As the tea interval was delayed, Australia resorted to bowling wide outside off stump in an attempt to induce errors by preying on England's impatience.
But with a sell-out crowd of 24,500 singing songs and cheering every run, Bell and Root calmly closed in on the target.
After Bell's single had levelled the scores and brought in the field, Root flicked the winning runs through a gap on the leg side before leaping into the air with fists clenched and engulfing his batting partner in a bear hug.
England's day had begun with the deflating news that James Anderson's side strain will rule him out of next week's fourth Test at Trent Bridge, and the home crowd's mood remained subdued as Peter Nevill and Starc lashed five boundaries in the first four overs of play.
Nevill should have been out for 53, brilliantly caught down the leg side by Jos Buttler, but England's lack of remaining reviews cost Stuart Broad what would have been his 300th Test wicket.
Nevill's next swish at a leg-side delivery brought his downfall as a thin edge was expertly taken by Buttler to give Finn, who enjoyed a fine match on his return to the side after a two-year absence, his sixth wicket.
The ninth wicket added another 28 runs as Starc, with some lusty cover drives, passed fifty for the fifth time in Tests. But a superb diving slip catch by Root accounted for Hazlewood and gave Ben Stokes his first wicket since the first innings of the Cardiff Test.
Nathan Lyon helped add 20 for the final wicket before Starc chipped Moeen Ali to extra cover to bring roars of relief from England's supporters.
From then on, the volume was rarely below maximum as the crowd cheered England to a glorious Ashes win.
The fourth Test starts next Thursday at Trent Bridge - and England will be without James Anderson.
With a 2-1 lead, victory in Nottingham would see England regain the Ashes irrespective of the outcome of the fifth Test at the Oval on 20 August.
A victory for Australia next week would mean that, with the series level at 2-2, the tourists could retain the Ashes just by drawing the final Test. Ashes tradition states that in the event of a drawn series, the holders retain the urn.
England captain Alastair Cook: "The Edgbaston atmosphere is unique and it was as loud as I can ever remember it. The way Jimmy [Anderson] bowled in that first innings was fantastic, but I don't think it was a 140-all out pitch.
"It's been an amazing comeback from Steven Finn. Standing there at slip, you thought he was going to get a nick every ball. The character he has shown to come back after a lot of hard work is incredible."
Australia captain Michael Clarke: "It's very hard to explain. Credit has to go to England, they bowled well on day one and we didn't bat anywhere near we'd have liked. I still would have batted first, you can see the wicket has deteriorated.
"It swung and seamed throughout the whole game. We probably had the best batting conditions, we just didn't execute with bat and ball."
England bowler Steven Finn: "This week has been fantastic and I'm thoroughly enjoying Test cricket again. There were a few nerves in the first few balls and you question yourself but after that it was focusing on getting people out.
"It is as nice a feeling as I have ever had taking a wicket [dismissing Steve Smith in the first innings]. It is the most I have ever celebrated a wicket. I did doubt at times if I'd play again but knew I could be good enough again. To be stood here now, there is no better feeling."
Advocate depute Paul Kearney was making his closing speech in the trial.
Antoin Duffy, 39, his cousin Martin Hughes, 36, and Paul Sands, 32, deny being involved in a murder plot against Mr Adair and Sam McCrory.
Mr Adair and Mr McCrory were once high profile figures in the UDA.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Mr Kearney told the jury: "You must put aside all emotion and act like judges."
The prosecutor said: "The two subjects of this conspiracy are not nice men. They are convicted terrorists."
He told the jury that audio evidence was "compelling".
The jury has heard that Mr Hughes and Mr Duffy drove from Glasgow to Ayrshire on October 1, 2013.
Undercover police also followed Mr Hughes' car, which had been bugged by police, and saw Mr Sands get into the car with them. They were heard to chat about guns and the best places to shoot Mr Adair and Mr McCrory as they drove around the area where Mr McCrory lived.
Mr Kearney said: "It is the clearest evidence of agreement of a conspiracy. It can't be denied what was said. It is a lengthy and detailed discussion of a plan to murder while they drive round the area.
"There is mention of Adair and McCrory. There is a discussion about what order it would be better to carry out the murders, what weapons to use. There is considerable and compelling evidence that all three men are conspirators."
Two other men Craig Convery, 37, and Gordon Brown, 29, are also on trial accused of charges of being involved in organised crime. They deny the charges against them.
The trial before judge Lady Scott continues.
Passengers were forced out an emergency exit window of the 68-seat plane after it landed safely in Albury on Tuesday.
A male passenger, 30, was arrested and charged over a "document threatening death or grievous bodily harm".
Police did not disclose the alleged details of the note, found in a toilet, but said it was not terror-related.
A Virgin Australia spokesman said flight VA1174 arrived safely at Albury airport and was met by police.
Authorities said they were called about 15 minutes before the turboprop landed.
The man was arrested at the airport.
One passenger, Wendy Willett, said passengers did not know about the incident until police arrived on the tarmac.
"There was nothing unusual about [the man arrested]," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"He read a book most of the flight."
The man was granted bail and will face court on 4 July.
In reality, she was an unemployed dark-haired woman who lived with her mother and brother in a terraced house in north Belfast.
Police have described her as a "lone wolf, dissident republican".
She used a fake social media account to trick a man from England into helping make improvised grenades that she threw at police officers.
An American man was also duped into sending her hundreds of dollars to support a group she claimed to lead called United Struggle. Police say she was its only member.
Both men have since taken their own lives.
"She is a highly dangerous and cunning woman who exploited others to further her own twisted ideology," says Det Supt Richard Campbell, the officer who led the investigation that resulted in her conviction.
Connor's attempt to kill police officers in May 2013 had been planned for months.
She created a fake social media account using a photograph of a Swedish model called Sanne Andersson.
A man called Stuart Downes from Shrewsbury in England began communicating with her and was persuaded to help construct bombs.
He purchased the parts and materials needed and sent them to Connor.
Evidence recovered by detectives after her attack included mobile phone footage Downes recorded of himself testing the explosive mix that was used.
Connor also filmed herself walking along the Crumlin Road talking about what she planned to do and sent the video file to him.
She made two attempts to lure police officers into attacks.
On 16 May 2013, she made a hoax call claiming to have seen "a pipe with wires sticking out" on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast.
Twelve days after that attempted ambush failed, she used a different tactic.
In the early hours of 28 May, she called police and claimed to be a victim of domestic violence.
An audio recording of the call sounds very authentic, with a breathless Connor claiming to be a woman who had been punched in the face by her boyfriend and was in desperate need of help.
When police arrived at the house where she claimed the attack had taken place, Connor emerged from a lane and threw two home-made grenades.
None of the officers was injured, but both devices exploded, sending pieces of shrapnel up to 35 metres.
One of the officers heard a fizzing noise and said a device "about the size of a Coke can with sparks coming out of it" landed at his feet.
The officer ran and seconds later heard a loud bang.
"These devices undoubtedly had the capability to kill anyone who was within the blast radius," said Det Supt Campbell.
"We are very fortunate that we didn't have very seriously injured or killed police officers as a result of this incident."
While Connor was determined, she was also careless. She left a litany of evidence of her involvement.
A mobile phone used to make the hoax call to police was found in a garden a short distance away. A pair of gloves she wore was found in the lane from where the attack was launched. A hoodie she wore was found discarded in a skip.
There was also CCTV footage.
A camera operated from a nearby police station recorded her walking in the area carrying a plastic bag around half an hour before the grenades were thrown.
Another camera recorded the immediate aftermath of the attack, with a plume of smoke in the area where the grenades exploded.
A short time after the attack, Connor was filmed walking quickly away from the scene towards her home on nearby Ligoneil Road.
She was no longer carrying a bag. Police believe it was used to transport the grenades.
Just 17 hours after throwing the grenades, Connor was arrested at her home.
There, detectives found another mobile phone, SIM cards and a laptop computer stuffed inside the mattress of a bed.
The material included the mobile phone recording of her planning the attack and details of communications with Stuart Downes.
He was arrested by detectives from West Mercia Police a short time after making a call from a public phone box in Shrewsbury claiming responsibility for the attack which, he said, had been carried out by United Struggle.
Downes had been due to stand trial on five charges, including attempted murder.
During his time on bail, he was sent a bullet in the post. Police cannot say for certain if it was sent by Christine Connor, but they said it was a clear attempt to put pressure on him not to give evidence against her.
Downes took his own life in June last year.
At the inquest into his death, a coroner said the possible outcome of the criminal proceedings had been weighing heavily on his mind.
The detectives who searched Connor's home also found evidence of another fake social media account she used to communicate with a 28-year-old American called Zachary Gevlinger.
Described as a vulnerable person, he was a graduate of Wisconsin University. He went on to have a job as a maintenance worker there.
Detectives found evidence that he had sent cheques to the value of hundreds of US dollars to Connor.
He was arrested by the PSNI in the car park of Hydebank women's prison in June 2013, minutes after visiting Connor while she was on remand.
Zachary Gevlinger was questioned for nine days, and his home was also raided by the FBI. He took his own life in May.
Christine Connor had been due to stand trial on six charges, including the attempted murder of a police officer, possession of explosives, and preparation for terrorist acts.
But in a surprise move last month, she pleaded guilty.
In spite of the fact that Connor and Downes managed to construct what have been described as two "sophisticated" fully functioning bombs, police said there was no evidence that they were part of any dissident republican organisation.
Det Supt Campbell said the PSNI was satisfied that the pair acted alone.
"During the course of the investigation, we found a substantial amount of evidence that showed that both Christine Connor and Stuart Downes were involved in the sourcing of material, the construction on the devices, and in Christine Connor's case, actually throwing the devices," he said.
"There's no evidence that I have that anyone else was involved. We're not looking for anyone else in connection with the attacks."
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin says rising costs and missed targets make the £38.5bn plan untenable.
He blamed Network Rail, saying it should have foreseen the improvements would cost more and take longer.
Labour said it had warned the government needed to change how the railways were run but had "dithered" over taking action.
Network Rail said the plan, which was launched last year as the "largest modernisation of the railways since Victorian times", was too ambitious.
Network Rail controls 2,500 stations as well as tracks, tunnels and level crossings.
The key routes affected are:
Mr McLoughlin said electrification work would be "paused" on the Midland main line and on the Trans-Pennine route between Leeds and Manchester.
But he said that "electrification of the Great Western line is a top priority and I want Network Rail to concentrate its efforts on getting that right".
He also announced Network Rail's chairman, Richard Parry-Jones, would leave the group after his three-year term and told MPs none of the executive directors would get a bonus for the past year.
Mr Parry-Jones will be replaced by Sir Peter Hendy, the current commissioner of Transport for London.
The announcement comes as the latest rail passenger satisfaction survey is released.
Travellers in London and south-east England are the least happy with their service, according to Transport Focus (formerly Passenger Focus).
The proportion of passengers satisfied has fallen from 82% last year to 80% this year.
Satisfaction on First Hull Trains was highest at 96%, while Southern was the lowest at 72%.
Michael Roberts, director general of the Rail Delivery Group which represents train operators and Network Rail, said: "Too often many passengers are not getting the service they deserve, and for this we are sorry.
"The survey reflects the challenges we face to run trains punctually on an increasingly busy network."
The shadow transport secretary, Michael Dugher, said the government had known the upgrade could not go ahead as scheduled: "We have been warning time and time again there needs to be fundamental changes in how our railways are run. You spent the election campaign repeating promises you knew you would break after the election.
"Ministers may try to shift all the blame to Network Rail, but this happened on the government's watch and the responsibility for this mess lies squarely with the government."
Anthony Smith, chief executive of the independent watchdog Transport Focus, said: "This... follows years of above-inflation fares increases, crowded carriages and engineering works. Passengers have put up with much inconvenience in the expectation of a better, more reliable, and more comfortable rail service.
"What passengers will want now is a clear plan of action, setting out exactly when Network Rail will start to deliver some of the promised improvements."
The chief executive of Network Rail, Mark Carne, told the BBC the challenges of delivering myriad improvement projects while still running a railway seven days a week were simply overwhelming.
"Over the last year, it has become obvious that the challenges of operating, maintaining and enhancing the railway are significant," he said.
"I think it's time to level with the public and say that some of these extraordinary projects that we absolutely need are going to take longer and are going to cost more than we originally thought.
"We are going to take the summer to re-evaluate the extension of the programme - we need to do that properly with the Department for Transport and, of course, looking at the impact on trains as well."
He said it would not be possible to estimate the impact of the delays on the final cost.
Analysis: Kamal Ahmed, business editor
To be clear, much of the investment will still happen. It will just be slower and more expensive.
And significant Whitehall sources have also told me that spending £38bn over five years is still the plan.
Which means that, according to those officials, the Conservative Party is not about to break its manifesto pledge to spend that amount.
What does appear to be the case - according to senior people in the rail industry - is that the Department for Transport was warned last spring that the five-year plan was at risk.
But the government has waited until after the election before announcing the change.
All bets off for £38.5bn rail plan
Mr Carne said it was important to be honest with the travelling public: "Rather than beating ourselves up over some rather arbitrary target, I think we should level with people and reset expectations around what we can deliver.
"Our railway is a great success story, passenger numbers have doubled in the last 20 years - but it's a huge challenge to transform the performance of our railway while still providing a great service to the four-and-a-half million people that use our railway every day."
Sarll, 34, replaced Teddy Sheringham at Boro, and the club are now seven points off the League Two play-off places.
"Experienced managers say to you try to switch off and have your family life," he told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"I don't know if it's my first year and I'm young, but for me that's impossible. It's very lonely, especially in defeat."
He continued: "I just want to hide away and get my head around what is next. I don't want to hide away and sulk or melt in the corner, but I want to refocus.
"But that means isolating your family and pushing them to one side in the times when you should be really with them."
Sarll also admitted to sleepless nights since he stepped up from Boro first-team coach to replace former England striker Sheringham in February last year.
His own playing career was spent mostly in the non-leagues of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, before he moved into youth coaching roles at Stevenage and Brentford.
"For me, being different to other managers as I never played professionally and had other jobs that our supporters work in, to relate what you do nine to five Monday to Friday, or whatever your shift work is, to a managerial position is impossible," he said.
"I get why we're harshly criticised when things aren't going well. There's only 92 managers and my thought is there's always someone wanting to do it for five minutes longer for a fiver cheaper. There's always someone out there ready to take your job.
"You have to always be on your guard and never rest. It's tough, the loneliness is tough. But I quite like a fight and challenges, so I quite enjoy that bit of it."
The West Mercia and Warwickshire forces handed over all weapons seized over the last two years.
They will be used to build a sculpture of an angel, with each knife forming a feather in its wings.
The British Ironworks Centre plans to find 100,000 knives to complete the statue, expected to stand 20ft high.
Sculptor Alfie Bradley said he hoped it would be completed by the autumn.
In all, some 10,000 weapons have been donated so far.
"There's no uniformity, so it's going to be a complete collage of knives," Clive Knowles, managing director of the British Ironworks Centre, said.
"There are a lot of what were clearly originally kitchen knives, but there have also been flick knives, razor-type knives, garrotting wires, homemade knives and ones made in prison from door bolts.
"One flick knife was disguised as a lighter and another two were designed to fit inside a fake mobile phone.
"I think you're going to look at the sculpture and realise how many knives there are on the streets of the UK. That's going to be the really shocking thing."
Mr Knowles said the Save A Life, Surrender Your Knife campaign was receiving regular deliveries from the Metropolitan Police, while knives were also being donated by the Lancashire and West Yorkshire forces later this month.
He said the sculpture would be the only national memorial of its kind and councils in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham had already offered to provide a permanent home for it.
Australia's Federal Court ruled last year that products marketed as targeting specific pains, such as migraine, were actually identical.
In a statement to the BBC, the UK-based company said it "did not intend to mislead consumers".
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had asked for a A$6m fine.
How to pick the best painkiller
The (ACCC) watchdog brought the matter to court last year.
The court ruled that the company had contravened Australian consumer law by saying its Nurofen Specific Pain products were each formulated to treat a specific type of pain.
Each product contained the same active ingredient, ibuprofen lysine 342mg.
The products affected included Nurofen Back Pain, Nurofen Period Pain, Nurofen Migraine Pain and Nurofen Tension Headache.
Nurofen said it recognised "that we could have done more to assist our consumers in navigating the Nurofen Specific Pain Range".
Earlier this year, Reckitt Benckiser removed a TV advert for one of its products - Nurofen Express. The advert had implied that the capsules directly targeted muscles in the head.
The company has said it will not re-broadcast it, following complaints that the ad was misleading.
Alistair Forbes was driving a Stagecoach bus in Broughty Ferry on 6 April last year at the time of the incident.
His vehicle hit pedestrian Keira Duff moments after she stepped off the kerb.
Forbes, who is no longer employed by the company, was also banned from driving for three months.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told that Ms Duff, 20, was injured in the crash but had made a full recovery.
Forbes, 58, of Dundee, was originally charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury.
His guilty plea to a lesser charge of careless driving was accepted by prosecutors.
Solicitor advocate Jim Laverty, defending, said: "He hasn't used a driving licence in a professional capacity since the incident.
"He is in the job market now and having his licence would be an advantage.
"He will not be applying for a driving job, however."
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael told Forbes: "You were driving a double-decker, a big, heavy vehicle, that needs to be driven with care.
"The careless element here is that you knowingly drove through a red light at a pedestrian crossing.
"The consequence was that a member of the public was injured, but thankfully has made a recovery."
Children were asked to think of ideas for a connected home bedroom product.
EDF said that while its Pretty Curious programme is still aimed at girls, the UK competition was later opened up to all 11 to 16-year-olds.
It continues to share the same website and branding as the girls' scheme.
The BBC understands that the decision had been made to open the competition up to both genders in the interests of fairness, and that the contest attracted "a couple of hundred" entries.
Following three events held in the UK for girls last year, the contest was extended online and made available to boys as well.
The winner's idea was for a games controller which harnesses kinetic energy from thumb action using wind-up triggers.
Three of the four runners-up, whose ideas included smart curtains, a smart fridge and a sleep monitor, were submitted by girls.
"We were really impressed with the ideas which were submitted. It's exciting to see so many young people getting involved in this type of initiative and engaging with Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths). We hope more young people will be inspired to pursue Stem subjects at school and consider Stem careers in future," said Amy Edmundson, an electrical maintenance technician at EDF.
"Congratulations to the winner - but I'd love to hear from EDF how the winning solution meets their stated aim for the competition," said computer scientist Dr Sue Black OBE.
"It is taking me a bit of time to work out how this result will change girls' perceptions of Stem."
In a tweet, EDF said that while "the aim of #PrettyCurious was to encourage girls into #STEM, the #PrettyCuriousChallenge was a gender-neutral competition".
It added: "The winner was shortlisted by a panel of judges including the all-female winning team from our #PrettyCurious Glasgow workshop."
Suw Charman-Anderson, who founded the annual celebration of women in Stem, Ada Lovelace Day, told the BBC she had had reservations about the Pretty Curious campaign from the beginning.
"EDF Energy chose to link appearance and interest in Stem through the title of their campaign, despite many people pointing out that it was demeaning to girls," she said.
"Rather than challenging stereotypes, the focus on girls' looks rather than their intelligence reinforces them.
"EDF Energy have failed to understand both the nature of the problem [of women in Stem] and the negative impacts that their publicity stunt may well have on girls who took part with genuine enthusiasm and excitement."
The mother and two children have been spotted in front gardens since they escaped from a farm in Oxfordshire on Sunday.
Owner Steve Castle said Patches, Star and Tri are not aggressive, but is concerned for their welfare.
The animals made their bid for freedom from Home Farm in Long Wittenham.
Residents have since reported llamas peeking into their homes but Mr Castle said the curious creatures have a habit of using windows as makeshift mirrors.
"If they get bored they just go for a wander. And they like looking at themselves so people with big windows might see them looking at their reflections.
"People think they're dreaming when they see them."
The llama family has been clocked in residential areas of Saxons Heath and on the main road from Didcot to Clifton Hampden.
They were also discovered in a field at the nearby Earth Trust, but jumped over a fence before they could be returned home.
Mr Castle said they were particularly jumpy as they were previously owned by travellers who used them to train lurchers to hunt deer.
He added: "If a dog chases them obviously they run. That's how all this started, they ran away from a dog walker after they escaped.
"But they're not dangerous, they are very fond of people."
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Mike Johnson said the elite Fife institution had outreach programmes which connected with local communities.
Recent figures showed that the number of 18-year-olds from Scotland's poorest areas going to university was down.
Mr Johnson said a good university needed "diversity of thought" from its "diversity of students".
The admissions' director was speaking to BBC radio presenter Bill Whiteford who was hosting Thursday's Good Morning Scotland programme from St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university.
Mr Johnson said: "We meet our funded places allocation with Scottish students, we cannot go above that cap but we always meet that number in terms of Scottish students.
"What we want to see is the diversity of the student, wherever that student comes from.
"It shouldn't be seen as some charitable venture at universities - this is about the diversity of a student bringing diversity of thought, we want many world views.
"When students are in tutorials we want them to come from different backgrounds, this is good for universities, there is no doubt about that."
The Scottish government has placed a major focus on cutting the attainment gap between rich and poor, and increasing the number of Scots from the worst-off communities making it to university.
However, some politicians and education experts believe the cap on funded university places needs to be lifted if the system is going to target poorer students without impacting on the wider student population.
Convenor of Universities Scotland, Andrea Nolan, told the programme it was important to give "as many opportunities as we can to people who we believe have the potential and the ability to succeed".
She explained "In Scotland we have a fixed number of places for Scottish and EU domicile students and as we seek to widen access to people from communities that are underrepresented at universities that is going to put pressure in a fixed system."
Ms Nolan said lifting the cap on places was one way of "expanding the system".
She added: "There are other ways where we can work more efficiently with our colleagues in the college sector, but we are keen to have the opportunity available to those attending higher education, if that is the right pathway for them. So that may involve expanding places."
Ms Nolan said universities were keen to talk with the Scottish government about ensuring that "everybody who has the potential and ability to succeed at university gets that opportunity".
Education Secretary John Swinney said work was under way to improve access to education for those from the most deprived backgrounds.
He told the BBC: "We have to work collaboratively with the universities, with other players in the education system to make sure we strengthen the attainment of young people and ensure that young people are able to have a wide choice of what destination they want to pursue."
The cast-iron lamp-posts - which originally housed gas-powered lamps - were set to be switched for modern versions by Reading Borough Council.
But locals said the antique street furniture, produced in local foundries in the 19th Century, gave the town its spirit.
A consultation will be held before any work commences, the council said.
The number of iron street lights in Reading has fallen from 700 to 400 since 2016.
Only lamp-posts which have structural faults or were a risk to public safety would be replaced, the council said.
Residents of the Bell Tower area of the town, where 21 of the lights are clustered in four terraced streets, were among those to complain about the plans.
"There are very few of them left in the country, and they reflect the original Victorian character of the area", said David Neale from the Bell Tower Community Association.
"They have already been satisfactorily retro-fitted for electric lighting, so believe that it should be possible for them to be fitted with modern lighting".
Deputy council leader Tony Page said: "We fully appreciate the heritage value of cast iron columns, and our preference is of course to keep these columns in place wherever possible."
He also said the council will not remove any of the cast-iron columns while it consults with local residents about their future.
Freedom of information requests showed pubs, hotels and golf courses were also on town halls' books, the TPA said.
Chief executive Jonathan Isaby said councils were "hoarding" assets, undermining claims they had no income.
However, a Local Government Association spokesman said the campaign group's report was "misleading".
The spokesman said in "many cases" councils owned the land that facilities are built on rather than the facilities themselves.
Communities and Local Government Secretary Greg Clark said local authorities must ensure taxpayer value for money.
According to the think tank's report - which it says is based on details gathered from FoI requests - councils across the UK owned at least 580 restaurants or cafes, as of April 2014.
Local authorities' assets also included 378 pubs, 174 hotels, 259 theatres, 2,586 farms and 407 golf courses, it said.
Mr Isaby said it looked "deeply hypocritical" for councils to "plead poverty as an excuse for hiking council tax when they've got such a huge asset portfolio".
He said local authorities should be focused on "essential services".
"The time has come for a serious discussion on what councils should, and should not, be doing - a drastic rethink which saw many of these assets returned to the private sector where some of them clearly belong would be a dramatic step towards a balanced budget and protecting taxpayers," Mr Isaby added.
However, a Local Government Association spokesman dismissed the report's findings and said councils "are constantly reviewing their estates" to ensure value for money for local taxpayers.
"This is yet another misleading report from the Taxpayers' Alliance," the spokesman said.
"Councils are banned from spending the money they make from selling their assets to pay for day-to-day services. Assets fund regeneration, housing and jobs for communities, improve the quality of life for residents and help keep down council tax.
"Many assets were built as part of housing developments and are integral to providing the essential shops and amenities communities rely on. In many cases, councils will own the land facilities are built on and not the facilities themselves."
Communities and Local Government Secretary Greg Clark said local taxpayers "have a right to know, and demand", that their money is being spent carefully and effectively.
"Councils must keep council tax down and efficiently manage their assets to ensure local taxpayers' money is delivering value for money and the services local people want to see," he added.
Kayleigh McEnany appeared in the second instalment of the new series, the day after she said she was leaving CNN.
It will no doubt be seen as a major coup by Mr Trump, who has been at war with CNN and other "mainstream media" outlets since taking office.
He accuses them of failing to report on the achievements of his administration.
This new online segment, launched by his daughter-in-law Lara last week, appears to be designed to promote Mr Trump's successes, with updates on key policy areas such as immigration and jobs from Trump Tower in New York.
Mrs Trump - married to the president's second son, Eric - opened the first episode suggesting people "haven't heard of all the accomplishments the president had this week because there's so much fake news out there".
Neither Ms McEnany's nor Mrs Trump's videos mentioned the scandals or personnel changes that have dogged the White House since the reality TV star-turned-politician took office.
Both women also signed off by saying "and that is the real news" - suggesting the phrase was to become the short segment's catchline.
Describing herself online as a Christian conservative, Ms McEnany has regularly defended the president in CNN debates but tweeted on Saturday that she was leaving the channel.
Ms McEnany's CNN credentials are significant because they are the news network Mr Trump has publically criticised the most. In July he tweeted a video of himself wrestling a person with a CNN logo for a head.
Ms McEnany defended the tweet on the news channel as a "tongue-in-cheek satirical video".
Besides CNN, the president has denounced many news channels and publications as peddlers of "fake news". In February he launched a stinging attack on the media.
In June he attacked MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough as "low IQ crazy Mika" and "Psycho Joe". He also referred to Ms Brzezinski as "bleeding badly from a facelift".
Amid the widespread criticism of his comments, the TV hosts suggested the White House had attempted to blackmail them with a smear story in a national tabloid unless they personally apologised for their coverage of Mr Trump.
As the 2016 Republican presidential candidate, Mr Trump complained about being treated unfairly by the media.
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Rumours began circling he was planning to launch his own Trump TV network with his friend Roger Ailes, former Fox News chairman, if he lost the presidency (Mr Ailes died in May).
They deepened after his campaign launched an alternative broadcast during the final presidential debate with Trump-styled political commentators and analysis.
Speaking to the Washington Post in September, Mr Trump denied he was considering founding a media company.
But after months of public spats with the media, this new "real news" weekly broadcast could be the start of Mr Trump trying to capitalise on the anti-media sentiment he has drummed up among supporters.
It is significant the videos have been posted to Donald Trump's personal Facebook page, where he has over 22 million followers.
He also has over 35 million followers on his personal Twitter account, tens of millions more than on his official @POTUS presidential accounts.
Mr Trump has not scaled back his use of his social media accounts after being sworn in office and defended his use of Twitter as "modern-day presidential".
The informal online messages are a sharp departure from the usual methods of official communication by US presidents.
From foreign policy statements to the "covfefe" typo, Mr Trump's unorthodox use of the platform has frequently set the international news agenda.
It is believed he hopes the News of the Week will do the same and divert coverage of his presidency, which has so far been dominated by administration infighting and the Russian collusion investigation.
The education watchdog has been examining how well colleges implement the Prevent counter-extremism strategy.
In one case, inspectors said a student had watched a "terrorist propaganda video" in a resource centre.
Ofsted's Paul Joyce said there was "poor practice that I've no doubt would shock parents and learners alike".
The report from Ofsted, based on visits to 37 further education and skills providers and 46 regular inspections or monitoring visits, concluded that too many students were at risk of "radicalisation and extremism".
It found that general further education colleges and sixth-form colleges were "making good progress" with carrying out the Prevent duties on tackling extremism.
But there were particular concerns about small, independent providers, who might be "leaving learners at risk".
Ofsted inspectors warned of a lack of safeguards for internet use and found examples where students had been able to "bypass" online security settings to visit websites "selling firearms" or "promoting terrorist ideology".
"These included one isolated instance of a learner viewing a terrorist propaganda video in the provider's learning resource centre," the report says.
This is understood to be a video from so-called Islamic State showing a beheading.
The Ofsted report says some colleges have adopted a tougher line on internet access, such as "stringent firewalls" and regular checks on attempts to access inappropriate websites.
And there are colleges that block internet access on students' personal devices when they are on college premises.
There were also some concerns over checks on external speakers.
But, overall, inspectors found that outside speakers helped students to learn about different views, which promoted "tolerance, respect and democracy".
Ofsted's deputy director for further education and skills, Paul Joyce, said that most leaders of FE and sixth-form colleges were making "quick progress" in carrying out their duties under the Prevent strategy, introduced for colleges last year.
But he said it was worrying that for some providers "the progress made in implementing the duty has been slow".
David Corke, the Association of Colleges' director of education and skills, said colleges have been "working incredibly hard to implement the duty, and they will continue to do so as the threat of radicalisation and terrorism is ever present".
"The safeguarding of students is of paramount importance for further education and sixth-form colleges," he said.
But Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU lecturers' union, said that colleges had to cope with "vague definitions" and "inconsistent advice" in the debate about challenging radicalisation and protecting free speech.
"The Prevent duty risks doing more harm than good by shutting down debate on contentious topics and creating mistrust between teachers and students," she said.
"College teachers have always taken their duty of care to students very seriously, so the focus on implementing the Prevent duty is both unnecessary and potentially counterproductive."
Skills Minister Nick Boles said: "While the majority of providers have worked hard to implement the safeguards effectively, we recognise there is still further work to do in making the government-funded guidance and training as consistent as possible."
Hundreds of people turned out to watch the famous locomotive as it passed through the West Country on Friday.
But its journey from Gloucester to Bristol was delayed by almost an hour, due to about 50 people trespassing on the line near Cam and Dursley.
Operator Steam Dreams said it had been "advised" not to publish details of when the Scotsman was running.
British Transport Police tweeted on Friday that "numerous people on the tracks" had delayed the Flying Scotsman and advised that "that a good pic is not worth endangering your life".
The locomotive is due to make a return trip through the West on Tuesday but the operator said the timings would "not be made available online".
"In order to avoid overcrowding and incidents of trespass we have been advised not to publish recommended viewing points or the timetable of when the train will be passing through specific locations," it said in a statement.
It went on to say that it would also not be giving out "any timetable or route details" through its booking office.
Marcus Robertson, chairman of Steam Dreams, said trespassing on railway lines "to get a better photograph of a train" was "incredibly dangerous".
"Last year we did have a few problems with trespass but [on Friday] there were people with children near the line - and these are 125mph railways," he said.
"We've heard from Network Rail and the BTP, and on our runs next week - in the same areas - there will be far more police activity."
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that Mr Osborne's pledge to run a budget surplus "in normal times" from 2019-20 was simple but would require a "precarious balancing act".
The result could be "big tax rises or spending cuts with very little notice", the IFS concluded.
The next Budget is on 16 March.
The IFS publishes its annual Green Budget document ahead of the actual Budget every year, highlighting economic conditions and the challenges facing the chancellor.
The independent economic think tank has concluded that Mr Osborne's target of a balancing the UK's books by 2019-20 was inflexible, and could have tax and spending implications were he to receive "unfavourable" economic and fiscal forecasts.
The UK had only run a surplus eight times in the last 60 years, the IFS pointed out.
"The rule has the merit of simplicity and transparency but is very inflexible and this could come at a cost," the IFS said.
"Even if the chancellor gets to the March 2019 Budget with his plans intact, past errors in official forecasts suggest that there would be more than a one-in-four chance that he would need to implement in-year tax rises or spending cuts to deliver a budget surplus in 2019-20."
Mr Osborne knows that he can set as many fiscal mandates as he likes, the public are unlikely to notice.
What they are likely to notice is whether the economic growth they so regularly hear trumpeted by the chancellor is actually making a difference to their lives.
And this is where another part of the Institute for Fiscal Studies' Green Budget comes in.
Yes, the threat of further tax rises and possible public sector cuts might be very real, but the chancellor's political advisors know that one of the key motivators of voting behaviour is whether people feel, and actually are, better off.
And there the figures are pretty gloomy.
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In the meantime, the chancellor still had a programme of promised tax cuts to deliver, faced uncertainty over what the Treasury might receive in tax, and needed to maintain a squeeze on government spending.
For example, the government has promised to allow workers a larger amount of income before they start paying income tax - a promise that will cost £8bn a year and which is currently unfunded.
The IFS said that even if economic figures were good, the forecast of a budget surplus by the end of the decade assumes putting up fuel duties in line with inflation, taking child benefit away from more high-earning families, and allowing more households to be dragged into the 45% top rate of income tax by keeping the threshold frozen at £150,000.
Uncertainty over what will happen to the UK economy meant he might have to respond with some "tough decisions", the IFS concluded.
"How he responds to any further unpleasant fiscal surprises may, more than anything we have seen so far, come to define his period as chancellor," said Paul Johnson, director of the IFS.
Oxford Economics, which co-authored the report with the IFS, is predicting "relatively disappointing" UK growth of 2.2% in 2016, but said strong consumer spending had seen a "sugar rush" owing to low inflation caused by low oil prices. This was likely to continue. The environment for business investment remained "favourable", it added.
The Bank of England, in its latest Inflation Report, cut its forecast for growth this year to 2.2%. In November it had predicted growth of 2.5%.
The 25-year-old British number one beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3 to claim £940,000 in prize money and is set to climb to seventh in the world.
Konta was the world number 146 in June 2015, but she believes a Grand Slam title and further progress is possible.
"The belief has been there since I was a little girl," she said.
"I'd like to be the best player in the world but there's a lot of work to be done between now and then.
"Everybody's journey is different. I needed a little more time and a little more experience to accumulate the knowledge that I have and re-use it in my matches.
"I play smart tennis and calmer tennis I think. It just took time. On paper it looks like a quick turnaround but it's been a long time coming."
Former Fed Cup captain Judy Murray - mother of Andy - has previously suggested the turnaround began with a heavy defeat in a match against Belarus in February 2015.
Murray put that down to Konta's "really bad performance anxiety", describing the result as "a bit of a horror".
But her skill at handling the pressure of elite-level sport is now one of her biggest assets.
Konta herself has credited the influence of former mental coach Juan Coto, who died in December.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live following his death, Konta said: "Everything that I do, he will be a part of. He left me with some incredible tools to deal with my profession and also life. He is still very much a part of my journey."
She is working with a new coach this season - having made a surprise decision to replace Spaniard Esteban Carril towards the end of 2016, the most successful year of her career so far.
Under the guidance of Wim Fissette, Konta won January's Sydney International without dropping a set, before now claiming her first success at a higher level - the top 'Premier Mandatory' rung of the WTA Tour - in Miami.
"She has big ground strokes, not many weaknesses, and I also saw her as somebody who is very hard-working and very disciplined," Fissette told BBC Sport during the Australian Open, where Konta made the quarter-finals.
"I started working with her because I really believe she can win a Grand Slam if she keeps getting better like this."
In October, Konta became only the fourth British woman to make the top 10 since the WTA rankings began in 1975 - after Jo Durie, Virginia Wade and Sue Barker.
"I think it was probably a combination of everything, but also a question of maturity," Konta said of her rise on Saturday.
"I was very fortunate that throughout the years I've managed to have some very, very good people around me.
"The more I was able to absorb from them, their knowledge and wisdom, and the more I was able to reinvest that into the matches that I played, that's the reason I'm here now."
BBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
Only one other player has gathered more ranking points in 2017 than Johanna Konta, but more importantly the new world number seven has now successfully negotiated the perfect dress rehearsal for a Grand Slam.
Six victories over 10 days against the very best in the world in one of the WTA's Big Four tournaments is the perfect stepping stone to Grand Slam success.
Wimbledon should provide Konta with as good an opportunity as the Australian and US Opens - where she has already had so much joy - but now it is time for the clay: a surface on which Konta is still to prove herself.
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BBC Sport's Piers Newbery: Konta continues to amaze. Last year was the first time she was ranked high enough to even play in Miami. And not at her best this week.
BBC tennis commentator David Law: Hope Konta can crack it at Wimbledon where she would fully enter the general public's consciousness. Can be a powerful positive role-model.
Parades to celebrate the country's Olympic and Paralympic success have been confirmed for Manchester on 17 October and London a day later.
Paralympic medallists were welcomed by fans and family who met their flight at London Heathrow on Tuesday morning.
GB won 147 medals, 64 of them gold, at the Paralympics and 67 Olympic medals.
Those included 27 Olympic gold medals. Both teams broke their medal tallies from London four years ago, hit their 2016 targets, and finished second in their medal tables.
As the Paralympics closed and athletes returned to their home countries, the Queen said: "I offer my warmest congratulations to the athletes of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and indeed to the athletes of all Commonwealth countries, for their many successes in Rio de Janeiro.
"The magnificent performance of Paralympics GB this year reflects the talent and commitment of the athletes and their support teams.
"I send my good wishes to all those who have contributed to the success of these memorable Games."
By Cherry Wilson, BBC News, at Heathrow Airport
A loud cheer rippled through the arrivals hall at Heathrow Terminal 5 - marking the moment that the all-conquering Paralympians came home.
It was a welcome richly deserved for a team that had weighed down the plane with more medals than any British team had amassed since 1988.
Many athletes immediately showed the speed that had earned them such rich rewards, rushing into the arms of their family and friends.
One of the first to come through the door was rower Rachel Morris.
She had a tear in her eye as she hugged and showed off her gold medal to dad Carey.
One of the biggest cheers was for Kadeena Cox, who has become something of a poster girl for the Rio Paralympics for her heroics in both athletics and cycling.
Her first words were for her family, who had travelled from Leeds to meet her: "I've missed them. I didn't want to leave Rio but I wanted to see family."
Sports minister Tracey Crouch said the competitors had been an inspiration to millions and confirmed there would be two celebratory parades.
"I know that Manchester - a city with a rich sporting history - and London - with its strong links with the Olympic and Paralympic Games - will host brilliant celebrations that will give the British public a chance to say thank you to our amazing athlete heroes," she said.
Waiting for the athletes at Heathrow on Tuesday, double-gold medallist Kadeena Cox's sister Carmel Williams said: "We thought she was going to come back with some golds. But breaking a few world records that's a major achievement.
"I'm just excited to see her."
On board the flight, GB Para canoeist Anne Dickins observed "the world is better with bunting".
Her coach Phil Gunney was waiting for the gold medallist at the airport: "She's worked really hard and had a lot of challenges to get there," he said.
"We were confident she could make the podium. It was 0.2 of a second so I didn't know whether she had won at first. My reaction was very loud. I'm a driving instructor and I was sat with a student shouting at the iPad!"
And in the arrivals hall, Dame Sarah Storey, whose Paralympic career has seen her win multiple gold medals in swimming and cycling, said athletes boarded the plane early and in high spirits to "get into the champagne".
Table tennis gold medallist Will Bailey said the team spirit was "absolutely electric" on the flight home.
He said: "You know although it's an individual sport I very much feel part of Paralympics GB team and you know, we're all buzzing and so happy. We've achieved so much out there in Rio."
Reflecting on the team's success, she said: "We got off to a great start on day one, medals rolling in and everyone wants to be a part of that.
"We've had 20 years of great investment, then a home games. We wanted to continue the momentum and we smashed it."
She said her teammates performances, some across multiple sports, had given her "goosebumps" and said despite predictions of low crowds and safety concerns, the Paralympics in Brazil "just was brilliant".
The UK government is working with the British Olympic Association, the British Paralympic Association and both cities to finalise the details of the parades.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted that he was delighted to confirm a "heroes' return" for the country's Olympians and Paralympians.
Among the British Olympic successes in Rio were track cyclists Jason Kenny and Laura Trott, who between them won five golds, taking the couple's gold medal tally to 10.
Runner Mo Farah repeated his London 2012 double, winning gold in the men's 10,000m and 5,000m and swimmer Adam Peaty broke the world record as he won gold in the men's 100m breaststroke. He was the first British man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal since Adrian Moorhouse in 1988.
At the Paralympics, Dame Sarah Storey capped off a successful games by winning a third gold medal in the cycling road race, taking her career total to 14 across swimming and cycling.
Kadeena Cox won cycling gold and athletics gold, silver and bronze and was flagbearer in the closing ceremony while runner Jonnie Peacock took T44 100m gold.
Arriving at Heathrow, she said that the medals are important but it was more important to show people what could be done.
She added: "So I could stand here as a role model - to anyone that's had any setbacks to anyone that's got a chronic condition, invisible illnesses, MS, just all those things that are really tough to deal with.
"I just wanted to show them that you can achieve amazing things if you put your mind to it".
Paralympics GB chef de mission Penny Briscoe said it was right and fitting that the athletes would receive a welcome in the two cities.
Team GB chef de mission Mark England said it would be a proud moment for all the athletes.
However, details of the celebrations come as a further round of GB athletes, including Olympic champion Mo Farah, have had their medical files made public by internet hackers.
The files mostly deal with therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs), which allow athletes to take banned substances for verified medical needs. There is no suggestion that those named are involved in any wrongdoing.
Officers are searching a residential address in north-west London where they say a 60-year-old man was detained.
Mr Hussain has lived in the UK since 1991, saying his life would be at risk if he returned to Pakistan.
His party, which controls Karachi, has urged supporters to stay calm amid outbreaks of violence there.
The British and Pakistani authorities have in the past expressed concerns that any arrest of Altaf Hussain could lead to violent protests in Karachi.
Shootings have been reported from some parts of Pakistan's largest city, which BBC correspondents say is tense.
Traffic jams were reported in Karachi and other cities in Sindh province as businesses closed and people headed home fearing violence.
One man in the city, who gave his name as Tahir, told the BBC that MQM supporters were firing guns in the streets and setting fire to any shops which remained open.
Another, Nabil, said there had been "turmoil" and "massive confusion" about whether Altaf Hussain had been arrested or not.
Karachi in fear after Altaf Hussain arrest
Pakistan's powerful but absent politician
Karachi has been wracked by violence - much of it politically motivated.
Security is being tightened around the British mission in the city, which has been closed temporarily, and other buildings.
A Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) spokesman in London, Nadeem Nusrat, confirmed the arrest and urged its supporters to "maintain peace at all costs".
"The police arrived with a search warrant and wanted to question Mr Hussain regarding allegations of money laundering," he said in a statement.
Mr Hussain had been "very unwell" for the past few days and was getting ready to go to hospital when the police arrived, the statement added.
Police later confimed that Mr Hussain had been escorted to a hospital appointment while still in custody.
For many years now, Altaf Hussain's MQM has had a bloc of about 20 members in the National Assembly, making him a powerful figure both in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi and in the country as a whole. Remarkably he has led the party from London for over 20 years for fear that going back home could result in legal cases or a physical threat to his security.
As well as his solid electoral base in Karachi, Mr Hussain has a powerful party organisation in the city which is often accused of extorting money from businesses and using violence - or the threat of it - to get its way.
For years the British authorities tolerated the MQM being based in London. In fact British diplomats sought to take advantage of the situation by trying to influence the party to help achieve British objectives in Pakistan. But the mood changed when a senior MQM party member Imran Farooq was murdered in London in 2010.
Mr Hussain, his party, and some of his associates and relatives are currently the subject of a number of British investigations.
One is looking into the question of whether in his televised speeches he has incited violence in Pakistan, charges Mr Hussain denies. Another is into whether the MQM has paid its UK taxes correctly.
The most high-profile investigation followed the 2010 murder in London of a senior MQM leader Imran Farooq. No-one has been formally charged with his killing.
The MQM is often accused of extorting money from businesses in Karachi and shipping the money to the UK, charges the party also denies.
Chris Turner, 62, played for Peterborough United and was diagnosed after falling ill in 2006.
His wife Lynne said doctors told her it was "caused by heading too many balls".
The FA is discussing similar concerns with the family of ex-player Jeff Astle who died in 2002 from brain trauma caused by heading heavy leather balls.
The governing body has said it would also meet Mrs Turner to discuss her husband, who is now confined to a nursing home.
She said: "[The FA] have really got to acknowledge that there is something going on.
"It's not for Chrissy, because he's never going to benefit. It's too late for him, but it's for kids now who are heading balls."
Turner was a defender with Peterborough United from 1969-1977, and later played for Luton, Cambridge United, Swindon and Southend before retiring in 1984 and going on to manage both Cambridge and Peterborough.
Mrs Turner said he remained active until becoming ill.
"We took him to the doctor. That's when they did a brain scan and said he'd got frontal lobe dementia caused by heading too many footballs. It's what boxers get," she said.
"I know there are thousands going through this, but at 55, to be like that when you were so full of life, doing the job you loved in football... and that's what's killed him really, because he's just not the same person anymore."
Mr Turner has been unable to walk, talk or eat for about five years, his wife said.
She is convinced the condition was brought on by years of heading heavy footballs as there is no history of dementia in his family.
"I know that is what did it," she said. "He complained of violent headaches in his forehead and that's when it started."
A spokesman for the FA said: "[We] are working with other sports with higher prevalence of head injuries towards an education programme to allow safe participation in any sport.
"There are standards set out in the laws of the game for the size, weight and pressure of footballs and we will continue to liaise with Fifa on this and other medical issues."
The association would, he added, be happy to discuss Mrs Turner's concerns about the game.
The 37-year-old has scored 12 goals in what has been a disappointing campaign for the Ibrox side.
In his third spell at Rangers, Miller has done enough to convince manager Pedro Caixinha he is worth a new deal.
"I was delighted when he (Caixinha) let me know that he sees me as part of his squad next year and what his plans were," Miller told the Rangers website.
"With the new manager coming in over the past two months it was important that he settled into the club, assessed his squad and fortunately enough he has made the right decision.
"When a new manager comes in everybody's future is started to be thrown into doubt a wee bit, whether they have contracts or not.
"He let me know a few weeks back his thoughts and what he'd seen and then it was just a case of getting things tied up with Stewart Robertson and Andrew Dickson.
"I was always confident that the manager would see the work that I have been doing every day in training, the commitment to the cause and since he's come in I think I've maintained a decent level of performance and consistency. I was always hopeful I would stay on.
"I am over the moon to get it signed and I'm looking forward to the last few games of the season and then building towards a better, more competitive year next season."
Miller joined Rangers from Hibernian in 2000 but left the club the following year for Wolves. Following spells at Celtic and Derby County he rejoined Rangers in 2008, leaving again in 2011 before returning in 2014.
The striker has hit 42 goals in 126 appearances in his third spell, but boss Caixinha says Miller brings much more than goals.
"It is fantastic for everyone at the club that Kenny has agreed to stay with us for another year," the manager told Rangers' website.
"I have been greatly impressed by his professionalism and leadership both on and off the field since I arrived here, and I believe his performances demonstrate he still has so much to offer us."
Outfits from the popular TV series have been placed in rooms throughout Cannon Hall museum near Barnsley.
They include dresses worn by actresses Maggie Smith and Michelle Dockery as well as a dinner service suit worn by actor Jim Carter.
The exhibition, which runs until September, features a total of 21 pieces from the show.
Jemma Conway, collections officer at Cannon Hall Museum, said: "People love Downton and the costumes look fantastic in our period rooms.
"We want people to really enjoy looking around the house as well as being able to soak up the atmosphere of Downton.
"It's amazing to see the costumes and imagine yourself living in that time."
As well as the outfits worn by the Dowager Countess, Lady Crawley and Carson the butler, people will also be able to see Cousin Matthew's cricket whites and Mrs Patmore's cook's uniform.
Cannon Hall was home to the Spencer-Stanhope family for more than 200 years and is set in 70 acres of parkland at Cawthorne.
The International Champions Cup friendly was the first sporting event to be held at the new $1.1bn (£830m) home of NFL side Minnesota Vikings.
Bertrand Traore headed the opener for Chelsea before a Giacomo Bonaventura free-kick drew the Italian club level.
Brazil midfielder Oscar's brace sealed it for Antonio Conte's side.
Kante, who left Premier League champions Leicester for a fee in the region of £30m, came on as a second-half substitute.
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Responding to a consultation on the broadcaster's future, officials told UK ministers the channel could do a lot more "to deliver for the people of Wales".
English cities including Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool have also made the case for relocation.
Channel 4 said there were substantial risks if it were to move out of London.
It said spending more money on commissioning programmes from production companies in Wales and the other nations and regions would be "the most effective single means of increasing economic impact" across the UK.
Channel 4 has welcomed the Conservative government's decision, after an 18-month review, to rule out privatisation.
But its response to the UK government's 12-week consultation does not contain specific plans about how to increase its contribution outside London.
UK Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said she was "unsympathetic towards those who recoil in horror at the very idea of media jobs being based outside the capital".
The Welsh Government said the risk of moving Channel 4 "could be significant if the location isn't chosen wisely" but "Wales - and especially the production hub already thriving around Cardiff and the south - is an ideal candidate for such a relocation".
It pointed to Sherlock, Born to Kill, Journey's End and others as "made in Wales" productions.
Channel 4 Productions in Wales in 2016
SOURCE: Channel 4 Consultation Submission
Despite recognising its current "positive and productive relationship" with Channel 4, the Welsh Government said the broadcaster "must change" if it is to have a greater impact in Wales.
It said: "It is regrettable that two years after the chief executive of Channel 4 made a very positive visit to Wales... [it] still has no permanent base and no commissioning staff in Wales."
It also called for Channel 4 to be set a specific Welsh quota for programming hours and spend.
Currently, the broadcaster must spend 3% of its commissioning hours and finances in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, rising to 9% by 2020.
The Welsh Government said it was an "unambitious, unchallenging target" given a "simple population share would equate to 5%" of programming and money coming to Wales.
Cardiff council has also called for Channel 4 to relocate its 800 staff to the Welsh capital.
But Teledwyr Annibynnol Cymru (TAC), which represents about 50 production companies in Wales, said the channel should "have some form of established permanent presence in Wales" rather than move completely out of London.
Media analyst Toby Syfret said there was a "very limited case for relocation".
"However, what we have seen in the last three or four years is that Channel 4 is a political football, which has been used to express political thoughts," he said.
A Channel 4 spokesman said: "Channel 4 already delivers a significant impact in the UK's nations and regions and we want to continue to work with the government as part of its consultation to explore meaningful ways to grow this further and support jobs, investment and growth in the creative economy across the whole of the UK."
The UK government is now considering the consultation responses.
The plan will attempt to increase commercial investment in 4G mobile in Scotland.
It also aims to ultimately support 5G-ready infrastructure across the country.
Many rural areas of Scotland have complained about having poor or no mobile coverage.
A report published two years ago concluded that Scotland had the worst mobile coverage in the UK on average, with more than a quarter of the country lacking adequate coverage.
Primary responsibility over mobile coverage lies with the UK government.
But the Scottish government said it had used its own powers to "take forward a series of actions, with tangible steps alongside public sector partners to support its ambition".
These will range from interventions such as business rates relief for operators through to more direct interventions, such as investing in the construction of new or enhanced infrastructure.
Connectivity Secretary Fergus Ewing said: "We have been working closely with the UK mobile network operators, and they have demonstrated a clear commitment to maximising coverage.
"Already significant progress is being made towards meeting 4G coverage obligations, but we collectively recognise that coverage gaps will still remain in some of the most rural and remote areas.
"We will identify where those gaps will be after the commercial rollout, and together with the industry will jointly design technology solutions and business models that will allow services to be delivered by operators in a sustainable way."
The proposals were welcomed by the major mobile operators, who said it would help overcome some of the challenges of extending networks into the most remote rural areas.
The Clwydian Mountain Range and Dee Valley, the Elan Valley and Gwent Levels will receive a share of the Heritage Lottery Fund investment.
The three landscapes are recognised as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the grant is aimed at conserving their character.
The funding is expected to create 3,000 training opportunities and a similar number of volunteering posts.
The initiative began last month in an attempt to crack down on drink-driving.
Previously, police needed reasonable suspicion before asking a driver to take a breath test.
The new legislation was passed through the Assembly in April, but this is the first time it has been used by police.
Police said the introduction of random breath tests meant the number of people detected in the first three weeks of their winter drink-driving campaign had risen by 1.7%, compared to the same period in 2015.
During last year's Christmas crackdown, almost 400 people were caught drink-driving by police in Northern Ireland.
Ch Insp Diane Pennington said police had authorised 667 checkpoints since their winter drink-driving campaign launched on 24 November.
"Thankfully it would appear that many people are heeding our warnings as there has been a noticeable decline in the second and third weeks, despite the increase in preliminary tests being carried out," she said.
She added, however, that it was "difficult" to accept the figures as a success.
"We shouldn't be detecting anyone drink driving," she said.
"It's disappointing that despite our warnings, there are still people who completely disregard the safety of themselves and others by continuing this shameful and incredibly dangerous practice."
Police said they will also be working with officers from the Gardai (Irish police) traffic department in border counties over the Christmas period.
"If everyone slowed down, did not drive after drinking or taking drugs, wore a seatbelt and drove with greater care and attention then, together, we can reduce this preventable carnage on our roads," added Ch Insp Pennington.
The dog-sized plant-eater had a dome-shaped skull that may have been used to head-butt other dinosaurs.
University of Toronto researchers say the new species, revealed in the journal Nature Communications, fills in gaps in the dinosaur family tree.
They believe more small dinosaurs like Acrotholus audeti await discovery.
Bone-headed dinosaurs, or thick-headed lizards, are known scientifically as pachycephalosaurs.
They are a strange group of herbivorous dinosaurs which possessed a thick-boned dome on the top of their skulls.
The dome may have been used for decoration or to head-butt other dinosaurs in combat.
The new find, Acrotholus, dates back to 85 million years ago.
It was about the size of a large dog, weighed about 40kg (88lb), walked on two legs, and had a skull composed of solid bone over 10cm (4 inches) thick.
Dr David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto said the fossil provides a wealth of new information on the evolution of bone-headed dinosaurs.
He told BBC News: "What's interesting about Acrotholus is that it's the oldest known pachycephalosaur from North America, and it might be the oldest known pachycephalosaur in the world.
"So what Acrotholus does is it extends our knowledge of the anatomy of this group early in their evolution - and it's actually important for understanding the evolution of pachycephalosaurs in general."
Relatively little is known about the diversity of small dinosaurs weighing less than 100kg (220lb), as they are under represented in the fossil record.
There has been scientific debate over whether the fossil record is a true reflection of the diversity of small dinosaurs or whether their more delicate bones are less likely to have been preserved compared with their larger cousins.
The Canadian study predicts the latter, suggesting there may be more discoveries of small bodied dinosaur fossils in the future.
"We can predict that many new small dinosaur species like Acrotholus are waiting to be discovered by researchers willing to sort through the many small bones that they pick up in the field," said co-researcher Dr Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
United slipped to second in the Scottish Championship on Saturday after losing at Dumbarton and trail Hibernian by a point.
Hibs host the Tangerines on Friday evening.
"It's quite difficult at this time of year to find the right person," McKinnon, 46, told BBC Scotland.
"We're actively looking to strengthen the squad if we can. We'll take our time and if it takes us a week or two, we'll be patient.
"It's important that we do maybe add one player at least up front to give some competition."
McKinnon was asked if former Tannadice favourite Nadir Ciftci - currently at Celtic - was a target.
"There's lots of names that we're looking at," the manager replied.
"There's lots of people we'd like to try and bring in if possible but some things are very, very difficult at this time of year."
A former Dundee United midfielder, McKinnon helped the Tangerines win promotion in 1995.
Last summer, he left Raith Rovers, after they lost in the Premiership play-offs, to replace Mixu Paatelainen at Tannadice after United had been relegated.
"We're ahead of schedule," he explained. "There was a huge rebuild on this year. I think 20 players left Dundee United in the summer.
"We had to go and recruit and that's never easy to rebuild a squad in about six weeks. I've got to give the boys credit. They got us to the top of the league. We're a point behind Hibs. That's a good squad we've put together.
"If we can add to that then hopefully we can give ourselves a chance this season.
"Financially for the club [promotion] would be fantastic.
"Everybody understands the challenge this division brings. Rangers spent two years here. Hibs are in their third year down here. It's not an easy league to get out of."
Of Friday's match, McKinnon added: "There's no doubt it's a big game. We knew that when the fixtures came out. It's early in the season. No matter what happens after Friday night, there's a lot to play for.
"They're tight games. There's good players on both teams. I'm pretty certain it'll be an interesting game."
Manchester's Cornerhouse, which opened in 1985, will shut as staff move to Home on First Street to join the also-relocating Library Theatre.
Tom Jeffers, an usher there for 30 years, said it had been the city's "beating heart of popular culture".
Chief executive Dave Moutrey said he was "proud" of what it had achieved.
Cornerhouse was founded by the Greater Manchester Visual Arts Trust (GMVAT) in 1985 and came to serve about 500,000 visitors every year.
Its success is partly the reason for the move, as the current building could not cope with the numbers and needed "continuous, costly maintenance", a spokeswoman said.
Mr Moutrey said some visitors may "miss the leaky roofs, uncomfortable cinema seats, idiosyncratic gallery spaces, and lining up outside in the rain [but] I am sure people will recognise something of Cornerhouse in Home and come to love the place as much."
In April 2012, GMVAT merged with the Library Theatre Company to become Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, which was the first step in the move to Home.
Manchester City Council, which owns both the new venue and the Cornerhouse, said no decision had been made on the long-term plans for the Oxford Road site.
The vacant buildings on the corner of Oxford Road and Whitworth Street West will be used by Manchester Metropolitan University as a teaching space in the short-term.
Cornerhouse is hosting an event called The Storming to mark the move, which will see "audiences, artists, community groups and DJs from Manchester's club scenes taking part in a truly unique send-off" on Saturday, a spokeswoman said.
Mr Moutrey said there had been an "outpouring of love for Cornerhouse as we have been moving towards retiring the building and name".
"It shows that we must have been doing something right for the last umpteen years."
Tom Jeffers has been an usher at Cornerhouse for three decades:
"The venue has been important to me as it gave me a education in arthouse cinema and the opportunity to be part of a organisation that was groundbreaking in offering Manchester the best in contemporary visual art, independent film and cafe culture.
"I have been lucky to have many highlights but the ones that stand out are meeting Quentin Tarantino, who was doing a Q&A for Reservoir Dogs, speaking to actress Julie Christie and literally bumping into Lauren Bacall in the cafe.
"As a iconic venue, it will be missed - it has been the beating heart of popular culture in Manchester for the last thirty years.
"Farewell and thank you for all the memories, old friend."
It's "one of the most interesting, challenging, exciting and fun places to work in the arts", said Mr Moutrey.
"A large and distinctive group of contemporary artists and filmmakers have brought their ideas and work to our visitors.
"There is no other programme or place like Cornerhouse in the UK [and] we will continue and grow."
Home, which boasts two theatres and five cinema screens, officially opens on 21 May, following a preview show in the building by the Hofesh Shechter Company in the last weekend of April.
Its patrons include Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle, the National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner, actress Suranne Jones, playwright and poet Jackie Kay and artist Rosa Barba.
Mr Litvinenko died aged 43 in London in 2006, days after being poisoned with radioactive polonium-210, which he is believed to have drunk in a cup of tea.
Two Russian men, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, have denied killing him.
The judge will decide whether to name any culprits and whether any elements in the Russian state were responsible.
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera says the real issue for the report is whether the trail leads to the heart of the Russian state and even to President Vladimir Putin himself.
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The report may also focus on whether it was specific investigations into links between organised crime and the Kremlin which led to Mr Litvinenko's killing.
Our correspondent says that if it does point to state responsibility, pressure is likely to grow for the British government to take action against Moscow.
Speaking ahead of the inquiry's findings, Mr Litvinenko's son, Anatoly, told the BBC: "You want to find out who was behind the murder, who planned it, who commissioned it.
"That is why state responsibility is important to us."
The judge, Sir Robert Owen, heard from 62 witnesses in six months of hearings and was shown secret intelligence evidence about Mr Litvinenko and his links with British intelligence agencies.
The former officer in Russia's FSB spy agency had fled to the UK in 2000, claiming persecution, and was granted asylum. He gained British citizenship several years later.
In the years before his death, he had worked as a writer and journalist, becoming a strong critic of the Kremlin.
It is believed he also worked as a consultant for MI6, specialising in Russian organised crime.
A friend said there was personal animosity between Mr Litvinenko and Mr Putin.
"They disliked each other immensely, because Litvinenko complained about corruption… and Putin shelved his report," Alex Goldfarb said.
"And Putin considered Litvinenko, after the fact, a traitor for going public with his allegations."
Marina Litvinenko, Alexander's widow, and son Anatoly say the report may be a milestone but might not not end their struggle.
"It is important, but it is not necessarily the end", said Mrs Litvinenko, while her son said he felt "a sense of duty".
"My father did a hell of a lot to get me to this country to make sure I was safe," he added.
"I need to respect that and do whatever I can to honour his memory.
"Finding the truth is the closest we can get to justice for my father."
There were "a number" of coding errors in the National 5 question paper, according to a report by the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA).
It also found several typographical mistakes in the paper, which students sat in May.
The SQA said adjustments were made to the grade boundaries to make sure no candidates were affected by the errors.
Shortly after the exam was published, one teacher told BBC Scotland that the paper was a "disgrace".
But the SQA defended it, claiming it met course and assessment specifications and that the anecdotal feedback it had received was positive.
However a new report on the course said: "SQA acknowledges that there were a number of typographical and coding errors within the 2016 question paper.
"These were fully discussed at the grade boundary meeting and where these were found to impact on candidate performance, grade boundary adjustments were made.
"This ensures that no candidates were advantaged/disadvantaged by such errors."
Dr Gill Stewart, the SQA's director of qualifications development said: "As we do every year, we consider what went well in the most recent diet, and where improvements could be made for the future by SQA and the education system.
"Our course reports, which are provided for all subjects at all levels, also highlight ways in which recent exams and coursework may have differed from those of previous years.
"This is to ensure standards are maintained. We are committed to the continuous development and improvement of our qualifications and assessments for the benefit of all candidates."
Since then she has upgraded that prediction several times from "more likely" to "almost necessary".
Yet some people think she won't dare call for another vote while the opinion polls continue to suggest a majority of the Scottish electorate still does not support independence.
The polls are not what matters, according to Duncan Hamilton, a former SNP MSP and advisor to Alex Salmond during the 2014 independence referendum campaign.
"I think we are beyond the stage of the opinion polls dictating whether or not there will be a referendum", he says.
"I think Nicola Sturgeon would find it difficult ultimately to justify not putting to the people the option of having an independent Scotland as opposed to being taken out on the current hard Tory Brexit terms."
The SNP argue that this is about Scotland democratic wishes being ignored.
Scotland voted by 62% to 38% to remain inside the EU. But the Scottish government claim that their demands for a bespoke Brexit deal for Scotland are being ignored by Westminster. Scotland isn't getting what it voted for, they say.
That argument about a democratic deficit is very reminiscent of the political battles of the 1980s that led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament.
That could resonate with voters in Scotland now according to Val McDermid, a best selling author, and a Yes voter.
She says: "The Scots.. we can be a bit difficult. There's a great Scots word, 'thrawn', and it means essentially taking up an adversarial position because we can.
"I think for a lot of people the EU thing was a close call. It wasn't that they were passionate about the EU, but they thought on balance that we were better in than out.
"Then, when the rest of the UK told us we were going, there was a certain sort of 'wait a minute, I've suddenly become a lot more passionate about the EU, this is really important to me'."
The vote to leave the EU may well provide the SNP with the justification for holding another independence referendum. But they will have to be careful not to tie the campaign too closely to EU membership.
Around of third of those people who voted Yes to independence in 2014 also voted to leave the EU. Making another referendum all about EU membership would risk alienating many of the SNP's core supporters.
Jim Sillars, a former SNP deputy leader, says: "I could not vote Yes if on the ballot paper it said we wish the Scottish state to be a member of the European Union.
"And I'm not alone in that; there's something like 350,000 to 400,000 of people like me who voted to come out of the EU and under no circumstances would vote to go back in."
The SNP are already preparing for the possibility of another referendum.
They have experts working hard on formulating a new economic case for independence, considering key questions such as what currency an independent Scotland might use and how they would cope with the sharp fall in the price of oil.
Other Yes supporting campaign groups have already started fundraising.
But calling another referendum would still be a gamble, and the consequences of defeat could be disastrous for Nicola Sturgeon.
To lose two referendums in quick succession could set back the cause of Scottish independence for at least a generation.
And there could be a high personal cost. Both Alex Salmond and David Cameron resigned immediately after losing referendums. There would be an expectation that Nicola Sturgeon would have to do the same.
But still, every time the first minster mentions the possibility of another vote she makes it seem increasingly likely.
Nicola McEwen, professor of politics at Edinburgh University, believes Ms Sturgeon may now find it hard to justify not calling another referendum.
She says: "In one sense she may have talked herself into the position of almost having to commit to a referendum even in the absence of majority support.
Ms Sturgeon still says that if the UK government is prepared to compromise on the terms of Scotland's exit from the EU then another independence referendum can be avoided. But she warns that time is running is out to reach some kind of agreement.
She wrote this week: "If an independence referendum does arise, it will not be down to bad faith on the part of the Scottish government, but to sheer intransigence on the part of the UK government."
Sarah will be examining the SNP's possible strategy for a second referendum on BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme at 20:30 on Monday 6 March.
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Joshua, who stopped the Ukrainian in the 11th round at Wembley, immediately called out fellow Briton Fury, who beat Klitschko on points in November 2015.
"Fury, where you at, baby?" he asked. "I know he's been talking, I want to give 90,000 a chance to see us."
Fury, who has not fought since beating Klitschko, replied: "Let's dance."
Joshua is now unbeaten in 19 fights, with all his victories coming inside the distance. The 27-year-old's win in front of a post-war British record 90,000 fans at the national stadium added the WBA belt to his IBF strap.
Fury, 28, is also unbeaten as a professional, with 18 knockouts in 25 fights, but surrendered his world heavyweight titles in an effort to focus on his mental health problems and is currently without a boxing licence and out of condition.
However, he remains active on social media and indicated he wants to return, judging by his reply on Twitter to Joshua's calls from the ring.
"Challenge accepted," Fury wrote. "We will give the world the biggest fight in 500 years. I will play with you. You are a boxer's dream.
"Well done Anthony Joshua. Good fight. You had life and death with Klitschko and I played with the guy. Let's dance."
Meanwhile, American Deontay Wilder, who holds the WBC title, wants a unification fight against Joshua, should he take the WBO belt off New Zealand's Joseph Parker.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme on Sunday morning, Wilder said: "My plans are to get the WBO belt and once I get that, if I'm given a mandatory challenger, get that out of the way and set up a mega fight early in 2018.
"I'd be prepared to go anywhere. I don't fear anybody and I'm not scared to go to anybody's house. England is like a second home to me.
"But I must obtain that belt first so I can bring it to the table for a unification fight."
While insisting he would cherish the memories of his victory over Klitschko, when asked if it topped winning Olympic gold at London 2012, he replied: "No. It is what it is, there's one winner and one loser."
He said he was happy that it was a great fight, adding: "There was a lot of hype and I'm glad it lived up to expectations.
"I learnt that I can knock out anyone. If I can keep on improving on the things I do well, I can definitely knock out any opponent.
"To get knocked down, hurt someone, get hurt, take someone out in the championship rounds where I've never been before, it's testament to what training's about."
Joshua said there would be "no problem" if Klitschko wanted a rematch.
"I fought the better Wladimir Klitschko, not the complacent one, the guy who realised his mistakes and wanted to put it right," Joshua said, referring to the Ukrainian's previous defeat against Fury in 2015.
"I can only improve from this - if I don't then I'm a silly man. It'll be interesting to see what the next two to three years hold in my career.
"Wladimir's been very dominant. He took a loss against Tyson Fury. I kept hearing the 'obsession and the passion' to get victory. He came to show what he was about, that he still had it. I knew it was going to be tough for him, because I wanted to do the same.
"Maybe against anyone else in the division he may have come out on top. I have the ultimate respect for what he's achieved inside and outside of the ring. I wouldn't mind fighting him again; if he wants a rematch... no problem."
After suffering a fifth defeat, and a second in succession, Klitschko said he would take time to consider his options but would only fight again for a rematch with Joshua.
"I'm not going to make any statements right now," said the 41-year-old, who was floored in the fifth round but responded by knocking Joshua down in the sixth.
"It's too early; I actually feel pretty good, considering I lost," he added.
"I will take my time. I have a rematch clause in the contract, which I can execute at certain times, and right now will not be making any decisions. If I'm going to fight it'll be a rematch, of course."
Klitschko, who has stopped 54 opponents in his 63 victories, believes Joshua remains "vulnerable" and spoke of his surprise when the Briton got up from a sixth-round knockdown.
"I thought he wouldn't get up," he said. "He managed to get up: respect. From that moment I felt he was out of gas and concentration. He recovered through the rounds.
"I could have done more to finish him off after he went down, but I was pretty sure 'This is going to be my night' so I took my time.
"I got caught and the blood was streaming into my eye, and it was difficult to see. I recovered well, took a beating, but recovered well.
"I've always been a fan of AJ's talent since our sparring sessions. How he's going to develop, we'll see. He's vulnerable, and this may be something he will need to work on, but he's today's success.
"He's the champion, so you have to respect it. It was a good fight. The fans enjoyed it. I wish I'd been the winner.
"AJ did a good job. He was trying, was focused, and even if he went down, he got up, came back. He managed to see my left hook and block it, so he was well prepared.
"I didn't have an off-night. I was in tremendous shape. All respect to Joshua."
Promoter Eddie Hearn told BBC Radio 5 live: "There's a lot of hype in this sport but they delivered. There were points when I thought it was over for both fighters but Joshua came roaring back from somewhere.
"He has a great chin - we didn't know that before but we do now - and he has a heart like a lion.
"He was hit by the kitchen sink by one of the hardest hitters in the heavyweight division, and he took everything and came back to win.
"He's proved he has charisma, heart, speed and power and he will entertain not only the British public but the public around the world for years to come."
Anthony Joshua's trainer Rob McCracken thought his man was going to lose after he was knocked down in the sixth round.
"100% when he got knocked down by the biggest punch he has been hit with in his career," he told Radio 5 live. "But we knew he could regroup and if he stayed with me and listened to me I would get him through it.
"We have drilled him for 12 weeks. He has hated it but I have been lucky - this is the stuff dreams are made of.
"His will to win and determination has been the most impressive thing for us. No-one deserves this more than AJ."
BBC Sport boxing expert Steve Bunce on Radio 5 live
It was an absolute masterclass from Klitschko. I had Klitschko ahead the whole way and Joshua knew it - he knew he had to go for the knockout.
Without doubt, the fifth round was something we have never seen before and it was the best round we have had on 5 live. Ever.
And then we had the sensational sixth where we thought the novice's reign was over.
This is the fight absolutely no-one predicted.
Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis: "Crackin' Fight! Congrats to both for giving the fans something to talk about! Big up to AJ on the big win! How much heart did Klitschko show in this fight?
American boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard: "Such an amazing fight with two great fighters. Lot of heart by both fighters. A lot of questions answered by Anthony Joshua."
Former world champion Frank Bruno: "The heavyweight division just got very exciting. The performance of both men tonight was incredible. What's next? I'm looking forward to finding out."
Former Olympic heptathlon champion Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill: "What an absolute legend! Unbelievable fight! So proud of @anthonyfjoshua. I'm exhausted just watching. Incredible!"
Three-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton: "Well done to both Anthony and Wladmir, but a huge congrats to @anthonyfjoshua for bringing it home! Great fight! #bigupyourself."
Former England footballer Michael Owen: "Great Britain aged five years during that fifth round. Thank God Joshua found a second wind from somewhere."
BBC Sport presenter Gary Lineker: "So gripping was the fight that all three of us in the @BBCMOTD studio jumped up when @anthonyfjoshua won. At least it was during a match edit."
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But instead of feeling sorry for herself, she started to write a wish list of 100 things she wanted her husband and two sons to experience after she was dead.
Mrs Greene, from Clevedon, near Bristol, died in January at the age of 37, two years after she was diagnosed.
She and husband Singe had already been through a tough time before she was diagnosed with the illness.
In 2005, a tumour was found in their first son Reef's abdomen and the two-year-old was given two weeks to live.
"It was a very aggressive type of tumour and our world just fell apart," Mrs Greene's widower Singe said.
At the same time Mrs Greene gave birth to their second son, Finn, seven weeks early so both of their boys were in separate hospitals at the same time.
Reef managed to recover from the tumour, but in 2008 Mrs Greene found a lump in her breast.
Her husband said: "She started chemo within a week of it being found.
"It's just one of those things where everything about you is falling apart... you can either fall apart with it, but I don't think Kate would have let me do that.
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The 44-year-old said the idea for a wish list was dreamt up by his wife one day at 4am, and from then on they worked on it together.
"It was horrendous. Kate was at home, she was on oxygen, she was in bed and she was pretty frightened to go to sleep because she didn't think she would get through the night.
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Mr Greene said his wife had been a part-time scuba diving instructor and wanted both of their sons to learn to snorkel and scuba dive.
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Another of her wishes was for them to attend an international rugby match.
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He said Reef and Finn had started playing rugby.
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Mr Greene said his "soul mate", whom he met at a roller-skating rink 23 years ago, was "a hard act to follow".
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